Arts & Entertainment
Brandon League of Fine Arts: A Portrait of the Artists at 'Stay Cool’ Artfest
The league's first indoor summer art festival, at the Center Place Fine Arts & Civic Association, paves the way for future such endeavors. A look here at some of the artists, their works and the reasons behind their passions to create.
They come from different schools of art but gathered for one cool show Aug. 6, as wood, ceramic, surrealist and watercolorist alike displayed their work at the “Stay Cool Indoor Art Fest” at the Center Place Fine Arts & Civic Association.
The event drew artists from the Greater Brandon area and beyond to display everything from jewelry to hand-crafted shawls.
While they work in different mediums -- and the subject of their work ranged from surreal dreamscapes to fish -- the words of artist Frank Bolock could have applied to them all.
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Why create art?
As Bolock put it: “It's what I was born to do.”
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Among the featured artists at Center Place on Aug. 6 were:
- Alice Velazquez-Suarez
- Anne Drewry
- Becky Deady, of Becky Designs
- Betty Fairbanks
- Bob Price and Gunni Nilsson Price
- Bonnie Phillips
- Elizabeth Kershaw
- Frank Bolock, of Art Overture
- Giovanna Feiler
- Leslie Jennings
- Carol Harrar, at Carol Harrar Designs
- Minnette Webster
- Roxanne Tobaison
- Ruth Soucek, of Tiny Treasurers
- Steven Donovan, of the Steven Donovan Gallery
- Travis Settineri, at MyNameIsSET.com
Let us know in the "Call for Comments" box below if you, too, presented work at this festival. Also, if you have comments you'd like to make about the art you create or displayed. Also, the art you viewed at the event.
