2010 YEAR OF THE EVERGLADESFEBRUARY: Explore the Changing Face of the Everglades The Palm Beach County Cultural Council hosted a county-wide K-12 art competition entitled "Explore the Changing Face of the Everglades." We received almost 200 entries that were displayed at the 25th Annual Everglades Coalition Conference at PGA National Resort January 7-10. Through a juried process, 30 works of art were chosen to travel throughout the county to celebrate The Year of The Everglades. The first stop of this tour is the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge (561)734-8303, 10216 Lee Road, Boynton Beach. The exhibit is on display now through February 21, and coincides with Everglades Day, this Saturday, February 6th, 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The exhibit will then travel to the Dolly Hand Cultural Arts Center Gallery at Palm Beach State College in Belle Glade (February 23 – March 17), and in April to the Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties in West Palm Beach. Thanks to everyone who helped make this exhibit possible and we encourage you to visit the exhibition sites. Congratulations to the participating students: Best in Show: Kelly Baez, 11th Grade, Wellington Christian School Best Environmental Interpretation of the Everglades: Austin Brown, 11th Grade, Wellington Christian School Best Artistic Interpretation of the Everglades: Ben Shaevitz, 4th Grade, Panther Run Elementary Sculpture:
Honorable Mention 2D Grades K-5:
Honorable Mention 2D Grades 6-8:
Honorable Mention 2D Grades 9-12:
Special thanks to the 4 and 5 year olds from Good Samaritan Preschool who created a diorama of the Everglades. This piece of artwork is not on display but won the JUDGE'S CHOICE AWARD. Thank you students and Ms. Deutsch for your participation! And the Marshall Foundation extends a special thanks to the Palm Beach County Cultural Council's Alyx Kellington, Director of Arts & Cultural Education for taking on this magnificant project in conjunction with 2010 Year of the Everglades campaign.
JANUARY: Taking a new look at wildlife Nineteen extraordinary origami sculptures by Michael LaFosse from the collection of the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens will be displayed at the Everglades Coalition's 25th anniversary conference. They include the 4- by 15-inch "American Alligator (Alligator mississipiensis)" sculpture pictured here. The sculpture was wet-folded from a five-foot square of paper, of 70 percent abaca and 30 percent cotton rag, which LaFosse made and dyed. "The first step was to fold an elaborate grid-work of scales, which reduced the surface area of the paper by 75 percent and took about 50 hours…While I coaxed the form from the damp mass of scales," he recounts, the "small but voracious reptile … writhed and wrestled with me." The artist will be attending the conference. Among other works to be displayed are: a sandhill crane, snail kite, eastern indigo snake and hanging ghost orchid. Growing up along the Massachusetts coast, LaFosse was inspired first to study marine life and to get a degree in biology. He spent 2005 exploring the birds and wildlife of Florida's Everglades. At the time he was also teaching and working at the Morikami as an artist in residence, a program funded by a grant from the Palm Beach County Cultural Council. On Dec. 8, LaFosse will be featured in a documentary, "Between the Folds," to be aired on the PBS program Independent Lens. Filming was co-sponsored by OrigamiUSA and The Mathematics Association of America. Children Explore Art and the Everglades Palm Beach Atlantic University Dancers Move Through a World of Change |
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