DIÓGENES BALLESTER, MFA is a visual artist, educator, and writer. He holds and MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BFA from the Catholic University of Puerto Rico. As a youth, he attended the prestigious art preparatory School of Visual Arts Miguel Pou and studied at the Ponce Museum of Art in Ponce, Puerto Rico. [...]

There are very many special days that we have the change to celebrate throughout the year: Women’s Day, Peace Day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentines’ Day, Worker’s Day, Theater Day and so on. But we did not have any “ONE” special art day that would unite the whole world. On April 5-6, 2011, the 17th [...]

Early life Shields was born to Jerry and Martha Shields in Jacksonville, Florida in 1982. Inline skating career Shields competed professionally as a vert inline skater. He participated in the 1999 and 2000 X Games and toured with Tony Hawk in 2003.[4][5][6]Shields directed an inline skate video titled .W.A.R. starring Chris Haffey. Photography Shields began his photography career by posting pictures to MySpace." His work often [...]