To continue what we started in the “Animation Blog Season” post, here’s a handful more animation artist blogs that I’ve been enjoying recently. Also, a quick note: please bear in mind that, though I’d ...

It’s getting so that every animation artist has a blog. Maybe in the next update, I’ll do a post about artists who don’t have blogs. Now that’d be something. Raymond Xu was a runner-up in our ...

Williamsburg artist Joshua Abelow makes some pretty cool work. When he’s not in the studio he’s working on his website Art Blog Art Blog. Most of us now spend a great deal of our lives online, so its ...

For an assignment created in the Archives of American Art’s Teaching with Primary Sources Workshop, Professor Elizabeth Hamilton had students use archives of artists with connections to HBCUs ...

The period from 2006 to 2010 was marked by the rise of self-started social networks. Artists were sharing GIFs on Myspace before many migrated to their own collaboratively run blogs. These sites ...

What makes an artist successful and resilient? The advice is full of contradictions: Pour your blood, sweat, and tears into your work. Maintain healthy boundaries. You must charge for your time. Don’t ...

Fully Digitized Collections Document African American Art and Artists of the Twentieth Century In honor of Black History Month, the Archives of American Art is highlighting our rich collection of ...

You might not think becoming an artist is something that requires a college degree. After all, it’s easy to assume that someone either has natural talent or they haven’t. There is some truth to the ...