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THE PAINTED BEAUTY from LIVING ART • PARADOX of SUMMER • PARTNER PROFILE: CITIZENS BANK The THE PAINTED BEAUTY FROM LIVING ART • PARADOX OF SUMMER • PARTNER PROFILE: CITIZENS BANK The Vol. 1 | Issue 3 | Summer-Fall 2009 A newsletter from Bok Tower Gardens www.boktowergardens.org 2 | The Garden Path | Summer-Fall 2009 FROM THE PRESIDENT What a season we have had! The Gardens have never looked better, our attendance is up and we have more member supporters than ever. The azalea and camellia bloom was spectacular with the weather cooperating to give us an extended spring bloom. It has been nice to see so many visitors enjoying the Gardens. The Moonlight Carillon Concert series was well attended, with the March concert drawing an audience of more than 350. With the daylight savings time change coming earlier this year, the concerts started with the setting sun so that guests could enjoy the Gardens in the sweet light of dusk. We started encouraging guests to picnic in the Gardens for these concerts and plan to introduce other changes to enhance the experience in the future. We have been working on a long range plan for the Gardens with several key points identified as goals. Improving customer service and the quality of our presentations are two of these goals. A large part of what we have to offer is the incredible experience our visitors enjoy. All aspects of the Gardens are being evaluated from the décor and food at the café, to the quality of our plant displays. We want the experience for our visitors to be unique, inspirational and enjoyable for everyone, every time. Gardening can truly be a celebration about the diversity of plants as we’ve seen in our monthly plant celebrations. We have had displays of fruits and vegetables in March, hibiscus in April, pollinator plants in June and sunflowers in July. We plan to make these displays more visible and to have better interpretation in the coming seasons. Nick Baker created a sculptural display of seven varieties of Tillandsia (air plants related to Spanish moss). Our plant shop sold $10,000 of these unique plants in one month. We thank all our members for their support and goodwill ambassadorship. Our members are important to spreading the word and sharing the Gardens with others. Our Share the Gift program continues to provide free family memberships to less advantaged families. I hope you all have a wonderful summer and fall. David Price, President www.boktowergardens.org MEMBERSHIP The Marjola Burdeshaw, Membership & Development Manager A Summer Music Series! David Price President Welcome to our new members and thank Tickets: $15 (Day of Concert: $20) you to all members who have renewed Cassie Jacoby Editor Bok Tower Gardens their memberships. Your membership Visitor Center - 7:30 p.m. helps to provide a variety of cultural Limited seating Martin Corbin Optional dinner programs and events which benefit all. Graphic Design $17 / $15.50 (members) We also would like to thank AT&T AUGUST 22 Yellow Pages, CSX, GrayRobinson, P.A., Editorial Contributors THE REPEATLES Max 98.3, The News Chief and WUSF for Lisa Allen (SOLD OUT!) helping make the Concert Under the Stars Nick Baker on May 2 such a huge success. SEPTEMBER 11 Marjola Burdeshaw Please take advantage of your MUSTANG SALLY Robert V. Burt membership discount this summer for & THE HAMJOS Cindy Campbell dinner at our Live at the Gardens music William De Turk series. Sandra Dent Jane Hink IN THE MEDIA Steve Jolley Patricia Jones Cheryl Peterson Sue Paetzold David Price Pirjo Restina Lin Norris Renaud Mission Bok Tower Gardens seeks to carry out Edward W. Bok’s founding inspiration: Wherever your lives may be cast, make you the world a bit better or more Extensive public relations campaigns have resulted in national, state and local non-paid editorial coverage, beautiful because you have lived in it. but we need to continue spreading the word. If you have a friend in the media, be sure to suggest they consider doing a feature story on the Gardens. We’ve received coverage in the following major media. By preserving and sharing the beauty, environment, architecture, music, art and history while One of Orlando’s top TV reporters with FOX 35, AAA’s Going Places Magazine May-June issue inspiring others to carry on the David Martin calls us “One of Florida’s 5 Best has a feature article on our Live at the Gardens tradition. Daytrips” featuring VISIT FLORIDA’s outdoor Summer Concert Series. Estimated readership is blogger, Kevin Mims. 2.5 million. Bok Tower Gardens, a nonprofit 503 (c) organization, is supported by tax-exempt During his first visit here from London, United And, the new upscale magazine, Blu Tampa Bay gifts and contributions and is sponsored in Kingdom’s Sunday Mirror Newspaper reporter August issue profiles us in a photo essay by part by the State of Florida, Department of Andy Gardner describes us as one of Florida’s senior writer Eric Smithers and photographer State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida best treasures. Gabriel Burgos. Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. MM/5M/0709 Cover photo is of the rare and endangered Helianthus carnosus commonly known as a Lakeside Sunflower. Photo by Martin Corbin 4 | The Garden Path | Summer-Fall 2009 Called one of the “new masters” of Florida regional art, Keith Martin Johns will display a collection of his oil paintings in our Visitor Center August 1 through Celebrated Florida landscape and October 1. Entitled “The Painted Beauty wildlife painter Tom Freeman has donated from Living Art,” the exhibit captures the a 24 by 48 inch acrylic watercolor of beauty of nature in coastal landscapes, Pinewood Estate now on display in the wildlife, vivid sunsets, rivers and colorful Visitor Center. “It’s been a long love landscapes that include paintings of Bok affair watching Pinewood mature over Tower Gardens. the years,” says the retired Lake Wales Growing up on the Gulf Coast in art teacher who fell in love with the Charlotte County influenced Keith’s Gardens on his first visit in 1942. “I grew life and left an indelible mark on his up enjoying the transcendent beauty of work. “My heart’s desire is to help prints. this natural area and want to share my preserve Florida’s natural beauty and Numerous private and corporate collectors appreciation for the unique architecture heritage through the visual arts,” Keith enjoy this artist’s work by displaying them with others who haven’t experienced it.” explains. The fourth generation Floridian in such places as the University of Tampa, St. Utilizing a new concept in painting on has painted landscapes of the state Luke’s Eye Institute, St. Petersburg College, canvas, Tom says the acrylic acts like a professionally for 27 years with nearly 300 hospitals and corporate offices. glass over the watercolor and preserves painting titles and has published more than the artwork much longer than traditional Find Keith Martin Johns online at 100 images into limited edition fine art www.keithmartinjohns.com watercolors. Summer-Fall 2009 | The Garden Path | 5 ART EXHIBITS “Interiors of Florida” by Tampa Bay artist Terry Klaaren will be on display in the Visitor Center October 3 through December 3. “I am driven to recreate the Recognized for his style of realistic impressionism, Terry will open beautiful scenes of awe and the exhibit with a demonstration on Saturday, October 3 at 11 a.m. wonder I encounter wherever and 2 p.m. “His work preserves Florida’s most beautiful natural areas,” I am. Every day I meet the explains Pirjo Restina, Gardens’ curator of education. “Some have dual challenges of finding a disappeared due to encroaching development and now only exist scene of visual splendor and in his artwork.” An award-winning fine arts painter, Terry’s oils, acrylics, creatively translating it with watercolors, pen and inks and pastels have been exhibited at the paint. Being an artist is a TECO Plaza in Tampa, the Kotler Gallery and the District offices role I happily play.” of Southwest Florida Water Management. Also a cartoonist, illustrator, wall muralist and an art demonstrator-educator for the Hillsborough County School system for nearly four decades, his His artwork will be available for purchase along with postcards murals adorn schools, homes, businesses and public buildings. He and prints in the Tower and Garden Gift Shop with a portion of co-created the humorous “Recyclosaurus” icon at the Museum of the proceeds benefiting Bok Tower Gardens. Science & Industry (MOSI) in Tampa where his exhibit, “Painting Find Terry Klaaren online at of Our National Parks: Have Brush-Must Travel,” is currently on www.KlaarenArt.com display. www.boktowergardens.org 6 | The Garden Path | Summer-Fall 2009 David Price, President The summer season in Florida is a paradox. The rains start and As the moist air rises, the water vapor condenses releasing energy native plants come out of their drought dormancy to push forth new as it goes from a gas to a liquid. This added heat causes the air to growth. Butterflies and insects emerge; frogs sing again, rivers begin rise even higher and form huge thunderheads up to 40,000 feet. The to flow, gopher tortoises wander about, swallow-tailed kites soar massive movement of air generates electrical charges caused by the on the thermal winds, and the skies light up with fiery sunsets of friction of the air movement. The charge builds until it discharges as Photos by David Price majestic clouds and flashes of lightning. Yet, just when the main show a bolt of lightning that can be as hot as 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit and is beginning, many people leave the theater to trek to cooler climates.
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