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Arts Edition Primetime
Arts Edition Primetime is about the wide variety of arts & culture in south Florida. It's about the process of creating great art, whether on canvas, or paper. In clay, stone and bronze or on a stage and in a concert hall, and it's about what it means to be an artist.
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04-15-2008
Alaska artist R.T. Wallen spent two years on Sanibel Island, Florida, creating two 10-foot high bronze pilots. They commemorate the heroic Russian and American aviators who flew 8,000 warplanes from the U.S. to the Russian fronts under the Lend-Lease Program.American Public Television picked up this program for national distrobution. Click on the image to learn more:
04-20-2007
Originally a one-room exhibit created by middle school students, the Holocaust Museum of Southwest Florida is now home to hundreds of artifacts, photographs, books and videos. Dedicated to promoting tolerance, the Naples museum seeks to ensure that the stories of the Holocaust and other genocides are never forgotten.
02-16-2007
Steinway Piano Competition Florida Gulf Coast University and its new music department present the finals of the 2006 Steinway Piano Society Competition. Students from Lee, Charlotte, Collier and Hendry counties perform in the final stage of the competition for the chance to win scholarship prizes. Hosted by Scott Houston, “The Piano Man” of PBS.
01-19-2007
Naples playwright Janina Birtolo performs “Remember the Ladies,” an original one-woman show about Abigail Adams, wife of America’s second President and mother of the sixth U.S. President. The play recounts Abigail’s experience as a true partner to her husband, John Adams, and a true patriot, deeply involved in the politics of her time.
11-17-2006
Sculptor Angelika Kade is in love with the Carrera marble and other stone she works with. Her abstract shapes are sinuous and flowing. Yongun Guo's art is steeped in the tradition of Chinese brush painting. Working with colored inks on handmade rice papers, Yongun captures the villages and views of old China. Compton and Bennet's satiric and amusing songs about Florida life and politics have been entertaining audiences for years.
10-20-2006
John Costin creates hand-tinted engravings of Florida birds and flowers. Christine Reichow uses watercolor to bring alive the wildlife that surrounds her. Ben Essenburg's ultra-realistic landscapes create an almost surreal feeling as they draw the viewer into the painting.
05-19-2006
Chris Murray, artist-in-residence at the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in Naples, specializes in painstakingly detailed wildfowl sculptures. In Tampa, Fraser Smith creates realistic objects such as quilts and hats from solid wood. His quilts look so real, they fool experienced quilters. Allen Quandee is a wood turner who uses chisels, lathes and sanders to craft exquisite bowls, vases and other items.
04-21-2006
Considered by many the premier community orchestra in Southwest Florida, the Gulf Coast Symphony is celebrating its 11th season. With a new Naples campus, the Illinois-based Faubourg School of Ballet is devoted to developing each student’s potential to the fullest. Kat Epple is a Fort Myers composer whose film and video soundtracks and CD’s have won eight Emmy Awards and 10 Addy Awards and a Grammy nomination.
03-17-2006
Marjorie Pesek loves paper. Her layered art works are a mosaic of odd bits of paper that blossom into detailed portraits of people and animals. In an ongoing series of exhibitions, the Naples Museum of Art miniatures galleries take us into the world of theater, opera and motion-picture design. Arts Edition Primetime goes behind the scenes as the Venice Little Theatre, one of the top community theater groups in Florida, prepares its production of “Singing In The Rain.”
02-17-2006
Get an armchair tour of "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs" at the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This is the first time some of the treasures from the tomb of King Tut have returned to the United States since a record-breaking tour of the 1970s. In addition to 50 of Tut's treasures, the exhibition includes more than 70 artifacts from the tombs of his relatives of his 18th Dynasty (1555 B.C. to 1305 B.C.) contemporaries. American Public Television picked up this program for national distrobution. Click on the image to learn more:
12-16-2005
Ikki Matsumoto's Japanese Heritage is seen in his silk-screen prints and watercolors. Madelyn Ricks uses miniature beads to create vibrant works of art, from miniature kimonos and free-standing sculpture to jewelry. Husband and wife Rick and Lynn Russell are artists who work independently but also collaborate on unique works of art in wood, fiber and stone.
10-21-2005
Jennes Cortez is an artist in love with artists. Many of her paintings portray master artists works as they might be seen in the windows of art galleries from around the world. Tom Cardamone not only loves to "fool the eye" with his trompe l'oeil paintings, he loves to paint landscapes that reflect his love of nature. After years of hanging on a wall or sitting on a shelf, art never looks the same. It's the art conservator and restorer that bring art back to life. Fine Arts Conservation is a firm that does just that.
09-16-2005
The brilliantly colored paintings of Jonathan Green are rooted in his Gullah heritage, the life and landscape of South Carolina's East Coast. Choreographer William Starrett, a great admirer of Green's work, has created a full-length ballet, "Off the Wall & Onto the Stage," that translates these images to the contemporary stage, blending dance, music, and art. American Public Television picked up this program for national distrobution. Click on the image to learn more:
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