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Arts Connection for August 30, 2007

Tune-In to Reading helps struggling readers through music; also an art exhibit on Puerto Rican Culture is at the Orlando Museum of Art; the new director of the Brevard Cultural Alliance talks what she's discovered; and the exhibit SCARRED FOR LIFE is at the Brevard Art Museum.

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 ART NEWS -

The Florida International Festival received funding from both the City of Daytona and Volusia County, securing the London Symphony for the 2009 festival, which moves to April.

Cutbacks by the City of DeLand have affected non-profits, including the DeLand Museum of Art, the West Volusia Historical Society, and the DeLand Naval Air Museum.

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Tune-In to Reading is a software program to help struggling readers, but the Tampa-based creators originally intended it as a tool to improve singing skills!  Three years of research by Dr. Susan Homan and the USF College of Education has shown significant improvement in grade-level reading.  It's now being used in 75 schools across Florida and is being implemented in New York and Texas.

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Dr. Seuss Wants You! is the new exhibit that opens Sunday at the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center, with the World War II political cartoons by Theodore Geisel - the beloved Dr. Seuss.  It runs through Nov. 30.

The History Center's first traveling Smithsonian exhibition is The Arts of the Stamp - 100 artist renderings showing the process of creating a United States postage stamp. 



Puerto Rican Art: Image of a Culture just opened at the Orlando Museum of Art, wtih 58 pieces from a large and important collection owned by Cooperativa de Seguros Multiples, an insurance company in Puerto Rico.  It features many masters of the country's art from the 1950s.  It runs through October 28, and there will be workshops, classes, tours, and a Symposium at the end of September.  OMA's First Thursday will celebrate with an Hispanic theme next week on Sept. 6.

 

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Shellie Williams became Executive Director at the Brevard Cultural Alliance just 8 months ago; she talks about the gems and the challenges in the county.

Scarred For Life closes Sept. 9 at the Brevard Art Museum - the unusual exhibit feature monoprints of surgical scars by Los Angeles artist Ted Meyer.

 

 

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