Hello Sophie! Bringing Sophie Blackall’s Picture Book Art to Orlando
Hello Sophie!: The Artwork of Sophie Blackall brings original picture book art by two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall to the Orlando Museum of Art (OMA) through January 3, 2027. Families […]
Floridiana: On Collecting Treasures and Oddities
Written By: Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon Floridiana: Material Culture from the Sunshine State presents over 130 works from Gary Monroe’s extensive collection of Floridiana, painstakingly collected, researched and expanded upon over the […]
Carlton Ward Jr.: Hidden Lands and Waters, Our Unifying Bond
Written By: Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon “This is here. This is Florida.” These words opened my conversation with Carlton Ward Jr. about the images in this exhibition. Simple but insistent, they capture […]
A Look Back at Florida Prize 2025: The Significance of Each Installation
Each year, the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art brings together artists working across Florida, inviting 10 artists or collectives to participate; an invited juror then selects one to receive the […]
COLLECTING MEMORIES: Memorabilia and Collective Memory in Dennis Scholl’s “A Day of Four Sunets”
By Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon, The Dr. James Cottrell & Mr. Joseph Lovett Chief Curator, Orlando Museum of Art, March 2026 “The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons,” observed […]
How NASA Imagery and Space Art Inspires Artists
There’s a physical reaction that just about all of us experience when we see a photograph of Earth from space. Maybe you’ve felt it when you first saw the classic […]
Supporting Local Artists: Why It Matters and How to Start
When you walk into your first museum exhibition, you’re expecting to stay for maybe ten minutes. You’re not sure what you’re supposed to do, or if you’re even allowed to […]
Building the Picture: Sets, Sculpture, and the Theater of Photography
A large-scale photograph is more than just an image; it’s an immersive experience utilizing surface, sheen, backdrop, or gesture. In constructed photography, images are deliberately crafted through planning, fabrication, lighting, […]
Photograph or Performance? When Images Become Events
The recognizable shape of Doja Cat in a striking orange dress, frozen in mid-gesture, one hand on her forehead, next to a dark wheeled horse sculpture. Dramatic arches glowing with […]
The World According to LaChapelle
By: Coralie Claeysen-GleyzonThe Dr. James Cottrell & Mr. Joseph Lovett Chief Curator, Orlando Museum of Art David LaChapelle’s images breathe, pulse, and exult with an unexplainable élan; an infusion of […]