The Source

Rust, ochre, moss, and plum are fall colors that work in any season. Here are six palettes built from our roster, and three rules for pairing art in your own home.

Send in your questions about art, collecting, and running a small creative business, and watch Sarah answer them on camera each week.

Searching, comparing, and waiting on client feedback add up fast. Here’s how handing off art sourcing gives you time back and gives your clients a better experience.

The figure is what you look at, and the ground is what it sits against. Here’s why the relationship between them shapes how a piece feels, and how to read it before you hang it.

A great collection isn’t built in an afternoon. Here are five ways to grow one slowly and intentionally, so that when you step back, it feels unmistakably like you.

You don’t have to visit the gallery to take a piece home. Here’s how to shop the art from Form Over Function online, from browsing by artist to shipping and installation.

Figurative art gives a room something to say. Here are two painters from our roster, Amy Erickson and Amy Scherer, and the very different ways they approach the human form.

Artists Becca Fuhrman and Kelly Bjork join co-curator Sarah Hurt to talk pleasure, attention and the figure.

How do today's figurative painters talk with centuries of images of the body? Kimberly Trowbridge and Nahom Ghirmay dig into it with co-curator Seth Sexton.

Sourcing art locally isn't just a nice-to-have — it brings a uniqueness, story, and connection to place that generic sourcing can't match. Here's why it's worth thinking about, whether you're designing for yourself or a client.

Murals and memorials show how figurative art turns a location into a place people recognize as their own — from a Seattle mural honoring civic history to a memorial that carries one family's story into a new home.

Choosing art you'll love for years — not just seasons — comes down to instinct, not trends. Here are five things worth trusting before you commit to a piece.