Monday, November 27, 2017

What happened Sunday afternoon in Downtown Lake Worth? Or, “What didn’t happen?”


UPDATE: Starting this afternoon, Monday, Nov. 27th, just for today, Lauren Bennett from the City of Lake Worth’s Recreation Dept. will be the lead person providing updates about what’s going on with the CANVAS Outdoor Museum show. Follow Lauren Bennett using this Twitter feed and the hashtag is #CanvasOutdoorMuseum

Hopefully by tomorrow [Tuesday] the Palm Beach County Cultural Council and Lake Worth CRA will be ready to take over this task.

Here is the blog post from earlier this morning [Sunday, Nov. 26th]:

Early today, Sunday morning, received an email about the kick-off for the CANVAS Outdoor Museum in the City of Lake Worth, “November 26–December 2”, with the time of day muralists would be on location and a brief biography about each artist, “[T]he most innovative contemporary artists from around the world.”

What happened?

Below is an excerpt from an email yesterday sent to media and press from the Palm Beach County Cultural Council:

Famous street artists from around the world are starting to paint giant outdoor murals in Lake Worth — watch the City transformed into an outdoor museum, interview officials and artists at work today. [emphasis added]
     Artist KOBRA will be at the Cultural Council wall starting this morning.
     SIPROS will be at his wall at 11am. 
     Jennifer Chapparo will be at her wall at noon. [and she was!]
     Don’t miss it! Contact me by text or voice at 1-■■■-■■■-■■■■ to arrange a tour and interviews.

Don’t miss it?

Hardly anything at all happened yesterday except for the renowned muralist Jennifer Chaparro showing up at her wall on Lucerne Ave., getting the wall prepared. When I called around and talked to some of the organizers it was like, “We’re here in the office waiting for something to happen too.”

The public deserves an answer some time early today, such as press release from the PBC Cultural Council, the Lake Worth CRA, and/or the City of Lake Worth too:
Question: Why is the Lake Worth Canvas Outdoor Museum show using a Twitter page from 2016 about the event in West Palm Beach last year?