Making Strides
Arts Organizations Are Celebrating Milestones, Changing Executives and Planning Expansions. By Randy Noles At the risk of stating the obvious, it has been a busy year for local arts groups. Not only are most bouncing back to pre-pandemic levels of support and attendance, many are also celebrating anniversaries, welcoming new leaders and planning major moves. The downside: […]
Defiant Requiem
Verdi’s masterwork was life itself at Terezín. Now the world needs it again. By Catherine Hinman First performed in 1874, Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem is today one of the most widely performed choral masterworks anywhere. The very aspect of this Catholic funeral mass that made it controversial among clergy in the latter part of the 19th […]
From Common Clay
Raheleh Filsoofi (left) and Eric André (right) use clay to express a sense of common humanity and to convey provocative ideas about identity and freedom. Filsoofi is originally from Tehran, Iran, while André is originally from Ashanti Region, Ghana. Courtesy Amir Aghareb (Filsoofi) And Laurie Hasan (André). Two Artists Express Ideas of Identity and Freedom. […]
Let’s Venture Inside a Liminal Space
Sculptor Bobby Aiosa (left), an assistant professor of studio art at UCF, and painter Anthony Mancuso (right), an art instructor at Valencia College, met when Mancuso was a guest lecturer at UCF. Although their work is different, they view the world through a similar artistic lens. Courtesy Casselberry Arts Center. Exhibition explores impact of the […]
Golden Legacy
Take a trip down memory lane with the Poky Little Puppy. By Richard Reep In the canon of beloved children’s literature, few equal the evocative illustrated stories of Little Golden Books. Since their first releases in the early 1940s, the series has continued to delight with new titles and reissues of such classics as The […]
Man and Machine
Do Something (left) and Discus on Display (right) by Mauro Weiser are among the works that explore male identity and the multilevel relationships that men have with the tools of their trades. Weiser created these works and others at the Maitland Art Center, where he has studio space as part of the Artists-in-Action program. Courtesy […]
Abstracting Tonalism
Sally Michel: Abstracting Tonalism will feature works by an artist who has come to be more fully appreciated only recently. Among the works on display will be Single Palm (below left), Untitled (below right) and Bill and Friends (above). Michel happily sublimated her own artistic career to help support that of her husband, proto-modernist Milton […]
Natural Florida, the Way It Was
Two artists depict vanishing flora, fauna and wildlife. By Patricia Letakis Close your eyes and try to imagine how the landscape around this part of the state looked a century ago, in the 1920s, before the proliferation of subdivisions, strip malls and parking lots. Heck, you don’t even have to imagine. A visit to Natural […]
Gio Quezada, Making Dreams Possible
Quezada, a native of Peru, explores immigration in a one-person show, The Suitcase. But that’s only one of her many artistic endeavors. By Rona Gindin Gio Quezada never stops contemplating new ways to pursue the dramatic arts. “Each time I go to bed, I think about what I can do tomorrow to make my dream […]
