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Voters’ Guide for March 9th
Boca Raton City Council Elections
If you are a year-round Boca Raton resident who has family. This newspaper’s recognition of such importance is It is because we recognize the importance of the City
registered to vote in this year’s City Council elections, you reflected in the fact that every issue contains an informative Council in the lives of our readers that we invited each of
will be asked to cast a ballot for one of the four candidates column by the Mayor, and another column written on a the six candidates in this election to provide for this article
competing for Council Seat C, and for one of the two rotating basis each issue by another member of the City a brief statement as to why he or she deserves your vote.
candidates competing for Council Seat D. In addition, Council. Together, they serve to keep constituents updated A more informed voter is a wiser voter.
there are two measures on the ballot that require “yes” or about the important progress being made on behalf of all We have also included, at the end of this article, the
“no” votes. Boca residents. text of the two ballot measures so that you can give them
(Note: The current Council members holding Seats A Over the past difficult pandemic year, the Mayor and due consideration prior to casting your vote.
and B are not up for re-election; they are still serving their other City Council members have managed to guide Boca You have until February 27th to register to vote, if you
three-year terms, as is Mayor Scott Singer, who is one of Raton through a period of new corporate business growth haven’t already done so. For information about where you
the five members of the City Council.) (which translates to new home buying for transplanted should go to cast your vote, visit the website: pbcelections.
While last November’s national election garnered, and executives) as well as reduced crime, a new school, a org and click on: precinct finder.
deserved, massive worldwide attention, the results of the planned new station for an intra-state rail line, new park
local ones to be held here on March 9th will also have and recreational facilities, the lowest tax rate of any full- Voters’ Guide for March 9th on page 3
significant critical impact on the lives of every Boca Raton service city in south Florida, and more.
Boca Raton Museum of Art’s “Glasstress 2021”
International Exhibition Features 34 Artists,
Centuries-Old Venice Tradition of Murano Glassmaking
“There is every reason this year to have a world view,” says
Irvin Lippman, the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s Executive
Director, as South Florida ushers in the new year with the
national premiere of Glasstress 2021 Boca Raton. “Three
years in the making, with 2020 being such a challenging
year to coordinate an international exhibition of this size and
scope, the effort serves as an important reassurance that art
is an essential and enduring part of humanity. This is also a
tribute to the resilience of Venice’s surviving the floods and
continuing to make art through the pandemic.” Cougar Heads (detail), by Jimmie Durham
Most of these works in glass have never been seen
elsewhere, and were handpicked by Kathleen Goncharov, the Berengo. “This concept of transformation has always held an
Museum’s Senior Curator who traveled to Italy in 2019. The affinity with glass, a medium which—as the name Glasstress
new exhibition runs through September 5th, 2021 and the suggests—exists in a state of constant tension. Life needs
Museum will feature online initiatives for virtual viewing. tension, it needs energy, and a vibrant exchange of ideas.”
The 34 artists in this new edition of Glasstress were all The exhibition presents 34 new works that explore some
invited by Adriano Berengo to work alongside his master of today’s pressing subjects, including human rights, climate
glass artisans at the Berengo Studio on the island of Murano change, racial justice, gender issues and politics. The Boca
in the Venetian lagoon. With incredible energy, the Studio Raton Museum of Art has dedicated more than 6,500 square
has brought a new vision on how to stimulate today’s leading feet of exhibition space to this collection. A fully illustrated
artists into thinking how the medium of glass can be made catalogue is also available.
into dramatic and provocative works of contemporary art. The mission of Glasstress is to restore the visibility and
Most of these artists have, during their careers, been invited reputation of Murano glass after decades of closures of ancient,
to participate in the Venice Biennale. Some of the works centuries-old glass furnaces. Instead of creating decorative
were completed during the pandemic lockdowns, with artists objects with glass, these artists are invited to create original Song Dong and his Chandelier Sculpture
collaborating remotely via Zoom with their glass artisan works, often on a massive scale. They collaborate with glass
partners after initial on-site work at the studio in Venice. masters whose expertise has been developed over generations The results are breathtaking. The first installation visitors
“Unlike the past and the present, what comes next for in Venice. Most of these artists have never worked with glass, to the Museum will encounter is Sala Longhi by Fred Wilson.
our world presents itself as constant possibility, always so they unite their artistic ideas with the technical expertise of He created this series at Berengo Studio after the Biennale
transforming as we move forward in time,” says Adriano their skilled collaborators. exhibited his work about Black residents of Venice from the
Renaissance to the present. This installation features an ornate
white chandelier with 29 glass panels that mirror 18th-century
Venetian artist Pietro Longhi’s paintings. Instead of canvases,
Wilson shows the viewer only the whites of the eyes of his
Black subjects through cutouts in black reflective glass.
“We have brought Glasstress to countries around the world
for ten years, seeking to expand and enliven international
awareness of the variety and richness of contemporary artists
using glass in their creative practices,” adds Adriano Berengo.
Pandemic Oculus, by Nancy
Burson Boca Raton Museum of Art’s “Glasstress 2021” on page 4