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Showing posts with label Gulf Coast Center for Fishing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gulf Coast Center for Fishing. Show all posts
Sunday, September 9, 2012
In the news again!
In early July, Pinellas County artists were invited by The County and The Florida Gulf Coast Center For Fishing to enter their creative works for selection as the official Pinellas County Centennial Poster. The winning image was fated to be used as official art for the September 14th Celebration of The County's hundred years of existence. Participants were invited to submit interpretations that serve to reflect the rich heritage and unique history of Pinellas County. It gives me great pleasure to announce that my own submission titled "Timeline Pinellas" will be used for this purpose and recently appeared on the front page of the Pinellas Park Beacon.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Pinellas County Centennial Poster
In early July, Pinellas County artists were invited by The County and The Florida Gulf Coast Center For Fishing to enter their creative works for selection as the official Pinellas County Centennial Poster. The winning image was fated to be used as official art for the September 14th Celebration of The County's hundred years of existence. Participants were invited to submit interpretations that serve to reflect the rich heritage and unique history of Pinellas County. It gives me great pleasure to announce that my own submission titled "Timeline Pinellas" will be used for this purpose.
With symbolic imagery, "Timeline" (featured above) expounds upon the historical events and peoples who have called Pinellas County "home." The color scheme of the poster is an allusion to the colors of the Pinellas Logo. At the bottom of the poster, a Native American, representing a member of Pinellas's Tocobaga Tribe (who called the area home in the 1500's to 1700's) looks out of the poster at the viewers. Above him a tall ship flies the Spanish Colonial Flag, representing the era of the Panfilode Narvaez Expedition and the Spanish Conquistadors who landed in the spring of 1528. Nearby, a period sailor looks through his telescope to the image of an orange, symbolic of the citrus industry which will later bring rail and commerce to our county. This same orange is playfully inserted as the sun icon, which is a component of the Pinellas Logo to the left. The logo overlooks a fisherman, alluding to the area's fishing rancheros of the 1700's, and his line dances across the sky carrying our eyes to the train, alluding to the rail industry of the 1800's and the vacationers alluding to the tourist boom of the 1900's. Modern day Saint Petersburg lies at the forefront of the poster.
I would like to express my gratitude and thank the judges for affording me this great success. I hope this may be serve as a gateway to many more wonderful projects.
Thank you all.
Lyle Polyak
With symbolic imagery, "Timeline" (featured above) expounds upon the historical events and peoples who have called Pinellas County "home." The color scheme of the poster is an allusion to the colors of the Pinellas Logo. At the bottom of the poster, a Native American, representing a member of Pinellas's Tocobaga Tribe (who called the area home in the 1500's to 1700's) looks out of the poster at the viewers. Above him a tall ship flies the Spanish Colonial Flag, representing the era of the Panfilode Narvaez Expedition and the Spanish Conquistadors who landed in the spring of 1528. Nearby, a period sailor looks through his telescope to the image of an orange, symbolic of the citrus industry which will later bring rail and commerce to our county. This same orange is playfully inserted as the sun icon, which is a component of the Pinellas Logo to the left. The logo overlooks a fisherman, alluding to the area's fishing rancheros of the 1700's, and his line dances across the sky carrying our eyes to the train, alluding to the rail industry of the 1800's and the vacationers alluding to the tourist boom of the 1900's. Modern day Saint Petersburg lies at the forefront of the poster.
I would like to express my gratitude and thank the judges for affording me this great success. I hope this may be serve as a gateway to many more wonderful projects.
Thank you all.
Lyle Polyak
(2 C more art go to www.themindscapeartfoundry.com or www.artoflylepolyak.com)
Sunday, March 25, 2012
An Art Museum's Revival
As quoted from a 2009 Saint Petersburg Times News Article - "Struggling with low attendance, the Gulf Coast Museum abruptly closed its doors for good Monday, "a sad and disappointing end," according to a statement sent to its members." The campus of the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, on the Grounds of the beautiful Florida Botanical Gardens and the historic Heritage Village, has been abandoned for these last three years.
Now under the care of a dedicated local, the campus will be re-opened a serve a goal both educational and artistic. The Florida Gulf Coast Center For Fishing will call the old museum its home and feature educational programs, artistic opportunities and attractions to area enthusiasts and visitors.
The New Museum's founders have published - "The mission is to establish a multipurpose Center for fishing activity, dedicated to introducing and teaching children about life through fishing, and a training center for adults, in conjunction with an Interactive Museum commemorating the past, present and future of fishing on Florida's Gulf Coast... The Florida Gulf Coast Center for Fishing and Interactive Museum is housed in an architecturally award winning 30,000 square foot educational complex complete with an auditorium, classrooms, historical and marine art galleries, seafood cafe’, marine store and fishing lake."
The gallery, truly museum sized, will house the work of local artists, some of them, like myself, from the Pinellas Park Art Society and other local groups and well as private artists. As of now, I have eight works due to be installed. It will be a pleasure to see this Museum take shape again and it's already a great honor to be among the first artists offered this opportunity.
Thanks for reading.
(2 C more art go to www.artoflylepolyak.com or www.themindscapeartfoundry.com)
Now under the care of a dedicated local, the campus will be re-opened a serve a goal both educational and artistic. The Florida Gulf Coast Center For Fishing will call the old museum its home and feature educational programs, artistic opportunities and attractions to area enthusiasts and visitors.
The New Museum's founders have published - "The mission is to establish a multipurpose Center for fishing activity, dedicated to introducing and teaching children about life through fishing, and a training center for adults, in conjunction with an Interactive Museum commemorating the past, present and future of fishing on Florida's Gulf Coast... The Florida Gulf Coast Center for Fishing and Interactive Museum is housed in an architecturally award winning 30,000 square foot educational complex complete with an auditorium, classrooms, historical and marine art galleries, seafood cafe’, marine store and fishing lake."
The gallery, truly museum sized, will house the work of local artists, some of them, like myself, from the Pinellas Park Art Society and other local groups and well as private artists. As of now, I have eight works due to be installed. It will be a pleasure to see this Museum take shape again and it's already a great honor to be among the first artists offered this opportunity.
Empty walls soon to be filled.
Empty walls soon to be filled.
The grounds.
The grounds.
The grounds.
The grounds.
The grounds.
Thanks for reading.
(2 C more art go to www.artoflylepolyak.com or www.themindscapeartfoundry.com)
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