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SUMMARY:LOSS
DESCRIPTION:LOSS explores the emotional layers of loss through abstract representation. Viewers can navigate the physical pieces and nuanced lighting\, creating a contemplative space to reflect on their own experiences. \nSt. Petersburg-based sculptor Michael Massaro transforms discarded materials—stone\, wood\, metal\, rubber\, plastic\, and textiles—into contemplative works of art. Through his nonverbal commentary\, Massaro explores a world in flux\, reflecting on the loss of human rights and environmental stability. By bringing together these disparate\, forgotten objects\, he creates unexpected reflections on harmony and discord—offering a visual meditation on resilience\, renewal\, and the stories hidden within what we view as disposable. Massaro was awarded his BFA from the University of Tampa. Plan your visit >>
URL:https://artandhistory.org/event/lossexhibition/
LOCATION:Art & History Museums – Maitland\, 231 W. Packwood Ave\, Maitland\, FL\, 32751\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Return to Espero
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception on July 25\, 2025 from 6:30-9pm: Meet the curator\, enjoy live music by Shine\, food truck\, and a cash bar all just 15 minutes from downtown Orlando on our beautiful National Historic Landmark campus. Thank you to Red Bud Landscaping for sponsoring this exhibition opening! GET YOUR FREE TICKETS HERE >> \n  \nAbout the Exhibition \nFor nearly a century\, the story of the Maitland Art Center’s founding seemed complete. \nThen\, the letters surfaced. \nRecently discovered in the archives of the Curtis Institute of Music\, an extraordinary trove of correspondence between artist J. André Smith and philanthropist Mary Curtis Bok reveals a deeper\, more compelling origin\, born of a powerful creative alliance and a shared vision for what Central Florida’s art community could become. Illustrated by Smith and brimming with artistic and philosophical exchange\, these letters illuminate the origin of the Research Studio as never before. Paired with rarely seen works from Smith’s evolving career\, A Return to Espero reframes the birth of the site as a profound creative partnership. \nPlan your visit >> \nThis exhibition is generously supported by a grant from the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation
URL:https://artandhistory.org/event/a-return-to-espero/
LOCATION:Art & History Museums – Maitland\, 231 W. Packwood Ave\, Maitland\, FL\, 32751\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Events,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251018T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260104T160000
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SUMMARY:Pangarap: Espero Reimagined
DESCRIPTION:Pangarap: Espero Reimagined transforms The Maitland Art Center gallery into a canvas of speculative storytelling under Filipino artist Isobel Francisco’s guidance. Drawing inspiration from Jules André Smith’s pivotal decision to establish an artist colony in Florida\, Francisco envisions an alternate reality where Smith’s path leads instead to 1937 Philippines. Through a collection of fictional artifacts\, iconographies\, and artworks\, the exhibition invites viewers to ponder the intriguing parallels and contrasts between this imagined scenario and the museum’s own rich history. Pangarap\, which means dream or vision in Filipino\, will offer a compelling alternate reality\, inviting audiences to ponder the impact of one artist’s decision on the cultural landscape of 1937 Philippines and beyond. Plan your visit >> \nClick here to see photos of the opening reception>> \nThis exhibition is generously supported by a grant from the Elizabeth Morse Genius Foundation
URL:https://artandhistory.org/event/pangarap-espero-reimagined/
LOCATION:Art & History Museums – Maitland\, 231 W. Packwood Ave\, Maitland\, FL\, 32751\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Events,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260124T110000
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SUMMARY:The Situated Body: Reconfiguring the Symbolic
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition \nFrom soot on paper to felt\, The Situated Body\, an exhibition of the work of Mexican sculptor Jacobo Alonso\, redefines the classical depictions of the human form through contemporary materials. Alonso transforms traditional drawing and sculptural practices into expressive and tactile abstractions\, all referencing the configuration and movement of the human form. Inspired by both pre-Columbian traditions and the Art Center’s Mayan Revival architecture\, his work\, some created during his 2025 residency at A&H\, challenges assumptions about form\, identity\, and materiality. \nAlonso stated\, “Each body possesses its own geography and undergoes numerous inevitable mutations that reveal the genealogy of its image and form. It is a territory inherent to the individual\, tracing the constellation of their identity yet always appealing to an inherent instability”. \nThis exhibition is the first time that Alonso’s “fumage” works of soot on paper will be shown alongside his vibrant sculptural works of reconfigured felt. \nPlan your visit >> \n \nAll 2025-26 free programs at A&H are supported by a grant from Duke Energy Foundation.
URL:https://artandhistory.org/event/symbolic/
LOCATION:Art & History Museums – Maitland\, 231 W. Packwood Ave\, Maitland\, FL\, 32751\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Events,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:a loom\, a fence\, a wire\, a thread
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition \nMär Martinez\, a Syrian American artist and Fulbright scholar\, presents new work developed during her 2024–25 Fulbright research in Istanbul. Her project investigates traditional Turkish and Middle Eastern textile techniques while reflecting on themes of urbanization\, surveillance\, and cultural memory. Drawing from nighttime walks through Istanbul’s neighborhoods\, Martinez transforms architectural barriers\, barbed wire\, fences\, and centuries old textile patterns\, into motifs of both resistance and resilience. Her haunting paintings explore personal heritage\, global textile history\, and contemporary social commentary in poetic\, layered form. \nThe initial threads of this\, her first solo museum exhibition\, created in Istanbul and New York\, began at the Art & History Museums of Maitland during her 2021–2023 Studio Artist Residency. This exhibition represents both a new artistic departure and an expanded exploration of the themes she began contemplating during her residency. \nPlan your visit >> \n 
URL:https://artandhistory.org/event/a-loom-a-fence-a-wire-a-thread/
LOCATION:Art & History Museums – Maitland\, 231 W. Packwood Ave\, Maitland\, FL\, 32751\, United States
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SUMMARY:US
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception on Friday\, July 24 from 6:30-9pm: Meet the curator\, enjoy live music\, food truck\, and a cash bar all just 15 minutes from downtown Orlando on our beautiful National Historic Landmark campus. \nFree Tickets Here \n\nAbout the Exhibition \n“Ours is the wide-open mind with gusts of ideas blowing through it and demanding manifestation.” \nDrawing inspiration from Jules André Smith’s 1939 essay\, “An Insanitorium of Art\,” US embraces Smith’s vision of an artistic practice rooted in inquiry and intellectual openness\, and examines how generations of artists have engaged with the Art Center as a site for creative exploration. \nThe exhibition brings together works by six Bok Fellows from the 1930s and 40s\, artists who spent their winters working at the Center\, alongside selections by Smith himself. Named in honor of Mary Curtis Bok\, whose support was instrumental to the establishment of the Art Center\, these historical artists’ works are presented in dialogue with works by nine of our contemporary resident artists\, the intellectual and artistic heirs of Smith’s Bok Fellows program. \nPlan your visit >> \n 
URL:https://artandhistory.org/event/us15/
LOCATION:Art & History Museums – Maitland\, 231 W. Packwood Ave\, Maitland\, FL\, 32751\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Events,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270103T160000
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SUMMARY:Vilomah: Against the Natural Order
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening reception on Friday\, October 16 from 6:30-9pm: Meet the curator\, enjoy live music\, food truck\, and a cash bar all just 15 minutes from downtown Orlando on our beautiful National Historic Landmark campus. \n\nAbout the Exhibition \nSoude Dadras is an artist\, curator\, and educator currently living and working in Atlanta\, Georgia. She was born in Iran and graduated from Islamic Azad University with a bachelor’s degree in Persian Rugs. Dadras was awarded her MFA from the Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University in Atlanta. In her solo exhibition\, Vilomah: Against the Natural Order\, Dadras investigates the traumatic sociocultural experiences she encountered firsthand in Iran\, as well the processes and rituals of healing which enabled her to turn her pain into positivity. This unique installation of traditional handwork\, found objects\, video\, abandoned textiles\, and discarded data will seek to centralize disparate voices in this multidisciplinary exhibition.  \nPlan your visit >>
URL:https://artandhistory.org/event/vilomah-against-the-natural-order/
LOCATION:Art & History Museums – Maitland\, 231 W. Packwood Ave\, Maitland\, FL\, 32751\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Events,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Between Starshine and Clay: Ceramics Across Diaspora\, Land\, and Lineage
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition \nClay contains memories. It holds the impression of hands\, the memory of fire\, and the knowledge passed from one generation to the next without always being written down. \nBetween Starshine and Clay: Ceramics Across Diaspora\, Land\, and Lineage opens the 2027 season at the Art & History Museums of Maitland with a major exhibition exploring the enduring legacy of African and African American ceramics through contemporary studio practice. Rooted in themes of diaspora\, memory\, land\, and shared cultural tradition\, the exhibition brings together the work of artist Osa Atoe and the Kaabo Clay Collective in a conversation that moves across continents\, centuries\, and communities. \nAtoe’s work begins with the ground beneath her feet. Her functional vessels and sculptural forms are shaped from locally sourced Florida clay\, drawing equally from the state’s landscape and from traditional Nigerian water vessel forms. These are objects made for communal use\, to be poured from\, passed around a table\, and integrated into the rhythms of everyday life. In honoring pottery as a collective cultural practice\, Atoe connects the contemporary studio to a far longer arc of African craftsmanship and regional identity\, insisting that beauty and utility have never needed to be separate. \nThe Kaabo Clay Collective extends that arc across generations. This section of the exhibition brings together influential elder Black ceramic artists whose contributions have shaped the field\, including Florida-based ceramicists Yvonne Tucker and David Mack\, alongside examples of Afro-Native colonoware that trace the intertwined ceramic histories of African and Indigenous peoples in the American South. In gathering these voices and forms together\, the exhibition acknowledges that artistic lineage is not only inherited\, but also actively tended. \nBetween Starshine and Clay offers a significant contribution to Florida’s cultural landscape and to the broader history of Black ceramics in the United States\, providing a reminder that the knowledge carried in clay is older\, and more resilient\, than any single tradition.
URL:https://artandhistory.org/event/artandhistory-org-disapora/
LOCATION:Art & History Museums – Maitland\, 231 W. Packwood Ave\, Maitland\, FL\, 32751\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Events,Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270508T110000
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SUMMARY:100 Years: Jules André Smith and the Sand Roads to Solitude
DESCRIPTION:About the Exhibition \nA century ago\, an artist followed unpaved roads into the Florida interior. Today\, those roads lead to the Maitland Art Center. \nWhat André Smith found here was not the Florida most visitors knew: there were no crowded coastlines\, no tourist spectacle. Instead\, he discovered an inland world of small towns and quiet villages shaded by stately oaks and towering pines\, of lake-country breezes and unhurried lives lived among cabbage palms and Spanish moss. This simpler\, slower Florida captivated him completely\, inspiring a body of work that marked a sharp departure from his earlier work. Central Florida didn’t just change what Smith painted: it changed how he saw the world. \n100 Years: Jules André Smith and the Sand Roads to Solitude marks one hundred years since that first arrival\, a decade before Smith would find what is today the Maitland Art Center. The exhibition takes its structure from The Sand Roads to Solitude\, his 1951 essay published in Ford Times\, written not as a traveler passing through\, but as someone who had long since made Florida his home. Visitors move through the galleries following the arc of Smith’s own words\, with sketchbooks\, works on paper\, paintings\, and archival material illuminating the landscapes and communities that shaped him. \nAmong the exhibition’s most significant threads is Smith’s sustained attention to Eatonville\, America’s first incorporated Black township\, and to the grove workers and everyday lives of Central Florida’s communities. These encounters shaped his vision as much as the landscape did\, and that relationship is given the space it deserves here. Theatrical vignettes and storytelling elements throughout the galleries bring Smith’s written narrative into the physical space\, deepening the experience beyond the works on view. \nThe exhibition coincides with the theatrical release of André Smith: Espero and the Reasonable Madness\, a documentary by White Ladder Productions\, bringing renewed attention to one of Florida’s most distinctive artistic legacies. \n“These roads lead to the Florida I know. Slow down\, and choose one.” \n— André Smith\, Ford Times\, December 1951
URL:https://artandhistory.org/event/artandhistory-org-100years/
LOCATION:Art & History Museums – Maitland\, 231 W. Packwood Ave\, Maitland\, FL\, 32751\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event,Events,Exhibition
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