{"id":8011,"date":"2012-05-07T11:54:05","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=8011"},"modified":"2012-05-08T22:18:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T03:18:01","slug":"arts-of-the-inlands-held-membership-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/05\/arts-of-the-inlands-held-membership-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts Of The Inlands <BR> Holds Membership Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>by John Fry<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Special to the Gazette\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8012\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8012\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Lavon-Loenig-President-of-Arts-of-the-Inlands.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8012\" title=\"Lavon Koenig, President of Arts of the Inlands\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Lavon-Loenig-President-of-Arts-of-the-Inlands-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Lavon-Loenig-President-of-Arts-of-the-Inlands-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Lavon-Loenig-President-of-Arts-of-the-Inlands-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lavon Koenig, President of Arts of the Inlands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday April 24, the Arts of the Inlands held its Second Annual Membership Drive at the FireHouse Theater at 2401 North Bridge, LaBelle. Arts of the Inlands is an art association for the residents of Lee, Hendry, and Collier County who live in the Inlands (non-coastal areas).<\/p>\n<p>Joel Hawkins of the FireHouse Theater began the drive by thanking Jeanie Horlander, who provided the evening\u2019s food, Sally Gillespy, the pianist who provided the evening\u2019s music, and Linda Reiser, the FireHouse Theater\u2019s music director who provided the piano music prior to Gillespy\u2019s arrival.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Then Hawkins introduced Lavon Koenig, the Arts of the Inlands president. Koenig spoke about the progress the Arts of Inlands had made since last year\u2019s membership.<\/p>\n<p>Among people attending the meeting were A.E.Pritchard, author of the St.Martin\u2019s Mystery series, Venture Capitalist\u00a0 Tom Dugan, Oil Painter Diane Carmen, artist Kimberly Arnette,\u00a0 Suzzie Hector of Lady in Pink Photography, June Devincent, art teacher at Veteran\u2019s Park Recreation Center , Richard Alexis Georgian, author and former President of the Gulf Coast Writers Association, Dr. Carol Kennedy, also author and former President of the Gulf coast Writers Association, and Tom Nelson, author and current President of the Gulf Coast writers association.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8013\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8013\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sally-Gillespy-Pianist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8013 \" title=\"Sally Gillespy, Pianist\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sally-Gillespy-Pianist-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sally-Gillespy-Pianist-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Sally-Gillespy-Pianist-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8013\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sally Gillespy, Pianist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elwood B. Dowd invited the public to the 2012-2013 season of the FireHouse Theater. After meeting the artists, authors, and members of the public mingled. The next Arts of the Inlands meeting is set May 15, 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Fry Special to the Gazette\u00a0 On Tuesday April 24, the Arts of the Inlands held its Second Annual Membership Drive at the FireHouse Theater at 2401 North Bridge,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}