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Palm Harbor Library Dedicates Art Alcove

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The Art Alcove at the Palm Harbor Library, used to display art exhibitions, is part of the community library’s quest to become one of the area’s cultural hubs.

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By Mark  Schantz | The Suncoast News

Published: February 13, 2009

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PALM HARBOR - There is a space for art in the hearts of Palm Harbor librarians.

Actually, it's an alcove.

In order to achieve its goal of becoming the cultural center for the community, the Palm Harbor Library recently dedicated its Art Alcove to area artists, said Debbie Phillips, library spokeswoman.

The Alcove is inside the library's front entrance. It will be utilized to feature revolving exhibitions of artists' works, Phillips said.

In a recent interview, Library Director Gene Coppola noted unlike Dunedin and Tarpon Springs, Palm Harbor is not a city with a museum in which works of art and culture can be displayed.

Palm Harbor Library wants to fill that void in this community of 60,000 by providing a place where locals can view fine works of art.

The library's recent $1.4 million renovation provided a chance to dedicate an area to the arts, Phillips said. "Palm Harbor Library is proud to unveil its brand new Art Alcove," she said.

During the Art Alcove's inaugural year the library art selection committee has chosen seven artists to display works such as paintings, photographs and sculptures.

Committee members include a representative from the Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, at St. Petersburg College Tarpon Campus, and Pinellas County Cultural Affairs.

Artists scheduled to display this first year are Michael Cain, Patricia Filomeno Hunter, Tony Blue, June Fox, Lorraine Potocki, George Trimitsis and Annette Coast-Anatra.

The creations of each artist will be exhibited for two months.

The paintings the New Orleans-based Cain created in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, called "Scars Composition in Gold, Silver-Blue and Green," are now on display in the Art Alcove.

In this exhibit, the light around the compositions represents the aura of the human soul, while black represents the waterline that was evident everywhere in the Crescent City and denotes the loss of all life in the post-Katrina flooding, Phillips said. Red swaths represent living wounds and textured surfaces signify areas that have healed.

Mark Schantz can be reached at 727-815-1075 or mschantz@suncoastnews.com.

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