Mitchell Grafton Fantasy Sculpture

Mitchell Grafton is a ceramic artist based in Panama City, Florida. At 19, he began his seven year apprenticeship with Bruce Odell of Odell Pottery based in Panama City. He designed lamp bases for Hart & Associates, an interior design manufacturing company. All the while he was going to a Louisiana technical college for a degree in architecture. After graduation Grafton and a partner started Round Tree Pottery selling wholesale pottery. In 2009, after nine years with Round Tree, he went solo and started Grafton Pottery in Panama City. (Ego-AlterEgo).

Grafton creates whimsical pottery inspired by fairy tales that often take on the forms of animals. The cups, pots, and vases take on human qualities as they enchant the viewer. He specializes in face jugs and ceramic art where his pottery is more art than practical dishware. (Young). In 1991, he won the Pottery Olympics just like his mentor Bruce Odell. His whimsical designs include a preacher vase with a bible and a snake. With a nod to classical movies he crafted a King Kong vase complete with the airplane trapped in the teeth. Also, we have an image of one of his Face mugs. He does take commissions via BlogSpot and Facebook. (Cherrybomb).

Mitchell Grafton, Sculpture

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Grafton Pottery - Facebook

Grafton Pottery - Blogspot

Allie Sherlock Irish Busker

Allie Sherlock is an Irish girl with some amazing pipes. She has been playing the guitar since she was ten years old. She eventually posted busking videos of her work on various media including YouTube. She frequently busks on Grafton Street of Douglas, Cork, Ireland where her cover Supermarket Flowers (Ed Sheeran) brought her international attention. (About Allie).

She has since appeared on The Ellen Show in June 2017, where Ellen DeGeneres, “She gave me a guitar case with lights with light up words saying TIPS.” Plus she signed a five year contract with Ryan Tedder from OneRepublic. (Irish Times). She often timess sings duets with other musicians such as Fabio Rodrigues as they sing Billie Jean by Michael Jackson. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=284474586093366

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Bookshelf Inserts Dioramas

“Japanese artist Monde has created a beautiful series of woodworks complete with a light switch! The Tokyo-based artist built and designed intricate, wooden bookshelf inserts that are like miniature dioramas of narrow alleyways you might find in the streets of Tokyo.” (Twisted Sifter).

Creative bookworms now have book nooks which are miniature dioramas you display on your bookshelf amidst your favorite books. Having a small 3D sculpture depicting your favorite genre on your shelf is inspiring. Picture the diorama as it lights up at night when you’re in the room reading a good book. You have artist Tom Taggart who creates fictional monsters in book nook form. These 3D sculptures ooze outside the book and onto the book shelf as if they’re escaping. An unique way to judge a book by its cover. 

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Karolina Protsenko is a Budding Violin Prodigy

Karolina Protsenko was born on October 3rd 2008 in Ukraine. Her parents Nikalay and Ella moved to the United States in 2014 with Karolina. She started her violin lessons the same year. Karolina began busking in late 2017 at the Santa Monica 3rd Street promenade. Busking is playing music in the streets for money (Urban Dictionary). Karolina is classically trained and learns popular songs in about 1 hour. She does her own arrangements and as she says "I add some notes" (Muzikum). 

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Karolina Protsenko 

Karolina Protsenko 

Busking 

Sara Erenthal a runaway artist

At 17, in America, Sara Erenthal ran away from her Orthodox Jewish parents to avoid an arranged marriage. She went to Israel to live with family on a kibbutz. She battled her sense of shame as she learned to trust herself, fend for herself, and most important love herself. In her travails she grew up and eventually became a street artist.

Years later, she eventually came back to America to live in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She is a self taught artist who reclaims lost objects left on the street. She transforms these castaways into folk art and leaves it where she found it for someone to reclaim. “When I walk around, wherever I happen to be, and I see something in [a] trash pile outside, like a piece of furniture or a mattress, I like to draw on it and leave it there for people to enjoy. And often, actually, people grab it,’ she said.” (McLogan). Much of her art ends up being reclaimed by its former owners who saw new worth in their old castaways.

She began doing performance art where she stands on a stage in front of strangers and begins telling her story as she strips naked. “Erenthal began to unbraid her hair while the voiceover described her flight from the community, her loneliness, her first time putting on pants. She began to disrobe as she described her first pair of jeans, her difficulty finding her own sense of style, the difficulty of letting skin show for the first time, or letting people touch her body.” (Ungar-Sargon). She found it hard to be naked, physically and emotionally, as she told her life’s story.

On her website, Sara Erenthal, she posted some of her more memorable art. The captions she adds to the street art embellish the everyday objects. One such object is a board where she sketched and wrote: My Art Is..My Healing.” (saraerenthal.com). “Art operates as a kind of therapy for her. ‘Every time I make a piece I'm kind of letting go of something,’ she said.” (Ungar-Sargon). When Sara lets go of her art she is encouraging others accept her emotional release as a gift to others.

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Sara Erenthal 

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Jim Carrey After 6 Years

 Jim Carrey acted and sketched since his childhood and for the last six years he painted as a healing process. “For the last six years, he has thrown himself into painting, working so prolifically that some might mistake his home for a museum.” (Cascone). He felt his painting, sketching and sculpture work took over and he became a tool of this creative process. He created the most colorful and at times, outrageous, artwork. By contrast his work was trashed by Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones.

He kept a low profile until he started having a series of art shows. “Carrey kept his artistic compulsion secret until he felt the need to reveal it in the video I Needed Color released by Signature.” (Cascone). I Needed Color first came out in July 2017 and has over five million hits. It can be viewed on Vimeo at the link provided. His work includes sculpture like Ayla, which is life-sized as well as smaller works.

His most controversial work involves political satire especially aimed at President Donald Trump whom he detests. “It's not the first time this year that Carrey has expressed his anger toward the nation's problems, and he usually sums up his angst in the form of original artwork.” (Clark). His anti-Trump artwork depicts Trump in the most unflattering roles possible. Although pro-Democrat he even took a swipe at Congressman Adam Schiff for not being able to stand up to President Trump. He dislikes Mark Zuckerberg and his Facebook, depicting it as Fakebook. Carrey himself described his art in the above video as “You can tell my inner life by the darkness in some of them and you can tell what I want from the brightness in some of them.” (Russian). His visual art may surpass his movie work in the years to come. 

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