And here’s what’s trending on Art Southwest Florida during the first week in June:
At the Alliance for the Arts
- Meet 29th Annual All Florida show juror Fran Gardner (06-07-15)
- Alliance’s 29th Annual All Florida Juried Exhibition opens with announcement of awards (06-07-15)
- Alliance’s 29th Annual All Florida show opens Friday (06-02-15)
In the Naples Art District
- Live art demonstration, jazz entertainment at The Artists Gallery on Wednesday night (06-01-15)
- Sweet Art one of ten Naples Art District galleries participating in 1st Wednesday ART ALIVE (06-01-15)
- Naples Art District scene of 1st Wednesday ART ALIVE on June 3 (06-01-15)
In the Downtown Fort Myers River District
- ‘Art of the HeArt’ exhibition opens tonight at Davis Art Center (06-05-15)
- On view Friday at UNIT A are selected works by Marcus Jansen and friends (06-03-15)
At the Theater
- Meet ‘Nunsense’ actress Amanda Carrion (06-07-15)
- Spotlight on ‘Nunsense’ actor Beverly Canell (06-06-15)
- Meet ‘Nunsense’ Reverend Mother Kateri Noga Sparks (06-05-15)
- With ‘The Underpants’ Front of House Manager Mike Dinko is upping his theatrical game (06-04-15)
- ‘Nunsense’ is foot-stomping, hand-clapping, laugh-a-thon good time (06-04-15)
- Director Rick Sebastian provides cliff notes for appreciating Steve Martin’s ‘Underpants’ (06-03-15)
- Laboratory Theater wins Rauschenberg Foundation grant to produce play by and about LGBT youths (06-02-15)
- Sometimes life makes no sense, and sometimes it makes ‘Nunsense’ (06-02-15)
- Rauschenberg Foundation grant awarded to Lab Theater furthers mission of using arts as mechanism for social change (06-01-15)
Area Art Fairs and Festivals
- Hot Works now accepting applications for next season’s Estero Fine Art Shows (06-04-15)
- ArtFest now accepting entries for its 2016 poster/T-Shirt competition (06-03-15)
Public Art
- Battle of Fort Myers historical marker reinstalled year ago in downtown Fort Myers (06-06-15)
On this Day in Local History
- On this day in 1900, Olive Stout, Flossie Hill and Flossie Heitman organized the Fort Myers Women’s Club (06-06-15)
- On this day in 1916, Henry Ford purchased The Mangoes for $20,000 (06-06-15)
- On this day in 1885, Fort Myers got steamboat service for the very first time (06-05-15)
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