FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Date: September 5, 2023
From: Dunedin Fine Art Center
Contact: Catherine Bergmann @ 727.298.DFAC, x225
Each year, DFAC looks to tie the themes of its Fall exhibits to the year-long theme running in DFAC hands-on Children’s ART Museum. This year’s theme is A Toy Story: New and Beloved Favorites.
Meta Brown Gallery
September 8 – October 15, 2023
PLAY On!
This exhibition of Artist-made Toys represents artworks in all media. In some instances, the toys were originally created for the artists’ own children and grandchildren and in other cases, reveal artists simply celebrating the spirit of PLAY!
Artists include: Meryl Bennett, Weston Brownlee, Richard Entel, Lee “Leecifer” Gadja, Sam Heimer (HH Toys), Jane Housham, Tara McPherson, + more!
Rossi Gallery
September 8 – October 15, 2023
LOL: Funny Papers
This all-media Call for Artists features artworks incorporating comics, illustrations, zines and mixed media collage. Juried selections made by DFAC’s Curatorial Team. Guest Judge and cash awards!
Gamble Family Gallery
September 15 – December 23, 2023
Amy Santoferraro: Kowtow Mountain
With extensive study, practice and teaching in the ceramic arts, Amy Santoferraro’s works are a combination of kitsch collectibles and crafted clay elements that make the familiar, unfamiliar—assigning objects a new imagined life.
Entel Family Gallery
September 15 – December 23, 2023
Nancee Clark: Insights and Follies
“My work reflects a personal mythology . . . Intentional ambiguity challenges familiar assumptions with an unanticipated and often humorous play of ideas exposing human folly.”
Nancee Clark is a southern artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her professional experience includes past directorships, university teaching and she been recipient of numerous awards and her paintings are included in various corporate and museum collections.
Douglas-Whitely Gallery
September 15 – December 23, 2023
At Home with “City of Ghosts”
This exhibit will feature the personal artwork of 17 “City of Ghosts” creators, highlighting their individual visions, passion projects, and more, and ranging in media from pen and ink to homemade holograms, clay, colored pencil and collage, digital and traditional painting, plexi-glass, video and music.
Artists include: Mike Andrews, Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin, Ako Castuera, Alex Cline, Mercedes Dorame, Luis Grane, Chloe Hsu, Elizabeth Ito, Jasmin Lai, Bob Logan, Yulissa Maqueos, Hugo Morales, Keiko Murayama, Adam Muto, Claire Nero, Zen Sekizawa, and Pen Ward, with additional contribution from Decibel Studios LA. Curated by Nathan Beard.
DLM Children’s ART Museum
This interactive hands-on experience for 4.5- to 12-year-olds provides an environment to investigate how Art and Science go together in the wonderful world of PLAY. Explore a Toy designer’s workshop using your constructive imagination with Tinker toys and Lincoln Logs, activate an animated chalk wall of Space Cadets, dance with toys in our green-screen theater, create an illuminated masterpiece with our giant Lite-Brite table, draw with laser-powered crayons and check out our vintage toy display—It’s sure to be a Barrel O’ Monkeys!
Gallery Hours:
Mon. – Fri. 10am-5pm
Gallery Admission FREE
DLM Children’s ART Museum – Mon – Fri 10am – 12 noon and 2pm – 4:00pm
Non-members $4, Seniors $3, Members & Children 2 & Under – FREE
Dunedin Fine Art Center
1143 Michigan Blvd.
Dunedin, FL 34698
727.298.DFAC
www.dfac.org
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