Inkblot Explosion

June Glasson is an artist, illustrator, designer, and teacher who lives in Millbrook, New York. A co-founder of the Wyoming Art Party, her practice is a marriage of the work she creates in solitude in her studio, which is mainly painting, and work that is more collaborative or community-based.

For her Zócalo Sketchbook, Glasson presents a series of abstract compositions that represent the natural world in the tactile intricacy of her chosen materials. “For this series, I have abandoned the realism of my portraiture work and am using natural and synthetic inks to …

Magical Metamorphoses

ShinYeon Moon is an artist and illustrator based in New York. Moon teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the School of Visual Arts, where she received her MFA.

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Artist and Monument Lab Co-Founder Ken Lum

Sometimes I Also Need to Remember. I'm Not, Like, an Elephant

Ken Lum is the chair of fine arts at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and co-founder of the Monument Lab. Before joining Zócalo at the Lorraine Motel …

Priceless Nature

Tzasná Pérez Espinosa is a Mexican American designer and artist. A graduate of ArtCenter College of Design, they have worked on visual projects around equity, sustainability, health, and LGBTQIA+ rights.

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Enamored of Enamel | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

Enamored of Enamel

Jess Grimsdale is a signwriter and illustrator based in Bristol, U.K. Trained as an illustrator at Falmouth University, she found herself drawn to the vibrant folk art of sign …