South Florida has it's share of portrait artists. For some of us, focusing on the uniqueness of an individual can be extraordinarily difficult to do. So we avoid it. We leave the facial features out of the equation. Or we spend all our time on drawing our models shoes. This does not describe
BROWARD COUNTY, Fla. – Broward County Commission’s Cultural Division and the South Florida Artists Association will present Issues in Public Art and Commissioning Agreements with the Associate Director of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento, Esq. This training session will assist individual visual artists interested in applying for public art commissions, will be
The South Florida Artists Association and the Broward Cultural Division would like to invite you to attend a special workshop on developing more effective artist statements on Saturday, May 14th from 6:30 to 8:30pm. Participants will learn how to develop an artist’s biography and artist’s statement. We are pleased to have a nationally recognized guest
How does an artist inspired to paint while living in a thatched hut in the South Pacific transition his work into bird portraiture and an infatuation for replicating concrete cinderblocks on silk? I present to you South Florida Artist, Nolan Haan. My first encounter with Nolan's work was at a juried exhibition held at ArtServe
One of the best benefits to members of SFAA is the many and varied networking opportunities that we help to create awareness for in the creative community. I'd like to give a quick example of show SFAA connections happen. A few years ago, I met the current owners of Kevro's Art Bar in Delray Beach.
There's a new event gaining momentum in Fort Lauderdale. Have you heard me mention FAT Village Arts District recently? There are some interesting things brewing in the warehouses and storefronts just west of N. Andrews Avenue and north of Broward Blvd. A group of individuals committed to furthering the art scene are working together to
On February 20th, through a chance encounter...I happened to experience the recent installation, Imaginaruim in the FAT Arts Village District. Did you attend? Were Broward County locals aware that a couple of exceptional Wynwood Curators took over a warehouse in one of our neighborhood spaces? They transformed a huge raw space into a sensory experience complete
Title: A night of Fashion, Photography and Music! Location: Kevro\'s Art Bar 166 SE 2nd Avenue Delray Beach, FL 33444 Link out: Click here Description: On Saturday March 6th from 8:00 to midnight; SFAA is hosting our first art/fashion/music themed event...and we hope you will mark your calendar and plan to attend. The event will
One of the most pleasurable aspects of founding the SFAA has been the direct contact I have with so many talented local artists. As some of you know, my modest but quickly growing visual art collection is entirely comprised of South Florida artists.
There is something exciting happening in South Florida, we've dubbed it "Creative Pulse". The momentum is growing and members of local creative industries are not allowing a depressed economy to get them down. Instead; artists, musicians, writers and filmakers are banding together to collaborate and brainstorm about how to stengthen our local industry. On June