Mayfaire by-the-Lake makes welcome return
By Paul Catala
For about 25 years, Lakeland acrylic gouache painter Stephen Koury has shown his realism wildlife and landscape artwork at the annual Mayfaire by-the-Lake art festival.
For the past five years, Koury’s daughter, Sage, has taken to the festival stage to entertain the crowds with her singing.
This year, on Mother’s Day weekend, the Kourys once again were off Lake Morton Drive, simultaneously showing and performing their talents. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Mayfaire by-the-Lake was cancelled.
Held Saturday and Sunday around Lake Morton on Lake Morton Drive just south of downtown Lakeland, since 1971, The Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College’s Mayfaire by-the Lake has become one of the United States’ most acclaimed juried outdoor art festivals. The free show is held each year on Mother’s Day weekend and this year, artists are competing for part of $17,000 in total prize money.
LAKELAND In 2019, Lakeland’s renowned art show Mayfaire by-the-Lake attracted upward of 75,000 visitors over the weekend of May 11 and 12.
A year later, there wasn’t a single person looking at a single art piece by a single artist. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 edition of Mayfaire was cancelled.
But this year is different. Because of easing of restrictions by the state of Florida, Mayfaire is on again, with precautions in place to ensure the safe and sanitary return of the May 8 and 9 Mother’s Day weekend art show.
Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College’s (PMA) Mayfaire by-the Lake is a free, juried art show held each year on Mother’s Day weekend and is one of the United States’ most acclaimed juried outdoor art festivals. In 2019, it was ranked 36th of 200 art shows in the U.S. by Sunshine Artist Magazine.
Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten,
The Washington Post reporter
DeNeen L. Brown interviews descendants of Greenwood residents and business owners and today’s community activists. She asks them about the city’s 2018 decision to search for mass graves from 1921, community demands for reparations, and today’s efforts to revive the Black district of Greenwood through education, technology, business development, and more.
“Last year, teams of archaeologists and forensic anthropologists found a mass grave in the city-owned cemetery, which may be connected to the massacre,” said Brown. “This spring, the City of Tulsa plans to commemorate the 100
th anniversary of the massacre, as descendants of survivors demand reparations for what was lost and protest against current oppression and racism.”
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