A&H - Art & History Museums Maitland

Afternoon Art Tours: The Exotic Realms of J. André Smith
2020-07-09 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Afternoon Art Tours offer a deeper dive into our exhibitions! The first Thursday of each month, join us at 1pm for a lunchtime look at a different aspect of the exhibitions. These tours are included with your gallery admission!
Photo by Roberto Gonzalez
Upcoming Afternoon Art Tours
Inside The Exotic Realms
July 9 | 1-2pm
Join Director of Experiences Randall Webster on this guided tour inside the mind of Maitland Art Center founder, J. André Smith, highlighting some of his most brilliant works.

Saturday Painting Workshops: Horses
2020-07-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Saturday Painting Workshops are a great way to expand your painting skills, whatever your skill level! Join us in July to paint horses!

These workshops are a blend of painting and mixed media techniques, exploring a looser style of painting and greater expression. Complete a project in each unique workshop. Workshops are appropriate for all learners. Anatomy, light and shadow will be the skills learned as we paint beautiful horses. Saturday Painting Workshops are led by local artist and instructor PJ Svejda in Studio 10 at the Maitland Art Center.
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Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $20 (due in cash at the beginning of the workshop), or you can bring your own supplies (see supply list at www.artandhistory.org/classes)

Beginning Silk Screen Workshop
2020-07-11 13:00 - 16:00, 2020-08-08 13:00 - 16:00 | The Studios at Lake Lily, 820 Lake Lily Drive, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
A&H Artist-in-Action Jacoub Reyes leads this beginners’ silk screening workshop!

Learn how to create your own screen print and take home an edition of 5 prints! This course will go over the basics of how to transfer and image onto your screen and how to print duplicates. Please bring hand drawn images that can be painted. If you would rather silk screen a shirt, please bring your own shirt and you may do so instead of the edition of prints.
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This workshop has a $25 materials fee, which can be paid in cash at the beginning of the workshop. This is in addition to the workshop registration fee.
This workshop takes place in the Studios at Lake Lily, not the Maitland Art Center main campus. Please note the location on your ticket.
About Jacoub
Jacoub Reyes is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Orlando, Florida. He has been featured in several publications such as The American Institute of Graphic Arts, Centric, and Artborne Magazine. A recipient of the Southern Graphics International grant award, J.R. Hopes scholarship, Master Scrounge Printer award by Ke Francis and other accolades.
Learn more about Jacoub on his website.

Sunday Jewelry Workshops: Spinner Ring
2020-07-12 13:00 - 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Complete a different project in each Sunday Jewelry Workshop! Beginners welcome!

Learn to create a ring with an anticlastic shape which flares out on each side like a trumpet. This allows a second ring to spin freely around the outside of the first. This workshop is taught by longtime Maitland Art Center instructor and artist Jim Hosner.
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Cost: $50; + Materials fee $10. Please bring cash to pay the instructor directly for materials.

Metal Clay Workshop
2020-07-25 13:00 - 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
This workshop is open to teens and adults aged 15 and above. This is the perfect place to create together with friends or loved ones! Join us for this sampler of precious metal clay where students will create one or more pieces of jewelry of their own design. This will include an introduction to rolling, texturing, cutting, shaping, refining, and finishing. Pieces will be fired during class time, so students can bring them home the day of! Perfect for gifts! This workshop is taught by Marion Fague-Bass in Studio 10 at the Maitland Art Center.
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Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $20, in addition to the workshop fee. Please bring cash to pay the instructor directly for materials.

Saturday Painting Workshops: Beach Landscape
2020-08-01 13:00 - 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Saturday Painting Workshops are a great way to expand your painting skills, whatever your skill level! Join us in August to paint a beach!

These workshops are a blend of painting and mixed media techniques, exploring a looser style of painting and greater expression. Complete a project in each unique workshop. Workshops are appropriate for all learners.
Just in time for summer! Come relax and paint a beautiful beach landscape. Lean about painting textures such as sand, rocks and water! Saturday Painting Workshops are led by local artist and instructor PJ Svejda in Studio 10 at the Maitland Art Center.
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Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $20 (due in cash at the beginning of the workshop), or you can bring your own supplies (see supply list at www.artandhistory.org/classes)

Cicero Greathouse: An Artist's Journey
2020-08-14 - 2020-09-20 | A&H’s Maitland Art Center, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Cicero Greathouse: An Artist’s Journey | August 14- September 20

Cicero once said “I am inspired by the colors, shapes and textures that surround me. These three elements can be found in landscape, architecture, a ritual or a journey. So in this case my paintings come from my interpretation of living.” This exhibition is a look at the journey of one artist from his early projects in the 1970’s through his large scale abstract paintings and his recent experimental works.

Virtual Handmade Happy Hour
2020-08-14 18:00 - 19:00 | FL
Join our team from the Art & History Museums-Maitland to create watercolor paintings of our beautiful historic campus Main Garden!

Join our team from the Art & History Museums-Maitland to create watercolor paintings of our beautiful historic campus like our Main Garden! Bring a piece of our campus into your home. Start your Friday night off with a glass of wine and learn watercolor basics from your living room. Learn how to paint one of our beloved areas of our National Historic Landmark, the Maitland Art Center’s Main Garden.
Registration is $15 for not-yet members, $10 for members
Supplies kits are available for pick up for $5, or have watercolor paper, brushes, basic watercolor paints, paper towels, pencil

For more information about the Art & History Museums – Maitland check out our website.

*Now Virtual!* Handmade Happy Hour
2020-08-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Join our team from the Art & History Museums-Maitland to create watercolor paintings of our beautiful historic campus Main Garden – from the comfort of your own home!

Our Handmade Happy Hour series is the perfect night out for friends, couples, and anyone looking to get crafty – and this virtual edition means you don’t even have to leave the house.
Join our team from the Art & History Museums-Maitland to create watercolor paintings of our beautiful historic campus like our Main Garden! Bring a piece of
our campus into your home. Start your Friday night off with a glass of wine and learn watercolor basics from your living room. Learn how to paint one of our beloved areas of our National Historic Landmark, the Maitland Art Center’s Main Garden.
Registration is $15 for not-yet members, $10 for members
Supplies kits are available for pick up for $5, or have watercolor paper, brushes, basic watercolor paints, paper towels, pencil.
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Small Art/Big Ideas: An Online Art Auction
2020-08-21 00:00 - 2020-08-23 18:00 | 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, 32751, United States
Small Art, Big Ideas is a three-day online art auction featuring a selection of work from artists who support the vision of A&H, many of whom have been awarded studios or residencies, taught in our classrooms, or exhibited in our galleries. The pieces encompass a wide range of disciplines and mediums, many of which are studies for larger pieces, providing collectors with a glimpse into the working methods and practices of the artists.
Bidding for the three-day online auction will begin at 12am on Friday, August 21st, and close at 6pm on Sunday, August 23rd. All work has been generously donated by the artists, and proceeds will support our programming and operations.
Register to bid by midnight on Thursday, August 20th, to be entered into a drawing for a gift bag from the A&H museum store (approximately $40 value).
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Growing Up Maitland
2020-08-28 11:00 - 2021-02-14 16:00 | A&H’s Maitland Historical Museum, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Photos by Roberto Gonzalez
Discover over 100 years of school, sports and play, and how it changed through the years for the kids that were Growing Up Maitland.
Maitland residents: what are your memories of Growing Up in Maitland? Has your family lived in Maitland for Generations, or did you just move here and are raising a family? We want to see your family photographs! Send us your digital scans of photographs of your family experiences in Maitland, and we will print and add them to the community exhibition wall! Send photos to marketing@artandhistory.org.

Saturday Painting Workshops: Still-life
2020-09-05 13:00 - 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Saturday Painting Workshops are a great way to expand your painting skills, whatever your skill level!

These workshops are a blend of painting and mixed media techniques, exploring a looser style of painting and greater expression. Complete a project in each unique workshop. Workshops are appropriate for all learners.
Learn the classical approach to acrylic painting while creating a beautiful still life painting. This workshop is all about juxtaposing color and texture with a focus on light and form to create the most dynamic outcome. Saturday Painting Workshops are led by local artist and instructor PJ Svejda in Studio 10 at the Maitland Art Center.
Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $20 (due in cash at the beginning of the workshop), or you can bring your own supplies (see supply list at www.artandhistory.org/classes)

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Afternoon Art Tour: Cicero Greathouse
2020-09-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Photo by Roberto Gonzalez
Follow the journey of artist Cicero Greathouse, from his early projects in the 1970’s through his large scale abstract paintings and his recent experimental works. Co-Executive Director Randall Webster leads this exploration through Cicero Greathouse: An Artist’s Journey on Thursday, September 10th at 1pm.
Afternoon Art Tours are included with your gallery admission!

Please note: masks are required to be worn at all times during your visit. Thanks for your cooperation!

Sunday Jewelry Workshops: Stackable Ring Set
2020-09-13 13:00 - 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Complete a different project in each Sunday Jewelry Workshop!

If you have little or no experience in metal work this class is for you. You learn the three steps of cut, weld, polish to create a set of three rings in your size and style.
Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $10-$50, depending on the project you would like to create. This materials fee is in addition to the workshop fee. Please bring cash to pay the instructor directly for materials.
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Saturday Painting Workshops: Foliage
2020-10-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Saturday Painting Workshops are a great way to expand your painting skills, whatever your skill level! Join us in November for water & sky!

These workshops are a blend of painting and mixed media techniques, exploring a looser style of painting and greater expression. Complete a project in each unique workshop. Workshops are appropriate for all learners.
If you have ever walked through nature and admired the various shades of green or the way the light passes through the bushes this class is for you! We will focus on creating atmosphere using warm and cool colors and explore techniques for creating fullness, movement and depth. Saturday Painting Workshops are led by local artist and instructor PJ Svejda in Studio 10 at the Maitland Art Center.
Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $20 (due in cash at the beginning of the workshop), or you can bring your own supplies (see supply list at www.artandhistory.org/classes)

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New Works: An Artist-in-Action Group Exhibition
2020-10-09 - 2021-01-17 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Originally founded in the 1930s as an artists’ colony, the Maitland Art Center proudly continues that legacy through our Artists-in-Action program, which grants on-campus studio space to Central Florida-based artists each year. The 2019-2021 group will exhibit the work they’ve created in their residency in this collaborative show: Nicholas Kalemba, Matthew Mosher, Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, Jacoub Reyes, Ericka Sobrack, and Victoria Walsh. Much of the work is a response to the Coronavirus pandemic and social unrest of 2020.
Learn more about the Artists-in-Action program here.

Sunday Jewelry Workshops: Spinner Ring
2020-10-11 10:00 - 14:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Complete a different project in each Sunday Jewelry Workshop! Join us in July to fabricate your own spinner ring. Beginners welcome!

Learn to create a ring with an anticlastic shape which flares out on each side like a trumpet. This allows a second ring to spin freely around the outside of the first. This workshop is taught by longtime Maitland Art Center instructor and artist Jim Hosner in Studio 5.
Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $10-$50, depending on the project you would like to create. This materials fee is in addition to the workshop fee. Please bring cash to pay the instructor directly for materials.
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Beginning Silk Screen Workshop
2020-10-17 10:00 - 15:00, 2020-12-13 10:00 - 15:00 | The Studios at Lake Lily, 820 Lake Lily Drive, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
A&H Artist-in-Action Jacoub Reyes leads this beginners’ silk screening workshop!

Learn how to create your own screen print and take home an edition of 5 prints! This course will go over the basics of how to transfer and image onto your screen and how to print duplicates. Please bring hand drawn images that can be painted. If you would rather silk screen a shirt, please bring your own shirt and you may do so instead of the edition of prints.
This workshop has a $25 materials fee, which can be paid in cash at the beginning of the workshop. This is in addition to the workshop registration fee.
This workshop takes place in the Studios at Lake Lily, not the Maitland Art Center main campus. Please note the location on your ticket.
About Jacoub
Jacoub Reyes is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Orlando, Florida. He has been featured in several publications such as The American Institute of Graphic Arts, Centric, and Artborne Magazine. A recipient of the Southern Graphics International grant award, J.R. Hopes scholarship, Master Scrounge Printer award by Ke Francis and other accolades.
Learn more about Jacoub on his website.
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Saturday Painting Workshops: Water & Sky
2020-11-07 13:00 - 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Saturday Painting Workshops are a great way to expand your painting skills, whatever your skill level! Join us in December for dog portrait!

These workshops are a blend of painting and mixed media techniques, exploring a looser style of painting and greater expression. Complete a project in each unique workshop. Workshops are appropriate for all learners.
This is the perfect class for Florida nature painters! The focus of this class will be on creating softness in the sky and movement in the water. Florida is known for it’s beautiful sky’s especially during sunset and sunrise. Learn how to softly blend colors for that perfect gradation. Saturday Painting Workshops are led by local artist and instructor PJ Svejda in Studio 10 at the Maitland Art Center.
Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $20 (due in cash at the beginning of the workshop), or you can bring your own supplies (see supply list at www.artandhistory.org/classes)
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Sunday Jewelry Workshops: Pendant with Bezel set Stone
2020-11-08 10:00 - 14:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Complete a different project in each Sunday Jewelry Workshop! Join us in July to fabricate your own spinner ring. Beginners welcome!

Students will design their own pendant and bezel a stone on it.This workshop is taught by longtime Maitland Art Center instructor and artist Jim Hosner in Studio 5.
Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $10-$50, depending on the project you would like to create. This materials fee is in addition to the workshop fee. Please bring cash to pay the instructor directly for materials.

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Afternoon Art Tour
2020-11-12 13:00 - 14:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Afternoon Art Tours are a great way to get a closer look at our exhibitions! This month, join some of our Artists-in-Action in the gallery as they share more about their work on display in New Works: An Artist-in-Action Group Exhibition. Afternoon Art Tours are free with your gallery admission!

A&H Education at the Rotary Arts Festival
2020-11-14 10:00 - 2020-11-15 16:00 | The Studios at Lake Lily, 820 Lake Lily Drive, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
A&H’s Education team will host family art activities at the 44th Annual Maitland Rotary Art Festival, Saturday and Sunday, November 14 and 15 at our Lake Lily campus! We will have art activity kits for children to take home and create with!

Jewelry: Metal Clay Workshop
2020-11-21 13:00 - 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
This workshop is open to teens and adults aged 15 and above. This is the perfect place to create together with friends or loved ones!

This workshop is open to teens and adults aged 15 and above. This is the perfect place to create together with friends or loved ones. Join us for this sampler of precious metal clay where students will create one or more pieces of jewelry of their own design. This will include an introduction to rolling, texturing, cutting, shaping, refining, and finishing. Pieces will be fired during class time, so students can bring them home the day! Perfect for gifts! This workshop is taught by Marion Fague-Bass in Studio 10 at the Maitland Art Center.
Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $20, in addition to the workshop fee. Please bring cash to pay the instructor directly for materials.
For more information and offerings check out our website here!
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Virtual Artist Critique and Conversation
2020-12-02 18:30 - 20:30 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Join Dan Hess and Rebecca Sexton Larson for a virtual artist critique to support professional development of local artists.

The Art & History Museums of Maitland (A&H) proudly presents Artist’s Critique & Conversation, an exciting initiative supporting local artists to help them develop professionally. Artist’s Critique & Conversation will be held December 2nd at 6:30 p.m (ET). A virtual conversation led by Dan L. Hess, Chief Preparator, and Rebecca Sexton Larson, former A&H Chief Curator and artist. Followed by a Q&A for the audience to participate in.
Artist’s Critique & Conversation is free on Zoom with registration, but donations are appreciated. A Zoom link with be shared once registered. Artists of every medium and skill level are encouraged to participate in the critiques. This critique will review 2 randomly selected artists from those who submit their works by November 15th.
Call For Artists is open now through November 15th. Fill out the online form (Google account required) or complete the pdf version and email it to dsibley@artandhistory.org.

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For any questions, please contact Danielle Sibley, Education Manager, at dsibley@artandhistory.org

Saturday Painting Workshops: Dog Portraits
2020-12-05 13:00 - 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Ave, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
Saturday Painting Workshops are a great way to expand your painting skills, whatever your skill level!

These workshops are a blend of painting and mixed media techniques, exploring a looser style of painting and greater expression. Complete a project in each unique workshop. Workshops are appropriate for all learners.
Paint your own dog! Come learn color recipes, brush technique and drawing techniques to accurately portray your pooch! Each student will be working from a straight forward headshot of their own pup. Saturday Painting Workshops are led by local artist and instructor PJ Svejda in Studio 10 at the Maitland Art Center.
Please note this workshop has a materials fee of $20 (due in cash at the beginning of the workshop), or you can bring your own supplies (see supply list at www.artandhistory.org/classes)
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Virtual Artist Critique and Conversation
2020-12-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
The Art & History Museums – Maitland (A&H) proudly presents Artist’s Critique & Conversation, an exciting initiative support local artists to help them develop professionally. Artist’s Critique & Conversation will be held April 21st at 6:30 p.m (ET). A conversation led by Dan L Hess, Chief Preparator engaging artists and attendees alike . Followed by a Q&A for the audience to participate in.
Artist’s Critique & Conversation is free event, donations are appreciated. Artists of every medium and skill level are encouraged to participate in the critiques. This critique will review up to 4 artists of those who submitted their works to the Call for Artists by April 5th.
Interested in participating as an artist in this critique and conversation? Please complete the Call For Artists form. If selected, your work will be shown during the event and critiqued by the panel. Submissions close April 5th.
Registration for this free virtual event opens March 16, 2021.

Free Museum Admission
2020-12-10 11:00 - 2020-12-13 16:00 | Art & History Museums – Maitland, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, FL, 32751, United States
This Thursday – Sunday, December 10-13, receive free admission to our museums! You’ll also receive a special 10% discount in our Museum Store that features one-of-a-kind works of art from current and former Artists-in-Action and other gifts – perfect for holiday shopping!⁠
See our current exhibitions
Some notes as you plan your visit: Masks are required at all times on our campus, and indoor capacity is limited to allow for distancing. Free admission offer includes all three museums on our Packwood Avenue campus: the Maitland Art Center, Maitland Historical Museum, and Telephone Museum. Museums are open 11am-4pm.

Virtual Studio Conversation with Nellie Appleby
2020-12-16 18:30 - 20:00 | online, 231 W. Packwood Avenue, Maitland, 32751, United States
The Art & History Museums of Maitland (A&H) proudly presents this Virtual Studio Conversation with Nellie Appleby. This Studio Conversation features current A&H Artist-in-Residence Nellie Appleby talking with Dan L Hess about her Cyanotype prints, inspiration and her time as an Artist-in-Residence. The conversation will be followed by a Q&A with the virtual audience.
Studio Conversations are free on Zoom with registration, donations are appreciated and help us continue these programs. A Zoom link with be shared once registered.
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About the Artist-in-Residence Program
A&H is proud to host artists from all over the world through our Artists-in-Residence program! During their residency, Artists-in-Residence (AiRs) live and work in the historic Maitland Art Center, receiving inspiration from the historic artists’ commune and the surrounding community.
About Nellie Appleby
Nellie Appleby is from the mountains of Virginia and she spent influential childhood years in Botswana. She earned her Bachelors degree in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and her Masters of Fine Art in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is the recipient of many grants including two South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowships and a Virginia Museum of Fine Art Fellowship. She has exhibited her works at The Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, ChaShaMA, Dimensions Variable, The Rutter Family Foundation, David Castillo, Oolite Arts, The Deering Estate, Florida Atlantic University, Anderson Gallery, Museo Ex-Convento del Carmen (Guadalajara), Galería Metropolitana (Mexico City), Wildfist and The Cave among others. She is thankful to have been awarded residencies at The Research Studio Maitland, Vermont Studio Center, Carrizozo AIR, Residencia en la Tierra and The Studios of Key West among others. Her life and work are deeply engrossed with the study of ecology and plants, the cultivation of gardens and beauty, the exploration of wildness and the examination of culture and expression through the actions of photography and sculpture. She has dedicated her life to these practices.
She lives and works between sub tropical South Florida and the mountains of Virginia.
