Referred to by his fans as \u201cthe Artist for the People,\u201d Phil Hansen is an internationally recognized multimedia artist, speaker, author and innovator\u2014at the forefront of bringing art to a wider audience. Crashing irreverently through conventional boundaries, Phil works at the intersection of traditional art, electronic media, offbeat materials, and interactive experiences. He is most widely known for his meta-art, videos that document the creation process (sometimes even through destruction), showing millions that art is action, not just result. <\/p>\n
For the tens of millions who have seen Phil\u2019s art on TV and online, it\u2019s hard to imagine that his artistic journey nearly came to an end when a tremor developed in his drawing hand. In exploring new ways to create art, he discovered that by embracing his shake, limitations could become the passageway to creativity. His inspirational story was first shared on the TED stage to a standing ovation, and then shared around the world including on PBS, BBC and CCTV. He\u2019s the author of Tattoo a Banana, a guide to exploring creativity through art with everyday materials and he\u2019s the founder of Goodbye-Art Academy, providing high quality and free art education videos to teachers and students everywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"