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By Staff | Jul 7, 2009

Alliance of the Arts

The 23rd Annual 2D/3D All Florida Juried Exhibition Artwork will be displayed through Aug. 7. The Alliance welcomes three new members: Carolyn Gora, Jessica Paletsky and Chris Spiro.

The Alliance is located at 10091 McGregor Boulevard just south of Colonial Boulevard. Visit: “http://www.artinlee.org”>www.artinlee.org for information or call 939-2787.

Chip Withrow Plays at Alliance GreenMarket on the 4th

This Independence Day Chip Withrow, a local family folk artist, partners with the Lee County Alliance of the Arts strumming up entertainment for weekly GreenMarket shoppers. GreenMarket, open Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to noon has rapidly grown at the Alliance offering all certified organic products fresh from the sea, farm, pottery wheel, garden, oven, kitchen and even the bee hive.

Alliance Galleries are open from 9 to5 Monday Through Friday and from 10 to 3 on Saturdays, Located at 10091 McGregor Boulevard just south of Colonial Boulevard. Visit www.artinlee.org for more details of all the excitement our community has to offer.

Artworks for Broadway Palm

Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre is looking for artwork in various mediums to display n conjunction with the theatre’s 17th season schedule, which runs Aug. 13, 2009 through Aug. 7, 2010.

The Broadway Palm Art Gallery is inside Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre at 1380 Colonial Blvd., in Fort Myers. Gallery hours correspond with box office hours and performance times. For more information call 278-4422 or e-mail to: Tickets@BroadwayPalm.com.

Children of the Everglades

The Lee County Port Authority and the Lee County Alliance for the Arts recently installed an exhibit entitled, “Children of the Everglades” at Southwest Florida International Airport, as part of the “Art in Flight” program. The public exhibit, which will be on display until May 2010, includes photographs of Florida’s Seminole-Miccosukee Indians and artifacts on loan from the Hanson Family Archives.

Art in Flight is a partnership between the Lee County Alliance for the Arts and the Lee County Port Authority. For more information on the exhibit, the Hanson Family Archives and the “White Medicine Man”, visit: www.Seminole-Lodge.com or www.ArtInLee.org.

Open studio session with costumed model

All Portrait and Figure Artists, teachers, students and visiting artists, this is an open studio for all portrait and figure painters, Saturday, July 11 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 2439 McGregor Blvd., Fort Myers. For information call 481-2081.

Boys & Girls Clubs

Crowne Plaza Hotel at Bell Tower Shops announce it will be making a donation of over $1,000 to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Lee County to help fund their Summer enrichment program.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Lee County Summer Enrichment program began June 15, and runs through Aug. 14.

For more information about the Boys & Girls Clubs contact Bill Bunnin at 334-1886 or visit: www.bgclc.net.