At the member's reception on April 14th, 2023, Dr. H. Alexander Rich discusses the three featured exhibits at the Polk Museum of Art. The exhibits were Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, In the Eye of the Mind: The Fantastic Realities of Steven Kenny, and New Eyes on the Permanent Collection.
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 MoreAn original Polk Museum of Art exhibition, Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real comprises approximately sixty works and focuses on Hopper and Pène du Bois, two very thematically different but stylistically-overlapping artists who became lifelong friends from the time of their earliest studies at the New York School 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 MoreDr. H. Alexander Rich, the Polk Museum of Art’s Executive Director & Chief Curator gives a lecture on the Museum’s exhibit Edward Hopper and Guy Pène du Bois: Painting the Real.
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 MoreAuthor and historian Gary Monroe lectures at the Polk Museum of Art on the Highwaymen, 26 Florida-based Afican-American landscape painters who managed to thrive in the Jim Crow South. Consisting of 25 men and 1 woman, these mostly self-taught artists produced a uniquely Florida art movement that is prized by collectors and the public today.
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 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 MoreDuring our Members Reception, Dr. H Alexander Rich spoke about the renowned French artist and sculptor, Aguste Rodin and dove into Rodin’s life-long pursuit of art, his sometimes controversial career, and his monumental contributions and influence on modern sculpture.
Read MoreDr. Alexander Rich, in dialogue with Ron and Clark Woodsby, provide an in-depth overview of exhibition The Art of the Highwaymen: From the Woodsby Family Collection.
Read MoreWho decides which artists grab all the textbook and museum attention? Which artists have been understudied and why? Indeed, for every Picasso or Pollock, there is a lesser known artist whose contributions have been overlooked or underseen. This month, we're bringing you a Crash Course that aspires to open up an important conversation about creating a more inclusive art history.
Read MoreThe Florida Highwaymen occupy an unusual and fascinating space in the history of art. When one mentions “the art of the Highwaymen” to many Floridians, their ears perk up and their eyes brighten, with a glowing and knowing fondness for homegrown art. When you mention “the art of the Highwaymen” to non-Floridians, most look at you with little or no recognition of what you are talking about.
Read MoreThrough Pinderhughes’ powerful camera lens, he makes clear that every human subject and every still life object has a story worth telling.
Read MoreJust in time for the new year, we're bringing back one of our most popular, interactive virtual programs: Drinks with the Director: Why is THAT Famous?!?
Read MoreFeaturing more than 50 works in various media on the theme of children and animals in American figurative art, this original exhibition promises to delight the child in all of us.
Read MoreLearn about Pinderhughes' decades-long career, his rise in the commercial and fine art photography worlds, and the inspirations behind the works in our upcoming original exhibition, Finding Meaning Within: The Photography of John Pinderhughes.
Read MoreLearn about Pinderhughes' decades-long career, his rise in the commercial and fine art photography worlds, and the inspirations behind the works in our upcoming original exhibition, Finding Meaning Within: The Photography of John Pinderhughes.
Read MoreThe Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida
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