FORT PIERCE — Just a few weeks after appearing at the annual Jetson Highwaymen Show, one of the few remaining legendary Black artists from that group has died, family members said. Isaac Knight, 80, ...
NEWS. HAPPENING THIS MORNING ON THE TREASURE COAST, CONSTRUCTION BEGINS FOR THE NEW FLORIDA HIGHWAYMEN MUSEUM IN FORT PIERCE. THIS IS A LONG TIME COMING. THE JACKIE L KANAN SENIOR BUILDING ON AVENUE D ...
Al Black is one of the last living Highwaymen artists who is inspiring a new generation to carry on the skills he has learned. To this day, Black, 76, still paints in his small garage in Fort Pierce.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — Their work has brightened canvases for decades, but only recently have Florida's famed Highwaymen artists received the recognition they deserve. WPTV reporter Jon Shainman recently ...
"The Art of the Highwaymen" exhibit at Lakeland's Polk Museum of Art celebrates brilliant Black artists from the 1950s and 60s, who sold their lush landscape paintings to tourists motoring through ...
FORT PIERCE — Charles Walker is remembered as a man who had a burning passion for basketball, a gift for mentoring the community's youth and an endless love for his family. The Fort Pierce native died ...
The grit, talent, and vision of the Florida Highwaymen created an art form that is the essence of the American success story. With humble beginnings as a local art movement borne in the 1950s along ...
While the Florida Highwaymen got their start on the Treasure Coast, this group of artists are emblems of Black history in Florida. To honor their legacy, the Florida Highwaymen Foundation is taking ...
Decades ago, the Florida Highwaymen painted their way into Sunshine State art history with their talent, resourcefulness and creativity. While fewer than half the original Highwaymen artists are still ...
The Highwaymen Heritage Trail Art Show and Festival in Fort Pierce has been canceled for the second year in a row. The city’s sixth annual event is canceled next month because of COVID-19, according ...