Stuart Sheldon2 hours ago1 minWhat Makes For Successful Activist Art? Cultured MagazineArtists Stuart Sheldon and Zoë Buckmanboth created billboards for last year’s For Freedoms 50 State Initiative. As the largest creative collaboration in US h...
Stuart SheldonDec 11, 20195 minIt’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, savoring the sunset ...
Stuart SheldonSep 25, 20191 minMeet Stuart Sheldon, Voyage MIA MagazineToday 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 the journey has been s...
Stuart SheldonJun 11, 20194 minWhat 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 is life there is hap...
Stuart SheldonMar 12, 20194 minWhere 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 were looking to mov...
Stuart SheldonFeb 5, 20194 minDidn’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, drowns out who you ...
Stuart SheldonDec 19, 20181 minThe People Who Defined Visual Culture in 2018, ArtsyIf we were to bury a time capsule filled with vestiges of visual culture in 2018, we would include the work of the following photographers, designers, artist...
Stuart SheldonNov 27, 20183 minKing 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 feet.” – Marie Lu, Leg...
Stuart SheldonNov 1, 20184 minA Hole Is To DigWe’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 day. I did not reali...
Stuart SheldonOct 25, 20181 minARTCENTER/SOUTH FLORIDA AWARDS NEARLY $500,000 TO MIAMI-BASED ARTISTS, ARTFORUMArtCenter/South Florida in Miami Beach announced the inaugural recipients of the Ellies. Established earlier this year, the visual art awards aim to elevate ...
Stuart SheldonOct 18, 20181 minMiami Artist Crowdfunds Gun Reform Billboard Along I-95, Miami New TimesStuart Sheldon’s oldest son was in elementary school the day 20 children were gunned down in their classrooms at Sandy Hook Elementary. The idea of someone a...
Stuart SheldonOct 12, 20181 minNOT YOUR AVERAGE BILLBOARD, The New TropicLocal artist Stuart Sheldon has always produced art that pushed the envelope, even if that meant partying in a dilapidated gold house. But after the 2016 ele...
Stuart SheldonOct 11, 20183 minTwo Months in the JungleMoments after the car honked and we kissed the kids goodbye for another school day, backpacks on their shoulders, I heard excited voices outside and opened t...
Stuart SheldonOct 9, 20181 minHere Are the 150 Artists Making Billboards, artnetFor Freedoms, the political action committee co-founded by artist Hank Willis Thomas, unveiled today the artists in its landmark “50 State Initiative.” More ...
Stuart SheldonSep 12, 20182 minWe Left AmericaMore precisely, as reminded by our local friends, we left the United States. We still live in America, Central America. Playa Grande, Costa Rica, to be exact...
Stuart SheldonMay 29, 20182 minI Love Libraries – Museum of Contemporary Art Miami Exhibition Opens THIS THUR, May 31The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library. Albert Einstein I just spent a year as a ProjectArt ...
Stuart SheldonMar 7, 20184 minLike, Really SmartA friend called me excitedly last year out of the blue. “I have an idea for one of your spiral paintings. What if you did all of Trump’s craziest tweets?” Re...
Stuart SheldonDec 6, 20172 minWe’re All Pink InsideA few months into dating my wife-to-be, we hit a rough patch and I thought I’d blown it. Utterly devastated, I wrote her a poem titled, Two Cups of Cacophony...
Stuart SheldonOct 25, 20174 minThe American Dream in Postage StampsTo know my immigrant story, watch Fiddler On The Roof. My ancestors, peasants in Poland, died in Auschwitz and arrived thru Ellis Island to begin again. I im...
Stuart SheldonSep 20, 20172 minDystopia the Beautiful – My 1st London Exhibition Opens Sep 28 – Oct 13Burnt, Acrylic, American flag and inkjet book cover on canvas, 35″ x 19″ 2017. AVAILABLE. “I’m jus’ pain covered with skin.” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of W...
