Tactile 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...
BE 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...
Bon 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...
Hillary 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...
St. 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.
Bouke 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.
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