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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The pandemic has impacted every single industry, including the art world, but one Jacksonville artist sees it as an inspiration.
“Art is all around us,” said Dustin Harewood, visual artist.
Dustin Harewood is a visual artist who’s been selling his work steadily for the past 10 years.
“I think I move back and forth between portraiture and abstraction,” said Harewood.
Between the brush strokes you can find recurring themes of multiculturalism, colonialism, and the environment.
Harewood says his business has survived the pandemic largely due to social media.
“Well thank God for social media because i’ll be honest I don’t think I skipped a beat because of Instagram and Facebook,” said Harewood. “There’s a lot going on in 2020 and it’s multilayered. It’s an exciting time for artists actually, there’s so much to pull from.”
Harewood sells his art through his social media pages and website.
He says buying art from local artists is essential and makes a bigger impact.
“I want you to think about the idea of buying something for your wall that will appreciate in value versus a poster. I want you to think about this concept of paying attention to the artists in your community, finding out who they are, finding out who resonates with you, and then following what it is that they’re doing. Getting absorbed into their discourse and deciding at some point whether or not you’d like to purchase something from them. Because that’s way more impactful,” said Harewood.
“Nina Simone said that an artist’s duty as far as she was concerned, is to reflect the times. What does that phrase mean for you?,” said Lena Pringle
“The best, the greatest artists are the ones who reflect the times that they’re in and if we go back through art history usually those are the ones that stand out the most,” said Harewood.
Reflecting the times no matter how happy or sad - one stroke at a time.
Harewood is also an art professor at FSCJ.
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