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5 Questions With Creatives: Patrick (Patty) Quintanilla
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Whether he’s tagging and painting over pieces at Graffiti Bridge or designing massive, commissioned...
Oct 1, 20214 min read


Creative Solutions for Marine Pollution
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Living along the white sand beaches of the Gulf Coast and the longleaf pine-covered bayous and rivers...
Sep 1, 20216 min read


5 Questions With Creatives: Emily Bishop
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Emily Bishop, 22, has spent the last three years intensively training in dance studios in Chicago,...
Sep 1, 20214 min read


The New Vintage: Curating Nostalgic Collections
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Fashion trends often rotate with the seasons and come in and out of style like clockwork. Mom jeans,...
Aug 1, 202112 min read


A Look Inside Sean Seid’s New Book
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd As a notable figure in the art scene and a regular in the open mic poetry circles, Sean Seid, 31, has...
Aug 1, 20215 min read


Supporting Local Artists at the Pensacola Arts Market
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd In the last year, markets have sprung up across the entire city of Pensacola— from Uptown Pensacola...
Jul 1, 20214 min read


5 Questions With Creatives: Doug Stanford of YNICORNS
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd For many of us, music is the much-needed respite from daily chaos and our catalyst for creativity....
Jul 1, 20214 min read


PensaPride: Pensacola’s New LGBT+ Pride Festival
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Every June, people in cities across the world flood the streets in rainbow regalia, flying flags and...
Jun 1, 20214 min read


Robert Malmberg: Exploring the Intersection of Fine Art Photography and Interior Design
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine Robert Malmberg has spent the bulk of his life with his eyes behind a camera, capturing the world...
Jun 1, 20215 min read


Queering Spaces: Uncovering Untold Community History
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd How do we decide whose stories are recorded or written in history books? For a long time, the answer...
May 1, 20215 min read


Q&A with Kate Flannery for Pensacon
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd For most millennials and Netflix-now-Peacock-binge- watchers, Kate Flannery is easy to ID for her role...
May 1, 20214 min read


Citizens: Rhetoric, Response, Representation Exhibit Opens at PMA
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd Art has the power to connect, inspire and spark critical discourse through historical and social...
Apr 1, 20214 min read


Creating Harmony from Cacophony: Voices of Pensacola Hosts Jazz Expert
By Dakota Parks for Downtown Crowd and reprinted in Musicwoman Magazine At the young age of four years old, Dr. Joan Cartwright walked...
Mar 1, 20214 min read


Keeping the Arts Alive
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine When the world first stood still, suspended and reeling in the wave of initial COVID-19 reports...
Feb 1, 202114 min read


Haiku Slam: Counting Syllables and Connecting Community
By Dakota Parks for Pensacola Magazine Back in 1980s Chicago at the Green Mill Jazz Club, a group of local poets were trying to get the...
Feb 1, 20215 min read
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