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Moca museum to cummer museum2/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “Imprisoned but Empowered: Cheyenne Warrior Artists at Fort Marion” showcased a large selection of notebook-sized, color pencil on paper drawings from a Cheyenne captives held at Fort Marion in St. In addition to the Reubens, artworks from the museum’s permanent collection not seen in many years by Romare Bearden and James Castle, along with a loan of Elizabeth Catlett, invigorated the galleries.Ī provocative exhibition of Cheyenne drawings from the 1870s enlightened audiences to the historic mistreatment of Indigenous people in the United States with a chilling connection to northeast Florida. Peter Paul Rubens, The Lamentation of Christ, on view at Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens. ![]() This exhibition alone would have made the year one to remember, but the Cummer didn’t stop there. Under Brownlee’s care, patrons can look forward to more “stretching.” “Hail the Dark Lioness” featuring contemporary black-and-white photography from a globally in-demand, non-gender binary, Black, South African artist may have been the greatest “stretch” to ever be seen at the Cummer, which celebrated its 60 th anniversary in 2021. “I’m thinking about opportunities to bring something to Jacksonville that is going to stretch people bringing ideas, individuals, concepts, works of art, that are going to stretch people,” Barnlee told me shortly after being put in charge at the Cummer.īrownlee pulled a rabbit out of the hat with the Zanele Muholi show, working connections to schedule the show in a weekend’s time after a COVID-19 disruption pulled the rug out from under an exhibition the museum had long previously planned to exhibit. Bringing her work to Jacksonville, Florida was a major coup for director Andrea Barnwell Brownlee in her first year on the job. Muholi ranks among the most important contemporary artists working in any medium anywhere in the world. The highlight, undoubtedly, was the presentation of “Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness,” an internationally touring exhibition featuring more than 80 self-portraits by visual activist Zanele Muholi (South African, b. 2021 saw perhaps the most exciting schedule of exhibitions, along with iconic artworks refreshed, fill the museum’s galleries. For more info and for the entire Museums On Us lineup for the entire country, click here.Another year wraps up at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens. Some places you will still have to pay for parking. Yup, I say this even though I clearly have not been to every place on the list…yet. IMO – The Florida Aquarium is the winner out of all the Florida “Museums On Us” museums - the facility is stunning, rather expensive to get into otherwise and located in smack dab downtown Tampa, giving opportunity to double or triple up on a day long adventure there. I’ve taken advantage of this deal so far with the The Bishop Museum of Science and Nature, Florida Holocaust Museum, Tampa Museum of Art, and the Florida Aquarium. South Florida Science Center and Aquarium The Children’s Museum of the Treasure Coast ![]() The Museum of Science and Industry (MOSH) Just provide your credit or debit card along with a photo ID. Trust get free access to a selection of free museums on the first full weekend of every month. Every year cardholders for Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and U.S. ![]()
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