Opening Reception: The Highwaymen at Lake Worth Campus

In Celebration of Black History Month The Division of Humanities Presents a Selection of Paintings from the Florida Highwaymen. The following excerpt was taken from the Highwaymen Paintings website and provides a brief synopsis of the work.

"During the early 1950’s through the 1980’s a group of twenty-six African-American artists known as the "Florida Highwaymen" used vivid and bright colors to display the beautiful untouched Florida landscape.

The Florida Highwaymen painted wind-bent palm trees, serene sunsets, churning oceans and bright red Poinciana trees. They painted from their garages and back yards on inexpensive Upson board and then on the weekends they would travel and sell their Highwaymen paintings to hotels, offices, businesses and individuals who appreciated the artwork for around $25 a piece.

Collecting Florida Highwaymen art has become an exciting, but often expensive, hobby. The market for an original work of art by a Florida Highwayman can easily bring $5,000 or more. Some of the Highwaymen who are still living have resumed painting to meet the continuing demand for their work."

We hope to see you at the opening tonight from 5-7 pm.

Help for Haiti

Faculty, students and staff are all concerned with the people of Haiti, if you want to help but aren't sure of how or where, the Red Cross and the United Nations Central Emergency Fund are two good options. No amount is too small and your donations can be put into action in as little as three hours after making a contribution. Keep the people of Haiti in your thoughts and if you know someone with family or friends with ties to Haiti, talk to them and help if you can.

Art Palm Beach 2010

Looking for something to do over the long holiday weekend? Why not visit ART PALM BEACH: Celebrating its 13th anniversary, Art Palm Beach is a dynamic event being held at the Palm Beach Convention Center from January 15-19. Art Palm Beach plays host to international galleries
presenting contemporary art, photography, video, installation art,
public sculpture, and design. Admission is $15 for a single day pass and $20 for a multi day pass.

Call for Entries

The Town of Lake Park is having an event “ Art on Park Festival” and they are seeking to have their first event poster. The town thought it would be beneficial to have the participation of some local college students on this 1st Art Festival. It is a great opportunity for building your portfolio and great exposure if selected.

The winner will receive a prize towards grants for their arts. The event is on March 27th & 28th 2010. Therefore we need to speed up the process in order to have all materials in time for the event. If you are interested please contact Jennifer Spicer.

Celebration on Each Campus

At 4 p.m. on January 12, 2010, the District Board of Trustees will take official action to put the new name Palm Beach State College into effect. The new college seal, logo and slogan also will be unveiled. To hear what our students are saying about the big change visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E14O2glHD94 .

Visit www.pbcc.edu/events.xml for specific information on the celebration, either in personor by watching the action live on the Web. The Web address for the live video stream will be:
StateCollegeBeginsLive.asx

Art of Ink Show at Palm Beach State College, Eissey Campus

The Art of Ink show is now opened at the Eissey Campus in Palm Beach Gardens and features 60 works of Contemporary Calligraphy. There will be a demonstration by Master Sun Wuk Kim and other participating artists on Tuesday, January 12th-5-6pm. For more information visit pbcc.edu or contact gallery assistant Karla Walter.

12 Week Course Added: Multi Media Animation

Due to high enrollment we are please to announce that we are offering a 12 week section of Multi Media Animation.

You will learn how you use Adobe Flash and build interactive components that can be used on web sites or as stand alone animations. This is an Intro to Flash so beginners are welcomed.

Palm Beach State College students can enroll online using Panther Web. Classes are filling fast so enroll today!

Call for Entries:6th Annual National Painting, Drawing and Printmaking Competition

Submit your entries for the 6th Annual National Painting, Drawing and Printmaking Competition.
Palm Beach State/PBCC, Lake Worth campus.
Juror: Marisa Pascucci, Curator of American Art at the Norton Museum of Art. Awards of $1650.
Open theme.
Slide or digital entries due: February 19, 2010.
Exhibit runs from April 8 – June 17, 2010.

For a prospectus, send SASE to: Palm Beach Community College Attn: Kristin Miller Hopkins, Gallery Manager, Division of Humanities, MS15, 4200 Congress Avenue, Lake Worth, FL 33461 or download at: http://www.pbcc.edu/x9339.xml

Welcome to Palm Beach State College Humanities

Welcome to the first blog entry for Palm Beach State College Humanities Department. The goal of this blog is to inform the community about all the events on and near campus.

You'll find invitations and reviews of shows and performances.

We are very proud of our faculty and students and hope this blog will serve as a showcase. If you have any ideas please post your comments or send me an email at martinv@pbcc.edu.