San Marco Books and More: 7 pm Thursday May 11, Book Signing and More!:

Meet the Artist: (me!) - Kathy Stark at 7 pm, Thursday, May 11 at the San Marco Books and More.

Need a Thoughtful Mother’s Day Gift? (or Father’s Day Gift)?: 

Give The Wilderness of North Florida’s Parks by Kathy Stark 

- signed by Kathy (and Tanner if you want!)

I will be displaying my original art used for the sketchbook journal pages about 60 of our wilderness parks. The bookstore will be ‘transformed’ into pages of the book!

Walk around viewing the original art - book pages and be immersed in art, education and history all about our amazing park system and our community!

Meet the real Tanner - he will be there too! You can get his ‘paw-o-graph’!

And children (and adults...) can make their own animal track guide using Kathy’s hand-made life-size stamps!

San Marco Books And More: 1971 San Marco Boulevard, Jacksonville, FL 32207

Here is a sample sketchbook journal page from the book: 

All of these parks listed below are featured in the book:

Tanner is featured in the book: ('Where's Waldo?") - "Where's Tanner?"

ABOUT THE BOOK:

The Wilderness of North Florida’s Parks by Kathy Stark

PAPERBACK BOOK  $25 + 7% sales tax = $26.75

HARDBACK BOOK  $40 + 7% FL sales tax =  $42.80

Approximately 120 + full color pages

Fold out Project Map -

showing all of the parks, preserves, conservation areas and forests where you can get a ‘sense of wilderness’, all within one hour of downtown Jacksonville.

19 large scale watercolor paintings of these parks

60 parks represented by sketchbook journal page entries 

about their features, history and trail map.

3 nonprofit groups featured 

that “preserve and protect our land and water” with sketchbook journal page entries about their mission, goals and how to help them.

Timucuan Parks Foundation, St. Johns Riverkeeper

and North Florida Land Trust

Foreword by Mark Woods, FL TU columnist

Afterword by Bob Graham, 

Former Florida governor and US Senator

Family friendly resources in the back of the book

ImagiNATURE: Wednesday, May 3rd Art Walk-Downtown Jacksonville-Hemming Park:

 Join us this Wednesday, May 3, as Music Director Courtney Lewis and the Jacksonville Symphony perform on the main stage at Hemming Park at 6:30pm and 8:00pm. This FREE concert is part of the Mayo Clinic Community Concert Series.
I will be there with a red tent selling my book: The Wilderness of North Florida's Parks
Images from the book are used in the park walk signage to be shown at the event. The interpretative signs will be installed downtown. Five of our National Park sites are featured, Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Ft. Caroline National Monument, Theodore Roosevelt Area, Kingsley Plantation and Cedar Point:

 ImagiNATURE is a multi-disciplinary arts festival and installation honoring the National Park Service’s 100th Anniversary.  ImagiNATURE is made possible by grants to the Jacksonville Symphony from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) and the Downtown Investment Authority. The focus of the May 3rd event at Art Walk will include a Jacksonville Symphony performance  in Hemming Park featuring violinist Piotr Szewczyk’s composition, St. Augustine Suite, art presentations by Will Dickey and David Montgomery, art installation from MOSH (Museum of Science and History), performance by Mal Jones, and the unveiling of artist Kathy Stark’s interpretive signs of National Parks in North Florida. Follow this event on Twitter at #imaginaturejax and #ArtWalkJax.

ImagiNATURE is made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Downtown Investment Authority. Program partners include the Jacksonville Symphony, Downtown Vision, the National Park Service, Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Timucuan Parks Foundation, MOSH, the Jacksonville Public Library and artists Kathy Stark, Piotr Szewczyk, Will Dickey, Mal Jones, and David Montgomery.