Selected from Vibrant Vision, a 40-year effort of Charleston-based collectors, Jonathan Green and Richard Weedman, this exhibit reflects themes of work, love, belonging and spirituality. With outstanding African American artists such as Clementine Hunter, Elizabeth Catlett, Hale Woodruff, Romare Howard Bearden and more, these works of art range from the late 1930s to the present and represent artists throughout the Caribbean and United States. The influential array of artists offers a deep look into diverse cultural influences that have shaped American art over the past hundred years.

Since 1982, Crealdé has presented an annual exhibition featuring works of art from the 300-plus Summer ArtCamp participants, ages 4 to 17. The exhibition includes collaborative and individual works in painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture and photography. It is curated by Crealdé’s Summer ArtCamp faculty.

The opening reception is from 5-7 p.m. Saturday, August 18.

One of the most anticipated exhibitions of the year, the annual Juried Student Exhibition offers the opportunity for our adult students to showcase their mastery in a variety of artistic disciplines. This exhibition features some of the year’s best new works from our students and was installed by Vince Sansone with assistance from Lynn Warnicke.

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Various aqueous painting media allow Marianna Hamilton Ross to explore the interdependence of Man and Nature. Florida’s gardens and native habitats combine with human figures to depict both protective and turbulent relationships. Her work interweaves these observations and provides a fluctuating Symbiotic Dance between Man and Nature – continually challenging, stimulating and yet nurturing. Continue reading “Symbiotic Dance: Marianna Hamilton Ross”

Storytellers 17 takes place in the historic African-American West Side of New Smyrna Beach. The project represents a partnership between Crealdé School of Art, a nonprofit community arts organization established in 1975 in Winter Park, and the Mary S. Harrell Black Heritage Museum, housed in the former St. Rita Colored Catholic Mission Church, built in 1899 in New Smyrna Beach. Until schools were integrated in the 1960s, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando served the West Side with a church, one of the first school for black children in Volusia County and a health clinic.
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In collaboration with the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation, Crealdé School of Art offers a contemporary and historic window into the culture and landscape of Central Florida’s Lake Apopka. A team of professional documentary photographers and Plein air painters produced for exhibition 45 black-and-white archival photographs, oral histories of places and people, and a series of 10 Plein air paintings.

The Lake: A Documentary Exploring the Land and People of Lake Apopka Catalog is available for purchase and will accompany this traveling exhibition.

Crealdé proudly presents a major educational exhibition of paintings created by Hugh McKean (1908-1995) and Jeannette Genius McKean (1909-1989) on loan from The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winter Park. Continue reading “Honoring Two Winter Park Legends”