Artists on Craft Series | The Sunlight Press

An Interview with Steve Johnson

by Sunlight Press | Apr 17, 2022 | Artists on Craft Series | 0 |

I also think it’s important not to be afraid to put your work out there, even if you are not sure about it; you will get useful feedback, and your feelings about having the work out there will tell you a lot.

An Interview with Jennifer Haupt

by Annie Scholl | Mar 21, 2022 | Artists on Craft Series | 0 |

When I first started writing fiction, it really helped me to stay out of my depression world.

An Interview with Beth Kephart

by Annie Scholl | Oct 17, 2021 | Artists on Craft Series | 0 |

Don’t save your work. Don’t save something because it feels precious. What feels precious in the moment will grow dusty over time. Use what you have when it is electrifying to you.

On Poetry: Experience the Revelation

by Susannah Sheffer | Jun 13, 2021 | Artists on Craft Series | 3 |

The idea, I think, is to have the poem somehow feel as if it is tracking that realization in real time, showing it as still live and squirming, rather than only dead and captured, even if that is not — and cannot be — true in the most literal sense.

An Interview with Ross Gay

by Annie Scholl | Nov 8, 2020 | Artists on Craft Series | 2 |

We are thrilled to have Ross Gay offer his thoughts on the writing life and his process.

Using What I Have

by Alison Jean Ash | Aug 23, 2020 | Artists on Craft Series | 7 |

Now that I’m engaged in revisions to my big book, my process reminds me more than ever of those years as a fabric artist.

An Interview with Emily Bernard

by Annie Scholl | Jul 12, 2020 | Artists on Craft Series | 3 |

The attention and accolades are wonderful. It’s so vindicating and it means a lot. But it doesn’t get up and write a sentence for you.

A Conversation with Author Lyz Lenz

by Annie Scholl | May 10, 2020 | Artists on Craft Series | 2 |

The secret to success for Lenz, the now-single mother of two: “I don’t ever quit.”

An Interview with Author Marion Roach Smith

by Annie Scholl | Mar 15, 2020 | Artists on Craft Series | 6 |

If we share our humanity, I think we do better in this world.

A Conversation with Artist Catherine Bancroft

by Beth Burrell | Sep 15, 2019 | Artists on Craft Series | 2 |

Painting seems to me fundamentally about joy – the child’s joy messing with thick gooey stuff, with the wildness of red, the coolness of blue, with putting your own mark down and having people react to it.