Stuart Sheldon
5 Years in the Faraway
Five years is a hefty chunk in a life. Moving to Costa Rica with our kids in 2018 was the luckiest thing I’ve ever done.
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Stuart Sheldon
- Aug 4, 2022
- 6 min
Calm and Kind
It’s been well over a year since my last blog post … and what a year. Make that 4 years! That’s how long we’ve lived in Costa Rica. We...
Stuart Sheldon
- Mar 24, 2021
- 4 min
Follow The Bubbles
Follow the Bubbles 3, Acrylic on our Costa Rica architectural plans, 31.5x23.5" 2000 “On the third day, my room became a cell, which...
Stuart Sheldon
- May 27, 2020
- 4 min
Time to Swan Dive!
Our dads laughed in college together and later, Ron Rothberg and I giggled side-by-side in diapers. We haven't stopped laughing since....
Stuart Sheldon
- May 8, 2020
- 1 min
Meet Your Makers: Robert Lee with Speak Fridays on PBS
The New Tropic's host Stuart Sheldon meets with Robert Lee, MC for Speakfridays, to learn about the origins of this gathering and how...
Stuart Sheldon
- May 8, 2020
- 1 min
Meet Your Makers: Typoe on PBS
The New Tropic's host Stuart Sheldon goes behind the scenes with fellow Miami artist, Typoe, to get a glimpse into his creative process...
Stuart Sheldon
- Apr 4, 2020
- 1 min
What Makes For Successful Activist Art? Cultured Magazine
Artists Stuart Sheldon and Zoë Buckman both created billboards for last year’s For Freedoms 50 State Initiative. As the largest creative...
Stuart Sheldon
- Dec 11, 2019
- 5 min
It’s Such a Perfect Day*
Behold the Perfect Moment / Perfect Family / Perfect Life* In this recent photo, a gorgeous family camps on a faraway beach in paradise,...
Stuart Sheldon
- Sep 25, 2019
- 1 min
Meet Stuart Sheldon, Voyage MIA Magazine
Today we’d like to introduce you to Stuart Sheldon. Stuart, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how...
Stuart Sheldon
- Jun 11, 2019
- 4 min
What I Learned in My Bucket List Year in Costa Rica … by Leo Tolstoy
“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there...
Stuart Sheldon
- Mar 12, 2019
- 4 min
Where You From? Where You Been? Where You Going?
Standing shoulder to shoulder as our kids sprinted down field last year, I casually mentioned to a fellow Miami soccer/surfer dad that we...
Stuart Sheldon
- Feb 5, 2019
- 4 min
Didn’t Know What I Didn’t Know
“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn’t do you any good whatsoever. In fact, it does you bad. Casts static between your ears,...
Stuart Sheldon
- Dec 19, 2018
- 1 min
The People Who Defined Visual Culture in 2018, Artsy
If we were to bury a time capsule filled with vestiges of visual culture in 2018, we would include the work of the following...
Stuart Sheldon
- Nov 27, 2018
- 3 min
King of The Jungle
“Dust everywhere… and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my...
Stuart Sheldon
- Nov 1, 2018
- 3 min
A Hole Is To Dig
We’ve been in the faraway jungle nearly three months, and one enormous benefit I’ve noticed is how much less decision-making I face each...
Stuart Sheldon
- Oct 25, 2018
- 1 min
ARTCENTER/SOUTH FLORIDA AWARDS NEARLY $500,000 TO MIAMI-BASED ARTISTS, ARTFORUM
ArtCenter/South Florida in Miami Beach announced the inaugural recipients of the Ellies. Established earlier this year, the visual art...
Stuart Sheldon
- Oct 18, 2018
- 1 min
Miami Artist Crowdfunds Gun Reform Billboard Along I-95, Miami New Times
Stuart Sheldon’s oldest son was in elementary school the day 20 children were gunned down in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary....
Stuart Sheldon
- Oct 12, 2018
- 1 min
NOT YOUR AVERAGE BILLBOARD, The New Tropic
Local artist Stuart Sheldon has always produced art that pushed the envelope, even if that meant partying in a dilapidated gold house....
Stuart Sheldon
- Oct 11, 2018
- 3 min
Two Months in the Jungle
Moments after the car honked and we kissed the kids goodbye for another school day, backpacks on their shoulders, I heard excited voices...
Stuart Sheldon
- Oct 9, 2018
- 1 min
Here Are the 150 Artists Making Billboards, artnet
For Freedoms, the political action committee co-founded by artist Hank Willis Thomas, unveiled today the artists in its landmark “50...
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