The Open Vault of Vince Sansone
April 26–May 25, 2024
Showalter Hughes Community Gallery
Opening Reception
Friday, April 26 | 7–9pm
Don’t miss this special event as this master ceramicist opens his personal vault and curates his functional and sculptural works for sale. This will be a wonderful opportunity for admirers and collectors alike to explore Vince’s impressive collection of works. Come and find a one-of-a-kind treasure to take home!
Crealdé School of Art is proud to present our newest exhibition entitled
Hannibal Square in the mid-1990s: New Additions to the Permanent Collection.
On View:
January 15—June 1, 2024
Opening Reception & Gallery Talk:
Monday, January 15 | 4–6pm
Hannibal Square Heritage Center
642 West New England Ave.
Winter Park, Florida 32789
In conjunction with
22nd Unity Heritage Festival in Hannibal Square & Open House
Sunday, January 14 | 1–5pm & Monday, January 15 | 10am–5pm
Shady Park across from Hannibal Square Heritage Center
The Hannibal Square Heritage Center is a focal point in the Hannibal Square neighborhood, founded in 2007 to create a permanent home for the award-winning Heritage Collection: Photographs and Oral Histories of West Winter Park. In 2012 and 2018, The Sage Project: Hannibal Square Elders Tell Their Stories, 35 portraits and oral histories of west Winter Park residents, was added to the permanent collection.
During this exhibition that utilizes the full Heritage Center, viewers will be able to engage with pieces that are normally not on display. Included will be newly unveiled images and oral histories from Peter Schreyer’s 1994-95 Winter Park Library historic research grant project, depicting life in Hannibal Square in the mid-1990s—a project that became the inspiration for the Heritage Collection.
The permanent collection of over 200 archival framed photographs and oral histories that depict family and community life spanning 100 years of history has received international recognition as an exhibition that tells the history of a community from the perspective of those who have lived it. The permanent collection has helped to ensure that the contributions of historic Hannibal Square are remembered, acknowledged, and preserved for the future.
22nd Unity Heritage Festival in Hannibal Square & Open House
This annual City of Winter Park festival celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and promotes community and family heritage. The two-day festival takes place in Shady Park across from the Hannibal Square Heritage Center in Winter Park. Sunday entertainment features music by local gospel bands and Monday includes a special program honoring Dr. King with ongoing musical artists.
Special activities include children’s games, career booths, as well as retail and local food vendors. The Hannibal Square Heritage Center offers extended hours during the festival for visitors to learn about the history of Hannibal Square.
THE CREATIVE CONCEPT OF VINCENT SANSONE
February 16–May 25, 2024
Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Friday, February 16 | 7-10 pm
Alice and William Jenkins Gallery
This exhibition is a retrospective of a ceramic master who contributed a lifetime of excellence to the ceramics and exhibition programs at Crealdé School of Art. A revered artist and educator with 50 years of experience as a professional potter, Vincent Sansone joined the Crealdé faculty in the mid-1970s, shortly after the school opened and served as the longstanding Ceramics Studio and Program Manager from 2002 to 2022. Sansone also taught at Valencia College, where he was an Assistant Professor of Ceramics Art. Sansone was awarded his MFA in Ceramics and his BFA in Painting at Southern Illinois University, and he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Sansone’s creations have been exhibited throughout the United States, including New Orleans, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Ashville, Chattanooga and Los Angeles. Internationally his work was included in a cultural exchange exhibition in 2001, organized by the Florida CraftArt and exhibited in San Jose, Costa Rica. In 2004, he was part of the first Taiwan Ceramics Biennale Exhibitions in Taipei. In Florida, his work is held in numerous private and public collections, including the Pine Castle Folk Art Center, SunTrust Bank, Orange County Public Library, Maitland Art & History, the City of Orlando and the Sculpture Garden at Crealdé School of Art.
He is a recipient of multiple United Arts of Central Florida Individual Artist Recognition Awards as well as Individual Artist Fellowship Awards from the State of Florida. Sansone has conducted workshops throughout the Southeast and regularly exhibited in galleries and art festivals where he received many top awards and recognitions. He has also served as a judge at local and regional art exhibitions. Sansone established the popular Cup-A-Thon fundraising sale at Crealdé School of Art, which is now a nearly 40-year-old tradition at the school, held in August.
“Many local and regional artist were influenced by Vince directly either at Crealdé, Valencia College, regional workshops or through the community he helped develop. His beautifully functional work would be enough of an accomplishment, but many recognize Vince for his 2- and 3-dimensional cartoon characters. The sense of humor one sees in this work spurs many of us to keep that sense of play alive in our own work.” -Michael Galletta, Professor of Art, Valencia College.
THE OPEN VAULT OF VINCENT SANSONE
April 26–May 25, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, April 26| 7-9 pm
Showalter Hughes Community Gallery
During the last month of the exhibition, the lifelong master ceramicist will open his personal vault and curate his functional and sculptural works for sale.
Crealdé School of Art is proud to partner with City Arts to present our newest exhibition entitled Approaching 50: Works by the Faculty Of Crealdé School Of Art. This exhibition is curated by Patrick Noze, Crealdé’s Senior Gallery Curator.
On View: January 18–February 11, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 18 | 6–9pm
Featuring a live performance by The Chris Cortez Jazz Quartet from Blue Bamboo
CityArts Galleries | 39 S Magnolia Ave. | Orlando, FL
As Crealdé School of Art approaches its 50th anniversary in 2025, this partnership with Downtown Arts District showcases the tremendous talent of Crealdé’s teaching artists.
The school’s faculty is an impressive roster of regionally and nationally recognized professional artists whose work has been included in important collections and has received awards of distinction, including state fellowship grants and top awards in festivals and competitions. These artists have inspired and instructed tens of thousands of Central Floridians for nearly five decades.
38 faculty members will participate in the exhibition.The current faculty will showcase painting & drawing, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry, fiber art and digital and film photography.
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.
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.
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 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 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
