Stassa Edwards

Jenny Brillhart gestures around the stark industrial interior of her Little River studio to explain the visual inspiration for her paintings of cool, dark shapes and empty urban scenes. "My previous work was much more insular within this space only," Brillhart says, calling the works "pretty abstract." Fairgoers at Pulse...

Firelei Báez's whole identity is a political tug-of-war. Born to a Dominican mother and a father of Haitian descent, the 34-year-old artist and self-described "Caribbean hybrid" was raised in Dajabón, a market city on the Dominican Republic's border with Haiti. As a child, Báez recalls seeing the landscapes of both...

Franklin Sirmans is still figuring out his way around Miami. The newly appointed director of Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) has been in town only a few short weeks. The museum announced his hiring in September, and he officially began work October 15. "It's crazy, but it's been great," the...

There's not a sports journalist in America with a better office than Bomani Jones. Jones records both his ESPN radio show, The Right Time With Bomani Jones, and the TV hit he cohosts with Dan Le Batard, Highly Questionable, right inside the Clevelander, the iconic oceanside South Beach hotel. In...

The book-publishing industry has a gender gap. Study after study has shown the sector that should be the most enlightened has yet to shatter the glass ceiling: Men publish more books, and the vast majority of major literary awards go to male authors who write books about men. These facts...