Register Citizen, POSTED 05/16/14

TORRINGTON >> Five Points Gallery is showcasing the work of three artists for the May/June show: Claudia DeMonte, Ed McGowin and Suzan Shutan. The three shows will exhibit May 22-June 21. An artist’s panel discussion will take place on Friday, June 6 at 6 p.m. The public is encouraged to attend these events.

BY SUSAN DUNNE |THE HARTFORD COURANT
10:54 a.m. EDT, May 8, 2014

The worlds Joe Fig creates are miniature, but they are full of knowledge about the artistic process.

Fig — a Simsbury resident whose studio is in Collinsville and who teaches at Hartford Art School — visits artists in their studios. He interviews them on tape and takes photos of them in their natural habitats.

BY TRACEY O'SHAUGHNESSY | REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN 
Sunday, May 4, 2014 1:06 AM EDT

You can't blame Joe Fig for being curious. An artist himself, he had to have wondered:  What's it like to be in another artist's studio, creating art?

And Fig was not just curious about the emotional aesthetic — that is, what goes through the artist's mind when they approach the canvas. He really wanted to know, with the kind of elemental specifics of a kid: What does it look like? How do you arrange your paint? What kind of a stool do you sit on —