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 …
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 …
On a spring evening in Tampa, Florida, a warm breeze carried Sarah Howard, Curator of Public Art and Social Practice at USF’s Institute for Research, onto a patio of one of the city’s many foodie spots. Wearing rose-tinted glasses and a generous smile, Howard met Read More …
If we’re going to generalize (and of course we are), the Obama administration split politically conscious leftists into two camps: the complacent and the disillusioned. The former felt a sense of euphoria with every victory in the name of social progress, while the latter felt Read More …
Sponsored. What would David MacDonald, host of the podcast Live Art by Timucua Presents, have in common with William Morris—a nineteenth-century writer, textile designer, and social activist? Morris famously asserted, “I do not want art for the few any more than education for the few or Read More …
Central Florida is, at once, a draw for all manner of peoples from all corners of the globe, a melting pot of culture, and a grey, muddied mush pressed into the pungent forms of souvenirs, repainted and sold to any passer-through. It’s not just the Read More …
In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing about the dark times. —Bertolt Brecht, “Motto” Svendborg Poems (1939), trans. John Willett In Denmark during the middle years of the Second World War, radical lyric poet and playwright, Bertolt Brecht, Read More …
Photos by Wayne Grant My sister designed her sandwich board beautifully, and from what I could tell, she had it printed professionally. She was a graphic designer in her previous life, before running away to join the circus as a professor and fine artist in Read More …
The type of curating that happens at Atlantic Center for the Arts is quite different from the type most are familiar within the art world, where a curator selects and works on a presentation for an exhibition in the “white cube.” The word curate, as Read More …
Alya Poplawsky & Katy Bakker, AK Art Consulting What is the purpose of art? Members of the art world have been trying to answer this question since the first art history book was published, but in our line of work, we cannot wax eloquent about Read More …
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