Naples Art Association makes the most of November 2012 – a photo recap

From the first Art in the Park of the 56th season (First Saturdays through April – mark your calendar!) to the kick off of a brand new series of make-and-take art projects, plus community events, new exhibitions and the Naples Fall Fine Art and Craft Festival on Thanksgiving weekend, there was something going on at every turn hosted by the Naples Art Association. Here’s a gallery of selected photos taken throughout the month. Special photo credits for some images go to Avant Garde Images and Debi Pittman Wilkey.

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: Nicario Jimenez and Flora Zarate are lending some of their work for the La Casa: Latin American Art, a Naples Art Association exhibition in May. They live together in Eastern Collier and they visited the von Liebig Art Center for the first time. Nicario is a third generation retablo artist working with plaster of paris mixed with potatoes, which are native to Peru. Flora is a fiber artist.

: Nicario Jimenez and Flora Zarate are lending some of their work for the La Casa: Latin American Art, a Naples Art Association exhibition in May. They live together in Eastern Collier and they visited the von Liebig Art Center for the first time. Nicario is a third generation retablo artist working with plaster of paris mixed with potatoes, which are native to Peru. Flora is a fiber artist.

: Naples Art Association hosted the Young Professionals of Naples, The Young Lawyers of Collier County, The Naples Juniors Women’s Clubs and The David Lawrence Young Executives at the von Liebig Arts Center. It benefitted Friends of Foster Children of Southwest Florida.

: Members Gallery Small Works Show opened their season

: Technically, this image is from October, but exhibition ran through the month of November – and everyone was excited about the bright yellow wall that welcomed guests to the Watson Gallery. Hundreds turned out for the Faculty Biennial preview reception, and hundreds more saw it during events held in the gallery during November.

: A gorgeous November day for Art in the Park

: AIP-Nov-Joel and Arlene Banow at artist Ulrich Elben booth

: Laura and Noel Mattei at artist Cindy Grant booth

: Artist Oswaldo Ventura in his booth with Danni Sadler and Greg Nicolai

: Nondi Bhaduri Toffee Dr N Bhaduri and Sydnie Sterk at artists R Clark Lindberg booth

: Artist Ken Andexler gets ready to demonstrate his process at Art in the Park

: Art in the Park guests pulled up a chair to watch Terri Clemente paint

: David and Liz Fisher and Richard and Mary Zuck at artist Jack Megela booth

: Carolline Pendley rolls out an even layer of printers ink for her gelatin monoprint

: Instructor Kim Walbert assists Caroline with smoothing the rice paper over the ink and carefully chosen print items

: She removes it carefully for the first print

: After lifting all the print items, she lays another page over the remaining ink to get a second print

: The result is a little like a photo and its negative

: Sara Geddis is having a blast making gelatin monoprints

: The best part–Its okay to be a little messy

: Executive Director Aimee Schlehr greets artists at the festival.

: Bob Kemp of the Marine Corps invites attendees to bring and donate a new, unwrapped toy or cash to help make the holidays a little brighter for families in needs.