Funds will also support the economic recovery of local arts organizations.
“Addressing the systemic issues that impact generations of families requires sustained focus and effort,” Teri A Hansen, president and CEO of the Barancik Foundation, said in a news release. “We are optimistic that the investment of these resources will lead to a brighter, more resilient community.”
The earlier the investment, the greater the return is the Barancik Foundation’s philosophy on the life-changing importance of investing in early childhood development and education.
Grants approved by the foundation board at a recent meeting totaling just over $1 million have been awarded to boost efforts to support infant and early childhood services.
Monday 22 February 2021
Claude Monet and Roy Lichtenstein may not seem to have much in common, other than their artistic pursuits, but these wildly different artists are now the joint highlights of a garden exhibit in Florida. The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota are famed for their floral exhibits that pay homage to great artists, and this latest opening honours the unlikely duo. Numerous people came to me and said, ‘Oh, you have to do Monet,’ president and CEO of the Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Jennifer Rominiecki, told
AD, but we’ve tried to focus on artists you don’t usually associate with nature. This is where Lichtenstein, the American pop artist, comes in. He was an admirer of Monet, visited his Giverny home in his formative years and created art based on Monet s haystack series in the 1960s, later revisiting the French artist s famous waterlilies in the 1990s for some abstract canvases.