Photo: Mark Wemple, Florida Trend Magazine I am very excited to be one of ten artists to be awarded a Rapid Returns Individual Artist Fellowship Award through Creative Pinellas. Today I posted my first update to my page at the Artist Fellows’ blog. One of the reasons I’m most excited about having received this award is that it enables me to travel to India, something I have always wanted to do. I will be a

I have had the pleasure of being interviewed by one of my talented painting students Natalie Velez for her creative’s portal “Art Talk” at Bella Unica. The interview is quite comprehensive and touches on aspects of my life from South Africa to California to New Mexico to Florida. Natalie is also a talented photographer as well as being a highly cultured world explorer. Besides interviews, Bella Unica‘s site is filled with enticing goodies. Check it out! Eros’

The Spring Mixed Media Creativity Retreat of May 13-15, started with a bang for me — I learned just before leaving for Rainbow River Center in Dunnellon that I had been awarded a $5,000 Creative Pinellas Individual Artist’s Grant.* On our way to our final destination a group of us met up at the Tampa Museum of Art to view the Jaume Plensa exhibition. Although we liked his sculpture, it was his mixed media works

I create and exhibit sculptural installations while continuing to be active painting, collaging and making artist books. Addressing both contemporary and historical phenomena that impact humanity, such as environmental degradation and war, my conceptually themed, multimedia installations often incorporate the processes and materials used in my two-dimensional work. Two recent examples of sculptural installations are: Homeland, Lost and Found which is a collaborative project indebted to two previous projects: Bound Crosses and Boundary Crossings, a series

by Amy Martinez On the third floor of St. Anthony’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Rose Marie Prins goes door to door greeting patients as she pulls a suitcase filled with crayons, markers and other art supplies. “Hi, my name is Rose Marie,” she says. “I’m an artist, and I’m here to make art with you.” Ken Wood, hospitalized with a kidney stone just before last Christmas, decides to make a greeting card for the nursing