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UNWRAPPING THE PAST Palm Beach County History Museum Debuts in Restored 1916 Courthouse

ARCHITECTURAL SHOWPIECE John Volk’s Royal Poinciana Playhouse Leaves Lasting Legacy in Palm Beach

By John Loring

CULTURAL STEW Mixing Food and Tradition With a Dash of Spain

PLUS the Unsinkable Jan McArt, Starting Your Own Book Club, the First Palm Beach PopStar, Very Special Artists and Much More

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Spanish inspirations blend deliciously with local foods and traditions.

By Victoria Amory

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a r t o f a g a rd e n Local landscape architects and designers use nature as their own creative canvas.

By Catherine Smith and Kaci L. Winter

p a l m b e a c h ’s a rc h i t e c t u r a l j e w e l b o x The John Volk-designed Royal Poinciana Playhouse still stands as an English Regency masterpiece.

By John Loring

once upon a time The story of Palm Beach County’s history comes to life in a new museum with a story of its own.

By Christina Wood

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The Cultural Council pays tribute to historical Greek muses and cultural icons in our community.

By Rena Blades

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p u b l i s h e r ’s n o t e

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art&culture celebrates two years of enriching Palm Beach County’s artistic landscape.

By Robert S.C. Kirschner

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• Learn how Step Afrika! is making a difference in the western communities.

• Visit the Boca Museum’s Degas exhibit and expand your artistic knowledge.

• Read about Palm Beach County’s very special artists.

• See African-American treasures from the Kinsey collection at the Norton.

• Purchase a recycled-glass suncatcher at the Palm Beach Zoo. • Savor the Spanish-inspired recipes and traditions in “Delicious!”

• Book it to a local book club, or participate in the 2008 Read Together campaign.

• Explore the arts venues tucked away in Tequesta.

• Find out how a financial adviser performed onstage with the Palm Beach Pops.

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p ro f i l e Jan McArt continues to thrive as the First Lady of Florida’s Musical Theatre.

By Leon M. Rubin

portrait Rock star Tico Torres explores his passion for the visual arts and explains why he calls Palm Beach County home.

calendar From April to August, Palm Beach County’s arts scene keeps you busy with a spectacular array of cultural events.

i n s i d e c u l t u re Muse Awards honor exemplary individuals in the local arts arena; new directors are elected to the Cultural Council board; the Cultural Trust moves forward in Wellington; and more insider news.

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Cultural Council Board of Directors Officers R. Thomas Mayes, Jr., CFP,ÂŽ Chair Gale G. Howden, Vice Chair Michael J. Bracci, Treasurer Pamela O. Dean, Secretary Directors John W. Blackmon Howard Bregman, Esq. Timothy A. Eaton Debra Elmore Rick Gonzalez, AIA Herbert S. Hoffman

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Calliope, Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polyhymnia, Urania. True, they’re not exactly household names. But I probably don’t have to tell who they are, particularly if you’ve ever studied Greek mythology—or if you happen to be involved in the arts.

They’re the Muses, of course—the nine Greek goddesses who “sat near the throne of Zeus, king of the gods, and sang of his greatness and of the origin of the world and its inhabitants and the glorious deeds of the great heroes,” according to the Encyclopedia Mythica.

At the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, our perspective is slightly different. We sing their praises through our annual Muse Awards program. By focusing attention on the most distinguished and accomplished artists, educators, philanthropists and cultural organizations in our community, we are not only celebrating arts and culture, but also acknowledging the role that the Muses play in inspiring greatness among our honorees.

I don’t want to become too wrapped up in these spirits of the ethereal world, but there must be an explanation for the forces that drive a person like Dolly Hand or Susan Hyatt, Ellen Van Arsdale or Doug Cooney, or any of the other Muse Awards nominees and finalists, to do what they do. The same can be said of the people who work for and support the organizations we honored at our second annual Muse Awards event in January.

These individuals give so generously of themselves, whether it is their time, their talent or their treasure. They work tirelessly to open our children’s minds to the thrill of a live performance, the richness of our region’s history, the confidence that comes from creating something fresh and new—and so much more.

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The Cultural Council received 56 nominations from the community for this year’s Muse Awards. Of those, 21 were selected as finalists and seven as winners in each of our categories—Civic Leader, Cultural Leader, Arts Educator, Art or Cultural Program of the Year, Arts and Cultural Organization (with budgets under $500,000 and over $500,000) and the Clyde Fyfe Award for Performing Artists. The independent judging panels took their work very seriously as they deliberated for many hours in making their final selections.

For a county that is not yet 100 years old, it is remarkable that we have such an abundance of outstanding cultural institutions along with the individuals who help them to fulfill their missions.

Every person and every organization that was recommended can feel extremely proud that the level of success they have achieved was recognized with a Muse Award nomination.

As the Palm Beach County Cultural Council enters its 30th anniversary year, we are honored to serve a cultural community that is as dedicated to cultural excellence as this one.

Thank you, Calliope and all your sisters, for inspiring so many in our midst to accomplish such glorious deeds! We look forward to honoring many others for greatness in the third annual Muse Awards program next year.

Rena Blades President and CEO Palm Beach County Cultural Council

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THANK YOU This issue wraps up our second year of art&culture

to try at home. For a quick lesson on the “Art

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of a Garden,” turn to page 50. Illustrated with

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The presence of our strong cultural community shows that Palm Beach County residents and visitors recognize and appreciate the value of the arts. Local artists and performers who dedicate their lives to their crafts—and the patrons who support them—have made our quality of life soar, and for that we should all be grateful.

In this issue, author John Loring tells the glamorous history of the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in “Palm Beach’s Architectural Jewel Box,” page 58.

Designed by the late John Volk, the legendary architect whose signature designs are stamped throughout Palm Beach, the playhouse still stands as an English Regency masterpiece. All of the county’s history comes alive with the new Palm Beach County History Museum, which is detailed in “Once Upon a Time,” page 64.

The Portrait on Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres, “Paint Like a Rock Star,” page 34, discusses the Jupiter resident’s passion for the visual arts, while the First Lady of Florida’s Musical Theatre details her journey from Ohio to Hollywood and then to Boca Raton in “In the Spotlight: Jan McArt,” page 28.

Whether you are drawn to the visual or performing arts, literature or science, there are opportunities around every corner to experience art and culture in Palm Beach County. With summer fast approaching, now is the time to catch a season-ending show or exhibition. Then, take advantage of the less crowded off-season months to enjoy all that our arts community has to offer. You’ll be glad you did.

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“Palm Beach’s Architectural Jewel Box” (page 58) author John Loring is the former N ew York Bureau Chief and a contributing writer for over 30 years of Architectural Digest. Loring, design director of Tiffany & Co. since 1979, has also written numerous Doubleday and Harry N. Abrams books on style and social history. He graduated from Yale University, completed four years of graduate studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and has an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute.

Entertaining is a way of life for Victoria Amory, author of “The Connection Between Food and Culture” (page 44).

Born in Spain, the Palm Beach resident combines her native land’s culinary graces with the fresh produce of Palm Beach County to create dishes that are distinctly her own. Amory has contributed to such esteemed publications as Food & Wine, Town & Country Travel and Palm Beach Cottages & Gardens, and has written her own cookbook, “Delicious!” (see page 20).

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The newest addition to art&culture’s editorial team, Kaci L. Winter is a Florida native who graduated from The Benjamin School in North Palm Beach before heading west to Santa Barbara, Calif.

With her degree in English literature from Westmont College, Winter returned to Palm Beach County two years ago and was pleased to see the growth of the local arts scene. While she has enjoyed all aspects of working on art&culture, she is most proud of “Art of a Garden” (page 50).

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Leon M. Rubin first met Jan McArt 15 years ago when he became involved with Little Palm Theatre—the Boca Raton children’s theater that she founded. As one of her biggest fans to this day, Rubin easily won the role as author of the profile about this true theatrical legend (page 28). A freelance writer and public relations consultant in South Florida since 1991, Rubin serves as managing editor of art&culture and contributes regularly to its columns.

Creative from an early age, Christina Wood was born in Wisconsin and studied at the University of WisconsinMadison before moving to Florida. After further studies at Oxford University, England, she received her bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University—in history, we might add. After graduation, she worked for the state in the field of historic preservation. This, coupled with her work in print and broadcast media, made Wood an ideal choice to pen “Once Upon a Time” (page 64).

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Remembering the Struggle and Preserving African-American Heritage There are few things more chilling than seeing slave own- Romare Bearden: Falling Star, 1979. Lithograph. ers’ documents in person. Usually only available for viewing Collection of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey in private collections and at specialty museums like the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum in Delray Beach, these significant pieces of history—along with artworks by artists who make up and define African-American art—will be featured at the N orton Museum of Art’s In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey exhibition from April 19-July 20.

Bernard and Shirley Kinsey are the son and daughter-inlaw of the late Ulysses Bradshaw Kinsey, one of our area’s leading black educators and former principal and namesake of the U.B Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School of the Arts in West Palm Beach. The former Xerox vice president who became chief operating officer and co-chair of Rebuild Los Angeles after the infamous 1992 riots, Bernard and his wife have been collecting art for over 35 years.

Having assembled a priceless repository of AfricanAmerican intellectual, historical and artistic works, the Kinseys see themselves as caretakers of their collection, their ownership temporary. “We’ve assembled our vision and interests. The next stewards may take it elsewhere,” they say.

Complementing the 90 paintings, sculptures, prints, books, documents and vintage photographs in the Kinsey exhibition, approximately 15-20 works by kindergarten through fifth-grade Mathew Brady (American, 1822students from U.B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary 1996): Hiram Rhoades Revels, ca 1870. Cabinet card photograph, School of the Arts will be installed in the N orton’s 13 ¼ x 10 ¾ in Bernard and Chris Marden Community Gallery. A unique incorporation, the student exhibit reflects the Kinsey family’s multigenerational devotion to our local community and the African-American community at large.

Highlights: African American Art from the Norton Collection also coincides with the Kinsey exhibition and showcases a range of artworks in different media by African-American artists from the 1920s through the 1990s.

Featured artists include Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks, Faith Ringgold, Alison Saar, call (561) 832-5196 Betye Saar, Thermon Statom, Bob Buffalo Soldiers of 9th Cavalry, Parade Flag, ca 1889.

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One of Palm Beach County’s best-kept secrets is the wide array of unique gift shops housed in various cultural venues, such as the Flagler Museum, The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, N orton Museum of Art and the Palm Beach Zoo, to name a few.

What caught our eye recently is the zoo’s colorful selection of pressed-glass suncatchers. Handmade by KITRAS Art Glass, the recycled-glass suncatchers are pressed with images of an animal or other natural element such as sea shells and leaves and vary in size with most averaging four inches in diameter. The $10 price tag ($9 for zoo members) makes the suncatchers an affordable gift for every art and nature lover.

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Stepping its way back to Palm Beach County’s western communities in March, the renowned Step Afrika! troupe revisits local students through its Step Up to College residency program and performances at the Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center in Belle Glade. “What I enjoyed most were the different step techniques and different movements incorporated in the shows,” says Thernisha Jones, a Glades Central High School senior who participated in the 2007 program and is enjoying her second year working with Step Afrika!

Jones was introduced to the world of stepping through Belle Glade-based Street Beat, which offers a variety of after-school programs from dancing and acting to life skills.

A student at Street Beat since age 6, Jones now works there and is preparing to pursue a theater degree at Bethune Cookman College in Daytona Beach. Her experience with Step Afrika! has benefited her in many ways; she now knows you must take the time to practice a skill like stepping to really learn and master it.

A Palm Beach County Cultural Council Artist-in-Residency grantee last year, Step Afrika! expands the traditional art form of stepping, which was created by AfricanAmerican college students using the body as an instrument to create intricate rhythms and sounds through a combination of footsteps, claps and spoken word.

The Washington, D.C.-based company combines professional dance instruction with structured learning activities to assert the three building blocks of stepping— teamwork, commitment and discipline— which are essential components of every young person’s education.

For this year’s residency program, Step Afrika! began working with approximately 120 students through five after-school programs and step clubs for one week in January. The group returns for another week in March to finalize the students’ own performances at a picnic at Palm Beach Community College on March 27 and at the Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center on March 29. Step Afrika! performs with the students on March 29, which is open to the public, and for school children on March 26 and 27.

Book It Cooking with Heritage and Tradition Delicious is the best way to describe “Delicious!,” Victoria Amory’s cookbook written to benefit West Palm Beach’s Rosarian Academy. A compilation of more than 125 easy recipes created out of Amory’s Palm Beach home, many of the dishes reflect her Spanish heritage and incorporate Mediterranean and Latin flavors. “These are my favorite recipes; the tried and true ones, those that my family and friends always ask for,” Amory states in the book’s introduction.

In this one-of-a-kind cookbook, chapters run the gamut from Tid Bits & Tapas and Chilly Summer Soups to Pastas & Hot First Courses and Main Courses & One Pot Meals. But “Delicious!” doesn’t focus on food exclusively; entertaining and upholding tradition is also key. “‘Delicious!’ has become the favorite among the smart set,” hails the Southampton Press.

For more information or to order a copy of “Delicious!,” visit www.victoriaamory.com. To read about what inspires Amory in her cooking and for a sampling of her recipes, turn to “The Connection Between Food and Culture” on page 44.

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Degas Bronzes and Advice for Every Art Lover The highly anticipated Degas in Bronze: The Complete Sculptures exhibition, featuring 73 of Edgar Degas’ rarely seen sculptures, continues to delight visitors at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. Opened in January and on display until April 27, the collection is one of only four comprehensive sets of bronzes, which were posthumously cast from Degas’ original composite and wax models by A.A. Hébrard et Cie in the 1920s and later.

The bronzes are complemented by a selection of Degas prints and drawings to fully show the breadth of the artist’s creative genius for representing the figure in motion.

While at the museum, expand your artistic knowledge by visiting the Looking at Art: A Primer exhibition running through June 22. Whether novices or experts, visitors of all ages will be informed and enlightened by the carefully chosen paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculptures from the permanent collection combined with a tutorial of the 15 elements of art and principles of design. Included are works by Andy Warhol, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso and many other artists who are celebrated for their exacting eye, creativity and fortitude in their endeavor to express their humanness using the visual arts.

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EDGAR DEGAS (French, 1834-1917), Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, conceived around 1878-1881, bronze cast in 1920’s and after from a wax sculpture. Collections of MASP, Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo, Brasil. © 2007 Courtesy of International Arts. Photo

by Pierre-Alain Ferrazzzini

Special Artists Strengthening the Human Spirit Through Art Art teacher Sue Wilders’ students are special. They are individuals living with disabilities. “However, when you see them engrossed in their artwork, really in a moment of joy and peace, the reward is well worth the effort,” Wilders says. “That joy and peace is something we take for granted,” she adds.

Wilders has taught many classes at VSA arts of Florida – Palm Beach County for over six years and is in her fifth year of teaching the Armory Art Center’s “Joy of Creativity” class. The fruit of her—and her students’—labor is shown annually at the dual exhibition for both groups, which runs this year from July 10-August 2 and features live artist demonstrations and the

opportunity to purchase student artwork.

The works range from abstract paintings to interpretations of pieces by Claude Monet and Georgia O’Keeffe. “Visitors are extremely surprised that special needs students have done these,” Wilders comments.

VSA arts of Florida – Palm Beach County offers a wide array of visual and performing arts classes—from pottery and digital photography to acting and “world drumming”—which are open to Palm Beach County residents of all ages who are living with a disability. These community programs are offered out of the new state-of-the-art facility in Lake Worth, the CMAA Therapeutic Recreation Complex.

Additionally, the organization provides classes at other facilities and public schools through its community outreach program as well as special events such as An Art Affair, an art auction and fundraiser scheduled for N ovember 9, 2008, at the Atlantis Country Club.

For more information call VSA arts of Florida – Palm Beach County at (561) 966-7015 or visit www.pbcgov.com/parks/therapeutic_recreation/ vsaflorida, or call the Armory Art Center at (561) 832-1776 or visit www.armoryart.org.

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A Book Club by Any Other Name…

Words like these can only be S t a r t Yo u r O w n B o o k C l u b spoken by a true lover of literaAs longtime enthusiasts and participants in ture and would definitely be book clubs, Tina Albee, Joel Falatovich and agreed upon by a member of a Anne Watts have helpful advice for those lookbook club. Every month, ing to start their own group: throughout Palm Beach County, • You need a leader, not to necessarily people are reading, and in some lead discussions, but to take care of cases coming together and discussing the great writings of the world. administrative duties.

Tina Albee, the leader of the Second Saturday Book Club and the • Set ground rules and make sure everyone collection development coordinator at the West Palm Beach Public knows what is expected of them and Library, joined her first book club in the late 1970s. The group exposed what types of books will be read.

Albee to fantasy literature and though she says, “I didn’t end up stay• Start with a small group and advertise for ing with it, they introduced me to the ‘Chronicles of N arnia’ by C.S. additional members.

Lewis … I read all seven titles in one happy week.”

• Have a facilitator to lead each session with What happened to Albee is the cornerstone of what being part of questions and to steer the group back on a book club is all about—opening your horizons to new forms of littrack if it strays too far. erature, new ideas and challenging your point of view so that you can • Members should be avid readers. better understand the world.

• Start with titles that have a wide appeal. A The Palm Beach County Library System offers book clubs that good source is www.readinggroupguides.com, are open to the public, with registration required. One such club, which has a variety of resources for book clubs. the Second Wednesday Book Discussion Group, is led by Joel • Sometimes it is better to read books you Falatovich, a staff member in the circulation department at the don’t like; this spurs conversation.

Jupiter Branch Library. When looking for a book club, Falatovich suggests locating a group that “features a variety of authors and subject matter … (it’s) not necessary to find a group that has similar interests, so much as one that has good interaction and continually challenges your viewpoints and perceptions of a book.”

If joining a traditional book club is not your particular cup of Shakespeare, then head over to the Boynton Beach City Library where the Boynton Beach Bookers … An Adult Reading Club offers a meeting-less book club that “is like doing a book club without the book club,” says Anne Watts, the assistant director of the Boynton Beach Library. This new concept intrigued Watts, who has participated in dozens of book clubs over the years and is a new addition to Palm Beach County. “I’m impressed with what is happening here,” she says. “The Boynton Beach Bookers is great because it convinces people The Second Saturday Book Club they can take part.”

“So please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install, A lovely bookshelf on the wall.” — Roald Dahl, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”

Read Together Palm Beach County

If you want to get involved today, start by participating in the 2008 Read Together Palm Beach County Campaign, which recently allowed citizens to vote for “The Book” that will be read across the county this spring. The selected book, “The Memory Keeper’s Daugther”, was announced February 25.

The campaign officially kicks off with the Love of Literacy Luncheon at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach on March 28 with national CBS news correspondent Byron Pitts, who was illiterate until the age of 12. In April, the public will take part by reading “The Book.” This act of communal reading is echoed by Albee who believes her “reading experiences have been greatly enhanced by sharing with others.”

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On the Road in Palm Beach County Te q u e s t a , A H i d d e n A r t s G e m

Tucked away in northeastern Palm Beach County is an artists’ enclave that offers cultural connoisseurs a chance to discover what local artists have up their smock sleeves. Tequesta, a village of just 1.9 square miles, is the home of numerous galleries and eateries that make a trip to the area more than worth the drive from any part of the county.

“Tequesta is a haven for artists pursuing a multitude of different media and artistic styles. The variety of work is staggering,” says Sonya Davis, executive director of Lighthouse Center for the Arts, located in the Gallery Square N orth plaza along Tequesta Drive. Painter and Lighthouse Center faculty member Hugh O’Neill, “Master of the Loaded Brush,” has a studio and gallery a few doors down from the Lighthouse Center and says, “Tequesta is a place you would want to spend time. There are few places in Palm Beach County where such high-quality art is condensed into one spot … within feet of each other.”

The Lighthouse Center for the Arts offers visitors a chance to take part in acclaimed exhibitions, lectures, concerts and other special events as well as a year-round comprehensive art class schedule along with summer camps, says Davis.

“Adults, teens and children make up our student body, which ranges in age from 4 to 101!”

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O’Neill Art Gallery transports visitors from the tropical paradise of South Florida to the enchanting countryside of Ireland where Irish born O’N eill spends his summers painting. The works lining the gallery’s walls depict lush landscapes not only of the Irish Isle but also of exquisite local natural wonders depicting the splendor of regional landmarks.

Other galleries housed in Gallery Square N orth and Gallery Square South include Patricia Cloutier Art Gallery and Archive Gallery, which, according to Davis, “specializes in museum-quality framing and rare 17th- to 19th-century prints.”

After a long day of exploring the arts, enjoy a great meal at the Gallery Grille, which is located between the Lighthouse Center for the Arts and O’Neill Art Gallery. Gallery Grille, named one of the top 25 restaurants in Palm Beach County by Zagat, features an innovative Florida spin on breakfast and lunch as well as vintage art prints adorning the walls.

For more information on the Lighthouse Center for the Arts, call (561) 746-3101; to learn more about O’Neill Art Gallery, call (561) 744-2787; and for more information on Gallery Grille, call (561) 575-3775.

Hugh O’Neill in his studio/gallery

On Stage As a first grader performing “Sugar, Sugar” in and at the Carole and Barry Kaye Performing Arts a local Connecticut competition, Cory Marin, Auditorium at Florida Atlantic University. “That’s what it now 43, probably could not have envisioned the is all about—Bob Lappin and the sound of the orchestra,” day he would be standing on stage singing Marin says. with an acclaimed orchestra at a worldThe talent embodied by Marin is summed up in renowned performing arts center. This was Maestro Bob Lappin’s description of what the contest the great honor bestowed on Marin, a offered: a chance at “discovering a truly talented singer and Tequesta resident, financial advisor and giving them the chance of a lifetime … to win a contest like the winner of the first-ever Palm Beach this, competitors needed strong musical talents as well as PopStar, a competition created by Bob Cory Morin charisma in order to ‘wow’ audiences here in South Florida.”

Lappin and The Palm Beach Pops.

Today, Marin is putting a lot of effort into creating a music Marin out-sang the other 13 finalists—all career for himself, while keeping his numbers-oriented day job.

Palm Beach County residents—after being urged by his friends to He is recording a CD of six songs and looking to book live enter the competition and wowing the judges with his renditions of performances.

“Just the Way You Are” by Billy Joel and “New York, New York”

by Leonard Bernstein. As the winner, Marin was awarded a cash prize of $500, in addition to a chance to sing on stage with The Palm Beach Pops at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts call (561) 832-7677

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In the Spotlight:

Jan McArt For the timeless, tireless First Lady of Florida’s Musical Theatre, the show always goes on

By Leon M. Rubin

“Life is a banquet,” one of the great characters in American theater, Auntie Mame, proclaims memorably, “and most poor sons-of-bitches are starving to death.”

At the smorgasbord of life, there’s no danger that Jan McArt will ever go hungry.

Jan has taken to the stage as Mame, of course, as well as just about every other sink-your-teeth-into-it leading lady role in the musical theater canon. In a career that began, let’s just say, several years ago, she has built a resume that would be the envy of any actress. Opera, regional theater, live television, Broadway, the Hollywood Bowl … Jan has seen and played them all.

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In the Spotlight:

Jan McArt And here’s the remarkable thing. She’s not slowing down. Not one bit. In fact, she’s just ratcheting up her newest career as director of Theatre Arts Program Development at Lynn University in Boca Raton.

This follows her stints as a dramatic Jan in A Little Night Music with Arlene Dahl

a teenager,” Jan recalls. “We knew somebody who knew somebody who knew somebody else who had lunch with Richard Rodgers’ girlfriend, so we staked him out—Richard and Oscar Hammerstein and some others.

“I did anything my brother told me,” she continues. “He said, ‘Get out of the car and stop them on the sidewalk and tell them you want to sing for them.’” She did.

They looked stunned—but nonetheless

thrust a script into my hand.” Still a bit overwhelmed, she went back to Don. “I think maybe they hired me,” she told him.

And so they did—as the alternate (or standby) for Laurey, the female lead in Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

“After a few weeks, the lead actress got a swollen knee; I swear I didn’t kick her,” Jan says with a laugh. “That was the beginning. I haven’t been out of work since.”

Her cast bio from that Oklahoma! program

“They said, ‘Send her to the Biltmore Theatre to see the show.’ The director told me, ‘Come around at 10 tomorrow’ and thrust a script into my hand.” Still a bit overwhelmed, she went back to Don. “I think maybe they hired me.” actress, musical theater actress and opera singer and as the impresario/producer/director of a dinner theater empire in South Florida that delighted audiences for nearly a quarter of a century.

“If there’s one thing I love, it’s making things happen,” Jan says. “I’m working as hard as I ever did.”

She’s come a long way from her childhood in Cleveland, Ohio, and her formative years in Anderson, Ind. (Disclaimer: We will not say exactly how long. Jan McArt’s age is a closely guarded secret that will not even be speculated upon by this writer. We are, after all, talking about theater. As Jan points out, “We believe in illusion.”)

Before getting her big break, she spent many afternoons with her brother, Don, at a park in Hollywood, Calif., trying to put together an act. But it was a rather remarkable introduction to musical theater that truly set her on course. The story of how she got started there is straight out of, well, Hollywood.

An Impromptu Audition “I had gone to see my brother Don, who was already acting in Hollywood. I was still

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invited Jan upstairs to a little theater.

“What would you like to sing?” Rodgers inquired. “I asked, ‘Do you know, If I Loved You?’ He said, ‘I think so. I wrote it.’

“There’s an old rule that you never sing a composer’s song in an audition,” Jan says, knowing now what she didn’t know then. “If they don’t like the way you do the material, you’ve blown your chance.” But sing it she did—and they liked her.

“They said, ‘Send her to the Biltmore Theatre to see the show.’ The director told me, ‘Come around at 10 tomorrow’ and

corroborates her excitement. “Jan feels that Oklahoma! is her most enjoyable and satisfying experience so far,” it read, “and she has definitely decided that this is the part of show business that she would like to stay in.”

Fast forward. Jan spent two years in the national touring company of the show.

She went to Europe, studied singing and made her opera debut. She got rave reviews for her performance in the Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson opera, The Mother of Us All, in New York, whereupon she was asked to appear in La Boheme for NBC Opera. She performed multiple roles with the San Francisco Opera, sang at the Hollywood Bowl and later did summer stock—all to wide acclaim. (One review of her appearance in Gigi for Ohio’s Kenley Players read, “The best voice in the show is that of Jan McArt, a fine singer who plays Gigi’s mother.”)

Welcome to Boca In 1977, Jan came to Boca Raton to visit her mother, a widow whose health was beginning to fail. Surmising that she could write off some of her

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people who went right on to Broadway in the biggest roles. It was a very exciting time … a wonderful experience for everybody.”

Live on Stage

travel expenses between Boca and New York if she had some work down here, she hit on the idea of opening a dinner theater. “I thought I could raise the money because I’m a nice person and had all these theater credits,” she remembers.

She put down $25,000 to hold a former restaurant space in what is now Royal Palm Place and started looking for investors. It was not, she quickly learned, as easy as it looked. She couldn’t raise a dime.

Determined to succeed—and in danger of losing her $25,000 downpayment— she “sold my big apartment on Central Park West, my farm in Connecticut, my dogs, my blood, my clothes and sank everything into that venture. Then there was no going back.”

Jan McArt’s Royal Palm Dinner Theatre opened in 1977 and, like the Energizer Bunny, just kept going and going. “We ran 52 weeks a year, eight or nine performances a week every week. We never closed—and people just came,” Jan states proudly.

It became the foundation for the phenomenal growth of her career as a producer. She started theaters in Fort Lauderdale, Miami Beach and Key West and later added a second smaller theater

upstairs from the mainstage in Boca. And she founded Little Palm Theatre for children, which she later spun off to stand on its own, and which remained a fixture on the South Florida children’s theater scene until it closed in 2006.

The theater was her life. “I never, never had anybody welcome our audiences to those shows except my brother or myself,” she says with pride. “We had 104,000

Not only did she appear on stage to welcome her guests, but she also worked on it—up to 20 weeks a year. She headlined the most memorable shows in American musical theater: the aforementioned Mame, The Merry Widow, Can Can, A Little Night Music, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Gypsy, Little Me, Anything Goes and dozens more. “I lived three minutes away. That helped,” she quips.

Along the way, she was proclaimed “The First Lady of Florida’s Musical Theatre” by two different governors. The theater won scores of nominations and honors in the Carbonell Awards—South Jan in Mam

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“She’s a source of positive energy.

She’s exciting and people love her.

Hall is clearly among Jan’s legion of admirers, calling her amazing. “She is optimistic, energized (and energizing), fun and loyal,” he says. “She and I have been buddies since the time in 1977 when she walked into my office, a live poodle on each arm, and said, ‘You’re going to be the director of my new theater.’ When I explained I was trying to keep my own theater alive, we agreed to work together and help each other—which we did, always.”

She has contacts all over the world and is able to bring them to Lynn.

She has introduced a whole different constituency to Lynn University that we might not have known otherwise.”

–Judi Nelson Vice president of development and alumni affairs, Lynn University

A New Chapter Begins

Florida’s equivalent of the Tony Awards— and she took home her own Best Actress statuette for her performance in Nightclub Confidential. In 2001, she and the theater’s long-time resident director, the late Bob Bogdanoff, received the Carbonells’ special Ruth Foreman Award in recognition of the professional development opportunities they provided for countless performers, designers and other creative artists.

The Royal Palm Dinner Theatre survived a fire in 1993 that caused it to go dark for several months while the facility was rebuilt. But Jan persevered; it reopened and continued to entertain appreciative audiences until 2002, when it finally closed its doors for good.

It was a phenomenal run. “Jan opened her theater one year after we opened,” notes Michael Hall, artistic director of Boca Raton’s Caldwell Theatre Company. “For all those years, it offered entertaining musicals and plays for thousands of people who wanted a fun night out, and provided dozens of South Florida actors with lots of work. With two theaters running, Boca offered all kinds of theater at two venues, and it was terrific.”

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With the dinner theater at an end, Jan finally took some time off. But when Lynn University beckoned in 2004 with the opportunity to start a theater department, the pull was irresistible.

“I love it because it’s creative and I’m making things happen,” Jan explains, then goes on to list the accomplishments: adding faculty, launching Libby Dodson’s Live at Lynn performance series, getting ready to produce the first show with Lynn theater students, The Boys Next Door, this spring. “We want theater arts to be a premier program—a bookend to the Lynn Conservatory of Music,” she says with her characteristic confidence. (And with good reason. Last spring, philanthropist Elaine J. Wold made a $6-million gift for construction of a new performing arts center on the Lynn campus. The gift was a follow-up to a $1-million gift made by Mrs. Wold in 2003 to create the Keith C. Wold M.D. Memorial Fund for the Development of Theater Arts, in honor of her late husband.)

It was that act of generosity that made it possible for Jan to come to Lynn, where once again she is making an impact. “She’s a source of positive energy,” observes Judi Nelson, vice president of development and alumni affairs at the university. “She’s exciting and people love her. She has contacts all over the world and is able to bring them to Lynn. She has introduced a whole different constituency to Lynn University that we might not have known otherwise.”

Nelson, who joined the university in 2006, quickly became a fan. “She’s like a wonderful big sister to me,” she says.

“When you need a shot of energy, just spend a little time with Jan.” And so, at a point when many people would be thinking of slowing down—if in fact they haven’t already stopped—Jan McArt is moving as fast as ever. She raises money for Lynn, glitters on the social scene and even climbed back on stage in November with cabaret star Steve Ross in Noel and Cole as part of the Live at Lynn Series.

“She’s always positive. Her drive and her attitude toward life are huge inspirations to me,” notes her daughter, Debbi Lahr Lawlor, who has lived in Boca Raton since 1994 and spent two years as executive director of Little Palm Family Theatre—continuing her mother’s legacy of encouraging children to experience live theater. Similarly inspired is Lawlor’s daughter (Jan’s granddaughter) Katharine, who is studying musical theater at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.

So, will she ever retire?

“No,” Jan states emphatically. “I love what I do. I’m very good at it and want to continue doing it. I think it’s my purpose in life.

“The day I die I’ll retire,” she concludes with—what else?—a flourish. “And maybe not then!”

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Q&A Q.

Did your parents push you to perform?

No. They weren’t stage parents, although they both sang and my mother played the piano, organ and violin. It was natural for us to have music and be around it, but they never thrust it upon us. One thing they didn’t want was a show-off kid. It was OK to sing in the living room.

Q. Why do you feel theater training is so important for children?

They learn discipline and how to walk across a stage without falling over a footstool. It gives them confidence that they

can memorize lines and perform—and it might even be training for young people who want to make it a career. But even if they don’t, whether you’re a teacher or a plumber, you need to be able to talk and walk and convince people of your abilities. Or it gives them a life purpose and helps them through tough times. It gives kids a focus as well as all kinds of skills and abilities for developing themselves.

Q. What does it take to succeed in a career in the theater?

There are two things that are necessary for a career in any of the arts—dance, music, theater, visual arts. You must have a fire in the belly that you have to do it, because it is not an easy life. If that’s how you feel, it will give you the fortitude.

Then, you need a power of faith. I don’t care what faith it is, but you have to have a faith to ground you. You have to have the power to handle it emotionally. If you

BROTHERLY LOVE With an acting career that predates his sister’s, Don McArt unquestionably deserves a profile of his own. (He’s currently touring the country portraying George Burns in Say Goodnight, Gracie, which was recently part of the Live at Lynn Series.) But since Jan is in the spotlight here, we will limit ourselves to a few of Don’s observations about his younger sister.

“She’s a natural born performer. She had puppets—and a make-believe theater out in our two-car garage. She would hang one of my mother’s blankets over a clothesline and put on little shows out there. I didn’t pay much attention. I thought she was just another annoying kid.”

“In New York, Jan was signed on a Friday afternoon to be the standby to Janis Paige in Here’s Love—an adaptation of Miracle on 34th Street. On Sunday, Janis Paige came down with laryngitis, and they said, ‘Jan, you’re going on tonight.’ She had memorized the whole part, sang it flawlessly and acted it beautifully. She wound up kissing Craig Stephens in the finale and had never even rehearsed with him. It was one of the most thrilling events that I had ever seen, knowing the circumstances behind it; to see this young kid get out there and nail it.”

“She decided to come down and visit my mother (in Boca Raton). Jan had just done Merry Widow in Sarasota. While we were riding down Federal Highway, she said, ‘I’d like to open a dinner theater.’ My mother said, ‘You are absolutely nuts.’”

“Jan loves to perform. It’s her. She’s a performer whether she’s going to the grocery store or wherever—and she does it well.”

don’t have those factors, I don’t think you should pursue it.

Q. What is your most memorable role?

Our opening production at Royal Palm was The Merry Widow. I played the widow. Building a theater and starring in the show at the same time was maximum pressure. The mayor, Bill Conrad, came by and said, “They’ll never open by tonight.”

Of course we did. I never failed to remind him of that—and he later served on my board enthusiastically.

Another memorable and traumatic time was when (the composer) Jerry Herman was coming for the opening of Jerry’s Girls. My significant other, Bill Orhelein, had passed away that morning. But it was opening night. That was the kind of thing that Bill would have wanted me to do— and I rose to the occasion.

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Paint Like a Rock Star

By Catherine Smith

5 Facts About Tico Torres • His birth name is Hector Samuel Juan Torres.

• His favorite visual arts medium is acrylic on canvas.

• He enjoys using unusual instruments, such as plier handles, to apply the paint.

• He runs an annual golf tournament, the Tico Torres Classic, in Palm Beach Gardens that benefits the Children’s Healthcare Charity, Inc. • He owns Rock Star Baby, which makes clothing, furniture and accessories for kids plus clothing and jewelry for adults.

“My mother wasn’t sure if I’d ever make money as a musician, but she backed me all the way knowing how much I wanted it and, fortunately, it all worked out great,” says Tico Torres, drummer for Bon Jovi, the widely acclaimed rock & roll band that’s celebrating its 25-year milestone with the “Lost Highway” tour.

But it’s not only the musical realm of the arts world that Torres is conquering—he’s also an accomplished visual artist whose works range from classical to abstract and often reflect the style employed by painters during the German Expressionist Movement in the early 1900s.

An ever-evolving artist, Torres creates sculptures out of bronze, ceramic and glass as well.

Torres, whose love for the drums started beating during his youth in N ew Jersey, has always enjoyed painting. Yet, this passion lay dormant until his adult years, when he began taking the creation of physical art more seriously. “I was lucky enough to travel the world with the band and a lot of the cultural landscape I saw along the way was an inspiration and motivated me to put it down on canvas,” he explains.

Torres began spending time in Palm Beach during the late ’90s when he owned an art gallery, ART de TICO GALLERY, on Worth Avenue and on South County Road.

In 2003, Torres and his wife, Alejandra, moved to Jupiter with their now 4-year-old son, Hector. “I feel it’s a great place to raise a child, and the golf is fantastic!” he says.

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“I’m a big fan of architecture,” Torres continues, pointing out another draw to Palm Beach County. “I come from Cuban heritage and much of the architecture is very reminiscent of old-world Cuba. I really admire Mizner architecture, Spanish stucco-home color pallets as well as the Frank Lloyd Wright contemporary styles— and we have them all right here.”

Local cultural venues, and especially the world-class exhibits they attract, also catch Torres’ naturally artistic eye. His “hands down” favorite place to indulge in artwork that isn’t his own is Palm Beach’s Society of the Four Arts, which features exhibitions, concerts, films and speaker programs.

Outside of our artistic oasis, Torres’ brush strokes continue to be inspired while he tours the world with Bon Jovi. His series of Asian watercolors was shaped by the people of that region, while his travels through South Africa influenced Torres to paint acrylic landscapes.

“It’s all about creating—whether it’s a drum track, sculpture or painting,” he says of his dual artistic roles.

“I have a feeling of accomplishment when it’s done and I won’t put it out there unless I’m happy with it.”

Torres’ rise to rock & roll stardom and success as a visual artist are testaments to his own advice for a young person pursuing a career in the arts: “If you want it bad enough, you have to stick with your conviction and be strong enough to go up against the odds.”

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THE GLOBETROTTING TICO TORRES REVEALS HIS INCLINATIONS FOR THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS

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The French Fauvist painter

known for his colorful and carefree depictions of recreation and spectacle is the focus of Raoul Dufy: A Celebration of Beauty in the Esther B. O’Keeffe Gallery at the Society of the Four Arts from March 8 to April 13. A film, “Raoul Dufy: Painter and Decorator,” will be shown on April 6. 2 Four Arts Plaza, Palm Beach; (561) 655-7226 or www.fourarts.org.

La console jaune, watercolor and gouache, 1949, 66.0 x 50.7 cm

Bronze animals,

Named one of the top 10 destination film festivals in the world, the Palm Beach International Film Festival returns for its 14th year from April 10-17 with more than 150 independent film screenings, seminars, workshops, networking opportunities, Palm Beach-style parties and Hollywood royalty throughout the county.

(561) 362-0003 or www.pbifilmfest.org.

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rare working models, paintings, drawings and other sculptures by one of the greatest French sculptors of the 19th century are captured in Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye at the Flagler Museum through April 13. Barye pioneered techniques and created some of the most innovative sculptures of his time. Cocoanut Row and Whitehall Way, Palm Beach; (561) 655-2833 or www.flaglermuseum.us.

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Florida Atlantic University

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(FAU) showcases the talents of its multifaceted musicians during the FAU Music Festival from April 11-20 at the FAU University Theatre.

Featured groups include the FAU Jazz Band (April 12), the Jazz Rats Big Band (April 13), the FAU Wind Ensemble (April 18), FAU Symphony Orchestra (April 19), Choral Ensembles (April 20) and several others. 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton; (561) 297-2977 or www.fau.edu.

Martin Abramowitz, founder and president of Jewish Major Leaguers, is described as “America’s custodian of Jewish baseball memory.” He’ll discuss “American Jews in America’s Game” as part of the Sundays at the J Lecture Series at 1 p.m. on April 13 at the Hochman Branch of the Jewish Community Center of the Palm Beaches. 8500 Jog Road, Boynton Beach; (561) 740-9000 or www.jcconline.com.

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12 Celebrate spring with island flair during the high-spirited, two-day Reggaefest 2008, presented on April 12 and 13 by the Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce. The “Caribbean Carnivale” features live music, arts and crafts, authentic Caribbean food, a Junkanoo band and more. Join the family-friendly fun at Bryant Park along the Intracoastal Waterway in Lake Worth.

(561) 582-4401 or www.lwchamber.com/reggaefest.

The Swing & Jazz Preservation Society presents its final concert of the season on April 15 at the Spanish River Performing Arts Center with headliner Bob Davis and his 17-piece Big Band. Davis, who spent five years with the Les Brown band and toured the world with Bob Hope, plays alto sax and flute; his wife Ellen sings many Cole Porter favorites. 2400 Yamato Road, Boca Raton; (561) 499-9976 or www.swingandjazzpreservationsociety.org.

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The Schoolhouse Children’s Museum highlights the history of deep-sea fishing along the shores of Palm Beach County as it presents a preview to the permanent exhibit planned to open in 2009. On view through May 10, Fish Tales features historic photos, stories from fishing boat captains and fascinating artifacts.

129 East Ocean Ave., Boynton Beach; (561) 742-6780 or www.schoolhousemuseum.org.

Ballet Florida concludes its season

May 2-4 at the Eissey Campus Theatre with a company premiere, “Aus Holbergs Zeiten,” by John Cranko; a world premiere by Jerry Opdenaker; the high-energy “Elemental Brubeck,” choreographed by Lar Lubovitch; and “Allegro Brillante” and “Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux” by George Balanchine. Palm Beach Community College, 3160 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens; (561) 659-2000 or www.balletflorida.com.

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In the Southeastern premiere of Ordinary Nation, by Carter W. Lewis, economist Nation Jones’ bookie father is losing money, his wife has left him for a political campaign and his teenage daughter has entered a big-money poker game—where the stakes are rising. A sharp new comedy from the author of Women Who Steal, the play runs from May 9 to June 15 at Florida Stage. 262 S. Ocean Blvd., Manalapan; (561) 585-3433 or www.floridastage.org.

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imaginative stage version of Sweeney Todd that’s been gripping audiences with its lush melodies, audacious humor and bloody good thrills. The vengeful demon barber takes up with his enterprising neighbor in a plot to slice their way through London’s upper crust. Presented by Stanford Broadway Across America, Sweeny Todd runs from May 13-18 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; (800) 572-8471 or www.broadwayacrossamerica.com.

Talk about a room with a view!

Take in the spectacular sunset panoramas and witness the Jupiter Light turning on to illuminate the night sky during a 75-minute Lighthouse Sunset Tour on March 26, April 30 or May 28. Visitors get an inside look at the nuts and bolts of a working lighthouse watchroom. Please call for times; reservations are required. 500 Captain Armour’s Way, Jupiter; (561) 747-8380, ext. 101 or www.jupiterlighthouse.org.

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still-life photographer Barry Seidman introduces a series of 20 monumental giclees on canvas of surrealistic flowers, giving viewers a microscopic look at nature in extraordinary detail and beauty. The exhibit at the Palm Beach Gardens City Hall is open Monday-Friday, April 10 to May 22; the grand opening reception is April 10. 10500 N. Military Trail, Palm Beach Gardens; (561) 330-3610.

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Wrapping up another successful year, the award-winning students of the Harid Conservatory present their Year-End Dance Performances—a collection of exciting classical and contemporary ballets—on May 30, 31 and June 1 at the Countess de Hoernle Theater at Spanish River Community High School. 5100 Jog Road, Boca Raton.

(561) 998-8038 or www.harid.edu.

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{upfront-calendar} American artists at the end of the 19th century take center stage as the Boca Raton Museum of Art presents American Impressionism: Works from the Bank of America Corporate Collection from May 7 to June 22. Whether painting tranquil landscapes, dreamy portraits or busy city streets, they aimed to fulfill the belief that art should delight the senses and elevate the spirit. 501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; (561) 392-2500 or www.bocamuseum.org.

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Ovida Alva impersonates Gede, a vodou spirit who is known for his playfulness.

Photo by Carl Juste.

“Haitian Community Arts: Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935) Old House, East Hampton, 1917, oil on canvas, 20” x 30”

Everything’s a Portrait: The Watercolors of Dean Mitchell offers a retrospective of the work of the award-winning, African-American artist known for his exceptional watercolors and celebrates “the beauty of the real.” Showing concurrently at the Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture from April 3 to June 21 is Time Remembered—Mixed Media by the Bonnet House Fine Artists Group. 51 N. Swinton Ave, Delray Beach; (561) 243-7922 or www.oldschool.org.

Images by Iris PhotoCollective” presents 38 photographs of Haitian artists practicing their traditional skills and the aesthetic products of these skills. Award-winning photographers Carl Juste, Pablo Martinez Monsivais and Andre Chung took these fascinating images. The exhibit is on view at the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum from April through June. 170 N.W. Fifth Ave., Delray Beach; (561) 279-8883 or ww.spadymuseum.org.

“Asleep,” Dean Mitchell, acrylic, 9.75” x 7.5”

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The Palm Beach Zoo’s month-long “Festival de los Animales” celebrates the cultures and wildlife of Central and South America.

Each Saturday in June will feature authentic dance and musical performances, cultural storytelling, games, crafts, Latin-flavored food, wildlife shows, animal encounters and more. 1301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach; (561) 547-9453 or www.palmbeachzoo.org.

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Award-winning underwater photographer Robin Churchill invites you to take a “dry dive” as you view her collection at Sugar Sand Park from May 1 to June 24—and see if you don’t agree that our ocean is truly a spellbinding place. Her images have been published in Alert Diver Magazine, Florida Scuba News and Advanced Diver Magazine. 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton; (561) 347-3900 or www.sugarsandpark.org.

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Patrick Clifford of Palm Beach Atlantic University directs the Stringendo School for Strings Summer Academy.

Distinguished musicians from the Cleveland Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic Orchestra and the faculty of Palm Beach Atlantic University join forces for the Stringendo School for Strings Faculty Concert Series on June 10, 17, 24 and July 1 at the Helen K. Persson Recital Hall and Vera Lea Rinker Hall.

326 Acacia Road, West Palm Beach; (561) 803-2970.

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Hosted by the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts’ Community Relations Committee, the Gospel Youth Jubilee showcases the talented youth of our diverse community. Hear the beautiful voices of our youth as they offer songs of praise and worship, creating an evening of joyous and uplifting spiritual music for all to enjoy. 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; (561) 832-7469 or www.kravis.org.

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the late, great Allan Sherman in Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh!, a production by the New Vista Theatre Company running from June 19 through July 6 at the West Boca Performing Arts Theater.

Song parodies are woven into a merry musical about the life of Barry Bockman and his beloved, Sarah Jockman. 12811 Glades Road, Boca Raton; (888) 284-4633 or www.newvistatheatre.com.

The Boca Raton Theatre Guild mounts its sixth annual production of “Grab Our Shorts” on July 25-27, featuring one- to 10-minute original plays and monologues written by Boca Raton playwrights. This popular event is at Sugar Sand Park’s Willow Theatre. 301 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton; (561) 367-9422 or www.bocaratontheatreguild.org.

(From left) Todd Caster, Ted Weiner and Paul Rosen perform in a previous edition of “Grab Our Shorts.”

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offers a summer treat with Stephen Temperley’s hilarious play with music, Souvenir—the poignant and true story of the musical career of Florence Foster Jenkins, a wealthy New York society eccentric of the ’30s and ’40s. Staged by J. Barry Lewis and featuring Elizabeth Dimon (left) and Tom Kenaston, previews are July 2-3 and performances run from July 5 to August 24 in the Studio Theatre.

322 Banyan Blvd.; (561) 514-4042 or www.palmbeachdramaworks.org.

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Throughout the summer, take an artful drive through Boynton Beach to view the city’s Art in Public Places Program’s year-long sculpture exhibit featuring international and emerging artists. Start at City Hall on Boynton Beach Boulevard, travel south on Seacrest Avenue and then east on Ocean Avenue to the Marina entrance.

For full details, visit www.boyntonbeacharts.com.

Penny Collins’ bronze sculpture, “Rings of Promise,” stands in front of the Schoolhouse Children’s Museum on Ocean Avenue.

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Come and see the magnificent work created by the more than 700 youngsters, ranging in age from 6 to 16, who participate in the Armory’s 2008 Summer Art Camp. Works in many different media will be on view August 15-30 in all of the galleries. 1700 Parker Ave., West Palm Beach; (561) 832-1776 or www.armoryart.org.

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Dan Guin’s staging uniquely incorporates Boca Ballet students, impressive sets, elegant costumes and guest stars from around the globe, all accompanied by the glorious score of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton; (561) 995-0709 or www.bocaballet.org.

Inspired by Obon, Japan’s traditional holiday honoring ancestors, The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens will celebrate its 31st annual Bon Festival on August 9 with taiko drumming, Japanese folk dancing, a street fair and fireworks. 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach; (561) 4950233 or www.morikami.org.

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By Victoria Amory

Between Food and Culture

Inspirations from Spain

Dishes in center right photo from Arte Ceramica

I grew up in a large Andalucian household in Southern Spain, where each meal was a production, to say the least. As one of seven children, I came to expect that meals at my parents’ were never for fewer than 15 people, not counting last-minute guests and unexpected visitors. I learned at an early age the art of entertaining, of graciousness and protocol, but most importantly I learned the art of turning ordinary ingredients into a delicious feast.

Memories and food are intertwined like a welldeveloped plot line in a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and a good food memory is what allows me to have a repertoire of elegant country home cooking. It is not important how many onions went in the pot or how many eggs in the flan, but how it tastes and how it looks. That sense of reverence for everyday food is what I brought with me from Spain.

Entertaining at home is probably in my DNA; it is a typical trait for most Spaniards. Hospitality runs in our blood and I think nothing of inviting people to my house to share our table.

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My husband and I moved to

few years ago after one of those long, miserable winters.

Florida welcomed us with sunny skies, endless hours of golf, a larger kitchen and a wonderful group of friends and family with strong traditions of entertaining at home. Bliss.

and its environs, it is wonderful to see the influence that my native Spain has in our local culture: names of cities and towns, architecture, design, history and, of course, food.

Here, there is an abundance of mangos, avocados, citrus and pineapples, coconuts, dates, carambolas (star fruit) and pomegranates; they grow in practically every corner with little help from us. To me, semitropical fruits have

originated in South America and were

always been exotic and extravagant. The

brought to Europe by Christopher

flavors are deeply sweet and pungently

Columbus. Just like the romantic boleros

aromatic, like the sun that ripens them,

and tangos that become rumbas when

the force of the winds that ground them

they cross the Atlantic, these fruits and

and the soil that helps them grow.

vegetables have traveled around the

Typical Mediterranean produce like tomatoes, potatoes and peppers actually

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world and returned to their land of origin leaving a rich trail of delicious recipes.

Tropical Chutney

Palm Beach from New York a

Driving around Palm Beach County

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Orange Cake

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“My recipes tend to be based on Mediterranean cooking, but I adore using local ingredients to give it all a personal twist. In my chutney, I use pineapple and ginger in addition to mangos. Shrimp always appear in my menus; in this case served with sweet avocados they become a true delicacy. I use oranges or lemons that give moisture and flavor to plain and simple pound cakes.”

distinct tastes. Mix Caribbean with

always appear in my menus; in this case

Creole, add a dash of Cuban and serve it

served with sweet avocados they become

on a silver tray; the dish becomes unique

a true delicacy. I use oranges or lemons

to Florida.

that give moisture and flavor to plain and

When I research classic recipes, I often rely on a cookbook written in the

simple pound cakes.

Using local produce that is readily

early 1900s by the Marquesa de

available is a key attribute of a good

Parabere, a Spanish aristocrat with

home cook. Making a feast out of

exquisite taste, great knowledge of home

common ingredients is what I find to

cooking and refined entertaining. Her

be the most satisfying aspect of everyday

our house, the contractor planted a

recipes have taught generations of

cooking and elegant entertaining at

pineapple in a pot near the front door. I

Spaniards like Mrs. Beeton’s “Everyday

home. I feel that the olive tree spoon

watched the pineapple grow until the day

Cookery” influenced generations of

I use while cooking is somehow

the house was finished and the pineapple

British people. The Marquesa de

connecting me to the past and the

sweet enough to eat. Like most Spaniards,

Parabere’s recipes include instructions on

present, infusing me with knowledge

I am highly superstitious and the growing

how to tend the coal fires, use ice blocks

and understanding.

pineapple became the omen I needed to

to store produce and set the table.

When we started the renovation of

connect with our house. (The pineapple is the symbol of hospitality.)

In my garden there is an area that we

A Cuban friend of Spanish descent once gave me a copy of his grandmother’s handwritten cookbook. The

jokingly call the “lower 40”—feet, that is.

loose-leaf pages, written in a mixture of

Here we have beds of herbs, some fruit

Spanish and English, illustrate how she

trees and a few vegetables. I have

ran a large household and entertained

become addicted to using fresh herbs

often. Everyday meals had the same

with all my recipes and am constantly

rituals and sense of festivity as if for an

searching for authentic Floridian recipes

elaborate party. Typically Spanish recipes

to use with the overabundance of fruits

like croquetas, empanadas, tortillas and

from the garden.

flans are recreated using tropical

I adore reading local cookbooks; they

produce. In this cookbook, the lady of the

are inspirational, educational and above

house also writes notes to her cook on

all they show in detail the characteristics

how to decorate each dish, substitute

and nuances to each region and town.

certain ingredients and which of her

There are books dedicated entirely to

friends like it or not. Really, it is a slice in

mangos, gardens that can withstand wind

the life of this family.

and salt and elegant entertaining, which

My recipes tend to be based on

show traditions and local needs. Ethnic

Mediterranean cooking, but I adore using

influences and northern imports mixed

local ingredients to give it all a personal

with local ingredients make their way into

twist. In my chutney, I use pineapple and

Floridian cuisine and show an area with

ginger in addition to mangos. Shrimp

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Between Food and Culture Tropical Chutney 6 large to medium ripe mangos, peeled and cubed 1 cup pineapple, diced; juice reserved 1 cup white vinegar 1 cup white raisins 1 cup fresh ginger, cleaned and chopped 1 white onion, cubed 4 garlic cloves, chopped 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons curry powder 2 tablespoons turmeric 1 tablespoon chili powder 2 tablespoons coriander 2 tablespoons sugar Large pinch of salt In a large bowl add the mangos, vinegar, pineapple, pineapple juice and raisins; let marinate while doing the next step.

In a large stockpot, cook the onions with the olive oil, garlic and ginger until soft and translucent. Add the spices, sugar and salt, and stir to coat the onion mixture with the spices to release their aroma for about 8-10 minutes.

Add the mango mixture and simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes or until the mixture thickens and turns a light golden brown. Cool and place in jars to chill until ready to use.

The chutney will keep, covered, in the refrigerator for a few weeks.

Makes about four 12-ounce mason jars.

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Between Food and Culture Curried Prawn & Avocado Salad Dressing 1 cup mayonnaise 1/2 cup heavy cream 2 tablespoons curry powder (or more to taste) Pinch of salt Salad 6 medium ripe avocados 2 apples Lemon juice (for coating apples and avocados) 1 pineapple, peeled, cored and diced 3 pounds prawns, cooked and peeled 1 head romaine lettuce, julienned In a small bowl mix the mayonnaise, heavy cream, curry and salt and combine until mixed. Refrigerate until ready to use.

Cut three avocados in half, take the seed out, slice them lengthwise and using a spoon scoop out the flesh; discard the skin. Sprinkle with a little bit of lemon juice and place the slices in a large salad bowl. Peel the apples, seed them and slice them into thin julienne strips; sprinkle with lemon juice and add to the avocado. Add the prawns, pineapple and lettuce. Combine to mix well. Toss with the refrigerated curry dressing and mix carefully to coat all the ingredients with the dressing.

To serve, slice the other three avocados in half, remove the seed and spoon some of the salad inside, adding more on the side if desired.

Serves six.

Orange Cake

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter a loaf pan.

Chop the orange and remove the seeds (leave the skin on, trust

1 thin-skinned orange (Valencia)

me). Place in a food processor and puree until smooth. Add the

8 ounces soft butter (1 stick)

butter, flour, sugar, salt and eggs and pulse until all combine and

2 cups self-rising flour

the batter is light and smooth; about 3-5 minutes.

2 cups white sugar

Pour into the prepared loaf pan and bake for about 40 minutes

4 eggs

or until golden. Check doneness by inserting a skewer in the center.

Pinch of salt

If it comes out clean, it is done. Let it sit in the pan for a few

1 cup orange marmalade

minutes and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

In a small bowl, melt the orange marmalade and pour over the cake allowing the syrup to dribble down the sides.

Serves eight.

Certain ceramic pieces throughout this article are available at Arte Ceramica; 3300 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, (561) 820-0032.

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Four Palm Beach County landscape architects and designers discuss the artistic attributes of gardens.

By Catherine Smith and Kaci L. Winter

“What artist so noble … as he who, with far-reaching conception of beauty, in designing power, sketches the outlines, writes the colors and directs the shadows of a picture so great that Nature shall be employed upon it for generations, before the work he arranged for her shall realize his intentions.”

— Frederick Law Olmstead (1822-1903)

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The soft, delicate features of a garden often display an artistry that is just as exquisite as the elements of a piece of fine art work. “You can manipulate plants such that you would with paint, which can create an everlasting and always changing creative outlet,” says Mario Nievera, of Mario Nievera Design in Palm Beach.

A similar realization is noted by Jeff Blakely, who had planned a life of studio art and teaching when, in the late 1970s, the culmination of several artistic movements—Robert Smithson’s completion of the “Spiral Jetty”; sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s creation of gardens and courtyard designs embodying exceptional beauty; and Brazilian Robert Burle Marx’s creation of landscape works informed by his years as a painter—inspired him to view the artistic nature of a garden in a new light. “The principles, elements and symbol systems of visual art (line, color, texture, value, etc.) are universal and timeless, but how these elements are employed in garden making, painting, tapestry, etc. … is what makes art,” says Blakely, of Blakely and Associates Landscape Architects and Planners, Inc. in Palm Beach Gardens.

“A garden is a piece of artwork, through its natural canvas which comes from great inspiration,” says Josee Palmieri, of Palmieri Nursery in West Palm Beach. These works of art can be seen throughout Palm Beach County; they are the parks that utilize negative space, they are the lushly designed gardens that thrive in this tropical oasis, they are the backyards of many a resident.

“Palm Beach County’s public gardens have a uniqueness about them,” Palmieri says.

Water-saving container plants and flowers are great design elements for any garden, according to Pamela Crawford, author of “Container Gardens for Florida.”

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art&culture asked four prominent landscape architects and designers to choose their favorite personal work as well as a local garden that exemplifies the art of a garden. Jeff Blakely is a third-generation participant in the creation of stunning landscapes, while Mario Nievera transformed a love of architecture into a career of garden creations in Palm Beach. Creating private oases that reflect an international flair is the cornerstone of Josee Palmieri’s love for this art form.

Botanical Visions, Inc.’s William Reeve is not only a landscape designer but also a horticulturist who believes the county’s “unique year-round growing season presents design opportunities to incorporate plant materials that are mostly unfamiliar to the rest of the country.”

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ART OF A GARDEN JEFF BLAKELY FINDS INSPIRATION ON THE ISLAND

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Jeff Blakely’s father and grandfather were both landscape architects and nurserymen, so it is not surprising that after studying studio art he was drawn back to the love of his lineage. When asked to choose a favorite work, Blakely selected a private estate in Palm Beach with a 2.5-acre lot that is home to a garden he created in conjunction with Centerbrook Architects of Essex, Conn. The absence of the owners during construction allowed for creative freedom “in designing hardscape and landscape in concert with the architecture and nearby Atlantic Ocean,” Blakely says. “Our plan incorporated the scale necessary to correspond with the new architecture while creating gardens, secreted along winding paths accessed from guest houses, providing surprise when traversing the entire site.”

Located a few miles down the island is Blakely’s favorite public garden, the Cluett Memorial Garden at Bethesda-by-the-Sea. “The Gothic-inspired garden just off the sanctuary is an example of the best use of space in garden/park making … the space is symmetrically arranged but not boringly so … it has the elements of a more contemporary minimalist expression,” he says. “Old, distressed, weathered and tactile surfaces … coupled with the mystical, pre-enlightenment sensibility of the architecture makes for continuing interest no matter how often you visit.”

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ART OF A GARDEN MARIO NIEVERA SHOWS A PASSION FOR GARDENS IN PALM BEACH Landscape architect Mario Nievera has wanted to be an architect since he was a child. “I loved building houses out of manila folders.

Later, LEGO houses (were) perfect center-hall colonials,” he recalls.

Nievera, who hails from Boston and has lived in Palm Beach on-andoff for 15 years, doesn’t have a favorite project of his own per se, but he is particularly pleased by the stunning landscape he designed for an estate in southern Palm Beach. This expansive garden—filled with lush greenery, dotted with bright colors and incorporating balance and symmetry in the design—certainly reflects Nievera’s philosophy, “Make sure your garden is as beautiful as your living room.”

Palm Beach’s Peruvian Avenue Town Park is Nievera’s selection for a public park. “I volunteered to adjust the design on behalf of the town and The Garden Club of Palm Beach,” he says. “The components of the original design seemed fine, and I put my own ego aside to work within the parameters … to create a much more user-friendly garden. I predicted where and how people would sit in the garden, and it’s amazing to me to see that it really works!”

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JOSEE PALMIERI ENJOYS A WORLD OF GARDENS IN ONE COUNTY Josee Palmieri knew from an early age that her love for the garden, which sprouted from her time on a farm as a youth, was undeniable. She has resided in our county since 1987 and was initially attracted to “its beauty and nature” as well as “the northern and southern climates, and the various types of materials” such a climate affords. These elements contributed greatly to Palmieri’s favorite project— her personal residence in West Palm Beach, which exemplifies a lush, private Mediterranean oasis. “Once you are behind the gate you are in a new world—people are shocked by the beauty. The garden evokes a very calm, beautiful feel like you are in Europe. It is my replication of the south of France, Italy and Tuscany.”

With a passion for Japanese design as well, Palmieri is a big fan of The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, and especially its new entrance. The 200 acres of elegantly designed and maintained gardens in Delray Beach create a sanctuary-like feeling for visitors. Designed by Hoichi Kurisu, the gardens were ranked eighth in the world—outside of Japan—by the Journal of Japanese Gardening. “As a person who has traveled the world, I feel proud and fortunate to have found Palm Beach County to fulfill my passion and my love of nature,” Palmieri says.

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ART OF A GARDEN WILLIAM REEVE CHOOSES A BOCA RATON WATERFRONT GARDEN AND THE AMERICAN ORCHID SOCIETY William Reeve knows that bigger does not always mean better. The certified landscape designer and horticulturist’s favorite residential project is a petite garden in Boca Raton’s Royal Palm Yacht and Country Club. “We were able to incorporate a lot of fun design elements into a small, waterfront backyard,” he says. “We utilized a curvilinear retainer wall to create two new terraced planting areas whereas before the home had a very steep slope of unusable space leading to the water.”

Many may think the American Orchid Society in Delray Beach is home to only orchids, but they would be “pleasantly surprised to find a large collection of plants from Florida natives to rare exotics from around the world,” Reeve says of his top public garden.

“Their property may not be as large as others, but they have some of the more unusual trees, palms and plants that can be grown in Palm Beach, not to mention the incredible year-round orchid display.”

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Butterfly Gardens Showcase Natural Science and Design As part of Lynn University’s “Go Green” initiative to become a more environmentally friendly campus, the school’s butterfly garden was recently designated a Certified Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. The garden—an ideal setting for discussing sustainability, balance, cause and effect and personal growth—is used as a teaching tool for students in the Institute of Achievement and Learning (IAL). Faculty from the psychology and science departments have also taken students to the garden to study animal behavior or meditate.

“Just like natural ecosystems have to be sustainable, we have to be sustainable as people and learners,” says Amanda Evans, director of the IAL’s metamorphosis program. In addition to teaching the science of ecology and metamorphosis, “We use it to teach balance … the garden is a good illustration” for showing students how they have to be mindful of their own well-being, she explains.

Many people have experienced the pleasures of incorporating a butterfly garden into their own outdoor spaces. These gardens unite the art of Mother Nature with practical gardening design and, as in all art forms, patience.

Local landscape architect and gardening guru Pamela Crawford, who has authored five books on Florida gardening, offers advice on creating an aesthetically pleasing garden with butterflies in mind.*

The phases of creating a butterfly garden are pictured above; clockwise from top left: before planting, just planted, three months after planting and eight months after planting.

Lynn University’s butterfly garden

• Butterflies need nectar plants like Pentas, Firespikes, Porterflowers and Lantanas. Var-iety is key for keeping butterflies satisfied.

• Larval food plants like Pipevines provide food for the caterpillars that will soon blossom into butterflies. And don’t worry, they won’t eat the rest of the plants in your garden.

• Like with all gardening, be sure to design your garden carefully, with plants spaced appropriate to their expected growth width and height.

• Patience is a virtue—a lot of work goes into creating gardens without immediate results. The flowers need to be profuse and large enough for butterflies to see them before they begin their feast.

• It will most likely take a few weeks or months before many butterflies begin fluttering by and the rewards of your efforts are in full bloom.

*Information and top photographs supplied

by Pamela Crawford, “Best Garden Color for Florida,” 2005, www.easygardencolor.com, www.sideplanting.com.

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Palm Beach’s Architectural Jewel Box

by John Loring

The Royal Poinciana Hotel, for nearly 40 years the glamorous hub of Palm Beach’s social whirl, was torn down between 1934 and 1936, leaving the 1,300 feet of lakefront between what are now the Flagler Memorial Bridge and the Flagler Museum (“Whitehall”) vacant except for the Palm Beach train station and the Royal Poinciana’s greenhouse and tennis pavilion. Once cleared, the property was sold by the Flagler estate’s Florida East Coast Hotel Company to the Phipps family’s Bessemer Properties. The town’s legendary architect John Latham Volk, undisputed king of Palm Beach’s architecture from the 1930s until his death in 1984, was then commissioned in 1949 by the Phipps family to reconfigure the octagonal-roofed slathouse

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portion of the greenhouse into a playhouse.

The Celebrity Room’s ceiling mural

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along with the theatrically inclined James Riley Jr., son of the general manager of Bessemer, to develop a plan for the Poinciana property that would showcase a proper theater for Palm Beach’s growing audience.

“At the time, we had an option on the northwest corner of the property where John was going to build our dream house, so I wasn’t all that thrilled about the playhouse taking our site. But John was more of an artist than a businessman, so he decided that our land was the only place for the theater and I was young and easy to talk into things.

“John, of course, made the right decision. It turned out to be the most beautiful theater in the United States.

The playhouse’s own brochures noted that “This unique theater under the palms is rightfully called ‘the Most Fabulous Showplace under the Sun.’” And in a front page feature, The Palm Beach Voice hailed it as “America’s finest contribution to theatrical architecture” and an “architectural jewel box ... a masterpiece with no peer in our contemporary American scene.”

(January 16, 1970)

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This precursor of the Royal Poinciana Playhouse, which opened in 1952, was called the Palm Beach Playhouse. It flourished from the start and drew all Palm Beach society to its performances. America’s first lady of the stage, Helen Hayes, was one of its popular stars, and celebrated her first 50 years on the stage at the playhouse in 1956.

Mrs. John (Jane) Volk remembers the first playhouse fondly. “It was lovely, with lots of potted plants—and, of course, lots of potted people. There were simple seats and less simple patrons all in evening dress.

Everyone wanted to be there, but it could only seat about 400, and because of the shape of the old slathouse it was more of a theater-in-the-round,” she recalls.

“Well, everyone loved it, and fought for tickets, but it was just too small, so John S. Phipps, who was a great friend of my John, asked John to work with him

Cover of the brochure for the theater’s first season in 1958

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“Three large glass portals lead from the Celebrity Room out onto a broad terrace overlooking Lake Worth. This is the Venetian Pavilion popular with diners and the after-theater crowd for late supper, dancing and to be entertained by top supper club entertainers. It is a beautiful setting for a nightclub and truly reminiscent of Venice with the moon and lights of West Palm Beach reflected on the lake, and the blinking lights of yachts passing to their moorings.”

“Helen Hayes and I were on the advisory council. Messmore Kendall was chairman, I was vice president and executive chairman and Helen—who could handle anything—was talent committee chairman.”

The playhouse was the showpiece of a grand shopping plaza the Phipps family envisioned for their prime real estate, and Volk was given the freedom to design it in whatever style he felt appropriate. He chose a modernized English Regency to harmonize with Palm Beach’s then-dominant British Colonial, Georgian and Regency styles that defined the island’s 1930s and 1940s architecture for which he had been largely responsible.

The planning stage for the three acres of

the shopping area and nine acres of parking on the perimeter of the plaza took years. “There was a lot of doodling,” Jane Volk remembers, “about what to call it. It was first going to be called ‘The Cocoanut Grove Shopping Center,’ but ‘Royal Poinciana Plaza’ was the name that stuck. The playhouse grew. John wanted it larger than on the original plans, so there went our dream house. He thought and cared deeply about how the playhouse and plaza should look coming over the bridge. It should be something beautiful as an entrance to the town. It was. And there should be deep care about what it looks like when you arrive in Palm Beach.” To that end, John Volk artfully integrated the scenery loft facing the lake into his grand neoclassic Regency design.

The design and construction of the Royal Poinciana Playhouse, which opened on February 8, 1958, was heralded as both an event of national importance and an architectural masterpiece. Since New York’s Adelphi Theater opened 20 years before in 1938, it was the first legitimate professional theater built in the United States.

Its perfection was best summed up by famed newspaper columnist Bob Considine, who came to see Volk’s extraordinary playhouse in 1958 and covered the Brussels World’s Fair the next season. He reported on the fair’s American theater: “I have now seen the second most beautiful theater in the world. The first is the Royal Poinciana in Palm Beach.”

The playhouse’s own brochures noted that “This unique theater under the palms is rightfully called ‘the Most Fabulous Showplace under the Sun.’” And in a front page feature, The Palm Beach Voice hailed it as “America’s finest contribution to theatrical architecture” and an “architectural jewel box ... a masterpiece with no peer in our contemporary American scene.” (January 16, 1970) John Volk was not a stranger to theater design when he planned the playhouse. In earlier days he had worked on the designs of both the Rivoli and Capitol theaters in New York, and more significantly, in the 1920s, under Harry P. Knowles, completed the drawings for the Mecca (Masonic) Temple on West

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“The auditorium contains 900 luxuriously comfortable seats, spaced for a perfect view of the stage from any part of the house.

“For the playhouse foyer, I chose Early Victorian design, not to be confused with the clumsy lines of Late Victorian, and the color scheme is a delicate mauve and gold.”

55th Street (now the New York City Center) with its massive, 2,750-seat auditorium.

Describing his theatrical masterpiece, John Volk wrote: “The playhouse auditorium is of the stadium type, with the seats rising outwardly in a continuous parabolic curve from the apron of the stage. The interior décor is Empire, combining rich red seats and carpeting with walls of antiqued white, mauve and gold. Above the loggia and boxes, the ceiling is lighted by Maria Theresa crystal chandeliers imported from Europe.

“The auditorium contains 900 luxuriously comfortable seats, spaced for a perfect view of the stage from any part of the house.

“For the playhouse foyer, I chose Early Victorian design, not to be confused with the clumsy lines of Late Victorian, and the color scheme is a delicate mauve and gold.

“A loggia from the foyer leads to the spacious and elegant Celebrity Room of the playhouse, which can be entered from the outside via an eye-catching red and white canopy at the left of the main theater entrance.

“The Celebrity Room is one of the most luxuriously appointed restaurants in the world. Primarily designed to enable playgoers to dine before and after the theater performances, it has also become popular with plaza shoppers for afternoon tea and cocktails. The Celebrity Room proper has a high ceiling and is larger in itself than many little theaters throughout the United States. I commissioned Robert Bushnell to paint the

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huge trompe l’oeil ceiling mural, a Venetian carnival scene populated with the likenesses of personalities in the social, sporting and entertainment worlds.

“Enormous crystal mirrors surround the Celebrity Room walls, alternating with greenfringed, white damask drapes. The ceiling mural is surrounded by magnificent 18th-century chandeliers imported from Italy, and made with white, red and green Venetian glass. The chairs and tables are gold finished, with Empire red upholstery, and the entire room is carpeted with the same rich red broadloom used throughout the theater. The Celebrity Room has an aura of Old World charm, which perfectly complements the lustrous Regency design of the playhouse.

“Three large glass portals lead from the Celebrity Room out onto a broad terrace overlooking Lake Worth. This is the Venetian Pavilion popular with diners and the after-theater crowd for late supper, dancing and to be entertained by top supper club entertainers.

It is a beautiful setting for a nightclub and truly reminiscent of Venice with the moon and lights of West Palm Beach reflected on the lake, and the blinking lights of yachts passing to their moorings.” (J.L. Volk, “Volk on Volk”) Under the direction of businessman, philanthropist and theatrical impresario Frank T. Hale (popularly called “Mr. Palm Beach”), the president of the playhouse, and his production director Paul Crabtree, the Royal Poinciana presented consistently dazzling all-star productions. In the 1961 season alone, Helen Hayes, Helen Menken, Leif Erickson and June Havoc starred in the opening production, Thornton Wilder’s satirical comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, the first of a series of three plays which the New York Theatre Guild presented at the Royal Poinciana Playhouse for no less a patron than the United States Department of State. The other two plays, Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie and William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker, both had

John Volk’s original rendering of Royal Poinciana Plaza, with the Royal Poinciana Playhouse in back center

their world premieres at the playhouse. That same season, Walter Slezak played in My Three Angels and Arlene Francis in Old Acquaintance.

Other stars of the playhouse included Celeste Holm, Jean-Pierre Aumont and Macdonald Carey in Madly in Love; Hermione Gingold in Hocus Pocus; Fernando Lamas and Esther Williams in Kind Sir; Cyril Ritchard and Cornelia Otis Skinner in The Irregular Verb to Love; Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn in Triple Play;

Shirley Jones in Pound in Your Pocket; Judith Anderson and Cathleen Nesbitt in The Madwoman of Chaillot; Arlene Dahl in Roman Candle; Joan Fontaine in Dial M for Murder; June Allyson in Goodbye Ghost; and Van Heflin in A Case of Libel. Maria Tallchief danced in the 1962-63 Christmas Holiday Ballet; Bob Hope entertained at the 1965 American Cancer Society Benefit—the list is endless.

“It was the place to be and everyone was there,” states Jane Volk.

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Once Upon a Time New history museum tells Palm Beach County’s story

By Christina Wood

As children, we were always looking ahead, our minds filled with thoughts of the presents we would receive on our next birthday, the cool things we would do when we grew up and the kind of ice cream we might be having for dessert.

A certain level of maturity is needed before any of us can look back and appreciate where we came from. Once we begin to understand our past, however, we can draw strength from it.

Following a relatively happy childhood and a truly phenomenal growth spurt, Palm Beach County is old enough now for a little introspection. The county has earned the right to take pride in its development. Sure, there have been a few growing pains along the way, but the challenges we have faced are balanced against the joys we have shared. Along with our geography, they have bound us together.

Like a doting aunt, the Historical Society of Palm Beach County has been preserving the words, pictures and keepsakes that tell our story until we, as a community, were prepared to take the time to look back. Someone obviously had faith that that time would come; the Historical Society was founded in 1937, after all. Now, as Palm Beach County approaches its 100th birthday, the society is putting the rich stories, grainy images and sometimes quirky artifacts collected over the years on display at the Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum, our first countywide history museum.

Exterior photos by CJ Walker

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“The ultimate goal was to put it back just the way it was.

The tradesmen that we were able to use did enormous amounts of creative work to help us accomplish this.”

—Robin Lunsford, Project Manager for Hedrick Brothers

A Place to Call Home “The best artifact we have is the building,” says Loren Mintz, president and CEO of the Historical Society. The museum is, appropriately, housed in the county’s historic 1916 Courthouse, which was restored in an amazing three-year, $18.5 million demonstration of technical skill and community pride.

In 1909, Palm Beach County was carved out of the northern reaches of Dade County. Seven years later, the county’s first courthouse was built. At its heart was a single courtroom designed to rival the neoclassical grace and reassuring presence of the building’s stately exterior.

For many years, the large wood-trimmed windows and wide marble-lined hallways served as witness to the county’s growth. Bricks bore mute testimony as county residents approached the imposing façade, mounted the stairs with light steps or heavy hearts and passed beneath the portico on their way to register marriages, births and deaths. The names of entrepreneurs, some of whom are now enshrined in the new museum, were once scrawled, perhaps with a flourish, on the application form needed for a county business license. Land sales were registered at a record pace during the real estate boom of the 1920s. When the bubble burst, a flood of bankruptcies flowed through the courthouse.

“It’s like a window looking into our past,” says Rick

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“The primary purpose of the History Museum will be to educate our youth and newer citizens as to who we are and where we have been, so that they can become more involved and productive in helping to build the county’s future.”

—Pat Johnson, Chair, Cornerstone Campaign

Gonzalez, president of REG Architects, Inc., in West Palm Beach, preservation architect on the restoration project and 23-year resident of the county.

For a number of years, that window was boarded over as the result of a series of architectural additions needed to accommodate the county’s continuing growth.

If not for the efforts of a team of community preservationists, Historical Society leaders and the Board of County Commissioners—who voted in April 2002 to save the building from demolition and provided the funds needed to restore it— the window might have been closed for good.

In 2004, the Florida Historical Commission designated the courthouse restoration as the single most important preservation project in the state. According to Gonzalez, whose work in historic preservation has earned numerous awards, the courthouse restoration was also “an incredible labor of love.” The 1916 courthouse had literally been cocooned within another structure for 30 years; freeing the historic building from the cloak of nondescript additions that had smothered its glory was like working on an archaeological dig, he says.

“The ultimate goal,” says Robin Lunsford,

project manager for Hedrick Brothers, the West Palm Beach-based construction firm that managed the restoration, “was to put it back just the way it was. The tradesmen that we were able to use did enormous amounts of creative work to help us accomplish this.” Plasterers and stonemasons employed time-honored skills.

Original finishes and colors were painstakingly revealed. Stone was once again hewn from the quarry that supplied materials for the original construction and huge columns were recovered from the cemetery where they had been laid to rest.

“I don’t think anyone could go in there and say what was original and what wasn’t original,” Lunsford now says with pride.

Welcome Back Mosaic tile floors, the mellow glow of dark wood and the subtle sheen of marble wainscots once again welcome visitors to the restored courthouse. Thanks to a little detective work on the part of Gonzalez, Lunsford and their teams, the same shade of green paint used in 1916 once more covers the walls.

The Palm Beach County History Museum gift shop and galleries, however, are all new and, thanks to the creative energy of the seasoned professionals at Gallagher & Associates, they make the county’s colorful history come alive.

Working with the Historical Society, Gallagher & Associates created two permanent galleries; a third gallery will accommodate temporary exhibits. The section of the museum dedicated to “The People” focuses on individuals from all walks of life who have made a difference.

“The Place” explores Palm Beach County’s unique environment. Interactive displays, bold colors and dynamic dioramas help tell the story while a timeline—outlined in vivid shades of red, pink, yellow and green—races across the wall.

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The Seminoles wage a war. An alligator snaps at the heels of the Barefoot Mailman. Resort guests frolic on the beach.

The first personal computer launches a revolution. Chris Evert serves. Jack Nicklaus swings. And, seen from a bird’s eye view, a web of railroad tracks, canals and roads gradually transforms the tropical wilderness.

Tourists and newcomers will find links in the museum’s Cultural Information Center that will help them explore the county. Lectures, docent-led tours and special exhibits will provide an added attraction. And, while the museum’s

“it becomes more and more important to understand our past.

The more people know about their history, the more likely they are to stay.”

—Loren Mintz, President & CEO Historical Society of Palm Beach County

Upstairs in the courtroom, soaring ceilings, dark wood and pew-like benches seem to inspire a belief in the system.

Accompanying exhibits on government, legal history, elections and political parties were funded by the Palm Beach County Bar Association.

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stylish design and rich content should appeal to visitors of all ages, “ninety percent of our attendees will be school children,” Mintz predicts. The exhibits are intended to engage students and to enhance the state-mandated history curriculum.

The Barefoot Mailman

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In launching the Cornerstone Campaign, responsible for raising the $9 million needed to establish the museum and endow its longterm operation, Pat Johnson, campaign chair, wrote, “The primary purpose of the History Museum will be to educate our youth and newer citizens as to who we are and where we have been, so that they can become more involved and productive in helping to build the county’s future.”

“Palm Beach County is still young,” Mintz points out. “We’ve been growth oriented, focused on the future not the past but,” as we move forward, he says, “it becomes more and more important to understand our past. The more people know about their history, the more likely they are to stay.”

Who knows, a future county commissioner may be among the first group of children who file through the museum’s beautifully restored wooden doors and gaze up at the ornate plaster ceilings.

Each year, approximately 25,000 Palm Beach County students in fourth and seventh grades study local and state history with the aid of materials provided by the Historical Society.

The program represents the largest collaboration between a historical society and a school district in the state and serves as a model for other county school systems seeking to meet the state-mandated history requirements.

Admission to the new museum is free, ensuring a warm welcome for all. Jurors called to duty at the neighboring Government Center may wander in on a lunch break and find inspiration as well as interesting exhibits.

Families will learn more about themselves and the place they call home. Bright yellow school buses will arrive, filled with children who may grow up to be teachers, business leaders or lawyers pleading their cases in a county courthouse yet to be built.

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Second Annual Muse Awards Honorees Reflect the Best of ‘Florida’s Cultural Capital’ Lucien Capehart

More than 375 guests were in attendance on January 11 at the Kravis Center’s Cohen Pavilion as the Palm Beach County Cultural Council announced the recipients of its 2008 Muse Awards. Now in its second year, the program honored 21 individual and organization finalists that have demonstrated

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2008 Muse Award recipients, finalists and category sponsors were:

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excellence in art and culture and whose contributions help make Palm Beach County a better place to live in and visit.

The high-energy awards gala featured an outstanding entertainment lineup. Andrew Kato, artistic director for the Maltz Jupiter Theatre, produced the evening, which included a special performance by Broadway star Lillias White with Maestro Bob Lappin of the Palm Beach Pops. Other performances featured Step Afrika! from Washington D.C., the Young Singers of the Palm Beaches, the Dreyfoos School of the Arts Jazz Combo, Street Beat, Maltz Jupiter Theatre’s production of Smokey Joe’s Café and The Demetrius Klein Dance Company.

For the first time this year, each award category was generously sponsored by local corporate and individual philanthropists. The

Frances R. “Dolly” Hand, who was instrumental in creating one of Palm Beach County’s first performing arts facilities, the Palm Beach Community College’s Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center in Belle Glade, which opened in 1982. Finalists were Helen Persson, a longtime supporter of the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Palm Beach Opera and Palm Beach Atlantic University; and Dr. David Prensky, who has served on the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts board of directors for 14 years and is the last of its Founding Members. (Sponsored by Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A.)

Cultural Leader Ellen Van Arsdale, principal of the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts

Lucien Capehart

Lucien Capehart

Civic Leader

Herbert and Diane Hoffman and Susan and Tommy Mayes

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for the past seven years, who has successfully forged new partnerships for the school and helped expand the Dreyfoos School of the Arts family. Finalists were Marlo Belkin, executive director of the Milagro Center in Delray Beach, which has transformed from a homeless cultural arts center into a thriving nonprofit organization providing cultural arts education and academic enrichment for children; and Jamie Stuve, the Loxahatchee River Historical Society’s executive director, who has champ-ioned the protection of cultural resources and advanced public awareness of the unique maritime heritage of northern Palm Beach County. (Sponsored by The Fine Arts Conservancy)

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Palm Beach Project, an original performance project created and performed by disabled youth. Finalists were Dr. Gail E. Burnaford, professor in the Teacher Education Department at Florida Atlantic University, a national leader in arts education research and the principal investigator for a needs assessment report, State of the Arts in Palm Beach County Schools/Where do we go From Here?; and Sharon Koskoff, a muralist and arts educator who founded the Art Deco Society of the Palm Beaches and is chair-

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The Newspapers in Education Tabloid Flagler’s Florida produced by the Henry Morrison Flagler Museum to illustrate Henry Flagler’s impact on Florida. Finalists were the inaugural Festival of the Arts BOCA, presented by the Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park; and the Step Afrika! Program offered by the Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center with support from a Palm Beach County Cultural Council Artist-in-Residency grant. (Sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Butler)

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which provides arts education for the children of some of Palm Beach County’s most disadvantaged populations. Finalists included Inspirit Inc., an organization that provides live music and performing arts to people of all ages who are living, either temporarily or permanently, in an institu-

Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts, which is ranked fifth in the state (the highest ranked arts school on the list) by the Florida Department of Education and 19th on Newsweek’s list of the best high schools in the nation. Finalists were the Palm Beach Zoo, which attracts nearly 300,000 people annually to view its 1,500 animals included within 23 acres of lush tropical habitat; and the South Florida Science Museum, which features awardwinning traveling exhibits and dozens of interactive exhibits based on scientific principles. (Sponsored by The Palm Beach Post)

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‘Cultural Capital’ TV Show Wins National Award

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Christina Martin, who is in her 15th season as a dancer with Ballet Florida.

(Sponsored by Cil Draime) The finalists were selected from a pool of 56 applications submitted by the community after a public call for nominations. Each nomination packet was reviewed and scored by an independent panel of distinguished representatives from Palm Beach County’s arts, education, business, public and private sectors. Each Muse Award honoree received a bronze statuette created at the Luis Montoya Sculpture Studio in West Palm Beach.

Also honored during the event were the Caldwell Theatre Company and its major benefactor Countess Henrietta de Hoernle, who received the 2008 Council’s Choice Award. Presented by Calibre, Wachovia’s Family Office, this special award honors an individual or institution the Cultural Council deems worthy of recognition for a special effort or accomplishment that was not honored in another category.

“Cultural Capital,” the official television program of the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, won an Excellence in the Performing Arts Ovation Award for its Step Afrika! show. The winning show profiled Step Afrika!, a 2007 Artist-inResidency grantee that collaborated with Palm Beach Community College’s Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center. “Cultural Capital” airs on Palm Beach County Television Channel 20, and is hosted by Bill Nix, the Cultural Council’s vice president of marketing and government affairs.

The Cultural Council received $10,000 as part of the Ovation Award, which it shared with the Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center as a token of appreciation for the wonderful work it did with Step Afrika!

Additional award benefits include the posting of the winning show on Ovation TV’s Web site at www.ovationtv.com/video/ (click on the AFTA/Ovation TV Awards tab). It will also be available through Video on Demand, an upcoming Ovation TV service expected to debut in the first quarter of 2008. Ovation TV will also create a one-minute spot that will air on the network and promote all the Ovation Award winners. The “Cultural Capital” show was chosen by a panel of Ovation TV executives from a field of more than 100 entries submitted by members of Americans for the Arts from across the country.

A “Cultural Capital” program on the talented Step Afrika! dance troupe earned national recognition.

“We’re very excited about ‘Cultural Capital’ gaining this national recognition,” says Rena Blades, the Cultural Council’s president and CEO. “This award not only reflects the quality and interest of the show on Step Afrika!, and the wonderful work the production staff did, but it’s also a fantastic accolade for Palm Beach County arts and culture. It’s a great example of how some of our projects really shine on a national stage.”

Step Afrika!, a Washington, D.C.based dance troupe, worked with host organization Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center to hold community workshops on “stepping” with student groups throughout the Belle Glade area. The workshops and a finale performance were part of the Step Up to College project, which Step Afrika! conducted as one of the council’s Artist-in-Residency grantees—a program funded with proceeds from Florida State of the Arts license plate sales. Step Afrika! returns to the Dolly Hand for performances on March 26, 27 and 29 (for more information, turn to page 20).

Demetrius Klein Receives Artist-in-Residency Grant The Palm Beach County Cultural Council board of directors awarded a $30,000 Artist-in-Residency grant for 2008 to Demetrius Klein, a renowned choreographer and dance director from Lake Worth.

Klein’s undertaking, Urban/Land/Scapes Project, comprises a series of site-specific dance events using five unique and intriguing locations in Palm Beach County.

The work will be performed by the critically acclaimed Demetrius Klein Dance Company with host organization Palm Beach Community College’s Duncan Theater in collaboration with four other community venues and multiple artists.

The Urban/Land/Scapes Project is scheduled to debut on March 15 at the

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Humanities Building, Lake Worth (May 3), the Riviera Beach Public Marina (May 17—tentative) and the historic Prince Theatre in Pahokee (May 31—tentative).

Each of these unique sites (the Prince Theatre has been abandoned for over 15 years and 711 North Dixie Highway is a courtyard between two buildings) will host an evening-long performance using venuespecific installations and basic choreographic material that will be amended for each venue. Klein’s collaborators include composers David Brazzeal, Tim Thompson, Nicholas Klein and Kyle Conklin. Each performance venue will feature an original score performed on acoustic and electric instruments. The Urban/Land/Scapes Project will also include film installations by John Watts and object installations by Lucy Keshavarz.

Each location will also have corresponding workshops that include master classes, lectures/demonstrations and mini-performances that span a month before the final work is presented. Klein will work with community groups related to each location to develop dance works unique to each community and venue.

The Cultural Council’s Artist-in Residency grant program provides funding for community-based projects that emphasize long-term, in-depth interaction between professional artists and an identified group of participants. The program’s mission is to forge partnerships between artists and host non-profit cultural (arts, science and historical) organizations to benefit residents of Palm Beach County. The grant is funded with proceeds from the sale of Florida State of the Arts license plates.

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(From left) Panel moderator Victoria Amory is pictured with restaurateur and caterer Ken Lyon, Cultural Council board member Sydelle Meyer, Zach Bell and Jennifer Reed of Café Boulud, and Adam Gottleib, executive chef at the Palm Beach Yacht Club.

Raton News; Robert Sims, film editor for The Palm Beach Daily News; Leslie Gray Streeter, music and film reviewer for The Palm Beach Post; and Ivette Yee, arts and

Culture & Cocktails Launches New Season The popular Culture & Cocktails series has returned for a third season with a new home at Café Boulud in Palm Beach and with the National City Private Client Group as a new sponsor. This year’s series includes six “Conversations” hosted by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council.

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The first Culture & Cocktails Panel consisted of five local reviewers and culture writers—(from left) Ivette Yee, Robert Sims, Leslie Gray Streeter, Sharon McDaniel and Skip Sheffield.

The topic for the first evening in November was “CURTAINS UP: A Conversation on the Upcoming Cultural Season.” Rena Blades, president and CEO of the Cultural Council, moderated the panel, which included Sharon McDaniel, classical music and dance reviewer for The Palm Beach Post; Skip Sheffield, arts and entertainment editor for the Boca

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philanthropy writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

The next Culture & Cocktails, “FOOD DISH: A Conversation about Dining with Culture,” was moderated by Victoria Amory, food and entertainment columnist for The Palm Beach Daily News and WXEL-TV’s South Florida Today. Panelists included Zach Bell, chef de cuisine at Café Boulud; Jennifer Reed, pastry chef at Café Boulud; Ken Lyon, president of The Lyon Group and Adam Gottlieb, executive chef at the Palm Beach Yacht Club.

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The January Culture & Cocktails featured “PRETTY PICTURES: A Conversation Between Collaborating Artists,” with internationally known photographer Harry Benson and John Loring, design director of Tiffany & Co. since 1979 and writer for Architectural Digest for over 30 years. The February topic was scheduled to be “THE POWER OF STUFF … and How to Get Rid of It” with Tim Luke, host

of Cash in the Attic on HGTV and columnist for The Palm Beach Post, and WPTV NewsChannel 5 anchor Kelley Dunn.

The next program on March 10 is “STEP BALL CHANGE: A Conversation on the Power of Dance,” with panelists Dan Guin, co-artistic director and executive director of Boca Ballet Theatre; Kathleen Klein, executive director of Klein Dance; Dr. Janet Lynn Rosenman, dance critic and the author of “Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance” and “Dance Was Her Religion: The Spiritual Choreography of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Martha Graham”; and Deanna Seay, senior principal dancer of

Judi Wexler, Lexye Aversa, Lynne Cutler and Gail Eagle

Miami City Ballet. Steve Caras, dance photographer and former dancer with New York City Ballet, will moderate.

The series will conclude on April 14 with “STAGE COACH: A Conversation on the Power of Theatre.” Panelists will include Michael Hall, artistic director of the Caldwell Theatre Company; Bill Hayes, producing artistic director of Palm Beach Dramaworks; Andrew Kato, artistic director of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre; and Louis Tyrell, artistic director of Florida Stage. The moderator will be Hap Erstein, theater reviewer for The Palm Beach Post.

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Four New Directors Elected to Cultural Council Board Four new members joined the Palm Beach County Cultural Council’s Board of Directors within the past several months, bringing varied backgrounds in law, hospitality and business.

Howard Bregman joined Greenberg Traurig in 1991, and currently manages the West Palm Beach and Boca Raton offices.

He is also a member of the United Way of Palm Beach County board of directors and is president of the Center for Information and Crisis Services. He graduated cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law and from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, with honors.

Daniel R. Mann is the managing director of the Boca Raton Resort & Club. Previously, Mann was general manager of The Savoy in London. He studied hotel management at the Institute International De Glion, Switzerland, completed the General Manager’s Program at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration and is a Certified Food and Beverage Executive accredited by the American Hotel & Lodging Educational Institute.

Jo Anne Rioli Moeller is the vice president responsible for global compensation, benefits and human resource information management at Office Depot. Moeller has held similar leadership positions at SunTrust Banks, Zimmer Holdings and John Deere.

She also serves as a Commander in the U.S. Naval Reserves and is on the board of Wunder’s Cemetery in Chicago. She earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from

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Western Michigan University and a master’s degree in public administration from DePaul University.

Michael D. Simon is a shareholder and member of the Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A. Litigation Department. Simon joined the firm in 1989. He graduated from the University of Florida College of Law, J.D., cum laude and received his B.S. from the University of Florida, cum laude.

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Culture & Cocktails Nets PR Award The Palm Beach County Cultural Council’s popular Culture & Cocktails series recently won the Bernays Award for a “Project by or on behalf of a Non-Profit Organization.” The Bernays Awards honor excellence in local public relations and marketing campaigns. The Gold Coast PR Council hosted the fourth annual awards

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program, which is open to all Gold Coast members.

Gary Schweikhart of PR-BS, a Boca Raton-based public relations firm, developed the Culture & Cocktails concept with Rena Blades, the Cultural Council’s president and CEO. Additional assistance with organizing the events is provided by Hope Caldwell and Mary Dunning of the Council’s membership services department and Denise Mariani of Café Boulud.

Culture & Cocktails is generously underwritten by National City Private Client Group with additional support from PR-BS and the Palm Beach Daily News. (Please see the previous news item for more information about Culture & Cocktails.)

Tim Sauers Joins Cultural Council as New Director of Grants Tim Sauers is the new director of grants for the Palm Beach County Cultural

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Council, where he will manage a grant program that distributes approximately $3.5 million in funds to cultural organizations and artists each year.

Sauers served most recently as the program director at Urban Gateways: Center for Arts Education in Chicago for 13 years. He was responsible for the research, planning, development, marketing and selling of school- and community-

based programs for 350,000 participants in an eight-county region. He has grantmaking experience with a variety of local, state, national, private and public institutions including the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of Education, the Illinois Arts Council, the Nevada Arts Council and the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs.

A member of the American Theatre Critics Association, Sauers was a freelance theater critic for Gernhardt Publications for 11 years. He serves as secretary of the board of directors of International Performing Arts for Youth. The recipient of a Bachelor of Arts in communication and theatre arts from Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pa., Sauers holds two Master of Arts degrees—one in theater direction from Michigan State University and one in interdisciplinary arts from Columbia College Chicago.

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Ringing in the New Year Band Parent Style!

By Verdenia C. Baker My daughter, Jasmin Nicole Baker, is a flute player in the magnificent Suncoast High School Chargersonic Band. The kids in the band are intelligent, articulate, creative, disciplined and caring individuals who are committed to excellence in academics as well as music. Last year, the band participated in London’s 2007 New Year’s Day Parade.

Immediately following the performance, an informal invitation was extended to participate in parades in Paris and Madrid as well as a return performance in London for New Year’s Day 2008. The band parents and students voted to perform in the Paris Parade Festival and La Grande Parade de Chantilly.

I was very proud that our students were sought-after on an international basis for their musical prowess.

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On December 31, the first day of performance arrived. We traveled 40 miles north of Paris to Chantilly to perform for the residents of the town. The concert was wonderful; the kids got a standing ovation from the crowd for a number of selections. Two hours later, the band led La Grande Parade De Chantilly. We received compliments galore.

We returned to our hotel to prepare for a New Year’s Eve party with another band from Dallas, Texas, and cheerleaders from across the United States. I marveled at how the power of music brought strangers together in celebrating the beginning of a new year in 2008.

Early the next morning, we prepared to leave for the Paris parade at the Trocadero with the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower. As I stood in the bitter cold waiting for Suncoast to perform, a woman informed me that she had two hours before her train departed for Brussels and had come over to find out what all the commotion was about at the Eiffel Tower. After taking notice of our band, she made the decision to stay and watch them perform. She told me the band had better be worth her missing her train because the next train was two hours later. After Suncoast performed, she stated it was well worth the additional two hours of time required for the next available train back to Brussels.

Because of the band’s excellent performance, it was unofficially invited to return to Paris as well as London next year. In addition, the band was invited to Madrid and Rome for the New Year’s Day Parades in 2009.

I believe everyone that participated in this journey is a better person from the experience. I have a renewed appreciation for music and art programs within our schools and community. We must continue to support these programs to ensure future generations realize the opportunities the arts/music cultural environment may provide them.

Suncoast Band will present “An Evening of Music with Suncoast High School Chargersonic Band” in the near future.

Please look for the advertisement and come out to enjoy the music of these talented students. Au Revoir!

Verdenia C. Baker is deputy county administrator for Palm Beach County.

South County Civic Center Glows with Light County Commissioners Addie Greene and Burt Aaronson officially unveiled the

Pictured following the ribbon-cutting ceremony are (from left) Palm Beach County Art in Public Places Administrator Elayna Toby Singer, artist Mark Fuller and County Commissioners Burt Aaronson and Addie Greene.

county’s newest public art project, “Light Swimming,” which has been installed on the highly visible west and south facades of the South County Civic Center at 16700 Jog Road in Delray Beach.

Designed by West Palm Beach artist Mark Fuller, “Light Swimming” continually delights passersby with its shifting appearance, dawn to dusk. The spectacular light Mark Fuller’s “Light Swimming” enhances the South County Civic Center by day and by night.

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show, primarily controlled by the sun’s position in the sky, creates an ever-changing spectral wash of colors and shadows across the building. Through the addition of dimensional hemispheres, Fuller’s design further complements the diagonal grid of the building. At dusk, the wall-mounted sconces, with solar powered L.E.D. lights, illuminate the building’s facades for a dramatic effect.

Fuller submitted his proposed design in response to a call to artists issued early last year by the Palm Beach County Art in Public Places Program. His proposal was selected by the Palm Beach County Public Art Committee, which is appointed by and serves as advisors to the Board of County Commissioners. As with all county public art projects, area residents were invited to meet the artist and offer their thoughts on the design during a Community Public Art Input Session last spring. To learn more about the Art in Public Places Program, visit www.pbcgov.com/fdo/art.

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are retiring as dancers with Ballet Florida after stints with the company that far outlasted the 10- to 15-year careers that professional ballet dancers typically average.

Cole, who was one of the original company members when she joined Ballet Florida at age 19, has enjoyed a 22-year career with—remarkably—never missing a performance or incurring an injury. Cole credits her consistent positive outlook and energy for that feat. “A rolling stone gathers no moss!” she says.

Her interest in dance began at age 5 when she saw the San Francisco Ballet production of The Nutcracker and told her mother that she wanted to be the Snow Queen someday. Indeed, the role became her favorite; she performed it for the last time with Ballet Florida in December. Cole believes that, when dancers dance, they are creating, perfecting and designing something as a gift to the audience so that they are not only

entertained, but they will also leave the theater with something memorable.

After 22 years, it is Cole’s hope that she has succeeded in leaving behind some nice souvenirs of herself. After she retires, she plans to concentrate full-time on her business, The Dancing Dog of Palm Beach, Inc. Shaffer was introduced to Ballet Florida founder Marie Hale when he was just 18. She told him she would like to see

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him in five years, so after dancing professionally in France, Luxembourg and Switzerland, he returned to Florida and successfully auditioned for the company in 1993.

He chose to remain with Ballet Florida all this time because of the relationships he developed with Marie Hale and Ballet Mistress Claudia Cravey as well as the variety of the repertoire, which allowed him to express a great deal of creativity through various styles of dance.

Shaffer has planned to retire at the 20-year mark of his career. Fittingly, he will finish with a performance of Aus Holbergs Zeiten by John Cranko—the same role that he danced at his graduation to become a professional dancer. This event will take place during Ballet Florida’s final performance of the season on May 2-4 at the Eissey Campus Theatre.

He then plans to return to his native Germany to become a horticulturist in his family’s retirement home business.

Government Leaders Visit Jupiter Lighthouse for Legislation Update The Loxahatchee River Historical Society (LRHS) began the new year in a politically proactive way by hosting meetings for Florida Congressman Tim Mahoney (D-16) and Congressman Ron Klein (D-22) with members of the Jupiter Inlet Working Group. The discussions focused on the status of the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Outstanding Natural Area

(JILONA) legislation (H.R.1922), which was introduced in the House of Representatives by the two congressmen. The legislation would give the lighthouse and its surrounding property a special designation within the U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) National Landscape Conservation System—protecting it in perpetuity.

Participants in the meetings included Jamie Stuve, executive director of the LRHS, Palm Beach County Commissioner Karen Marcus, Jupiter Mayor Karen Golonka, Town Manager Andy Lukasik and Bruce Dawson of BLM. During his part of the visit, Klein climbed to the top of the lighthouse for a spectacular view of the 126-acre site. Mahoney outlined Congressional procedures and answered questions from high school students who volunteer at the lighthouse—and promised to successfully guide the legislation through Congress this year on behalf of the community.

Congressman Tim Mahoney (center) is pictured with student volunteers Kelsey Sheridan (left) and Blake Albino during his recent visit to the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse.

A companion JILONA bill (S.1143) has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and co-sponsored by Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL). Members of the Jupiter Inlet Working Group include the U.S. Coast Guard, Bureau of Land Management, Palm Beach County, Town of Jupiter, Village of Tequesta, Jupiter High School Environmental Academy and the Loxahatchee River Historical Society. For more information on the legislation, visit www.jupiter.fl.us/parksrecreation/jilona.cfm.

(From left) Board members Jim Swope and Nancy Lambrecht with new Armory Art Center Executive Director Jesus H. De Las Salas

Armory Art Center Names New Executive Director A 21-year veteran of the YMCA with an international background, Jesus H. De Las Salas is the Armory Art Center’s new executive director. He will be responsible for programming, board and staff development, fundraising and operations at the West Palm Beach-based organization. “I am honored and proud to accept this challenging and fulfilling position,” De Las Salas said. “I look forward to strengthening the work of the Amory Art Center.”

Prior to joining the Armory, De Las Salas served as executive director of the International YMCA in New York City and as director of development for the Jerusalem International YMCA in Israel, the only branch owned and operated by the YMCA outside the United States. He began his career with the St. Louis YMCA in 1988. His accomplishments include launching the YMCA World Service Web site, helping increase the World Service Budget and introducing the Jerusalem International YMCA to Congress and USAID. A native of Bogotá, Colombia, De Las Salas holds a Certificate in Fundraising Management from DePaul University in Chicago and an undergraduate degree in business administration, with an emphasis

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in management, from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Also new to the staff of the Armory are Marketing and Public Relations Coordinator Ilene Adams and Jennifer Cox, development and grants coordinator.

Since its founding in 1986, through continual evolution and growth of its expanding campus, the Armory Art Center exemplifies the community’s commitment to establishing a public gathering place for the experience of seeing and creating art. With more than a dozen state-of-the-art studios, over 100 course offerings and an annual student population of nearly 3,000, the Armory Art Center is West Palm Beach’s only community art center. Classes are offered in ceramics, jewelry, painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and sculpture, with day and evening hours, both during the week and on Saturdays. For more information, visit www.armoryart.org.

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The Grand Marquee in Wellington opened with a concert by Broadway star Christian Hoff.

the Village of Wellington in December for its ambitious Cultural Campus project.

The approval also paved the way for “The Grand Marquee,” a temporary facility that will house the 2008 season on the campus site as construction proceeds in the background.

Although it’s temporary, The Grand Marquee certainly feels substantial.

Complete with 500 flexible seats, theatrical staging, lighting, sound and guest amenities, the 8,000-square-foot structure features “a well-appointed interior, box office, covered valet carport and restrooms. It also offers a comfortable green room for artists and a catering kitchen,” according to the Cultural Trust. This facility will remain part of the campus site even after the construction of the amphitheater is completed as a venue for special events and catering.

The Grand Marquee opened in January with a special invitation-only pre-

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view event as well as the kick-off of a new Broadway Cabaret Series. The sold-out first concert featured Christian Hoff, the 2006 Tony Award® winner for Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his role as Tommy DeVito in the Broadway hit Jersey Boys. Scheduled to appear on April 19 is John Tartaglia, who created and puppeteered the roles of Princeton and Rod in the Tony Award®-winning musical Avenue Q. For season information, visit www.culturaltrustpb.org.

The cast of Caldwell Theatre Company’s recent production of Doubt featured (from left) Amy Montminy, Pat Nesbit, Terry Hardcastle and Pat Bowie (in a brief but powerful appearance as Mrs. Muller).

Actress Pat Bowie Honored as United States Artists Fellow Palm Beach County audiences recently had the opportunity to see for themselves why actress Pat Bowie of Boca Raton was chosen as one of the recipients of a 2007 United States Artists (USA) Fellowship. At the time, Bowie was preparing to open in the Caldwell Theatre Company’s production of Doubt, A Parable.

Bowie was one of 50 individual artists of all disciplines from across the country to receive $50,000 in unrestricted grants in recognition of the caliber and impact of their work. “In a climate of declining support for individual artists, USA is investing

in the nation’s creativity and shining a light on the important contributions of our finest artists,” said Susan V. Berresford, USA board chair and president of the Ford Foundation.

According to USA, “Pat Bowie is an actress who has graced stages across the United States and London in roles such as Aunt Ester in August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Mrs. Zulu in Tug Yourgrau’s Tony Award®-nominated Song of Jacob Zulu on Broadway and Amanda in Noel Coward’s Private Lives. Equally at home working with emerging companies, Broadway productions and the leading institutions of the not-for-profit theater, she has acted in world premieres, canonical classics and contemporary masterworks. While she has done extensive television work in both Britain and the United States, and is a highly respected recording artist as well, it is her fierce commitment to the work of regional theaters that has distinguished her as a vital collaborator with a host of contemporary actors, directors and playwrights.”

Bowie was one of eight fellowship recipients who made special appearances at a November event recognizing USA supporters at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles.

Palm Beach Dramaworks Partners with Literacy Coalition Palm Beach Dramaworks is joining forces with the Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition in its efforts to offer theater to the underserved and to reinforce the importance and necessity of adult literacy. Last fall, a Dramaworks cast participated in “Literacy and the Arts Day” by performing an abridged version of New Kid, a play by Dennis Foon. Adult immigrants from all over Palm Beach County who are learning English as a second language filled the Literacy Coalition’s Adult Education Center in West Palm Beach for the program, which was sponsored by the Town of Palm Beach United Way.

Directed by Mark Lynch, New Kid told the story of an immigrant family arriving in America from a fictitious country called “Homeland.” As the play unfolds, the family discovers a new culture in which they are overwhelmed by the language, customs, new foods and unexpected prejudice. The packed crowd at the Adult Education Center reacted with empathy and laughter as they related to the many issues brought to life by the actors.

In April, Palm Beach Dramaworks will again collaborate with the Literacy Coalition to present a dramatic performance as part of the Read Together Palm Beach County Campaign. The program, which takes place every other year,

Back row (from left): Dr. Cynthia Smith, principal of the Adult Education Center (AEC); Nancy McPherson, career center coordinator of the AEC; Beth Walton, vice president of the Town of Palm Beach United Way; Darlene Kostrub, executive director of the Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition. Middle row: Sue Ellen Beryl, managing director of Palm Beach Dramaworks; actor Ashely Ellenburg; Nanique Gheridian, company manager of Palm Beach Dramaworks; director Mark Lynch; Front row: actors Brad Barfield and Justin Sims.

encourages county residents to read and talk about books at work, in discussion groups, in neighborhoods, clubs, libraries, religious organizations and many other venues. During each of the previous programs, approximately 20,000 to 30,000 people participated by reading the book (which is selected by a public vote), joining book discussion groups and attending special Read Together events.

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An upcoming example of the program in action will be the inaugural “Earth Days at the Gardens” for schools and families. Visitors will begin their day by applying for an Earth Day Passport and travel throughout the garden visiting various exploration stations hosted by cultural and environmental organizations in Palm Beach County. The stations will offer hands-on activities in environmental art, preservation, conservation and environmental science. Visitors will have fun as they learn ways to conserve, preserve, recycle and go green on April 19 (Family Day) and April 21 (School Group Day). In addition, ANSG will host John F. Romano, senior partner of the Romano Law Group, for a lecture on “EcoCentre, the Living Building: Environmentally Responsible Building, the Way Mother Nature Wanted it to Be” on April 24.

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“The Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens provide a unique learning opportunity,” Caruso says. “Art, science, math, engineering and environmental science are all present throughout the sculpture gardens.

Partnerships with organizations that recognize and value the gardens for the extraordinary and magical place that it is will benefit the community as a whole.”

The organization recently received a $10,000 Recreational Assistance Program grant from the county to fund the restoration of Ann Norton’s studio, which sits in the midst of a magnificent garden on a beautiful 1.7-acre preserve with more then 300 species of plants and nine monumental sculptures.

For more information, visit www.ansg.org. To make reservations, call (561) 832-5328.

New Film, ‘Pretty in Red,’ Fulfills Director’s Dream “Pretty in Red—Excerpts from my Life,” a new independent film from Palm Beach County residents Stella Oliveros and William Serrano, is set to premiere this April in the United States and worldwide. Filmed in the county in 2007, “Pretty in Red” is described as “a uniquely crafted film about a young woman who is living a double-life. The movie, based on a true story, takes us on a journey through those awkward yet sometimes funny moments of growing up, struggling to find a meaning in life.”

Serrano is executive producer of the film, while the multifaceted Oliveros produced, wrote the screenplay, edited, cast, directed and played the starring role in the romantic comedy. A former accountant, she turned filmmaker in 2003.

“My film is based on my own life experiences of growing up in Colombia, Florida and New Jersey,” she explains. “My dream has been to take a project from the first page to the big screen single-handedly. If I can achieve that, I can achieve anything.

I’ve never felt more vulnerable and strong at the same time.” The film features an original soundtrack with music from the Dutch group Peplab and Resurrection Eve

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from Australia, along with other national and local recording artists.

For photos, bios, the film trailer and more about “Pretty in Red—Excerpts from my Life,” visit www.prettyinredmovie.com.

Jorge Pesquera Assumes Leadership of CVB Jorge Pesquera has taken over the reins as president and chief executive officer of the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau—the $10-million tourism

The much anticipated Richard and Pat Johnson Palm Beach County History Museum is scheduled to open on March 16, 2008.

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SunFest Empowers Public to Vote on New Music

agency charged with marketing and selling Palm Beach County as a travel destination for groups, meetings and conventions as well as leisure travel.

Pesquera is a 30-year veteran of the tourism industry, holding senior executive positions at Hilton International Company and Conrad Hotels. He served for 10 years as president and CEO of the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau, where he is credited with transforming the entity into a major contributor to the island’s visitor mix.

Pesquera spearheaded initiatives that resulted in the site selection, enabling legislation and the ultimate construction of the $450million Puerto Rico Convention Center and surrounding district. Most recently, he served as president and CEO of the Aruba Hotel and Tourism Association.

“I am delighted and honored to have been selected to lead the Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau,” Pesquera says. “Palm Beach County ranks very high on the list of classic destinations with a global appeal. To have the opportunity to shape its future development is a dream come true for anyone in the destination marketing world. The county’s rich and diverse arts and cultural offerings are a tremendous asset to our community and will be a focal point of our tourism marketing programs and initiatives.”

Apropos of this election year, SunFest invited the public to help select some of the best up-and-coming talent for “New Music Night at SunFest,” which will feature 15 bands performing in one night during the upcoming April 30-May 4 festival in downtown West Palm Beach. As a part of its “Make it your Own” theme, festival organizers took suggestions and votes from the public to book the bands.

“SunFest artists have always been a combination of legends and new acts breaking on the scene,” said Executive Director Paul Jamieson. “As independent and emerging artists are being given new stages through the Internet and other mediums, we want to present a night to feature the best new music that’s out there. We know people are using personal networks to get the word out on new music. We want to tap into that.”

SunFest organizers asked the public to offer suggestions and then created an online ballot for the voting, which was scheduled to take place in February. Offers will be extended to the top vote getters.

Founded in 1982, SunFest is Florida’s largest waterfront music and art festival. It features live tunes on three stages, with 50 bands performing in five days, as well as more than 160 fine artists, great food and even floating party barges. For tickets and more information, visit www.sunfest.com.

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(Back row, from left) School of the Arts Foundation Board Chairman Simon Benson Offit, Dreyfoos Principal Ellen Van Arsdale, William Randolph Hearst Foundation Director Dino Dinowitz and Board Member Gil Maurer, guest artist J.D. Dougherty and School of the Arts Foundation Board Member Jodi Luntz. (Front row) Dreyfoos musical theater students Daniel Kopystanski and Tess Assari, who play Tony and Maria in West Side Story.

has received three major grants benefiting the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts: a $100,000 grant from the Catherine T. and John D. MacArthur Foundation, $100,000 from the Hines Charitable Trust and $75,000 from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation. The MacArthur Foundation funded a state-of-the-art digital media lab for the school, along with equipment, computers and editing software for its film program. The Hines Charitable Trust funds will be used for equipment and supplies in the school’s Visual Arts Department and for music, supplies and training in the Music Department. The Hearst Foundation grant will enable the school to bring 32 visiting artists to provide master classes for students. One of the most recent visitors was dancer and choreographer J.D. Dougherty from the national tour of West Side Story, who helped the cast prepare for the school’s March production of the Broadway hit, now celebrating its 50th anniversary.

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The “capstone” course in the fashion management program is modeled after Bravo’s Emmy-nominated hit Project Runway.

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The Arthur R. Marshall Foundation welcomed Eric Gehring as its new director of education. He will oversee the non-profit organization’s Everglades education programs for school-aged children and the public, including the field trip-based “Ambassadors of the Everglades” program and “Wetlands, Weird, Wild & Wonderful,” the foundation’s summer camp curriculum. “I want every child in South Florida to learn about the beauty and ecological significance of this global treasure that is right in our backyard,” Gehring says. A graduate of the College of New Jersey, Gehring previously worked for six years for the Somerset County Park Commission in Basking Ridge, N.J.

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The Spady Cultural Heritage Museum was the proud—and only—recipient in Delray Beach of a technology grant from AT&T Foundation’s Excelerator program, thanks in part to a long-standing friendship between two influential former co-workers.

AT&T Area Director Victor Beninate presented a technology upgrade check for $11,844 to Vera Farrington, founder of EPOCH (Expanding and Preserving Our Cultural Heritage, Inc.) and president of the Spady Museum; and Daisy Fulton, museum executive director, in December. Delray Beach ViceMayor Fred Fetzer attended the presentation; he and Beninate were colleagues more than two decades ago at BellSouth, now AT&T. “We now have funds to upgrade to new and better forms of technology to better serve the community,” Fulton said. “It is an amazing thing to be able to say we have been funded by AT&T for the first time.”

(From left) Daisy Fulton, Fred Fetzer, Vera Farrington and Victor Beninate

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The South Florida Science Museum received a $45,000 Innovation Generation Grant from the Motorola Foundation for its Engineering in Elementary (EiE) program. Recipients of these grants create programs to help kids discover that science, technology, engineering and math are challenging, interesting and fun, as well as fundamental skills for a bright future. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs requiring science, engineering or technical training will increase 24 percent to 6.3 million between 2004 and 2014, creating greater demand for critical thinkers fluent in technology. “We’re looking to help cultivate the next generation of skilled scientists America needs for our country’s future workforce,” notes Eileen Sweeney, director of the Motorola Foundation.

Elementary school teachers learn how to integrate engineering and technology concepts into the classroom at the South Florida Science Museum.

Alexander Platt was appointed principal conductor and artistic advisor of the Boca Raton Symphonia through the 2008-09 season. Platt has planned and will conduct all of the Connoisseur Concert Series for the symphonia in the 2008-09 season and will also take a central role in artistic planning, fundraising, education and outreach programs. Platt has been music director of The Maverick Concerts, a venerable summer chamber music series in Woodstock, N.Y., since 2002. He is also resident conductor of the Chicago Opera Theater and serves as music director of the Waukesha Symphony in Wisconsin and the Marion Indiana Philharmonic. The Boca Raton Symphonia’s next Connoisseur concert is set for April 6. Visit www.bocasymphonia.org for details.

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Amy Broderick, one of Palm Beach County’s recipients of the prestigious South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists in 2004, will be the next speaker in the RosettaStone Fine Art Gallery’s “Lunch and Lecture” series on April 23. Broderick is associate professor of visual arts and art history at Florida Atlantic University. The series is designed to explore concepts and ideas arising from current gallery exhibitions. Artist Joyce Birkenstock, who photographs indigenous peoples in ritualistic events around the world and then paints her impressions, will also participate. The gallery is located at 14151 U.S. Highway One in Juno Beach. For information, call (561) 691-9594 or visit www.rosettastonefineart.com.

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Works by Joshua McManus can be viewed at Northern Trust in North Palm Beach from March 24 to April 3.

Unique prints and works in wood by Jupiter artist and educator Joshua McManus will be presented in a special exhibition from March 24 through April 3 at Northern Trust Bank, 11301 U.S. Highway One, North Palm Beach (1/8 mile south of PGA Boulevard). McManus’ collection of prints, entitled “Endangered Wild Animals,” depicts man’s close relationship to the animal world. The artist holds a BFA from Florida Atlantic University and an MFA from Ohio University and has taught in California, Ohio and Florida. The exhibition, which is presented by Shein & Co. Fine Art Consultants, will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Heritage Room (except when it is in use for private events). For viewing availability, call Northern Trust at (561) 622-4600.

For other information, contact Carol Shein at (561) 222-5499.

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“Eternal Vision” memorializes long-time Boynton Beach employee Carolyn Sims.

“Eternal Vision” —an inspirational public art memorial dedicated to the late Carolyn Sims, a longtime City of Boynton Beach employee—has been installed under the auspices of the city’s Art in Public Places Program. According to Public Art Administrator Debby ColesDobay, the sculpture captures the essence of Sims’ contribution to the quality of life in Boynton Beach. Visitors can learn about Sims though the memorial artwork, her lifelike bust and the dedication plaques at the Carolyn Sims Community Center, 311 NW 12th Ave. In addition, visitors can view a documentary that tells about Sims, artist Frank Varga and how the art was made.

Sims, who began her career with the city in 1961 as a pool attendant, eventually became recreation manager overseeing several city facilities. She died of colon cancer in 2002.

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Dr. Henry F. Ivey of Delray Beach donated his vast collection of jazz music to Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Department of Music.

Valued at $142,500, the collection will be housed on FAU’s Boca Raton campus and will be available for student and faculty use. The collection includes over 11,000 pieces consisting of 6,750 records, 2,650 CDs, 1,550 audiotapes, 500 books, 741 rare books, an extensive collection of sheet music and stereo and storage equipment. All the jazz greats are represented, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke, Eddie Condon and Jelly Roll Morton, to name a few. Much of the material is no longer available for purchase. Ivey, who is not a musician himself, has a love for jazz that goes back over 60 years. He purchased the first piece in the collection, the album “Sugar Blues” by Clyde McCoy, in 1940.

Tim Walters (left), director of jazz studies and associate professor of music at FAU, with Dr. Henry F. Ivey

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Old School Square Cultural Arts Center in Delray Beach recently named Christopher Noe as its new director of development. Noe has an extensive background in advocacy and non-profit management, including service as policy liaison to former Gov. Don Sundquist of Tennessee and state executive director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving of Georgia. “Christopher Noe offers us a diverse background in non-profit management, strategic planning and development and is the right fit in this new position that is part of our overall strategic plan,” says Old School Square’s Executive Director Joe Gillie. Noe has an MBA in non-profit management and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in leadership and organizational management at Lynn University in Boca Raton.

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Belle Glade Chamber of Commerce

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Mrs. Rena Blades and Mr. John Blades

Mr. Timothy A. Eaton Eaton Fine Art

Ms. Kitty Bowe-Hearty Red Dot Contemporary Gallery

Ms. Debra Elmore A.K. Consulting

Mr. Michael J. Bracci Northern Trust Bank of Florida, N.A.

Mr. George T. Elmore Hardrives, Inc.

Mr. J. Daniel Brede Lawrence A. Sanders Foundation

Mrs. Wilma Elmore

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jaffe

Mrs. Marjorie Fisher Max M. and Marjorie Fisher Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Kamin

Mr. Howard Bregman Greenberg Traurig, P.A. Mr. Larry Brown

Mrs. Shirley Fiterman Miles & Shirley Fiterman Charitable Foundation

Mr. and Mrs. Francois Brutsch

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Mr. John J. Brogan

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Butler

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Mr. and Mrs. David F. Click

Dr. Barbara Golden and Mr. Jerome Golden

Mrs. Joanne Coia Joanne Coia Gallery

Mr. Rick Gonzalez, AIA REG Architects, Inc.

Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties

Greater Boynton Beach Chamber of Commerce Listing as of print date

Mr. and Mrs. Homer J. Hand Mr. Charles V. Hardiman Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Mr. Herbert S. Hoffman Hoffman Companies Ms. Judy A. Hoffman Profile Marketing Research Ms. Ann E. Howard John C. & Mary Jane Howard Foundation Ms. Gale G. Howden Palm Beach Post

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Ms. Judy Oppel Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show Mr. Michael Ostroff The Ostroff Group, Inc.

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Palm Beach Civic Association

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Mr. Paul N. Leone The Breakers

Mr. Craig I. Menin Menin Development Companies, Inc.

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Mrs. Herme de Wyman Miro Ms. Jane Mitchell Ms. JoAnne Rioli Moeller Office Depot Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Montgomery, Jr. Ms. Fecia Mulry Mulry Fine Art

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Mr. and Mrs. James M. Nederlander Nederlander Organization

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Northern Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce

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Palm Beach County is home to more than 35 independent galleries featuring contemporary art. For the next issue of art&culture, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take a look at the mix of galleries, artists and collectors who make up the thriving contemporary art scene locally.

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