FSCJ Artist Series’ Theater Productions Coming to Downtown Jacksonville
By Sarah Roy Check out the upcoming theater shows and concerts coming to the Times-Union Center, presented by the FSCJ Artist Series, sponsored by Chase. I Love Lucy® Live On Stage closes out the FSCJ Artist Series’ 2014-2015 Broadway in Jacksonville Season from March 17-22. This brand-new hit stage show adapted from the most beloved program in television history takes you back to 1952, where you are a member of the Desilu Playhouse...
One Spark Art Experience
One Spark, The World’s Largest Crowdfunding Festival, is back for its third iteration in Downtown Jacksonville April 7-12, 2015. This year, One Spark has six categories: art, education, health & science, music, social good, and technology. One Spark, like Arbus Magazine, bring together art and business, and creates and environment for collaboration between creatives and innovators from across the country. This year, we...
Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River
Recently, a group of Jacksonville’s finest artists were challenged by staff at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens to reinterpret masterworks in the Museum’s Permanent Collection while shining a spotlight on one of our region’s most important assets, the St. Johns River. Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River, on view through October 18, is presented in collaboration with the Cultural Fusion Year...
Monet and American Impressionism
Impressionism is one of the most loved art movements of all time. When people hear the word Impressionism, they usually think of Claude Monet’s grainstacks or Edgar Degas’s dancers. Yet the general public isn’t as familiar with the American artists who were inspired by the movement and adapted it to typically American landscapes and subjects. Monet and American Impressionism addresses the responses of twenty-five American artists to...
In their own words: Jax by Jax Literary Festival Debuts
As writer Heather Peters was reading her short story “Pop-Tarts for Hitchhikers” she was desperately hoping she didn’t mess up or pass out during the recent Jax by Jax literary festival. She didn’t. She started and stopped at the appropriate times, waiting for the laughter to come. And come it did. At times, she even giggled at her own wit. Peters was one of the many writers showcased at Jax by Jax, which encapsulated and catalyzed...
Toasting a Team of Heroes
February 7 UF Health Jacksonville’s annual charity event will highlight the miraculous recovery of Tim Callahan For the last seven years, UF Health Jacksonville has held their annual Night for Heroes charity gala to celebrate their TraumaOne team and raise funds to support its critical trauma program. In order to help show the immense contribution of TraumaOne, the event honors and highlights a survivor each year; an individual helped...