Crealdé School of Art is proud to present our newest exhibition entitled Spirits in the Silver: Discovering Lost Film by Laurie Hasan.

On View:
February 9—April 20, 2024

Opening Reception & Gallery Talk:
Friday, February 9 | 7–10pm

Crealdé Main Campus
Showalter Hughes Community Gallery

This exhibition showcases recovered photographs that multidisciplinary artist Laurie Hasan has rescued from exposed vintage film left behind in discarded antique cameras. She has acquired these cameras and vintage film from all over the world. She develops the vintage film and recovers and restores the photographs, most of which date from 1940s–1980s.

Come travel through time!
The exhibition includes hand-made platinum palladium prints of some of the most compelling images she has recovered, as well as the original cameras, film rolls and canisters which housed the long-lost photographs. In some cases, she has identified the people and places depicted and has located their families.

Learn the stories behind the images and how they were rescued. Enjoy interactive videos, including the making of a platinum print and a photo restoration. Explore working vintage cameras and examine various sized negatives on a light table.

Peppered throughout the exhibition space will be authentic vintage photographic artifacts from the artist’s collection that are from the time periods of the rescued images.

Laurie says of her work:
Spirits in the Silver is an ongoing project that began when I found a forgotten film roll in my desk. I developed it and discovered images from a special road trip I took long ago. I soon became obsessed with acquiring vintage exposed film – often finding old cameras with exposed film still inside.

Developing vintage film is a fascinating gamble. The exposure, age and condition are all unknowns, and I must guess the development parameters. Sometimes
nothing comes out. Other times I am rewarded with lovely gems. My favorites though, are when the film seems blank, but careful scanning and examination
reveal a ghostly image that emerges suddenly from the emulsion – as if it were trapped in time and I set it free.

I liken this process to time travel; I open little windows into forgotten moments in the past. It’s thrilling to be the first person to have ever seen them, but there is also a melancholy to it. I wonder who the people were? Why was the film abandoned? Using clues in the images I research the time periods and possible locations, and when possible, I even identify and locate the people and family. I use various archival print methods, including silver gelatin fiber paper, inkjet printing, and platinum printing.

By its very nature there is a certain randomness to the images in this project. The recovered images have been taken in different time periods, different countries, and by people from all walks of life. The connective tissue that joins them all is not the subject matter – but rather our shared humanity. Those born 100 years ago, those of us living now, and those who will come after we are gone all have a fundamental similarity – the desire to be remembered.

Someone long ago took the time to load film into a camera and capture a moment that was important to them. Somewhere along the way, that moment was lost or forgotten. By recovering and preserving these lost images, I am completing the circle that was left incomplete. I hope in doing so it honors the people who captured them.

About the Artist
Laurie Hasan is based in Orlando, Florida and holds a Masters in Graphic Design from Savannah College of Art and Design. She has studied and practiced photography and digital art for over 15 years and holds a Certified Professional Photographer designation through Professional Photographers of America (PPA).

Laurie loves to explore and push the boundaries of image-making and alternative photographic processes. She finds it exciting to harness the best of both traditional and digital tools, using historic processes with modern techniques to make images. She is passionate about making one-of-a-kind works of art that you can touch and feel and have a tangible life. It is truly a wonderful way to capture moments, stories, emotion and beauty—all that make life interesting and meaningful.

November 1–December 29, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 9 | 5:30–7pm
Art in Public Places Gallery, Winter Garden City Hall

As a holiday tribute, Crealdé School of Art partners with the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation to curate an exhibition of photographs and paintings that celebrate the special character of the historic downtown district. Under the direction of instructor Cathy Hempel, Crealdé students from the Jesse Brock Community Center will create a series of plein-air paintings depicting familiar and lesser-known scenes of Winter Garden. The Heritage Foundation is featuring archival photographs of B.P. Hannon, who captured local life while working as a photographer and camera store owner in mid-twentieth century Winter Garden.

On View: October 20, 2023–January 20, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, October 20 | 7–9pm
Showalter Hughes Community Gallery

Presented in partnership with the Analog Film Photography Association and curated by Jacob Rodriguez, “Elemental Landscapes” is the inaugural exhibition of the Womyn’s Alternative Photography Society International, a collective focused on the intersection of alternative photography, science, and materiality. The collective offers a new perspective on alternative photography, aiming to promote female and non- binary artists who are working with analogue and experimental photographic processes. The artists featured are Sandra Davis from Philadelphia, PA, Rachel Guardiola from Massapequa, NY, Melanie King from London, UK, and Dale Rio from the Northeastern US.

With each artist utilizing a different approach and methodology, the work in this exhibition revisits the tradition of landscape photography and explores the ways in which the landscape can provide commentary on photography’s relationship with the elemental. This aspect of the elemental is manifested in the work both literally – through the metal salts incorporated into the various processes – and conceptually – through the foundational relationship between humanity and the natural world, for instance – and provides the tie that binds the work together. It is explored at various levels, as if through the lenses of both microscopes and telescopes and the eyes of both the humble and grand.

Sandra Davis

While photographing for her “Mythical Gardens Project” in the jungle of Mexico, Philadelphia-based artist Sandra Davis captures, with highly sensitive infrared film, the remnants of nature and discarded items. The imagery from the historical gardens, designed by Edward James between 1949-1984, evokes both memory and discovery. Davis’ hand-made prints are created through the complex multi-layered gum bichromate process, lending them a timeless dreamlike quality.

Melanie King

British artist Melanie King is interested in the relationship between the environment, photography and materiality. While working with historical methods, she is also researching ways to minimize the ecological impact of the photographic process. Her main body of work, “Ancient Light,” is comprised of starscapes and images created using telescopes and observatories around the world. Her recent work has been inspired by the artist’s move to Kent, UK, where she is in close proximity to dark skies, dramatic sunsets and tumultuous seas.

Dale Rio

Dale Rio is a photographic artist who lives a nomadic life, currently based in the Northeastern United States. Her art explores mortality, human constructs and man’s relationship with the natural world. The artist uses film and historic photographic processes to express her concerns about climate change and its impact on coastal areas. In addition to documenting these places, she also collaborates with nature using the cyanotype process, allowing the pattern of the tides to imprint itself on banner-sized fabric.

Rachel Guardiola

Rachel Guardiola is an interdisciplinary artist, naturalist, and educator with a studio practice focused on lens-based technology. She has been a recipient of the Hamiltonian Gallery Artist Fellowship and Studio Residency at School 33 Art Center. Guardiola has exhibited internationally with List í Ljósi, Wassaic Project, Ent Center for the Arts, Ortega y Gasset Projects, The Halide Project, Rhizome DC, Analog Cookbook, Light City Baltimore, Center for the Holographic Arts, Artscape, Sydney College of the Arts, Dakar Biennale de l’Art Contemporain, Studio Vortex, Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (MoCA), and Washington Project for the Arts amongst others. She has been an artist in residence at MASS MoCA, A.I.R. Gallery, Arctic Circle Art and Science Expedition, HEIMA, Vermont Studio Center, and Atelier de Visu. Guardiola received an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She served as an Environmental Education Extension Agent for the Peace Corps in Senegal, West Africa.

 

PATRICK NOZE: RENAISSANCE ARTIST OF THE AMERICAS

September 15, 2023–January 20, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, September 15 | 7–10pm
7–9pm at the Alice & William Jenkins Gallery
8–10pm at Hannibal Square Heritage Center | Visiting Exhibition Gallery with Live Music

Born in Haiti in 1962 in the province of Jeremie—“the city of poets”—and formally educated in New York, the artist was first introduced to art by his father Robert Noze and grandfather Andre Dimanche, making Patrick Noze a third generation sculptor and painter. At age 5, he sold his first painting, depicting the celebration of Passover within the Haitian culture, for $50 to a tourist. He studied at the renowned Pratt Institute School of Visual Arts and graduated in 1990 with a Fine Arts degree with a minor in education. He is a prolific painter, sculptor, curator, illustrator, restorer and creative painter of vintage cars, creating art work mostly for private commissions in New York and his home in Florida.

His painting style eventually transitioned from a European aesthetic – gained through his academic education – to an Artist of the Americas with African roots. In 2013 he painted an entire school bus in seven days at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center for the Crealdé exhibition “Keeping Haiti in our Hearts”. A custom painted 1997 Jaguar, reflecting his Haitian heritage, sold at the international Mecum Classic Car Auction in Kissimmee – the world’s largest – in January of 2022. For the 2023 Crealdé solo exhibition Patrick will show art work from private collections never seen before by the public and create an entire new body
of paintings.

Emerging artists from Crealdé’s Painting & Drawing program share their talent in work produced during their fellowship. These artists also show the value of the instruction by the teachers who mentor them. The Crealdé Fellowship Program, since 1978 and the Studio Artist Program, since 1996, have mentored an average of 25 students in all media per year through this work-study exchange.

Studio Artists
Roland Cruse
Vera Gubnitskaia
Paula Lupton
Diane Stapleton
Genna Sweetnam

Fellowship Artists
Yasmin Fakhoury
Ediana Gomez
Tana Rey Hanberry
Patricia Schoene
Mark Snedeker
Alison Wray

Exhibition: June 16–August 26, 2023
Alice and William Jenkins Gallery
Crealdé Main Campus

This favorite annual exhibition features some of the year’s best student work in painting, drawing, digital and film photography, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, and fiber arts. Works are selected by Crealdé’s program managers and awarded by a distinguished member of the arts community. Opening reception is from 8–9:30pm following the Annual Membership Meeting and Awards Ceremony from 7-8 pm.

Student exhibition pickup date: Sunday, August 27, 2023 | 1–3pm

On View: May 12—August 26, 2023
Opening Reception: Friday, May 12 | 7–9pm
Gallery Talk: Friday, May 12 | 8pm | With Curator Amy Galpin, Yady Rivero, Assistant Curator, and Lizzie Jenkins, President, Founder, and CEO of The Real Rosewood Foundation, Inc.
Hannibal Square Heritage Center:
Visiting Exhibition Gallery
642 W New England Ave. | Winter Park, FL 32789
407.539.2680 | HannibalSquareHeritageCenter.org

 

Organized and curated by Curator Amy Galpin and Yady Rivero, Assistant Curator, Frost Art Museum in Miami, with Florida International University (FIU) Professor M. Alexandra Cornelius.

 

In commemoration of the 100-year anniversary of the Rosewood Massacre, the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum presented “An Elegy to Rosewood” in early 2023, which will then travel to the Hannibal Square Heritage Center in May as the first stop on its traveling exhibition throughout the state.

The story of the Rosewood Massacre begins with the celebration of the New Year. In January 1923, during a time when Jim Crow laws mandated, encouraged, and protected severe racial discrimination, a white mob descended on the predominantly Black town of Rosewood. This group included members of the KKK who had congregated in Gainesville (50 miles northeast of Rosewood) for a large rally the previous weekend. Responding to a later-dispelled rumor about an assault on a white woman (a common, and usually false, accusation behind many of the era’s lynchings and pogroms), the mob tracked, killed, and permanently displaced the Black residents of Rosewood. State officials suppressed reports of the event, now known as the Rosewood Massacre. Years later, Lizzie Robinson Jenkins clung to the firsthand accounts told by her aunt, a survivor of the massacre, and founded The Real Rosewood Foundation (TRRF) to research and expose the history of Rosewood.

Comprised of photographs and heirlooms from Jenkins’ family, this groundbreaking exhibition explores the Jenkins family story and the way in which it became intertwined—as did those of so many Black families in the South—with the struggle for public recognition of the region’s legacy of white supremacy and state-sanctioned terrorism. Personal artifacts are shown alongside a work by painter and TRRF board member Pedro Jermaine. Because so much of the oral history has been passed down by women, the Frost chose to commission four women artists based in Miami—Rhea Leonard, Charlisa Montrope, Chire Regans, and Tori Scott—to create original works based on the history of Rosewood. This exhibition is part of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Exhibition Series, which addresses issues of race, diversity, social justice, civil rights, and humanity to serve as a catalyst for dialogue and to enrich our community with new perspectives.

To augment this exhibition, personal notes from Lizzie Jenkins’s archival research have been assembled and made available online.

A special website created by the Frost Museum to accompany the exhibition features a virtual reality tour of the exhibition and written reflections from featured contemporary artists. The exhibition includes design projects by FIU Students from Interior Architecture and Landscape Architecture, a collaboration initiated by board member of Real Rosewood Foundation and FIU Professor, Dr. Kalai Mathee.

https://frost.fiu.edu/exhibitions-events/events/2023/01/an-elegy-to-rosewood.html

 

This Crealdé School of Art visiting exhibition at the Hannibal Square Heritage Center is funded in part by a grant from Orange County Government through the Arts & Cultural Affairs Program.

Funding for this program was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this (publication) (program) (exhibition) (website) do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Funding for the original exhibition at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum:
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is grateful to the Knight Foundation for its generous support of this exhibition through a Knight Arts Challenge Grant. Funding was also provided by a grant from Florida Humanities and FIU’s College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts (CARTA) and African and African Diaspora Studies.

 

On View: February 10—May 27, 2023

Opening Reception & Gallery Talk: Friday, February 10 | 7–10pm
Alice & William Jenkins Gallery & Showalter Hughes Community Gallery

The opening event will include a gallery talk by exhibition curators David Cumbie and Barbara Tiffany, as well as some of the participating artists.
Live music provided by
Marc E. | Smooth Jazz on Spanish Guitar

Popcorn Matinee: Saturday, February 11 | 10:30–11:30am
Lynn Tomlinson will present her award-winning animation and discuss her process.

About the Exhibition
Over the past two decades, master artist and Crealdé member Cheryl Bogdanowitsch has sponsored along with her husband Albert a $1,000 annual adult sculpture scholarship for emerging artists to study with David Cumbie, the Crealdé Sculpture Program and Studio Manager and the curator of the Contemporary Sculpture Garden. This exhibition celebrates the development of a selection of accomplished artists, showing their current works in a variety of media – including clay, bronze, welded steel, wire plaster, wax, wood, foam, paper fabric and even film.

Cheryl Bogdanowitsch
Raised near woodlands and with parents interested in the natural world, wood has always been an important part of Bodanowitsch’s life and is the foundation for her sculptures. Her favorite woods are citrus, cypress, oak, and crepe myrtle, which are readily available in her neighborhood. She takes inspiration from the trees and lakes of Central Florida and each work begins with a branch, log or limb that suggests a figure or a bird, often finished with a sculpted ceramic head. This blending of natural materials and sculpted clay evokes a unique personality and spirit to each work.

Featured Artists
Cheryl Bogdanowitsch • Felipe Andiarena • Mila Belle • Linda Brant • Lilly Carrasquillo • Mindy Colton • Shaun Cook • Jason Gillespie • Devyn Going • Martha Lent • Richard Munster • Mary Ostrander • Felix Ramos • Terry Rosenthal • Heather Sooder • Gladiola Sotomayor • Lynn Tomlinson

 

The Hannibal Square Story Quilters quilt group is dedicated to supporting all quilt artists in a creative community.  They share techniques, equipment, and supplies to make meaningful art while supporting each other in all aspects of their lives. They listen to each other’s stories and work together to preserve their cultural heritage.  Their informal motto is “DIYWH” or “Do it yourself with help,” encouraging everyone to try different quilting techniques apart from the workshop model.  They learn from each other, have fun and enjoy life.

The exhibition, collectively curated by the group, gives each quilter an opportunity to tell her unique story.  Exhibit themes include artist reflections on the Black experience, spirituality, justice, femininity, family, and nature.  Artists will reflect on their works with the public in celebration of Black History Month.

September 27, 2024–January 25, 2025
Showalter Hughes Community Gallery

In this bi-annual exhibition, artists from Crealdé’s ceramics, sculpture, and photography disciplines showcase their talent through works produced during their programs. Since 1978, the Crealdé Fellowship Program and since 1996, the Studio Artist Program have mentored an average of 25 students per year through a work-study exchange.

The work of these emerging artists is a testament to the dedication and mentorship provided by Crealdé’s teaching faculty.