Visual Arts

A childhood pyromaniac grows up, becomes a chemist and makes sparks fly in the lab. Matt Cline, 43, is a chemical engineering lab ...

Hollywood directors have a direct line to consulting scientists. Let’s say you’re a filmmaker. You want to put a littl ...

When the Free Library put out a call for Philadelphia artists who are "seeking a wider audience for their work and would like to get paid for it," I was hopeful.

The Samuel M. V. Hamilton Building at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts was the scene of intense activity in early May as students fi ...

They languished in storage for years, but now, the first mural project of famed illustrator Howard Pyle are back on display.

I thought about my grandmother last week, when Donald J. Trump unrolled a federal budget proposal that, to no on ...

Brianna Wu has been outspoken about sexism in male-dominated video game culture. Brianna Wu has loved video games ever since she w ...

Virginia Abrams was teaching biochemistry, when she discovered art quilts. She's since traded the lab for a sewing machine.

After suffering four heart attacks, Thom Allen retired from his stressful sales job and started making cigar box guitars.

It's hard to communicate our emotions. The effects of this are harmful, and as a country, we are arguably the most overtly divided and disconnected we have been in years.

Now for our feature presentation: we’re going to explore the science of movie magic as seen on the big screen and behind the scenes ...

There’s a movement underway to make movies Oscar-worthy for people who can’t see. I met up with Sarita Kimble in the l ...

Come with us as we step inside a time capsule of life on earth — the natural history museum. On this specia ...

A lot more than meets the eye goes into dioramas at natural history museums.

To this day, as the world gets more complicated, with more stress on me, my family, my community, our world, I can retreat to my imagination and the act of making pictures.