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If you’re looking for a way to beat the summer heat why not immerse yourself in a refreshing Two-Day Mini Intensive Oil Painting Workshop taught by Plein Air Florida Member Robert J. Simone and offered by the Indian Rocks Beach Art Center.
Using still life setups, made from objects brought in by students, the workshop will focus on painting’s basic elements: Drawing, Values, Colors and Edges. Special emphasis will be placed on Brush Handling, Understanding What You See and the Five Types of Light as defined by John Singer Sergeant.
Dates & Times are June 18th-19th, 9am-4pm. Fees are $60 for members, $80 for non-members. To register please contact the Beach Art Center by email or phone.
arts1515@aol.com, 727-596-4331
St Petersburg Florida artist Caleb has finished, for a Tampa Bay area patron, a view of St Pete’s Crescent lake, this time looking west across the lake just after sunset. This is a 48 inch square canvas, and is reminiscent of his work from the nineties, when he favored large and frequently equilateral pieces. He is currently at work on two similar 36 inch square canvases which, by contrast, are being done on spec and will be available for purchase when complete.
Caleb looks forward to October’s reopening of the Saturday Art Market
Today’s Creative Loafing’s Blurbex suggestion Number Three
3. Take a walk through Boca Ciega Millennium Park in Seminole and marvel at Leslie Fry’s sculptural installations, which are scattered along the park’s trails and boardwalk.
Vendor space for the Craft Emergency Show in St Petersburg, Florida is long since gone, so this show should be a crowded one.
Show hours are 9 AM – 2 PM. Artists and Fine Handcrafted Items will be for sale in Red Cross Park, located on the corner of 4th Street North and 9th Avenue North in St. Petersburg, as well as in Hamilton Hall inside the Red Cross Building located at 818 4th St. N., St. Petersburg FL 33701
Read all about it at the Craft Heroes blog.
Sculptor Leslie Fry, who, because she is smarter and more virtuous than we are, summers on her modest estate in Vermont, has been getting great reviews on her new book “Wild Life“.
Leslie writes:
Hi Caleb,
Thank you always for your wonderful design of the map/announcement card for my park sculpture project last year. I also thanked you in the Acknowledgments of my recently completed book documenting the project:
Wild Life: A Public Art Project, is a 44 page, full color book available at *Lulu.com*
A six-minute video about the project, Wild Life Sculpture Search, can be seen *here*
The book, Wild Life: A Public Art Project, includes an essay by Dr. Nick Capasso, Curator, DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park, who wrote:
“Wild Life thus acts as a vehicle for a multi-sensory awareness of place and nature. Through artifice, nature is found. The placement [of the sculptures] also intensifies their liminality. They live at the edge – of the wilderness, and of our perception, as if seen in the corner of the eye. Such slippage in and out of awareness is a profound metaphor for the dream world – the mental land where myths are born.”
Leslie Fry rocks the bike-wear with elan at St Petersburg Saturday Art Market.
Art for a Cure, an event which featured Caleb, Carolina Cleere, Lori Ballard, Emily Page, Jack Breit, Donna Morrison, Rick Reeves, Jason Fondren and others was well attended and profitable for several of the artists, as well as the Pediatric Cancer Foundation, to which a portion of the proceeds were donated. James Cournoyer of Seven North took a bunch of photos, a few of which appear below.
Thanks to Megan Voeller of Artsqueeze, for providing the highest-profile notification for the event, which was otherwise underpromoted. This was not the fault of local media, but of those responsible for promoting this show.
This sounds like the work of a certain New Orleans artist now living in St Petersburg, but that’s just my suspicion. Come to think of it, why would she leave her dolls in a cemetery when they sell so well in galleries…
Anyway, you can read the whole weird story *here*. I stumbled across the story *here*.
Art for a Cure will feature Caleb, Carolina Cleere, Lori Ballard, Emily Page, Jack Breit, Donna Morrison, Rick Reeves, Jason Fondren and others. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Pediatric Cancer Foundation.
Thanks, Megan!
Friday, May 16, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Saturday, May 17, 10 p.m. to 4 p.m.
La Maddalena town homes, 3834 W. Platt St., Tampa
Sunday June 1st 9am to 2pm
Red Cross Park
818 4th Street North
St. Petersburg, Florida
(corner of 4th Street & 9th Avenue North, Across from Starbucks)
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Presented by the St. Pete Craft Heroes
To benefit the Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Red Cross