March/April 2007

Priceless

Tallahassee
Ballet’s
production
of Alice in

Adventures in the Arts: Wonderland

Local Author Rhett DeVane

Learns to Belly Dance

Conversations with
writer/performer/activist
Terry
Galloway
Profiles in the Arts:
John Lytle Wilson

Put a Spring in Yo r Step As the warm weather returns,

the ar t scene heats up in Florida’s cultural capital
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Editorial Assistant Topher Sherman artists, as well as businesses and individuals interested in
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As the warm weather returns,
the ar t scene heats up in Florida’s cultural capital
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Dick Fallon, Cultural
The Tallahassee Ballet stages Alice in Ambassador
Wonderland for its Dance for Spring, Copyright © 2007 Council on Culture & Arts
2222 Old St. Augustine Road, Tallahassee, FL 32301
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fantastic adventure down the rabbit hole,
her experiences at the Mad Hatter’s Tea
Party, the Queen’s Croquet Match, and her
encounters with the White Rabbit and the A COCA publication sponsored in part by the City of Tallahassee, Leon County,
Knave of Hearts.“The production is designed the State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Arts Council, and the
to appeal to both children and adults,” says National Endowment for the Arts.
Artistic Director Henry Hernandez, who
choreographed the new ballet. “My goal is
for it to be enchanting.”

Photo by Jon Nalon

 CONTENTS

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Spring is in the Air:

12
So get up, get out, and explore
Tallahassee’s arts and culture in springtime

Adventures in the Arts:

16
Hips that Jingle-Jangle-Jingle

Conversations With:

22
Mickee Faust (and Terry Galloway)

Profiles in the Arts:

John Lytle Wilson

Regular Features
2 From the Publisher
2 Contributors
3 News of Note
9 More Than You Thought
11 Ask the COCA-NUTS
14 COCA Connection
18 Directory of Arts and Cultural Organizations and Businesses

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FROM THE PUBLISHER

Illustration by Nathan Archer
Harnessing Creativity
By now I hope you have all heard the exciting news about the Knight Foundation’s Creative
Communities Initiative, for which Tallahassee has been chosen as one of three cities in the nation. This
partnership with Leon County’s leaders and “futurist” Richard Florida applies a new and imaginative
approach to economic development. Richard Florida’s work spotlights human creativity as the
primary engine of economic growth. “Access to talented and creative people is to modern business
what access to coal and iron ore was to steelmaking,” Florida says, and we at COCA heartily agree. We
are delighted to welcome this initiative, and are especially pleased that one of our board members,
Lydia McKinley-Floyd, will be serving as part of Tallahassee’s Host Committee. COCA will do our best
to keep you informed through this year-long process.
In the meantime, we’ve put our own creativity to work to bring you a new magazine format, one that
gives you more timely news, more in-depth features, and even stronger coverage of topics of interest
to arts and culture lovers. COCA coined the now familiar catchphrase “More Than You Thought,” and
starting with this issue, we’ll be bringing you conversations with the Many-More-Than-You-Thought
arts professionals living and working in Tallahassee. I think you’ll be fascinated to read what writer,
performance artist, and activist Terry Galloway has to say in this issue. And coming in May, local bond
attorney (and comedy writer) Elise Judelle interviews Tallahassee City Commissioner (and novelist)
Mark Mustian. Also inside, local author Rhett DeVane kicks off our new feature, Adventures in the Arts,
with the charming story of how she learned to belly dance. If you’ve ever wanted to try something but
didn’t because you were too self-conscious, I hope this article makes you reconsider.
The new Capital Culture Magazine is bursting at the seams, and you can always get more information
at COCA’s web site (www.cocanet.org) or the online calendar (www.morethanyouthought.com).
See you out and about!

Peggy Brady

CONTRIBUTORS
Rhett DeVane
Rhett DeVane is a true southerner – born
and raised in the deep, muggy, bug-infested
pine and oak forests of the Florida panhandle.
Originally from Chattahoochee, for the past 29
years she has made her home in Tallahassee,
where she is a practicing dental hygienist and
an active member of the Tallahassee Writers’
Association. Rhett is deeply committed to the
completion of a series of adult mainstream
novels set in north Florida. The Madhatter’s
Guide to Chocolate was published in 2003 and
Up the Devil’s Belly was released in 2005. A third
novel in the series, Your Mama’s Comfort Food,
is slated for release in the summer of 2007. For
more information about Rhett, visit her web
site at www.rhettdevane.com.
Sam Atwood
Sam Atwood is a writer, performer, and
disability advocate who grew up in the wilds
of Maine and has lived in Tallahassee for the
last seven years. He is an active member of the
Mickee Faust Club, writing and performing in
their cabarets, radio shows, and short films.
His most recent theatrical role was the title
character in Curious Echo Radio Theater’s
audio production of The Moon Wraith,
soon to be released on CD. He is currently
collaborating on the Actual Lives project,
helping to produce performance pieces
created by people with disabilities. When not
working, Sam can be found at Black on Black
Rhyme, the Tallahassee Rock Gym, or any
place coffee and cigarettes are encouraged.

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Welcome
The Tallahassee Ballet welcomes
Janet Pichard as its new Executive
Director. Janet has taught ballet in
Tallahassee for 30 years, and has been
a marketing/advertising professional
for 25 years.
Quincy Music Theatre welcomes
Kevin Scott Goodson as its new
Managing Director. Prior to coming
to Quincy, Kevin served as the Interim
Executive Director of Tallahassee
Little Theatre and has worked with
a number of theatres and colleges
throughout his seventeen-year career.
NEWS OF NOTE
Not just great arts teachers – great teachers!
Five Leon County arts educators have been named the “2007 Campus Teacher of the
Year” at their respective schools. They are: Kimberly Brock, art teacher at Killearn Lakes
Elementary School; Jodi Drew, chorus and music teacher at Cobb Middle School;
Patricia Gaskin, art and creative writing teacher at Griffin Middle School; Francine
Hern, language arts teacher at Fairview Middle School, and Sheri Nilles, art teacher at
SAIL High School.
Florida State University Art Education Professor Tom Anderson has been named higher
education’s “Art Educator of the Year” by the National Art Education Association. He was
nominated by a former student, and will officially receive the award in March in New
York City.

Congratulations!
The Mary Brogan Museum of Art
& Science is one of fifteen science
museums in the U.S. that has been
selected for the MetLife Foundation
Partnership for Lifelong Learning
program. The Museum has been
awarded a grant of $75,000 to help
create new exhibitions, implement
science education programs and
provide teacher training.

Attention FSU Arts Lovers

The new parking garage, located
on the corner of Macomb and Call
Streets, is now open. The new garage
is particularly convenient to the Fine
Arts Ticket Office, the School of
Theatre, the Museum of Fine Arts,
the Claude Pepper Museum, and Barbara Balzer (center) at the opening of her show Allegory, Attraction, and Anatomy at Thomas Eads Fine Art, December
the College of Music. Call Street is 8, 2006 with Ruth Pyatok (left) and Deanne Pool (right). Photo by Thomas Eads.

now two-way, and the parking garage

may be accessed from either Macomb Individual Artists Honored
Street or Call Street.
Three Leon County writers have been awarded literature fellowships from the
Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. Sheila Ortiz-Taylor, David Scott, and Lucinda
International Flair Vickers have each been awarded $5,000 in the highly competitive area of fiction.
Tallahassee Community Chorus
has been invited by Music Celebrations
International to participate in the first
ever Beijing Choral Festival in July
David and Stacie Humphrey, Tom Guilday at the Tallahassee
2007. The Chorus will be traveling to Symphony Orchestra’s New Year’s Eve “Champagne on Ice” Gala in
China to perform a major work at the the ballroom at the University Center Club.
world famous Beijing Concert Hall.

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As the winter chill ebbs away, but before the full heat of summer

descends on Florida’s Capital City, take advantage of Tallahassee’s

beautiful springtime and fill your life with the arts.

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March and April mark the beginning of a series of seasonal

and outdoor arts activities. Those of us who live here look
forward to our familiar favorites every year, and anxiously
await the arrival of the innovative and exciting. For our
visitors, of course, it’s all new!

Go to Market
The white canopies will once again line the walkways under the stately oaks of Ponce de
Leon Park, when Tallahassee’s Downtown Marketplace opens for its twelfth season on
March 3rd.
In this relaxing setting, celebrated local musicians perform, authors and poets read
from their latest books, and regional artists show their art and fine crafts. Special events
bring hands-on art activities for children or sneak previews of upcoming cultural events.
(See list of special events on the next page.)
Open every Saturday, March through November, from 8 am until 2 pm, the
Marketplace also features local farmers offering Mother Nature’s best. Homegrown
produce, organic items, fresh bread, and cut flowers abound.
The Downtown Marketplace’s season of 40 Saturdays is a tempting combination of

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the familiar and the fresh. There’s something new every time
you take this stroll through the park.
More Arts in the Parks
Just east of the Downtown Marketplace, in Lewis and Bloxham
Parks, is the home of another outdoor art festival, this one
newer, but fast becoming a Tallahassee tradition. On April
21st and 22nd, celebrate the beauty of art and springtime at
LeMoyne’s Chain of Parks Art Festival.
According to LeMoyne’s Executive Director, Allison McCarthy,
the Festival isn’t just for art collectors. “Our target market is for
art lovers, but also for people who just love to spend a beautiful
spring day outside as a family, or on a date,” McCarthy says.
“People do buy a lot of art, but there is much more than that.
It’s an opportunity to get out and be a part of the Tallahassee
community.”
The festival is a great chance to meet and talk to the artists.
In fact, artists who won’t commit to being at the festival in
person aren’t accepted. This spring, the 103 accepted artists are
from Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, but also from as far away
as Montana, California, and Washington. “This year is a first,”
notes McCarthy. “We will feature an international artist – a man
named Yoram Gal, who is traveling all the way from Israel to
participate!”
The Art and Science of Wine
An even newer spring tradition is the Florida Wine Festival,
which will be celebrating its fifth anniversary this year. This
three-day celebration of the art and science of wine benefits
the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, and features
entertainment for the whole family.
For those looking for a sophisticated experience, Friday,
April 12th offers an elegant night under the stars. Guests will
stroll through Kleman Plaza, tasting fine wine, enjoying an
assortment of cuisine from our local restaurants, and bidding
on a variety of silent and live auction items. Later on, attendees
can dance the night away with a performance by FAB, a Beatles
tribute band.
On Saturday, April 14th, join the more than 5,000 expected
“A very clever poet, Wallace Stevens, ended a poem with saying,‘But there is no spring
in Florida.’ He did not know Florida. He came as a stranger, a traveler, to Florida… He
could not differentiate among the shades of green… He did not know when the...
cypress bursts from gray bareness into a dress of soft needles.”
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Downtown Marketplace
Spring/Summer 2007 Special Events
3/24 St. Francis Wildlife’s Baby Shower for Orphaned Animals
St. Francis Wildlife will receive more than 1,500
orphaned wild birds and animals this spring and
summer, and wild babies need lots of help.
3/31 Spring Fest, in conjunction with Springtime Tallahassee
In addition to the regular market, there will be
an expanded “Avenue of Artists” in Bloxham Park
across Monroe Street until 4 pm.
4/7 7th Annual Haiku at Hai Noon Poetry Contest
Celebrate National Poetry Month, and enter to win
great prizes!
4/21 6th Annual Art Lovers’ Weekend in conjunction with
LeMoyne’s Chain of Parks Art Festival
More than 55 artists from here, near and faraway,
in addition to LeMoyne’s 100 local and national
artists.
5/12 Wild Art in the Park
The Marketplace’s 4th annual special wildlife event,
featuring wildlife artists, live eagles, owls, turtles,
elegant snakes, and more.
6/16 Flag Day Celebration
Free flags for the first 50 visitors in honor of Flag
Day.
7/7 Register to Vote
Pick your party or none at all, but make your voice
heard. The Voter Registration Drive kicks off on the
7th but lasts all month long.
8/18 3rd Annual Beach Shirt Market Bongo Contest
A farewell to summer and welcome to fall. Wear
your most outlandish beach shirt and win a prize!
And that’s not all! Keep an eye out the rest of the season for
popular annual events like the Art at Your Feet sidewalk chalk
art contest, Beads, Bangles, and Baubles jewelry show, The Art of
Glass, Pottery Fest, and Hello to Some Good Buys art sale.
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
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Also this Spring...

621 Gallery presents Bike Power: The Bicycle as a Cultural Force for Change,
through March 30. Bicycle-related artwork includes photography, sculpture, video,
and mixed media, by artists from Tallahassee and the region, as well as from New
York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Colorado, Oregon, California, and as far as away
as Vancouver, Canada. The exhibit’s juror, Keith Roberson, an Associate Professor of
Digital Arts at Florida State University, participated in and documented the 2005
London World Naked Bike Ride.
“Amsterdam 54” by Troy John McCray

visitors of all ages for a community-wide celebration in the May 20, in addition to the huge mastodon and the permanent
Brogan Museum and on Kleman Plaza. Outside will be food, collection of fascinating Florida memorabilia, visitors to
hands-on activities for children, and live entertainment Tallahassee can learn about a sport with a deep connection to
throughout the day. Inside will be wine and food lectures, plus Florida’s past.
“Winery Stations” offering tastes of fine wines. Saturday’s event The Florida Swing: Golf in the Sunshine State invites the
will kick off with a Celebrity Grape Stomping Competition, featuring professional, the duffer, and the casual observer to explore
last year’s winning team from The Tallahassee Democrat. New the wonderful world of golf. This exhibit traces the history
celebrity teams (including a ferocious group of COCA-Nuts from and development of the game in Florida from its humble
the Council on Culture & Arts) will vie to take the title this year. beginnings in the late 19th century to its phenomenal
popularity today. The exhibit focuses on golf as an element of
2Chez! popular culture, including golf fashion and merchandise. (By
This spring, Chez Pierre is bringing Tallahassee a new twist on the way, the History Shop has many
an old favorite. Replacing the popular Music on the Lawn series items of interest to golf enthusiasts.
will be the Friday Night Music Series, in the brand new outdoor Get your Father’s Day shopping done
bar and grille under the yellow awning, dubbed “2Chez.” early!)
2Chez has expanded seating, a bar, and an outdoor kitchen, Florida Swing isn’t just for looking
plus multimedia enhancements such as a giant projection at, either. Test your own skills on
screen that rolls down in front of the new band shell. The grand an interactive putting green using
opening event for the new space is planned for Sunday, March old hickory clubs and gutta percha
11th, with the music series starting soon after. balls, and swing for the distance in
Besides the concert series, Chez Pierre is planning extensive a specially designed swing-away
music and cultural offerings on their new stage. “We will be driving cage. Video kiosks display
able to offer many more arts and cultural events without fear action-packed graphics of golf’s
of inclement weather,” explains D.L. LaSeur, Chez Pierre’s events favorite stars from the early days of
manager. Ben Hogan to the 21st century’s Tiger
There will be film showings regularly during the week, with Woods. More than 100 rare artifacts
at least one large event every month. Says David Michael on loan from the PGA round out this
Sprowles, co-owner and director of operations for Chez Pierre, exciting exhibit.
“We want our new space to be a neighborhood place where
people drop by and know that there is always something going On the Highway
on.” If you aren’t familiar with the
beautiful and historic paintings of
The Florida Swing the original Florida Highwaymen,
If you think you know all there is to see at the Museum of there will never be a better time than
Florida History, you’re in for a surprise this spring. Through this spring. Florida’s Highwaymen:

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Legendary Landscapes, at the Tallahassee Museum until artists from the Big Bend Area, Creative Tallahassee is great
May 20, is sure to fascinate visitors with bold colors, life-like opportunity to see new artwork from familiar artists and
landscapes, and sheer talent. The exhibit features 33 paintings discover artists new to the community.
never before displayed in this region, from the original nine “I really enjoy this exhibition because local artists often take
Florida Highwaymen. this opportunity to show something different that they have
Legendary Landscapes explores the stories of a group of been working on – a new medium or new style,” notes Leslie
young, untrained African-American landscape painters that Puckett, COCA’s Art in Public Places Director.
emerged from the small Florida town of Fort Pierce in the late Creative Tallahassee opens with a public reception and
1950s and 1960s. The paintings in the exhibition represent awards ceremony on Friday, April 13, and runs through May 22
a fascinating story of a group of artists from the segregated at Tallahassee’s City Hall Art Gallery. Puckett says, “I always find
South who overcame the odds that prevented them from myself inspired by something or someone in this exhibition.”
working with traditional art galleries, and forced them to travel So get out this spring and be inspired!
throughout the state selling their paintings out of the trunks of
their cars. Telling the story of ingenuity and entrepreneurship,
Florida’s Highwaymen exhibit unfolds the secrets of
perseverance in the face of societal limitations.
It’s not just the historic element that will interest visitors,
though. “Part of the appeal of Legendary Landscapes is that it
dramatically captures what Florida once was and how much
it’s changed,” notes Russell Daws, Executive Director of the
Tallahassee Museum. “Part of what we hope people will take
away from this exhibit is an appreciation for the beauty of
Florida’s landscapes, and a desire to preserve them as Florida
continues to grow.”

Out with the Old, In with the New

There’s no season like spring to get the creative juices flowing,
and the School of Theatre at Florida State’s New Horizons:
Original Works Festival may be just the ticket you need to
spark your own creative side.
Opening March 22 and running through April 1st in the
Lab Theatre, New Horizons will debut six original works written
by the Master of Fine Arts Professional Writing students and
directed by the Master of Fine Arts Directing students.
Fred Chappell, head of the MFA Directing Program, is
excited by the chance to share the creative process with the
community. “New Horizons gives students and faculty the
opportunity to explore the development of new plays...,” says
Chappell. “It affords our audiences the chance to share in a very
exciting adventure, watching new plays evolve from inception
to production.”
Over the two-week festival period, three different program
nights will be presented. Each night will feature a short play, a
staged reading, and a talkback session. Visitors can purchase
tickets for any one night, get a package deal to attend all three
programs, or go all out: buy the all-access pass and attend every
night.

Last But Not Least…

Don’t miss the Council on Culture & Arts’ own contribution
to springtime in the Capital City. Creative Tallahassee is one
of the most popular exhibits of the City of Tallahassee’s Art in
Public Places season. Showcasing both novice and professional Nature and the Deers by Sanjit Datta from Creative Tallahassee 2006.

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 COCA’s MoreThanYouThought.com is a free, on-line interactive
community events calendar. Everyone is invited to post their events
(art-related and otherwise) to the calendar for no charge.

Here is a small sampling of the events posted in March

and April 2007...

(Note: All events are subject to change without notice. Check www.MoreThanYouThought.
com, or contact the individual organizations listed for updated information.)

Theatre
Start with My Emperor’s New Clothes from FAMU’s Essential
Theatre from March 28 through April 1. Highly entertaining, this
new version of the classic story is a colorful treat for audiences of
all ages. Written by Larry Shue, this adaptation captures lessons in
honesty, pretentiousness, and misplaced values. Call 561-2425 for
tickets.
Ready for a daring evening of entertainment? Try The FULL Monty
at Tallahassee Little Theatre, April 12 to 5 and 19 to 22. Six good
buddies have a plan to get their lives back, and it requires them to
triumph over their fears, their nerves and their clothing! This ten-time
Tony Award nominee is musical comedy at its most heartwarming.
Call 224-8474 or visit www.tallahasseelittletheatre.org.

If song and dance are your love, don’t miss the musical theatre
classic, A Chorus Line, from TheatreTCC, at Turner Auditorium
March 29 through 31, and April 5 through 7. That’s right – there’s
no need to travel all the way to Broadway to see a revival of this
brilliant combination of dance, song, and drama that follows the
stories of theatre gypsies hoping for their big break. Call the Fine
Arts Ticket Office at 644-6500.
If The Full Monty is a little too risqué for your little ones, consider The
Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe presented
by Young Actors Theatre, March 2 through 11. When Lucy steps
into the wardrobe, she crosses a forgotten portal into the magical
world of Narnia, where dwarves, fauns and talking animals dwell,
and where the White Witch has cast an icy spell. Call 386-6602.

Can a big girl with big dreams – and even bigger hair! – change the world . . . and still have time to win the
boy she loves? From classic to new, the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center’s Broadway Series
presents a national tour of Hairspray (the 2003 Tony Award-Winner for Best Musical), April 9 through 11. Tickets
are on sale the Civic Center Box Office (850-222-0400 or 800-322-3602), Sam Goody in Tallahassee Mall, and at
www.ticketmaster.com.

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Theatre (cont.) Dance

Another great family choice is Wind in the Willows at Quincy Music For dance fans, FSU’s Department of Dance has events in
Theatre, April 13 to 15 and 20 to 22. The unforgettable characters both March and April. On March 23 and 24, catch the MFA Dance
from Kenneth Grahame’s beloved classic novel spring to life in this Concert. April 12 through 14 don’t miss the annual Evening of
sparkling Broadway musical adaptation. Call 875-9444 or visit www. Dance, featuring Paul Taylor’s Esplanade as well as works by faculty
qmtonline.com. and guest artists. Both events will be held at the newly-renovated
Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre in Montgomery Hall. Call the
Fine Arts Ticket Office at 644-6500.
Music
On March 11 in Opperman Music Hall, the Artist Series of
Tallahassee will present the internationally famous Borodin String
Quartet which celebrates its 60th Anniversary this season, making
it the world’s longest-lived string quartet. Tickets are available at
Beethoven & Company, MusicMasters, or by calling 224-9934.

Not to be outdone by the adults, the Tallahassee Symphony

Youth Orchestras will present seasonal concerts on March 4 and
April 29, featuring the young musicians of five orchestras and four
chamber groups. Families and children are encouraged to attend.
Call 224-9232 for further information.

The Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra will be busy this

spring. On March 17 at Ruby Diamond, the Symphony presents
Barber, Beethoven and Brahms. The concert will feature nationally
renowned soprano Carla Connors. On April 28, TSO presents
Orchestral Brilliance, with special guest artist Jennifer Koh on violin.
Call the Fine Arts Ticket Office at 644-6500.

If you’ve never been to the opera, consider Florida State Opera’s

production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni (March 29 through April 1 at
Ruby Diamond Auditorium), based on the story of Don Juan. Non-
Italian-speakers can rest easy: Florida State Opera’s productions
feature easy-to-read English “supertitles.” Call the Fine Arts Ticket
Office at 644-6500.

Also this Spring...

As the semester draws to a close, the FSU Museum of Fine Arts offers its most

ambitious student exhibition of the season, showing the thesis work of MFA

candidates and the final projects of BFA spring graduates. The exhibition runs from

April 6-27, with a free public reception on Friday, April 6, from 7-9 pm.

Fall 2006 Graduate Artist Greg Kallide

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 ASK THE COCA-NUTS
How can I get an artist to donate work for
my charity auction fundraiser?
Signed,
A Really Good Cause

Dear Good Cause,

The first thing to realize is that artists are constantly asked to donate work to charity. Many of them
do so, but few can accommodate the multiple requests they receive from worthy causes.
A better tactic is to purchase a piece of art and donate it yourself. Keep in mind that the artist can only deduct the cost of the materials
he or she uses – canvas and paint – but you can write off the full value of your purchase. That’s a win-win situation: you get the full charitable
deduction, while at the same time supporting both your favorite cause and a local artist.
If you do decide to seek donations directly from artists, there are a couple of ways to increase your likelihood of success. First, approach
artists whose work you have already purchased. An artist, just like any other business owner, is much more likely to help out a customer
than a stranger. Leslie Puckett, COCA’s Arts in Public Places Director, advises thinking about what you can give the artist in return for the
donation. “Offer to split the selling price with the artist,” suggests Puckett. “Or if it is a ticketed event with refreshments or dinner, offer the
artist a free ticket or two.”
You should certainly list the artist’s contact information in the event program, on your web site, and in other publicity materials. But,
warns Puckett, “Exposure alone isn’t enough to compensate the artist. Artists whose work is frequently sold at auctions below retail price
can find their work becoming de-valued, which actually makes it harder for them to earn a living.”
Another strategy to make donating more appealing is to allow the artist to set a minimum bid for his or her work.“Sometimes an event
may not have the right crowd for a particular piece,” says Puckett. “It can create ill will if a thousand dollar painting ends up sold for fifty dol-
lars for lack of a competitive bidding audience.”
Last, make an effort to find an artist who already supports your cause. Your time and money are precious, and you want to contribute
to groups you know and ideas you believe in. It isn’t surprising that artists feel similarly.

Good luck with your event!

The COCA-Nuts

Do you have a question about any aspect of the visual, performing, literary, media, or other arts? Ask the COCA-Nuts! If we don’t have the answer, we’ll find an expert who does.
Send questions to: Council on Culture & Arts, 2222 Old St. Augustine Road, Tallahassee, FL 32301. Or e-mail to: magazine@cocanet.org.

Meet a COCA-Nut
Leslie Puckett, Arts in Public Places Director
In addition to curating, designing, and installing all exhibitions at COCA’s galleries, Leslie acts as a liaison
between COCA and individual artists and visual arts organizations. Leslie holds a Master’s degree in
Art Education/Studio Art from Florida State University. Until mid-2002 she was the Director of the 621
Art Gallery; prior to that, she was the Director of Education and Volunteer Coordinator at LeMoyne Art
Foundation. A practicing artist and calligrapher, Leslie has exhibited in various invitational and juried
exhibits in Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Canada, New York, Atlanta, Albany, Thomasville, and St. Simons, GA.

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HIPS THAT
JINGLE-
JANGLE-
JINGLE
by Rhett DeVane
People who have mid-life crises have been
known to buy flashy red convertibles, change
lifestyles, and visit New Age health spas intent
on purifying the soul and bank account. Not
me; I took up belly dancing.
Inspired by a feature article in the Tallahassee Democrat,
I donned a pair of worn knit pants and a faded FSU T-shirt,
and showed up at the local YMCA for my first Middle Eastern
Dance class. How could I know it would turn into a healthy,
alternative exercise obsession?
“It’ll probably be a bunch of size zero, twenty-something’s
in tights,”one friend cautioned.“I can’t imagine it. You certainly
won’t catch me wiggling my wide load there.”
I’ll try anything once. Twice, if I live through it and like it.
The first time I stepped into the spacious YMCA aerobics
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room, I felt at home. The over-thirty-and-forty-year-old
women ruled the majority, and the instructor was a lively
voluptuous young woman who could move each body part
independently of the others.
Never have I laughed so hard at myself, or enjoyed
working out so much. By the time the hour and a half session
ended, I had mastered hip lifts, hip drops, and performed a
reasonable imitation of the instructor’s impressive shoulder
shimmy. I shook my body so furiously, endorphins coursed
through my veins and I had to ice my rear for an hour when I
returned home. Never in my life had I felt so content to have
an ample rear. Those slender girls had more trouble getting
it all going. With the weighty power of inertia literally behind
me, spatial boundaries ceased to exist.
“You’re doing what?” an old college friend wheezed after I
told him of my newest endeavor.
Patiently, I waited for him to stop laughing.
“I’m going to hang up now. You can call me back when
you get yourself under control, okay?”

“You’re doing what?” an old college friend wheezed after I told him
of my newest endeavor.
“I’m sorry. I just got this visual of
you swinging around in an I-Dream-
of-Jeannie outfit. You have to send
me a video of you doing this!”
“Not until I’m better. And, I won’t
be wearing that particular outfit. I
favor the tribal wear. Thank you.”
Each class not only brought new,
more intricate moves, but provided
insight into the culture of the areas
from which each style originated.
I learned to zahgreet – a high-
pitched keening used to praise and
encourage the performers – and
to recognize the subtle differences
between Egyptian and Turkish forms
of music and dance.
By the end of the first month, a few
essential accessories accompanied
me to class in a bright red mini-duffle;
a mint green hip scarf with three rows
of dangling silver coins, a diaphanous
chiffon veil, and, best of all, a pair of
brass zills.
Zills, the little “finger cymbals”
Middle Eastern dancers play, nearly
sent my two felines into therapy the
first time I practiced at home. With
the volume of a dance CD turned up,
I clanged out an unpolished version
of beladi, a distinctive dance rhythm.
The cats screamed down the hall,
dove beneath the bed, and didn’t
emerge until several hours later. Either
I have improved, or they have grown
accustomed to this new form of
human lunacy. Now, both sit nearby,
ears flattened and eyes narrowed, as I
do my best to keep up with the pace
of the music, swivel, swing my arms,
move my legs, and try not to fall flat
on my face.
A couple of months into the
course, I had the opportunity to
attend a hafla; a Middle Eastern
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ADVENTURES IN THE ARTS
dance party. Artists from across the ages milled around the hallways in
Florida panhandle amassed for a day brilliantly-hued costumes. Some
of dancing, eating, and socializing, wore the traditional harem pants and
and shopping. bejeweled tops. Others swept by in
The Hafla took place in the intimate flowing tribal gauzy shirts and multi-
auditorium of the Fort Braden tiered skirts topped with layers of hip
Community Center eleven miles west
of Tallahassee. Dancers of various continued on page 21
Interested?
Check out one of these
programs in the Tallahassee area. At $8
a class or less, it’s definitely worth a try!
FSU Center for Participant Education Women’s Belly Dance Center in
FSU Campus, Shores Building, Room 2 Railroad Square
878-1651, srubinst@mailer.fsu.edu 629-H Industrial Drive in Railroad Square Art Park
• Belly Dancing 264-6986
• Hawaiian/Hula/Latin Dancing • Intro to Belly Dancing
• Beginning Belly Dancing
In Step Studio • Intermediate Belly Dancing
2609 Glover Road
421-5151, www.instepstudio.com YMCA Apalachee Parkway
• Middle Eastern Dance: Beyond Basic 2001 Apalachee Parkway
• Intermediate/Advanced Middle Eastern Dance www.tallahasseeymca.org
• Intermediate/Advanced Polynesian Dance • Belly Dance
Killearn Performing Arts YMCA North
4500 W. Shannon Lakes, #20, 284-2094, 3215 N Monroe Street
www.killearnpa.com or infinityci@aol.com www.tallahasseeymca.org
• Hula/Tahitian Dance Class • Tahitian Aerobics
• Beginning Middle Eastern Belly Dance
We Moon Spirit • Beginning Polynesian Dance
1816 Mahan Drive
www.wemoonspirit.com YMCA Southwood
• Let’s Belly Dance (Introduction) 4021 Four Oaks Blvd.
• Basic Tribal Fusion www.tallahasseeymca.org
• American Tribal Style (ATS) Belly Dance • Beginning Hawaiian Hula
Fundamentals - Level 1 & 2 • Beginning Middle Eastern Dance
(Note: this may not be a complete listing of all belly dance classes, and COCA does not endorse any particular class or
school. For listings of many other types of local dance classes, visit www.morethanyouthought.com.)
 CONNECTION
SPOTLIGHT ON...
Cultural Grant Programs
You may have heard that the Council on Culture & Arts “gives
grants.” But what does that mean, exactly?

Well, first of all, COCA doesn’t really “give” the grants. The City and
County designate money to support non-profit cultural programs that
benefit local citizens, and COCA – the local arts agency – manages the
process.
Our forward-thinking Commissioners created the local system as a
fair way to separate funding from politics long before the national trend.
In January, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that New York City
would be shifting from a lobbying-based system to a peer-reviewed
grant system. Tallahassee can take pride in being about a decade ahead
of the Big Apple!
Speaking of peer-review, that’s exactly how COCA’s system works.
The grant guidelines were developed by an open task force that
includes a broad spectrum of people from the community. Twice a year,
panels of expert community volunteers review applications and make
funding recommendations. These recommendations are sent to COCA’s
board and then forwarded to the City and County for their budget process.
(Interested in being a grant reviewer? Contact Holly Thompson at 224-2500
or holly@cocanet.org.)
For 2006-07, COCA’s process recommended 43 grants, ranging from $998.00 to
$172,880.00, for a total of more than $1 million in funding. When you think of arts grants,
the first thing that probably comes to mind is money to present cultural events. But you
might be surprised to know the wide variety of projects that impact the community
thanks to this grant funding. For instance:

• Runaway with Words’ poetry workshops for at-risk teens;

• Florida State Opera’s program that brings one-act operas into Leon County elementary
and middle schools;
• Mickee Faust Club’s Actual Lives program, which helps people with disabilities create
theatrical presentations from their life stories;
• Rossier Productions’“Operation Filmmaker,” which gives young people a hands-on
experience of creating a documentary from concept to completion;
• Tallahassee Ballet’s DanceChance program, which offers tuition-free ballet lessons and
dancewear to underserved children;
• Voces Angelorum’s collaboration with the Tallahassee Girls Choir of CHOICE;
• and many others.

A complete list of 2006-2007 (and past) cultural grants can be seen at COCA’s web site.

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COCA Notes
Space to Create
In November, COCA hosted a
representative from Artspace, Inc. (www.
artspaceusa.org), a national non-profit
arts developer based in Minneapolis.
Artspace creates, fosters and preserves
affordable space for artists and arts
organizations in all disciplines, cultures,
and economic circumstances. This
visit was a first step in establishing a
potential partnership between Artspace
and Tallahassee to create the Cultural
Support Space envisioned in the Cultural
Plan. Artspace will be returning in March
for the next steps.
Exhibit Director Exhibits
COCA’s Art in Public Places Director, Leslie
Puckett, was one of eight Tallahassee
artists whose work was shown in
Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, an exhibit at
the Chipola Community College Art
Gallery in Marianna. Leslie’s artwork
incorporates poetry with mixed media
materials.
Passing the Torch
COCA recently assisted in the distribution
of a large amount of art supplies and
books from the estate of Marcus Sigo,
a local artist. Supplies were donated to
local arts teachers and non-profit arts
education programs.
Special Thanks
COCA would like to thank Metro Deli
(www.metrodelis.com) for their in-kind
support. Metro Deli donated box lunches
for the most recent COCA Board meeting.
Stop by Metro Deli at 1887 Capital Circle
NE or 104 1/2 South Monroe Street,
and have a lunch with them as a way of
saying thanks for their community spirit.
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All A-Board
COCA is pleased to welcome five new board members for FY07:
• Lydia McKinley-Floyd is the Dean of Florida A&M University’s College of Business
and Industry.
• Kay Stephenson is Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Datamaxx Group, Inc. (www.
datamaxx.com), a leading technology company focused on the law enforcement, criminal
justice, public safety, and homeland security marketplace.
• Mike Vasilinda is the founder and head of Mike Vasilinda Productions (www.mvptv.tv), a
full-service media production company.
• Johanna Williams is a property manager of Marpan Management, Inc. and is the
President-Elect of the Tallahassee Network of Young Professionals (www.networkyp.org).
• Stacey Webb is the Assistant Chancellor of Community College and Workforce Education
for the Florida Department of Education.
Out & About
COCA’s staff has been busy serving on a variety of panels and workshops at the local
and state level.
• Amanda Thompson, Education Coordinator, served as judge for Canopy Oaks Elementary
School’s Art Contest, Raa Middle School’s Science Fair, and Raa’s Speech Contest.
• Peggy Brady, Executive Director, served on the state-wide panel to select Theatre
Fellowships in Playwriting; Randi Goldstein, Associate Director, served on the state-wide
Challenge Grant Panel.
• Peggy Brady and Tony Archer, Marketing Director, participated in the Network of Young
Professional’s Annual Forum at the Mary Brogan Museum. They led break-out sessions on
local arts issues, focusing on the Performing Arts Center and the Cultural Support Space.
• Randi Goldstein co-led a workshop on “Grants for Writers” at the Other Words Conference,
sponsored by the Florida Literary Arts Coalition.
Summer Fling
Are you ready for summer? Well, how about Summer 2008? COCA
is deep in preparations for a series of community-wide arts events
based around an exhibition of quilts from the renowned Quilters of
Gee’s Bend. The summer will include several art exhibits, as well as
companion events that include music, theatre, history, and more, all
centering on quilts. Stay tuned for more information!
CONVERSATIONS WITH...

Mickee Faust is the evil cigar-chomping rat-twin separated at

birth from that mouse in Orlando. Mickee Faust creator Terry

Galloway is a passionate, pipe-smoking aggressively affectionate

artist with a unique voice eloquent in many tongues.

Mickee Faust

Interview by Sam Atwood

Mickee Faust’s stated goal is “world media domination.” Terry
Galloway has dominated in the artistic world in a variety of
media for more than four decades. She has won top honors
from Public Radio International for her radio commentary, and
has helped create award-winning short films. In 2005, her essay,
“The Performance of Drowning,” was published in the anthology
Sleepaway, alongside pieces by Margaret Atwood, David Sedaris,
and Ursula LeGuin.
Mickee Faust rules the sewers of Faustlandia with an iron paw,
and lusting for greater power still, ran for Governor of Florida in
2000. Terry Galloway has directed performances at the Kennedy
Center, and written award-winning television programs.
Mickee/Terry sat down with Sam Atwood, who in Faustlandia is
known as the “Blind Rat with the Machete,” a slave minion forced
to carry heavy objects, wear silly costumes, and generally make
a fool of himself on- and off-stage. They can currently both be
found in Railroad Square, working with veteran and first time
writers and performers to create An Inconvenient Faust, an all-new
original cabaret opening April 13th.
SA: You founded the Mickee Faust Club nearly 20 years ago, but
how did you get turned on to theatre in the first place?
TG: When I was 5, I got cast as “Sparky the Little Elf” in a school show. (I
thought of that name all by myself.) I got to make up my own lines. I
wrote myself a huge part, and I loved it.
SA: Was this before or after your hearing loss was diagnosed?
TG: Before. It wasn’t diagnosed until I moved to Texas at around age
ten, but I was already having problems hearing and experiencing
hallucinations.
SA: How did being deaf make it difficult to participate in theatre
in middle and high school?
TG: I had to learn to enunciate, and I worked hard at it. I had a great
speech teacher who worked with me very physically, to teach me to
feel what my body had to do to make certain sounds.
SA: Did you go to college to study theatre?
TG: Yes and no. It wasn’t a given that I would attend college. Even
after I won a full-scholarship to the University of Texas for my poetry,
my guidance counselor offered me a brochure entitled “Factory Work

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Makes Great Jobs for the Deaf.”
When I got to UT, I initially went to the
Theatre Department, but they said the
only thing I could do was costuming. I
spent most of my time in college with
more open-minded people I found in the
English and TV/Film Departments.
SA: Did you stay in Austin after
college?
TG: Yes, I had a series of short-lived jobs. I
worked as an illustrator, and an historical
archeologist. I had an exhibit of my
paintings and drawings at a gallery in
Austin and made enough money to
live for a year. I worked as an artist in
the schools, and as a Santa Claus for an
alternative mall.
In 1976 I helped found Esther’s Follies. We
wrote, acted, directed, and produced a
new show every weekend for three years.
I was also one of the founders of a little
theatre called TransAct that went belly
up after the first year. But it gave birth
posthumously to a play called Greater
Tuna.
I got a fellowship to study theatre at
Columbia University, and moved to New
York, where I got some great reviews for
my performance work at P.S. 122 and
American Place Theatre. In 1983, I had a
nervous breakdown (it was hard being
deaf in New York). I fled back to Austin to
recover.
SA: So how did you get from Austin to
Tallahassee?
TG: In Austin, I met Donna Marie Nudd.
We’ve been together since the day we
met. When Donna accepted a teaching
job at FSU in 1986, I followed her here.
Donna and I co-founded the Mickee Faust
Club in 1987.
SA: What else were you doing at the
time?
TG: Well, I played a lot of soccer. In 1988,
the head of P.S. 122 invited me to do my
one-woman show, Out All Night and Lost
My Shoes, at the first N.Y. International
Festival for the Arts. Donna directed that
production, and she and I toured all over
the country and to many different parts of
the world.
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In 1991, I won an NEA Fellowship in for Tallahassee?
Theatre. Not long after that, three TG: Oh God, yes! You know the Knight
friends of mine, Holly Hughes, Tim Foundation initiative? The one premised
Miller, and Karen Finley, were denied on the whole creative class as the engine
their fellowships because their work that drives local economies? If we want
dealt with controversial issues – sex and to jack up the economy of the city, we
homosexuality, of course. They were three need a new performing space. We’ll be
of the “NEA Four” who sued Congress and able to host hundreds of different kinds of
won their funding. Then Congress got
events that we can’t have now because
the last word by cutting NEA funding to we don’t have the appropriate space for
individual artists completely. them. As for those guys who sneer about
SA: You’ve worked in so many different the cost…arts and entertainment bring
media. Tell me about some of the in more revenue to the state of Florida
people who inspire you. than anything but tourism. So arts and
entertainment are the big guns. They can
TG: I am always inspired by the people I
work with, so you could put every single literally make our little city richer.
person in Faust on that list. And all the folks SA: What else needs to happen to
I worked with in Austin and in New York. I make Tallahassee an even better place
take my inspiration from Abraham Lincoln for the arts?
and Malcolm X. And I love Socrates and
TG: We need to define Tallahassee, and
Euripides. I love Shakespeare and Edmond make choices to support that definition.
Rostand. Lucille Ball and Daffy Duck. The
People in Tallahassee need to believe that
Simpsons and South Park. Sara Silverman something extraordinary can come from a
and Eddy Izzard. I love Helen Keller and
little place like this.
Annie Sullivan. I love Federico Fellini,
and the Farley Brothers. Victor Hugo and
Virginia Woolf. I love Elizabeth Bishop As well as producing the Mickee Faust Club’s
and Elizabeth Allende, Louis L’Amour and spring cabaret, Terry is currently working
Cormac McCarthy, Sylvia Plath and Ted on her memoir, Mean Little deaf Queer,
Hughes.
and directing local people with disabilities
I also find a lot of inspiration in my family
in a video and performance project about
– not just my mother who is so funny
and charismatic, or my sisters who are the emergency evacuation procedures. For more
most shocking and compelling storytellers information, visit www.mickeefaust.com or
you will ever meet. But also from James e-mail TLGalloway@aol.com.
Wilson, my great-grandfather eight
times back who signed the Declaration
of Independence, and another ancestor
of mine, Alan de Galway, a constable of
Scotland who signed the Magna Carta.
Their names on those articles of belief
argued for decency, respect, and freedom.
SA: What do you like about working
here in Tallahassee?
TG: I like the coziness. I like the access to
really smart people. I like being able to go
to an artist’s opening and actually getting
to talk to the artist. I like the canopy roads
and the barbecue.
SA: Do you think the Performing
Arts Center and Gaines Street Terry Galloway in her one-woman show,
Development projects are good things Out All Night and Lost My Shoes.
 Goodwood Museum & Gardens
877-4202, www.goodwoodmuseum.org
Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratories (Panacea, FL)

Arts & Cultural Organizations 850-984-5297, www.gulfspecimen.org

John G. Riley Center/Museum of African
American History and Culture

and Businesses 681-7881, www.rileymuseum.org

Kirk Collection
www.wfsu.org
See www.cocanet.org for expanded listings
Highlighted are COCA members | Denotes a First Friday participant Knott House Museum
922-2459, museumoffloridahistory.com
Lichgate on High Road
383-6556
Mission San Luis
Dance Sharon Davis Schools of Dance
487-3711, www.missionsanluis.org
893-5900
African Caribbean Dance Theatre
Southern Academy of Ballet Arts Museum of Florida History
539-4087, www.fadf.org
222-0174 245-6400, museumoffloridahistory.com
Argentine Tango Society of Tallahassee
The Tallahassee Ballet The Old Capitol
222-3449, www.tangotallahassee.com
224-6917, www.tallaballet.com 487-1902, www.museumoffloridahistory.com
Community School of the Performing Arts and
TallahasseeCommunityFriendsofOldTimeDance Pebble Hill Plantation (Thomasville, GA)
Culture, 574-2237
421-1587 or 421-1838, www.tallydancer.com 229-226-2344, www.pebblehill.com
Corazon Dancers
Tallahassee Swing Band Dances San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park (St.
212-1714 , www.fsucorazon.com
894-3789, etoole@aol.com Marks, FL), 922-6007
Essence Dance Theatre
Tallahassee Zydeco & Cajun Association (TAZACA) Tallahassee Automobile Museum
412-7525, Essencedance@aol.com
212-0431, zydeco-jan@comcast.net 942-0137, www.tacm.com
FSU Ballroom Dance Club
USA Dance Tallahassee Museum
www.fsuballroomdance.com
562-1224, homepage.mac.com/mweininger/ 575-8684, www.tallahasseemuseum.org
FSU Department of Dance tallusabda Tallahassee Trust for Historic Preservation
644-1023, dance.fsu.edu
488-7100, www.taltrust.org
Halimeda’s Oasis
421-5151, www.halimedasoasis.com
Film & Video
Head Over Heels Dancewear
Diane Wilkins Productions
Literary
224-5140, www.head-over-heels.com Anhinga Press
893-1441, www.dianewilkinsproductions.com
In Step Studio 442-1408, www.anhinga.org
FSU Film School
421-5151, www.instepstudio.com Apalachee Press
644-0453, filmschool.fsu.edu
Killearn Performing Arts 942-5041, lnewt@supernet.net
FSU Student Life Cinema
443-7512 or 894-9364, www.killearnpa.com Back Talk Poetry Troupe
644-4455, movies.fsu.edu
Kollage Dance Troupe 459-7399, www.blackonblackrhyme.com
IMAX Theatre at the Challenger Learning Center
645-1385, kdtfl.tripod.com Book Den
645-STAR, www.challengertlh.com
Maggie Allesee National Center For 980-2989, www.book-den.com
Mike Vasilinda Productions
Choreography (MANCC) Digital Pulp
224-5420, www.mvptv.tv
645-2449, www.mancc.org 297-1373, www.digitalpulp.org
Rossier Productions, Inc.
Mahogany Dance Theatre Fiction Collective Two (FC2)
224-0372, www.rossierprod.org
561-2318, mahoganydancetheatre@hotmail.com 644-2260, www.fc2.org
Tallahassee Film Society
Montgomery Schools of Dance Florida Literary Arts Coalition
386-4404, www.tallahasseefilms.com
877-4874 www.floridarts.org
Video 21, 878-3921
Mountain Dew Cloggers LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library
386-1263, www.nettally.com/mountaindew 606-2665, www.leoncountylibrary.org
Orchesis Contemporary Dance Theatre
599-8678
History/Heritage Paperback Rack
224-3455
Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park
Performing Arts Center of Tallahassee Society of Childrens Book Writers & Illustrators
487-4115, www.floridastateparks.org
562-1430, performingartscenteroftallahassee.com 656-3410, Streetpmr@nettally.com
The Black Archives
Prophecy School of the Arts Tallahassee Contemporary Poets Society
561-2603, www.famu.edu/acad/archives
222-8085, www.prophecyarts.net 1-888-248-3495, myspace.com/tcpoetssociety
Claude Pepper Museum
Rhythm Rushers Bahamian Junkanoo Group Tallahassee Writers’ Association
644-9311, www.claudepepper.org/
412-7087, jandecosmo@comcast.net 671-3731, www.twaonline.org
museum

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Multi-disciplinary
Caribbean Carnival International
878-5148, www.carnivaltallahassee.com
Downtown Marketplace
224-3252, www.tallahasseedowntown.com
Florida Center for Performing Arts and
Education, 893-2497,
sylviaochs@mac.com
Florida Arts and Community Enrichment (F.A.C.E.)
644-8533, faceart@aol.com
Pyramid Studios
513-1733, www.pyramidinc.org
Seven Days of Opening Nights
644-7670, www.sevendaysfestival.org
Tallahassee Leon County Civic Center
487-1691, www.tlccc.org
Thomasville Cultural Center (Thomasville, GA)
229-226-0588, www.tccarts.org
Thomasville Entertainment Foundation
(Thomasville, GA)
229-226-7404, www.tefconcerts.com
Thomasville Road Academy of the Arts
422-7795,
www.thomasvilleroad.org/academy.htm
The Warehouse, 222-6188
Music
Apalachee Blues Society
668-5863, www.apalacheebluessociety.com
The Artist Series
224-9934, www.theartistseries.com
Bannerman’s
668-8800
Barbershop Harmony Society
562-3876, www.capitalchordsmen.org
Beethoven and Company
894-8700, www.beethovenandcompany.com
The Beta Bar
425-2697, www.thebetabar.com
Big Bend Community Orchestra
893-4567, www.bbco.org
Boys’ Choir of Tallahassee
528-2403, www.boyschoirtlh.org
Bradfordville Blues Club
906-0766, www.bradfordvilleblues.com
Bradfordville Fine Arts Academy
893-0893, www.b-fbc.org
Classical Guitar Society of Tallahassee
521-0700 or 668-1643, istal.com/cgst/index.html
Club Downunder
644-6673, union.fsu.edu/cdu
FAMU Music Department
599-3334
Florida State Opera
644-5248, www.music.fsu.edu/opera.htm
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Floyd’s Music Store
222-3506, www.floydsmusicstore.com
FSU College of Music
644-4774, www.music.fsu.edu
Gordon’s String Music
386-7784
Home Music Educators
656-7613, www.homemusiceducators.com
Jim’s Pianos
205-5467, www.jimspianos.com
Mason’s School of Music
412-0102, www.masonsmusic.com
The Moon
878-6900, www.moonevents.com
Music Center
942-0626
MusicMasters
224-6158, www.musicm.com
Music Xchange
681-7443, www.themusicxchange.com
Musikgarten
668-2119, www.best-begin.com/
musikgartensignup.html
Southern Blend
907-2034 or 385-7219, southernblend.com
Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park (Live Oak, FL)
904-364-1683, www.musicliveshere.com
Stringfest
668-6896, www.stringfest.com
Stubbs Music Center
893-8754, www.stubbs.org
Tallahassee Bach Parley
942-6075, www.bachparley.org
Tallahassee Chapter, Nashville Songwriters
Association
509-2695, www.nashvillesongwriters.com
Tallahassee Civic Chorale
878-2711, www.civicchorale.org
Tallahassee Community Chorus
668-5394, www.tcchorus.org
Tallahassee Community College Jazz Band
567-6336 or 201-8360
Tallahassee Girls’ Choir of CHOICE
576-7501
Tallahassee Music Guild
893-9346
Tallahassee Pipe Band
576-0708, www.saintandrewtallahassee.org
The Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra
224-0461, www.tallahasseesymphony.org
Tallahassee Symphony Youth Orchestras
224-9232, www.tallahasseesymphony.org
Tallahassee Winds
668-7109, www.tallahasseewinds.org
Tally Piano & Keyboard Studios
386-2425, www.tallypiano.com
Tocamos
212-0325, www.tocamos.com
Vinyl Fever
580-2480, www.vinylfever.com
Voces Angelorum
942-6075, www.voicesofangelstallahassee.org
Theatre
Bainbridge Little Theater (Bainbridge, GA)
229-246-834, www.bainbridgelittletheater.com
The Brink
284-5753, thebrinktheatre@hotmail.com
Capital City Shakespeare in the Park
386-6476, Ccshakespeare@aol.com
Curious Echo Radio Theater
228-2473, www.curiousecho.org
Dixie Theatre (Apalachicola, FL)
850-653-3200, www.dixietheatre.com
FAMU Essential Theatre
599-3430, www.essentialtheatre.us
In the Moment Players
383-1718, www.inthemomentplayers.com
Magic and Fun Costume Shop
224-6244
Mickee Faust Club
224-3089, www.mickeefaust.com
Monticello Opera House (Monticello, FL)
997-4242, Moperahouse@juno.com
Off Street Players
907-5743, Paminole@yahoo.com
Oncoming Traffic
445-8076, www.oncomingtraffic.net
Quincy Music Theatre (Quincy, FL)
875-9444, www.qmtonline.com
The School of Theatre at Florida State
644-6500, theatre.fsu.edu
Swamp Gravy (Colquitt, GA)
229-758-5450, www.swampgravy.com
Tallahassee Little Theatre
224-4597, www.tallahasseelittletheatre.org
Theatre A La Carte
385-6700, www.theatrealacarte.org
Theatre TCC!
201-8608, theatre.tcc.fl.edu
Wind & Grace
894-2888, www.windandgrace.homestead.com
Young Actors Theatre
386-6602, www.youngactorstheatre.com
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Visual Arts
1123@Midtown
562, 8696
621 Gallery
224-6163, www.621gallery.com
Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts
(Valdosta, GA), 229-247-2787, www.lvac.org
Artisans
395-7671, www.perditaross.com
ArtisTree
893-2937, www.bigbendhospice.org
Ars Magna @ The NHMFL
644-8053
Art Galleries at Tallahassee Community College
201-8713, www.tcc.fl.edu/dept/cohu/art/
artgallery.htm
Artport Gallery
224-2500, www.cocanet.org
Arts Learning Gallery
245-6480, www.florida-arts.org/
programs/learninggallery.htm
Artsy Phartsy Chics
422-3946
ASH Gallery
510-5621, anniesharris@earthlink.net
Barbara Psimas Studios
894-1444, renaissancewomangallery.com
Big Bend Contemporary Gallery
www.bigbendcontemporary.com
Blue Abaco Trading Company
325-2323, www.blueabaco.com
Bonifay Guild For The Arts (Bonifay, FL)
850-547-3530, bonifayguild@earthlink.net
Brush and Palette Studio
893-1960, brushandpalettestudio.com
Capital City Carvers
562-8460, carvers.mytalweb.com
Capitol Complex Galleries
245-6480, www.florida-arts.org
City Hall Art Gallery
224-2500, www.cocanet.org
Et Ceterocks Gallery
www.et-ceterocks.com
First Street Gallery (Havana, FL)
539-5220, www.firststreetartgallery.com
Florida Society of Goldsmiths, NW Chapter
www.fsgnw.com
FSU International Center Art Gallery
645-4793, internationalcenter.fsu.edu
FSU Museum of Fine Arts Artists’ League
644-1299, www.billhumphries.com/
artistsleaguehome.html
FSU Museum of Fine Arts
644-1254, www.mofa.fsu.edu
FSU Oglesby Gallery
644-3898, union.fsu.edu/artcenter
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Foster Tanner Fine Arts Gallery
599-3161
Gadsden Arts Center (Quincy, FL)
875-4866, www.gadsdenarts.com
Glasshopper, 668-5007
www.glasshopperonline.com
Glassworks by Susan
222-5095
Historically Florida: Florida’s History Shops
245-6396, www.floridashistoryshop.com
Images of Tallahassee
894-5596, www.russellgraceimages.com
It’s A Jem Fine Art (Havana, FL)
539-0335, www.itsajem.com
James Glaser Studios
218-368-5924
Lafayette Park Arts & Crafts Center
891-3945, www.talgov.com/parks/
commcenter/lfartscrafts.cfm
LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts
222-8800, www.lemoyne.org
Light N Up Artist Cooperative (Havana, FL)
539-0006
M Gallery
531-9925, mgallery_fl@yahoo.com
The Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science
513-0700, www.thebrogan.org
Muse · 3, 222-6873
Picture Frames Unlimited
422-0088
Oglesby Union Art Center
644-4737, union.fsu.edu/artcenter
Quilters Unlimited
www.quilttallahassee.com
Quincie’s Art Jewelry
222-8411, www.quinciehamby.com
Railroad Square Art Park
224-1308, www.railroadsquare.com
Reaver Enterprises Fine Art Supplies
561-6285, home.earthlink.net/~trreaver
Ribits Enchanted Cottage
671-5859, ribitsenchantedcottage.com
Sally Rude Antiques and Fine Art Gallery
222-4020, www.trocadero.com/mctc
Signature Art Gallery
297-2422, www.signatureartgallery.com
South of Soho Co-op Gallery
907-3590, Jzenickmail@aol.com
Swamp Buddha Sumi-e
386-5041, aekoz@yahoo.com
Tallahassee Polymer Clay Art Guild
656-2887, www.polymerclayart.org
Tallahassee Senior Center for the Arts
891-4000, www.talgov.com
Tallahassee Watercolor Society
385-9517, www.tfn.net/Watercolor
Talleon Independent Artists
386-7176, www.tfn.net/talleon
Ten Thousand Villages
906-9010, www.villagesoftallahassee.org
Thomas Eads Fine Art
224-1435, thomaseadsfineart.com
Turtle Island Trading Post
425-2490, turtleislandtradingpost.com
Uniquely Yours
878-7111
Utrecht Art Supplies
877-0321, www.utrecht.com
Visitors Center Gift Shop & Gallery
413-9200, www.seetallahassee.com
White Cottage
222-3499, www.thomasdeans.com
Wild Women Art Gallery
224-1308, Ubewild@aol.com
Belly Dancing (cont.)
scarves. In one corner, a henna artist
offered body art. Nearby, a massage
therapist worked on dancers on a
portable massage chair. Along the
back wall, the owners of In Step
Studio worked multiple tables of hip
scarves, drums, zills, jewelry, and CD’s,
and hanging racks of harem pants,
skirts, and veils. One table held silent
auction items with proceeds to be
donated to the community center.
As I watched the routines – some
dizzily fast, others sinuous and
slow – I gained a new respect for
the centuries-old dance. The music
filtered throughout the small hall as
the beat of the dumbec accompanied
the dancers’ practiced movements.
Sharing time with the Middle Eastern
performers were several Polynesian
and Spanish Flamenco dancers.
After months into the course, I
could actually complete one of In Step
Studio’s owner, Nancy Redig’s, (known
in dancing circles as Halimeda)
choreographed dance numbers.
As long as a more-knowledgeable
dancer is in front of me, Wiggle Your
Hips is a breeze. Mimicry is a form of
flattery, after all.
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Photo of John Lytle Wilson in front of one of his new robot paintings. Taken at his studio February 2007 by Tony Archer.

Once you’ve seen a painting by John Lytle Wilson, you’ll

recognize his artwork every time. Often using huge
canvases – sometimes eight feet tall – Wilson paints striking
cartoon animals: giant fierce bunny rabbits, brightly
colored kitties with sharp, pointy teeth, and monkeys and
pigs with flames shooting out the eyes. His high-energy,
bold creations seem in sharp contrast to his soft-spoken,
laid back personal style.
Wilson, 30, teaches at FSU and Valdosta State University,
and is currently the Artist in Residence at 621 Gallery in
Railroad Square Art Park. His work has become increasingly
popular, and is permeating the local art scene. At the same
time, his paintings are starting to be shown nationally, and
two of his new robot paintings were recently featured in
the science fiction issue of Idea Fixa, a Brazilian magazine.
For April’s First Friday, Wilson will be showing at Pyramid
Studios or you can see his work any time at Thomas
Eads Fine Art. For more information, visit his web site at
johnlytlewilson.blogspot.com.

John Lytle Wilson

Capital Culture’s profiled artists are selected from the many visual, performing, literary, and media artists featured on COCA’s online Artist Directory.
Listings in the Artist Directory are free, with enhanced listings available for COCA members. Visit the Directory online at www.cocanet.org.

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