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Divine Creations Artwork Inside Local Houses of Worship
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Tiffany & Co.’s design director focuses on famous Palm Beach County photographers By John Loring
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d re h e r p a r k g o n e w i l d The Palm Beach Zoo’s family of critters and staffers create an animal oasis By Aime Dunstan
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d i v i n e c re a t i o n s An up-close look at the artwork in Palm Beach County’s houses of worship By Roger Hurlburt
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small voices, big impact
Ellen Graham
Small, volunteer-based organizations make culture and the arts accessible By Catherine Smith
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getting to the pointe Dynamic local dance organizations take center stage By Christina Wood
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Jim Fairman
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Peter Rubino, using 250 pounds of clay and playing Beethoven’s Sixth and Fifth Symphonies, creates a portrait of the composer in 20 minutes at the Armory Arts Center in West Palm Beach
Photo By Palm Beach Post Staff Photographer: Richard Graulich
WHEN IT COMES TO SUPPORTING THE LOCAL ARTS AND CULTURE, WE’RE ON THE SAME PAGE.
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The Cultural Council’s CEO and president extends a warm welcome By Rena Blades
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p u b l i s h e r ’s n o t e A thank you from the publisher By Robert S.C. Kirschner
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u p f ro n t • Visit the Mary Cassatt exhibition at the Norton Museum in West Palm Beach • Buy a piece of art while dining at Lake Worth’s Bizaare Avenue Cafe • Find out how local students are learning about the Holocaust through the arts • Read about the Boca Museum’s much-celebrated 555 anniversary • Learn about Florida Stage’s innovative Graffiti Project • View the winning photos of the 2006 INFOCUS photography competition • Envy the Boca teen whose fashion designs won her a full college scholarship
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art in unexpected places Discover art in the least expected places while cruising or vacationing
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p ro f i l e Alexander W. Dreyfoos, founder of the Cultural Council
Artwork by Siobhan Parker
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calendar A mélange of cultural events throughout Palm Beach County
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i n s i d e c u l t u re The new Cultural Council Muse Awards, 2006-2007 officers and much more
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Top photo: MARY CASSATT (American, 1844–1926): Baby Smiling at Her Mother, ca. 1913. Pastel on paper, 33 1/2 by 24 inches. Gift to the Norton Museum from Elsie and Marvin Dekelboum, 2005.64
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Steven E. McCraney
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Craig I. Menin
Hon. Addie L. Greene
Michael J. Bracci
Sydelle Meyer
Demetrius Klein
Pamela O. Dean
Harvey E. Oyer, III
J. Charles Lehmann
Tim Eaton
Dana T. Pickard
Dr. Sandra Richmond
O N E G R E AT S E A S O N . . . D E S E R V E S A N O T H E R
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Artistic Director MAESTRO BRUNO APREA D E C E M B E R
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Cavalleria Rusticana I Pagliacci
PIETRO MASCAGNI
RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
Performed as a double-bill, these two melodramatic one-act operas are set in rural 19th-century Italy. Illicit affairs, jealousy and morality are their common themes. J A N U A R Y
Thaïs
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JULES MASSENET
Performed for the first time at Palm Beach Opera, this opera takes place on the banks of the River Nile and explores the ill-fated relationship between a concubine and a monk. F E B R U A R Y
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L’Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) GIOACHINO ROSSINI
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Madama Butterfly
GIACOMO PUCCINI
A well-loved classic known for its hauntingly beautiful melodies, this opera tells a tragic tale of innocence betrayed. From the first chord, one is transported to exotic Japan.
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Palm Beach County already offers much to validate our
art&culture will serve a wide range of stakehold-
status as “Florida’s Cultural Capital.” With the launch of this
ers who know us well—the individuals, business-
magazine, art&culture, the Palm Beach County Cultural
es, artists and organizations who make up our
Council is helping to make the case even stronger.
membership—and those who may not know us at all. The latter categories include not only
This new publication arose from the vision of our Board of
visitors to our area, but also many full-time and
Directors, whose strategic planning process crystallized the
seasonal residents who strengthen our cultural
Cultural Council’s mission: “To enhance the quality of life by
organizations significantly through their participa-
creating a cultural destination through support, education
tion and support. Indeed, one of the primary
and promotion of arts and culture within Palm Beach
motivations for the creation of this magazine is
County.” It was conceived through the efforts of our board
to communicate with a much broader audience.
and others in the community as well as our staff, who
The Cultural Council’s bimonthly newsletter was
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sent to approximately 1,000 readers; this inau-
magazines and brainstorming about the potential look, feel
gural issue of art&culture will reach 15,000.
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We also were drawn to two definitions that we think
issue and look forward to producing subsequent
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one creates a work that has beauty or special meaning” and, to take it a step further, “The conscious production or
Our commitment is to provide a magazine that
arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements or other
will interest, inform and enlighten those in our
elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty.” At the Cultural Council, we support and promote all art and culture, a phrase that we believe embraces all aspects of humanity and the creative spirit.
community who want to be in touch with the remarkable depth and breadth of the Palm Beach County art and cultural scene. We welcome you as readers—and we encourage your thoughts, comments and suggestions. Thank you for joining us on this exciting new journey.
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Celebrating 555 After 55 years of enriching the lives of both children and adults through the world of art, the Boca Raton Museum of Art has been designated “The Official Museum of Art of the City of Boca Raton.” That’s no small feat for an institution that originally started as an art guild without a building or space of its own in 1950. Now a significant part of the Palm Beach County cultural landscape, the Boca Museum is celebrating its fifth year in its grand 44,000-squarefoot facility in Mizner Park. The organization’s former location on Palmetto Park Road, which was built in 1962, is still home to the museum’s Art School. It benefited from a $600,000 renovation and expansion in 2001.
Tre n d R e p o r t In Full Bloom Recent Dreyfoos School of the Arts graduate Elana Bloom’s love for earth tones and tunics—which “look sexy but completely cover you up,” she says—has made her
In addition to hosting blockbuster shows and presenting exhibits from its permanent collection, the Boca Museum also believes education is critically important, notes Ken Feigl, a board member of the museum
about $70,000 richer. The Boca Raton native
since 1980. “The greatest thing I enjoy
won the top prize for fashion design in the
when I’m in the museum for a meeting is
national Teen Fashion Innovator Search, land-
hearing the patter of little feet” as the
ing a full tuition scholarship to the Art Institute
docents explain the artwork to the
of Fort Lauderdale (AIFL) as well as an all-
children, he says.
expenses-paid trip to New York’s Fashion Week and an appearance in ELLEgirl magazine.
Education will continue to play a vital role in the museum’s future. As
Bloom, whose brown silk tunic with sleeves lined in contrasting purple silk was influenced by an Yves Saint Laurent dress featured in
Vogue, started classes at AIFL this summer and after graduation wants to work at a magazine or as a celebrity stylist, eventually becoming a fashion design-
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Executive Director George S. Bolge explains, “A great deal of important work is done for young people by arts organizations, but there is a pressing need for a better understanding of ways in which
er. “You need to make connections,”
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says Bloom, who apparently isn’t only
schools and arts institutions can
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Next
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Remembering Luboml Through the Arts Lake Worth High School reading teacher Abbe Snyder initiated a Holocaust studies project focused on something that, unfortunately, many of her students could relate to—hate. A number of the students emigrated from lawless countries drenched with violence or read current news headlines chronicling the genocide in Darfur. Twenty teachers engaged the students in creative
of coexistence in the world today. “It was a great learning experience,” explains former student Mendel Surpris.
The project was centered on the Polish town of Luboml, where during the Holocaust many Jewish residents were brutally murdered. After reading inspirational stories by Luboml sur-
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classes such as literature, culinary arts and wood shop to teach the students the importance
Abbe Snyder’s students show their bracelets of remembrance.
The Heart of Mine
vivors, students put their creativity to the test by writing their own stories, baking challah bread, creating woodcuts, paintings and drawings and making bracelets with a bead for each lost family. In May, a memorial—built by students—was dedicated to the Luboml victims and sits on the Lake Worth High School campus located at 1701 Lake Worth Road.
My heart goes out to the heroes. The ones who died in credibility. I respect the brave with a soul of a kind. The one who made a difference even willing to die.
By enlightening students with creativity, they gained more than historical knowledge of the Holocaust and its six million victims. “We were able to relate the Holocaust to slavery, bullying, hatred, prejudice and tolerance,” Snyder explains. “By using meaningful
Thank you for your bravery. Now I must follow your path. by Mendel Surpris
articles relating to these issues, we were able to teach the students reading strategies, which in turn helped them on the FCAT.”
Funding for the Luboml Project came from Boca Raton-based League for Educational Awareness of the Holocaust (LEAH), businessman and former Luboml resident Aaron Ziegelman and the American Chapter of the Society for Yad Vashem.
Snyder hopes to continue the project in her new position at Boynton Beach High School during the 2006/07 school year, and has been invited to lead a workshop to inform other teachers across the nation about the importance of the innovative Luboml Project for future generations.
Surpris, originally from Haiti, graduated high school in June and is looking forward to studying at Palm Beach Community College in the fall with the hopes of someday becoming a writer. For this student, the Luboml Project and Abbe Snyder were instrumental in helping him pass the FCAT and make important decisions about his future. “Ms. Snyder is a very, very great teacher, not just because of her help with the FCAT but because she taught us things that related to real life, and to have faith in yourself,” Surpris says.
“The Young Violinst” woodcut & print by Lake Worth High School student Siobhan Parker
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A ‘Bizaare’ Dining Experience Bizaare Avenue Cafe offers diners something beyond the usual artistic surroundings opened nearly 10 years ago. The tapas-themed menu also feaof walls bedecked in paintings and the dim light glowing from antique lamps that tures an artistic edge with toasted bruschetta, chicken and are common in restaurants. Rather, this trendy restaurant also doubles as a funky artichoke crepes, baked brie wrapped in a puff pastry with boutique where everything is for sale, from the art on the walls and lamps on the raspberry sauce and gourmet pizzas. And then there’s Upstairs tables to the comfy couches sprinkled throughout and the plates your dinner at Bizaare, a bistro with a different menu and the more traditionis served on. al restaurant settings of tables and chairs. Of course, everything upstairs is for sale as well! Housed in a renovated 1926 building at the corner of South H Street and Lake Avenue in downtown Lake Worth, Bizaare’s out-of-the-ordinary brick façade offers only a peek into this atypical cafe. A cross between an English country house and a Nantucket Island eatery, the interior is splashed with eclectic décor, including colorful artwork, various knick-knacks and lamps in all shapes and sizes. “One of our most unique items for sale was a dining table made out of an antique door,” recalls owner Al Salopek. “This table sat six to eight people and [was] quite a conversation piece.” With sofas, coffee tables and wing-backed chairs, Bizaare’s interior design was influenced by the coffeehouse in the television show “Friends,” and because there had been a thrift store in the location prior to Bizaare opening, Salopek decided to infuse that concept as well. Ordered by Salopek’s wife Keely, the items for sale are always changing, so you’re bound to spot a new find with every visit. But it’s not just the unusual merchandise for sale or the relaxed ambiance that has attracted crowds to Bizaare since it
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And the Winners are... Taking first place in the Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s INFOCUS 2006 competition is “Paper Nautilus” (left) by Carmel Brantly of Ocean Ridge. Brantly was awarded $750 for the best in show photograph. Judy Hoffman of Atlantis received a merit award for “Untitled” (right).
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S h o w & Te l l Yo u n g Vo i c e s I l l u m i n a t e d
Now
A 250-seat, award-winning regional theater that is
Showing
known nationally for its exclusive production of new
Women and Children First
works, Manalapan’s Florida Stage not only offers its
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) is recognized as one of
audiences an intimate setting to view up-and-coming
the
plays. The nonprofit organization is also actively
country’s
most
significant
artists—and
deservedly so. She holds the distinction of being
involved in exposing children and teens to theater
the only American artist who was invited to
through its Young Voices educational initiative.
exhibit with the European Impressionists—the Partnering with local schools and community
renowned group of painters that included Claude
organizations, Florida Stage has worked with
Monet, Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas.
renowned playwright and author Doug Cooney on multiple projects over the past 15 years. In 2003, the Los Angeles-based Cooney came
Cassatt was born near Pittsburgh and trained
back to Florida Stage with The Graffiti Project:
at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts but
Write Fast, Write Large, which was funded by a Palm Beach County Cultural Council Artist-inResidency grant. The project resulted in two original plays written by local high school students and performed as staged readings by student and professional actors.
Louise Wearing a Large High Bonnet and Coat MARY CASSATT, American, 1844–1926, c. 1902 Graphite on paper, 7 x 5 in. (17.8 x 12.7 cm) Purchase, the D. Lorraine Yerkes Fund, 82.38
M A R Y C A S S AT T: Pastels and Drawings
With the help of a second Cultural Council grant, Cooney brought The Graffiti Project back to Florida Stage earlier this year. Rather than working with local schools, Cooney collaborated with teenagers in Planned Parenthood’s Teen
August 19-October 29 Norton Museum of Art 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach (561) 832-5196 www.norton.org
lived in France most of her life. She was a master at capturing her subjects’ personalities and had an affinity for painting women and children, depicting their intimate glances, postures and interactions that portrayed
the
indescribable
bond
between mother and child.
For this exhibition, the Norton’s curators have chosen nine works on paper
Time program to write Wrong Thing Right, a
by Cassatt: five from the museum’s
play that captured the experiences of the at-
permanent collection and four prom-
risk youth in our community.
ised gifts. Drawing was at the heart
As part of this second Cultural Council grant,
of Cassatt’s artistic training and her
Cooney also created a new community out-
professional practice, and each of
reach program to shed light on the plight of the
these works reveals not only her
homeless in Palm Beach County. Through a
skill as a draftsman, but her gifts
partnership with The Lord’s Place, Cooney
as a colorist and as a sensitive
Café Joshua, Joshua House and the Family
observer of her subjects. Even
Shelter in West Palm Beach. These interviews
during her lifetime Cassatt was
ennett Bruce B
interviewed homeless children and adults at
became the basis for his new play, Long Story
Short, which was performed—to much acclaim—by seven professional actors in February at Florida Stage. While Cooney is currently back in L.A., Florida Stage is committed to continuing the projects he created. The theater plans to incorporate the themes into its programs at local schools and hopes to work
Pahokee Middle/Senior High School student Brandy Huff performs a staged reading of Doug Cooney's The Bad Luck Tree at Florida Stage.
FOR
more information
praised for her proficiency in the graphic arts, earning the backhanded compliment, “no woman has the right to draw like that,” from her close friend Edgar Degas.
call (561) 585-3433 or visit www.floridastage.org
with The Lord’s Place again.
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ART by Rena Blades
in unexpected I look for art everywhere. As an art historian
Celebrity Cruises, and though Celebrity
and the director of one of the largest arts
merged with Royal Caribbean in 1997,
agencies in the nation, it’s natural for me.
maintaining the collection remains a priority.
But, you don’t have to be an art historian or work in an arts organization to discover or
Our week-long cruise took us to a few of
collect art. The art one can find, even in
the usual destinations, where one inevitably
places where it is least expected, is amazing.
finds the typical baubles, reproduced ad nauseam. Unfortunately, these have
For example, my husband, John, and I
everything to do with what cruise ship
recently took a cruise to Jamaica and
tourists are likely to buy and little or nothing
Mexico. When we boarded Celebrity’s Century,
to do with local arts and cultural traditions.
I was immediately struck by the art objects
Montego Bay, Jamaica, is no different. Until
on all the decks. Most passengers walk by
we got to the local market, which is slightly
this amazing collection of art without even
off the beaten path, we were tempted to
noticing the outstanding examples by Roy
succumb to the Caribbean heat and return
Lichtenstein, Robert Longo, Andy Warhol,
to the ship for a long nap.
David Salle and many more. The art collection
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on board the Century was amassed by a
But surprisingly, amidst the dozens of ven-
member of the Greek family who founded
dors and piles of tourist souvenirs, we spot-
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painted by the same artist, and clearly not
island’s $10 coin as a national hero.
intended for sale. Stapled directly to the
Though we had all but given up on finding
outside walls of the market stalls, the por-
anything meaningful amid the typical tourist
traits represented some sort of impromptu
souvenirs, this time our persistence paid
Art in Public Places project. We inquired
off. Not only did we add a wonderful exam-
ted a colorful, simple portrait hanging in a
about these paintings as well, but no shop
ple of Jamaican folk art to our collection,
tree. When we asked the shopkeeper nearby
owners claimed the portraits as their
but we also learned about Jamaican history
if she had any more paintings by this artist,
merchandise. However, each inquiry led to
and enriched our travel experience in a way
we were shown a number of other paintings.
a story about the subject of the portrait.
we will always remember.
But none were anything like the interesting
The shopkeepers were clearly surprised by
portrait in the tree. The other pieces for
our interest, and so the usual hustle of
During your next trip to an unfamiliar desti-
sale were the mass-produced colorful paint-
commerce paused in the nearby souvenir
nation, make the effort to look beyond the
ings of tropical subjects that are made for
stalls as we conversed about each of the
glitz of the hotel or cruise ship––and the
the tourist trade. We quickly rejected those
paintings with the merchants. Eventually,
distraction of mountains of tourist sou-
and asked the price of the portrait that first
we came to find that the portraits were of
venirs––for the art that might be hiding in
caught our attention. After much hesitation
Jamaican heroes.
unexpected places waiting to be discov-
places and a trip by the shopkeeper far across the
ered. Your experience, and perhaps your
market, presumably for a conference with
In the end, we decided to purchase the
her boss, we were reluctantly given a price.
portrait in the tree that we saw first, which
collection, will be the better for it.
was the only one available for sale. As it Not yet totally confident of our discovery,
turned out, this particular portrait was of
we thanked her and wandered the rest of
George William Gordon, a martyr who was
the market area. To our astonishment, we
instrumental in the movement to end slavery
came upon five more portraits, obviously
in Jamaica. He is commemorated on the
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Michael Price
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The
Alexander W. Dreyfoos Story by Hillary Hunter
What Began With a Wish for an Arts Calendar Evolved into 28 Years of Leadership in the Palm Beach County Cultural Community Academy Award winner, inventor, cultural catalyst, philanthropist,
and foreign patents in the fields of
husband and father, Alexander W. Dreyfoos is truly the definition of a
photography and electronics. Over many
Renaissance man. Most know Dreyfoos as the driving force behind the
years, he has used his influence, fortune
creation of Palm Beach County’s cultural jewel, the Raymond F. Kravis
and fame to become a pioneer in the
Center for the Performing Arts, where the stunning concert hall bears his
local arts community.
name. What many are unaware of is the reason behind his philanthropic and volunteer board member duties. “Basically I wanted an arts calendar
Dreyfoos was born in New York City, grew
to hand to my electronic engineer employee prospects, while in town for
up in Westchester County, N.Y., and spent
interviews, so that they could get some idea of what was going on,”
his childhood summers with his mother,
Dreyfoos explains.
father and sister in the Adirondack Mountains of New York state, where he
From founding the Palm Beach
still spends his summers today. Although not musically inclined, Dreyfoos has
County Council of the Arts, the coun-
always had a powerful connection to the arts. His mother was a professional
ty’s first multi-tiered arts organization,
cellist and his father was a professional photographer. “I love listening to
to opening the $67 million Kravis
classical music, but I don’t play an instrument.”
Center for the Performing Arts debtfree, Dreyfoos is unofficially the
Following in his father’s footsteps, he began taking pictures at a young age
genius behind Palm Beach County’s
and inevitably photography became one of his passions. Whether fiddling in
thriving cultural landscape. As
the dark room or building a large model train system together, Dreyfoos and
chairman and owner of The Dreyfoos
his father had a great relationship. “He was a father, but also a friend and
Group, a private capital management
mentor,” Dreyfoos explains. “My dad always encouraged me that I could do
firm, and with a professional
anything I set my mind to. He didn’t know anything about electronics but
background as an engineer and inven-
encouraged my interest. I built a TV set when I was 14 and earned my
tor, Dreyfoos holds numerous national
ham radio license while still in high school.”
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the video analyzer was developed, and in 1970, PEC received an Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for that invention. Today the VCNA is included in the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent exhibit, The Information Age:
People, Information and Technology, which Dreyfoos feels, “is quite an honor.”
PEC began manufacturing VCNAs in an old church in Byram, Conn. They soon outgrew the small space and decided to move to Palm Beach County, setting their sights on building a proper manufacturing plant, which was completed in December 1968. Dreyfoos discovered the area—like many—on a winter vacation with his family in 1967.
Once the plant was up and running, Dreyfoos, using his MIT connec-
photo electronics corporation
tions, tried recruiting engineering employees from the Boston area. At the
In 1963, after obtaining degrees from MIT and Harvard Business School
end of each interview, Dreyfoos would hand out real estate brochures, and
and experiencing brief stints in the U.S. Air Force, Technicolor and IBM,
tell them, “Why don’t you look around and see if you like the area?” Time
Dreyfoos started the Photo Electronics Corporation (PEC) in the basement
and time again, potential engineers would return to Dreyfoos’ office and
of his Port Chester, N.Y., home. The company set out to manufacture
comment on the fabulous ever-present sunshine and beautiful white sandy
electronic equipment for the photographic industry. His partner and right-
beaches, but would add that, “This place is a cultural desert.”
hand man was George W. Mergens. “From 1963 until 1986, when he was killed in a tragic bicycle accident, George Mergens and I were very close
“In fact,” Dreyfoos points out, “even in the ’70s it wasn’t a cultural desert.
and almost anything technical I say I accomplished during that time was
The Norton Museum was founded in 1941. Palm Beach Opera started in
really created by both of us,” Dreyfoos says.
the early ’60s. Ballet Florida began as a dance school in 1973 and in the mid ’70s Leonard Davis was underwriting his Regional Arts program.
Together, they developed several photographic color negative analyzers
There was even an orchestra in town at that time.”
that are still used throughout the world today. In 1964, Dreyfoos and Mergens invented the Video Color Negative Analyzer (VCNA), which
Dreyfoos decided he needed to create a cultural calendar to hand out to
Kodak marketed worldwide. Subsequently, a motion picture version of
employee prospects.
palm beach county arts council In 1973, Dreyfoos took a risk and purchased the local ABC affiliate, Channel
“We created and aired a public service announcement asking anyone
12, television station from John D. MacArthur. Dreyfoos changed the call let-
interested in starting an arts council for Palm Beach County to show
ters to WPEC and in 1987 switched the network affiliation to CBS.
up at our studios on a certain date,” Dreyfoos says. A large crowd arrived and Dreyfoos was voted the first chairman of the Palm Beach
“In 1978, I asked Judy Goodman, a bright young station executive, to find
County Council of the Arts, which in 1992 was renamed the Palm
out what other communities had done to promote their cultural climate,”
Beach County Cultural Council.
Dreyfoos explains. Goodman discovered that many major cities across the country had initiated arts councils to advocate the arts. Dreyfoos
Once Dreyfoos had his cultural calendar, he didn’t stop there. One of the
wondered if he could use a television station as an advocacy tool.
major projects the council executed during the first year was conducting a
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{upfront} survey on community needs for facilities. Designed and executed by Goodman, the study sampled 1,000 community organizations and people interested in the arts. The results showed that the community wanted a
Alexander W. Dreyfoos and Raymond F. Kravis cut the ribbon at the Kravis Center’s opening dedication, September 1992
performing arts center.
Although Dreyfoos stepped down as chairman of the council after the first year, he did not stray far from the arts scene. “I recall that after passing the baton, as I figuratively walked out of my term in office, the new chairman, [John R. Smith], asked me if I would take on the performing arts center project,” Dreyfoos explains. “At the time I thought I could just spend a year getting it organized and then pass it on to someone else, but here I am 28 years later—still chairman.” The needs study became the nucleus for the development of the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
Another mission fulfilled, the $67 million, largely privately financed, multipurpose Kravis Center opened debt-free in 1992. Early in the campaign,
chairman of the Kravis Center’s board of directors for more than two
PEC had made a $1 million contribution and the board ultimately named
decades. When he sold the television station in 1996, Dreyfoos made a
the concert hall in Dreyfoos’ honor. Dreyfoos has diligently served as
$5 million gift to the Center’s endowment fund.
dreyfoos school of the arts Not long after the Kravis Center was built, the Palm Beach County school
realized that by conducting auditions, the school was cutting across
system established an arts magnet school adjacent to the Center’s cam-
economic lines, religious lines and racial lines, and all they were looking
pus. The school was initially named the Palm Beach County School of the
for was talent.”
Arts and admission to the school was, and still is, by audition. In 1997, Dreyfoos pledged $1 million “A group of interested parents and
to support the school, the largest
arts lovers started the School of the
private contribution ever made to a
Arts Foundation to supplement the
Florida public school. Subsequently
fact that the education dollars really
the Palm Beach County School of the
weren’t there for the supplies artists
Arts was renamed the Alexander
needed,” Dreyfoos explains. “The
W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts
Foundation was so taken by the suc-
(DSOA) and today it offers concentra-
cess we had raising money for the
tions in visual arts, theater, music, com-
Kravis Center that they came to me
munications and dance.
and said, ‘Alex, if you would lend us your name, we think some of it would rub off on the Foundation.’”
On a couple of occasions Dreyfoos has agreed to be the commencement
Not to mention the $1 million donation request made to Dreyfoos by
speaker at graduation ceremonies at the Dreyfoos School. “The most impor-
the Foundation.
tant advice I give the graduates is be in love with the career they pick,” he explains. “Don’t pick a career just for the sake of money; if you love what you
“I wasn’t really sure how private money and public schools would work
are doing you will be much happier and chances are, if you are good at it, the
together,” Dreyfoos says. “But, I became excited after learning that
money will come. Be willing to take a risk. Be alert, and don’t forget about
students were only granted admission via an audition process. I
serendipity—be willing to take a risk when you see something connecting.”
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philanthropy & awards
Dreyfoos maintained his involvement with MIT over the years. For the last few decades he has been a member of MIT’s board of directors and he is now a lifetime trustee. In addition to his generous gifts to the Kravis Center and the DSOA, in 1997 Dreyfoos contributed $15 million to name one of the two buildings in the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center at MIT. He also funded the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. Professorship at MIT’s Media Lab.
Shortly after The Scripps Research Institute announced that it would build a campus in Palm Beach County, Dreyfoos was invited to join the Scripps board of trustees. He has contributed $1 million to see Scripps Florida come to fruition. “I’m an advocate for Scripps so we don’t have to export our kids,” Dreyfoos explains. “Up until now, if you had a child who was very bright, the likelihood of them coming back to Palm Beach County after college was slim. I also believe that biotechnology research is the most challenging and exciting field today. I believe that if Mozart were alive today he would be a geneticist.”
Dreyfoos has received numerous community involvement awards throughout the country including The Palm Beach Post’s Man of the Year in 1980, MIT’s Marshall B. Dalton Award in 1997 and the American Diabetes Association’s Valor Award in 2005, to name just a few. In 2004, he was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and this year he was presented the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. Additionally, Dreyfoos holds honorary doctorate degrees from the Kellogg Graduate School at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., and Lynn University in Boca Raton.
life today Dreyfoos, currently the CEO and owner of The Dreyfoos Group, has a passion for being on the water. The Dreyfoos Group owned and operated the Sailfish Marina in Palm Beach Shores for 27 years, which became a staple in the county’s thriving marine industry.
Two of his grandsons received their scuba diving certificates last year Alex and Renate Dreyfoos
and the entire family spent last Christmas in the Caribbean, “much of it under water,” Dreyfoos adds. Dreyfoos began scuba diving in 1954.
married. “The most enjoyable part of the last six
When not in the water, the Dreyfoos family enjoys cruising and
years has been being with Renate, the love of
entertaining on “Silver Cloud,” their 143-foot Feadship.
my life,” he says.
Dreyfoos has known his wife Renate since 1969 when she began
Today the arts are a thriving part of our county’s
The Dreyfoos Family
as his secretary at PEC. Over
fabric. “Support from the community has been
the years, as vice president of
tremendous and there is truly an arts-related
human resources, she played
activity available for everyone. Palm Beach County
a major role in creatively
is now a cultural community. I think one important
staffing the various divisions.
reason people are moving here is because of the
In 2000, Alex and Renate were diversity of the culture,” Dreyfoos concludes.
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Q&A With Alexander W. Dreyfoos 5 KRAVIS CENTER QUESTIONS FOR THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
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You were re-elected as chairman of the board of directors in
or knew almost everyone who made a major
May. How long will you continue to be at the helm of the Kravis
contribution in the early years. Since that
Center as chairman?
time, the surrounding areas have grown
&
tremendously and while we are getting
I have already announced to the board of directors that I will step
support from those areas now,
down as chairman on June 30, 2007. It is time for a new group to
I believe it will be very important for our new board members to reach
take over and we’ve got some neat people coming along.
out to those areas even more actively.
As chairman of the Encore Campaign I still have another $1.5 million to raise to have funds to pay off the bonds that financed the construction of the Cohen Pavilion. I would like the campaign wrapped up before I step down.
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With you as the chairman, why do you think the Kravis Center has evolved into the cultural jewel of Palm Beach County?
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Are there any plans for additional building at the current site?
I really believe the Kravis Center should be thought of as a campus. The community definitely does need a 1,200-seat theater, but the question is when. Clearly the next building is going to be built on the next watch, or maybe the watch after that. I believe the theater should be built on the southwest corner of the campus (at Tamarind Avenue
The Kravis Center would not have been built without a very dedicated
and Okeechobee Boulevard). The Cohen Pavilion was sited so as to
board. I like to think I am just a focal point for what a wonderful group
allow room for such a theater.
has done. The Center wouldn’t be anything like what it is today without Judy Mitchell [CEO] and a great staff of dedicated people who have been doing, and continue to do, a terrific job. I’ve always advocated that we need to be first class; our building had to be first class; our programming has to be first class; our publications have to have a quality look and our Web site has to be outstanding and easily interactive. It’s all a part of quality, quality, quality. People like to be involved with and identify with quality.
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When the board of directors elects a new chairman, what advice would you have for your successor?
I’m sure there are many things any new chairman will have in mind to want to pursue and it will be important for him or her to build their own team.
My own advice would be to continue to broaden the geographic support. I think there are some real opportunities for funding, which is the
The Kravis Center is in a transitional period right now. Board
most important responsibility of the board. The Center needs to raise
members have begun to rotate off the board and assume life-
between $4 and $5 million on an annual basis and then once the
time trustee status. In June of next year, all of the original
Encore Capital Campaign is over, it will be important to step up the
board of directors will have been replaced. What are some of
Campaign to increase the size of the Center’s endowment.
the issues the new board will tackle?
Well, one thing they have to do is broaden support with geographic
It is important to have younger people on the board to try new things. I am confident that I will be leaving the Center in very good hands.
diversification. When we built the Center, most of our board members came from Palm Beach and West Palm Beach. In fact, I probably met
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Fun with real-life
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physics continues in The World We Create at
the South Florida Science Museum. The exhibit, on display through
November 30, gives visitors a chance to build their dream bike, create
Platinum-selling singer-songwriter
a workable transit city and more. 4801 Dreher Trail N.,
Chris Isaak,
who released his first “Best of…” CD earlier this year after
West Palm Beach; (561) 832-1988 or www.sfsm.org.
more than two decades in the music business, makes a September 2 stop at the Mizner Park Amphitheater in
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A 30-year retrospective of the acclaimed,
Boca Raton. (561) 966-3309 or www.centre4artsboca.com.
self-taught Miami “street” artist and visual poet Purvis Young opens September 6 at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Running concurrently, in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, are “Masters of Latin America: Selections from the Joan & Milton Bagley Collection” and Latin American Art from the Museum’s Collection. 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; (561) 392-2500 or www.bocamuseum.org.
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Purvis Young, “Wild Horses,” 1995, paint on wood
On September 16 and 17,
The unique combination of
“Everything Orchids,” a weekend celebration of the incredibly appealing flow-
ecological and social factors in the
ers featuring top-notch orchid growers, artists and craftspeople, and more.
Gilded Age are the focal point of The
531 N. Military Trail, West Palm Beach; (561) 233-1757.
Mounts Botanical Garden presents
Blue God and the Silver King: The Origins of Sportfishing on Florida’s
Museum’s fall exhibit opens
September 19. Cocoanut Row and Whitehall Way, Palm Beach; (561)
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Southeast Coast. The Flagler
SEPTEMBER Still going strong
655-2833 or www.flaglermuseum.us.
after all these years,
the lovable Muppets bring their perennially cheerful songs and dance numbers to the
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African-American traditions
Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in
Sesame Street Live! Super Grover! Ready For Action September 21-24. 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; (561) 832-7469 or www.kravis.org.
come alive on September 24 at The Spady Museum’s Living
Heritage Day. The event will show how to make lye soap over a hot pot, grow collard greens, grind sugar cane and “put up” seasonal vegetables. 170 N.W. Fifth Ave., Delray Beach; (561) 279-8883 or www.spadymuseum.org.
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Nourish Your Spirit... PLANTS FOR THE COLLECTOR
FINE GARDEN DESIGN
F I N E M E D I T E R R A N E A N P O T T E RY
O R I E N TA L P O T T E R Y LANDSCAPING AND MORE.
(561) 683-9001 PalmieriNursery.com 4842 W. 45th Street W. Palm Beach, Florida 33407 Open Mon-Sat, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Marilynn Alsdorf’s collection of 12th- to 19th-century Japanese paintings is known internationally for the
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extraordinary breadth of its holdings. Beginning October 3, the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens mounts
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an exhibition of these rare and important works. 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach; (561) 495-0233 or
The Norton Museum
www.morikami.org.
James Casebere, “Abadia from Lower Left,” 2005 Digital chromogenic print mounted on plexiglas, 60 x 48 inches. Courtesy of the artist & Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
of Art’s new exhibition, BEFORE THE CAMERA:
Remaking Reality, looks at the distinction between “taking” and “making” photographs in highly orchestrated photographic artworks; opening October 14. 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach; (561) 832-5196 or www.norton.org.
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offers a fresh take on Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It October 19-22
in a production set in circa 1969
OCTOBER
America with complete “Woodstock” scenery and costumes. 501 S. Sapodilla Ave., West Palm Beach; (561) 802-6052.
Leapin’ lizards!
An all-new production of the
delightful ANNIE is coming to the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts October 17-22, giving a whole new
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generation the chance to experience this classic
From seeds do
musical about never giving up hope.
Visit the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee
701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach;
National Wildlife Refuge on October 28 for the
(800) 520-2324 or www.broadwayacrossamerica.com.
Seventh Annual Cypress Harvest and the
Carol Rosegg
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Marshall Foundation’s Second Annual Student Photography Contest—a fun-filled morning of
of resident conductor Albert-
harvesting cypress seeds to help restore the
George Schram, the Lynn University Philharmonia
Everglades. 10216 Lee Road, Boynton
Orchestra performs compositions by various artists on
Beach; (561) 805-TREE (8733)
October 7-8 at Saint Andrew’s School, 3900 Jog Road,
or www.artmarshall.org.
Boca Raton; (561) 237-9000 or e-mail tickets@lynn.edu.
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Architecture & Fashion:
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A Photographic View
Point, organized by the Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion
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History, features over 25 photos and more items from the museum’s archival collection. On display at the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum from September 26 through December 31. 129 E. Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach; (561) 243-2662 or www.mlfhmuseum.org.
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Duncan Sheik, who debuted his first single “Barely Breathing” in 1996, continues to delight audiences with the 2006 release of
White Limousine. The BYOB Music Nights with Duncan Sheik on
November 4 at The Atlantic Theater invites music lovers to bring
their own beverages, with coolers and ice provided by the theater.
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Opening the 15th
6743 W. Indiantown Road, #34, Jupiter; (561) 575-3271 or www.theatlantictheater.com. Jeremy Cowart
anniver-
NOVEMBER
sary season for Bob Lappin and the Palm Beach Pops is
Americana, featuring 10-time Grammy Award winner Ricky Skaggs on November 2 and 3 at the Kravis Center and November 5-
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7 at Florida Atlantic University
John D. MacArthur Beach State Park’s MacArthur Under
Auditorium.
Moonlight Concert series features a different band every month
701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm
through June on the weekend closest to the full moon. Bring the
Beach; (561) 832-7469).
whole family on November 4. 10900 State Road 703, North Palm
777 Glades Road, Boca Raton;
Beach; (561) 624-6952 or www.macarthurbeach.org.
(561) 297-3737
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Part of the Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center’s Family Fun Series, the Enchantment Theatre Company’s Cinderella takes to the stage November 11 in a spectacular show that is a twist on the original fairytale. 1977 College Drive, Belle Glade; (561) 993-1160 or www.pbcc.edu.
Shuffling into Palm Beach County is Tapaholics, featuring nine energetic tap dancers led by the renowned Michael Minery. The performers find
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addictive rhythms at the Dolly Hand Cultural Art Center on November 14 and at Old School Square’s Crest Theatre on November 17-19. 1977 College Drive, Belle Glade; (561) 993-1160 or www.pbcc.edu.
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51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; (561) 243-7922 or www.oldschool.org.
It’s a long way from the Apollo
the trumpet was as a guest in a
Theatre to the Apollo program.
correction home for wayward
And while his playing may have
boys. If only today’s schools
been “as lofty as a moon flight,”
were as enlightened as that
as Time magazine once suggested,
reformatory was.
that would be as close as Louis
Alas, the arts are dismissed as
Daniel Armstrong would ever get
extravagant in today’s schools.
to taking “one small step for man.”
This, despite all the studies that
But as the jazz musician of the 20th century, giant
show parents believe music and Instead of a giant leap, Louis Armstrong delivered one giant free-form crazy jazz groove for mankind.
dance and art and drama make
leaps were a matter of course for
their children better students and better people.
Satchmo. For no one has ever embodied
If you feel like your kids aren’t
the art form the way he did. It was he
getting their fair share, make
who helped make virtuoso solos a part
some noise. To find out how,
of the vocabulary. It was he who was honored with
or for more information about
the title “American goodwill ambassador” by the State
the benefits of arts education,
Armstrong left his ints on the jazz world, ring lace-up oxfords.
READIN’ ART
’RITING ’RITHMETIC
There’s plenty of brain to go around. Give more to art.
Department. It was he who was the last jazz musician
please visit us on the web at
to hit #1 on the Billboard pop chart.
AmericansForTheArts.org. Like the great Louis
Not bad for a kid whose first experience with
Armstrong, all you need is a little brass.
PALM BEACH COUNTY PH OTO G R A PH E R S photograph palm beach county by John Loring
As glamorous as Hollywood, as prosperous as New York, as luxuriant as Cap Ferrat, as social as Newport and populated by more overachievers than Palo Alto, Palm Beach County merits scrutiny––and boasts its generous share of renowned photographers to document its every move.
harry benson Arguably the greatest photojournalist of the past 50 years, whose photos for Life magazine of pop stars and presidents, the social and the sportive, millionaires and murderers are monuments in the history of photography, Harry Benson has said that his favorite place in America is “every place I’ve taken good photos.” Palm Beach County, where the Scotland native winters, ranks high for Benson as a land of “excitement and possibilities.” Aiming his camera and intoning his familiar command, “Show me energy, energy—energy!” Benson has, for decades, shown the world the energy of the citizenry of Palm Beach County through photos —John Loring, design director of Tiffany & Co. since 1979, is the author of numerous Doubleday and Harry N. Abrams books on style and social history. He is the former New York Bureau Chief and a contributing writer for over 30 years of Architectural Digest. He graduated from Yale University and has an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute.
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of remarkable people “that are all, very simply, after a happy life” and “more alike than unalike,” Benson says.
The Greco-Roman Tempietto at Villa Artemis in Palm Beach (designed by F. Burrall Hoffman) with then new residents Mr. and Mrs. Leighton A. Rosenthal and daughter Cynthia, photographed by Harry Benson in 1974.
ellen graham It’s very much the photographer’s job to follow the dictate of Baudelaire when he observed that, “The artist must first see what is apparent, but must also guess at what’s hidden.” Palm Beach, Hollywood and New York celebrity portraitist Ellen Graham has, since taking her first photo in 1959, been working at getting her famous subjects to let down their guard and reveal the hidden. The island of Palm Beach is a playground of celebrities from all walks of life and has amply provided her with material for the theme of identity in flux that runs throughout her work—work that has been published in
Vanity Fair, Vogue, Time and Newsweek. Though the majority of her subjects are famous (movie stars, royals, athletes, fashion designers and models, singers, dancers, socialites and more movie stars), Graham is not overly concerned with documenting the face (more often beautiful than not) of a bigger-than-life spirit, but with stealing a bit of that spirit itself in a moment of joy, frivolity, pride, bravado or distraction.
A world-famous, 10-goal polo player, Adolphus Cambiaso, was photographed by Ellen Graham at Palm Beach Polo in 1999.
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From a quite different perspective, Palm Beach society’s ever-popular cheerleader Kate Ford (Mrs. Henry Ford) eggs her subjects on to have fun in her brand of intimately observed portrait studies which are playful, poignant, incisive and thoroughly charming. Switching seamlessly from director to actor and back again as she fixes an image, she captures the pervasive moments of happiness in her extraordinary community. Much of her intimate vision of that community is shared by Susan Patterson, wife of popular mystery writer James Patterson, whose camera documents the creamy “happy life” that all in Palm Beach aspire to––the life that the father of Palm Beach society photography Slim Aarons aptly called, “a wonderful time.” Patterson achieves her goal with faith in a purity and simplicity of means that is disarming.
Kate Ford’s portrait of her granddaughter Chelsea Guibord with a friend captured in 1989.
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kate ford
susan patterson
“My son Jack and his water sprite!� said Susan Solie Patterson of her photo taken in front of the West Palm Beach Library at the end of Clematis Street in 2006.
mary hilliard The social being social and the cultured being cultural are, of course, natural mainstays of Palm Beach County photography, and society photography has an ample share of familiar and adept local practitioners. Recently, their ranks have been joined by Mary Hilliard, the long-favored photo chronicler of the very social at play at home and abroad. She has restored a home in the Sunshine Park district of West Palm Beach and brought her own good-naturedly artful take—so familiar to the readers of Vogue, Town & Country, Avenue and Quest— to the community.
Lilly Pulitzer Fashion Show in Palm Beach photographed by Mary Hilliard in 1993.
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Frank Moore captures Old Navy’s beach flip-flops in 2006.
frank moore
But people are not always directly the issue, as witnessed by the county’s leading commercial still life photographer Frank Moore. Moore’s work brings visual poetry to the marketing of the sometimes utilitarian products of many Fortune 500 companies. As seen by his camera, even molded plastic beach flip-flops take on subtlety, charm and poetry.
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And far from least is the inexhaustible subject matter of Palm Beach County’s magnificent architecture and lavish interiors. For decades, fabulous homes have been documented in the pages of Town & Country, but now are even more familiar to audiences worldwide through the photographs of Palm Beach Gardens resident Kim Sargent in Architectural Digest as well as in the county’s best-selling 2005 books “Palm Beach Splendor” and “Tiffany’s Palm Beach.” A glance at just a handful of work by these resident masters tells us that the culture of the “wonderful time” of the Palm Beaches is in full flower.
kim sargent
Photographed by Kim Sargent, La Follia, the Palm Beach home of Terry Allen Kramer completed in 1996, was designed by architect Jeffrey Smith with interior design by Pauline Pitt.
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Dreher Park
gone N
Nestled among residential neighborhoods and highway construction is a Palm Beach County treasure that continues to delight thousands of area residents and visitors each year. Here, spider monkeys dance in the trees as wild, native Florida egrets, herons and ibis mingle with rainbow
macaws
and
Cuban
whistling ducks. A 300-pound tiger
named
Townee
lounges in the mist, while many collared
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peccaries can be seen snuggling near a tropical cafe. Nearly 40 years ago, City of West Palm Beach Director of Parks and Recreation Paul Dreher developed a botanical garden within the current site of Dreher Park. With $18 of his own money, Dreher also brought in two ducks, two chickens, a goose and a goat, forming a barnyard zoo on the land that would later become the Palm Beach Zoo.
Photography courtesy of the Palm Beach Zoo
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The Palm Beach Post
Today, the zoo is recognized nationally for its excellence. In 2005, for
The zoo’s most recent addition is the Tropics of the
example, Animal Planet’s “The Ultimate Zoo” television show showcased the
Americas exhibit, completed in June 2004 and home to
zoo’s Jaguar Exhibit, calling it the best in the United States.
Central and South American animals like a 700-pound
“I think zoos, aquariums, museums and botanical gardens are very
tapir, endangered Amazon River turtles and crested
important to every community,” says Dr. Terry Maple, who joined the Palm
screamer birds. Jaguars named Muchacho, Izel,
Beach Zoo as president and CEO last year. “In South Florida, where wildlife is
Caipora and Nabalam take shelter in the 40-foot-tall,
abundant and sometimes intrusive, it is important to understand we share the
hand-carved Mayan pyramids when night falls. The
earth with them and must take care to adjust our habits to protect them and
exhibit recently received an Honor Award from the
the wild places that sustain them. Zoos can help to deliver a strong
American
conservation message that educates and inspires our visitors.”
Louisiana Chapter.
Society
of
Landscape
Architects,
Now, with more than 1,000 animals from North America, South America,
“The benefit of having this many animals together is
Asia, Europe, Australia and Africa—including 20 endangered species—and
that it becomes a much more accurate representation
hundreds of tropical trees and flowering plants, the zoo has grown to become
of what you’d have in the wild,” says Keith Lovett,
one of Palm Beach County’s top cultural attractions, drawing more than
director of living collections for the zoo.
250,000 visitors each year. Fully accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, it is one of the few zoo facilities able to feature outdoor animal exhibits year-round.
Lovett, who’s been with the Palm Beach Zoo since 1998, works from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., five or six days a week, overseeing the zoo’s animal, horticultural, veterinary and conservation efforts. “I really love what
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Dreher Park gone I do, so it’s not a burden for me to put in the hours,”
develop sites for musical entertainment, animal shows and informal education. We
he explains.
also need to enhance the education facilities and we must replace plants lost to
It was this kind of dedication from employees, as
well
as
the
community’s
philanthropic
the hurricanes we have experienced. I am confident the community will continue to give generously to strengthen the zoo and its programs.”
generosity, that helped draw the internationally renowned Maple to West Palm Beach. “The people who recruited me assured me that
Director of Living Collections Keith Lovett with a juvenile anteater
the community has the financial resources to enhance the zoo,” Maple says. “The Palm Beach community organized and hosted a wonderful black-tie gala, (themed) ‘An Evening Out of Africa,’ which raised more than $1 million for the zoo last January. Only a handful of other zoos have done this—New York, New Orleans, Atlanta. I give all the credit to our board and committee members who contributed 40 percent of the funding for this incredibly successful party. It was an honor to be a part of it.” With such a strong foundation on which to build, Maple’s “We can do better” philosophy will keep the zoo soaring to new heights. “Over the next several years, the zoo needs to improve the exhibits and continue to expand visitor amenities that people enjoy,” Maple says. “We want to
C O M I N G S O O N TO T H E PA L M B E AC H ZO O . . . Fa l l 2 0 0 7 Nov e m b e r 2 0 0 6
A new 10,000-square-foot animal Existing Lagoon
The outdoor patio at Tropics Flight Seabirds & Release Raptor Points Cafe is about to step to a new Flight Paths beat. Zoo planners are working on constructing New Show Barge New a dock and floating Dockside Events stage in the midst of Baker Expanded View Deck Lagoon, part of the zoo’s intricate system of lagoons. Here, visitors can check Existing out trained raptor and other bird shows. Made Lagoon Cafe possible by a generous grant from the Scaife Family Foundation, the site will also permit musical groups to perform during special daytime or nighttime events.
hospital equipped with advanced medNew Lagoon Theater Show Barge Stage Free Flight Bird Show Natural Behavior Demos
ical technology and the ability to provide preventive medicine and surgical procedures when necessary is planned
Existing Lagoon Market with Interactive Animal Exhibits
for the north shore of Baker Lagoon. “A state-of-the-art Animal Care Complex is one of the highest priori-
Existing Snacks
ties for the Palm Beach Zoo,” Maple says. “Food preparation will be significantly upgraded in a new commissary building, and animal quarantine will also receive needed enhancements.”
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Dr. Terry Maple with Scooter, a binturong
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Q&A Photo by Jim Fairman
Zoo President and CEO Dr. Terry Maple is internationally known for his work with primates and for the resurrection of Zoo Atlanta, which rose from mediocrity (in 1984 it was considered one of the 10 worst zoos in the nation) to excellence during his 18-year tenure as president and CEO. He joined the Palm Beach Zoo two weeks before Hurricane Wilma ravaged South Florida, uprooting ages-old banyan and ficus trees, and sending the wild animal population—and humans—into a frenzy. Nearly a year later, the zoo is better than ever with new exhibits, improved facilities and a friendly and caring staff.
W h a t i n s p i re d y o u r l ov e o f a n i m a l s ? As a kid I liked to hike the foothills of eastern San Diego County where there were lots of wild animals, including coyotes and horned lizards (my personal favorites). I used to collect
Why is supporting your local zoo especially i m p o r t a n t i n So u t h Fl o r i d a ? If you think about it, Florida is a state that is
lizards whenever I could catch them, but mainly I enjoyed being in the outdoors with my
filled with a lot of interesting wildlife situations.
neighborhood friends. Since my family liked to go to the zoo it became a source of great
You’ve got gators in people’s backyards, and birds
inspiration for me. I liked to visit the giant snakes and the great apes. I’m living proof that a
flying all over the place. I think Floridians more than
zoo can make a difference in the life (and the career) of a little boy growing up nearby. How did you turn that pas sion int o a c are I started by doing behavioral er? research at the Sacramento Zoo in California. I studied
monkeys and apes at the zoo and tried to help the zoo to develop new ideas for exhibiting and managing them. I really enjoyed having access to the collection and got hooked on the zoo as an interesting place to conduct studies of animal behavior. Later I spent a year on a sabbatical leave at New Orleans’ Audubon Zoo and learned about the challenges of
any other group of people ought to be very concerned about wildlife and support their zoo.
What plans do you have for t h e f u t u re a n d w h a t i s your timeline? I strongly believe in the future of the Palm Beach
upgrading a zoo to a “world-class” standard. My mentor was Ron Forman, who built
Zoo, but you can’t achieve greatness overnight. It
a small zoo into the powerhouse Audubon Nature Institute. I’m still learning from him.
took 18 years to revitalize Zoo Atlanta, and it will take time to build this zoo. In the immediate
th e Pa lm Be ac h Zo o? to u yo d te ac tr at t ha W When I was recruited to the zoo, I was attracted by the enthusiasm of the staff, the resolve and commitment of key board leaders and the wonderful botanical setting. During my time in Florida I have also learned about the tenacity and resilience of the community [members], who have fought back from the devastation of three hurricanes in 14 months. I admire and respect the people who are living here and helping us to rebuild and strengthen
short term, we want to build an excellent medical facility and make improvements that will attract more visitors and produce more revenue. We are making steady progress. ... If you look at the zoo in five years, it will be completely different than the one you have today.
the zoo. Great challenges always make you stronger. —Aime Dunstan is a freelance writer who lives and works in sunny West Palm Beach. A Florida native, she loves to shop for shoes, devour literature and stalk wild iguanas in her own backyard. When she’s not enjoying South Florida’s wild environs—including the Palm Beach Zoo—you can often find her cheering on the Florida Gators at her favorite sports bar.
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Divine Creations The artworks of five houses of worship in Palm Beach County
Architect Mies van der Rohe said, ‘God is in the details.’ I took that to heart and found in my selection of houses of worship a diversity of details revealing a human touch searching to express faith and devotion toward a higher power.
by Roger Hurlburt Photography by Jim Fairman
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St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church
Faith.
By definition it is belief in the unseen,
text of religion through a greater variety of media—even architec-
the unproven. It is the fabric of religion, woven by the spoken and
ture—spiritual mysteries may not have been solved, but at least
written word through doctrines that comfort, caution, uplift and
they could be seen.
remind. It is faith that puts the spiritual within our grasp.
Religious visual aids? Absolutely. What better way to unite a
Despite a framework of intangibles, the depiction of piety
congregation than through pictorials and hands-on objects? And
long has been a challenge for artisans attempting to create inspi-
you need not be a scholar of scripture or a historian of ancient
rational images or fashion objects important to rituals, traditions
cultures, nor travel afar on a pilgrimage to marvel––indeed
and even folklore. Centuries ago, narrative mosaics, manuscripts
revel––in the artwork of devotion. Palm Beach County alone
and stained glass brought visual form to faith because of a
offers a handy tour of houses of worship nearly as rich in art
vastly illiterate world. As artists later came to visualize the con-
objects as the foundations of a given faith.
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St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church That gem on everyone’s parochial tour, the charming Mizner-designed
no formal university training, he is recognized as not only a superb craftsman,
Episcopal haven Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, will not be included.
but also as an authority on the highly specialized images he creates. The wall
Its splendid environs have been well-chronicled. This is not to say that other
murals and icons on wood produced over the past three years at St. Mark are
local houses of worship simply pale by comparison.
a testament to his learned know-how and grasp of art history.
Traveling on Boca Raton’s Yamato Road west of Interstate 95, consid-
“In the 1970s I fell in love with Orthodox art,” he says. “Other than a
er the cluster of mighty golden domes that comes into view. The largest
few artists working today in monasteries, I am the only professional of this
denotes the compact nave of St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church, construct-
mode in the United States. I went to Mount Athos in Greece to the
ed in 1997. Another lustrous half-dome comprises the eastern end of the
Monastery of St. Catherine and elsewhere to study and learn from the
church and a traditional positioning with geographic regard to the ancient
monks the secrets of icon painting.”
Holy Land.
Manos’ wall murals at St. Mark are rendered in modern acrylic pigments,
“That is the theotokos—it represents the tummy of the Blessed Virgin,”
but their crisply schematic style is tied directly to the era of high Byzantine
explains Lawrence Manos, a painter and iconographer—that is, an expert
art of the 14th and 15th centuries. He says he has attempted to capture the
in Greek Orthodox symbolism.
Passion stories and image of Christ as Pantocrator, plus a medley of
These days, Manos is seldom at his New Jersey home. He’s traveling the
full-length saints, the “glorified” look borrowed from the art of Constantinople
country tending to paintings in 16 churches, including an Orthodox cathedral
in the late Middle Ages. His icons (i.e., images for veneration) are made in a
in storm-torn New Orleans. While Manos began as an abstract artist and has
strictly time-honored method. He applies water-based tempera pigments
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bound with actual egg yolks to wood panels and affixes glittering back-
Within the synagogue
grounds of the purest gold leaf with a homemade recipe of “rabbit skin glue.”
hangs a handsome pair of
“But my murals are not fresco—fresco is dead today and almost no
silver Shabbat lamps.
one does it,” Manos is quick to add. “People think of Italian frescoes.
One is
Ah … the Italians learned fresco painting from the Greeks!”
Italian
A work in progress for Manos, the murals and icons at St. Mark are
from about 1800 and
an evocative tribute to fine artistry bound to the hallowed imageries of
is pierced by cut-out Hebrew
an enduring faith.
letters offering a parable about light. The other is
Martin Schwalberg stands in the vestibule of Temple Israel in West
Austrian from the 1780s and
Palm Beach and smiles. The long-time Worth Avenue antiques dealer and
evidences classical details and
specialist in Meissen porcelains has a pet at the downtown synagogue—
motifs, such as edge milling
a rare “hoopoe” bird made by the venerable German firm around 1870.
and Mediterranean-inspired
“The story goes,” Schwalberg says, “King Solomon was in a chariot among the clouds with eagles. A flock of aggressive birds attacked the
acanthus leaf embellishments. More silver objects are
chariot but was driven off by the hoopoes. After that, Solomon placed the
displayed within the Ark of the
hoopoes under ‘his protection’ and they have remained in Jewish lore.”
synagogue and above the Torahs.
The splendidly made bird, with its tapered beak and crested head, was
Rabbi Shapiro explains that many
a gift from Schwalberg to Temple Israel. It is among many intimate treasures
pieces are “breast plates” that emulate
of Judaica preserved at the county’s oldest synagogue. Founded in 1923, it
ancient priestly vestments and traditionally
features 1950s-style architecture that soon will change. Rabbi Howard
adorn and encase the Torah scrolls. The plates
Shapiro says plans are moving forward to raze the building and construct a
feature a brace of big cats representing the Lions
new synagogue at the same location.
of Judah, plus finials accented with stylish peacocks. Several silver crowns with tiny bells serve as decorative caps for each Torah scroll.
In Christianity, it was the son of a carpenter who set about to save souls. So it is apropos that a latter-day carpenter made it his job to save and protect a suite of potentially fragile images of Christ—especially in consideration of South Florida’s recent busy hurricane seasons. In 1965, Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Delray Beach moved from Temple Israel
Temple Israel
Divine Creations Fifth Avenue to Swinton Avenue. The school’s little gothic-style chapel, with
protection through custom exterior frames of high-impact glass.
its graceful pointed arches, pert nave buttresses and sequence of
Pressure-treated wood, glue and plenty of screws also were employed.
glorious stained glass windows dating from the 1930s, was not left behind. It was relocated intact. And it’s a miracle the delicate, translucent ensembles have survived so long.
From the outside of the little building, the stained glass cannot be appreciated. Inside, however, incisive images depicting the life of Christ leap out and shimmer in a spectrum of vivid hues.
“So I guess we did something right—when you
Included is a gentle Nativity scene with Mary, Joseph
think about those last storms,” muses John
and the Infant; the Adoration of the Shepherds;
Miller of Delray, a carpenter for 57 years.
Christ Among the Children; Christ and Mary
“When I restored the windows two
Magdalene;
years ago, they still were in the
The
Transfiguration
and
others. A masterpiece is the emotional
original hollow frames. There
Agony in the Garden beneath the ped-
were pockets all the way
iment of the west wall, a piece that
around from the old window
Miller had to re-set.
weights and they were
“I hope I got that one put in
very vulnerable.”
properly,’’ he says with a
The art of stained
chuckle of deserved pride.
glass dates back more than a thousand years to
Europe’s
era
Just a mile or two north
of
of
Trinity
Lutheran
is
great cathedral building.
Ascension Lutheran Church
Using drawings as tem-
in Boynton Beach, built in
plates, artisans made
1983. Its sacristy has an
sheets of semi-transpar-
unexpected
ent pigmented glass,
shape that harkens to the
which were cut into
earliest days of Christian
desired shapes. The
church design.
pieces were assembled
Pastor
like a jigsaw puzzle
Mary
Faith
Nesmith loves to show off
by fusing them with ribbons of molten lead.
“centralized’’
the interior at Ascension. She Trinity Lutheran Church and School
opens the doors and recom-
While modern adhesives often are used today, the windows at Trinity
mends standing quietly for a moment. Pews in pasture-green upholstery
Lutheran were created in the traditional manner.
fan out, as beams of knotty, natural wood echo the spatial sensation from
Miller did nothing more to the chapel’s stained glass than clean away
above. Center stage is a unique high altar, which is as much a focal point
decades of dirt. But the frames needed an overhaul. He found long-term
as a singular conversation piece—a massive block of natural coral. Known
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as “coquille’’ in South Florida, the material of the altar evidences the myriad of nooks and crannies it bore in its former marine setting. But this noble slab is old and was not harvested from any living reef. On this day, Pastor Nesmith runs her hand along the polished top of the coral where she has addressed her congregation so many times. A small brown lizard scurries from beneath a scripture book and disappears into a crevice. She pays no mind. “There are several of those living within the coral—isn’t that so wonderful?” Nesmith says. “One Sunday I opened the scriptures and a daddy long legs came out; another time it was a more formidable spider. You know—this isn’t just the word of God, it is home to God’s critters, too.” Near the altar is another natural item—a baptismal font cleverly constructed of salvaged driftwood and surmounted with a South Sea giant clamshell as a receptacle. A tan gecko has made this his residence—a bit of suburbia, one might say, away from the comparatively urban bustle of that living and clearly thriving altar.
The need to simplify has long been a foundation of the fine arts. Nowhere is this ethic more pronounced than in the grandeur of architecture and, most noticeably, in the defining elements of church architecture. For anyone motoring along West Palm Beach’s Flagler Drive or heading west on the Okeechobee bridge, it is impossible to miss the majestic grace and symmetry of the First Baptist Church. From its appealing courses of beige stone, its six monumental columns, tall pediment façade and marked telescoping spire, the First Baptist Church is a masterful conception of the Greek-revival style. The fluted (i.e., etched) columns, leafy capitals, rows of roof-line dentils and even the arabesques of Ionic scrolls atop columns in the spire evidence the hallmarks of revered ancient
Ascension Lutheran Church
First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach
Divine Creations Aegean architecture. Dedicated in 1965, the church was constructed after its famous adjacent facility, the Chapel by the Lake on the Intracoastal Waterway. A theme of superb simplification is carried through into the church’s spacious nave and side aisles. There are no murals, no mosaics, no statuary and no stained glass. Walls of immaculate white are illuminated
St. Mark Greek Orthodox Church 2100 Yamato Road, Boca Raton (561) 994-4822 Father John Pappas
by the natural light of the nave. Taller clerestory windows are topped by broken goose-neck pediments. The recently renovated choir section is elevated and framed by additional windows. But the petite, classical-style pulpit is from 1904—a precious, still-functioning memento from a Baptist church destroyed by hurricane fury in 1928. Behind the church on the west side is the former Baptist “tabernacle,”
Temple Israel 1901 Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach (561) 833-8421 Rabbi Howard Shapiro
now Palm Beach Atlantic University’s library and theater. With its delightfully archaic octagonal shape, which is akin to baptistery forms from early medieval Italy, plus reddish terracotta roof tiles and eave trim, it is hidden to all but observant travelers along South Olive Avenue. It is one of the most fascinating and complex buildings in the Palm Beaches. It is easy to wax poetic, become enthused and even inspired by the artworks preserved within Palm Beach County’s many houses of
Trinity Lutheran Church and School 400 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach (561) 278-1737 Principal Tim Guelzou
worship. You are invited to seek them out. And have faith … visitors always are welcome.
Ascension Lutheran Church 2929 S. Seacrest Blvd., Boynton Beach (561) 732-2929 Pastor Mary Faith Nesmith
First Baptist Church of West Palm Beach 1101 Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach (561) 650-7400 Executive Pastor Kevin P. Mahoney Ascension Lutheran Church
—Roger Hurlburt grew up in the New York metropolitan area, but has lived in Florida for 30 years. He has a degree in fine arts from Rollins College and completed graduate work in art history at Florida State University. For two decades he served as features writer, art critic and film reviewer for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Since 1979, he also has been adjunct professor of art history at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.
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Spady Cultural Heritage Museum Bill Underwood
ArtStart
Bill Underwood
2005 Red Morgan
Inspirit ArtStart
Allah Emmanuel, “Silent Connection,” acrylic, 20 by 20 inches from “Gathering of Kumba”
For more information on the organizations in this article, please visit the Palm Beach County Cultural Council’s Web site at www.palmbeachculture.com.
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Puerto Rican Cultural Society of Palm Beach County, Inc.
2005 Red Morgan
2005 Red Morgan
Inspirit
Bill Underwood
Inspirit Il Circolo ArtStart
small voices
BIG IMPACT by Catherine Smith
A look at a few of Palm Beach County’s small and emerging organizations—and how they’re changing our communities
he Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and Norton Museum of
only staff member and relies on the help of many volunteers and
Art are well-known Palm Beach County staples. They’re the ven-
a committed board of directors.
T
ues to see a Broadway show or the latest European art exhibi-
“We pay for professional services as needed, but have thus
tion. But in the shadows of these heavyweights are dozens of
far kept those expenditures to a minimum and have been fortu-
small, community-based organizations making big impacts and
nate to receive many in-kind contributions,” she says. In addition to hosting artist-in-residence programs,
affecting lives every day. While they don’t have big budgets or large, full-time staffs, the small groups
teacher workshops, internships and creative writing opportu-
that enrich our communities through art and culture are resourceful—and, most
nities, ArtStart provides scholarships for economically disad-
importantly, are headed by active leaders and backed by dedicated volunteers.
vantaged students applying to the prestigious Bak Middle
“Almost always when there is an organization that is excelling and suc-
School of the Arts in West Palm Beach.
cessful it’s because it has volunteers and a
The scholarships, which can be as much as $250, go
board that believes in it,” says Beth
toward art supplies needed to complete portfolios, clothes for the interview and preparation
Doherty, grants director of the Palm Beach
classes, such as the Armory Art Center’s Audition Crunch Time. “I wanted to help ensure
County Cultural Council.
that when the student goes before the review panel at Bak, it’s all about the art,” says
Perhaps Jeannette Pomeroy Parssi knows
Pomeroy Parssi, a professional artist who gave up her career in advertising to form
this best. After founding ArtStart, a Wellington-
ArtStart. “While [the three scholarships awarded in 2005] did not represent a great deal of
based organization that provides arts education
money, the smiles on the faces of the students and their parents were priceless.”
to underserved children throughout the county,
A recipient of the Palm Beach County Cultural Council’s Small and Emerging Organizations
nearly two years ago, Pomeroy Parssi is the
(commonly referred to as Category C-1) grant, ArtStart, which has teamed up with the Mental
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Health Association of Palm Beach County as well as the Boys and Girls
In addition to the making the arts accessible, maintaining cultural her-
Clubs of Palm Beach County to bring programs to Lantana Elementary
itage is an important initiative, especially in an area as multicultural and
School and the Belle Glade Teen Center, plans to expand its services
rich with history as Palm Beach County. “You have to know where you
to the community. All together, the Cultural Council awarded $400,000
came from in order to have a solid foundation,” says Bill Nix, the Palm
in grants to more than 40 organizations with budgets under $200,000
Beach County Cultural Council’s vice president of marketing and govern-
in 2006.
ment affairs.
Another true outreach organization is Lake Worth-
For example, the Caribbean Americans for Community Involvement aims to enhance mutual
based Inspirit. Bringing live music to institutions rang-
understanding among community groups in Royal Palm Beach and surrounding western commu-
ing from nursing homes and Alzheimer’s day care cen-
nities. Il Circolo, The Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches supports Italian culture and arts
ters to pediatric hospitals and rehabilitation facilities,
through events and gives thousands of dollars to local schools that offer Italian programs and
Inspirit has presented more than 450 performances
Florida Atlantic University students traveling to Italy, as well as contributing $5,000 to one Palm Beach
Bill Underwood
Il Circolo Il Circolo ArtStart
to over 14,000 institutionalized people since its inception in 2000.
Opera Vocal Competition winner this spring. The Argentina Arts Organization,
Ginny Williams, executive director and co-founder, says, “The
Centro Cultural Latinoamericano, Grupo Folklore Latino and Organizacion Cultural
people we are serving do not have access to the arts and this is
Chilena—to name a few—are committed to raising awareness and preserving the
generally the only way they are going to get it.”
cultures of Latin America and Hispanic peoples throughout the county.
Williams can tell story after story of how Inspirit
Welcoming all members of the community is the Puerto Rican Cultural
performers—who include singers, rocks bands, poets and
Society of Palm Beach County, Inc. (PRCS). Founded in 2001, the organization
storytellers—have touched the lives of audience members.
is a wonderful resource for Puerto Ricans to get together and celebrate their
There’s the father whose son smiled for the first time in a
heritage, from eating arroz con gandules (rice and pigeon peas) to
week after watching a show at the Nicklaus Children’s
participating in traditional folkloric dances such as bomba.
Hospital in West Palm Beach. And then there’s the Alzheimer’s patient who
“Our Spanish, European, Taino and African heritage
hadn’t spoken in five years and was heard singing along to a performance.
combination makes us a warm, colorful people with a culture
Despite having only three part-time employees, including Williams, Inspirit coordi-
rich in history, poetry, art, music and dance,” says America
nates 10 shows a month. “We can’t keep up with the demand,” says Williams, who is
Lluvera, who after becoming president in 2003 has helped to
always vying for more funding and hopes to eventually have two performances a day.
boost the membership from 12 to 54—and it’s still growing.
“We are fortunate to have this type of an organization in Palm Beach County that
In addition to hosting an array of community events,
is comparable to other arts organizations in cities known as cultural meccas, like San
including the popular Nuestra Musica concerts and Three
Francisco and New York,” she says.
Kings Festival, the PRCS also awards scholarships to needy
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students, donates layettes for newborns of indigent mothers,
As the only African-American history museum in Palm Beach County,
distributes Thanksgiving food baskets and supports hurricane victims
the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum, which operates under the parent
through the Red Cross.
organization Expanding & Preserving Our Cultural Heritage (EPOCH) and is
Several cultural programs that celebrate the heritage of the African-
housed in the former 1926 home of prominent educator Solomon David
American community—including the “Gathering of Kuumba” exhibition,
Spady, is an important part of the Delray Beach community and beyond.
Roots Cultural Festival and Spady Cultural Heritage Museum—have been
Executive Director Daisy Fulton, who has been with the Spady Museum
able to expand substantially in Delray Beach.
since it opened in 2001, says, “One of our primary goals is connecting
Started in 2000 by three friends who were part of an artist network-
community through culture.”
ing group, the “Gathering of Kuumba” exhibition has grown from a small, three-day event with
Now a successful museum that has four full-time
seven artists into a 15-artist, two-month annual show at Old School Square Cultural Arts
staff members, 80 active volunteers (and more on
Center. “Since its inception the event’s mission has been to share the exuberance and
tap), 160 members, an annual budget of over $300,000, an active Kids Cultural Club and acclaimed exhibitions as well as a notable permanent
Bill Underwood
ArtStart Nzingah, “Waiting,” pastel, 36 by 42 inches, from “Gathering of Kumba”
Spady Cultural Heritage Museum
passion of some of the most creative African-American, Haitian and Caribbean artists in South
collection, the Spady Museum is making its mark.
Florida,” says exhibition curator Daphne Dowell, who is a co-founder of the show and also the
With impressive expansion plans for a new Spady
program assistant and volunteer coordinator for Old School Square.
Cultural Heritage Complex—which includes the reno-
Dowell says she hopes a call to artists will enlist up to 30 artists for the exhibition that will
vation of a neighboring historic home and the con-
run from January 18-March 18, 2007 at the Cornell Museum of Art & History in Old School
struction of a 50-seat amphitheater and support
Square. Plans to have entertainment and a space for artwork by local students are also in the
facility in addition to the current museum—on the
works. “We’re trying to take it to the next level,” Dowell says.
drawing board, the Spady Museum demonstrates
The Roots Cultural Festival, a Delray Beach favorite celebrating African-American and
that with the help of visionary leaders and dedicated
Caribbean culture since 1978, has grown from a one-day event into a series of plays, concerts
volunteers, a small organization can grow into an
and other activities that start in December or January and culminate in the three-day Festival on
important community staple.
the Square at Old School Square in the summer. Education is also now a large component of the Roots festival, from high school jazz clinics to the Summer Academic Olympics. Elizabeth Wesley, Roots co-founder, says the organization has made such a tremendous impact on the community because it offers a platform to see and showcase African-American talent and culture in a positive way.
—As the associate editor of art&culture magazine, Catherine Smith spends her working hours writing, copy editing and, of course, pitching ideas on who and what best showcase Palm Beach County’s art and culture scene. Ask this award-winning University of Florida grad what she’s doing this weekend and there’s a good chance you’ll hear about her cocker spaniel, Polly.
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Jan ine Ha rris
Left photo: Markus Shaffer and Lorena Jimenez of Ballet Florida perform Bello.
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Right photo: Mary Carmen Catoya and Renato Penteado of Miami City Ballet in Don Quixote.
David Heischreck
Getting to the Pointe The Evolution of Dance in Palm Beach County by Christina Wood
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Getting to the Pointe Twenty years ago Ballet Florida and Miami City
American-born male star of the New York City
Ballet pirouetted out of South Florida’s primor-
Ballet (1957-1975), a Kennedy Center
dial cultural ooze. A year later, the Demetrius
Honoree and recipient of the National Medal of
Klein Dance Company emerged on the land-
Arts, based his vision for the company on the
scape; Boca Ballet Theatre and the Harid
neoclassical aesthetic made popular by
Conservatory soon followed. Despite specula-
George Balanchine, one of the 20th century’s
tion, the precise moment at which Palm Beach
foremost choreographers. Under his direction,
County’s potent mix of population, performing
Miami City Ballet has grown from a fledgling
venues and patronage reached life-sustaining
troupe of 19 dancers to become one of the
proportions remains cloaked in mystery, but
largest ballet companies in the United States
there is no doubt that the mix has proved
with 52 dancers and a 2006 fiscal year budg-
unusually fertile.
et of $12.8 million.
Theorists may debate the forces apparent in
Ballet Florida, founded by Marie Hale as an out-
the designed growth of Miami City Ballet as
growth of the Ballet Arts Foundation, is among
opposed to the natural evolution of Ballet
Bayanihan Philippine National Dance Company
Florida, but everyone agrees on one thing.
the 10 largest cultural organizations in Palm Beach County with an annual budget of $5 mil-
“The Palm Beach County audience is spoiled
management, marketing and production compa-
lion. Hale, who began dancing at the age of
for choice,” says George Cripps, assistant to
ny will present the Moscow Ballet and Bayanihan
two, now serves as the company’s artistic
the artistic director and production stage man-
Philippine National Dance Company among oth-
director. Over the course of her career, she
ager for Ballet Florida.
ers at choice locations such as the Florida
has inspired countless dancers and has
Atlantic University and Eissey Campus Theatres.
trained more than 100 students for profession-
In addition to two renowned professional ballet
al careers in dance; one of her first students
companies, the county provides homes to Klein
“The fact that all of that is happening in Palm
was Lou Conte, founder of the renowned
Dance, one of the nation’s leading modern
Beach County is unique,” contends Dan Guin,
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
dance companies; an innovative civic ballet
co-artistic director of Boca Ballet Theatre.
company, Boca Ballet Theatre, that partners
“When I first moved to Palm Beach County it
local students with leading professional
“Outside of a major metropolitan area, outside
was 1961, there was nothing here but the
dancers; Harid Conservatory—one of the
of a New York or a Chicago or a San
Royal Poinciana Playhouse,” Hale recalls. “I
nation’s few dance conservatories; Florida
Francisco, it’s rare to find this much quality
wasn’t trying to start a professional ballet
Classical Ballet Theatre; two university dance
dance being performed,” Cripps agrees.
company in those days, I just felt the train-
programs (at Florida Atlantic and Palm Beach
ing was so important and, little by little, the
Atlantic universities) and countless schools.
“Art breeds art,” says Brian Bixler, publicist
company just evolved.” Today, Ballet Florida
Local presenters bring international stars and
for the Kravis Center, in which case you
is a thriving company with 24 professional
cutting-edge creativity to the stage of the
could say Palm Beach County has served as
dancers and roots that extend deep into the
Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing
a powerful aphrodisiac.
community. The company’s strength, Steven Caras believes, lies in “their joy in dancing
Arts, the Duncan Theatre and other venues. “I like to think of that in another way,” says
as an ensemble.”
Also contributing to the diversity of the local
Edward Villella, founding artistic director and
dance scene is Sunset Entertainment Group
CEO of Miami City Ballet, “and that is that qual-
Caras began his career as a dancer with New
under the direction of Dr. Joseph E. Ferrer.
ity breeds quality. That is what I think is hap-
York City Ballet, but has worked with both
During its tenth anniversary season, the creative
pening in Palm Beach County.” Villella, the first
Ballet Florida and Miami City Ballet in a num-
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Ballet Florida Mission Statement The mission of Ballet Florida is to produce and present ballets danced by professional dancers; create an eclectic repertoire choreographed by contemporary choreographers of note or of historical importance; maintain the highest levels of design and production; contribute to the advancement of the art of ballet by producing new works of the highest quality and creativity; and reach, expose and educate the widest audience possible with its programs. Ballet Florida is committed to the rights of dancers to be challenged and encouraged; of choreograJanine Harris
phers to have their visions fulfilled with integrity and artistry; and audiences to be stimulated to feel elation, compassion, joy and laughter. Ballet Florida’s Tina Martin and Gary Lenington performing The Stone Flower.
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Getting to the Pointe ber of different roles, including photographer,
annual spring concert, which will showcase the
development director and ballet master.
talents of upper level students from the
“Some cities welcome dance more readily
Academy of Ballet Florida performing ballet,
than others, however, it is ‘survival of the
modern dance, jazz and tap.
fittest’ no matter what city a company is in,” he says. “It’s the obligation of these organiza-
Both Ballet Florida and Miami City Ballet will per-
tions to not only survive but to outdo them-
form at the Kravis Center during the season.
selves. The dance company has to continual-
“When you stand on that stage and you
ly reinvent itself.”
look out into that vast space which is the audience it really makes you expand,” Hale says. “It is a wonderful theater.”
el that evolutionary highway alone, however.
During the 2006-2007 season, the Kravis
As Villella, whose company is at home in four
Center will also welcome Pilobolus, the State
Janine Harris
No ballet company intent on survival can trav-
counties (Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Collier County on the Gulf Coast), explains,
Ballet Theatre of Russia, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, AntiGravity, Michael Flatley’s Lord of
Ballet Florida’s Gary Lenington performing Bello.
the Dance, Evidence Dance Company and Pascal
essential. “We try to expand the abilities of our
aggressive. That is what the audience is asking
Rioult Dance Theatre.
audiences to be entertained on an ongoing
for—more, more, more.”
bringing the audience along on the journey is
“I think one of the joys of having a building like the
basis. That,” he says, “is why I speak to our Ballet Florida’s new season features two world
Kravis Center is looking at the same stage and
premieres, one by choreographer Trey McIntyre
seeing so many different things on it,” Cripps
This season, Villella will be speaking to audi-
and the other by home-grown talent Jerry
adds. “It’s a great thing for the audience to be
ences about the mystery and meaning that suf-
Opdenaker. According to Guin, the company has
able to see so many different styles of dance.”
fuses a number of company premieres, includ-
a reputation for bringing the dance world’s bright-
ing the full-length production of Don Quixote
est new choreographers to Palm Beach County.
“We used to dance in what was called the
that kicks off the season, Lilac Garden by
“New work is very important to us,” Hale acknowl-
Leaky Teepee,” Villella says, looking back over
Anthony Tudor and Twyla Tharp’s In the Upper
edges. Just as music has continued to develop
the years to Miami City Ballet’s early perform-
Room, a one-act ballet suited to the power,
from Bach to Stravinsky to Philip Glass, she says,
ances at the West Palm Beach Auditorium.
the medium of dance must continue to evolve.
“Every time we danced there I always wanted
audience before every single performance.”
energy and speed of the company’s
Joe Gato
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dancers.
a hot dog and a beer. The Kravis Center,” he
Audiences can also look
Opdenaker headlines the season opener, which
forward
seeing
also includes Dominic Walsh’s Bello with music
Balanchine’s Agon and
by Handel performed live by the Mercury
Jerome
Robbins’
Baroque Ensemble and Ben Stevenson’s
Afternoon of a Faun.
Bartok Concerto. The McIntyre premiere will be
The season concludes
on the bill, along with the company premiere of
to
with the full-length 19th
Lar Lubovitch’s Elemental Brubeck and Vicente
century classic, Giselle.
Nebrada’s athletic Percussion for Six Men, in
“He’s got a magnificent
February. Other season highlights include Lady
year lined up,” Caras
of the Camellias, a full-length romantic ballet by
says of Villella’s plans.
choreographer
“The
Malandain’s Stone Flower and the company’s
schedule
is
Val
Caniparoli,
says, “is champagne.”
Thierry
Left photo: Miami City Ballet’s Carlos Guerra in rehearsals of Don Quixote. Right Photo: Miami City Ballet’s Deanna Seay in Raymonda Variations.
–Born in the Far East and raised by mystics, Christina Wood developed a flair for the creative at an early age. Oh all right, she was actually born in Wisconsin and studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison before making a move to Florida. After further studies at Oxford University, England, she received her bachelor’s degree from Florida Atlantic University. Before launching her freelance career in 1995, Christina enjoyed a variety of challenges working with both print and broadcast media.
Miami City Ballet Mission Statement Miami City Ballet’s mission is to continue to present dance to audiences in its four home communities on a regular basis and at affordable prices. The company intends to maintain its current subscriber base and to build new audiences by demystifying the classical repertory and by educating audiences, both young and old. Miami City Ballet also intends to reach audiences outside South Florida by touring to prestigious national and international venues. The latest in production technology will be used to facilitate the accomplishment of this mission. The company will ensure the attainment of its mission by building a cohesive team that can set and achieve the artistic and financial goals needed to
Steven Caras
fulfill the company’s mission and vision.
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Palm Beach Gardens
cultural council news nominations sought f o r n e w m u s e a w a rd s
The Muse Awards
The Palm Beach County Cultural Council is accepting nominations for The Muse Awards, a new
program
designed
to
recognize
individuals, organizations and companies for their leadership and achievements in the arts and cultural community. Information and applications
are
available
online
at
www.palmbeachculture.com or can be obtained by calling (561) 471-2901. The deadline is October 2 at 5 p.m. A panel of judges from the community will select the final Muse Award honorees, who will be announced during a gala awards ceremony at the Harriet Theater in CityPlace on January 5.
“It’s exciting to see that Palm Beach County is finally embarking on a new awards program to honor all of those who have been a part of our tremendous
cultural
growth!”
says
Rick
Gonzalez, a Cultural Council board member and
Muse Awards nominating committee chair. This is the community’s opportunity to recognize outstanding board members, staff, sponsors, volunteers, advocates, donors, unsung heroes and others who help to make Palm Beach County “Florida’s Cultural Capital,” Gonzalez adds.
The six Muse Award categories include Arts Education, Advocacy, Philanthropy, Visual Arts, Performing and Literary Arts, and Science and History. For further information, contact Beth Doherty at the Cultural Council at (561) 4711513 or bdoherty@pbccc.org.
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The Morikami Museum cheerfully welcomed guests at the 2005 “Sneak Peek� event.
{inside culture} cultural council news o c t o b e r 1 2 “s n e a k p e e k” s o i re e spotlights the new season Society, Historical Society of
Cultural Collaborative look forward to
Palm Beach County, Kravis
hosting the annual Young Friends “Sneak
Center for the Performing
Peek” Season Soiree on October 12 from
Arts, Miami City Ballet,
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Harriet Theater
Norton Museum of Art,
in CityPlace. Guests will include young
Palm Beach Opera, Morikami
professionals from across the county who
Museum and Japanese
will have the opportunity to learn about
Gardens, Old School Square
various volunteer opportunities and view
and the Palm Beach Zoo.
highlights of the upcoming 2006-2007
Members of such civic and
cultural season.
professional associations as
Palm Beach County Bar Association,
the Corporate Ambassadors, Junior
Urban League of Palm Beach County
Participating Young Friends groups include
League of Boca Raton, Junior League of
and the West Palm 100 also are invited.
those affiliated with the Boca Raton
the Palm Beaches, Moms Club of the Palm
Please call (561) 471-1602 for
Museum of Art, Boca Raton Historical
Beaches, Young Lawyers section of the
additional information.
Lucien Capehart Photography
The Cultural Council and the Young Friends
The Ladies of Old School Square
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cultural council annual meeting More than 100 Cultural Council members and guests gathered in May for the organization’s annual meeting, which took place at the Boca Raton Historical Society’s Old Town Hall. During the event, R. Thomas Mayes Jr. was elected chair of the Cultural Council’s board of directors, succeeding Marta Batmasian. Pictured (from left) are Sharon Koskoff with Tommy Mayes; and on page 79 (in the top photo) Jean Grabill, Erik Fahnoe, Rose Krauser and Marta Batmasian; and (below) George Sparks and Annette Wacker. Other officers elected for 2006-2007 include Gale Howden, vice chair; Debra Elmore, treasurer; and Rick Gonzalez, secretary.
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{inside culture} cultural council news c u l t u r a l e xe c u t i v e s committee elects 2006-2007 of ficers The Palm Beach County Cultural Council’s Cultural Executives Committee chose new officers for the 20062007 season. Sue Ellen Beryl (pictured below), executive director of Palm Beach Dramaworks, was elected chair of the committee, and Dr. Terry L. Maple, president and CEO of the Palm Beach Zoo, was elected vice chair. The Cultural Executives Committee, which consists of senior management staff from over 120 nonprofit cultural organizations across Palm Beach County, meets monthly to encourage education, networking and collaboration.
Beryl co-founded Palm Beach Dramaworks, the West Palm Beach-based professional theater company, six years ago. A graduate of Pace University in New York, she began her career in theatrical management as the managing director of the Schimmel Center for the Arts. She was also box office manager and publicity director for Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.
Dr. Maple, who holds a faculty appointment as a research professor of biology at Florida Atlantic University, served as the founding president of Zoo Atlanta for nearly 20 years. He is the founding editor of the journal Zoo Biology and is an elected fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. (See page 52 for a Q&A with Dr. Maple.)
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Lisa Peterfreund, Mark Sullivan and Debra Elmore at the Test Drive party
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{inside culture} cultural council news d r i v e t o s u p p o r t t h e a r t s p r o m o t i o n r a i s e s s u m m e r c u l t u re p r o f i l e Culture and classic cars were the focus as
Boca Raton and Downtown at the Gardens in
the Cultural Council kicked off its annual
Palm Beach Gardens. The campaign also
Drive to Support the Arts promotion with a
included a series of Art Car events held at
Test Drive party at Ragtops Motorcars in
Lake Worth’s Evening on the Avenue and at
West Palm Beach. “We’re very pleased to
SunFest. All the events promoted sales of the
help promote the wonderful art and cultural
Florida “State of the Arts” license plates, which
activities Palm Beach County offers in the
help to fund collaborative projects between
summer,” says Bill Nix, the Cultural Council’s
artists and cultural organizations through the
vice president of marketing and government
Cultural Council’s Artist-In-Residency grant pro-
affairs. “The Test Drive is a great way to
gram. The drive continued into the summer
kick-off the promotion and celebrate culture
with targeted online promotions sent to more
Gardens, Marriott Boca Raton at Boca
in the summer with our sponsors and
than 12,000 individuals throughout the county.
Center, Marriott Palm Beach Gardens, 97.9
presenting cultural organizations.”
The Art Car, “Mom’s Clutter Heap,” was on view at Lake Worth’s Evening on the Avenue Art Car Rally.
WRMF, Ragtops, Big City Tavern, City Cellar
Drive to Support the Arts was generously
Wine Bar and Grill, City Kitchen Continental
The initial 10-day Drive to Support the Arts
funded by Wachovia. Additional support was
Catering, WXEL, Limo Limo, SunFest, the
consisted of two free interactive fairs, which
provided by The Palm Beach Post, Town
Boca Raton News and the Greater Lake
were held simultaneously at Town Center at
Center at Boca Raton, Downtown at the
Worth Chamber of Commerce.
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{inside culture} cultural compendium f o r s o o t h ! s h a k e s p e a re f e s t i v a l a n t i c i p a t e s n e w o u t d o o r v e n u e The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival
Theater in London. Construction is
is looking forward to staging its free,
slated to begin in early 2007.
outdoor professional productions in a
Shakespeare by the Sea production of "Julius Caesar" in the Carlin Park Amphitheatre
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permanent venue—the new Carlin
“The theater in the park is certainly
Park Amphitheatre in Jupiter. Palm
one of the best things to happen cul-
Beach County Parks & Recreation, in
turally in northern Palm Beach
concert with the Shakespeare
Country,” says film and stage produc-
Festival, is planning the construction
er/director Del Tenney. “My wife,
of a new Performing Arts Pavilion at
Margo, and I have been a part of this
the site of the existing grass
community for 25 years, and are
amphitheater. The pavilion, which
proud to be a part of this incredible
includes a 1,500-square-foot covered
community achievement.” The
stage and a 1,900-square-foot, two-
Tenneys are founders of the Hartman
story backstage area (with dressing
Foundation, which has supported the
rooms, storage and a balcony) is
Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival for
conceptually modeled after the Globe
more than a decade.
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tells a story
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{inside culture} cultural compendium t e a c h e r s s t re t c h t h e i r c re a t i v i t y i n f i f t h c c e s u m m e r i n s t i t u t e
While their students took a summer
director, prepared for the Summer
with more than a dozen new lesson
break, more than 50 teachers
Institute with 12 of CCE’s talented
plans that do just that.”
teamed up with local artists at the
artists by studying the Florida
Center for Creative Education’s (CCE)
Sunshine State Standards in this
In the workshops, participants investi-
A.C.T.S. (Artists Collaborating with
year’s theme, Language Arts. “The
gated the arts as an educational tool,
Teachers for Success) Summer
School District and the Palm Beach
explored curriculum mapping and
Institute. For the fifth year, the pro-
County Cultural Council are constant-
designed lesson plans that incorporate
gram provided an exciting learning
ly working to promote arts integra-
the arts. The Institute was provided as
opportunity for Palm Beach County
tion and arts, in general, in the
a community service for area
educators who want to incorporate
schools,” Pilecki notes. “CCE’s
educators in partnership with The
creativity in the classroom as a
Institute gave teachers the
Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach
means of improving student learning.
opportunity to work together to
County and The Palm Beach Post.
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Tom Pilecki, executive director of
lessons in language arts. Each of the
CCE, and Shawn Berry, programs
participating educators went home
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(From left) Teachers Melissa Weldon, Wynnbrooke Elementary, first grade; Inez Butler, Greenacres Elementary, fourth grade; and Margarat Guss, Liberty Park Elementary, third grade, clearly enjoyed participating in the Center for Creative Education’s Summer Institute.
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cultural compendium c a l d w e l l t h e a t re b re a k s g r o u n d for long-awaited new facility
Sometimes it’s all about how others see you.
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Caldwell Theatre Company benefactor Countess Henrietta de Hoernle stands with (from left) Bill Nix, vice president, Palm Beach County Cultural Council; Ric Newman, Newman Realty Group; and Boca Raton Mayor Steven L. Abrams at the groundbreaking for Caldwell’s new theater.
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Caldwell Theatre Company benefactors
In 1991, the Caldwell kicked off a capital
and friends gathered this spring for a
campaign to raise funds for a new theater on
self-described “monumental event”—the
a three-acre property it owned just south of its
groundbreaking for a new facility. The
existing location. The mortgage for the land
Count de Hoernle Theatre will be located
was paid off in 1999. To accommodate the
just north of Caldwell’s current location in
new facility, developer Newman Realty Group
the North Boca Village Center. With a
worked out a land swap (trading the southern
magnificent glass façade facing Federal
property Caldwell owned in exchange for the
Highway, Caldwell’s presence will
parcel just north of the theater) in order to
enhance the surrounding landscape with
allow construction while Caldwell mounts its
an attractive architectural structure and
entire 2006-2007 mainstage season. The rest
welcome visitors who enter Boca Raton
of the development will include town houses,
from the north.
restaurants and shops.
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Participants in the Performing Arts Center Consortium spring marketing conference at the Kravis Center included (from left) Van Ackerman of the Cincinnati Arts Association, Stefan Zimberoff of Sungrazer Inc., Benny Baez of the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Ilene Fetsch of the Kravis Center and Bill Nix of the Palm Beach County Cultural Council.
the raymond f. kravis center for the performing arts hosted this year’s Performing Arts Center Consortium spring marketing conference, which featured presentations by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council and the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau. The annual conference attracted more than 20 marketing professionals from performing arts centers around the country, including Lincoln Center in New York, the Woodruff Arts Center in
palm beach opera announced that Kamal Khan, resident conductor and chorus master, will take a sabbatical for the 2006-2007 season. He has been invited abroad to be a guest conductor, including his continued engagement with Cape Town Opera, and will join the faculty of the Mannes College of Music in New York City. Khan arrived at Palm Beach Opera in 2001 at the invitation of the late Maestro Anton Guadagno as associate conductor. He was appointed Chorus Master at the end of the 2001-2002 season and named resident conductor in 2003.
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(From left) Marta Batmasian, Robert B. Haggerty, Yvonne Boice, Richard Schmidt, Barbara Schmidt, Boca Raton Historical Society Executive Director Mary Csar and Jeffrey Winikoff
The newest recipients of the “Walk of
and Barbara Schmidt. Also honored were
Batmasian, former chair of the Palm Beach
Recognition” Award, coordinated by the
Robert B. Haggerty and Jeffrey Winikoff.
County Cultural Council, originally con-
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There are now 46 members on the “Walk
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the lighthouse center for the arts named Donna Minard (top photo) as the new director of development and Patricia (Pat) Tosney (bottom photo) director of finance for the Tequesta organization. Tosney has 20 years of management and hands-on accounting experience, most recently with a growing ophthalmology practice, while Minard spent the past four years at the American Red Cross, where she was the director of financial development and special events.
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{inside culture} briefly noted the friday night flicks outdoor movie series at Old School Square Cultural Arts Center in Delray Beach won a “Best of Broward-Palm Beach” award from
2006-07 Performing Arts Season
New Times Broward-Palm Beach. Now celebrating its fourth season, Friday Night Flicks offers free movies under the stars monthly
2006
from March through December.
Southern Fried Chicks Cinderella Tapaholics The Living Christmas Tree Seussical
Oct 12 Nov 11 Nov 14 Dec 2&3 Dec 8
Upcoming features include “Wallace & Gromit” and “Little Shop of Horrors” (September 29) and “Phantom of the Opera” (October 27).
2007 Chinese Golden Dragon Acrobats TCC Gospel Choir in Shades of Gospel Urban Cowboy Bowfire Step Afrika! The Twelve Irish Tenors The Platters The Pied Piper
Jan 16 Feb Feb Mar Mar Mar Apr Apr
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Mr. Rick Gonzalez, AIA REG Architects, Inc.
Mrs. Anastasia Bagliore
Dr. Richard P. D’Elia
Ms. Carol Barnett Publix Supermarket Charities
Mr. James J. Derba
Greater Boynton Beach Chamber of Commerce
dmg world media (USA) inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer J. Hand
Mrs. Marta Batmasian Investments Limited
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Mr. Dale R. Hedrick Hedrick Brothers
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Mr. Larry Brown
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Mr. Robert Gittlin JKG Group
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Ms. Debra Elmore A.K. Consulting
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International Fine Art Expositions Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jaffe Mr. Robert Julien Kolter Communications Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kamin Mr. Kenn Karakul Mr. Amin J. Khoury B/E Aerospace, Inc. Mr. Robert S.C. Kirschner Passport Publications & Media Corporation
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Palm Beach County Convention & Visitors Bureau
Mr. Gary Klein Wachovia, N.A.
Mr. and Mrs. Curtis L. Lyman, Jr. U.S. Fiduciary, L.P.
Palm Beach! America’s International Fine Art & Antique Fair
Mrs. Marlene Silver
Mr. Donald H. Kohnken Kohnken Family Foundation
Mr. Rod Macon Florida Power & Light
Palm Beach Civic Association
Ms. Robin Smollar
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Mr. Dennis Stefanacci
Mr. Bernard & Mrs. Molly-Foreman Kozel
Mr. Milton S. Maltz The Malrite Company
Mr. John W. Payson Midtown Payson Galleries
Mr. Michael Strickland U.S. Trust
Mr. R. Thomas Mayes, Jr., CFP Wachovia - Calibre Family Office
Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Perper
Mrs. Jean Tailer
Ms. Lisa H. Peterfreund Merrill G. & Emita E. Hastings Foundation
Mr. Dom A. Telesco
Mr. Raymond E. Kramer, III Beasley, Hauser, Kramer, Leonard & Galardi, P.A. Ms. Kathy Kretzer Kretzer Piano Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kushnick Ms. Wendy U. Larsen, Esq. Siemon & Larsen, P.A. Mr. and Mrs. Alan S. Lavine Mr. and Mrs. Gerald LeBoff Ms. Margo Lefton
Mr. Steven E. McCraney McCraney Property Company, Inc. Mr. Tom McMurrain Ocean Properties, Ltd. Mr. Craig I. Menin Menin Development Companies, Inc. Mrs. Sydelle Meyer Mr. Robert M. Montgomery, Jr. Robert M. Montgomery, Jr. & Associates, P.L.
Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon T. Lenahan
Mr. Terry Murphy Strategic Marketing, Inc.
Mr. Paul N. Leone The Breakers
North Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin J. Levy
Mrs. Joan Nusbaum
Mr. Dana T. Pickard Edwards, Angell, Palmer, Dodge, L.L.P. Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Puder Ms. Joyce Reingold Palm Beach Daily News
Mr. and Mrs. D. L. Smith, Jr.
Mrs. Patricia G. Thorne Mrs. Phyliss Tick Ms. Brandy Upright Sun-Sentinel Mr. & Mrs. Leo Vecellio, Jr. Mr. Mark D. Veil, CPA Caler, Donten, Levine, Druker, Porter & Veil, P.A.
Ms. Nicole Rocco Broad and Cassel
Mr. Robert K. Wechsler
Mr. Leon M. Rubin Rubin Communications Group
The West Palm Beach Antique & Collectibles Show
Mr. and Mrs. Lyon Sachs
Ms. Jeanmarie Whalen, Esq. Slawson, Cunningham, & Whalen, P.L.
Mrs. Madelyn Savarick
Dr. Konrad M. Weis
Mr. & Mrs. Lewis M. Schott
Ms. Margaret Wilesmith Wilesmith Advertising & Design
Mr. Gary Schweikhart PR-BS, Inc.
Ms. Mary Wong Office Depot
Mr. William E. Lewis Bank of America Private Bank
Ms. Judy Oppel Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show
Mrs. Ellen F. Liman Liman Studio Gallery
Mr. Edgar Otto
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sharf
Ms. Sheryl G. Wood
Harvey E. Oyer, III, Esq. Gunster Yoakley
Ms. Muriel F. Siebert Muriel Siebert & Co., Inc.
Ms. Ruth Young The Colony - Palm Beach
Mr. Joseph B. Love, Jr.
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the sky is the limit
Ready to take flight, artist Mark Fuller’s “Butterfly Grove” inspires shoppers at PGA Commons East in Palm Beach Gardens.
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Public art in Palm Beach County soars to new heights Area curators share their artistic visions Play Time: A look at Palm Beach County theaters Our season calendar helps you plan what to do and see this winter Plus Inside Culture highlights the latest Cultural Council news
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