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Martin Ramos and the Culture of Skateboarding
MetroJacksonville.com team members spent a day at Kona learning about the private park and skateboarding as a whole. Kona skate park owner Martin Ramos gives his perspective on the aggressive sport's culture.
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Iconic Jax Artist Lee Harvey Returns to New York
Easily Jacksonville's most controversial and provocative painter and philosopher king, Lee Harvey has had a few years to recharge here in J'ville. But armed with a vast new body of work, Harvey will return to New York to take on his newest project: ReMemeing the Occupy Movement on Wall Street. Join...
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MOCA Jacksonville Backtracks to the 1970s!
In the wake of the artistic innovations of the 1960s, movements and art forms that had seemed groundbreaking or revolutionary played themselves out. Exhausted by the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and disillusioned by the implosion of their Utopian ideals, artists rejected statements as irrelevant...
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The Founding of The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens
The Cummer Museum of Art and its wonderful gardens have become one of the most valuable assets that the city of Jacksonville possesses. It is also the crown jewel of the Riverside Neighborhood, emblematic of the area's passion for classical art and culture. Join us after the jump to hear how the Museum...
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At Mosh: A Historic Mural by Elmer Grey
Well-known California architect and artist, Elmer Grey, visited Jacksonville at the beginning of World War II and during his stay, painted a mural for the Navy. Measuring in at two feet high and 35 feet long, the oil on canvas mural was prominently displayed in the Bachelor Officers? Quarters (Building...
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