Entries for the Arts Coast Magazine
Last year, master sculptor Mark Aeling and St. Petersburg Poet Laureate Helen Pruitt Wallace collaborated on a powerful project in the Warehouse Arts District that remembers 9/11, and how to begin again. On this Memorial Day weekend, Mark and Helen share their thoughts, and all the work behind Rise…. Read More
It fascinates me how so many of our creation myths, passed down from generation to generation in all corners of the world, resemble each other in so many ways. What… Read More
I have watched my family’s home, birth country and lives lost over the last 92 days with the gruesome and horrific scenes live streamed 24/7. It is heartbreaking and I… Read More
By Margo Hammond. When I say Charles Rennie Mackintosh, what comes to mind? High-backed chairs? Yes, there are plenty of them included in Designing the New: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow Style, the special exhibit at the Museum of American Arts and Craft Movement in St. Pete. But those stark, giraffesque chairs are only a fraction of the unique creations by the Scottish designer… Read More
The series I worked on for the 2022 Creative Pinellas Emerging Artist Exhibition was called UNDER PRESSURE. The UNDER PRESSURE series is meant to represent not only the societal pressures… Read More
I am beginning a new work. The story is based in autobiography. My father was violently killed when I was nine. I was with him at the time. I experienced… Read More
I often joke that I can’t draw a straight line for the life of me. It’s actually fairly accurate, though. This probably lends to my love for painting nature. Maybe… Read More
I’ve started my project and it’s starting in play form, although I have plans to lay it down in graphic novel-ish form as well. I think a lot about how… Read More
“After Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the draft, Vice President Kamala Harris said it is “clear” that ‘opponents of Roe want to punish women and take away their rights to… Read More
