A&H - Art & History Museums Maitland

Maitland's Attic: A Journey Through A Small City's Past
2023-03-03 11:00 - 2028-03-03 16:00 (America/New_York) | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
This exhibition is an interactive, hands-on exploration into the history of Maitland and its surrounding areas!

There were a lot of things that did not happen in Maitland. There were no great battles fought on the soil, nor was it home to any infamous individuals. The town was not the epicenter of any great social movements, nor was it home to discoveries that would better humankind. Maitland was, and continues to be, a small town, like so many others.

The story of Maitland is a story of seemingly ordinary people who lived through extraordinary times, a place where people made their homes while dramatic events unfolded in other parts of the world. People labored here, raised their families, loved, lost, thought, and created. The objects in the museum’s collection reflect the brightness of these lives against the backdrop of a changing and often troubled world.

Each artifact tells a story specific to a place and time. They are the carriers of the memories of the people who owned them, who felt that they were important enough to their own story to preserve them. Many of them are the prototypes of the objects that we use and hold dear today, objects which will one day carry our own memories forward.
Welcome to Maitland’s Attic, a gathering place of the unique items that tell of Maitland’s past. From the everyday to the downright weird, these objects and their stories open a window onto important moments throughout the history of the town, and the people who called it home.

¡Esta exhibición es interactivo y de primera mano adentro de la historia de Maitland y las áreas cercanas!
En Maitland no ocurrieron muchas cosas. En su suelo no se libraron grandes batallas, ni fue cuna deindividuos infames. No fue el epicentro de grandes movimientos sociales ni de descubrimientosrevolucionarios.
La historia de Maitland es la historia de personas aparentemente corrientes que vivieron tiemposextraordinarios, un lugar donde la gente estableció su hogar mientras se desarrollaban acontecimientosdramáticos en otras partes del mundo. La gente trabajaba aquí, criaba a sus familias, amaba, perdía,pensaba y creaba. Los objetos de la colección del museo reflejan el brillo de estas vidas en el contextode un mundo cambiante y a menudo turbulento.
Cada artefacto cuenta una historia específica de un lugar y una época. En conjunto, son portadores delos recuerdos de las personas que los poseyeron, que consideraron que eran lo bastante importantespara su historia como para conservarlos. Muchos de ellos son prototipos de los objetos que usamos yapreciamos hoy, objetos que un día serán portadores de nuestros propios recuerdos.Bienvenido a Maitland’s Attic, un lugar donde se reúnen objetos únicos que hablan del pasado deMaitland. Desde los más cotidianos hasta los más extraños, estos objetos abren una ventana amomentos importantes de la historia de la ciudad y a las personas que decidieron llamarla su hogar.

Jules André Smith: The Masterworks
2023-07-08 11:00 - 2023-09-03 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Maitland Art Center founder Jules André Smith (1880–1959) created a prolific body of work, beginning with his early years as an etcher, to his later excursions into modernist and surrealist expressions. He constantly shifted from one medium and style to another with great inventiveness, defying easy categorization as an artist. Today the greatest collection of his works is held by the Art & History Museums of Maitland. This retrospective shows the scope of his abilities and vision, and provides a comprehensive introduction to his greatest work.
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Automatic Drawing
2023-08-19 11:00 - 14:00 | Maitland Art Center Studio 10, 210 W. Packwood Ave., Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Saturday, August 19 | 11am-2pm
Instructor: Ryan Price
Location: Studio 10
Cost: $65 + $10 material fees.
Materials fees must be paid in cash directly to the instructor, and are due on the day of the workshop.
No drawing experience is required! Open to all levels! Automatic drawing is a technique named and commonly used by the Surrealists. It involves the artist directly and randomly moving the pen or drawing tool with no preconceived image or plan. This technique is similar to what writers termed, “Stream of consciousness” writing, where through a mental shift drawing automatically allows participants let their subconscious flow through their hands.
Participants will be encouraged to draw their heart’s content out, and learn to unshackle themselves from hesitation. We control the anxiety of being confronted by a blank sheet using a low-stakes process like drawing. Participants will learn how to engage their subconscious as a means of express what lies under the surface of the mind. Students will create many drawings using different materials to get them out of their heads and their comfort zones. You will learn about processes like automatism, frottage, and responsive drawing.
Take your drawing utensil and move with rhythm or erraticism, write your name obsessively until it becomes maddening marks. Twist and turn the pencil or pen with the delicacy and grace of an angel and the brutish wickedness of a demon. Use this low-stakes practice as a way to get more comfortable with a material or tool. The drawing doesn’t ever have to be finished, it can be left as a single deposit of personal memory. There is no right or wrong way to practice automatic drawing.
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*Graphic Art by Ryan Price
