8 • The Coconut Telegraph • February 2013 February 2013 • The Coconut Telegraph • 9 Alexander Vito Paul Laskis Art and Love Win Again: Rosie Biskar Bayside Blues Festival Featured Artist of the Month at The Art Box February 6 thru March 16, 2013 • Showtime 6:30pm Bayside Grille brings you the greatest music schedule ever presented in Key Largo this season! These are performers who are tied to great names in music and television, and Rosie Biskar is 87 years love of art again. He was she showed her FEBRUARY who have gone on to win their own critical acclaim. old and her art has been the filled with ambition of his own work for years. WED&THU th th journey of her life. Growing and they fueled each other‛s Rosie and Arnold 6 & 7 JW Jones Band up with the hardships of fires for life and travel. They had begun to find A favorite of Dan Ackroyd, who’s an avid promotor for them! WED&THU World War II, Rosie excelled left Washington DC, where out how limitless 13 & 14 Harper & Midwest Kind in school – especially in her they had spent their lives, they truly were, as Didgeridoo, Harmonica, Fusion, Blues and more! passion for art. Rosie would and moved to Portland OR, he pursued a vari- WED be dealt a hard blow to her where Rosie blossomed as an ety of careers 20th Biscuit Miller & The Mix love of art when she artist. including his own Well respected and always a fun show. married at 18, At the age of 50 radio talk show, real SAT which was dutiful Arnold said they estate investing for 23rd Todd Wolfe Band and customary had both a large firm, and As lead guitarist for Sheryl Crow and Carla Olson, Todd has at that time, passed up the even politics. Rosie‛s no lack of credentials, but he and his band have created their own identity and a great sound. with the first half of art grew more intensity of their lives inspired as she Coming in March: SAT 2nd Joel DaSilva & the Midnight Howl the war. Her afraid to live traveled the west He has shared stages with BB King, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, The Black Crowes, Los Lobos, and more! art teachers and chase coast for showings SAT 9th “Braille Blues Daddy" Bryan Lee in school had their dreams, and events at & The Blues Power Band attempted to so Rosie galleries. Her art New Orleans Guitar Legend playing Chicago Blues! get her a full applied to the expanded and flour- SAT 16 Rockin Jake Band “For God and Country” scholarship, but Northwest College ished from painting, A dynamo performer from New Orleans, sharing stages with Guitar Shorty, The Neville Brothers, & Branford her father forbade it. of Arts and was to woven fabrics, to ceramics in the Keys, as she begins www.keylargoblues.com Marsalis. Five Time Award Winner for Best Harmonica. Women were not to be edu- accepted as their oldest art of all sorts. seeking out new galleries to May 31, 1921 - Jan. 1, 2013 cated, they were to be mar- student to date. School was Rosie and Arnold moved show her works. Art and love MM 99.5 Bayside, behind Cafe Largo ried! Needless to say, this did hard and the teachers were many times, finding life ever win again. Alexander V.P. Laskis (Chris) with a great- not lead to a fruitful and harder. They were not gentle more fascinating with every “The irony,” Rosie says passed away peacefully in his grandchild on the way. He loving marriage. The thirty with Rosie, whom they viewed move. One of their favorite with a smile, “is that when my home, surrounded by love and is also survived by his years of her marriage were as a wealthy woman looking to places was the geodesic dome body was strong and willing, his children. Alex was a resi- beloved nieces Audrey the most difficult of Rosie‛s pass the time. If it were not on the mountain top in Idyll- my mind limited my art. And dent of Key Largo for the (Jim) and Rita (John), Susie artistic life because she had for the support of her husband wild, CA where they felt like now that my mind is fully open past 35 years and left and Judith, nephews no support from her husband, and the other students she time stood still as if in a and my art is flowing like us on New Years Day. John Paul, Jr., who made her feel incapable might not have been able to dream. At one point they even water, it is my aging body Alex was born in “I fought for our Walter, James and of producing anything of any endure. Art and love win again. moved to Israel for over 6 that limits my art.” Waukegan, IL to Country for us all Kenneth. He value to anyone. When Rosie graduated months and would have stayed Some of Rosie‛s art will be immigrants from to be free and so leaves behind Lithuania and was many dear But art and love will win. with a Bachelors degree in longer if the firm hadn‛t on display at The Art Box in there would be no decorated World friends and As her first marriage passed, Fine Arts at 54, she was pulled them back to Portland. Key Largo where she is the World War III. War II veteran extended family she found her true love, greeted with open doors at Over their many years featured artist of the month So do not cry, weep Arnold Biskar. He emboldened some of the most prestigious together Rosie and Arnold for February. The Art Box, with several ser- members. or morn for me her and filled her with confi- art galleries in Portland such renewed their vows many along with friends and volun- vice metals and A celebration because it is I now dence, telling her to trust her as Butters Art Gallery, where times and were again planning teers are putting on a special ribbons. After his of life was held at another renewal when Arnold event showing at Rosie‛s discharge from the who has been truly the Elks Lodge in fell ill and passed away home, on February 23rd from United States Army s e t f re e .” Tavernier on Janu- ROSIE’S ART & LOVE shortly after. 1-4pm. Silver Shores will be he moved to Miami at ary 20th. Special OPEN HOUSE Rosie moved to the providing special guest park- the age of 25 and never thanks to the American looked back. legion Post 333, American Sat., February 23, 2013 Florida Keys, where she has ing accommodations at the been for the last three years, clubhouse with golf cart valet He is pre-deceased by Legion Color Guard Post from 1-4pm to be near her son. She service directly to Rosie‛s his wife of 33 years, Gloria, #154, VFW Post 10211 and Silver Shores, MM 96 Key Largo his brothers John (Maureen), the Key Largo Moose Lodge. Hosted by resides in a lovely home in home. Rosie‛s life‛s work will Silver Shores. She speaks be on display throughout Walter (Geraldine); sisters Donations may be made in The Art Box, Friends & Volunteers fondly of the two loves of her every room of her home and Beatrice, Sally (Adam); son his name to the VNA/ Hos- All “Art and Love” life: art and Arnold, and working studio. Refreshments Donald; daughters Jackie pice of the Florida Keys. Rosie’s art is also display at appreciators are welcome continues her art as she will be provided. All “Art and and Laura (John); stepsister “Keep your loved ones, The Art Box in Key Largo knows Arnold would encourage Love” appreciators are wel- Denise and stepbrother especially the elderly, close where she is February’s Refreshments provided. her to. Rosie is now ready to come. George. His grandchildren to you, for they are the featured Artist of the Month. Park at Clubhouse • Golf Cart Valet begin her new journey in art Written by Jon Dreaver. Ian, Neil, Scott and Diane children of the future. ”