What drives an artist to create? And are there common traits that successful artists possess? In The Making of an Artist, Kristin G. Congdon draws on her years of studying and teaching art at all leve
Florida has an abundance of excellent artists whose work reflects the traditions of their many diverse communities. Yet there has been, until now, no major publication that focuses on the state's visu
Basket makers, bead workers, boatbuilders, doll makers, egg painters, yard artists, mask makers, metal artists, musical instrument makers, painters, quilters, wood carvers, a long list mixed media art
Readers will know Bob Ross (1942-1995) as the gentle, afro'd painter of happy trees on PBS. And while the Florida-born artist is reviled or ignored by the elite art world and scholarly art educators,
Since the invention of the first camera through the advent of digital photography, men and women have sought to communicate a variety of messages and document a variety of experiences both personal a
Few states can boast the multitude of cultures that created Florida. Native American, African American, Afro-Caribbean, White, and Hispanic traditions all brought their styles of storytelling to fashi
A biographical dictionary profiling 75 painters, sculptors, photographers, muralists, printmakers, installation artists, and performance artists from the US and 13 nations in Central and South America
