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Benzaiten Center For Creative Arts from page 16

11th generation Venetian master, Davide Salvadore, during his sold-out Artist Blow-Out

and struggling organizations that need the money most. But it’s not complete yet. We still want to build a metal featuring Muzylowski doing a three-hour glassblowing
Since opening in 2015, the Benzaiten Center for casting deportment and finish the build-out of the west demonstration to live music, drinks and light bites. All this
Creative Arts has emerged as a significant tourist side of the building into a “working sculpture garden” for only $25 per person! Fifth-Third Bank has graciously
attraction. Besides our 2,000-square-foot fine art gallery dedicated to the production of monumental sculptures and underwritten these events.
and gift shop, we have the largest glassblowing hot shop stone carving. At that point we will have all the major JB Berkow, founder and president of the Benzaiten
open to the public in the state. We also have a large, 3-D mediums under one roof! The dream continues. Center for Creative Arts,
air-conditioned fusing and flameworking studio, a glass For further information contact jbberkow65@gmail.
casting department and a welding department. As far as Shelley Muszylowski Returns com or (561) 310-9371.
our outreach to the community, we have seen over 9,000 For Our 10th Anniversary!
children and young adults through our doors free of Chandelier made during
charge. These children from neighboring Title-1 schools, Canadian artist, Shelley Muzylowski, returns to a 5-day Benzaiten
the Boys and Girls Clubs and other organizations would Benzaiten to help mark our 10th Anniversary Season. She Workshop by 8th
otherwise not have the opportunity to be exposed to this was our center’s first visiting artist and was there when generation Venetian
sort of experience. We have also awarded $85,000 in we opened our doors on January 23, 2015. Shelley is one master, Fabiano Zanchi
scholarships to deserving students, offered 4,500 classes of the most world renowned, celebrated glassblowers last year. His workshop
and workshops to 16,000, have conducted 170 tours to working today, and Benzaiten audiences are thrilled to was so popular that we
5,500 of our senior citizens, brought in 25 renowned artists see her again. We will be holding two days of events in are bringing him back
from all over the world, with 19,000 people attending their her honor starting with our Meet the Artist Dinner, an again this April for
sold-out demonstrations. In all we’ve accommodated more elegant sit-down dinner held in our fine art gallery from another Artist Blow-Out
that 57,000 visitors. For the past two years we’ve started 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 20th. The cost is and workshop.
working with special needs children and teens through a $100 per person. The following night will be one of our
wonderful Palm Beach County Program called Arts 4 All. now famous Artist Blow-Outs starting at 6:30 p.m. and

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