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 and tours in English and Spanish, family events, and more!

Exhibitions

What’s New? Recent Acquisitions

Exhibition Tour: Friday, October 11 @ 11am

Hung Liu, (Chinese, 1948 – 2021), Madonna, 2008, Resin and mixed media, 52 X 41 In., The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art. Gift of Barbara ’68 and Theodore ‘68 Alfond, 2023.1.17 © 2023 Hung Liu Estate. Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Critical Reading: Book Arts in Dialogue with the Collection

Abelardo Morell (American, b. 1948) Shiny Books, 2000, Archival pigment print, 50 x 60 in. The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art. Gift of Barbara ‘68 and Theodore ‘68. Alfond. 2013.34.9. Image courtesy of the artist and Carroll and Sons, Boston

The Fantastical Mundane: Selections from the Grasset-Linares Collection

Exhibition Tour Friday, November 22 @ 11am

Juan de Arellano (Spanish, 1614-1676) Still Life of Flowers in Glass Vase, 17th c., Oil on canvas, Long term loan from the Grasset-Linares Collection

Art Encounters: Rethinking My Relationship to the Land

Exhibition Tour: Friday, September 20 @ 11am

Andrew Moore, (American, b. 1957), Whiskey Point, East Kingston (detail), 2022, Archival pigment print, 40 x 50 in., The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art, Rollins Museum of Art. Gift Barbara ’68 and Theodore ’68 Alfond, 2024.1.3. © Andrew Moore, Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York

Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786-1962)

Exhibition Tour: Friday, November 1 @ 11am

Miguel Pou y Becerra, (Puerto Rican, 1880–1968), View from My Studio, Salud 58 (Vista desde mi estudio, Salud 58) [detail], 1930-35, Oil on cardboard, 14.29 x 10.51 in., Museo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc. Gift of Jaime Pou.

Beyond the Surface: Capturing Meaning Through Portraiture

Exhibition Tour: Friday, December 6 @ 11am

Circle of Anthony van Dyck,(Flemish, 1599–1641), Portrait of Henrietta Maria, ca. 1640s, Oil on canvas, 27 x 22 3/4 in., Gift of the Myers Family, Mr. and Mrs. John C. Myers, Jr.’42 and June Reinhold Myers’41 in memory of John C. Myers, Sr., 1962.1

Artist Talks and Lectures

Enjoy Artist Talks and Lectures by experts in their field. All Artist Talks and Lectures are held at Rollins Museum of Art and livestreamed virtually. Attend in person or register to attend virtually.

Artist Talk by Denise Bookwalter

Tuesday, September 17 @ 6pm

Visiting artist Denise Bookwalter delivers an artist talk in connection with the museum’s exhibition Critical Reading: Book Arts in Dialogue with the Collection, which includes one of her artist books.

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THE SOCIETY FOR SPECULATION PRESENTS: The World Ahead – An Interactive Presentation

Friday, September 27 @ 11am

Join artist Rachel Simmons and writer Chrissy Kolaya for a presentation on The World Ahead, their collaborative artists’ book project about prediction, fortune-telling and other ways of guessing the future!

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Exploring the Origins of a Puerto Rican School of Painting through the Collection of Museo de Arte de Ponce

Tuesday, October 8 @ 6pm

Presented by Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón, Curator, Museo de Arte de Ponce and of the exhibition Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce 1786 – 1962, this lecture showcases examples from the museum’s collection, including paintings from Nostalgia for My Island, to illustrate the Museo de Arte de Ponce’s significant role in the history of Puerto Rican Art.

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