Opening Reception: 100 Years

Celebrate the opening of this new exhibition with music and a food truck on our beautiful National Historic Landmark campus!

Celebrate the opening of this new contemporary art exhibition with music, food from a food truck, a cash bar, and honoring our founder J. André Smith.

Admission, to this event is FREE! However, donations of any size are gratefully accepted with your order or at the event, in order to support our many free community programs.

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About the Exhibition:

A century ago, an artist followed unpaved roads into the Florida interior. Today, those roads lead to the Maitland Art Center.

100 Years: Jules André Smith and the Sand Roads to Solitude marks one hundred years since that first arrival, a decade before Smith would find what is today the Maitland Art Center. The exhibition takes its structure from The Sand Roads to Solitude, his 1951 essay published in Ford Times, written not as a traveler passing through, but as someone who had long since made Florida his home. Visitors move through the galleries following the arc of Smith's own words, with sketchbooks, works on paper, paintings, and archival material illuminating the landscapes and communities that shaped him.