Johns River and engage in its related programming. More than 90,000 people from the Jacksonville community were able to view Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Through art and cultural experiences, it has been possible to increase awareness around its importance and well-being. The river has been an important factor in economic growth, recreation, and creating better quality of life for Jacksonville residents. Johns River, which has been called the cultural current of our city. Augustine following the Red River War in 1875.ĭepicting their life at the prison camp as well as their life of freedom prior, these drawings further reveal the origins of America’s Indian Border School movement, a particularly barbaric, inhumane and cruel chapter in the nation’s barbaric, inhumane and cruel policies toward Native People.Year of the River has provided a platform for artists, environmentalists, and historians to engage visitors in a dynamic discussion of the St. “Imprisoned but Empowered: Cheyenne Warrior Artists at Fort Marion” showcased a large selection of notebook-sized, color pencil on paper drawings from a Cheyenne captives held at Fort Marion in St. In addition to the Reubens, artworks from the museum’s permanent collection not seen in many years by Romare Bearden and James Castle, along with a loan of Elizabeth Catlett, invigorated the galleries.Ī provocative exhibition of Cheyenne drawings from the 1870s enlightened audiences to the historic mistreatment of Indigenous people in the United States with a chilling connection to northeast Florida. Peter Paul Rubens, The Lamentation of Christ, on view at Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens.

This exhibition alone would have made the year one to remember, but the Cummer didn’t stop there. Under Brownlee’s care, patrons can look forward to more “stretching.”

“Hail the Dark Lioness” featuring contemporary black-and-white photography from a globally in-demand, non-gender binary, Black, South African artist may have been the greatest “stretch” to ever be seen at the Cummer, which celebrated its 60 th anniversary in 2021. “I’m thinking about opportunities to bring something to Jacksonville that is going to stretch people bringing ideas, individuals, concepts, works of art, that are going to stretch people,” Barnlee told me shortly after being put in charge at the Cummer.īrownlee pulled a rabbit out of the hat with the Zanele Muholi show, working connections to schedule the show in a weekend’s time after a COVID-19 disruption pulled the rug out from under an exhibition the museum had long previously planned to exhibit. Bringing her work to Jacksonville, Florida was a major coup for director Andrea Barnwell Brownlee in her first year on the job. Muholi ranks among the most important contemporary artists working in any medium anywhere in the world. The highlight, undoubtedly, was the presentation of “Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness,” an internationally touring exhibition featuring more than 80 self-portraits by visual activist Zanele Muholi (South African, b. 2021 saw perhaps the most exciting schedule of exhibitions, along with iconic artworks refreshed, fill the museum’s galleries. Another year wraps up at the Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens.

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