Fort Street Studio founders on the business of being creative

Brad Davis and Janis Provisor were successful artists, showing their work in museums and galleries around the world. Then, in the early 1990s, a recession hit, and the art market slowed down a little. The married couple decided to take a sabbatical to China—why not?—and soon found themselves experimenting with silk weaving. They were wondering if they could create a watercolor-like effect in a hand-knotted rug, a technique that, at the time, wasn’t widespread....READ MORE