Some Chicago murals “are political, and some are purely beautiful, and most are somewhere in between," artist Cyd Smillie says.

In 1971, the artist Faith Ringgold received a grant to make a painting for a public institution in New York City. She decided to ask the prisoners in the Women’s House of Detention on Rikers Island ...

The Columbus native helped the city to define itself and continues to influence artists worldwide posthumously.

Young Luann de Lesseps had a career as a nurse. Luann spent part of her career as a geriatric nurse. "I became a nurse ...