Photographer Sean Davey’s first love was the surf.  As a child growing up in Australia, he spent most afternoons enjoying the sun, sand, and waves of his local beaches.  One afternoon he decided to go home and grab his camera to try and capture a shot of a perfect wave.  It was that one small [...]

Deborah Ballard, a full-time, prolific sculptor in Dallas, Texas notes in this video that she has sought to balance her family life with her professional artistic life in order to fulfill her desire to make a living by creating and selling her work. Represented by a couple of galleries that handle the bulk of her [...]

It goes without saying that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is a true friend of copyright owners and creatives, but I’ll say it anyway, and you can hear him say it. Thanks to one of our board members and exhibitors for filming a bit of Senator Leahy’s remarks at our Copyright Alliance 4th [...]

Jeff Schultz is an incredibly accomplished photographer in the state of Alaska. Originally a California native, Jeff headed up to Alaska over 20 years ago with a dream to build a log cabin. Captivated by the beauty of the state and the vast land that awaited exploration, Jeff decided to put his roots in the [...]

Lorrie Sarafin of Scottsdale, Arizona is the newest addition to our Creators Across America video series. Upon hearing the sound of the flute for the first time at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Lorrie knew it was something that she needed in her life. She spent countless hours playing to the vast Arizona desert [...]

Thirty-five states visited. Forty-three artists interviewed. Six thousand, eight hundred miles driven. Four time zones traversed. One speeding ticket received. Those are the raw numbers from my road trip across this country for our Creators Across America campaign. The artist and creator interviews are viewable easily on our YouTube channel. The trip took me six [...]

Moments after beginning to chat with Erin Ergenbright in her tastefully decorated home in Portland, I felt I should vacate. That’s because Erin had, after months of struggling, just found herself at a creative high point, ready to launch herself into her work. When an artist is at that point, I’m loathe to stand in [...]

As you can probably tell from the video, Amy Buchheit is fun to be with. She’s also laser-focused on her art and her career as a full-time artist. She shared with me that her parents told her art was a nice hobby but she needed to make money, and artists can’t support themselves. Not knowing [...]

I really found myself inspired by Rochelle Smith. First of all, her music is hauntingly compelling, as you’ll hear in the video or can enjoy on Reverb Nation. She is a skilled technician with sound, from operating a board to welding a microphone wire. She likes buttons, as she put it to me. She also [...]

As you’ll see in this video, Wendy Bradshaw was literally given a second chance at life, and is not holding back. She is working on a new album of healing music inspired in part by her Nez Perce ancestry, is the top jazz vocalist in Salt Lake City on Reverb Nation and has launched a [...]