Volume 2 No. 13 |March 20, 2020
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ARTS NEWS
& PROFILES
FROM
FLORIDA'S
TREASURE COAST & BEYOND
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Sharing our wealth of arts and culture.
We're having an ARTS BLAST!
Supporting arts and cultural councils everywhere.
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As I was getting this Arts Blast ready to send out, I saw an alert from the governor of Florida with new mandates.
From WPTV.com:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is ordering the closure of all beaches and many businesses in Palm Beach and Broward Counties until the end of the month.
That's in addition to Miami-Dade. And yet, I keep seeing photos of beaches jammed with people barely six inches from each other, let alone six feet.
Be part of the solution, not part of the problem.
Turandot Broadcast on PBS March 20 as Part of Great Performances at The Met Series.In the wake of canceling the remainder of its 2019–2020 season, the Met is also offering free daily streams of some of its Live in HD titles.
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Purple crocus in a friend's Pennsylvania garden.
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This sweetie is the great-granddaughter of a good friend in Vero Beach. Never give up personified.
Her name is Maci Rose Lare and she spent 107 days in the NICU @ Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington NC. Born 27 weeks early @ 1 pound 10 oz, 12” long. She’s sure come a long way, is sharp as a whip, and very sassy!
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From the Laura Riding Jackson Foundation:
In light of the ongoing COVID-19 public health situation, the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation announces the following changes to our scheduled programming:
- The 10th Annual Poetry & BBQ, scheduled for April 5th, has been cancelled.
- Our Writing Center office, located at 1914 14th Avenue in Vero Beach, will be closed until April 6th. Writing groups may continue to meet virtually in the meantime; members will be contacted.
- The historic home, located on the campus of Indian River State College in Vero Beach, will be closed to visitors until April 11.
Until we meet again, we hope that you will find comfort in great literature, creative expression, and the natural beauty found in our own backyards.
Thank you for your understanding, patience, and continuing support! Please visit our website at
lauraridingjackson.org
, or call 772-569-6718 for more information.
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From Maltz Jupiter Theatre:
Andrew Kato, the Theatre’s producing artistic director and chief executive, said,“The best way for patrons to help organizations like the Maltz Jupiter Theatre is to consider donating their tickets back to the Theatre for a tax-deductible donation or making a new contribution. Think of it as an investment in our future; it is in critical times like these that we ask our supporters to stand by and believe in our work.”
The Theatre’s Goldner Conservatory of Performing Arts is currently closed March 13 – 19, following Palm Beach County School District guidelines; the situation will be reassessed at the end of next week.
The Theatre’s one-night-only Keyboard Conversations® concert by pianist Jeffrey Siegel on March 22 has also been postponed; leaders will announce a new date for ticketholders soon.
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Community Church of Vero Beach update from Rachel Carter:
At CCOVB we have had to cancel in-person gatherings which sadly has caused us to cancel our Rossini Stabat Mater on Good Friday. Our church has been livestreaming services and taking other steps toward the technological! Bible study and small group meetings are being held via ZOOM and other chats like skype and facebook messenger.
This past Wednesday we joined our featured artist, Ellen Fisher on a tour of her current art hangings in our Narthex Gallery. The tour can be viewed on our facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/CCOVB.org/
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We are continuing with our Lenten Organ and Poetry series. We are trying something new by livestreaming the event so people can catch it anywhere they are!
Next Wednesday, March 25
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, Andrew Galuska and Jill Truax will host a Facebook Live tour of our Lively-Fulcher organ at 1PM. It’s a great “behind the pipes” opportunity!
https://www.facebook.com/CCOVB.org/
From the Music and Fine Arts ministry, our response has been sadness in having to cancel Choral Society concerts, IRSA concerts, and other organizations who use our facility as a venue, as well as our own concert series events. We are making decisions to benefit and protect our vulnerable population and trying to stay connected in other ways.
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I asked some artsy folks what they planned to do in this self-distancing/self-quarantining period.When this is all over, let's meet back here and share what we actually did!
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Here are the questions they could answer. Feel free to jump in!
What do you plan to do in this period of social distancing/self quarantining? Pick one or add one (or more), then elaborate briefly.
Create something?
Catch up on reading?
Learn something new?
Do chores?
Explore the great outdoors?
Road trip?
Cook something fabulous?
Finally hang that hammock?
Absolutely nothing? And what is absolutely nothing in your world?
Have fun with it!
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David Amado
Cooking for sure. I bake a lot—mostly sourdough. 4 2 lb loaves a week. They often end up at friends and neighbors. I just like baking—and we often can’t get through the amount of bread I bake. Recently I bought a countertop mill—so now I mill my own flour which adds a whole new layer of fun. I also love baking bagels and croissants. And I love to cook too. Even in non-Corona times, we try and eat dinner together as much as we can. So we are used to that anchor in the evening. I usually do the cooking—and I have a wide repertoire.
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Reading—right now Pickwick Papers. I try to read one Dickens a year. Love it. I started a bunch of years back when I realized I had gotten to middle age without reading any Dickens.
Chores: Always. We live in a house from the 20s, so there is always stuff falling down/apart that needs tending. Duct tape.
Cleaning always. Especially w three kids. And I enjoy it. My favorite cleaning gadget is a steamer—does wonders on the floors and tile.
I try to go for a walk each day. Delaware is gorgeous—especially this time of year—everything is just starting to bloom. There are SO many state parks—lots of commitment to land preservation—and we all get to enjoy it!
We are thinking of some fun road trips—maybe DC to see the cherry blossoms, the Chesapeake, maybe Chincoteague. Just back from Charlottesville. We are open to suggestions.
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J. Marshall Adams:
I didn't see the "FREAKING OUT" category option ...?
The reality is that this is not a "down time." We've pressed the pause button on many of our regular public activities, but there are behind-the-scenes activities that are still ongoing. And this is still crisis management, so I'm in regular conversations with our board, we're checking in on donors, on volunteers, and of course staff. Contingency planning is ramping up.
At home, we have college kids, a high school kid, and a high school teacher gearing up for virtual school, so that's all new and unknown. How much bandwidth do we have? We took a page from winter break and started one of our family collaborative jigsaw puzzles ... 1500 pieces allows you to unplug and shift focus, and the kids remember doing it when they were little, so it has a nice, safe, traditional feel. To amp up that winter break vibe, I confess I put on some holiday tunes the other day while we worked together, and no one hated me. These are stressful times. Fostering some normalcy and happy memories can help a lot.
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JoAnn Falletta
Brushing up on my Spanish (with great delight)- it is truly fun!
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Ellen Gillette
As a substitute teacher for St. Lucie County Catholic schools, I will be out of work for an undetermined length of time, but as a freelance writer, editor and photographer, I am still quite busy making deadlines and contacts. BUT I will also use this time for some home projects and R&R. There is a silver lining to all of this -- people may reconnect with themselves apart from all the stimulation they're used to before "social distancing." We have to take care ourselves first -- not in a selfish way, but emotionally, mentally, physically -- or we're not much good to anyone else when they need us.
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Bev Paris
tending to garden, watching lots of TV, emailing and checking up on distant friends and family, and primarily staying indoors and trying to stay healthy as I hope you are as well.....
Dug out a 1000 piece crossword puzzle and set it up in living room so each time we walk by we have chance to add a piece or two!
Do chores? Cleaning a room a day.
Explore the great outdoors? Exercising in pool and in the house as well
Cook something fabulous? Im new on weight watchers so exploring new recipes and making the....and also a banana bread, not on plan, but needed to use ripe bananas!
Finally hang that hammock? NO but enjoying our new porch before the heat of the day sets in
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Warren Obluck
Catch up on reading (and learn something new);
I'm reading a great history of English culture in the Eighteenth Century called "The Pleasures of the Imagination" (John Brewer). I'm doing this not only for the fun of it (no kidding) but to give context to Leo Damrosch's "The Club," a fascinating volume I just finished about Johnson, Boswell and their friends. Those included Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick and a bunch of others whose work we all know -- or know of. I expect it to take the entire lockdown for me to finish it. Heaven.
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Rachel Carter
I have actually been honing my sewing skills during self-isolation/quarantine. I have made bow ties, tote bags, dresses, aprons, and many other things for myself and friends.
I have also been learning some opera roles while in my newly found solitude. So I suppose that knocks out both learning something new, and reading a book.
I have been trying new recipes. For example, yesterday I wanted some comfort food, so I made turkey sausage gravy with spelt flour and almond milk over some flakey biscuits.
I have also enjoyed doing “Nothing” which to me means getting through almost 8 seasons of the show Cheers on Netflix, and starting Designing Women on Hulu. “Nothing” also means discovering that if you have google assistant, saying “Mischief Managed” brings up a Harry Potter trivia game, which I have aced many times!
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Me
Well, since I work at home everyday, there isn't any downtime unless I create it.
Here's what I hope will happen:
I'll learn to operate the Instant Pot that arrived the day before my shoulder surgery. I've been gazing at it longingly ever since.
I will turn what has become a catch-all storage room since I tiptoed into Arts Blast more than a year ago back into an art studio.
I will sort through and organize what I call my utility room, actually a laundry room plus a mini Home Depot. I have more tools than most handymen, I think. On top of that, several years ago I decided to get it organized by moving hand tools and bins of miscellaneous hardware-related stuff out to the back porch, where it still is.
I will finally categorize and photograph the arts and crafts tools, books, and supplies from interests that have fallen by the wayside, then set up a virtual yard sale for Williwaw Studio.
I'm not taking any bets on how much of that will be accomplished, but at least I have a dream.
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Adam Schnell:
PLAN AHEAD! I know that wasn't an option, but I am still working at least half in not 3/4 days trying to plan ahead for contingencies and to get next season going. It is nice to not be working full days (or really double portion days), but there is still much to do.
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La Casa Azul (The Blue House) was the place where Frida Kahlo
, the most renowned Latin American artist in the world, came into this world, lived, and took her last breath. The building, which dates to 1904, was not a large-scale construction. Today it has an 800 m2 building surrounded by property measuring 1200 m2. Diego and Frida filled it with color, folk art, and pre-Hispanic pieces to show their admiration for the peoples and cultures of Mexico. The construction underwent two major modifications. When Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky lived with Diego and Frida in 1937, the property today occupied by the garden was purchased. In 1946 Diego Rivera asked Juan O'Gorman to build Frida's studio. The interior of the house has been maintained virtually intact. This was respected by the poet and the couple's friend, Carlos Pellicer, who designed the museum display for the space after Frida's death. Therefore, the house and its contents preserve that intimate atmosphere.La Casa Azul (The Blue House) was the place where Frida Kahlo, the most renowned Latin American artist in the world, came into this world, lived, and took her last breath. The building, which dates to 1904, was not a large-scale construction. Today it has an 800 m2 building surrounded by property measuring 1200 m2. Diego and Frida filled it with color, folk art, and pre-Hispanic pieces to show their admiration for the peoples and cultures of Mexico. The construction underwent two major modifications. When Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky lived with Diego and Frida in 1937, the property today occupied by the garden was purchased. In 1946 Diego Rivera asked Juan O'Gorman to build Frida's studio. The interior of the house has been maintained virtually intact. This was respected by the poet and the couple's friend, Carlos Pellicer, who designed the museum display for the space after Frida's death. Therefore, the house and its contents preserve that intimate atmosphere.
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While museums around the globe are closed to the public, we are spotlighting each day an inspiring exhibition that was previously on view. Even if you can’t see it in person, allow us to give you a virtual look.
Japan Society, New York
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For the first time in its history, meerkats have been born and are being successfully raised at Zoo Miami! On January 18th, 2020, “Yam Yam,” an 8 year old female who came to Zoo Miami from Busch Gardens in February of 2012, gave birth to two pups in a secluded area of the meerkat habitat.
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These historic churches are spectacular examples of architecture in a wide range of styles you might be surprised to find in Florida.
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From The Bass in Miami:
INSTAGRAM GALLERY | JOYOUS DYSTOPIA @THEBASSSQUARED
The inaugural Instagram exhibition Joyous Dystopia remains on view via our virtual gallery
@TheBassSquared
. Launched in 2019 in an effort to make more digital art accessible online, the museum's curators are currently investigating new ways to activate the virtual gallery in the coming weeks as an extension of the exhibition programming.
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With the closing of libraries, check for online borrowing.
Stuck at home and have a library card? Check out some of the library's online resources and databases. You can learn a new skill on Lynda or get extra academic help for your child via Khan Academy!
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From Dawn E. Miller:
As you may know, the Under the Oaks Fine Arts & Crafts show, here in Vero Beach, Florida, was cancelled Friday afternoon due to concerns about public gatherings. Although it was a reasonable decision, it resulted in financial consequences to participating artists and left many local art patrons disappointed.
I am humbled and honored to have received the Anna Marye Barnes Award for Outstanding Artist of Merit in Watercolor/Pastel/Printmaking/Graphics at this show.
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From the Garden Club of Indian River County:
The Garden Club of Indian River County has cancelled the Flower Show March 28th and March 29th.
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Update from Vero Beach Art Club:
With the safety of our members and the greater community in mind, we also are taking this opportunity to announce the cancellation of our April General Meeting, as well as the April Gallery Stroll Exhibit. In addition, since the Vero Beach Museum of Art has cancelled all public programs and Art School Classes for the next 30 days, Open Studios are cancelled for the remainder of the season. We will send out further notifications as more information becomes available. We request your indulgence as we feel our way forward, since we are a small, charitable, non-profit organization dealing with this unprecedented crisis.
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Arts Organizations Are Heading Into a Crisis. A Few Things Might Mitigate the Disaster.
As concert halls, theaters, and museums around the world go dark, we all need to move quickly to ensure that when it’s finally safe to emerge from our lairs, we still have a cultural life left to go back to. … Arts organizations, too, are fragile in the best of times. Small groups — string quartets, neighborhood dance schools, shoestring theater companies — operate on the thinnest of margins. … The arts are not a luxury but a public good, a boon even to those who don’t buy tickets. …
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