THURSDAY, MARCH 4

6PM–9PM Vernissage
The Armory Art Center and the Palm Beach Fine Craft Show invite you to enjoy a private reception including light hors d’oeurves, cocktails, live music and the exclusive opportunity to view and purchase works from more than 115 of the country’s top fine craft artists before the Palm Beach Fine Craft Show opens to the public the following day.

These artists are carrying on the traditions championed by the founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the late 19th-Century, and many have work included in the White House Collection of American Craft, in major museums and private collections all over the world. Proceeds from the Vernissage ticket sales go to support the education and outreach programs of the Armory Art Center.

Serving as Honorary Chairpersons for the event are Iris and Carl Apfel; Chairpersons are Sande and Harris Hollin.

For tickets and information, please call: 561-832-1776 or email: www.armoryart.org

FRIDAY, MARCH 5

1:00pm
Marigil "Gil" Walsh, ASID with Interior Architect Rafael A. Rodriguez
"Selecting and Displaying Art Objects in Your Home"

Interior Design Expert Gil Walsh and Interior Architect Rafael Rodriguez will speak as a team on how to design an environment to showcase your collection of art objects, as well as selecting and displaying art objects in your home.

Marigil "Gil" M. Walsh is head of the interior design firm Gil Walsh Interiors. Her work has been prominently featured in regional and national media such as the covers of Beautiful Home, Palm Beach Illustrated, Naples Illustrated, Florida Design, VIVE, New York Times, New England Homes, and HGTV to name a few. Her work garnered a 2006 and 2008 Silver Prism Award for interior design.

Among her achievements is the restoration of the interiors of " Fallingwater" one of the great historical and architecturally significant homes in America designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Edgar Kaufmann. Walsh worked personally with Kaufmann who would later turn the house over to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy as a living museum.

Walsh is a graduate of Chatham College with a B.A. in Liberal Arts and the Pittsburgh Art Institute with a B.S. in Interior Design. She is an active member of American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and the Society of Classical Architecture.

Rafael A. Rodriguez was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in New Jersey. In 1980 he began his architectural education at the New York Institute of Technology where he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Architectural Technology. In 1987 Rodriguez attended the City College of New York and earned his Bachelor of Architecture Degree.

Rodriguez owns the professional practice, Rar Architect, Inc. and lives in West Palm Beach with his wife and son. Rodriguez is an adjunct professor at Palm Beach State College teaching undergraduate architecture classes.

SATURDAY, MARCH 6

1:00pm
Katie Deits, Executive Director, Lighthouse Center for the Art
Collectors’ Roundtable – a Panel Discussion and Q&A

Ms. Deits will be joined by a panel of collectors whose art collections include objects d’art purchased at venues such as the Palm Beach Fine Craft Show. The panel will also field questions from the audience.

Katie Deits is an award-winning master photographer, artist, educator and writer. As an artist, she has worked in many mediums, such as sculpture, photography and painting. In 2007, she was a recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Palm Beach County. In November 2009, she was appointed to be the Executive Director of the Lighthouse Center for the Arts, a nonprofit community arts center, museum and school of art in Tequesta, Florida.

SUNDAY, MARCH 7

1:30pm
Sandra Barghini, Chief Executive Office, The Armory Art Center
The Artifact Mysteries --Things Aren't Always What They Seem

Ms. Barghini is the former Executive Director of the American Museum in Britain , and Chief Curator at both The Flagler Museum and Hearst Castle. She will take three iconic objects from each of those collections and trace their meaning using her training as an anthropologist.

Sandra Barghini served as Director of the American Museum in Bath for more than five years, having gone to England from Florida. In Palm Beach for nine years, she served as acting Curator of American Art at the Norton Museum, and Chief Curator at the Flagler Museum. She was previously Chief Curator at Hearst Castle. She has spent more than 30 years in the museum business.

Tel: (561) 832-1776 x 12
sandra.barghini@armoryart.org