Material contributes layers of meaning to the work of artists Sonya Kelliher-Combs and Anna Tsouhlarakis. Hear the artists discuss how they use unconventional materials to shape their creative processes.

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Artist Mary Sully created a vibrant series of imaginative portraits featuring figures like Thomas Edison and Amelia Earhart in the late 1920s. Historian Phil Deloria, her great-nephew and author of Becoming Mary Sully, reflects on her unique style.

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Sound is a powerful, abstract form of creativity. Artists Sky Hopinka and Raven Chacon share how sound shapes memory, and offers expanded ways to experience art.

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Place is more than geography. Artists Teresa Baker and Caroline Monnet discuss how place functions as both subject and motif, translating memory, landscape, and history into abstract visual forms.

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Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter explore how artists use abstraction as a tool to embrace non-linear ideas and liberate their work from conventional interpretations of heritage.

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