“Coco” Inspired Ofrenda

It’s time for the big reveal! As you know, from a few hints posted to this blog, I was invited to contribute a piece to the 3rd Annual Wine Box Art Show benefiting the Zebra Coalition of Orlando.  This fantastic fundraiser is organized by the owners of The Barefoot Spa to raise money for the […]

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Dangerous Women

Join me for an art meet up at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum that is FREE for members of the Winter Garden Art Association and $10 for nonmembers.  I will lead our group through a unique and atypical tour of their new exhibition, “Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.”  […]

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Return to Mount Dora

The Wandering Art Historian wanders back to Mount Dora, FL this October with a very special Dine & Learn presentation titled, “Brushing Up on Impressionism.”  This lecture celebrates the movement that changed the art world forever and continues to inspire to this very day. “Brushing Up on Impressionism!” Dine & Learn in Mount Dora, FL […]

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Fall Lecture Preview #3

Next month I am debuting a brand new lecture series that I am thrilled to be sharing with all of you titled, “How to Read a Painting.”  Hosted by the Winter Garden Art Association, this series will run for three weeks in October and cover the topics COLOR, SYMBOLS and STORIES in art.  This will […]

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Nick Cave #3

I saw my third Nick Cave Soundsuit in October of 2015 while visiting Washington, D.C.  This city is pure heaven if you love museums as much as I do… and they are all free!  At the end of a long day, I found myself wandering towards Chinatown and even though I was tired and starving, […]

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Nick Cave #2

I saw my second Nick Cave Soundsuit by complete accident.  I visited Las Vegas for the first time in 2015 and was wandering through the Bellagio when I nearly ran right into a Soundsuit in a glass display case in the middle of the walkway.  I stopped dead in my tracks and stared.  I couldn’t […]

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Nick Cave #1

I saw my first Nick Cave Soundsuit on December 31st, 2014.  We were celebrating New Year’s Eve at an event at the Orlando Museum of Art and I was captivated by this piece from 2011.  It is a phenomenal sight to see in person – there are so many objects to discover in this one […]

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Carlos Betancourt

Carlos Betancourt is an artist who was recently featured in the 2018 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art.  His pieces are not only eye-catching, but mesmerizing works of art that keep the viewer hypnotized for a seemingly endless amount of time.  Each piece is overflowing with brightly colored found […]

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Kenya (Robinson)

Kenya (Robinson)’s work was not only featured in the 2018 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art exhibition at the Orlando Museum of Art… she also took home the top prize for this year’s event.  I was so moved by the messages in her work – commentaries on the corporate nature of life, the consumerist qualities of […]

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