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seeds of change
The 25th Annual Everglades Conference provides fertile ground for the growth of new possibilities in arts integration. By Leon M. Rubin
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A fascinating tale of entrepreneurism and south Florida history. By Fred Sharf
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A growing number of adult classes – and students – add to the cultural life of our community. By Karen Kendall
telling tales: the story behind storytelling
A renewed interest in storytelling highlights the role of the arts in defining societies and creating meaningful connections. By Christina Wood
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Cover Image: First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, London, England, 1962. Photo: Harry Benson
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1 6 welcome letter
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Based on a number of promising signs, the forecast for our cultural community is growing sunnier every day. By Rena Blades
1 8 publisher’s note
A reflection on the passion and diversity of Palm Beach County’s cultural character. By Robert S.C. Kirschner
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• The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts will soon be home to Florida Stage, which has nurtured new plays and delighted audiences for more than 20 years. • One of the most recognizable tall ships in the world, HMS Bounty, is visiting the warm waters off Peanut Island. • This promises to be another vintage year for the Boca Bacchanal Winefest & Auction, one of the nation’s top wine festivals. • The Flagler Museum Music Series celebrates chamber music in an appropriately intimate and gracious setting. • Palm Beach County rolls out the red carpet for a season of film festivals. • People are going to be talking about the Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County’s 2010 Read Together campaign. • And the winner is… Palm Beach County as this year’s Muse Awards honor culture and creativity with an exciting Tony Awards-style presentation.
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Charlie Siemon believes in making room for the arts – in his life and in his community.
4 4 portrait © M.C. Escher
For 60 years, photojournalist Harry Benson has brought the people and events that shape our world into focus.
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There’s never a dull moment with an entertainingly diverse lineup of events scheduled from now through April.
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The Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts receives a $1 million grant; the Boca Raton Museum of Art hosts two exciting exhibits; FAU launches a new Literary Series; and much more insider news.
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No one can deny that the past year has been a challenging one for our county − and our nation. Financial scandals and economic uncertainty have taken their toll on our pocketbooks and our psyches. But I am an optimist by nature, and so I do my best to overcome the inclination to wallow in doom and gloom. As Annie sings in her showstopping number, “The sun will come out tomorrow!” Indeed, if we look around our county, we can point to many signs of hope and promise for our cultural organizations and the audiences they serve. Consider: The Palm Beach Photographic Centre celebrated the opening of its new home in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach as part of the City Center complex, which also houses City Hall and the West Palm Beach public library. The Palm Beach Zoo completed its new Animal Care Complex in early 2009, just a few months after the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach opened its full-service sea turtle hospital. In Boca Raton, Florida Atlantic University is building its state-of-the-art, multimedia Living Room Theater complex, while Lynn University is nearing completion of its new Wold Performing Arts Center. The positive signs go beyond bricks and mortar, as well. Florida Stage just announced plans to become the resident theater at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts’ Rinker Playhouse – truly a win-win situation. The Maltz Jupiter Theatre is consistently filling seats and winning awards, and SunFest just presented a new holiday light extravaganza at Roger Dean Stadium. On the education front, Educational Gallery Group (Eg2) has grown in staff, space and mission and is becoming international in scope, while the Palm Beach Atlantic University Preparatory
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art&culture Program in Dance is taking bold new steps in training young dancers. There is much more good news, although there have also been losses – and we are saddened when any cultural organization ceases to exist. But overall, despite the conventional wisdom, I believe that the skies are brightening. None of this progress has been made without exhaustive planning, strenuous work, essential public and private financial support, and in many cases, unprecedented collaboration. This is all to be applauded. At the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, we are doing everything we can to encourage such forward motion – while also seeking to reinforce the infrastructure that keeps our cultural community strong and vibrant. To cite just one example, during our 2010 Muse Awards program on February 27, we will honor the accomplishments of individuals and organizations who contribute, create, inspire and lead the way in Palm Beach County’s art and cultural community. Excitement is building – and we invite you to share it with us by attending this truly memorable event. You can learn about this year’s finalists and get full details about the evening on our website at www.palmbeachculture.com. We appreciate everything that you − our members and supporters − do to assist us in our efforts. With all of us working together, you can “Bet your bottom dollar… there’ll be sun!”
Rena Blades President and CEO Palm Beach County Cultural Council
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This issue of art&culture is a testament to the vibrant character of Palm Beach County’s cultural scene – and to the intriguing and talented characters that have shaped it. If, as the Spanish author and adventurer Miguel de Cervantes claimed, we are known by the company we keep, then we are indeed fortunate. Take Harry Benson, for example. The famed photojournalist once photographed Queen Elizabeth of England in coal miner’s garb; 50 years later, she made him a Commander of the British Empire. As regular art&culture contributor John Loring observes, “The honor was richly deserved.” Our Portrait of Benson, which appears on page 44, includes more of Loring’s unique insights as well as a sampling of the iconic images and bold vision that characterize Benson’s outstanding career. Then there’s author Karen Kendall, who spent years working in museums and galleries before indulging in her secret desire to write. The successful novelist is making her first appearance as a contributor in the pages of art&culture and, from the sounds of it, she will soon be making an appearance in one of the adult education classes she’s written about for us in “Back to Class” on page 70. After researching the amazing variety of classes offered by an intriguing collection of cultural organizations in the county, Kendall has vowed to reconnect with her own interest in the visual arts. “I grew up in a household full of antiques and paintings and interesting rugs, each of which told a story about the past,” she says. “That probably led to my decision to study art in college. Writing for art&culture and having the opportunity to interview people who are passionate about the arts has made me realize how much I’d enjoy continuing those studies.” The antiques and paintings in Kendall’s childhood home spoke to her and now they beautifully illustrate a point that we raise in our
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feature on storytelling, which appears on page 56. The art of storytelling, which is enjoying a revival in this country, speaks to us on many levels – and through many media. In “Telling Tales,” we explore the role of the arts in sharing the stories that give meaning to our lives. With words and colors, music and movement, storytellers help us understand ourselves and each other. As Leon Rubin’s article “Seeds of Change” indicates on page 50, the arts certainly have the power to communicate the timeless story that flows through our fabled River of Grass. On page 62, Fred Sharf shares a story with us from the pages of South Florida’s past; the title says it all – “Richters of Palm Beach, A Fascinating Tale of Entrepreneurism and South Florida History.” Charlie Siemon, the chair of Festival of the Arts BOCA, and the subject of our winter Profile on page 30, is helping to write a new chapter in the history of our community. “Never doubt,” a quote from Margaret Mead found on Siemon’s corporate website begins, “that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” We all have a role to play in the life of our cultural community – whether it be as artists, adventurers, patrons or, perhaps, purveyors. By developing our own gifts and appreciating those of others, we can ensure the continued vitality of our arts organizations and inspire the dreams that will fuel their future growth. Thank you for your company on the journey we share. I hope you will enjoy getting to know some of the Palm Beach County citizens that make our world more colorful as you wander through the pages of this issue of art&culture. Enjoy.
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contributors John Loring was a contributing writer and New York Bureau Chief at Architectural Digest. He served as the design director of Tiffany & Co. for 30 years and has written numerous books on style and social history. John graduated from Yale University, completed four years of graduate studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and Jim Fairman
has an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute.
Fred Sharf is a collector, scholar and author. His interests lie in publishing and exhibiting original material which illuminates 20th century events
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art&culture is again honored and privileged to have celebrated
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tographed every U.S. president from Eisenhower to George W. Bush; was just feet away from Bobby Kennedy the night he was
This honor is a great testimony to our
assassinated; in the room with Richard Nixon when he resigned; on the Meredith March with
experience and technology. More
Martin Luther King Jr.; and was there when the Berlin Wall went up and when it came down.
importantly, if any member of their families needed a procedure, the best eye doctors in the world would tell them to travel long distances to
Karen Kendall is a south Florida resident and the author of twenty novels. Her current series is about a Miami-based
get here. And that makes you very
agency that recovers stolen art. For more information,
lucky. Because you don’t have to.
please visit www.KarenKendall.com.
With a lifelong interest in the arts inspired largely by his highly creative parents, Leon Rubin has been writing about arts and culture for more than three decades. A Boca Raton resident for almost 17 years, Leon was actively involved in children’s theater and helped to
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Spotlight On Florida Stage Moving to Kravis Center Florida Stage, the nation’s largest professional theater company dedicated to producing exclusively new and emerging American plays, will be taking up residence in the Marshall E. Rinker Sr. Playhouse at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach beginning in July. The partnership between Florida Stage and the Kravis Center will provide the region’s largest performing arts facility with a resident professional theater company of national stature. It also will provide Florida Stage with a higher profile performance venue and better theatrical and audience
facilities while retaining the intimate setting that has been a Florida Stage hallmark. “The Kravis Center is one of the most visible and prestigious performing arts centers in the country, and we are thrilled at the opportunity to make our home there,” says Louis Tyrrell, producing director of Florida Stage. “As the new venue for Florida Stage, the Rinker Playhouse will become known as one of the nation’s pre-eminent incubators of new American plays.” Currently in its 23rd season, Florida Stage has been recognized both regionally and nationally for the quality of its productions as well as its commitment to the mission of nurturing a new canon of American theater. “We’re delighted to welcome such a quality theater company to the Kravis Center,” says Judith Mitchell, chief executive officer of the Kravis Center.
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On Location Palm Beach Maritime Museum Hosts HMS Bounty HMS Bounty, one of the most recognizable tall ships in the world today, is enjoying a visit to Palm Beach County’s warm winter waters. The ship sailed proudly into the Port of Palm Beach with an escort of enthusiastic local boaters organized by the Palm Beach Maritime Museum before dropping anchor at Peanut Island. In April, she will proceed northward in company with the privateer Lynx to participate in the Great Lakes United Tall Ships Challenge during the summer. While here, Bounty is available for tours. As one of the largest active wooden square-riggers that are also full-rigged ships, Bounty provides a colorful educational opportunity for the hundreds of thousands of fans that greet the ship at port appearances around the world. The ship was built as an ocean-faring vessel in 1960 for the movie Mutiny on the Bounty starring Marlon Brando, which was based on the true story of the British crew who overthrew Captain Bligh in the Islands of the South Pacific. Since then, Bounty has appeared in several documentaries as well as feature films, such as Sponge Bob Square Pants, the call (561) 540-5147 Movie and Pirates of the Caribbean II starring or visit www.pbmm.org Johnny Depp.
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Boca Bacchanal Raises a Glass to History Acclaimed chefs and leading vintners will tempt the palates of patrons at the Eighth Annual Boca Bacchanal Winefest & Auction. Named one of the country’s top 20 wine festivals by Wine Spectator magazine, the event benefits the Boca Raton Historical Society’s heritage education and historic preservation programs, which serve more than 40,000 children and adults each year. Set for March 19-21, the festivities will kick off with a sumptuous evening of Vintner Dinners, showcasing the talents of celebrated chefs and vintners in magnificent private residences. The extravagant Bacchanal & Auction takes place on Saturday evening at the Boca Raton Resort & Club, where fabulous food will be on the menu and amazing auction items will be up for grabs. The weekend concludes on Sunday afternoon with the Grand Tasting as guests stroll through the open air at the Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park Amphitheater enjoying delicious food prepared by 30 local restaurants and the presentation of 140 featured wines.
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larger audience without losing any of its intimacy; several performances have been featured on public radio broadcasts. The series continues on January 26 with a performance by the Leipzig String Quartet. The Amelia Piano Trio will perform on February 9, followed by the Intersection Trio on February 23. The series concludes on March 9 with an appearance by the American String Quartet. All concerts begin at 7:30 pm. Audience members have the opportunity to meet the musicians during a champagne and dessert reception following each concert.
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The Delray Beach Film Festival (DBFF) is returning for its fifth year with an impressive schedule of events including screenings, panels and workshops as well as screenwriting and filmmaking contests. The festival will take place from March 22-28 at the Crest Theatre in Old School Square and the Movies of Delray at Oriole Plaza. Barry Bostwick, actor and winner of the 2008 DBFF Lifetime Achievement award, will assume the role of Creative Chair for this year’s festival. Local high school students are submitting short films as part of an expansion of the African-American Film Festival, now in its fifth year. James Drayton, the founder and producer of the event, has teamed up with the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts to present a festival of films that feature black actors and directors and convey the black experience.
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The Grand Prize and Honorable Mention films will be shown to a high school audience at the Kravis Center on March 25. The Grand Prize-winning film will also be screened at the Kravis Center that evening. This year’s Palm Beach International Film Festival, which is being held from April 22-26, will showcase more than 120 features, documentaries and shorts. For the seventh year, the Palm Beach Film Society’s Voices of Local Film Competition, which honors the work of local, non-student filmmakers, will be part of the lineup. Winning entries submitted by filmmakers from Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Broward or Miami-Dade counties will be screened on April 25.
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Literary Devices R e a d To g e t h e r P a l m B e a c h C o u n t y 2 0 1 0 Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows; and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. The public will make the final decision by voting for their favorite title online or by using ballot boxes, which have been set up at public libraries, bookstores, Park Avenue BBQ & Grille and all Starbucks locations. The winning title will be revealed at a press conference on March 1. Following the official project launch, which will take place at the Love of Literacy Luncheon at the Kravis Center on March 26, individuals and groups across the county will be discussing “The Book” in libraries, businesses, service clubs, neighborhoods, schools, chambers of commerce and many other venues. A discussion guide will be available online.
The Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County is kicking off its 2010 Read Together campaign – and people are going to be talking. Read Together Palm Beach County: One Book, One Community is designed to foster reading as well as community dialogue and civic engagement. Estimates indicate that only 50 percent of adults in the U.S. will read a book this year. The Literacy Coalition, with the support of the Palm Beach County Cultural Council and other community partners, hopes to increase that number. The five books selected as finalists for this year’s campaign all have the potential to inspire lively conversations and encourage people to discuss issues and ideas. The finalists are: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford; Run by Ann Patchett; The Book Thief by Markus Zusak; The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary
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The Envelope Please The Muse Awards Celebrate Cultural Excellence Given the Muses’ mythological role as the source of art and cultural inspiration, it seems only natural that the Palm Beach County Cultural Council’s upcoming Muse Awards event would be a spirited celebration of creativity. The February 27 awards ceremony at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts’ Cohen Pavilion promises to be a one-of-a-kind evening featuring a gala dinner and a highly entertaining awards show. Proceeds from the evening benefit the Cultural Council’s arts and cultural education programs. Irene Karp and Jean Sharf are co-chairing the event, while Andrew Kato, artistic director of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre and a creative consultant/ coordinating producer on the Emmy-award winning Tony Awards, will produce the entertainment portion of the program. Performances by talented area students as well as
professionals will be featured. A number of special guest award presenters were being confirmed at press time. The Muse Awards, which are presented by the Cultural Council, honor the accomplishments of those who contribute, create, inspire and help make our community a better place to live, work and play through their efforts. Awards will be given in the following categories: Civic Leader, Cultural Leader, Arts Educator, Arts & Cultural Organization (budget over $500,000 and budget under $500,000), Art or Cultural Program of the Year and the Hector Uberatalli Award for Visual Artists. Tickets to the Muse Awards are $250 per person. Sponsorship opportunities are also available. In addition, the event will feature a special Muse Awards Prize Drawing, with the winner receiving two tickets to the Tony Awards in New York City, a behind-the-scenes tour of the rehearsal, dinner for two at Chef Daniel Boulud’s DB Bistro Moderne, and two nights’ accommodations at The London NYC. Tickets are $50 each. Tickets for both the event and the prize drawing are available by calling (561) 472-3330. visit www.palmbeachculture.com
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rts organizations everywhere are wrestling with the challenge of attracting new audiences. Most of them focus on programming. Some are turning
to social media in the hopes of connecting with a younger market. Charlie Siemon believes that space should be part of the solution. Siemon is a professional consultant in the areas of planning and planning law. He specializes in land use, environmental planning, open space preservation, downtown revitalization, new community development, facilities financing and growth management. He also plays the clarinet and harbors a passion for opera. “I believe the historical traditions of great music are very important and need to be sustained,” he says. Siemon and his business partner, Wendy Larsen, were the lead consultants in the development of a master plan for Boca Raton’s downtown redevelopment in the 1980s. The effort resulted in implementation of a $50 million infrastructure and beautification program and the planning and development of Mizner Park. The Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park was organized as an offshoot of the project. Siemon served as its first chairperson and continues to sit on the Centre’s board. “Part of what we have always hoped to do is present great music – classical music, jazz – in a venue that’s more comfortable for future generations,” he says. The Centre for the Arts’ flagship facility, the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater at the Schmidt Family Centre for the Arts, opened in 2002 with a public concert. Since then, thousands of people have gathered in the open air venue to enjoy a variety of events, including rock, classical, blues and jazz concerts as well as children’s programs.
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Clockwise: Sir James and Lady Jeanne Galway with flute students - Festival 2007 Renée Fleming and Charlie Siemon Festival 2008 Wendy Larsen, Lang Lang, and Charlie Siemon - Festival 2008 Charlie Siemon, Conrad Tao and Joshua Bell - Festival 2008 Wendy Larsen, Teodor Currentzis and Charlie Siemon - Festival 2007
In 2007, the Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park collaborated with IMG Artists to present the first annual Festival of the Arts BOCA, a multi-day cultural arts event. In its inaugural year, the festival attracted renowned artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Arturo Sandoval and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Edward Albee. “The main goal behind the Festival of the Arts BOCA was to bring world-class talent in both music and literature in a festival environment in the center of our community in order to help sustain our cultural heritage for the future,” says Larsen, who currently serves as chair of the Centre’s board and has served on the festival’s steering committee since its inception; she also serves on the board of directors for the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. “Our view is that culture is more important now than ever,” says Siemon, who also serves as festival chair and president of the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Association, which is in the process of transforming the former International Museum of Cartoon Art, located at the southern end of Mizner Park, into a facility he says was designed to serve the cultural and nonprofit community; construction will soon be complete on a large gallery/banquet space and a studio theater that will seat 325 patrons. “Great culture has sustained societies through all kinds of things for hundreds, perhaps, thousands of years.” “The festival is invaluable to the City of Boca Raton; it brings thousands to the community with visitors coming from all over to see first-class musicians,” says Mayor Susan Whelchel of Boca Raton. “Charlie Siemon and Wendy Larsen have given their hearts and souls to the festival for the community. They should be commended.” Festival of the Arts BOCA, now in its fourth year, continues to attract celebrated artists to Palm Beach County. This year’s event,
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scheduled for March 5 through 13, features returning festival favorite and established orchestra-in-residence the Russian National Orchestra, Grammy Award-winning soprano Renée Fleming and virtuoso pianist Conrad Tao. Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky, principal dancers with American Ballet Theatre, are also set to take the stage for a night of music and dance under the stars. A screening of the 1938 film masterpiece, Alexander Nevsky, featuring a score by Sergei Prokofiev, will be seen – and heard – in a concert performance featuring the Russian National Orchestra accompanied by the Pulitzer Prize-nominated chamber choir Seraphic Fire and Grammy Awardwinning mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor. Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize-winner Doris Kearns Goodwin and David Brooks, political pundit and editorial writer for The New York Times, will headline the literary lineup, which also includes former presidential advisor and speechwriter Richard Goodwin, notable gourmand Albert Sonnenfeld and award-winning writer and authorized biographer of Julia Child, Noël Riley Fitch. The festival opens with the Future Stars Performing Arts Competition, recognized as one of South Florida’s premier youth arts contests. Master classes with authors and performers, open rehearsals and workshops will give area students an opportunity to learn from the masters. This year’s schedule also includes a number of free public events, such as an afternoon film series. (For more information, visit www.FestivaloftheArts.org or call (561) 368-8445.) “It does keep me busy,” Siemon admits without complaint. “I believe painfully that successful societies, successful communities, have at their core a strong cultural arts program.”
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Q& A What sets Festival of the Arts BOCA apart this year?
I think the Authors in Residency Program this year, with literary giants such as Doris Kearns Goodwin (Pulitzer Prize-winning historian) and Richard Goodwin (speechwriter for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson) is a milestone. The other aspect of it is that we are diversifying this year. We have given our local audiences three great years of orchestra with great soloists. This year we will give our audiences an opportunity to be exposed to great dancers as we welcome the magnificent lead dancers of the American Ballet Theater, Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky. We will also treat audiences to a unique musical cinematic experience.
What is at the top of your wish list for the Festival?
The biggest item on my wish list would be a title sponsor. This would become the XYZ Festival of the Arts. I think that with that singular piece, we would have a festival that would be sustainable into the future.
What is at the top of your wish list in terms of the broader cultural life of the community?
That the governments in the county continue to recognize the importance of culture to the long-term economic integrity of the community I think is important. Our economic well being is not going to come from future growth so much as it is going to come from maturing as a place that people really want to come to, not just for a visit but to stay and live and have productive jobs. I think the sorts of things we are doing are really important for this purpose.
What are your favorite pastimes?
I am an avid fisherman. I am a saltwater fly fisherman, taking it up fairly late in life. I do not read as much as I used to but I do listen to music quite a lot. I have three wonderful grandchildren and I spend a considerable amount of time with them and enjoy that tremendously.
What kind of music do you enjoy?
I am a great fan of the Russian National Orchestra not just because of its musicality but also because of its unique and exceptional history. The RNO was founded in Moscow during the peak of glasnost. It was an independent organization, unprecedented at the time and truly unheard of. I cannot help but also become a fan of the exceptional talent we have featured at the Festival. RenĂŠe Fleming comes to mind. She is not only an exceptional person but her voice is incomparable and unforgettable. From the standpoint of composers, I am influenced primarily by Beethoven. Beethoven was the bridge from early music, which was mostly thematic. Giuseppe Verdi, who was a composer of 41 operas and truly remarkable, is another composer who I highly revere. He wrote his first opera out of the joy of becoming married and having two children, children who unfortunately perished in a plague. He was utterly heartbroken; when you listen to his requiem and you know his story you can understand the role of his life experiences in his work. And certainly some of the modern pioneers, such as Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein, who gave way to a whole new musical vernacular in this country, people who tried to relate.
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Paintings and sculpture by Lois Barton
will be on view in the lobby of Palm Beach Gardens City Hall, 10500 N. Military Trail, through February 17 in the exhibition, “Reconstructed Memories.” Barton’s figurative terra cotta sculptures evoke a sense of timelessness while her colorful paintings on canvas are both playful and serious − inspired by her observances of the environment and events. 561-630-1116 or www.pbgfl.com.
Baroness Vladka von Loudenstimme and her rival,
Gwendoline Josephine Bellevoix Bouvier – better known as the Duelling Divas – serve up a comedic entrée into the world of grand opera. Portrayed by sopranos Wendy Reynolds and Birgit Fioravante and accompanied by pianist Paige Turner (Heather Coltman), the divas bring opera with a twist to Florida Atlantic University’s Boca Raton campus. 800-564-9539 or www.fauevents.com.
One of the Top 20 Festivals in the Southeast, ArtiGras
celebrates its 25th anniversary during Presidents’ Day Weekend (February 13-15). Produced by the Northern Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce, ArtiGras features features gallery-quality work from artists in a variety of styles and media, along with live entertainment, children’s art activities and more. Abacoa, Central Boulevard, Jupiter; 561-748-3946 or www.artigras.org.
Conducted by Ramón Tebar, the Palm Beach Symphony Orchestra
spotlights soloists in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Piccolo in C Major; Haydn’s Concerto for Trumpet, Hob. VII:1, E-flat Major; Poulenc’s Concerto for Organ in G Minor; Paul Creston’s Concerto for Marimba and Orchestra; and excerpts from Handel’s Water Music. Bethesda-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church, 141 South County Rd., Palm Beach; 561-655-2657 or www.palmbeachsymphony.com.
David Mamet’s American Buffalo presents a skewed vision
of the American dream as three small time crooks, who fancy themselves businessmen pursuing legitimate free enterprise, are merely pawns caught up in their own game of dead-end, empty pipe dreams. Directed by William Hayes, the Palm Beach Dramaworks production runs through April 4. 322 Banyan Blvd., West Palm Beach; 561-514-4042 or www.palmbeachdramaworks.org. Dennis Creaghan in a scene from American Buffalo
Photo credit: Steven Caras
Two- and three-dimensional artwork takes center stage
in a new Lighthouse Center for the Arts exhibition, Form and Fiber. Featuring unique pottery perspectives by members of the Ceramics League of the Palm Beaches as well as the creations of two incredible fiber artists, Jo-Ann Golenia and Pat Kumicich, it promises to be a truly dynamic display. 373 Tequesta Dr, Tequesta; 561-746-3101 or www.lighthousearts.org.
Detail from Gifts from the Sea, Jo-Ann Golenia
Back for its first full encore since its 2003 premiere, Edward Villella’s
The Neighborhood Ballroom showcases the waltz, jazz (including the Charleston), the fox-trot and the mambo in an evening-length tale of a poet, his muses and the great ballroom music and dances of the early to mid-20th century. Performances from February 19-21. Miami City Ballet, Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; 561-832-7469 or www.miamicityballet.org.
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One of the Crest Theatre’s most popular performers,
Christine Andreas, returns on March 1-2 following the national tour of the Tony-winning Light in the Piazza. The multiple Tony Award nominee is best known for her landmark performance in the revival of My Fair Lady and original starring roles in On Your Toes and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Old School Square, 51 N. Swinton Ave., Delray Beach; 561-243-7922, ext. 1 or www.oldschool.org.
Colorful murals are frequently encountered
in Palm Beach County – and have been for decades. In a free lecture, “Bigger is Better: WPA Murals,” mural artist and designer Sharon Koskoff explores the history of large-scale mural painting in the county and its relationship with the WPA murals of the New Deal era. Armory Art Center, 1700 Parker Ave., West Palm Beach; RSVP to 561-276-9925 or 561-863-2446.
A compelling multi-media exhibition detailing the sacrifices,
challenges, vision and everyday courage demonstrated during the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-1960s can be seen at the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum from January 4 through March 27. It chronicles the work of photographer Matt Herron and the Southern Documentary Project he organized in 1964. 170 NW 5th Ave., Delray Beach; 561-279-8883 or www.spadymuseum.org. Summer volunteers, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee workers and local students singing freedom songs in Mileston, Miss. Photo credit: Matt Herron/Take Stock
Joshua Nelson, the “Prince of Kosher Gospel Music,”
is one of the most popular performers and producers in modern Jewish music. A multi-talented instrumentalist and songwriter, Josh creates music that is celebrated in congregations, camps and communities around the world. JCC of the Greater Palm Beaches, Borland Center, 4800 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens; 561-689-7700 or www.jcconline.com/joshuanelson.
Celebrate the 4th annual “Save the Florida Panther Day”
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and share birthday wishes with Colin, the Palm Beach Zoo’s very own Florida panther. Enjoy animal encounters, keeper talks, St. Patrick’s Day themed photo opportunities, crafts and giveaways. Swing by the Florida Pioneer House at 11 a.m. to see Colin enjoy his surprise birthday treat! 1301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach; 561-547-9453 or www.palmbeachzoo.org.
ART Roundup, the 13th Annual VSA arts West Festival,
is expected to attract over 350 children with disabilities from western Palm Beach County to the Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center. Sponsored by VSA arts of Florida − Palm Beach County, the day will include a stage show featuring performing groups from area schools, plus outdoor art activities with professional artists. Free admission. 1977 College Dr., Belle Glade; 561-996-3230.
Students perform during the 2008 West Fest.
The Delray Beach Chorale honors the music
of American composers in “Freedom: The American Dream” − a program featuring compositions by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and Randall Thompson as well as traditional American spirituals and more. Directed by Eric Keiper, with accompanist Ed Shuman. First Presbyterian Church, 33 Gleason St., Delray Beach; 800 984-7282 or www.delraybeachchorale.org.
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{upfront-calendar} Hailed by The Hollywood Reporter as “a welcome
addition to the list of Sinatra heirs,” singer/songwriter Steve Tyrell is back by popular demand from March 30-April 3 and April 6-10 to celebrate the Great American Songbook in the final concert of the 2010 Royal Room Cabaret series. He’s known to many for his appearances in the 1990s Father of the Bride films. The Colony Hotel, 155 Hammon Ave., Palm Beach; 561-659-8100.
Highlighting one of the world’s greatest tapestry collections,
the Norton Museum of Art presents Habsburg Treasures: Renaissance Tapestries from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, from January 16 to April 11. Richly woven with silk, wool and gold thread, these eight gigantic wall hangings depict the founding of ancient Rome by brothers Romulus and Remus. 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach; 561-832-5196 or www.norton.org. Romulus Brings Numitor Amulius’ Head, about 1565/70. 11 ft. 7 in. x 17 ft. 3 in. (353 x 525 cm). Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, T VIII/4
Throughout the 19th century, American artist-explorers braved
many hardships to find and document some of the world’s most remarkable terrain, flora and fauna. From January 26 to April 18, New World Eden: Artist-Explorers in the American Tropics will exhibit rare paintings, drawings, prints and illustrated books created by these adventurers. Flagler Museum, Cocoanut Row and Whitehall Way, Palm Beach; 561-655-2833 or www.flaglermuseum.us. Martin Johnson Heade, An Orchid with Nesting Shear-Tails, ca. 1875, Private Collection
Palm Beach Opera’s production of George Bizet’s Carmen
brings to life the most famous femme fatale of all time from April 9-12. Enter the forbidden world of the gypsies filled with passionate music, pulsing rhythms and powerful characters. Viktoria Vizin and Madgalena Wór alternate in the title role for this grand opera season finale. Kravis Center, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; 561-833-7888 or www.pbopera.org.
The Duncan Theatre hosts the internationally acclaimed Pilobolus
Dance Company for performances on April 16 and 17. This venerable arts organization has experienced a new surge of popularity as it continues to choreograph and perform dance-theater works at the highest level of imagination and energy. Palm Beach Community College, 4200 Congress Ave., Lake Worth; 561-868-3309 or www.pbcc.edu/arts/duncan.
Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626)
was his last composition and remains one of his most popular and respected works. The Master Chorale of South Florida reprises this audience favorite, along with Mozart’s Te Deum, in performance with the Boca Raton Symphonia and guest soloists. Boca Raton Community High School Auditorium, 1501 N.W. 15th Ct.; 954-418-6232 or www.masterchoraleofsouthflorida.org
Bring your blankets, chairs and picnic baskets
for an enjoyable evening of spectacular show tunes at a free outdoor concert under the stars. The Conservatory of Music at Lynn University proudly presents the Lynn University Philharmonia Orchestra at Mizner Park in a rousing “Salute to Broadway.” Mizner Park Amphitheater, 590 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; Reservations: 561-237-9000 or www.lynn.edu/tickets.
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Dates are subject to change. For an up-to-the-minute, searchable calendar of cultural events, please visit the Palm Beach County Cultural Council’s website at www.palmbeachculture.com. For more information about individual organizations’ schedules, please visit the websites noted in each item.
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They are our cousins and our grandparents, our neighbors and our long-lost relatives. They are our family. And whether they are here at home, navigating the most severe economic downturn in generations, in the former Soviet Union or in Israel, more and more are turning to the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County and its network of affiliated agencies for food and urgent financial relief. Care to help? Visit JewishPalmBeach.org or call 561-478-0700 to donate or for more information.
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Seeing t h e W or l d :
Harry Benson’s vision and photographs Photographs by Harry Benson Reflections by John Loring
Gigi Benson 2009
Photojournalist Harry Benson came to the U.S. with the Beatles in 1964. Since then, the Scotsman has photographed every U.S. president from Eisenhower to Obama. From 1970 to 2000, he recorded our history in images for LIFE Magazine. Benson was steps away from Bobby Kennedy the night he was assassinated. He was in the room with Richard Nixon when he resigned and on the Meredith March with Martin Luther King, Jr. He has been on maneuvers with the IRA. He covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Benson was in Berlin when the wall went up and when it came down. Since 2003, he and his wife Gigi have had a home in Palm Beach County. Benson photographs for Architectural Digest, Vanity Fair and other publications. A recently published book, Harry Benson: Harry Benson and John Loring Photographs (powerHouse Books, 2009) celebrates his incomparable career with a distinctive mix of iconic images and never-before-published photographs, a number of which were shot in Palm Beach County. A picture tells a thousand stories; Benson’s pictures tell a lifetime of unforgettable tales. We will let them speak for themselves, with a little help from John Loring, who wrote the introduction to the book, excerpts of which appear in the following pages.
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President John F. Kennedy, Paris, France, 1961.
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Sixty years is ample time to have seen a good share of happy beginnings and a good share of way-to-theleft-of happy endings. It is ample time to confirm that the passage from one to the other is, in the end, all too rapid and often brutal. “There for a moment and gone forever,” a favorite Harry Benson observation on the parade of life rushing by could subtitle each of his photos of the great, the notorious and the all too mortal. Yet Benson retains a youthful optimism, flourishes and emerges ever triumphant in the tangled web of mortals navigating life as it happens, caught in the harsh glare of reality while they were probably “making other plans,” as his fallen friend and icon of his youth John Lennon once prophetically suggested. If Harry Benson’s photos are surgical in their incisive precision, they are at the same time compassionate, poetic, moving and frequently downright beautiful in their balanced, compositional perfection — possibly Felliniesque in their empathetic embrace of the diversities and even the grotesqueries of life and of a cinematic love of the panoramic vision of events. They are embracing — all-embracing. The crosscurrents of the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the wonderful and the downright rotten flow freely throughout sixty years of Benson photos — many of them by now iconic. The young are jubilant in their moments of triumph. Alternately they are murdered. Their grieving friends and families or their bewildered and jailed murderers are all photographed. The idols are idyllic, but they will fall or they simply grow old, as idols inevitably do, and become mere mortals that once played to the public as gods and goddesses. No one is spared by Harry Benson’s lens, just as no one is spared in the sight of whoever doesn’t look sparingly on life. Yet nothing in Harry Benson’s photos is “mere,” and in that is much of their strength. Whether it is a teenage English schoolboy just smacked in the gut by tragedy or the smiling, then young queen of England in the unlikely disguise of a Scottish coal miner, every Queen Elizabeth II, Rothes Colliery, Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, 1957.
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Kenneth Noland, Port Clyde, Maine, 2008.
Benson image records, he points out, “what’s going on at the time;” and, whether that “what” is historic and life-changing or homely and obscure, he sees the universal and consequential in its specifics, personal as they may be.
Brad Pitt, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2008.
All images and text descriptions were provided from the book:
Harry Benson: Photographs Harry Benson (Author), John Loring (Introduction) powerHouse Books; (November 24, 2009)
Between his first published photo which featured a nervous and skeptical roe deer taken at the Glasgow Zoo in 1946 and the photo of a supremely self-possessed and skeptical Brad Pitt in New Orleans published January of 2009 on the cover of Architectural Digest, there has been everything from iconic photos of the Beatles’ pillow fight in their Paris hotel room in January 1964 at the moment they learned that “I Want to Hold Your Hand” had hit number one on the U.S. pop charts to the equally iconic photos of the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968, or of Richard M. Nixon’s resignation at the White House in 1974. Despite the primary source evidence he gives of some of the worst of times, Benson who is still immaturably optimistic for the four score years he has lived, is fond of stating, “we live in the best of times.” They are in any case amazing, astonishing and momentous time filled with wonder as he records them.
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25th Annual Everglades Conference Inspires New Efforts to Bring Science and the Arts Closer Together By Leon M. Rubin
T
he philosophy and the practice of planting seeds
have always been top priorities for the West Palm
Beach-based Arthur R. Marshall Foundation.
In fact, legendary conservationist Marjory Stoneman Douglas planted the original seed that led to the non-profit environmental organization’s creation when she made a donation to support the work of her kindred spirit – the visionary environmentalist Art Marshall.
Cindy Bartosek
For the past dozen years, the Marshall Foundation has championed the restoration and preservation of the Everglades eco-system through educational programs and getyour-hands-dirty action: Its volunteers have planted approximately 100,000 native Florida trees in wetlands areas and helped harvest close to 3,000 pounds of cypress seeds. And so, early in 2009 − as the Marshall Foundation began to prepare in earnest to host the 25th Annual Conference of the Everglades Coalition in early January 2010 – its president, Nancy Marshall, paid a visit to the offices of the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. She wanted to plant the seed of an idea – hoping that the Council would support the Everglades Conference in some way. The Cultural Council immediately saw an opportunity. “We said we would become involved,” says Alyx Kellington, the Cultural Council’s director of arts and cultural education, “if we could include our science-based cultural organization members and if there was an arts integration component to the conference.”
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the seed has blossomed
Origami by Michael LaFosse, courtesy Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens Pauline I. Syacey, EMBA Origami by Michael LaFosse, courtesy Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens
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Fast forward to mid-December. The seed that Nancy Marshall planted had grown prolifically – resulting in a number of firsts for the conference, which ultimately attracted several hundred people from across the nation in early January for three days of educational sessions, scientific presentations, keynote speakers and policy debate around the theme “The Changing Face of Everglades Restoration.” For the first time in its history, the conference featured cultural components, including: • An exhibition of Florida-focused origami from the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardenswhich was created by acclaimed origami artist Michael LaFosse. • A dance performance by students from Palm Beach Atlantic University’s School of Music and Fine Arts Preparatory Dance Department, directed by Kathleen Klein and choreographed by Jin Young Lee. • Explore the Changing Face of the Everglades, an art show featuring two- and three-dimensional entries from an art contest sponsored by the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County students from elementary through high school. Also for the first time, the conference was preceded by a day-long plenary session focused on ways to integrate the arts into the teaching of science. About 100 people participated in the session at Florida Atlantic University’s Pine Jog Environmental Education Center and Pine Jog Elementary School in West Palm Beach, where, as part of a busy schedule, the students sang for them and showed off the artwork they had made from recycled materials. “Our whole mission is to draw attention to the role that the Everglades plays in all of our lives,” explains Nancy Marshall, who established the Marshall Foundation in 1998 with her husband, John – Arthur R. Marshall’s nephew. “The cultural aspects of the 2010 conference had never happened before. The individuals who came to this conference saw something they’ve never seen before. We hope they’ll think about the Everglades in a whole different way,” she says. By the same token, the conference provided educational opportunities for students that had never been included in previous gatherings. Thanks to the efforts of the Cultural Council and others, students who attend the environmental science magnet programs at Jupiter Community High School and Forest Hill Community High School were invited to take part in the conference with their fees generously sponsored by School Board Member Carrie Hill. Winners of student science fair competitions also participated. “We wanted to show members of the Everglades Coalition how to integrate the arts,” Kellington notes. “We know for a fact that the arts are diminishing in the schools. The way we can keep them strong is through arts integration. If we can show teachers and students how to learn information like science or math in a different way, it benefits everyone.”
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only the beginning
If the Everglades Conference had marked the end of this conversation about integrating the arts into Everglades-related educational efforts, everyone involved could have congratulated themselves on a job well done and headed home. Fortunately, though, the conference actually represents the beginning of an effort that will continue throughout 2010, which has been proclaimed “The Year of the Everglades” by the Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, the Palm Beach County School Board and a number of communities around the county. “We have 2010 all mapped out,” says Nancy Marshall. Planned activities include: • The Everglades: Through the Eyes of Children – Twice this year (on January 30 and October 30), children from Title I schools in the community will have the opportunity to spend a day taking photos in the Everglades under the watchful eye of experienced photographers. A selection of their photos will later tour the county in a traveling exhibition. • Everglades Day at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge – The 143,000-acre refuge in Boynton Beach
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will be open to the public all day, for free, on February 6. Speaking engagements by members of a new “All for Green” speakers bureau – The program’s goal is to heighten awareness of the Everglades among racially and ethnically diverse groups, with speakers ranging from scientists, educators, wildlife managers and agency managers to planners, an economist and others. Panel discussions led by participants in the River of Grass Grand Flotilla – This early January canoe expedition from the Kissimmee River at the north end of Lake Okeechobee to the Grassy Waters Preserve in West Palm Beach included science teachers; researchers; two former Marshall Foundation summer interns; Susan Sylvester, the director of operations control for the South Florida Water Management District; Allen Trefry, the retired Palm Beach County environmental director; and Dudley Edmondson, a well-known freelance wildlife and adventure sports photographer. A wide range of other programs including summer camp sessions, teacher workshops and adult education courses. In addition, 20 entries from the Everglades Conference art
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Peggy VanArman
contest organized by the Cultural Council will tour the county with
they’re not going to write a thesis.” She also hopes that the
Throughout the year, the Council will continue to assist its
conference participants “will look in their own backyards to see who
stops in Jupiter, West Palm Beach, Belle Glade and Boca Raton.
science-based cultural organizations in expanding their arts
integration efforts. Involvement by such groups in the Council’s Cultural Educators Committee grew substantially as the Everglades
scientists, environmental organizations, politicians and other
their arts and cultural partners are and get them on board. The more aware they are of the connection, the better.”
Marshall Foundation Executive Director Josette Kaufman
Conference’s education day at Pine Jog came together. “We
observes that all these strategies must come into play if we are to
anything to do with the Everglades could be represented there,”
environmentally fragile − River of Grass.
wanted to make sure that any of our cultural organizations that had Kellington says. “We wanted to bring them in and celebrate what
succeed in preserving and restoring the vitally important – and “We are firm believers in that if we don’t educate the next
they do.” Approximately 15 organizations participated at Pine Jog.
generation of stewards, there won’t be anything for them. We have
wide-ranging benefits
at the reaction that kids have when they’re outside, digging a hole
Representatives of both the Marshall Foundation and the
Cultural Council fervently hope that the seeds sown by integrating arts education into the 25 annual Everglades Conference will lead th
to a bountiful harvest in years ahead.
“I hope that all future conferences will include students on every
level − and include them through the arts,” Kellington says. “If you’re going to involve a third grader, it has to be through the arts;
to start early and work with them,” Kaufmann says. “You’d be amazed and planting a tree. They want to know if the snakes and alligators are going to eat them at the refuge,” she says with a smile.
“We’re engaging the children and physically connecting them
with nature. You can feel their amazement.”
To learn more about the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation and its educational programs and volunteer opportunities, visit www.artmarshall.org.
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Telling Tales: The Story Behind by Christina Wood
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pposable thumbs are a definite asset but there are those who believe that it is the stories we tell that truly set us apart from the animal kingdom. Stories help us make sense of the world. They inform and entertain. They bring us together – around fires, in front of television screens and in support of shared values and beliefs. We even dream in stories.
“We are a storytelling animal. We live and thrive and experience life as one overarching story and as a series of stories,” says Caren S. Neile, MFA, PhD, director of the South Florida Storytelling Project for the School of Communication & Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University. “The reason that the narrative sequence is so meaningful for human beings is not only because it is our experience of life but also because it gives life order.” Ancient societies honored and revered their storytellers. They trusted them with their history, their hopes and their fears. There are still storytellers among us today. They may speak in the language of dance or of color. They can be found on a stage or movie screen as well as in libraries and bookstores. A violin can tell a tale of heartbreak; a cold piece of marble can bring life to an epic adventure. “Story is all around us,” Neile says. “Stories are in journalism, stories are in music, stories are in dance. We experience life through story.” While the arts have the power to speak to all of us, many stories are written in a language that might not be easy to understand. Subtitles can open the door to greater understanding and appreciation of foreign films. Translations have allowed us to cross borders and enter into the world of Russian literature and Greek mythology. Interpretation can also unlock surprising dimensions within tales told through line, movement and music.
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Romulus Brings Numitor Amulius’ Head, about 1565/70. 11 ft. 7 in. x 17 ft. 3 in. (353 x 525 cm). Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, T VIII/4
Carlos Guerra and Jennifer Kronenberg in Miami City Ballet's Symphony in Three Movements. Choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust.
“You have to be trained how to read paintings,” says Jerry Dobrick, curatorial associate in European art at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. The museum’s collection includes a painting called Interior of the Salon of the Archduchess Isabella of Austria (Willem Van Haecht II, about 1628), which shows a noblewoman surrounded by her art collection and her courtiers. According to Dobrick, the painting also speaks to what was going on in the world at that time. In particular, he points to a number of exotic animals that inhabit the painting. At the time, Dobrick explains, Europeans were discovering the wonders of Africa, the Far East and the West Indies. The painting, he insists, tells the whole story – if you know how to read it.
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The legend of Rome’s founding by Romulus and Remus is woven in wool, precious silk and gold thread in a series of eight, palace-size tapestries commissioned by the Habsburg rulers of the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th century. The tapestries, which are on view at the Norton Museum through April 11 as part of the exhibit Habsburg Treasures: Renaissance Tapestries from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, also tell a story of the people who commissioned them and the world in which they lived. The tapestries that adorned European castles and churches during the late Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras served many purposes. On a practical level, they provided a form of insulation. Wealthy patrons
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Interior of the Salon of the Archduchess Isabella of Austria, about 1628, oil on wood
commissioned sophisticated decorative designs that often incorporated celebratory or propagandistic themes designed to enhance their social and political standing. According to Dobrick, the Habsburgs intended the tapestries in the exhibit as a means to associate their dynasty with the glories of ancient Rome. “As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words,” he says. Even a still life painting can have a beginning, a middle and an end, as any good story should. A floral arrangement, for example, can speak to us of birth, maturity and death. “You see them [the flowers] in bud, then you see them blooming then you see them withering – in the same painting,” Dobrick says, “It speaks to the stages of life.”
With the aid of an interpreter, meaning lost in the passing of time can be reclaimed, symbols can be identified and dreams can be understood. “I think interpretation, especially in visual art from Europe earlier on, is almost as critical as having someone interpret a contemporary piece for you,” Dobrick says. “Over the centuries a lot of what people would actually have known from everyday existence has been lost.” Music, of course, has been called the universal language. “In [Pyotr Ilyich] Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, it’s really obvious when the fight scene happens and it’s really obvious when it’s the love story,” Joanna Marie, host of Classical Variations on WXEL FM, says. “You don’t have to specifically
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Maltz Jupiter Theatre cast of "Guys & Dolls"
know what’s going on but you get the emotion.” The School of Boca Ballet Theatre teaches students the language of dance and prepares them to communicate fluently in the world where that language is spoken. “The arts are all about communication,” says Dan Guin, the company’s co-artistic director and executive director. Just like a writer, he believes, a dancer needs a strong vocabulary to communicate effectively. Traditional storytelling is the ancestor of modern theater. Stories come to life every week on stages across Palm Beach County, from the Broadway musicals that visit the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts in West Palm Beach to the student productions that pack high school auditoriums everywhere and from the timeless productions mounted at Palm Beach Dramaworks to the new works that premiere at Florida Stage. Today, however, traditional storytelling is considered an art in and of itself. “We use the term storytelling in common conversation to mean anything from telling a lie to directing a movie to writing a novel,” says Neile, who, in addition to her duties at
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FAU, is the incoming chair of the National Storytelling Network. “In the world of professional storytelling we mean a very specific thing,” she says. In addition to narrative, the art of storytelling requires interaction and imagination. FAU and the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton, where Neile sits on the board of directors, are celebrating that art with Singers and Zingers: A Musical-Comedic Storytelling Series, featuring a line-up of awardwinning performers. The appeal of such performers may feed off a very basic and fundamental human need for stories, but Neile, who serves as emcee and producer of the series, says she doesn’t want people to think of storytelling as an ancient art form. “Think of it,” she says, “as performance art; one artist standing on a bare stage creates an entire world in our heads.” A good storyteller can remind you of universal truths or teach you new things – whether you are sitting in a theater, in a classroom or at the dining room table. A good story, told well, can move you to tears or to laughter. “It has to touch us as people,” Neile says. “That’s what storytelling does for us.”
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Story Time
Once upon a time, there was a land where arts and culture were celebrated; where sun-kissed surf tickled the shore and where stories and storytellers thrived! You don’t have to close your eyes and imagine what it would be like… just get out and enjoy some of the wonderful stories being told all across Palm Beach County. You may want to start with some of these intriguing opportunities:
Habsburg Treasures: Renaissance Tapestries from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. On exhibit through April 11 at the Norton Museum of Art, 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach. (561) 832-5196; www.norton.org. The Singers and Zingers Storytellers Series presents: January 25: Bil Lepp, “Inept, Impaired, Overwhelmed” February 22: Nancy Donoval, “Laughing in the Dark” March 1: Bill Harley, “Dad Threw the TV out the Window” April 19: Heather Forest, “Songspinner” Performances are at 2 and 7 p.m. at the Caldwell Theatre Company, Count de Hoernle Theatre, 7901 N. Federal Hwy., Boca Raton. (561) 241-7432; www.caldwelltheatre.com. Black History Month Celebration featuring various performers, including Sadarri, Amber and Misty Saskill, February 3 at 12:15 p.m. at the Traditions Plaza (in front of bookstore). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton. FREE. For directions, call (561) 297-3000. A Cultural Feast with Connie Regan-Blake, “True Grits: A Window to Appalachia” featuring lunch and performance on February 20 at 12:30 p.m., at the Willow Theatre at Sugar Sand Park, 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton. (561) 347-3948. VOX Storytelling Slam on the fourth Saturday of every month at 8 p.m. at Gizzi’s Coffee Gourmet, 2275 N. Federal Hwy., Delray Beach. FREE. (561) 266-9797. Boca Ballet Theatre presents Spring Serenade featuring a collection of classical and contemporary works on March 27 at 8 p.m. and March 28 at 2 p.m. at University Theater (Griswold) on the Florida Atlantic University campus, 777 Glades Rd., Boca Raton. (561) 995-0709; www.bocaballet.org. For more ideas and information, visit www.PalmBeachCulture.com.
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Richters of Palm Beach
A Fascinating Tale of Entrepreneurism and South Florida History By Fred Sharf
Behind the fashionable façade of the Richters store on Worth Avenue in Palm Beach lies more than 100 years of jewelry history. Stefan Richter, the fourth-generation proprietor, has saved letters, photos, advertisements and scrapbooks that document the rich and colorful saga of his family’s business.
The interior of the Richters store in 1970, which was located on the opposite side of the street from its current location.
The story begins in 1893 when Stefan’s great-grandfather, who lived in Baltimore, established himself as a dealer in diamonds and estate jewelry. His store was a wagon on which he traveled all over northern Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. His son Joseph A. Richter (1883-1965) – Stefan’s grandfather – joined his father early in the 20th century. When much of the city of Baltimore was destroyed by fire in 1904, Joe saw a business opportunity in the rebuilt downtown area. He opened a pawn shop on Market Street and successfully expanded the business. On Christmas Day 1910, Joe married a Baltimore girl, Eva Bass. (The Bass family would later make their mark in Miami; the Bass Museum and Joe’s Stone Crab Restaurant are present-day reminders of this remarkable family.)
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Daniel Richter in front of the first store on Worth Avenue
When World War I broke out in August 1914, Joe foresaw a new business opportunity evolving in the nearby city of Newport News, Va., home of the world’s largest shipbuilding company. Within a few years the city was booming, and Joe opened a retail store in downtown Newport News in 1917. With the end of war in 1918, and the advent of Prohibition in 1919, Joe once again had his eyes open for a new business opportunity. In 1921, Miami began to prosper. New money poured in to buy land; fortunes were being made from bootlegging. In 1923, Joe and Eva moved to Miami. Joe leased premises in the downtown Halcyon Arcade and opened a pawn shop. He rapidly established a reputation as a shrewd buyer of estate jewelry and a leading diamond broker. Joe built a house in Miami, became a prominent member of the Jewish business community and supported the reform synagogue, Temple Israel. His family, three sons (Alvin, Robert, Daniel) and one daughter (Shirley) were raised in Miami. Joe’s business prospered during the boom years of the 1920s, as many customers looked to him for expensive diamond pieces. One prominent customer spent $500,000 with Joe over the two winter seasons of 1927 and 1928. When the stock market crashed in October 1929, Joe was able to buy back important jewelry at a fraction of its former value. He moved to larger premises and, in
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1933, advertised that his store at 168 East Flagler sold sterling silver, jade and precious stones in all sizes as well as diamonds and estate jewelry. Joe assembled such a large inventory of valuable jewelry that he began to operate on a national level. His pieces were sent on tour to stores in Louisiana, Texas and various American cities; advertisements heralded the one-week display of $1 million in jewels from “the famous collection of J. A. Richter.” In 1936, a syndicate headed by the well-known New York City jewelry manufacturer Oscar Heyman bought the so-called “Crown of the Andes” (a gold crown made in Peru in the 16th century which was encrusted with large emeralds). Joe became involved with its national tour in 1937; his Miami store was one of the venues. Joe was a colorful personality; newspaperman Damon Runyon came to Miami to interview him in 1937 and characterized him as ”voluble, and friendly, and wore loud clothes, and had a sporting disposition, and the folks liked him.“ He was a small man (5’ 4”) who loved going to the dog track and the horse racing tracks around Miami. Runyon‘s article was featured in newspapers all over the United States. In 1939, the Miami newspapers featured stories about Joe’s decision to once again expand his business. He purchased a 99-year lease on a double lot on East Flagler, tore down the
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existing buildings and constructed a new store. The local media valued this real estate transaction at more than $1 million. By this time his two oldest sons, Alvin and Robert, had joined him in the business. Joe commissioned the New York firm of Oscar Heyman to create a fabulous jeweled elephant for a customer, the Maharajah of Mayapore, in 1940. When the client died before taking possession, Joe loaned the elephant for display at the Florida Pavilion at the New York World’s Fair. Ultimately he became so fond of it that he kept it for display in the store, where it became the signature item of the Richter business. Every morning it was taken from the safe and carefully placed in the store window. In February 1941, Robert was drafted as a private in the United States Army. When war with Japan was declared in December 1941, Robert’s infantry regiment was sent to the South Pacific, where he fought at Guadalcanal and Bougainville. By 1943, Alvin and Daniel were in the Navy. With his three sons in the military, Joe became a prominent supporter for the various War Bond drives in Miami. For Memorial Day in 1944, Joe’s support enabled Miami Beach to dedicate a temporary War Memorial in Bayfront Park. In the fall, Joe commissioned an American Flag brooch from Oscar Heyman (28 diamonds, 29 rubies, 6 sapphires) and sent it to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to wear at his inauguration in 1945.
When Robert went off to war in 1941, he had told Joe that upon his return he wanted to own and run a hotel. On March 26, 1944, the Miami newspapers reported that Joe had bought the famous Miami Beach landmark Whitman Hotel. Joe paid $1 million for this hotel, which was designed by a prominent Miami architect (Roy F. France). It had opened in 1936 with a prominent sign that read, “Gentiles Only.” Joe intended to remodel the hotel for Robert after the war; in the meantime it was leased to the Army Air Force. On February 7, 1945, Lt. Robert Richter was killed in combat in the Philippines, leading his men into battle. Joe was devastated. After the Army returned the Whitman Hotel to Joe; he proceeded with the renovations, exactly as he had planned. The hotel reopened on January 1, 1946, with a new name – the Robert Richter Hotel – and without the offensive ”Gentiles Only“ sign. Joe was an important businessman in Post-war Miami, with extensive real estate holdings and a successful jewelry business. His sons Alvin and Daniel were active in the jewelry business and prominent fixtures in the social life of the city. When the wealthy Princess Eristavi-Tchicherine died of a drug overdose at her Miami estate in December 1948, Joe purchased her fabulous jewels and gave them a catchy name – “The Princess Collection.” He negotiated with the Aga Khan to sell him a ring,
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Joe Richter (on right) was a prominent supporter of War Bonds
which Joe thought would be appropriate for the Aga’s daughterin-law, Rita Hayworth. This sale failed to materialize, so he gave Movietone Motion Picture Company the right to film the collection, and the resulting film ran in movie houses all over the country. Joe was always in the news. In 1949, he succeeded in getting the Miami Beach City Council to ban signs such as “Gentiles Only” on all beach hotels. He began to place ads for his jewelry business in national magazines, such as Harper’s Bazaar. His grandson Rickey was kidnapped in 1952 and, while the boy never suffered any harm, the story made headlines in Miami for months. In 1953, Joe acquired another collection of fabulous estate jewelry − this time from the estate of the Fort Worth oil millionaire George Calvert, who had been one of his largest customers in the 1940s. He also bought the entire inventory of a large New York jewelry manufacturer, Gustav Bolean & Co.
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In 1955, he added to his real estate holdings by purchasing a 2,000-acre cattle ranch seven miles south of Lake Okeechobee, which he promptly named the Robert Richter Ranch. At the age of 72 he learned how to ride a horse! To orchestrate his retirement in 1958, Joe hired a public relations firm. They planned a Founder’s Day Sale at which $3 million in merchandise would be offered at sale prices. His official retirement date was set in March 1958, but Joe actually kept on working for another 60 days. Miami newspapers refused to cover the March events, advising the PR firm that there would be no coverage until he actually retired. In 1962, Joe bought back the jewels that he had sold to Mrs. Harriet Young. As usual, he was able to create a media buzz over his purchase. Carol Channing was photographed wearing some of the jewelry from the Young estate. In April, his son Alvin appeared on the popular TV game show, “Play Your Hunch” – he was the mystery guest who was a famous jeweler, and he displayed the Young jewels. Later that year, Joe mounted a national ad campaign to promote the collection. Joseph A. Richter passed away on June 6, 1965. His sons Alvin and Daniel continued to run the business much as Joe had always done – buying important estates. But they could see that the sun was setting on Miami, and in 1969 they acquired the lease on a Worth Avenue location in Palm Beach. Daniel moved to Palm Beach, while Alvin remained in Miami but closed the store there in 1972. Today, Joe’s legacy lives on in Stefan’s store on Worth Avenue – and would likely make him proud. As one local designer has been quoted as saying, “If all the lights went out on Worth Avenue, the jewelry in the front window of Richters would still light up the street.” It is worth noting that Stefan’s daughter Sarah spent the summer of 2009 as an intern in the jewelry department of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Perhaps she will become the fifth generation of Richters to be a retail jeweler.
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Arts Education Programs for Adults Run the Gamut from Sushi to Chagall by Karen Kendall
It’s no secret that the arts are embattled in the American public school system, where cuts have been made to every “non-essential” program imaginable. The surprise is how many adults and retirees are able to supplement their arts education later in life, due to the extensive network of continuing education programs in our area.
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Palm Beach County has always offered an impressive array of cultural choices, from the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts to the county’s many visual art museums to the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre. While it would be impossible to list every arts organization and class available in the area, the sheer range of them is amazing. You might like to take a workshop on Sado, the Japanese tea ceremony, at the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach. Or learn the art of flower arranging — what better place to do it than the stunningly sculpted campus of the Morikami? You can even discover the secrets of sushi and, at the end of class, you may eat your artistic efforts. Ever wanted to ask a working artist, “But how do you do that?” Try the From the Artist’s Perspective series at the Boca Raton Museum of Art. There, guests of the museum don’t necessarily have to be quiet and keep their thoughts to themselves. “We created the program to link visitors with working artists,” says Curator of Education Claire Clum. “It has fostered an ongoing dialogue about creative expression and opened up a floodgate for artists to communicate verbally, not just visually, with viewers.” Would you like to step into someone else’s shoes for a day? Enroll in an acting class — or learn to be a filmmaker — at the Burt Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre (BRIFT). The institute also offers improvisation workshops and voice-over/looping classes and trains students on the finer points of auditioning. Interestingly enough, as the number of classes and students increases at our arts organizations, a ripple effect takes place.
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Students become members, volunteers, teachers and avid museum-goers as they realize a passion for the arts and want to become more involved. So, far from being all about solitary, individual expression, art becomes a way of weaving an entire creative and social fabric — thanks to these educational opportunities. Delray Beach resident Yianna Katsoulos remembers not being able to truly enjoy her studies in her teens and early twenties because of stress associated with her course-load. Katsoulos now takes a writing workshop at the Delray Beach Public Library and adores it because she is able to focus on one subject instead of juggling four or five. This has fostered her creativity and she is now half-way through her first novel. Katsoulos has also taken advantage of the many continuing education opportunities at the Old School Square Cultural Arts Center in Delray Beach, which offers a wide range of creative classes, as do the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach and the Society of the Four Arts Campus on the Lake in Palm Beach. For those adults who work full-time, there are programs such as the Norton Museum of Art’s Art after Dark, which combines music, art activities, food and fun one evening a month. The Norton also offers an interesting series of ArtSpeaks lunchtime lectures by art-world authors. Even for adults who are unable to physically attend lectures or workshops, there are opportunities to learn in the region’s arts community. Clum speaks highly of the Voices and Visions program at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, which is mobile. Staff members go into nursing homes, social clubs and
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religious organizations with focus-talks on artists such as Chagall, Picasso and the Impressionists. Laura Bessinger-Morse, director of marketing and development at the Lighthouse Center for the Arts in Tequesta, sees quite a few retirees at the center and says that the classes often “open up the rest of their lives.” Lighthouse Center Director of Education Krista Machovina notes that the programs also provide many opportunities for artists themselves to find work, as they seek out teaching opportunities and join in community outreach programs. Tough economic climate or not, she says, “we’ve seen increased enrollment every term for the past year.” An art therapist by training, Machovina also touts the center’s outreach programs, which address underserved segments of the community such as low-income and disabled senior citizens, Alzheimer’s patients and cancer survivors. A number of students have launched new careers after enrolling in Lighthouse Center classes. Machovina mentions a former wine-maker who has become a painter, even though he is legally blind. Then there’s the architect who’s become a figure-drawing instructor, the lawyer who is now an exhibiting photographer and a retired fabric designer who is now a successful, commissioned portraitist. Whether you choose to express yourself through drawing, painting, writing, acting or some other art form, Palm Beach County offers a class or a workshop for you. Take the opportunity to explore one! You may discover a new passion.
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Classes, workshops and lectures provide an exciting opportunity to explore the arts. Challenge your creativity, satisfy your curiosity or sharpen your skills. From beginners’ classes to master workshops in everything from acting and dance to the visual arts and creative writing, Palm Beach County offers a delightfully entertaining, intriguing and diverse invitation to learn and grow. To launch your own journey of artistic discovery, visit your favorite museum, call your neighborhood cultural center or contact one of these organizations: Armory Art Center (561) 832-1776 www.armoryart.org
Lighthouse Center for the Arts (561) 746-3101 www.LighthouseArts.org
Boca Raton Museum of Art (561) 392-2500 www.BocaMuseum.org
Old School Square Cultural Arts Center (561) 243-7922 www.OldSchool.org
Burt Reynolds Institute for Film & Theatre (561) 743-9955 www.BRIFT.org Delray Beach Public Library (561) 266-0194 www.delraylibrary.org
Society of the Four Arts’ Campus on the Lake Programs (561) 805-8562 www.fourarts.org For more ideas and information, visit www.PalmBeachCulture.com.
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cultural council news Young Friends Kick Off Cultural Season with a Sneak Peek Young Friend groups from cultural organizations across Palm Beach County gathered in October for the sixth annual Young Friends Sneak Peek Season Soiree at the Harriet Himmel Theatre in CityPlace. The Soiree was organized by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council and event co-chairs Deirdre Sykes Shapiro and Fred Shapiro. “We’re very thankful for all the support from Palm Beach County’s younger community that has really embraced the arts,” says Sykes Shapiro. “Our signature event has an ongoing mission in cultivating interest and support from a younger demographic for all of the wonderful artistic causes we have in our culturally diverse community.” More than 250 young friends and other arts patrons mingled, networked and partied while they explored offerings for the 2009-2010 season from 15 cultural organizations, including the Armory Art Center, the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation, Florida Stage, the Historical Society of Palm Beach County, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Loggerhead Marinelife Center, Miami City Ballet, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Norton Museum of Art, Old School Square, Palm Beach Dramaworks, the Palm Beach International Film Festival, Palm Beach Opera, Palm Beach Zoo and the South Florida Science Museum. Each organization used unique decorating touches to create lively displays featuring programming, membership and volunteer information. The groups also gave away raffle prizes such as performance tickets or museum admissions. “The Soiree is a wonderful platform where the younger cultural audience in Palm Beach County can get a taste of the exciting programs our organizations host,” says Rena Blades, the Cultural Council’s president and CEO. “The event really engages our younger arts patrons and helps build relationships that we hope will last a very long time.” The Sneak Peek Season Soiree was generously sponsored by UBS Financial Services Royal Palm Wealth Management Group, The Palm Beach Post, WXEL and art&culture magazine.
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Meeting of the Minds Palm Beach County School Superintendent Dr. Art Johnson (standing, left) and former Chief Academic Officer Jeffrey Hernandez (right) were among the participants in an early November meeting between School District representatives and members of the Palm Beach County Cultural Council’s Cultural Executives Committee and Cultural Education Committee. The session, which was hosted by the Cultural Council, provided a forum for discussion of the School District’s arts education master plan and the impact of recent budget pressures and curriculum changes. A subsequent editorial in the Palm Beach Daily News said that the meeting “opened up a muchneeded dialogue about the state of our students’ education” and called for arts and education leaders “to work together to raise the standards of education for all of Palm Beach County’s students.”
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Northwood University Hosts European Marshall Memorial Fellows Jan Rodusky, director of grants for the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, played a key role in hosting six European Marshall Memorial Fellowship (MMF) recipients for a visit to Northwood University in West Palm Beach in October. Northwood was the only university in the nation on the group’s itinerary. Rodusky, who travelled to Europe in 2008 as a Marshall Memorial Fellow, introduced the cohort of fellows to art and culture, government and economic development interests in the county. “Bringing the European Fellows to West Palm Beach has put Florida on the German Marshall Fund map,” Rodusky notes. “This program has paved the way for our local leaders to work with the MMF fellows on a range of international and domestic policy challenges. As an alumna of the program, I am proud of the inaugural trip to our community and look forward to making it a permanent stop in the program.” The German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States established the Marshall Memorial Fellowship program in 1982 to introduce a new generation of European leaders to America’s institutions, politics and people. In 1999, GMF launched a companion program to expose future U.S. leaders to a changing and expanding Europe. Fellows now come from across the United States and from 22 European countries.
Seidman Show Benefits Cultural Council The new Founders Room at Palm Beach Yacht Club was the venue for Selections from Six, a recent exhibition of fine art photography by Barry Seidman. The show was a compilation of images
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Pictured at the photo exhibition, Selections from Six, at the Palm Beach Yacht Club are (from left) Mary Ann Free, Harry Benson, Barry Seidman and Gigi Benson.
from six of Seidman’s photographic series. Seidman donated a percentage of sales to the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. Known as one of the top advertising, print-media photographers in the country, Seidman now devotes much of his time to fine art photography. He chose excerpts from his Beached, Bloomers and Drinks series, which have been shown in major, solo exhibitions in New York City and South Florida, and excerpts from his three newest series: Art-chi-textures, Hot Peppers and Smoke. Seidman and his long-time business partner and wife, Mary Ann Kurasz, live in
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Fifth Season of Culture & Cocktails Opens with Art from the Heart More than 70 arts aficionados converged on Café Boulud on November 9 for the first program in the 2009-2010 Culture & Cocktails series, hosted by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. The program − Art from the Heart: A Conversation with Professional Artists − included digital media artist Laurence Gartel, fine art photographer Barry Seidman and local Broadway singer and actress Avery Sommers. The lively discussion was moderated by Elayna Toby Singer, director of Palm Beach County Art in Public Places. December’s Culture & Cocktails event featured a conversation with Burt Reynolds, who was interviewed by Suzanne Neidland, chair of the Burt
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Reynolds Institute for Film and Theatre. Upcoming programs include: January 11 − No Biz Like Show Biz: A Conversation about Big Time Producing, featuring Vicki Halmos, producer of Avenue Q and founder of the Palm Beach Principal Players; Rodger Hess, producer of numerous Broadway shows including revivals of Macbeth and 1776; and moderator Andrew Kato, artistic director of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre. February 1 (at the Boca Raton Resort & Club) − Cultural Bounty / South County: A Conversation about the Booming Art Scene in Boca and Delray; with George Bolge, executive director, Boca Raton Museum of Art; Clive Cholerton, artistic and marketing director, Caldwell Theatre; Daisy Fulton, executive director, EPOCH and Spady Museum; Joe Gillie, executive director, Old School Square Cultural Art
Center; Amy Hever, director of advancement, Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens; Charlie Siemon, festival chair, Festival of the Arts BOCA; Marshall Turkin, president, Boca Symphonia; and moderator Steve Abrams, Palm Beach County Commissioner. March 8 − In the Know of Now: A Conversation about Contemporary Art, featuring Cheryl Brutvan, curator of contemporary art, Norton Museum of Art; Tim Eaton, owner, Eaton Fine Art; Elayne Mordes, owner, Whitespace – The Mordes Collection; and moderator Kara WalkerTomé, independent curator. April 19 − Fathers and Other Heroes: A Conversation with Best-Selling Author Brad Meltzer; interviewed by Scott Eyman, books editor, The Palm Beach Post. Culture & Cocktails events are free for members of the Cultural Council at the
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$175 level and above. The cost for everyone else is $35 per person, with all proceeds going to the Cultural Council. The events run from 5 to 7 p.m., with registration and cocktails from 5 to 5:45 p.m., and the conversation from 5:45 to 7 p.m., including audience Q&A. Café Boulud, located in The Brazilian Court, 301 Australian Ave. in Palm Beach, offers a complimentary open bar and hors’ d’oeuvres. Each Culture & Cocktails event is limited to 60 people on a first-come, first-served basis. The series is sponsored in part by the Palm Beach Daily News and PR-BS, a Boca Raton-based public relations firm. For more information or to RSVP, call the Cultural Council at (561) 472-3330.
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{inside culture} cultural compendium Escher, Cassatt Exhibitions Debut at Boca Museum The Boca Raton Museum of Art opens two remarkable exhibitions on January 20 focused on the works of Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher and American Impressionist Mary Cassatt. Both shows continue through April 11 at the museum, located at 501 Plaza Real in Mizner Park. The Magical World of M.C. Escher − culled from the private inventory of longtime Escher collector Rock J. Walker − features a mix of woodcuts along with original blocks and exceptionally rare preparatory drawings, sculpture, objets d'arts, correspondence and documents and original furnishings from his studio. Visitors will have an opportunity to see, for the first time, the preliminary working drawings for some of the most iconic Escher pieces, such as Drawing Hands, Three Worlds, Other World and Fish and Scales.
M.C. Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972), Reptiles, 1943, Bool #327, lithograph, 13 1/8 x 15 1/8 inches. Courtesy of The Walker Collection. All M.C. Escher's works and text ©, the M.C. Escher Company, Baarn, the Netherlands. All rights reserved. M.C. Escher ® is a registered trademark.
M.C. Escher (Dutch, 1898-1972) was a graphic artist who excelled at creating visual puzzles that explored impossible worlds, refined architectural vistas and fascinating tessellations. This draftsman specialized in woodcuts and lithographs,
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Mary Cassatt (American 1844-1926), By the Pond, 1896, dryponit and aquatint, plate 13 x 16 7/8 inches, sheet 17 1/2 x 20 3/8 inches. Courtesy of Adelson Galleries, New York.
athough he also worked with mezzotint and watercolor. The show also will highlight the various phases of Escher’s work, demonstrating the artist’s range beyond the “endless stairways” and visionary constructions for which he is so well-known. Featured at the same time will be Mary Cassatt: Works on Paper, which includes more than 40 works − including etchings, aquatints and rare counterproofs as well as a group of important early drawings − that reveal the range of the artist’s creative process and add to the understanding of her innovative approach to art. Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), the American Impressionist, was captivated by the challenges and artistic possibilities of making prints. These works were a central part of her oeuvre as a draughtsman, enabling her to focus on the essentials of form, gesture and expression. With the recent discovery of Cassatt’s counterproofs, the full scope of her experimentation in the graphic media can be put into perspective. The exhibition has been organized by Adelson Galleries, New York, and catalogued by Marc Rosen and Susan Pinsky for the Boca Raton Museum of Art. For information, call 561-392-2500 or visit www.bocamuseum.org.
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cultural compendium Photographic Centre Celebrates New Home in Downtown West Palm Beach City Center Four presidential photographers were among the special guests who helped to inaugurate the new Palm Beach Photographic Centre (PBPC) on November 13. Thousands of local photo fans participated in the grand opening festivities at City Center in downtown West Palm Beach. Visitors toured PBPC’s spacious new 26,000-square-foot location, which has 4,000 square feet of exhibition space, 6,500 square feet of classrooms and studios, plus a 3,000square-foot Pro Shop for Photographers stocked with state-of-the-art equipment, print gallery, an extensive library and digital printers to make oversize prints, plus the nation’s first Leica Camera Shop-in-Shop retail location. Presidential photographers Karen Ballard, David Hume Kennerly, Robert (Bob) McNeely and Paul Morse were on hand to open the center’s inaugural exhibitions, which included “Celebrating US” – featuring photographs that captured the emotion and drama of the presidential swearing-in ceremonies and historic White House moments of Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and more. Publicly thanking the crowd at the grand opening were Photo Centre president Fatima NeJame, West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel and attorney Jay Koenigsberg, chair of
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{inside culture} cultural compendium PBPC’s board of directors. Dedicated to the enrichment of life through education, exhibitions, community programs, workshops and cultural activities that promote the art of photography and digital imaging, the Palm Beach Photographic Centre has been hailed by the highly respected Columbia Journalism Review as one of the world’s leading photo centers. It was previously located in Delray Beach. The center’s 15th annual FotoFusion festival of photography and digital imaging will take place from January 19-23. For details, visit www.fotofusion.org. The center is open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Admission to the exhibition galleries is $5 per person, while the community gallery exhibitions are free. Admission fees vary for different events, and preregistration is required for seminars, FOTOshoots and computer labs.
Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund Establishes $1 Million Endowment for School of the Arts The School of the Arts Foundation received a $1 million grant from The Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund to establish an endowment to provide materials for arts program at the internationally recognized Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts. Alan Davis, son of Leonard and Sophie Davis and chairman of the Leonard & Sophie Davis Fund, said the School of the Arts Foundation was awarded the $1 million gift because “it perfectly matches the interests of my parents in promoting the arts and arts education with those of my wife and I to help enable students, many of whom are underserved, to achieve their artistic dreams by providing necessary supplies and materials.�
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Experience One of America’s Great House Museums When it was completed in 1902, Whitehall, Henry Flagler’s Gilded Age estate in Palm Beach, was hailed by the New York Herald as “more wonderful than any palace in Europe, JUDQGHU DQG PRUH PDJQLĂ€FHQW WKDQ DQ\ RWKHU SULYDWH dwelling in the world.â€? Today, Whitehall is a National Historic Landmark, and is open to the public as the Flagler Museum. This season features the winter exhibition New World Eden: Artist-Explorers in the American Tropics, the Flagler Museum Music Series, the Whitehall Lecture Series and much more. For a complete 2009/2010 6HDVRQ 3URJUDP *XLGH SOHDVH FDOO RU YLVLW RXU :HE VLWH DW ZZZ Ă DJOHUPXVHXP XV th
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cultural compendium The gift − one of the largest ever bestowed on a public school in the nation – “will help untold numbers of our community’s brightest and most gifted students achieve their true potential in their chosen art,” says School of the Arts Foundation Executive Director Patricia Montesino. “It will enable our art programs at Dreyfoos to continue to thrive, even during economically challenging times.” Longtime School of the Arts Foundation Board Member George Elmore noted that Leonard and Sophie Davis were instrumental in the establishment of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts and the expansion of the Norton Museum of Art. Mrs. Davis served for 20 years as president of Regional Arts, a widely respected classical music series, which brought artists such as Isaac Stern, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York City Ballet to Palm Beach County for the first time. Regional Arts was founded by the Davises, who entirely underwrote these presentations. Leonard Davis was the founder of the Colonial Penn Group, Inc., a major insurance company which offered unprecedented health and auto insurance for the elderly. He was closely involved in establishing the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), and later served as its honorary president.
books. The authors will have their books available for sale and signing following each program. Africa Fine, FAU alumna and associate professor of English and literature at Palm Beach Community College in Boca Raton, was the first author to appear. Fine has published four novels, including Katrina, Becoming Maren, Looking for Lily and Save Me. Upcoming presentations (all of which begin at 7 p.m.) include: • February 11 − Award-winning FAU student authors who have been published in the latest edition of Coastlines, FAU’s literary magazine, will read selections from this year’s edition. • April 1 − The 2010 Lawrence A. Sanders Writer-in-Residence Program presents poet Forrest Gander, who has written numerous books of poetry, the novel As a Friend and the book of essays A Faithful Existence. He is a professor of
English and comparative literature at Brown University. • April 22 − Becka McKay, FAU assistant professor of translation and creative writing, will discuss her books Blue Has No South, a translation from the Hebrew of Alex Epstein, and A Meteorologist in the Promised Land, a book of poetry.
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FAU Launches Literary Authors Series Florida Atlantic University’s Department of English in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters has launched a new Literary Authors Series featuring book readings and lectures by FAU faculty and visiting authors. The presentations take place in the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Center, 201 Plaza Real, in Boca Raton. The free programs are designed to interview authors and engage the audience in a discussion regarding the authors’ works or issues addressed in their
Emerging artists with raw talent are waiting to be introduced to the community and we are excited about being able to provide that bridge between the artist and collector. Featured Artists: Carlos Castillo, Ginette Corrigan, Ignacio Font, Josafat Miranda, David Sincavage, Grant Strawcutter, Robert Tabor and Marcelle Zanetti
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Installation by Bradley Lezo and Denise Tackley, 2008
The 2009 Literary Authors Series is presented by FAU’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters; Chris Fluehr, CFP, SunTrust Investment Services, Inc.; the Mizner Park Cultural Arts Association; the Palm Beach County Cultural Council; Palm Beach County; and the Palm Beach County Tourist Development Council. For more information, visit www.fau.edu/english or call (561) 297-2974.
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Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens staff members Elizabeth Kelley, Jamie Russell, Kizzy Sanchez, Kristina Schmidt, Tara McDonnell and Amy “Emiko� Hever proudly display their Providencia award.
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The Palm Beach County Convention and Visitors Bureau presented its 2009 Providencia Awards to the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach and the Morikami Museum & Japanese Gardens in Delay Beach. The annual award recognizes significant contributions to the county’s tourism industry. The winners are selected through an objective scoring process based on essays and collateral submitted by each nominee. “The Providencia Award is Palm Beach County's most important symbol of recognition for the local tourism community,� said Jorge Pesquera, president and CEO of the PBC CVB. “The CVB celebrates with our tourism partners in recognizing The Colony Hotel and the Morikami Museum for their extraordinary contribution to the vitality and prosperity of the Palm Beaches as a major travel destination.�
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{inside culture} cultural compendium The Education Department at Florida Stage selected 13 students from grades 7-12 as winners of its 2009-2010 Young Voices Monologue Festival. The students performed their monologues at Florida Stage on November 9. The winners included Irony, Morgan Dorn, Boca Raton High School; Choice, Leon Cobb, and My Wish, Morgan Chinahsang, Boynton Beach High School; Hunger, Haley Clinton, Bright Futures Academy; Dinner at Eight?, J. Stephen Gardner, Platypus, David Peters, and Beauty, Philip Labes, Dreyfoos School of the Arts; My Last Name, Literally, Katrina Kanafani, One Again, Cassandra Kris, and Out of Thin Air, Chris Wall, G-Star School of the Arts; My Mom, Duval Grandison, Students perform their monologues at Florida Stage. Glades Central High School; The Girl Backstage, Megan Norris, Palm Beach Day Academy; and The Middle Child, Tyler Allen, Santaluces High School. To watch a video recap of the program, visit http://floridastage.org/monologue.
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never cease and that keeping the mind intellectually, creatively and culturally active enriches and invigorates our lives, the Delray Beach Public Library, 100 W. Atlantic Ave., has launched its Lifelong Learning Center. The center offers indepth programs for adults, seniors and retirees at affordable prices for three, four, five or six weeks. Upcoming proRobert Weber grams include “Rock and Roll: Its Roots, History, and Special Sounds,” with Dr. Robert Weber, on Wednesdays from February 10 through March 3; and “Gateways into Romanticism: Four Symphonies by Beethoven,” with Dr. Barbara Barry, on Tuesdays from March 2 through 23. The cost is $35 per course plus a one-time $15 membership fee. For complete details, visit www.delraylibrary.org.
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Arcature’s Mitch Denowitz (front) with 2006 ArtStart scholarship recipient Oliver Pennanen, ArtStart founder Jeannette Pomeroy Parssi and 2009 scholarship recipient Jalen Lopez.
The 2009 ArtStart Youth Art Scholarship for Portfolio Development was received by Jalen Lopez, a fifth grade student at Egret Lake Elementary School in West Palm Beach. The $250 scholarship includes new art supplies, a professional quality portfolio/carrying case to present the student’s art and art classes to help the young artist prepare for his interview at Bak Middle School of the Arts, where he has applied as a visual arts major. Following the presentation, special recognition was given to Mitch Denowitz of Arcature Fine Art in Palm Beach, who has hosted the annual award ceremony from the inception of the program five years ago. The deadline for submitting applications for the 2010 ArtStart Youth Art Scholarship is October 15, 2010. To request an application, visit www.ArtStartInc.or call (561) 635-2037.
David Quilleon as its new executive director. He joins the organization with a 15-year background in education, human services and nonprofit administration; most recently as vice president, programs and state development, for Best Buddies International. “Music is a huge part of my life and I am dedicated to making sure our children and the entire community become aware of the amazing things we are doing everyday to preserve the Great American Songbook,” David Quilleon says Quilleon, a University of South Florida graduate who grew up in South Florida. "I am very grateful at having been selected as the next executive director for an organization with such a terrific legacy of bringing music programs to our youth."
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Longtime Boca Ballet Theatre supporter Marleen Forkas donated $75,000 to the organization in memory of her late husband, Harold Forkas. “It was both a professional honor and a personal joy to work with Marleen and Harold Forkas for so many years,” said Dan Guin, executive director and co-artistic director. “Not only did they officially present our production of The Nutcracker for 10 years, but it was their original donation that enabled us to build this production. In fact, the amazing growth of Boca Ballet Theatre over the last decade in general, and the growing popularity of our ballet school in particular, is a direct result of their generosity.” Boca Ballet Theatre also received a $25,000 stimulus grant through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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