The Art that Inspires YOU

Members of our community named these amazing artists!

Hiiiii friends!

Earlier this week, I shared a series of artists whose work engages with the world around them and inspires me. I also invited you to share about the artists who inspire you, and you did! I was so excited about what I was seeing in the comments and chat that I wanted to spread the word to everyone in the GUT community.

Here are some of the incredible artists and art you’ve named so far so we can all keep learning. (I certainly learned a lot!) We’re giving you just a sampling, and I encourage you to search them out if you are curious and want to learn more.

There are many more amazing recommendations by members in the chat. If you want to check them out and be part of supporting DrawTogether, come join us!

Guerilla Girls

Image via Cooper Hewitt Museum. Suggested by Mimi Stockton!

Kara Walker

Visitors look at A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby by artist Kara Walker in the former Domino sugar factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, USA, 22 June 2014. Photo: Alexandra Schuler | usage worldwide (Photo by Alexandra Schuler/picture alliance via Getty Images) Suggested by Patricia Faragher.

Note: I included this piece by Kara Walker in an earlier post with the National Gallery of Art!

Joyce Wieland

Joyce Wieland, O Canada. Image via National Gallery of Canada. Suggested by Lori Langille.

Gunter Demnig’s Stolpersteine

Over 100,000 of these Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) have been laid to form the world’s largest decentralized memorial to victims of the Holocaust and the Nazi regime. Image via Folklife Magazine. Suggested by Tania.

Rithika Merchant

Rithika Merchant, India b.1986 / The Pollinator 2023 / Gouache, watercolour and ink on paper / 100 × 70cm / Courtesy: The artist and TARQ, Mumbai. Image via Queensland Art Gallery. Suggested by Jenny.

Nick Cave

From left: a 2012 Soundsuit made from buttons, wire, bugle beads, wood and upholstery; a 2013 Soundsuit made from mixed media including a vintage bunny, safety-pin craft baskets, hot pads, fabric and metal; a 2009 Soundsuit made from human hair; a 2012 Soundsuit made from mixed media including sock monkeys, sweaters and pipe cleaners. All images © Nick Cave. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photos by James Prinz Photography. Images via New York Times. Suggested by Joi.

Agnes Denes

Agnes Denes, Wheatfield – A Confrontation, Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – With Agnes Denes Standing in the Field, 1982 Photo credit: John McGrail. Courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York. Image via Harvard Graduate School of Design. Suggested by Joi.

Piotr Szyhalski

Piotr Szyhalski / Labor Camp, Polish, born 1967, COVID-19: Labor Camp Report, 2020, Digital folio, Gift of funds from Mary and Bob Mersky 2021.1.1-225, Images © Piotr Szyhalski / Labor Camp. Image via Minneapolis Institute of Art. Suggested by Janis Weller.

Lucienne Rickard

Lucienne Rickard, Extinction Studies. “The swift parrot was the final of 38 artworks Lucienne Rickard created and then destroyed.” Image via The Guardian. Suggested by Corrie Wright

Nani Charon

Nani Charon, Erase the Horse…, 2025. Image via artist’s Instagram. Suggested by Tanya Mueller

Lorraine O’Grady

Lorraine O'Grady, Untitled (Mlle Bourgeoise Noire)1980-83/2009. Image via MoMA. Suggested by D’Lena.

Nicholas Galanin

Nicholas Galanin, Shadow on the land, an excavation and bush burial, 2020. Image via Vulture. Suggested by Jude.

Margarita Cabrera

Margarita Cabrera, Arbol de la vida — John Deere Tractor Model #790, 2007. Image via The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Suggested by Cathy R.