You Can’t Step Into The Same River Twice: Carol Mickett, Robert Stackhouse, and Charles Atlas
You Can’t Step Into The Same River Twice:
Carol Mickett, Robert Stackhouse, and Charles Atlas
Time changes everything: the natural world, the human world, and our perception. For the contemporary world, the question is how can we ensure that “the river” keeps flowing and remains healthy? Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse make art about water and highlight the unperceived ways in which the natural world enhances the human world and mitigates the consequences of our way of life. Their talk will merge art and science through a visual journey of their collaborative work. The talk will conclude with a conversation with curator Joanna Robotham about the overlapping themes of their work and that of Charles Atlas’ installation Kiss the Day Goodbye.
Lectures are offered free with the cost of daily admission:
- Art+ Museum Members: Free
- Not-Yet-Members: $25
- College Students: Free
Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse are a collaborative art team. They make 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional art focused on water, climate, and ways members of the natural world mitigate the consequences of contemporary life. Museums, private collectors, developers, and governments collect and commission their work. Their show Circle of Water inaugurated the Florida Wildlife Corridor Gallery, Wild Space. They were Artists-At-Sea aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ocean-research vessel Falkor and participated in the exhibition Artist At Sea during Art Basel Miami Beach at the Patricia Frost Museum of Science sponsored by UNESCO, Schmidt Ocean Institute, and Nautilus. WEDU’s (FL Public Television) 8-part YouTube and broadcast digital series, High Water Marks, “explores how their art and activism intersect to bring awareness and understanding to issues facing our environment.” They received an NEA grant (via Creative Pinellas) for their community project Cool Pinellas and were included in Skyway 2024 at the Ringling Museum of Art. Their art collaboration is enhanced by their individual accomplishments. Carol Mickett holds a Ph.D. in philosophy and worked for over a decade in academia. She has published essays, poems, and interviews. Carol was the host/curator of the on-going series Our Town at the Dali Museum and the Art Laureate Conversations for Creative Pinellas and was host/producer of Art Radio in Kansas City, MO. Robert Stackhouse earned his B.A. from USF, holds an MA in art from the University of Maryland and an honorary doctorate from University of South Florida. His individual work can be found in museum collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery in Washington, DC, and The National Gallery of Australia among others. Stackhouse’s work is currently in the Ringling Museum of Art’s exhibition As Earth is to Sky.
Image Caption: Charles Atlas (American, b. 1949), Kiss the Day Goodbye, 2015. Two channel video installation with color and sound. Running time: 19 minutes, 15 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. Installation view at the Tampa Museum of Art. Photography by Paige Boscia.