Brevard Art News - November 16, 2008

Heads Up Brevard: This week is a spectacular week of art in Brevard County. There are many wonderful activities to choose from. Please check the News of the Week section so you don't miss any of them.

In this issue:

• News for the Week
• Artist Profile: Bill McCoy
• Events and News from Artists
• Studio Times and Classes
• Exhibits and Galleries
• Opportunities, Organizations, and Services
• Books
• Marketing Your Art: Article #7

News for the week:

Special Notice: Be sure to set aside some time on November 22 between 1:00 p.m and 8:00 p.m. for FioreFest

In her early years, Connie Fiore was a musician and artist. At the age of 8, she began playing the guitar. At 14, she began performing in Detroit. She also expressed her talent through sketching, sewing and leather work. In other words, she lived a creative life filled with many artistic activities.

In 1978, she moved to Florida and began dealing with multiple sclerosis. She has been doing so ever since. When she could no longer paint the traditional way, she began holding the brush with her mouth with remarkable results. In 2007, Inez Morrison, the curator of the Harris Gallery at the King Center for the Performing Arts, asked Connie to participate in the 2007 - 2008 art season. Her paintings were exhibited there from October 9 through November 8, 2007.

In 2007, she was nominated "Woman Artist of the Year" by the March of Dimes, and in 2008, she was nominated "Woman Artist of the Year" by the Brevard County Commission on the Status of Women.

Now, Fiore is trying to get her project http://www.artformobility.org/ off the ground. Her goal is to have the profits of her artwork generate money to purchase wheelchairs and other necessities for people like her.

Her friends are helping her meet this goal. On Saturday, 11/22/08, friends of Connie Fiore-LaBoda will host FioreFest Benefit from 1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for $10.00 per plate at the Southern Room at 345 S. US 1 in Titusville. There will be live music, Connie's artwork, 50-50 raffles, good food and good friends.

Connie Fiore, mouth-painting artist and motivational speaker to school children, needs your help in raising money. Be sure to stop by The Southern Room at 345 S. US I in Titusville. You can also help by visiting her website at http://www.artformobility.org/.

For information about the event, call Mel at 268-3767. To see her artwork and to read more about her story visit http://www.artformobility.org/.

Concert to Support the Creative Arts Foundation of Brevard, Inc.
The Creative Arts Foundation of Brevard, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded to provide special grants to young and mature artists in the fields of music, dance, and visual arts. To raise funds to help artists, the foundation is presenting "Sunday with the Performing Arts" on November 23rd, 2008, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Gleason Auditorium on the campus of FIT.

The audience will be treated to ten or more of Brevard's best, including a string quartet, ballet, singers, flute, piano, harp, with special performances by the multi-talented Deborah Moyer (violin and voice), Saverio Barbieri (vocalist who has performed at the Met) and prodigy violinist, Esther Muradov who has soloed at Carnegie Hall and who was the first recipient of a grant from the foundation.

Check the November issue of Brevard Florida Live magazine when it comes out for a more in-depth story of how the foundation was formed. For now, suffice it to say that it's providing needed grants to artists. Let's get behind this effort to help our own.

You can help in two ways. Buy a ticket for $25.00 (tax deductible) for the concert. If you can't attend, you can still help by sending in a tax-deductible donation.

As a bonus, there will be a silent auction at the beginning of the evening. The silent auction will be filled with paintings and sculpture donated by prominent artists as well as jewelry worth thousands offered by Don Traver of My Private Jeweler in Suntree (http://www.theprivatejeweler.com/) 321-757-0770.

Let's make sure there's a full house at "Sunday with the Performing Arts." Checks for tickets and for special donations should be made out to Creative Arts Foundation of Brevard, Inc and sent to Creative Arts Foundation of Brevard, Inc.; 1861 S. Patrick Dr. #117; Indian Harbor Beach, FL 32937.

Artworks... Yea. It's finally here. This weekend is ArtWorks. It's on November 22 and 23, 2008. Don't miss it.

Mark your calendars... it's time for the ArtWorks Eau Gallie Fine Art Festival. The event is November 22 and 23 on Highland Avenue in Old Eau Gallie. That's this coming Saturday and Sunday. More than 100 artists will display and demonstrate their art. This year they have $12,000 of prize money with a portion of it set aside to reward artists for the best demonstrations.

ArtWorks includes activities for the whole family. There will be a children's area for face painting and art projects. And music and food will be offered in another area.

Lolly Walton, president of the Brevard Watercolor Society, won the 2008 poster contest. Her painting Captain Heron will be part of the permanent collection of the Melbourne International Airport and will be duplicated on posters and t-shirts that will be sold at the information booth at ArtWorks.

Also, don't miss the galleries, the museum, and the show by the Brevard Porcelain Artists called "Touch of Elegance" at the Eau Gallie Civic Center. So, be sure to stop by this wonderful festival. With so much to see and do, plan to go early and stay all day.

ArtWorks to Feature Street Painters

Florida Chalk Artits Association members will chalk on St. Clair Street at the Eau Gallie Artworks event on November 22 and 23. This "street painting" art form started in Italy nearly 500 years ago. Local Eau Gallie Artist Ed Baranowski, his daughter Lee Jones, and granddaughter Brin Jones (3 generations) will be among the talent. Other artists include Janet Tombros, Judy Pardo, Ron Hawkins, Paulette Colon, Lea Tapley, and Alice Ahrens.

Learn about this art form from accomplished street painters. Yes, you will have to opportunity to get on your knees and create a masterpiece.

Horse Creek Pottery

Don’t miss the Horse Creek Pottery Semi-Annual Sale and Show. It’s just in time for holiday shopping. Stop by the Horse Creek Pottery on Saturday December 13th, 2008, between 9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. for their semi-annual show and sale.

Handmade pottery by six different well-known artists will be on display and on sale. This includes pots of all sorts, bowls, cups, planters, and wonderful art objects.

The sale is open to the public and will occur rain or shine. For more information, contact Carol Evans at the studio at (321) 242-2162. The Horse Creek Pottery is located at 6390 Anderson Way; Melbourne Florida. Anderson Way is off U.S. Highway 1, one mile north of the Pineda Causeway. Their website is http://www.horsecreekpottery.com/.

Members of the Horse Creek Pottery will also be at ArtWorks this weekend. Look for them across fromt he Civic Center.

CBAA Third Annual Heritage Isle Art Show

The results are in from the CBAA Art Show last weekend. Artists gathered to show and sell their works at Heritage Isle in Viera.

Here are the award winners:

Best of Show

Witha Laquesta for Florida Koi (pictured here)

Watercolors:

1st Place
Helen Wheatley for Birds of a Feather

2nd Place
Sandy Brooker for Beach Babies

3rd Place
Jeanette Drake for Poinsettias

Merit Award
Helen Wheatley for My Fair Lady

Honorable Mention
Jeanette Drake for White Ibis

Oil/Others:

1st Place
Alex Stankiewicz for Watch Your Step

2nd Place
Ruth Barnhart for Mr. Rooster and His Family

3rd Place
Robert Koeppel for Morning Dew

Merit Award
Robert Koeppel for Pennsylvania Creek

Honorable Mention
Helen Wheatley for Pineapple Please

Titusville Art League Award
John Slater for Geraniums

Student Award
Christine Pilcher of Viera High School for Life Changes

Congratulations to all the artists and to CBAA for a wonderful exhibit.

Brevard Porcelain Society Presents:





















Indian River Colony Club Artists in Residence present "Florida Impressions" art show and sale on Wednesday, November 19, 2008. Location: The Indian River Colony Club, Colony Hall is on Murrell Road in Viera, Florida. The hours of the show will be 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call Irene at 255-6432 or Witha at 259-3635.

Art and Apples

An extravaganza for the artists palette and your palate!. There's a celebration of autumn by combining visual arts from the Downtwon Gallery with culinary arts from Kloiber's Cobbler Eatery. You are invited to sample an array of tasty delights highlighting the harvest season. Sip wine and apple cider and casually mingle with friends and artists. Artists will have new artworks on display and for sale. This event is Friday, November 21st from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at The Downtown Gallery in historic downtown Titusville at 335 S. Washington Avenue. Admission is free, everyone is welcome. For more information call (321) 268-0122. (photo by Jeff Thamert)

On the Walls: Eight Points of View
Painters Explore the Water's Edge at Suntree Cafe

When eight painters haul their supplies to the same location, one would think the result would be eight similar paintings. But to set the record straight: what emerges is eight distinctly different points of view.

There is no better place to experience this artistic phenomenon than on the walls of the Suntree Cafe located at 718 South Patrick Drive in Satellite Beach. From November 18 until the end of the year, the painting group known as Pieces of Eight will hang the results of their plein air painting trip to the marsh filled area of Spring Island, South Carolina.

Using 12 x 16 canvases, they each produced an oil painting and framed them alike. Those eight works will hang together accompanied by other pieces featuring scenes involving water.

The Suntree Cafe is open for breakfast from 7 a.m. until 11 a.m. and for lunch until 2 p.m. on Tuesday through Sunday. On Friday nights they are open for dinner from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m. For more information, call 773-0304.

Members of the Pieces of 8 include Jini James, Carmen Beecher, Cindy Michaud, Suzanne Peiffer, Carol Schiff, Denette Schweikert, Donna Vines, and Mary Warnick. To see additional work by the group visit their website at http://www.piecesof8.net/
(painting by Carol Schiff)

Call for Photographers

The Fifth Avenue Art Gallery at 1470 Highland Avenue in the Eau Gallie Arts District of Melbourne has announced a call for photographers from central Florida to participate in a juried exhibition. This exhibition is open to all photographers 18 years, living and working in central Florida. All subject matter, techniques and styles are welcome. Monetary awards will be given. Application deadline is January 22, 2009 and the show will run from March 1 through 29, 2009. The prospectus is available at http://www.fifthavenueartgallery.com/. Click on Events and look under March to download the prospectus. If you have questions, contact the Fifth Avenue Gallery at fifthavenueartgallery@gmail.com or call 321-259-8261.

Brevard Art Museum

Museum Monday: "How to Turn Photographs into Compositions" by photographer Mark Mittleman. Museum Monday is a series of programs that focus on art and creativity. During the meeting this Monday, November 17, at 10:00 a.m., Mark Mittleman will discuss photography as artistic compositions. Programs are free to the public.

Opportunity for Artists: Indoor Art Festival

The Home Center in the Village Center is looking to start an indoor art festival on December 5th and 6th (Friday and Saturday). Set up will be on Thursday, December 4, from 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. and the judging at 5:30 p.m.

They will have three judges: Peggy Nolan, Director of Art in the Brevard County Schools, an art teacher and a local artist.

There is limited space available. There are nineteen 10x10 spaces at $50.00. The Home Center will collect 10% of the profit. All art sold will go through the Sunshine Framing/Home Center.

Each artist will receive three cards to place on three of their pieces to be judged. The pieces must be originals. Prizes will be awarded for Best of Show ($250.00); First Place ($150.00); Second Place ($100.00); and Third Place ($75.00).

For more information, contact Cheri McLachlan at 321-433-3332.


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