Art & Culture Features
40 Years. 40 Icons.
The Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville’s 40th Annual Arts Awards Gala Honors 40 Local Icons. See their photos by Renee Parenteau here:
read moreJacksonville’s River of Lights
When you imagine Jacksonville twenty, thirty or even fifty years into the future what do you see?
read moreHemming Park: Urban Renaissance
Andrés Duany, the great urban planner, said that the hallmark of all great urban centers is its public spaces. As Jacksonville’s leaders seek to revitalize the urban core, one of their first priorities has been to restore Hemming Park to a model public space.
read moreCollection of Impulses
Northeast Florida has gradually become a new home for prominent artists from around the country. The newest artist to relocate to our beach community is Sharon Booma, who recently moved from Boston to Ponte Vedra Beach. She is an abstract painter who has been exhibiting her work since 1986. Her repertoire of work has been shown in museum invitationals and prominent galleries, including Etienne Gallery, the Netherlands; Campton Gallery, New York, N.Y.; Arden Gallery, Boston, MA.; LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, N.M., and Caldwell Snyder Gallery,...
read moreHue: Colorful Art, Colorful Artists
Stellers Gallery at Ponte Vedra presents Hue – an exhibition of just that “Who doesn’t love color?” asks Courtney Tinnesz Hill, director of Stellers Gallery at Ponte Vedra. Hue, Stellers at Ponte Vedra’s spring exhibition, is a celebration of the bold, playful, and powerful ways in which color can enrich our walls and our spirits. This exhibition, opening April 29, will feature works by artists Michelle Armas, Shawn Meharg, Enrique Mora, and Steve Williams – all of whom have one thing in common: their use of beautiful and vivid hues. “They...
read moreThe Chef’s Canvas
Recipes Inspired by the Collection of the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens The most recent publication from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens provides not only scholarly commentary on artwork in the museum’s collection, but also seeks to inspire by interpreting the artwork in a new way. The Chef’s Canvas: Recipes Inspired by the Collection of the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens highlights two very important elements of Jacksonville, the art and foodie cultures, while looking at the museum’s artwork from a fresh perspective. The idea...
read moreOne Wonderful Run
If you ask J. Johnson Gallery Director Bruce Dempsey about the gallery’s provenance in 2000, he’s likely to tell you a version of this: “Jennifer and I got together for luncheon. She was going to move her offices out here to the Beach because the majority of her staff lived here. So then, over lunch, we decided ‘Let’s do a gallery – what great fun for both of us!’”
read moreMindful Dining Part Two: Produce
The Growing Art of Growing.
In the first installment of Mindful Dining (Mindful Dining Part One: Proteins, Arbus Jan/February 2016) we asked an esteemed group of local chefs and restauranteurs who espouse the slow food, farm-to-table movement about how they source and use proteins – meat, poultry, eggs and dairy. So, now we will hear from this same group on the backbone, er, base, of the meal – produce and grains. We asked them about their sourcing, growing, and use of these items on their menus, and asked them, along with specialty growers, what trends they see and predict for food and farming.
Water Works: The Mila Furstova Interview
When I saw the artwork for Coldplay’s Ghost Stories, I was taken by the mythology and discovered Mila Furstova for the first time. Mila etches in Perspex, often creating multilayered pieces. Enamored, I looked at her body of work, including the Flow Series, of a woman in the water. It is featured in last month’s story, “Apo Helios” (Jan/February). Mila, who resides in Cheltenham, England, balances an exhibition in the world’s largest venue – the album cover, motherhood, art and business. She will soon release her new series, Motherhood; to be shown at the AGallery in London. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mila Furstova for Arbus …
read moreMaking Sure Kids Don’t Miss A Beat
The Jacksonville arts-based non-profit Don’t Miss a Beat (DMAB), started by renowned jazz musician and Jacksonville native Ulysses Owens, Jr. and family, is perfectly named. The seed for DMAB was sparked by Owens’ time as a student at The Juilliard School and as a touring musician: He noticed community centers in Manhattan and elsewhere, and told his family that Jacksonville needed one. Initially, the Owens had a specific goal to provide a space for high school students to go to when they were suspended from school, so that they wouldn’t “miss a beat” while out of their classrooms.
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