A trip back to the beginning
The following is an excerpt from an article published on February 25, 2024, by the Orlando Sentinel.
A couple of lines in nondescript type don’t particularly stand out in a 1924 newspaper clipping:
“ART ASSOCIATION NOTICE: There will be a meeting at the library on Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock for the purpose of organizing an Art Association. All who can and are interested, please attend.”
But those simple sentences paved the way for what today, 100 years later, is the Orlando Museum of Art.
A long-ago volunteer carefully labeled the clip “The Beginning” and pasted it into a scrapbook, today brittle with age, that provides a fascinating look into both the museum’s origins and the era of its founding.