Art Comes To Life in Flaming Glory at Lake Worth’s Art Synergy Event!
Art comes to life in flaming glory on Friday, January 23, 2015 at 7:00 PM! Two of the most renowned glass artisans, Shelley Muzylowski and Rik Allen, will give live demonstrations of their glassblowing skills at the new Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts, a 14,000 square foot fine arts fabrication center located in Lake Worth. Benzaiten’s Creative Director Rick Eggert will also be demonstrating his phenomenal skills along with glass artist, David Peterson. Participants will also enjoy music, flowing champagne & wine along with artistic nibbles plus a special gallery show with many of the city’s leading artists participating. The Rickie Report shares the details of this exciting program of Art Synergy/ARTWEEK during ArtPalmBeach.

ART SYNERGY, 2015
Friday, January 23rd
Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts
1105 2nd Ave South
Lake Worth, FL 33460
7pm – 10pm
Sponsors of Lake Worth Art Synergy include:
Presenting Sponsor:
The Cultural Council of Palm Beach County
Hosting and Visiting Artists Sponsors:
Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts
and
McMow Art Glass
Gallery Sponsor:
Habatat Galleries
Come and meet the artists of Lake Worth. Lake Worth is fast becoming a serious hub of artistic activity. It is where art is shown, where artists live and where artists come to create their work. Come enjoy and see what it’s all about.
Shelley Muzylowski Allen was born in Manitoba, Canada, and has a B.F.A. in Painting and Intaglio from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design (Vancouver, B.C.). In 1998, Shelley worked with the William Morris sculpture team in Washington State as a glass-sculpting assistant through 2004.
In 2005, Shelley established a glass and sculpture studio with her husband, artist Rik Allen at their property in Skagit County, Washington. In addition to being an artists, Shelley and Rik and have taught internationally at the Toyama Institute of Glass in Toyama, Japan, and the International Glass Festival in Stourbridge, England. They have also taught nationally, including the Penland School of Craft, Pittsburgh Glass Center and at the Pilchuck School.
Shelley has been awarded Provincial and Canada Council grants, and her work is held nationally and internationally in public institutions and private collections. In 2008, Shelley had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, Washington, titled Modern Menagerie. Other selected shows include Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe and Scottsdale; Habatat Galleries, Michigan; Traver Gallery, Seattle; and Thomas Riley Galleries, Ohio. In 2012, Shelley was a guest artist at Studio Salvadore in Murano, Italy, where she collaborated with Davide Salvadore on a series of large-scale sculptures.
For more information about this event please contact: Taylor Materio of McMow Art Glass Inc. 701 N. Dixie Hwy Lake Worth Fl 33460 taylor@mcmow.com or ph: 561-585-9011 x108 or visit http://www.mcmow.com
For more information about Art Synergy/ARTWEEK 2015 and Art Palm Beach please visit: www.ArtSynergyPBC.com
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