Portraits of the Land, Stories of the People
Seven photographers focus on landscapes at MOCA Jacksonville The photographs in MOCA Jacksonville’s current, self-curated exhibition, Southern Exposure: Portraits of a Changing Landscape, focus on the land but speak volumes about the people there – in the present and the past. The black and white and color photographs, by such renowned artists as William Christenberry, Sally Mann, Richard Misrach, Andrew Moore, and Alec Soth,...
Decades of String Music Development
Prelude Chamber Music Summer Camp & Festival Carrying the heart and soul of Prelude Chamber Music from one decade through the next and celebrating her 48th year in the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra, the founding “Mama Prelude,” Jeanne Majors, and her colleagues and friends of Prelude Chamber Music make sure that every aspiring young string musician in this town, in neighboring communities, or even just visiting for the summer...
Rainbow Chain of Being
For Sarah Crooks Flaire, it’s all Linked It is easy to imagine artist Sarah Crooks Flaire’s studio as a nautilus shell perched on a Whitman’s sampler box. Her space seems to unfold upwards into ever more beautiful and surprising spaces, while on the main floor an open, airy room serves as additional work and workshop space. Her space, Evervess Art Studio, is a shifting reflection of Crooks Flaire’s own works, which, though heavily...
Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River
Recently, a group of Jacksonville’s finest artists were challenged by staff at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens to reinterpret masterworks in the Museum’s Permanent Collection while shining a spotlight on one of our region’s most important assets, the St. Johns River. Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River, on view through October 18, is presented in collaboration with the Cultural Fusion Year...
Monet and American Impressionism
Impressionism is one of the most loved art movements of all time. When people hear the word Impressionism, they usually think of Claude Monet’s grainstacks or Edgar Degas’s dancers. Yet the general public isn’t as familiar with the American artists who were inspired by the movement and adapted it to typically American landscapes and subjects. Monet and American Impressionism addresses the responses of twenty-five American artists to...
There is Only the Dance: The Paintings of Yolanda Sánchez
For Miami Beach artist Yolanda Sánchez, the arts – and color specifically – hold an intrinsic role in her life and work. “When I read poetry or listen to music, I see color images,” she shares. Sánchez, who emigrated from Havana, Cuba, at the age of seven with her mother, a classical concert pianist, recalls: “One of my prized gifts and possessions as a child, especially since we did not have much money, was a gold paper-lined box...
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