Stuart Sheldon
The Simple Math of Ecstasy
Seems we all need a minute right now. Utterly worn out by headlines and big picture thinking. Overwhelm demands radical reduction. A...
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Stuart Sheldon
Aug 137 min read
The Bare Maximum
Last year, my son got straight A’s on his 10th grade report card. But, let’s be clear, this is not one of those insufferable “My child...
Stuart Sheldon
Mar 256 min read
Living In a Magic Box
We all endeavor to pad our nests with the feathers of our desires ... then fall backward after long days into these sumptuous...
Stuart Sheldon
Aug 5, 20236 min read
Keep Looking Up
Step outside, tilt your head back and raise your arms straight into the air. Silently gaze up at your hands, your fingers, the sunlight...
Stuart Sheldon
Apr 20, 20235 min read
5 Years in the Faraway
Five years is a hefty chunk in a life. Moving to Costa Rica with our kids in 2018 was the luckiest thing I’ve ever done.
Stuart Sheldon
Aug 4, 20226 min read
Calm and Kind
It’s been well over a year since my last blog post … and what a year. Make that 4 years! That’s how long we’ve lived in Costa Rica. We...
Stuart Sheldon
Mar 24, 20214 min read
Follow The Bubbles
Follow the Bubbles 3, Acrylic on our Costa Rica architectural plans, 31.5x23.5" 2000 “On the third day, my room became a cell, which...
Stuart Sheldon
May 27, 20204 min read
Time to Swan Dive!
Our dads laughed in college together and later, Ron Rothberg and I giggled side-by-side in diapers. We haven't stopped laughing since....
Stuart Sheldon
May 8, 20201 min read
Meet Your Makers: Robert Lee with Speak Fridays on PBS
The New Tropic's host, Stuart Sheldon, meets with Robert Lee, MC for Speakfridays, to learn about the origins of this gathering and how...
Stuart Sheldon
May 8, 20201 min read
Meet Your Makers: Typoe on PBS
The New Tropic's host, Stuart Sheldon, goes behind the scenes with fellow Miami artist, Typoe, to get a glimpse into his creative process...
Stuart Sheldon
Apr 4, 20201 min read
What Makes For Successful Activist Art? Cultured Magazine
Artists Stuart Sheldon and Zoë Buckman both created billboards for last year’s For Freedoms 50 State Initiative. As the largest creative...
Stuart Sheldon
Dec 11, 20194 min read
It’s Such a Perfect Day*
Behold the Perfect Moment / Perfect Family / Perfect Life* In this recent photo, a gorgeous family camps on a faraway beach in paradise,...
Stuart Sheldon
Sep 25, 20191 min read
Meet Stuart Sheldon, Voyage MIA Magazine
Today we’d like to introduce you to Stuart Sheldon. Stuart, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how...
Stuart Sheldon
Jun 11, 20194 min read
What I Learned in My Bucket List Year in Costa Rica … by Leo Tolstoy
“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there...
Stuart Sheldon
Mar 12, 20194 min read
Where You From? Where You Been? Where You Going?
Standing shoulder to shoulder as our kids sprinted down field last year, I casually mentioned to a fellow Miami soccer/surfer dad that we...
Stuart Sheldon
Feb 5, 20194 min read
Didn’t Know What I Didn’t Know
“A distressingly large portion of the world doesn’t do you any good whatsoever. In fact, it does you bad. Casts static between your ears,...
Stuart Sheldon
Dec 19, 20181 min read
The People Who Defined Visual Culture in 2018, Artsy
If we were to bury a time capsule filled with vestiges of visual culture in 2018, we would include the work of the following...
Stuart Sheldon
Nov 27, 20182 min read
King of The Jungle
“Dust everywhere… and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my...
Stuart Sheldon
Nov 1, 20183 min read
A Hole Is To Dig
We’ve been in the faraway jungle nearly three months, and one enormous benefit I’ve noticed is how much less decision-making I face each...
Stuart Sheldon
Oct 25, 20181 min read
ARTCENTER/SOUTH FLORIDA AWARDS NEARLY $500,000 TO MIAMI-BASED ARTISTS, ARTFORUM
ArtCenter/South Florida in Miami Beach announced the inaugural recipients of the Ellies. Established earlier this year, the visual art...
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