A bewildering series of dreams torments a young woman, leaving her isolated in an unfamiliar world. She searches for an interpretation of her shadowy visions with the help of a doctor who is from a disjointed time.  

River Sonnets is a digital play performed in the time of a great pandemic, a time when language is such an important bridge between people but a time when that linguistic architecture is crumbling and failing. At a time like this, we have to invent new ways of thinking about theater, new ways to question our assumptions about the human condition. River Sonnets is an experiment in language. It is ancient poetry set to contemporary circumstance, it is visual poetry nestled in popular streaming media.  River Sonnets features the poems of Edmund Spenser, a 16th century English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, and by Edna St. Vincent Millay, an American poet who, in 1923, became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. River Sonnets is a deep exploration into the desire for love and a timid look into the vagaries of our final transition. It is a universal warning wrapped in a personal metaphor.
This event can be accessed on YouTube.

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Senior Dance Major, Taylor Greco from Palm Beach Atlantic University will be presenting her dance performance live in the Wasmer Art Gallery. Her performance entitled Art Essential portrays her experience and connection to the Coronavirus pandemic. The piece has been created during her recovering from COVID-19. This work explores elements of spirit, fragility, and resilience in response to and inspired by the works of Heather Couch, Terre Rybovich, Marina Font, and Renee Rey seen in the exhibition When We See Further.

This event can be viewed on the FGCU Art Galleries’ Instagram page.

Is it true that a painting conservator is also a detective? According to conservator and art historian Barry Bauman, every painting has its secrets. During his 46 years of experience treating and analyzing damaged paintings, he has uncovered many of them—lost signatures, hidden dates, and entire paintings hidden beneath other works. Two of his discoveries were so phenomenal they landed on the front pages of The New York Times. Barry Bauman is an Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation and former Associate Conservator of Paintings for the Art Institute of Chicago.

Registration for this event can be found here or on the Art Galleries’ website.