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The exhibit “Captain is Hollywood” featuring artist Maria Isabel Lazo opens January 23 and will be on display until March 17, 2019. An artist’s reception will be held on Thursday, February 21st from 6:00 to 9:30 pm in the Gallery. Conservation “Talks” will be given throughout the exhibit. All are welcome to attend, admission is free.
The MEEC was fostered from a partnership between Broward County Parks and Recreation and Nova Southeastern University. It educates the South Floridian community through its resident green turtle, Captain, of the need to conserve and protect our marine and coastal environments. This artistic effort grew from the eagerness to unite art with conservation issues.
The artist Maria Isabel Lazo is a former employee of the City of Hollywood who worked many years overseeing the art gallery exhibitions. She is now entirely dedicated to promote her art. Self-taught artist, Maria Isabel, was raised in New York City. Her special talent was noticed in her early childhood where she exhibited outstanding sensibility and imagination that reflected in her ink and pencil drawings, collages, and multiple art projects. Subsequently she majored in Architecture where she cultured Art History, Illustration, and Sculpture and studied two years of Fashion Design in the Artisan School of Guayaquil. Her paintings reveal the dazzling colors of nature’s wonders, the natural environment and the life of its creatures…… innocence, worriless, delightfulness. Her paintings portray the animal’s simple being and expose emotions felt by artist when admiring the greatness of their modest lives.