Friday, April 25, 2014

OPEN HOUSE/ART SHOW near Ft. George Island - and One Spark Follow up:

 This Sunday, April 27, come to an Open House from 1 - 5 pm at the Historic Napoleon Bonaparte Broward House, new home/offices of the Timucuan Trail Parks Foundation. The house is located at 9953 Heckscher Drive, 1/4 mile north of the Mayport Ferry. It is right at the corner of the road that leads to Ft. George Island and Kingsley Plantation. 
I have my Wilderness art on display in several rooms in the house. Come tour the house, eat delicious food and drink, and play lawn games. The backyard lawn has views of and breezes from the intracoastal waterway. 
Make a day of it and tour Kingsley Plantation and hike the trails around the Ribault Club. Hope to see you there! 30% of any art sales benefit TTPF.





Following up from One Spark: The three art jurors selected my project as one of the three they picked to pitch to them Shark Tank style on Sunday at Hemming Plaza - 5 minutes project presentation and 5 minutes of questions and answers. At stake was a $10,000 prize and a ticket to One Spark Berlin. Alas, my project didn't win. MOCA's Project Atrium/Shaun Thurston's mural won. The other project nominated by the jurors was a project to restore Norman Studios in Arlington. A studio back in the day when Jacksonville was Hollywood before there was a Hollywood.
The project received $395 in Crowdfund - 238 votes. Divide the total number of votes at the festival: 120,493 by the crowdfund amount $200,000 = $1.65 a vote. Last year it was $4 + a vote. My project received 4 fewer votes this year and less total money. $755 in Individual contributions this year ($624 last year). 
So the GOOD NEWS is: One Spark 2013 sparked me to create a neat project around my art. One Spark 2014 sparked me to make a ton of progress on it. Funds raised - not so much. 
Now though, I have a mocked up book, more parks done, 8 more parks planned and a more tangible product to promote and raise funds to finish it and publish the book! And the project is being well received by people that learn about it.


Wednesday, April 9, 2014

My ONE SPARK Project # 20668 - "Our Wilderness in Watercolor" - Downtown Jax - April 9 -13. ATTEND! VOTE! SUPPORT! ($)

Here are some photos of my One Spark showcase "Our Wilderness in Watercolor" - seeking funds/support to paint 8 more park paintings and their sketchbook journal pages for inclusion into "The Wilderness of North Florida's Parks" resulting in a family friendly book and traveling art exhibit.

Southlight Gallery's address is 201 N Hogan St. Take the Skyway (free parking at Prime Osborne convention station) and get off at Hemming Plaza station and walk 1/2 block down Hogan to my showcase. SHARE THIS EMAIL WITH OTHERS! Your vote counts and your support ($) adds up when a crowd does it! A unique blend of art and education, help me tell others about our amazing park system!
 Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve above
 Cumberland National Seashore above
 Theodore Roosevelt Area above
 Sketches for each of parks I want to paint next. Each frame has a park and attendees (who vote for my project) get to vote for which sketch of each of the 8 parks they think I should paint. Come and VOTE too!

 Kathryn Abbey Hanna Park
 Little Talbot Island State Park
 Featured in First Coast Magazine!
I am also on a Skyway pylon outside the gallery. Tony Wood painted each of our gallery artist for our gallery One Spark Project "Face to Face". Very smurf-like