- April 25, 2024
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A local catches a deer on its "ritualistic" stroll through her backyard; a museum publication takes home a Florida Book Award; and, the Art Guild is looking for painters.
BY THE OBSERVER STAFF
Beasts of the southern wild: Oh, deer
It’s a mid-afternoon ritual for deer to prance through the backyard of Lorraine Wenstrom’s Hunter’s Ridge home to lunch on her flowers. She caught them in action last week, though, and was able to snap photos of a baby deer, when its mother got spooked by thunder and took off into the woods.
Wenstrom’s only regret is that she wasn’t fast enough with her camera to capture the eagle on her air conditioning unit.
Museum publication wins Florida book award
The Museum of Arts & Sciences’ “Reflections II, Watercolors of Florida 1835‐2000 from the Collection of Cici and Hyatt Brown” publication, by Gary R. Libby, won the bronze award for visual arts at the seventh-annual Florida Book Awards.
The volume, which took three years to research and write, catalogs 165 years of Florida watercolors and represents the first book devoted exclusively to the subject and its artists. It also accompanies the museum exhibition by the same name, which opened last November.
“It illustrates work that is fresh to viewers, and that’s not been seen before,” Libby said. “The book corrects information and provides missing or incomplete information about a number of artists and their works.”
The artworks in “Reflections II” are part of a collection of more than 2,600 Florida-based paintings to be gifted by Cici and Hyatt Brown to the Museum of Arts & Sciences over the next several years. The Browns also gifted $13 million for the new Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art, which will be the new permanent home of the extensive collection. The addition is expected to open in 2015.
The book is available at both the museum’s gift shop and online, at www.moas.org. Call 255-0285.
Grab a brush: Art Guild looking for artists
The Ormond Beach Art Guild is looking for artists interested in joining them in their weekly, group painting sessions, 8 a.m. to noon Tuesdays, from June through August.
The club meets at the Ormond Beach Senior Center, at 351 Andrews St. Entry is $1.
Call 671-1879.
