Jesse and Maggie Blanchard

Best advice you’ve been given•Maggie: There is no one right way to do something. Jesse: Make artwork every day.

Goals/Aspirations•Maggie: To further explore representing something through a process of taking out everything unnecessary. Jesse: Push my own limits through collaboration.

Favorite artist•Maggie: Chris Verene. His images uncover the complexities of family. Jesse: David Hockney and Sean Scully: Hockney for his unusual perspective and scale and Scully’s seemingly straightforward, yet complex, compositions.

What are you reading•Maggie: The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson Jesse: Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925 MoMA

Hope to learn how to •Maggie: Think in Spanish. Jesse: Build a boat.

You spend a lot of time thinking about•Maggie: The issues addressed in whatever podcast I just finished listening to. Jesse: What’s next in my never-ending list of things to do.

Favorite musical artist•Maggie: Dave Brubeck Jesse: Phish (Much to Maggie’s chagrin)

What do you do when not creating art •Maggie: Making unhealthy meals from my collection of 1950’s cookbooks. Jesse: Fixing things around the house.