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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
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Dr. Brandon Brame Fortune Boca Museum Of Art Exhibit Of ‘Selfies’ on page 2