#1 in the 9-0-Future: Community, residency, and activism in Northeast Florida’s art scene
Gallery shows, museums, and other cultural experiences are a proven way to enjoy work by local and visiting artists. But there is a creative current in…
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How to Make a Geode-Embedded Concrete Table Top
Inside the capacious DIY art venue, The Space Gallery in downtown Jacksonville, concrete artist Josh Gaston’s starting to sweat as he furiously polishe…
How to Make a Cool Zine
With some pens, paper, scissors and a little imagination, two good friends seek to change the world—and have some fun along the way—one zine at a time.…
Go: Artist-in-Residence, Luisa Posada Bleier fills Space 42 with whimsical, colorful sculptures and more
For the past few months, artist Luisa Posada Bleier has been hammering, drilling, sawing, and splattering paint in a small room she refers to as her "c…
Go: Local lensmen combine the tangible with the digital for photography exhibition “As of Now”
Our insatiable appetites for Social Media have made the majority of us, in a way, amateur photojournalists, doggedly capturing our daily highlights in …
Go: Downtown DIY art venue The Space Gallery transforms one last time for “Other Places”
Over course of a nearly a dozen shows in less than a year and a half, Downtown Jax DIY art venue The Space Gallery has been in a constant state of tran…
Salty & Soulful Boutique Opens in Jax Beach
Salty & Soulful made their boutique debut in Jacksonville Beach this March. What started one year ago as Owner Lisa Swindell Batts 'Wine Down Wedne…
Zine And Heard — Trenton Phillips Makes Noise, Releases Two New Books of Imagery
Local surfer/skateboarder, Trenton “Tarpits” Phillips is ceaseless in his search for creative inspiration. If the waves turn on, he’s most certainly in…
Meet Your Maker — Gwen Meking of Aunt Gwen
Local multimedia artist Gwen Meking was gracious enough to invite me to her new studio on a gorgeous Sunday afternoon. The shared space is tucked away …
Phoenix Rising Festival Seeks to Spark New Art Movement in Jax
If you're not already familiar with the newest art movement in Jacksonville, you will be soon enough. The folks behind the Phoenix Arts District, prima…
Lost in S.P.A.C.E. with Artist Edison William
Space exploration has been on the minds and imaginations of humans for ages, long before rockets and spacesuits were even a remote possibility. Digital…
Running A Successful Business in Your 20s — How the Copper Closet is Taking Off
Have you ever thought about owning your own business? It’s a common thought amongst Americans simply because creativity breeds success. The ability to …
Making Duval Hip-Hop One for the History Books — Mal Jones
If you’ve ever been downtown to Art Walk and seen artists/emcees freestyling in the streets, Mal Jones is probably the guy you spotted displaying his t…
Design Your Existence — Kendrick Kidd
How many pieces of art have you experienced today? Perhaps you drove past some murals, saw paintings in a coffee shop, liked some pieces of work on Ins…
First Concert Experiences
For many of us, the first real concert we ever attended holds a special place in our memory. It is a rite of passage. Music itself is a powerful force …
The Writing’s on the Wall
“Jacksonville is one of the biggest small towns in the world,” said Jessica Hatch, editor and publicist at Hatch Editorial Services. “So one of the big…
Featured Photographer — Cole LoCurto
This month's featured photographer is local Cole LoCurto — no stranger to Void if you've picked up an issue recently. Cole has been shooting since high…
The Art of Film — Keeping Jax on the edge of its seat
It’s 5:30 p.m. on a Monday, so it’s of little surprise that Bay Street Bar and Grill is empty as a graveyard. But that’ll change soon. “When I first…
The Art Next Door — Painting the 904 out of a corner
I arrived at CoRK Arts District at 4 p.m. on a hot and muggy Sunday afternoon. The rain had abated for a brief moment, allowing me enough time get insi…
Color Me Kona — The World’s Largest Coloring Book Party
Chris Jolly Creates recently put out this video to showcase an amazing local event, Color Me Kona — The World's Largest Coloring Book Party. If you'…
Holiday Gift Guide BTS Video
Take a peek at our behind-the-scenes video of our latest centerfold from the Holiday Gift Guide and Photo Annual Issue. Centerfold shot by Cole LoCurto…
The Art of the Double Tap — Curating Our Own Feeds
We’ve all done it. Scrolling through our Instagram feed, we see posts of murals or sculptures and think “Wow, I like that.” So we use our thumb and pre…
Big City, Small Town Photography
We’ve become saturated with alluring images everywhere we look. We’re becoming numb to above-average photography because there’s so much of it. So the …
Film Review: Loving Vincent
Last week, I had the pleasure to see the film "Loving Vincent." This film was on my radar for months, as it was the first film made completely from oil…
The Art of Presentation: Jacksonville Fashion Designers At-Large and on the Rise
Everyone has a presentation. Whether people make the effort or not in their own style, most humans like to look at beautiful things. As Miuccia Prada o…