BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Contact Plus Corporation//NONSGML Web Cal Plus //EN TZ:EST VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100601T050000Z DTEND:20100601T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Perfectly Imperfect TRANSP:0 UID:100428519313819958444758519779 URL:http://www.dfac.org LOCATION:Dunedin Fine Art Center DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100601T050000Z DTEND:20100601T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving TRANSP:0 UID:100428532844666345971874135264 URL:http://www.dfac.org LOCATION:Dunedin Fine Art Center DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100601T050000Z DTEND:20100601T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection TRANSP:0 UID:100209681230877043851895615837 LOCATION:Henry B. Plant Museum DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100601T050000Z DTEND:20100601T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection TRANSP:0 UID:100518121303429569914921758486 URL:http://www.thedali.org/ LOCATION:Dali Museum DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100601T050000Z DTEND:20100601T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures TRANSP:0 UID:100517465431499157636961831327 URL:http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org LOCATION:Florida Holocaust Museum DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100602T050000Z DTEND:20100602T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Alternative Universe TRANSP:0 UID:100503920775180025849362377094 URL:http://www.mindysolomon.com/ LOCATION:Mindy Solomon Gallery DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100602T050000Z DTEND:20100602T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Perfectly Imperfect TRANSP:0 UID:100428519314704806643944127358 URL:http://www.dfac.org LOCATION:Dunedin Fine Art Center DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100602T050000Z DTEND:20100602T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving TRANSP:0 UID:100428532846747271705284778978 URL:http://www.dfac.org LOCATION:Dunedin Fine Art Center DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100602T050000Z DTEND:20100602T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection TRANSP:0 UID:100209681507141021895721021204 LOCATION:Henry B. Plant Museum DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100602T050000Z DTEND:20100602T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection TRANSP:0 UID:100518121321325868369940357902 URL:http://www.thedali.org/ LOCATION:Dali Museum DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100602T050000Z DTEND:20100602T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures TRANSP:0 UID:100517465433640352843015973757 URL:http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org LOCATION:Florida Holocaust Museum DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100603T050000Z DTEND:20100603T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Alternative Universe TRANSP:0 UID:100503920777326429899548777512 URL:http://www.mindysolomon.com/ LOCATION:Mindy Solomon Gallery DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100603T050000Z DTEND:20100603T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Perfectly Imperfect TRANSP:0 UID:100428519316203202657779129477 URL:http://www.dfac.org LOCATION:Dunedin Fine Art Center DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100603T050000Z DTEND:20100603T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving TRANSP:0 UID:100428532848543931372130734951 URL:http://www.dfac.org LOCATION:Dunedin Fine Art Center DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100603T050000Z DTEND:20100603T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection TRANSP:0 UID:10020968177852669572430505564 LOCATION:Henry B. Plant Museum DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100603T050000Z DTEND:20100603T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection TRANSP:0 UID:100518121337658056339676957144 URL:http://www.thedali.org/ LOCATION:Dali Museum DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100603T050000Z DTEND:20100603T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:YOUNG DRAMATISTS' PROJECT '10 TRANSP:0 UID:100517442758700869114056920431 URL:http://www.gorillatheatre.com/ LOCATION:Gorilla Theatre DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= June 3-13, '10 =0D=0A= YOUNG DRAMATISTS' PROJECT '10 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Five New Works By Prize-Winning Teen Playwrights =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Always exciting and provocative, YDP is now in its tenth year! Come see five new works by teen playwrights come to life on the Gorilla Theatre stage. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Tickets are limited, get yours now! =0D=0A= =0D=0A= "Is there imaginative, innovative work coming from these teens? Might they eventually infuse the region with new talent? Yes and yes. " - Creative Loafing=0D=0A= Call 813-879-2914 or click below for tickets.=0D=0A= This year's plays =0D=0A= Pugilist by Zacharia Hartman (St. Petersburg High School) =0D=0A= Four men, friends since childhood, come to terms with the disappointments of adulthood and the callous ways that friends can hurt each other over the course of three Saturday nights in one of the men's bar.=0D=0A= The Women's Ardor by Somar Lanh (Blake High School) =0D=0A= Meeting the parents has never been this intense. Two women struggle to prove whose love is more ardent, meanwhile asking the age old question - Does mother really always know what's best?=0D=0A= The String that Fell by Michael Kefeyalew (Hillsborough High School) =0D=0A= Things can get really weird when there's a death in the family. A man who's had an estranged relationship with his mother his whole life finds himself in charge of her funeral and undergoing a surreal psychological journey.=0D=0A= Fourth and Inches by Nick Nunnelly (Shorecrest Preparatory School) =0D=0A= A high school athlete finds himself at odds with his stubborn football coach. As tensions rise, he finds himself between a rock and a hard place. He must make hard decisions regarding his athletic career.=0D=0A= Backstage by Emily Guthy (Bloomingdale High School) =0D=0A= Sometimes actors just can’t keep the drama on the stage and out of the dressing room. This comedy about high school performers will be recognizable and hilarious for anyone who has ever taken part in a school play. =0D=0A= Leda by Samuel French (Gibbs High School) =0D=0A= (Due to writer time conflicts this winning play will not be produced but it is recognized for its artistic merit) =0D=0A= YDP '10 special performances =0D=0A= Thursday June 3 - 7pm - Opening night. Writer presentations. Free champagne and cake after the show.=0D=0A= Thursday June 10 - 7pm - Free talkbacks with selected writers, directors, designers and actors after the show.=0D=0A= Friday June 11 - 8pm - Free talkbacks with selected writers, directors, designers and actors after the show.=0D=0A= Did you know? =0D=0A= Thursdays are special=0D=0A= *7pm curtain =0D=0A= *full price/senior/adult student tickets are all $5 cheaper on Thursdays =0D=0A= Seating is limited, so book early. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100603T050000Z DTEND:20100603T050000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures TRANSP:0 UID:100517465434331137748297311517 URL:http://www.flholocaustmuseum.org LOCATION:Florida Holocaust Museum DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narrative of her life. These creatures provide her with both anonymity and security in the secrets she discloses in her work. She enjoys utilizing animals because they are beautiful and mysterious creatures, vulnerable to relationships with humans. This susceptibility provides a sense of benevolence that is often lacking in human associations. The fictional creatures juxtaposed with non-fictional animals create a sense of the fantastical that can alter the viewer’s perception of the world. Fantasies become realities and dreams become authentic. Rigid gender roles no longer exist as females can be more like males and males can become feminine. =0D=0A= Max Lehman creates figures that blur gender roles and present a world of brightly colored morphed beings. Lehmans’ art are often an accumulation of unrelated ideas that work together to create a playful narrative. His sculptural surfaces employ bright glazes that meander over a range of techniques; wheel-thrown, hand-built pieces are combined with mold-made objects. His current obsession with the bunny form has led to a series of works reminiscent of large figurative cartoons. Lehman is not really sure why the bunny came to the forefront in his work, although he observes a lot of rodentia* being depicted in popular arts and culture these days. He believes that we can transverse through a fantasy world where we are not encumbered by reality. Disregarding the troubled world we live in, he prefers to make art that can transcend the day-to-day and allow us to dream.=0D=0A= Each of the artists presented in this exhibition are part of an ongoing tradition of creative people that bring animation into a sometimes colorless world. Whether through color, over-the-top surface decoration or fantastical imagery, these three talented individual provide us with an avenue to find escape from the harsh situations we unfortunately accept for granted.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Mindy Solomon Gallery=0D=0A= 124 2nd Ave NE =0D=0A= St. Petersburg, FL 33701=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Wednesday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm=0D=0A= Sunday & Monday: Closed=0D=0A= Tuesday: By appointment=0D=0A= www.mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= 727.502.0852=0D=0A= info@mindysolomon.com =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= June 3-13, '10 =0D=0A= YOUNG DRAMATISTS' PROJECT '10 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Five New Works By Prize-Winning Teen Playwrights =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Always exciting and provocative, YDP is now in its tenth year! Come see five new works by teen playwrights come to life on the Gorilla Theatre stage. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Tickets are limited, get yours now! =0D=0A= =0D=0A= "Is there imaginative, innovative work coming from these teens? Might they eventually infuse the region with new talent? Yes and yes. " - Creative Loafing=0D=0A= Call 813-879-2914 or click below for tickets.=0D=0A= This year's plays =0D=0A= Pugilist by Zacharia Hartman (St. Petersburg High School) =0D=0A= Four men, friends since childhood, come to terms with the disappointments of adulthood and the callous ways that friends can hurt each other over the course of three Saturday nights in one of the men's bar.=0D=0A= The Women's Ardor by Somar Lanh (Blake High School) =0D=0A= Meeting the parents has never been this intense. Two women struggle to prove whose love is more ardent, meanwhile asking the age old question - Does mother really always know what's best?=0D=0A= The String that Fell by Michael Kefeyalew (Hillsborough High School) =0D=0A= Things can get really weird when there's a death in the family. A man who's had an estranged relationship with his mother his whole life finds himself in charge of her funeral and undergoing a surreal psychological journey.=0D=0A= Fourth and Inches by Nick Nunnelly (Shorecrest Preparatory School) =0D=0A= A high school athlete finds himself at odds with his stubborn football coach. As tensions rise, he finds himself between a rock and a hard place. He must make hard decisions regarding his athletic career.=0D=0A= Backstage by Emily Guthy (Bloomingdale High School) =0D=0A= Sometimes actors just can’t keep the drama on the stage and out of the dressing room. This comedy about high school performers will be recognizable and hilarious for anyone who has ever taken part in a school play. =0D=0A= Leda by Samuel French (Gibbs High School) =0D=0A= (Due to writer time conflicts this winning play will not be produced but it is recognized for its artistic merit) =0D=0A= YDP '10 special performances =0D=0A= Thursday June 3 - 7pm - Opening night. Writer presentations. Free champagne and cake after the show.=0D=0A= Thursday June 10 - 7pm - Free talkbacks with selected writers, directors, designers and actors after the show.=0D=0A= Friday June 11 - 8pm - Free talkbacks with selected writers, directors, designers and actors after the show.=0D=0A= Did you know? =0D=0A= Thursdays are special=0D=0A= *7pm curtain =0D=0A= *full price/senior/adult student tickets are all $5 cheaper on Thursdays =0D=0A= Seating is limited, so book early.=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20100603T230000Z DTEND:20100603T230000Z PRIORITY:0 CLASS:PUBLIC SUMMARY:Dalí & Beyond Film Series TRANSP:0 UID:100408209206878928123545881822 URL:http://www.thedali.org/ LOCATION:Dali Museum DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect with works by Jane D’Arensbourg, Aganetha & Richard Dyck, April Kawaoka, David Smalley, Ryan Takaba and Kimberly Witham is actually one of three exhibitions opening at the Dunedin Fine Art Center on May 7th with their opening receptions taking place on Friday, May 14th. These far-reaching works in photography, ceramics, glass, metals and mixed-media sculpture each represent a different view of the Japanese aesthetic of WABI SABI-the beauty of imperfection, impermanence and incompleteness. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Wabi Sabi may be Hot… but Maybe Not How You Think!=0D=0A= =0D=0A= It might be a manifestation of the concept itself that has The Dunedin Fine Art Center mounting an exhibit with the same name as one that is currently on display at nearby Painted Fish Gallery also in Dunedin. “We were all just amazed when it came to light that this was happening” noted Catherine Bergmann DFAC’s curator. “We decided to go ahead with it, realizing the certain beauty in the dual exhibitions” she concluded.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Also opening will be The Metaphoric Object. This group exhibition of select artists working in pastel, oil, photography, printmaking and sculpture feature still lifes that speak louder than words and unexpected objects with their own tale to tell. Artists represented include: Susan Hauptman, Jane Lund, Thomas Koole, Johntimothy Pizzuto, Justine Reyes, Eric Wert and Cybèle Young.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= With Still & Moving, DFAC continues its tradition of featuring a themed presentation by their students and members. In this case, multi-media works by DFAC Members are featured in a juried exhibition inviting contemporary translation of the still life. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All three exhibitions open Friday May 7th with a reception being held the following Friday, May 14th from 7-9 pm ($5 admission - FREE for members) and an Artist’s Gallery Talk with David Smalley begins at 6:00 pm. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Perfectly Imperfect continues through June 27, 2010, while The Metaphoric Object and Still & Moving close June 6, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Continuing at DFAC: The 2009-2010 hands-on installation in the David L. Mason Children’s Art Museum, The Cabinet of Natural Curioisities presents artful, educational interactive experiences using Art, Science, History and Nature to explore the theme of Albertus Seba’s eighteenth century natural history classic.- Through August 1st, 2010 =0D=0A= =0D=0A= All at the Dunedin Fine Art Center - 1143 Michigan Blvd. - Dunedin, FL - 727.298.DFAC - www.dfac.org =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians: =0D=0A= Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection =0D=0A= =0D=0A= When the Tampa Bay Hotel opened in 1891, Hotel guests were reading Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, and George Eliot and talking about the latest paintings by James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent. They congregated on the veranda and in the Grand Salon to recite the poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson and chuckled with amusement at Oscar Wilde’s witticisms. These celebrities and their works were part of their lives. Today, Museum guests will laugh and gossip as they explore the world made relevant by these famous artists and writers.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry B. Plant Museum will soon present an exhibition that examines noted Victorians through portraits. Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection will provide the opportunity for visitors to come face to face with famous British poets, painters, novelists, playwrights and illustrators. The exhibit opens March 5th and continues through June 5th, 2010.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= This exhibition will take audiences back more than one hundred years to explore a phenomenon that will seem astonishingly modern and familiar. Like the world we know now, Britain at the end of the nineteenth century was a nation filled with images. Whether circulating by means of posters, books, newspapers, magazines, cards, and advertisements, or hanging on the walls of art galleries and of private homes, images were everywhere. As is true today, what people most wanted to see then were images of faces and bodies, especially those of celebrities. A visual industry arose in the late Victorian period to satisfy the demand for portraits in every medium and to reproduce these on a mass scale. Pictures of monarchs and stage performers, of course, were in great demand; more surprisingly, so were portraits of what we might call cultural celebrities-that is, writers and artists. Figures such as Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, Aubrey Beardsley, James McNeill Whistler, W. B. Yeats, “George Eliot,” and the feminist “New Women” writers were as famous for the way they looked and dressed as for anything they created. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Writers and artists trafficked in commodities, and they became commodities. Their portraits also provided material for other workers in this industry, such as caricaturists, who knew that the public took just as great a delight in seeing its cultural heroes skewered as idealized. These caricature artists, in turn, became celebrities themselves thanks to the “New Journalism,” which was eager to circulate unflattering images of the same poets and painters it made famous. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians features portraits of dozens of well-known figures such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Barrie, H. G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and John Singer Sargent, who dominated the world of the arts, along with pioneering children’s book authors and illustrators, such as E. Nesbit and Kate Greenaway. Many of these are rarely seen images, such as Max Beerbohm’s savage caricature of Oscar Wilde’s head, which seems to decay before our eyes faster than did Dorian Gray’s face. But the show ranges widely to include photographs and drawings of many lesser lights whose work was important in advancing British art and literature-once celebrated writers such as the feminist novelist Olive Schreiner and the Catholic poet Alice Meynell, as well as the artists Ida Nettleship and William Rothenstein. =0D=0A= =0D=0A= Of special note is a drawing of famous performer Sarah Bernhardt. Sarah Bernhardt gave her farewell performance at the Tampa Bay Hotel’s casino in 1906.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The show draws its sixty items from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, which has been assembled over the past thirty years by one of the premier authorities on nineteenth-century book history. That collection of first editions, presentation copies, authors’ correspondence, and works of art and design is on loan to the University of Delaware Library. Margaret D. Stetz, the exhibition’s curator, is the Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women’s Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= FACING THE LATE VICTORIANS ROUNDTABLE TALK, =0D=0A= Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:00-5:15 pm, Reeves Theatre, 2nd Floor Vaughn =0D=0A= In conjunction with the annual Nineteenth Century Studies Association conference, hosted at The University of Tampa, this roundtable discussion will include exhibition curator and noted scholar, Margaret D. Stetz, Professor of Women’s Studies and Humanities at the University of Delaware. Conference registrants and Museum members only. For more information about the NCSA conference, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” go to www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/ncsa/index.html =0D=0A= =0D=0A= TALK ON “COLLECTING THE LATE VICTORIANS”=0D=0A= Saturday, March 13, 2010, 12 noon-12:45 pm, Room AV2, 2nd Floor MacDonald Kelce Library (The University of Tampa Library)=0D=0A= Illustrated talk by collector Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library. Sponsored by the Friends of the Tampa Book Arts Studio and the Friends of the University of Tampa Library. Free and open to the public.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= A lavishly illustrated book by Margaret D. Stetz, published by the University of Delaware Press, accompanies Facing the Late Victorians. Copies are available for purchase in the Henry Plant Museum Store ($49).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Facing the Late Victorians is underwritten by Mrs. Joel Mattison (Jean) and J. Thomas and Lavinia W. Touchton.=0D=0A= =0D=0A= High-resolution photos are available to the media. Attached photo is a portrait of James McNeill Whistler, ink, 1890, by Sydney Starr (1857-1925) and James McNeill Whistler (1834-19030).=0D=0A= =0D=0A= The Henry Plant Museum interprets the turn-of-the-century Tampa Bay Hotel and the lifestyles of America’s Gilded Age. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday, noon to 4 pm. Closed Monday. Admission is a suggested donation of $5 per adult, $2 for children under 12.=0D=0A= Sharing Salvador: The history of the Dalí Museum and the Morse Collection =0D=0A= May 28, 2010 - December 2010=0D=0A= As the museum prepares to move in January 2011 into its new building next to the Mahaffey Theater, this exhibition, drawn from the museum collection, its archives, and personal stories by museum friends and family, examines the rich history of its 28 years in St. Petersburg: how we got here, and where we are going. =0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum Presents =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures=0D=0A= Sat., May 22 - Sun., August 15, 2010=0D=0A= The Florida Holocaust Museum is pleased to present its summer exhibition, =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures. The exhibition opens on Sat., May 22 and runs through Sat., Aug. 15, 2010. =0D=0A= The exhibition includes the artist’s (dis)Placement installation. =0D=0A= The Opening Reception for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures, featuring an Artist Talk and light refreshments, is =0D=0A= Sat., May 22 at 6:30 p.m. Please RSVP to: 727.820.0100, ext. 236 by May 17.=0D=0A= In this work and her other installations, Connell deals with the burden of her Holocaust survivor grandparents’ memories and how =0D=0A= their trauma manifested itself in subsequent generations. The burden is so heavy that Connell’s figures appear to sink into the walls =0D=0A= and floors of the gallery. They have an unfinished appearance - almost as though they are still wet clay. I want the sense that it =0D=0A= could all go splat, but also that they’re malleable, Keys explains. They can change.=0D=0A= Connell received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from The Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002 and her Master of Fine Arts (MFA)=0D=0A= from Ohio University in 2009. She was named a top Emerging Artist of the by Ceramics Monthly Magazine in May, 2009. =0D=0A= Connell’s work has been on view in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries including the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Minnesota; =0D=0A= The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Herron Gallery in Indianapolis, Indiana; the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in =0D=0A= Louisville, Kentucky and The Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work was recently part of Portraiture =0D=0A= Beyond Likeness which was exhibited at the Wayne Art Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. =0D=0A= Andréa Keys Connell is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. In addition to teaching and =0D=0A= exhibiting her work, she presents lectures that correlate with her interests in the study of intergenerational trauma and third generation=0D=0A= Holocaust survivors. Her sculptures and writings are driven by a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their =0D=0A= identity, behaviors and actions. =0D=0A= Community Partners for Andréa Keys Connell: Ceramic Sculptures are Mindy Solomon and the Jewish Federation of Pinellas and =0D=0A= Pasco Counties.=0D=0A= Images of sculptures from the exhibition are available. Please send you request to jsherman@flholocaustmuseum.org .=0D=0A= Also on view at the Florida Holocaust Museum is Perpetrators; the artist is Sid Chafetz. The exhibition runs through Sun., Aug. 29. =0D=0A= Admission to the Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) is $14 for adults; discounted admission is offered to seniors, students, adult and =0D=0A= student groups, and AAA members. Admission is free to active duty Military personnel, FHM members and children 6 and under. =0D=0A= Museum hours are 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Monday through Sunday; the last admission is 3:30 p.m. Please call, (727) 820-0100, or =0D=0A= visit the Museum’s website, www.flholocaustmuseum.org, for directions and further details including holiday closures. =0D=0A= Alternative Universe:=0D=0A= Richard Heipp (2-D), Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman =0D=0A= May 22 - June 26, 2010=0D=0A= =0D=0A= OPENING RECEPTION:=0D=0A= May 22, 2010=0D=0A= Artist’s Talk 6:00 pm=0D=0A= Reception 6:30-8:30 pm=0D=0A= =0D=0A= Images can confuse and stimulate; without the confluence of colors and forms we see nothing. Our imagination can propel us to the next level of consciousness by becoming engaged in a cacophony of objects. Richard Heipp, Rebekah Bogard and Max Lehman create work that inspires visions of undiscovered worlds.=0D=0A= Through his art, Richard Heipp has been engaged with the intersections of technology and artistic production. He is interested in the way we "see" and the manner in which contemporary culture consumes images. Believing the 21st century has brought about an important shift between looking (the superficial way we digest most images) and seeing (a profound looking which includes an aspect of contextual understanding), Heipp created the term “photo centric” to describe his carefully crafted airbrushed paintings. He goes to great lengths to mimic a photographic, or mechanically produced looking visual language. His intent for the viewer is to initially assume that they are looking at a mechanically reproduced photographic or digitally produced image. Then, only upon close observation, is the true nature of the image and the highly crafted object revealed. This subverts notions of craft, production and ultimately perception. This foil produces a profound change in the relationship of the viewer to the object and in turn, alters its meaning. This tact is also evident in the work of Rebekah Bogard.=0D=0A= Bogard employs fictional animals in her art work to explore the personal narr