Here’s the news on Art Southwest Florida for the period of April 16-23, 2015:
Artists in the News
At UNIT A Contemporary Art Space
At Florida Gulf Coast University
- Spotlight on ‘Stand Before Us/Photography and Paintings’ show at the Art Gallery at FGCU (04-22-15)
- FGCU Art Gallery to host ‘Stand Before Us’ painting and photography show in May (04-20-15)
At the Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs
At Naples Art’s von Liebig Art Center
- Exhibition at the von Liebig to celebrate the art of French graphic artist Bernard Villemot (04-19-15)
- Naples Art offering roster of Session 6 classes and workshops (04-19-15)
- Naples Art Association hosts exhibition of work by students with disabilities (04-17-15)
At the Alliance for the Arts
- Alliance Gallery Book Club takes up Rauschenberg tome, ‘Off the Wall,’ on May 19 (04-18-15)
- A decade of Best in Show winners to be featured by Alliance in May (04-17-15)
On Sanibel Island
- Watson MacRae’s Hollis Jeffcoat embraces interplay between sound and color in new series of green-hued paintings (04-21-15)
- Underwater photography by Karen Glaser part of Watson MacRae’s ‘Summer Salon’ (04-20-15)
At the Theater
- Spotlight on squabbling van Daans, Aricka Shuck and Jack Weld (04-22-15)
- Two youth improve workshops on schedule at Laboratory Theater of Florida (04-21-15)
- Marcos Martins plays Peter van Daan in Lab Theater’s ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ (04-21-15)
- Ellice McCoy dredges up host of black memories and emotion to reprise role of sad and depressed Edith Frank (04-20-15)
- ‘Anne Frank’ actress likes being compared to hummingbird on speed (04-18-15)
- Meet ‘Position of Relative Importance’ playwright Hal Borden (04-18-15)
- ‘A Position of Relative Importance’ opens May 1 in Alliance’s Foulds Theatre (04-17-15)
- Theatre Conspiracy’s ‘Position of Relative Importance’ is award-winning show (04-17-15)
- Q & A with ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ actor Matthew DeNoncour (04-17-15)
Public Art
- United Daughters of the Confederacy to observe Confederate Memorial Day at Lee bust on Saturday (04-23-15)
- Art Southwest Florida updates profile of Cape Coral Iwo Jima Memorial (04-19-15)
Other News
- Dintenfass gallery brokers acquisition of ‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’ copy by Minnesota Marine Art Gallery (04-18-15)
On this Day in Local History
- On this day in 1943, a modernized Lee Memorial Hospital officially opened its doors (04-18-15)
- On this day in 1916, Lee County finally started constructing a road out of town (04-18-15)
As ways, feel welcome to read all these articles and reviews in one place on Art Southwest Florida, or click on the provided hyperlinks for more detailed treatment of the topics that interest you most.
Tom Hall
Art Southwest Florida