Arts festival looking for artists
The Grove Arts Festival is now inviting artists from around the country to apply for participation in this year's event to be held Feb. 16-18, 2007. I don't think I have seen any new artists so I'm not quite sure if this is a joke or not. I just see the same stale stuff year after year. Maybe finally they want something fresh.
Artists can apply online at www.coconutgroveartsfest.com. There is a $55 application fee.
They also are looking at art for the official poster. The deadline is Sept. 18 for both the regular application and the poster design. For more information on the poster contest, call 305-447-0401.
Artists can apply online at www.coconutgroveartsfest.com. There is a $55 application fee.
They also are looking at art for the official poster. The deadline is Sept. 18 for both the regular application and the poster design. For more information on the poster contest, call 305-447-0401.
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The same stale stuff is right. Please, we can do without the jewelry. The judges need to look deep and pull out the real painters and sculptors.
Artists like Gene Massin, Jack Amoroso, Tony Scornavacca, Leonard King, Sunny Storm, Grail Douglas, Eddie Wheye, Bill Clark, David Dowis, Barbara Neijna, Chuck Dodson, Don Seiler, Bill Hutton, and Mike Alloca really spiced up the Art Festival with raw talent.
They were the kings of Coconut Grove and they made Coconut Grove the artist's village that it was. They actually lived here and the Art Festival was their own.
Not only were they great artists, but they were colorful personalities. They had their own underground network of creativity and comaraderie. During off hours, you would find them in each other's studios or at Nick's Pub, The Candlelight Inn, The 27 Birds, The Jamestown, Captain Dick's, or even the Hamlet.
What an era. Somebody please call a film maker.
My idea for the Arts Festival poster would be a Grove resident being run over by a Coral Gables housewife in a Lexus SUV as she looks for a place to park while yapping on her cell phone.
I moved here in '97 and do not have pleasant memories of the event. One year a guy jumped out of his car and assaulted me just because I yelled "Stop!" when he ran through a 4-way Stop sign.
I moved to Miami the first time in 1980 and loved the Art Festival. It was a bit quirky, had real craftmen (or craftpeople?), affordable art, real characters and spread all over the Grove itself.
The last couple of iterations, ever since they built the barbed wire fence, have been really terrible: just a mass of people aimlessly walking down a straight line to see the same bland shit.
It is about time that the Coconut Grove Art Festival reinvented itself and leveraged the roots that made it popular in the 80's.
Where are they all now? All gone to dust? A gallery in Oregon had a few pieces of Grail Douglas' work, but all in stone, no wood. I remember Grail going off into the 'Glades looking for fallen wood, coming back with pieces that he turned into breath-taking beauty. But that was a while ago - 1950s and 1960s - the golden age of the Grove, I guess.
Hey, Tony! Glad to see you're still around! Add Larry Donovan to your list, though he's moved on now. Those were the days, and a film of it would kick butt, but who would believe it?
He was a good friend of mine Grail and Tony Scornavacca painted me...is Grail still alive ?
I knew most of them those were the days !!!
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