Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
Events at this location
february
09feb6:00 pm7:00 pmNative Visual Culture | Lecture by Dr. Denise Cummings6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Join us for a new lecture coinciding with the exhibition In Conversation: Will Wilson given by Dr. Denise Cummings! The exhibition,
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Time
(Thursday) 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
12feb12:30 pm2:30 pmFree Family Funday12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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Every second Sunday of the month is Free Family Funday! For the month of January, we will be making our own artist volumes using a very easy bookbinding method. These volumes
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Every second Sunday of the month is Free Family Funday!
For the month of January, we will be making our own artist volumes using a very easy bookbinding method. These volumes will be a place where you can display your art, photographs, sketches, or anything that you feel represents you!
For more information and past projects visit: mennellomuseum.org/freefamilyfunday
Time
(Sunday) 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
Organizer
Mennello Museum
25feb6:00 pmAn Evening with Fabulous Friends6:00 pm
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Join us for an art-inspired evening under the stars at the Mennello Museum for art, music, the exhibition opening of Impression and Reality, a cocktail reception, a fine
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Join us for an art-inspired evening under the stars at the Mennello Museum for art, music, the exhibition opening of Impression and Reality, a cocktail reception, a fine art auction, champagne, dinner, and dessert!
FEBRUARY 25, 2023 | 6PM
TICKETS | $275 PER PERSON
Featuring 2023 Fabulous Friends Artist Donna Dowless.
In 2007, Mayor Buddy Dyer bestowed Donna Dowless with the title of Orlandoʼs Ambassador of Love. Dowless is known for having distributed over 10,000 “blessing cards,” which are miniature prints of her artwork The Colors of Love that represent a healing message: to take time to see love all around us.

Featuring Orlando Artists
JOHN BAKER • MARY BEL • MINDY COLTON • DONNA DOWLESS • MIMI HWANG • MARLENE LONDON • JON NAPOLES • ANNE OLENEK • LOURA PARKS DOBBS • NINA RAMOS TRAVLOS • PAUL SCARBOROUGH
Sponsors
AN EVENING WITH FABULOUS FRIENDS RAISES IMPORTANT FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE MUSEUM’S EXHIBITION AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

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Sponsorship opportunities are available and provide the opportunity for individuals, foundations, and corporations to introduce new friends to the remarkable Mennello Museum of American Art while enriching the greater Orlando community with support for the museum’s welcoming education program and its exceptional standing as a burgeoning center for art, culture, education, and excitement for all. Click the link below for more information on sponsorships.
Thank you to our Arts Event Committee
Laura Cosgrove, Committee Chair
Sharon Line Clary
Anna Cochran
Flynn Dobbs
Joan Giles
Jeff Gitto
Glen Gentile
Sarah Grafton
Carina Sexton Graham
Jim Hobart
Annetta Igou
Mary C. Kenny
Katie Lehr
Greg Mason
Genean McKinnon
Alex McKinnon Preisser
Kamille Richards
Kim Strong
Shannon Fitzgerald, Executive Director
Time
(Saturday) 6:00 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
march
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THE ARTIST’S GARDEN: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM Directed by Phil Grabsky. Narrated by Gillian Anderson. Running time: 87 minutes Taking its lead from French artists
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THE ARTIST’S GARDEN: AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM
Directed by Phil Grabsky. Narrated by Gillian Anderson.
Running time: 87 minutes
Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about its art as a creative power-house. It’s a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios, gardens and iconic locations throughout the United States, UK and France, this mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes.
In 1886, the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel brought a selection of his huge stock of impressionist paintings to New York, changing the course of art in America forever. American artists flocked to the French village of Giverny, home to the master impressionist Claude Monet, and cheered the French new wave: painting outdoors with a new found brilliance and vitality. As Europe recoiled against the work of Monet, Degas and Renoir, Americans embraced it and created their own style of impressionism.
The timing of Durand-Ruel’s transformative visit was perfect. As America steamed into the Industrial Age, urban reformers fought to create public parks and gardens: patches of beauty amid smokestacks and ash heaps. These gardens provided unlimited inspiration for artists and a never-ending oasis for the growing middle class, made up of increasingly independent women, who relished the writings of English horticulturalists Gertrude Jekyll and William Robinson. Meanwhile the rise of wide-circulation magazines cultivated the idea that gardening was a path to spiritual renewal amid industrial blight and the belief that artists should work in native landscapes.
As America made its epic move from a nation of farmers to a land of factories, the pioneering American Impressionists crafted a sumptuous visual language that told the story of an era.
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism features the sell-out exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920 that began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut.
Time
(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
12mar12:30 pm2:30 pmFree Family Funday12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
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Every second Sunday of the month is Free Family Funday! For the month of January, we will be making our own artist volumes using a very easy bookbinding method. These volumes
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Every second Sunday of the month is Free Family Funday!
For the month of January, we will be making our own artist volumes using a very easy bookbinding method. These volumes will be a place where you can display your art, photographs, sketches, or anything that you feel represents you!
For more information and past projects visit: mennellomuseum.org/freefamilyfunday
Time
(Sunday) 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
Organizer
Mennello Museum
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Katherine Page, Curator of Art and Education at the Mennello Museum of American Art will be presenting a lecture on the curatorial ideas and highlights behind our latest exhibition, Impression
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Katherine Page, Curator of Art and Education at the Mennello Museum of American Art will be presenting a lecture on the curatorial ideas and highlights behind our latest exhibition, Impression and Reality.
Join us for this event contextualizing the paintings on view, which span the time period of both American Impressionism and American Realism.
Katherine Page is a curator and educator with an established understanding and appreciation for art, cultural diversity, education, and community outreach all of which inform her curatorial and educational initiatives. Page has been responsible for designing instructional and interactive text, special programming, workshops, and tours that empower visitors of all backgrounds, ages and skill levels to make personal connections with exhibitions while exploring artistic methods.
Special exhibitions Page has curated include “Contemporary Expressions: Prints from Flying Horse Editions 1996-2021” (2022), “The Grand Portraits of Mr. Eddy Mumma” (2021), “American Artists in the Southwest: Gifts from the Melanson Holt Collection” with “American Paintings and Drawings from the Melanson Holt Collection” (2021, catalogue with essay), “Immersion into Compounded Time and the Paintings of Firelei Báez” (2019, catalogue with essay), “The Unbridled Paintings of Lawrence H. Lebduska” (2019, catalogue with essay), “Earl Cunningham” (2019), “John Baker: Mind Wealth” (2019), “Our Collection” (“Appreciating the Everyday” 2022, “Ephemeral” 2021, “Visionary Form in Southern Black Folk Art” 2021, “Portrait of a Woman” 2021), “Our Orlando” (“Construct” 2020, “Making Sense of Our World” 2018, 2017), and American Youth (“Cause” 2020, “Future” 2018, “Identity” 2017).
Time
March 25 (Saturday) 11:00 am - May 20 (Saturday) 12:00 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
april
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Katherine Page, Curator of Art and Education at the Mennello Museum of American Art will be presenting a lecture on the curatorial ideas and highlights behind our latest exhibition, Impression
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Katherine Page, Curator of Art and Education at the Mennello Museum of American Art will be presenting a lecture on the curatorial ideas and highlights behind our latest exhibition, Impression and Reality.
Join us for this event contextualizing the paintings on view, which span the time period of both American Impressionism and American Realism.
Katherine Page is a curator and educator with an established understanding and appreciation for art, cultural diversity, education, and community outreach all of which inform her curatorial and educational initiatives. Page has been responsible for designing instructional and interactive text, special programming, workshops, and tours that empower visitors of all backgrounds, ages and skill levels to make personal connections with exhibitions while exploring artistic methods.
Special exhibitions Page has curated include “Contemporary Expressions: Prints from Flying Horse Editions 1996-2021” (2022), “The Grand Portraits of Mr. Eddy Mumma” (2021), “American Artists in the Southwest: Gifts from the Melanson Holt Collection” with “American Paintings and Drawings from the Melanson Holt Collection” (2021, catalogue with essay), “Immersion into Compounded Time and the Paintings of Firelei Báez” (2019, catalogue with essay), “The Unbridled Paintings of Lawrence H. Lebduska” (2019, catalogue with essay), “Earl Cunningham” (2019), “John Baker: Mind Wealth” (2019), “Our Collection” (“Appreciating the Everyday” 2022, “Ephemeral” 2021, “Visionary Form in Southern Black Folk Art” 2021, “Portrait of a Woman” 2021), “Our Orlando” (“Construct” 2020, “Making Sense of Our World” 2018, 2017), and American Youth (“Cause” 2020, “Future” 2018, “Identity” 2017).
Time
March 25 (Saturday) 11:00 am - May 20 (Saturday) 12:00 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
06apr6:30 pm8:00 pmMovies at the Mennello: The Art of Making It6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
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THE ART OF MAKING IT From the producer of the Emmy-nominated The Price of Everything,
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THE ART OF MAKING IT
From the producer of the Emmy-nominated The Price of Everything, a film about who gets seen and who gets left behind in today’s seductive, secretive and unregulated art world. The film follows a diverse group of compelling young artists on the brink of unimaginable success or failure as they challenge systems, break barriers and risk it all with the goal of making it in an industry where all the rules are currently being rewritten.
Time
(Thursday) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
09apr12:30 pm2:30 pmFree Family Funday12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Event Details
Every second Sunday of the month is Free Family Funday! For the month of January, we will be making our own artist volumes using a very easy bookbinding method. These volumes
more
Event Details
Every second Sunday of the month is Free Family Funday!
For the month of January, we will be making our own artist volumes using a very easy bookbinding method. These volumes will be a place where you can display your art, photographs, sketches, or anything that you feel represents you!
For more information and past projects visit: mennellomuseum.org/freefamilyfunday
Time
(Sunday) 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
Organizer
Mennello Museum
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Noted American Impressionist painter Frederick Carl Frieseke moved to northeast Florida in 1881 at the age of seven. Along with his father and sister, they lived in Floral Bluff, then
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Noted American Impressionist painter Frederick Carl Frieseke moved to northeast Florida in 1881 at the age of seven. Along with his father and sister, they lived in Floral Bluff, then outside the Jacksonville city limits, but now centrally located across the St. Johns River from downtown. The young boy was enchanted with his new surroundings. His family stayed four years before returning to Michigan. Although he would not return, Frieseke never forgot his time on the First Coast. In his mid-40s, while living in France, he created a series of watercolors and paintings inspired by his childhood. Hear about Florida through Frieseke’s eyes from Holly Keris, the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens’ J. Wayne & Delores Barr Weaver Chief Curator.
Holly Keris is the J. Wayne & Delores Barr Weaver Chief Curator at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens. She has been with the Cummer Museum since 2003, where she stewards the institution’s cultural assets. Holly strives to bring the Museum’s permanent collection, exhibitions, and historic gardens to life for the broader community every day, as places of respite, inspiration, and conversation.
She received undergraduate degrees in History and Humanities from Stetson University in DeLand, Florida, and a graduate degree in the History of Art from the University of Virginia. She is also completing a Certificate in Organizational Behavior through Harvard University’s extension program. Prior to joining the staff at the Cummer Museum, Holly worked at the Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando, and for the City of Orlando’s Public Art Program. She also spent three years as Curator of Collections at the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach.
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Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
may
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Katherine Page, Curator of Art and Education at the Mennello Museum of American Art will be presenting a lecture on the curatorial ideas and highlights behind our latest exhibition, Impression
more
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Katherine Page, Curator of Art and Education at the Mennello Museum of American Art will be presenting a lecture on the curatorial ideas and highlights behind our latest exhibition, Impression and Reality.
Join us for this event contextualizing the paintings on view, which span the time period of both American Impressionism and American Realism.
Katherine Page is a curator and educator with an established understanding and appreciation for art, cultural diversity, education, and community outreach all of which inform her curatorial and educational initiatives. Page has been responsible for designing instructional and interactive text, special programming, workshops, and tours that empower visitors of all backgrounds, ages and skill levels to make personal connections with exhibitions while exploring artistic methods.
Special exhibitions Page has curated include “Contemporary Expressions: Prints from Flying Horse Editions 1996-2021” (2022), “The Grand Portraits of Mr. Eddy Mumma” (2021), “American Artists in the Southwest: Gifts from the Melanson Holt Collection” with “American Paintings and Drawings from the Melanson Holt Collection” (2021, catalogue with essay), “Immersion into Compounded Time and the Paintings of Firelei Báez” (2019, catalogue with essay), “The Unbridled Paintings of Lawrence H. Lebduska” (2019, catalogue with essay), “Earl Cunningham” (2019), “John Baker: Mind Wealth” (2019), “Our Collection” (“Appreciating the Everyday” 2022, “Ephemeral” 2021, “Visionary Form in Southern Black Folk Art” 2021, “Portrait of a Woman” 2021), “Our Orlando” (“Construct” 2020, “Making Sense of Our World” 2018, 2017), and American Youth (“Cause” 2020, “Future” 2018, “Identity” 2017).
Time
March 25 (Saturday) 11:00 am - May 20 (Saturday) 12:00 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
14may12:30 pm2:30 pmFree Family Funday12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Event Details
Every second Sunday of the month is Free Family Funday! For the month of January, we will be making our own artist volumes using a very easy bookbinding method. These volumes
more
Event Details
Every second Sunday of the month is Free Family Funday!
For the month of January, we will be making our own artist volumes using a very easy bookbinding method. These volumes will be a place where you can display your art, photographs, sketches, or anything that you feel represents you!
For more information and past projects visit: mennellomuseum.org/freefamilyfunday
Time
(Sunday) 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
Organizer
Mennello Museum
20may11:00 am12:00 pmSaturday Speaker Series: Deborah C Pollack on Laura Woodward11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Deborah will present the true story of Laura Woodward (1834-1926), a member of the Hudson River School, and describe her times, when women artists largely had to make a choice:
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Deborah will present the true story of Laura Woodward (1834-1926), a member of the Hudson River School, and describe her times, when women artists largely had to make a choice: either domesticity or a professional career in landscape painting. Woodward came to Florida around 1889, fell in love with the state’s nature, and changed its history.
Deborah C. Pollack graduated with honors from Temple University with a degree in art history. As Deborah Courtney, she performed in numerous television commercials and, for three years starred on the soap opera Love of Life. She then became a fine art dealer and eventually, revisiting her background in art history, an author. Her books include Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South, Palm Beach Visual Arts; Orville Bulman: An Enchanted Life and Fantastic Legacy; Felix De Crano: Forgotten Artist of the Flagler Colony; Bad Scarlett: The Extraordinary Life of the Notorious Southern Beauty Marie Boozer; Vintage Miami Beach Glamour: Celebrities and Socialites in the Heyday of Chic; Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020; and Laura Woodward: The Artist Behind the Innovator Who Developed Palm Beach, which won an award from Florida Memorial University for making “a significant contribution to advancing the awareness of women’s history.” Pollack’s essays are in such books as the New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture and Central to Their Lives: Women Artists in the Johnson Collection. Articles have appeared in periodicals including the American Art Review, New York History Review, Tequesta (scholarly journal of HistoryMiami), Antiques and Art Around Florida, and Tustenegee. She lives with her husband, Edward, in Palm Beach, Florida, where they own Edward and Deborah Pollack Fine Art.
Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
june
11jun12:30 pm2:30 pmFree Family Funday12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Event Details
Every second Sunday of the month is Free Family Funday! For the month of January, we will be making our own artist volumes using a very easy bookbinding method. These volumes
more
Event Details
Every second Sunday of the month is Free Family Funday!
For the month of January, we will be making our own artist volumes using a very easy bookbinding method. These volumes will be a place where you can display your art, photographs, sketches, or anything that you feel represents you!
For more information and past projects visit: mennellomuseum.org/freefamilyfunday
Time
(Sunday) 12:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Location
Mennello Museum
900 East Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32832
Organizer
Mennello Museum