Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 68

Art iely 12E Sunday, April 8, 1973 Gypsies, Potters and Harps -On Stage Music Civic Band Concert, Apr. 15, 3:15 p.m., Fine Arts Pensacola Junior College. Arts and Crafts Library of Congress, American Beer Posters, main exhibition. Gretchen Sharpless, contemporary sculpture: Le Ba Dang, painting, upstairs. Pensacola Art Center, 407 S.

Jefferson 9 a.m.-5 p.m., 2-5 p.m. Y' When In Rome Longstreth Escosa, duo-harpists, Apr. 9, 8 p.m., Com munity Concerts Series, Pensacola High School Auditorium, add to 1-18 Theatre Theatre Becket by Anouilh, Pensacola Little Theatre, Apr. Phone 432-8621 for reservations. Museums Pensacola History in Memorabilia, Historic Museum, Old Christ Church, Church and Adams p.m., Sun.

2-4 p.m, Pensacola History in Artifact and diorama, Hispanic Museum, Tarragona and Zarragosa Sts. Florida History In Relics potpourri. Keepsakes of the past. T. T.

Wentworth Museum, Palafox Hwy. at Ensley. 2-6 p.m. Naval Aviation History, Naval Aviation Museum, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Sun.

p.m., Naval Air Station. Historic District Seville Square. Pensacola's old town maintained by the' Historic Pensacola Preservation Board. Shops, galleries, mu-' seums, historic home museums. Headquarters, Hispanic Museum, Tarragona and Zarragosa.

Transportation museum, saw mill, terminal. Exhibits of Pensacola's earliest history, including the Buccaneer, snapper fishing vessel at Municipal Pier. Classes Paula Dow, lessons in art, 415 N. Spring 438-8985. Crash course in beach scapes.

International Folk Dancing, with Tzigany, the local "gypsies," Commons University of West Florida, Thursday at 8 p.m. Pensacola painters and printmakers Anson Phelps and Frank D. (Chip) Mayes III bring fresh new look into the art scene. Also Tom Lemon's wax sculptures, Kathy Clover's fiber factorings, Bill Clover's functional sculptural pottery. Larry Manning, pottery exhibit; Creative Crafts, 200 Church Also tie dye wall hangings, sculptural ceramics, weavings, metal sculpture, macrame all in wide array.

Chuck Detrich, metal sculpture. Joe Rosenthal, primitive pastels and animal fantasies. Little Seville Gallery at South House, 208 S. Alcaniz St. Sundays, 1-5 p.m.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Grass roots gallery of local artistic color. Potpourri of arts, carfts. Bill Silhan, protographer and crafts, first floor, University of West Florida library, through Apr. 18.

Peggy Bender, art exhibit, fourth floor, University of West Florida library, through Apr. 12. Student Honors Exhibit, acrylic and oil paintings, drawings, sculpture, ceramics, prints, photographs and design projects, Pensacola Junior College, Visual Arts Building Gallery, 8 a.m.-lO p.m. weekdays except Friday when the gallery closes at 3:30 p.m., through Apr. 30.

Mobile Events Nettie Gavin, one-man show Center for Performing Arts, Hwy. 59 north of Foley, .10 a.m.-12, 2-4 p.m., Sun. 2-4 p.m. The Ginger Bread House, presented by Pixie Players, Apr. 8 at 2:30, call 342-3417 for reservations.

Mobile Public Library photography exhibit of people using the resources of the library. Main Library and Toulmin- ville Branch, Apr. 2-30. Mobile Art Gallery of treasures from Mobile homes, Apr. 6-22.

Garden tour and rare plant sale, South Alabama Botanical and Horticultural Society, Apr. 8, 1-5 p.m. Shaping Them Into Dreams, third annual arts showcase, Culture in Black White, Apr. 8, 3 p.m., Mobile Municipal Theatre. Collection of 17th and 18th century portraits by artists of several European countries.

Waterfront Galleries on Seville Square. Open every day except Monday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Special Showing, Bill Thompson. Graduating senior shows, weekly, Thursday through Thursday, fourth floor of UWF library. Regular library hours.

Barbara Weeks, watercolors, seascapes, acrylics. Design Center, Gulf Breeze Parkway. Ceramics, pottery, sculpture by Judy Brown and Larry Manning. 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m. 1-4 p.m.

William Hunt, UWF visiting professor. Prints, drawings, first floor library. Reproductions for rent. Available by library card on regular loan schedule. Old masters and contemporary.

Pensacola Public Library, 200 E. Gregory St. Reading room art, Pensacola Public Library. Works by local professional artists, upstairs reading room. East Hill Little Gallery, 1300 E.

Strong St. Pottery by June Jordan, Fodderstack Pottery, Washington, Va. Needle-craft by Northwest Florida craftsmen. Meatpackers Gallery, new addition to Meatpackers Building, 115 E. Garden St.

Dale Silver's accomplished mixed media, Bob Green's metal sculptors, John Ready's new look photography, Evelyn Sanders' uniquely designed macrame and jewelry and a potpourri by professional artists and artisans of the Gulf Coast. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Prints and paintings by Joe Durrett and Don Dunn. Zach Baisden, VZTOP Galleries, 434 E. Zaragossa St.

in Seville Square, 10 a.m.-noon, 2-5 p.m. 2-5 p.m. Continuing exhibits of oils, prints (including wildlife), watercolors, functional and sculptural ceramics. Mayes-Phelps Studio Art Gallery, 116V4 Palafox. Dr.

Emilio Tommasi, honoree at an Italian Cultural Club dinner Sunday will be the Pensacola Travel Club's guest speaker Monday at 8 p.m. at Pensacola Junior. College. Dr. Tommasi will deliver a slide presentation followed by a brief film on travel opportunities in Italy.

Despite current, strikes, Easter holidays are expected to draw countless tourists for the pag- eants and festivals. Bom in Rome, Dr. Tommasi received an education in law at the University of Rome, attended the City of London College and the Sorbonne in Paris. He heads the Italian Government Travel Office in New York, which has territorial jurisdiction for tourist promotion on behalf of Italy in over 25 states. Hence Itandards lie Arts: and A skew xce Setting of cultural enrichment.

enrichment a budgetary priority. This news medium was one of the leaders in informing government of its responsibility to help establish aesthetic standards. Daytone Beach News-Journal has published a full-color art reproduction calendar featuring paintings, prints and watercolors by Florida artists. When Enjoy magazine, the only arts magazine serving the entire state and distributed free to arts events attenders in every city, could not raise the money for continued publication, the Daytona Beach News-Journal assumed responsibility at a considerable loss. This deficit led to the eventual demise of Enjoy, but the effort for a brief time provided an important arts information source in colorful, slick magazine appeal.

JACKSONVILLE, WINNER in the category of a city with an over 100,000 population, enjoys a statewide reputation for strong aesthetic heritage. Despite financial problems, nearly -every phase of the arts, including regionally recognized private galleries, have continued to set and meet high professional standards. Cultural institutions during the past 25 years have remained unsurpassed in the Southeast for a community of Jacksonville's size, in the Fine Arts Council's adjudication. The Afro-American Cultural Development Center, nears completion to complement the three nearly new museums, a civic auditorium and theatre and a community playhouse. Each of the four university campuses in Jacksonville offer arts facilities.

Official position of the Jacksonville government is arts sponsorship with arts force advisors to the mayor and a recent 50 per cent increase in city government cultural appropriations. Cities under 100,000 population receiving state commendation are Sarasota, Lakeland and Winter Park. Sarasota provides home for the Ringling Museums in which Western Hemisphere's largest collection of Baroque art is contained. Asolo State Theatre, serving all Florida counties from its reconstructed original 18th century Italian state palace, also calls Sarasota home. A community symphony, theatre and the New College Festival find support in Sarasota where individuals and businesses contribute $1.5 million to the arts.

Lakeland with a symphony orchestra, little theatre, art guild and museum and Florida Southern College (the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed campus) currently builds a $9.5 million cultural complex and convention center. Lakeland's Creative and Performing Arts Council formed two years ago budgets for the operation of and contains representation from all the city's arts organizations. Center of one of the Southeast's largest outdoor arts and crafts exhibitions with recognized professional artisans drawing viewers by the thousands, Winter Park shows consistent arts support from business, government and individual leaders. The city's dedication to aesthetic values reflects in park design, building construction and street layout. By SHARON DeMARKO Newi-Journal Arts Editor A STRONG TRADITION of striving for a quality life environment and tangible, endurable results are commonalities characterizing recipients of the first Governor's Awards for the Arts, bestowed Tuesday with the opening of the Florida Legislature.

All winners shared the proof of time in endeavors, each accomplishment reached a broad population base. These are in part the reasons why Pensacola nominees did not receive official recognition by the state government through decisions made by the 14-member Fine Arts Council of Florida. Nominations from Pensacola were the Escarosa Humanities Project directed by Charles V. Branch; The Action '76 task forces generally, the cultural appraisal specifically; and WSRE-TV. Escarosa, a federally funded project to humanize education through the fine arts in elementary and secondary education existed for three years until 1971 when the Escambia County School Board declined to absorb the project into the regular school system.

As a Title III experimental program, the center provided a nucleus of resources ranging from audio-visual aids, teacher workshops, student classes and studio experience to full-scale student productions and imported talent of high professional caliber. A meticulous data analysis system disclosed approximately 3,000 children in the program learned arts appreciation while becoming more responsive to the general curriculum and less alienated from the authority structure. Teachers evaluated the center's methodology receptive to their idea input and facilitory to their classroom responsibilities. However, the normal termination date for federal monies brought the close of the project with Branch moving to the University of Florida as a doctoral candidate. All Action '76 proposals were designed to upgrade the living standard in its broadest sense, and culturally, to expedite arts service delivery to the public mass.

A lucid plan of developing all fine and popular arts within the grasp of the city and county was delineated by the cultural task force. Activated, the recommendations would give West Florida a civic opera and ballet; coordination of efforts between arts agencies; greater cooperative ventures between Pensacola Junior Colloge, the University of West Florida and community projects; expanded arts education opportunities at all public school levels; children's theatre; centrally located cilities and broader funding base through the arts council However, a majority of specific directives to achieve vated aesthetic awareness are only in the planning stages, or not yet set in motion beyond good idea agreement among cultural developers. WSRE-TV channel 23, the Public Broadcasting System station at Pensacola Junior College, was nominated as a recognition of PBS nationally for bringing cultural opportunities of magnitudinous quality nightly into an area where finances limit them to three or four times annually. I Additionally, the station produces its own culturally informative programs and follow-ups on nationally generated environmental analyses. But, the viewing audience is small, particularly since the school board no longer funds daytime programs for classroom use.

WSRE monies, cut back locally and nationally to require a 10-staff member reduction, prohibit conclusive audience polling to determine the number of viewers and the effect of non-commercial television on the general populace, i Considering the winners of the first Governor's Awards for the Arts, described by Rcubin Askew as "a standard of excellence and recognition for the many citizens who daily provide their time, talent and resources to enhance the cultural life of this great state," Pensacola arts activists and activities appear more aspiring fledglings than mature wings The. Fine Arts Council of Florida, realizing the great amount of achievement in, contribution to, and support of the arts in this state, salutes this year's winners of the Governor's Awards for the arts. The services and aesthetic contributions made by busi-' nesses, cities and individuals to the arts have enriched the lives of many people and have made Florida a better, more beautiful place to live. It is hoped by the Council that the examples set by this year's winners will stimulate and encourage others to start en- gaging in and supporting more activities concerning the Fine Arts Tippen Davidson, chairman, Fine Arts Council of Florida. Community Concerts.

Vice President Maxwell Cooke acts as vice president of the Asolo State Theatre and president of the Asolo Opera Guild. He has been chairman of charitable events including the Asolo Theatre Pasticios, Asolo Theatre Dinners for Helen Hayes and Shirley Booth and the West Coast Symphony All-ego Balls. In Jacksonville, the Atlantic National Bank receives gubernatorial distinction for a promotional campaign to benefit the Cummer Gallery of the Arts, the Jacksonville Arts Museum and the Jacksonville Children's Museum. Depositors are offered a six-month individual membership in their choice of one of the three participating museums. This multi-media campaign, hailed as one of the first mass efforts by Florida business to loan prestige to aesthetic efforts, anticipates a 1,000 members increase.

Orlando Area Chamber of Commerce earned an arts award for helping to organize the Council of Arts and Sci-. ences of Central Florida and assisting drives to fund the Florida Symphony Orchestra, Loch Haven Art Center, Central Florida Museum and Planetarium and Central Florida Civic Theatre. The chamber provides office space for the Civic Museum Association and contains an art exhibit in the building which has been cited for structural artistry. Manpower for PESO Participation Enriches Science, Music and Art Organizationshas been chamber provided. With a shrub and metal sculpture decorated parking lot, an aesthetically pleasing building design and Florida artists' work displayed throughout the offices, City Bank of St.

Petersburg receives state distinction. Burdine's cosponsors with Scholastics Magazine the major national visual arts competition for high school students. In Miami, the store incorporates artistic designs in promotional displays to merit regard by the Fine Arts Council of Florida as an emulation worthy example. Final recipient Is the Daytona Beach News-Journal whose general manager Tippen Davidson is chairman of the Fine Arts Council of Florida. Should someone suspect collusion, doubts would be assuaged by reviewing council aaccom-plishmcnts in aiding arts from Miami to Pensacola.

Despite the dismissal of the council director In a legislative money conservation move and no state funds to fulfill grants, Davidson and the 14 other council members have vigorously stimulated Florida's aesthetic growth, The newspaper consistent inspirits the arts in Daytona Beach and the state with a potent editorial policy nurturing aesthetic pursuits, and prompting legislators to give cultural INDIVIDUALS HONORED by the governor have also donated years of energies to initiating and perpetuating fine arts as paragons of tradition. John Tiedtke of Winter Park has been president of the 38-year-active Bach Festival Society, America's second oldest commemoration of the master's music. Active in founding the Florida Symphony Orchestra of which he has served on the board since its inception, Tiedtke was founding director of Channel 24, Central Florida's Educational Television Station, and the Central Florida Council of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Frances Bartlett Kinne, dean of the College of Fine Arts at Jacksonville University, for 12 years has pioneered as the first and still only woman dean of a similar college in the U.S.

Also chairman of the Development Committee for the Arts in Jacksonville Action Plan, Dean Kinne is credited by the city for inspiring artistic growth through innovated programs at the college. She lectures throughout the academic year in support of the arts and has brought noted artists to the Jacksonville area. Dr. Kinne is also applauded for inspiring students and faculty to participate in such community activities as the symphony orchestra. Building the Morse Gallery of Art on the Rollins College campus and assembling a large portion of the collection are two reasons for distinguishing Mrs.

Jeannette McKean. She coordinated the first modern times exhibition of Louis Comfort Tiffany's work and operates the Center Street Gallery in Winter Park, This gallery of her design is considered by the Fine Arts Council of Florida "a major work of art." Mrs. McKean can claim distinction as a painter and has been nationally awarded for her work as an interior designer. To Norma Tina Russo, the fourth and final honoree, the San Carlo Opera of Tampa, Inc. owes its existence.

The founder, general manager and artistic director continues to expand the company despite injuries, including partial blindness, inflicted by assailants three years ago. Madame Russo sang Michaela's role in "Carmen" in the San Carlo Opera House in Naples, Italy at age 19, then continued a promising stage career with the San Carlo Opera in New York. She arrived in Tampa in 1932, stranded by a divorce, three young children and the Depression. Areas unnoticed in the first (and presumably annual) Governor's Awards for the Art3 should not feel slighted, but perhaps grateful to the cities, businesses and individuals who have provided integral guidelines for aesthetic achievement touching audiences far beyond dress circle. In each instance, the award footlightcd a project or person, usually seasoned, cultivating immediate audiences and insuring posterity's committment through educational techniques aimed at both non-involved adults as well as children and young people.

As Beverly F. Dozier, director of tho Division of Cultural Affairs for the state, announced: "The boom in the arts is being experienced across the nation in such a way that all people, rich and poor or young and old, will receive its bene- fils "This year's recipients represent tho grass roots input and backbone that mako tho arts movement a reality in FLORIDA BUSINESSES receiving the governor's praise have not only donated tax deductions but committed reputations to cultural development. The Florida Gas Company, Winter Park, in conjunction with the Florida Arts Museum Directors Association, spon- sored traveling exhibitions featuring Florida's most outstanding artists. Florida Gas underwrote each exhibit with an initial budget for $500 cash awards to three "best of show" entries and for the last two years has sponsored the "Young People's Art Show," displaying in its headquarters, works by 140 elementary students in Orange County schools. The company maintains an original art collection in its Winter Park main office, a design honor recipient.

Tampa businesses sponsor the Gasparilla Sidewalk Art Festival, a three-year old vehicle for amateur and professional artists to show. The 1971 event encompossed 136 exhibitors; by 1973, 342 artistans participated, Publix Super Market Corp. in Lakeland contributes substantial finances to cultural improvement, subsidizes activities and loans personnel and supplies to design sets, create backdrops and promote events. The Polk Public Museum operates from one of the original Publix buildings. Sarasota's Cooke Cadillac Co.

supports Asolo, the Allied Arts Council, the Florida West Coast Symphony and.