Rollins Museum of Art to Reopen September 14 With Six New Exhibits

- Michelle Snow

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The Rollins Museum of Art (RMA) will reopen on September 14, 2024, with its fall season featuring six new exhibits that will run through January 15, 2025.

The new season, features six exhibitions highlighting work from the museum’s extensive collection, as well as recent acquisitions and special presentations.

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The new exhibits are:

Nostalgia for My Island: Puerto Rican Painting from the Museo de Arte de Ponce (1786–1962)

The exhibition presents together for the first time outside of Puerto Rico, a selection of works from the museum’s collection, including several works by José Campeche y Jordán and Francisco Oller y Cestero, among other towering figures in the history of Puerto Rican art.

Beyond the Surface: Capturing Meaning Through Portraiture

This exhibition brings together a selection of paintings and sculptures by European and American artists from the 16th to the early 20th century. Beyond the obvious visual indicators of social position, these artworks played an important role communicating information about the sitter, reinforcing social or moral values, and shaping perspectives about contemporary society.

Art Encounters: Rethinking My Relationship to the Land

This presentation of Art Encounters is specifically designed for introducing first-year Rollins students to the core principles of a liberal arts education and how these principles may be applied to global challenges like climate change.

The Fantastical Mundane: Selections from the Grasset-Linares Collection

The works in this exhibition illustrate the captivating charm of mundane subjects like flowers, fruits, and the natural terrain. Themes of the inevitability of time passing, the moral goodness of moderation, and the abundance of the natural world emerge from these stunning representations. On long-term loan from The Grasset-Linares Collection, this selection of 11 paintings includes traditional Dutch floral arrangements, rich banquet scenes, and detailed landscapes. This exhibition is guest curated by Sophia Foster ’24, Fred W. Hicks Curatorial Fellow at RMA.

Critical Reading: Book Arts in Dialogue with the Collection

This exhibition explores the ways in which text—whether literally or metaphorically—functions as image and vice versa. Including works by contemporary artists in various media, Critical Reading proposes an alternative approach to objects that address social, political and cultural issues, memory, and storytelling.

What’s New? Recent Acquisitions (Fall 2024 Edition)

This installation features recent acquisitions on a rotating basis, allowing the museum to share some of its new treasures soon after they’ve become part of the collection.

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This season also marks an important moment as RMA adds bilingual didactics to exhibitions providing broader accessibility to visitors.

Visit RMA on Saturday afternoons (September 21–December 14) for docent-led museum tours at 1pm and 3pm, that highlight works from current exhibitions. There will be no tour November 30.

The Fall Exhibition Preview for RMA members will take place September 13, 2024. Open to all RMA members and special guests. Registration required.

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Admission is free to the The Rollins Museum of Art. It is located at 1000 Holt Avenue in Winter Park on the Rollins College campus. Visit Rollins.edu for more information.

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About Michelle Snow

Michelle is the owner and editor of CitySurfing Orlando. She also owns Zengrrl.com, is a freelance writer specializing in travel and entertainment, has authored/co-authored four guidebooks on Orlando and Florida, and was head editor/writer at TheDisneyBlog.com for 10 years. She's lived in Orlando near Walt Disney World since 1995, and still finds there's so much fun to be had in Central Florida.
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