Power and Politics: Paintings by Lance deHaven-Smith

Dancing Trees by Lance deHaven-Smith

The Council on Culture & Arts is pleased to present Power and Politics:
Paintings by Lance deHaven-Smith an exhibition at the Artport Gallery from March 23 – May 23, 2011 as part of the Arts in Public Places program.

As an adept oil painter and a professor in the School of Public Administration and Policy at FSU, Lance deHaven-Smith is uniquely capable of using art to explore power and status. deHaven-Smith's art is an aspect of his lifelong interest in politics and power. His oil paintings show how power relations are written into the architecture, location and the even the heights of the buildings in downtown Tallahassee.

“If you look at the governmental buildings in relation to other (downtown) buildings, they are straining to be on top and overshadow one another. They aren’t thinking about how they look as a group. You end up with a good deal of struggle for presence.”

In this exhibit, deHaven-Smith displays his impressionistic style filled with color, movement and energy. Downtown scenes and city-scapes that are familiar to residents and frequent visitors are compressed and presented from unusual and imaginary vantage points challenging the viewer to contemplate how power and politics are expressed in the world around us.

The exhibition is curated by the Council on Culture & Arts’ Arts in Public Places program on behalf of the City of Tallahassee. For more information about this program, visit http://www.cocanet.org/.

For more information about this exciting exhibition or upcoming exhibitions contact Amanda Karioth Thompson at (850) 224-2500 or Amanda@cocanet.org. For a schedule of other exhibitions and arts and culture programs throughout north Florida, visit http://www.morethanyouthought.com/. Learn more about COCA and sign up to receive COCA’s weekly email blast at http://www.cocanet.org/.

Creative Tallahassee Exhibition Winners

Congratualtions to all of the artists who currently have work displayed in the 2011 Creative Tallahassee exhibit. This annual juried show has become very competitive and although it is an honor to be selected for this exhibition, COCA announced some additional kudos to a few of the artists who have artwork in this show during a public reception on March 18th.

Honorable Mention Award Winners:

Let Go by Noah Z. Brock

The Kawamoto Series by Ann Kawamoto


Tarpon by Pam Talley

3rd Place Winner:

Bridge at Southwood by Peter Bigelow

2nd Place Winner:

Mill Wheel 1832 by Marguerite Foxon

1st Place Winner:

Corrugated Castle by Bill McKeown

Congratulations to these six artists and to all of the artists selected to exhibit in Creative Tallahassee exhibition.

Creative Tallahassee 2011 Exhibit at the City Hall Art Gallery

Mothership

Photography by Steve Coleman

Don Quixote
Oil on Canvas by Stephen Bennett


Sidewalk Silhouette
Photography by Niki Dunlap


Rosa and Granite
Gouache & Graphite on Paper by Ananda Balingit-LeFils

Creative Tallahassee 2011

Celebrate the skill, talent, ingenuity and creativity of some of the most exciting artists in the Big Bend area. In this multi-media show at the City Hall Gallery, the Council on Culture & Arts’ Creative Tallahassee 2011 highlights the work of many well-known Tallahassee artists, as well as emerging artists in this highly-anticipated annual juried exhibition. The exhibition of paintings, photographs, textiles and sculptures will be on display from March 9th until May 9th.

Competition in 2011 was fierce. Over 130 individual pieces were submitted for consideration. And from those, forty artists were selected by a special jury to have their work shown in this year’s Creative Tallahassee show.

Meet the artists in the City Hall Art Gallery during a reception and awards ceremony on Friday evening, March 18th from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm, and enjoy light refreshments. Awards will be presented at 6:30 pm. There is no charge for the reception or the exhibition.

The City Hall Art Gallery is located on the second floor of City Hall at 300 South Adams Street and is open Monday through Friday,

8:00 am – 5:30 pm.

Creative Tallahassee 2011 is one of over a dozen annual exhibitions curated by the Council on Culture & Arts. The exhibit is part of the City of Tallahassee’s Art in Public Places program. For more information about this exhibition, upcoming exhibitions, or the Art in Public Places program, contact Amanda Karioth Thompson at COCA, (850) 224-2500 or amanda@cocanet.org.

SAIL High School Receives College Board’s First National Award for Innovation in the Arts

SAIL High School is one of six schools in the United States to be chosen as the inaugural recipient of the College Board Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts. Granted to one school in each of the College Board regions, this award was established to recognize and celebrate the achievements of K-12 institutions that have implemented an arts program that promotes student learning and creativity in exemplary and innovative ways. SAIL was chosen from applicants across the College Board’s Southern region, which consists of 10 states (LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, SC, NC, TN, KY, VA).

“The selection committee was very impressed with the diverse array of student artwork that was reflected in SAIL’s work sample and the high level of engagement and achievement that was reflected throughout. Your commitment to admitting students to SAIL regardless of their prior art experience and academic achievement, shows a commitment to access and equity that we greatly admire, and makes the high level of artistic and academic achievement even more inspiring. We are delighted to present SAIL High School with a $3,000 award to support its exemplary arts programming.”

-- Nancy Rubino, Director of Office of Academic Initiatives at the College Board

On Janurary 27 at 10:35, Superintendent Jackie Pons will be coming to SAIL to congratulate the students and staff on this prestigious award. SAIL performing arts students will present a 5 minute showcase of the dance, art, drama and music that we are being recognized for.

Tiffany Thomas, Assistant Principal, will accept the award on behalf of SAIL at the College Board’s Regional Forum in Atlanta on February 10- 11, 2011.

East Point’s Treasures by Shehla Milliron

Iamonia by Pam Talley

Spring Morning Horizon Lines-Detail by Mary Urquhart

The Council on Culture & Arts is pleased to present

Horizon Lines: Oil Paintings by Shehla Milliron, Pam Talley and Mary Urquhart

an exhibition at the City Hall Gallery from January 12 – March 7, 2011
as part of the Arts in Public Places program

Capturing images on canvas is Shehla Milliron’s way of going back in time and revisiting the places she has encountered. As an an oil painter focused primarily on landscapes and animals, Milliron spends the year living between Tallahassee and Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Her work depicts subjects from these two diverse regions. She paints on location whenever possible and also uses photography as an aid in the creation of her works, especially the wildlife.

Pam Talley is always evolving as an artist and she strives to show the beauty that great light can bring to everyday subjects. She works in oils and uses impressonistic brush and knife work to make her subjects come to life. Pam pursued painting throughout early school years and is a trained graphic artist. Pam teaches art classes at Brush and Palette Studio and is continually developing new ideas for paintings.

Born and raised in the Midwest, Mary Urquhart now sees wild beauty in the landscapes of the Southeast. Her paintings allow her the opportunity to discover, take chances and be taken by surprise. Whether it is a marsh, lake, river or the Gulf of Mexico, she finds allure in watery reflections. Urquhart's romantic realism invites you to drift into the glass-like reflections of water.

The City Hall Gallery is located at 300 South Adams Street, second floor lobby of Tallahassee’s City Hall. This gallery is free to the public and open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Parking is available in Kleman Plaza.

The exhibition is curated by the Council on Culture & Arts’ Arts in Public Places program on behalf of the City of Tallahassee. For more information about this program, visit our web site.

For more information about this exciting exhibition or upcoming exhibitions contact Amanda Karioth Thompson at (850) 224-2500 or amanda@cocanet.org.

For a schedule of other exhibitions and arts and culture programs throughout north Florida, visit www.morethanyouthought.com. Learn more about COCA and sign up to receive COCA’s weekly email blast at www.cocanet.org.

The Council on Culture & Arts is pleased to present

Natural Awakenings: Paintings by Liu Nan

an exhibition at the Artport Gallery from

January 11 – March 21, 2011

as part of the Arts in Public Places program.

Born, raised and artistically trained in China, Liu Nan is now a Tallahassee resident. His landscapes include familiar scenes from the Big Bend Area and demonstrate the spirit of traditional Chinese art. Nature has consistently served as the main theme in his works and his goal is to promote natural and simple artistic expression. In this landscape series of oil and watercolor paintings, Nan seeks to express the joyous sensations he gets from the natural world, especially in undisturbed and undestroyed locales.

“The ‘Sunshine State’ has offered me an entirely new perspective on the value of the untouched and pristine. Growing up in a large metropolitan city in north China, crowded with millions of people and an increasingly obliterated natural environment due to modern urbanization, I rarely glimpsed the world that opened up to me in Florida.”

Nan expresses this new awakening to the varied beauty of our area in a series of paintings of natural environments; woods, water, and grass fields. His artwork is on display at the Artport Gallery.

This exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery Hours: 8:00am – 11:30pm daily. The Artport Gallery is located inside the Tallahassee Regional Airport, 3300 Capital Circle SW.

The exhibition is curated by the Council on Culture & Arts’ Art in Public Places program on behalf of the City of Tallahassee. For more information about this program, visit www.cocanet.org.

For more information about this exhibition or upcoming exhibitions contact Amanda Karioth Thompson at (850) 224-2500 or Amanda@cocanet.org.

For a schedule of other exhibitions and arts and culture programs throughout north Florida, visit www.morethanyouthought.com. Learn more about COCA and sign up to receive COCA’s weekly email blast at www.cocanet.org.

Winter Festival Youth Art Exhibit Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony

Congratulations to all the student artists and art teachers who are part of the annual Winter Festival Youth Art Exhibit at the City Hall Gallery. The opening reception for the show was held on Dec. 3rd and middle and high school award winners were recognized at that reception.

Middle School
1st Place
Victor Castano, Florida State University School
Pam Wallheiser, Art Teacher

2nd Place
Savanna McDonald, Deerlake Middle School
Linda Johnson, Art Teacher

3rd Place
Holly Davidson, Raa Middle School
Teresa Coates, Art Teacher

Honorable Mention
Ben Dowling, Florida State University School
Pam Wallheiser, Art Teacher

Christian Liljestrand, Montford Middle School
Donald Sheppard, Art Teacher

Brianna Mead, Montford Middle School
Donald Sheppard, Art Teacher

High School
1st Place
David Hendon, Maclay High School
Cathy Hathaway, Art Teacher

2nd Place
Katie McTigue, SAIL High School
Becki Rutta, Art Teacher

3rd Place
Kate Bassett, Florida State University School
Barb Davis, Art Teacher

Honorable Mention
Lilly Atwell, Lincoln High School
Shannon Takács, Art Teacher

Sarah Patrick, Leon High School
Travis Giddings, Art Teacher

Kayleigh Rabitaille, Chiles High School
Julie Childers, Art Teacher

Mayor's Award

William Jackson, Rickards High School
Virginia Milne, Art Teacher

The 2010 Winter Festival Youth Art Exhibit will be on view until Jan. 10, 2011 at the City Hall Art Gallery. It is free to the public and open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Parking is available in Kleman Plaza.