We are Andrew and Sarah Wilson // husband & wife collaborative artists using words & visuals to create work that speaks of and to communities.

WHO WE ARE

We are Andrew and Sarah Wilson. Andrew is a painter. Sarah is a writer. We've brought our modes of expression together to create art for community. We are working hand in hand, creating art that tells a story greater than our own.

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WHAT WE'RE CREATING

We believe in art that is inclusive, accessible, and thought-provoking. That is what we're setting out to create in the public art realm. Through painted murals, we seek to tell meaningful stories, while sparking reflection and dialogue.

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THE LATEST / @HANDINHANDCREATIVE

Follow along with us on Instagram for a closer look at our journey + what we're creating.

This time last year we were out in Kingsbury, Texas... primed and ready for our mural undertaking. A year later we are finding ourselves being primed and readied in other ways. Underneath the work of our hands is the workings of our hearts. In the past six months we've chosen to put most everything on hold for the sake of caring for our sick Doberman best friend. It's been a trying journey and we've been daily facing the realities of being transient beings in this world, while being reminded of the importance of advocating for what we believe in, for what matters most, and for what we know is possible. Ultimately it's been a season of internal heart work more than a season of external art work, and it's been pushing us more in line with how we want to live in and respond to the depths of this world. Our hope is that through art, our internal can become increasingly external, and we feel this season is truly making us even more primed and ready to do just that -- to use art in an even more closely connected way and to dive into the most uncomfortable parts of being human. For this and all the ways this unexpected season is growing and priming us as humans, in the words of @nadasurf_official, "maybe this weight was a gift, like I had to see what I could lift." #flashbackfriday #collaborativeart #artwithintention #husbandandwifeteam #artishard #handinhandcreative #artistresidency
LOVE it when our work is sought out by others. Especially when it’s a friend from the garden. A person and place we care so much about. #Repost @fromthegroundupgarden with @get_repost ・・・ From the Ground Up Community Garden is not just about gardening, it’s about community, education and the arts. This spring we were so pleased to have Hand in Hand Creative add their style of picture and words to our steel container. I got to visit some of their other pieces in Kingsbury, Texas, this one is at Habitable Spaces. Stunning, don’t you think? @handinhandcreative @habitablespaces @sarahmcwilson @andrewscottwilsonart #murals #mural #willing #wwoof #outhouse #painting #paintingbig #portrait #habitablespaces #artistsoninstagram #handinhand #muralists #muralsoftheworld #muralsofinstagram #muralpainting
Last week we taught our second summer camp, one that truly aligns with our work as artists and our hearts as humans, “Self Expression through Art”. An expanded version of a lesson we’ve taught before... “finding meaning in our own stories to inspire the art we create.” The only kicker was, we were greeted with a group of incredible kids on day one who were all overflowing with inspired life events and emotions. What was supposed to be a mining lesson to dig to find content, became a lesson more about directing and composing all the ways to express strong feelings and turn them into useful, positive works of expression. Which was fine by us! We just shifted and it became its own beautiful form of art therapy — for them and us. We talked about mark making and the ways lines and materials can convey feelings. We talked about color and how it can represent us or parts of our past. We talked about poetry and how to adjust the threshold on how much we are willing to share. And we talked about affirmations and how lifting up a peer can be the positive impact our own story can allow us to make. We created a small little community that started every day with reflection and good news, followed by breathing exercises led by Sarah. We couldn’t be more proud of our campers in how they discovered their own personal way to be expressive. They took home a sketchbook journal full of poetry, a handful of expressive paintings, a nonobjective Self-portrait and a secure sense of being who they are. A lesson we didn’t learn until many years after this age. We feel very honored to have taught such a camp and we can’t wait until we do it again // it’s one we will surely take with us wherever we go. #summercamps #artishard #collaborativeart #arttherapy #markmaking #handinhandcreative #artislifegiving #selfexpressionthroughart #artcamp #powerofart
For the month of July we dove into teaching summer art camps to middle-schoolers in partnership with UWF (Sarah’s alma mater). When Andrew left the public school classroom he knew he wanted to find different ways of teaching. Art education is another way we, as Hand in Hand, seek to work together and connect art and community! We started with Printmaking Camp! The hands-on requirements of finding a design, transferring, carving, and inking a block print was just what our small class was thirsty for. We created a pattern derived from bits of nature shapes they found from rubbings. They also invested several hours, sore thumbs, and counter-intuitive brain power in the process of making a two-color block print of an image of their choosing. The week flew by! And it culminated with a showcase of our students displaying their work and explaining the processes to their fam. And just like the blocks they carved, this artmaking method will be with them for a lifetime. #printmaking #artcamp #uwf #explorecamps #artist #artwork #blockprinting #linocut #tessellation #reliefprinting #patternmaking #communityart #arteducation