The Collection

Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse are a collaborative team. They make 2-dimensional and 3- dimensional art focused on water and climate issues. Museums, private collectors, developers, and governments collect and commission their work. They were featured guest artists at the International Print Symposium in Cortona, Italy, completed a 160-ton limestone sculpture for the Michael Graves Artspark in Indianapolis, installed a 28-ft. bronze walk-through sculpture for the Hunter Museum in Chattanooga, TN, and created a 42-ft. walk-through stainless steel and glass sculpture with a 72-ft. mosaic of the James River at Gateway Plaza in Richmond, VA.

​Carol Mickett worked for over a decade in academia, holds her Ph.D. in philosophy, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and graduated summa cum laude. Mickett received numerous grants, presents lectures, performs in theater, and has published essays, poems, and interviews in Canadian Philosophical Review, Hypatia, Prairie Schooner, and New Letters among others. She was the host/curator of Art Laureate Conversations for Creative Pinellas and for Our Town at the Dali Museum, and the host/producer of Art Radio in Kansas City, MO. She sits on Tarpon Springs, FL, Sustainability Board, and the Boards of Pinellas County Urban League, and North Pinellas Advocates for Racial Equity.

Robert Stackhouse holds an MA in art from the Univ. of Maryland and an honorary doctorate from his alma mater University of South Florida. Stackhouse taught at the Corcoran College of Art where he ran their BFA program. He has held endowed chairs at the University of Denver, Hartford Art School and the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia. His individual work can be found in museum collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery in Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Australia, the Phillips Collection, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Mickett and Stackhouse were the 2020 Creative Pinellas Art Laureates and received a Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Critic Award for their science conversations. They were Artists-At-Sea, in 2021, aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s ocean-research vessel Falkor. In 2022, they had a show Balance of Water, at the Leepa Rattner Museum and received an NEA grant through Creative Pinellas for Cool Pinellas (icecubeproject.com). Mickett and Stackhouse show Circle of Water (2023) inaugurated the Florida Wildlife Corridor Gallery, Wild Space. They participated in Artist At Sea during Art Basel Miami Beach at the Patricia Frost Museum of Science sponsored by UNESCO, Schmidt Ocean Institute, and Nautilus. WEDU’s (FL Public Television) 8-part YouTube and broadcast digital series, High Water Marks, “explores how their art and activism intersect to bring awareness and understanding to issues facing our environment.”