How Local Artists Claimed Space
KING STREET STUDIOS At first glance, 600 King Street appears to be a commercially-zoned eyesore for gated grunge and junk. But it’s not. The royalty-titled address is home to King Street Studios – a 1969 skating rink converted into a 2,400- square-foot space situated beneath the maniacal buzz of I-10 traffic, with scattered industrial businesses as neighbors. Venture inside and you’ll see walls sprawling with innovation; yet...
New Mural Installation Brightens Downtown Jacksonville
The Florida Theatre has partnered with First Coast High School’s B.E.S.s.T. program to install a mural project funded by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville. The project was led by Cathedral Arts Project teacher Laurie Brown and Florida Theatre Director of Marketing Kendall Barsin. The B.E.S.s.T. Program (Behavioral Education and Social Skills Teaching) of First Coast High is a program for students who have behavioral or...
EPIC Street Art: Turning Heads in Unexpected Places
A head-turning seascape in Springfield and visual history lesson in East Jacksonville symbolize hope in those urban core neighborhoods. The bold street art served as jump starts to a community-driven initiative to attain a higher quality of life in areas that include housing, family income, economic development, education , and healthy environments and lifestyles. Jacksonville’s Building EPIC Communities project is modeled after...
The Crazy Daysies: Taking Root Country Style
While Jacksonville may not be as steeped in southern culture as Charleston, Savannah or Mobile, it still has the geography that evokes a languid way of life: cypress-filled rivers and lowlands and humid afternoons with the sun languishing through the oaks and pines.
Saving Them All, Together
There’s a famous quote by Mahatma Ghandi that is the mantra of animal lovers everywhere: “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” By that standard, then Jacksonville has become a truly great city. The proof is seen in various stats, the most impressive of which is the recent designation as the largest “no-kill” community in the nation, thanks to a dramatically reduced...