Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse had their first extended conversation in 1999 when Stackhouse was a guest on Mickett's Kansas City radio show Art Radio. Later that year, The John and Maxine Belger Family Foundation, a major collector of Stackhouse's work, commissioned Mickett to produce and direct a documentary on the artist. Working together on this prize-winning documentary, Robert Stackhouse: an artist at work convinced Mickett and Stackhouse to continue their collaboration. They have subsequently produced large-scale sculpture, painting, and prints, and engaged in various art/business endeavors. Mickett and Stackhouse's work in the last few years includes a series of shows/installations in the greater Tampa Bay area including the Contemporary Art Museum, USF, Tampa; Waves of Meaning, St. Petersburg Art Center, and Site-Matters, Tampa Museum of Art. Recent public projects are Place In The Woods, 2010 (bronze and brass walk-through sculpture, 14'H, 28'L, 14'W) commissioned by the Hunter Museum of American Art and the Benwood Foundation's Art in Public Places Project in Chattanooga, TN, and On Board, 2011 (five paintings) located on the USFSP campus, commissioned by the Florida's Art in State Building Program.
Robert Stackhouse is best known for his large-scale architectural sculpture and large-scale paintings. His works are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Australia, The Walker Art Center, and The Art Institute of Chicago among many others. He has held endowed chairs at Hartford University, the University of Denver, and the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Florida, is Professor Emeritus from the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, D.C., and is the recipient of three NEA individual artist grants. Stackhouse is in the Polk County Hall of Fame and his alma mater, Auburndale High School, in Auburndale, FL, named their art building "The Robert Stackhouse Art Center."
Carol Mickett, in addition to her work in the visual arts, has worked as a free-lance producer, director, writer, and host. Mickett is currently host and originator of the series Our Town, a conversation with St. Petersburg, FL, mythmakers, at the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, FL. She sits on the Arts Advisory Committee for the city of St. Petersburg, FL. Mickett's past work includes director of History Speaks, a video archive of the history of Kansas City, guest editor/writer for a special issue on the history of the arts in Kansas City for Kawsmouth, a journal of history from the University of Missouri-Kansas City; a producer/writer for Uniquely Kansas City, a 5 part documentary on the arts in Kansas City for Kansas City Public Television; and director/speech writer for the American Business Women's Association's annual conferences. Mickett is the recipient of numerous grants and has published essays, poems, and interviews in Canadian Philosophical Review, Hypatia, Prairie Schooner, and New Letters among others. Mickett, who worked for over a decade in academia, holds her Ph.D. in philosophy.
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