25 Years of Art, Heart, & Healing
Art with a Heart in Healthcare When a child is in the hospital, their world can quickly shrink. Families adjust to unfamiliar routines built around tests, procedures, and waiting. Patients navigate not only what is happening to their bodies, but also the fear, boredom, and uncertainty that come with it. For 25 years, Art with a Heart in Healthcare (AWAHIH) has helped bring something else into that experience: creativity, choice,...
Witnessing The Healing Power of Art: What No Research Can Show
By Dima Kroma Youth, Family, & Adult Learning Manager Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens There are moments in a museum that never appear in exhibition catalogs or annual reports. They aren’t measured by attendance numbers or balance sheets. Instead, these moments live quietly in the hearts of the people who experience them. As museum educators, we hope visitors leave our galleries, studios, and gardens changed in some small way....
Inspiring Gardens
Some of our greatest thinkers extolled the virtues of nature, from Hippocrates, “Nature itself is the best physician,” to Albert Einstein, “Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.” No surprise that naturalist John Muir noted “Allow nature’s peace to flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” The importance of spending time outdoors to our physical, mental and spiritual health has been widely...
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...
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