In 1935, George Gershwin premiered the classical production of Porgy & Bess. Porgy and Bess tells the story of Porgy, a disabled black beggar living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina. It deals with his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her violent and possessive lover, and Sportin' Life, the drug dealer. It contains some of the most memorable and beloved music still wildly popular today. "I love you Porgy" and the inimitable,…

Exhibition Opportunities

Call for Florida Artists

ACA invites artists living and working in Florida to submit to an annual juried review for the 2012 exhibition schedule. Open to all Florida artists working in any media. Individual and group proposals accepted. Submissions will be reviewed before a panel of artists/arts professionals. Selected artists will be offered a solo or group exhibition in…

Artists brought their tools and your best drawing skills to learn from Gilbert Young during this educational event hosted by the Downtown Arts District of Orlando. They sketched live models, chatted one-on-one with Mr. Young and watch him in action. He provided constructive advice to every level artist who participate in the workshop.

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 Come for a studio visit this weekend and receive 50% off (or more!!) on original paintings and limited edition prints. The White Wolf Cafe does a nice weekend brunch and is just down the street as well as many cool antique and vintage shops - so come and make a day of it!…

To some a Dandelion is only a weed, but I have always thought them potent and lovely, so able to survive in even the toughest conditions. Beauty coupled with strength, is the most powerful combination. In that end for me the greatest love has never ever been about possession or control. Let me illustrate, I still love my mother despite all our difficulties even though her death makes me no longer able to talk to her. I love my child after I have lost primary custody; there isn’t a second I…

By, Sandra Monday

Oh my epicure

Who tastes food as

Some holy sacrament

The sounds you make as the steak

Rolls on your tongue are blasphemy.

Across from the dinner table

My spine shivers

In our vaulted ceilinged domicile

The sky so high

And Winter Park so long my home

Goodbye Eastside it’s good

To be here

I love the fat grey squirrels

And orange beaked finches

The papery rustle of…

By, sandra Monday

Overdone metaphors

Stiff childlike canvases

Arrested development

Fading middle aged flower

Wilts stinks

Gone to seed menopausal--

Its genes die with it

Obscene scene is a playground

For these ageing children

With no progeny

No one to prove with fresh faces that they were once young too

A year of popularity does not immortality make

Darwin’s survival of the fittest

The…