Marshall Arisman, renowned illustrator, painter, and founder of the Illustration as Visual Essay master's program at the School of Visual Arts, talks to Kristin Ellison in this interview from the AIGA Design Conference. Marshall reflects on the root of his art (found, in part, in the spiritualist community where his grandmother lived), finding inspiration, and the role of education in an illustrator's life. The conversation covers memories of raising tables with his grandmother in Lily Dale, why guns appear in much of his early work, and highlights from Marshall's career, from the GM Technical Center to his work for the New York Times.