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Welcome
Welcome to the website for the Museum of Florida Art. We offer
exhibitions, education programs, and outreach to engage children, youth,
adults, seniors and families in the experience of the visual arts. Working
with the community, the Museum is committed to: providing an exhibition
venue for emerging and establish Florida artists; arts education for youth
and adults; interpretive art experiences; public art offerings and partnership
programming. Below are a list of our current exhibitions on display:
Florida's Lost Tribes: A Series of Paintings by Theodore Morris
Exhibition Dates: Sept. 5 - Nov. 22, 2008
Theodore Morris is a Sarasota-based artist whose work is a journey through time. He began studying Florida's history and its earliest peoples in 1987, through reading and participating in archaeological excavations. With painstakingly researched detail, Morris chronicles Native Americans who lived in Florida as many as 12,000 years ago but who look, in his paintings, as if they might have just pulled their boat through the mangroves or come in from the pine woods.
Some of Morris' paintings offer a glimpse at Indians' everyday lives; in others, the subjects stand and look directly ahead, as if watching the viewer. He uses oil painting as a visual language to depict Florida's native cultures. His realistic portrayal of these ancient people is not a romantic image, but a sensitive understanding of their way of life. Morris works both in the field and in the studio with archaeologists and anthropologists throughout Florida to verify accuracy in rendering both the subjects and their artifacts.
"I would like to create a body of work similar to George Catlin who painted early portraits of America's Western tribes," says Morris. "My goal is to complete paintings which cover an entire community of people from each of the major tribes of Florida."
The Painted Form: The Art of Ackrill, Jabbur, and Thursby
Exhibition Dates: Sept. 5 - Nov. 22, 2008
"The Painted Form" is an exhibition of Florida artists Anthony Ackrill, Rima Jabbur and Jack Thursby.
Ackrill, a Gainesville artist, was the Instructor of Anatomy at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy for four years and the Instructor of Drawing and Painting for three. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Germany and has been shown in several arts publications. "These pictures consistently reveal what inspires me most - light, nature, water and humans," says Ackrill.
Jabbur, who currently teaches Painting and Drawing at Crealde School of Art in Winter Park and at Valencia Community College in Orlando, has exhibited work throughout the United States. Jabbur's work can be found in public collections in both Orlando and Maitland. According to Jabbur, "The associations which I am evoking in my paintings are pre-verbal, closer to the way one thinks when daydreaming."
John E. "Jack" Thursby is a former Professor of Art at Central Florida Community College in Ocala, Florida. His graduate and post-graduate work was done at the University of Florida in Gainesville. His work has been exhibited in New York, Virginia, Florida and New Mexico. In addition to winning multiple awards, his work can be found in both public and private collections. "As an artist I try to convey the complexity, as well as the simple serenity, of the world around us through color, light, shadow and form," says Thursby.
Stephen Danko: Looking Back, In Two Parts
Exhibition Dates:
Part One (1968 through 1995) August 15 Ð September 18, 2008
Part Two (1995 through 2007) September 19 Ð October 19, 2008
"Looking Back, In Two Parts" showcases the art of Stephen Danko.
Part One, which spans Danko's career from 1968 through 1995, is mostly photo-based, beginning during Danko's formative years at FSU and continuing through his years in California. This period also includes the Big Cheese Series, started in California and continued upon his return to Florida.
Part Two follows Danko's career from 1995 through 2007. In this period, Danko leaves the photographic references behind when he returns to Florida and ventures further into the arena of painting and drawing, resuming a track begun during his early days in Tallahassee.
The show is curated by fellow artist and friend Dr. John Wilton. "When it became apparent he would soon be leaving us, it occurred to me that it would be worthwhile for the Museum to recognize one of the prominent members of the DeLand art community," explained Wilton.
Danko, who passed away on July 26, 2008, has been a professional artist for over twenty-five years. His education includes a BA degree from University of Florida and an MFA in Photography from Florida State University. Danko has worked in major museums and galleries, and has had studios in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Cologne, Germany. He has participated in over 50 group and 10 solo exhibitions and is included in many public and private collections.
Danko received an NEA Fellowship in Photography and is in J. Greene's "American Photography," Abrahams, N.Y., 1984. Since 1995 Stephen Danko has maintained a studio in DeLand working on a series based on Florida themes.
Legendary Florida: The Florida History Paintings of Jackson Walker
March 28 - May 25, 2008
For more information or to download the accompanying educational resources, please visit the website. Call the Museum to book a school or group tour!
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600 N. Woodland Boulevard
DeLand, Florida, 32720
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