2009-2010 HERITAGE CENTER VISITING EXHIBITIONS
JUST ABOVE THE WATER
Florida Folk Art
April 9 through June 26, 2010
Opening reception: Friday April 9
curated by Kristin Congdon and Tina Bucavalas
Just Above the Water looks into the lives of thirty-five Florida folk artists. These artists, in many cases self-taught, show us another perspective of life—one that is inspired by their everyday customs, their working and living environments, and their community traditions.
The thirty-five framed panel exhibit, on loan from The Museum of Florida History in Tallahassee, is based on the book Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art by Kristin Congdon and Tin Bucuvalas. The book is the culmination of a five-year project encompassing thorough on-site research and many hours of interviews with the folk artists. On the opening night, a lecture will be held at adjacent Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptists Church, where attendees will be able to interact with authors and exhibition curators Kritsin Congdon and Tina Bucuvalas.
Opening reception: Friday April 9
curated by Kristin Congdon and Tina Bucavalas
Just Above the Water looks into the lives of thirty-five Florida folk artists. These artists, in many cases self-taught, show us another perspective of life—one that is inspired by their everyday customs, their working and living environments, and their community traditions.
The thirty-five framed panel exhibit, on loan from The Museum of Florida History in Tallahassee, is based on the book Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art by Kristin Congdon and Tin Bucuvalas. The book is the culmination of a five-year project encompassing thorough on-site research and many hours of interviews with the folk artists. On the opening night, a lecture will be held at adjacent Mt. Moriah Missionary Baptists Church, where attendees will be able to interact with authors and exhibition curators Kritsin Congdon and Tina Bucuvalas.
FOLK ART FESTIVAL
In conjunction with Just Above the Water: Florida Folk Art Exhibition, The Hannibal Square Folk Art Festival will be a day-long festival on Saturday, April 10, 2010 of art sales by exhibited artists and select Highwaymen, soul food vendors, jazz musicians and a “Kid Folk” program, which teaches children about folk art through the Just Above the Water exhibition and gives them an opportunity to create works of art using folk art methods. Programming and marketing partners will have representation, including the Winter Park Community Redevelopment Association (CRA), and businesses associations: the Hannibal Square Merchant’s Association, the Winter Park Chamber of Commerce and the African American Chamber of Commerce.
125 WINDOWS INTO HISTORIC COMMUNITY
The Complete Hannibal Square Heritage Collection
July 9 through September 25, Opening reception: Friday, July 9
Visitors—residents, tourists, historians and cultural anthropologists alike--will never have seen 20th century documentation of community like this: The award-winning Heritage Collection: Photographs and Oral Histories of West Winter Park, spanning the 20thcentury, has been growing with each of the six Heritage Collection Days, since 2002. This successful collection has already outgrown its permanent exhibition space—only 90 pieces are displayed at one time. This special exhibition will fill the Heritage Center with the entire 125 pieces that make up The Heritage Collection. The currently displayed collection will be augmented by archived and new pieces from the most recent Phase VI of the collection.
This is history told as “story” from the lips of people who have lived those stories. Images and oral histories depicting everything from daily life to special neighborhood events and rites of passage will teach about the lives and reflections of many of West Winter Park’s African-American families. What was it like to be part of a community where everyone knew each other…at a time when church was part of nearly everyone’s life…when the family’s first car was cause for celebration…and when everyone had to be back on the West Side of the railroad tracks by 5 p.m.…until 1971. These stories answer those questions and reveal much more about the makings of this proud and beautiful community.
In a climate of intense development throughout their home community, The Heritage Collection has been an exhibition that touched a chord and brought together the African-American residents in an unprecedented way. Residents and the city of Winter Park started paying attention. What was once a whisper became a full chorus tuned to preservation and celebration. The neighborhood continues to be developed—but with an eye on the history and heritage of this special place. Visitors will have a chance to see the entirety of a powerful exhibition that was a catalyst for change in the City of Winter Park, who has since named itself “the City of Culture and Heritage.”
Visitors—residents, tourists, historians and cultural anthropologists alike--will never have seen 20th century documentation of community like this: The award-winning Heritage Collection: Photographs and Oral Histories of West Winter Park, spanning the 20thcentury, has been growing with each of the six Heritage Collection Days, since 2002. This successful collection has already outgrown its permanent exhibition space—only 90 pieces are displayed at one time. This special exhibition will fill the Heritage Center with the entire 125 pieces that make up The Heritage Collection. The currently displayed collection will be augmented by archived and new pieces from the most recent Phase VI of the collection.
This is history told as “story” from the lips of people who have lived those stories. Images and oral histories depicting everything from daily life to special neighborhood events and rites of passage will teach about the lives and reflections of many of West Winter Park’s African-American families. What was it like to be part of a community where everyone knew each other…at a time when church was part of nearly everyone’s life…when the family’s first car was cause for celebration…and when everyone had to be back on the West Side of the railroad tracks by 5 p.m.…until 1971. These stories answer those questions and reveal much more about the makings of this proud and beautiful community.
In a climate of intense development throughout their home community, The Heritage Collection has been an exhibition that touched a chord and brought together the African-American residents in an unprecedented way. Residents and the city of Winter Park started paying attention. What was once a whisper became a full chorus tuned to preservation and celebration. The neighborhood continues to be developed—but with an eye on the history and heritage of this special place. Visitors will have a chance to see the entirety of a powerful exhibition that was a catalyst for change in the City of Winter Park, who has since named itself “the City of Culture and Heritage.”
THE ART OF HOPE
A Regional Juried Exhibition
Commemorating the First African American U.S. President, Barack Obama
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A two-venue exhibition held at The Heritage Center and at Crealdé School of Art’s Jenkins Gallery, October 8 through January 15, Opening reception and awards presentation: Friday October 8.
Visual artists from all visual arts mediums, throughout the 9 Southeastern United States (Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana) will be invited to enter this juried exhibition commemorating the significance and the hope surrounding the election and presidency of Barack Obama. |
Entry fee will be $20, and there will be 3 awards and approximately 60 pieces will be selected for exhibition. The juror and curator for this exhibition will be Bobby Scroggins, sculptor and Associate Professor of Art at the University of Kentucky and visiting instructor at Crealdé School of Art.
Complementing this exhibition will be the unveiling of the updated Hannibal Square Timeline, which includes the date of the inauguration of the 44th president and 1st African-American president.
Complementing this exhibition will be the unveiling of the updated Hannibal Square Timeline, which includes the date of the inauguration of the 44th president and 1st African-American president.
BIGGER THAN A SCRAPBOOK
The Talking Quilts of Lauren Austin
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In her art quilts, Austin shares her cultural and family history, her experiences as a U.S. diplomat to South America, and her background as a human and civil rights lawyer and associate law professor at Syracuse University School of Law. A two venue exhibition held at The Heritage Center and at Crealdé School of Art’s Jenkins Gallery, January 15 to March 27.
Austin, a New Smyrna-based African-American quilt maker, “tells stories with her quilts that go to the heart of history in African-American culture.” She creates portraits in fabric that portray lifestyle, political and legal themes relating to the black experience and the African Diaspora worldwide. |
Austin has been a community artist in residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach. She is currently working on a commission depicting a colony of Bahamian freed slaves that will be dedicated in Freeport, Bahamas, this October. Prior to her two-venue exhibition, Austin will be in residency at the Heritage Center for a two-day community workshop, made possible through the 2009 TDT Cultural Tourism grant. She will teach the quilt-making process to Hannibal Square residents—youth to seniors—who will create a family heirloom quilt plus a collaborative quilt, which will be included in the 2010 exhibition and added to the permanent public art collection of the Heritage Center. The two-venue exhibition will feature Austin’s larger quilt works at the Crealdé Jenkins Gallery and her smaller, community-based works at The Heritage Center. An opening reception will be held at both locations from 7 to 10 p.m., beginning with a gallery talk by the artist at Crealdé’s Jenkins Gallery, followed by a live-music reception at The Heritage Center.
