Works of art are rarely recognized as masterpieces when they’re completed. It can take years, decades, even centuries before they are truly appreciated by the masses. But in the last two decades, thousands of people in Vero Beach and along the Treasure Coast have quickly come to value one immediately successful work of art: The Vero Beach Museum of Art. Originally named the Center for the Arts, the Vero Beach Museum will celebrate its 20th anniversary on January 28 with an exhibition titled “An Evening in Giverny.”
Among the hundreds of guests at the event will be a woman named Jeanne Armstrong. While everyone else sips champagne and gazes at celebrated works by Monet, Pissarro and Renoir, Armstrong will most likely be thinking back to 1976, when she first moved to Vero Beach. Before relocating here, she had spent eight years volunteering at the Brooklyn Museum and soon realized that something was missing in her new community.
Read the entire article in the January 2006 issue
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