Art Perspectives
Canaveral Seashore Plein Air Paint Out Centennial Celebration
oct 3 – 8 2016 marks one-hundred years of the National Park Service, and the Canaveral Paint Out is a great way to celebrate and support both the arts and parks. This year, twenty-six professional artists will come together to paint the coastal seascapes, dune habitat, Indian River Lagoon, marinas, and the unique and historic scenes of charming New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The week of plein air festivities includes artist demonstrations, nocturne painting, welcome reception, live auction, gala and fine art sale. Visit www.friendsofcanaveral.com...
read moreEarth, Sea & Sky – Joyce Gabiou
sept 1 – oct 25 Joyce Gabiou has polished her skills as a multi media artist over the last thirty-five years. Throughout that time, her style has changed immensely – from realism to abstraction – which she attributes to her constant study, passion, and attention to her art. Earth, Sea & Sky is her contemporary expression of the beauty that surrounds us. This body of work has a very spiritual feeling. Gabiou’s art has won many national and local awards and is represented in many galleries and in private collections. She is always open to...
read moreDressing Downton, Changing Fashion for Changing Times
oct 4, 2017 – jan 7, 2018 Dressing Downton, Changing Fashion for Changing Times, at the Lightner Museum, is an exquisite exhibition of thirty-six costumes and accessories paired to perfection in engaging vignettes immersed amongst Otto Lightner’s collection of turn of the century fine art and furniture. Many Lightner Museum pieces in storage, and others presently being restored, will be on view for the first time as a part of the exhibition. Dressing Downton will be masterfully displayed in the Lightner’s Grand Ballroom Gallery. The museum’s...
read moreErin Gregory
thru sept Stellers Gallery at Ponte Vedra features artist Erin Gregory throughout the month of September. Most well-known for her florals, Gregory currently creates and resides in Columbus, Georgia. Gregory says she views each day as an adventure and a blessing. “Being an artist never loses its appeal and continues to be such a fulfilling and exciting process,” she says. Painting five days a week for almost two decades has helped her make a lot of discoveries and hone her painting style. Her focus has always been on emphasizing contrast and...
read moreSt. 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:...
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