Guide to the Street Painting Festival

This is the 18th Annual !    IT is a Chamber event and is a 501c3   Contact person who is busy busy busy is Nadine Burns   phone 561 582 4401   Volunteers will be wearing identifying T shirts.  There are 7 very informative video  on this link giving you all you need to know whether you  are an artist or visitor.   Not to late to participate and volunteer.  Lake and Lucerne streets are blocked from Dixie Hwy.  but access is via 2nd aveues  N or S   be careful as Lake Worth has many one way streets so take your time and you will get where your going.   Here is something from a fellow blogger of the  Prosperity and Achievement = The Panda Papers.    (If i could have said it as well, I wouldn’t have to borrow Those who can, Do. Those who can do more, Volunteer!

 

Here’s to all the Street Painting Volunteers,

Those dedicated people who believe in
All Work and No Pay!

It’s not too late. If you can spare a few hours today for set-up, or a few hours on Saturday or Sunday during the Festival, stop by the Chamber office downtown today and sign up. Remember ~

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time, They just have the heart!

Lake Worth the place to be

Take your pick.  Art is  more evident this weekend in Lake Worth, with over  400 artist on the street creating from dawn to dusk starting tomorrow.  McMow Art Glass has an Experimental Fusing lab from 9 – 12 tomorrow, Saturday morning.  Various hot glass fusing techniques will be shown in this special workshop.  Other venues to visit while in Lake Worth is the gallery in the new Cultural Council Building only feet away from all the street activities.  Also, only steps away fromt the main event the  Lake Worth Art League on Lucerne  is having a sale of books and magazines starting as low as .50 cents. The PBCC exhibition, which was well attended awarded recognition for 1st 2nd and 3rd place.   1st place went to Lake Worth artist Rick Pohl for this abstract creation seen below.

your invited + provenance

Come to the Jan and Gary Dario Gallery                                                                Reception   5 to 7 p.m.    Thursday Feb 23, 2012     today                                                                                                                                            Palm Beach State College       4200 S Congress Ave.                                                                                       35 artists from the Lake Worth Art League will have their artwork  showcased with the opening reception this evening at the Palm Beach State College.     The show runs through to April 26 2012.   A short history, provenance for my painting, from inspiration to exhibition.   I’d flown up to Atlanta and took the MARTA right to the High Museum, a one day turn around trip to see their exhibition on loan from the Louvre.  This alabaster marble head, Egyptian in origin, collected by Napoleon, took my breath away.  I started to sketch it right there and then, and was stopped by a guard “no pens allowed”.  I borrowed a pencil and  sketch only to have the pencil  confiscated by another museum guard.   Above is that sketch on the High Museum membership envelope.  That was the basis for this painting, “mermaid serving dinner”.  I’ll  tell you at the reception how the title came about. “mermaid serving dinner”      oil        artist  AnnaMaria Windisch-Hunt       $3,200  Exhibition history  i.e. Provenance:  2008 solo show Gallery Vincent, 2009 “Seascapes and Mermaids”  Windisch-Hunt Fine Art,  2010   Coconut Grove Bank , 2012 PBCC  Jan and Gary Dario Gallery

Picture Perfect

Cottages of Lake Worth rival those of Key West.  I don’t mean rival via competition but the right.  This lovely blue house has neighbors to the right and left that just makes it a picture perfect post card.   When I photograph, I occasionally meet a neighbor who is watching, as happend today.  She told me how much the neighborhood has changed for the better thanks to the PBSO and SOSA in less than 18 months.I was unable to get the 3 houses in a row as there was a car in one of the drives and the light wasn’t perfect but someday soon I will get the perfect photo to share.  I appreciate the readership of this blog, which always spikes when I post Lake Worth cottages. There comes a time when all that is meant to be, converges.  How many times have I passed this particular cottage in the last six months.  It’s nice, but this day, this vehicle was there and it was a marriage made in heaven..

OMG Volunteers

This is amazing,  I knew about all the work happening in Lake Worth via the CRA and its’s  NSP2 program.  What I did not know was where the  volunteers came from.  Thirteen young  women and nine young men, all still in high school were busy on this job site today.   This project is in the south-west quadrant of Lake Worth.   They hail from Boston and are staying at the Y.  They are using their school break doing good.  They arrived here on Thursday and will depart on Thursday.  I am disillusioned that they cannot stay and enjoy Lake Worth’s street painting festival this weekend.  They deserve a great big thank you.  Wow!  THANK YOU

Evening on the Ave. + go to

Last evening was just delightful.  Took my own advice and headed to the Cultural Plaza.   The Music was a surprise and delight.  I didn’t feel like I was being blasted away.  Not sure of the 5 pc. bands name but their efforts were appreciated when you look closely at the faces of the audience.  Enough said .Do women ever pass up bling?   If you want to see some real sparkly things GO TO the Palm Beach Convention Center for the Art and Antique Show.   The Bruce Kodner Gallery and Artlink International both of Lake Worth had wonderful things on display there.  Half the show appeared to be dedicated to those sparkly things with lots and lots of carats.  If you appreciate fine art.  On view two VanGogh’s one was unsigned, 3 Marie Cassatt’s and one Singer Sargent, two very small Renoir’s.  If marine art is to your taste at least six good size Montague Dawson’s are on display.  He is the formost marine painter, if your not familiar with him this is the show to go see his works of art, brilliant. The above image I pulled from the internet and guess what, it is in the show.   Well worth the trip and I so enjoyed walking on the carpeting, thanks for the champagne.

Volunteers always welcome

Countdown is on, for the largest street painting festival in the U.S.A. HERE in Lake Worth Fl., in less than a week.  It takes lots of volunteers and YOU are needed.   Contact the L W Chamber of Commerce  click link to sign up or just drop in at 501 Lake Ave. and sign up in person.    Note as a volunteer you get a neat T shirt and I mean it is way cooool this year.   Sign up with a friend it’s so much fun.Tonight is Evening on the Avenue  the 1st and 3rd Friday of every month.  The DCA, CRA, City of Lake Worth bring you this event.  It looks like a fabulous evening to stroll the LULA district.                       Tomorrow   Ocean Side Fresh Market Saturday mornings till 1 p.m.     Hold this Date    Feb. 23  5 -7    Your Invited .a sneak peak  of my painting in this exhibitionNext week I will reveal the title and image.