A New Public Art Installation
Honoring the Arlington Community By Melanie Young Just as the eyes are the window to the soul, the entrance to a college campus is a window into the community that lives, works, learns, and plays there. For Jacksonville University (JU), that window recently became even more emblematic of the university’s relationship with the Arlington community. At the site of the turbo traffic roundabout welcoming drivers and pedestrians to...
Marsh & Saxelbye A beautiful Legacy
By Wayne W. Wood Jacksonville’s extraordinary natural landscape is complimented by its (often overlooked) manmade beauty. It is a surprise to many that Jacksonville has a greater number of outstanding architectural gems than any other city in Florida. Jacksonville has the most sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places and a quarter of those were designed by a single architectural firm—Marsh & Saxelbye. Made up of...
Jacksonville Children’s Chorus
Filling the Heart of Our City with Song By Susan D. Brandenburg Just as he passionately directs each member of the Jacksonville Children’s Chorus (JCC) with care and concern, President and Artistic Director Darren Dailey has been intimately instrumental in helping to design the chorus’s spectacular new downtown headquarters. “This wonderful space would not have been possible without the support of VyStar Credit Union and our...
Lightner Museum
An Iconic St. Augustine Museum Celebrates Its 75th Anniversary By David Bagnall, Executive Director of The Lightner Museum This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Lightner Museum and the 135th anniversary of the museum’s historic St. Augustine building. Located in the heart of downtown St. Augustine, the Lightner has been an important part of the community since it was first built as the Hotel Alcazar in...
Blue Zones Project®
Health and well-being on the First Coast can be difficult to achieve for some Jacksonville communities but, thanks to an innovative partnership of influential public and private organizations, the needle may soon move forward to improve community well-being, resilience, and economic vitality in Duval County, beginning with Westside, Northside, and East Jacksonville neighborhoods. A coalition of community leaders, including Baptist...
Transitory Permanence:
What does it mean to belong to the land? And what happens when your notion of home is a perpetual journey to the new unknown? There are exoduses of displaced people happening all around the world today. Millions are leaving their home countries, some looking to escape and some simply yearning for a dream. The purpose of this exhibition is to show the human behind the statistics and to acknowledge the path of the displaced...
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