Talks & Tours
We offer free Gallery Talks, Curator Tours, and Docent-Led tours each month to complement our current exhibitions. Visit our Events Page here for upcoming events.
Enjoy a special lecture of “Dutch Impressionism: The Hague School, 1860-1930” led by Dr. Willem Hoogsteder, owner and director of the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation
Dr. Alex Rich takes visitors through Rockwell/Wyeth: Icons of Americana!
Dr. Roy Kerr traces out N.C. Wyeth’s career against the backdrop of the development of American illustration
For the first time, Drinks with the Director, moves from a virtual only event to being recorded in front of a studio audience while being broadcast over Facebook Live.
Artist Reynier Llanes speaks about his work during the Point of View Gallery Talk at the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida.
Join Executive Director and Chief Curator Dr. Alex Rich of the Polk Museum of Art as he interviews Samuel Bak over Zoom during the Member’s Reception.
Join Executive Director Dr. Alex Rich as he takes visitors through the exhibition, Remembering Vilna: The Holocaust and the Art of Samuel Bak, at the Polk Museum of Art.
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.
Join artist Steven Kenny as he takes visitors through his exhibition, In the Eye of the Mind: The Fantastic Realities of Steven Kenny, at the Polk Museum of Art.
Fiber artist and quilter Lauren Austin from Maitland, Florida gives us her perspective on the work in her show Lauren Austin: Life in Quilts at the Polk Museum of Art.
Florida Southern College student and Intern at the Polk Museum of Art discusses jewelry in the Spirits Gallery at the Museum.
Florida Southern College chemistry major and intern at the Polk Museum of Art during the summer of 2022 discusses the psychology of color using art in the George Jenkins Student Gallery.
Dr. Alexander Rich, in dialogue with Ron and Clark Woodsby, provides an in-depth overview of the Polk Museum of Art's exhibition The Art of the Highwaymen: From the Woodsby Family Collection in 2022.
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.
Through Pinderhughes’ powerful camera lens, he makes clear that every human subject and every still life object has a story worth telling.
Holly Scoggins provides an in-depth overview of our exhibition American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection.
American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection features 41 rarely-seen Impressionist paintings originally from the private collection of Arthur Dayton and Ruth Woods Dayton (whose surnames combine to create the collection’s portmanteau name: “Day-Wood”).
In this Gallery Talk, artist Steven Chayt discusses his exhibit at the Polk Museum of Art.
In this guided tour, Dr. H. Alexander Rich, Executive Director & Chief Curator of the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College, walks viewers through the Museum’s largest exhibition to date, Toulouse-Lautrec & the Belle Époque.
In 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 Museum’s latest exhibition, Toulouse-Lautrec & the Belle Époque.
Thank you for watching our Virtual Members Reception! We were thrilled to welcome Paul Firos, Toulouse-Lautrec Collection Owner & President of PAN Art Connection, Inc. as he chatted with Dr. Alex Rich about the collection and how the exhibition came to life in the Museum galleries.
In 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.
Executive Director and Chief Curator Dr. H. Alexander Rich discusses Inside the Masters' Studios: Richard Haas Dioramas.
Rabbi David Goldstein discusses works from the Polk Museum of Art's exhibition Painted Pages: Illuminated Manuscripts, 13th – 18th Centuries.
Artist Charles Edward Williams discusses his exhibition, SUN + LIGHT, a collection of works from the series Everyone Loves the Sunshine.
Florida Southern College, Erin LaSala, along with students from Florida Southern College’s dance program provide a performance based gallery talk focusing on the artist Edgar Degas.
Dr. Jennifer Moffitt explores the Polk Museum of Art's exhibition, "The Art of Romaine Brooks." The Art of Romaine Brooks, on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, brings together 18 paintings and 32 drawings by the American expatriate artist Romaine Brooks (1874-1970). Dr. Moffitt is Assistant Professor of English at Florida Southern College.
Derek Menchan, professor of humanities, philosophy, and music at Polk State College leads a discussion on the omnipresence of music found in Chagall's work as well as universal themes of human morality.
Collector George Lowe gives a Gallery Talk about the artwork from his collection featured in the exhibition One Collector's Dream.