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Sarasota News Leader March 29, 2013 Page 97 HERMITAGE ARTISTS TO PRESENT ART ON THE BEACH Hermitage artists will present an open discussion on their processes and work at the next beach reading on Friday, March 29, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at 6660 Manasota Key Road in Englewood, The Hermitage has announced. The program will begin with open house tours of the historic Hermitage House and open studios with painter Michael Eade, and assemblage artist John Zaklikowski, a news release says. Art will be available for sale, with a portion of the proceeds donated to the Hermitage. At 6:30 p.m., the program will move to the beach, where poet Sandra Alcosser will read from her work. Afterward, playwright Dare Clubb will lead a discussion about work and process with all of the Hermitage artists. Michael Eade/Contributed photo "Mother Nature's sunset ends the evening's appeared in American Poetry Review, New festivities," the release notes. Yorker, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry "Another interesting mix of artists are in res- and Yale Review, the release points out. idency and we are looking forward to our beach 'show and tell,'" Hermitage Executive Eade has received many honors, including Director Bruce E. Rodgers says in the release. a studio membership at the Elizabeth Foun"Each one of these talented artists travels a dation for the Arts and fellowships from the different road to reach their destination. It will Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, the be interesting to have them all together, shar- National Academy Museum and School of the Fine Arts, Artists' Fellowship Inc. and Aljira, ing how they get to where they want to go." the release adds. Eade is a finalist to create Alcosser's poetry is about ecology and nature, public art designs in New York City for the the release continues. She is the author of Ex- MTA Arts for Transit and for Metro Taipei in cept By Nature, which received the Academy's Taiwan, it notes. 1998 James Laughlin Award and was selected by Eamon Grennan for the 1997 National "Zaklikowski is a multi-faceted artist (writer, Poetry Series; Sleeping Inside the Glacier, photographer, musician, painter and assema collaboration with artist Michele Burgess; blage), the release says. "At the Hermitage he and A Fish to Feed All Hunger, selected by is devoting his time to assemblage art, giving James Tate to be the Associated Writing Pro- new meaning to the term 'repurposed,'" the grams Award Series winner. Her poems have release adds. "He uses pieces from computers