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Founded in 1974 in an old munitions plant, the Torpedo Factory Art Center is home to a very largest collection of publicly accessible working artist studios. Historically it was a torpedo factory and munitions storage site. Marian A. Van Landingham (born September 10, 1937) spearheaded the transformation of the decrepit former military storage building into the Torpedo Factory Art Center. In 2006 she was designated Women’s History Month Honoree by the...

It’s from the sea that everything began. When Olivier Bezombes was young, his grandfather told him his campaigns and made him dream of far countries. In the French Navy for more than 20 years, Olivier has sailed over most of the seas of the world, and he has covered all the continents. He had seen some of the most beautiful things and some of the biggest disasters, the excessiveness and...