PMoA Announces Mayfaire Winners
Polk Museum of Art is pleased to announce the following artists won awards at the 2012 MIDFLORIDA Mayfaire by the Lake. The winners, their hometowns, the media they work in and the booth where they…
2012 Mayfaire Accepted Artists
Below are artists who have been accepted into the 2012 MIDFLORIDA Mayfaire by-the-Lake show, listed by medium: Booth First Name Last Name State website Medium 163 Douglas Adams FL Clay 12 kenneth Ashby OK Clay…
Museum Names New Executive Director
Claire Orologas of Wheaton, Md., has been named executive director of Polk Museum of Art, the Board of Trustees announced today. Her appointment is effective February 1. “I have been extremely impressed with the dedication…
Robert Puterbaugh Receives Harrison-Hooks Lifetime Achievement Award
Polk Museum of Art is pleased to announce that Robert E. “Bob” Puterbaugh of Lakeland, an attorney with Peterson & Myers, P.A., and longtime board member of the Museum, is the 2011 recipient of the…
Free Admission to All on National Museum Day, Sept. 24
Polk Museum of Art will admit all visitors to the Museum for free on Saturday, Sept. 24, in celebration of National Museum Day. National Museum Day was started in 2005 by Smithsonian Magazine to honor…
PMoA Honors Military Personnel and Families with Free Admission
The Polk Museum of Art is proud to announce its participation in the Blue Star Museum program that offers free admission to all active-duty military personnel, their spouses and children from Memorial Day, May 30,…
Mayfaire Winners Announced
Polk Museum of Art is pleased to announce the following artists won awards at the 2011 MIDFLORIDA Mayfaire by the Lake. The winners, their hometowns, the media they work in and the booth where they…
Polk Museum of Art Granted Re-accreditation
Polk Museum of Art has long prided itself as being “More Than An Art Museum.” The nation’s premier accrediting body for museums, the American Association of Museums, agrees. Following a rigorous 18-month review of Museum…
PMoA’s Longest-Serving Executive Director To Leave the Museum This Summer
Stetson Will Become Executive Director of the Hunter Museum in Tenn. Executive Director Daniel E. Stetson has announced that he is leaving Polk Museum of Art to become executive director of the Hunter Museum of…
New Sculptures Chosen for 11th Annual Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition
Polk Museum of Art and the City of Winter Haven are pleased to announce the selection of 10 new sculptures that will be displayed in the Central Park area of Winter Haven for the next…
Polk Museum of Art Acquires 4 Photographic Treasures
Polk Museum of Art recently has added photographs by renowned photographers Ansel Adams, André Kertesz and Alfred Eisenstaedt to its Permanent Collection. The four pieces were purchased by the Museum’s Art Resource Trust group and…
Macy’s Awards $2,000 to PMoA for Hospital Art Cart
Macy’s has presented Polk Museum of Art with a $2,000 grant to buy materials for an art cart to serve pediatric patients at Lakeland Regional Medical Center. The art cart for LRMC’s 47-bed children’s wing…
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