ARTISTS WE LOVE
M. PAIGE SCHROCK
Hand-cut collage, acrylic, watercolor, colored pencil, scratches, words / 41 years active / North Little Rock Representation: The Window on Sixth IG: @m.paigeschrock
What first drove you to create art? Art was all around me from my earliest memories. My great-grandmother was an accomplished watercolorist and landscape painter, my grandmother was a hairdresser [and] seamstress. I wouldn’t even call it seamstress because she made entire capsule collections of clothes, elaborate dresses which my mother smocked in details the likes I’ve never seen the equal too. She made dolls. Everyone embroidered, quilted, knitted, cross-stitched. We lived very close to them until the age of 5 and spent the majority of our time in this house that was just room upon room of paints, canvases, fabrics, buttons,
notions, craft supplies just literally everywhere, but also actual art work, object d’arte, and curiosities galore! So there was no drive, per se, it was just the environment I was immersed in. All of my sisters are artists in various mediums as well. It has evolved, and continues to evolve. I make art now usually because I have an emotion or an idea I want to express, or actually I want to express it TO Someone, but I’m not going to actually express myself ( to that person) I just put it in a painting. Where do you think your artistic journey is leading you? Hopefully somewhere beautiful.
ADRIANNA KIMBLE-RAY
Digital Illustration, 2D + 3D Animation, Paper Collage, Painting 7 years active / Little Rock / IG: @astrosadri If you work in multiple mediums, what do you love about each one? Digital Illustration allows me to be extremely precise with the positioning of objects as well as with colors. Digital art software helps me to create smooth gradients between colors. I love that it is easy to transform colors and it’s forgiving and I can change anything about it as many times as I like. 2D Animation allows me to take my once static illustrations and transform them into kinetic art. I love that I’m able to bring my illustrations to life. I love teaching myself how to do new things and that’s really what I enjoy about doing 3D Animation. It’s very satisfying to do 3D Animation tests and have them be successful. Since I primarily work in digital art, paper collage is a way for me to physically touch the material. I love experimenting with different color palettes and sorting the paper before and while I create the collage. I enjoy painting because it’s a newer medium for me to work in. I always thought I didn’t know how to paint and that’s just not true. It just took me years to figure out how to make painting work for me and my art style. What have been some of the high points of your career so far? In 2025, I had my first solo exhibition at The North Little Rock Library System’s Argenta branch, titled Connected Through Color: Parts of a Whole. Everything featured in that exhibition were new original art pieces and I learned about all the work that goes into curating a gallery space. Another high point has to be being a 44 / idleclassmag.com
featured artist in The Loom Art Social’s first event. This is a once a month pop-up run by creatives with the intention of networking and celebrating local artists. In undergrad, another high point was receiving Exhibition Honors for my senior thesis project Geometric Iterations that included four monitors and a total of 24 different animations.