/tags/painting painting en-US WLRN Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:19:56 GMT /podcast/sundial/2024-02-01/coconut-grove-arts-festival-poster-grushovenko-signe-genna Signe and Genna Grushovenko are the artists behind this year’s poster for the Coconut Grove Arts Festival. The couple explain how they came to unite their love — and their artwork. Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:19:56 GMT /podcast/sundial/2024-02-01/coconut-grove-arts-festival-poster-grushovenko-signe-genna Carlos Frías, Leslie Ovalle Atkinson, Elisa Baena /podcast/sundial/2023-07-25/artist-tony-mendozas-work-lives-between-cultures Cuban-American artist Tony Mendoza plucks culture out of the air so we can see it. He tells Carlos Frías how he makes biculturalism tangible in South Florida. Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:58:34 GMT /podcast/sundial/2023-07-25/artist-tony-mendozas-work-lives-between-cultures Carlos Frías, Elisa Baena, Alexa Herrera /art-and-culture/2023-02-24/from-mojitos-to-local-flora-and-fauna-artists-embraced-south-florida-at-coconut-grove-festival Thousands of people attended the latest Coconut Grove Arts Festival. An estimated 280 artists were invited to set up shop on McFarlane Road. Some were veterans — while others made their CGAF debut. Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:58:01 GMT /art-and-culture/2023-02-24/from-mojitos-to-local-flora-and-fauna-artists-embraced-south-florida-at-coconut-grove-festival Natalia Clement /news/2022-07-12/celebrated-american-artist-helen-frankenthaler-is-focus-of-exhibit-at-usf-contemporary-art-museum As early as 1959, Frankenthaler became a regular presence in major international exhibitions. She won first prize at the Premiere Biennale de Paris that year, and had her first major museum exhibition in 1960. Tue, 12 Jul 2022 15:29:50 GMT /news/2022-07-12/celebrated-american-artist-helen-frankenthaler-is-focus-of-exhibit-at-usf-contemporary-art-museum Cathy Carter /show/sundial/2019-10-24/human-bodies-are-transformed-into-pieces-of-artwork-at-key-wests-fantasy-fest Hundreds of people each year parade the streets of Fantasy Fest in Key West after having their naked bodies transformed into artwork through detailed body… Thu, 24 Oct 2019 21:11:12 GMT /show/sundial/2019-10-24/human-bodies-are-transformed-into-pieces-of-artwork-at-key-wests-fantasy-fest /2013-08-10/floridas-highwaymen-painted-idealized-landscapes-in-jim-crow-south In the Jim Crow Florida of the 1960's a group of young African-American landscape painters became famous for their art. They also made a lot of money selling oil paintings that depicted an idealized, candy-colored Florida of palms and beaches, and sleepy inlets. These young painters came to be known as the Highwaymen, and they painted thousands of these paintings until the market was saturated and the whole genre vanished. Host Jacki Lyden traveled to Florida and explored their fascinating story. (This piece originally aired on All Things Considered on Sept. 19, 2012.) Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:00:00 GMT /2013-08-10/floridas-highwaymen-painted-idealized-landscapes-in-jim-crow-south Jacki Lyden /culture/2013-07-09/work-of-floridas-highwaymen-gets-a-new-life Florida’s natural world, like its social world, is of many minds: serene, clear, or bright one minute, then dark, indignant, or utterly furious the next.… Tue, 09 Jul 2013 12:00:00 GMT /culture/2013-07-09/work-of-floridas-highwaymen-gets-a-new-life Rob Goyanes /culture/2013-01-31/check-it-out-what-happens-when-an-inaugural-poet-and-a-south-florida-painter-make-art-together A painter who lives in Miami and teaches at Florida International University has collaborated with inaugural poet Richard Blanco to create paintings based… Thu, 31 Jan 2013 11:00:00 GMT /culture/2013-01-31/check-it-out-what-happens-when-an-inaugural-poet-and-a-south-florida-painter-make-art-together