ROOTMAN Homemade Conversations with Homemade Desserts My Name is Frederick “ Rootman” Woods, and I am honored to be one of the recipients for the Professional Artists Grant. My intention… Read More
Homemade Conversations with Homemade Desserts
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A Live Oak, A Local Icon
The Baranoff Oak is located in front of the public library in Safety Harbor, FL. It is known as the oldest living Live Oak in Pinellas County, estimated between 300-500… Read More
It’s all in the preparation! No, seriously.
I careen through the mountainous slopes of the U.S. Route 23, on my way to Louisa, KY, for my stint with Mountain Movers Theatre Company. I’ve managed to pass through… Read More
Plein Air 2022
Friends of Brooker Creek Preserve, a nonprofit support organization of Brooker Creek Preserve, is hosting Plein Air 2022, an outdoor on-location painting event. This annual program is designed to encourage the use of the 8,700-acre Brooker Creek wilderness preserve as natural inspiration for works of art. Visual artists of all levels are invited to participate…. Read More
Prints, Printmakers, and Printing
What I do and how I do it. My art background is in sculpture but during the last five or six years I began experimenting with printmaking. What is… Read More
Discovering Dimple: (Part 3) ‘Talk Hard’
Seeing as how we ended up (unintentionally) doing a series within our Blogs, as we progress, I of course go back and re-read the last one to bring me back… Read More
Yeah, But What Are Your Paintings About?
Works by Jason Hackenwerth with accompanying thoughts. Over then next 25 weeks I plan to share images of paintings and past installations of sculpture. I will try to give thoughtful… Read More
THE RISK/REWARD RATIO OF CREATIVITY
Last month, I was absolutely THRILLED to be a recipient of the Creative Pinellas Professional Artist Grant for my work in literature, but my career in writing didn’t begin with… Read More
Women In Wartime, Lee Miller
Last year, I wrote and performed a show for the Dali Museum on the subject of Lee Miller, who photographed the atrocities of World War II. As I listen to… Read More
Postcards Inspired by Picasso
By Margo Hammond. Have you ever written yourself a postcard? I did — at a workshop last month at the Dalí Museum offered by The Paper Seahorse. You can, too. Just join the second Art of the Postcard – Picasso Style workshop at the museum on May 10 from 6-8 pm. The Paper Seahorse is a stationery store that addresses what its founder, Tona Bell, calls “the digital dilemma” – the fact that these days so many of us are constantly in front of our computers…. Read More
