Lynne Hamons (NO, HER NAME ISN'T A PIG PUN) JUMPED AT THE CHANCE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BIG PIG GIG AFTER SEEING CHICAGO'S COWS LAST SUMMER. SHE ROPED HER SONS -- Steve AND Scott -- INTO HELPING. STEV  

Tony Becker, a Yale grad and trained painter, has been a full-time artist for 20 years, and he does a little of everything: painting, sculpture and collage. He makes allowances for family, such a  

Suzanne Fisher was sketching the bottom of a shower during our interview about her pig, Piganthropy. The drawings are for a private client who commissioned Fisher to create mosaics for three diffe  

Jeff Alt hiked the Appalachian Trail, taking 147 days for a 2,160-mile expedition dedicated to his brother, Aaron. He didn't have a million-dollar prize at the end of his journey. But his story,   

Megan Downing was awake until 2 a.m., studying for an ethics exam. Afterwards, she says, "It sucked. Until today I had a 4.0." Then she laments about the variety of tests a professor can give --  

Tess Little eats, sleeps and lives art. "Art just surrounds us," she says. "The grandchildren think everyone makes art." (She has sculpted for 30 years. Her husband Jim is a photographer. And   

Brian Joiner speaks for a half-hour before he even mentions his pig, Pig Dreams. (Better say it was sponsored by Acme Construction here, because there's nowhere else to mention it.) And after bri  

Since graduating from UC's CCM in 1996, BRIAN MEHRING's life has been a blur of activity. Before becoming the resident scenic and lighting designer and scenic painter at the Ensemble Theatre of   

Dana Tindall expanded his horizons when he created Romulus. "(The pig) was kind of a side thing," he says. In fact, the only aspect Romulus shares with Tindall's other artwork is humor. Even T  

Scott Jones finds ways to reap multiple rewards from everything he does. He works at The Palace Restaurant in The Cincinnatian Hotel, which also happens to be the location of his pig, Don Pigiovan