SWFL ART & COMMUNITY THEATER NEWS April 4, 2015

• Juried Student Art Exhibition closes, ‘Year in Clay’ opens at FGCU on Thursday (03-31-15)
• ‘A Year in Clay’ opens at FGCU ArtLab on April 2 (03-25-15)

At the Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs

• Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs announces April schedule of art classes and workshops (03-29-15)
• ‘Tim’s Vermeer’ sheds light on painting techniques used by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (03-28-15)
• Centers for the Arts of Bonita Springs hosts two Improve cafés on Saturday, April 4 (03-27-15)
• Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs present Renoir film on Monday, April 6 (03-17-15)

At The von Liebig Art Center

• National Art Encounter Competition and Exhibition 2015 on view through April 18 at von Liebig Art Center (03-30-15)
• On view now at The von Liebig Art Center is the 44th Annual Jade Riedel Scholarship Competition Exhibition (03-30-15)
• Season-ending Art in the Park takes place in downtown Naples on Saturday, April 4 (03-30-15)
• Naples Art Association accepting pre-registration for ARTScool (03-29-15)
• Naples Art’s Goddess Night is evening of friendship, empowerment, education and philanthropy (03-24-15)
• ‘Order/Disorder – The Balancing Act’ is on view now through April 18 in Naples Art Association’s Member Gallery (03-19-15)
• If you like beer and art …. (03-18-15)
• 27th Annual Downtown Naples Festival of the Arts takes place Saturday & Sunday, March 21 & 22 (03-16-15)
• Naples Art in the Park to augment Festival of the Arts on Saturday, March 21 (03-16-15)

In Downtown Naples

• Clay Place to host 12th Annual ‘5 Painters & A Potter’ show on Sunday (03-19-15)

At the Edison Ford Winter Estates

• ‘Art in the Garden’ returns to Edison Ford Sunday, April 12 (03-28-15)
• On this day in 1887, the lights came on for the first time at Seminole Lodge (03-27-15)
• ‘Founding Females’ portrait exhibit continues through May 28, 2015 (03-26-15)

At the Alliance for the Arts

• ‘Broadsides: Poetry off the Shelf” returns to Alliance on April 16 (03-27-15)
• ArtPoems returns to Alliance for National Poetry Month (03-26-15)
• Alliance for the Arts celebrates 40th anniversary with new logo, upgraded marquee and campus enrichment plan (03-25-15)
• Alliance announces ‘Printmaking’ winners (03-23-15)
• Fort Myers Film Festival documentary ‘Food Chains’ airs at Alliance on March 28 (03-22-15)
• Alliance for the Arts celebrating 40th anniversary with new logo and campus enrichment program (03-17-15)

On Sanibel Island

• ‘Summer Salon’ gives Watson MacRae patrons last chance to see work exhibited at Sanibel gallery this season (03-21-15)

In the Naples Art District

• Sweet Art unveils ’50 Shades of Blue’ on Wednesday, April 1 (03-28-15)

• Spotlight on ‘Jane the Plain’ playwright August Schulenburg (03-27-15)
• Theatre Conspiracy and FSW Theatre Department partner to present Florida premiere of ‘Jane the Plain’ (03-26-15)
• Lucy Harris to teach two youth improv workshops at Lab Theater on May 3 (03-25-14)
• March 23 staged reading cancelled and replaced by ‘Real Art’ on April 13 (03-21-15)
• ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ sponsors seek to encourage tolerance and social understanding (03-20-15)
• Lab Theater holding auditions for ‘Underpants’ and ‘I’ll Eat You Last’ (03-18-15)
• ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ is riveting story of human frailty and courage, captivity and fear, and eternal hope (03-17-15)

At the Fort Myers Film Festival

• Fort Myers Film Festival documentary ‘Food Chains’ airs at Alliance on March 28 (03-22-15)
• Fort Myers Film Festival takes place against historic backdrop (03-21-15)

Art Fairs and Festivals

• Season-ending Art in the Park takes place in downtown Naples on Saturday, April 4 (03-30-15)
• Upcycle! Art Fest 2015 takes place on Sanibel April 1 & 2 (03-29-15)
• Fourth Annual Spring Art Affair takes place Saturday, March 28, at Bell Tower Shops (03-24-15)
• Fort Myers Downtown Saturday Art Fair takes place Saturday, March 21 (03-16-15)
• 27th Annual Downtown Naples Festival of the Arts takes place Saturday & Sunday, March 21 & 22 (03-16-15)
• Naples Art in the Park to augment Festival of the Arts on Saturday, March 21 (03-16-15)
• Art After Dark returns to Crayton Cove Saturday, March 21 (03-16-15)

On This Day in Local History

• On this day in 1887, the lights came on for the first time at Seminole Lodge (03-27-15)
• County’s inability to sell bonds leads to most outrageous episode in Lee’s early history (03-19-14)
• Royal Palm Hotel owner and operator Hugh O’Neill died on this day in 1902 (03-16-14)

Stories running between March 24 and March 31 can be read in one place here. Articles dated March 16-23 can be read here. Of course, please click on the provided hyperlinks for more detailed treatment of the articles that interest you most.

Make it a creative April.

Tom Hall

Art Southwest Florida (www.artswfl.com)