Orlando Airport Installation              Project Contributors:
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Mennello Museum Videographer: Tom Morris
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Read A Repository for Dreams by Jon Wilson |
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Orlando Springs, at the Orlando International Airport Commissioned installation by Jarrod Ryhal and Margaret Ross Tolbert is slated for early August.
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Art in Embassies at the embassy Residence, Ankara Turkey Ambassador and Dr. Ricciardone on May 26 unveiled an exhibition of American art work loaned to the Embassy as part of the U.S. Department of State’s “ART in Embassies Program.” The exhibition showcases paintings, glass, ceramics and Turkish calligraphy by American artists working on their own or in collaboration with Turkish artists. |
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Aquiferious Events
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Silent Spring Thursday, November 18th
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Book signing and presentation
Exhibit at Lemieux Galleries , New Orleans Paintings, writing, Sirena shots from 12 springs in North Florida
with ten contributors: Bill Belleville, Stefan Craciun, Howard Jelks, Eric Hutcheson, Denise Trunk Krigbaum, Jon Martin, Tom Morris, Dan Rountree, Georgia Shemitz,
Jim Stevenson
AQUIFERious also includes photographs, artistic cave maps, essays and scientific articles from ten contributors that recount a world of extreme cave diving, history, literature and science. There are detailed chronicles of the seldom-seen life forms inhabiting the depths of the springs, as well as accounts of increasing pollution that threatens both the quality and magnitude of the spring outflows. Contributions include Bill Belleville's literary history of springs in Florida Springs: Eocene memories, Fueled by a Dream, Stefan Craciun's essay and images about Sirena, and biologist Tom Morris' Life in Florida's Aquifer Caves, which include his underwater images of the enormous caverns under Silver Springs and Silver Glen springs, as well macro photos of rare cave crayfish and shrimp. Other gripping and graphic perspectives are provided by Eric Hutcheson via his accounts of his exploits as an extreme cartographer in The Amazing Maps of Eric Hutcheson, Howard Jelks' informative Springs: A Florida Treasure, Denise Trunk Krigbaum's account of Springs Critters, Jon Martin's informative article on Springs Water Ages, Dan Rountree's essay on Siphons and Swallets, Georgia Shemitz's map of springsheds and recharge areas, and Jim Stevenson's urgent plea, Florida Springs: a Cloudy but Hopeful Future. The poetic—with the passion for the fragile springs and the creativity they inspire—is tempered with sobering stories of loss of flow and water quality. Useful links, information and how-to advice for helping conserve and protect the springs are included. A percentage of sales goes to groups helping the springs. Printed by Fidelity Press in Orlando, 160 pages casebound, 9 x 12 inches, designed by Jarrod Ryhal; $45.00; Available at Thornebrook Galleries, Media Image Gallery, Lemieux Galleries, and Amazon.com
AQUIFERious can be ordered from Thornebrook Gallery in Gainesville: thornebrook@aol.com        |
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AQUIFERious panel discussion
Twelve North Florida springs—and the Floridan Aquifer that feeds them—form the nucleus of this book through the art and writing of artist Margaret Ross Tolbert. But the aesthetics and science of this book speak to all of the freshwater springs in Florida—as well as to those readers who would experience, explore, and acknowledge the sublime qualities of these unique natural systems. 
