Art Perspectives
St. Augustine Festivals, Events and More
Over its 450-year history, Florida’s Historic Coast has been home to an especially diverse array of people. Explore the many cultures of St. Augustine, Ponte Vedra and The Beaches through engaging festivals, authentic culinary experiences, myriad musical performances and historic streets layered with stories to tell. Sing Out Loud Songwriters Festival thru sept 11, free every weekend More than 130 local musicians and other national acts showcase their talent in the Sing Out Loud Festival, Music fans can attend over 100 performances at...
read more5: Cantore, Watson, Ober, St. Germain, Hitzig
sept 9 – 23 Five perspectives inspired by nature and driven by passion. Virginia Cantore’s work captures the rhythms of nature: water, air and life forms, and presents them with the simple beauty of a brush stroke depicting their poetic natural shapes and forms. Allison Watson, a lifelong environmentalist, creates images of the natural world with rich painterly canvases representing the vanishing and endangered wild places that must be protected. Susan Ober’s strong ongoing interest in portraiture leads her to capture, preserve, magnify and...
read moreSherrie Pettigrew
sept 2 – 28 Gainesville resident Sherrie Pettigrew obtained her MFA from the University of Florida, and has spent thirty years establishing herself in the art community; showing in street venues in the ’80s and ’90s and, more recently, The Thomas Center, Hippodrome State Theater and the DORIS Art Center. She recently retired from teaching art in the public school system. Influenced by Chuck Close, Joan Miró, and Cy Twombly, Pettigrew says her mind spins with visual history she finds overwhelming. “I come from honesty in my approach, making...
read moreA Touch of Whimsy: Paintings by Susan Fitzgerald
jul 7 – aug 30 Susan Fitzgerald has pursued art for more than thirty years, in a variety of creative disciplines, with acrylic and pencil being her favorite media. Her love of art started early, at the Carnegie Mellon Museum’s arts education program. Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, she studied at Edinboro State College before moving to Florida to begin her career in pharmaceutical sales. Her art is heavily influenced by her love of nature and the American West. She describes her style as traditional, with a contemporary twist and a slightly...
read moreIn Beethoven We Trust
june 16th “You have to be a little crazy to play string quartets professionally. Working as a professional string quartet is one of the toughest businesses,” says Yinzi Kong, violist in The Vega Quartet. String quartets are commonly described as “a marriage of four.” Imagine twice the friction in personalities and agendas, and only half of the benefits. Quartet members still have to do taxes separately and have no shared expenses on houses or cars or medical insurance, and the list goes on. It was nearly a twenty-year journey for the...
read moreThe St. Augustine Music Festival
jun 16 – 18 & 23 – 25 The St. Augustine Music Festival – the USA’s largest free classical music festival, is celebrating its 10th season in June. Hailed as “a gift to the city,” it has gained national acclaim for world-class concerts in the acoustically superb Cathedral Basilica. Music by Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Copland, Beethoven and other classical composers are on the programs this year, along with the debut of a St. Augustine-inspired piece by Northeast Florida composer Bob Moore. Among returning favorites:...
read more14th Annual Sea Turtle Show
may 26 – jul 4 Local, regional and national artists create sea turtle themed art with a portion of the proceeds going to The Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol. This is the patrol’s largest fund-raiser with First Street Gallery’s donation last year close to $500. This year’s artists include Melinda Bradshaw, JoAnne Adams, Cheryl Wencel and Maureen Buik. Sea turtles created in glass, clay, jewelry, paintings, photography and metal will be on display and available for purchase. Members of the Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol will be available at the opening to...
read moreArlington Mod & More Home Tour
saturday, may 7 Old Arlington, Inc. and the American Institute of Architects-Jacksonville Chapter are hosting the fourth annual Arlington Mod & More Home Tour on Saturday, May 7. The tour features homes built in the 1950s, ’60s and early ’70s. This year’s home tour symposium and ticket sales will be held at the beautiful St. Luke’s Episcopal Church at 2961 University Blvd. N., across from Jacksonville University. This A-frame modern marvel will be the jumping off point with presentations from speakers including the noted...
read moreAnne Oliver: Universal Connections
thru jun 30 “To be human is to feel, to love passionately, to regret, to mourn, to celebrate, to partake in life, to fight with everything in our being to simply be able to breathe the air of freedom,” says Anne Oliver. “For so many of us, to be human presents itself through the constant fight every day to simply exist. It is the perennial struggle to matter, to be heard … the lone voice in the cacophony of life. Each of us has our own unique story to tell. And through my art is how I tell mine.” Universal Connections includes two main...
read moreCarlos Betancourt
thru may 15 J. Johnson Gallery closes its fifteen year run presenting internationally and nationally recognized artists to the North Florida region with an exhibition of work by Miami artist Carlos Betancourt, one of the first artists to show with the gallery. Betancourt’s recently released book with Skira/Rizzoli, Imperfect Utopia, and his retrospective at San Juan’s Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Puerto Rico have received much acclaim from publications like Interview Magazine and Artforum. For his final exhibition at J. Johnson...
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