During the week, Steffanie Lorig is a designer at a professional services firm, but in her off time, she heads for her studio and immerses herself in creative endeavors. Her whimsical and folkloric creations often have mutable forms, exploring a world of impossible possibilities—where the expected is turned inside out and upside down. She nurtures curiosity—rather than judgment—and embraces mess-making and randomness.

Unconstrained by predictability, she lets the piece become what it wants to be and lets her imagination lead where it will. To help her relinquish control, she often uses her hands, sticks, or kitchen utensils to increase her sense of play.

She almost always has paint on her somewhere.