The Irresistible URGE to Create

By Emily Stehle. Go to the Tampa Museum of Art – this weekend! – for the experience of seeing work by a group of talented and inspired artists from Western and Central Florida you’ve never heard of – or seen before. Your experience will be eye-opening, exhilarating, soul-searching. . . and perhaps, a little sad. The Florida Outsider Art Collection celebrates artists who create – to create. They don’t have traditional art training. But to them, “. . . making art was as essential as breathing”… Read More

STUCK!

What to do when you’re STUCK? Inspiration, creativity is blocked, and you the artist become frozen and frustrated! Being “stuck” in your creativity is not an uncommon situation for visual… Read More

WRITER’S DAY OFF

Sometimes you need to put all the projects down, get out of the studio, and reintroduce yourself to the world, even if just for an afternoon. I recently went on… Read More

Women’s Work

By Tom Winchester. Women’s Work: A Survey of Female Photographers, emphasizes the early contributions of women in photography. The exhibition includes artworks created by many of photography’s most notable women, as well as several whom viewers will be meeting for the first time. The exhibition reveals that men weren’t the only pioneers of photography, and that women were creating photographic imagery that was meant to be understood as art from the earliest days…. Read More

ART BUSAN Was A Success

The Work I Shipped To Korea Sold! I am very happy to write that Klamp Art Gallery in South Korea sold 5 of my paintings at Art Busan last weekend…. Read More

“26” Short Film!

The best part about being in film, is getting to work with brilliant storytellers! Last fall, I helped produce the short film “26” with director, dp and writer of the… Read More

Read About: Art Trailer

Read About: Art is the pilot episode for Read About It an unscripted series created by Cultured Books that brings books to life through literary based field trips throughout Tampa… Read More

Where it all began!

I used to think an opportunity would just fall in my lap. Maybe I’d be walking around the mall, and someone would come up to me and say “Hey. Do… Read More

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