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Suwannee River

Image from Feast of Flowers exhibition 2013 at The Cummer Museum.  

Saying the Suwannee is magical seems a bit silly.  For a lot of years I tried to explain this system.  Took a lot of people on trips down the river.  This painting belongs to John and Sally Ragsdale, and I am so glad they own it.  

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For those interested in community aesthetics, here's a little read titled Residential Landscape Sustainability.

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Thank you to everyone that attended the conversation last week on Exploring Communal Environmental Aesthetics.

It was a very rich and enlightening discussion, and we look forward to the next on September 19th. Stay tuned for details and suggested readings.

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Join us in conversation!

We're having the first topical discussion at the studio on next Wednesday, August 22nd for Feast of Flowers! It's titled "Exploring Communal Environmental Aesthetics."

We have a suggested reading by Grant Kester titled Learning from Aesthetics: Old Masters and New Lessons. It's a general overview of many approaches to contemporary aesthetics, but we're going to explore (like conquistadors in the new world) ways that we can collectively make environmental choices based on aesthetics that better us individually, which thus better us as a whole.

If you are interested but haven't had time to do the reading, please come anyway.

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Thank you to the following who brought us over the funding goal,

Antonio Allegretti Stephanie Shieldhouse Sharon A Sugden Laura Seeback Joanelle Mulrain Mary Ann Rosenthal Madeleine Victoria Freeman Patricia Goelz Alicia Canessa Naarah Strokosch Amanda Hyche AraBella Abel Harding Leslie Misch Rick Stein Julie Miller Allison Watson Phil Risley Beth Haizlip Barbara Ketchum Joyce Gabiou Terry Tdeloach Margena Burnett Carole Wimmer 

Thank you thank you thank you! It's really happening!

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7 hours left! We really got the kickstart for this project!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1377539078/feast-of-flowers