Head over to Polk Museum of Art on Thursday, February 11, and you’ll have the chance to meet one of the artists whose work is currently on display. At 7pm, Kenneth Treister, a Winter Haven resident and world renowned architect, will present a lecture about his life in art. Afterwards, he will sign copies of [...]

Polk Museum of Art will be celebrating the Caribbean with an evening of culture, music and food on Friday, February 5. Rex Harris, Granada native and owner of R & R Chutney, will create his specialty Caribbean dishes – including jerk wings and curry shrimp. Other dishes will consist of Creole chicken, Caribbean beef and coconut ice cream with chocolate bread pudding.

Starting January 23, 2010, Polk Museum of Art will open two new exhibitions featuring artwork inspired by flowers and gardens: Joseph Raffael and Kenneth Treister: The Colors of Nature. Joseph Raffael, an American artist who lives in France, paints large scale contemporary watercolors of the flowers his garden. Treister, a Winter Haven resident and internationally acclaimed architect and sculptor, paints abstract fields of color inspired by the outdoors.

Polk Museum of Art is pleased to announce Jerry Uelsmann as the fourth recipient of its Artist Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented by the Art Resource Trust of Polk Museum of Art. Previous recipients of this award are artists Miriam Schapiro, James Rosenquist, and Robert Stackhouse. Uelsmann will receive this award at a banquet held at the Lakeland Yacht and Country Club on January 14 at 7:00pm. Tickets are $100 per person for Art Resource Trust Members or $125 per person for Non-Members and must be purchased in advance by contacting Pal Powell at 863-688-7743 x.240.

Polk Museum of Art will host its annual Kwanzaa Celebration on Saturday, December 26, 2009, 1:00pm – 2:00pm. The event will feature the Kuumba Dancers and Drummers from Tampa.

The Polk Museum of Art Museum Shop presents a special book signing for PMoA @43: Forty-Three Years of Service to Minds and Hearts with authors, Dr. James Rogers and Ann Gurley Rogers, on Monday, December 14 from 5:30- 7:30pm.
PMoA @43 is a hardcover, coffee-table size book that covers the 43 year history of Polk Museum [...]

Polk Museum of Art’s newest exhibition will open to the public next weekend, November 14, and this one will definitely be a good one for anyone who likes surrealism or photography.

If you’re looking for something to do with the kids before the trick or treating starts, why not check out another culture’s holiday?

Polk Museum of Art is presenting a Day of the Dead Celebration and Workshop on Saturday, October 31, 1:00 – 3:30pm.

On October 9, Polk Museum of Art will deliver a unique night of blues music and great times like no other! For Red, White and the Blues, the Museum will take on the atmosphere of a juke joint, featuring the music of Dwayne Dopsie and the Zydeco Hellraisers.
For those who don’t know — and if [...]

On Saturday, September 5, Polk Museum of Art will open its most recent exhibitions, Beautiful Things and A Perfect Mesh.  Both exhibitions are curated from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, but the focus of each one is very different.
The concept of Beautiful Things was derived from the idea that beauty is found within everything.
The Museum’s curator, [...]