November 19, 2025 • 25 mins
J. Marshall Adams of the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery joins the show to tell us about their new exhibit, "Glory in the Glass: The Conrad Pickel Studio." This enjoyable exhibit will focus on stained glass art with images and tools on display to showcase the whole process. The exhibit runs November 21 - January 4, 2025. Become a member and get details online at BackusMuseum.org.
We're also joined by Jeffery Backwell, actor in "Dancing on the Dingle," an Original Irish Christmas Musical, November 29th & 30th. You'll love this secular story of how Christmas came to be in the North Pole, set in Dingle, Ireland. This show is also a fundraiser for the Theatre Guild, so get tickets online at VeroBeachTheatreGuild.com or by calling 772-562-8300.
We're also joined by Jeffery Backwell, actor in "Dancing on the Dingle," an Original Irish Christmas Musical, November 29th & 30th. You'll love this secular story of how Christmas came to be in the North Pole, set in Dingle, Ireland. This show is also a fundraiser for the Theatre Guild, so get tickets online at VeroBeachTheatreGuild.com or by calling 772-562-8300.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Arts Blasts on the Air. It's a podcast,
it's a radio show and an Alexis skill presented by
Ballet Vero Beach and Riverside Theater Arts supporting the arts
in Florida. I'm Willie Miller, and every week I talk
to people in the arts about the arts on the
Treasure Coast and well beyond. Arts. Blast on the Air
(00:23):
is proud to be supported by Ballet Vero Beach. Subscriptions
and single seats for the exciting coming season are available
online for your holiday giving. Yes, that's on its way.
Maybe your own letter to Santa hmmm. Tickets for the
Nutcracker on the Indian River. Oh, yes, December eleventh through
the thirteenth at Riverside Theater. And it's all at Ballet
(00:45):
Vero Beach dot org. And today I'm talking to Marshall
Adams first, and then we'll have some people from Vero
Beach Theater Guild for Dingle Dancing on the Dingle. But
first Marshall ae Backus Gallery and Museum.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yes, yes, hi, Willie, how are you doing.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm here, I'm okay and you okay?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, doing good, doing good. Great. The season is often
running at the BACKUS Museum of Fort Pierce, and we've
got lots of exciting things going on, including an exhibition
that's just opened.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Okay, it seems so early, but it's Thanksgiving already. How
did that happen?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Really? Seriously, I don't know, but we're running with it.
And that new exhibition that opened on November twenty first
is called Glory in Glass. The Conrad Pickel.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Studio he's I remember seeing him long ago, his studio
in Vero Beach. Is it still here?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It is still here. The story of this exhibition focuses
on the studio. You remember, the Conrad Studio. It's been
here since nineteen fifty five. And the origin of the
story of how it got here is kind of similar
to the way people work today now. Is that Back
(02:16):
in the fifties, this noted Old World trained New World businessman,
Conrad Peckel, who was in Milwaukee and the northern climes,
began to realize that his work really could be done anywhere,
(02:36):
that his work was site specific, creating these amazing stained
glass windows and mosaics and other ecclesiastical kinds of arts
for houses of worship and public buildings all over the country.
And because that work was site specific. He could do
the design work from anywhere, so why not do it
(02:59):
at the beach.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So light bulb went on, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Too many winters, I think up there, and he just
realized after a while, why don't I go down to
the beach, and he set up shop here in Vero
Beach in nineteen fifty five, brought his design studio down here,
and about twenty years later he consolidated all the work,
including the construction work down here as well in Florida.
(03:25):
So this exhibition is looking back at the works that
he and his studio created over the years and even
before he was here in Vero Beach. Conrad Piquel was
born in nineteen oh six and he passed away in
nineteen ninety four. His studio continues with his son Paul
(03:49):
and a whole team of gifted artisans for years now.
And we have some works that are in this sex
of stained glass works that are from the nineteen twenties. Wow,
and it's very exciting to be working with these works
that kind of chart his path. Conrad Pickel's path as
(04:13):
an artist trained in Germany. He was a fourteen year
old kid with an apprenticeship in Munich, Germany, and worked
at this renowned stained glass studio world renowned stained glass studio,
the Franz Meier Glass Studio, which still exists today. He
(04:37):
got all of his training that he could, and then
by nineteen twenty eight he decided, I need to go
to America. I need to make a name for myself,
and so he emigrated to our country and he worked
for twenty years in different studios, amassing his talents and
his skill base and his network of contacts and his reputation,
and by nineteen forty seven decided that he was ready
(05:00):
to open his own studio in his own name, and
then less than ten years later, realized Urea Beach was
a great place to live. The Treasure Coast of Florida
is an awesome place to live, and so changed his
address here and began and continue that work that still
exists today. Those works are all over in different congregations
(05:23):
and houses of worship, as I mentioned, all over the country,
but there's a large number here in Florida as well,
and so we're very fortunate that we have some of
the studies of those. This exhibition also kind of delves
into the practice of stained glass and shows kind of
how it's made as well as some of these different
(05:44):
designs showing a design from paper all the way to
finished product. So it's really an interesting kind of insight
into this the centuries old art form, but also shows
you how artists can innovate and can bring new design,
(06:08):
aesthetics and ideas to an old world medium and make
it fresh and new and engaging and interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I have a question, Yeah, I'm picturing large installations, large pieces.
What will the display? What will the exhibit look like
at pacis Well?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Uh, large, you're thinking, of course, like a like cathedrals
and many stories of glass. We're a one story museum, everybody,
and because we're a museum, we don't have a lot
of windows, right, like natural light in there, because natural
light can hurt the art. So we have taken some
of the pieces that they that the Piquel Studio has
(06:51):
collected over the years from the twenties all the way
up till now. Uh, these smaller, more intimate works and
have created some light boxes for them to illuminate them
in the absence of the natural light that they would
normally be enjoyed in. So that will allow for some
of the stained glass pieces for you to appreciate them
(07:13):
closer to the way that they were created. And then
we have those works on paper that show you kind
of some of the process, et cetera. So we have
in the large category we have some huge wall sized
drawings that are scale drawings for original works of stained glass,
(07:33):
so you can see and get a sense of how
large these artists are really working with those kinds of examples.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Will there be at any point during this exhibit demonstrations
by stained glass artists making pieces?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well, in the exhibition itself, there are some examples of
the process. There are some tools that are also included,
and we have some images throughout the exhibition that show
the Piquel Studio at work in their studio, so we'll
have that sense of creation going on in the galleries
(08:11):
themselves for the exhibition.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, question, because you have a wonderful gift shop there,
and in the past you have had gift items that
reflect the exhibit, and the holidays are coming, will you
have any that are part of the Pickel exhibits? I mean, well,
(08:34):
I can I buy something.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That wouldn't that be great? You know, like a lot
of art studios, they don't have a gift shop. So
they so we don't have like any like branded products
of theirs, but maybe I need to talk to them.
That's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
We do.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We will have some other things. Some there's some great
coloring books so that you can kind of create your
own stained glass reproductions by h taking these these designs
that are you know, striking in dynamic black and white,
and then you can take your own colors, market markers
or et cetera to imbue them with the color of
(09:12):
the glass. So there'll be things like that.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Note cards.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
There are no note cards for the Piquel Studio, right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Am I giving you? Am I inspiring you?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Inspiring me?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I need to I need to work out some rights
issues and some prittig I guess with But that's a
great idea. But hopefully people will be able to enjoy
this exhibition and get a strong sense of the craft
of this art form. And for some local audiences, as
(09:47):
I mentioned, there are many congregations too many to mention
here who enjoy these examples of these stained glass windows
on their worship days, and so they may find connect
to the museum in the show.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay, I'm looking at a list that I printed from
your website, a very long list of churches. And okay,
we're Palm Point Park, that's right, yes, Indian River Medical Center,
Temple Beth Shalam, Gifford Youth Achievement Center, that's right. So
it's not only churches, that's exactly right. There is a
(10:23):
very long list. Oh look, it keeps going on you
on your website.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Which is which is www dot Bachus Museum dot org.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
And how long?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
How long is the exhibition? On four?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Exhibition will be on until Sunday, January fourth, so we'll
be up through the holidays. There'll be two free admission
days during the exhibition that'll be Sunday, December seventh, and
the last day of the exhibition, Sunday, January fourth, will
be close Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
But otherwise we're going to be open our regular days,
(10:58):
regular hours.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You have members, right, We sure do.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh my gosh, we sure do.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And I'm asking because well I wanted to know. And
there's a member's opening reception that's your December fifth, So yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
A great opportunity to see the exhibition would be December fifth,
the opening reception. It's a benefit of membership and You
can become a member at any level on our website,
but you can also be a guest and you could
be admitted to the reception at twenty dollars ahead, or
you can join right there on the spot and you
get twelve months of enjoyment throughout the whole year. The
bikels will be there and members of the studio and
(11:35):
it'll be a great opportunity to see the exhibition.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Okay, Marshall, thanks so much. I can't wait to see this.
It's at the AE Backus Museum and Gallery and you
are Marshall Adams. You're the executive director, right.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
That's right, Thanks very very much, Willie. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Okay, thanks Marshall. Great to see you. Okay, let's take
a break now. Are you looking for some fresh ideas
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right now for all ages. Keep up with all that's
happening at Riversidetheater dot com.
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Speaker 1 (14:31):
And we are back with Arts Blast on the Air.
I'm Willie Miller and we are now in segment two
and we're going back to the dingle.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I have.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Who do I have?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Jeffrey Barkwell.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Jeffrey Barkwell. See, I'm looking over there and I'm thinking
Mark wad No, Mark doesn't have a white beard? Or
does he?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It's getting whiter every day.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Okay, we're going to talk about Dancing on the Day. Indeed, indeed, yes,
I've talked to Larry Strauss several times about this, and
it's I think people who did not get to see
it in its original form when it was over at
first PRIs was that just last year?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
It was last year? Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Actually, I don't know if it seems like it was
forever ago or if it was just a couple of
months ago. But here we are back again. How about
the story of Dancing.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
On Larry has created something I feel like it's going
to be a holiday classic. It's almost such historical fiction
piece hes sits together this secular story of Santa and
how the elves came to be in the North Pole
and how reindeer flight came into existence, and it all
(15:52):
starts in a little town on the peninsula in Ireland
called Dingle and County Kerry.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I mentioned to Larry Strauss there was actually a program
and I think it might have been on Netflix made
on the Dingle.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yes, I saw you see that wasn't that wonderful?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
That was It's a beautiful little town.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I had no idea so that How did he get
the idea? Because Larry wrote the story of the book
and the lyrics. Do you know how he got the
idea for.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
The You know, I couldn't tell you. I know that
he wrote it during the COVID shutdown, so he had
a lot of research time on his hands, and I
believe he had visited Dingle and had fallen in love
with it. That's my assumption anyway. Anyhow, a good one,
I think, thank you, And I wanted to mention Jacob
(16:51):
as well, Jacob Craig, another local treasure who wrote the
sound to those lyrics.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Okay, they're calling it an Irish Chris Smiths musical. Did
everybody have to did everybody have to learn to speak
with the brogue?
Speaker 6 (17:09):
You know?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It was?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
We attempt it. It's it's not an easy thing to do.
Uh So I come in and out of it myself.
I play a leprechaun named Gipper Fitzgerald, the mayor of Dingle,
And I think I speak with the brogue a little
better than I sing with it.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh, oh boy, you just started a little new dimension. Yes,
singing with the brogue? Well, can you sing something.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Now? I wouldn't encourage it. I'm not actually a singer.
There are some very fine singers in the show.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Who else is in it?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Oh goodness, well, I.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Have the list here if you need help.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I do have several. I want to mention the new people.
At least we've got a couple of young ladies. Elena
Yancey is going to be taking Jacob's place on the
piano this year. She's quite a young talent, a local talent.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
She she's not eleven, is she.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I don't think she's eleven, but she's not maybe fourteen.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Really young. I can't wait to hear her.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, it's quite impressive what she can do. And then,
of course we have all the people from last year.
Philip Markley d Rose the Best Usteck is joining us
this year, as well as Mackenzie, her daughter who will
be playing Trulli. One of the Elves. Larry, of course,
(18:43):
is our Winslow. Well, we have Carolyn and John Towey,
both quite fine singers. Robin Volski, I don't know if
you've met him.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
A real talent in so many ways, in so many ways.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I don't think I've missed anyone.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
D Rose. Did you mention Dan?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I did mention d I think I feel like I'm forgetting. Oh,
I'm forgetting the young girl who plays my daughter. She
will be playing Snipper, and her name escapes me at
the moment, and I don't have it in my notes.
I apologize to her and.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You, okay, not Elizabeth Coronado.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yes, it is, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It wasn't actually a guest that I pulled out of Deer.
I haven't written here.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
You have better notes than I.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
So.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
The wonderful Mark Waiganik is directing, Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
And I think it's fair to say he's the most
celebrated musical director in verver Beach Theater Guild history. He's
I think, another real talent.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, okay, when is this going to be?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
It's the twenty eighth and twenty ninth of November at
the Vera Beach Theater Guild twenty twenty. San Juan Avenue
can certainly google the website and get directions if needed.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yep, Vero Beachtheater Guild dot com. Correct, okay, and the
box office is seven seven two five six two eighty
three hundred. Yes, correct, you're checking me twice there. And
this is a fundraiser for the Vero Beach Theater Guild,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
That's as I understand it. Yes, and last year he
donated those monies as well. So, uh, this one's going
to the Vera Beach Theater Guild and we're glad to
be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Okay. Do you have any idea how tickets are going yet?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Uh, we've had some good sales. There are some tickets
still available for both performance for each of the performances.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
So okay.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
And with the hot and hesitate to reach out today, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay, And again it's Vero Beachtheater Guild dot com and
theater of course spelled t R, yes, the R yeah,
Theater Guild.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Okay, okay, thank you for keeping me on my toes.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You're a leprechaun, you're supposed to be on your toes.
Did you auditioned for a part of Leprecaun or did
you just go an audition? And they said actually no.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I was very flattered when Larry reached out to me.
I was across the country in ah California when he
reached out and said that he had written this thing
and had me in mind for the Leprechaun all along.
So how could you resist? Yeah? I came home.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You were you living out there? No?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I was visiting and this is home. I'm a longtime
resident Zero Beach.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Are you retired?
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I am recently retired from I was a hairdresser fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Could I get you to look at the Okay? So
what else have you done as as far as acting?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Oh, at the Very Beach Theater Guild and elsewhere. I've
done a show a year probably for the last fifteen years.
Fifteen years ago, I had no intention of being part
of the theater Guild and went to audition with a friend. Actually,
my friend was auditioning and we met Mark Wagonick and
(22:31):
he encouraged me to audition and cast me in one
of his summer musical reviews. And I got the bug
and I've been back ever since.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Every year I don't think that's a unique experience. I
think that probably happens to a lot of people, especially
people who are retiring to Vero Beach and haven't had
time to pursue some of their maybe interests they didn't
even know they had.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Treading those boards is addictive. No qualms at all, none.
I look forward every show.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I do singer dancer hardly.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I do a little movement and I can carry a tune,
but that's about it. But I can act.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I think, Okay, well, we're going to see you when
we go to Sea Dancing on the Dingle and Irish
Christmas Musical giving credits again. Storybook and lyrics by Larry Strauss,
music composition by doctor Jacob Craig, directed by Mark Waganak
and the young pianist Elena Yancey. Yes, and Carol Strauss
(23:44):
is a stage manager. And I'm going to say go
to the website and you can find all of the information.
And that website once again is Vero Beach Theaterguild dot
com and the phone number seven seven two five six
to eighty three hundred. We have run out of time,
(24:04):
so I will thank you for coming in again.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Jeffrey Barkwell Dancing on the Dingle. Thanks, thank you great,
You're welcome. Bye bye bye bye okay, thanks to Jeffrey
and Marshall Adams, and thank you as always for joining
us again.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
This week.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
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(24:42):
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Speaker 3 (25:00):
The enc
Welcome to Arts Blasts on the Air. It's a podcast,
it's a radio show and an Alexis skill presented by
Ballet Vero Beach and Riverside Theater Arts supporting the arts
in Florida. I'm Willie Miller, and every week I talk
to people in the arts about the arts on the
Treasure Coast and well beyond. Arts. Blast on the Air
(00:23):
is proud to be supported by Ballet Vero Beach. Subscriptions
and single seats for the exciting coming season are available
online for your holiday giving. Yes, that's on its way.
Maybe your own letter to Santa hmmm. Tickets for the
Nutcracker on the Indian River. Oh, yes, December eleventh through
the thirteenth at Riverside Theater. And it's all at Ballet
(00:45):
Vero Beach dot org. And today I'm talking to Marshall
Adams first, and then we'll have some people from Vero
Beach Theater Guild for Dingle Dancing on the Dingle. But
first Marshall ae Backus Gallery and Museum.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Yes, yes, hi, Willie, how are you doing.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
I'm here, I'm okay and you okay?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah, doing good, doing good. Great. The season is often
running at the BACKUS Museum of Fort Pierce, and we've
got lots of exciting things going on, including an exhibition
that's just opened.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Okay, it seems so early, but it's Thanksgiving already. How
did that happen?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Really? Seriously, I don't know, but we're running with it.
And that new exhibition that opened on November twenty first
is called Glory in Glass. The Conrad Pickel.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
Studio he's I remember seeing him long ago, his studio
in Vero Beach. Is it still here?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
It is still here. The story of this exhibition focuses
on the studio. You remember, the Conrad Studio. It's been
here since nineteen fifty five. And the origin of the
story of how it got here is kind of similar
to the way people work today now. Is that Back
(02:16):
in the fifties, this noted Old World trained New World businessman,
Conrad Peckel, who was in Milwaukee and the northern climes,
began to realize that his work really could be done anywhere,
(02:36):
that his work was site specific, creating these amazing stained
glass windows and mosaics and other ecclesiastical kinds of arts
for houses of worship and public buildings all over the country.
And because that work was site specific. He could do
the design work from anywhere, so why not do it
(02:59):
at the beach.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
So light bulb went on, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Too many winters, I think up there, and he just
realized after a while, why don't I go down to
the beach, and he set up shop here in Vero
Beach in nineteen fifty five, brought his design studio down here,
and about twenty years later he consolidated all the work,
including the construction work down here as well in Florida.
(03:25):
So this exhibition is looking back at the works that
he and his studio created over the years and even
before he was here in Vero Beach. Conrad Piquel was
born in nineteen oh six and he passed away in
nineteen ninety four. His studio continues with his son Paul
(03:49):
and a whole team of gifted artisans for years now.
And we have some works that are in this sex
of stained glass works that are from the nineteen twenties. Wow,
and it's very exciting to be working with these works
that kind of chart his path. Conrad Pickel's path as
(04:13):
an artist trained in Germany. He was a fourteen year
old kid with an apprenticeship in Munich, Germany, and worked
at this renowned stained glass studio world renowned stained glass studio,
the Franz Meier Glass Studio, which still exists today. He
(04:37):
got all of his training that he could, and then
by nineteen twenty eight he decided, I need to go
to America. I need to make a name for myself,
and so he emigrated to our country and he worked
for twenty years in different studios, amassing his talents and
his skill base and his network of contacts and his reputation,
and by nineteen forty seven decided that he was ready
(05:00):
to open his own studio in his own name, and
then less than ten years later, realized Urea Beach was
a great place to live. The Treasure Coast of Florida
is an awesome place to live, and so changed his
address here and began and continue that work that still
exists today. Those works are all over in different congregations
(05:23):
and houses of worship, as I mentioned, all over the country,
but there's a large number here in Florida as well,
and so we're very fortunate that we have some of
the studies of those. This exhibition also kind of delves
into the practice of stained glass and shows kind of
how it's made as well as some of these different
(05:44):
designs showing a design from paper all the way to
finished product. So it's really an interesting kind of insight
into this the centuries old art form, but also shows
you how artists can innovate and can bring new design,
(06:08):
aesthetics and ideas to an old world medium and make
it fresh and new and engaging and interesting.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I have a question, Yeah, I'm picturing large installations, large pieces.
What will the display? What will the exhibit look like
at pacis Well?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Uh, large, you're thinking, of course, like a like cathedrals
and many stories of glass. We're a one story museum, everybody,
and because we're a museum, we don't have a lot
of windows, right, like natural light in there, because natural
light can hurt the art. So we have taken some
of the pieces that they that the Piquel Studio has
(06:51):
collected over the years from the twenties all the way
up till now. Uh, these smaller, more intimate works and
have created some light boxes for them to illuminate them
in the absence of the natural light that they would
normally be enjoyed in. So that will allow for some
of the stained glass pieces for you to appreciate them
(07:13):
closer to the way that they were created. And then
we have those works on paper that show you kind
of some of the process, et cetera. So we have
in the large category we have some huge wall sized
drawings that are scale drawings for original works of stained glass,
(07:33):
so you can see and get a sense of how
large these artists are really working with those kinds of examples.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Will there be at any point during this exhibit demonstrations
by stained glass artists making pieces?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well, in the exhibition itself, there are some examples of
the process. There are some tools that are also included,
and we have some images throughout the exhibition that show
the Piquel Studio at work in their studio, so we'll
have that sense of creation going on in the galleries
(08:11):
themselves for the exhibition.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Okay, question, because you have a wonderful gift shop there,
and in the past you have had gift items that
reflect the exhibit, and the holidays are coming, will you
have any that are part of the Pickel exhibits? I mean, well,
(08:34):
I can I buy something.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That wouldn't that be great? You know, like a lot
of art studios, they don't have a gift shop. So
they so we don't have like any like branded products
of theirs, but maybe I need to talk to them.
That's a great idea.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
We do.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
We will have some other things. Some there's some great
coloring books so that you can kind of create your
own stained glass reproductions by h taking these these designs
that are you know, striking in dynamic black and white,
and then you can take your own colors, market markers
or et cetera to imbue them with the color of
(09:12):
the glass. So there'll be things like that.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Note cards.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
There are no note cards for the Piquel Studio, right.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Am I giving you? Am I inspiring you?
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Inspiring me?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I need to I need to work out some rights
issues and some prittig I guess with But that's a
great idea. But hopefully people will be able to enjoy
this exhibition and get a strong sense of the craft
of this art form. And for some local audiences, as
(09:47):
I mentioned, there are many congregations too many to mention
here who enjoy these examples of these stained glass windows
on their worship days, and so they may find connect
to the museum in the show.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Okay, I'm looking at a list that I printed from
your website, a very long list of churches. And okay,
we're Palm Point Park, that's right, yes, Indian River Medical Center,
Temple Beth Shalam, Gifford Youth Achievement Center, that's right. So
it's not only churches, that's exactly right. There is a
(10:23):
very long list. Oh look, it keeps going on you
on your website.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Which is which is www dot Bachus Museum dot org.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
And how long?
Speaker 1 (10:35):
How long is the exhibition? On four?
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Exhibition will be on until Sunday, January fourth, so we'll
be up through the holidays. There'll be two free admission
days during the exhibition that'll be Sunday, December seventh, and
the last day of the exhibition, Sunday, January fourth, will
be close Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
But otherwise we're going to be open our regular days,
(10:58):
regular hours.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
You have members, right, We sure do.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Oh my gosh, we sure do.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
And I'm asking because well I wanted to know. And
there's a member's opening reception that's your December fifth, So yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
A great opportunity to see the exhibition would be December fifth,
the opening reception. It's a benefit of membership and You
can become a member at any level on our website,
but you can also be a guest and you could
be admitted to the reception at twenty dollars ahead, or
you can join right there on the spot and you
get twelve months of enjoyment throughout the whole year. The
bikels will be there and members of the studio and
(11:35):
it'll be a great opportunity to see the exhibition.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Okay, Marshall, thanks so much. I can't wait to see this.
It's at the AE Backus Museum and Gallery and you
are Marshall Adams. You're the executive director, right.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
That's right, Thanks very very much, Willie. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Okay, thanks Marshall. Great to see you. Okay, let's take
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Speaker 1 (14:31):
And we are back with Arts Blast on the Air.
I'm Willie Miller and we are now in segment two
and we're going back to the dingle.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
I have.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Who do I have?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Jeffrey Barkwell.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Jeffrey Barkwell. See, I'm looking over there and I'm thinking
Mark wad No, Mark doesn't have a white beard? Or
does he?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
It's getting whiter every day.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Okay, we're going to talk about Dancing on the Day. Indeed, indeed, yes,
I've talked to Larry Strauss several times about this, and
it's I think people who did not get to see
it in its original form when it was over at
first PRIs was that just last year?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
It was last year? Wow?
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Actually, I don't know if it seems like it was
forever ago or if it was just a couple of
months ago. But here we are back again. How about
the story of Dancing.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
On Larry has created something I feel like it's going
to be a holiday classic. It's almost such historical fiction
piece hes sits together this secular story of Santa and
how the elves came to be in the North Pole
and how reindeer flight came into existence, and it all
(15:52):
starts in a little town on the peninsula in Ireland
called Dingle and County Kerry.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
I mentioned to Larry Strauss there was actually a program
and I think it might have been on Netflix made
on the Dingle.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Yes, I saw you see that wasn't that wonderful?
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (16:16):
That was It's a beautiful little town.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I had no idea so that How did he get
the idea? Because Larry wrote the story of the book
and the lyrics. Do you know how he got the
idea for.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
The You know, I couldn't tell you. I know that
he wrote it during the COVID shutdown, so he had
a lot of research time on his hands, and I
believe he had visited Dingle and had fallen in love
with it. That's my assumption anyway. Anyhow, a good one,
I think, thank you, And I wanted to mention Jacob
(16:51):
as well, Jacob Craig, another local treasure who wrote the
sound to those lyrics.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Okay, they're calling it an Irish Chris Smiths musical. Did
everybody have to did everybody have to learn to speak
with the brogue?
Speaker 6 (17:09):
You know?
Speaker 1 (17:09):
It was?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
We attempt it. It's it's not an easy thing to do.
Uh So I come in and out of it myself.
I play a leprechaun named Gipper Fitzgerald, the mayor of Dingle,
And I think I speak with the brogue a little
better than I sing with it.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Oh, oh boy, you just started a little new dimension. Yes,
singing with the brogue? Well, can you sing something.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Now? I wouldn't encourage it. I'm not actually a singer.
There are some very fine singers in the show.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Who else is in it?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Oh goodness, well, I.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Have the list here if you need help.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I do have several. I want to mention the new people.
At least we've got a couple of young ladies. Elena
Yancey is going to be taking Jacob's place on the
piano this year. She's quite a young talent, a local talent.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
She she's not eleven, is she.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
I don't think she's eleven, but she's not maybe fourteen.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
Really young. I can't wait to hear her.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Yeah, it's quite impressive what she can do. And then,
of course we have all the people from last year.
Philip Markley d Rose the Best Usteck is joining us
this year, as well as Mackenzie, her daughter who will
be playing Trulli. One of the Elves. Larry, of course,
(18:43):
is our Winslow. Well, we have Carolyn and John Towey,
both quite fine singers. Robin Volski, I don't know if
you've met him.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
A real talent in so many ways, in so many ways.
Speaker 3 (19:01):
I don't think I've missed anyone.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
D Rose. Did you mention Dan?
Speaker 3 (19:04):
I did mention d I think I feel like I'm forgetting. Oh,
I'm forgetting the young girl who plays my daughter. She
will be playing Snipper, and her name escapes me at
the moment, and I don't have it in my notes.
I apologize to her and.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
You, okay, not Elizabeth Coronado.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yes, it is, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
It wasn't actually a guest that I pulled out of Deer.
I haven't written here.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
You have better notes than I.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
So.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
The wonderful Mark Waiganik is directing, Yes.
Speaker 3 (19:39):
And I think it's fair to say he's the most
celebrated musical director in verver Beach Theater Guild history. He's
I think, another real talent.
Speaker 1 (19:48):
Yeah, okay, when is this going to be?
Speaker 3 (19:51):
It's the twenty eighth and twenty ninth of November at
the Vera Beach Theater Guild twenty twenty. San Juan Avenue
can certainly google the website and get directions if needed.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yep, Vero Beachtheater Guild dot com. Correct, okay, and the
box office is seven seven two five six two eighty
three hundred. Yes, correct, you're checking me twice there. And
this is a fundraiser for the Vero Beach Theater Guild,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
That's as I understand it. Yes, and last year he
donated those monies as well. So, uh, this one's going
to the Vera Beach Theater Guild and we're glad to
be a part of it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Okay. Do you have any idea how tickets are going yet?
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Uh, we've had some good sales. There are some tickets
still available for both performance for each of the performances.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
So okay.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
And with the hot and hesitate to reach out today, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Okay, And again it's Vero Beachtheater Guild dot com and
theater of course spelled t R, yes, the R yeah,
Theater Guild.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Okay, okay, thank you for keeping me on my toes.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
You're a leprechaun, you're supposed to be on your toes.
Did you auditioned for a part of Leprecaun or did
you just go an audition? And they said actually no.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I was very flattered when Larry reached out to me.
I was across the country in ah California when he
reached out and said that he had written this thing
and had me in mind for the Leprechaun all along.
So how could you resist? Yeah? I came home.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
You were you living out there? No?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
I was visiting and this is home. I'm a longtime
resident Zero Beach.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Are you retired?
Speaker 3 (21:52):
I am recently retired from I was a hairdresser fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Could I get you to look at the Okay? So
what else have you done as as far as acting?
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Oh, at the Very Beach Theater Guild and elsewhere. I've
done a show a year probably for the last fifteen years.
Fifteen years ago, I had no intention of being part
of the theater Guild and went to audition with a friend. Actually,
my friend was auditioning and we met Mark Wagonick and
(22:31):
he encouraged me to audition and cast me in one
of his summer musical reviews. And I got the bug
and I've been back ever since.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
Every year I don't think that's a unique experience. I
think that probably happens to a lot of people, especially
people who are retiring to Vero Beach and haven't had
time to pursue some of their maybe interests they didn't
even know they had.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Treading those boards is addictive. No qualms at all, none.
I look forward every show.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I do singer dancer hardly.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
I do a little movement and I can carry a tune,
but that's about it. But I can act.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
I think, Okay, well, we're going to see you when
we go to Sea Dancing on the Dingle and Irish
Christmas Musical giving credits again. Storybook and lyrics by Larry Strauss,
music composition by doctor Jacob Craig, directed by Mark Waganak
and the young pianist Elena Yancey. Yes, and Carol Strauss
(23:44):
is a stage manager. And I'm going to say go
to the website and you can find all of the information.
And that website once again is Vero Beach Theaterguild dot
com and the phone number seven seven two five six
to eighty three hundred. We have run out of time,
(24:04):
so I will thank you for coming in again.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Jeffrey Barkwell Dancing on the Dingle. Thanks, thank you great,
You're welcome. Bye bye bye bye okay, thanks to Jeffrey
and Marshall Adams, and thank you as always for joining
us again.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
This week.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Art listeners for arts Blast on the Air podcast radio
show and Alexis Skill, all presented by Riverside Theater and Ballet.
Vero Beach covering the arts online and an Arts Blast,
the free emailed weekly Florida arts news magazine. Join us
again next week for another edition of Arts Blast on
(24:42):
the Air. I'm Willie Miller. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
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