The Naples Children & Education Foundation (NCEF), the founding organization of the highly successful Naples Winter Wine Festival, has recently introduced a Blueprint Partner program to highlight strategic initiative partners that exemplify the highest levels of efficacy and accountability in serving underprivileged and at-risk children in Collier County. Since its inception in 2000, NCEF has become the single largest source of funding for […]
Dear Artsperts: I am curious about how artists can use company’s trademarks in their works. I thought trademarks were legally protected. Is it okay for artists to incorporate trademarks within their art? Marked Dear Marked, One of the most famous images that comes to mind, is the Andy Warhol pop art using the Campbell’s Soup can. The company’s reaction was extremely positive. […]
The Holocaust Museum & Janet G. and Harvey D. Cohen Education Center presents “The Luncheon – Music of Hope & Remembrance.” The annual winter fundraising event benefits the Museum’s Education programs. This year the event celebrates the human spirit through music and art, and commemorates an artistic uprising that took place 75 years ago in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Despite […]
With timeless furniture design, it’s said that form follows function. But what can we say about inspired jewelry design? Perhaps it’s more like form follows fantasy. At least this could be an explanation about the creative force behind jewelry designer Claudio Pino. His creations are shown the world over, where he’s celebrated for his iconoclastic design elements that transform his jewelry into sculptural masterpieces. A look at his […]
I traveled to six countries in two weeks and found their recent history to be confusing and complicated. Following the fall of Communism in the early 1980s, the Eastern European map changed, and many countries declared their independence. On our Danube River cruise, we visited the Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania. The devastating wars of the late 1980s […]
There were no hurricanes in Michele’s native Connecticut—just a lot of snow. So when the former “ski ambassador” moved down to Florida to be with her ailing aunt, surviving Hurricane Irma was a new and devastating experience. “We lost everything,” Michele recalls. “We came down from Orlando, going to where there was electricity.” The women stayed in a hotel in Fort Myers but […]
Allow me some license – in whatever happened to Thanksgiving – recently I was looking for some linens for Thanksgiving and realized with horror (no pun intended) that commercially we celebrate Halloween and then skip right to Christmas. But Thanksgiving is pretty much forgotten – let’s try to remember it this year – and remember that with all of the chaos in the […]
In September, the House of Representatives took a big step forward in protecting Florida’s coastal environment and its economy. By a vote of 248 to 180, the House passed HR 205, the bill I introduced to make permanent the moratorium on drilling in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico (EGOM), east of the Military Mission Line. The current moratorium was enacted by Republican President George […]
Walt Disney once said, “Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century – the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp – the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone’s hometown – the heart line of America.” While that is certainly true, today’s modern main street sometimes plays an even […]
As is my custom when writing my Life in Naples article today is the 25th of September, Fall is in the air (somewhere not here) and I can’t wait for that first breath of cool air to arrive. Somehow because this is the November issue you’re reading it’s extremely difficult to write about Thanksgiving when it’s 92 degrees here. However, […]