Working in a vast range of media, they clearly approach their art from different points of the compass, different assumptions about what art can be. Here the group comes together.
Diversity finds common ground and all voices are heard.
As a professor at Wellesley for 22 years, I have encouraged my students to think of the process of making art as a lifetime of discoveries, disappointments and the moments of breathtaking growth that every artist knows. This process yields the unfamiliar and challenging, as well as the beautiful and sanctioned. It is the individual artist's commitment to finding her true voice which gives each the opportunity to create and grow. Skills, a visual vocabulary, competence with materials and tools, and a critical eye all come to the artist through a set of slow and complex experiences. There can be no right way to make genuine art, but all genuine art has an authentic voice which reflects the experiences of its maker.