Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery Presents Spring is Coming and the PEEPS are Blooming The Seventh Annual Peeps Show
15 South J Street in Downtown Lake Worth
On Friday, March 18 from 6-10 PM, the PEEPS Show returns to the Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery for its Seventh year. Easily the most popular event the gallery produces each year, this exhibition draws thousands of happy fans. The opening will begin at 6PM with the celebrity judging of all of the entries. The public will be given ballots so they can vote for and voice the PEEPLES choice. The exhibition will continue for three weeks closing on April 6. Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery is located at 15 South J Street in Downtown Lake Worth.
What is a Peeps Show? It is time for you to come into the gallery and find out. It involves those gooey marshmallow chicks and rabbits that pop up every year around the Easter holidays. This is a Peeps Show that the entire family can take part in. PEEPS Shows began in Washington DC, the brain child of the Washington Post. Shows have evolved all over the nation. Clay Glass Metal Stone Gallery is the only PEEPS show held in Palm Beach. This year the PEEPS Company is putting out their own press release, listing all of the shows in the nation…and Clay Glass Metal Stone is one of them.
The Gallery is honored to welcome Bob and Patricia Born to the gallery. They will join local celebrity judges in choosing the best five of this year’s entries. Top prize is $100. The PEEPS company awards an additional four prizes of $50 PEEPS gifts. Bob Born invented PEEPS many decades ago. His candy company also produces Hot Tamales, Mike and Ikes and Goldenberg Peanut Chews. Television documentaries have been made about him. He is a local resident.
For seven the Clay Glass Metal Stone gallery has joined in the national Peeps craze, presenting dozens of gooey dioramas made from the iconic Easter candy- PEEPS. Gallery artists have made clothing from Peeps and tortured every conceivable pun in creating funny, scary, kooky and clever works of art from these sugary treats. From the Cannibal Peeps who roasted their fellow Peeps around a campfire, to Little Bo Peep, and Peeps at the Beach, the creativity escalated with dozens of depictions. Artists from around Palm Beach County are invited to join the exhibition. Only the guest artists are eligible to win prizes.
Visitors to the gallery will be given five ballots and the opportunity to vote for their five favorite PEEPS displays. In 2015, 8,114 ballots were cast by over 1600 visitors.
Clay§Glass§Metal§Stone Cooperative Gallery is sponsored by the Flamingo Clay Studio, a non-profit arts organization whose mission is to provide affordable studio and gallery space for three-dimensional artists. The gallery is located at15 South J Street in downtown Lake Worth, with a new artist studio at 216 South F Street. Gallery hours are Sunday thru Thursday, 9AM-2PM. Friday & Saturday, 9AM-10PM. Gallery openings and parties are held every Friday from 6-9 PM. Special exhibits take place throughout the year. For information call Joyce Brown-215-205-9441 or [email protected]. Gallery phone: 561-588-8344.