Circle of Water

Carol Mickett & Robert Stackhouse

Artist Statement

Circle of Water, Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse’s exhibition at Wild Gallery, adds a new piece to the puzzle in their continuing aesthetic-environmental exploration. This exhibition expands their work on the warming of our oceans to include the waters in the interior of Florida. Climate issues have no boundaries. All water is connected. With paintings, drawings, sculpture and video, Mickett &
Stackhouse explore the role of creeping saltwater intrusion, the warming of our waters, and the natural and human worlds’ roles in mitigating the health of our waters, our world, and ourselves. But the artists do not act alone. Circle of Water includes the work of participants from their NEA project Cool Pinellas and the WEDU PBS digital series High Water Marks.

Artist Bios
Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse are a collaborative team whose 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional art is focused on water and climate issues. Mickett and Stackhouse were the 2020 Creative Pinellas Art Laureates and received a Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Critic Award for their science conversations. They were Artists-At-Sea, in 2021, aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ocean-research vessel Falkor. In 2022, during their show, Balance of Water, at the Leepa Rattner Museum, they received an NEA grant for their community project Cool Pinellas (icecubeproject.com). WEDU PBS’s 8-part YouTube digital series, High Water Marks, “explores how their art and activism intersect to bring awareness and understanding to issues facing our environment.” Their collaborative work is in numerous private and public collections worldwide. Carol Mickett worked for over a decade in academia and holds her Ph.D. in philosophy. Mickett has received numerous grants, presents lectures, performs in theater, and has published essays, poems, and interviews in Canadian Philosophical Review, Hypatia, Prairie Schooner, and New Letters among others. She was the host/curator of Art Laureate Conversations for Creative Pinellas and for Our Town at the Dali Museum, and the host/producer of Art Radio in Kansas City, MO. Robert Stackhouse holds an MA in art from the Univ. of Maryland and an honorary doctorate from the University of South Florida. Stackhouse taught at the Corcoran College of Art and has held endowed chairs at the University of Denver, Hartford Art School and the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. His individual work can be found in museum collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery in Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Australia, the Phillips Collection, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

State of Water, 2023

Size: 10’ x 12’ (approximately)

Medium: Acrylic, ink pen on paper

State of Water, 2023

Size: 10’ x 12’ (approximately)

Medium: Acrylic, ink pen on paper

State of Water, 2023

Size: 10’ x 12’ (approximately)

Medium: Acrylic, ink pen on paper

Falkor Ice Cube Project Map, 2021

Size: 28 paintings, 5” x 7” each

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Ice Grove, 2020

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Memory of Water, 2015

Size: 125” x 64”

Medium: Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas

Memory of Water, 2015 (Closeup)

Size: 125” x 64”

Medium: Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas

Idea of Water, 2015

Size: 125” x 64”

Medium: Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas

Idea of Water, 2015 (Closeup)

Size: 125” x 64”

Medium: Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas

Idea of Water, 2015

Size: 125” x 64”

Medium: Acrylic on paper mounted on canvas

Whale Pod, 2023

Size: 12 Paintings, 12” x 4” each

Medium: Acrylic on wood panel

Other Notes:

#2 Plankton and Whale

#3 Diver/Green Deep Sperm Whale

#5 Silver Sperm Whales and Plankton

#7 Blue/Gold Sperm Whale

#11 Feeding Sperm Whale

#13 Passing Whale

#17 Blue Sperm Whale in Blue Gulf

#19 Ascending Sperm Whale

#23 Silver Sperm Whale

#29 Golden Gulf Whale

#31 Gulf of Mexico Sperm Whale

#37 Diving Gulf Whale