Ever wonder what a day in the life of a working artist is like? Where their inspiration comes from or how they create their incredible pieces of art? You’re in luck! Our amazing Curatorial team interviewed an artist a week for the month of June — LIVE!
Watch Matt Belcher, Preparator & Design Manager, along with our fourth guest artist, Gino Miles!
Ever wonder what a day in the life of a working artist is like? Where their inspiration comes from or how they create their incredible pieces of art? You’re in luck! Our amazing Curatorial team interviewed an artist a week for the month of June — LIVE!
Watch Laura Putnam, Manager of Exhibitions and Adult Programs, along with our third guest artist, Charles Edward Williams!
Ever wonder what a day in the life of a working artist is like? Where their inspiration comes from or how they create their incredible pieces of art? You’re in luck! Our amazing Curatorial team interviewed an artist a week for the month of June — LIVE!
Watch Loren Hicks, Collections Manager & Registrar, along with our second guest artist, Carol Prusa!
Ever wonder what a day in the life of a working artist is like? Where their inspiration comes from or how they create their incredible pieces of art? You’re in luck! Our amazing Curatorial team interviewed an artist a week for the month of June — LIVE!
Watch Loren Hicks, Collections Manager & Registrar, along with our first guest artist, Reynier Llanes!
Why We Need the Arts Now
Join Dr. Alex Rich, Executive Director and Chief Curator, for an interactive happy hour and Q&A as he chats LIVE with YOU and special guests Amy Wiggins, Executive Director of the Imperial Symphony Orchestra, Jermaine Thornton, Executive Director of Florida Dance Theatre, and Meri Mass, Executive Director of the Polk Arts Alliance. They are excited to take take YOUR questions live, eager to discuss the powerful roles all arts organizations play in our community, the obstacles they face, and the impact they will have moving forward.
Read MoreHappy Hour with the Curatorial Team
We're putting a new twist on our First Thursday After Hours! With a drink in hand (BYOB, alcoholic or non), join us — and Executive Director Alex Rich — on Facebook Live this Thursday, May 7, at 6 pm, as he chats with YOU and our amazing Curatorial team.
Read MoreThis exhibition, custom-curated for the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College by the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation of The Netherlands, showcases 27 Dutch and Flemish paintings from the 17th century, selected and organized around the unifying visual theme of music and dance. All the Masterworks in the exhibition come to the Museum from private European Collections and have not been seen by the wide public before.
Read More“Through A Brush With HerStory, my goal is to resurrect these artists from the shadows of history and the depths of dusty archives. Obstacles of the day — whether it was lack of training, family obligations, or the restraints placed by society upon their practice of painting — did not stand in the way of their craft. They were not the shining stars of art but were the quiet undercurrent that existed with little or no forum to rise above the premier art establishments of the era.”
Read MoreIn this Point of View Gallery Talk, Dr. H. Alexander Rich, Executive Director & Chief Curator of the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College, walks viewers through the process of examining a painting from the point of view of an art history student.
Read MoreThe exhibition delves deeply into the art, history, and culture of the Netherlands in the 17th century, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement for the Dutch people. In what was then already called a Golden Age, the Netherlands was a world power whose military fleet was growing and where trade, science, and the arts flourished as never before.
Read MoreGabriela Gonzalez Dellosso is a premier portrait artist whose art historical knowledge is surpassed only by the skill of her brushwork. This exhibition features Dellosso’s tribute paintings to great but often-overlooked female masters of the past.
Read MoreIn this combined lecture, Dr. Alex Rich explains the source of two concurrent exhibits at the Polk Museum of Art. Spirits: Ritual and Ceremonial African and Oceanic Art from the Dr. Alan and Linda Rich Collection in one gallery and Global Art of the 1970s: From the SC Johnson Collection in another gallery.
Read MoreIn this combined lecture, Dr. Alex Rich explains the source of two concurrent exhibits at the Polk Museum of Art. Spirits: Ritual and Ceremonial African and Oceanic Art from the Dr. Alan and Linda Rich Collection in one gallery and Global Art of the 1970s: From the SC Johnson Collection in another gallery.
Read MoreThis exclusive exhibition features works selected from the private collection of the SC Johnson Company, most of which have never before traveled outside The Council House, the company’s international conference center in Racine, Wisconsin. Featuring works in all media and crossing all stylistic and geographic boundaries, this Polk Museum original exhibition offers audiences a deep dive into rarely seen art from one of the most consequential decades in art history.
Read MoreThis extraordinary exhibition, drawn entirely from the collection of the Reading Public Museum, explores the path to Impressionism through the nineteenth century, and the complex relationship between French Impressionism of the 1870s and 80s, and the American interpretation of the style in the decades that followed.
Read MoreThis exhibition is an examination of the spiritual objects themselves and their places within the cultures they come from and a story about the humanitarian work the Riches undertook in the process of acquiring the objects. The two histories are tied together intricately.
Read MoreExecutive Director and Chief Curator Dr. H. Alexander Rich discusses Inside the Masters' Studios: Richard Haas Dioramas.
Read MoreRabbi David Goldstein discusses works from the Polk Museum of Art's exhibition Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts, 13th – 18th Centuries.
Read MoreArtist Charles Edward Williams discusses his exhibition, SUN + LIGHT, a collection of works from the series Everyone Loves the Sunshine.
Read MorePart of our permanent collection, Hungry Planet and Material World are two exhibitions focused on showing viewers the differences between countries around the world in what they eat and what they own.
Read MoreThe Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida
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