I am working on a creative and dynamic project called The Wilderness of North Florida's Parks 'sparked' by the upcoming crowdfunded festival ONE SPARK, April 17 - 21. Here is a description of the Project #437:
The Wilderness of North Florida's Parks Project consists of completing a series of large watercolor paintings of our wild and beautiful park system, all within one hour of downtown Jacksonville. Five paintings of four parks are done, 15 - 20 more parks are on the proposed list to complete.
These paintings, in print form will become a traveling print exhibit. Sketchbook Journal pages about each park - highlighting their features and history will accompany each print.
The non profit groups that preserve and protect our land and water will each have Sketchbook Journal pages about their mission, their accomplishments, goals and how to join and help them. They are St. Johns Riverkeeper, Timucuan Trail Parks Foundation, North Florida Land Trust and Greenscape.
A coffee table book will be published containing the park paintings and the Sketchbook Journal pages about the parks and the non profit groups.
Educational engagement will occur by giving children and adults an opportunity to visit a wilderness park, learn about the art that can be created from it and make their own Sketchbook Journal pages through the use of template pages.
A geocaching element - interactive contest will be part of the exhibit and book to encourage people to GO TO OUR PARKS.
The traveling print exhibit, when shown around the area and elsewhere, along with the Book - will be useful tools to showcase to residents, students, visitors, and business investors, the wildness and beauty of the parks right here in our backyard. And inspire them to go there!
I'M ASKING YOU TO:
1. SHARE THIS EMAIL WITH FRIENDS who would be interested in this project.
2. "Like" THE PROJECT FACEBOOK PAGE: The Wilderness of North Florida's Parks. Share this page with your friends, comment and like posts on it.
3. Attend the $250,000 Crowdfunded ONE SPARK Festival, Wednesday April 17 at 3 pm through Sunday, April 22 ending at 11 am. Your VOTE for my Project #437 will help distribute the crowdfund by percentage of votes garnered per project - IF I get 10% of the vote, the Project gets $25,000 and so on...
My Showcase will be at the Southlight Gallery, 6 E. Bay Street, corner of Main and Bay Street, second floor, Dyal Upchurch Building.
4. My website homepage: www.kathystark.com has links on it to preregister to vote as an attendee, my Project Profile and a link to the Facebook page.
My Project Team -
Project Advisor: John Ragsdale - Chairman of the Board of Directors, St. Johns Riverkeeper, retired Presbyterian minister/church executive.
Business Plan Advisor: Joe Eberly - retired Human Resources executive for Fidelity Information Services, and the Brumos Companies.
Book Designer: Wayne Wood - Arts Agitator, writer and publisher of 12 books on Jacksonville's history and architecture.
The Project is getting 'legs' to take it PAST One Spark! You can take part in it.
2nd page of two page Sketchbook Journal entry for "Tillie Fowler", more Sketchbook Journal pages of the parks and non profit groups will be shown at OS.
The Phases of the Project, most will happen concurrently, except for the book.
AND
"North Florida, Theodore Roosevelt Area, Series #2" Print will be shown at OS.
"Springtime Hammock, Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park" Print will be shown at OS.
"Cumberland Island Path" watercolor will be at OS. So this National Seashore is just over the border in GA but I am counting it because I kayaked to it from Ft. Clinch. And it is within one hour of Downtown Jacksonville.
"Little Talbot Island State Park" this watercolor to be H 35" W 51" will be in progress during OS.
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