Post #592120 by TikiHardBop on Fri, Jun 3, 2011 12:12 PM

Mai Tiki mentioned in today's Orlando Sentinel:

Brevard County is the destination for many Central Floridians during our fiery summer months. Most of us go for the beaches, but there are all kinds of art, artists, galleries, studios and museums in my birth county.

Many Orlandoans know about the cluster of galleries and studios in Cocoa Village (old downtown Cocoa near State Road 520 and U.S. Highway 1). But you may not know that a little further east, Cocoa Beach has several art venues, galleries and studios, most within blocks of Minutemen Causeway and State Road A1A. A particularly unique art haven there is Mai Tiki Gallery (251 Minutemen Causeway, 321-783-6890), the gallery and studios of artist Wayne Coombs. The gallery is full of Coombs' original paintings, super driftwood sculptures/carvings, traditional palm-trunk tikis and (my favorite) Coombs' reinterpretation of tiki-as-Modernist-sculpture. Mai Tiki is a rather Bohemian hub for the local artists' community, with impromptu rock concerts, working artists and occasional gallery nights.

Full text with pics:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-06-02/entertainment/os-hummel-cocoa-beach-0603-20110602_1_fifth-avenue-art-gallery-art-venues-galleries-and-studios