June exhibit at the Arts Gallery opens this weekend: Featuring The Original Highwaymen, R.L. Lewis and Curtis Arnett

Heather Ainsley ECB Publishing, Inc. Beginning in the late 1950s, a group of mostly self-taught African American artists devoted themselves to capturing Florida's stunning landscapes. Due to segregation as well as additional racial tension after the end of segregation, these artists were originally not welcomed at many museums and art galleries, and took to the streets of cities and towns in order to sell their artwork door to door. Using inexpensive materials commonly used in construction p