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c re a t i v e e x p re s s i o n d e v e l o p s n a t u r a l l y An author, a dancer and a photographer draw inspiration from our unique environment and showcase it in exceptional ways.

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artistic instinct Palm Beach County’s public arts schools nurture their students’ creativity—and their enthusiasm.

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p re s e n t - d a y a rc h i t e c t s k e e p p a l m b e a c h c o u n t y ’s r i c h t r a d i t i o n s a l i v e Revealing their favorite structures—both historic and modern—four prominent local architects offer an insider’s viewpoint.

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The Cultural Council president and CEO offers a powerful lesson on never taking anything for granted.

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• Tune into local airwaves as the Cultural Council spotlights cultural opportunities.

• Learn how the Milagro Center’s arts programs work miracles for young people.

• Find out how FAU prepares students for the commercial music world.

• See the artwork by a recent Dreyfoos grad that appeared at the Smithsonian.

• Savor a Q&A with Florida Culinary Institute’s Chef David Pantone.

• Experience the diverse cultural traditions of tea at a number of local venues.

• Read how the Kravis Center helped a local man become a published author.

• Meet Cultural Council Chairman Tommy Mayes.

• Get your ticket to the hottest event in town—the “Sneak Peek” Season Soiree.

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Art has always been moving—but never like this! Watch out for art cars!

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Secretary of State visits the county; Artavox event proves huge success; local South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship recipients revealed; and more community cultural news!

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Cover Art: Maxime La (14 years old): “Self Portrait Rooster,” January 2007.

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Never take government funding for the arts for granted.

This lesson has been acutely obvious in Palm Beach County recently, but it is always true. Just a few months ago, we were stunned when our county government’s staff leadership recommended that all county funding for art and culture be eliminated—not reduced or cut, but eliminated—in the 2007-2008 budget. Despite the fact that such a move would take $800,000 away from more than 55 cultural organizations, these funds were placed on the list of expenditures to eliminate because our county administrator anticipates a drop in property tax revenue, based on discussions in the state Legislature.

Will these drastic cuts come to pass? At the writing of this letter, the verdict was still out—despite the results of a special legislative session on property tax reform in June. But in the face of this threat, our community has voiced its support for cultural funding loud and clear through hundreds of e-mails, letters and phone calls to our elected county commissioners.

The Cultural Council grant programs supported by the $800,000 in potentially lost funding serve more than 1.2 million people and represent 3 percent of the combined $25 million budgets of dozens of cultural organizations. But here’s the interesting part: If these cuts are carried out, the result will be less tax revenue to local government.

What, you say? Eliminating funding for cultural organizations reduces revenue for the county? Well, government funding for the arts is not a handout or—as County Administrator Bob Weisman claims—“nice but not necessary.” It is an investment in our community. It

is an investment in greater financial returns. It is an investment in crime reduction. It is an investment in tourism. It is an investment in our quality of life. How does cutting funding for the arts make sense at any time, and especially at a time of declining tax revenues?

It doesn’t. It makes more sense to maintain funding in an industry that supports 3,448 full-time equivalent jobs in our county (with an accompanying $70.5 million in household income), generates $7,086,000 in local government revenue and has an overall economic impact of $149,544,305, according to data from the latest Americans for the Arts Economic Prosperity Study.

Our community has more major cultural organizations than any other place in Florida and more than most locales in the nation. Art and culture make this place what it is—its very essence is tied up with our cultural activities and access to great art. If we wish this to continue to be true, we can’t take anything for granted—particularly the government funding that plays such a critical role in helping our arts and cultural organizations to grow and flourish.

Rena Blades President and CEO Palm Beach County Cultural Council

Addendum: After this letter was written, the Palm Beach County Commissioners voted in favor of fully funding $800,000 for grants to cultural organizations in the FY 08 budget. Half ($400,000) will be funded with general revenue and half ($400,000) will be funded with Tourist Development Council related funds. The Board of County Commissioners will give its final approval in September.

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When I attended An Evening with Clay Aiken and the Craig Turley Orchestra (my 81-year-old grandmother forced me, I swear) during the summer at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Aiken proved not only that he has developed as a singer since his American Idol days but also that he really is a talented performer with a powerful stage presence. But what really amazed me were the final moments of the show when he discussed his appreciation for arts education and rallied for patrons to support our local arts community.

As a lover of the arts and former Kravis Center employee, I’ve gladly seen my fair share of performers grace the Dreyfoos Hall stage, and I don’t recall an artist ever closing a performance by talking about the importance of arts education. Aiken, who asked the audience to support our local arts community so that places like the Kravis Center can continue to flourish, also reminded patrons that it is the wonderful music and talented musicians such as his Florida-based orchestra that inspire him to get on stage every night.

Although I don’t believe she was in attendance that evening, the noble Countess Henrietta de Hoernle obviously doesn’t need a reminder that arts education is important to Palm Beach County. For this issue of art&culture, I was honored to discuss with her why she gives back so much time, energy and, of course, money to local organizations ranging from state-of-the-art theaters to in-need blood banks to modern gymnasiums.

Turn to page 32 to uncover how the spry 95-year-old Countess finds time to support our thriving cultural community and why I personally extend my gratitude.

As children return to the classrooms this fall, art&culture’s associate editor Catherine Smith takes readers on a journey through the county’s award-winning arts schools in “Artistic Instinct,” on page 52. The eye-catching cover we chose for this issue was compliments of Maxime La, a former Bak Middle School of the Arts student who is currently studying visual arts at the Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr. School of the Arts.

Showing that many artists find inspiration in Florida’s vast natural areas, writer Christina Wood introduces three local artists who love the great outdoors in “Creative Expression Develops Naturally” on page 44. And once again we’ve teamed with Tiffany & Co.’s esteemed design director John Loring, who shares his take on local architecture––both modern and historical––in “Present-day Architects Keep Palm Beach County’s Rich Traditions Alive” on page 60.

I hope you enjoy this issue of art&culture as much as we’ve enjoyed working on it.

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“Present-Day Architects Keep Palm Beach County’s Rich Traditions Alive” (page 60) author and expert in local architecture John Loring is the former New York Bureau Chief and a contributing writer for over 30 years of Architectural Digest. Loring, design director of Tiffany & Co. since 1979, has also written numerous Doubleday and Harry N. Abrams books on style and social history. He graduated from Yale University, completed four years of graduate studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and has an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Pratt Institute.

When Boynton Beach resident Catherine Smith was in high school on the other coast of Florida, the only arts classes offered were “art,” band, chorus, etc. Only a decade later, she can’t believe the choices available to elementary school kids, let alone high school students, in Palm Beach County.

While visiting the local arts-focused schools for “Artistic Instinct” (page 52), Smith not only had a blast but also realized how the arts can change a student’s life—in and out of school.

Following his 10-year tenure as director of photography at The Palm Beach Daily News, the award-winning Kim Sargent has been a fixture in the world of photography with his work appearing everywhere from the cover of Architectural Digest to the book “Palm Beach Splendor: The Architecture of Jeffery W. Smith.” When asked to shoot many of the photos for “Present Day Architects Keep Palm Beach County’s Rich Traditions Alive” (page 60), Sargent, head of Sargent Architectural Photography, jumped at the chance to be a part of capturing the history and essence of our area—and we couldn’t be more grateful.

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Gracing the pages of “Creative Expression Develops Naturally” (page 44), world-renowned nature photographer Claudine Laabs’ breathtaking images of the Everglades reflect not only her incredible talent but also her love of nature—and the Everglades in particular.

Laabs, who was born in Milwaukee and grew up on Singer Island, has exhibited her work across the state, loves traveling to the Amazon and Panama and has had her photographs published in numerous World Wildlife Fund books, Audubon calendars and various magazines.

New York native Jim Fairman was introduced to photography in high school and has rarely put his camera down since. The West Palm Beach resident is a busy freelance photographer who captures a diverse array of subjects from yachts and exotic cars to high fashion and flowers. Fairman leapt at the opportunity to photograph the noble Countess Henrietta de Hoernle in her “room” at the Boca Raton Historical Society for “Counting on the Countess” (page 32).

Christina Wood is not afraid to get her hands dirty in pursuit of a good story. Although you’re more likely to find her in the audience at Florida Stage or in the studios of WXEL, where she regularly hosts pledge drives for public broadcasting, the regular art&culture contributor relishes the opportunity to go for an occasional stroll through the swamps. Wood, of course, was the ideal candidate when it came to choosing a writer for “Creative Expression Develops Naturally” (page 44), which showcases the wonderfully diverse ways nature impacts artists and how the environment stands on its own as an art form.

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{ u p f r o n t } a m e d l e y o f w h a t ’s h o t o n t h e l o c a l a r t & c u l t u r e s c e n e art&culture Garners ‘Charlie’ Honors The Palm Beach County Cultural Council and Passport Publications are delighted to announce that art&culture of Palm Beach County received three awards in the 2007 Florida Magazine Association’s highly regarded annual competition that recognizes publishing excellence in the state. The magazine was honored with the Gold “Charlie Award” for Best Overall Magazine

in the Associations category, a Bronze Award for Best Overall Use of Photography in the same category and a Silver Award for Best New Magazine launched in Florida during the past year. “These awards are a great honor, and they are also an affirmation of the quality of Palm Beach County culture. Without such a great subject to cover, this beautiful magazine and its great photography and stories would not be possible,” says Rena Blades, Cultural Council president and CEO.

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Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Department of Music is changing the way students learn about the music industry with its commercial music program. Launched in 2002 by FAU professor of music and Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in Performing Arts Michael Zager, the program offers various bachelor’s and master’s degrees with concentrations in commercial music and music business administration as well as a minor.

Named the “Best New Major” by Florida Leader magazine in 2003, the program features well-known music professionals who teach technical, legal, music and management classes to Professor Michael Zager about 150 students each year. The student-operated record label Hoot/Wisdom Recordings is a key component of the program and has already released two albums, with six more scheduled for release this fall and several others currently in production.

One stand-out graduate of the commercial music program is Israel Charles, who produced and arranged the song “Let’s Fall in Love Again” for his master’s thesis. The mid-tempo urban song became recording artist Rachel Brown’s first hit single, and reached the No. 1 slot on the Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip Hop Singles Sales Chart and No. 9 on the Hot Singles Sales Chart earlier this year.

“A project produced as a master’s thesis that goes to the top 10 in sales in the Billboard listing is unheard of,” Zager points out.

Charles credits his success to FAU’s commercial music program. “Being able to create a high-quality production is a great accomplishment itself,” he says, “but the program also teaches you the business of music so that you are equipped with the skills necessary to students usic program maximize your talent.”

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Local Resident Becomes Published Author in His 70s “I would never have done anything with this story if it weren’t for Julie Gilbert,” says Donald Scheer, a Boynton Beach resident who wrote “The Diagnosis” as a writing exercise during a Beginning Writer Workshop class taught by Gilbert at the Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.

His story about a son and his father who may have prostate cancer landed a place in Tim Russert’s 2006 New York Times bestseller “Our Fathers: Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons.” It was also highlighted on the “Today” show and “Larry King Live” and was Tom Brokaw’s favorite story in the anthology.

Although Scheer wrote medical textbooks, speeches and technical documents throughout his career as a civil servant working in the White House, U.S. Embassies in Southeast Asia and the Department of Health and Human Services, it was Gilbert and the Kravis Center’s class that cultivated his creative writing talent.

Gilbert, a part-time resident of West Palm Beach, is a novelist and playwright who has taught writing classes at New York University’s School of Continuing Studies for the past two decades. Her biography, “Opposite Attraction: The Lives of Erich Maria Remarque and Paulette Goddard,” was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. As part of the Kravis Center’s ArtSmart continuing arts education courses, Gilbert will teach several more writing workshops beginning in January 2008.

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more information or to sign up for an ArtSmart class, call (561) 832-7469 or visit www.kravis.org. To read “The Diagnosis,” visit www.kravis.org/workshops.

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The Cultural Council uses multiple media to tell the story of Palm Beach County’s dynamic cultural scene—including the airwaves. Bill Nix, the Cultural Council’s vice president of marketing and government affairs, co-hosts “Arts and Attractions Alive” with Caroline Breder-Watts on WXEL-90.7FM and hosts “Cultural Capital” on PBC TV Channel 20, which is currently only available on Comcast cable. The radio show airs every Friday at 12:30 p.m. on WXEL, while the television show can be seen on Wednesdays at 9 p.m., Fridays at 11 a.m. and Saturdays at 1:30 p.m.

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Next Generation

From the Dreyfoos School of the Arts to the Smithsonian First came the news that she was one of 141 Mock, whose preferred high school seniors in the nation invited to the media include graphite and National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts’ charcoal drawing and oil youngARTSTM Week in Miami. “I was surprised and painting, credits her success humbled,” says Rebecca Mock, a recent graduate of to her family and education. “My the Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts in mother enrolled me in art lessons from a very Rebe West Palm Beach. During the week, young age,” she says. “From there, I was able at the S cca Mock mithso nian “I met some extraordinary people,” to attend two art magnet schools that gave she says. “I’m honored to have been in me fantastic opportunities to explore art.” the same program as them.”

Now a freshman pursuing a degree in illustration at the Then came the really good news: Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Mock Mock—along with only 19 other students hopes to one day work as a comic artist. With the from the youngARTS program—was named Smithsonian on her resume and the U.S. president as a a Presidential Scholar in the Arts for her reference, we don’t think she will have any problems accomplishments in many areas, including artislanding a job. tic excellence, academic success, community To learn more about Palm Beach County’s art service and leadership. In June, the Lantana schools, turn to “Artistic Instinct” on page 52. resident traveled to Washington, D.C., for National Recognition Week, during which she was honored by President Bush in a special White House ceremony and had her artwork displayed in an exhibit at the “Garage” Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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about youngARTS or to apply for the 2008 youngARTS awards, call (800) 970-2787 or visit www.youngarts.org.

S h o w & Te l l Giving Underserved Kids a ‘Leg-up in the Arts’ The Milagro Center’s motto says it all—“Cultivating young artists of tomorrow from today’s at-risk communities.” The Delray Beach nonprofit’s dedication to providing cultural and academic opportunities to underserved children is evident in its flourishing STARS (Standing Together Achieving Recognition and Success) initiative, which is a comprehensive after-school and summer cultural arts program.

STARS brings together artists, community partners, volunteers and mentors to help students in the areas of literacy proficiency, technology and arts tutorials. About 50 students are enrolled in STARS, with about 75 percent of the students starting in kindergarten and continuing through the completion of the program in fifth grade.

An extension of the multifaceted program, the Milagro Center’s Community Concert Series at the Cacace Fine Art Studio & Gallery raises money for the center. Approximately five concerts are planned this winter from November through March.

“The Milagro Center and their concert series provide great early exposure and a leg-up in the arts for the Milagro children as well as providing great musical concerts for the on the Milagro Center or to purchase tickets for the Community community,” says Vincent J. Cacace, a painter and the owner of the Atlantic Avenue gallery.

Concert Series, call (561) 279-2970 or visit www.milagrocenter.org.

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Culinary Q&A F l o r i d a C u l i n a r y I n s t i t u t e ’s “ C h e f P ” Te l l s A l l Chef David Pantone has all the right degrees and certifications as well as over 26 years of culinary experience, including 12 years in New York, Palm Beach and Miami’s top restaurants. But it’s his creativity, passion for the culinary arts and, most importantly, his dedication to the 600 or so students who attend West Palm Beach’s Florida Culinary Institute (FCI) each year that earned him the prestigious position as dean of culinary education at FCI in 1996.

The very humble Chef Pantone recently opened up to art&culture about his teaching methods, why he doesn’t take credit for winning a prestigious award and which are his favorite local restaurants—a few of which might surprise you.

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IS THE MOST REWARDING PART OF YOUR JOB?

As the dean, it is my job to look into the future to identify career opportunities and emerging industry trends, and then to build the curriculum that leads my students to these future opportunities. The most rewarding part of my job comes when FCI graduates return to hire my current students. The graduates know that the current students are receiving the same great education that they received.

HOW DID IT FEEL TO BE NAMED THE “CULINARY EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR” BY THE FOODSERVICE EDUCATORS NETWORK INTERNATIONAL IN 2001?

The award that I was honored with had my name on it, but really was in recognition of a team effort. The entire FCI faculty developed a truly unique method of delivering curriculum to our diverse population through our non-traditional teachers. The Cycle of Interactive Learning (COIL) System empowers and enables the chef instructors to become high-performing teachers and to deliver the culinary lessons to our student population that represents 45 different countries. This prestigious award remains one of the team’s proudest moments.

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WHICH

ARE YOUR FAVORITES

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I have always tried to work at places and with people who inspire me. The Waldorf-Astoria and The Breakers were truly legendary for their commitment to quality over the many decades. They operated with tried and true methods of best practice that kept them amongst the finest establishments in the world. At Lucky’s in South Beach, I had my first opportunity to be part of an opening team. I designed the

pastry shop, created the pastry and chose all of the equipment.

The dessert menu was unique for 1987 in that it contained no cakes, pies or tarts. Each of the 26 different desserts on the menu was created individually and was accompanied by signature sauces and garnishes. Lucky’s was recognized for its desserts locally and nationally in many competitions and articles.

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DO THE DINING CHOICES IN

PALM BEACH COUNTY

STACK UP

AGAINST OTHER BIG CITIES YOU’VE WORKED IN?

I’ve traveled the country and dined at many of the finest restaurants, and I find that Palm Beach County restaurants can stand up with the best.

WHAT ARE A FEW OF YOUR PALM BEACH COUNTY?

FAVORITE RESTAURANTS IN

Our local restaurant scene is booming. There are so many new places to try that I don’t have a favorite restaurant. Some that I do return to are Brewzzi at CityPlace, Cafe L’Europe on Palm Beach, Duffy’s Sports Grill for excellent casual food and Cafe Protégé at Florida Culinary Institute for lunch, of course.

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YOU THINK OF FOOD AS AN ART FORM?

I believe the food, in the hands of a trained professional, can be art. Well-trained chefs respect each ingredient and know everything about that ingredient. They have tasted and tested each ingredient to know its nuances and character. They know which cooking methods work best and which to avoid. This culinary artist is first a craftsman, then a business manager and then, maybe, an entertainer. The chef artist who does not also master the culinary business will soon be a starving artist.

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TECHNIQUES DO YOU TEACH YOUR STUDENTS?

At FCI, our students learn first to make the food be the center of attention. When quality ingredients are properly prepared they are naturally beautiful. After students have mastered that skill, then they are taught contemporary plating styles and the proper pairing of sauces and garnishes. Further in the curriculum, students are taught the techniques of creating decorative centerpieces such as ice sculpting, melon carving and fruit and vegetable flowers and vases. Pastry students also create chocolate sculptures, sugar art showpieces and wedding cakes.

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EXPERIENCE IT Serenity Garden Tea House 316 Vallette Way, West Palm Beach (561) 655-3911 Open Monday-Saturday, 11:30 a.m.4 p.m., and by reservations only on Sunday Flagler Museum Cocoanut Row and Whitehall Way, Palm Beach (561) 655-2833 www.flaglermuseum.us A Gilded Age Tea served TuesdaySaturday, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., and Sunday, noon-2:30 p.m. (November 23, 2007 through March 22, 2008) The Chesterfield Hotel 363 Cocoanut Row, Palm Beach (561) 659-5800, ext. 262 www.chesterfieldpb.com Victorian Tea Experience served 3-5 p.m. daily; reservations required The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach (561) 495-0233 www.morikami.org Tea exhibitions, October 2December 2:

The Culture of Tea: Shared Experiences, Individual Expressions and The Whimsical World of Banko

Ware Teapots “Sado Omote Senke Tea Ceremony Class”: twice-monthly, October-June “Demonstrations of Sado, The Way of Tea”: monthly, October-June; hourly from noon-3 p.m.

Top two photos: Serenity Garden Tea House Bottom photo: The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens

“Afternoon tea, to me, is a perfect forum to enrich a culture and to reflect on the deeper things in life—the things that ultimately matter,” says Holland-born Sylvia Price, owner of the cottage-style Serenity Garden Tea House in West Palm Beach.

Outside of your own home and in addition to local teahouses, there are many ways to experience tea in Palm Beach County. From the Flagler Museum’s Gilded Age Tea service to The Chesterfield Hotel’s Victorian Tea Experience, traditional English tea rituals transport guests back to a time when formality and proper tiquette were highly regarded.

The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Beach offers visitors a glimpse into the customs of how the Japanese serve tea through its monthly “Demonstrations of Sado, The Way of Tea.” Held twice a month, the “Sado Omote Senke Tea Ceremony Class” invites guests to delve further into the practices of sado.

Mari Omori is an installation artist who works with imprints of tea and quilted paper made from teabags. The recipient of a Palm Beach County Cultural Council 2007 Artist-in-Residency grant, she spent months working with many local community groups and the Morikami on The Culture of Tea: Shared Experiences, Individual Expressions project.

Artwork—including writings, fiber arts and film—derived from the workshops led by Omori will be displayed in an exhibition at the Morikami beginning in October. The art reflects the artistic expression and appreciation of common cultural values and perceptions taught by Omori.

“Drinking tea is a centuries-old daily ritual that plays many roles in daily life: to start a day, to greet guests and in my culture its purpose is also to cleanse one’s soul and body,” Omori says in an artist’s statement on her Web site. “Tea is more than a beverage. Serving and receiving tea is an art form deeply rooted in the customs and traditions of many world cultures.”

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{upfront} ‘Sneak Peek’ Soiree Builds Cultural Bridges In an area like ours, where crossing bridges is routine, there is perhaps no better metaphor for the effort to connect the cultural community with new, young and committed patrons.

“We are trying to create a bridge between the arts and the next generation of leadership,” says Deirdre Sykes Shapiro, chair of the Young Friends Cultural Collaborative—which is joining with the Palm Beach County Cultural Council to host the upcoming 4th Annual Young Friends “Sneak Peek” Season Soiree. On one side of this figurative bridge are the young friends groups affiliated with Artists Showcase of the Palm Beaches, Ballet Florida, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Historical Society, Cultural Trust of the Palm Beaches, Florida Stage, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, Kravis Center for the Performing Arts, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History, Norton Museum of Art, Old School Square, Palm Beach International Film Festival, Palm Beach Opera, Palm Beach Zoo and the South Florida Science Museum.

Across the bridge, Sykes Shapiro explains, are the young adult members of civic-minded and professional associations. “We invite the Corporate Ambassadors, South Florida VIPs, Young Professionals of the North Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce, Junior Leagues of Boca Raton and the Palm Beaches, Moms Club of the Palm Beaches, Young Lawyers section of the Palm Beach County Bar Association and the West Palm 100, so they can join or volunteer for any of the organizations,” she says.

The soiree provides a fun evening targeting the young professional (25-45 years) demographic, notes Hope Caldwell, director of membership services for the Cultural Council. “Not only does this event educate people about the arts, but it also helps to create future audiences and active participants. By attending the Sneak Peek Soiree, young professionals can learn more about these cultural organizations and have the opportunity to consider supporting them both as audience members and philanthropically—both of which are vitally important.” contact the Cultural Council The event is set for 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on October 11 at the Harriet Himmel Theater at (561) 471-2901. at CityPlace in West Palm Beach.

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M e e t To m m y M a y e s — C u l t u r a l C o u n c i l C h a i r m a n In just seven years in Palm Beach County, R. Thomas “Tommy” Mayes, Jr., CFP, has made a mark on our cultural landscape. Now in his second term as chairman of the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, Mayes exhibits unmistakable passion and unbridled enthusiasm not only for the council itself, but for the entire cultural community.

“I’m perpetually blown away by the sum of the parts of the cultural apparatus of Palm Beach County,” Mayes says. “It’s almost mind-boggling. It’s not only the visible things—the museums and performing arts centers—but we’re home to world-renowned artists and composers. Although this is a relatively small community, we stack up as one of the most important in the country for our cultural impact.”

“The incredible breadth and depth of the benefits to the community are often narrowed to the perspective of the beholder,” Mayes continues. “As a parent of three and a business person, I am quick to speak to the educational benefits of a rich and diverse cultural community such as ours. In addition, the nature of our economy—with its substantial tourism component— elevates the importance of the cultural community in terms of its support of our reputation as a world-renowned destination.”

As regional managing director for the Palm Beach office of Calibre—part of Wachovia Wealth Management—Mayes has 19 years of experience in the financial services industry, including 15 years with Wachovia. During that time, he has gained a clear sense of the relationship between business and the arts. “Each organization is a business and has to be run as such,” he notes. “It is imperative that business leaders engage and provide time and talent.”

At the bottom line, though, it’s the people who keep this committed cultural leader inspired and engaged. “When you have a passion for an organization or a cause, you get connected to the people. Where I am today is as a very committed board chair for a phenomenal CEO and staff and a really strong board. It’s easy for me to sign up for that!

It is a privilege for me to play a small role in such an important element of this Tommy Mayes, Jr. (left) with Cultural Council wonderful community.”

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WILD RIDE Cultural Coun cil board mem ber Shirley Fiterm art car pass th an watches an rough the gates of Park Vista Hi gh School.

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I was driving westward in our county recently with one of my favorite people, Shirley Fiterman, and we were on a hunt. Our search was for some fast-moving art, most of it colorful and meaningful. We were looking for art cars.

Unfortunately, MapQuest had let me down, and so we drove farther and farther west on Lantana Road, seeking Park Vista High School, a brand new building in Lake Worth off Jog Road where some 3,000 students attend classes.

Shirley and I wondered if we’d ever find it, but finally, off in the distance, we spotted a large campus spread out over the raw, newly developed landscape that so defines South Florida.

Shirley, who serves as one of our board members, is an astute and enthusiastic collector of modern art objects.

She had every reason to wonder why I would take her to a location devoid of art galleries or museums. But as soon as we turned in and saw the cars, it all became clear. We’d embarked on an art mission of a different sort. We were not visiting the Norton Museum of Art or Eaton Fine Art, as we had done many times in the past. On this day, we were here to see art in an unexpected place— one of the county’s newest high schools.

About 25 art cars had arrived in the area the night before for a series

Antti Rahko’s “FinnJet” took home first place at the Twentieth Annual Art Car Parade in Houston.

of Cultural Council-sponsored events called “Drive to Enjoy the Arts,” so their presence was not a surprise. The revelation was the impact on the students, and perhaps even on the curriculum of the high school. You see, the school is considering a new course next fall: Art Car. A team of students working with teacher Norman Thomas may be designing and fabricating a moving work of art during the school year.

When students were asked about their interest in such a course, dozens indicated their desire to take this cross between auto shop and design. Artists and teachers understand that this highly engaging art form readily lends itself to lessons of three-dimensional design, engineering and teamwork.

While it was indeed unexpected for most people on the Park Vista campus that day, art cars are becoming a more regular sight in Palm Beach County.

“FinnJet,” for instance, was discovered last year through the Cultural Council’s

“Thing Three”

efforts to promote cultural tourism.

The artist, Antti Rahko, was working in relative anonymity in Lake Worth for years on this space-age contraption that won a first place award in the 20th Annual Art Car Parade in Houston earlier this summer.

And so Shirley—along with the students and faculty at Park Vista High School—had an unexpected art experience that day, while I enjoyed the surprise on her face as the artists drove past and waved goodbye. Art cars make you smile. They make you think. They make statements of a sort, yet they are non-threatening. They are truly the people’s art.

Tom Stuto drives “Holey Mercatoy’d”

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Counting on

The Countess

by Hillary Hunter

“We can only imagine the exhilaration and gratification that Countess de Hoernle would feel if she could know the multitude and magnitude of the lives she has enriched,” say Dan Guin and Jane Tyree, co-artistic directors of Boca Ballet Theatre.

Never would I have imagined a Countess would have an impact on my life.

When I walked onto the Lynn University campus on my first day of college shortly after arriving from Minnesota, I was instantly struck by the noble titles on several of the buildings. In fact, you can drive just about anywhere in Palm Beach County and you’re sure to see the name: Countess Henrietta de Hoernle. From theaters and universities to blood banks and hospitals, the Countess covers it all.

When researching Countess Henrietta de Hoernle for this profile, I learned one of the many organizations she has supported is LEAH, the League for the Educational Awareness of the Holocaust. While at Lynn, I was awarded a scholarship from LEAH to travel to Poland as one of 10 March of Remembrance and Hope journalists from around the world, and then share the emotional experience with the community. The trip changed my life in several ways and introduced me to a diversity of students from Rwanda, China, Israel and Poland——many of whom are still my friends today. Little did I know, organizations such as LEAH are important to Countess Henrietta de Hoernle and for that I will be forever grateful to her.

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“Give while you live,

and know where it goes.”

– Countess Henrietta de Hoernle

Count and Countess de Hoernle Countess de Hoernle with Bill Nix, Cultural Council; Ric Newman, Newman Realty Group; and Boca Raton Mayor Steven L. Abrams at the Caldwell Theatre Company’s Count de Hoernle Theatre groundbreaking. The new theater (rendering below) opens Friday, Dec. 7 with the Pulitzer Prize/Tony Award-winning drama Doubt.

Before she was a Countess, Henrietta Rach was born in Karlsruhe, Black Forest, Germany, to a family of musicians. Her mother, Theresa, played the violin and her father, George, played the piano; however, Henrietta was never eager to follow in her parents’ footsteps. “They made me play the piano by the hour and I said forget it!” exclaims the Countess.

Although Henrietta wanted to be a doctor, her family was not keen on the idea.

So, after studying the fundamentals of business at a junior college in Frankfurt, Germany, the Countess ventured stateside with her grandparents to start a new life. “My grandparents heard the rumble in 1930 and they felt it was best for me to come here,” Henrietta explains. She was only 18 when she arrived in New York’s Long Island, just one of thousands of immigrants migrating to the United States at the time.

“I sent a great many cartons of warm clothing to the less fortunate when I was informed how desperately the contents were needed and how greatly they were appreciated.” — Countess Henrietta de Hoernle After being widowed twice, Henrietta met Adolph de Hoernle. Coincidentally, Adolph was also born in Black Forest, Germany, and came to the United States in 1926 after earning an engineering degree. Adolph went on to become a successful businessman who founded Stewart Stamping Corporation in Yonkers, New York.

Married in 1950, Adolph and Henrietta began their philanthropic and charitable journey in Bronxville, New York, all the while raising two daughters. The de Hoernles contributed to the New York City Opera, Lawrence Hospital and many other organizations ranging from museums to homes for the elderly.

While Adolph was working, Henrietta could often be found helping the less fortunate.

She worked as a volunteer in a hospital thrift shop, always wanting to help people regardless of age or financial status. She purchased and collected clothing for the destitute who suffered during the chilling winters. “I sent a

great many cartons of warm clothing to the less fortunate when I was informed how desperately the contents were needed and how greatly they were appreciated,” the Countess explains.

In 1965, Adolph sold Stewart Stamping Corporation and after retiring, he and Henrietta decided it was time to explore the world. In 1978 the de Hoernles were introduced to Palm Beach while visiting friends. After numerous trips to the sunshine state, the de Hoernles decided to settle in Boca Raton in 1981.

It didn’t take long for the Countess to start volunteering and investing her fortune in the community albeit to her husband’s dismay. “We moved to Boca Raton because I only knew one person there and my friends were in Palm Beach,” the Countess explains. “My husband was afraid I would become too involved again, like I was in New York.” Today, the Count and Countess have given money to over 100 Palm Beach County organizations, far surpassing their beneficence in New York.

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Their first contribution in Palm Beach County was to the Boca Raton Community Hospital. “The gift to the Boca Raton Community Hospital really started the ball rolling.

Once we started giving to one organization, we were immediately approached by others asking for help,” she says.

Culture and the Countess

The Countess feels people in each community must support the arts. One way to encourage participation by others is to give donations as challenge grants. A challenge grant is a way of matching funds to encourage others to participate as well.

Leading by example, the Countess explains, “I still pay my pledge even if the organization doesn’t reach their goal.”

Just a few years after the gift to the hospital, in 1986 the Countess donated $500,000 for the Boca Raton Historical Society’s (BRHS) restoration of the FEC Rail-

way Station on Dixie Highway in Boca Raton as a birthday gift to her husband. The FEC Railway Station was subsequently named the Count de Hoernle Pavilion. “She made the largest single gift to a preservation project at that time in Palm Beach County,” says Mary Csar, executive director of the BRHS. As a way to thank the Countess for all that she has done for the community, the BRHS dedicated a room in the historic Town Hall that is known as the Count and Countess de Hoernle Memorial Room. “The Countess has a good sense of the importance of history to a community,” explains Csar. “She serves on our board and attends meetings and events and offers her ideas and suggestions. She is a great board member and friend.”

Lucky for the Caldwell Theatre Company in Boca Raton, the Countess admits, “I’m partial to the theater.” Over the last two seasons the Countess attended almost every single show at the Caldwell. “The Countess enjoys having

a good time. Her favorite Caldwell shows are ones that make her laugh and applaud, like My Three Angels, the King’s Mar and Lend Me a Tenor,” says Michael Hall, artistic director of the Caldwell Theatre Company.

In January, the Countess pledged $1 million toward the construction of a new home for the Caldwell. When donating to the theater, which she refers to as “the pride of Boca Raton,” she asked that all lovers of theater in southern Palm Beach County use the campaign to make gifts in honor of family and friends. The new facilities will be called the Count de Hoernle Theatre.

With a strong interest in projects that benefit children and education, the Countess helped create the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater at the Centre for the Arts at Mizner Park, which was completed in November 2002. She named the amphitheater after her late husband, who died in 1998. She notes that he was an avid music lover and that

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music has played a big role in both of their lives. According to Wendy Larsen, chair of the Centre for the Arts, “The Countess literally spearheaded the Centre for the Arts with her lead gift and support.”

Since the opening of the amphitheater, Boca Raton is now in the entertainment limelight with over 600,000 people having attended concerts, children’s programs, films and musical entertainment for all ages. “It is important to give back to your community and I feel the people of Boca Raton enjoy the free concerts,” says the Countess.

“Children should always be exposed to culture and education.”

with an award for Design Excellence by the Palm Beach Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. “Countess de Hoernle continues to be an incredibly strong supporter of PBCC and its educational mission in the community,” explains PBCC President Dr. Dennis Gallon.

This is the fourth building on PBCC’s three campuses that bears her (and sometimes her late husband’s) name. “This latest gift will enable the college to provide a world-class instructional facility in Boca Raton for Humanities, fine arts, graphic design, architecture and foreign languages,” says Gallon. “Her dedication and determination to make our community a better place to live is unparalleled.”

Supporting Our Schools

Over the years, the Countess has generously supported many educational institutions. Last spring she received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Lynn University. “The Count and Countess have been friends of the university since the early days when we were the College of Boca Raton,” explains President Emeritus Donald E. Ross. “They came over to the college in the early ’80s and made a contribution to remodel the auditorium in the Green Center.”

After the initial gift to the College of Boca Raton, the de Hoernles continued to support the college, even after the name was changed to Lynn University.

“It’s her generosity of spirit that is really breathtaking,” explains Kevin M. Ross, current president of Lynn University and Donald’s son.

“She believed in this university––its students but also its future. She and her husband helped move us towards being who we are and they are part of our legacy.”

The Countess didn’t stop her educational support with Lynn University. She also continuously supports Palm Beach Community College (PBCC), Northwood University and Spanish River Community High School.

Last winter, PBCC broke ground on the Countess de Hoernle Humanities & Technology Building in Boca Raton. The high-tech, $7.5-million education facility received $1 million from the Countess to create a four-story, 46,745-square-foot, state-of-the-art building that has already been honored for its design

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Charlie Siemon, board member for the Centre for the Arts, and the Countess at the groundbreaking for the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater at Mizner Park in Boca Raton.

Last March, guests enjoyed the festivities at the Count de Hoernle Amphitheater at Mizner Park during the Festival of the Arts BOCA 2007 (below).

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The Countess at Home Contrary to what many would believe, the Countess does not have a personal assistant and she handles all of her own affairs, including her finances. When she gets home from a groundbreaking, fundraising event, board meeting (she sits on 16) or a cultural performance, she works every night and into the morning and still has time to play bridge. “When I’m gone during the day, I come back home and have so many calls and the mail is staggering,” the Countess explains. “I work every night until 1:30 or 2 a.m. to catch up.”

She reads every piece of mail she gets and studies each organization that

requests her assistance. “I only give where it is needed and where it will be beneficial to helping people,” she adds.

The organizations discussed in this profile are merely a peek into the Countess’ philanthropy, volunteering and community involvement. I encourage readers to visit her famous “room” at the

Q&A with Countess Henrietta de Hoernle How did you “learn” to be a philanthropist?

When I came to the United States I noticed many buildings, including hospitals, were named after people. I said to myself, “Well this is a fantastic idea.” People don’t even know the names on the buildings and they do things for them, which I sort of admired.

Why is philanthropy important to Palm Beach County?

Because there is a need for it, especially for the children and the elderly and the hospitals involved. But I also do it so that others will participate in giving. I always feel people are not doing enough.

How did you become involved in the Boca Raton Historical Society?

They approached me with information on the depot’s restoration and explained that the project would be a good thing for future generations to see how it was in the old days, and I was kind of interested. I asked my husband and he said, “You must be out of

The Countess, PBCC President Dr. Dennis Gallon and other PBCC supporters celebrate the groundbreaking of the Humanities & Technology Building in Boca Raton (right). The state-of-the-art building (rendering above) received an award for Design Excellence by the Palm Beach Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

BRHS for a complete overview of all of her amazing accomplishments.

“Boca Raton and all of Palm Beach County are lucky to have the Countess,” Csar says. “She is a great example of giving from the heart. The world should have more Countesses!” I couldn’t agree more.

your cotton-picking mind. For $20,000 I can build a new one!” He didn’t understand the idea was the historical value. So I said if that is the case, then I’ll just do it myself and give it to him as a present. And I did.

What recent projects have you been working on?

We recently completed the new Countess de Hoernle Theatre on the Spanish River Community High School campus in Boca Raton because there was a need. Anytime I can keep the children off the street, I like to participate. My fourth building at Palm Beach Community College broke ground in the winter. It will be called the Countess de Hoernle Humanities & Technology Building on the Boca Raton campus.

What recognition has been most meaningful to you?

On my 90th birthday, 40 organizations gave a party for me at Boca West Country Club and they are doing it again for me this year. I’m turning 95 in September.

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Who would have thought that a snow white alligator with bright blue eyes would be real? But he is! White alligators have a rare genetic mutation that makes it difficult for them to survive under natural conditions. Mardi the white alligator visits the Palm Beach Zoo from September 1-30. 1301 Summit Blvd., West Palm Beach; (561) 547-9453 or www.palmbeachzoo.org.

The current Palm Beach County Art in Public Places exhibition at the Palm Beach International Airport, Fun About Town, showcases residents and visitors immersed in the natural environment and cultural art scene of the county. An Artist Reception is set for September 19 from 5:30-7 p.m. The show continues through October 3. 1000 Turnage Blvd., West Palm Beach; (561) 233-0235 or www.pbcgov.com/fdo/art.

Loquacious and Bodacious: The Life and Times of Zora Neale Hurston features actress Karen Stephens in a portrayal of the author, intellectual and Florida icon who figured prominently in the Harlem Renaissance. Directed by Bob Carter, the show runs from September 1430 at the Cuillo Centre for the Performing Arts. 201 Clematis St., West Palm Beach; 561-835-9226 or www.cuillocentre.com.

The Armory Art Center’s

Karen Knight, Intermission II, 48” x 36,” Mixed Media

talented and diverse art teachers take center stage for the organization’s Annual Faculty Exhibition taking place September 17-October 20. The free show offers a great opportunity to see the wide range of work created by faculty members—and to sign up for fall course offerings! 1700 Parker Ave., West Palm Beach; (561) 8321776 or www.armoryart.org.

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Sherri Goldstein, round wall hanging, pewter with dichroic glass, 15”

Making lye soap over a hot pot,

Courtesy of Judge Nelson Bailey

dancing, learning and lots of fun ensues when Elmo, The Count, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Bert & Ernie and all their Sesame Street Live! friends take the stage of the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts to share the magical world of music from September 20-23.

701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; (561) 832-SHOW or www.kravis.org.

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of Art from September 5-November 4, Conflicting Currents presents the competing forces of tradition and innovation in American painting and printmaking between World Wars I and II, while Guillermo Trujillo: Panamanian Master showcases Panama’s most important artist of the 20th century.

501 Plaza Real, Boca Raton; (561) 392-2500 or www.bocamuseum.org.

cooking collard greens, making dolls out of corn wrappings, “putting up” seasonal foods, music, folktales and live entertainment will all be part of the greatly expanded Spady Living Heritage Day 2007 on September 22 at the Spady Cultural Heritage Museum. 170 N.W. Fifth Ave., Delray Beach; (561) 279-8883 or www.spadymuseum.org.

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Visitors to the new exhibition at The Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens, The Whimsical World of Banko Ware Teapots, will enjoy more than 50 of the ceramic creations depicting flowers, birds, sea creatures, land animals and human figures with much charm and humor.

The exhibition runs from October 2-December 2. 4000 Morikami Park Road, Delray Beach; (561) 495-0233 or www.morikami.org.

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A major retrospective of the signature artworks, furniture and decorative objects by two of California’s most important 20th-century artists launches the new season at the Norton Museum of Art. Running from October 6-December 9, California as Muse: The Art of Arthur & Lucia Mathews features over 60 examples of their work. 1451 S. Olive Ave., West Palm Beach; (561) 832-5196 or www.norton.org.

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Metrotextural: Art Quilts by the Manhattan Quilters Guild celebrates the visual feast of New York City, from serendipitous juxtapositions of signage and advertisements to the surface ornamentation of historic buildings. Appearing concurrently at the Cornell Museum of Art and History from September 13-October 28 is the 23rd annual juried exhibition of the National Collage Society.

51 N. Swinton Ave. Delray Beach; (561) 243-7922 or www.oldschool.org.

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Arthur F. Mathews, Monterey Cypress, 1933. Oil on canvas, 38 1/4 x 34 1/4 in.; with Furniture Shop frame, painted wood, 48 x 44 in. Collection of the Oakland Museum of California

versatile and talented student actors offer a new production of Anton Chekhov’s classic Three Sisters from September 28October 7. Written in 1900, this universally acclaimed masterpiece of the realistic theater deals with the lives of a family caught in a maelstrom of social change.

777 Glades Road, Boca Raton; (561) 297-2977 or www.fau.edu.

OCTOBER On October 27 from 9 a.m.12 p.m., join the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge for a fun-filled morning of harvesting cypress seeds for Everglades restoration. Volunteers are encouraged to wear closed-toed shoes, hats, sunglasses and sunscreen. RSVP by October 19. 10216 Lee Road, Boynton Beach; (561) 805-TREE or plantcypress@aol.com.

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Sugar Sand Park Community Center opens its gates from October 19-28 to ghosts, ghouls and the adventurous during its annual “Shriek Week.” Crooked Creek Haunted Ghost Town Tours beckon kids ages 7-12, while magic shows with Gary Goodman, “kooky crafts” and more fun events complete the festivities. 300 S. Military Trail, Boca Raton; (561) 347-3900 or www.sugarsandpark.org.

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Cornell Gunter’s Coasters supplied the late ’50s with riotously funny records that contained a solid

R&B underpinning. Some of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famers’ hits include “Yakety Yak,” “Charlie Brown” and “Poison Ivy.” The October 28 show is part of The Palm Beach Post Sunday at the Meyer’s concert series at Meyer Amphitheatre. 104 Datura St., West Palm Beach; (561) 822-1515 or www.wpb.org.

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PAUL GREEN

THOMAS HECHT

LISA LEONARD DAVID COLE

STEVE ROSS

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CHARLES CASTLEMAN VIOLIN RECITAL

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CHARLES CASTLEMAN MASTER CLASS

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Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BMV 1050, D Major (Bach), Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4, A424 (Villa-Lobos), Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky/Ravel) NOV. 8

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Essay No. 2, op. 1 (Barber), Symphony No. 3, op. 55, E Flat Major (Beethoven) DEC. 6

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LISA LEONARD: A SOIRÉE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY PIANO CONCERT

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T H E AT R E Libby Dodson’s Live at Lynn Series OCT. 27 2 and 7:30 p.m. $35 OCT. 28 4 p.m. $35 TIMELESS DIVAS— SONGS OF THE SILVER SCREEN

NOV. 16 7:30 p.m. $35 NOV. 17 2 and 7:30 p.m. $35 NOV.18 4 p.m. $35 NOËL & COLE,

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{upfront-calendar} In conjunction with Jewish Book Month, the Annual JCC of the Greater Palm Beaches Book Festival Luncheon is set for November 7 at 11 a.m. at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts’ Cohen Pavilion, featuring the authors of the highly acclaimed book “The Faith Club”—Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner. 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; (561) 712-5201, www.jcconline.com.

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guest curator Diana Shpungin, an artist and Florida Atlantic University (FAU) graduate, Delicatessen features works by more than 20 contemporary artists. The exhibition, running from November 9-January 26 at FAU’s Schmidt Center Gallery, recoins the word delicatessen by bringing it back to its Latin roots and claiming a more poetic meaning: “giving pleasure, delightful.” 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton; (561) 297-2966 or www.fau.edu/galleries.

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A superb cast headed by British actors Christopher Cazenove and Lisa O’Hare brings the 50th anniversary London production of Lerner and Loewe’s beloved My Fair Lady to the United States from October 30-November 4 through Broadway Across America at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; (800) 520-2324 or www.broadwayacrossamerica.com.

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Under the baton of Conductor Richard Hayman, the Florida Sunshine Pops

welcomes guest artist Nestor Torres—the internationally acclaimed jazz flutist—for three spirited concerts on November 11 at Florida Atlantic University’s Performing Arts Auditorium and on November 12 and 14 at the Eissey Campus Theatre. 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton; (800) 564-9539. 11051 Campus Drive, Palm Beach Gardens; (561) 278-7677 or www.sunsetet.com.

Deanna Seay and Arnold Quintane in “Diamonds” from Jewels.

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Anselmo Vidal Jr. and his outstanding 16-piece Latin jazz band kick off the 2007-2008 Swing and Jazz Preservation Society concert season on November 20 at the Spanish River Performing Arts Center. You’ll tap your toes to the beat of lively rumba, mambo and cha-cha music. Yamato Road and St. Andrews Boulevard, Boca Raton; (561) 499-9976 or www.swingandjazzpreservationsociety.org.

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Jewels, one of the most glamorous ballets ever created, initiates Miami City Ballet’s sparkling new season from November 16-18 at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts. A jewelry collection at Van Cleef and Arpels in New York inspired George Balanchine to create the ballet set to music by Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky and Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky. 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach; (877) 929-7010 or www.miamicityballet.org.

Get your “old-school funk groove on” when saxophonist Javon Jackson comes to town on November 27. He’s joined by his “Super Band” featuring Jimmy Cobb, George Cables and Nat Reeves. Ramsey Lewis calls Jackson “one of the fresh, creative voices on the scene today.” Presented by the Jazz Arts Music Society of Palm Beach, the show takes place at the Harriet Himmel Theater. CityPlace, 700 S. Rosemary Ave., West Palm Beach; (866) 449-2489 or www.jamsociety.org.

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Three Palm Beach County artists use nature as their muse

by Christina Wood

“There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story,� author and poet Linda Hogan once said.

Fortunately, there are artists in Palm Beach County who have made the time to listen. Some have heard the ancient voice of the Everglades, others have been held spellbound by the deceptively simple tale of a bird in flight or the subtle message contained in the falling rain.

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“THE EVERGLADES IS A CHARACTER. I HOPE THAT I PAINT ACCURATE WORD PICTURES OF IT SO PEOPLE CAN GET A SENSE OF IT.” —Jonathon King, author

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“An artist’s eye catches those kinds of things that other people won’t notice,” local author Jonathon King says. In exchange for the gifts nature has so generously provided, he feels he has a responsibility to share that vision. King developed his perspective while working as a journalist.

Newspaper readers, he explains, couldn’t visit a crime scene or sit in the mayor’s office. “I was their eyes and ears. It was my job to take them with me,” he says.

Now, as the author of a critically acclaimed series of mystery novels set in Palm Beach County, he takes his readers deep into the Everglades. In King’s novels, nature serves as more than an inspiration. “The Everglades is a character,” he says unequivocally. “I hope that I paint accurate word pictures of it so people can get a sense of it.”

King’s debut novel, “The Blue Edge of Midnight” (Dutton, 2002), launched the fictional career of private investigator Max Freeman and won the mystery genre’s coveted Edgar Award for Best First Novel. “Acts of Nature,” the fifth installment in the series, was released in August.

Although South Florida’s unmistakable landscape plays a pivotal role in King’s novels, the Boca Raton resident doesn’t consider himself an environmental writer. “My writing has the environment in it,” he clarifies. “I’m trying to say how important it is simply by presenting it and letting it speak for itself.”

From sunrise on the Atlantic shore to the evening shadows that flow across that fabled River of Grass, South Florida’s stunning landscape has much to say––and King isn’t the only one listening.

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The relationship between art and the environment is a twoway street that winds irresistibly through Palm Beach County.

The subtle drama of the Everglades echoes in King’s words, but it is the tranquil beauty of the early morning hours that speaks to nature photographer Claudine Laabs, and the whisper of a breeze sashaying through Grassy Waters Preserve that informs the movements of a company of dancers under the direction of Demetrius Klein.

The intertwining of artistic movements and nature that blossomed at Grassy Waters Preserve, which provides educational and recreational opportunities as well as fresh water for the City of West Palm Beach, began when the Palm Beach County Cultural Council awarded a Category A “Artist in Residency” grant to Klein and Grassy Waters. The original

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“THE BEAUTY OF THIS ENTIRE RESIDENCY FOR ME WAS THE COLLABORATION OF THE ARTISTS AND THE SCIENTISTS.” —Demetrius Klein, dancer and choreographer

intent, Klein says, was to go outside the box in search of “a very different way to look at dance––or a very different place that we could look at dance––and also Bobbie Bauer

to call attention to the preserve itself.”

For three years, Klein, an internationally recognized choreographer and dancer, shuttled back and forth between his dance studio in Lake Worth and Grassy Waters Preserve, where he worked with scientists and environmentalists as well as area youth and professional dancers on a series of programs and performances that explored the natural world and its relationship to art.

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“THIS KIND OF WORK IS ONLY GOING TO LEAD TO BETTER ART AND A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE ENVIRONMENT.” —Demetrius Klein, dancer and choreographer

“The beauty of this entire residency for me was the collaboration of the artists and the scientists,” he says. “The relationships that were made and defined there were really incredible because we were talking about our art form with people who have an equal passion for what they’re doing. This kind of work,” he concludes, “is only going to lead to better art and a better understanding of the environment.”

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“HAVING ARTISTS OUT HERE IS REFRESHING. IT ALLOWS US TO SEE THE PRESERVE AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES THROUGH THEIR EYES.” —Penni Redford, Grassy Waters Preserve

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artists out here is refreshing,” she says. “It allows us to see the preserve and the environmental issues through their eyes.”

Moving outside the box and stepping off the beaten path—or, to be more precise, hopping off the wooden boardwalk that meanders through the preserve into the sawgrass speckled muck—was a potent experience for Klein.

“There is no way you could not be changed or that the work itself would not be changed by participating,” he says.

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photographer’s eye rather than a dancer’s heart, she knows exactly what Klein is talking about. “There’s something about the Everglades, there’s a mystique about it.

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IF NATURE IS CALLING YOU, GET OUT AND EXPLORE YOUR OWN BACKYARD. PALM BEACH COUNTY IS GRACED WITH 47 MILES OF COASTLINE, THE SECOND LARGEST FRESHWATER LAKE IN THE COUNTRY AND THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF DELICIOUSLY WILD PLACES. If you would like to explore the world of Jonathon King’s novels, paddle a canoe up the Loxahatchee River; you can launch your adventure from Riverbend Park: Riverbend Park 9060 Indiantown Road, Jupiter (561) 748-2028 The park serves as the gateway to the Loxahatchee River, the first river in Florida to be designated as a “National Wild and Scenic River.” Five miles of waterways and 15 miles of access roads and trails have been carved into more than 680 acres of diverse marsh and subtropical terrain, making this park a splendid resource for hiking, bicycling and canoeing (rentals available).

Interested in the scenery that moved Demetrius Klein? Visit Grassy Waters Preserve:

North Side: Everglades Pavilion 8537 Northlake Blvd., West Palm Beach (561) 804-4980 Grassy Waters offers educational and recreational opportunities on the edge of a 20-square-mile wetlands wildlife sanctuary. The preserve includes nature center pavilions, boardwalk trails, hiking, canoeing, weekend programs, entertainment and more.

Looking for some perspective on nature photography? Claudine Laabs recommends a visit to the Wakodahatchee Wetlands: Wakodahatchee Wetlands 13026 Jog Road, Delray Beach (561) 493-6000 The wetlands were created when 50 acres of unused county land were transformed by the Palm Beach County Water Utility Department into a unique ecosystem that attracts a diverse array of wildlife and serves as a natural water filter. A boardwalk winds around three ponds, allowing visitors the opportunity to learn about water purification, wetlands ecology, natural history and the interdependence of people and their environment.

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South Side: Charles W. Bingham Wilderness Pavilion 8264 Northlake Blvd., West Palm Beach (561) 804-4985

“THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT THE EVERGLADES, THERE’S A MYSTIQUE ABOUT IT. ALL I KNOW IS THAT AFTER MY FIRST REAL TRIP THERE WITH MY CAMERA IN 1981, I FELT LIKE I HAD BEEN ENCHANTED.” —Claudine Laabs, photographer

All I know,” she says, “is that after my first real trip there with my camera in 1981, I felt like I had been enchanted.”

Now, the Palm Beach resident and active member of the Audubon Society of the Everglades (she is the former president of the Palm Beach County chapter) gazes patiently through a viewfinder, often ankle deep in mud and reeking of bug repellent, waiting to see what the graceful waiting birds that adorn the wetlands have to say for themselves.

“I don’t just go out there and take pretty pictures, I make it more than that,” Laabs explains. “I feel that wildlife does not have a voice; I’d like to be their voice and remind people that we share the earth.”

Her images speak of grace. Delicate white feathers create a mosaic in the pure light of a summer morning. Still waters reflect

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“I FEEL THAT WILDLIFE DOES NOT HAVE A VOICE; I’D LIKE TO BE THEIR VOICE AND REMIND PEOPLE THAT WE SHARE THE EARTH.” —Claudine Laabs, photographer

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the rare beauty of the first flock of wild flamingos to visit Florida in more than a century. Clouds, laden with unshed tears, sulk above a vanishing landscape.

Nature is speaking to us everyday. Unfortunately, despite the richness of its vocabulary, the lively conversation that animates the South Florida landscape can be hard to hear over the roar of traffic, the latest buzz at the office or the cacophony of bells and whistles that constantly demand our attention.

At Grassy Waters Preserve, the words of M.J. Slim Hooey are recorded on a small plaque mounted along a boardwalk overlooking the headwaters of the Florida Everglades. “I have come to terms with the future,” the scuffed inscription reads. “From this day onward I will walk easy on the earth … And listen, listen to what it is telling me.”

If you can’t quite make out the message, ask a local artist.

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Palm Beach County’s public elementary, middle and high schools of the arts nurture students’ creative potential “I want to do gymnastics, graduate from Juilliard, join the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York City and have my own theater corporation,” 10-year-old Nicholas Rose exclaims with an ear-to-ear grin when asked what he wants to do when he grows up.

Similar to Rose, who is a dance and strings “major” at U.B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School of the Arts (he dabbles in theater out of school), many of his classmates and thousands of other students at Palm Beach County’s arts-focused public schools aspire to careers in the arts.

Xavier Alexander, a recent Bak Middle School of the Arts vocal graduate, admits, “I used to not like school, but now that I can sing it’s more fun.”

“When I get out of high school, I think I want to pursue music because I really can’t imagine life without it,” says violinist Kelsey Lin, a senior at Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts in downtown West Palm Beach.

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and graphic design to dance, theater and

PALM BEACH COUNTY’S THREE ARTS SCHOOLS

vocal programs.

—as well as many other public schools with Choice

even more are several Charter schools with

Broadening our students’ school choices

programs in the arts and several local charter schools

arts programs, including most notably the

—are getting students excited about school, while

and Broadcasting in West Palm Beach.

preparing them for some of the country’s top

parents and students additional choices for

G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures Charter schools, which are intended to give

colleges, post-secondary schools and careers in the

a high-quality education, function

arts and other fields.

are exempt from some state and local

independently from the school district and regulations and mandates but are held strictly accountable for their academic and

“I feel like we’re on the cutting edge,”

programs on the arts, Palm Beach County

says Tom Pearson, the arts education

students can also choose from nearly 20

coordinator for the Palm Beach County

public elementary, middle and high schools

School District. After speaking with officials

that offer at least one Choice program in

from other school districts about their arts

the arts. Choice (aka Magnet) programs,

programs, Pearson feels strongly that “we’re

which encompass Career Academies,

up there with the best of the best.”

feature additional resources and innovative

While Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School

teaching techniques that focus on a child’s

of the Arts, Bak Middle School of the Arts

talents or interests. Choice programs in

and U.B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary

the arts run the gamut, ranging from

School of the Arts focus all of their Choice

culinary arts, television and film production

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financial performances.

Bragging Rights G-Star founder Greg Hauptner speaks proudly of

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The list of achievements for past and

“We’re the only high school in the world

present Dreyfoos students is lengthy not

that has a full motion picture studio on-site,”

only in the arts but in academics as well.

he says. “Our total validation of our entire

Ninety-seven percent attend college or a

school is that our students are being

post-secondary school, and for the second

accepted into the biggest colleges in the

time in the past three years, a higher

nation,” including the country’s top film

percentage of Dreyfoos’ studio art advanced

schools, such as New York University and

placement (AP) students passed the AP

Florida State University.

exam than at any other large high school in

The Dreyfoos School of the Arts has been continuously producing successful graduates

the world.

“Our academics are really challenging,”

since its start as the Palm Beach County

says Dreyfoos visual arts senior Lesa Goltz.

School of the Arts in 1990. A few of them

“There are so many overachievers at this

include 1995 graduate Jordan Kessler, the

school because artists tend to be

associate producer of the Academy Award-

perfectionists.”

nominated movie “Black Dahlia”; 2001 graduate Omar Bailey, a shoe designer who has worked for New Balance, K-Swiss

‘Real-World’ Benefits Excelling in academics is only one of the

and Adidas; and 2003 graduate Mary Elise

benefits of an arts education. Nancy Earley,

Hayden, the lead actress in the film “Kathy

the academy coordinator at Lantana’s

T,” which was voted the audience favorite

Santaluces High School—which is home to

at the 2007 Palm Beach International

the Band and Music Industry Academy,

Film Festival.

Culinary Arts Academy, Visual Arts Digital

G-Star School of the Arts

Bak Middle School of the Arts

Media and Photography Academy and Fashion Design Services Academy—sums it up best: “Arts-focused programs enable students to plan, analyze and create solutions to communication problems. Design, creativity, communication and problemsolving skills are crucial. Students learn to apply their skills and their knowledge to real-world problems now and in the future.

They become lifelong learners.”

Palm Beach County Cultural Council President and CEO Rena Blades is at the forefront of the battle to institute more arts education in our schools. “Exposure to the arts at an early age fosters connection to the community, a love for learning and an appreciation for our shared humanity. We know that the arts keep kids in school, provide positive after-school activities and even lead to better test performance,” she explains. “For these reasons, as well as the growing pressures on our schools’ fiscal health, the Cultural Council has become involved daily with issues related to arts education.”

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U.B. Kinsey

Bak Middle School of the Arts

Even students in

Santaluces High School

“Exposure to the arts at an early age fosters connection to the community, a love for learning and an appreciation for our shared humanity. We know that the arts keep kids in school, provide positive after-school activities and even lead to better test performance.”

—Rena Blades, Cultural Council president and CEO

Beach-based U.B. Kinsey, credits much of

elementary school

her school’s academic success to its arts

recognize the value in an

programs. She has seen students receive

arts education. Former

ones, the lowest score, on the Florida

U.B. Kinsey student

Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) and

Pamela Graham, a viola

excel to threes and above the following

player who is now in the

school year. “I’ve had students attain a level

communications program at Bak Middle

four in just one year, which is almost unheard

School of the Arts in West Palm Beach,

of,” Byrd says.

explains how the arts have helped her in

“I attribute a lot of it to the arts and

academics: “In communications, it helps you

their interest and commitment to learning.

to learn to take your time and think over

They become more involved in every aspect

stuff, strategy, things like that. With strings,

of learning,” she adds.

it helps you to learn that you have to

Elizabeth Kennedy, principal at Bak

practice to get better at stuff, so I practice

Middle School of the Arts, sees the

at reading and math.”

relationship between the arts and academics

Helen Byrd, principal of West Palm

also. “We have some of the top academics

(From left) Former U.B. Kinsey student Morgan Waltz, current student Nicholas Rose and former students Megan Daorek and Pamela Graham

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BENEFITS OF THE ARTS IN EDUCATION If a student participates in the arts for at least three hours on three days a week through one full year, he or she is: • Four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement Nick Rahl

• Three times more likely to be elected to class office • Four times more likely to participate in a math and science fair • Three times more likely to win an award for school attendance • Four times more likely to win an award for writing an essay or poem

Dreyfoos School of the Arts

Compared to his or her peers, a young artist is likely to:

in the district,” she boasts. “They’re getting

north—can use Palm Tran bus service or Tri-

so stimulated (in art classes) that I think that

Rail train service for free. Lesa Goltz travels

transfers to academics as well.”

from Ocean Ridge to Dreyfoos every day and

Bak’s magnet coordinator, Lee Glaze,

feels that the commute is well worth it. “This

• Attend music, art and dance classes nearly three times as frequently • Participate in youth groups almost four times as frequently

couldn’t agree more. “Being an artist

is such an amazing opportunity that we’re

• Read for pleasure nearly twice as often

teaches kids to solve problems in other

willing to travel an hour or two every morning

• Perform community service more than four

(non-traditional) ways,” he says. “I think that

and afternoon to be here,” she says.

carries them way beyond what they learn in academics.”

Another advocate for arts-focused

“I would drive an hour to get to school,” echoes Morgan Waltz, a visual arts sixthgrader at Bak who went to U.B. Kinsey last

programs and schools is Mary Vreeland,

year. Like many students, Waltz realized she

PBCSD director of Choice programs and

had a passion for more than one art form

school Choice. “It hooks kids very early and

after experiencing it firsthand. “I never knew

keeps them in school and interested,” says

I’d really like theater,” she says. “To me I

Vreeland, who has noticed an increased

thought I’d find a hobby but I actually found

interest in Choice programs.

I really loved it.”

Getting There Like the county’s other Choice schools with arts-focused programs, U.B. Kinsey, Bak and Dreyfoos all use the PBCSD’s Choice school/program lottery system for selecting students; however, students applying for Bak or Dreyfoos must also pass an audition in their respective art fields (dance, communications, theater, music and visual arts,

Breeding Success While many students choose to pursue a career in the arts after high school, there are also those who plan to go into other fields and attend arts-focused schools because of the environments they provide.

Goltz proclaims, “When people ask me what school I go to, I’m so proud to say that

plus a photography/digital media option

I go to Dreyfoos because what it stands for

for Dreyfoos).

is the ability to be who you are and to be in

Helping to increase diversity at Bak and Dreyfoos is the fact that students attending

times as often Source: Americans for the Arts

an environment that accepts you and allows you to grow.”

these schools—from Boca in the south to

Despite being a cheerful and exuberant

Belle Glade in the west and Jupiter in the

fifth-grader at U.B. Kinsey last year, Pamela

OUR ATTITUDES TOWARD ARTS EDUCATION • 93% agree the arts are vital to providing a well-rounded education to children • 86% agree an arts education encourages and assists in the improvement of a child’s attitude toward school • 83% believe that arts education helps teach children to communicate effectively with adults and peers • 79% agree incorporating the arts into education is the first step in adding back what’s missing in public education today • 54% rated the importance of arts education a 10 on a scale of one to 10 Source: “Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement,” by Sandra S. Ruppert; National Assembly of State Arts Agencies

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“I’M SO PROUD TO SAY THAT I GO TO DREYFOOS BECAUSE WHAT IT STANDS FOR IS THE ABILITY TO BE WHO YOU ARE AND TO BE IN AN ENVIRONMENT THAT ACCEPTS YOU AND ALLOWS YOU TO GROW.” —Lesa Goltz, Dreyfoos School of the Arts senior

Stuart Melnikoff Dreyfoos School of the Arts

Graham, who wants to be an artist, violist

Motion Pictures and Broadcasting know

and reporter, possesses a maturity not

their industries inside and out. “The acting

typically found in a pre-teen. “Education is

teachers are all actors themselves and the

everything,” she says thoughtfully. “Here

film people have all worked in film and

you know what you want to be when you

television, so they all bring a wealth of

grow up and you have expectations of what

practical experience,” Hauptner says.

you’re going to be.”

In addition to their own dedication,

While many elementary, middle and high school students don’t have their futures

much of the students’ success can be

sketched out to the last detail, attending an

attributed to their teachers. Goltz says, “I

art school and specializing in a particular

know that every teacher I have is so willing

discipline certainly give graduates a

to put themselves out there to stay during

competitive edge.

Nicholas Rose, the enthusiastic and

you understand a concept, to help you

multi-talented fifth-grader at U.B. Kinsey, has

expand your horizons. I have so much

it all mapped out. “On your resume when

respect for them because of that.”

you try to get into college, they’ll see that

At both Bak and Dreyfoos, resident

Robert Benjamin Images LLC

lunch, after school or before school to help

you went to U.B. Kinsey, Bak Middle School

artists who teach at the schools offer

and Dreyfoos,” he says, lighting up the room

invaluable expertise as they work with

with his bright smile, “and they might let you

students in their respective art fields.

in for that because they see that you have a

Teachers at the G-Star School of Arts for

planned future ahead of you.”

Dreyfoos School of the Arts

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For more information about the Palm Beach County School District’s Choice programs and schools, including many not mentioned in this article, call (561) 434-8755 or visit www.palmbeach.k12.fl.us/choiceprograms/.

Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts 501 S. Sapodilla Ave., West Palm Beach (561) 802-6001 Bak Middle School of the Arts 1725 Echo Lake Drive, West Palm Beach (561) 882-3801 G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting 2030 S. Congress Ave., West Palm Beach (561) 967-2023 Santaluces High School 6880 Lawrence Road, Lantana (561) 642-6240 U.B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary School of the Arts 800 11th St., West Palm Beach Bak Middle School of the Arts

(561) 802-2145

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Present-Day

architects

Keep Palm Beach County’s

Rich Traditions

Alive

by John Loring

From the work of John Carrère and Thomas Hastings to that of Joseph Urban, Addison Mizner and on to the designs of Rosario Candela, Maurice Fatio and John Volk, Palm Beach County has an astonishingly diverse and rich-textured architectural heritage unmatched in America outside of major cities. In the first half of the 20th century, the most fashionable architects of the times flocked to Palm Beach to build the palatial homes, clubs, hotels and other pleasure domes for America’s rich and famous.

The influx of architects to the county began when Henry Morrison Flagler––Florida East Coast Railroad czar and father of Palm Beach County—commissioned Whitehall, the apogee of turn-of-the-century Beaux Arts extravagance. Built in 1902 by Carrère and Hastings, the architects of the New York Public Library, the opulent home now is the county’s showcase Flagler Museum.

Sixteen years after the completion of Whitehall, Addison Mizner––who gave the county its famed and dominant Palm Beach Mediterranean look––arrived to reinvent himself and his former Spanish-Mission California style of architecture with the design of the Everglades Club.

Mizner’s Everglades Club and the mansions and villas that immediately followed resembled Spanish castle and monastery cloisters with their charmingly varied towers, arcaded loggias, barrel-tiled roofs and wrought-iron work. They set a new standard and gave Palm Beach County much of the architectural character it retains today.

As one of the county’s leading architectural authorities, Donald W. Curl, professor emeritus of history at Florida Atlantic University, points out: “When Mizner arrived in 1918, Palm Beach could have passed for a New © Kim Sargent

Jersey seaside resort. By 1928 it had taken on the air of a Spanish town.”

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By 1928, a quite different force in early 20th century architecture and design––Vienna-trained master of theatrical showmanship, Joseph Urban—had already completed the décor of reigning socialite and cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post’s palatial Mar-a-Lago (now Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club). Urban’s unique operatic style, similar to his Paramount Theater on North County Road, included echoes of the Vienna Secession and the Weiner Werkstätte, a far cry from Carrrère and Hastings’ quintessentially majestic Whitehall or Mizner’s picturesque Everglades Club.

At the same time Urban was embellishing Mar-a-Lago, Rosario Candela —the Sicilian-born master of suave Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue 1920s apartment buildings––contributed the first of the two vast courts of Palm Beach’s much-loved Brazilian Court Hotel. The court was designed in a highly eclectic style of Mediterranean architecture found on

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Candela’s native island of Sicily––part Italian, part Moorish and part the Sicilo-Norman style of Sicily’s Norman kings and court. (Swiss and Zurich Polytechnic-trained Maurice Fatio later contributed the landmark hotel’s second court facing Australian Avenue in harmonious Palm Beach Mediterranean, the style he carried on and refined with great dignity.)

Following Mizner and Fatio, Austrian-born architect John Volk brought his own adopted British Colonial neo-Georgian look to the county during his legendarily long career in Palm Beach from 1925 to 1984.

There is so much to admire, to provoke fantasies of the unreachable glamour of bygone eras in Palm Beach County’s architecture, and so today that bring aesthetic excitement to our surroundings.

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© Flagler Museum

many remarkable contributions by the county’s leading architects of

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Four of today’s leading architects have been asked by

art&culture to select a favorite work of Palm Beach County architecture from the past as well as a favorite work of their own from the present. Amongst the four there are modernists and traditionalists, whose styles have gracefully mingled before in the county. (They met in one person in the case of Maurice Fatio, famed for such a nobly restrained, traditional monument as the Society of Four Arts Library.

He paradoxically received his greatest recognition in his time for a modern style Palm Beach home built for Mr. and Mrs. Vadim Makaroff in 1936, which mixed influences of Le Corbusier and Jean-Michel Frank. To what must have been the astonishment of still ultraconservative Palm Beach society as well as of the very social Maurice Fatio himself, the Makaroff house design was awarded the gold medal for “the most modern house in America” in 1937 at the great celebration of Modernism, the Paris International Exposition of Arts and Techniques.)

The selections made by the county’s architects for art&culture are impressive for their astute observation of the great quality, style and diversity that give such splendor to the surroundings of daily life in Palm Beach County, and from which we all derive immense pride and enjoyment.

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Mitchell O’Neil chooses Fatio’s Society of the Four Arts Library and takes pride in a modern home he designed in a conservative North Palm Beach community.

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American Institute of Architects award winner and Jupiter resident O’Neil, a modernist in his own work, quite logically chose Fatio’s Society of Four Arts Library (pictured to the right) for “the simplicity of it.” “It has,” he observes, “the clarity of Modernism. It’s more Italianate than Mizner. The detailing is quite limited, but the detailing is a critical element that Fatio used to integrate the simple forms of his design. It’s one thing to refer to a historical style (in the case of Fatio’s library, the Italian Renaissance), but you still have to acknowledge the principles of Modernism.”

“Although Le Corbusier is a prime influence and I tend to

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go on the modern side, international style is not the only option,” O’Neil explains. One of O’Neil’s favorite designs, this North Palm Beach home (pictured above) has an unmistaken modern take on architecture. “The most interesting and challenging aspect of the project was its location in a very conservative community with strict architectural guidelines,” O’Neil says.

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Randall Stofft’s love for Mizner is found on Worth Avenue while a French-Regency Boca Raton home reigns as one of his own top designs.

Stofft, of Delray Beach’s Randall Stofft Architects, takes quite another position, a fondness for Mizner’s picturesque detailing.

“I love the Via Mizner and Via Parigi on Worth Avenue (pictured to the left). Every time I walk there I discover another great detail. The functional elements including balconies, bridges, stairs and loggias, all work to create this wonderful space that’s not rigid or over-designed.” © Kim Sargent

For his own design, Stofft selected a grand chateau (pictured below) nestled in a Boca Raton gated community and built with the vision of the French countryside in mind. “Architectural elements of a limestone façade, decorative dormers, slate mansard-style roof and ornate wrought-iron railings bring this French-Regency design together perfectly,” Stofft explains.

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Gene Pandula admires Volk’s White Gables and revives a Howard Major home in his interpretation of a Bermuda-style cottage.

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Two-time Ballinger Award winner (for historic restoration) Gene Pandula of Palm Beach has the conservative view of a preservationist in his selection of John Volk’s Bermudastyle White Gables (pictured to the right). “Even in a less celebrated style for Palm Beach, this building has been crafted with as much sophistication, elegance and charm as those of larger scale in the more prominent Mediterranean style,” Pandula explains.

Pandula revamped this Bermuda-style cottage (pictured above), first designed by Howard Major in 1941, to accomodate current requirements and the homeowners’ preferences. “We looked to gently blur the line between the vernacular and the modern, not imitating history but interpreting it,” he says. “I find these houses echo in their ideas what Palm Beach is––a place of nuanced changes and additions, a place where there is constant motion.”

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Jeffery Smith favors Casa Della Porta by Fatio and helps showcase history with his own Flagler Pavilion on the museum grounds.

Smith Architectural Group Inc.’s Jeffery Smith––the worldrenowned Palm Beach architect who carries on the grand tradition established by Carrère and Hastings, Mizner, Fatio and Volk––champions the broad-based eclecticism that keeps Palm Beach County architecture so full of vitality and imagination. His favorite local choice is Maurice Fatio’s Casa Della Porta (pictured above) for its reference to the Beaux Arts tradition and its “stately, grandiose approach to Palm Beach residential architecture.”

His own Flagler Pavilion at Whitehall (pictured to the right) was designed to reflect the aura of a turn-of-thecentury railway station. “Its scale and proportions are public in nature and symbolic of a time in this nation’s development in which architecture was heroic,” Smith explains. And Palm Beach architecture has always been––in its way––heroic.

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Children enjoy making their own art cars at the Clematis Street event.

The “History in Motion” art car

Patricia del Aguila and Mark Gore with “Thing Three”

The Palm Beach County Cultural Council kicked off its fourth annual Drive to Enjoy the Arts in a highly entertaining way with art car events in West Palm Beach and Lake Worth. The campaign— dubbed “Palm Beach County’s Summer Showcase of Arts & Culture”—is designed to steer traffic and attention to the remarkably diverse programming offered by the county’s non-profit cultural organizations throughout the summer and beyond.

The Cultural Council partnered with the City of West Palm Beach’s Clematis by Night and the Downtown Development Authority on April 19 to host the first kickoff event, which featured 22 art cars from across the country and over 30 “Freak Bike Militia” from greater Palm Beach County.

Approximately 15,000 people strolled along Clematis Street to enjoy the free event featuring art, art cars, art bicycles, live music and children’s activities. Thanks to the West Palm Beach Public Library, the kids had a chance to create their own miniature art cars.

The next day, the art cars geared up for the second Drive to Enjoy the Arts kickoff event—an Art Car Rally and Education Festival in downtown Lake Worth. Joining the art cars and freak

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bikes were 15 cultural organizations that highlighted their education programs. Approximately 2,500 visitors came to see the cars, bikes and cultural organizations’ booths.

To further promote cultural activities throughout the summer, this year’s Drive to Enjoy the Arts also included Culture Key, a click-through Treasure Hunt. The online treasure hunt featured questions to drive contestants to cultural organization Web sites, where they could search for answers. Treasure hunters also had the opportunity to win exciting prizes from cultural organizations and to register for grand prizes, which included stays at a Marriott Hotel, a $100 gift certificate for Downtown at the Gardens shopping center and dinner at Big Time Restaurant Group’s City Cellar Wine Bar & Grill, City Oyster or City Kitchen. The promotion culminated in a live treasure hunt at Palm Beach Zoo. “As we anticipated, this proved to be a really fun way to learn about Palm Beach County’s various arts and cultural offerings,” says Bill Nix, the Cultural Council’s vice president of marketing and government affairs. “Treasure hunters got a kick out of searching for answers to the interesting questions—and winning the great prizes we lined up.”

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Florida Stage photo by Sig Bokalders

Americans for the Arts’ monthly e-newsletter included some familiar names in its June edition. The “Featured Member Project” described the Dialogues With No Walls Study Circles Project—a collaboration involving the Cultural Council, Florida Stage and the Toward a More Perfect Union organization. The study project was designed to break the ice on the topic of race and ethnic relations in South Florida. Ten study circle groups met weekly after seeing the Florida Stage production of Thomas Gibbons’ play, A House with No Walls, which depicts a clash that erupts when a new museum glorifying American liberty is slated to be built on a site where George Washington’s slave quarters once stood.

Toward a More Perfect Union volunteers facilitated the conversations as an extension of their efforts to improve relations in local multicultural neighborhoods.

Based on Americans for the Arts’ Animating Democracy initiative, the Cultural Council facilitated the relationship between Toward a More Perfect Union and Florida Stage, recognizing the power of the arts to generate authentic conversations about difficult issues.

Actors Karen Stephens, Kameshia Duncan and Joseph Lane in A House with No Walls

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“Green Cay” by Walter Hnatysh

“Chance” by Katie Deits

Works by Katie Deits of North Palm Beach and Walter Hnatysh of Lake Worth—Palm Beach County’s latest recipients of the South Florida Cultural Consortium (SFCC) Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists—can be seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami beginning September 8. Deits and Hnatysh each received a $7,500 stipend.

They were among 15 artists from four counties to be selected for the awards this year. Two of the Broward County recipients, photographers Suzanne Scherer and her husband Pavel Ouporov, are on the faculty at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton.

The recipients were selected during a two-panel tier process that included the participation of regional and national arts experts. Selection by the regional panel was totally anonymous, based solely on the quality of the artists’ work as evidenced by slides or video/films submitted. Amy Gross, 2006 fellowship recipient from Palm Beach County, was among the panelists. The regional panel forwarded their recommendations to the national panel, which included David Cabrera, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Bill Fagaly, New Orleans Museum of Art; Theaster Gates, University of Chicago Arts Programs; and Kelly Gordon, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. The fellowship program is a cooperative project funded in part with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Arts Council as well as the Boards of County Commissioners of Broward, Miami-Dade, Martin and Monroe counties and the Palm Beach County Cultural Council.

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Florida Classical Ballet Theatre

Arts education professionals from around the state were treated to a broad sampling of Palm Beach County organizations and achievements during the statewide Florida Alliance for Arts Education (FAAE) Leadership Summit: Building Florida’s Future for Arts Education in mid-June. This is the first time the conference was held in Palm Beach County—and also the first time that it was open to all cultural providers. The Cultural Council organized a local host committee for the event, which took place at the West Palm Beach Marriott.

The summit featured workshop sessions, an awards ceremony and keynote addresses by Jonathan Katz, chief executive officer of the National Assembly for State Art Agencies, and Larry Thompson, president of the Ringling School of Art and Design.

The Norton Museum of Art and the Flagler Museum each hosted evening receptions. In addition to FAAE members, participants included representatives of the Florida Art Education Association, Florida Music Educators’ Association, Florida Dance Education Organization, Florida Association of Teacher Educators, Florida Higher Education Arts Network and the Florida Network of Arts Administrators.

Maltz Jupiter Theatre students

Attendees enjoyed an art exhibit organized by Claire Clum, curator of education at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, which featured student works from the Boca Museum as well as the Armory Art Center, ArtStart, Bak Middle School of the Arts, Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach and Resource Depot. Meanwhile, a video presentation that showcased many of the county’s visual and performing arts organizations was shown continuously in the registration area. It was organized by Poppi Mercier, executive director of the Children’s Museum in Boca Raton, and Bill Metzger from the Palm Beach County Film & Television Commission board of directors.

Visitors who attended the Flagler’s welcome reception were greeted by 20 garden flags painted by students from various schools in Palm Beach County as well as a student art exhibit.

They also enjoyed student performances presented by the Youth Orchestra of Palm Beach County, Florida Classical Ballet, Young Singers of the Palm Beaches, the Maltz Jupiter Theatre and Alexander W. Dreyfoos, Jr. School of the Arts.

At the Norton reception, guests were treated to a U.B. Kinsey/ Palmview Elementary School of the Arts dance performance, a film from G-Star School of the Arts for Motion Pictures and Broadcasting, two student monologues from Florida Stage and a Dreyfoos School of the Arts fashion show.

“This conference provided a wonderful opportunity to share with state education leaders the many Palm Beach County cultural organizations that contribute to our art education programs,” says Rena Blades, Cultural Council president and CEO. “This was also a great chance to learn what other educators are doing around the state and to help build even stronger relationships between art education providers and school administrators.”

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Florida Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning (left) talks with Flagler Museum Director John Blades during his visit to Palm Beach County.

When Florida’s chief cultural officer—Secretary of State Kurt S. Browning—made his first “official” visit to Palm Beach County earlier this year, the message he brought was like music to his listeners’ ears.

“The arts mean business in Florida!” Secretary Browning enthusiastically told members of the Kennedy Center’s President’s Advisory Committee of the Arts (PACA) during his presentation at the Flagler Museum. PACA members are civic and cultural leaders appointed by the President of the United States to serve as representatives in their own communities for the Kennedy Center.

The center considers PACA appointees to be “Ambassadors for the Arts” to their home states.

Browning reinforced his point by citing a recent economic impact study showing that the arts and cultural industry is one of the fastest growing in the state. The industry supports over 28,000 jobs and has an economic impact of over $2.9 billion, he stated.

“The arts and cultural sector of the economy grew more than the state’s economy as a whole. Florida’s economy doubled in a 12-year period while the arts tripled,” Browning said.

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He noted that the arts are a major draw for Florida tourists; cultural tourism had a $9.3 billion impact on the state’s economy.

Browning went on to say that this reflects a national trend of increased attendance at cultural events. “More people visit cultural facilities today than in any time in history, and that trend shows no sign of slowing down.”

During his visit, Browning announced that the next phase of the Florida Department of State and the Florida Arts Council’s strategic plan, Culture Builds Florida’s Future, would be implemented this year with meetings across the state that focus on four key areas: strengthening the economy, learning and wellness, design and development, and leadership. The strategic plan is designed to redefine and strengthen the role of arts and culture in Florida’s future while educating the public about the tremendous benefits it brings to the state’s economy.

After his speech, the Palm Beach County Cultural Council hosted lunch with Secretary Browning and diverse county cultural leaders at the Norton Museum of Art. The Cultural Council then took Browning on a tour of various cultural facilities in the county.

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Bill Nix, vice president for marketing and government affairs for the Cultural Council, was listed among the “50 Most Powerful and Influential” black leaders in the region by Success South Florida magazine. Nix, who joined the Cultural Council in 1998, has been active in cultural tourism and cultural diversity efforts on a state and national level and recently was elected to the board of the Southern Arts Federation.

Earlier this year, he was one of just two individuals from North America to participate in a cultural tourism summit in Spain. For information on the television and radio programs that Nix hosts and co-hosts on behalf of the Cultural Council, turn to the upfront section of this publication.

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Sometimes it’s all about how others see you.

When approximately 250 artists and cultural supporters convened at the Related Group Sales Pavilion for the inaugural Artavox event, they shared a common purpose: celebrating and networking. The soiree, which was organized by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, The Related Group, Artists of Palm Beach County and Palm Beach County Art in Public Places, also served as the Cultural Council’s annual membership celebration.

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A truly outstanding group of Palm Beach County visual and performing artists packed the venue and its grounds. Artists such as painter Bruce Helander, sculptor Norm Gitzen, writer Martha Moffett and mixed media artists Bradley Lezo, Victoria Skinner and Terre Rybovich mingled with fellow artists and county leaders. Notable guests included Cultural Council Board Chair Tommy Mayes; Palm Beach County

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Commissioner Jeff Koons; Dennis Grady, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches; West Palm Beach Mayor Lois Frankel; Lucy M.F. Keshavarz, artist and president of Artists of Palm Beach County; and Elayna Toby Singer, Palm Beach County Art in Public Places administrator.

Performing artists also took center stage, captivating the crowd with stellar vocal and musical performances by Michael Moses and Gayle Coursol, Joshua Stevens, Vanya Sara and Cassandra James, as well as dance performances on the lawn by the Demetrius Klein Dance Company and Terra Dance Group.

“This party really created a lot of positive energy within the artistic community,” Keshavarz says. “It helped recognize the enormous amount of talented artists here in Palm Beach County. Many connections were made between artists and cultural and community leaders. We are very excited to be a part of this momentum.”

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Lucy M.F. Keshavarz, president of Artists of Palm Beach County, (right) and other guests enjoy the event.

Kenn Karakul, Harvey Oyer and Dennis Grady

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{inside culture} cultural compendium elaine j. wold donates $6 million f o r l y n n u n i ve r s i t y a r t s c e n t e r Herbert S. Newman designed an intimate performance environment for The Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center at Lynn University.

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Elaine J. Wold made a $6 million gift through her foundation for the construction of the Keith C. and Elaine Johnson Wold Performing Arts Center on the Lynn University campus in Boca Raton. The 750-seat theater with its elegant, twostory lobby will be home to live theatrical performances by the university’s theater arts program as well as Conservatory of Music concerts and other university-hosted events. The center will feature superb acoustics, a modern lighting system, a large, light-filled lobby and flexible space well-suited for dramatic productions, concerts and other cultural events.

“I am very excited about the new performing arts center,” Wold says. “It will fulfill a long-time dream to provide a warm and inviting venue for theatrical performance in Boca Raton. I want to thank Lynn University for working with me to make this dream come true.”

This gift follows a $1 million contribution made by Wold in 2003 to create The Keith C. Wold MD Memorial Fund for the

Development of Theater Arts, in honor of her late husband. That gift was in support of the fledgling theater arts program at Lynn University, which has been capably guided by Jan McArt, widely acclaimed as Florida’s “First Lady of Theater.”

The 25,000-square-foot performing arts center is expected to cost more than $9 million. Nationally acclaimed architect Herbert S. Newman, who developed Lynn’s new master plan, is responsible for its design. Newman says, “The design anticipates a lightfilled lobby which will glow invitingly in the evening, and an intimate performance space with curving walls largely of wood, in which the audience shares the excitement and immediacy of the performers.”

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{inside culture} cultural compendium a carbonell cornucopia!

Milton Maltz, chairman of the Maltz Jupiter Theatre board; Rodger Hess, producer of The Tin Pan Alley Rag; and Andrew Kato, artistic director of the theater

Connie SaLoutos with Allan Baker in Caldwell Theatre Company’s Lend Me a Tenor

In the last issue of art&culture, we told you that Palm Beach County professional theater companies garnered an exceptional 45 nominations in the 31st Annual Carbonell Awards competition for the best of South Florida regional theater. When the envelopes were opened during the April gala awards ceremony at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, a total of 11 “best” awards made the drive back up Interstate 95. They included: • Best New Work − Melanie Marnich, Cradle of Man, Florida Stage • Best Ensemble Production − Lend Me a Tenor, Caldwell Theatre Company • Best Actress/Play − Lisa Morgan, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Palm Beach Dramaworks • Best Supporting Actor/Play − Peter Haig, The Price, Palm Beach Dramaworks • Best Supporting Actress/Play − Connie SaLoutos, Lend Me a Tenor, Caldwell Theatre Company • Best Production of a Musical − The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Maltz Jupiter Theatre • Best Director/Musical − Jiri Zizka, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Maltz Jupiter Theatre • Best Actress/Musical − Tina Fabrique, Ella, Florida Stage • Musical Direction/Musical − Brad Ellis, The Tin Pan Alley Rag, Maltz Jupiter Theatre • Best Scenic Design − Richard Crowell, Splitting Infinity, Florida Stage • Best Lighting Design − Richard Crowell, Splitting Infinity, Florida Stage Also honored during the ceremonies was Florida Stage, which received the inaugural Bill von Maurer Award for Theatrical Excellence—adding to the luster of its 20th anniversary year. The award was established in 2006 and named for the late theater writer and journalist for the Miami News and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. It is given each year to the theater company that exemplifies excellence for the totality of its programming: productions, educational outreach, developmental programs and audiences served.

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{inside culture} cultural compendium k ra v i s c e n t e r h o n o r s s t a r vo l u n t e e r s The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts named Jack Linden of Boynton Beach as its 2007 Volunteer of the Year. The award recognizes an individual’s enthusiasm and unyielding support to the Kravis Center. In presenting the award, Kravis Center Chief Executive Officer Judith Mitchell noted that Linden has generously volunteered his time at the Kravis Center for nine years, serving in a variety of positions.

He was in good company. Other volunteers who were recognized for their outstanding contributions include Sonia Bittner of Boynton Beach, who received the Golden Flashlight award presented each year to ushers who contribute exceptional time and energy, and Herb Johnson of West Palm Beach, who earned Rookie of the Year honors as a first-year usher.

Nearly 700 volunteers and their guests attended the Kravis Center’s annual Volunteer Salute. For information on becoming a volunteer, contact the Volunteer Opportunity Hotline at (561) 651-4218.

(From left) Judith Mitchell, Jack Linden, Dejeanne Jules, Herb Johnson, Priscilla Crespo and Sonia Bittner

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Florida Atlantic University (FAU) named Dr. Manju Pendakur as the university’s new dean for the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. Responsible for overseeing one of FAU’s largest colleges that houses nearly 200 faculty members, 54 degree programs and nearly 4,000 students, Pendakur brings institutional knowledge, experience and expertise to the position.

“I am thrilled to become part of the exciting College of Arts and Letters and a dynamic university. It is a privilege and high honor to be associated with such good faculty colleagues who are producing outstanding students and highly regarded research/ creative activity,” Pendakur says. He begins his tenure in March 2008.

Pendakur has been dean for the College of Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University Carbondale for six years. Previously, he served as the founding dean of the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. Pendakur earned his undergraduate degree in radio/television from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a doctoral degree in communications from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada.

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c o re e n s e m b l e c re a t e s n e w e s t ‘c h a m b e r m u s i c theater’ work The Lake Worth-based Core Ensemble has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Humanities Council to create a new music theater piece, A Harvest of Glades Voices. The ensemble will collaborate once again with actor and playwright Akin Babatunde to collect stories from Glades County residents, which will be woven into a one-man play with music. For the past several years, the Core Ensemble has performed educational programs for students at West Glades School and Moore Haven Jr.-Sr. High School.

Florida History scholar Andrew Frank of Florida Atlantic University is overseeing the interviews, which Babatunde will shape into a theatrical work with the Core Ensemble’s members—cellist Tahirah Wittington, pianist Hugh Hinton and percussionist Michael Parola.

Performances will be held in November.

The project was inspired by a Category A “Artist-in-Residency” grant from the Palm Beach County Cultural Council in 2005. The Category A project was based in Lake Worth and resulted in a performance piece created from stories collected in the community. Since then, the ensemble has created a similar performance piece working collaboratively with Teen Time (a program of Planned Parenthood). Core Ensemble staff credit the Category A grant with giving the group a whole new direction and enabling it to offer truly participatory programming for the public. A future project is in the works for Belle Glade in summer 2008.

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Fuller’s design includes an ever-changing spectral wash of colors and shadows across the building’s facades. “Painted” by the sun’s light as it moves across wall-mounted prismatic sconces, a spectacular “light show” will continually delight daytime passersby with its shifting appearance. At dusk, the wall-mounted sconces, with solar powered LED lights, will subtly illuminate the building for a dramatic effect. The design also complements the diagonal grid of the building through the addition of dimensional hemispheres. The work is expected to be installed in October.

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{inside culture} cultural compendium new dekelboum science center partners with boston counterpart

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Dr. Ioannis Miaoulis, president and director of the Museum of Science, Boston, met recently with senior officials of the Dekelboum Science Center (currently the South Florida Science Museum) to discuss plans for increasing collaboration between the two science centers.

The partnership between the science centers was formed two years ago and enabled the local museum to work with teachers in West Palm Beach and other school districts to introduce some 1,320 elementary school children to the innovative Engineering is Elementary (EiE) curriculum, created by the Museum of Science’s National Center for Technological Literacy®. The South Florida Science Museum is currently one of the NCTL’s seven national hub sites for EiE and has pioneered the engaging K-5 curriculum with after-school and homeschooled children.

In the recent meeting, the Dekelboum Science Center and the Museum of Science decided to expand their partnership to enhance knowledge of engineering and technology. Reforming Florida’s educational standards in order to inspire the next generation of scientists and innovators was at the top of the agenda.

The South Florida Science Museum is conducting a $54 million capital campaign to build the 100,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art Dekelboum Science Center. The facility is expected to host more than 400,000 visitors annually and will contain a planetarium, an IMAX® theatre, an Everglades Interpretive Exhibit, a Sci-Tech Auditorium, a major aquarium gallery, a Florida Natural History exhibit, major exhibit galleries and The Quantum Education Center with classrooms and laboratories.

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{inside culture} cultural compendium d o c u m e n t a r y e x p l o re s b l a c k h i g h s c h o o l s of palm beach county A new documentary commissioned by the Spady Museum in Delray Beach helps to provide an understanding of the farreaching role that black high schools played in the history of Palm Beach County.

“The schools really were a focal point of the community back then,” says Vera Farrington, a long-time educator and president of EPOCH (Expanding & Preserving Our Cultural Heritage Inc.), which oversees the museum.

The documentary includes recollections of days spent at Carver High School in Delray Beach, Everglades Vocational School and Lake Shore High School in Belle Glade, East Lake High School in

Pahokee, and Roosevelt High School and Industrial High School in West Palm Beach.

“This documentary will give black high school alumni an opportunity to engage in a reunion of sorts through an oral history presentation,” says William Jiles of Keltash Communications, which produced and directed the film. “The documentary also offers an opportunity for younger generations to learn about the educational foundation on which they now stand and about significant individuals who fought and paved a path for them.” For information on purchasing the video, contact the Spady Museum at (561) 279-8883.

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vsa arts makes the most of its new home

A pottery studio is just one part of VSA arts of Florida Palm Beach County’s new home in John Prince Park.

VSA arts of Florida Palm Beach County has settled into its new home in the Club Managers Association of America Therapeutic Recreation Complex in Lake Worth’s John Prince Park. The complex offers a wide range of leisure opportunities for people with disabilities and serves as the teaching facility for over 1,600 local VSA artists.

The facility includes a pottery studio, painting studio, computer lab with adapted equipment, permanent gallery, a stage with lighting and sound system and training and conference rooms. Classes held since the opening earlier this year include drumming, acting, singing, digital photography and abstract painting.

In addition, VSA arts continues to hold classes throughout the county from Tequesta to Boca Raton and west to Belle Glade.

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T h e Pa l m B e a c h International Film Festival (PBIFF) has been hailed by MovieMaker Magazine as one of the top 10 destination film festivals in the world for aspiring independent filmmakers to travel to showcase their films. Additional desirable destinations include the Bermuda Film Festival, Turks and Caicos, the Hamptons, Fort Lauderdale and Miami. “To be ranked in this category is especially important to PBIFF as we are funded in part by a tourist development grant and this esteemed ranking clearly establishes this festival as a tourism-based festival,” states Executive Director Randi Emerman.

Actor Tristan Rogers was the emcee for the 2007 Palm Beach International Film Festival’s Grand Gala and Awards Presentation.

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Meanwhile, at the 56th Annual All Florida Juried Competition & Exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, two of only three Judge’s Merit Awards were given to Carol Prusa of Boca Raton for “Babel” and Amy Gross of Boca Raton for “Presymptomatic.” Both Prusa (2002) and Gross (2006) are past recipients of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists, sponsored in part by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council.

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{inside culture} briefly noted An elementary school student captured his impressions about his In-School Youth Education experience in a drawing.

Ti m o t h y My e r s , p r i n c i p a l g u e s t conductor of the Palm Beach Symphony, traveled to Israel this summer to conduct the acclaimed Jerusalem Symphony in the Henry Crown Concert Hall in Jerusalem. With a rapidly expanding repertoire encompassing a wide variety of symphonic works and nearly 50 operas, Myers is emerging as an important new American conductor. He conducted two Palm Beach Symphony concerts last season, which included Kurt Weill’s “Symphony No. 2,” Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 8” and Revueltas’ “La Noche De Los Mayas.” He previously served a two-year appointment as associate conductor of the Palm Beach Opera.

Bob Lappin and the Palm Beach Pops’ 9th Annual Spring In-School Youth Education Program reached a record 5,025 second, third, fourth and fifth grade children from 13 schools, including North Palm Beach Elementary, Lake Park Elementary, Potentials Charter School, Potentials South Charter School, H.L. Johnson Elementary, Grassy Waters Elementary, Wellington Elementary, Royal Palm Beach Elementary, U.B. Kinsey/Palmview Elementary, Westgate Elementary, Roosevelt Elementary, Citrus Cove Elementary and Crosspointe Elementary. The program— which focuses on the four instrument families comprising an orchestra as well as the rudiments of music-harmony, melody and rhythm—has served more than 50,000 students since its inception. This spring’s series of events culminated in a finale concert at Sound Advice Amphitheatre. The Pops expects to serve from 10-13 schools and 4,000-5,000 students again in the fall.

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2007 | 2008 FIVE SPECTACULAR PRODUCTIONS! Season Opening Performances!

LADY OF THE CAMELLIAS (Act II) Val Caniparoli PLUCK, Trey McIntyre PERCUSSION FOR SIX MEN Vincente Nebrada With LIVE Music!

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Education (CCE) in West Palm Beach recently hosted its sixth annual A.C.T.S. (Artists Collaborating with Teachers for Success) Summer Institute, providing a complimentary learning opportunity for Palm Beach County educators who want to enhance their abilities to positively impact their students’ academic achievement by incorporating arts into education. Pictured, from left, are Marenda Smith-Brainard, art teacher at Chancellor Charter School in Lantana; Shawn Berry, programs director at CCE; and Freada Dillon, poet-in-residence at Chancellor Charter School.

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Daniels is a doctoral student in the fine and performing arts track in comparative studies program at FAU. The Boca Raton resident received his Master of Art in music from FAU last year. For the Sarasota competition, Daniels sang “Bright is the Ring of Words” from Songs of Travel by R. VaughanWilliams, “Fin’ch han dal vino” from Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart, “Beau Soir” by Claude Debussy and “Erlkonig” by Franz Schubert.

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The Schoolhouse Children’s Museum in Boynton Beach received a grant from The Forrest and Frances Lattner Foundation to support the museum’s expanded environmental science programs. Grant funds have already been used to purchase an environmental educational display, the Watershed Demonstration Table, which shows children how pollution impacts our oceans and the Florida Aquifer. Every field trip group visiting the museum now participates in this special program. Additional funds from the grant will be used to purchase a 92-gallon saltwater aquarium to be installed in Water World on the second floor of the museum.

The Schoolhouse Children’s Museum acquired this Watershed Demonstration Table with its recent Lattner Foundation grant.

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RICHARD DREYFUSS on the Real Life Stage: Brooklyn, Hollywood and Israel This exciting evening with Richard Dreyfuss will be held at The Eissey Campus Theatre at Palm Beach Community College in Palm Beach Gardens, on November 10, 2007.

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T h e 1 5 w i n n e r s o f t h e 2 0 0 6 - 2 0 0 7 F l o r i d a S t a g e Yo u n g Vo i c e s Monologue Competition performed their works on the organization’s Manalapan stage this spring.

Chosen from among 274 submissions, the students include Tomas Kaknevicius, Bak Middle School of the Arts; Rachael Hilsenbeck and Brian Lugo, Boca Raton High School; Alex Chapman and Daniel Karpel, Dreyfoos School of the Arts; Brittany Nemitz, Dwyer High School; Gabrielle Friedman, Suncoast High School; and from G-Star School of the Arts, Sierra Floody, Larissa Hazelwood, Alaina Mathers (pictured above performing her monologue “Naptime”), Tanaya Reyes, Candi Rivera, Laura Sebastian and Lisa Wahlin.

Also announced this spring were the results of the 7th Annual Florida Stage Young Playwrights Festival.

Ten winning plays were read at Florida Stage and published in the annual “Young Playwrights Festival Anthology.” Winners chosen from more than 230 entries include Victoria Ellis, Pierce Hammock Elementary School; Connor Huey, Beacon Cove Intermediate School; Stephen McMullan, Equestrian Trails Elementary School; Catie Asip and Jessica Falzone, Wellington Landings Middle School; Frank Macrino and Quentin Gouveia, Osceola Creek Middle School; Rachel Chapnick, Pine Crest School; Lori Barkin, Alex Chapman and Jacob Warren, Dreyfoos School of the Arts; Samantha Atchinson, Hospital Homebound; and Sierra Floody, G-Star School of the Arts.

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Visitors enjoy The Artists’ Guild’s new gallery space.

the Boca Raton Museum of Art celebrated the opening of its new gallery space in Mizner Park in June.

Approximately 150 members and art enthusiasts attended the opening for its inaugural juried fine art exhibition, Images: June 2007. Rena Blades, president and CEO of the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, was the exhibition juror. Award recipients included Jerry Trueman, “The Moons of Fresca” (First Place); Katherine Morgan, “Elements” (Second Place); Dagmar Hollmers, “Releasing Beauty” (Third Place); Robert Jessel, “Crimson Fantasy,” and Lenore D. Robins, “Four Winds” (Juror’s Recognition); and Dick Niles, “Mutation Density,” and Bonnie Perlin, “Delray Day” (Honorable Mention).

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Dagmar Hollmers, Third Place winner of The Artists’ Guild of the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s inaugural juried art exhibition, with Lenore Robins, guild president

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Harry Benson & Ballet Florida’s “Salvation” ”

© Harry Benson 2007

Shooting in diverse locales throughout Palm Beach County, worldrenowned photographer Harry Benson and Tiffany & Co. Design Director John Loring collaborated with Ballet Florida to capture the dancers of the highly acclaimed troupe away from the barre. With the subjects adorned in local thrift shop finds, the photographic journey is appropriately named “Salvation.”

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