Location: Around Orlando
A GUIDE TO ART IN ORLANDO (2015-2016)
AUGUST 2015
–Florida Prize in Contemporary Art 2015
Orlando Museum of Art
June 12 – September 6, 2015
http://omart.org/
-Call to Artists – Sight Unseen: Touchable Sculpture
June 25, 2015 at 6pm to September 18, 2015 at 11:45pm
The Polasek Museum
Application Deadline: Friday, September 18, 2015
The Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens is now accepting submissions for the 2015-2016 Exhibition “Sight Unseen: Touchable Sculpture”
http://www.orlandoslice.com/events/call-for-artists-sight-unseen-touchable-sculpture
-Call to Mural Artists
July 14, 2015 at 6pm to September 1, 2015 at 10am
Sam Flax Art Store
Sam Flax is looking for Mural Artists to participate in the Flax Wall Project, an event extravaganza taking place this October.
http://www.orlandoslice.com/events/call-to-mural-artists
–AirBorne Desire
July 23, 2015 at 11am to August 15, 2015 at 6pm
CityArts Factory
A Solo Exhibition by Jonathan Yubi, AirBorne Desire is a body of work that defines Jonathan Yubi’s continued growth and interpretation of love and lust, the process of conquering and understanding.
http://www.orlandoslice.com/events/airborne-desire
-Boarded Up 4 – The Art of Skateboarding
August 20, 2015 at 6pm to September 12, 2015 at 6pm
CityArts Factory
“Boarded up 4” The Art of Skateboarding
http://www.orlandoslice.com/events/boarded-up-4-the-art-of-skateboarding
-UCF Theatre: Side Show Performance – August 29, 2015 – 4-6PM
UCF Art Gallery
“A Look at the Side Show” – written and directed by Be Boyd and John Shafer.
An entertaining and poignant performance piece that portrays the challenging lives of real side show performers.
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/2015/07/20/ucf-theatre-side-show-performance/
-BAM! It’s a Picture Book: The Art Behind Graphic Novels
Orlando Museum of Art
August 8 – November 1, 2015
http://omart.org/
-Darkroom to Digital: Photography from the OMA Collection
Orlando Museum of Art
Opens August 22, 2015
http://omart.org/
-Art That Speaks: Exploring the Visual Language of African Art
Orlando Museum of Art
Opens August 22, 2015
http://omart.org/
SEPTEMBER 2015
– Breaking Boundaries, ACA – Sept 3-25, 2015 (opening reception 9/3, 6-8pm)
UCF Art Gallery
Selections from the collection of Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, FL.
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/breaking-boundaries/
–Central Florida Film Festival – September 4-6th, 2015
The Central Florida Film Festival is dedicated to educating, promoting and showcasing film media talent & expose Florida residents to the cultural importance.
Labor Day weekend
West Orange Cinemas
Ocoee, Florida
(407) 370-3703
http://www.centralfloridafilmfestival.com/
–Guitars in the Gallery – September 5, 2015 – 4:00pm – 6:00pm
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/event/guitars-in-the-gallery/
Guitars in the Gallery // A Blend of Sight and Sound
w/ BEEMO at the UCF Art Gallery.
Listen Here: www.mynameisbeemo.com
FREE Admission
All Ages
–Second Nature: A Survey – September 9 – December 18, 2015
Southeast Museum of Photography – Daytona State College
Exhibition Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9th, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Artist Lecture and Reception: Friday, October 2nd, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Brad Temkin is an award winning Chicago-based photographer who has been documenting human and environmental relationships throughout his career in photography. This exhibition delves into four bodies of work from the past 10 years.
-Albin Polasek Museum: Student Night – Thurs. Sept 10, 2015 – 5-8PM
Keeping it Current in the OC: LIVE Art Happening, Student Night, OC Art Legends Exhibition, and OC Homeless Advocacy!!
Cover: $5.00 (Refreshments and cash bar) Students are FREE with valid student ID card!
Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens 633 Osceola Avenue, Winter Park, FL 32789
http://www.polasek.org/
-Art In Odd Places Orlando – September 17-20, 2015
AIOP 2015: TONE Orlando
Presenting: Visual and Performance Art in Unexpected Spaces.
http://Artinoddplaces.org/Orlando
-ARTIST TALK : Katya Grokhovsky – Friday, September 18, 2015
http://www.katyagrokhovsky.net/
New York based interdisciplinary artist and curator, Katya Grokhovsky’s work deals with issues of alienation, gender politics and migration, through the
combination of performance, sculpture, installation, video, photography, painting and drawing. She will discuss her art practice and her ongoing project “Status Update”, which will be performed live during Art in Odd Places Festival, Orlando from 17th-20th September 2015.
UCF Art Gallery 10:00 am
-Lydia Lunch Artist Talk at Gallery at Avalon Island
September 20, 2015 from 1pm to 2pm
Gallery at Avalon Island
Lydia Lunch Artist Talk at Gallery at Avalon Island LYDIA LUNCH
So Real It Hurts Exhibit Runs 9/17/15 – 10/9/15
SPECIAL EVENTS: Thursday, 9/17/15 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm
http://www.orlandoslice.com/events/lydia-lunch-artist-talk-at-gallery-at-avalon-island
-MecaModern – September 26 – December 6, 2015
Orlando Museum of Art
http://omart.org/
-Harold Garde: From Mid-Century to This Century
September 26, 2015 – January 3, 2016
Orlando Museum of Art
http://omart.org/
– WITNESS: Picturing Social Justice – Sept 27-Oct 9, 2015.
UCF Art Gallery
Opening Sun. Sept 27 @ 3pm
A photo exhibition in conjunction with Global Peace Film Festival.
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/witness-picturing-social-justice/
OCTOBER 2015
-ORLANDO IX – October 2-6, 2015
101 S. Garland Avenue, Suite 108
Orlando, Florida 32801
Phone: (321) 622-2900
Five epic days of learning, playing, connecting & digital innovation
http://orlandoix.com
-ART & ALGORITHMS
A Digital Arts Festival
October 5-11, 2015
Titusville, FL
http://artandalgorithms.com/
-SVAD Faculty Exhibition – Oct 15-30, 2015 (opening reception 10/15,6-8pm)
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/ucf-faculty-show-2/
The University of Central Florida Art Gallery is proud to present a dynamic new exhibit of artworks by the faculty of the School of Visual Arts and Design. These professional artists have received both national and international recognition for their engaging and thought-provoking creations.
-On Assignment – October 16, 2015 – February 7, 2016
Southeast Museum of Photography – Daytona State College
Artist Lecture and Reception: Friday, October 16th, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Robert Snow is a Central Florida based editorial and advertising photographer whose work spans multiple genres and styles: from editorial portraits and lifestyle spreads to action sports. In 2013, he took an assignment with OCEARCH, a non-profit organization dedicated to apex predator education and research, emphasizing shark migration patterns.
-Animalia – October 16, 2015 – February 7, 2016
Southeast Museum of Photography – Daytona State College
Artist Lecture and Reception: Friday, February 5th, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Animalia is a body of work by noted photographer Henry Horenstein in which he presents elegant and engaging representations of an eclectic mix of land animals and sea creatures, emphasizing their unique qualities and characteristics through his evocative and mysterious images.
-Creative City Orlando
Artists can change a city for the better by making it a more beautiful, meaningful and interesting place to live. In 2015, we continue to contribute to a thriving arts community by creating meaningful experiences you can’t have anywhere else.
October 17, 2015, 5:00PM
Downtown Orlando
http://creativecityproject.com
-Orlando Film Fest
Our mission is to support the cause of independent cinema and to promote culture and the arts in Downtown Orlando by exposing a wide audience to the unique and diverse stories told by independent filmmakers from around the world.
October 21-25, 2015
Executive Director, Daniel Springen: dspringen@orlandofilmfest.com
Submit: Orlando Film Festival
5131 Gramont Ave
Orlando, FL 32812
http://orlandofilmfest.com/
NOVEMBER 2015
-Prescribing Art: Glenn Grishkoff & Brian Ransom – Nov.5- Dec. 20, 2015
UCF Art Gallery
(opening reception 10/5, 6-8pm) https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/prescribing-art/
– A 21 year survivor of cancer, and now cancer-free thanks to innovative new treatment, Grishkoff is a beacon for others, communicating the power of creativity amidst difficult odds and utterly human role the arts can play in personal and collective healing. The artist uses white natural felt mixed with his own hair as a symbol of Hairy Cell Leukemia and the act of healing without living in fear.
– Brian Ransom uses sound for healing purposes. Brian Ransom performs and exhibits his sound works internationally, and lives in St. Petersburg, Florida. He teaches ceramics and sculpture at Eckerd College.
-ARTIST TALK: Heidi Neilson – November 6, 2015
An artist talk on: satellites, space junk, and Martian cuisine at the UCF Art Gallery.
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/artist-talk-heidi-neilson
Time: TBA
Open to the public
http://heidineilson.com/
-Festival of Trees
Orlando Museum of Art
November 13-22, 2015
http://omart.org/
-1889 Paris World Fair Re-Staged – November 19, 2015
11:30 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.
Join us in the UCF Art Gallery for a re-staging of the 1889 Paris World Fair. Come meet Bouguereau, Seurat, Gauguin, Cézanne, Van Gogh, the Impressionists, and many others.Enjoy refreshments while experiencing the first Reacting to the Past (RTTP) game played at the University of Central Florida.
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/1889-paris-world-fair-re-staged/
-Piano Concert by R. Andrew Lee – November 24, 2015
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/piano-concert-by-r-andrew-lee/
7:00pm (FREE)
Piano concert by R. Andrew Lee in collaboration with TD Anderson and Music UCF
http://randrewlee.com/home.html
-I/ITSEC
The world’s largest modeling, simulation, and training conference
November 30 – December 4, 2015
Orlando, FL
http://iitsec.org
JANUARY 2016
-Steinunn Thorarinsdottir: Horizons
Orlando Museum of Art
Through January 31, 2016
http://omart.org/
-Otronicon
Orlando Science Center
Serious gamer? Or simply curious?
Orlando’s biggest interactive technology expo!
Innovations of the digital revolution.
January 8-20, 2016
http://otronicon.org
-The Encounter: Baalu Girma and Zora Neale Hurston
Jan 11-Feb 12, 2016
(opening, Jan. 14 6-8pm)
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/the-encounter-baalu-girma-and-zora-neale-hurston/
UCF Art Gallery is proud to have been invited (for the first time!) to be part of ZORA! 2016. The Encounter: Zora Neale Hurston and Baalu Girma, which proposes a fictional encounter between Hurston and Baalu Girma, the celebrated Ethiopian novelist and journalist whose untimely death in 1984 has been attributed to government agents. UCF Art Gallery will be an open forum for conversations about what these writers had in common. These curated conversations will be presented by scholars of Rollins College, UCF, Seminole College and invited speakers.
-Quaking Aspen – January 22 – April 17, 2016
Southeast Museum of Photography – Daytona State College
In the 1970’s, the late photographer and educator Gary Metz generated a significant body of work that was very much in the spirit of the times. Metz’s Quaking Aspen: a Lyric Complaint challenged the first 100 years of landscape photography, which had placed a major emphasis on depicting nature as sublime, heroic, and unspoiled.
-Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment
January 23 – April 24, 2016
Orlando Museum of Art
http://omart.org/
FEBRUARY 2016
-DO IT! – Feb. 17-26, 2016.
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/do-it/
A group exhibition of works produced by students and faculty according to instructional procedures written by some of the greatest figures in contemporary art. DO IT! was conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. For the University of Central Florida version of the exhibition, students and faculty in the will come together to build an exhibition from scratch over the course of two weeks, following directions from world-renowned artists including Yoko Ono, Sol Lewitt, Louise Bourgeois, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres.
Want to do it? Email: keri.watson@ucf.edu
or yulia.tikhonova@ucf.edu
-Antiques Vintage and Garden Show
February 18 – 21, 2016
Orlando Museum of Art
http://omart.org/
MARCH 2016
-Artist Talk: Josiah McElheny
UCF Art Gallery
Josiah McElheny will talk about his work at the Gallery on Thursday, March 2, 2016 as part of his Master Artist Residency at ACA
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/event/josiah-mcelheny/
-Annual MFA Exhibition – March 3-24, 2016
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/annual-m-f-a-exhibition/
Graduating Masters in Fine Art students will display their work and defend their Thesis’.
-Art Legends of Orange County: Paintings by Steve Lotz
Orlando Museum of Art
March 12 – June 5, 2016
http://omart.org/
-InFlux Exhibition Series: Will Cotton
Orlando Museum of Art
March 12 – June 5, 2016
http://omart.org/
-Bring your Own Beamer (BYOB) – March 28- April 8, 2016
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/bring-your-own-beamer/
This exhibition will host digital artists and their projectors. BYOB is a celebration of the new world we live in and a glimpse of what computing could look like in the future. Projections are very flexible and create a freedom to react to each others works, move things around, and create a dynamic collaborative experience. With Nathan Selikoff, Kate Schultz, Michael Forrest, SVAD students.
APRIL 2016
-The Florida Film Festival
The Florida Film Festival is an Oscar®-qualifying festival, premiering the best in current, independent, and international cinema.
Presented by Enzian, Central Florida’s full-time, not-for-profit alternative cinema, which seeks to entertain, inspire, educate, and connect the community through film.
April, 2016
www.floridafilmfestival.com
-UCF Celebrates The Arts!
UCF Celebrates the Arts is a free, family-friendly festival at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, showcasing the university’s best in theater, music, dance, and visual and digital arts to the Central Florida community.
April 7-17, 2016 @ DPAC
www.drphillipscenter.org
-Annual B.F.A Exhibition – April 11-30, 2016
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/annual-b-f-a-exhibition/
Graduating Bachelors in Fine Art students will display their work in the gallery.
This year we will hold two exhibits for our exiting BFA Candidates.
exhibit 1 dates: April 11th – 20th, 2016
exhibit 2 dates: April 23rd – 30th, 2016
-International Fringe Festival
Loch Haven Park/ Orlando Museum of Art
The mission of the Orlando Fringe is to provide an accessible, affordable outlet that draws diverse elements of the community together and inspires creative excellence through the arts.
May, 2016
407-648-0077
http://orlandofringe.org
-STEAM, group exhibition – May 04-10, 2016
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/s-t-e-a-m-exhibition/
The STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) initiative brings together science and arts faculty members and their students to create paintings, sculptures, drawings and posters that illustrate the complex research of genetic coding, theoretical physics and other topics for a broad audience.
-MFA Film, group exhibition – May 12-15, 2016
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/mfa-film-exhibition/
Graduating Masters of Fine Art Film candidates will be displaying their work and defending their thesis’ at the UCF Art Gallery.
-Florida Prize in Contemporary Art 2016
Orlando Museum of Art
May 14 – August 7, 2016
http://omart.org/
-Society for Photographic Education
May 18-June 10, 2016
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/society-for-photographic-education/
The Society for Photographic Education is a nonprofit membership organization that provides a forum for the discussion of photography and related media as a means of creative expression and cultural insight. The society seeks to promote a broader understanding of the medium in all its forms, and to foster the development of its practice, teaching, scholarship and criticism.
-Florida Noir: Sunny Place for Shady People – July 28-Aug 31, 2016
UCF Art Gallery
https://cah.ucf.edu/gallery/exhibit/florida-noir-sunny-place-for-shady-people/
This group exhibition explores the paradox of Florida’s image – as a ‘sunny place for shady people’ – through the work of contemporary artists, musicians and writers. Selections from the Florida Memory collection, including “Filming Florida: Images of the Sunshine State”, will be curated, focusing on representations of distinctive Florida Communities and the traditional cultures that flourish there.
Ongoing Exhibitions at Orlando Museum of Art
-People and Places:
American Art From The Orlando Museum Of Art Collection
Continuing Exhibition
http://omart.org/
-J. Hyde Crawford and Anthony Tortora Collection
Continuing Exhibition
http://omart.org/
-Contemporary Abstract Painting and Sculpture
Continuing Exhibition
http://omart.org/
-A Trek from North to South:
Exploring the Art of the Ancient Americas
Continuing Exhibition
http://omart.org/
-Contemporary Outdoor Sculpture
Continuing Exhibition
http://omart.org/
-Contemporary American Graphics Exhibitions
Placed in public places throughout Central Florida
http://omart.org/