Cape Coral

Cape Coral library

Art Gallery sponsored and funded by the Friends of the Cape Coral Library. This month we continue to welcome art from David Acevedo who has been expressing his own mind in images since he was strong enough to hold a pencil and piece of paper. This year David was awarded the New Visual Artist of the year at the Alliance of the Arts Award Show. Ralph Del Coro will display his “eggery” a collection of special “eggs”that have to be seen to believe. Also exhibited this month will be the jewelry of Beverly Taht of Cape Coral and Beth Iens of Fort Myers who will show their very affordable custom made jewelry. If anyone didn’t have a chance to view this exhibit, it will remain at the library through July.

The Cape Coral Library is located at 921 S.W. 39th Terrace. For more information call 542-3933; TTY 542-4429.

Cape Coral Art League

The Cape Coral Art League, located at 516 Cultural Park Blvd., announces its summer class schedule. Classes are available for members and non-members and the public is invited to attend.

Jewelry design with Lois Johnson on Tuesdays from 9 to 10:30 a.m. now through July 28

Big brush, painterly style: acrylics and oil with Joan Roberts on Wednesdays from 1 to 4 p.m. now through July 29

Creative abstract photography with Florene Welebny on Wednesdays from 1 to 3:30 p.m. June 3 through July 29.

For more information and to register call Gail Dale at 543-5333 or the league at 772-5657.

Fort Myers

Alliance of the Arts

The 23rd Annual 2D/3D All Florida Juried Exhibition Artwork will be displayed through Aug. 7. The Alliance welcomes three new members: Carolyn Gora, Jessica Paletsky and Chris Spiro.

The Alliance is located at 10091 McGregor Boulevard just south of Colonial Boulevard. Visit: www.artinlee.org for more information or call 939-2787.

Chip Withrow Plays at Alliance GreenMarket on the 4th

This Independence Day Chip Withrow, a local family folk artist, partners with the Lee County Alliance of the Arts strumming up entertainment for weekly GreenMarket shoppers. GreenMarket, open Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to noon has rapidly grown at the Alliance offering all certified organic products fresh from the sea, farm, pottery wheel, garden, oven, kitchen and even the bee hive.

Alliance Galleries are open from 9 to5 Monday Through Friday and from 10 to 3 on Saturdays, Located at 10091 McGregor Boulevard just south of Colonial Boulevard. Visit www.artinlee.org for more details of all the excitement our community has to offer.

Children of the Everglades

The Lee County Port Authority and the Lee County Alliance for the Arts recently installed an exhibit entitled, “Children of the Everglades” at Southwest Florida International Airport, as part of the “Art in Flight” program. The public exhibit, which will be on display until May 2010, includes photographs of Florida’s Seminole-Miccosukee Indians and artifacts on loan from the Hanson Family Archives.

Airport passengers and visitors will be greeted in the terminal building with large-scale photographs from the “W. Stanley Hanson and Robert D. Mitchell Collection of Seminole Indian Photographs,” which is currently archived at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Anthropological Archives. The airport exhibit depicts the lives of the Seminole-Miccosukee Indian children, as well as authentic artifacts including patchwork dresses and jackets, sweet grass or pine needle baskets, palmetto dolls and historical documents.

The son of a turn-of-the-century Fort Myers doctor, W. Stanley Hanson, better known as the “White Medicine Man,” grew up among the Seminole-Miccosukee Indians and became a trusted friend and advocate. Hanson became a Seminole guide and interpreter under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration. The photographs and documents in the Hanson Family Archives provide a unique insider view of Seminole-Miccosukee Indian life and the fascinating relationship between these American Indians and the “White Medicine Man.”

Art in Flight is a partnership between the Lee County Alliance for the Arts and the Lee County Port Authority, which brings art to public spaces at Southwest Florida International Airport. Additional sponsors for the exhibit include the Smithsonian Institution, Family Thrift Center, Carter-Pritchett Advertising, Scott Carter Signs, Owen Studio and MMT Printers.

For information on the exhibit, the Hanson Family Archives and the “White Medicine Man”, visit: www.Seminole-Lodge.com or: www.ArtInLee.org.