Recognitions/Press and Media

Schinkel Fine Art

National and International Awards

Awarded sole artists by The Carr Center to design and create collaborative installations for a yearlong exhibition in Harmonie Park, Detroit, 2016-2017
2nd place London (England) Biennale 2015
2nd place Chianti Star Festival, Tuscany, Italy, 2014
Top 10 Art & Top 6 Overall Must-See Creator (out of 700 Creators) – One Spark World’s Crowdfunding Festival, Jacksonville, FL April 2014
Top 10 Arrow Five Years Out Arts Challenge/Cherry Creek Art Festival, Denver, CO March 2014
Cranbrook Institute of Science, Bloomfield Hills, MI – Art & Science Initiative, Permanent Collection Main Salon, 2014
ArtPrize 2013, Grand Rapids, MI – Top 50 (out of 2000 artists)
Best of Show & Outstanding Achievement – Amdur Productions, Chicago, IL, 2013
Art Business News – Top 50 Emerging Artists, 2012
“International Masters of Photography," selected for Back Cover, Worldwide Art Books, Santa Barbara, CA, 2012

Linda and Theo first released a prototype of their distinctive artwork at ArtExpo New York in 2012. They had spent two years creating and refining their original artistic process. They were one of two artists from a field of 1,000 artists highlighted in an Associated Press article about the show and published across the world, including in USA Today and the Wall Street Journal.

Publications

Schinkel (Shinkle) Rodney, Linda, and Schinkel (Shinkle), Theodore, Interview by Connie Hogan, Bloomfield Cable Television, November 3, 2022
Matlow, Jeanine, "Partners in Art," Detroit Design Magazi ne, Fall 2020
Schinkel (Shinkle), Linda, Interview by Connie Hogan, "All Abo ut You,"' Bloomfiel d Community Television, July 19, 2017
Schinkel (Shinkle), Linda, and Theodore, Interview by John Sauve, "Art and Design," Blo omfield Community Television, June 8th, 2017
The Carr Center Press Release, “Detroit’s Music... J azz,”, July 2016
Elliot, Kevin,"Faces”, Downtown Publications Birmingham/Bloo mfield, July 201 5
“Artist of the Week,” Art Business New s, May 2015
May, Lori A, "An Artistic Streak," Ambassador Magazine, D etroit, M I, January/February 2014
“Top 6 Must See at One Spark,” The Times-Union, Jacksonville, FL, April 13, 2014
Chianti Star Festival, University of Florence, Studio Abba, pp. 33–34, 2014
Open Art Code, Grand Palais - Paris, ART en CAPITAL, pp. 36–37, 2013
Hopkins, Carol, "Arts, Beats & Eats," Oakland Press, Pontiac MI , March 23 , 2012
International Masters of Photography, Vol. 1, 2012, pp. 252-253 and back cover, World Wide Art Books, Santa Barbara CA 2012
Associated Press, "Artexpo Coming to NYC," Wall Stree t Journal, March 21, 2012
“Artexpo Top 50 Artists," Art Business News, M arch/April 2 012
Swoyer, Megan, "StylerMaker," Style Magazine, pp. 2 4–25, M ay 2006

Media

A & E documentary “The Start Up Factor”, clip highlights sole artists selected. Filmed at the One Spark Festival 2014, Jacksonville, FL, the world's largest crowdfunding event. Documentary produced by and nationally aired on A & E in 2015.

Metalagram® Experience from the 2015 Sole Artists Exhibition with literacy and art enrichment charity Beyond Basics. Metalagram® with light and sound creates a multi-sensory immersive experience. The original “Through the Trees” five-piece pentych can be experienced in the SFA showroom at The Moross House.

SFA instructed and created Metalagram® Collaborative “Renaissance City” with Beyond Basic students at Detroit Central High School. Installed in Office of Detroit Mayor Michael Duggan in 2015 and continually exhibited, now five years (2020), behind a sofa in the mayor’s office lobby. Frequently seen in Detroit Mayor news broadcasts.

“Through the Trees," a Metalagram® Experience, fuses light, sound, and original 2D metal art five-piece pentych exhibited at ArtPrize 2013 in Grand Rapids MI, awarded Top 50. Subsequently exhibited at the One Spark Festival 2014, Jacksonville, FL, awarded the Overall Top 6 Must See.

Theo, lead collaborator on the Integrated Lighting System for Metalagram® Experience, and Linda explain their One Spark Festival 2014 project.

The first of two featured live segments on WJBK Fox 2 Detroit aired on August 27, 2013.

The second of two featured live segments on WJBK Fox Detroit 2 aired on August 27, 2013.

Interview for the Bloomfield Community Television "Art and Design" Show with John Sauve aired June 8, 2017.

Interview for the Bloomfield Community Television "All About You" Show with Connie Hogan aired July 19, 2017.

WDIV Detroit Local 4 News featured the segment “Live in the D." It aired on December 4, 2013, and multiple subsequent times.

Collectors

Office of Detroit Mayor Duggan, Detroit, MI
Cranbrook Institute of Science Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Detroit Country Day School, Middle School, Beverly Hills, MI
Mercy Health St. Mary’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, MI
Henry Ford Health System, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Integrated Capital Management, Bloomfield Hills, MI
CBRE Detroit Office, Southfield, MI
Mi Bank, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Kolene Corporation, Detroit, MI
Korotkin Insurance Group, Southfield, MI
Edgewood Partners Insurance, Los Angeles, CA
Maggie Allesee, Leading Advocate for the Arts, Metro Detroit, MI
Constance & Martin Silver, New York University Trustee and Vice-Chair, Miami, FL
Dr. Macrene Alexiades, Macrene Actives Founder and leading Dermatologist, New York, NY
Dr. and Mrs. Robert DiPilla, leading Dentist and Arts Advocate, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Pamela Rodgers, Leading Arts and Community Advocate, Detroit, MI