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The Art of Brian MacGregor

Julie Norris — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:46:27 +0000

Art On Display in June

Savannah artist Brian MacGregor will be showing his work in the cafe for the month of June. MacGregor’s concept behind his art focuses on a visual metaphor of the Collective Unconscious, dreams, and his international travels. He attempts to depict this realm by including hundreds of real people’s hand written dreams collected over many years from all ages and written in multiple languages. He then glues and paints over the dreams into his mixed media paintings. They are applied in a chaotic scientific fashion to mimic the building blocks of the human collective psyche. The imagery for these works ranging from landscapes, color fields, to figurative.

The opening reception will be Wednesday, June 1st from 7-10PM and will feature live music by Matthew Mendel. Be sure to stop by, meet this fascinating artist and enjoy some tea, beer, wine and organic eats.

Introduction to Pachamama

Julie Norris — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:20:59 +0000

We are blessed to bring you a message from deep in the Amazon this week. Good friend and customer Janice Steiber Rous recently returned from the Amazon tasked with Awakening the Dreamers in Florida. She’s starting this week at Dandelion by introducing us to the Pachamama Alliance at Green Drinks, Thursday, February 18th at 7pm. As with all important messages, the universe has seen fit to also serendipitously introduce us to Peruvian Shaman, Healer & Musician Inti Cesar Malesquez who will also be joining us for discussion and a bit of music. Donations for the people of Peru will be graciously accepted.

Tune into Front Porch Radio Wed, Feb 17th at Noon to listen in on a discussion about Pachamama.

You Have To Love A Place

Also, in March we have two events planned that build on the topics discussed – the first is an Art Opening for Marabou Thomas. He’s the first solo artist to be given the privileged of hanging in all three rooms of the cafe, and much of his artwork is rooted in a deep understanding of, well, let’s just say Marabou is already WIDE awake. You are going to LOVE love LOVE his art.

Also coming up during our 4th B-Day Bash on the Spring Equinox (March 20th, more on that soon) we will be visited by the Modern Day Slavery Mobile Museum. It’s all connected, just like you and me.

Must See Art by Thomas Thorspecken

Julie Norris — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:55:23 +0000

Thomas Thorspecken

Thor sketched his own Art Opening at Dandelion – check out the photos below & then read Thor’s take about the evening and see the sketch here. This is the public’s first opportunity to buy what are the most famous Orlando sketches to date. Also view him in Winter Park Magazine sketching a Front Porch Radio show (he’s interviewed towards the end of that show).

Art Opening with Live Music by Hymn for Her

Julie Norris — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 04:36:12 +0000

Yeah, so sometimes it’s so cool to have this place called Dandelion in our lives. Traveling gypsies Hymn for Her (watch video of their life on the road) are back in town to amuse us with their magic bag full of songs this Thursday, January 7th at 8pm. You can catch them live on Front Porch Radio on Wed, Jan 6th at noon or at the Audubon Park Market that same night.

They’ll serenade us while you check out this month’s awesome art show, with community documentarian Thomas Thorspecken’s scenes from local happenings & hotspots sketched in pen & ink and watercolor This show will be an Analog Artist/Digital World Retrospective; it has been a year since Thor, as we lovingly call him, started his blog. This will be the first time all of his sketches will appear together, in public.

Amelia Coffaro’s photography and Rebecca Downin’s portraits of music legends on vinyl records are also worth a serious eyeballing.