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Vistas

Through December 16, 2013

City of Orlando, City Hall, Mayor’s Gallery

400 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, Florida 32802

Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm, Closed Major Holidays

The City of Orlando Public Art Program is please to present “Vistas”, recent landscape paintings by Orlando artist Donne Bitner.  Donne Bitner graduated with honors from Pennsylvania State University with a B.A degree and a major in art.  She maintains a studio at McRae Art Studios in Winter Park, FL, where she paints and chats with other artists.  Ms. Bitner teaches watercolor, acrylic painting and abstract exploration at Crealde School of Art and gives workshops throughout the South.  Those include Arrowmont School of Art, The Museum of Florida Art, Rollins College and Vero Beach Center for the Arts.  Her work can be seen at Arts on Douglas Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Bennett Gallery, Knoxville, Clayton Gallery, Tampa and Amy Schelling Gallery, Telluride among others.  Collections include The Huntsville Museum of Art, The Springfield Museum of Art, Fl International Museum, Rollins College and the cities of Atlanta, Melbourne and Orlando.  Honors include a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, a Florida Professional Artist Grant, three Professional Artist grants from United Arts. and 7 Best of Show Awards.  When asked about her new work, Donne replied, “Landscapes are a recurring subject for me. I have been using oil pastels for years on paper but landscapes on canvas are a new approach.  I rarely use a reference for my paintings.  Rather these are imagined landscapes.  I aim to capture the impact of remembered images.

Sailor's Delight - acrylic on canvas - Donne Bitner

Sailor’s Delight, acrylic on canvas, by Donne Bitner.

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Handcrafted Poetry and Timeless Prose

Friday, December 13th 7-11 p.m.
“Culture Pop” is an artsy evening under the stars at the Maitland Art Center Gardens on Packwood Ave in Maitland. The Art Show is: Handmade Nation and a $3 admission price includes art show, literary readings and access to a cash bar and food truck.

The evening’s Literature Out Loud series, brought to you by Maitland Poets & Writers is entitled, “Handcrafted Poetry and Timeless Prose.” Enjoy a rare night of poetry and prose from Phillip F. Deaver, Rollins writing professor and winner of the Flannery O’Conner Award. Combine it with the new poetry of Suzannah Gilman, author of I Will Meet You at the River, and you have a memorable night of wonderful words.
I will meet you at the river

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Listen up!

WIANTerry Odell’s Daphne du Maurier finalist novel, What’s in a Name? is now available as an audio book.

Running for the wrong reason can still get you killed.

Kelli Carpenter has changed her name, her appearance—her life—to avoid being connected to a crime she committed in self defense years ago. But just when she thinks she has nothing to fear, handsome stranger Blake Windsor shows up.

He claims to be the handyman her boss sent to help complete the project she’s working on—Camp Getaway—a place where inner city kids will get respite from concrete and drive-bys. Being a loner has kept her alive, and Kelli’s instincts tell her to leave. But without Blake’s help, the refuge for inner city children won’t be completed on time. Against her instincts, she accepts his help.

Blake Windsor, a corporate executive, accepted his boss’s request to find out if Kelli Carpenter is really a woman his boss thinks he knew years before. He begrudgingly returns to the blue-collar construction lifestyle he vowed to leave behind, hoping doing this favor will advance his career. The woman he meets bears little resemblance to the woman he’s supposed to find, but something about her mystifies him, and he decides to continue with his deception to learn more about her.

When someone makes an attempt on Kelli’s life, she runs—but she takes Blake with her. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer is her philosophy. And Kelli is convinced Blake knows something that will link her to her former lover’s death, ending her life as she knows it.

What’s in a Name? is full of twists and turns as Blake and Kelli try to keep one step ahead of whoever is following them—while they try to figure out why.