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Downtown Festival & Art Show, November 14 and 15, 2015
North Florida’s art scene swings into high gear on Saturday and Sunday, November 14 and 15, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with the arrival of the highly acclaimed Downtown Festival & Art Show. The streets of historic downtown Gainesville, from City Hall to the Hippodrome State Theatre will be transformed into a celebration of …
Welcome to London!…at Gainesville’s Harn Museum of Art, E.O. Hoppé Photos on Exhibit Thru 9/16/15
Now’s your chance to visit London, England while you’re still in Natural North Florida! The University of Florida’s Harn Museum of Art is showing the work of influential photographer, E.O. Hoppé through September 16, 2016. This is a “don’t-miss” opportunity to see images of royalty, street life, movie stars, circus performers and everyday Londoners, taken …
Santa Fe College Spring Arts Festival, Gainesville, April 11/12, 2015
It’s difficult to write about any one event that’s “the best” during the year in Gainesville, but the Santa Fe College Spring Arts Festival certainly rates in the top two or three! Community support has always been strong for the event, and over the past years, local, regional and nationally-known artists have learned that this …
The Blue Trees are in Gainesville
One of the coolest public art projects I’ve seen in a while is going on right now at the University of Florida campus. Last year UF Fine Arts decided to start celebrate each October even bigger and better than before since it is National Arts and Humanities month. You might have noticed the Seward Johnson …
Bronze Statues Take Over Gainesville
First they visited Paris and Osaka. Now “Crossing Paths,” a collection of 24 large statues by J. Seward Johnson, has taken up residence across Gainesville, from the University of Florida campus to downtown. (UF’s North Lawn, near the Reitz Union, has 10 sculptures.) The exhibit runs through October 14. Giant statues include a dancing couple, …