Art’s Essential Role in Healing at Baptist Health
Baptist Health believes that health and healing involves the whole person — body, mind and spirit. With that in mind, Baptist strives to create environments that support healing — for patients, families and caregivers.
This is accomplished by providing access to visual and performing arts, gardens, and natural light at all of their hospitals to assist in the healing process and enhance the patient and family experience.
Celebrating La Florida
39th Annual Art & Antiques Show Highlights Florida’s Spanish Heritage Florida’s roots reach deep into Spanish culture and history. Indeed, our shores were the first in North America to be touched by European feet, and those feet were Spanish. In 1513, Juan Ponce de Leon, the infamous conquistador who had embarked on a tireless quest to find the miraculous Fountain of Youth, discovered an “island,” which he named La Florida, in...
Jai Jacksonville (Long Live Jacksonville)
New late night show with Jim Alabiso follows a strong city current.
Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise
Opening on October 9, The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens will present a new exhibition that celebrates the work of some of this country’s pioneering women artists. Women, Art, & Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, on display through January 3, 2016, showcases the collective of southern artists, developed through a groundbreaking art education program that would become one of America’s most successful art...
Charlotte Mabrey: Percussionist Extraordinaire Bids Farewell to UNF
Charlotte Mabrey started teaching percussion in the Department of Music at the University of North Florida (UNF) in 1980. Now, preparing to wind up her tenure at UNF, she presented her “last big show” on August 22 and looks back over the years: “I never dreamed I would teach,” she says. “The dream was to play in an orchestra [which she began doing in 1979]. I initially saw the UNF position as a way to become more active in the...
Mirrored River: Where Do You See Yourself? Riverwalk mural reflects our city
There is a refrain among anyone who has seen the new Southbank Riverwalk mosaic that now spans the sixty-foot wall beneath the Main Street Bridge: it is stunning at sunset. Its creator, local artist Kate Rouh, calls it “the perfect scenario”: the mosaicked wall’s mirror tiles reflect the oranges and golds of the sky as the brilliant cobalt blue of the Main Street Bridge above it glows with orange uplight – complementary colors...
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