Posts Tagged ‘museum’

It’s National Arts & Humanities Month and we are celebrating in the Heart of the Arts in a big way.  There are more than 100 arts and cultural activities taking place during October. Attend arts activities this month and register for a chance to win awesome “ARTS” prizes! The rules are easy. Look for the Heart of the Arts [...]

There is always something arts and cultural going on in Central Florida’s Polk County. January 4, 1:30pm and 7:00pm: Opera Overtures: A theatre broadcast preview of Puccini’s La Fancuilla del West (The Girl of the Golden West).  Live in theatres on January 8th at 1:00pm at Cobb Theatres Lakeside Village 18 Cinemas in Lakeland and [...]

As part of a temporary reciprocal membership agreement, Explorations V Children’s Museum will honor MOSI (Tampa, FL) members for free admission from October 1, 2010 through November 30, 2010. Valid & current MOSI membership cards must be presented in order to obtain free admission. In exchange, MOSI will honor valid and current Explorations V membership [...]

Several art exhibits open or run at Polk County museums, galleries and cultural institutions during the month of October. October 1-27    Fear (Juried Exhibition) Arts on the Park, 115 N. Kentucky Ave, Lakeland, FL 33801 Reception and Awards, Friday October 1, 2010 6-9 p.m. Gallery hours are Noon – 4:00pm, Tuesday – Saturday. October 1-29 [...]

If you’re looking for some FREE fun for the whole family during September, look no further than Polk Museum of Art’s annual Family Day! This year, the theme is “Going Global” and the Museum has planned art activities, entertainment, and more. It all starts Saturday, September 18 at 11:00am, and besides the great entertainment (that [...]

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 came from the idea that beauty is found within everything. The Museum’s [...]

Remember to come out on Saturday, September 19 when Polk Museum of Art will host its annual Family Day, a FREE day of art activities and fun, and to help local parents during these hard economic times, PMoA will be giving away more than 350 bags of art supplies for local school age children. This year’s [...]

This Friday night, Polk Museum of Art will be hosting the opening reception for its newest exhibition, Unbelievable Transformations: Moving Sculptures by Gregory Barsamian. The artist will be talking about his work at 6:00pm and there will be light refreshments and a cash bar starting at 7:00pm. The reception is free for Museum members and [...]

If you like the blues, or heck, even if you just like a great party, then you need to go to Polk Museum of Art’s Red, White & The Blues on Friday, October 3 at the Lake Mirror Amphitheater. I’ve been to Red, White & The Blues for the past 6 or 7 years, and [...]