Mike Cacioppo will present an exhibition of his work, Weiss Park: Nature’s Homeless Shelter, May 2, at 1357 Broadway in Beaumont.
The restored home is located around the corner from the Mildred Building, in back of the Laurel’s Event Center and next door to Darrel Troppy’s art studio.
Cacioppo’s paintings, along with artwork by Cathy Bresher Jeffers, will be on display upstairs.
Bresher Jeffers, a native of Dayton Ohio, is a former art educator at AMSET. She creates fabric art/decorative quilts.
“These are not your grandma’s quilts,” Cacioppo said.” These are amazing works of art meant to be displayed on the walls of your home or office.”
Beaumont artists Laura Scott and Sam Daleo will also display their art.
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The Moon and Stars committee, in conjunction with the Beaumont Council of Garden Clubs, presents the fifth annual Maypole Festival, May 11, at the Tyrell Park Garden Center, located at 6088 Babe Zaharias Drive in Beaumont.
“Everyone should attend,” Sandra Hammerling, Maypole Festival co-founder, said. “The games, performers and vendors are fun for the entire family.”
The festival features live music, local performers, area vendors and regional cuisine. Patrons may stroll through the gardens — the oldest public gardens in Southeast Texas — rest by the koi pond or visit the nation’s first September 11th Memorial.
“The Beaumont Botanical Gardens is such a relaxing and beautiful piece of Beaumont,” Hammerling said. “We make new friends every year.”
The festival opens at 9 a.m. and continues to 6 p.m.
Local musicians Westbrook High School Jazz Band (9 a,m.), Jimmy Kaiser (11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.), Ariel Bush (2 p.m.-3 p.m.) and Pug Johnson (3:30 p.m.-6 p.m.) will provide live music.
Performance art will be sprinkled throughout the festival by The Belly Dance Studio and the wrapping of the Maypole will take place at 4:30 p.m. by Bonnie Cokino’s School of Dance.
“We wrap the Maypole to bless the crops, so our farmers and community do well this season” Hammerling said. “This festival is also a memorial to a dearly missed friend, Paula ‘Torchy’ Salter.
“She left us with the memory of her ‘feel good’ spirit in our community. We, The Moon and Stars, wanted to memorialize Torchy’s spirit with the raising of a Maypole which will benefit our community for years to come.”
“Torchy touched many of us in so many ways.”
“The Annual Maypole Festival event brings the community together in love and spirit and leaves us with happy memories, as Torchy did, for all who attend.”
For information and vendor booth registrations, email torchymaypolemoon andstars@yahoo.com, or visit the Facebook page.