Take your friends, neighbors and family to Lake Worth this Saturday for a special event.  The Centennial Committee of Lake Worth has planned many events for us to celebrate with this artist haven.  This Saturday, March 9th from 11 – 4,  you can take a self-guided tour beginning in Downtown Lake Worth. Participating galleries and cultural stops are offering freebies and specials.  Bruce Webber Gallery is hosting an exhibit, “Florida, Back in the Day” featuring prominent Palm Beach artist, Bill Benjamin.  The Rickie Report hopes to see you there!

Florida, Back in the Day

An Exhibit of Original Paintings

By Palm Beach Artist

Bill Benjamin

       The Bruce Webber Gallery joins in the celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the State of Florida and the centennial of the City of Lake Worth with an exhibit of paintings by Palm Beach artist Bill Benjamin.

Opening Reception with the Artist

Thursday March 7, 2013

  5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

 JOIN IN THE FREE GALLERY WALK

SATURDAY MARCH 9th

11 – 4

Exhibit continues through March 23rd.

Bill Benjamin grew up in Palm Beach, the eldest son of William Benjamin, II, of Southampton and New York and Odette de Bruniere, of Paris, France. Bill’s mother was an accomplished artist. Besides his parents’ encouragement and his mother’s example, Bill counts his education at the Choate School and particularly the Cosnard course on the history of French art as major early influences of his lifelong interest in the Impressionist style of painting.

After studying Fine Arts at Tulane University in New Orleans, Bill worked primarily in the marine construction industry, including a year spent in Hawaii at the Naval Base in Pearl Harbor. The Eighties saw Bill’s return to Palm Beach and his art career, which was well received within the community, with gallery shows and many private and commercial clients for both works in oil on canvas and murals, particularly featured in Jennifer Ash’s book, ‘Private Palm Beach’.

Bill’s paintings feature prominently his interest in plein air and marine subjects with an impressionist flair. Please join us for this nostalgic exhibit of old Florida.  For more information contact:www.webbergallery.com or call 561-582-1045.

 ART WALK

Featured venues include:

• The Lake Worth Playhouse which will be open for touring during the Art Walk from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
• The Stonzek Theatre which will host an open house from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM with short films and fun cartoons on screen.
• Chafin Music will feature an exhibit of posters created specifically for Chafin Music Center by school aged children.
• The Bruce Webber Gallery will feature an exhibit of paintings by Palm Beach Artist Bill Benjamin entitled; Florida, Back in the Day.

 Other participants include:

• BAMBOO ROOM
• CLAY GLASS METAL STONE GALLERY
• DAVID  TORRELLA PHOTOGRAPHY
• DOWNTOWN DANCE
• JIM M. HERTZ STUDIO
• LAKE WORTH ART LEAGUE
• LAKE WORTH HISTORICAL MUSEUM
• LAKE WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY
• MARGOT STEIN GALLERY
• MARYANNE WEBBER GALLERY
• McMOW ART GLASS
• STUDIO DANCE

The Art Walk is a self guided tour and will take place rain or shine. For more information contact: Maryanne Webber  at 561 585 0003        or  Webbergalleries@bellsouth.net 

For coverage of your events, to place an advertisement, or speak to Rickie about appearing in The Rickie Report, contact The Rickie Report at:

Rickie Leiter, Publisher

The Rickie Report

P.O.Box 33423

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33420

Rickie@therickiereport.com

561-537-0291

 Lake Worth is offering a FREE Art Walk on Saturday March 9th!  What a wonderful way to begin Lake Worth’s Centennial Celebration!  The Rickie Report thinks you should take advantage of being able to see multiple galleries and studios of community-based artists, theaters, and cultural sites!

Celebrate the Arts!

Centennial Art & Culture Walk     

 Downtown Lake Worth 

Saturday, March 9,  11:00 AM – 4:00 PM

   Celebrating the Arts in Lake Worth in association with Centennial of Lake Worth. Designed to showcase the galleries and many art and cultural attractions  within the downtown area.

This free ArtWalk will begin promptly at 11:00 A.M. with an introduction at the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, 601 Lake Avenue.

Patrons will receive an Art Walk Guide and Map with the suggested itinerary. The participating venues will have special exhibits and presentations throughout the day.

Featured venues include:

• The Lake Worth Playhouse which will be open for touring during the Art Walk from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM
• The Stonzek Theatre which will host an open house from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM with short films and fun cartoons on screen.
• Chafin Music will feature an exhibit of posters created specifically for Chafin Music Center by school aged children.
• The Bruce Webber Gallery will feature an exhibit of paintings by Palm Beach Artist Bill Benjamin entitled; Florida, Back in the Day.

 Other participants include:

• BAMBOO ROOM
• CLAY GLASS METAL STONE GALLERY
• DAVID  TORRELLA PHOTOGRAPHY
• DOWNTOWN DANCE
• JIM M. HERTZ STUDIO
• LAKE WORTH ART LEAGUE
• LAKE WORTH HISTORICAL MUSEUM
• LAKE WORTH PUBLIC LIBRARY
• MARGOT STEIN GALLERY
• MARYANNE WEBBER GALLERY
• McMOW ART GLASS
• STUDIO DANCE

The Art Walk is a self guided tour and will take place rain or shine. For more information contact: Maryanne Webber  at 561 585 0003        or  Webbergalleries@bellsouth.net   

For coverage of your events, to place an advertisement, or speak to Rickie about appearing in The Rickie Report, contact The Rickie Report at:

Rickie Leiter, Publisher

The Rickie Report

P.O.Box 33423

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33420

Rickie@therickiereport.com

561-537-0291

The Bruce Webber Gallery in Lake Worth has collaborated with the Palm Beach Photographic Centre and FOTOFUSION to produce an inspiring exhibit of Fine Art photography by five South Florida artists.  The Rickie Report was able to preview the exhibit and meet with three of the principles who brought this event to fruition.  Don’t miss this exhibit, which runs through February 7th!

Bruce Webber Gallery

in collaboration with

The Palm Beach Photographic Centre and FOTOFUSION

Presents Fine Art Photography by:

   Steve Spring                 Tom McCartney

            Durga Garcia                  Stephane Vercruysse

    Wayne Becker

Exhibit Runs Through February 7, 2013

 705 Lucerne Avenue     Lake Worth, FL      561-582-1045

Monday – Friday  9-5        Saturday  10-4

Bruce and Maryanne Webber have been involved with the art scene in Southern Florida for a long period of time.  Located on Lucerne Avenue in Lake Worth, they are extremely involved in their local community and supportive of many of the art events that happen there.

A little history will help set the stage because The Rickie Report wants to remind you that Lake Worth is celebrating its 100th Anniversary!  Originally begun in 1956 as Jennings Art Shop, Dick and Lucy Purnell purchased the business in 1960 and changed the name to The Art Shop. At that time the business operated out of one small storefront in part of its present location.

In 1970, Bruce Webber wandered into the cluttered little store and noticed the stack of boxes blocking the front door.  Offering to help out, Bruce started his apprenticeship the next day and a few years later purchased the business from the Purnells. The Purnells’ focus had been picture framing, art supplies, and a few prints. Bruce wanted to expand his business into a true fine art gallery and created the Bruce Webber Gallery.

In 1989 Bruce met Maryanne whose own gallery, on an adjacent street, specialized in handmade American Crafts by artists from around the USA. They married later that year and decided to combine their businesses. Maryanne relocated her shop next to the Bruce Webber Gallery and became Maryanne Webber Gallery. The Art Shop/ Bruce and Maryanne Webber Galleries continue to attract a variety of customers, new and old, to their unique stores.

Most recently, the Bruce Webber Gallery collaborated with The Palm Beach Photographic Centre and FOTOFUSION located in West Palm Beach, to bring five South Florida artists together.  The exhibit includes the work of Wayne Becker, Durga Garcia, Tom McCartney, Steve Spring and Stephane Vercruysse.

Each artist brings their own sense of creativity to their subject matter, be it landscape, seascape, portrait or mixed media of encaustic with photography and hand embellished paint.    Wayne Becker is a former professional illustrator and animator who worked with the Disney organization.  He currently is an important and valued volunteer and teacher at The Palm Beach Photographic Centre.

Durga Garcia’s work has been seen at many galleries and juried exhibits, including Lighthouse ArtCenter and Palm Beach International Airport Art in Public Spaces.  She curates and designs all of The Palm Beach Photographic Centre’s Museum as well as Gallery Exhibitions.

Tom McCartney is a retired veterinarian and a longstanding artist.  He teaches locally and had the very good fortune to meet and study with Ansel Adams and Minor White.

Steve Spring is a volunteer and Master Printer at The Palm Beach Photographic Centre. He is Lead Photographer at Durga Garcia studios, where the focus is fine art female forms and Florida land & waterscapes.

The Bruce Webber and Maryanne Webber Galleries are located at 705 Lucerne Avenue in Lake Worth. They are open Monday through Friday from 9 – 5 and Saturdays from 10 – 4.  For more information call: 561-582-1045 or visit: www.webbergallery.com

The Rickie Report

Rickie Leiter, Publisher

For coverage of your events, to place an advertisement, or speak to Rickie about appearing in The Rickie Report, contact The Rickie Report at:

The Rickie Report

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The Rickie Report hopes you will offer a ride to a friend or neighbor and go shopping locally, as the holiday season begins!  Lake Worth offers a small town atmosphere with big city sophistication.  Stop by, park, walk and shop!

10 Reasons to Shop Downtown Lake Worth 

on

Black Friday and Small Business Saturday

Friday November 23 & 24th  - All Day and Evening

Andy, Studio 205

Small towns often suffer during the holiday season, deserted by the masses for the large malls; lured by glossy ads and non-stop commercials.  Downtown Lake Worth is fighting back.  Downtown Lake Worth vows to take back the crowds with extraordinary wares, great pricing, quality merchandise and exceptional food and entertainment.

Top Ten reasons to shop Downtown Lake Worth on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday

• You pay local merchant prices rather than the high mark-ups of the malls. Most of shops are mom and pop owned.
• There are unique, one of a kind gifts rather than the mass-produced products one sees coming and going, those gifts that are everywhere and on every commercial.
• You will find Artist-run galleries with affordable works of art for the home, the table, to wear and to admire.  Works of art direct from the artist to you.
• Specialty shops abound with gifts from all over the world and gifts made right here in the United States.  Teas, soaps, jewelry, toys, costumes, decorations, chocolates, clothing. Find unusual gifts for your pets as well.
•  Forget the food courts with their unhealthy trans-fat foods. Lake Worth has bakeries, café after café and restaurant after restaurant for you to stop into, rest your weary toes and gear up for another round of shopping.
• Stop for a music break on the streets as each corner will present local musicians from folk to blues to jazz to Caribbean drumming.  Street performers from puppeteers to hula-hoopers will be turning the streets into Key West north throughout the entire holiday season starting with Black Friday.
• Lake Worth is known for its shops filled with collectables and antiques.  They come in every price range.  For decades folks have been discovering Lake Worth and its unusual antiquing experience.
• Tis the holiday season to wander through an Americana, Old Fashioned town. Window shop, enjoy the competition between shop keepers to make their window the most festive,  see a wonderful movie, visit the theater and feel like you have fallen into a modern day Norman Rockwell painting.
• Parking is ample and free with four hour limits.  Bring your treasures to the car and go back for more. Lake Worth has a great Sheriff’s Department patrolling and protecting your purchases.
• You pockets will have plenty of green protruding when you leave the scene. Use that to take the kids to the beach.

Caroline

The Downtown Cultural Alliance (DCA) is a non-profit association of Downtown merchants and residents working together to keep Downtown Lake Worth vibrant and welcoming.  The DCA is working the Lake Worth CRA and LULA, the City of Lake Worth and the Lake Worth Chamber of Commerce to coordinate Evenings on the Avenue, the Second Saturday Sidewalk Sales, all Holiday Events and special events.  For additional information contact DCA:   Andy Amoroso Studio 205 561-533-5272   or Joyce Brown Clay Glass Metal Stone  605 Lake Avenue  215-205-9441

For coverage of your events, to place an advertisement, or speak to Rickie about appearing in The Rickie Report, contact The Rickie Report at:

Rickie Leiter, Publisher

The Rickie Report

P.O.Box 33423

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33420

Rickie@therickiereport.com

561-537-0291

Three shops in one, The Webber Galleries offer a frame shop, an art gallery and a unique gift boutique filled with beautiful things. 

Joe Horton was born in Cincinnati, OH and raised in Lake Worth, FL. While he was attracted at an early  age to tubes of color and paint-by-numbers sets, his mother, a musician, chose to introduce him to the  piano bench rather than the easel.  With music the center of his life at that time, Horton went on to earn a Bachelor of Music degree in Organ from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.
“After I got my degree in music, I immediately went into the Peace Corps in Senegal,  West Africa,” said Horton, who taught  English as a second language 19 hours a week. “I had a lot of free time and wanted to do something  creative. For lack of a piano or organ, I started drawing using the Nicolaides book “The Natural  Way to Draw” as a guide to learning to draw the human figure”, he explains.  His first art show was held in Dakar,  Senegal, in the Spring of 1975.
Joe shares, “From Senegal, I went to Saudi Arabia for seven years.  I was teaching English to Saudi soldiers (during the week), and painting landscape pictures on the weekend.  I remember drawing many portraits  of my students during class breaks at the military school.”  By the end of seven years there, Horton was making as much more money exhibiting and selling his paintings as he was teaching.
His heart set on the artist’s life, Horton moved to New York City upon his return to America in 1983 and  attended the Art Students’ League and National Academy School of Fine Art for four years.  During that  time, he met a Taos couple from New Mexico, fellow art students who invited him out to visit.  He fell in love with New Mexico and came out the next year to live and paint professionally in Santa Fe.  Horton has painted adobe gardens and landscapes of New Mexico.

Loire Valley Oil on Canvas

Since 1987, Horton has maintained a home and studio on the north side of Santa Fe.  While the majority  of his oil paintings reflect the landscape and culture of the Southwest, he can be eclectic in his  choice of subject matter and painting styles. His love of painting both coasts of the United States,  producing coloring book style pictures, copying Old Master paintings, rendering photo-realistic images  and drawing the human figure attest to his diversity of style and interests in art.
Horton believes that,” painting a beautiful picture can transport the viewer into a world of peace and  tranquility. Regardless of subject and style, each oil painting is distinctly a Horton oil which will  give the owner a lifetime of pleasure and enjoyment”.

Meet Joe Horton and see his work at Webber Galleries.  There will be an artist reception on March 22nd from 5:30 – 7:30 pm.  The Webber Galleries is located at 705 Lucerne Avenue  Lake Worth, FL.  For more information: www.webbergallery.com  or 561-582-1045.

For coverage of your events, listing of announcements in our events section, to place an advertisement, or speak to Rickie about appearing in The Rickie Report, contact The Rickie Report at:

Rickie Leiter, Publisher

The Rickie Report

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Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33420

Rickie@therickiereport.com

561-537-0291

Heart by Norman Gitzen

Valentine’s Day may be a commecrial creation according to some people, but who doesn’t love looking for art work that speaks to your heart?

Second Saturday Sidewalk Sale

On Saturday, February 11th, Lake Worth holds its Second Saturday Sidewalk Sale.  The event takes place from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Most shops and restaurants in town will be filled with Valentine fever as will the many merchants and vendors on the street.  A romantic stroll along Lake and Lucerne Avenues as well as all of the wonderful side streets is a browser’s delight.  This is a town ideal for walks, rambles and window shopping.  The merchants take pride in their special window decorations for each holiday that comes along.

Two Hearts by Victoria Rose Martin

The Downtown Cultural Alliance (DCA) is a non-profit association of Downtown merchants and residents working together to keepDowntownLakeWorth vibrant and welcoming.

For more information contact DCA:  Joyce Brown –605 Lake Avenue– 215-205-9441

For coverage of your events, listing of announcements in our events section, to place an advertisement, or speak to Rickie about appearing in The Rickie Report, contact The Rickie Report at:

Rickie Leiter, Publisher

The Rickie Report

P.O.Box 33423

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33420

Rickie@therickiereport.com

561-537-0291

For coverage of your events, listing of announcements in our events section, to place an advertisement, or speak to Rickie about appearing in The Rickie Report, contact The Rickie Report at:

Rickie Leiter, Publisher

The Rickie Report

P.O.Box 33423

Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33420

Rickie@therickiereport.com

561-537-0291