Exhibit: von Liebig Art Center Naples

Clyde in front of von Liebig Art Center

The von Liebig Art Center made the generous

offer to create a benefit to help earn money

for the interior displays at the new Big

Cypress Swamp Welcome Center.

Clyde exhibited his work on the Big Cypress Swamp

and many of his America The Beautiful images.

Elam Stolzfus previewed his film:

The Big Cypress Swamp: The Western Everglades

Before the film Clyde and Elam gave a power point

on the creation of the film. The story generated many

questions from the audience. After the lecture,

the film was shown to a very appreciative audience.

Clyde, Elam and Executive Director Joel Kessler

Clyde, Jack O'Brien - Curator, and Elam Stoltzfus

Artist, Leroy Osceola and his family

joined us at the event

Leroy Osceola is our neighbor. He

lives about ten miles east of us in

the Big Cypress National Preserve.

Soon he'll be opening his gallery.

It's nice to have another artist in

our community.

Don Finefrock from South Florida National

Park Trust joined in the effort. His organization

has contributed a lot of help and money to

get the Welcome Center at Big Cypress

completed.

The film

Big Cypress Swamp: The Western Everglades

was shown to a large audience. Afterwards,

Clyde and Elam had a question & answer

session...always entertaining!

Clyde and Elam signing

The evening was a wonderful success and

getting Elam and Clyde together for a talk

is always informative and entertaining.

The following night von Liebig had a

second benefit to support both the

Welcome Center in Big Cypress and

the von Liebig Art Center.

As is always the case with the von Liebig, they are

warm and generous when it comes to causes

they believe in. The generosity of the people of

Naples in helping to fund both the

Big Cypress Swamp Welcome Center and to support

their own von Liebig Art Center was wonderful.

We enjoyed two wonderful events!