Artistic Identity

A pedestrian walks past elaborate street art murals adorning a brick building wall in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood.
Clayton Patterson, the Canadian-born folk historian and photographer, sits surrounded by decades of collected artifacts in his Lower East Side studio on Essex Street.
An artist works in his creative studio at Brassworks Annex in Portland, Oregon, surrounded by art supplies and personal collections.
Muralist Kyle Danley, also known as Wetiko, in front of his mural at the Taylor Electric site in Portland, Oregon.