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Acclaimed Artist Noli Novak Looking for Downtown Digs
Famed Wall Street Journal Artist, Noli Novak is looking for a downtown space to convert into a work live headquarters.The primary creator of the stippled portraits of the distinguished Journal has been a resident of downtown for a few months now at the Metropolitan, and can be seen on many mornings walking around in search of something to do downtown besides Starbucks.
Published July 2, 2007 in News Digg
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She is presently in negotiations for a dilapidated building with an extremely colorful history in order to transform it into a live work studio for both her familiar stipple portraits and her husbands printmaking business.Such a resident would be quite a coup for the city both in terms of its arts scene and just because it would be awesome to have such a lovely and cool set of neighbors in the urban core.What would it be worth to have an artist of such national familiarity based here?And how hard would someone at city hall work to help make this a reality?If you guessed very little to nothing on the last question, you would be sadly correct.I suppose we could always just cross our fingers.Seriously people. For a glimpse of her work, check out nolinovak.com
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stephendare
July 02, 2007, 12:36:20 PMstephendare
July 02, 2007, 12:38:31 PMhttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4768811
noli, singing for her band, Novakseen
Those familiar illustrations on the pages of The Wall Street Journal look just like engravings. But the intricate portraits, called headcuts, are actually a sort of pointilist sketch -- drawn by hand using a technique known as "stippling."
Noli Novak, a New Jersey-based artist, has produced Journal art for nearly 20 years. At her studio, she typically receives an e-mailed photo of her subject. Then, deftly employing a number-one pen, she copies a three-by-five inch image onto special vellum paper. She creates a realistic image with a constellation of dots, lines and crosshatches, a process that generally takes about three hours.
Novak grew up on the Croatian island of Korchula, and reached the United States in 1984, after college. In addition to doing her own work for the Journal, she now trains new artists. She makes sure everyone draws in a uniform style, making it nearly impossible to tell whose hand lies behind which portrait.
stephendare
July 02, 2007, 02:43:23 PManyone else think that this would be a cool development for downtown?
copperfiend
July 02, 2007, 02:55:00 PMI think it would be very cool. The most arts in downtown Jax, the better. Her work is awesome.
stephendare
July 02, 2007, 05:13:10 PMher work is awesome. And she is one of the nicest people ive ever met besides.
The other cool thing is that her husband is a super high quality print maker. He wants to open a shop here, the type of litho and print making outfit that fine artists from all over the country come to in order to get jobs done.
Jacksonville is so goddam lucky to have these guys thinking about this at all.
We should make them lucky to have come to Jacksonville.
stephendare
July 02, 2007, 05:14:16 PMso far they have been hitting the same walls that boomtown hit.....lack of available buildings being the worst of them.
downtownparks
July 02, 2007, 06:59:54 PMStephen, would she be remotely interested in the 'field? Maybe the south end of the neighborhood?
I would love to talk to her, if you can put me in touch.
vicupstate
July 02, 2007, 07:27:28 PMDVI and the city should be doing everything in their power to make this happen. Is there any particular reason they are looking at Jax? Family connections perhaps, or are they another example of outsiders seeing the potential of DT Jax, that is so often missed by the locals?
createjacksonville
July 02, 2007, 11:29:33 PMWow! I am really pumped about the possibility of this. The more artists around here the better; especially high profile ones. It can only mean good things for Jax.
I am even more interested by the possiblity of some kind of print shop opening here. Jacksonville could really use something like this...a reason for artists to visit from all over.
thelakelander
July 03, 2007, 07:15:26 AMWhere there's a will there's a way. What about Springfield? Is she looking to buy or lease? How much space does she need?
stephendare
July 03, 2007, 05:35:24 PMWell she has got her sites on a building downtown right now.
they are negotiating it out and then if they are successful in their negotiations, they will have a space.
the hell of it is that they have been looking for more than a year, with absolutely no help from the city---in fact the opposite.
Her husband is a jacksonville native, which is their connection to this town, but for god's sake, you would think that the city would make it easier.
There are all kinds of things that the city could do.
Like a little assistance finding the location in the first place.
Helping out to explain whether or not they are elgible for facade grants.
Giving them an accurate report on what the freaking zoning is.
None of this has happened despite inquiries.
The buildings that they have looked at for purchasing have been either in Reggie Fullwood's (meaning of course, that there actually wasnt a councilperson for them) or Pat Locket Felder's part of downtown----if they had been in Suzanne's they could at least have gotten a little guidance.
thelakelander
July 03, 2007, 05:55:43 PMWell Jenkins is gone now. What can we expect with Redman?
stephendare
July 04, 2007, 01:39:28 AMwho knows? in any case, hes too green himself to be of much use to anyone yet, even if he did magically turn out to be a modern day Pericles.
spidey
July 04, 2007, 08:30:57 AMPersonally, I think you could be in for a very looooooooooong 4 years. But, I hope not.
stephendare
July 04, 2007, 10:41:44 AMso who wants to call dvi and tell them to get off their asses?
stephendare
July 04, 2007, 03:19:07 PMnoli sent an email saying that several people have contacted her as a result of this thread, she is very encouraged as a result.
maybe this will work out after all.
gatorback
July 04, 2007, 06:17:07 PMwow. I think this is just the culture Jacksonville is looking for. Now, all we need is people to support her.
thelakelander
July 04, 2007, 06:38:29 PMIts great to know that Metro Jacksonville may be one of the reasons that she ends up finding a suitable location downtown. Hopefully everything works out with the desired warehouse.
jaxhater
July 18, 2007, 07:15:57 PMDon't we have 4 or 5 artists already in jax.
I believe that may be toooooooo many as it is.
We need more sailors and marines, not artists from NEEEEEW YORK.
Aren't we at war still....or did someone forget.
stephendare
July 18, 2007, 07:28:16 PMlol, Jax hater, I think we do.
and I would love to see a hundred more with five more galleries to represent them.