The Conversation
Colin Tarbert Downtown Investment Authority CEO What attracted you to Jacksonville and to the opportunity to lead the Downtown Investment Authority? Jacksonville offers a rare opportunity to shape a downtown at scale. We have a remarkable riverfront, available land, and real momentum behind transformative projects. The DIA brings together planning, real estate, and investment tools to move that vision forward. For...
Publishers Note
The 30th annual Art & Architecture Issue is monumental, not only for Arbus Magazine, but for me personally as well. Architecture is exciting not only for the ways that it shapes cities and communities but also for the debate that it can spark. Often referred to as the “mother art” or one of the “seven arts,” architecture is also plays a major role in the development and character of a city and how...
WHERE THE RIVER LEADS
Downtown Jacksonville’s Parks & Trails as Living Works of Civic Art Jacksonville’s city center is in the midst of a generational design movement —one that treats parks and trails not as passive green space, but as active civic infrastructure and works of public art. Across the Northbank and Southbank of the St. Johns River, landscape architects, engineers, artists, nonprofits, philanthropists, and public officials are composing a...
WHERE THE RIVER LEADS TO STORIES TOLD THROUGH PUBLIC ART
We Often hear, “What is Jacksonville’s Identity?” That is a question that is difficult to answer. However, a city’s identity can be shaped and expressed through public art. Businessman Preston Haskell has commissioned many sculptures throughout Northeast Florida and believes that public art “will make our city even more beautiful, more attractive.” For more than a decade, Haskell has led the Downtown Sculpture Initiative to...
Whitney Oldenburg: left behind
Edited by Amber Sesnick, Director of Communications, Arts UNF Photos by Elisabeth Bernstein A dynamic emerging sculptor who grew up here in Jacksonville but is now working out of New York, Whitney Oldenburg has cultivated a deeply reflective practice examining the relationships we build with everyday items. Her exhibition “Whitney Oldenburg: left behind” is on view through April 19 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)...
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