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The Winter 2025 Season at Rollins Museum of Art Has Something for Everyone and Admission is Free

Join us January 18-May 11, 2025 for the Rollins Museum of Art Winter 2025 Season. Enjoy FREE ADMISSION all season long to engage with EIGHT intriguing exhibitions including an interactive exhibition co-curated by children! Experience thought-provoking lectures and artist panels

Artists Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, and Mark Bradford, Honored with National Medals of Arts

Congratulations to National Medal of Arts recipients Carrie Mae Weems, Alex Katz, and Mark Bradford whose works are featured in the Rollins Museum of Art Collection. Read about this prestigious award in Hyperallergic then scroll to view. Carrie Mae Weems

Take Advantage of Free Admission Throughout the Fall 2024 Season at Rollins Museum of Art

Join us September 14, 2024-January 5, 2025 for the Rollins Museum of Art Fall 2024 Season. Enjoy FREE ADMISSION all season long to engage with SIX intriguing exhibitions! Experience thought-provoking lectures and artist talks (in person AND virtually), educational events

Samuel Aye-Gboyin Poses with his works on view at UCF Art Gallery, Photo: Jessica Abels

Artist Samuel Aye-Gboyin, Pathways 2024: Carlos Malamud Prize Finalist

Samuel Aye-Gboyin is one of only six finalists chosen to have works on view in both the UCF Art Gallery and Rollins Museum of Art as part of the Pathways 2024: Carlos Malamud Prize exhibition. The prize offers a pathway

Video Artist Clio Yang, Pathways 2024: Carlos Malamud Prize Finalist

Clio Yang is one of only six finalists chosen to have works on view in both the UCF Art Gallery and Rollins Museum of Art as part of the Pathways 2024: Carlos Malamud Prize exhibition. The prize offers a pathway

Salvatori Fellow Sami Wilde (’24): An Inside Look Into How I Spent My Senior Year at Rollins Museum of Art

Working at the Rollins Museum of Art has been a large part of my time at Rollins College. Before I became the Salvatori Education Fellow, I was a student gallery docent and then a student docent. This means that I

Student Spotlight: Rollins College Student Sophie Foster Shares What It’s Like To Be The Fred W. Hicks Curatorial Fellow at Rollins Museum Of Art

What is it like to work at Rollins Museum of Art? We asked Rollins College Honors Art History Major Sophie Foster ’24 about her experience as the Fred W. Hicks Curatorial Fellow at Rollins Museum of Art. When did you

Join Rollins Museum of Art for FREE family fun at Spring Fling

Enjoy Spring Fling, a FREE day of family fun at Rollins Museum of Art! With indoor and outdoor arts activities, story time, tours, performances and more Spring Fling is the perfect way to spend your Saturday. All events are open

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Lorna Simpson: Artist and Pioneer of Conceptual Photography

A pioneer of conceptual photography, Lorna Simpson is best known for her large-scale works combining images and text. Simpson’s photography often questions and challenges conventional views on gender, sexuality, race, identity, and culture in the United States. Many of her pieces created between 1985 and 1995 incorporate text to complicate the meaning of the image and provide commentary on a variety of issues. Explore Simpson’s works from the Rollins Museum of Art collection

Seven Questions with Elena Vaamonde Work-Study Student at Rollins Museum of Art

As an academic museum, we know how essential hands-on experience is for developing the skills necessary for a successful career. Rollins Museum of Art is proud to offer work-study positions to Rollins College students like Art History and Classical Studies

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Works by American Photographer Carrie Mae Weems in the Rollins Museum of Art Collection

Gain insights into the works of American Photographer Carrie Mae Weems that are featured in the permanent collection at The Rollins Museum of Art.

Carrie Mae Weems (American, b. 1963) Untitled (Woman with Daughter), From the Kitchen Table Series, 1990 Silver prints, triptych 28 1/4 x 28 1/4 inches each. The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art. Gift of Barbara ’68 and Theodore ’68 Alfond, 2014.1.26. © Carrie Mae Weems. Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shaiman Gallery, New York.

Green square painting with white horizontal diamond by Carmen Herrera

Carmen Herrera’s quest for formal simplicity

Carmen Herrera has been described as a “quiet warrior of her art” in her uncompromising commitment to abstraction over decades of scant recognition.(1) Born in Havana in 1915, she later moved to New York and then, in 1948, to Paris,

Work of the Week: Elihu Vedder’s “Superest Invictus Amor”

Elihu Vedder (American, 1836-1923), Superest Invictus Amor (Love Ever Present), 1887, Oil on canvas, 34 ¾ x 12 ¼ inches  As I write this in mid-June, it has been just about thirteen months since my last entry in this blog.

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Rollins Museum of Art’s Free Digital Guide is Now on Bloomberg Connects

You can now explore Rollins Museum of Art on Bloomberg Connects, the free arts and culture app! Download our free digital guide on your phone or tablet for access to audio guides, tours and more! Our digital guide features: Prepare

360 Degree Virtual Views of Rollins Museum of Art Exhibitions Now Available in one Place

As a teaching museum, our goal is to educate by engaging people with works of art. In Fall 2020, Rollins Museum of Art began working with jkthree.com to expand our reach by providing 360 degree virtual views of all museum

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Rollins Museum of Art Acquires a Significant Early 20th century painting by Artist Roger Fry

The Rollins Museum of Art owns a collection of superb examples of works by members of the Bloomsbury Group, a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers, and artists in the early 20th century, most based in London. Among them

Fall Fling: Free Family Day at Rollins Museum of Art

Enjoy Fall Fling, a FREE day of family fun at Rollins Museum of Art! With indoor and outdoor arts activities, story time, tours, performances and more Fall Fling is the perfect way to spend your Saturday. All events are open

Artist Diego Waisman, Pathways 2024: The Carlos Malamud Prize Finalist

Diego Alejandro Waisman is one of only six finalists chosen to have works on view in both the UCF Art Gallery and Rollins Museum of Art as part of the Pathways 2024: Carlos Malamud Prize exhibition. The prize offers a

Listen Now to Using the Art Museum: David Matteson, Associate Curator of Education Joins K12 Art Chat

David Matteson, Associate Curator of Education at Rollins Museum of Art, and Orlando Art Educator, Christy Garton join the Creativity Department on K12 Art Chat the Podcast to change perceptions and help bridge the gap between museums and art educators.

Bronwyn Bayne: My Summer at Rollins Museum of Art 

Bronwyn Bayne describes her Summer Internship at Rollins Museum of Art Looking back on my summer as an Education Intern at the Rollins Museum of Art (RMA), I cannot believe how quickly the time has passed. Over these past few