Image courtesy Polk Museum of Art
This weekend, the Polk Museum of Art celebrates the debut of its recently acquired Art-O-Mat with an interactive talk by Art-O-Mat founder and creator Clark Whittington.
Whittington, a conceptual artist based in Winston-Salem, NC, first hatched the Art-O-Mat idea for an exhibition in 1997, when he transformed a dilapidated cigarette machine [...]

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This life-sized work by UF alum Matt Schaffer is featured in Florida Fire at Florida Craftsmen Gallery.
Dunedin collector Mindy Solomon, who curated Florida Fire: the UF Ceramic Faculty Experience, currently on view at Florida Crafstmen Gallery, will speak tonight on a panel about collecting contemporary ceramics with UF professor Anna Callouri-Holcombe, whose work is [...]

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Collector Stan Storer with a piece by Robert Stackhouse. Photo/Shanna Gillette, Creative Loafing.
This week in Creative Loafing, I profiled South Tampa art collector Stan Storer in the first of a series of profiles that will continue here on Artsqueeze. The profiles are part of an effort—spurred by conversations with several people in the community—to create [...]

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