Featured Artist Series: Mark Dickson
We’re making Artopia 2015 our best ever! Our partners at 7Hills Communications are producing several videos featuring some of the artists that support Big Bend Cares and Artopia. Sculptor and…
What is HIV/AIDS?
PublicHealth.org is an organization dedicated to connecting patients, students and professionals to the latest and most useful healthcare information and resources available. When the AIDS crisis hit 30+ years ago,…
Meet an Artopian: Sandy DeLopez
What or who inspired you to start painting? The Great Masters and the Impressionists have always inspired me, but my daily inspiration comes from nature and human lives and culture.…
Expansion plans underway for Big Bend Cares
Rob Renzi peered out a window facing South Monroe Street, pointing to an adjacent block where Big Bend Cares wants to build a two-story, 25,000-square-foot medical center. In February, the…
Meet an Artopian: Vera Sorensen
Tell us about growing up in Ukraine? I was born and raised in Ukraine. My parents did not share my dream to be artist and my painting class had to…
Meet an Artopian: Pattie Maney
When did you know you could create art? When I was just a kid I loved art and I always knew what I wanted to be when I grew up…
Meet an Artopian: Mark Dickson
How has your work evolved since the you started? I am of course much more comfortable with the medium and most of all with myself and my ideas. I tend…
Meet an Artopian: Mershell Sherman
Tell us about the genesis of your art? My life, as I know it, was altered after the passing of my twin sister Ladell in 1999. After a debilitating grief,…
Meet an Artopian: Courtney Uhrick
Where does your creativity come from? Finding beauty in the little things. Do you roll your eyes when people in Florida complain about winter weather? Yes! I lived in Florida…
Meet an Artopian: Stacey Anne
What inspired you to become an artist and entrepreneur? I have always had a love for art and creativity. I did photography in high school and entered and won in…