Jenny Clarke has posted a wonderful interview of Lezlie Laws that explores the work of LifeArt Studio. Enjoy!
Category Archives: Celebrations
Fay Picardi Launches “Simonetta” in Melbourne
Melbourne, Florida artist Cindy Michaud wants the Scribblers to know:
“Simonetta (for those not in the know of Italian Renaissance gossip) is the woman who inspired Bottecelli’s depiction of Venus, the Goddess of Love, commissioned (in the 1480s) by the d’Medici family. The painting is fraught with symbols and secret messages, but very little is known about the woman whose face has become our icon of beauty and grace.
Enter Fay Picardi, Melbourne, FL author, poet and Italian aficionado. Simonetta’s story dwelt in Fay’s imagination for as long as I have known her. Every summer she and her husband would spend months in Italy and Fay would use the woman’s story as an excuse to trek all over digging up bits of data. Pretty soon it became the reason to travel, trek and research. Years in the works, Simonetta is now her latest baby, her newest novel, and our excuse to celebrate!
Join us for the launch on November 6 during First Friday in EGAD from 5:30 until 7:30 at the Derek Gores Gallery, 587 W. Eau Gallie Blvd, #101, Melbourne. After you peruse the art (yes!) and settle in with some vino, enjoy hearing Fay read from her work at about 6:30 pm. You’ll want the book…and she will have copies of her previous books of poetry for sale (and signing) as well.
But WAIT, THERE’S MORE?! Of course there is more….Fay challenged members of her creative group to execute their own versions of the Goddess of Love aka Venus aka Simonetta, and they will be on display for your curious pleasure.
Books are also available from Amazon.com at 12.95 plus shipping, unless you are prime. For a signed copy by mail you can contact the author at SimonettaV@earthlink.net, it will only be $10.00 but there is a $3.00 flat rate shipping charge. Follow along with Fay as she prepares to launch her latest round of readings by “liking” the FB site: facebook.com/thesimonettastory.
Fay would love to discuss her work at your book club and is available by contacting her at faypic@earthlink.net. Join us in congratulating Fay for seeing her dream to completion…and entertaining us along the way.”
Dead Possums at Writer’s Block
Author Taryn Souders will meet and greet fans and sign copies of Dead Possums are Fair Game from 4 – 6 p.m. on Saturday, November 7th at Writer’s Block Bookstore in Winter Park. Pre-order for a 10% discount!
Ella has two major phobias in life: spiders and mathematics. She firmly believes that anything with more than four legs should not exist. She also believes the world would be a better place without word problems or long division. That being said, she’s fascinated by science. So when her class finds a dead opossum in the playing field one morning, she’s intrigued by rigor mortis and how long it will take for the opossum to unstiffen. Science is so much more interesting than math.
Congratulations, Brother Webb!
Webb Harris’s essay “The Education of Brother Webb,” published back in June, has won Auburn University’s Theodore C. Hoepfner Essay Prize. Congratulations, Webb!