Part of our permanent collection, Hungry Planet and Material World are two exhibitions focused on showing viewers the differences between countries around the world in what they eat and what they own.
Read MoreFaces in the Crowd is the second in a series of exhibitions showcasing the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College’s latest acquisitions of figurative American art .
Read MoreRebels With a Cause presents outstanding selections of paintings, drawings and sculptures from The Huntsville Museum of Art’s recently acquired Sellars Collection of Art by American Women.
Read MoreChoreographer and Director of the dance program at Florida Southern College, Erin LaSala, along with students from Florida Southern College’s dance program provide a performance based gallery talk focusing on the artist Edgar Degas.
Read MoreWorks by artist and University of Florida professor Richard Heipp occupy the gray area between the manually produced painting and the digitally reproduced image. They therefore position the viewer at the crossroads of looking and seeing. Heipp describes his paintings as photocentric; they are not intended to be merely based on mechanically produced images, but are instead air-brushed simulations of photographs and scanned objects. At first, these hyperrealistic paintings appear mechanically reproduced, but transform upon closer inspection. They perpetuate that deception between art and audience, pierce the veneer of first impressions, and force us to pause for a new and unexpected interpretation.
Read MoreWe all know a Picasso when we see one. We can recognize a Pollock drip painting from far across a gallery. We know a Vermeer from a mile away. But what about the spaces in which these works were produced? Have you ever wondered where the magic happens? Where art history is literally made?
Read MoreSun + Light is a collection of works from the series Everyone Loves the Sunshine by contemporary visual artist Charles Edward Williams. The art in the Sun + Light juxtaposes Williams’ own personal encounters, past and present, with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
Read MorePainted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts 13th to 18th Centuries features more than thirty works from medieval Bibles, prayer books, psalters, books of hours, choir books, missals, breviaries, and lectionaries as well as a selection of rare Hebrew and Arabic manuscripts.
Read MoreFlorida Southern College, Erin LaSala, along with students from Florida Southern College’s dance program provide a performance based gallery talk focusing on the artist Edgar Degas.
Read MoreEdgar Degas is one of the most familiar “name” artists in the entire history of art — and, this winter, the Polk Museum is excited to bring Degas to Lakeland in a wide-ranging exhibition of privately-owned works entitled Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist.
Read MoreDr. Jennifer Moffitt explores the Polk Museum of Art's exhibition, "The Art of Romaine Brooks." The Art of Romaine Brooks, on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, brings together 18 paintings and 32 drawings by the American expatriate artist Romaine Brooks (1874-1970). Dr. Moffitt is Assistant Professor of English at Florida Southern College.
Read MoreThe Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College hosted a panel discussion entitled Goya, Picasso & the Heritage of Spain: Exploring Spanish Culture in Florida from 1513 to Today. A distinguished panel of presenters from four institutions collaboratively developed this humanities-focused program to coincide with the Museum's Masters of Spain: Goya & Picasso exhibition on view from March 17-June 17, 2018.
Read MoreKen Rollins, President of Rollins Fine Art and PMA Director (1981-1994), explores the life and inspiration of artist William Schaaf.
Read MoreDerek Menchan, professor of humanities, philosophy, and music at Polk State College leads a discussion on the omnipresence of music found in Chagall's work as well as universal themes of human morality.
Read MoreCurator and Director of Galleries & Exhibitions at the Polk Museum of Art H. Alexander Rich, Ph.D. gives the opening lecture for the fall 2018 - 2019 season of exhibitions at the Polk Museum of Art.
Read MoreExperience Chagall: Stories into Dreams as an audio tour. Look for the numbered prompts on the wall and on the identification labels.
This September, Chagall arrives at the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College.
Read MoreThis September, the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College proudly presents The Art of Romaine Brooks, a retrospective exhibition of a remarkable and under-acknowledged 20th century American artist.
Read MoreThe Von Wagner Code is a unique Polk Museum of Art curated exhibition inspired by the rediscovery of a damaged, long-lost painting on the Florida Southern College campus and the exciting search for answers about its origins.
Read MoreRead more on the exhibition, Double Vision: Photocentric Paintings by Richard Heipp.
Read MoreThe Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida
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![[Watch] Jennifer Moffitt discusses The Art of Romaine Brooks](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55eeceede4b03487a6076b71/1542217811527-X4IOR38VNA0SHWWNYAVJ/_GWM7928-SMALL.jpg)
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![[Watch] Derek Menchan discusses "Chagall: Stories into Dreams"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55eeceede4b03487a6076b71/1540818427619-DKS10XG6G6L0VKLUX980/_GWM7482-SMALL.jpg)
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