Art & Culture Features
Storytelling
A captivating new exhibition featuring French art will be on view at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens from May 25 through July 29, 2018. Under the title Storytelling: French Art from the Horvitz Collection, this presentation combines two exhibitions: Imaging Text: Drawings for French Book Illustration and Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century French Paintings, from one of the world’s finest private collections of French art.
read moreIt’s Never Too Late for Art
People often say, “I would love to try painting/sculpting/ceramics/music, but when would I ever have the time? Good question. If you have a demanding career and must support a family, it is difficult to carve out time to follow your artistic desires. And then it’s too late, right? Take a look at two prolific local artists who finally did find the time, and ask the question again.
read moreOn Mindfulness
If you look to your right and left in the magazine section of Barnes & Noble or the check-out line at the grocery store, there’s a good chance you’ll see a magazine with mindfulness on the cover. If you type “mindfulness” as a Google search, you’ll get over ninety-one million results. Search for ways to achieve personal and workplace wellbeing, there it is. Follow leadership and performance forums, and you’ll find mindfulness there, too. Why the buzz?
read moreWellness Via Nature
Current health trends tout the things of our Earth — crystals, salts, trees — as effective healers
read more
Where Flowers Float
Mary St. Germain’s newest floral series lifts us out of predictability
read moreArbus Magazine and White Oak’s Inaugural The Art of Conservation
Arbus Magazine and White Oak have partnered in an inaugural event that brings together these same fields of interest that are at work in this incredible location. Conservation and art will be celebrated in a two-day plein air painting event culminating in The Art of Conservation gala – a tour by trolley to watch the artists working in three of White Oak’s conservation areas, an outdoor dinner by the river, and an auction of the artwork produced on site with a portion of the proceeds benefitting White Oak Conservation Foundation.
read moreBuried Beneath
Lana Shuttleworth’s landscapes created from traffic cone shards reveal the struggle between nature and consumption
read moreStill Raising Fists
Local photographer’s update of an historic portrait now in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery
read moreUnder the Mediterranean Sun
In the period that followed the U.S. Civil War, American artists who wished to be considered seriously, had to study abroad. Some were encouraged by their teachers to refine their painting techniques and seek new sources of inspiration.
read more
