Art Perspectives
Pam Wenger Comes to the Jacksonville Watercolor Society
October The Jacksonville Watercolor Society (JWS), in its 40th year, welcomes award-winning watercolor artist Pam Wenger to be the judge for their fall show, guest artist at their monthly meeting, and instructor for their three-day workshop. “My portrait paintings are my real love—it’s hard to explain the excitement of trying to connect with the essence of a person through their expression … their pose … their placement in the composition,” says Wenger. “When I feel my relationship to my subject matter begin to click in the early...
read moreTactile Art Show
October 7–30 Touch the art! October is National Sensory Processing Awareness Month and the St. Augustine Art Association is once again hosting the Tactile Art Show with the Florida DeafBlind Association and sponsored by Nissan of St. Augustine. Not only is the art fun to look at, but for the blind and visually impaired, it’s engaging and interactive. The artists, including members of the deafblind community, push the limits of conventional visual art to create sculptures, reliefs, mixed media, ceramics, and fiber art that can be enjoyed and...
read moreBE WELL
Thru November 19 The latest exhibition and series of experiences at Yellow House explores the questions “What does it mean to be well?” and “What do we need to be safe, healthy, and whole?” Paintings, posters, political cartoons, and poetry of eight regional artists provide powerful glimpses into the reciprocal and interdependent relationship between self and community. The lived experiences of these artists—deeply informed by gender, ethnicity, race, place, illness, and disability—illuminate our collective condition. The words...
read moreBon Appetit!
October 8-9 An operetta about Julia Child, with dinner and servings of chocolate cake? First Coast Opera (FCO) opens its 23rd season of live opera in Northeast Florida with Bon Appetit! The dinner-opera event will be catered by La Cocina International restaurant, featuring performances of Bizet’s comic Le Docteur Miracle and Lee Hoiby’s operatic depiction of Julia Child making a chocolate cake in Bon Appetit! The evening will include a special treat from Crème de la Cocoa. Nelson Sheeley (The Marriage of Figaro, H.M.S Pinafore) directs and...
read moreHillary Whitaker Gallery Fall Exhibition
Nov. 4 – 30 Hillary Whitaker Gallery’s highly anticipated annual fall exhibition will feature works by renowned artists Michelle Armas, Jessica Durrant, Erin Gregory, and Stephanie Henderson. This group of female artists inspire viewers with works boasting color and movement, each a unique perspective and subject. The opening artist reception will be held Friday, November 4 from 6–8 p.m. Hillary Whitaker Gallery, 240 A1A N., Ponte Vedra Beach, (904)...
read moreSt. Augustine Art Association to Celebrate 100 Years of Art
Nina Hawkins, the first female editor of the St. Augustine Record, saw the need for an organized group to promote the arts in St. Augustine. On January 18, 1924, she gathered together wintering artists and writers to form the Pen & Brush Club, which soon became the Galleon Club, and eventually the St. Augustine Art Association. The organization went through a few fits and starts during its early years, and in 1931 artists Hildegard Müller-Uri and J. Dexter Phinney took the art association to the next level with the intent of making St. Augustine a major winter art colony.
read moreBouke de Vries: War & Pieces
Bouke de Vries’ “War & Pieces” is a powerful meditation on the follies of war and the dangers of consumerism, mass production, and waste. Trained as a conservator of art objects, de Vries uses broken and discarded ceramics as the primary medium for his artwork, celebrating the “beauty of destruction” through his fragmented sculptures.
read moreArt Camp, presented by Hotel Palms and Lucas Beaufort
June 13–19 During six days, ten renowned artists from across the United States will come together to create and share their vision with the public. Throughout the week, there will be a number of community events, including “Community and Create,” “Night of Music,” and “Subtropic with DJ Max Danger.” Born in Cannes in 1981, Lucas Beaufort is a French visionary artist-painter. In a recent interview with Luxe Beat Magazine, Lucas offered up some advice to other artists: “Connect with other people as much as you can...
read moreSuper Wonderful Crazy Fun-Time Circus
June 1 Part gallery, part performance piece, part three-ring extravaganza, Super Wonderful Crazy Fun-Time Circus will bring to life the art of Jason Tetlak through a carnival-themed celebration featuring clowns, popcorn, cotton candy, acrobats, and over 50 works of art valued at more than $20,000 which will all be given away! Each ticket to the show acts as a chance to win a piece of the artwork on display, so don’t miss your chance to be part of this fun Wednesday on June 1st during Downtown Art Walk. 502 N. Hogan Street. For...
read moreSee the Girl
Opens May 14 The next Corner Gallery opening will be a historic one as it converges The Jessie’s work with Moving the Margins and the Corner Gallery along with the Delores Barr Weaver Policy Center and their See the Girl Monologues. Artist Erin Kendrick has been working very closely with the policy center to create an exhibit tightly intertwined with the See the Girl Monologues, creating her own monologue as a lead participant in this work. The monologues are intended to help women that have faced trauma be able to write and...
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