Clay Glass Metal Stone Cooperative Gallery
Presents
Palm Beach County’s 5th Annual Peeps Show
Opening
Friday, April 4, 6-9 PM
Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery,
15 South J Street
in Downtown Lake Worth
Peeps, those gooey marshmallow chick and bunny
treats, are a decades old tradition at Easter.
Within the last twenty years, PEEPS have become a yearly “pun” artistic
movement, with displays and exhibits taking place all over the nation. Clay Glass Metal Stone
Gallery, at 15 South J Street, in downtown Lake Worth,
has been part of this tradition for five years.
This year the exhibit will take place from April 4th through
April 20th. The opening in April 4th begins at 6PM. Mulligan’s
Restaurant will provide food samplings. FlowSource will provide exciting
entertainment.
Last year, the PEEPS Show was honored to have Bob
Born as one of its judges. Born, is the inventor of PEEPS and a longtime winter
resident of Palm
Beach County.
Each year the gallery awards five prizes to non-gallery
participants in the show. This year, top prize will be $100 and judged by a
local Lake
Worth
celebrity, Mayor Pam Triolo. The
additional four prizes will be judged by the public. Each visitor will be given one token to be
placed in a cup by his/her favorite PEEPS display. The top four winners will receive prizes from
the PEEPS Company.
Karen McGovern created “The Life of Peep” for the
2013 exhibit. An associate of Ang Lee, (Life of Pi,) saw the exhibit and had it
shipped to Lee. 2013’s top prize went to
the college of Peeps
(Cardinal’s), shown inside the Sistine Chapel, and created by artist Sid
Walesh.
This year, watch for the “PEEPS Train” which will be
circling part of the gallery. The show is expected to include many PEEPS
celebrity appearances, PEEPS fairy tale puns and PEEPS tasty, gooey treats.
Visitors to this exhibit come from as far as Ethiopia, London,
Miami and California.
For those who could not get enough or the 2013 exhibit, a blog was created, cgmspeeps@blogspot.com. All of the
exhibits from this year’s show will be added to the blog.
FlowSource, street performers who juggle, use hula
hoops (with lights and fire), stilt walk, paint and recite poetry, will be
entertaining under tents outside the gallery. Mulligan’s restaurant, from the Lake Worth
Beach Casino, will be under its own
tent, outside the gallery,
passing out samples of food to Peeps visitors.
The public is welcome to submit entries to this fun
exhibit. Contact Joyce@flamingoclaystudio.org for
an entry application. No exhibit will be
turned away. The Gallery wants as many as possible to join in
the fun.