Press Release
Jane Davis Doggett Art Exhibition — Talking Graphics with Waterscapes© — to Open at
Maritime & Classic Boat Museum
Opening Reception Sunday, March 18, 2012 from 5 PM – 7 PM
Stuart, FL – Splashes of brilliant hues will illuminate the Maritime & Classic Boat Museum with the upcoming Talking Graphics with Waterscapes© art exhibit featuring world-renown artist Jane Davis Doggett. A special opening reception will be held on Sunday, March 18, 2012 from 5 PM to 7 PM at the Maritime & Classic Boat Museum, 1707 NE Indian River Drive, Jensen Beach, Florida 34957. Entrance to the exhibit for guests is $10 and free for Museum members. Reservations must be made in advance by calling 772.692.1234.
The art exhibit is open from March 19 through April 18, 2012 and features Doggett’s latest creative innovation of Waterscapes©. These are exhibited together with selections from her Talking Graphics Iconochromes wherein she expresses philosophically profound messages — proverbs, quotations and sayings from various cultures. Each artwork is produced from her original hand drawings, scanned into template segments in Adobe Vector on an Apple computer — a design process she has termed electronic silkscreening. Because the software is Vector — as opposed to pixel — images can be enlarged into prints to virtually any size, and still remain “in focus.”
Her art has been exhibited at the Yale University Art Gallery; the Tennessee State Museum; Tampa International Airport; the Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL; The Lighthouse ArtCenter, Tequesta, FL; and Northern Trust, North Palm Beach, FL. She will have a featured exhibition this summer at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Jane Davis Doggett was making her mark on the world at an early age. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, she received a BFA degree in 1952 with a Special Commendation from Newcomb College, the coordinate women’s college of Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She went on to earn a MFA degree with top honors from the Yale School of Art and Architecture where she pioneered the field of architectural and environmental graphic design. A student of Josef Albers, Doggett absorbed his inspired principles of color perception to establish her own strong artistic ability.
Doggett has had an illustrious art career in creating thematic graphic identity and wayfinding systems for mass public complexes including 40 international airport projects. This is more than any other designer in the world. Examples include: Tampa, Baltimore-Washington, Miami, Newark, Cleveland-Hopkins and George Bush-Huston. Each year, 20 million airport passengers are guided by her wayfinding signage and graphics. Doggett’s designs have also earned distinguished honors: American Institute of Architects National Award of Merit, Progressive Architecture Design Award, American Iron and Steel Institute’s Design in Steel Citation and two Design Awards co-sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation and the National Endowment for the Arts. In addition, she received the Outstanding Alumna Award from Newcomb College in 2007. In 2008, she was elected to a Sterling Fellow of Yale.
She has served four elected terms as Commissioner of the prestigious Town of Jupiter, Florida. She is a charter member and co-founder of the Town Arts Committee. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Nature Conservancy at Blowing Rocks, Jupiter Island, and on the Executive Committee of the Jupiter Island Garden Club, Zone VIII, Garden Club of America. For more information about Doggett and her artwork, visit http://www.jddinc.com <http://www.jddinc.com/> .
About the Maritime and Classic Boat Museum
The Maritime & Classic Boat Museum, located in the Frances Langford Pavilion at Indian RiverSide Park, offers community residents and visitors a place to explore and learn about the rich maritime and boating history of the Treasure Coast through hands-on activities, educational programs and cultural experiences. Home of the Evinrude Gallery, the museum also features a collection of classic vintage wooden boats, as well as an exhibit highlighting the rich history of recreational sport fishing on the Treasure Coast. For more information about the Museum, call 772.692.1234 or visit http://www.mcbmfl.org <http://www.mcbmfl.org/> .
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