Josephine Sacabo’s art is both of our time and embedded deeply in a time past. She is an acclaimed, New Orleans-based contemporary photographer whose body of work seems infused with a powerful nostalgia for the non-digital photographic forms and techniques of photography’s nascent years as an artistic medium in the previous two centuries.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered about what is going on in a painting? What that daydreaming figure is thinking about? What story the artist is trying to tell? Have you ever spun an elaborate tale or envisioned what that conversation might be between those two very angry-looking people across a room?
Read MoreAre you ready for an "ooky spooky" art-filled Halloween celebration, the likes of which only the Polk Museum of Art could present?
Join your favorite Museum staff members as they entertain and educate you with ghoulish, spooky, and oh-so-strange stories inspired by some of the most famous pieces of art throughout history.
Read MoreJoin Dr. Alex Rich, Executive Director and Chief Curator, and Dr. Willem Hoogsteder, the owner and director of the Hoogsteder & Hoogsteder Gallery in The Hague, as they chat with you — our loyal members — LIVE and dive into the three-year journey behind the creation of Music & Dance and the intricate behind-the-scenes work Willem does to secure works that will enthrall us here in Florida.
Read MoreThe Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida
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