ORIGINAL TROPICAL ART by HAL STOWERS
WALKING TREE, INC. P.O. BOX 468, CRYSTAL BEACH, FLORIDA 34681 U.S.A.
TAMPA BAY AREA PHONE 727-784-5016
Hal in his dockside studio amongst the mangrove at Happy Bayou,
with new canvas in progress...
Honeymoon by Heart... Florida is my Landscape Series.
August 2011
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS (1971 - 2011)
OF ENVIRONMENTAL ART
& LIFE BLENDING®
Story and details coming...
“A Retreat for Creative Spirits”
...using The Art of LIFE BLENDING® book
by BJ Stowers in collaboration with environmental artist Hal Stowers, ASLA
Whether you are a creative spirit by vocation or avocation,
or if you just value or desire creativity to be a part of
your everyday life...
May 4th – May 7th, 2012
Location: Sutherland Crossing, Crystal Beach, FL
Space for 10.
Led by: Cathie (Skinner) Powell (M. Div.)
Ashlyn Mengel (M. Sacred Music),
with cameos by Hal and B. J.
For more information call: (864) 232-LOVE (5683)
or email: margaret@theanchorage.org
The Anchorage, P.O. Box 9091, Greenville, SC 29604
www.theanchorage.org
Special Note: Cathie (Skinner) Powell, Founder of The Anchorage, and Ashlyn Mengel have been leading soul retreats together for years. In February 2011, they led a retreat in North Carolina, using our LIFE BLENDING® book. This Retreat was inspiration for The Anchorage to plan "A Retreat for Creative Spirits" in Florida -- with Hal and me participating by sharing our LIFE BLENDING® creative lifestyle concept and the special Settings of Crystal Beach, our Happy Bayou studio, and Honeymoon Island State Park.
Moments from solo retrospective exhibition...
HAL STOWERS: Coastal Florida Fragilities
LEEPA-RATTNER Museum of Art
St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs Campus
North Gallery
AUGUST 1 - 29, 2010
ACCOMPANYING TEXT by R. Lynn Whitelaw, Director
Coming Soon:
ACCOMPANYING TEXT & PHOTOS selected by R. Lynn Whitelaw, Director
Photos: RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITION
Photos: GALLERY TALKS with Hal & B.J. Stowers / Patti Buster, Education Coordinator
Photos: "SUNSET TRACE EXPERIENCE" with Hal Stowers -
Museum Event at Honeymoon Island State Park
Selected VISITORS' COMMENTS
"The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art is pleased to present Hal Stowers: Coastal Florida Fragilities, a retrospective exhibition documenting the 40-year career of one of Florida’s preeminent naturalist artists. Although academically trained as a landscape architect, Stowers has used his love of nature and talent as a visual artist to draw attention to the fragility of our coastal areas while encouraging preservation of these natural resources. His documentation of the beauty, changes and challenges affecting Florida’s Gulf Coast is conveyed through a mastery of media including pen and ink drawing, oil and acrylic paint, watercolor, color lithography, hand-colored intaglio printmaking, monotypes, and stainless steel. Because of the grassroots efforts by environmental activists like Hal Stowers, the pristine waters and white beaches of Pinellas County are now part of our collective pride. The events of the past few months regarding the Deep Water Horizon disaster remind us that the art of Hal Stowers remains a poignant commentary on the vulnerability of Florida’s coastal lands in the threat of catastrophic change. For Stowers, there is the hope that his art communicates a passion and concern for the natural environment that will “affect values and bring more sensitive decisions regarding our precious natural habitats.” MORE
R. Lynn Whitelaw, Director
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
Tarpon Springs Campus - St. Petersburg College
"It was a pleasure working with both of you and planning the events for your exhibition. I think I mentioned that we usually don’t plan that many events around one exhibition, but your willingness and generosity made it easy. An added bonus was that each of your events was well-attended and visitors came away very pleased and enriched, and that is definitely meeting our (and your!) mission."
Patricia Buster
Education Coordinator
Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
St. Petersburg College
Invitation to...
A Timely
Retrospective Solo EXHIBITION by
Hal Stowers, ASLA
Selected Works from 1971 – 2010
HAL STOWERS: Coastal Florida Fragilities
Now, with an OIL spill of nightmarish proportions in the Gulf of Mexico,
the images to be exhibited have become more poignant and the statement made
by the Exhibition more timely than the Artist or Museum Staff ever dreamed...
See "Drill Baby Drill ..." by Hal Stowers, ASLA
Artist's Statement 2010
SPECIAL EVENTS / PRESS RELEASE
LEEPA-RATTNER Museum of Art
St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs Campus
600 Klosterman Rd., Tarpon Springs, FL (Klosterman & Belcher)
Ph 727-712-5762 (LRMA)
North Gallery
AUGUST 1 - 29, 2010
"Hal Stowers is an artist and environmentalist who has documented the beauty, changes and challenges affecting Florida’s Gulf Coast. Over the past 40 years, Stowers has used his art to draw attention to the fragility of our coastal areas while encouraging activist preservation of these natural resources.
"As an artist, Stowers has mastered a variety of media – pen and ink drawings, oil and acrylic canvases, watercolor, color lithographs, hand-colored etching aquatints, monotypes, and stainless steel sculpture – to express his passion and concern for the natural environment...
"For this four-decade retrospective exhibition, 58 pieces representing these media plus a video and artists’ book serve to define the Stowers’ concept of creative LIFE BLENDING® for “experiencing the intrinsic value of our natural environment in elevating the human spirit.”
R. Lynn Whitelaw, Director - Leepa Rattner Museum of Art
SPECIAL EVENTS
See Press Release, Dates and Details
Hal Stowers at Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art
Gallery Talks / Workshops and Sunset Walk
with Hal Stowers as Guide
B.J. Stowers will be his creative partner throughout the activities.
and Registrar Becky Sexton Larson, Museum Director R. Lynn Whitelaw, and Education Coordinator Patricia Buster, with Hal at our studio – selecting works for his August 1-29, 2010 solo retrospective exhibition entitled
"HAL STOWERS: Coastal Florida Fragilities"
Hal paints on board our floating studio, MANGROVE MOMMA IV –
The subject is
Anclote Key, a pristine island in the Gulf of Mexico. The view is from a favorite anchorage at the north point of Three Rooker Bar, just off the coast from our home studio,
Point Sun Moon & Sea at Happy Bayou, Crystal Beach, Florida.
Summer 1984.
The resulting watercolor
is entitled
Island in the Sea –
Anclote Key
from Three Rooker
This rare work will be exhibited in his solo retrospective exhibition –
Leepa Rattner
Museum of Art
August 1-29, 2010.
Invitation to Online LIFE BLENDING ® Workshop
– To Enhance Creative Thinking
& Mellow Out the Highs and Lows of Life!
The growing need and appreciation for "creative thinking" is a movement that is gaining momentum and affecting all generations and walks of life – including students, those who are involved in their work or hoping to work, Boomers seeking new horizons, and beyond. If interested in getting your creative juices flowing, noted Florida environmental artist Hal Stowers, ASLA, is offering to help you learn how.
Hal and his wife/partner, B.J., invite you to visit their Online LIFE BLENDING ® Workshop to help open your channels for creative flow and mellow out the highs and lows of life… MORE about… Invitation to Online LIFE BLENDING ® Workshop
It's a Right Brainer…
Could Hal's Brain be finally in vogue?
Donald E. McGlothlin, Sir Ken Robinson, and Hal enjoy camaraderie at UF…
celebrating creativity…
We were inspired and are excited to be a part of
the much needed movement to encourage and cultivate
creativity… on campus, in the corporate world,
healthcare, international relations…
and all global communities.
To begin 2008, Hal and I enthusiastically made a pilgrimage to Gainesville… Don McGlothlin, Director of the Center for the Arts and Public Policy, and Lucinda Lavelli, Dean, College of Fine Arts, invited us to the UF campus to meet Sir Ken Robinson and attend an address by the renown author/speaker from his groundbreaking book, OUT OF OUR MINDS: Learning to be Creative. His message was timely, profound and delivered with great wit and fun! We were inspired and are excited to be a part of the much needed movement to encourage and cultivate creativity… on campus, in the corporate world, healthcare, international relations…and all global communities.
"On a creative campus, creativity, innovation, collaboration and empathy infuse academic life. In such a place, creativity and innovation are encouraged and fostered, bold new undertakings and transdisciplinary programs flourish, and students' right-brained endeavors are considered vital to their future success as employees in the new marketplace of ideas…
"Two recent books by Daniel Pink (A Whole New Mind) and Sir Ken Robinson (Out of Our Minds), illustrate that our economic system is moving from manufacturing to the so-called knowledge-based industries. Today, as many American jobs are shipped overseas, including those in high-tech industries, the necessary skills Americans can offer the global market increasingly become creativity, ingenuity and vision.
In short, according to Robinson, creativity has become a requirement of a successful America, and, by extension, of successful universities. As a result, the push for a creative campus is already underway at top institutions…"
– Donald E. McGlothlin
Director of the Center for the Arts and Public Policy
University of Florida
"Designing A Creative Campus"
MUSE, Volume 3, Issue 1, Winter 2008, Page 14
A magazine published by the College of Fine Arts, University of Florida
To learn how Hal and I are participating in this Creative Movement… and how YOU can join us go to:
LIFE BLENDING to help attain sustainable environments…
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Hope you enjoy…
B.J. Stowers 2008
SUNSET WATCH” stainless steel birds, by Hal Stowers
Sculpture © 2005 Hal Stowers, Photo © 2005 B.J. Stowers
Above – Aaron R. Fodiman & Margaret Word Burnside, Publishers,
TAMPA BAY MAGAZINE, celebrate with Hal, his "larger than life"
stainless steel bird sculpture in the lobby of
FrankCrum Services, Clearwater, Florida.
"THE ARTIST'S COMPOSITION OF SIX BIRDS ENTITLED SUNSET WATCH
was commissioned by FrankCrum Services of Clearwater. The birds are strategically installed inside the company's black granite lobby and outdoors at both the main entrance and in the plaza fountain. The Stowers can be reached at (727) 784-5016."
FrankCrum Team surprises Frank Crum, Jr. with two
Stowers prints to commemorate 25th Anniversary Celebration
Sixteen managers from the FrankCrum Team took a time out to huddle and select a special gift for Frank Crum, Jr.,President and CEO, to mark the 25th Anniversary of the company. They unveiled the two framed Limited Edition works of art by Hal Stowers during the June 24th party celebrating the event – attended by more than 700 invited guests. The presentation took place after an (always) inspiring and caring message from Frank, Jr. – regarding the past, the future and all those involved with the company.
Mounted on the art entitled, "View from my Window" and "Great White," were plaques which read as follows:
"In Memory of Frank Winston Crum, Sr.
Celebrating 25 Years of Excellence
1981–2006"
"Respecting the Past, While Anticipating the Future
In Appreciation of Frank Winston Crum, Jr.
The Crum Team"
Frank, thrilled with their gift, thanked everyone and said the works would hang in his office. The party, beautifully orchestrated by Property Manager, Nancy Guenther and her staff, took place in the tropical landscaped plaza of the FrankCrum Clearwater corporate campus. Live music with a Jimmy Buffet and Caribbean twist prevailed throughout the evening's festivities – with fun and dancing under and about Hal's larger than life, indoor/outdoor composition of six stainless steel shore birds ("SUNSET WATCH")!
For more about FrankCrum, visit: frankcrum.com
THANK YOU FrankCrum Team for selecting Hal's art for this
very special gift!
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Frank Crum, Jr. thanks the FrankCrum Team for the gift of Stowers art
to commemorate the company's 25th Anniversary.
Frank and Brenda Crum celebrating with Hal at their beautiful
corporate campus.
More than 700 guests and members of the FrankCrum Team enjoyed the
tropical evening, dancing, dining, and other festivities as Hal's
SUNSET WATCH, stainless steel birds watched over them!
Back to: Personal and Corporate Gifts
"Finally today, the St. Petersburg Times has a great profile of Hal Stowers, ASLA, landscape architect, artist, and sailor. The paper proves that Stowers has lived a life worth chronicling, and certainly one well worth living."
"Hal Stowers, West Florida Renaissance Man"
The Dirt -
Landscape Architecture News Digest -
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
http://www.asla.org/land/dirt/dirtarchive032505.html
St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, Florida)
"The St. Petersburg Times has a great profile of Hal Stowers, ASLA, landscape architect, artist, and sailor. The paper proves that Stowers has lived a life worth chronicling, and certainly one well worth living"
"Landscape Architecture in the News"
LAND Online
- LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE NEWS DIGEST -
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS
http://www.asla.org/land/040405/lain.html
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