Art & Culture
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 emotional difficulties and have been removed from the regular education setting as a result of these...
read moreEPIC 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 national Local Initiatives Support Corporation’s (LISC) successful Building Sustainable Communities program....
read moreAllies For Change
At One Spark this past April, the creator group We Are Straight Allies, a local organization advocating for equality, found themselves the target of the very bias they seek to dissolve via their community education and engagement efforts. Controversy was ignited when the group was asked to relocate and remove a nine-foot window cling from their host venue (the Juice Gallery, located on the first floor of the Wells Fargo building) by other unnamed tenants objecting to the creator group’s message promoting human rights and equality for...
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