[Watch] Seen and Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham

[Watch] Seen and Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham

Join Executive Director and Chief Curator Dr. Alex Rich on a tour through Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham. This exhibition features 60 photographs by Cunningham, whose life — and career — traversed nearly a century.

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[Watch] Seeing Things Differently: Lecture by Dr. H. Alexander Rich

[Watch] Seeing Things Differently: Lecture by Dr. H. Alexander Rich

At the member's reception on April 14th, 2023, Dr. H. Alexander Rich discusses the three featured exhibits at the Polk Museum of Art. The exhibits were Seen & Unseen: Photographs by Imogen Cunningham, In the Eye of the Mind: The Fantastic Realities of Steven Kenny, and New Eyes on the Permanent Collection.

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[Watch] Lecture by Gary Monroe: Highwaymen Historian & Author

[Watch] Lecture by Gary Monroe: Highwaymen Historian & Author

Author and historian Gary Monroe lectures at the Polk Museum of Art on the Highwaymen, 26 Florida-based Afican-American landscape painters who managed to thrive in the Jim Crow South. Consisting of 25 men and 1 woman, these mostly self-taught artists produced a uniquely Florida art movement that is prized by collectors and the public today.

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[Watch] Rodin Gallery Talk by Chandler Talkington Fletcher

[Watch] Rodin Gallery Talk by Chandler Talkington Fletcher

Rodin’s sculptures not only revived for a new century the expressive and naturalistic styles of antiquity, using ancient Greek sculptors’ medium of choice, but also propelled figurative sculpture into the modern age with emotion and pathos never seen before in the sculpted form.

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