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Women at The Cummer Museum help put Jacksonville on the map with nationally-recognized exhibit It's Women's History Month. The women who run The Cummer Museum are making history with a new exhibit in April getting national attention. Author: Leah Shields Updated: 7:00 AM EDT March 17, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla — New leadership and a new year for The Cummer Museum. Leadership staff is making some waves, even being featured in an article by Forbes Magazine recently. March is Women’s History Month. The name of the museum in and of itself is celebrating a woman: N...

“Sitting around doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.”— Zen proverb   Spring is nearly upon us, and things are getting frisky in the yard. One morning my spouse the Binmeister came in from retrieving the Times-Union from the driveway and announced “the birds are making a racket, and I can hear things growing.” He was elated.  March is National Umbrella Month, so named because it brings gusty winds, rain and cold nights. Flocks of robins fly in — they were early this year — leaves emerge and pollen coats cars. Instead of March Madness, at the Rooney Bin we ...

Email is invalid Martin Johnson Heade, Amethyst Woodstar, ca. 1863 – 1864, Oil on canvas. 12 1/4 x 10 in. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.84. Photography by Dwight Primiano Thomas Cole (1801-1848) Thomas Cole’s Box of Minerals and Artifacts, c. 1830-1848
. Various minerals, artifacts, and specimens. 18 x 20 x 3 in. Thomas Cole National Historic Site; Gift of Edith Cole Silberstein and the Greene County Historical Society, TC.64.11.2 The exhibition travels in 2021 (see full schedule below); a VR experience is available from Crystal Bri...

'Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment' opens at Reynolda Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), View on the Magdalena River,1857. Oil on canvas, 35 x 47 in. (framed). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art; Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund, and Estate of Hildegarde Graham van Roijen, by exchange. Photo: Travis Fullerton © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. WINSTON-SALEM, NC .- Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment opened at Reynolda House Museu...

Cummer Museum celebrates Black History Month Published:  Tags:  Erin Kendrick's work, Simone 2019, among the items on display this month at the Cummer Museum and Gardens. (Photo provided to WJXT) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens has several works by Black artists in its permanent collection and has added a special theme this month: “The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity.” Throughout February, the museum is celebrating the contributions and creativity of the Black community through in-person and virtual programming. Additionally, the museum�...