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Orlando icon Billy Manes has passed away

orlandoweekly.com Billy Manes, writer, activist and longtime columnist for Orlando Weekly, has passed away. Manes died just after 4 p.m. on Friday, July 21, at the...

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CFCArts: Built on Passion – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

Six years ago, Joshua Vickery started Central Florida Community Arts as a small musical group in his garage.

artbornemagazine.com With his heart set on the arts and a vision of creating a community around it, Joshua Vickery has done exactly that. Six years ago, it started with a small musical group in his garage- initially beginning as an idea for a no-audition choir and rapidly developing into what it is today: CFCArts.

The Animal Spirit of Robert Rivers – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

artbornemagazine.com Robert Rivers and his wife, Peggy, have a place in Maitland that looks pretty suburban. The neighborhood is settled down, and Rivers’ home is busy being lived in. A seasonal flag marks the front door, completing their holiday decorations. No permit boxes decorate front yards, no dumpsters are suckin...

Guitarist Robert Phillips and the Orange Blossom Dances – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

First Contact

artbornemagazine.com Composers of contemporary classical music gravitate toward musicians who are receptive to new repertory. Often, the musicians most receptive to newly composed works are those who play instruments that don’t themselves have big catalogues of canonic pieces dating back hundreds of years. For example,…

One Year of Growth: The Arts in Retrospect – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

artbornemagazine.com One Year of Growth: The Arts in Retrospect by Jason Fronczek

Making Space for Ourselves – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

"There’s heavy cross-pollination and collaboration in Orlando’s (music) scene." -John Rousseau

artbornemagazine.com “We try to keep our audience on their toes, turning every space we inhabit into a new and exciting experience,” declares Hannah Fregger regarding promotional upstart Ugly Orange’s directive. Since its inception by musicians Kaley Honeycutt and Nicole Dvorak in June of 2016, the outfit has remained o...

Johannah O’Donnell: Social Grief and Bared Teeth – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

Johannah O'Donnell works with bared teeth and angry animals.

artbornemagazine.com At the end of 2016, I sat down with Johannah O’Donnell to reflect on the year of the “dumpster fire” and how now, more than ever, it is important for us as artists to use our mediums to stand by our beliefs. “Where, as artists, do we go in this kind of situation? Do we go really dark, or do we try a...

How I Learned to Love the Koger Center – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

artbornemagazine.com Design aficionados embrace mid-century modern like a new puppy, with midmod clubs and tours in cities all over the nation. Orlandoans have obediently enthused over our own postwar residential relics, lovingly wiping off the accumulation of terra cotta barrel tiles and fiberglass Corinthian columns l...

You Can Only Control What You Can Control: Scott White – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

Check out Scott's work at Rise Above Tattoo.

artbornemagazine.com The five minutes spent waiting outside of Ethos for Scott White’s arrival felt much longer in the Florida summer heat. We met to walk around inside and see his work on the walls, but we had to navigate around people eating, so conditions weren’t ideal for an interview. The whole place shows local ar...

The Answer: Lillian Verkins – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

artbornemagazine.com It revealed itself to her over a multitude of lifetimes, consciousness being passed onto the next life, the artist repeatedly being born anew.

Permanent Scars: One Year Out – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

artbornemagazine.com Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, cultural geographers Glen Gentry and Derek Alderman conducted interviews on tattooing and healing after trauma. These narratives were published as

Jacksonville Beach, 1972 – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

This ekphrastic story was written for Florida Overtures, Undertones, and Subplots, a collaborative art show and reading sponsored by The Gallery at Avalon Island and Burrow Press.

artbornemagazine.com Aaron and Sheila had moved south, so far south that they went past the south until their vista was the Atlantic, from atop the flat peninsula, jutting from the edge of America. Their fortunes were supposed to change in Jacksonville Beach, where her parents had relocated for the sort of retirement th...

Maureen Hudas, An Artist Emerges – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

artbornemagazine.com Anyone living in Orlando can feel the exponential rate of growth that is occurring around us. Skyrise apartments, new arenas, lakefront dining popping up across the city provide seemingly endless opportunities for spending leisure time and money. The rapid urban growth in Orlando has had a tremendou...

June Publisher’s Note – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

artbornemagazine.com marks a milestone for our publication. We’ve designed, printed and published twelve issues—one year—of Orlando arts and culture. Throughout the last twelve months, we’ve had some extraordinary artists grace the pages of

A Recent Journey to a Different Time – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

"The Kalup Linzy and James Franco show was the destination, but it was also a backdrop for an adventure." 'Patrick Greene

artbornemagazine.com The smell of orange blossoms is a strong part of my childhood memory. There were several acres of orange groves next to my junior high school. Kids used to smoke ci******es, pot, get intimate, etcetera in the grove. There is no way that I can convey the smell of the orange blossoms, but I really mis...

Chris “Tobar” Rodriguez: A Unity of Self – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

In 2008, Tobar became part of a collective group of creatives called The The B-Side Artists. Tobar reflects... saying, “We don’t get together as much as we used to. Everyone started doing their own thing.” The group now shows once a year at the CityArts Factory.

artbornemagazine.com . In each of them, he installs symbols like arrows and gas masks that represent a person’s persona. The arrows pierce themselves through the arms and hands of people in

Why Participatory Art Now – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

"A lot of the messaging from activism in the art world and beyond finds power in the spaces where the messages are portrayed. Is it an institutional voice—is that voice free from the sponsorship of the institution?"
-Sarah Howard

artbornemagazine.com On a spring evening in Tampa, Florida, a warm breeze carried Sarah Howard, Curator of Public Art and Social Practice at USF’s Institute for Research, onto a patio of one of the city’s many foodie spots. Wearing rose-tinted glasses and a generous smile, Howard met with Micheal Ho**er, an arts-based p...

Nicholas “Loaf” Boyd: The Importance of the Colony – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
-Albert Einstein

artbornemagazine.com Some people associate skulls with death, but Nicholas Boyd, who paints under the pseudonym Loaf, sees them as a symbol of life as well. Wary of becoming a skull painter, Boyd tries to expand the subjects of his work but admits he is fascinated with anatomy and that skulls continue to make their way…

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Kieran Castaño: Representation and Satire in the Age of Trump – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

With all the controversy over Kathy Griffin's photoshoot, here's one of our favorite paintings of "Everyone Holding the Head of Donald Trump II" by Orlando artist Kieran Castaño

artbornemagazine.com Kieran Castaño’s illustrations, paintings, and sequential works are humorous, seductively ambiguous, and poignantly vulnerable expressions, drawing form and content from contemporary politics, pop culture, art history, and underground comics. Castaño frequently culls his subject matter from politica...

Captivating Storytelling: IBEX Puppetry at the Gallery at Avalon Island – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

"Heather Henson, Creative Director at Ibex Puppetry, channels her passion for the environment into her work while furthering the Henson family legacy within the puppetry realm."
-Bailey Johnson

artbornemagazine.com Standing alone, it is the serene stillness of the puppet that is first noticed. An inanimate captive of both place and time, at present it draws you in the only way it can: with its perfect pose, so carefully selected and placed by the absent puppet master. Upon closer inspection, it is the puppet’s...

Maya Angelou, Poet, Activist And Singular Storyteller, Dies At 86

The anniversary of Maya Angelou's death was this past weekend.

npr.org Angelou refused to speak for much of her childhood and revealed the scars of her past in her groundbreaking memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She opened doors for black and female writers.

Cornell Fine Arts Museum

Join us in congratulating Dr. Amy Galpin who just received the 2017 Presidential Award for Diversity and Inclusion in recognition of her leadership to advance diversity and inclusion at Rollins College. Congratulations Amy!

Endeavoring to Relate to the Past and Present: Political Dialogues and Contemporary Art in the Museum Space – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

"As a museum curator, I feel a responsibility to create exhibitions that reflect current events and echo themes of social justice. I aim to create projects that elicit conversation, debate, and reflection." Amy Galpin, Cornell Fine Arts Museum.

artbornemagazine.com As a museum curator, I feel a responsibility to create exhibitions that reflect current events and echo themes of social justice. I aim to create projects that elicit conversation, debate, and reflection. I never want people of disparate political beliefs to feel unwelcome in an exhibition I have de...

Downtown Orlando and the Downtown Arts District Orlando are holding their annual photo competition! Submission info here : http://www.downtownorlando.com/photocontest/ #.WSXY3TOZORt

Becky Flanders: Universes as They Could Be – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

artbornemagazine.com With an academic background in artificial life and digital arts, Becky Flanders’ approach to her artistic practice borrows the “life-as-it-might-be” paradigm of artificial life’s philosophical modeling, deciphering the most essential processes of life and implementing them in new situations—confront...

photo by Jason Fronczek

The Right to the City – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

Here in Orlando, the space is structured around private enterprise. It’s not just City Hall trembling in the CNL Tower’s dark shadow.

artbornemagazine.com For architecture students in the late 1970s and early 1980s, late night studio sessions often revolved around two worries: the death of Main Street, and the death of public space. The first thing already happened. We’ve come through it and out the other side where malls are now dying, and a sprawl o...

Hair of the Dog: New Works by Matt Sesow – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

Tomorrow night at Jeanine Taylor Folk Art in Sanford, Florida

artbornemagazine.com SPONSORED: Matt Sesow is a global citizen and self-described punk with a message not to be read but screamed aloud from the highest tower.

The Accidental Music Festival is No Longer by Accident – ARTBORNE MAGAZINE

The Accidental Music Festival is Tomorrow from 1-10pm in S**o District.

artbornemagazine.com An accidental occurrence and a wonderful coincidence at its inception years ago, The Accidental Music Festival is now nearing the end of its sixth season, closing with its second annual marathon this weekend. The AMF, a classical and experimental music marathon, takes place on Saturday, May 20. Star...