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Arts Updates, Interviews, Calendar, Calls for Artists and Volunteers, Auditions --- It's All Here in Arts Blast, Arts Blast on the Air, and on Facebook. | Supporting The Arts & Arts Councils Everywhere | |
Volume 4 No. 38 | October 21, 2022 | |
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Notes from the Editor:
Last week I mentioned a major plumbing problem. Today, almost two weeks after it began, it continues.
This week, I've graduated from plumbers and leak finders to the county team, outside now with a fleet of big trucks and machinery. Dare I hope?
And last week I included a link to St. John webcams. It got a ton of click throughs, so I think I'll just keep it here. Here's the link. Yes, it really is that gorgeous.
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FEATURES
CCIRC call for artists
Vero Beach Art Club Junior Membership
West Coast Update
Rockwell and Leyendecker at the Elliott
Garden Club of IRC Christmas Ornament
Bonsai at Longwood
Vero Beach Museum of Art’s Museums for All
Plant a Free Tree, Enter a Contest
Lunch and Chamber Music in Stuart
Happening in Brevard County
AmericanSongbook with Dick Golden
Galleries at First Pres
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Tidbits
Sights & Sounds, Friday Fest, Ghosts!
Lighthouse ArtCenter’ D’Art for Art
Weekend Changes at Riverside
Martin Arts Awards
A.C.T. Studio Theatre
Treasure Coast Ballet
I’m Still Standing
VB Choral Society
Pineapple Party
Concert Under the Stars at Bok Tower
... and more!
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If you're reading this on October 21 before 5:30, you're between 11 and 17 years of age, and you're a budding artist, get over to the Vero Beach Art Club Gallery & Marketplace at 1903 14th Avenue in Vero Beach for the monthly meeting of the Junior Vero Beach Art Club. Missed it? Catch one the third Thursday of the month (except January). | It's here! The 2022 Garden Club of Indian River County Christmas Ornament | |
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Cultural Council of Indian River County
Last Call for Members' Entries
Food, Glorious Food! is the theme and we're looking to you to whet our appetite with your creative interpretation of edible fare.
Please submit up to seven (7) images to Elise@Cultural-Council.org by the submission deadline, Monday October 24. Include Title, Medium, Dimensions and Price. Download the spec sheet.
Location: Intergenerational Recreation Center
Exhibit Title: Food, Glorious Food!
Call Date: September 21, 2022
Submission Deadline: Monday, October 24, 2022
Notification of Selection: Thursday, October 27
Delivery Date and Time: Wednesday, November 2, 11 am to 12 noon
Exhibit Dates: November 2 to February 3, 2023
NOTE: If you are currently exhibiting at the IG Center, you may pick up your work Wednesday, November 2, 11 am to 12 noon.
We look forward to seeing your work!
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Rockwell and Leyendecker at the Elliott | |
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For the first time in Florida, visitors will have the unprecedented opportunity to view an exceptional collection of artworks by Norman Rockwell and his mentor, J.C. Leyendecker, at the Elliott Museum, 825 NE Ocean Blvd. An invitation only Sponsors/VIP reception will kick off the exhibit on Thursday, Nov. 3, and will open to the public with a reception at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 4.
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The exhibit will run through March 3, 2023 and include 20 original works of art —10 by Norman Rockwell and 10 by J.C. Leyendecker — along with each artist’s complete collections of vintage Saturday Evening Post covers — 323 by Rockwell (321 unique illustrations and 2 repeated covers) and 322 by Leyendecker. The magazine covers range from 1899 through 1963, giving an interesting visual history of the United States through an ever-changing time. Major events such as both World Wars, the Great Depression, and 16 presidential terms, as well as timeless scenes of family life and childhood, are represented.
This exhibit, presented by the Historical Society of Martin County, is being made possible through the generosity of these sponsors: The Lichtenberger Foundation, The Kiplinger Family Foundation, Henry & Rachelle (Rocky) Grady, Bob Massey, Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Activities and The Community Foundation Martin/St. Lucie.
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“We are thrilled that the Elliott Museum promotes classic Americana, and what’s more American than Norman Rockwell,” said Judy Goffman Cutler, director of the National Museum of American Illustration. “This configuration has never been seen before in Florida. The scope and poignancy … it’s really brilliant.”
Through this exhibition, Cutler hopes to highlight the mentorship and influence that Leyendecker had over the more well-known Rockwell. She encourages visitors to compare their artworks. Throughout their careers, both artists reflected the currents of American life and its times.
“I hope the viewers will gain an appreciation for the wider world of American illustration and take an interest in all the illustrators of the Golden Age,” said Cutler.
The Elliott Museum is open seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.- 825 NE Ocean Blvd., Stuart. For more information, visit the website, www.hsmc-fl.com or call the Elliott Museum at 772-225-1961.
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Left - NORMAN ROCKWELL (1894-1978), THREADING THE NEEDLE, 1922, oil on canvas, 25 1/2" x 20 1/2", signed lower right. Saturday Evening Post, April 8, 1922 cover
Right - J. C. LEYENDECKER (1874-1951), WAR HERO TELLING STORIES, 1919, oil on canvas, 27 1/2" x 19 1/2", signed lower right. Saturday Evening Post, May 10, 1919 cover
© 2022 National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, RI, www.americanillustration.org, and the American Illustrators Gallery, New York, NY, www.americanillustrators.com
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The opening reception of the Fall Art Show at The Galleries at First Pres is this Sunday, October 23, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. The show will feature the works of local artists Valerie Cecire, Grace Cormier, and Theresa Kelso.
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Valerie Cecire is a contemporary landscape painter and printmaker as well as abstract artist. Her impressionistic and abstract monotypes, prints, and oils capture the balance and change of light in nature. ... Art pieces are done in plein-air and studio settings and are impressions and concepts derived from nature with abstract dimensions. Valerie is a Vero Beach Art Club and Sebastian Art Club member and Vero Beach Museum member. ... Her art is mixed medium inspired by nature. There are unique elements incorporated in her paintings, sculptures, textile fiber art and jewelry.
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Grace Cormier was born in Szczecin, Poland. At the age of eighteen, she began her new life in the United States, settling in Miami. In 2001, she owned and operated Interior Design Service and a small Art Gallery on Long Island, NY. She retired in 2019 and returned to Florida where she committed herself full time to create art. Her art is mixed medium inspired by nature. There are unique elements incorporated in her paintings, sculptures, textile fiber art and jewelry. She is a member of Vero Beach and Sebastian Art Club. Her art work is exhibited in several local Art Galleries.
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After a career as a Clinical Psychologist, art is another form for Dr. Theresa Kelso to express herself and experiment creatively. She has crisscrossed the country, growing up in Duluth, Minnesota, then attending Eastern Florida State College, studying environmental science, and moving on to Rollins College and Florida Technological Institute in Melbourne. She had a 30-year private practice in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, before returned to Florida in 2018. Theresa loves living in Vero Beach because of its’ southern atmosphere and small-town feeling with a lot of activity. The artist has studied at the Vero Museum and the Artists Guild Gallery. This First Presbyterian Gallery showing not only displays Dr. Theresa Kelso’s art, but also highlights the importance of art for the young.
The galleries are located throughout the campus of First Presbyterian Church at 520 Royal Palm Boulevard in Vero Beach. Admission is free, light refreshments will be provided.
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The Vero Beach Museum of Art (VBMA) has joined Museums for All, a signature access program of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), administered by the Association of Children’s Museums (ACM), to encourage people of all backgrounds to visit museums regularly and build lifelong museum-going habits.
The program supports those receiving food assistance (SNAP) benefits visiting the Vero Beach Museum of Art. FREE admission, up to four people, with the presentation of a SNAP Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card. Similar free and reduced admission is available to eligible members of the public at more than 850 museums across the country. Museums for All is part of the Vero Beach Museum of Art’s broad commitment to seek, include, and welcome all audiences.
| Photo: Longwood Chrysanthemum Festival through Nov. 13 - photographer Mathias Becca | |
Arts Blast readers who love the bonsai collection at Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Fort Pierce — as well as readers in the Mid-Atlantic states — will enjoy this article from news.artnet.com about the collection at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. (Sarah Cascone, October 17, 2022)
"Bonsai Is One of the Few Art Forms That Is Really About Time": Longwood Gardens Curator Kevin Bielicki on How a Gift of 150 Masterpiece Trees Will Transform the Botanical Collection
“Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience” will open at Longwood Gardens, 1001 Longwood Road, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, in fall 2024. The first seven bonsai trees donated by the Kennett Collection are on view October 4–November 13, 2022. Click here to read the full article.
Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens is receiving a transformational gift of 150 masterpieces. But these aren’t your typical works of art—they’re bonsai trees, and they come from Doug Paul’s Kennett Collection, the largest private collection of the botanical art form outside of Asia.
The initial gift includes 50 trees that will come to Longwood over the next two years. Seven specimens are already on view, with the rest part of a longterm bequest that also includes a $1 million endowment for their care.
A significant number of the trees are more than 100 years old, and many have been designated kicho bonsai, or important masterpieces, by Japan’s Nippon Bonsai Association. Others are omono, or “very large” bonsai, measuring an impressive three or four feet tall.
Kennett is also making the entirety of its 1,200 trees available as loans to Longwood, which started its bonsai collection in 1959, with the purchase of 13 trees from Japanese bonsai artist Yuji Yoshimura.
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Let’s Cool Our Planet, Save Our Manatee, Fishes, Birds, Lagoon and Provide Safe Habitat For Us & Wildlife. Bring the birds to your yard!
Free trees available at the Audubon House:
- 7 ft Southern Live Oaks in 3g pots -Produces the most insects for birds
- 6 ft Pond Cypress in 3g pots-Grows in dry soils also
- 3 ft Dahoon Holly in small pots- Small tree that needs irrigation
Visit our Pelican Island Audubon Society’s Audubon House at 195 9th St. SE (Oslo Rd) Vero Beach on Sun, Wed, or Fri from 9-11 am to pick up trees. Also, Native Plants for sale! Hummingbirds will come! See our websites:
https://pelicanislandaudubon.org/home-page/free-trees-available-at-audubon-house/
https://pelicanislandaudubon.org/home-page/trees-for-life-plants-for-birds/
or call PIAS: 772-567-3520
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Instructions for PIAS Birds Need Plants Photo Contest
- Each month you can submit up to 3 photos for the Birds Need Plants Contest with emphasis on birds pursuing, consuming, using plants, or near plants and prey. To submit a photo for this month, the deadline is the last day of the month.
- A Florida bird must be pictured in your photograph (priority to action shots with or pursuing, using plant, food sources, habitat, and that demonstrate relationship to plants, insects, animals, natural foods).
- The photo must be taken in Florida.
- A photographer may submit 3 digital images per month.
- A photographer will submit only photographs that have never won an earlier award in any contest or exhibit anywhere.
- PIAS requests that you provide the highest resolution possible of your jpg digital images.
- Deadline: The last day of the month
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Email to piaudubon@yahoo.com
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St. Mary's Lunch and Chamber Music Series
Dr. Marie Jureit-Beamish will perform in November.
Monday, November 14 at 7:00 PM
Time to Tango: a concert and dance experience
with Lindsay Garritson and Ashley Garritson-Gelber and tango dancers,
Armando Orzuza and Nuria Martinez.
Sunday, November 20 at 4:00 PM (CONCERT JUST ADDED!)
Fireworks and Poetry from Eastern Europe
Delray String Quartet with special guest, Ukrainian pianist, Marina Radiushina.
Tuesday, December 6 at 7:00 PM
Bonifantes Boys Choir from the Czech Republic
All Concerts will be in Ross Hall in the Pittenger Center at St. Mary's Episcopal Church unless otherwise indicated.
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Happening in Brevard County | |
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Oct 20-22 & Oct 28-31: Nightmare on Foggy Bluff, Green Gables, Melbourne, GreenGables.org
Oct 21: Friday Fest, Downtown Cocoa Beach, CocoaBeachMainStreet.org
Oct 21-30: The Rocky Horror Show Live – Shuler Stage, Titusville Playhouse, TitusvillePlayhouse.com
Oct 22: Downtown Melbourne Trick or Treat, Historic Downtown Melbourne, DowntownMelbourne.com
Oct 26 & 27: Suites & Treats Concert, Melbourne Community Orchestra, Melbourne Auditorium, 321-285-6724, MCOrchestra.org
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The Melbourne Municipal Band (MMB) presents a musical tribute to military veterans with two Greatest Generation concerts Nov. 9 and 10 at 7 p.m. at the Melbourne Auditorium, 625 E. Hibiscus Blvd. There is no charge and tickets are not required. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Pre-show entertainment will be provided by the New Horizons Jazz Band of Melbourne.
In keeping with the concert theme, Honor America will have a lobby display of WWII memorabilia and a miniature Liberty Bell. The organization works to increase knowledge of the nation’s cultural heritage, its constitutional form of government, and national, state, and local history.
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A Treasure Coast radio tradition since 1999, “The American Songbook” is heard on WQCP online and on 91.9FM Saturdays, 8 p.m.-midnight.
The October 22 American Songbook will include some great duets; Tony Bennett with pianist Bill Charlap, Sarah Vaughn with Clifford Brown on trumpet, and Joe Williams with the Count Basie band. Also this week music from Fats Waller, Dinah Washington, and Nat King Cole.
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From Edison and Ford Winter Estates:
On October 29, only a month after the category four Hurricane Ian ripped through Fort Myers, the historic homesite of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford is opening up to the public with a Fall Festival. This family-friendly event will include craft vendors, food trucks, music and several fun activities for children.
Activities include the Banyan Tree Climb, which is sponsored by the Florida Nursery, Growers and Landscape Association. Early registration is encouraged as this activity is expected to sell out. Tickets can be purchased online at EdisonFord.org and are $45 for non-members, or $35 for Edison Ford members.
Families will be able to select and purchase pumpkins in the Pumpkin Patch, with the option to paint the pumpkins (paint provided). Other activities include adult and kid-friendly axe throwing and archery, plus children can get their face painted, or get fairy hair. The Wild Wizards will be conducting science experiments and a balloon artist will make crafty animals. Visitors also will have an opportunity to make their own floral bouquets at the flower truck.
There is no charge to stroll around and listen to music; however, each vendor has a fee to participate in the activities and visitors are encouraged to bring cash. Parking is free in the Edison Ford lots. The entire site will be open; however, admission to the museum, laboratory and riverside of the property requires an additional ticket. For information about the site, or to purchase tickets for tours, visit EdisonFord.org.
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Marco Island Historical Society reports that The Art of the Dig exhibit will be opening next week. The Exhibit Opening Reception party is on Wednesday, October 26 from 5-6:30pm. https://themihs.info
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Lighthouse Waterfront Restaurant
We would like to thank the sheriff’s department for keeping our marina safe during this time. We would also like to announce that due to the amazing progress that has happened, the check point going to Sanibel is no longer at the entrance to the Lighthouse but closer to the causeway.
The Lighthouse Waterfront Restaurant is officially opening at 5pm this coming Saturday!! We will have a full bar, a temporary limited food menu, happy hour to resume 10/19 and will be temporarily cash only due to no internet (hopefully this will be short lived). Come out and see us and enjoy some normalcy after this horrific disaster that took so much from us all
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WE NEED ART!
Calling on all artists and art collectors!
Is your art collection getting too big? Would you be willing to donate a piece of your work to a good cause? Give your art to Lighthouse ArtCenter for D'Art For Art as a tax-deductible donation.
D'Art for Art is LAC's premier annual fundraiser. All donations made will go towards LAC's Art For All outreach and scholarship programs, and, thanks to a generous donor, will be doubled!
All D'Art donations of art must be delivered to LAC's Gallery by November 4, 2022.
Call us at 561-746-3101!
| Weekend Changes at Riverside Theatre | |
Some new changes for The Comedy Zone:
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Face masks are recommended INSIDE Riverside Theatre facilities regardless of vaccination status, but not required. Masks will continue to be made available at the entrance.
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We have reduced the number of tables and seats, limiting shows to 50% attendance.
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Come Hungry! Support us by purchasing food & beverages at The Theatre’s Grill & Bar and help us keep the laughter alive and music rockin’! Do not bring coolers, tumblers, water bottles or food on our campus.
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Arrive early for Live Music on the outdoor stage before the comedy show begins. Live music times: 5:45pm-6:45pm, 7pm-8pm and 8:15pm-9pm.
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The Indian River County Historical Society will host their Pineapple Party on Saturday, November 5th at the historic Hallstrom House & Farmstead. The event will take place from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on the grounds of the old home. The Hallstrom House is located at 1723 Old Dixie Highway SW in Vero Beach. There is no admission fee. |
MartinArts Awards 2022 will be presented
November 3, 5:30 p.m., at the Lyric Theatre
View the Nominees and 2022 Honorary Award Recipients.
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A.C.T. Studio Theatre has American Buffalo weekends through October 27; Treasure Coast Ballet brings Villains to The Lyric Oct. 29.
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- 5:30 PM 8:30 PM
- Marina Square Fort Pierce
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- Wednesday, October 26, 20225:30 PM
- Thursday, October 27, 20227:30 PM
- Main Street Fort Pierce
- 122 A E Backus AvenueFort Pierce
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I'm Still Standing Closing Night Reception
November 19, 6 - 8 p.m., Elliott Museum, Stuart
The Inner Truth Project sexual trauma survivors and St. Lucie Cultural Alliance artists joined forces to present the inaugural exhibition of I’m Still Standing.
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The Vero Beach Choral Society is in need of vocalists in both Tenor and Alto ranges. Anyone who can read music and has experience singing in a vocal ensemble is welcomed to join the group by audition. Visit the group’s website, www.VeroBeachChoralSociety.org, and click on “Audition” to apply.
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