Craft & Mixed Media
Not all art fits neatly into painting, sculpture, or photography, and this section is home to the mediums that sit outside those categories. Craft and mixed media work often blurs the line between fine art and traditional handwork, bringing together techniques like calligraphy, ceramics, embroidery, paper art, and collage under one roof. These pieces can combine several materials in a single work, or lean fully into one specific hands on craft. What they share is a strong focus on process and material, since the making itself is often as important as the finished piece. Explore this section for art that plays by its own rules.
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Yulia Brodskaya | Craft & Mixed Media
Yulia Brodskaya is a paper artist who builds bright, three dimensional scenes from nothing but strips of paper and glue. She left a career in digital design to develop her signature quilling style, now collected by brands and museums including Hermès and SFMOMA.
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Erika Iris Simmons | Craft & Mixed Media
Erika Iris Simmons is a self-taught American artist who turns old cassette tapes, VHS tapes, and film reels into detailed portraits of music and film icons, and once built the official Grammy Awards artwork from unspooled recording tape.
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Mondongo | Craft & Mixed Media
Mondongo is an Argentine art collective founded in 1999 in Buenos Aires by Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso. They build portraits and social scenes out of unusual materials like plasticine, thread, glass, and food, best known for the record-setting installation “Argentina (paisajes).”
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Teis Albers | Craft & Mixed Media
Teis Albers is a Dutch digital artist known for vibrant, intricate compositions that mix pop culture, nature, and hidden details. He has created album covers and merchandise for brands and musicians, building his layered scenes from the subconscious outward.
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Jeff Nishinaka | Craft & Mixed Media
Jeff Nishinaka is a paper sculptor based in Los Angeles who builds intricate, layered relief sculptures using little more than an X-Acto knife, tweezers, and glue. He has created more than 40 custom pieces for Jackie Chan and also teaches at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.
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Egg carving Art Patterns | Craft & Mixed Media
Egg carving is an ancient decorative art with roots tracing back to Chinese artisans around 500 BC, later spreading through Egypt, Persia, and beyond. Today it ranges from Ukrainian pysanky, with its wax resist dyeing, to modern carvers using electric tools to etch delicate patterns into fragile shells.
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Origami Art | Craft & Mixed Media
This article traces the history and techniques of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding that began as a pastime for the elite before spreading worldwide. It covers key methods like wet folding and modular origami, and credits Akira Yoshizawa with turning traditional folding into modern artistic expression.
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Johnson Tsang | Craft & Mixed Media
Johnson Tsang is a sculptor from Hong Kong who works in ceramics and stainless steel, best known for pieces that freeze splashes of liquid into strange, dreamlike shapes. His Yuanyang series is held by the Hong Kong Museum of Art, and he became the first Chinese artist to win top honors at both the Korea…
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Boyan Moskov | Craft & Mixed Media
Boyan Moskov is a Bulgarian ceramic artist born in Ruse, who trained at Troyan Art School and the Sofia Art Academy before spending several years working and exhibiting in Sweden. He returned to Bulgaria in 2003 to start his own pottery business, and since 2007 he has lived and worked in New Hampshire, shaping clean,…
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Sena Runa | Craft & Mixed Media
Sena Runa is a Turkish paper quilling artist born in Istanbul in 1983, who discovered the craft online in 2013 and left her career in human resources in 2015 to pursue it full time. Her vibrant, joyful designs, rolled and shaped from simple strips of colored paper, led to her first tutorial book, published in…
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Simon Schubert | Craft & Mixed Media
Simon Schubert is a German artist born in Cologne in 1976, known for turning a single sheet of paper into intricate folded images of grand, empty interiors like ballrooms, staircases, and mirrored corridors. Trained at the Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, he uses no color or ink, relying only on folds and the natural light in the room…
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Jamie Wyeth | Craft & Mixed Media
Jamie Wyeth is an American realist painter, born in 1946, and the son of Andrew Wyeth, carrying forward the family’s Brandywine School tradition. Trained early by his aunt Carolyn Wyeth, he went on to paint portraits of John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter and served as a courtroom artist during the Watergate hearings. Known for…
