Page 8 - Southern Exposure - January '23

Page 8, Southern Exposure

Art hAppENiNgS

The Arc Of Palm Beach County Hosts Exhibit Displaying

Works Of World-Renowned Artists With Disabilities

Debuting At The Square From Dec. 1 To May 31, 2023

The Arc of Palm Beach County invites you to immerse at Chicago’s Museum
yourself in the unknown and often overlooked experience of Contemporary Art,
of disability. The exhibition, Their Own Truths: The Art of the Chicago Cultural
Sky Cubacub, Riva Lehrer, Jeffrey Mansfield, and David Center, the Illinois
Richards, encompasses recent work by four innovative State Museum, the
artists who have disabilities. The collection of paintings, International Museum
garments, sculptures, and photographs seeks to change of Surgical Science,
perceptions and to open minds. and the Kaoshiung
Their Own Truths will be on display in the ArtWorks Museum of Fine Arts David Richards, Angry Pupa, 2018,
gallery at The Square, 600 S. Rosemary Ave., Suite 156, in Taiwan. mixed media, collection of the artist
West Palm Beach, Fla. It is free and open to the public Their Own Truths
from Dec. 1 to May 31, 2023. On Dec. 4, a private opening is curated by Rena Blades and sponsored in part by Related
reception was held in collaboration with New Wave Art Companies. To learn more about the exhibit, please visit
Wknd, and a series of lectures and programs will also Riva Lehrer, Edgewater Beach, 2006, acrylic on panel, arcpbc.org/events.
accompany the exhibition. collection of Larry A. Gerber About The Arc Of Palm Beach County
“Aesthetic joy is central to each artist’s practice, yet The Arc is changing the conversation around disabilities
their work challenges the viewer to recognize that societal Lehrer is a current disability futures fellow from the Ford by defying definitions, inspiring possibilities, and improving
perceptions of disability are far from its actual, lived foundation and the Mellon foundation, and her work has been the lives of the people we serve, their families, and our
experiences,” said Rena Blades, curator of the exhibition widely exhibited, including at the National Portrait Gallery community. Since 1958, The Arc has envisioned a community
and president at Delos Consulting. of the Smithsonian, Yale University, the United Nations, and where every person feels welcome, connected, and accepted.
The Arc of Palm Beach County, through ArtWorks the National Museum of Women in the Arts. About Related Southeast
and its other art programs, helps convey the stories, Jeffrey Mansfield Headquartered in the heart of rapidly expanding
accomplishments, and experiences of people with Jeffrey Mansfield was born deaf and his early childhood Downtown West Palm Beach, Related Southeast is Related
disabilities. Their Own Truths encourages the community experiences, like attending a school for the deaf, informed Companies’ locally based, global real estate and lifestyle
to think differently, and to discover the true meaning of his opinions about art, architecture, and their influence on our company that has redeveloped Downtown West Palm Beach
inclusion, acceptance, and diversity. lives. His work explores how spaces profoundly impact our into one of the nation’s fastest-growing commercial, retail,
“This immersive, thought-provoking exhibit hopes to experience. Mansfield also researches the formation of deaf and culinary, art, and tourism destinations. Related Southeast
bring people together to explore and celebrate the disability disability spaces as expressions of cultural resistance. leads the market in Class A office space with 360 Rosemary,
community’s impact on our world,” said Kimberly McCarten, Mansfield is a Graham Foundation grantee, a recipient of CityPlace Tower, Esperanté, Phillips Point, and the
president and CEO of The Arc of Palm Beach County. “We the Ford Foundation and the Mellon Foundation’s Disability forthcoming 1 Flagler, as well as the celebrated destinations
want to connect and inspire artists of all abilities in our Futures fellowship, and a John W. Kluge fellow at the Library of of The Square, Hilton West Palm Beach, RH West Palm,
community and beyond. The Arc is fostering a society that Congress. His work has been presented at MoMA PS1, Bergen and the historic Harriett Himmel Theater. The dynamic
upholds human flourishing and acceptance of all.” Assembly, Sao Paulo Biennale, and the Sharjah Biennial. neighborhood built for all to enjoy has recently undergone
Their Own Truths engages the broader conversation David Richards a $700 million transformation designed to foster culture
around contemporary art, while the artists’ insights provide David Richards’ work combines painted wall sculpture and enrich the community with lush green spaces; a diverse
viewers with opportunities to consider, examine, and with collage and drawn elements. His art fuses organic, mix of experiential retail and culinary offerings; the largest
critique deeply rooted points of view. The artists include: mechanical, and geometric forms, inviting viewers to make concentration of public art installed by a private company
Sky Cubacub their own interpretations. Richards was born with physical in Palm Beach County, featuring renowned artists such as
Sky Cubacub designs disabilities affecting his spine, hips, legs, and feet. Yinka Shonibare, CBE, and Jeppe Hein; and rich cultural
artistic garments that are Richards received the Illinois Arts Council Individual and educational programming and modern luxury residences.
fanciful, colorful, and Artist grant, the 3Arts Make a Wave grant, a City of Chicago For more information about Related Southeast, please visit
custom-fitted for bodies Percent for the Arts program purchase award for the Logan relatedsoutheast.com.
of all shapes and sizes. Square Public Library, and the Anna Louise Raymond
Cubacub was inspired fellowship. His work has been widely exhibited, including Art Happenings on page 9
to create clothing that
references and reflects on
their nonbinary gender and
disabilities: debilitating
anxiety and an undiagnosed
stomach disorder.
Cubacub has received
several important honors,
including the 2019/20
Kennedy Center Citizen Sky Cubacub, Rebirth Est. 1926
Artist, the 2021 Disability Garments, photo by Grace The Heart of Hobe Sound
Futures Fellowship from DuVal
the Ford Foundation and the
Mellon Foundation, and the Chicagoan of the Year in 2018. Historic Art Auction Coming in February WE are YOUR Community
We will be holding an auction of the historic church windows
that were replaced during a recent renovation on February Church
25. Local artists have been lending their vision to the project All Visitors Welcome
and the finished art will be available for bidding in February.
See the church website for details. We Invite You to Worship with Us
ongoing mission projeCts Every Sunday at 10:30 a.m.
February 12 - Souper Bowl Sunday food collection to WE ARE ON FACEBOOK LIVE
support House of Hope every Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m.
LeArning opportUnities Give us a call or visit our

Chair Yoga Classes on Tuesdays @10 website for more information.
Bible Study Classes Tuesday@11
Art Classes by appointment (772) 546-5043
Crochet, Cross-stitch and handwork group coming soon! www.heartofhobesound.org
Sky Cubacub, photo by Grace DuVal
MONTHLY DINNERS
Riva Lehrer Monthly dinners to help offset some of the almost $350,000 in
Riva Lehrer was born with spina bifida and has spent a renovation costs to our church building. The dinners will be held on the
2nd Friday of the month at 5:30. Cost is $15 per person
lot of time in hospitals; both experiences inform her work. jAnuArY 13 - MeATLoAF
She paints intimate and provocative portraits that focus on FeBruArY 10 - CorniSH gAMe Hen MArCH 10 - Corned BeeF
individuals with a visible disability. Lehrer is also a well-
known activist for disability culture, and a teacher, writer, 11933 SE Juno Crescent • Hobe Sound, Florida 33455
and speaker.