Among my proudest accomplishments are the contributions I’ve
made to public art collections in Southwest Florida. For example, the City of
Fort Myers public art collection holds in its portable works collection my 3 x
5′ painting Freedom.
The painting hangs in City Council Chambers at city hall in downtown Fort
Myers and is included
in cultureNOW’s Museum Without Walls compendium, an online public art
registry that encompasses more than 11,000 sites and 21,000 images
of public artworks from across the country.
I painted the canvas live during the preliminaries of the
Second Annual Southwest Florida’s Got Talent Contest held July 25, 2010 at the
Edison Restaurant in the Fort Myers Country Club on McGregor Boulevard. In the
time it took Leann Rimes to belt out God Bless America, I painted the bald
eagle in front judges Randy Henderson, Mayor of Fort Myers; Fort Myers Chief
of Police Douglas Baker; Pam Cronin, Vice President of Fund Stuff at the Shell
Factory; and “Wild Bill” Woods of Fox-TV’s Morning Blend. I left the beak and
feet for the end. As the song was ending, the audience let out a gasp when they
recognized the eagle.
I donated Freedom to the City of Fort Myers during a city
council meeting on November 15, 2010. I met the mayor before the contest and
felt he was very patriotic. Because of that, I wanted the city to have the art
under Mayor Henderson’s watch.
Come back tomorrow and I’ll you about another work of mine
that’s in a public art collection.
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