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.

On View: September 8, 2022 – October 31, 2022
Special Reception and Gallery Walk: Thursday, October 13, 5-7 pm
Winter Garden City Hall | Arts in Public Places Gallery | 300 W Plant St, Winter Garden, FL 34787

On September 15, 2017, Crealdé School of Art, in collaboration with the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, unveiled The Lake: A Documentary Exploring the Land and People of Lake Apopka. The exhibition is a culmination of work by documentary photographers and plein air painters who sought to capture the culture and landscape of Lake Apopka. 50 fine art pieces were originally exhibited with accompanying historic text, connecting the area’s past with its future. A collection of local and nationally known artists, led by Crealdé Senior Faculty Artist Tom Sadler, produced 10 plein air paintings, and a master class of photographers, led by senior faculty members Peter Schreyer and Sherri Bunye, created 40 archival black-and-white photographs with oral histories. Highlights from the Crealdé traveling exhibition will be on exhibit at Winter Garden City Hall from September 8 to October 31, 2022.

A special reception and Gallery Walk with Project Director Peter Schreyer will be held on Thursday, October 13 from 5–7pm. The Gallery Walk will be at 5:30pm.

Image: Peter Petegrew, Shining Light on Lake Apopka, Oil on Canvas, 20×24 in.