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Reading Sundays paper, I became interested in an article about the Gasparilla Arts Festival being held in downtown Tampa.
"TAMPA - As crowds milled around Saturday at the Raymond James Gasparilla Festival of the Arts in downtown Tampa, so did the event's sole judge.
John B. Henry, the executive director of the Flint Institute of Arts in Flint, Mich., started at 8:30 a.m., strolling among the 300 booths to select the recipients of prize money totaling $67,500.
He was looking for something that met his idea of quality.
"There's quite a sensation from seeing an artist doing the seemingly impossible," he said.
By 4 p.m. Henry decided his choice for the $15,000 best of show award was a pristine, transparent watercolor on paper titled "7 Flamingos" by Michael Weber of Port St. Lucie.
"It's just about perfect," Henry said.
"The nuances of light and surface texture are very well-handled: The glass looks like glass, the porcelain like porcelain, and so on."
Strange to see a person of the arts from Flint judging a show down here. I don't know whether I should be proud that my hometown produced the sole judge of a major show in Florida, or question how he got down here and who paid for it.
Full story ->
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/02/me-gasparilla-festival-best-of-show-just-about-per/?news-breaking
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