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Critical Lack of Exhibit Space Hobbling Palm Coast Art Scene Even as Organizations Thrive

January 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The former Berkshire Hathaway office at Eiuropean Village, which had been an elegant exhibit space with regular shows, was padlocked for good recently. (© FlaglerLive)

For the first time in 20 years, the Flagler County Artist of the Year will not have a show, for lack of space. The critical lack of exhibit space is on the radar of the Flagler County Art League, the fledgling Palm Coast Arts Foundation and the Grand Gallery at Grand Living Realty.

Maxine Kronick, Fierce Doyenne of Local Arts and Children’s Theater, Dies On Approach of 80

January 17, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 14 Comments

Maxine Kronick. (Arlene Volpe)

Maxine Kronick, actress, special events coordinator and arts champion, had co-founder Theaterrific in the late 1980s in Palm Coast, a theater program for poorer children, and remained involved in local theater at Buddy Taylor Middle School and elsewhere.

At Salvo Art Saturday, “Transparency” as an Artist’s Conceptual Journey Beyond the Visible

May 20, 2016 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Krystyna Spisak-Madejczyk, the featured artists at Salvo Art’s new show, is highly acclaimed in her native Poland as a sculptor and multimedia conceptual artist. She’s become well known in Flagler County’s expanding artistic circles since taking up residency in one of Salvo’s studios.

Linda Solomon, Dervish Painter of Joy and Ex-Flagler Artist of the Year, Dies at 74

March 8, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Solomon continued dancing and painting dancers, as well as musicians, mystical landscapes and more, throughout much of her years-long battle with ovarian cancer, which took her life on March 7.

The Good Life: At Salvo Gallery, One Collector’s Gems Frame Wealth of Flagler’s Arts

February 19, 2016 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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Christopher Goodfellow has been collecting art for years. The new show at Salvo Art Project features his mostly-Flagler collection of the last five years, highlighting the wealth and variety of the local art scene.

Public Art Soars Increasingly Into View, Part of Gargiulo Foundation’s Gifts to Palm Coast

July 15, 2015 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Tom Gargiulo and his foundation will be underscoring the growing role of public art in Palm Coast, between a panel discussion at the Flagler County Art League Saturday and the dedication of two more soaring heron sculptures at Waterfront Park.

Barely Less Stingy, More Demanding Palm Coast Completes $30,000 Arts Grants Awards

March 31, 2015 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The amount Palm Coast devotes to the arts remains woefully low, however—amounting to just 37 cents per year per resident. The grant program represents a paltry 0.11 percent of the city’s $28 million general fund budget.

What Is the Flagler County Art League?

March 10, 2015 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Since its founding by Bob Scheibel in 1979, the Flagler County Art League has provided a forum for Flagler-Palm Coast artists to showcase their work and engage the community.

Flagler Commission Signals More Culture Support Ahead as It Approves FBI Art Cop Grant For League

March 3, 2015 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Flagler County government has never had a grants program for the arts, aside from its Tourist Development Council grants. Now, Administrator Craig Coffey is suggesting the county begin such a program.

At Salvo Art Project:
Jan Geyer, Artist of the Year

January 16, 2015 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

In Palm Coast less than three years, artist Jan Geyer has made her impact on the local arts community through her own studio at City Marketplace and her associations with Hollingsworth-Salvo Art Project and the Flagler County Art League.

Flagler Film Festival, the Sequel: Zombies and Star Power Flick In Jan. 9-11

December 19, 2014 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The second edition of the Flagler Film Festival, at Palm Coast’s Hilton Garden Inn Jan. 9-11, features Florida-themed and Palm Coast based productions among numerous entries from around the world.

Vaulting from Hollingsworth to Salvo Art: JJ Graham Opens Gallery of Revelations in Bunnell

October 31, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

With the opening of the Salvo Art Project gallery Saturday evening on the grounds of Nature Scapes in Bunnell–the reincarnation of Hollingsworth Gallery in Palm Coast–JJ Graham is creating an artists’ colony devoted to expressionist art in a space at once immense and intimate.

Tom Gargiulo, Leading Patron of Palm Coast Arts, Is Seriously Injured in Bike Crash

August 7, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

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Gargiulo, the founder of the Tom Gargiulo Foundation and creator Flagler’s Artist of the Year award, among numerous other supports of local arts, was bicycling on Pine Lakes Parkway when he was struck by a car as he crossed Wynnfield Drive Tuesday morning.

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At Nature Scapes, a New Generation Nurtures a Legacy

August 1, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 16 Comments

For 30 years Marylou Baiata, who died July 25, was the lush radiance behind Nature Scapes, the garden center in Bunnell, which her son will take over as it also becomes the home of the reincarnation of JJ Graham’s Hollingsworth Gallery as the Salvo Neoteric Art Project.

Repertory Theatre Will Keep Its Home in a Favorable Arrangement With City Marketplace

July 29, 2014 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The theater will remain at City Marketplace for at least one more year. City Repertory’s future had been in doubt for months with the departure of Hollingsworth gallery, which had been its landlord until its departure this month.

Hollingsworth Gallery Will Leave City Marketplace for Nature Scapes, Closing Curtain on Vibrant Arts and Theater Era

June 20, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 11 Comments

JJ Graham's Hollingsworth Gallery, seen here filled with his own paintings, has anchored the arts community in Palm Coast at City Marketplace for the past six years. That era is drawing to a close, as Hollingsworth will move a few miles south, to Nature Scapes, in Bunnell. Click on the image for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Hollingsworth Gallery and Nature Scapes in Bunnell are near a deal on the gallery taking over a 6,0000-square-foot building to develop new arts programs and a full arts community there, but leaving City Marketplace leaves City Repertory Theatre without a home, and a fourth season beginning in September.

A Film Studio Grows in Palm Coast: 10th Voyage Nurtures Zombies and Ambitions

April 21, 2014 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Three men and a baby: from left, Patrick Appolonia, Lenny Mosco Jr. and Scott hope to turn 10th Voyage Studios into Palm Coast's full-fledged film studio. (© FlaglerLive)

Operating from a plain-looking office complex in Palm Coast’s Hargrove Grade, 10th Voyage Studio is the creation of three young men–Patrick Appolonia, Scott Nance, and Lenny Mosco–who believe that the days of bigness in film-making are over: they’re poised to make technology and versatility pay in a city with little competition.

Going Coastal, Going Local: Palm Coast’s Workhorse Galleries Celebrate Their Own

March 8, 2014 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Hollingsworth Gallery opens its 6th annual show featuring its membership’s works while the Flagler County Art League opens its first ever “Going Coastal” show as part of Second Saturday’s Art Walk at City Market Place in Palm Coast.

Inaugural Flagler Film Festival Draws Mixed Crowds and Promise Over 3 Days in Palm Coast

January 13, 2014 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The first Flagler Film festival was held at the Hilton Garden Inn from Friday through Sunday, packing dozens of screenings of films from around the world and ending with an award ceremony late Sunday evening, and the promise of a second festival next year.

A Little Less Stingy, a Lot More Conditional: Palm Coast Approves $25,000 in Culture Grants

November 6, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Eleven cultural organizations applied and all 11 got cultural grants from Palm Coast government, but with many strings attached even though none of the grants exceeds $2,370, and the total awarded is still a far cry from the $40,000 budget of six years ago.

Flagler’s Taste of the Arts Festival Captions Mix of Unity and Rivalries Between Organizations

March 9, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Palm Coast Arts Foundation, the Flagler County Art League, the Flagler Playhouse, and Flagler Youth Orchestra open their second Taste of the Arts festival today, but county arts organizations have a way to go before calling themselves truly, communally unified.

Taking on Challenges and Skeptics, Palm Coast Arts Foundation Plants Grand Design

November 15, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

The Palm Coast Arts Foundation, lease finally in hand, plans to raise up to $7 million and build an events venue in Town Center, the first phase of a much bigger plan that would culminate in a $30 million, 2,300-seat performing arts center. It faces a tide of difficulties in a fractured arts community.

Awarding Just $20,000 in Arts Grants Again, Palm Coast Agrees to Rethink Its Stinginess

November 14, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 17 Comments

Palm Coast is willing to subsidize its money-losing tennis center to the tune of $240,000 in the last two years, but is awarding just $20,000 to support just nine arts and culture organizations. Some council members (calling the small amount “a joke”) want to change that.

At Hollingsworth Gallery:
Richard Schreiner, Artist of the Year

November 9, 2012 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Richard Schreiner's 'Pink Lady,' seen through a sculpture by Rick Crawford. Click on the image for larger view. (© FlaglerLive)

Richard Schreiner, the Louis CK of painting, influenced many artists in Palm Coast through Hollingsworth gallery, where he worked until his death in July. Naming him the 2012 Artist iof the Year was an easy choice for the Gargiulo Art Foundation. A new exhibit, “Richard and Friends,” celebrates his work and those he influenced, at Hollingsworth through November.

Mia Bella Academy’s Young Performers Put Palm Coast on National Winners’ Map Again

July 19, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 8 Comments

Mia Bella Dance Academy, for the third consecutive year, swept the National Celebration Talent Competition in Gatlinburg, Tenn., beating out 30 other studios and over 1,000 acts.

In “Love for Alyssa,” an 8-Year-Old Girl’s Heart For Life Is Unbridled in Kaczmarek’s Photos

May 10, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

'Let the Sun Shine Down On Me,' Alyssa in her wheelchair, one of the photographs by Jennifer Kaczmarek in the latest Hollingsworth Gallery exhibit, opening Saturday. Click on the image for larger view. (© Jennifer Kaczmarek)

“Love for Alyssa,” Jennifer Kaczmarek’s photography exhibit and fund-raiser at Hollingsworth gallery, opening Saturday, is an intimate, realist and daring portrait of 8-year-old Alyssa Hagstrom, who lives with a severe muscular disorder called arthrogryposis.

Jacksonville Symphony in Palm Coast Sunday For Its Annual Pilgrimage to Rhythm of Pops

April 21, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

The Jacksonville Symphony’s pops concert at Town Center is the Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s annual gift–well, at $35 a pop–and fund-raiser for an eventual arts center. Some 52 musicians will play works by Copland, Mozart, and Broadway and movie tunes.

The Flagler Youth Orchestra in Concert Tonight at Palm Coast Methodist Church’s Festival

January 14, 2012 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The annual youth festival features the 25-piece Harmony Chamber Orchestra, the Flagler Youth Orchestra’s top ensemble, in a free concert under the direction of Caren Umbarger, at 7 p.m. You can Tivo Tebow’s first three throws.

From Digital Furies to Everyman Frames in Art League’s First Juried Photography Show

December 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

The Flagler County Art League’s first juried photography show netted 63 works by 23 photographers in seven categories, with digital photography drawing the most entries and judge Rafael Torres lending a critical eye.

Miser City: Palm Coast’s Support for The Arts Is 27 Cents Per Year Per Resident

December 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 20 Comments

Palm Coast’s city council says the times require stinginess. Community arts and culture leaders say the city is short-sighted and doesn’t recognize the economic boost and improved city profile cultural events provide.

At Hollingsworth Gallery:
Weldon Ryan, Artist of the Year

November 12, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Weldon Ryan, 2011 Artist of the Year. (© FlaglerLive)

Weldon Ryan’s journey from Trinidad to the Bronx to Brooklyn to Palm Coast, navigating poverty, violence, brutality and beauty, begins to explain his art’s hyper-realism and its arms-length emotions.

Kisses, Spoofs, Puns and Rap Run Wild in Repertory Theatre’s Shakespearean Vaudeville

August 5, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Kaylee Rotunno and Tyrique Harper practice Shakespearean tongue-twisters under Agata Sokolska's reprouving eyes. (© FlaglerLive)

Director John Sbordone’s first workshop production this weekend at the Repertory Theatre’s stage, at Hollingsworth Gallery, dares grope where no Shakespeare has versed before. It’s high-energy hilarity.

Sbordone’s Next Act: Ex-Playhouse Director Opens New Theater With Poetry Clash

July 23, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

Things are looking up for John Sbordone and Palm Coast's theater scene. (© FlaglerLive)

Palm Coast’s theater scene is about to get much richer as John Sbordone launches his City Repertory Theatre with a “poetry clash” at Hollingsworth Gallery, where the theater will have its home for the coming season.

Palm Coast’s SoHo: Secca Tree Studios Double Hollingsworth Gallery’s Arts Empire

April 9, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

Secca Tree Studios' gallery expands on Hollingsworth gallery's venues for contemporary art. Click on the image for larger view. (© FlaglerLive) j.j. graham

With its Secca Tree Studios expansion at City Market Place, Hollingsworth Gallery is increasing local contemporary art’s and artists’ exposure while anchoring the arts’ role in Palm Coast’s identity.

Inspired By Chagall: The Art of Whimsy Reinvented, at Hollingsworth Gallery

March 11, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Every square inch an inspiration, Marc Chagall is the point of departure for a couple of dozen artists at the Hollingsworth Gallery’s latest show, an adventure in rediscovery and reinterpretation of one of the 20th century’s greatest artists.

Ballroom Dancing’s Homage to Glee–and Arts Education–at the Flagler Auditorium

January 19, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Charlotte Marten met up with Jim and Suzanne Carter of the Fred Astaire Dance Studio at City Market Place to talk about Saturday’s “Big Stage Ballroom” show and fund-raiser at the Flagler Auditorium.

On Point: Color Splash from Hollingsworth To the Art League

January 6, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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On Point with Charlotte Marten recaps the week’s main events and in a special report, previews two new shows opening at Palm Coast’s art galleries: Daytona Beach artist Beth Garren at Hollingsworth Gallery, where Garren’s work will be shown with that of JJ Graham, and “Color Splash” at the Flagler County Art League.

Encore: Flagler County Artist of the Year Edson Beckett at Hollingsworth Gallery

December 11, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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Edson Beckett, a ceramics, photography and graphic design teacher at Flagler Palm Coast High School for 22 years, is the Gargiulo Art Foundation’s 11th Artist of the Year since the award’s inaugural in 2000.

Music, Dance, Art: Auditorium’s 5-Day Holiday Extravaganza Will Boost Art in Education

December 2, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

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With arts funding in free fall in Florida, the Flagler Auditorium’s series of concerts, performances, art showings and auctions Dec. 8-12, half of them free, will raise money to help art programs in Flagler schools.

Bucking Long-Range Goals, Palm Coast Again Scales Back Cultural Arts Grants Funding

November 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Palm Coast is planning to award just $20,000 in cultural grants to 11 organizations this year, half the budget of three years ago, though the city is increasing the dollars and city resources it’s spending on its own special events.

Color and Provocation Surf Through Hollingsworth Gallery’s Latest Show

October 9, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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The new show features eight local artists whose sensibilities range from explorations of the darkest human impulses to the brightest harmonies, with creative chaos in between.

How A Panther Broadened City Beauty Board’s Mission to Include Riches & Perils of Public Art

September 24, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

Paul Baliker's 'Panther,' its eyes on Palm Coast's public art ventures. (© FlaglerLive)

Paul Baliker’s “Panther” sculpture, looking for a home at Linear Park, forged a discussion that’s leading Palm Coast into a world of public art possibilities led by local artists’ visions.

Mia Bella’s Dancers: From Non-Existent to National Champions in Seven Months

July 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 21 Comments

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Brie Valenti opened her Mia Bella dance studio last January at City Walk, and returned from a competition in Tennessee with two national trophies this week for her students and her choreography.

Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s Methods Assailed Again–Unjustly, Its President Says

July 22, 2010 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

“They didn’t come up with any substantial numbers, or at least verifiable numbers,” a tourist council member said of the Palm Coast Arts Foundation’s plans for a banquet center.

Portrait of a Transcending Mind: J.J. Graham’s Hollingsworth Gallery Genesis

July 10, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 27 Comments

J.J. Graham is remaking Palm Coast’s art world through his Hollingsworth Gallery, which he opened at City Walk in January 2009. He’s remaking more than the art world.

Art in the Park 2010: A Photo Gallery

April 10, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A look at the winners and other participants in the Flagler County Art League’s showcase event.

Color and Colossus at Flagler’s Art in the Park

April 10, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

The Flagler County Art League’s annual Art in the Park exhibit jammed up Flagler Palm Coast High School’s lawns with color–and competition.

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