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AFPA - Analog Film Photography Association, Orlando, FL (2026)

07/11/2025

Meet Jacob Rodriguez, founder of AFPA Gallery, is passionate about sharing his personal film photography and promoting art. Through AFPA Gallery, he showcases not only photography but also a diverse range of work including paintings, drawings, and installations—highlighting the richness of tactile, physical art in a digital age.

05/30/2025

Jessica Caldas - New Tapestries

My work is driven by personal experiences and their connections to contemporary and historical issues. The complexities and intricacies of labor, care, and identity in our current and past culture are consistent undercurrents in all aspects of the work, which include layered, labor-intensive drawings, collage, sculpture, performance, etc., and often transform into fully realized mixed media works and immersive installations. I seek to make challenging experiences accessible to those without the same somatic knowledge while still engaging in conversation and confrontation. The viewer is met with bodily experiences that mirror the complexities of my stories, focusing on shared knowledge, awareness, empathy, and change.

Jessica Caldas (b. 1986, Jacksonville, FL) is a Puerto Rican American artist based in Florida and Georgia. Her work connects personal and community narratives, usually centered on the experiences of women and women-identifying folks, to larger themes and social issues through bodily, multidisciplinary works.

05/21/2025

Jessica Caldas - New Tapestries

My work is driven by personal experiences and their connections to contemporary and historical issues. The complexities and intricacies of labor, care, and identity in our current and past culture are consistent undercurrents in all aspects of the work, which include layered, labor-intensive drawings, collage, sculpture, performance, etc., and often transform into fully realized mixed media works and immersive installations. I seek to make challenging experiences accessible to those without the same somatic knowledge while still engaging in conversation and confrontation. The viewer is met with bodily experiences that mirror the complexities of my stories, focusing on shared knowledge, awareness, empathy, and change.

Jessica Caldas (b. 1986, Jacksonville, FL) is a Puerto Rican American artist based in Florida and Georgia. Her work connects personal and community narratives, usually centered on the experiences of women and women-identifying folks, to larger themes and social issues through bodily, multidisciplinary works.

05/09/2025

May Art exhibition and book release

Jessica Caldas - New Tapestries

My work is driven by personal experiences and their connections to contemporary and historical issues. The complexities and intricacies of labor, care, and identity in our current and past culture are consistent undercurrents in all aspects of the work, which include layered, labor-intensive drawings, collage, sculpture, performance, etc., and often transform into fully realized mixed media works and immersive installations. I seek to make challenging experiences accessible to those without the same somatic knowledge while still engaging in conversation and confrontation. The viewer is met with bodily experiences that mirror the complexities of my stories, focusing on shared knowledge, awareness, empathy, and change. -

05/04/2025

May art exhibition and book release

New Tapestries

Artworks by Jessica Caldas

Jessica Caldas is a Puerto Rican American, Florida based artist. Her work connects personal and community narratives, usually centered on the experiences of women and women identifying folks, to larger themes and social issues through bodily, multidisciplinary works. Caldas has participated in a number of artist residencies, including the Atlanta Printmakers Studio in 2011, MINT Gallery's Leap Year Program from 2012-2013, The Creatives Project form 2018-2019, Vermont Studio Center in 2020, and was the Art on the Atlanta Beltline AIR in 2020-2021. She recently completed the Working Artist Prize Fellowship at MOCA GA in 2022-2023. Caldas was awarded The Center for Civic Innovations 2016 Creative Impact award, named Creative Loafing's Best of ATL Artist for 2016 and 2015, received the City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs Emerging Artist Award in Visual Arts for 2014, and was a finalist for the Forward Arts Foundation's Emerging Artist Award in 2014. Her work has been shown at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, GA and is included in the collections of Kilpatrick Townsend, The City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs, MOCA GA, and the Kyoto International Community House.

04/17/2025

Silks at Noon

Roach Wine Cat
Photographed ceremony of a cat wrapped in fabric and flowers
2024

Brittney Reid was born in Miami and now resides in Orlando, Florida. She acquired a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Central Florida in Spring 2023, right after acquiring her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2019 at the same university. She visually explores her relationship with death after the breast cancer diagnosis, and recovery, of her mother during her childhood. Interested in exploring the symbolism of material, her artwork evolves and develops with the introduction of something new that sparks her interest. Her multimedia practice includes printmaking, painting, drawing, ceremonial animal burials, sculptures, photography, projections, and audio recordings.

During her time as a graduate, she received the Provost Fellowship award and the Pabst Steinmetz grant to fulfill a Healing Arts Specialist position at Orlando Health. Still, at this position, she brings creative projects to cancer patients during bedside and workshop settings. Her commitment in using art as a tool gifts her the opportunity to help patients reconnect with themselves and anticipate moments of joy while navigating the uncertainties of their diagnosis.

04/10/2025

March Exhibition and Book Release

Silks at Noon
Photographs by Brittney Reid

“Ceremonies give me a mixture of emotions. Sometimes they excite me, as it’s an opportunity for me to see an animal as more than just pavement barbeque. I see them as a being that lost the game of survival. A world mixed with hunger and old wisdom I could only dream of possessing. Other times I’m left distressed, mad even, with how violent and disrespected its life ended. In a way, I am trying to make sense of it while also letting go of the frustration that I will never know how it arrived at such an unfortunate predicament.”

04/02/2025

April Art Exhibition featuring artist Brittney Reid

Squirrel With Imploded Face
Photographed ceremony of a squirrel covered in floral offerings and silk
2025

Silks at Noon
After my mother was diagnosed with cancer and successfully recovered, I grappled with an overwhelming fear of the fragility of life, particularly hers. To cope with grief and anxiety surrounding death, I chose to immerse myself in discomfort by wrapping deceased animals in silk and presenting them with ceremonial offerings like sage and flowers.

The shared love my mother and I had for animals and their well-being inspired me to focus on dead animals as a subject. I use roadkill and similar instances to explore the idea that positivity can arise from profound sadness. This practice not only serves to alleviate my suffering but also aims to address the pain experienced by both loved ones and strangers.

03/31/2025

March Exhibition and Book Release

Silks at Noon

Photographs by Brittney Reid

After my mother was diagnosed with cancer and successfully recovered, I grappled with an overwhelming fear of the fragility of life, particularly hers. To cope with grief and anxiety surrounding death, I chose to immerse myself in discomfort by wrapping deceased animals in silk and presenting them with ceremonial offerings like sage and flowers.

The shared love my mother and I had for animals and their well-being inspired me to focus on dead animals as a subject. I use roadkill and similar instances to explore the idea that positivity can arise from profound sadness. This practice not only serves to alleviate my suffering but also aims to address the pain experienced by both loved ones and strangers.

03/25/2025

Featuring artist from Gelatin Magazine Issue 10

Scott Free & The Contaminator

Disgusted by a comment where a Goddess was explained to be curves and ass by a male artist, The Contaminator decided she wanted to visually open the lid on the "Dirty Goddess" which is inspired by the words of Clarissa Pinkola Estés's "Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype".

Scott Free and The Contaminator
Ever since L.A.-based artists Scott Free (b. 1963 )(Photography, styling, creative direction) and The Contaminator (b. 1988) (Performance, writing fine arts, costuming) created their “art band” in 2022, the two have been combining their multi-talents to create immersive performative photography that has shown in venues,(Co-Axel Arts, L.A.) galleries( The Holy Art: Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, S**t Art Club) and print (Artwalk Magazine, Seline Magazine, Style Cruze) locally and internationally chasing The Goddesses' true form by capturing it in as many channeled chaotic interpretations as it is called upon them

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