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Sarasota News Leader January 10, 2014 Page 109 ACCLAIMED ARTIST TO TAKE TRASH TO TREASURE AT SMOA When was the last time you saw a huge work spaces and environments at museums all of art made from flattened Cheerios boxes, over the country, the news release explains. Harp Lager cartons and Pokemon cards? Hoke "uses massive quantities of everyday The Sarasota Museum of Art's ARTmuse pro- consumer materials" — including cardboard gram will be bringing just such art to Sarasota boxes and household, office and food product "to inspire children and adults," a news release packaging — to create her epic color-saturated assemblages, the release adds. During notes. her Sarasota project, the artist will create a Wendy G. Surkis, president of the Sarasota site-specific installation inside the historic Museum of Art (SMOA), a division of Ringling College of Art and Design, has announced Sarasota High School building on U.S. 41 near that acclaimed artist Lisa Hoke will be in downtown Sarasota — the future home of Sarasota from Jan. 15 to Feb. 4. "Celebrated SMOA. Surkis says the public will have many for her innovative use of re-purposed color- opportunities to view the artist at work and ful cardboard packaging materials," Hoke watch her creation unfold and evolve, the has created works designed for specific release continues. A Lisa Hoke installation combines a multitude of types of 'trash.' Contributed photo