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M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Why think about the soil we crunch beneath our feet as we move about our daily lives? Why think about what lies beneath the miles and miles of concrete jungle that makes up so much of our world? Why believe that soil is anything more than a comical mudpie to the face, an unpleasant irritant we need to wash off our hands and feet? Who thinks about soil as being one of the most important elements of life on earth? Who thinks that without soil, this beau

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Pride Month, which takes place throughout June 2026, and celebrates LGBTQ+ history, advocacy, and culture, was commemorated in the arts community with the recent opening, at CMCArts in Frederiksted, of the exhibition Conversations on Pride, co-curated by CMCArts and Sonia Nahar Deane of Cane Roots Art Gallery. This dynamic show speaks out to many of the hopes, dreams and fears that face the LGBTQ+ community as they forge their own world within

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - There comes a time in everyone’s life when you have to stop, look back, and examine the path you have taken to get to your present state of being. For the average person, the look back could be a happy one, or it might not be so easy, involving painful memories, old photos, thoughts about what might have been. But for an artist, the process may be somewhat simpler. One major question might very well occupy their mind: What have I created in my years

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - All great things must come to an end. And this week’s Art Thursday marks the end of another great season for the ultra-popular Christiansted art gallery walk. What an artistic blast it has been this season to escape the day-to-day world and enter a scene filled with beauty and creativity. All the wonderful art, the fantastic jewelry, the cool people you meet along the way, it certainly has been a breath of fresh creative air. But ‘parting is su

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Joyia Inspirational Jewelry, home of some of the most creative jewelry designs in the Caribbean, is presenting art exhibits by some of St. Croix’s hottest new artists at her wonderful new space on Queen Cross Street in downtown Christiansted. Joyia’s Artist-in-Residence program opens on Art Thursday, every month, during the Art Thursday season (Nov-May). The program presents exciting works from new artists every month. This April’s artist

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - To say Spring is in the Air would be a vast understatement if applied to Lucian Downes’ Spring Equinox Art Exhibition that opened recently at CMCArts in Frederiksted. A more appropriate description might be to state that a Revolution in the Arts is in the Air, and it is sweeping through the creative minds of artists and patrons of the arts, clearing out the old conceptions and ringing in the new. Hear ye! Hear ye! Harken unto thee, a rumbling

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Considered by many as the Poet Laureate of St. Croix, Richard Augustus Schrader, Sr. died peacefully at his home on St. Croix at 90 years young. A literary giant who was loved, adored and respected by all who knew him, Mr. Schrader blazed a trail of literary accomplishments over four decades that led him to record an intimate history of his beloved Virgin Islands. “Buck,” as many knew him, was a poet and author of 28 books that told the tales a

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - The VI Breast Cancer Project was founded in 2016 and is dedicated to supporting cancer survivors through creative expression, community connection, and the healing power of the arts. It is easy to underestimate art as a healing force. We often think of medicines, nature and time as the great healers that have the ability to turn a sick being back into a healthy one. It’s hard to imagine a work of art performing that wizardry task. But the heali

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Springtime is here and Art Thursday in Christiansted on April 16th, is welcoming in the season with a vast array of powerful new works of art, beautiful jewelry designs, and lovely glass and Chaney shapes and styles. There is something about Spring that not only fills the air with the sweetest of smells, but also fills the mind with thoughts of hope, new beginnings, and a renewed outlook on life. Spring points us towards the future like no othe

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Built on a foundation of great minds, glorious people, and devoted volunteers and employees, CMCArts (The Caribbean Museum for the Arts) has survived and thrived to become the main bastion for the arts on St. Croix. This venerable art museum and major hub for the arts and art education on the Big Island, has announced that it is expanding to St. Thomas and opening a second location in the heart of Charlotte Amalie sometime this year. The expansi

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - If you are not afraid to dig too deeply into your past, peel off the layers of your age-old psyche, take a magnifying glass back through your time here on earth, all for the sake of finding out what really makes you tick, what really built you into the type of person you have become, you just might find yourself becoming a sort of navigator into your own soul, a psychic explorer of a kind, who believes it is important to plumb the depths of one’s lif

M.A. Dworkin St. Croix - Leonardo Benzant is an artist who believes the human psyche is made up of multiple personalities. He has no problem in walking a dangerous artistic tightrope to bring those multiple personalities onto his canvas. In the process, he forces the viewer to go along with him and believe this is the natural order of the human condition. Of course, you can laugh him off, call him a madman or an artistic genius if you like, but if you follow him down his rabb