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Sarasota News Leader September 20, 2013 color Society exhibition, which opens on Sept 20. "We anticipate 600 people visiting the show at the opening reception," she says in the release. "At least we can rest assured they'll all keep their cool." Page 106 inviting viewers to experience an ever-changing environment of space, sound and light," the release notes. The season opener also will include Pulp Culture, "a group exhibition showcasing the many ways paper can be used to create art," the release says. Further, a juried exhibition titled miniatures will showcase works smaller than 12 inches by 12 inches. Art Center Sarasota will launch its 20132014 season on Nov. 7 with CUBEMUSIC, a site-specific installation created by renowned artist Craig Colorusso, "who explores the intersection of sound, light and space in his sculpture," the release continues. "The work Finally, Art Center Sarasota's Instructor's Excomprises six, four-foot metal cubes that em- hibit, featuring works by its class and workshop instructors, will be exhibited during the anate light and music." same cycle, which will run through Jan. 3, This exhibition will be accompanied by Sun 2014. Boxes, a solar-powered sound installation, also created by Colorusso. "Twenty speaker For more information about Art Center Sarasoboxes will be placed around Sarasota County, ta, call 365-2032 or visit www.artsarasota.org. SOUTH FLORIDA MUSEUM TO FEATURE BOTANICAL ART Over the next three months, three exhibitions on view at the South Florida Museum will draw attention "to the delicate world of botanical art and scientific illustration," the museum has announced. He adds in the release, "More than compulsion drives these artists to relentlessly pursue an art form that has the power to transform our complex, three-dimensional world into two-dimensional, idealized microcosms." "One of the oldest art forms, botanical art is a history of the development of human civilization," a news release points out. Matthew Woodside, the museum's director of exhibitions and chief curator, says in a news release, "These works of art are reflections of how humans have played a role influencing global change through the discovery, study, cultivation and global dispersion of plants we use for medicine, commerce, fashion, ritual and survival. The exhibits will delight our senses, giving an opportunity to explore modern-day masterpieces and understand them for their beauty as well as the technical bravado artists use to execute these refined and life-like images." The nationally traveling exhibition Following in the Bartrams' Footsteps: Work from the American Society of Botanical Artists opened in the South Florida Museum's East Gallery on Sept. 19. A collaboration between the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA) and Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia, the exhibition features contemporary botanical art works depicting plants observed and described by 18th century naturalists John and William Bartram during their travels, the release continues. Those plants often were studied and cultivated at Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia, PA, the release notes. "Native Florida species observed during William Bar-