Up-and-coming painters clean biohazard rooms and drive trucks to pay the rent. But sometimes the day job itself inspires good art.

Christie Matheson

It began with an unseen tug on a female leg, and it ended with millions of swimmers around the globe vowing that they would never so much as cross the old crick in their bare feet ever again.

Kate Feiffer

Minding her own business: A Hair Affair.

Glenny Bartram

The willing, The collaborators, the veterans, and more.

Tim Rush and Tom Fisher, lamp makers.

Tom Dresser

Holly Alaimo was watching television one night when passersby wandered in to look at her artwork on the wall. With that act of trespassing, an arts colony was born on Dukes County Avenue.

Christine Schultz

It wasn’t until Thomas Hart Benton came to the Island in 1920 that he found himself, and the painting style for which he would become famous.

Sam Low

“‘The shore is my source,’ says Rose Treat. ‘If an artist runs out of green, he runs to the store to buy green paint. If I run out of something I have to go to the beach.’”

Christine Schultz

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