EVENTS VISUAL ARTS
Albin Polasek Museum & Sculpture Gardens. This lakeside museum, open since 1961, is dedicated to preserving works of the famed Czech sculptor for whom it was both home and studio for more than a decade. On view through December 1 is Tongue in Cheek: Humorous Sculpture. The museum offers tours of Polasek’s home Tuesdays through Saturdays. And it offers tours of the adjacent Capen-Showalter House three times weekly: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:30 a.m., and Saturdays at 10:15 a.m. The Capen-Showalter House, built in 1885, was saved from demolition several years ago and floated across Lake Osceola to its current location on the Polasek’s grounds. Admission is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors, $3 for students and free for children. 633 Osceola Avenue, Winter Park. 407-647-6294. polasek.org. Art & History Museums — Maitland. The Maitland Art Center, one of five museums that anchor the city’s Cultural Corridor, was founded as an art colony in 1937 by visionary artist and architect J. André Smith. The center, located at 231 West Packwood Avenue, Maitland, is Central Florida’s only National Historic Landmark and one of the few surviving examples of Mayan Revival architecture in the Southeast. Admission to the art center’s galleries is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors and students (ages 5 to 17) and free for children age 4 and under. Maitland residents receive a $1 discount. On view through January 5, 2020 at the art center and the nearby Maitland Historical Museum is Sweet, Fresh, Juicy: Florida Oranges in Art and History, which celebrates the region’s most ubiquitous export, from its cultural impact to iconic fruit-crate labels. The Cultural Corridor also includes the Telephone Museum, located within the historical museum at 221 West Packwood Avenue, Maitland, and the Waterhouse Residence Museum and Carpentry Shop Museum, both built in the 1880s and located at 820 Lake Lily Drive, Maitland. 407-539-2181. artandhistory.org. Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art. With more than 19,000 square feet of gallery and public space, the Morse houses the world’s most important collection of Louis Comfort Tiffany creations, including jewelry, pottery, paintings, art glass and an entire chapel interior originally designed and built for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. On view through September 2020 is a major exhibition, Earth into Art — The Flowering of American Art Pottery. The displayed objects, which date from the 1870s to the early 1900s, are drawn from the museum’s collection of American art pottery — one of the largest such collections in the U.S. Also on view is Iridescence — A Celebration, which runs through September 2021. The dazzling display showcases art glass, enamels and pottery of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that replicate the shimmering optical effects previously only found in nature. The museum kicks off the holidays with its first-ever Thanksgiving Open House on November 29, a Friday, with free admission all weekend to launch the season’s festive schedule of free Friday night events. For five subsequent Fridays through December 27, admission will be free from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. with live jazz and classical music from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. In addition, at 7 p.m. on December 6,
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13 and 20, the museum will offer evening tours of the permanent exhibition, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s Laurelton Hall. A special night of family programming on December 13 will include a tour of selected galleries and a resin-casting demonstration with a free take-home art activity for participants. On December 5, the museum and the city will present the 41st annual Christmas in the Park, always a major seasonal highlight. (See “Holidays” on page 86.) Coming up early next year is the museum’s Wednesday Lecture Series, which will include Stories from the Archives: Louis Comfort Tiffany and His Studios, by Jennifer Perry Thalheimer, the museum’s curator and collection manager (January 22, 2020); Jewelry for America, by Beth Carver Wees, curator of decorative American arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (February 19, 2020); Art Nouveau in the United States, by Richard Guy Wilson, chair of the architectural history department, University of Virginia (March 11, 2020); and Artist, Inventor, Activist: Laura Anne Fry and the American Art Pottery Movement, by Laura F. Fry, senior curator of art, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma (April 1, 2020). All lectures are at 2:30 p.m. in the Jeannette G. and Hugh F. McKean Pavilion, located behind the museum. Also looking ahead, the museum will present its “Friday Brown Bag Matinees,” with several film series. First up this winter is “Architectural Stories” (every Friday at noon from January 31, 2020 through February 28, 2020), which highlights important architectural structures from around the world. There is also a spring film series, “Art, Taste or Money,” (April 3 through April 24, also at noon), which explores the world of auctions and auction houses. The films are shown in the Jeannette G. and Hugh F. McKean Pavilion. Attendees are invited to bring a lunch and museum will provide soft drinks and materials related to the films. There is no additional charge for special events unless otherwise indicated. Regular admission to the museum is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, $1 for students and free for children younger than age 12. 445 North Park Avenue, Winter Park. 407-645-5311. morsemuseum.org. Cornell Fine Arts Museum. Located on the campus of Rollins College, the Cornell houses one of the oldest and most eclectic collections of fine art in Florida. Three exhibitions are on view through December 29: African American Art in the 20th Century, a traveling collection of pieces from the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Ut Pictura Poesis: Walt Whitman and the Poetry of Art, which commemorates the bicentennial of the poet’s birth with contemporary artistic responses to his work; and At Leisure: Images of Repose, featuring depictions of casual, private moments at home and in nature from the 17th to early 20th centuries. Ruptures and Remnants: Selections from the Permanent Collection offers material manifestations, from antiquity to the present day, of ruptures ranging from personal crises to nation-state upheavals. Works periodically rotate through this longterm exhibition, which continues through December 31, 2020. Guided tours take place at 1 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays at the nearby Alfond Inn, where a selection of more than 400 works in the museum’s Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art are on view. Happy Hour tours of the Alfond Collection are also conducted on the first
Wednesday of most months at 5:30 p.m. If you prefer historic works, Throwback Thursday tours are offered at the museum from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of most months. Admission is free, courtesy of PNC Financial Services Group. 1000 Holt Avenue, Winter Park. 407-646-2526. rollins.edu/cfam. Crealdé School of Art. Established in 1975, this notfor-profit arts organization on Winter Park’s east side offers year-round visual-arts classes for all ages taught by more than 40 working artists. Admission to the school’s galleries is free, although there are fees for art classes. Currently on view is Collecting for Half a Century: Fine Craft by Definitive Florida Artists, which showcases a variety of works from Florida CraftArt’s permanent collection. Florida CraftArt, a St. Petersburg- based not-for-profit organization that seeks to boost the state’s creative economy by promoting the work of artists who create handmade jewelry and work with such mediums as glass, ceramics, wood and fiber. The exhibition closes January 11, 2020. 600 Saint Andrews Boulevard, Winter Park. 407-671-1886. crealde.org. Hannibal Square Heritage Center. Established in 2007 by the Crealdé School of Art in partnership with residents of Hannibal Square and the City of Winter Park, the center celebrates the city’s historically AfricanAmerican west side with archival photographs, original artwork and oral histories from longtime residents that are together known as the Heritage Collection. Admission is free. On view through January 11 is Soul Utterings, featuring the works of Florida CraftArt members Kianga Jinaki and John Mascoll. Also ongoing is the Hannibal Square Timeline, which documents significant local and national events in African-American history since the Emancipation Proclamation. The center offers a walking tour of Hannibal Square, Now and Then, with Fairolyn Livingston, the center’s chief historian. The tour, offered the third Saturday of each month from 10 to 11:30 a.m., requires reservations; the cost is $10, or $5 for those with student IDs. Historic sites include the Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church, the Welbourne Avenue Nursery & Kindergarten and the Masonic Lodge, all built in the 1920s. 642 West New England Avenue, Winter Park. 407-539-2680. hannibalsquareheritagecenter.org.
PERFORMING ARTS
Annie Russell Theatre. “The Annie,” in continuous operation since 1932, continues its 2019-20 season with The Humans (through October 5). Winner of the 2016 Tony Award for Best Play, The Humans is an eerie portrait of the modern American family that The New York Times described as “blisteringly funny, bruisingly sad and altogether wonderful.” The rest of the season includes Private Lies: Improvised Film Noir (November 15 through 23), The Good Person of Setzuan (February 14 through 22, 2020) and Mamma Mia! (April 17 through 25, 2020). Curtain time for the shows are 8 p.m., 4 p.m. or 2 p.m., depending upon the day of the week. Tickets are $20. 1000 Holt Avenue, Winter Park. 407-646-2145. rollins.edu/annie-russell-theatre. Winter Park Playhouse. Winter Park’s only professional, not-for-profit theater continues its 2019-20 mainstage