Chadd Scott

Jacksonville, United States

Tweeting from the ancestral homelands of the Timucua. Forbes art/travel writer. Art at @seegreatart. Co-host "Welcome to Florida" podcast.

Articles

Go 'Through the Veil' at Sarasota Art Museum with Lillian Blades

1 week ago | rovology.com | Chadd Scott

Last Updated on June 18, 2025Sarasota, FL is one of Rovology’s favorite places. The Sarasota Art Museum is one of many reasons why. Now through October 26, 2025, Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College (SAM) presents “Lillian Blades: Through the Veil,” the artist’s first solo museum show and her most ambitious exhibition to date. At the center of this monumental, site-specific installation is an immersive labyrinth of mixed-media veils.
Superposition Gallery launches group show on Juneteenth, 2025

1 week ago | seegreatart.art | Chadd Scott

Superposition Gallery (139 Hampton St, Sag Harbor, NY 11963) presents “MAMI WATA,” a group exhibition curated by Storm Ascher set within Eastville Community Historical Society’s Heritage House Museum. Participating artists include: Derrick Adams, Patrick Alston, Jessica Taylor Bellamy, Sanford Biggers, Layo Bright, Michael A. Butler, Alisa Sikelianos-Carter, Renée Cox, Damien Davis, Ellon Gibbs, Ashanté Kindle, Audrey Lyall, Eilen Itzel Mena, Ludovic Nkoth, Tariku Shiferaw, and Khari Turner.
Historic South L.A. Black Cultural District Designation Moving Forward

1 week ago | forbes.com | Chadd Scott

LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 26, 2024 - - Ngozi wears the appropriate Kwanzaa wear and a smile at the 48th edition of the Kwanzaa parade to mark the start of the seven-day African-American festival in the Crenshaw District in Los Angeles on December 26, 2024.
Orlando Museum of Art welcomes low vision visitors with new technology

1 week ago | seegreatart.art | Chadd Scott

In celebration of the 2025 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA), OMA is proud to announce a new partnership with eSight by Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX) — an innovator in assistive technology for low vision — to make art more accessible to those with vision loss.
Grace Hartigan, Mary Abbott, And Mildred Thompson: Three AbEx Women To Know, Love, And See

1 week ago | forbes.com | Chadd Scott

Grace Hartigan, 'East Side Sunday,' 1956, oil on canvas, 80 × 82 in., Brooklyn Museum, Gift of James I. Merrill, 1957, 56.180. © Estate of Grace HartiganIn the late 1940’s, North Carolina had a novel idea. To begin a state art collection. For the people. To be displayed in a state art museum in the state capital of Raleigh. No state in the nation had such a thing. A radical notion for place that at the time thought it was such a bad idea for Black and white people to eat together that it was illegal.
Artist Bobby Anspach Tried Saving The World Through Continuous Eye Contact

1 week ago | forbes.com | Chadd Scott

Bobby Anspach signature on one of his paintings installed at the Newport Art Museum. Chadd ScottBobby Anspach (1987–2022) wanted to save the world. Art was the best way he could think of to do it. Anspach believed he could create a singular sculpture that, once experienced, would transform even the most sadistic, selfish individual into an empathetic person who felt unity with all humanity and a responsibility to protect people and the planet. If he ever got it right.
2025 Heritage Festival of Arts and Culture in Flagstaff, AZ

1 week ago | seegreatart.art | Chadd Scott

Celebrate the Indigenous people of the Colorado Plateau during the 2025 Heritage Festival of Arts and Culture June 27-29 at the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. The annual festival features 100 Native American artists selling their one-of-a-kind creations, including jewelry, textiles, pottery, fine art, basketry, kachinas, and more. The artists receive 100% of earnings from their sales.
Stan Douglas response to 'The Birth of a Nation'

1 week ago | seegreatart.art | Chadd Scott

Stan Douglas will be the subject of a major survey organized by the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College’s (CCS Bard) Hessel Museum of Art, marking the first U.S. survey of his practice in over 20 years.
Inaugural Freedom Vibes Juneteenth celebration coming to Fort Worth, TX

1 week ago | rovology.com | Chadd Scott

Last Updated on June 15, 2025The National Juneteenth Museum presents Freedom Vibes, the nation’s premiere Juneteenth celebration, set to take place during Juneteenth Weekend from June 19 to June 22, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas. More than a festival, Freedom Vibes is a tribute to the enduring spirit of freedom and progress that Juneteenth represents.
Dusti Bongé painting from Betty Parsons Gallery

1 week ago | seegreatart.art | Chadd Scott

An art historical treat this week recalling Dusti Bongé’s connection to one of the most influential art galleries of the 20th century: Betty Parsons Gallery. Analysis of the artwork comes from Dusti Bongé Art Foundation Executive Director Ligia M. Römer. Dusti Bongé, Mask No. 2, 1958. Oil on Masonite, 44” x 28 ½”. Courtesy of the Dusti Bongé Art Foundation. This month we are sharing some of Dusti Bongé’s works that were shown at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York in the 1950s and 1960s.

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