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        VOL. 20 NO. 4                                           www.seabreezepublications.com                                                APRIL 2020

       Boca West Children’s Foundation To Distribute $800,000



       To Aid Local At-Risk Kids And The Charities



         As the coronavirus cripples the economy and jeopardizes      Boca West Children’s Foundation will
      aid to at-risk kids, the Boca West Children’s Foundation is   announce new fund distributions soon. The
      distributing $800,000 to its partner charities that provide   funds were raised during its 10th Anniversary
      essential services for local children. So far last week, the   Gala held on March 1 at Boca West Country
      foundation granted $315,500 to 11 of its 25 local nonprofits   Club. Nearly 900 guests gathered to honor
      that care for thousands of kids each day.          Arthur Adler, the foundation’s founder and
      Funds Distributed Include:                         chairman, for his decade of service to the
         • $182,500 to Place of Hope, JAFCO, SOS Children’s   organization and to the children in Palm Beach
      Villages, and HomeSafe, which have direct care responsibility   County. The gala featured entertainment by
      for more than 1,000 at-risk children within the local dependency   acclaimed late night talk show host and stand-up
      system.                                            comedian Jay Leno.
         • $107,000 to Florence Fuller Child Development Center,   About Boca West Children’s Foundation
      American Association for Caregiving Youth, Sweet Dream      The Boca West Foundation was launched in
      Makers, Caridad Center, and the Youth Activity Center, which   November of 2010. It came about as a desire
      are providing direct financial aid, food, and emotional support   by the thousands of volunteers from the Boca
      for those out of work and caring for young or old at risk.   West Country Club to give back to Boca Raton
         • $16,000 to the Education Foundation of Palm Beach   and the South Palm Beach County
      County to help provide computers for the underserved kids   communities. The foundation’s mission
      who have none and will need to be homeschooled for the   is to identify and fund projects to assist
      foreseeable future.                                children and their families in need in the
         • $10,000 to the Faulk Center for Counseling which   area. Since its inception, the foundation
      provides low-cost or no-cost mental health services to those   has funded more than $9 million for
      in need.                                           specific programs of 25 charities.
         “In this trying time, Boca West Children’s Foundation      For more information, visit www.
      now, more than ever, is embracing our granted charities and   bocawestfoundation.org, call (561)
      the at-risk children they serve,” said Arthur Adler, founder and   488-6980  or  email  foundation@
      chairman of the foundation. “One of the difficulties the current   bocawestcc.org.
      crisis creates for these charities, is they are being forced to
      cancel fundraising events planned to raise everyday-needed   Boca West Children’s Foundation
      funds to care for kids.”                           on page 4
      Boca Museum Of Art Exhibit Of ‘Selfies’ By American Artists


      From 1901 To 2015 Moves To Online Viewing During Closure




      “Eye to  I:  Self Portraits from the National  Portrait   Art with an indelible gallery experience sure to fascinate      “These artists looked inward in ways we can connect with
      Gallery,” Originally Scheduled in the Museum Through   contemporary audiences. The powerful works are from every   in our modern time. They created a lasting mirror effect for
      June 14, Now Available in Digital Preview Until Museum   decade, starting in 1901 and continuing through 2015.   future audiences that most of them could not have foreseen,”
      Re-opens.                                             However, the planned premiere in South Florida of this   said Irvin Lippman, the executive director of the Boca Raton
         The term self-conscious takes on a whole new meaning   traveling exhibition has been interrupted by the temporary   Museum of Art. “These artists steered self-portraiture away
      in today’s social media era. At a time when millions of   closure of the museum due to the Coronavirus pandemic.   from the traditional poses of the past into new realms of
      “selfies” are posted every day and identity is proving to be   Instead, a preview of the exhibit is being made available   self-reflection. Their self-depictions cut across time through
      more fluid, this exhibition from the Smithsonian’s National   online. Visit the museum’s website for details about how to   multiple pathways of creating art that ring true today.”
      Portrait Gallery shines a new light on self-portraiture and   access this exhibit preview: www.bocamuseum.org.
      representation. The show was created to commemorate the      The  Boca  Museum  of Art  exhibit  is  different  from
      National Portrait Gallery’s 50th anniversary, celebrating the   the Smithsonian show that was previously on view in
      artists who make the National Portrait Gallery Collection so   Washington, D.C. All of the works on paper are new and were
      extraordinary. “Eye to I” brings together the work of major   chosen especially for the
      artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and has been planned   national tour, as are several
      to kick off its national tour at the Boca Raton Museum of   of the paintings.





                                                                                                           Shimomura Crossing the Delaware, by Roger Shimomura.
                                                                                                           Acrylic  on  canvas  (2010).  National  Portrait  Gallery,
                                                                                                           Smithsonian Institution. Acquired through the generosity of
                                                                                                           Raymond L. Ocampo Jr., Sandra Oleksy Ocampo, and Robert
                                                                                                           P. Ocampo.  2010, Roger Shimomura
                                                                                                                     ©
                                                                                 Dr. Brandon Brame Fortune  Boca Museum Of Art Exhibit Of  ‘Selfies’ on page 2
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