Volume 2 No. 41 |October 15, 2020 |
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ARTS NEWS
& PROFILES
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FLORIDA'S
TREASURE COAST & BEYOND
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Sharing our wealth of arts and culture. We're having an ARTS BLAST!
Promoting The Arts & Arts Councils Everywhere
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In This Issue
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Soup Bowl Potter Connie Willingham
Festival of Trees? Plan B is Happening!
Grease Opens at The Henegar
Backstage with the Nutcracker
Backus Best of the Best
A Women's Collaborative Down Under
Something for Typeface Nerds
Calls for Artists, Volunteers
Updates from Area Arts Councils
Bits & Pieces from Around the Area & Around the Web
*If you don't scroll all the way to the end, you're missing a lot of good stuff!
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Sunday on Cultural Connection on the Air - Anne Satterlee talks about the Sunrise Theatre and Oscar Sales updates us on Riverside Theatre. |
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Listen to Cultural Connection on the Air at a new time and place, Sundays at 8 a.m. on WQOL, 103.7 fm and on iHeartRadio.com. |
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Near the top of my "Why I Love Arts Blast" list is the catching up with people I haven't seen or talked to in donkey years. Last week's rediscovery of author Christine Kling had me sending a friend request and today she took a minute away from boat building to message me. Now that I think about it, since they're building the boat in Turkey, it's probably quitting time, anyway.
As a fan of Kling's books, I had to ask if she's had time to work on one lately. She wrote: "I’ve had to put my writing aside. I have two books that I’ve started and I’m dying to get back and finish them ... They’re both Florida books. One is the start of a new mystery series set in the new Smyrna Beach area, and the other is a historical that is about World War II in Florida and the Hooligans Navy civilian sailors who went offshore, hunting U-boats like Hemingway did. ... The new Smyrna one is about a former cop female who grew up on a fish camp along the Indian river and she goes back home to take care of an ailing dad and gets involved in Shenanigans."
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An apology to Alicia Quinn, chairman of the Cultural Council of Indian River County's board, for my typo in spelling her name — two weeks in a row. The board is in the process of interviewing candidates for the position of executive director at CCIRC and we'll let you know as soon as we hear the results.
The new Arts & Culture Guide is available at the Cultural Council office on 14th Avenue and other spots around the county. This year, it's also available online as a PDF flipbook, a first for the Cultural Council. www.Cultural-Council.org
Join us for a special evening to pick up your copy of the Arts & Cultural Guide Wed., Oct. 28, 4-6 p,m, at Trattoria Dario, 155 Ocean Drive, VB.
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Scroll down for Calls for Artists, Auditons, and Volunteers plus updates from arts councils. |
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Soup Bowl Maker Connie Willingham |
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Continuing an Arts Blast series featuring the dedicated, talented, and generous clay artists at Indian River Clay who have been working the clay for many weeks to keep a tradition alive — meet artist Connie Willingham. |
In the Artist's Words:
I moved to Vero Beach 26 years ago with my husband and two young daughters. I’ve had the opportunity to work in the citrus business and have spent the last 16 years working for a law firm. My normal day to day has me dealing with financials, deadlines, and a variety of other tasks but it occurred to me that I needed an outlet for me, now that my children are grown, and my 2 granddaughters are not so little anymore. I’ve always dabbled in something creative but nothing stuck. Then a little over 2 years ago I came across a Facebookfeed that advertised a beginner’s pottery throwing class and I knew I had to try. I was not a natural, but I did enjoy it. So much so that I bought my own wheel and without an outlet to fire my pottery, I found a used kiln, bought a bunch of clay, and took to watching as many YouTube videos as I could and kept practicing. Little by little I found my groove. As luck would have it Indian River Clay came into my life and I’ve been a member for a year plus now. There is so much talent, guidance,and comradery it’s become my second home. Last year I was asked to participate in the Soup Bowl event and very proudly made 20 bowls! So of course when this year came, without question, I was in. I upped my game and there are 68 bowls out there thrown and glazed by me! After scratching my initials in my creations got a little old, I designed my own stamp – C Side Pottery is my clay maker’s mark. The lovely thing about this craft, is there is always something to learn, a new technique to try or another class to take. So now when I go to sleep, I can guarantee you that I’m thinking about my next project.
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A huge thank you goes to Joan Cortright, one of the Soup Bowl potters at IndianRiver Clay, for corralling the busy artists for these short introductions.
She even managed to snag what we hope is a complete list of the potters responsible for the hundreds of bowls that will be on sale to benefit the Samaritan Center Nov. 5. Look for that next week.
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The Soup Bowl will be an all-day affair but don't come hungry — soup will not be offered this year. Covid-19 strikes again. It's an Empty Bowl - Full Heart event benefiting the Samaritan Center.
Program Development & Relationship Manager for the Samaritan Center Renee Bireley said, "We would like to express our deepest gratitude to the many restaurants, caterers and country clubs that have, over the years, donated hundreds of gallons of soup to the event. However, in recognition of the hardship to these soup suppliers, we will not be asking for soup donations."
Hours are 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Heritage Center on 14th Avenue in downtown Vero Beach.
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From Katy Ryan, director of Samaritan Center and the Soup Bowl:
We have asked our usual Soup Bowl locations to have a reverse soup bowl this year — Bring a can of soup and a $5 donation to a participating location and the donated soup will go to a local food bank. First United Methodist Church and First Presbyterian Church in Vero Beach are two of the paticipants.
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Festival of Trees? Think Plan B |
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By this time in a regular year, masses of creative people would be working on designs for their entries in the annual Festival of Trees, a benefit for Riverside Children's Theatre in Vero Beach. You know where this is leading, don't you? Festival of Trees has been canceled. That's the official word, but a little thing like that can't stop the unendingly creative minds at Riverside Theatre, the Vero Beach Art Club, and Oceanside Business Association. |
In addition to the Vero Beach Art Club's mini-Festival of Trees, Riverside Theatre and the Oceanside Business Association are finalizing plans for a Festival of Wreaths. Riverside spokesman Oscar Sales said, "our designers will create wreaths to display on storefronts that can be sold for the benefit of the children's theatre."
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More news from Riverside:
The video series that launches at the time when the first mainstage show should be delighting audiences is Putting It Together. Viewers will "get to meet all the departments (sound, costumes, paints, lighting, etc.) and (learn about) their part in putting on a show. Each week will have a 10-minute video highlighting a different department," Sales said.
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This comes from VBAC:
The Vero Beach Art Club is breaking new ground by hosting its first ever Holiday Showcase,
featuring a mini-Festival of Trees. Four fully decorated 4-ft. trees will be auctioned off to benefit the Riverside Theatre, since COVID forced the cancellation of the Theatre’s Annual Festival of Trees event. It opens December 4 at 5 p.m. as part of the First Friday Gallery Stroll in the 14th Avenue Arts District in Vero Beach. Subsequent show hours will be from 11 a.m.to 3 p.m. Monday - Saturday through December 23, with the auction ending Tuesday, December 8 at 3 PM. This is a joint fundraiser for the Club and Riverside Theatre.
In addition, the show will have original artwork and gift items for sale. The venue for the Showcase will be announced at the end of the month, so stay tuned! For more information visit the Vero Beach Art Club website or call 772 217-3345.
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The Vero Beach Art Club's Art in the Park begins this weekend at Humiston Park on Ocean Drive. Always on Sunday, the first one for 2020 is on Oct. 25, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Then there will be two in November and one in December. Six additional dates are scheduled for 2021. Get all the information on the website.
Photo: 2019 Festival of Trees
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Backstage at the Nutcracker |
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Even in the best of times, with the best of conditions, filming for Nutcracker on the Indian River on the banks of the real Indian River Lagoon would be a Herculean feat. Luckily for those who have made Ballet Vero Beach's Nutcracker a family tradition, Adam Schnell and Camilo Rodriguez (with a lot of support from the dancers, community and BVB's board of directors) can look adversity in the eye and tell it just where to go with its challenges.
Keep an eye on the Ballet Vero Beach website and Facebook page for everything you'll need to know about the 2020 Nutcracker on the Indian River. And save the date for BVB's digital fundraiser, the "Tea Up for the Nutcracker Watch Party" on December 13 at 4:00pm. Details will be forthcoming.
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See that dance floor, custom-made for this outdoor filming? It got flooded. I'm picturing a pas de deux in galoshes.
And an unexpected technical advisor showed up to offer an expert opinion. Who doesn't love a goofy manatee nose?
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J. Marshall Adams, Backus Museum & Gallery's executive director, posted about choosing a winning piece of art.
"When our panel of judges considers a given work of art for the juried competition, they are not aware of the artist’s name or title, and it was the same for me when it was time to exercise the special honor of “Director’s Choice” -- it wasn’t until after I had zeroed in on this sculpture that I learned of the word play in the title.
“Flamenco Dance” offers an elegant, refined but energetic interpretation of that most Florida of birds, the flamingo. The artist did especially well in translating the fluid, rhythmic grace of the bird into the solid metal of bronze sculpture. The pleasingly-stylized wader, standing about 19 inches tall, seems to be captured in mid stride, balanced on a delicate, open sphere of ornamental lily pad shapes that remind us of the harmony the feathered nymph enjoys with the natural world.
"The striking colors of the bird are not from paint, but are a type of patina, chemical reactions carefully guided by the artist on the surface of the metal. The softly mottled lighter values of pink and white modulate and rise from the sanguine legs and flame-colored feathers, lifting the subject with exceptional skill. Will it strut through the shallows or pivot to take wing? Or perhaps in a flourish of castanet-inflected accompaniment, it will make eye contact with you and invite you to dance.
"Visitors to 'The Best of the Best' can vote for their single favorite work among the 103 in the exhibition. The one with the most votes by November 13 will receive the People’s Choice award. Special thanks to all of the artists who participated this year.
Remember – especially in these trying and uncertain times – the arts offer connection, comfort, joy, and inspiration. Sustain and strengthen our cultural institutions to be here for you. And support the arts by supporting artists! – J. Marshall Adams, Executive Director
The Best of the Best is on view through Nov. 13.
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“Flamenco Dance” by Brenda Truesdale, Three-Dimensional - Bronze and granite |
BEST OF SHOW | "Sabal Palms on Turkey Creek" by Frank Spino, Watercolor |
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The Henegar Center re-opens with GREASE Oct. 23, sliding through three weekends of performances with multiple layers of COVID "practices in place to create a safer and enjoyable experience," according to Executive Artistic Director Domenic Del Brocco.
Seating will be at half capacity and masks are required throughout the performance.
Del Brocco said, "All of the Actors are incredibly excited to finally get the show up. We started this process with Auditions and rehearsals in June and now nearly 4 months later we are finally getting to present it." Because of the delays, the role of Danny and two others had to be recast. The new actors stepping in truly blow me away, as they have had to learn the entire show in 2 weeks and join the already developed cast.
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"Theaters everywhere are struggling, Del Brocco said. "Many on a 'good' or 'regular' day at times barely make it. Our patrons, members, and season ticket holders are what keeps us alive. ... We have not cancelled our season. If anything, I think we added more to it. But it will all only work and be worth it if guests buy a ticket and come out." |
The cast:
Danny- Patrick Plucinsky; Sandy- Sarah McKinney; Rizzo- Olga Intriago; Marty- Claudia Fain; Jan- Brianna Seanor; Frenchie- Veronica Lowry; Kenickie- Joe Kienstra; Doody- Ricky Devito; Rodger- Yan Diaz; Sonny- Cullen Sanders; Patty- Sofia Bordner; Eugene – Logan Blake (Eric Barnum); Teen Angel/Vince- Brett Jones; Mrs. Lynch – Janine Charnesky; Cha Cha F1- Anna bell Mizrahi; Ensemble - Bethany Soule;
Jade Sangalang; Jamaal Augustave; Patrick Miller; Caleb Urbistondo.
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IRSC Performing Arts Program Announces Virtual Dance Performance
“We’ll Meet Again” Streams January 28, 29 & 30
The IRSC Performing Arts Program is producing a virtual dance performance, “We’ll Meet Again,” featuring a cast comprised of past, current, and prospective students. The performance will be streamed online January 28, 29 and 30, 2021. The IRSC Box Office encourages patrons to update their contact information for the latest news regarding the program, and to stay updated about other events that may be scheduled.
“We’ll Meet Again” is directed by Jocelyn Perez, Master Instructor of Performing and Visual Arts. “The choreographic process explores themes of loss, longing, separation, and love, and features a wide range of music including Vera Lynn, Michael Kiwanuka, Whitney Houston and Pablo Nouvelle,” shared Perez. “We are excited to try this new, innovative way of showcasing our production through online streaming.”
Patrons can update their contact information by sending an email to boxoffice@irsc.edu, visiting the Box Office, filling out the online form at the IRSC Arts & Culture page at https://www.irsc.edu/student-life/arts-and-culture.html, or sending a note with their postal and email addresses to the IRSC Box Office, located in the McAlpin Fine Arts Center on the Massey Campus at 3209 Virginia Avenue in Fort Pierce. The Box Office is open Monday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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30th Annual All Florida Juried Arts Show
Featuring all Florida Artists in All Media
Juror: Lisa Rockford, Rockford Projects
Exhibition Dates: Through December 12
*Preregistration required.
Gallery Hours:
Tues. 10am - 6pm | Wed. - Sat. 10am - 4pm
Court House Cultural Center | 80 SE Ocean Blvd., Stuart, FL
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Emma-Kate Wilson /MutualArt
In the heart of Australia, a renowned art community comes together to produce a collaborative artwork for theTelstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards 2020.
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Ed Perry captured a black-throated blue warbler at the buffet. "This beautiful Black-throated Blue Warbler is migrating through but has been refueling on the American Beautyberry all morning long in my yard. This was a plant I won in a raffle at the local native plant meeting I spoke to a couple years back."
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Environmental Learning Center’s ARTober is October 24 from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., celebrating art in nature with a meet and greet with artists who have exhibited at the ELC, both past and present.
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From Vero Beach Theatre Guild:
The Vero Beach Community Theatre now in its 63rd year will reopen open after an eight month intermission ... with the hilarious Apron Series romp “Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight” opening on Friday, November 13th.
The New York Daily News described Peter Ackerman’s screwball bedroom farce as riotously funny with hilarious dialogue that just gets better and better as the lines fly by like rapid-fire artillery. Set in three different bedrooms in New York City, three pairs of lovers are trying to enjoy a night of romance. Tackling questions about sex and the proper balance between intellectual and physical attractions, “Things You Shouldn’t Say Past Midnight is a fast paced comedy about communication, honesty, identity and how we define—and talk about—ourselves.
The cast, being directed by the newly appointed interim Artistic Director Jon Putzke, features Nikki Przedwiecki, Alex Martinez, Abby Boldac, Nichols Matthews, Brendan Wenger and Jack Stiefel. The set and lighting has been designed by Jeff Hall with costume and prop coordination by Sunny Uttley.
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Boo at the Zoo is back at the Brevard Zoo through October 31. From 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., youngsters can participate in fun activities on the Monarch Migration Trail, embark on a scavenger hunt, pose for themed photo ops, listen to music --and enjoy all of the Zoo animals. Children 12 and under can pick up a complimentary bag of candy on their way out! All Boo at the Zoo activities are included with general Zoo admission and free for members. Costumes are encouraged. For more information, visit BrevardZoo.org.
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Both of our museums are in need of volunteers! The House of Refuge needs to fill positions in lawn maintenance, tour guides and admission desk. The Elliott Museum has volunteer positions in the car gallery and Emporium Museum Shoppe, at the admissions desk, and docents also are needed.
If you (or someone you know) is interested, please fill out an application. You can do so by coming into one of the museums, going to the website or contacting Director of Visitor Services Amie Smith via email.
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Fall In for the Power of Pollinators
Explore an all-new collection of whimsical pollinator houses, five larger-than-life bird nests, and informative discovery signage introducing all ages to the importance of native pollinators and the wonder of birds.
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Through November 27, Gallery 14 presents CALMING INFLUENCES: Work by Gallery 14 Artists. In November, the Gallery will return to regular on-season hours: Tuesday – Friday 10:00am to 5:00pm and Saturday 10:00am to 4:00pm. There will also be a special wall of art work offered by the owner-artists called 'Support the Gallery.' All proceeds from those sales will go to help the Gallery during these difficult times.
There will be a reception to coincide with the First Friday Gallery Stroll on November 6, 5-8pm. All are invited. Please note that masks are required to be worn at Gallery 14.
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Cultural Council of Indian River County's hot-off-the-presses Arts & Culture Guide is not only in hard copy, but now has a digital version! Alicia Quinn, chairman of the CCIRC board, said about this 16th edition, " For the first time, the Guide can be found on the Cultural Council’s website, www.Cultural-Council.org , in flipbook format and can be downloaded as a PDF file. A companion piece to the Guide is an online calendar at www.culturalcalendar.org that is updated daily." Print copies are available at the cultural Council office on 14th Avenue and quite a few spots around the county. Learn more on the website.
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From Martin Artisans Guild:
The Martin Artisans Guild will close the Art in Isolation show in the Palm Room on October 24 to spruce up the Palm Room and prepare for the Season - painting, cleaning from top to bottom, windows, carpet, etc.
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For updates on gallery openings and classes in Melbourne and surrounding Brevard County, check the Brevard Cultural Alliance website and individual gallery social media.
Calls for artists and gallery openings are listed.
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Grease runs Oct. 23 - Nov. 8 at the Henegar in Melbourne for a three weekend run. There's a new parking lot with lighted walkway to the theatre on Melbourne Avenue.
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Animal Nature: Recent Works by Linda Mitchell is at the Foosaner Art Museum in Melbourne through Oct. 24. Hours Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Foosaner Art Museum, 1463 Highland Avenue, Melbourne, FL 32935
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Updates from the St. Lucie Cultural Alliance!
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🎟 FREE admission
🏆 WINNING ARTISTS & PRIZES
👻 HALLOWEEN COSTUME CONTEST
💃 FREE performances by South Florida Dance Company
🍦 FOOD TRUCKS & MORE
We're closing this year's Young Hearts to Arts with a bang. You don't want to miss it! REGISTRATION REQUIRED. Sign up for the whole family!
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From the Cultural Council for PalmBeach County: |
In addition to following state guidelines, Palm Beach County has a local ordinance requiring facial coverings in public places – indoors or outdoors – wherever social distancing cannot be maintained. Additionally, local venues also have specific guidelines in place, so be sure to visit each organization's website for complete details, hours and possible updates before you go.
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Find wonderful deals at cultural venues in The Palm Beaches by signing up at MOSAICPBC.com. MOSAIC 2020 (Months of Shows, Art, Ideas, and Culture)
The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County invites you to restart with the arts this fall as cultural organizations welcome visitors back to The Palm Beaches. For insights on upcoming events, subscribe to our monthly Events Calendar emails and you’ll be the first to know about special offers and discounts as soon as they’re available.
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At Arts Warehouse
RISE: OUTDOOR EXHIBITION
A group exhibition showcasing the persistent changes to nature and humanity’s inevitable connection to them.
Find all 10 art works in downtown Delray Beach
(location guide below)
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From Arts Garage in Delray Beach:
Theatre At Home: Live From Arts Garage with a live and simultaneously live-streamed performance of BUNKER, a one act play directed by and starring South Florida actor and writer Jonathan David Kelly. The timely and thought-provoking production will have one performance on Saturday, October 24, at 7 pm.
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The Cultural Council for Palm Beach County's popular series CULTURE & COCKTAILS kicks off November 9. The fun theme of this season’s series of “Conversations” is Cool People Doing Neat Stuff!
November 9 – 6 to 7 pm (via YouTube)
Hollywood Historian Scott Eyman
CULTURE & COCKTAILS will be streamed live online and is FREE for all attendees, both Cultural Council members and nonmembers. RSVP ASAP with Debbie Calabria at 561.472.3330, who will email instructions on how to connect live.
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From Edison and Ford Winter Estates:
Registration and prepayment for Edison Ford Digital Discussions is required at EdisonFord.org. Registration will end one hour before the presentation. Each presentation is $5 (free for members). Limited to 100 participants.
November 4, 11 a.m.: Calusa
Pay tribute to the people who ruled much of south Florida.
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From the Flagler Museum:
Organ & Piano Demonstrations, select Tuesdays at 1:30 pm
At 1:30 p.m. every Tuesday through November 10th, professional musicians will be exercising two instruments original to the home. As visitors tour Whitehall, period music will be performed on the J.H. & C.S. Odell Co. organ in the Music Room or on Mary Lily Flagler's custom Steinway art case Model B grand piano in the Drawing Room. Each Tuesday's demonstration will be different from the last! The instrument demonstrations will span both the 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. general admission timed entry periods. Due to limited availability, visitors are encouraged to purchase tickets for those timed entry periods in advance. For safety, visitors will move along the fixed route during the demonstrations, enjoying the glorious volume of music echoing throughout the first floor.
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From Lighthouse ArtCenter:
The Lighthouse ArtCenter (LAC) is now offering a plethora of in-person classes and creative experiences at their newly renovated School of Art. COVID-19 safety precautions are in place and include sanitation procedures, limited class sizes, required masks, and a Community Commitment Agreement. Virtual classes will continue to be offered. Eight-week sessions begin on October 19 in ceramics, drawing, fused glass, jewelry and metalsmithing, mixed media, painting, photography and sculpture. Outdoor painting classes are available under a newly built chickee hut located behind the school of art building. The ArtCenter also offers one and two-day workshops and unique experiences on “Select Fridays” from October 2020 through April 2021. The experiences include classes in glass fusion, jewelry, and an outdoor or “en plein air” Wine & Paint. The Gallery is temporarily closed for renovations and scheduled to reopen January 2021. For more information and to register for classes visit lighthousearts.org.
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Dr. Marcos Daniel Flores is a piano performance graduate from The Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico B.M., The Eastman School of Music M. M., and Arizona State University where he received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Flores is an active performer as well as an experienced and inspirational piano teacher.
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Calls for Artists, Auditions, Volunteers |
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VERO BEACH THEATRE GUILD
Auditions for
A Shot in the Dark directed by Jon Putzke
Saturday, November 7, 2020 10 a.m.
Sunday, November 8, 2020 2 p.m.
Monday, November 9, 2020 7 p.m.
Performance dates are March 10 - 21, 2021
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Deadline Friday, October 23. McKee Botanical Garden is looking for local artists to submit their original works of art (color paintings only) of McKee Botanical Garden to be put on display in the Garden Cafe. The Garden Cafe is visited by thousands of McKee Botanical Garden members and visitors from all over the world each year. This is a wonderful opportunity to be seen and exposed to the community-and possibly sell your artwork.
They are looking for the following size original paintings of McKee Botanical Garden:
(3) 48" wide x 36" high
(3) 36" wide x 18" up to 24" high
(2) 18" wide x up to 24"" high
Note: If you have a painting similar to these sizes, please let them know and they will consider it.
If you have any original paintings of McKee Botanical Garden that you would like to have considered, you must email a photo of your painting(s) to connie@mckeegarden.org. Photos are due by Friday, October 23. They will be accepting (2) painting submissions from each artist and will then decide which ones they would like to showcase.
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From cellist Mike Block, looking for musicians:
I am writing about a big idea that I wanted to make sure you knew about, and invite you directly to get involved, if interested. I’m also hoping you might be able to spread the word and help us connect with more musicians and citizens in your communities.
It’s called Play For the Vote, and we are organizing musical performances at polling locations across the country on Election Day with the goal of increasing voter turnout by providing a more positive voting experience.
We just went public at www.PlayForTheVote.com, and are now accepting signups from musicians of all backgrounds who are interested in performing!
- Sign up to play yourself! :)
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Encourage other musicians to sign up by sharing this email or our website with colleagues/students that may be receptive: www.PlayForTheVote.com.
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We also want to reach as many voters and potential voters as possible, so you could let your friends & fans know by posting on social media using the hashtag #PlayForTheVote, and tag us at @PlayForTheVote on Facebook and Instagram and @play_vote on Twitter!
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Eau Gallery has put out a Call for Art for its Dec. 4-29 exhibit, Great Art in Small Packages. Small 2D art only. Deadline Nov. 22. No application fee if entry is not accepted. |
The Gilt Complex has opened its 2021 Storefront Art Showcase for applications. Artists must be 18 or older and reside in Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, Okeechobee, or Palm Beach County. Deadline Nov. 30.
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Jan. 15 - Deadline for ALL AGES for video submissions for Indian River’s Got Talent at the Environmental Learning Center. Indian River County residents only.
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Art in Public Places - Cultural Council of Indian River County is accepting applications for exhibit at the Indian River County Administration Building, Vero Beach.
Theme: Artist’s choice.
Exhibit Title: Mixed Themes
Delivery Date and Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2:00pm-3:00pm.
Exhibit runs Oct. 28, 2020 - Jan. 26, 2021.
Please download the Spec Sheet and Hold Harmless documents from our website.
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Call for Volunteers from the Historical Society of Martin County.
Both of our museums are in need of volunteers! The House of Refuge needs to fill positions in lawn maintenance, tour guides and admission desk. The Elliott Museum has volunteer positions in the car gallery and Emporium Museum Shoppe, at the admissions desk, and docents also are needed.
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Lee County's Alliance for the Arts has several calls for artists out.
Our H2O Exhibit (Deadline Nov. 6) and Deck the Halls (Deadline Nov. 16) Exhibit are open to all artists of all mediums in all locations.
Gravity of Gratitude (dropoff Oct. 26) and Small Works Off the Wall are for members of the Alliance for the Arts, but you are welcome to become a member in order to participate! Just visit www.ArtInLee.org/Membership to apply.
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From The New York Times:
Independent booksellers are desperate for customers to return, and not just for an online reading.
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Each stream becomes available at 7:30PM ET and remains accessible for on-demand viewing until 6:30PM ET the following day.
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I love to take an occasional walk through the reference books my aunt, Helen Miller, gave me long ago, before she sold her weekly newspaper, The West Schuylkill Press & Pine Grove Herald. I credit my lifelong fascination with typefaces and fonts to summer childhood vacations in her pressroom — or maybe it was the clatter of the typesetter and printing press and the smell of the ink that did it. Are you a reader who appreciates seeing the name of the font at the end of a novel that made reading it easy on the eyes — or don't you care?
The main difference between a ‘font’ and a ‘typeface’ is that the former exists as part of the latter. Helvetica is a typeface – a complete set of sans serif characters with a common design ethos. However, it is made up of a whole collection of fonts, each in a specific weight, style and size, with different levels of condensation as well as italic versions.
Because most designers are used to working on Macs, where you install fonts and then select them from the Font menu, we tend to use the word font in daily discourse, but if you are asked by an executive creative director what font you’ve used in a project, it’s possible they want to know the precise details. Helvetica would be the typeface chosen for the project, but the font might be Helvetica Regular 9 point.
This 2017 article, probably of interest only to typeface nerds, in The New York Times online caught my eye this week. It's about " the visual synonym of The Times. It was most recently redrawn in 1967 by the designer Edward Benguiat, working with Louis Silverstein, who was then the promotion director of The Times. (Mr. Silverstein would later become an assistant managing editor.)
"The letterforms on which the nameplate is based, known as blackletter or Gothic, can be traced to the late 700s, long before Gutenberg ever put ink to type."
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From NBC News:
"I say it's strange he's dead and the tree is still living," said artist Freeman Vines.
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Presented at the Great Hall at The Cooper Union, Women of Color on Broadway honors Tony Award winners Melba Moore and LaChanze with a special star-filled Broadway concert, featuring performances by Darlesia Cearcy, Kimberly Marable, Aléna Watters, and more. This special event brings Broadway to your living room.
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From Playbill Classic:
Tony winner Kelli O'Hara headlines a New York Pops benefit concert that will stream October 27. The intimate performance was filmed at the Riverside Yacht Club in Connecticut in September (hosted by Pops Board Chair Jim Read).
Dan Lipton music directs the event, the set for which includes Rodgers and Hammerstein staples, O'Hara's renditions of The Bridges of Madison County's "To Build a Home," "Take Me to the World" from Evening Primrose, and an original song by O'Hara's husband Greg Naughton.
The 7:30 PM ET stream, hosted by Pops Music Director Steven Reineke (who also conducts a Q&A), will be available with tickets starting at $20. VIP packages include access to a virtual meet-and-greet with O'Hara prior to the broadcast. Proceeds will go to the orchestra's PopsEd music education programming.
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From Art & Object
With Halloween just around the corner and many of our typical celebrations thwarted, we many need to seek out new ways to find seasonal chills and thrills. Look no further than the art museum, which is full of frightening depictions from biblical horrors, to Greek mythology, and pure existential dread. Here are ten great artworks to put you in the Halloween spirit.
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