But Bad Art Friend needles deep under our collective skin, forcing us to look at ourselves in the mirror and ask if we’re the Dawn or the Sonya — or, perhaps more realistically, ...

When the Bad Art Friend story came out I had been aware of it for a little while – I’d gone to school with the kidney donor – and I sensed it would be a big one. Still, I was thrown by the ...

In 2021, The New York Times Magazine published a nearly-10,000-word feature titled “Who Is the Bad Art Friend?” The piece was about a woman named Dawn Dorland, who donated a kidney to a ...

Billed as art that's "too bad to be ignored," the museum is a non-profit organization with an ever-growing collection and an expanding footprint. What was once a gag between two friends turned ...

It was my contribution to Bad Art Night at the Camas Public Library, which meets four times a year. The next meeting is May 18. The mask was the worst piece of art I was capable of making.

So, in our art meet-ups, we call it a ‘bad drawing party.’ The idea isn’t to be good at art, but to be bad at it and just express yourself. The idea is self-expression, being yourself, and ...