Artist Grantee Posts

St Pete Studio Tour They'll Greet You With Flowers, on left, and The Heart Collector The Golden Child Detail of found baby bird and seahorse Recycled to-go containers make for great overnight acrylic paint storage Social Lies altar, back, left [...]

Dog Eat Dog World ... Nope! We have all heard the expression, "It's a dog eat dog world." Here in Florida, it is all about the birds.  It could be a bird eat snake world … It could be a bird eat fish world … It could be a bird [...]

Where Time Stands Still Makeshift studio in Charlotte, NC, where the Innocence Project began. Buster Love sits in a chair because this young model was afraid of dogs. When I began this body of work in the summer of 1996, I didn’t imagine I would still be consumed by [...]

Western Creatures As we travel across the country I am greeted with changing landscapes. When the scenery changes, so do the creatures I see. Here are a few examples of animals I photographed for my work during a recent trip out west. It's so not Florida! Texas Tarantula [...]

The Light Show / Denver Art Museum   A chandelier viewed from below According to the museum's description, The Light Show at the Denver Art Museum explores physical and symbolic representations of light in art through a thought-provoking narrative. The exhibition features about 250 objects drawn from the [...]

Jordan Casteel Exhibition   A detail image from the exhibition     Emerging artist Jordan Casteel in her first, impressive major museum exhibition at the Denver Art Museum delights patrons with large-scale colorful paintings depicting people and places familiar to her. It's amazing she, at 30-years-old, has skills [...]

Broken Bird Mourning Dove, 48" X 36", (2004) THE BROKEN BIRD SERIES To Euripides, the Greek dramatist, birds were "messengers of the gods." Scholars say birds, like butterflies, represent human souls as they abandon physical bodies at the moment of death. These post-mortem portraits evolved from the gathering [...]

Art of Collecting   Sculpture by Paul Benson and painting by St Petersburg artist Lance Rodgers The best bonus for being an artist is being able to barter with other artists. When I was in college, I made my first barter with an art teacher. He brought me [...]

For the birds Birds in the family I believe in creating or collecting your own source material whenever possible. Sure it’s probably faster to grab other people’s work off the Internet, but is it right? Taking the time to work in the presence of whatever object or subject you might need [...]