Ritz Chamber Players
Celebrate 25 Years of Expanding the Stage A landmark Silver Jubilee Season honors the extraordinary journey of a Jacksonville-born ensemble while opening the door to its next quarter-century. Twenty-five years ago, the Ritz Chamber Players (RCP) opened a door that classical music had kept too narrow for too long. Through it came extraordinary Black musicians, overlooked masterworks, new music, and audiences invited to hear the...
Fighting Antisemitism
From Dreyfus to Today By Allison Galloway-Gonzalez, Curator The Frisch Family Holocaust Memorial Gallery at LJD Jewish Family & Community Services (JFCS) Jacksonville is proud to present “Fighting Antisemitism: From Dreyfus to Today,” opening on September 3rd. A landmark travelling exhibition from the Wiener Holocaust Library in London, one of the world’s foremost institutions dedicated to the documentation of the...
Igniting Downtown Through Public Art
The Story Behind Frank Stella’s Jacksonville Stacked Stars Written by Amber Sesnick, Director of Communications, Arts UNF & MOCA Jacksonville If you have explored downtown Jacksonville this summer, you may have been stopped in your tracks by a monumental new work of public art in the heart of the city. Standing at nearly three stories tall, “Jacksonville Stacked Stars,” created by Frank Stella and installed just...
Art in Bloom
Holly Keris, J. Wayne & Delores Barr Weaver Chief Curator Drawing upon the Cummer Museum’s broad permanent collection, “Art in Bloom” creates a through line from the 18th century through today by showcasing historic floral still life paintings alongside works by contemporary artists who explore nature’s bounty through a variety of media. It may seem hard to imagine, but paintings of artfully arranged cut flowers did...
Ellen Diamond: A Legacy of Love
By Susan D. Brandenburg Ellen Diamond’s book, “Chasing Color,” is a celebration of her long and fruitful journey on this earth. The artist’s fabulous life and legacy in the artworld are beautifully illustrated on each page. Her early paintings, European landscapes, gardens, beaches, waterways, flowers, trees, towns, and bridges leap from the pages, thrilling the senses and satisfying the soul. “Like my life, this book has been...
Storytelling in Words & Paint
By Jim Draper My earliest childhood memories find me sitting in a stuffy, smoke-filled, mid-Mississippi living room. Lining the walls sitting on a hodgepodge collection of brought-in chairs was a collection of ancient relatives. Over the pings of silver forks on china plates and the clanks of ill-fitting teeth on caramel cake, I listen to their stories. The tales were mythic, colorful, dramatic, and sensual. Good bulls and big trees,...
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