Ever Dream Land

<div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="yiv2146533235apple-style-span">When the <a href="http://www.norton.org/Exhibitions/Archive/Dinotopia/tabid/436/Default.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306523950_3">Norton Museum of Art had its Dinotopia exhibition</span></a> last year, students involved with the Museum’s PACE program </span>(Progressive Afterschool Arts Community Education)<span class="yiv2146533235apple-style-span"> at local community sites worked together to create their own utopias. These expressions of collective dreaming were exhibited in the museum near my own paintings and models.</span></span></div><div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4hQafCakCMI76nV8AqrXh3kSWGFYYj9xBGUJ82u4WK8cT_40LAe4LxUdzHHn_YRCMGFfS0sPnbQwXRBgLMwJA1eNoBV8K2qulvuibIliUleR8gLncoekw04xpPKWJUlkrzn3qJh08PY/s1600/Gurney_Ever_Dream_Land.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4hQafCakCMI76nV8AqrXh3kSWGFYYj9xBGUJ82u4WK8cT_40LAe4LxUdzHHn_YRCMGFfS0sPnbQwXRBgLMwJA1eNoBV8K2qulvuibIliUleR8gLncoekw04xpPKWJUlkrzn3qJh08PY/s320/Gurney_Ever_Dream_Land.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="color: #783f04; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">The students of My Choice Community Development, a center in <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306523950_4">Riviera Beach</span>, created a land inhabited by a marvelous menagerie of animals and plants, which they shaped out of clay. Students at <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306523950_5" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(54, 99, 136); cursor: pointer;">Gaines Park</span>, a <a href="http://www.cityofwpb.com/park/">West Palm Beach Parks and Recreation </a>site, created an island called “Ever Dream Land.” The name was a reaction to the limits implied by the name “<span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1306523950_6">Never Never Land</span>” of Peter Pan.</span><span style="font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0px;"> Ever Dream Land is inhabited by a marvelous menagerie of humans, animals and plants, which they shaped out of clay. </span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4C-LazZMOviT5SPiaukyzFAbEr3YaR0YYi-wJK3i0rEoiJl7DYUCw5UEJZtWTFbd7I8NY3SNknBaD0-f_8ZBRkXJJHMXCSYyjEfqyLdca-BDG8VkjYQvEWlyZlLVhuxB3a6YqAsDufZw/s1600/EverDreamLand.sm.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4C-LazZMOviT5SPiaukyzFAbEr3YaR0YYi-wJK3i0rEoiJl7DYUCw5UEJZtWTFbd7I8NY3SNknBaD0-f_8ZBRkXJJHMXCSYyjEfqyLdca-BDG8VkjYQvEWlyZlLVhuxB3a6YqAsDufZw/s400/EverDreamLand.sm.JPG" style="cursor: move;" width="400" /></a></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">They drew a map and invented up their own set of alphabetic symbols. They pictured themselves floating up on balloons over ice cream mountains and candy rivers, with soft round homes made of discarded packing foam.</span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><a href="http://www.norton.org/Exhibitions/Archive/Dinotopia/tabid/436/Default.aspx">The Norton Museum of Art's 2010 Dinotopia Exhibition</a></span></div><div style="font: 12px Arial; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"></span></div>

Ever Dream Land

When the Norton Museum of Art had its Dinotopia exhibition last year, students involved with the Museum’s PACE program (Progressive Aftersc...

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