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New Donation Page for Artful Vagabond Road Trip Series
Film Trailer for a New Art Docuseries Pilot is Launched!
Check out our film trailer for "In Search of Magical Waters" that follows an artist's quest to paint the perfect river in a film pilot for a new art docuseries that will explore the creative lives of artists in America.
A Crisis of Humanity: A photographer reveals heartbreaking personal items confiscated from migrants at the US-Mexico Border
Fine art photographer Tom Kiefer wanted to portray America. But when he took a day job as a janitor at a US Customs Border Protection Facility near the US-Mexico border, a disturbing discovery changed his photography – and his life – forever.
Art of the Yukon
Join us on a voyage without leaving home! Experience Canada's Yukon Territory through the eyes of its artists as Artful Vagabond's Serena Kovalosky takes you on an artful tour, in collaboration with international art magazine, ACS Magazine.
Film Series in Production
“I wanted to produce a show that celebrates artists the way the Food Channel celebrates food,” says Serena Kovalosky who just finished filming an Artful Vagabond pilot last summer.
Interview with Angie Bowie: Inside the Creative Mind of a Pop Culture Icon
Angie Bowie is a pop culture icon. Née Mary-Angela Barnett, she met rock legend David Bowie in the seventies when she was only nineteen, yet her creative influence and marketing savvy helped contribute to the style, image and success of Ziggy Stardust in the emerging era of glam rock. Their ten-year marriage as an openly bisexual... Continue Reading →
The Leningrad Underground and a Russian Rebel
Leningrad, Russia – 1970s. A talented young painter, Ilya Shevel, enters the Secondary Art School of Russia’s Academy of Fine Art, but finds the Soviet-mandated academic style of realism too restrictive and “uninteresting.” At home, the artist is surrounded by the art and creative thinking that truly inspires him. His father, architect Vladimir Shevel (Shevelenko),... Continue Reading →
Industrial Abstracts – From Bethlehem Steel to Slate Valley Quarries
Alyssha Eve Csük is a fine art photographer, fascinated by places of bygone industry – places that are “suspended in time – a suspension that disorients, that accentuates the visual.” Her photographs in the Slate as Muse exhibition at the Slate Valley Museum surprised most visitors used to seeing slate’s muted tones on rooftops and... Continue Reading →
Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and the Lake George Paintings
When people think of Georgia O’Keeffe, they see the iconic image she cultivated during her years in the American Southwest. But from 1918 until 1934, prior to moving to New Mexico, O’Keeffe spent most of each year at Alfred Stieglitz’ family estate in Lake George, NY, where she produced some of her greatest, most innovative... Continue Reading →
Through the Looking-Glass: Revisiting Childhood Toys
Toys are what sparks a child’s imagination as they spend hours each day creating and playing out stories inspired by real life. Revisiting old toys as an adult can bring up surprisingly strong emotional connections and can offer revealing perspectives when explored through the creative process of art. Juan Rodrigo Piedrahita is a painter who... Continue Reading →
Looking in the Mirror: The Artist’s Self-Portrait
Why do artists create self-portraits? What’s it like to create something so intensely personal and how does the artist “step back” enough from knowing the subject too well in order to be the artist and the subject at the same time? Vladimir Kezerashvili creates the most extraordinary still-life paintings. As I was perusing his portfolio,... Continue Reading →
The New Business Paradigm: More Creativity, Less Logic – Day 271
Artists may have a new role in this era of shifting paradigms. As million-dollar businesses restructure, entrepreneurs are creating their own jobs, opening small businesses or marketing their talents as consultants, independent contractors and freelancers. The job market will never be what it was in the past and the days of staying with the same... Continue Reading →
