Saturday, November 14, 2026
Assistant City Manager, Casey Lucius, with Debra Reed’s large canvas depicting a wave.
JoAnn Brandau with her exhibit “Making Waves” and Dave Fuller’s meditative scene in the background.
Nancy Garrison with her painting of Sea Urchin and Starfish. Judy Chinski’s sea turtles is in the background.
Austin Bell with his black and white photographs of the ocean.
There is a new display at the Art @ City Hall exhibit with a theme of “Celebrating the Sea.” We’ve all witnessed firsthand when the Gulf of Mexico came ashore
over the dunes and onto Collier Boulevard. The ocean and its powerful waves are a very popular source of inspiration for artists from depicting the force of nature to serene seascapes to ethereal sunsets.
Barbara Parisi, the curator of the Art @ City Hall, and her team did not know what kind of response they would have for this exhibit. Everybody is dealing with Hurricane Ian recovery and cleanup and some still don’t have internet or cable services. Yet the artists came to City Hall with their “sea” themed artworks, showing the healing power of art. Artists wanted to share the beauty and the serenity of the ocean while others had big canvases showing powerful waves.
The artists who contributed to the current exhibit include Austin Bell, JoAnn Brandau, Nancy Norman, Lynn David Nathanson, Joseph Parisi, Judith Chinski, James Robellard, David Fuller, Barbi Dalton, Cindy Colligan, Debra Reed, Nancy Garrison, Sandra Esham, and Tara O’Neill.
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