Artist Spotlight: Earl Funk
Earl Funk wanted to draw for as long as he can remember. He started drawing from watching cartoons during his childhood. He remembers encouragement and excitement about his drawings from his friends and parents. He had plans to take art classes in school and college Read More …
Boy Kong
Boy Kong is a local artist from Apopka known for his festive murals, his bold use of line, and his whimsical, dynamic compositions. His style can be marked by striking color palettes and distorted, sometimes mangled, figures. Often the subject is a fantastic rendering of Read More …
Matthew Cornell
On a sunny afternoon, I had the pleasure of meeting a brilliant artist by the name of Matthew Cornell. Well known for his hyperrealistic landscape paintings, Cornell uses his art as a medium for self-exploration. Seeking to connect his origin story to a place, Cornell Read More …
First Contact: DJ K8
What we surround ourselves with matters. Interior designers know that the flow of a space, its colors, textures, and materials can affect our feelings as we navigate an airport, bus or train terminal, our digestion in a restaurant or dining room, or our energy level Read More …
In Honor of the Land
How living in the small town of 29 Palms, California, helped my writing evolve. When I drove into 29 Palms this April, it rained. For those who have lived in the Mojave for a long time, rain is a miracle. To me, a Floridian, rain Read More …
There is NOXCAPE!
Imagine a clothing line that helps you feel empowered, and motivates you to face your fears without trying to make them disappear. That was Arlindo Pacheco’s goal when he created and designed his own line of streetwear NOXCAPE. Growing up between Brazil and Florida, life came Read More …
Litlando: Orlando’s Literary Landscape
I took my last creative writing course at the University of Central Florida in 2013. When it was over, I was relieved. I’d finally have time to finish writing my novel. In lieu of classes, I picked up two more bartending gigs and a social life fueled Read More …
Measuring Orlando’s Pulse
I left Orlando for school in Philadelphia a week after the tragedy at Pulse. My friends were still grieving, lines of people waiting to donate blood still stretched across many blocks in 100-degree weather, and names had just recently stopped being added to the list Read More …
Forrest Lawson
Forrest Lawson’s series Closeted is an ongoing sculptural body of work exploring what it is like to come out as gay. Now more than ever, the struggles of the LGBT community need to be heard. Lawson uses his art as a way to inform outsiders of the Read More …
Artist Spotlight: Jessica Earley
Jessica Earley paints with a broad palette. The thirty-something emerged into Orlando’s art scene in 2008 through puppetry and parade with the arts and music production group, Bread and Circuses. As if for a lark, Earley threw a solo parade commemorating her 10,000 days living Read More …
