From 6-10 p.m. on Friday night, February 3, downtown Fort Myers celebrates Art Walk, a monthly self-guided tour of new art exhibits and streetside craft demonstrations taking place in the River District's 12 art galleries and boutiques, the Art League of Fort Myers on Monroe, Art of the Olympians in the City Pier Building at the end of Hendry Street, Arts for ACT Gallery, Coloring the World on Dean Street, daas Gallery, Enjewel, HOWL Gallery/Tattoo, In One Instant Gallery of Photography, Savvy on First, Space 39, Syzygy Gallery, and the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center. In addition, ArtFest Fort Myers adds to this month's festivities by allowing the Art Walk crowd access to 50 of the festival's finest artists from 5 until 10 p.m.
Here's more of what there is to see and do in the River District this Friday night:
13. There are two ways to enter Hotel Indigo's lobby. One entrance is on Main Street, across the street from the American Bald Eagle that chainsaw sculptor Marlin Miller carved out of the condemned, termite-infested 200-year-old oak tree that stood in front of the Old Lee County Courthouse. It joined the River District's public art collection on June 14, 2011.
“It is heavily reinforced to withstand a hundred years of anything mother nature throws its way,” Miller said after completing the wood sculpture, which towers more than two stories into the air.
14. You can also enter Hotel Indigo from Broadway Street, through the historic Post Office Arcade constructed in 1925. Saunter down the arcade past Vino de Notte Ristorante and Ichiban and turn left, and you’ll find yourself in the hotel’s modernist lobby.
15. Towering over the courtyard that Hotel Indigo shares with the new federal courthouse, Starbucks and HOWL Gallery/Tattoo is a sepia-toned 20 x 100 foot ceramic tile mural. Its name is Fort Myers: An Alternative History and it was made by former University of Florida Photography dean Barbara Jo Revelle.
The mural chronicles the city’s early days first as an outpost in the Seminole Indian wars and later as a stronghold from which Union troops confiscated herds of cattle, thereby depriving the Confederacy of an important source of beef and hastening General Lee's surrender to Ulysses Grant at Appomattox.
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