Featured Project: Light Reflections

We are excited to celebrate the collaboration featuring poet Teresa Carson and artist Jeffrey Haste who completed their project in September 2023. In their statements about the collaborative process each focused on the effect of light..

Although Jeff Haste, the Maine-based publisher of Deerbrook Editions and the designer for all of the Art in Common Places broadsides, and Teresa Carson, a Sarasota-based poet published by Deerbrook Editions, are friends who speak on a regular basis about their individual projects, Light Reflections is their first collaborative project. As Jeff wrote, “[The inspiration for our broadside] came from a poster of an artwork from a gallery that had been folded up so that when I opened it and tacked it to the wall in my painting space the eight parsed sections from the folding reflected light in different ways. Teresa liked the idea of reflection as overlays, and the expansion of the rectangular, almost window like panels, and this led to further discussion about grids, calendars, and time.”

Past News

We’re in the news February 16, 2023! “Finding uncommon art in the most common of places” covers our adventures bringing art to many people across three years in Sarasota County. Emily Leinfuss writes for the Observer, “For Art in Common Places, the answer of “What is Art?” lies in collaboration, community and understanding.”

Art in Common Places was featured on our local Suncoast News Network where Nancy O’Niel interviewed co-founder Leslie Butterfield on Suncoast FYI.

Read about Art in Common Places as described by Tiffany Razzano at the Sarasota Patch in her article: “Art in Common Places Brings Visual Art, Poetry to Ordinary Spaces.”

Read about Art in Common Places as described by Allison Forsyth at Sarasota Magazine in her article “Find This Non-Profit’s ‘Broadsides,’ or Public Art, Hanging Around Sarasota County.”

Read about the Arts Advocates event ‘Collaboration Conversations’ as written by Nanette Christ in her blog ‘Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes,’ where Nanette shares the excitement of the collaboration between Judy Levine and Jeanne Marie Beaumont.