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ARRESTING
ARTISTRY
on display at CCSO headquarters
D rawings of faces line the walls on the second floor of
Collier County Sheriff’s Office Headquarters in East
Naples.
The framed pictures aren’t sketches of suspected
criminals drawn by a forensic artist that you might
expect to find at a law enforcement agency. They are self-portraits
by local preschoolers featured in an art exhibit titled “Vivid #Selfies”
on display at the CCSO Community Gallery.
While an art gallery housed in a law enforcement agency may
seem unusual, it’s just one of the many progressive and unique ways
CCSO is showcasing its community partnerships.
“A big component of the Sheriff’s Office is community, and
we believe in partnering with as many organizations as we can to
spread the message of safety,” said CCSO Media Relations Officer
Krista Lester, who helps coordinate the gallery.
The gallery offers CCSO partners an opportunity to spotlight
the agency’s commitment to the community..
cooperation with Naples Zoo and Caribbean Gardens and a series of
oil pastels depicting the experience of Alzheimer’s disease by a local
artist in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Support Network.
CCSO partnered with Collier Child Care Resources Inc. for the
“Vivid #Selfies” exhibit, which featured 34 images by preschoolers
inspired by Swiss artist Paul Klee. The children, who attend the
Naples Children & Education Foundation Early Childhood
Development Center, were asked about the shape of their faces and
used mirrors to study and draw using the oil pastels and crayons.
After drawing their portraits, the blocked-color backgrounds were
The gallery has housed 14 exhibits since making its debut in created by brushing on squares of tissue paper with water.
January 2011. Exhibits have ranged from the artwork of domestic Kathy Hostetler, teaching artist at the NCEF Early Childhood
violence survivors who participate in the Naples Shelter for Abused Development Center, said she was surprised to hear the Sheriff’s
Women & Children’s Healing Arts Program to artwork by child Office was also home to an art gallery.
residents of Youth Haven, Collier County’s only emergency shelter “I was surprised in a good way because the Sheriff ’s Office is
exclusively for child and adolescent victims of abuse, neglect and pulling in the community,” Hostetler said.
abandonment. Other exhibits have included vivid and colorful The gallery, she said, shows a different and creative side of law
photos of some of the plants and wildlife that call Naples home in enforcement.
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ARTISTRY
on display at CCSO headquarters
D rawings of faces line the walls on the second floor of
Collier County Sheriff’s Office Headquarters in East
Naples.
The framed pictures aren’t sketches of suspected
criminals drawn by a forensic artist that you might
expect to find at a law enforcement agency. They are self-portraits
by local preschoolers featured in an art exhibit titled “Vivid #Selfies”
on display at the CCSO Community Gallery.
While an art gallery housed in a law enforcement agency may
seem unusual, it’s just one of the many progressive and unique ways
CCSO is showcasing its community partnerships.
“A big component of the Sheriff’s Office is community, and
we believe in partnering with as many organizations as we can to
spread the message of safety,” said CCSO Media Relations Officer
Krista Lester, who helps coordinate the gallery.
The gallery offers CCSO partners an opportunity to spotlight
the agency’s commitment to the community..
cooperation with Naples Zoo and Caribbean Gardens and a series of
oil pastels depicting the experience of Alzheimer’s disease by a local
artist in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Support Network.
CCSO partnered with Collier Child Care Resources Inc. for the
“Vivid #Selfies” exhibit, which featured 34 images by preschoolers
inspired by Swiss artist Paul Klee. The children, who attend the
Naples Children & Education Foundation Early Childhood
Development Center, were asked about the shape of their faces and
used mirrors to study and draw using the oil pastels and crayons.
After drawing their portraits, the blocked-color backgrounds were
The gallery has housed 14 exhibits since making its debut in created by brushing on squares of tissue paper with water.
January 2011. Exhibits have ranged from the artwork of domestic Kathy Hostetler, teaching artist at the NCEF Early Childhood
violence survivors who participate in the Naples Shelter for Abused Development Center, said she was surprised to hear the Sheriff’s
Women & Children’s Healing Arts Program to artwork by child Office was also home to an art gallery.
residents of Youth Haven, Collier County’s only emergency shelter “I was surprised in a good way because the Sheriff ’s Office is
exclusively for child and adolescent victims of abuse, neglect and pulling in the community,” Hostetler said.
abandonment. Other exhibits have included vivid and colorful The gallery, she said, shows a different and creative side of law
photos of some of the plants and wildlife that call Naples home in enforcement.
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