Gulf Coast Museum of Art posts March events
Article published on Wednesday, March 2, 2005 |
LARGO – The following events and exhibitions are featured at the Gulf Coast Museum of Art in March:
Exhibitions
Ongoing to Aug. 8 – Linda Howard: “Temples of Light.” The GCMA’s extended exhibition of monumental outdoor sculpture by seasoned artist Linda Howard offers an opportunity to experience the interplay of changing ambient light with the elegant forms of Howard’s sculptures. Howard first welds straight aluminum tubes together in panels, followed by a surface treatment of wheel grinding to give the tubing a refractive, sparkling effect. She then connects the panels into architectonic and geometric forms that appear to float and fold over one another to create softly shimmering light-filled interiors.
“The archways are gateways to transitional spaces, moving one, step-by-step, from a personalized human scale to a larger space, and then on conceptually to the expanded universe beyond.” – Linda Howard, 1987.
Howard’s career of creating site-specific installations spans over 20 years, during which she has been awarded a large number of public and private commissions.
Ongoing to March 6 – “Taking Shape: Pinellas County 6-8.” The annual middle school student exhibition shows the dramatic ways in which the creation of art changes between elementary and high school. Simple creations evolve into more focused applications of artistic skills as they experiment more with different techniques and media. The show also helps to demonstrate the many ways in which arts education enhances a student’s total learning experience.
March 5 through May 1 – “Out of Cuba: Alfredo Sosabravo and Flora Fong.” In cooperation with the Tampa Bay Latin American Festival Foundation, GCMA and cultural institutions throughout the Tampa Bay community will be mounting visual, performing and literary programs to celebrate Latin life and culture.
This exhibition will feature recent work from these two internationally acclaimed artists. Sosabravo’s is vibrant, colorful, surreal and full of characters and imagery emanating from his fertile imagination. Included in this exhibition will be acrylic on canvas paintings with stitched and collaged fibers. Flora Fong’s expressive paintings celebrate the natural world, evoking images of the sea, mountains, storms, and vegetation of her homeland.
Each artist’s work is held in major museum and private collections throughout the world, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Havana, the country’s national art museum.
Events
March 4 – 6:30 to 9 p.m., opening reception for “Out of Cuba: Alfredo Sosabravo and Flora Fong.” Dr. Carol Damian, Latin American and Caribbean art specialist, will give a lecture at 6:30 p.m. about these two acclaimed artists. Damian is a professor and chairperson of art at Florida International University in Miami, where she teaches Pre-Columbian, Spanish and Contemporary Latin American Art. Her most recent work has been with Latin American women artists as well as Cuban exile artists, for whom she has written numerous catalogs and articles. She is the author of “The Virgin of the Andes: Art and Ritual in Colonial Cuzco,” and the Miami correspondent for Art Nexus. Free to members, $10 for guests.
March 19 – 6:30 to 10 p.m., Havana Nights. An exciting evening in support of the Gulf Coast Museum of Art’s exhibition and educational programming. Featured will be Latin Jazz, champion Latin Ballroom dancers, gourmet cocktail cuisine, a cigar plaza, a silent auction featuring nationally and internationally known artists, y mucho mas. Call Sue Cimerman at 518-6833, ext. 213.
Films
Ongoing to March 29 – Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. (excluding holidays and dates when monthly series films are scheduled). “John Henry: Symphony in Red (25 minutes),” a visual journey with few words but haunting music, this video takes us through the constructive processes employed by the artist, not unlike those used for commercial structures, as well as the installation of Symphony in Red in Hanover, Germany, in 2000 and the public’s reaction to the sculpture. Free.
March 29 to April 30 – Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., and Sundays, 2 p.m. (excluding holidays and dates when monthly series films are scheduled). “Duncan McClellan” (35 minutes). Audiences are invited into the artist’s studio to witness the process by which he creates his monumental glass works from beginning to end. We see the lump of molten glass as it is blown and shaped and etched into the finished piece with the help of his team of assistants as he orchestrates the process. Free.
March 19, 1 p.m. – Family Classic Films, “Bad News Bears” (1976/101 minutes/PG). One of the great American character actors, Walter Matthau plays the grumbling, beer-guzzling former minor league pitcher who gets roped into coaching a band of half-pint misfits somewhat loosely called a team. With this bunch in uniform, it’s impossible to get caught up in the suburban competitive spirit that drives other adults to extremes of parental discipline. So instead, the Bears have a good time! Free.
March 20, 1 p.m. – International Film Series, “Waking Ned Devine” (1999/100 minutes/PG). In the tradition of “The Full Monty” comes the story of Ned Devine, an elderly Irishman from the small town of Tully More who dies of shock after winning the national lottery. When two longtime friends, Michael and Jackie, discover the body, they agree that Ned would have wanted them to benefit from his good luck. So they embark upon an outrageous scheme to claim the ticket, but first have to get all the townsfolk to go along with their plan. This is a hilarious comedy sure to bring laughter to all who partake. Free.
March 27, 1 p.m. – Opera at Pinewood Series, “Naughty Marietta” (B&W/77 minutes) by Victor Herbert. Acclaimed TV production, quite faithful to the original work, starring Patrice Munsel and Alfred Drake. Free.
Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Sunday, noon to 4 p.m.; closed Monday. Admission is $5 adults, $4 seniors (over age 62), $3 students with valid identification, free for children (10 and under) and museum members. Admission is free to the public on Saturdays, 10 a.m. to noon.
The museum is at 12211 Walsingham Road. Call 518-6833 or visit www.gulfcoastmuseum.org.
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