CFCArts: Built on Passion
With his heart set on the arts and a vision of creating a community around it, Joshua Vickery has done exactly that. Six years ago, it started with a small musical group in his garage- initially beginning as an idea for a no-audition choir and Read More …
Guitarist Robert Phillips and the Orange Blossom Dances
Composers of contemporary classical music gravitate toward musicians who are receptive to new repertory. Often, the musicians most receptive to newly composed works are those who play instruments that don’t themselves have big catalogues of canonic pieces dating back hundreds of years. For example, one Read More …
Making Space for Ourselves
“We try to keep our audience on their toes, turning every space we inhabit into a new and exciting experience,” declares Hannah Fregger regarding promotional upstart Ugly Orange’s directive. Since its inception by musicians Kaley Honeycutt and Nicole Dvorak in June of 2016, the outfit Read More …
How I Learned to Love the Koger Center
Design aficionados embrace mid-century modern like a new puppy, with midmod clubs and tours in cities all over the nation. Orlandoans have obediently enthused over our own postwar residential relics, lovingly wiping off the accumulation of terra cotta barrel tiles and fiberglass Corinthian columns like Read More …
You Can Only Control What You Can Control: Scott White
The five minutes spent waiting outside of Ethos for Scott White’s arrival felt much longer in the Florida summer heat. We met to walk around inside and see his work on the walls, but we had to navigate around people eating, so conditions weren’t ideal Read More …
The Answer: Lillian Verkins
The artist has the Answer deep inside her. It glows like a beacon calling out to others on the journey. It revealed itself to her over a multitude of lifetimes, consciousness being passed onto the next life, the artist repeatedly being born anew. She sought Read More …
Permanent Scars: One Year Out
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, cultural geographers Glen Gentry and Derek Alderman conducted interviews on tattooing and healing after trauma. These narratives were published as Trauma Written in Flesh: Tattoos as Memorials and Stories, which is readable online. In their Read More …
Jacksonville Beach, 1972
Aaron and Sheila had moved south, so far south that they went past the south until their vista was the Atlantic, from atop the flat peninsula, jutting from the edge of America. Their fortunes were supposed to change in Jacksonville Beach, where her parents had Read More …
Maureen Hudas, An Artist Emerges
Anyone living in Orlando can feel the exponential rate of growth that is occurring around us. Skyrise apartments, new arenas, lakefront dining popping up across the city provide seemingly endless opportunities for spending leisure time and money. The rapid urban growth in Orlando has had Read More …
A Recent Journey to a Different Time
The smell of orange blossoms is a strong part of my childhood memory. There were several acres of orange groves next to my junior high school. Kids used to smoke cigarettes, pot, get intimate, etcetera in the grove. There is no way that I can Read More …
