Scenes at WARPhaus

Just got shots of three of the forty-one artists exhibiting at the MFA Grad Show which will remain hanging until September 24th.
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Show curator Jake Kubisz

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Jill Mullins

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Chris Pickett

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Art About Town

Here's Katy Castronovo at work on a mural in the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity.
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At The Jones:
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Art by Burne Richardson

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At the Harn:
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Celeste Roberge's Stacked Chairs
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CBig Jeep by Peter Reginato
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At Grinter Gallery: Sculpture for the Soul - Art by O.L. Samuels
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Art Season Begins at WARPhaus

Opening on the 28th is from 4-8pm.
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Art at Sante Fe College

Art at SFC kicks off the 2009/2010 calendar with a new show at President's Hall beginning August 25th called Alliance. This is a collaborative effort by instructor Joanne Platte and student Paul Newman and will hang until September 23rd.
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Exhibitions at President's Hall (2nd fl admin bldg, open M-F 8-4) continue with:

* Wildlife paintings by Patsy Lindamood, September 29-November 4
* Wood sculpture by Sylvia Scudder & quilts by Candace McCaffrey,
......November 9-December 16
* GFAA Florida Artists Exhibition, January 7-February 10, 2010
* Jewelry exhibit by Patricia Telesco, February 15-March 23, 2010
* Spring Arts Festival poster unveiling, March 26-April 9, 2010
* SFC Digital Media Technology Student Juried Exhibit & Showcase,
......April 27-May 26, 2010
* 4th Annual Artisans' Guild Gallery Show, June 1-July 14, 2010
* Nature Photography by Mari & Earl Robbins, July 20-August 18, 2010

The Main (or Sante Fe) Gallery (Bldg M, Rm 147, open M-F noon-4) opens with the SFC Digital Media Technogy Faculty Show called Light Form Fire on September 11 and runs until November 5th. An opening mixer will be on September 11th from 7-9pm.

Shows continue with:

* SFC Fine Art Faculty Show, November 20-January 14, 2010
* Mart Stewart: Multimedia, Multicultural, January 20-March 5, 2010
* SFC Fine Art Student Show, April 2-23, 2010
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The Thomas Center Presents

The 9th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition opened last Saturday at the Thomas Center's Main Gallery . This year's juror was Michael Buban, Gallery Director and Fine Arts Instructor at St. John's River Community College. Mr. Burban selected 36 works from 326 submissions.
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(Entering the Vortex by Marie Hammer)
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The selected Florida artists include: Anthony Ackrill, Carol Barber, Herbert Bressack, Janis Brothers, Courtney Crowell, Frank Curtis, Jack Dickard, Dan Dobson, Lorelei Esser, Michael Everett, Jon Frey, Sandra J. Hadley, Marie Hammer, Susan Torgerson James, Sue Jester, Willene Johnson, Greg Johnson, Robert Kamarowski, Wes Kline, Allison LeBaron, Nan Szypulski-Lewis, Mandy Macias, Ken McMurry, Kevin McNamara, Nancy Moskovitz, Melanie Peter, Sherrie Pettigrew, Natalie Richardson, Dan Rountree, Ed Rowe, Irene Salley, Steve Thrift, Ginnie Ungewitter, Kirk Upthegrove, Nancy Hamlin-Vogler, and Mark S. Zimmerman.
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(A New Shore by Irene Salley)

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The show continues through September 20th and a reception honoring the artists will be held on August 27th from 5-7. Awards will be presented at 6.
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Sculpture Daytrip to Lakeland

Two hours and twenty minutes south of Gainesville is the 2008-2009 Outdoor Sculpture Invitational in Lakeland. The dozen pieces by three artists (Carl Billingsly of Ayden NC; Hanna Jubran of Grimesland NC; and Charles Brouwer of Willis VA) are stretched down three blocks of Lemon Street in downtown Lakeland. As illustrated by the pictures available by clicking on the image below, there were also sculptures around the city as well as at the Polk Museum of Art which coordinated the Invitational.

The museum also runs the Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition which is on display in the Central Park of downtown Winter Haven.

The Lakeland show is scheduled to end this month but the Winter Haven remain in place until February 2010.


While in Lakeland, visit the campus of Southern University designed in the 1940s by Frank Lloyd Wright. See a few photos by clicking below on Wright's Water Dome.

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Group Show at Artisans' Guild

A very formal group: Susan Nash, Mary and Mike McIntyre and
Harriet Huss

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Harriet with a few of her paintings
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Susan with some of her creations
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Art Around Town

At the Alachua County Library Headquarters - special children's art show on the Main Reading Room Balcony - They Still Draw Pictures:
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At Buddha Belly:
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Jack Dickard with a couple of his creations (pardon the glare)
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Upcoming Art

Dog Days be damned! There's Art to be seen. Jack Dickard's digital artworks have been hanging at Buddha Belly since the end of June, but there will be a reception honoring the artist on Thursday, August 6th from 7-9pm
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The 9th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition at the Thomas Center's Main Gallery begins on Saturday, August 8th, with a reception on the 27th from 5-7. There are also new shows at Alachua County Library Headquarters, Visions of Nature by Virginia Hamilton and there are photos by Nancy Moore at Books Inc.

Summer Magic, the new show at Artisans' Guild Gallery featuring the art of Harriet Huss, Susan Nash and the McIntyres, runs for the month of August. There will be a reception this Saturday, August 8th, 6-9 pm.
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Art About Town

Order and Gesture is the exhibition by Benjamin Lusk and Jonathan Frey at the Hippodrome Theatre Gallery. If you were also rained out last Friday, here are a few samples:
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Roam 2 by Benjamin Lusk

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Grid Studies by Jonathan Frey

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Parthenon by Jonathan Frey

The art hangs only until August 9th.

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And it's Employee Art Month at Satchel's:
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several works by Shawn Machino
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by John Patterson
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by Jody Belinski
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Special Show at Library Headquarters

They Still Draw Pictures, an exhibit about children’s art in wartime from the Spanish Civil War to Kosovo will be on display at the Alachua County Library Headquarters from August 3 to September 4. The exhibit is available free of charge to all visitors during regular business hours.

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) new tactics of warfare, including aerial bombardment, affected the civilian population as never before. As a result children were often displaced from their normal lives. It is estimated that as many as 200,000 child refugees fled the war zones. Many of those children were placed with foster families and children's colonies in eastern Spain.

They Still Draw Pictures includes a cross-section of the children's art produced in the colonies, as well as a selection of drawings from later wars, spanning from the Holocaust to Kosovo. Each collection bears a tragic and uncanny resemblance to their Spanish counterparts. Born of the trauma of exile and separation, the drawings are invaluable historical documents, giving physical form to the children's experiences of air raids, brutality, destruction, and homelessness. These pictures also represent daily life in the colonies and preserve the children's clear memories of life before the war and hope for life after it.

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One such Colony was La Casa Ben Leider, named for an American aviator, journalist, and volunteer in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, who was shot down and killed while flying for the Spanish Republic. In 1938 the children in this Colony created a remarkable booklet of drawings (above) for Ben Leider's family to commemorate his sacrifice.

They Still Draw Pictures has been organized the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, housed in the Tamiment Library/NYU, is a living archive, devoted to preserving and spreading the legacy of the nearly 3,000 young Americans who volunteered to defend Spanish democracy in the late 1930s.

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Soggy Art Walk

Rainy skies limited our Walk this month, but here are a few selections:

At Eleanor Blair Gallery:
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Sue Johnson with On the Hoof
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At Sweetwater Print Coop:
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Cindy Pagel

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At The Tench:
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Rusty Hammer with his Ghost Spring installation. There were 607 clay "knees" set up.
Here are a few more pics: GHOST SPRING
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in front of a small portion of the 27' Model as a Paintbrush

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Art Walk Preview

Here's a look at some of Friday's offerings:
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At the Hippodrome Gallery see Object and Gesture, an exhibition by Jonathan Frey and Benjamin Lusk. This collection of abstract works explores the presence of the human touch with the context of systematic structures. Show runs through August 9th.
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Detail from drawing in Frey's installation

While Ellie is away Sue Johnson is showing some new equine masterpieces in On The Hoof at the Eleanor Blair Gallery

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The Exchange (815 W Univ) presents Joe Bridge, whose stencils and photos show Joe's passion for social justice. A percentage of the proceeds will go to help the Alachua County Coalition for the Hungry & Homeless and the Alachua County Office on Homelessness
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Enamels and Encaustics by Cynthia Pagel will be on display at Sweetwater Print Coop and upstairs at the Tench Building Studios, Rusty Hammer presents Ghost Spring, an installation depicting one possible future. Also see his 27-foot long Model as a Paintbrush
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Floating Island presents Robert Harris and Emily Woodward of Prometheus Pottery in the Sun Center and down Main Street (No 433) at Civic Media Center see Dave Mockaitis, Jacob Adams, Joshua Huey, Charles Chase, Quincy Henderson Masters IV, and Kara. Five artists and a musician.
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Calling All Palm Trees

Last Night at The Exchange

Joe Bridge and his Art
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Stencil Art Show at The Exchange

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