“Art’s ability to reveal truth and beauty is uniquely human, a way for us to help each other understand the world.” Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter ...

There is no truer example of the idiom “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” than junk art, where creative minds use discarded material to make something that inspires wonder or curiosity.

What you may find in a junkyard, Shelly Gilmore takes and turns into art. Gilmore, a North Idaho artist, said she calls it scrap metal art. She takes metal others have discarded and uses it as parts ...

It’s a familiar story: During the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, Sonja Dapper was taking lots of walks around her Como Park neighborhood, in search of something to do. “It kind of bothers me to ...