Free First Saturday at the Appleton: Visit the Appleton Museum of Art, 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala, on May 1 and enjoy free admission all day to see the special exhibition and permanent collection. Further details at 291-4455 or appletonmuseum.org.
Sunday in the Park: Kingdom of the Sun Concert Band will present Sunday in the Park, an afternoon of live music, at 3 p.m. May 2 at the Ocala/Marion County Veterans Memorial Park, 2601 SE Fort King St., Ocala. Selections include highlights from “The Music Man,” “Tijuana Taxi,” “Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again,” and “Amparita Roca.” Free; donations accepted. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Further details at 624-9291 or kingdomofthesunband.org.
Florida Tech is finalizing the transfer of the permanent collections from the Foosaner Art Museum and the Funk Center for Textile Arts to the Appleton Museum of Art at the College of Central Florida in Ocala. As this process is still in progress and details are being finalized, we cannot offer any additional comments at this time, said Adam Lowenstein, a spokesman for the university.
Florida Tech acquired the Foosaner, located in Melbourne s Eau Gallie Arts District, in July 2011, bolstered by a $1 million gift from the Foosaner Foundation and Dee Negroni-Hendrick, and agreed to run it for at least 10 years. University officials say they spent about $1.8 million bringing facilities up to code and more than $7 million to keep the museum open.
8 hours ago by Joe Byrnes (WMFE)
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The Foosaner Art Museum in Melbourne will close July 1. Photo: Google Maps
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The permanent collection at the Foosaner Art Museum in Melbourne could be destined for a museum in Ocala.
A spokesman for Florida Tech, which owns the Foosaner, says the college is, “finalizing transfer agreements” with the Appleton Museum of Art and the College of Central Florida.
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This weekend
Opening Reception: The opening of the Marion Cultural Alliance’s April art exhibit will be held April 2 from 5-6:30 p.m. at The Brick City Center for the Arts, 23 SW Broadway St., Ocala. April’s exhibit, “Then and Now,” is a judged show that celebrates the Ocala Art Group’s 70th anniversary with art from more than 35 member artists. Free event; free refreshments and entertainment. mcaocala.com or 369-1500.
First Friday Art Walk: Downtown Ocala will host its regular First Friday Art Walk on April 2 from 6-9 p.m., featuring various artists and performers on and around the downtown square. 629-8383 or artinfo@ocalafl.org
Anderson: Don t push Bright Futures into the Dark Ages
R. Bruce Anderson
State Sen. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, has apparently spent his quarantine dreaming up weird and dangerous things to inflict upon the staid population of Florida.
In my mind’s eye, I see him paralytically bored. He’s just read some Facebook posts by a more focused friend, about how they spent their last lockdown week re-reading Fowles’s “Magus” or Lord Byron’s “Stanzas for Music,” or maybe tripping through an online walking tour of the Louvre. He grows increasingly irritated because the best he can offer is an old post about some cooking show he saw about grinding a better steak burger. He snaps his fingers, decides on a course of direct action and calls in his legislative assistant (via Zoom, of course) and tells her to “get busy” because “we’re going to put a halt to subsidizing all this smarty-pants nonsense once and for all.