Collections, Key West
Exhibition

Woodworkers throughout the lower keys are highlighted in this March-long show. See the art from raw wood to fruition. Mario Sanchez, Elizabeth Devries, Jimmy Wray, Will Fernandez to name a few! 

Collections, Key West is located at 6810 Front Street, Stock Island (behind the Hogfish Grill)

Exhibition
Mar 1-31, 2019

Free

Call for hours 305-923-4778

Save Our Pines Annual Picnic
Potluck, Fundraiser

Friends and volunteers of Save Our Pines, the organization committed to preserving the Australian Pines at Fort Zachary State Park, invite you to join their annual picnic under the trees, Key West’s favorite shady oasis by the sea!

This annual picnic/potluck/fundraiser will be held at Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park, 601 Howard England Way, Key West

Potluck, Fundraiser
Annual Picnic Under the Pines
Sun Mar 17, 1-5PM

Free

Stock Island Studios
Studio Tours

The many artists on Stock Island throw their studio doors open for the day, including wood artists W. Perry Arnold, Pamela Kostmayer, Tom Noeker, the Shipwright Artisan co-op, Washed Up Key West and Jimmy Wray.

See stockislandstudios.com for map and info.

Photo: W. Perry Arnold at work by Johnny White

Studio Tours
Sat Mar 9, 11AM-4PM

Free

Lost Boy Creations
A Place to Visit/Shop

Collectively, Lost Boy Creations strives to open the eyes and turn the heads of the every day passerby. Through the unique, custom woodworking and adventure lifestyle, Lost Boy hopes to bring a sense of youth and an escape from reality to everyone. Re-purposing, recycling, and “up-cycling” material for their amazing work is a small effort to keep this wonderful place we all call home a little cleaner and more eco-friendly.

Stop in Monday, Wednesday or Friday, 9AM-5PM to see adventure woodworking and wanderlust apparel by Matt Atkinson.

Stop in!
Open Mon, Wed & Fri, 9AM-5PM

Lost Boy Creations
225 Petronia St.

Frangipani Gallery
Exhibition

On display at Frangipani Gallery will be Coconut Creations by local artist Kerry Hoeppner. A true artist of the Keys, Kerry Hoeppner is known for his ability to turn palm fronds, coconuts and other natural bits into whimsical sculptural creations. Coconut Creations explores the characters he constructs from plant life. Palm fronds, coconuts, and other natural objects find new life as they transform into pelicans, roosters, fish and sea turtles under Hoeppner’s whimsical artistic touch.

Exhibition
Coconut Creations by Kerry Hoeppner
Opening: Fri Mar 1, 6-8PM
On view daily, 10AM-6PM

Free

CVS (formerly Fast Buck Freddie’s)
Window Display

For the month of March, CVS (formerly Fast Buck Freddie’s) will feature a window display created by local wood artists Jimmy Wray, Karen Wray and Elizabeth Devries. See this display 24 hours a day throughout March!

Stop by the CVS at 500 Duval St to view the windows. For sales and info call 305-923-4778

Window Display
On view March 1-31, 2019
Open 24 hours a day

Free

The Studios of Key West
Exhibition, Gallery Talk & Classes

The Studios of Key West, in addition to serving as the hub for the invitational, will host With the Grain, an exhibition of contemporary wood artists from across the country. While the exhibition will be on view all month, there will also be three free gallery talks during the month of March.

Gallery Talks

With the Grain: Conversations with Spotlight Artists on Fri Mar 8 at 4pm will feature three internationally acclaimed wood artists, in Key West for one weekend only, in an informal discussion about the exhibition With The Grain, and the state of contemporary wood art.

With the Grain: Techniques and Images on Sat Mar 9 at 2pm will delve deeper into the work of the three featured master wood artists – Michael Bauermeister, David Ellsworth and Michael Peterson – as they discuss their techniques and present images of their work in the Heinen Media Lab.

On Thu Mar 28 at 6pm, With the Grain presents an artist talk with Kristin LeVier. LeVier began as an MIT-trained molecular biologist, and now uses her scientific lens as a studio artist to uncover the depth and complexity of our world. Levier has an active social media presence, on topics from art and science to professional development.

Classes

Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, George Benson, and many others started strumming as kids on cigar box guitars they built themselves. Mike ‘Katfish’ Karash continues this legacy by teaching budding musicians of all ages how to create their own simple but stylish instruments.

Stock Island artist Tom Noeker turns Cuban mahogany on a lathe to make one-of-a-kind “Cuban Yo Yo’s”, handheld wooden spools used for casting fishing line. In about an hour, Noeker takes a raw piece of wood and has it ready for varnish, right in front of your eyes. After, if you like, take one home as a functional work of art for about $100.

Image: Michael Peterson

Exhibition
With the Grain
Opens Thu Mar 7, 6-8PM
On view Mar 7-28, 2019

Gallery Talks
With the Grain: Conversations with Spotlight Artists
Fri Mar 8, 4PM

With the Grain: Techniques and Images
Sat Mar 9, 2PM

With the Grain: Kristin LeVier
Thu Mar 28, 6PM

All three Gallery Talks are free and open to the public

Classes
Cigar Box Guitars
with Mike “Katfish” Karash
Sun Mar 10, 1-5PM

$170, $150 mbrs. (tickets at tskw.org)

Cuban “Yo Yo” Fishing Lines Workshop
with Tom Noeker
Sat Mar 16, 11AM-12:30PM

$20 (tickets at tskw.org)

Stone Soup Gallery
Exhibition

Check back for more info.

Exhibition
Mar 2019

More info coming soon!

Old Island Restoration Foundation
Tour and Talk

Key West is home to the nation’s largest collection of wooden structures on the Register of Historic Places, famous for the durability of their shipwright’s construction, and the charm of their gingerbread trim and Victorian touches. With the Oldest House as a model example, Curator Andy Herdan discusses the history, materials and techniques used for construction in the island’s heyday.

Tour and Talk
Wood Construction in Historic Key West
Sat Mar 16, 2:30PM

More info coming soon!

Lucky Street Gallery
Exhibition

Would Works is a group exhibition exploring the depth and various meanings of the past tense and past participle of “will”.

Would Works will be on view at Lucky Street Gallery, 408 Greene St.

Exhibition
Would Works
Mar 2019
Open Mon-Sat, 11AM-6PM

More info coming soon!

Key West Garden Club
Woodwinds Concert

Key West Community Orchestra, a 13 member orchestra of violins and a cello, presents an evening of “floral” music in an intimate setting. 

Photos by Lynne Bentley-Kemp

Woodwinds Concert
RESCHEDULED:
Wood and Strings at West Martello
Tue Mar 26, 5:30-7:30PM

$10, $5 Garden Club mbrs.

Key West Tropical Forest and Botanical Garden
Exhibition

Set amidst the lush backdrop of the Botanical Gardens’ collection of native trees, local sculptor W. Perry Arnold has transformed the stump of their champion Black Olive, felled by Hurricane Irma, into a wood throne. Have a seat! The free dedicated unveiling and champagne reception, with music by Gina Maseratti, will be held on Sunday, March 10, 2019 from 5:30-7:30PM.

Photo: Johnny White

Exhibition
W. Perry Arnold’s Olive’s Spirit

Open daily, 10AM-4PM
$10, $7 seniors or active military, children and mbrs. free

Event
W. Perry Arnold’s Olive’s Spirit

Unveiling and Reception: Sun Mar 10, 5:30-7:30PM
Free and open to the public
5:30: Gates Open
Mood Music by Gina Maseratti
6:00: Hear the Story and Grand Unveiling
Champagne Reception to follow

Key West Art & Historical Society
Exhibition

KWAHS presents an exhibition celebrating the lives of several notable Key West wood artists, featuring Papito Suarez, Frank Balbontin, Mario Sanchez, Duke Rood, Norma Renner and Tony Barcelo.

Exhibition
Out of the Woods: A Retrospective of Key West’s Wood Artists
On view Mar 1-Apr 1, 2019
Open daily, 9:30AM-4:30PM

$12 adults, $5 kids

Jimmy Wray Studios
Woodworking Demo

Master woodworker Jimmy Wray leads a tour of his studio on Stock Island and demonstrates the process of creating wood art – from tree to mill to finished sculpture. Learn about several varieties of local tropical hardwoods, watch Wray demo his large bandsaw mill, and participate in the final transformation of tree to art. After, enjoy the many neighboring eateries and artist studios on your own.

Woodworking Demo
Full Circle Wood Production
with Jimmy Wray
Sat Mar 9, 9AM-12PM

$40, $30 mbrs (tickets at tskw.org)

Harrison Gallery
Exhibition

Helen Harrison is a wood sculptor guided by natural beauty, color and form. She and her husband, Ben, built a sailboat in Costa Rica in the 1970’s, which led to her appreciation of the medium and its shocking brilliance. Harrison Gallery will be focusing on her work, past and present, throughout the month of March.

Exhibition
Collected Work by Helen Harrison
Reception: Thu Mar 21, 6-8PM
On view Mar 1-31, 2019
Hours: 12-5PM, or by appointment

Free

Florida Keys Council of the Arts
Exhibition

La Vista de Gatoville features a cigar roller’s wooden workbench & chair and 15 charming educational murals throughout the lobby and adjoining entrance hallway.  The pieces present a survey of the “ahead of it’s time” GATO cigar industry in Key West and provide a window into the heritage of the Conch citizenry.

On view at The Historic Gato Building, 1100 Simonton St.

Exhibition
La Vista de Gatoville
On permanent view, M-F, 9AM-5PM

Free

Gallery on Greene
Exhibition, Daily Lecture Series

The Gallery on Greene proudly represents Key West’s preeminent woodcarver, Mario Sanchez (1908-2005), and his many disciples, living & past. Sanchez is represented in the collections of The Smithsonian, The Whitney, and Bacardi Museums, and is the only native Floridian to have had one-man exhibits with The Museum of the City of New York, American Folk Art Museum and Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Art.

Curated by Mario Sanchez specialist Nance Frank, the Jewish Friends & Conchtown Neighbors exhibition explores the aesthetic and cultural dialogue between Mario Sanchez, the Cuban community and Jewish shopkeepers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries – as recounted by author Arlo Haskell. Featuring more than a dozen rarely seen intaglios and brown-paper-bag sketches from public and private collections.

Daily Lectures explain the stories of Native Artists and will discuss traditional Key West Folk Art Wood techniques, including the creation of intaglios that relate the history and heritage of our celebration of diversity and humanity. Mario Sanchez, Wayne Garcia, Andy Thurber and intaglios from prestigious Estates are available from The Gallery on Greene.

Image: Morning Gossip by Mario Sanchez

Exhibition
Jewish Friends & Conchtown Neighbors by Mario Sanchez
Sat-Thu Mar 9-14, 10AM-6PM

Free

Daily Lecture Series
Thu-Sun Mar 7-10, 2PM

Free