Art Perspectives

28th Annual Concert on the Green

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28th Annual Concert on the Green

sunday, may 24 Beaches Fine Arts Series and Riverside Fine Arts Association join forces to present jazz diva René Marie in her 2015 Grammy nominated show, I Wanna be Evil: With Love to Eartha Kitt. Never before has there been a vocal recording tipping the hat to the divine Ms. Kitt and her fiery, sensual and clever interpretations of songs. René, with her incredible range of vocal ability, her powerful emotional resonance and strong independent streak, is exactly the right artist to conceive and perform this historic Grammy-nominated project....

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Ginifer Brinkley

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Ginifer Brinkley

apr 2 – may 25 Ginifer Brinkley discovered her love of art at an early age, and her gifts were nurtured throughout her adolescence at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. Primarily self-taught, she worked as a muralist and fine artist for many years, creating custom designs for restaurants, local businesses and homes. She then began transforming reclaimed wood into works of art, and successfully partnered with local store owners from Fernandina to St. Augustine. Recently, she has been exploring heavier abstract pieces with a focus on canvas,...

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13th Annual Sea Turtle Show

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13th Annual Sea Turtle Show

may 27 – jul 6 First Street Gallery presents sea turtle-themed artwork by national, regional and local artists. A portion of the sales will benefit the Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol. Opening reception, Friday, May 29, 7–9 p.m. First Street Gallery, 216-B First Street, Neptune Beach, 241-6928.

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Mystery Trip Suitcase Party

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Mystery Trip Suitcase Party

saturday, may 23 Join the IL Foundation for an unforgettable event that will take you back to the golden era of the Jet Age. Enjoy scandalous cocktails served up by enchanting attendants, decadent multicourse dining, high-flying melodies, and a chance to win dream trips and experiences. Dress to impress in your finest first-class attire. Proceeds from the Mystery Trip benefit people with disabilities at the The Independent Living Resource Center (ILRC). The ILRC has served the Northeast Florida disability community since 1978. This nonprofit...

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The series of cphace

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The series of cphace

thru may 29 The series of cphace is an exhibition of manipulated photography works by laird. This episode of the series of cphace features the Abacos, part of the Northern Bahama Islands. The lush natural environment, some of which is under water, was captured with a converted camera that records infrared waves of the electromagnetic light spectrum that is invisible to the naked eye. The images are then cropped, flopped, and merged to create a new original image, then enhanced with colour variations. The process results in symmetrical images...

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Tea For Two at Wild Berry Tea Spa

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Tea For Two at Wild Berry Tea Spa

Valentine’s Day—feb 14 Julie Lachance opened Wild Berry Tea Spa five years ago to offer soothing facials and back treatments infused with natural teas and herbs. Growing up on a small farm in Quebec, surrounded by fresh fruits, berries and herbs, helped Lachance discover the benefits that nature holds for health and healing. A licensed esthetician, tea specialist, and aspiring tea sommelier, she designed her own special approach to spa treatments. “Combining both natural skin care with the properties of special herbs and teas provides optimum...

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Roxanne Horvath

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Roxanne Horvath

thru feb 3 Artist, architect and City of St. Augustine Vice-Mayor Roxanne Horvath is the featured artist at Butterfield Garage Art Gallery during the month of January. Horvath’s original and evocative work is informed not only by her background in architecture, but also by her study of photography at the university level and of enamel work at two international crafts schools, Penland School of Arts and Haystack. Deeply influenced by Horvath’s independent studies of myth and symbolism, this eclectic exhibition includes works in mixed media,...

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Magical Mermaids

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Magical Mermaids

thru april 1 First Street Gallery artists, along with regional and national artists, have created their own vision of magical mermaids for this third annual group show. You’ll discover mermaid artwork in all media – painting, photography, clay, glass, metal and jewelry. First Street Gallery has once again teamed up with Dreams Come True (an organization that assists local children battling life threatening illness): a portion of all mermaid artwork proceeds will be donated to this charity and enable “dreamers” to participate in the annual...

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Re­-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay

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Re­-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay

jan 16 – feb 28 Concurrent with St. Augustine’s 450th anniversary commemoration, artists Emily Arthur, Marwin Begaye and John Hitchcock present a curatorial project which metaphorically retraces the history of seventy­‐two American Indians who were forcibly taken from their homes in Salt Fork, OK, and transported by train to St. Augustine in 1875. The United States War Department imprisoned Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho, and Caddo leaders, under the control of Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, at Fort Marion (renamed Castillo de San Marcos...

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Robert Leedy

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Robert Leedy

thru jan 7, 2015 Florida watercolorist Robert Leedy is known for his strong sense of light and color. Loose washes of bold, luminous color readily define his unique, personal style. His paintings celebrate the medium of watercolor through mingling color, unusual color mixes and granulating washes. His inspiration arrives from a variety of sources and his subject matter ranges from architecture, landscapes and figurative work to still lifes and non-representational pieces; yet it is that play of light and color that reemerges as a common...

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