Paige Hannah Vargo-Willeford

Common advice for small businesses is to realllllly narrow down your focus area. Like, super narrow. BUT if my business is art and art is a reflection of my person, wouldn't I want to expand that? My art is a living, breathing entity (bear with my metaphors) that cannot and should not be limited. Those of you who have been with me for awhile here probably have noticed that my oil paintings evoke a very different feeling than my watercolors. I paint these two bodies of work wh

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! I love art, I love making art, I love bringing it out into the wider world and sharing it, I love sharing it with you. But art can be expensive, especially originals. There is just nothing like an original, though. So... I have decided to make a series of small scale, ORIGINAL, watercolors in illustration style that are for sale for ONLY $20 each! Measuring 6"x8", matted to 9"x12". They will be available at the Artists' Cooperative Gallery or

What struck me most about Berlin was the continued emphasis on reassessing what was being done to repent for the past, and acknowledging that the past is still present (this is a practice that needs to be put in place by many more countries, my own included). I am often privileged by the communities I surround myself with; artists are notorious for being radical thinkers, with often the subsequent ostracization being fodder for more charged compositions and messages. I am far