by Robert Maniscalco | Jul 2, 2026 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, World View
“Why Ask Why?” is perhaps more to the point than, “to be or not to be?” I wrote a blog last month about my idea of why Nick, a beautiful young man with cerebral palsy, decided to purchase my painting, called Cassandra. You can read my story...
by Robert Maniscalco | Jul 2, 2026 | CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Theatre Related, World View
This touring exhibition, called “Identity and Self” is available for your museum or arts venue – contact Robert for 2026-27 schedule “Identity and Self” – An Exhibition Description “Identity and Self” exhibited at...
by Robert Maniscalco | Jun 15, 2026 | Art Instruction, CSA Advocacy, Fine Art, Motivational, Portraiture, Random Favorites, Theatre Related
It was just another day of the indentured servitude at the Piccolo Spoleto Outdoor Art Exhibition, warm but not as bad as it can get. Trapped like rats for seventeen days in a row, out in the elements, selling our wares. I guess God thought I needed a reminder of just...
by Robert Maniscalco | Jun 12, 2026 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View
As fascism descends up us, is it possible for us to get used to an all or nothing existence, an artless, meaningless world where people are systematically categorized and other-ized by a single man, our great leader, Donald Trump, where we are forced to devolve into...
by Robert Maniscalco | Sep 14, 2025 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View
When you have something important to say, maybe a bit out of your wheelhouse, but not really, because what you’re talking about affects all of us, you better go ahead and say it. If we don’t wake up to the truth of what is happening in Washington, there...
by Robert Maniscalco | Aug 15, 2025 | CSA Advocacy, Motivational, World View
MOTION DENIED I was there every day of the hate trial of Dylann Roof, as sketch artist. I sat through the whole thing. He had every chance to defend himself. All he did offer was a strangely detached, yet spiteful “manifesto,” which incidentally reads like...
