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Volume 4 No. 17| May 13, 2022

Notes from the Editor:

A Facebook friend posted this and I'm making it my mantra today.

Friday the 13th?

I like Pogo’s philosophy -

it’s only unlucky

if it falls on a Tuesday.

Well, that worked until about an hour ago when I lost the ability to save this Arts Blast as I was working on it. Trying again after a reboot.

Announcements of programs for next season are coming in and I've got Ballet Vero Beach this week. I promised Riverside Theatre I'd hold theirs until next week but I can't resist a teaser: I've been thinking about ordering those taps you strap on your shoes — just in case they're looking for local talent (??) - I can dream, can't I?

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In This Issue

FEATURES

Louise Kennedy Heads for Scotland

Mike Block String Camp

Elliott's Car Shows

Ballet Vero Beach - A New Season

Catching Up with Arts Blast Sponsors

First Pres Youth Orchestra

Treasure Coast Community Singers

Martin Arts’ Summerfest

ELC’s LagoonFest Was EcoFest

SL Cultural Alliance Public Art

Shadd Piehl

Rock'n Riverwalk

Why Reading Can be Tough

Vero Beach Art Village

Weekends at Riverside

TIDBITS

Martin Artisans Guild at the Elliott

Barry Shapiro Opening

Summertime Citrus at Lake Wales HM

Mamma Mia! at the Barn

Flashdance Auditions

Savannah Sipping Society at TC Theatre

Summer Art Camp at VB Art Club Annex

CAP’s Summer Concert Series

Louise Kennedy Heads for Scotland

This is a big week for the Laura Riding Jackson Foundation, filled with poetry, writing, cowboys, and the famous LRJ barbecue. It’s also a festive and appropriate sendoff for Louise Kennedy, the departing executive director of LRJF, who’s leaving next month to head back to school in her native Scotland. “I was born in Glasgow, and I've spent every summer of my life (until covid) in Scotland. It's a bit of going home for me. I'm so excited!” Kennedy won’t be leaving Indian River County and Laura Riding Jackson behind, however. Jackson will be the focus of Kennedy’s continuing Ph.D. work as a post-graduate researcher at the University of Glasgow.

Her parents, Dr. Alastair and Marion Kennedy, moved Louise and brother Andrew to Vero Beach via Buffalo, NY, in 1980. Before accepting her position at LRJF, she was the English Department Chair and a teacher at Saint Edward’s School for 13 years. Between Scotland and Vero Beach, Kennedy had fulfilling years in South Africa and Botswana. The accomplishments that have made her most proud, she said, are the educational and humanitarian programs she built in Kenya that “created a strong relationship between Saint Edward’s (School) and a small rural school in the village of Ahero.”

Kennedy realized early on that LRJF could fill a void in the county’s growing community of writers, at all levels of development. “More and more people are reaching out to us to find ways to improve and/or showcase their own writing,” she said.

To that end, Kennedy brought “a much needed level of professionalism to this all-volunteer organization,” according to Marie Stiefel, president of LRJF. “With spirit and intelligence, she digitized Teen Writers Workshops so that more students could access them, and migrated Adult Writers Workshops and ongoing groups to Zoom. She established The Seizen Press Vero, which has published five volumes of poetry.”

As she looks back on her work with the foundation, Kennedy said, “We have increased our footprint in the global academic community, we have built a publishing wing, we have moved with efficiency into online learning and presentation and reached more people than ever.”

Kennedy listed some of her own most meaningful accomplishments at LRJF: “I'm really proud of the five books we have published. Our first was a highly acclaimed collection of local Covid experiences and local and international covid-inspired poems.” That happened in June, 2020, “when the world was still figuring things out. We were one of the first organizations that I'm aware of that did anything like that.” It was the success of that book and the learning process in creating it that “led us to build our new press and publish our incredible anthology Decade. I am so proud of the work that went into that, and it allowed us to think big and truly turn a pandemic lemon into tasty lemonade.” She also is proud of the Teens Listen book developed to honor the memory of beloved SRHS administrator Billy Wilson. "That was a student-initiated shift in our Teens Listen project that was able to happen because we were innovative and full of energy.”

Laura Riding Jackson Foundation Board members give Kennedy kudos for all she has done in her short time there. Charlotte Terry said, ““I am grateful to Louise Kennedy for bringing our foundation to another level of exposure, and for the engagement with the Vero Beach community she was able to facilitate. Her creativity through the pandemic was brilliant, inclusive and well executed. I am excited for her to push her own career forward with her bold move to Scotland to pursue her doctorate degree on the work of Laura (Riding) Jackson! Go Louise!!!!! Write on!” From Carrie Adams: “Having Louise as our Executive Director … helped us elevate the professionalism, profile, and possibilities of the foundation. … Her intelligence, strength, and vision made her an ideal person to help pull us through new challenges and old obstacles during her tenure.” Board member Jacqueline E. Jacobs, Ph.D, added, ““Louise's confidence and passion for the work of the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation have set us on a stronger course for the continued growth of our creative writing programs for children, teens, and adults. She will be missed.”

In case you missed Sean Sexton and Shadd Piehl at the Garden Club of Indian River County May 12, you can still be part of the weekend. See the flyer.

From Shadd Piehl:

I first met Sean Sexton when we were both featured poets at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV. We had the opportunity to share a stage there on at least one occasion. I admire Sean's sensibility as a poet, his serious and sensitive approach to writing poetry that is both grounded in his life as a rancher yet universal in theme. I think we bonded in Elko over that shared sensibility and similar approaches to poetry and in particular cowboy poetry. As the son of a well-known, regional painter and western artist, Walter Piehl, I also admire Sean's creative work through different mediums: painting, sculpture, and poetry.

Our discussion about our different backgrounds but similar sensibilities as it regards poetry, our influences, poems and poets we admire is a continuation of a discussion we recorded for a radio program "The Great American Folk Show" with Tom Brosseau. Although that discussion has yet to be broadcast, and may never be, we enjoyed the experience of sharing poetry, both ours and others, and discussing the back stories and influences of those poems. We hope that this conversation will translate to the stage.

As far as why poetry is important to the cowboy life, I think that modern cowboy poetry is a continuation of the oral tradition of songs, doggerel, recitation, and the telling of "windys" or tall tales that were, and remain, part of cowboy culture.

First Pres Youth Orchestra in Concert

The First Presbyterian Youth String Orchestra will present a Spring Concert on Sunday, May 29, at 2:00pm in the sanctuary at First Presbyterian Church, 520 Royal Palm Blvd, Vero Beach.

Admission is free to the community; donations will be accepted during the performance and also online via the church’s website. The suggested donation per person is $10.

The Spring Concert will serve as a fundraising event to help offset the costs of the Youth Orchestra’s upcoming tour of the Florida Keys. Musical selections they have chosen for this performance are: Rumanian Folk Dances by Bartok, Dvorak’s “Dumky” Piano Trio, Movement II of the Serenade for Strings by Elgar, Vitali’s “Chaconne” featuring soloist Sam Bormett, and Bloch’s Concerto Grosso for Strings and Piano, Opus 1, featuring Becca Harrison on piano.

Concertgoers may choose to watch the performance via livestream on the church’s website, www.firstpresvero.org, and also donate via the “Giving” section on the website. If donating online, please choose “all other gifts” in the dropdown and write “String Orchestra” in the memo section.

Weekends Are Back at Riverside Theatre!

New Seasons Ahead - Watch This Space for More

Ballet Vero Beach

Arts Council of Martin County

Announcing Summerfest 2022!

Second Tuesday of each month at 5 p.m.

Tuesday, June 14: Senior Send-off Concert of Flutist Gabrielle Small performing masterworks of the flute repertoire by Charles-Marie Widor and Bohuslav Martinu. A recent graduate of University of South Florida, this fall Gabi is heading to University of North Carolina School for the Performing Arts to pursue a master’s degree in flute performance.
Tuesday, July 12: Celebrate outstanding young musicians who continue to dedicate their summertime to further their artistic abilities. Pianists, flutists, string players! You will be amazed by their tremendous progress!
Tuesday, August 9: Jazz concert of “Live Session” with the Hagers and Friends—C Flute, Alto flute, Guitar and Bass.

Mike Block String Camp is Back

From Mike Block:

The Mike Block String Camp (MBSC) is now accepting enrollment for its 13th annual workshop in Vero Beach. Forced by COVID-19 to hold all musical activities online in 2020 and 2021, this will be an eagerly anticipated return to in-person workshops and performances.

MBSC will run July 4 through 9 at the First Presbyterian Church of Vero Beach, 520 Royal Palm Blvd. This one-of-a-kind festival is an annual summer workshop for string players of all ages and backgrounds, focusing on non-classical traditions and contemporary musical styles, with emphasis on learning by ear, creativity, collaboration, and performance.

Begun in 2010, MBSC provides level-based classes for college students, amateur adults, kids, professionals, high schoolers, and middle school students. “Our students include locals from the Treasure Coast, as well as those who travel across the country, and across the world, joining us from China, Singapore, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Canada, New Zealand, and more,” Block said.

Block and his wife, Hanneke Cassel, will be joined by nine other faculty members teaching a wide range of techniques: jazz/classical, multi-style, and Indian violin; bluegrass, South American, Scottish, and progressive fiddle; viola; and multi-style and Celtic cello. Singer/songwriter Colin Cotter will add a vocal element to the curriculum.

From the St. Lucie Cultural Alliance:

St. Lucie Cultural Alliance continues to transform public buildings into world-class galleries featuring the work of local artists, opening an Inaugural Courthouse Exhibition Justice at the May 20 Art Walk from 5 - 8 PM in downtown Fort Pierce. At this special Art Walk opening, all guests who purchase artwork at a participating Alliance Member Gallery will be entered to win an Ultimate Cultural Alliance Gift Basket, valued at over $500 with 2 VIP tickets to the Alliance Cabaret Series show of their choice.

Leading into the Courthouse Gallery at 218 S 2nd Street in the courtyard, guests will enjoy the music of Will Vaugn, an R&B and Soul singer while Alliance Art Guild members set up their wares for sale at pop-up shops. Rose Marie Diem, an accomplished Alliance artist who began her career as a courtroom sketch artist, will perform live courtroom sketches. On the 3rd Friday of each month, guests can enjoy shopping, live music and artists in the street as a part of Art Walk, and March’s grand opening reception includes even more live music and pop-up shops by Alliance Art Guild Members.

Alongside Justice, patrons have the opportunity to catch a first peak of I’m Still Standing, an exhibition created in collaboration with the Inner Truth Project where survivors of sexual trauma and professional artists paired together to create unique works of art from upcycled and recycled materials that tell the stories of strength, survival and perseverance. They can also peruse Alliance Exhibits Transcendent at the Ohana Group Gallery, and From Treasured Lands in the Alliance’s Downtown Gallery, a conversation and recycling exhibition celebrating our natural treasures.

“We are committed to infusing beautiful art in all aspects of our county,” said Alyona Ushe, Cultural Alliance Executive Director. “The immense level of artistic talent in St. Lucie County is evident with the work on display by our Curator Terry Long and our incredibly talented and diverse Art Guild.”

Patrons will also be able to stroll the street and take in music from Alliance Music Guild Member Classical Guitarist Joette Gioris in the Alliance Gallery and the immensely popular Alliance drum circle with Kevin Beatkeeper will be held 6 - 7 PM in the parking lot of One Eleven Orange Building. With a limited number of drums available, this activity always fills up with guests, so we encourage participants to register for the Drum Circle and RSVP beforehand at https://artstlucie.org/art-walk.

Photo: Justice Prevails - Glenda Preston

Catching Up with Arts Blast Sponsors

Gallery 14

From Gallery 14, Vero Beach:

Gallery 14's artist-owners Edgardo Abello, Lila Blakeslee, Barbara du Pont, Mary Ann Hall, Barbara Landry, George Pillorgé, Deborah Polackwich and Dorothy Napp Schindel, were busy showcasing a wonderful array of exhibits this season. November saw a first time collaboration with neighboring arts venues: mixed media guest artist Christine Peloquin presented a three day workshop at the Art Club Annex, and stain glass artist Anita Prentice's framed pieces were used as inspiration by the Porch Poets of the Laura Riding Jackson Foundation. Poems, based on music, were exhibited on the Gallery walls next to the appropriate pieces. A special event was held at the Gallery, where poets read their work aloud. December through February brought curated art by Derek Gores called Visual Poetry and then his own solo exhibit Tropicollage. March was a bonanza month for selling the work of Melissa Mastrangello and Horacio Lertora and April showcased the beautiful, enchanting watercolor and acrylic paintings of Reed Dixon. Next we look forward to a Retrospective of the paintings and basketry of Viola Pace Knudsen and top the season with Summer Squared II, the second installment of our very popular invitational. We are very especially excited about the 2022-23 season, which will feature an array of favorites as well as some artists who are new to the Gallery.

First Presbyterian Church

The Music & Arts Department at First Presbyterian Church has had a busy season bringing live performances back. In December, Dr. Jacob Craig orchestrated a mass collaboration performance between the Vero Beach Choral Society, the church's Chancel Choir, and the First Presbyterian Church Youth Symphony Orchestra. Following two well-received performances, they continued the season with a Chamber Music Concert Series that featured the Con Brio String Quartet, Gainesville Brass Quintet, and a solo recital by Sergey Belyavsky- a Russian virtuoso pianist currently seeking political asylum in the US. They have even installed several wonderful Art Gallery rotations quarterly throughout the year on campus as part of The Galleries at First Pres. What's next for Dr. Craig and his talented crew? Stay tuned to find out! Visit www.firstpresvero.org/events for more information on upcoming performances and art shows.

Cruisin' at the Elliott

Lew's Crew Cruisin' at the Elliott is held every Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m., weather permitting, in the Elliott Museum's parking lot. In addition to a lineup of cool cars, the fabulous Philly Down South food truck is on site offering a delicious assortment of cheesesteaks, grilled items, and more.

There’s a $3 fee to show your car and a portion of the proceeds are donated to the museum. Admission is free for guests, who are asked to remember to follow CDC guidelines pertaining to social distancing and wearing a mask.

Cars & Coffee is held the second Saturday of the month from 8 to 10 a.m., also in the Elliott Museum's parking lot, weather permitting. The next one will be held on May 14. Bring your pride and joy ride or just come and hang out with other car owners and enjoy the outdoor ambiance. The event showcases an amazing display of different makes, models and years of vehicles. This event is free and open to everyone. Coffee and donuts are provided at a nominal charge.

Backus Museum and Gallery

With this year’s 40^th anniversary of the Treasure Coast’s favorite juried fine art exhibition Best of the Best; the beauty and ingenuity of Made By Hand: 50 Years of Collecting from Florida CraftArt; and the latest in the annual series of Florida Highwaymen special exhibitions, the 2021-22 season at the A.E. Backus Museum continues to delight audiences. In our 61^st Season, the return to in-person gatherings was gradually and carefully nurtured, from opening receptions, second Backus Boo Ball, new Juice & Jazz, and the latest Sunday in Key West Luncheon & Auction on May 1.

On view through May 8 is Tuned to the Spirit: Photographs from the Sacred Steel Community. The exhibition presents more than 35 soulful images and spirited music by photographer and scholar Robert L. Stone, drawn from 30 years of research to reveal a fascinating story. In the late 1930s, two related African American Holiness-Pentecostal churches began incorporating a novel, modern instrument into worship services – the electric steel guitar. Today, Florida is a stronghold for this unique "sacred steel" musical tradition that has been passed down for generations.

The annual juried photography exhibition Through the Eye of the Camera debuts May 20, and remains on view through June 24.

The Other Half

Artist owner Ann Lee Fuller is in Vero Beach at her The Other Half gallery during season, but the other half of the year is spent up north, in Margaretville, NY., at Longyear Gallery. "I'll be having a solo show there in September titled Ambiguities and Specifics. There will be about 30 works," Fuller said.

Longyear Gallery is an artist-run [nonprofit 501(c)(3)] cooperative presenting professional artists from the New York Metro area, and rural NY State. To assure the highest standards of work, and a broad range of styles and media, artists are juried into the gallery. Exhibits change monthly featuring two solo exhibitions with a new group show of gallery artists. An invitational exhibition "Artists Choose Artists" and a special Holiday Exhibition rounds out the year.

Photo: It Was Scandalous - Ann Lee Fuller

Center for Spiritual Care

Ends Season on a High Note

Xaque Gruber sat down with Britt Bair at the Center for Spiritual Care in April for a Conversation about Creativity. These popular in-person encounters with local artists have recently featured Xaque with Shotsi LaJoie and Janet Kipp Tribus. No reservations are necessary.

Britt will also be featured in the latest video on the Center’s YouTube channel. To find this series hosted by Ellen Fischer, go to YouTube and type in Art Talks, Center for Spiritual Care. Art Talks is produced in collaboration with Aric Attas Creative.

The Center’s final cultural event of the season was a free-wheeling session at the Garden Club May 12 featuring Vero’s Sean Sexton and North Dakota’s Shadd Piehl. They’re both poets and cowboys: Sean runs Treasure Hammock Ranch here and Piehl is twice the Great Plains bronc riding champion. They swapped stories, told lies, and read poems in the tradition of Nevada’s National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, where both regularly perform. This event was held in collaboration with the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation.

LagoonFest at Environmental Learning Center

The Environmental Learning Center is hosting LagoonFest May 21^st on their lagoon island campus from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This event was formerly known as Eco-Fest and returns after a two-year hiatus. “Restoration” is the theme for the 2022 LagoonFest, focusing on how healing the connection to nature can be and the ways the health of the environment is directly associated with human well-being.

LagoonFest activities and experiences will be set up in various areas across the ELC property and include Canoe Quick Trips and Pontoon Boat Rides. Captain Hiram’s is sponsoring a treasure hunt for children. Admission to LagoonFest is $10 for adults and $5 for children age 11 and under. Canoe Quick Trips are available for $10 and 45-minute Pontoon Boat Rides are $15. Time slot reservations can be made on-site the day of the event. Eco-friendly exhibitors and vendors will be set up on the grass lawn area called the Oval in front of the new Thomas R. Schidel Education and Event Pavilion.

Entertainment includes Vero Beach Pipes and Drums at 11:30 AM and music throughout the day from Barwick Entertainment.

LagoonFest guests can experience the Touch Tank in the Discovery Station. Storytelling by local children’s authors; Camy De Mario and Piper Johnson, will be set up in the Lagoon Room. The ELC education staff will have environmentally friendly crafts for all ages. Pond dip netting is available for everyone who wants to get their feet wet and explore life in the Indian River Lagoon. Food and beverages will be available all day long. Vendor applications are on the ELC website or call 772 589-5050 for more information.

Treasure Coast Community Singers in Concert

The Treasure Coast Community Singers presents A Patriotic Salute in two venues this weekend: Saturday, May 14, 3 p.m. - at Trinity United Methodist Church, Jensen Beach, concert atmosphere, seating $15; and Sunday, May 15, 3 p.m. at Ross Hall, Pittenger Center, Stuart, a sit down table like atmosphere, $25 includes appetizers and cash bar, drinks.

From Director Doug Jewett:

It's a good one! Songs are very moving and beautiful! There will also be a tribute to Veterans and those serving our country included in the show, and a short performance by the Youth Chorus.

The concert includes Battle Hymn, Stars and Stripes, Armed Forces Salute, and other Patriotic songs. Accompaniment is pianist Carol Paul, drummer Paul Marcucci and cellist Jackie Robbins. The TCCS Youth Chorus will also sing. Three of the youth Chorus members will perform solos.

Treasure Coast Community Singers and the Youth Chorus are rehearsing and welcoming singers. Rehearsals are at Trinity United Methodist Church in Jensen Beach. For more information or to register go to www.tccsingers.org. There is a membership fee. Youth Chorus rehearsals are on Monday afternoons 4:30 - 5:30 at Trinity United Methodist Church, Jensen Beach. Any 1st-7th graders who are interested may register at www.tccsingers.org and join in-person rehearsals.

Rock'n Riverwalk is downtown Stuart's signature concert series presented by Stuart Main Street and the Historic Stuart Downtown Business Association. These non-profit organizations are able to host the event at no charge to the public thanks to generous sponsors, attendee donations and additional live music events that benefit Rock'n Riverwalk. To learn about additional live music events that benefit Rock'n Riverwalk, follow us on Facebook.

Bring your children, pets, family and friends. For easy parking, ride the free Sailfish Shuttle from Osceola, Sailfish or Kiwanis Park.

Rock'n Riverwalk gives back to the community - The Downtown Business Association and Stuart Main Street’s mission is to create and promote a positive downtown experience for residents, businesses, and visitors.

Vero Beach Art Village Exhibit and Auction May 21-28

More than 30 prominent local artists have contributed their work to support the development of the Vero Beach Art Village. An exhibit displaying this work will be held from May 21-28 at Raw Space Gallery.

“We put out a call to local artists to support the new Art Village downtown and were gratified that more than 30 prominent local artists responded,” said John Ryan, president of the Friends of the Vero Beach Art Village. This is just the kind of support we need to make the new Art Village a success”

The exhibit’s opening night will be held on May 21 from 5-9 p.m., at Raw Space Gallery, 1795 Old Dixie Hwy, Vero Beach. The opening night will feature speakers, a silent auction of the art, and information about the development of the Art Village.

The Vero Beach Art Village is a reimagining of the historical Edgewood neighborhood in the city’s downtown area as a living celebration of the arts. Its zoning as a special purpose district allows a mixed residential and commercial environment where artists and other small merchants can live, work, and sell their art. Visit the website at verobeachartvillage.com.

Finding On-screen Reading Difficult?

One of the newsletters I get regularly is from Next Avenue. It's geared toward people 50+ or anyone who knows someone in that age bracket, pretty much all of us. This article caught my eye this week:

A major new study has found that fonts matter in determining how quickly a person is able to read on screens. But they matter more if you’re over 35.

"If you’re over 35 and you find yourself slogging through a block of text," Suzanne LaBarre writes for Fast Company, "don’t blame yourself. Blame the typeface."

More — including why Garamond EB and Montserrat work so well for older users — here.

Next Avenue is a website from PBS stations that inspires America’s 50+ generation to live the most meaningful, vibrant life possible. Our site features thousands of articles, videos, and slideshows all designed to help you make the most of your life's second half.

with

on NPR affiliate WQCS/WQCP

TIDBITS

Barry Shapiro opens a new exhibit at Gallery Veritas, 1420 20th St., Vero Beach, May 14, 3-7 p.m.

The Savannah Sipping Society is at Treasure Coast Theatre, PSL, through May 15.

Marvin S. Cone 36^th Annual High School Juried Art Show

Through May 26, 2022

At the Court House Cultural Center, Stuart

Featuring Students From:

Clark Advanced Learning Center

Jensen Beach High School

Martin County High School

South Fork High School

The Pine School

Summer Art Camp begins June 6 at the Vero Beach Art Club Annex and Gallery.

Artists of the Martin Artisans Guild are exhibiting their work in Art Down the Hall at the Elliott Museum through June 6. Participating artists are Jane Lawton Baldridge, Jeanine Baum, Michaelann Bellerjeau, Kimberly Beltrame, Mallo Bisset, Deborah Bottorff, Diana Rell Dean, James J. DeMartis, MJ Dowling, Dot Galfond, Torenzo Gann, Renee Keil, Carol Kepp, Sue Klahne, Sheryl Levine, Maria G Miele, Mary Mirabito, Lynn Morgan, Sally Browning Pearson, Chad Periman, Jacquelyn Roesch-Sanchez, Mark A. Stall, Curt Whiticar and Laura Kay Whiticar-Darvill.

Summertime Citrus

Advertising Florida Citrus: 1800s through 1960s

Through Aug. 27 at Lake Wales History Museum

OPENING RECEPTION

May 21, 6-8 p.m.

Members free; non-members $12

Mamma Mia!, with a live band, is at The Barn Theatre in Stuart May 12-29.

Show times are 8PM Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 2PM matinees Saturdays, Sundays.

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