April 20, 2024
Working with Rogue Stage and the Orlando Story Club, The Polk Arts & Cultural Alliance is excited to announce that nationally-recognized storyteller, Paul Strickland will be joining us for three days of interactive storytelling fun. The festival kicks…
Jews in Jazz – a Lecture Recital October 5, 2023 – 6pm Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College (coinciding with the Samuel Bak exhibition) Dr. Jeffrey Benatar, Assistant Professor of Music at Florida Southern College, presents biographical…
In our galleries this Fall, see how a storybook comes to life via the imaginative mind of visual artist Ahmad Taylor. We all love a children's book, but how many of us know how a book's illustrations move…
Featuring the work of Cuban-born Reynier Llanes, this exhibition showcases why Llanes is a fast-rising art world star, whose symbolist narrative paintings and mixed media works underline not merely his immense talents as a realist but also his…
Born in 1933 in Vilna, Poland, on the eve of the Second World War, Samuel Bak is a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust. In the nearly eight decades since the end of the war, Bak has established himself…
For the past 51 years on Mother’s Day Weekend, the Polk Museum of Art has presented its annual Mayfaire by-the-Lake fine art festival on the shores of nearby Lake Morton.The two-day fair — a staple of the Spring…
Kenny has become a star in the art world for his ease at evoking the manners of the past with Surrealist themes that mark them as artworks decidedly of the present. Kenny’s fantastic realities are filled with inversions…
This Spring and Summer, the Polk Museum of Art at Florida Southern College is excited to welcome the work of one of the most celebrated photographers in the history of art to Lakeland. The exhibition, Seen/Unseen: The Photographs…
This Spring, Florida Southern College undergraduate students pursuing degrees in disciplines as wide-ranging as Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Business, Graphic Design, Studio Art, and Art History and Museum Studies enrolled in a brand-new course offering called “The Art of…
The Material World: A Global Family Portrait exhibition is the result of American photojournalist Peter Menzel’s project to help viewers grasp a sense of cross-culture realities and to celebrate our common humanity. Sixteen of the world’s foremost photographers…