Artist Interviews
STEVE DARK, Gulf Shores, Alabama
Virginia-Highland Art Festival 2007
"The portrait bust kind of grew out of the face jug and started to getting more and more detailed or more and more sections and parts.... they were supposed to be real expressive extensions of a face jug......"
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ANA VERELA, Micanopy, Florida
Virginia-Highland Art Festival 2007
"I get my inspiration from my daily living, from my past, from my friends, family, and nature."
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RUSS TAYLOR, Indialantic, Florida
Virginia-Highland Art Festival 2007
"Music is a big inspiration of mine but I also enjoy the tropical themes, I just enjoy that whole Caribbean vibe and jazz and blues are my favorite music to listen to while I paint."
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BRINDA MORALES (art enthusiast), Atlanta, Georgia
Virginia-Highland Art Festival 2007
"I really enjoy Mr. Barksdale's work. It's very very colorful and he has a interesting technique"
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JAKE CRAWFORD, Atlanta, Georgia
Artist Buckhead Studio 2007
"Basically I shot as is from a journalist perspective. I like to compose within the frame and capture what is as it is"
I have always been interested in journalism. Growing up in the sixties, in the civil rights era and the time of the Vietnam war, I grew up in a time of black and white television transition to color television........"
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KATRINA GRIGGS, Atlanta, Georgia
Artist Castleberry Hill Loft 2007
"I'm actually inspired by alot of different things, um it just depends on where I am, at what time, um all things creative. So it could be the simplest thing, the dry leaf that inspires me, or a branch, a pretty flower, or the clouds in the sky, or it could be some shoes someone has on......."