Visual Arts
Karla Kantorovich: Honoring Her Heritage with Mixed-Media Installations
KARLA KANTOROVICH is a mixed media artist from Mexico City, based in Miami, FL. She creates paintings, textiles, hand-made paper, and assemblages, leaning into the importance of texture and dimensionality to explore renewal.
read moreIsaac “Drift” Wright: Looking Down From the Heights
ISAAC “DRIFT” WRIGHT is a multidisciplinary artist and a United States Army veteran. After serving his country, he found solace and purpose in urban exploring and photography,
read moreDavid Dunlap: Documenting Buildings and Lives
DAVID W. DUNLAP is a journalist who worked as a reporter for the New York Times for 40+ years. He wrote a regular column, “Building Blocks,” that looked at the New York metropolitan area through its architecture, infrastructure, spaces, and places. Dunlap has also been documenting the history of Provincetown, Massachusetts, through its architecture, on the website “Building Provincetown,” and in his book on this topic, “Building Provincetown,” (Provincetown Arts Press — 2015, 2021, 2024).
read moreCelebrating Juneteenth 2025
In celebration of JUNETEENTH 2025, we have curated a group of video interviews from the ArtSpeak archives with prominent people in the arts.
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Waltzing with Billy Zane
BILLY ZANE is an actor, filmmaker, and visual artist. His breakthrough role was in the Australian film “Dead Calm” (1989). He has since appeared in numerous films and television series and starred as the main antagonist Caledon Hockley in the epic film “Titanic” (1997), the Phantom in “The Phantom,” (1996) and Marlon Brando in “Waltzing with Brando” (2024).
read moreArtist Frank Hyder: Still Magic After All These Years
FRANK HYDER (b.1951) has participated in more than 200 group shows and over 100 solo exhibitions throughout the Americas, Asia, and Europe, including 10 individual exhibitions in New York City.
read morePipe Yanguas: Artist, Photographer
PIPE YANGUAS (b.1982) is a Colombian-American photographer and visual artist, born and raised in Colombia. photography work takes him across the globe, from the Americas to Europe to the Middle East, but during the COVID-19 pandemic, he stayed with his parents in Colombia and fully immersed himself in his “Dots and Lines World” series.
read moreRichard Ross — Art with a Purpose
RICHARD ROSS is an artist/activist/photographer and distinguished research professor of art based in Santa Barbara, California. As the creator of “Juvenile-in-Justice,” his work turns a lens on the placement and treatment of American juveniles housed by law in facilities that treat, confine, punish, assist and, occasionally, harm them.
read moreMary Ellen Scherl: Art with Backstories
After a 17-year career as an Art Director at two premier advertising agencies, MARY ELLEN SCHERL transitioned from commercial art to fine art — sculpture, painting, installation photography, writing, and most recently filmmaking.
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