Art & Culture
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read moreWomen, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise
Opening on October 9, The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens will present a new exhibition that celebrates the work of some of this country’s pioneering women artists. Women, Art, & Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise, on display through January 3, 2016, showcases the collective of southern artists, developed through a groundbreaking art education program that would become one of America’s most successful art potteries of the 20th century. Nearly one hundred and eighty objects show the breadth of Newcomb’s...
read moreCharlotte Mabrey: Percussionist Extraordinaire Bids Farewell to UNF
Charlotte Mabrey started teaching percussion in the Department of Music at the University of North Florida (UNF) in 1980. Now, preparing to wind up her tenure at UNF, she presented her “last big show” on August 22 and looks back over the years: “I never dreamed I would teach,” she says. “The dream was to play in an orchestra [which she began doing in 1979]. I initially saw the UNF position as a way to become more active in the community.” Mabrey felt she was not good at teaching in her first few years. UNF was still an upper division college...
read moreMirrored River: Where Do You See Yourself? Riverwalk mural reflects our city
There is a refrain among anyone who has seen the new Southbank Riverwalk mosaic that now spans the sixty-foot wall beneath the Main Street Bridge: it is stunning at sunset. Its creator, local artist Kate Rouh, calls it “the perfect scenario”: the mosaicked wall’s mirror tiles reflect the oranges and golds of the sky as the brilliant cobalt blue of the Main Street Bridge above it glows with orange uplight – complementary colors intensifying each other. The colorful effect pervades the environment, and changes the mural itself. The reflected...
read moreA World of Theatre On Your Doorstep
Theatre is so pervasive that Shakespeare’s words concerning the stage of life take on multiple, deep meanings that flirt with philosophy, social commentary, and pop culture. But when seeing actual performers work their craft, it is such a pleasure and a privilege because it can illuminate, transform, humble, and catalyze an entire audience, or a single audience member. It has been said that in the specifics of one story, there is universality: that the way to telling a moving story is in the details. Here in the Jacksonville area, we are...
read moreMoving On UP
Unity Plaza is a movement. On the surface, it is a non-profit urban and performance park in the rising Jacksonville riverfront neighborhood known as Brooklyn. But make no mistake, it is a life-enhancing movement – Unity Plaza has a focus on inclusivity, bringing together the diversity of Jacksonville’s expansive neighborhoods through events and activities that uplift us, individually and as a whole. It is the relentless work of civic leaders committed to building a platform for extraordinary connection and collaboration. Unity Plaza began as...
read moreJacques Pépin
World-famous chef started TV tenure in Jacksonville He has wielded the fates of “Top Chef” contestants, cooked in the towering presence of Julia Child and appeared in countless TV kitchens, from Rachel Ray’s to Emeril Lagasse’s. But after over three decades of starring in his own TV shows, Jacques Pépin recently wrapped what will be his last television series. Filmed this past October, “Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul” is scheduled to air on PBS this fall. The series serves as the bookend to an illustrious television career that...
read moreThe Art of the Radiant Heart: Talking to Terese Sadler
Terese Sadler, a North Florida-based artist, has embarked on a venture she calls Radiant Heart Waves art. The images are painted and collaged heart shapes, which are sent out into the world as digital files. These works are a reflection of the artist’s idea that this is her contribution to the wellbeing of the world. She notes that she has gifted many of them to veterans, the homeless, and inspirational leaders. She began this project in September of 2013. One of her goals is to get one million radiant hearts out across the globe. She...
read moreWayne Bennett
DA grad wins prestigious theatre award The Helen Hayes Awards are some of the nation’s most prestigious awards, honoring extraordinary achievement within the Washington D.C. area professional theatres. Through a rigorous adjudication process, the work of theatre artists is evaluated and tabulated to identify those whose work will be recognized as outstanding. The awards bring together theatre lovers and theatre makers by celebrating the collective efforts of the region’s dynamic theatre community. Named in honor of the “First Lady of...
read moreUndersea Wonders
New mural for Bolles Graduating fifth-graders at The Bolles School’s Lower School Ponte Vedra Beach Campus raised funds to leave a legacy gift to the school. The gift will, in many ways, be the face of the campus, “… so visually impactful that when you walk into Ponte Vedra Hall — students, visitors, prospective families — you will be filled with joy,” says Head of Lower School Peggy Campbell-Rush. The gift is a thirty-foot mural of an underwater scene titled Wonders of the Sea, painted on one wall of the school’s dining hall and...
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