Sat, February 26, 2022 at 6:00 PM

The Friends of the Mennello Museum invite you to celebrate together again in person for An Evening With Fabulous Friends.

Join usa under the stars at the Mennello Museum of American Art.

Featuring Orlando Artists | Cocktails | Dinner | Alive Music | Tribute to our Founders

** Update, Tickets for this event have SOLD OUT

Tickets
$250 – Includes 6:00 pm Cocktails, Dinner, Champagne Reception

Thank you to our Sponsors:

Want to support the museum equally a sponsor of this event? Telephone call us at 407-246-4278.

An Evening with Fabulous Friends, Invitational Artwork past:

John Baker

Mary Bel

Edson Campos

Loura Parks Dobbs

Donna Dowless

Jim Hobart

Marlene London

Martha Jo Mahoney

Matt Maher, Mojo Metallic Works

Heather Nagy

Jon Napoles

Robert Ross

Paul Scarborough

Jamieson Thomson-Thomas

Lillian Verkins

And the 2022 Evening with Fabulous Friends Featured Artist: Mindy Colton

  • Mindy Z. Colton, Unbridled Pair
  • Matt Maher
  • Matt Maher
  • Loura Parks Dobbs
  • Lillian Verkins, Microslice of a Macrocosm
  • Lillian Verkins, Fading Away in the Light
  • Jon Napoles, Still Life with Skull
  • Jon Napoles, Cat & Mouse
  • John Baker, Sicily
  • John Bakery, Locked out of Paradise
  • Mary Bel, Self Portrait Awakening
  • Edson Campos, Veil
  • Edson Campos, Immature Lady
  • Donna Dowless
  • Jiha Moon, Special Edition fabricated for MMAA
  • Eric Kleinsteuber, WasserBallo
  • Jamieson Thomas, Journeys to At present.here
  • Jamieson Thomas, Floating Stairs
  • Robert Ross, Morn Path
  • Robert Ross, Rooftops after Rain
  • Martha Jo Mahoney, Magnolia
  • Martha Jo Mahoney, Untitled
  • Lawrence Scarpa, Untitled
  • Jim Hobart
  • Jim Hobart
  • Heather Nagy, In the Garden
  • Heather Nagy, Waiting for Happy Hour
  • Marlene London, Mindful Garden
  • Paul Scarborough, Untitled
  • Mindy Z. Colton, Mystic Spirit

Every second Dominicus of the calendar month is Free Family Funday!

On the 2nd Lord's day of each month – Join us at the museum for free access all day, plus a fine art project that you can make hither or accept-home! Video and Written instructions for each month are at present available beneath.

Docent touring and art making are back!  Talk about the art with our knowledgable educators and then create your own work!

We would Dearest to see your projects. Share it with the states on social media using #MennelloMuseum

Virtual Free Family Fundays

March 13, 2022 | Free Family Funday | Melting Wax Paintings

February thirteen, 2022 | Complimentary Family Funday | Candy Crowns

January nine, 2022 | Free Family Funday | Coma Poetry

Dec 12, 2021 | Free Family Funday | Freedom Lanterns

November fourteen, 2021 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Writing and Drawing Manga

Oct x, 2021 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Forest Cake Printing Patterns

September 12, 2021 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Origami Kimono Bookmarks

August 8 2021 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Flowers and their Language

July 11 2021 | Virtual Gratuitous Family Funday | Mumma and the Fauves

June 13, 2021 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Painting with Play-Doh

May 9, 2021 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Mumma's Signature Portraits

April 14, 2021 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Ripped Landscapes

March 14, 2021 | Virtual Gratis Family unit Funday | Establish and Animal Motifs in Watercolor

February 14, 2021 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Relief Press Valentine'southward Cards

January 10, 2021 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Tablets

December 13, 2020 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Chalk Murals

November 8, 2020 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Painting on Forest

October 11, 2020 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Create Your Ain Zine

September 13, 2020 | Virtual Free Family Funday | DIY Watercolors

August 9, 2020 | Virtual Gratis Family Funday | Eco Weaving

July 12, 2020 | Virtual Free Family Funday | Mobiles


April 2020 | Virtual Gratuitous Family Funday | Botanical Printing

Past projects have also included:

Each Gratis Family Funday has a unlike art project based on the artists of the current exhibition, their subject thing, and their methods. Check out the photos and videos beneath to see some of the projects we've been making!

Cyanotpyes with local artist John Baker during the Edward Steichen photography exhibit; Ink Pouring Portraits during the Firelei Baez showroom; and Stained Glass-like landscapes during the Lawrence Lebduska exhibit.

Families enjoy the creating and viewing art inside and outside of the museum yr circular

The Mennello Museum of American Fine art volition be hosting Mean solar day of Art once again this year, and nosotros invite elementary, heart, and high schoolhouse students to come explore their creative side with us.

This year, complete your summer with a back to school art party at the Mennello Museum of American Fine art.  With the museum all to themselves, participants and their friends volition create large calibration portraits of swirling ink silhouettes, write their own verse, and tear up books while exploring fiber arts in projects inspired by artist on display, Firelei Báez.  All of the art volition exist set up to take home and show off on the first 24-hour interval of school.

Monday, July 29th will be open registration for all Uncomplicated aged students and Monday, Baronial 5th will be open registration for Eye Schoolhouse aged participants.  High Schoolhouse students will have the opportunity to volunteer with these historic period groups, assisting the teacher while creating and inspiring aslope the younger students.  Both days activities will be led by artist, Lourdes Figueroa.  Activities will begin at 8:30AM and students will be ready for pickup at v:30PM.

Finally, this year we will accept Teen Takeover for ages 14-18 years from 12 – 4PM on Sabbatum, Baronial 10thursday.  Teens will have the opportunity to write poetry, create ink pour portraits, and work on paper before returning to school.  This group will too take the chance to contribute to a big calibration community painting equally part of the plan as well.  High Schoolers will be inspired by the individuality and power of the image and history portrayed by New York artist, Firelei Báez.

Elementary and Middle schoolhouse sessions are $45 for Mennello Museum members, and $50 for general public.  Teen Takeover is a free event.  Registration is open and space is limited with a maximum of fifteen students each solar day.

Educational programming at the Mennello Museum of American Art delivers access to captivating American art of all genres through permanent collections, also as renowned curated and temporary exhibitions.  Whether through lectures given by world-renowned and established artists the likes of Firelei Báez and Bo Bartlett, docent-guided tours for schoolhouse-aged groups or seniors, Toddler Tuesdays, the museum'southward workshops and special programming are designed to ignite personal connections to exhibitions and the exploration of fine art.  We attempt to appoint all individuals who come through the doors in participatory learning of the visual arts. We seek to advance their confidence in discussions around the exhibitions and inspire creativity in personal life and art making.

Sessions

Elementary Day of Art
Monday, July 29, 2019
viii:30 AM – 5:thirty PM

Eye School Day of Art
Monday, Baronial 5, 2019
eight:30 AM – 5:30 PM

Teen Takeover 24-hour interval of Art
Sabbatum, August 10, 2019
12 – iv PM

*For Elementary and Eye School Days, driblet off begins at eight:30 am (activities begin at 9 am) with all students ready for pick upward by 4:00 pm (tardily pickup available until 5:thirty pm)

Pricing

Non-Members: $50
Members: $45

Teen Takeover: Free with registration
Mennello Museum Members must nowadays their valid Membership card at the museum if purchasing a summer army camp session in advance online.  Space is limited – early on registration is encouraged.

To Register:

Elementary School

Middle School

Teen Takeover

Purchase Tickets Online

Most the Museum
The Mennello Museum of American Art, endemic and operated past the Metropolis of Orlando, is located on the beautiful shore of Lake Formosa in Orlando's Loch Haven Cultural Park. The museum provides residents and visitors welcoming opportunities to understand and value inventiveness through innovative experiences with art further connecting information technology to nature and communal gathering. Our goal is to encourage creative and diverse experiences with fine art that nurtures audiences while reflecting the dynamic human relationship between fine art and club.  In addition to housing the permanent collection of folk modernist Earl Cunningham, the museum presents temporary exhibitions that feature a broad range of American art from traditional to contemporary practices.  The Marilyn 50. Mennello Sculpture Garden features many artists, including world renowned Alice Aycock.

On view through May xiii, 2018:
The Unbridled Paintings of Lawrence H. Lebduska

 Opening June vii, 2019:
Immersion into Compounded Time and the Paintings of Firelei Báez

View all of our upcoming events: www.mennellomuseum.org/events

The Mennello Museum is located at 900 E. Princeton Street, Orlando, FL 32803.

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Grounds for Exhibitions − Inaugural Outdoor Exhibitions Series
On view since September 2016

The Mennello Museum inaugurates Grounds for Exhibitions with ii large-scale works by American sculptor Alice Aycock installed in the Marilyn L. Mennello Sculpture Garden. The cute works, Waltzing Matilda and Twin Vortexes were originally function of a series of 7 sculptures in Aycock's pregnant outdoor exhibition on Park Avenue in Manhattan entitled Park Avenue Paper Chase. Grounds for Exhibition features year-long large-scale sculpture exhibitions by nationally renowned American artists who otherwise would non be shared with Orlando audiences.

Shannon Fitzgerald states: "Information technology is thrilling to inaugurate this outdoor exhibition program with such beautiful work by Alice Aycock, ane of America'due south most recognized and respected sculptors of her generation. I think visitors will delight in experiencing the stunning sculptures nestled in our lakeside mural that challenges perspective, materiality, whimsy, and nature—in all its power and fragility.  She continues: "This is an boggling opportunity for our community to contemplate the vital role art has and the bear on it tin have when shared in the Public realm."