ARTScool is not a summer camp. Rather, ARTScool is a popular summer arts education program serving nearly 1,000 students aged 5 to 14 each year. The difference between ARTS cool and an art-centered summer program is that ARTScool allows students to choose from fantastic opportunities to extend creative learning in a rigorous, supportive and super-fun […]
Art is exciting. That is the point. Art is meant to excite emotion. A good piece of art inspires anything but apathy. Furthermore, art is in everything we do, everywhere we look and anything we touch. Good design is an art that continually revolutionizes our experience of the world around us. The Naples Art Association […]
We have a great story to tell.” “The future of both the Naples Children & Education Foundation and the Naples Winter Wine Festival is to be all inclusive.” “Life is a team sport.” These statements are just a small sampling of the wisdom Brigadier General James W. Swanson, USAF (Ret.) brings to his new post […]
Few designers are more universally recognized than Fabergé. And while the name isinextricably linked to the Russian Imperial family, Fabergé also has contemporary devoteestoday. Peter Carl Fabergé’s father groomed him for the family’s jewelry firm founded in St.Petersburg, Russia in 1842. Keen to give his talented son the training and exposure needed to become a […]
Here we are, heading into May, June & July and hopefully, taking the time to enjoy this spot of paradise we live in. June and July tend to be less active months as many who live here even travel to other areas to experience something different, but especially during the month of May, Crayton Cove […]
The Prelude to a Park Gala held on March 15, 2014 was a magical night under the stars and full moon filled with wonderful surprises! At the beginning of this evening, the park was called, “Naples Gordon River Park” and by the end of the night, the park was named the, “Baker Park” after philanthropists […]
Naples is a busy place with many residents and visitors getting acquainted with the various aspects of our area that we have come to love. Crayton Cove has been an important part of downtown Naples from its beginning. Much of the early commerce came in through the Naples City Docks, a connection with the outside […]
A ceremonial ribbon cutting celebrating the completion of the newly constructed City of Naples Solid Waste Recycle Transfer Facility was held on February 11th. This 12 acre site is located on the northern quadrant of the Naples Municipal Airport and once served as a landfill from the 1940s to the 1970s. In June 2011, the […]
To get 184 people to attend anything in Naples is no mean feat: but that’s how many people showed up to support and attend the grand opening and ribbon cutting of the JFCS Senior Center on March 4 at 5025 Castello Drive. Speakers included Commissioner Georgia Hiller, Jeff Lytle and Dr. Jaclynn Faffer. The event’s […]
When we think of spring – and for most of us April was the Springtime – we remember planting tulip bulbs; watching the rose bushes come to life and the trees budding. But these are all images from another climate – and here we don’t have to wait for flowers to come to life after […]