We recently connected with Stephanie Brody-Lederman and have shared our conversation below.

Stephanie, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. We’d love to hear about when you first realized that you wanted to pursue a creative path professionally.

I was 3 years old. My grandparents lived in an apartment building in the Bronx.. we would visit them several times a week. My mother would talk to them in the living room. I would go into the kitchen and draw on a torn brown paper bag that previously held groceries. My drawing implement was a pencil, sharpened in the chipped white enamel kitchen sink, with a sharp knife. I was supremely happy and knew then that I would be an artist.; my breathing slowed down.

Stephanie, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

From my earliest years, I drew constantly. I later attended the high school of Music & Art in Manhattan and subsequently majored in art in college; first at the university of Michigan and subsequently at Finch college in New York City. As an aside, I was also interested in in creative writing and kept changing my major in college from art to English and back again to art. In my work I combine words with my imagery. My work is collected by 2 Pulitzer Prize winners and is permanently installed at Shakespeare and Company bookstore in Paris. It was also featured as the cover of The Paris Review magazine , winter 2001.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

My goal is to make the best, most honest paintings that I can make. I. Want to touch my audience.

I paint with my heart in my hands…

Can you share your view on NFTs? (Note: this is for education/entertainment purposes only, readers should not construe this as advice)

I do not like NFTs. My art is about the mark of the hand…our humanity. NFTs are just the opposite.

Contact Info:

• Website: Stephaniebrodylederman.com.
• Instagram: Steph Brody Lederman
• Facebook: [email protected]

Image Credits

I took the photos submitted