Painter Martha Ferguson is Butterfield Gallery’s featured artist in April
2021-04-02 11:00 - 2021-04-30 17:00 (America/New_York) | Butterfield Garage Art Gallery, 137 King Street, St. Augustine FL, 32084
Martha’s Her well loved interpretations of St. Augustine are awash with light and color. Martha will be in the gallery from 11am-6pm on First Friday, April 2, to talk about her work and painting style.
Martha’s style is impressionistic and she paint primarily in oil and watercolor. She loves to paint old gritty towns, capturing the feel of the area and the locals that walk the quaint streets, and is drawn to architecture and the way the light comes through the subject. “I want my paintings to be more than a likeness but an experience or a nostalgic feel. I can walk by the same scene many times and then all of a sudden there is a moment that tells a story. That’s what I seek to capture, that’s when the painting is successful. Painting is a journey that provides me with a determination to learn, create and master my technique, while keeping my own sense of style.”
Over the last few years Martha has become passionate about plein air painting. You may have spotted her around town, with brush and paints in hand. She works on small studies out in the open air, many of which later become larger paintings that she paints in the studio. Examples of both are displayed in the gallery. Her paintings regularly win local and national awards, (In 2020 alone she won five), and Martha’s paintings of old town St. Augustine have become popular collector pieces for visitors and locals alike.
Martha Ferguson holds a BA Fine in Art from Flagler College and in addition, studied watercolor and print making at the University of Charleston and continued studies at The Art Student League of New York and various master artists workshops. She credits Emmet Fritz, a local painting legend whom she often encountered painting the scenes of St. Augustine during her college years at Flagler. It was in those days she fell in love with painting.
Martha has crafted a distinct style of painting that is instantly recognizable, and seem to dance with a liveliness you must see to appreciate.

The St. Augustine Amphitheatre Farmers Market
2021-04-03 08:30 - 12:30, 2021-04-10 08:30 - 12:30, 2021-04-17 08:30 - 12:30, 2021-04-24 08:30 - 12:30 | St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A South, St. Augustine
From 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. shoppers stroll up and down the vendor-lined pathways of the St. Augustine Amphitheatre Farmers Market, browsing more than 100 tents loaded with local produce, flowers, baked goods, handmade arts and crafts and more. Admission into the market is free. 1340 A1A South, St. Augustine 904-315-9252 www.theamp.com/community/farmers-market

Wednesday St. Augustine Beach Pier Farmers Market
2021-04-07 08:00 - 12:00, 2021-04-14 08:00 - 12:00, 2021-04-21 08:00 - 12:00, 2021-04-28 08:00 - 12:00 | St Johns County Ocean Pier, 350 A1A Beach Blvd, St. Augustine Beach
Every Wednesday, from 8am-noon, enjoy fresh food, live music, craft shopping & fun at the Wednesday St. Augustine Beach Pier Farmers Market.
The market is a destination, a place that serves as a setting for the community and visitors to the area to gather and learn something new from a farmer, grower, producer or local artist. To build a community where we work and live. They support local economy, increase market opportunities for farmers and small businesses, and provide access to an assortment of local and regional sourced products.

Coconut Barrel Farmers Market
2021-04-08 16:00 - 19:00, 2021-04-15 16:00 - 19:00, 2021-04-22 16:00 - 19:00, 2021-04-29 16:00 - 19:00 | Coconut Barrel, 3175 US Hwy 1 S, Saint Augustine, FL, 32086, United States
From 4-7 p.m. every Thursday come enjoy fresh food, live music, craft shopping & fun at the Coconut Barrel Artisan Market. 3175 U.S. Highway 1 South, St. Augustine www.coconutbarrel.com/pages/farmers-market

Coconut Barrel Farmer’s Market
2021-04-08 17:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-15 17:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-22 17:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-29 17:00 - 20:00 | Coconut Barrel, 3175 US Hwy 1 S, Saint Augustine, FL, 32086, United States
Every Thursday Evening from 5-8 pm. Enjoy Food, Music, Shopping & Fun! The Artisan Market will also have extended hours. Come join the fun! See you at The Barrel!

The Keepers
2021-04-08 17:30 - 18:30 | Zoom
The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum is happy to welcome back visual artist Cyriaco Lopes and poet Terri Witek to Flagler College for a participatory virtual event on Thursday, April 8 at 5:30pm. This event is a collaboration with the St. Johns County Public Library, in conjunction with National Poetry Month. The event is free and open to the public, and registration is required.
Zoom has become a ubiquitous part of both our personal and professional lives during the course of the pandemic. Through The Keepers, Lopes and Witek will utilize Zoom as an investigation of the gap between images and text, as orchestra, as conversation, as interactive performative work. The artists encourage viewers to participate in the creation of both visual and auditory elements in order to generate a unique art experience on this newly popular platform.
We would appreciate the audience’s participation during this event, and therefore we will request all participants to turn on their cameras (aka share video) and unmute themselves during certain segments of the performance. While full participation is strongly encouraged, we understand that not everyone might feel comfortable showing their faces and lending us their voices, and there will be ample opportunity to participate in the event through the chat function.
The Keepers will be the second time the Crisp-Ellert Art Museum has collaborated with Lopes and Witek, and the fifth time working with Witek and her other collaborators. In 2015 we presented Lopes and Witek’s exhibition Currents/Correntes. In 2016 we hosted visual artist Matt Roberts and Witek for their interactive, multiple site-specific digital project Dream Garden. In 2017, we invited Roberts and Witek back to Flagler College who, alongside Denke Chen, performed Implements for Removing Foreign Bodies.

AN EVENING OF ARIAS: GALA FUNDRAISER
2021-04-10 18:00 | Marsh Creek Country Club, 169 Marshside Dr., St.Augustine, 32080
First Coast Opera, northeast Florida’s professional opera company presents its ongoing series of artist tributes with An Evening of Arias: Gala Fundraiser! Featuring the music of Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy at 6 p.m April 10 at the Marsh Creek Country Club, 169 Marshside Drive, St. Augustine Beach.
The event will celebrate the careers of soprano Jeanette MacDonald and baritone Nelson Eddy. The pair starred in tuneful movies from the 1930s including Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie, and The New Moon, which featured popular music by Victor Herbert, Rudolf Friml, and Sigmund Romberg. MacDonald and Eddy also enjoyed successful careers in opera and musical theater, as well as radio and early television.
The annual fundraiser will feature heavy hors d’oeuvres prepared by the Marsh Creek Country Club chef, a silent auction, and performances by First Coast Opera guest artists. Tickets are $75 each. For tickets and more information, please visit firstcoastopera.com or call 904-417-5555.
First Coast Opera’s season is sponsored in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida, and St. Johns County.

Grammy winning indie-folk duo Indigo Girls
2021-04-14 08:00 - 17:00 | St. Augustine Amphitheatre, 1340 A1A South, St. Augustine
The St. Augustine Amphitheatre, in partnership with Flying Saucer Presents, is thrilled to announce that Grammy winning indie-folk duo Indigo Girls will perform at The Amp on Sunday, May 30, 2021 for a limited-capacity concert with distanced seating. Enhanced safety measures and protocols are in place, including contactless digital ticketing, face covering requirements, and mobile ordering for concessions. Tickets for Indigo Girls go on sale this Friday, April 2 at 10:00am at The St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office and online at Ticketmaster.com.
Never ones to rest on their laurels, Indigo Girls embarked on a bold new chapter in 2012, collaborating with a pair of orchestrators to prepare larger-than-life arrangements of their songs to perform with symphonies around the country. It was a challenging endeavor, to say the least, but the Grammy-winning duo managed to find that elusive sonic sweet spot with the project, creating a seamless blend of folk, rock, pop, and classical that elevated their songs to new emotional heights without sacrificing any of the emotional intimacy and honesty that have defined their music for decades. Now, after more than 50 performances with symphonies across America, the experience has finally been captured in all its grandeur on the band’s stunning new album, ‘Indigo Girls Live with The University of Colorado Symphony Orchestra.’
Recorded in front of a sold-out audience in Boulder, CO, and deftly mixed by Grammy winner Trina Shoemaker (Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris), the record showcases Indigo Girls at their finest: raw, real, and revelatory. Spanning material from throughout the band’s career, the 22-song set features a mix of reimagined classics, unexpected deep cuts, and tracks from their latest studio album, One Lost Day. Backed by the symphony, Amy Ray and Emily Saliers’ voices are both powerful and delicate, their intertwined harmonies riding high on the crest of an emotional tidal wave created by Sean O’Loughlin and Stephen Barber’s dazzling arrangements. The orchestrations are as richly cinematic as a film score (think John Williams rather than J.S. Bach), and the 64-piece symphony wrings every ounce of passion from them, helping to bring the band’s evocative storytelling to more vivid life than ever before.
NPR’s Mountain Stage called the group “one of the finest folk duos of all time,” while Rolling Stone said they “personify what happens when two distinct sensibilities, voices, and worldviews come together to create something transcendently its own,” and The New York Times raved that “gleeful profanities, righteous protest anthems and impeccable folk songwriting have carried this duo for thirty years.”
Tickets for Indigo Girls go on sale this Friday, April 2 at 10:00am at The St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office and online at Ticketmaster.com. Tickets are sold in preconfigured pods (groupings) ranging from two to eight seats per pod. Each pod is at least six feet from one to the next, and all seats within the pod must be purchased together. Additionally, all tickets are digital. The St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office will be open on Fridays from 10:00am-6:00pm and Saturdays from 8:30am-12:30pm, and will only accept payment via debit or credit card.
SHOW: Indigo Girls
VENUE: St. Augustine Amphitheatre
DATE: Sunday, May 30, 2021
TIME: Doors 6:00pm / Show 7:00pm
TICKET PRICES: Tickets Ranging from $47.50 – $87.50
WEBSITE: www.indigogirls.com; www.theamp.com
LOCAL CONTACT: Ryan Hall, Marketing & Promotions Specialist rhall@sjcfl.us / (904) 209-3753

Vilano Beach Market at Airstream Row
2021-04-17 10:00 | 190 Vilano Rd, St Augustine, FL 32084, 190 Vilano Rd, St Augustine, FL 32084, Saint Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
Airstream Row welcomes you to the Vilano Beach Main Street, Saturday Market.
Visit us on the third Saturday of every month for local shopping, food, and entertainment.
We will also be taking donations of scarves and journals for Hopefull Handbags, Non profit.

National Poetry Month at Third Saturday Vilano Beach Artisan Market
2021-04-17 10:00 - 15:00 | Airstream Row, 190 Vilano Rd, St. Augustine, 32084
Saturday, April 17th, National Poetry Month at Third Saturday Vilano Beach Artisan Market. Meet local poets and browse their old fasioned book fair featuring local authors. Presented by Ancient City Poets and the St. Johns Cultural Council during April’s Artisans Market. From 10 am to 3 pm at Airstream Row at 190 Vilano Road, St. Augustine, Florida

5th Annual St. Augustine Plein Air Paint Out
2021-04-22 09:00 - 2021-04-25 17:00 | St. Augustine Art Association, 22 Marine Street, St. Augustine, 32084
Artists and Art lovers! The St. Augustine Art Association invites you to participate in the community-wide 5th Annual St. Augustine Plein Air Paint Out in the nation’s oldest city, happening April 22-25, 2021.
This event, a nod to St. Augustine’s art history, celebrates the town’s architectural and coastal beauty through the time-honored tradition of painting en plein air. In coordination with the Lightner Museum, Plein Air artists will be painting locations found in the artwork from their exhibit, St. Augustine in a New Light: American Impressionism from the Collection of the Lightner Museum, which opens April 8. For a complete list of locations to find the artists painting, visit staaa.org/pleinair.
Throughout the Paint Out, works-in-progress and finished works will be on display and for sale in the St. Augustine Art Association Wet Room. All art sales benefit the artists and programming of the St. Augustine Art Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1924.
Artists can find the full Paint Out Prospectus and Artist Registration online at
www.staaa.org/pleinair or call (904) 824-2310.
Register by Monday April 19, 2021
Registration is open to artists of all levels, must be 18 years or older.
Admission is free for those who simply wish to admire the art. Safe interaction with the artists out in the field is encouraged.
Artists who want to participate must register: $25/STAAA members; $35/non-members

Plein Air Quick Draw Competition
2021-04-24 11:00 - 14:00 | Lightner Museum, 75 King Street, St. Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
On Saturday, April 24, starting at 11:00am, Plein Air artists will spread out around the Lightner Museum gardens and courtyard for a Quick Draw. Artists, in competition with their peers, will have just two hours to complete a painting. Once the two hours are up, a judge will award three artists for their quick skills.
Art lovers are invited to cheer on the artists and watch their paintings come to life as they race to the finish! Artwork will be for sale through the St. Augustine Art Association, located at 22 Marine Street in historic downtown.
For complete details on the Paint Out and Quick Draw, visit www.staaa.org/pleinair or call (904) 824-2310.
Admission is free for those who simply wish to admire the art. Safe interaction with artists on the field is encouraged.
Artists who want to participate must register at http://www.staaa.org/plein-air-registration/

Beach and Beyond
2021-04-25 05:00 - 21:00 | W.B.Tatter Studio Gallery, 501 Anastasia Boulevard, Saint Augustine, 32080
Over 50 local artist will present their interpretation of the theme Beach and Beyond hosted by the W.B.Tatter Gallery!

Last Sunday of the Month Poetry Reading
2021-04-25 14:30 - 17:00 | ArtBox, 137 King Street, St Augustine, FL, 32084, United States
Get on the sign up list and share a poem or just soak in the spoken word scene at St. Johns County’s longest running monthly poetry reading series
hosted by Ancient City Poets with support from the St. Johns Cultural Council. Browse old-fashioned book fair featuring local authors. Sign up starts at 2:30 pm. Emcee Chris Bodor will call up the first 15 readers on the list at 3:00 pm. Outdoor art patio at 137 King Street in the San Sabastian Art District.

Florida Chamber Music Project
2021-04-25 15:00 | Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, 1050 A1A North, Ponte Vedra, 32082
Ponte Vedra Concert Hall is pleased to announce that the Florida Chamber Music Project (FCMP) have confirmed two Spring 2021 limited-capacity performances with distanced seating on Sunday, April 25 and Sunday, May 23. Enhanced safety measures and protocols are in place, including contactless digital ticketing and face covering requirements. Tickets for the Florida Chamber Music Project performances will go on sale today, Thursday, April 1 at 12:00pm online at Ticketmaster.com. Please note, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Box Office remains closed at this time.
Currently in their eighth season, the Florida Chamber Music Project will perform works by Piotr Szewczyk and Edvard Grieg on April 25 at 3pm, celebrating Contemporary Classical and Music of the Romantic Era. On Sunday, May 23 at 3pm, FCMP presents Mozart Prokofiev and Bartok, celebrating music of the Masters and Romanian Folk Dances.
“We are pleased to be able to perform again at the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall,” said Pardue. “These difficult times make music even more important.”
The Florida Chamber Music Project provides live classical music in an intimate chamber music setting for residents of St. Johns County, St. Augustine, Clay County and the surrounding areas of Jacksonville and Northeast Florida. The primary purpose of the Florida Chamber Music Project is to foster and encourage the presentation of classical chamber music; to present and sponsor presentation of classical chamber music by highly qualified professional musicians; to increase awareness of classical chamber music in the State of Florida in general and in North Florida in particular and to provide educational institutions with
opportunities to educate students of all kinds concerning the nature and value of classical chamber music and its performance.
Tickets for Florida Chamber Music Project go on sale Thursday April 1 at 12:00pm online at Ticketmaster.com. Please note, Ponte Vedra Concert Hall Box Office remains closed at this time. Tickets are sold in pre-configured pods (groupings) ranging from two to six seats per pod. Each pod is at least six feet from one to the next, and all seats within the pod must be purchased together.
Additionally, all tickets are digital. The St. Augustine Amphitheatre Box Office will be open on Fridays from 10:00am-6:00pm and Saturdays from 8:30am-12:30pm, and will only accept payment via debit or credit card.
EVENT: Florida Chamber Music Project
VENUE: Ponte Vedra Concert Hall
DATE: Sunday, April 25, 2021 and Sunday, May 23, 2021
TIME: Doors 2:00pm / Show 3:00pm
TICKET PRICES: $12.50 – Student Ticket, Reserved Seating $25.00 –Reserved Seating
WEBSITES: www.flchambermusic.org | www.pvconcerthall.com
LOCAL CONTACT: Amy Rankin, Media Contact for FCMP | (904)334-6574
Ryan Hall, Marketing & Promotions Specialist rhall@sjcfl.us / (904) 205-3753

BFA & BA Senior Portfolio Exhibition: April 27-May 3, 2021
2021-04-27 10:00 - 2021-05-03 16:00, 2021-04-28 10:00 - 16:00, 2021-04-29 10:00 - 16:00 | Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, 48 Sevilla Street, St. Augustine, 32084
The Crisp-Ellert Art Museum and Flagler College look forward to our bi-annual exhibition of work by B.F.A. and B.A. candidates in the Department of Visual Art. The exhibition will be on view Tuesday, April 27 through Friday, April 30, and Monday, May 3 from 10am until 4pm. Visitors from outside of the Flagler community can schedule their appointment via Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition-viewing-bfa-ba-senior-portfolio-tickets-149313305115).
Included in this semester’s exhibition will be video, painting, drawing, sculpture, and textiles by BFA candidates Kate Barker, Pia Barlotta, Justin Cottrell, Allison Davis, Amanda Marable, and Danielle Rohter, and BA candidates Jenny Barnes, Laura Mackie, Kate Gummere, and Johanna Mulvihill.
