All That Glitters
Few places evoke style, elegance, and refinement like the French capital of Paris…. The city’s long-standing tradition of creative design and exquisite craftsmanship will be on display at the Cummer Museum in Bijoux Parisiens: French Jewelry from the Petit Palais, Paris, an exhibition presenting an important selection of jewelry, drawings, fashion prints, paintings, and photographs from one of the most prestigious collections of its kind.
Designing Place
DIA Urban Arts Project responds to — and creates anew — our Downtown spaces
Ancient Rome: Epic Innovators and Engineers
MOSH’s Ancient Rome: Epic Innovators and Engineers will be on view from September 23, 2017 through January 28, 2018. The show explores an epic period during which Rome conquered much of the ancient world through military ingenuity, oversaw significant feats of construction and pioneered technological innovations that affect our lives today.
The Haydon Burns Library: A Case Study in Preservation
Designed by innovative Jacksonville architect Taylor Hardwick, the new library was like nothing else the city had ever seen. Its façade featured eighty-eight cast-concrete sculpted fins, each nineteen feet tall, which mimicked the windswept profiles of popular automobiles of the era. The fins created ever-changing shadow patterns and added to the harmonic, almost musical rhythm of the exterior. (Architect Hardwick liked to point out that the number of fins on the library was the same as the number of keys on a piano.)
Kindred Spirits
Laura Bennett calls it heckling. Matthew Bennett calls it a heated conversation. The “conversation” under discussion, one that sparked their relationship on the steps of the Willard Building at Penn State, was with the Willard preacher, Gary Cattell. Cattell has been preaching at Penn State since 1982. “He would talk about how we’d all go to hell, but we could all be saved,” explains Laura. “I disagreed with the preacher’s assertions that we were all going to get spanked at the end of our lives,” Matthew interjects.
Sound Connections
The soulful sound of “Mrs. Candice”’s “Hello” song fills the room as nine eagerly excited children enter the class at Ocean Palms Elementary School. Some children arrive being assisted by a wheelchair, pushing a walker or holding their paraprofessional’s hand; others need no help as they run towards the music. These children with exceptionalities bounce to the beat of the guitar and sway to the melody of the music, a therapeutic tool used by Candice Sirak to help these children achieve educational goals.
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