Here’s what Art Southwest Florida has covered so far in May:
Artists in the News
- Just three more weeks to catch ‘Fort Myers Founding Females’ portrait show at Edison Ford Estates (05-10-15)
- NAA Director Aimee Schlehr quantifies impact of the Arts (05-09-15)
- VCB and Greater Fort Myers Chamber honors Leoma Lovegrove with prestigious Junonnia Award (05-01-15)
Inside the Art Gallery at Florida Gulf Coast University
At Florida SouthWestern State College
At the Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs
- Center for the Arts slate of remaining slate of ‘Film Lovers’ screenings (05-08-15)
In the Naples Art District
- Artists’ Gallery in Naples Art District hosting live art demonstration during 1st Wednesday ART ALIVE (05-05-15)
- Naples Art District hosts 3-hour drive around art encounter Wednesday, May 6 (05-05-15)
At the Naples Art Association
- NAA Director Aimee Schlehr quantifies impact of the Arts (05-09-15)
- Next Naples Art ‘Dinner with Artists’ takes place May 14 at Edgewater Beach Hotel (05-08-15)
At the Alliance for the Arts
- Alliance’s 29th Annual All Florida Juried Exhibit opens Friday, June 5 (05-13-15)
In the River District
- ACT requests donations for November fine art auction (05-11-15)
Community Theater
- ‘Position of Relative Importance’ playwright gave characters his worst qualities (05-14-15)
- Spotlight on ‘Position of Relative Importance’ actor Dale Hoover (05-13-15)
- Spotlight on ‘Position of Relative Importance’ actress Chelsea Salmon (05-12-15)
- Meet ‘Position of Relative Importance’ actor Thomas Marsh (05-11-15)
- Laboratory Theater wins Rauschenberg Foundation grant to produce play by and about LGBT youths (05-10-15)
- Meet ‘Position of Relative Importance’ actor Jim Yarnes (05-10-15)
- Spotlight on ‘Position of Relative Importance’ star Trevor Beauvois-Kinney (05-09-15)
- Realistic dialogue, situational comedy thrill ‘Position of Relative Importance’ audiences at Theatre Conspiracy (05-08-15)
- Lab Theater holding auditions for summer play, ‘Happy’ (05-08-15)
- Director Stuart Brown predicts crackling jokes, sprightly dialogue will make ‘Position of Relative Importance’ fan favorite (05-01-15)
On this Day in Local History
- Today is 204th birthday of town’s namesake, Lt. Col. Abraham C. Myers (05-14-15)
- On this day in Fort Myers’ history, governor signed bill creating Lee County (05-13-15)
- Today marks 120th anniversary of death of Fort Myers founding female Laura Hendry Thompson (05-10-15)
- On this day in 1903, first bridge over the Caloosahatchee completed in Alva (05-09-15)
- On this day in 1904, Fort Myers welcomed the arrival of its very first passenger train (05-10-15)
- On this day in 1887, Thomas Edison begins 14 year absence from Fort Myers (05-04-15)
Public Art
- Downtown mural depicts deportation of Seminole Chief Billy Bowlegs and 124 of his tribe (05-04-15)
You can read the articles posted between May 1 and 7 here and those dated May 8 through May 15 here or follow the hyperlinks to more detailed treatment of the topics that interest you most.
Make it a creative week,
Tom Hall
Art Southwest Florida
