It didn’t hit Cheryl Peterson until she saw all 32 portraits leaning side by side against two adjoining walls in an art gallery on the campus of Virginia Tech. Her chalk pastel portraits of each of ...

I remember the first time I entered the Boyd Law Building at the University of Iowa College of Law. It was a cold February day in 1987, and I had been asked to present a lecture on Namibia’s continued ...

Installation view, Isaac Julien: “Lessons of the Hour,” SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Sept. 24–Dec. 15, 2019. Copyright Isaac Julien, courtesy the artist and ...

As anyone who has tried to take the perfect selfie likely knows, getting these kinds of images just right can take a lot of practice. As a contemporary iteration of the age-old self-portrait tradition ...

The New York Times retrospective on the decade since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — an enterprise that includes the currently online “Portraits Redrawn,” and a special Sunday, Sept. 11, print ...

In this video I walk you through my favorite 3D self portrait lesson that my students can’t stop talking about. I show how we use Colors of the World construction paper, folded faces, and chalk pastel ...