Category: Conversations about Creativity

An Interview with Tucker Nichols

photo credit: Lisa M. Hamilton. Tucker Nichols has had solo exhibitions at ZieherSmith Gallery (New York), Kunstpanorama (Luzern), Lincart (San Francisco), and the Brattleboro Museum (Brattleboro, Vermont). His work has been featured in numerous group shows internationally, including Rocket Gallery…

An Interview with Dan Piraro

Image copyright (c) Dan Piraro 2007. Dan Piraro’s Bizarro was first syndicated in 1985 and currently appears daily in around 250 markets on four continents. Bizarro won an unprecedented three consecutive Reuben awards from the National Cartoonist Society for “Newspaper…

An interview with John August

Photo credit: Jen Pollack Bianco. John August’s feature directing debut, The Nines, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. As a screenwriter, John’s credits include Corpse Bride, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, both Charlie’s Angels movies, and the…

An Interview with Jon Carroll

Photo credit: Terry Lorant Photography. Throughout the 1970s, Jon Carroll worked at magazines and papers that ranged from Rolling Stone and the Village Voice to Oui and WomenSports. Since 1982, he’s written a regular column for the San Francisco Chronicle…

An Interview with Van Dyke Parks

Photo credit: Rocky Schenk. For over four decades, Van Dyke Parks has worked as singer, lyricist, composer, arranger, producer, and sessions player on an astonishing assortment of projects, collaborating with everyone from Randy Newman, Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, and Bruce…

An Interview with DyAnne DiSalvo

Photo credit: Brian Butler. DyAnne DiSalvo has written seven children’s books and illustrated over forty, and has worked with numerous authors including Beverly Clearly, Mary Pope Osborne, Jean Fritz, Jane O’Connor, Patricia Reilly Giff, Jean Marzollo, and Amy Hest. Her…

An Interview with Jonathan Coulton

Photo credit: Emily Rawlings. Jonathan Coulton sings songs about workplace zombies, ennui-afflicted clowns, self-loathing giant squids, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store. In 2005-2006 he recorded and published a new song every week as a free podcast…

An Interview with Natalie Marrone

Photo credit: Stephanie Mathews. Natalie Marrone received her Master of Fine Arts degree in choreography from Ohio State University in 1998. That same year she founded The Dance Cure, a contemporary, all-female dance company based in Columbus, Ohio, and began…