Deborah C. Pollack's Lecture and Event Schedule, 2006-2025

Thursday, January 26, 2006, 3:00 PM
"Florida Artists, 1860-1980"
The Society of the Four Arts Library
3 Four Arts Plaza
Palm Beach, FL 33480
(561) 655-2766

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Lecture and Slide Presentation. Artists discussed: Hermann Herzog, Orville Bulman, Martin Johnson Heade, Laura
Woodward, Anthony Thieme, A. E. Backus, Emile Gruppe, and many others.

Friday, September 29, 2006, 5:00 PM
Lecture and slide presentation by invitation only, followed by a private champagne reception and book signing for Orville Bulman: An Enchanted Life and Fantastic Legacy.
Grand Rapids Art Museum
155 Division North
Grand Rapids, MI 49503-3154
(616) 831-1000

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 3:00 PM

Lecture and slide presentation followed by reception and book signing on Orville Bulman: An Enchanted Life and Fantastic Legacy.
Society of the Four Arts King Library
3 Four Arts Plaza
Palm Beach, FL 33480
(561) 655-2766

Thank you, wonderful Four Arts audience!

A portion of the proceeds donated to the Society of the Four Arts Library.

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Thursday, February 8, 2007

Lecture and slide presentation on Palm Beach artists, with a special emphasis on Orville Bulman.
The Lost Tree Club

Monday, February 19, 2007

Lecture and slide presentation on Extraordinary Women Artists of the Early 20th Century. Palm Beach Jewelry, Art and Antique Show in conjunction with the Lighthouse Center for the Arts.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

Lecture and slide presentation on Orville Bulman (for members only) followed by a reception and book signing for Orville Bulman: An Enchanted Life and Fantastic Legacy at the Gulfstream Bath and Tennis Club.

Tuesday, June 18, 2007

Lecture and slide presentation on Palm Beach artists including Laura Woodward, Orville Bulman, Anthony Thieme, Jane Peterson, Ben Austrian, and Joseph Jefferson for the Rotary Club, Palm Beach.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Alluring Anecdotes about the Art World, Rotary Club, Palm Beach.

Thursday, April 23, 2009, 7 PM

Lecture and PowerPoint presentation concerning Painters of the Flagler Era, including Laura Woodward, Frank Henry Shapleigh, Martin Johnson Heade, Robert German, George W. Seavey, Charlotte Coman, Maria J. C. A'Becket, and others; St. Augustine Art Association, 7-8:30 PM.

Monday, October 12, 2009, 7 PM

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, PowerPoint presentation and book signing for the Historical Society of Palm Beach County at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Book signing: Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, at the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce event. 

Saturday and Sunday, November 14-15, 2009

Book signing: Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, at the Miami Book Fair International with Past Perfect Florida History

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Thank you Miami for a tremendous event!

Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6:30-7:30 PM

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, PowerPoint presentation and book signing at the new, beautiful West Palm Beach Library.

December 2009-April 15, 2010

Exhibition of historical photographs and reproductions of Laura Woodward's work for the Boynton Beach Historical Society and Art Connection at the Boynton Beach Library.

January 8, 2010

South Florida Writers Association Event at Books and Books, Coral Gables, Florida. See more pictures here.
Thank you SFWA and Books and Books!

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Monday, January 11, 2010, 6:30 PM

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, PowerPoint presentation, book signing and exhibition of historical photographs and reproductions of Laura Woodward's work for the Boynton Beach Historical Society and Art Connection at the Boynton Beach Library.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 2:30 PM

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, PowerPoint presentation and book signing at the Society of the Four Arts, Campus on the Lake, Palm Beach.

Thursday, January 21, 2010, 5-8 PM

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, book signing and PowerPoint presentation for the Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee, in conjunction with their Voices of Florida Women exhibition.

January 28, 2010

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, book signing at Hand's (561) 276-4194 in Delray Beach, during the Art and Jazz Delray Festival on Atlantic Avenue.

February 1 through February 27, 2010

Exhibition: Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, Woodward painting reproductions and corresponding historical photographs at the Delray Beach Historical Society. The presentation is to be scheduled for May.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, PowerPoint presentation and book signing for the Loxahatchee River Historical Society at the Juno Beach Town Center, 340 Ocean Drive, 6-7 p.m., Feb. 25. Reserve: (561) 747-8380 ext. 101

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, for the Palm Beach Flagler Rotary Club at the Chesterfield Hotel. 

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, for the Delray Beach Historical Society and the Delray Beach Library at the Delray Beach Library, 100 W. Atlantic Avenue at 2 PM. 

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, Jupiter Library, 705 Military Trail
(561) 744-2301

Wednesday, June 23, 2010, 2 PM

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, for the Palm Beach County Library Association at the Society of the Four Arts.

Thursday, September 23, 2010, 12 PM

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, talk and book signing for the Plantation Art Guild.

Saturday, February 12, 2011, 2 PM

"Adventures in Writing Art Books and Getting Published" for the South Florida Writers Association's Mango Writer's Conference, 1350 NW 14th St., Miami

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, talk and book signing for the Vassar Club.

Sunday, March 27, 2011, 9:45 AM

"Reverence of Nature: The Hudson River School's Credo and Legacy Brought South to the Everglades," talk for the Arthur R. Marshall Foundation, Memorial Presbyterian Church, 1300 S. Olive Ave. For more information, contact Nancy Marshall, 561-805-8733

Friday, April 1, 2011, 3-5 PM

Meet the author and view the original paintings by Laura Woodward and Orville Bulman featured in her books, Citibank, Palm Beach

Saturday, March 31, 2012, 10 AM

Brunch with the Authors, "Women Empowering Women," Florida Memorial University, Miami's only Historically Black College or University (HBCU). Thank you, Florida Memorial!

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Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 3 PM 

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, talk and book signing for the Colonial Dames.

Thursday, January 17, 2013, Florida Artists, Palm Beach Rotary, Breakers Hotel.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013, Laura Woodward Induction Ceremony, Florida Artists Hall of Fame, Tallahassee. 

Thursday, January 23, 2014, Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, presentation and 

book signing, Gardens Library, Palm Beach Gardens.

Thursday, May 22, 2014, Mentoring the Ambassadors of the Everglades for the Marshall Foundation at Edward and Deborah Pollack Fine Art, 205 Worth Avenue. Thank you, wonderful Ambassadors!

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Monday, February 2, 2015, Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South, The Society of the Four Arts, 6 PM, (561) 805-8562.

Thursday, March, 5, 2015, Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, presentation and book signing at the Seasiders of Palm Beach Shores, 

Saturday and Sunday, September 26-27, 2015, Laura Woodward, Felix de Crano, Henry Flagler, and the St. Augustine Tradition of Art, Florida Heritage Book Festival

Wednesday, March 16, 2016, Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, presentation for the National Society of Colonial Dames at the Everglades Club.

Saturday, March 19, 2016, book signing-- Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach at reception, "Palm Beach Community Tribute: Giving Thanks," a benefit for the Palm Beach Foundation at the Mar-a-Lago Club,

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​Wednesday, December 14, 2016, 2:30 PM, Palm Beach Visual Arts presentation and book signing, The Gardens Library, Palm Beach Gardens, 11303 Campus Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410, (561) 626-6133.

Saturday, January, 28, 7-8 PM, “Get Out! South Florida” South Florida’s LGBT radio program, 850 AM, with Tom Hantzarides. The LGBT influence in the development of Palm Beach visual arts from the early to mid-twentieth century.

Monday, January 30, 2017, 2:30 PM, Palm Beach Visual Arts, presentation and book signing, The Society of the Four Arts, Dixon Education Building. Many thanks to The Society of the Four Arts and the Palm Beach Daily News!

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​Palm Beach Daily News, January 31, 2017, Photograph by Melanie Bell.

Monday, January 30, 2017, 5:30 PM, Palm Beach Visual Arts, presentation and book signing, Jupiter Island Arts Council, Jupiter Island Town Hall.

Tuesday, February 7, 2017, 7:30-9:15 AM, Book signing, Palm Beach Visual Arts, at the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce Breakfast, The Breakers, Palm Beach, Program: "The Media"--talk by Catherine Rampell of the Washington Post. Thank you Chamber and Jeff Jacobus of the Classic Bookshop for such a successful event!

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Saturday, February 18, 2017 3 PM, Palm Beach Visual Arts, presentation and book signing, Palm Beach Jewelry Art and Antique Show, Palm Beach County Convention Center.

Monday, March 6, 2017, Palm Beach Visual Arts, presentation and book signing, Riverbridge, West Palm Beach.

Friday, March 17, 2017, 8:45 a.m. Deborah C. Pollack will discuss the New York/Palm Beach connection in her book, Palm Beach Visual Arts, the first comprehensive art historical study of Palm Beach and West Palm Beach, Warren Lawrence’s New York radio show, WKNY.

Monday, April 3, 2017, 8:45 a.m. Discussing Bad Scarlett The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty with Warren Lawrence, WKNY

Monday, April 17, 2017:6 p.m., Presentation and book signing, Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer at Eastern Florida State College - Titusville Campus.

Saturday, April 29, 2017:10 a.m.-3 p.m., Book signing, Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, at the Titusville Historic Preservation Conference. 

Friday, May 12th, 2017 Palm Beach Visual Arts, Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea, presentation and book signing.

Sunday, September 17, 2017:4 p.m. Public Storyteller, WLRN (PBS), about a loved one's miraculous recovery from traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Sunday, September 24, 2017:3 p.m. Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, presentation and book signing, Boca Raton Public Library, 400 NW 2nd Avenue, Boca Raton, Florida.

Tuesday, November 7, 2017, Questions and answers, Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, private book club, West Palm Beach.

Thursday, January 11, 2018, 11:00 a.m. Palm Beach Visual Arts, presentation and book signing for the Colonial Dames, Beach Club, Palm Beach.

Thank you, Sherry DuBois, Mary Allen and the Colonial Dames!
With Mary Allen at the Beach Club:

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Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 1:30 p.m., Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, presentation and book signing, Florida Voices, The Society of the Four Arts, Dixon Building. Palm Beach.

Saturday, March 3, 2018:11 a.m., a Panel discussion with Roger Ward and Sandra Barghini Coombs at the Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens followed by a book signing, for their exhibition "Behold: A New Eden: Laura Woodward and the Creation of Palm Beach." 

Wednesday, March 14, 2018:7 p.m. Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, Distinguished Lecture Series, presentation followed by refreshments and book signing, Historical Society of Palm Beach County, Johnson History Museum, 1916 Palm Beach County Courthouse, 300 North Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach.561-832-4164, ext. 100. Reservations required. Free for members, non-members $20. 

Sunday, March 18, 2018:4 p.m., "Beauty...and a Couple of Beasts," Royal Poinciana Chapel, for the Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Sharing behind-the-scenes stories of beautiful beasts in the Palm Beaches’ most iconic statuary, as well as in famous paintings owned by Palm Beachers. I will also talk about two-legged beasts-- infamous rogues of history involved with Palm Beach.

Saturday, December 1, 2018, 10:30 a.m. Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach. Presentation and book signing, Seminole Chapter of the DAR, Abacoa Golf Club.

Monday, January 7, 2019, 5-7 p.m. "Collage Mirage," Interviewing Bruce Helander for the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County,

Culture and Cocktails, Colony, Palm Beach. Thank you, Bruce and the Council!

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CEO Dave Lawrence, Deborah, and Bruce Helander

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At the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County with Bruce Helander. Thank you all!

Friday, February 22, 6:30 p.m. Book launch, Vintage Miami Beach Glamour: Celebrities and Socialites in the Heyday of Chic, Books & Books, Coral Gables.

Tuesday, March 5, 2019:12 p.m., Palm Beach/West Palm Beach Visual Arts History, presentation for the American Pen Women, Palm Beach Yacht Club.

Thursday, March 14, 2019, 7:30 a.m., Book Signing, Vintage Miami Beach Glamour: Celebrities and Socialites in the Heyday of Chic, Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce, breakfast meeting, The Breakers, Palm Beach.

Thursday, May 2, 2019, 12:45 p.m., Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, Presentation and book signing for the Seasiders.

Thursday, June 13, 2019:7 p.m. Vintage Miami Beach Glamour: Celebrities and Socialites in the Heyday of Chic, presentation, panel discussion and book signing, Murder on the Beach, 104 W. Atlantic Ave., Delray Beach, FL 33444 (561) 279-7790.

Friday, October 11, 2019:5 p.m. Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, private book club event.

Thursday, November 14, 2019, 6:45 p.m. Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, presentation and book signing, St. George's Society of Palm Beach, Chesterfield Hotel.

Monday, November,18, 2019:12 p.m. Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, Presentation and book signing for PEO International, Abbot Downing Offices, Palm Beach.

Friday, January 10, 2020, 1 p.m. Vintage Miami Beach Glamour: Celebrities and Socialites in the Heyday of Chic, presentation and book signing, Levis JCC Phyllis & Harvey Sandler Center, 21050 95th Avenue South Boca Raton, FL | (561) 558-2520,

Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 5:30 p.m. Vintage Miami Beach Glamour: Celebrities and Socialites in the Heyday of Chic ​presentation and book signing, Event details are here: The Society of the Four Arts. Free, but reservations are required: (561) 655-2766 or email [email protected]. SOLD OUT

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Thanks to The Society of the Four Arts and their fabulous audience!

Tuesday, November 9, 2021, Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, PEO Organization.

Wednesday, January 12, 2022, The History of Palm Beach Visual Arts, for the Art Deco Society of the Palm Beaches, via Zoom at 7 p.m.

Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 6 p.m., reception at 5 p.m.

Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach,

 Distinguished Lecture Series, Historical Society of Palm Beach County. 

(Photo by Sheryl Wood.)

Wednesday, February 8, 2023, 1:30 p.m. 

Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020, Florida Voices,

The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach.

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Thursday, April 13, 2023, 7 p.m.: 
St. George's Society of Palm Beach, Tideline Ocean Resort and Spa, Palm Beach.

Saturday, April 22, 12 p.m. Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the 
Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, and her Parisian escapades! 
Women's Red Apple Foundation, Table 26, West Palm Beach. Thanks to the
sold-out crowd and the Red Apple Foundation! We had a blast!

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Saturday, May 6, 12 p.m. Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer, private book club, West Palm Beach.

Saturday, May 20, 2023, 11 a.m. Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, Mennello Museum of American Art, Orlando.

Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 12 p.m. Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer. National League of American Pen Women, Palm Beach Yacht Club.

Sunday, February 18, 2024, 1 p.m. Hermann Herzog: Florida's Most Important Landscape Painter, 

The Palm Beach Show, Palm Beach County Convention Center, Okeechobee Blvd.

Promotional material for a lecture series at The Palm Beach Show. Event details: February 18, 2024, at 1 PM in Room 1DE. Speaker: Deborah C. Pollack. Topic: Hermann Herzog, Florida's Landscape Painter.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024 12 pm. The award-winning
 Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020, Deerfield Beach Historical Society.

Saturday, May 11, 2024, 2 p.m. North Palm Beach Country Club, "Brits and Mad
 Hatters in Our Wonderland," Mad Hatter Tea Party Women's Red Apple Foundation.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 6 p.m. The award-winning
Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020, 
Boca Raton Historical Society.

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November 15, 2024 - June 28, 2025, Welcome Video, Wish You Were Here: Tourism in the Palm Beaches, Historical Society of Palm Beach County.