FMB Art opens student scholarship show
The Fort Myers Beach Art Association with support from the Town of Fort Myers Beach is hosting the annual Student Scholarship Show at their gallery on Donora Street. Artwork will be hung on Wednesday, April 14, and the gallery will be open for viewing on Saturday, April 17, during regular hours of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Featured art is from senior art students from Cypress Lake High School and Cypress Lake School of the Arts. Those who intend to study art and design at the secondary education level are competing for college tuition scholarships awarded by the art association. Cypress Lake Middle School art students will also have work shown and be awarded prizes. Beach Elementary School students, who always participated in the past, are not showing this year due to the elimination of the art program at the school due to budget cuts.
There will be a reception and awards presentation on Sunday, April 25, from 3 to 5 p.m. which is open to the public as well as students and their guests. We invite you to stop by and view the pieces created by these very talented students. There will be a wide range of styles, subject matter and materials used. At the awards reception the winning raffle ticket will be drawn for the watercolor painting done by Maya Bryant and donated to the scholarship fund by her family. Tickets are for sale at the gallery until the drawing. The show will run until April 28.
The gallery is on Donora Street at the blinking light off Estero Blvd. It is open at the above hours until April 29. The hours for May 1 to October 26 will be Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to noon only. For more information on any FMBAA activity see the Web site www.fortmyersbeachart.com or call the gallery at 463-3909. Visitors are always welcome and new members delight us.
-submitted by Michele Buelow, president of the FMB Art Association