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Celebrating a season's yield
By LENNIE BENNETT
© St. Petersburg Times
published October 31, 2002
More than 200 artists, including Luciano Duse, will show their work at this year’s Dunedin Art Harvest.
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DUNEDIN -- A herald of fall -- for art lovers, anyway -- is the 39th annual Dunedin Art Harvest on Saturday and Sunday in Highlander Park. More than 200 artists in all media will rim the scenic little lake with their booths, along with food vendors and a free children's art tent.
It's the first of the big three outdoor arts and crafts festivals in the Tampa Bay area each season, and the juried competition will award more than $20,000 to winning artists. (The other big festivals are Gasparilla in Tampa in late winter and Mainsail in St. Petersburg in the spring. Festival Beth-El in St. Petersburg in January is also a big deal, but it's indoors.)
While you're there, visit the Dunedin Fine Arts Center, on the grounds. "Journeys," a new show, explores the idea of journeys, literal and metaphorical. Included in the exhibition are ancient artifacts, tribal art featuring African masks (with one that celebrates an airplane as a deity in an example of cross-cultural referencing), and work by Rodger Kingston, who photographed the view through train windows over a 15-year period. The David L. Mason Children's Art Museum in the fine arts center has a show of constellations and a 1955 Airstream trailer, plus interactive stations.
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Dunedin Art HarvestThe Lane to the Village, oil on canvas by Marjorie Bryan |
PREVIEW
Kiki ‘n Papi, painting on silk by Elizabeth Mitchell
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Dunedin Art Harvest, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Highlander Park, at Michigan Avenue and Pinehurst Road. Children's art tent open until 4 p.m.; kids must be accompanied by an adult. Please leave pets at home. Free admission; onsite parking is $3; round-trip shuttle service from Causeway Plaza, Curlew Road and Alt. U.S. 19 is $1. Parking is also available at Dunedin High School. For information, call the Junior League of Clearwater-Dunedin (727) 738-5523.
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