Writer Leads Artists' Program
FREE TIME - Showcase
May 14, 2004|By Charlene Hager-Van Dyke, Sentinel Staff Writer
A best-selling author and columnist, a jazz musician-composer and a dancer-choreographer will participate in the 108th artists-in-residence program Monday through June 6 at Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach.
Writer Carl Hiaasen will be joined by MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winners Steve Lacy and Elizabeth Streb and 23 artists to work with them during the three-week program.
Hiaasen will lead a reading and booksigning at 1 p.m. Sunday in the center's Joan James Harris Theater, 1414 Art Center Ave.
Tickets, at $20 for center members and $25 for others, are available from the center.
INsideOUT, a presentation of works by artists participating in the residency session, will begin at 7:30 p.m. June 5 at the theater.
Admission is free to center members and $5 for others.
The program is designed to provide artists from around the world the opportunity to work and collaborate with contemporary masters they choose to work with. The artists spend a portion of their stay working with the master artist and the rest of their time pursuing their own projects.
Hiaasen, the author of novels Sick Puppy, Basket Case, HOOT, Kick Ass and Paradise Screwed, also has written newspaper columns for the Miami Herald, and Team Rodent, a nonfiction book about the Disney empire.
Working with Hiaasen will be Halimah Abdullah, Brooklyn; Daniel Cooper Alacon, Tucson, Ariz.; Nicholas Dowis, Port Orange; Nicole Mary Kelby, Sarasota; Carol Musick, Yukon, Okla.; Jean Shields, Pleasanton, Calif.; Kirsten Simonsen, Tallahassee; and Tom Sweeney, Portsmouth, N.H.
Lacy, one of the most recognized sounds in jazz, is considered by Down Beat magazine as the top soprano saxophonist.
Working with him will be Laura Carmichael, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and San Francisco; Eric Clark, Victoria, British Columbia; Scott Hill, Oakland, Calif.; Elizabeth Panzer, Accord, N.Y.; Roberta Piket, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Charles Wilmoth, Wheeling, W.Va.
Streb, the dean's special scholar at New York University at the Draper Program, is studying physics, philosophy and architecture. She combines the disciplines of dance, athletics, extreme sports and Hollywood stunt work to form a vocabulary of pure movement.
Working with her will be Ellie Barrett, St, Augustine; Errin Delperdang, Austin, Texas; Charlotte Gibbons, Purchase, N.Y.; Hasi, Homosassa Springs; Sang-Hie Lee, Tampa; Joseph Ravens, Chicago; Steven Reker, Tempe, Ariz.; and Treva Wurmfeld, Brooklyn, N.Y.
For reservations or information on the program, call 386-427-6975.
`PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES'
The Sands Theater Center will continue with its season finale, Pump Boys and Dinettes, this weekend and next at the theater in the Cultural Arts Center, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.
Directed by Timothy Turner, the musical finds the pump boys selling high-octane gasoline on Highway 57 next door to where the dinettes run the Double Cupp Diner.
The production includes 19 musical selections, including "Farmer Tan," TIPS," and "TNDPWAM" (The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine).
Showtimes are at 8 p.m. today and Saturday, and May 21 and 22 and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and May 23.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for students.
Details: 386-736-7456.
CONCERT IN THE PARK
The Moonlighters swing band will be featured at Sunday's free concert in the park at the Kenneth Parker Amphitheater at the Port Orange City
Center, 1000 City Center Circle.
The concert, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., is presented by the city. Concessions will be provided by members of the Spruce Creek High School Band.
Details: 386-756-5391 or port-orange.org.
ARTISTS' WORKS AT EPCOT
Artists Harry Messersmith and Chris Scala have been selected by the DeLand Museum of Art to participate in the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival by each exhibiting one of their works in the sculpture garden through June 6.
Messersmith, a DeLand native with degrees from Stetson University and the University of Florida, is internationally known for the fusion of geometric and human forms he creates by metal casting and welding.
This year, his fourth year in the festival, Messersmith will showcase "Transcendence," a sculpture created from steel, bronze and glass.
Scala, an Orlando artist whose art is in public and private collections throughout the United States, works in various mediums including carved marble, cast metals and coral-like material cultivated from the ocean.
His Epcot exhibit, "Small Column Octohedreans," has its origin in the ocean as it explores visual relationships that are evident when forms intersect.
Details: 386-734-4371.
FREE BANDSHELL CONCERT
The Thom Chambers Jazz Band will present a free concert at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Daytona Beach Bandshell behind the Ocean Walk and the Adam's Mark Hotel at Earl Street and North Atlantic Avenue.
The 90-minute concert is presented by Friends of the Bandshell. Details: 386-760-8361.
FREE TIME - Showcase
May 14, 2004|By Charlene Hager-Van Dyke, Sentinel Staff Writer
A best-selling author and columnist, a jazz musician-composer and a dancer-choreographer will participate in the 108th artists-in-residence program Monday through June 6 at Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach.
Writer Carl Hiaasen will be joined by MacArthur Foundation Genius Award winners Steve Lacy and Elizabeth Streb and 23 artists to work with them during the three-week program.
Hiaasen will lead a reading and booksigning at 1 p.m. Sunday in the center's Joan James Harris Theater, 1414 Art Center Ave.
Tickets, at $20 for center members and $25 for others, are available from the center.
INsideOUT, a presentation of works by artists participating in the residency session, will begin at 7:30 p.m. June 5 at the theater.
Admission is free to center members and $5 for others.
The program is designed to provide artists from around the world the opportunity to work and collaborate with contemporary masters they choose to work with. The artists spend a portion of their stay working with the master artist and the rest of their time pursuing their own projects.
Hiaasen, the author of novels Sick Puppy, Basket Case, HOOT, Kick Ass and Paradise Screwed, also has written newspaper columns for the Miami Herald, and Team Rodent, a nonfiction book about the Disney empire.
Working with Hiaasen will be Halimah Abdullah, Brooklyn; Daniel Cooper Alacon, Tucson, Ariz.; Nicholas Dowis, Port Orange; Nicole Mary Kelby, Sarasota; Carol Musick, Yukon, Okla.; Jean Shields, Pleasanton, Calif.; Kirsten Simonsen, Tallahassee; and Tom Sweeney, Portsmouth, N.H.
Lacy, one of the most recognized sounds in jazz, is considered by Down Beat magazine as the top soprano saxophonist.
Working with him will be Laura Carmichael, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and San Francisco; Eric Clark, Victoria, British Columbia; Scott Hill, Oakland, Calif.; Elizabeth Panzer, Accord, N.Y.; Roberta Piket, Brooklyn, N.Y.; and Charles Wilmoth, Wheeling, W.Va.
Streb, the dean's special scholar at New York University at the Draper Program, is studying physics, philosophy and architecture. She combines the disciplines of dance, athletics, extreme sports and Hollywood stunt work to form a vocabulary of pure movement.
Working with her will be Ellie Barrett, St, Augustine; Errin Delperdang, Austin, Texas; Charlotte Gibbons, Purchase, N.Y.; Hasi, Homosassa Springs; Sang-Hie Lee, Tampa; Joseph Ravens, Chicago; Steven Reker, Tempe, Ariz.; and Treva Wurmfeld, Brooklyn, N.Y.
For reservations or information on the program, call 386-427-6975.
`PUMP BOYS AND DINETTES'
The Sands Theater Center will continue with its season finale, Pump Boys and Dinettes, this weekend and next at the theater in the Cultural Arts Center, 600 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand.
Directed by Timothy Turner, the musical finds the pump boys selling high-octane gasoline on Highway 57 next door to where the dinettes run the Double Cupp Diner.
The production includes 19 musical selections, including "Farmer Tan," TIPS," and "TNDPWAM" (The Night Dolly Parton Was Almost Mine).
Showtimes are at 8 p.m. today and Saturday, and May 21 and 22 and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and May 23.
Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for students.
Details: 386-736-7456.
CONCERT IN THE PARK
The Moonlighters swing band will be featured at Sunday's free concert in the park at the Kenneth Parker Amphitheater at the Port Orange City
Center, 1000 City Center Circle.
The concert, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., is presented by the city. Concessions will be provided by members of the Spruce Creek High School Band.
Details: 386-756-5391 or port-orange.org.
ARTISTS' WORKS AT EPCOT
Artists Harry Messersmith and Chris Scala have been selected by the DeLand Museum of Art to participate in the Epcot International Flower & Garden Festival by each exhibiting one of their works in the sculpture garden through June 6.
Messersmith, a DeLand native with degrees from Stetson University and the University of Florida, is internationally known for the fusion of geometric and human forms he creates by metal casting and welding.
This year, his fourth year in the festival, Messersmith will showcase "Transcendence," a sculpture created from steel, bronze and glass.
Scala, an Orlando artist whose art is in public and private collections throughout the United States, works in various mediums including carved marble, cast metals and coral-like material cultivated from the ocean.
His Epcot exhibit, "Small Column Octohedreans," has its origin in the ocean as it explores visual relationships that are evident when forms intersect.
Details: 386-734-4371.
FREE BANDSHELL CONCERT
The Thom Chambers Jazz Band will present a free concert at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Daytona Beach Bandshell behind the Ocean Walk and the Adam's Mark Hotel at Earl Street and North Atlantic Avenue.
The 90-minute concert is presented by Friends of the Bandshell. Details: 386-760-8361.
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