MODS' New EcoDiscovery Center
Spotlights Florida's Unique Environment
Interactive exhibits make ecology and conservation
interesting, intriguing
By Holly Strawbridge
If you haven't visited the Museum of Discovery and Science (MODS) in Fort Lauderdale recently, put it on your ” To Do List” for 2012. The museum's exciting new EcoDiscovery Center is not just for kids. Its colorful, mostly interactive exhibits on ecology and conservation engage and entertain visitors of all ages. The new, $25-million addition focuses on various aspects of South Florida's climate, geology, flora and fauna, using the lens of environmental stewardship to help museum-goers better understand and appreciate our natural resources.
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Societal snapshots
The cultural keepsakes of Francie Bishop Good
By Rachel Galvin
Something is askew, uncomfortable, like a pendulum that has swung to one side and longs to return to the other. Like stopped time, a moment encapsulated by Francie Bishop Good is never the same again. Bare reality was never so vulnerable yet colored with cultural undertones, steeped in societal underpinnings. Her camera is not what it seems, not a mere vehicle for an aesthetic delivery, but a collection module. Her trophies hang on the stark white walls of her studio space on 2nd Avenue hidden in the urban setting of Fort Lauderdale.
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Artist as an Entrepreneur Institute Fuels a Distinctive Change and a Robust Charge Forward
by Samantha Rojas
For Colombian-born, Fort Lauderdale resident and artist Jose Herazo-Osorio, his new AEI trajectory landed him across the Atlantic, in the 2011 Biennale in Italy. As one of the 150 artists selected from a pool of 1,500 candidates, he knew he had hit a new sphere. This he credits directly to AEI. “I gathered from the program that art is a spiritual manifestation, as well as a business endeavor,” he says. He went on to win Third Prize for painting in the 2011 Anglo-Italian Academy of Art, Museo D’Arte di Chianciano Terme, Italy - Biennale 2011.
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Artist’s Love Letter to the City
By Samantha Rojas
"At the heart of world time is the momentum of history. At the heart of personal time is the mystery and wonder of individuality. At the heart of deep, new time is the creative spirit. But at the heart of our time is love."
- David Spangler
In a city with more than 165, 500 people, there is a bridge over a river near the center of the town. On one side of this bridge, lies a center for the performing arts —a jewel of the city’s Arts and Entertainment District; under the bridge lies a park and marina —the historic site of a turn of the century massacre; and the other side of the bridge, a local downtown neighborhood. The bridge is the William H. Marshall Bridge over the New River in downtown Fort Lauderdale and it has just had a face lift.
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David Raterman’s Thriller
The River Panj
Offers Unique Perspective on World Events
By Stephanie Krulik
Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
That is the first line on the first page of author David Raterman's first emergency relief thriller, The River Panj. He observes, "Throughout literature, there have been Russian-themed thrillers, but we never had a thriller set in Afghanistan and neighboring Tajikistan on 9/11." There were only about 100 Americans in Afghanistan on 9/11. Most of them were relief workers.
The book is a jarring account of third-world countries in turmoil, of black market politics, frenetic kidnappings and horrendous drug running. It is an exciting page-turner that pits American emergency relief workers against murderous terrorists.
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Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead – a Mexican tradition dating back hundreds of years and celebrated primarily in Latin America − has recently become a South Florida tradition, as well. In the United States, there are several significant Day of the Dead events held in California, Texas and New York City.
In the first and only celebration of its kind in South Florida – now in its second year − more than 2,000 visitors of all ages decked out in their “skeleton best” for festivities that began at the Museum of Art | Fort Lauderdale on November 2. The processional moved on to the FAT Village Arts District at Projects ArtSpace. There, patrons found an evening full of live music, theater presentations, traditional Mexican foods, art exhibits and memorials and shrines to the deceased. |
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