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The Hannibal Square Heritage Center Blog

The Hannibal Square Heritage Center was established in 2007 by Crealdé School of Art, in partnership with residents from the Hannibal Square community (west Winter Park) and the City of Winter Park. It is a tribute to the past, present, and future contributions of Winter Park’s historic African American community.

The Heritage Center hosts the award-winning Heritage Collection: Photographs and Oral Histories of West Winter Park, a permanent, museum-quality exhibition of over 100 framed, archival pieces that capture the lives of Winter Park’s African-American community spanning the 20th century, and The Hannibal Square Timeline which documents significant local and national events in African American history since the Emancipation Proclamation.

The center also offers a rotating Visiting Exhibition Series, community-created public art installations, as well as educational programs and that explore the African American experience, black heritage, cultural preservation, and southern folklore.

Experience a history told
by the people who have lived it!


Events and Exhibitions

Permanent Collection:

The Heritage Collection: Photographs and Oral Histories of West Winter Park
A unique exhibition of history told by the residents who lived it.

Permanent Collection

Visiting Exhibition:


July 9 to September 25
125 Windows Into A Historic Community: The Complete Heritage Collection. This extraordinary 20th century documentation of community will fill the entire Heritage Center with 125 pieces that make up the award-winning Heritage Collection: Photographs and Oral Histories of West Winter Park—the result of six research phases since 2002. Curated by Peter Schreyer, this exhibition reveals a portrait of African American community, bound by the laws of segregation until 1971 and united by love, faith and achievement. Come see the makings of this proud community!

CALL FOR WORKS OF ART
Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, Florida, is accepting visual art submissions from adult and youth artists in 2-D and 3-D that interpret and reflect the historic, social and global significance of the election of Barack Obama as the first African American U.S. President. Artists are encouraged to broadly interpret or confront the significance of this historic election and the idea and impact of hope as a spiritual, social, political and environmental force. Click here for entry form

Upcoming Events:

 

The Art of Hope: a Southeast Regional Juried Exhibition Commemorating the First African American U.S. President, Barack Obama from October 8, 2010 to January 17, 2011. This two venue exhibition will be held at Crealdé School of Art’s Alice and William Jenkins Gallery and at The Hannibal Square Heritage Center Visiting Exhibition Gallery in Winter Park’s historic African American community. Both adult and young artists will present works in 2-D and 3-D to reflect the social and global significance of the election of Barack Obama as the first African American U.S. President. Between 40 and 60 pieces will be chosen by juror and curator Bobby Scroggins, sculptor and Associate Professor of Art at the University of Kentucky and visiting instructor at Crealdé School of Art.