Color and Craft with Artist Lisa Solomon

Lisa Solomon is a studio artist that moonlights as a college professor and illustrator/graphic designer. Profoundly interested in the idea of hybridization (sparked from her Hapa heritage), Solomon's mixed-media works and large installations revolve thematically around domesticity, craft, and personal histories. She often fuses "wrong" things together--recontextualizing their original purposes, and incorporating materials that question the line between ART and CRAFT. She also is focused on bridging the gaps between being creative, living creatively, and making a living as a creative.She received her BA in art from UC Berkeley and her MFA from Mills College. She has exhibited and works with galleries both nationally and internationally, is in numerous private and public collections, and is continually tweeking artworks in her backyard studio. She resides in Oakland, California with her husband, a teenager, two kitties, a three legged pit-bull, a dachshund mutt and many, many spools of thread. She is the author of - A Field Guide To Color - a workshop work-a-long watercolor journal on color theory and the follow up The Color Meditation Deck, a historical book on Crayola crayons, Knot Thread Stitch, the Illustrator for 20 Ways to Draw a Chair and Draw 500 Everyday Things. Her latest book is Art, Craft, Color is published by HardieGrant. She is also an instructor on CreativeBug. LINKS: @lisasolomon Artist Shoutout: publisher @hardiegrantusa Bridget Watson Payne * @watsonpayne Christine Buckton Tillman * @christinebucktontillman Libby Black * @libblack Jen Hewett * @jenhewett Risa Iwasaki Culbertson * @Risa_Iwasaki_Culbertson Ana Bianchi * @analovescolor Sonya Philip * Robert J. Bosscher * @rjbosscher Jen Duffin / Nova Mercury Design * @novamercury Robert Mahar * @robert_mahar Crystal Bodven / Crystallized Cookies @CrystallizedCookies Dana Williams-Johnson @callmedwj Kanako Abe * @abemanatee Rashida Coleman-Hale * @iamrashidacolemanhale Twinkie Chan * @twinkiechan Courtney Cerruti * @ccerruti e bond * @eisroughdraft Kim Nguyễn * @blackslipbabes Carissa Potter Carlson* @peopleiveloved Jenifer Lake * @jenifer_lake Anne Weil * @flaxandtwine Thank You to our Sponsor Rise and Repaint: riseandrepaint.com/ilyw Thank you to our sponsor Creativity Matters Coaching: The Brave Creator Project I Like Your Work Links: Apply to the Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program: art.chq.org Join Patreon: Apply to be a Studio Visit Artist: Pre-order our catalog: Have a question you want Erika to discuss in a mini episode? Email it to ilikeyourworkpodcast@gmail.com with the subject "mini eps" Join Erika in Italy at Umbria Contemporary Arts this Summer: Watch our Youtube channel: Submit Your Work Check out our Catalogs! Exhibitions Studio Visit Artist Interviews I Like Your Work Podcast Say "hi" on Instagram

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Color and Craft with Artist Lisa Solomon is an episode from I Like Your Work by Erika b Hess.

This episode is 49:21 long.

This episode was published on Apr 17, 2026.

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