Dr H. Alexander Rich gives a lecture at the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art’s Holiday Member’s Reception called It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Impressionism to go along with the Museum’s exhibition, Dutch Impressionism: The Hague School, 1860-1930.
Read MoreEnjoy a special lecture of “Dutch Impressionism: The Hague School, 1860-1930” led by Dr. Willem Hoogsteder, owner and director of the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation
Read MoreDr. Alex Rich takes visitors through Rockwell/Wyeth: Icons of Americana!
Read MoreDr. Roy Kerr traces out N.C. Wyeth’s career against the backdrop of the development of American illustration
Read MoreFor the first time, Drinks with the Director, moves from a virtual only event to being recorded in front of a studio audience while being broadcast over Facebook Live.
Read MoreArtist Reynier Llanes speaks about his work during the Point of View Gallery Talk at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida.
Read MoreJoin Executive Director and Chief Curator Dr. Alex Rich of the Polk Museum of Art as he interviews Samuel Bak over Zoom during the Member’s Reception.
Read MoreJoin Executive Director Dr. Alex Rich as he takes visitors through the exhibition, Remembering Vilna: The Holocaust and the Art of Samuel Bak, at the Polk Museum of Art.
Read MoreJoin Executive Director and Chief Curator Dr. Alex Rich on a tour through Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham. This exhibition features 60 photographs by Cunningham, whose life — and career — traversed nearly a century.
Read MoreJoin artist Steven Kenny as he takes visitors through his exhibition, In the Eye of the Mind: The Fantastic Realities of Steven Kenny, at the Polk Museum of Art.
Read MoreFiber artist and quilter Lauren Austin from Maitland, Florida gives us her perspective on the work in her show Lauren Austin: Life in Quilts at the Polk Museum of Art.
Read MoreFlorida Southern College student and Intern at the Polk Museum of Art discusses jewelry in the Spirits Gallery at the Museum.
Read MoreFlorida Southern College chemistry major and intern at the Polk Museum of Art during the summer of 2022 discusses the psychology of color using art in the George Jenkins Student Gallery.
Read MoreDr. Alexander Rich, in dialogue with Ron and Clark Woodsby, provides an in-depth overview of the Polk Museum of Art's exhibition The Art of the Highwaymen: From the Woodsby Family Collection in 2022.
Read MoreRodin’s sculptures not only revived for a new century the expressive and naturalistic styles of antiquity, using ancient Greek sculptors’ medium of choice, but also propelled figurative sculpture into the modern age with emotion and pathos never seen before in the sculpted form.
Read MoreThrough Pinderhughes’ powerful camera lens, he makes clear that every human subject and every still life object has a story worth telling.
Read MoreHolly Scoggins provides an in-depth overview of our exhibition American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection.
Read MoreAmerican Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection features 41 rarely-seen Impressionist paintings originally from the private collection of Arthur Dayton and Ruth Woods Dayton (whose surnames combine to create the collection’s portmanteau name: “Day-Wood”).
Read MoreIn this Gallery Talk, artist Steven Chayt discusses his exhibit at the Polk Museum of Art.
Read MoreIn this guided tour, Dr. H. Alexander Rich, Executive Director & Chief Curator of the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College, walks viewers through the Museum’s largest exhibition to date, Toulouse-Lautrec & the Belle Époque.
Read MoreThe Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida
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