ART BY JERUSHIA GRAHAM VIA ART AND HISTORY MUSEUMS MAITLAND
The Art & History Museums of Maitland (Website) opens a new exhibition next month that brings together works from nearly 90 years at its National Historic Landmark campus.
US opens July 24 and runs through September 27 at 231 W. Packwood Avenue [GMap] in Maitland. The exhibition features works by six historic Bok Fellows from the 1930s and 1940s alongside nine contemporary resident artists, tracing a line of creative residency at the museum dating back to its founding.
The show takes its conceptual framing from a 1939 essay by founder J. André Smith titled “An Insanitorium of Art,” exploring what Smith called “reasonable insanity” as the basis for artistic inquiry and how that impulse has carried forward through successive generations of artists on the property.
The Bok Fellowship program was established in 1937, named for Mary Curtis Bok, whose patronage made the Art Center possible. A&H revived its residency programs in 2012 and continues them through its Studio Artist and Artist-in-Residence programs today.
The opening night on July 24 is free, with music by DJ Nigel John, a food truck, and a cash bar with proceeds benefiting A&H programs. Museum admission during the run is $4 to $6.
