Making STEAM
Every Student Succeeds Act Set To Integrate the Arts into STEM Education Arts education advocates have a lot to celebrate about 2015 – a year that proved to be an important milestone for their cause. Major steps were taken to preserve arts subjects within the new education reform bill, culminating in President Obama signing the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which places a major focus on integrating the arts into STEM education...
The 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...
One 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!’”
Making 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.
The Outings Project
I recently had the remarkable experience of working alongside Julien de Casabianca and dozens of community artists and activists as we instigated a new phase of the Outings Project in Jacksonville. For just over a week, Casabianca was artist in residence at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens and in the streets of our city. More than forty images from the museum’s Permanent Collection were released from their frames, joining the...
I Am A Runner
All shapes, sizes, colors, ages and abilities: all runners. Some are new to the sport, others have run their entire lives – 60 years plus. From 5Ks to 100-mile Ultras, transcendent runs and torturous ones, these athletes challenge themselves to go faster or farther, to discover the limits of who they are and what they can do, for a hat or medal or just to say, “I am a runner.” Photos by Laura Evans 36 of the current 77 I Am A...
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