🌱 How Gifford artists helped launch a nationally celebrated Florida art movement
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- How Gifford artists helped launch a nationally celebrated Florida art movement
Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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📰 News we're reading
• Florida Highwaymen leave lasting legacy of paintings by Black artists (news-press.com) — Gifford’s role in the famed Florida Highwaymen art movement takes center stage here, highlighting how local Black artists helped shape a nationally recognized style of Florida landscape painting. The story traces how painters who grew up or trained in Gifford developed a slower, more detailed approach that distinguished them from Fort Pierce artists, and explains how their legacy now reaches from a new Fort Pierce museum to the Smithsonian. 
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