Nathan Sawaya discusses his journey to becoming a professional Lego artist and his world-touring “The Art of the Brick” ...

Sometimes, artists experience a creative block. But Nathan Sawaya gets creative with blocks. His “The Art of the Brick” ...

As a child, the clink of Legos knocking around a big bin stirred Nathan Sawaya’s creativity. Not much has changed. The 39-year-old Manhattan artist stores more than 1.5 million Legos in his L… ...

Nathan Sawaya makes a living playing with Legos. Sawaya, 42, began his career as a lawyer on Wall Street. But he was constantly dogged by a yearning to do more creative work.

Ever since his boyhood in the rural town of Veneta, Ore. (population 2,755), Sawaya had been hooked on Legos. It started on Christmas 1978, when 5-year-old Nathan was given his first set of bricks.

Morris Museum "Yellow," by Nathan Sawaya. Nathan Sawaya's defining moment came when he informed a New York City law firm that he was quitting his job to pursue a career playing with LEGO bricks.

Nathan Sawaya has turned playing with toys into a lucrative career. The former New York City corporate lawyer creates sculptures made entirely of Lego bricks and glue and showcases them around the ...

Nathan Sawaya got a Lego set from his grandparents when he was 5. While most kids outgrow the toy building bricks, this 36-year-old artist is still playing with them. The Manhattanite has made a ...

Nathan Sawaya quit his Wall Street job to make Lego sculptures. His latest exhibition at the Fleet Museum is titled "The Art of the Brick." ...

Nathan Sawaya: “I glue one brick at a time, a little paint and glue, each brick.” That little hobby of his has, brick by brick, become the international phenomenon.

Nathan Sawaya is a contemporary artist who uses LEGO bricks exclusively for his art. His global exhibition The Art of the Brick comes to Miami at the Olympia Theater.

Artist Nathan Sawaya builds sculptures and wall paintings out of LEGOs, the toy building block that's been a creative outlet for kids and adults and the bane of shoeless parents since the 1930s.