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 …
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 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 …
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 …
Christopher Rodriguez, otherwise known as Tobar, builds emotion with the presence of objects in collections like Man in the Mask, My Dexterous Shadow, and Native. In each of them, he installs symbols like arrows and gas masks that represent a person’s persona. The arrows pierce Read More …
Some people associate skulls with death, but Nicholas Boyd, who paints under the pseudonym Loaf, sees them as a symbol of life as well. Wary of becoming a skull painter, Boyd tries to expand the subjects of his work but admits he is fascinated with Read More …
Standing alone, it is the serene stillness of the puppet that is first noticed. An inanimate captive of both place and time, at present it draws you in the only way it can: with its perfect pose, so carefully selected and placed by the absent Read More …
Dawn Roe pulled a cardboard packing box from beneath a light table in her home studio. She kneeled and opened it gently, placing her hand on the pile of twigs, branches, bark, and berries within. “A friend from Michigan sent me some bits of a Read More …
“Be true to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age. It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‘Always do what you are afraid Read More …
SPONSORED: This Mother’s Day weekend, gather family and friends and experience MIDFLORIDA Mayfaire by-the-Lake in quaint and picturesque downtown Lakeland, Florida. From its humble beginnings as a small craft fair on the lawn of a library, Mayfaire has expanded its reach to be one of Read More …
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