Museum of Arts and Sciences

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Closed due to the Flower Show will re-open Saturday, April 19th

April 4, 2008 to August 17, 2008
The Karshan Center of Graphic Art

Almost two hundred reporters and photographers fanned out around the globe to cover World War II for The Associated Press. As the main source of war news for most of the nation’s newspapers, The AP offered Americans a daily view of the conflict through photographs by its own photographers and by photographers in the U.S. Armed Services, as well as images from the world press that otherwise would not have been seen. The best of these images make up this exhibition. The over 130 black and white photographs chosen for the exhibition were culled from tens of thousands of pictures in The AP Archives, including material that had not been seen since the war. The photographs chosen bring to life the immense scope as well as the individual tragedy and challenge of World War II.

March 14, 2008 through August 2009
The Elaine and Thurman Gillespy, Jr. Gallery

The Classical World is a long-term loan exhibition of 200 plus rare Greek and Roman antiquities from the collection of the Tampa Museum of Art. Recognized as the finest collection of its kind in the southeastern United States, The Classical World surveys the material culture of the Mediterranean area from the Neolithic period to the Roman Imperial period, roughly 8500 BC to 476 AD.

The exhibition illustrates the types of art works characteristic of ancient Greece and Rome: painted pottery; sculpture in marble, bronze, and terra cotta; personal ornaments of bronze and gold; struck silver and gold coins; and a variety of ancient glass vessels as well as other items that illuminate interesting aspects of daily life.

These rare and beautiful objects combine to lead the visitor into an intimate vision of the culture, values, and rituals of the classical world, and above all, offer an all-absorbing appreciation of classical civilization and artistic creativity. The Classical World: From the Collection of the Tampa Museum of Art is an expansive display that speaks to everyone, appealing to all senses and tastes by encapsulating history, design and beauty through many different examples of creativity.

If you are interested in becoming a ‘Friend of the Exhibition’ please contact Karen Harris at 386-255-0285 or at kharris@moas.org.

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December 7, 2007 - September 1, 2008
The Edward E. and Jane B. Ford Gallery & The Gary R. Libby Entry Court

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Cuban Foundation Museum, MOAS is proud to present over ninety important Cuban artworks selected from the Ramos Collection. Included are life-size paintings, elegant portraits, romantic landscapes, and still lifes filled with ripe, luscious fruits.

Great Masters of Cuban Art showcases paintings filled with movement and emotion that focus on five major themes beloved by Cuban artists: portraits, landscapes, music, religion, and the history of Cuba. Together these themes present the observer with visions of a lost Cuba. Featured Artists Include: Leopoldo Romañach, Esteban Valderrama, Antonio Sanchez Araujo, Evelio Garcia-Mata, Armando Menocal and Oscar Garcia-Rivera.

The collection was formed by Cuban born, Miami art collectors, Roberto and Carlos Ramos who have amassed over 400 Cuban oil paintings. The Ramos brothers focused on recovering the works of a generation of artists whose well-documented accomplishments are indicative of a thriving pre-1958 cultural environment. The Ramos brothers overcame the challenges posed by distance, time, and governmental impediments to rescue both the artworks and the archival art history of the Cuban Republic (1902-1958).

Wayne David Atherholt, MOAS Executive Director notes, “When Chief Curator, Cynthia Duval and I first visited with Roberto in Miami, we were overwhelmed with the vibrant colors, lyrical landscapes and dazzling portraits in his collection as well as the amount and depth of research and archival material he and his team have established.”

The Cuban Foundation Museum, housed at the Museum of Arts & Sciences, is home to one of the most important collections of Cuban fine and folk art outside of Cuba. The collection chronicles 300 years of Cuban history and art in more than 200 objects.

February 29 - April 27, 2008
Chapman S. Root Hall

The Museum of Arts and Sciences is pleased to present a retrospective survey of cosmic paintings by Sheila Isham. As a painter, Isham incorporates knowledge gained directly from masters in Chinese calligraphy and Indian philosophy and creates expressive cosmograms which call forth the mythic power of traditional imagery. In her most recent body of work, Cosmic Expressions, Isham finds an oasis of empowered peacefulness in yin-yang arrangements of the heads of animals. Here, the power of the beast—whether monkey, eagle or wildcat—is let loose, but is simultaneously resolved in equilibrium.

On Long Term Display
The Center for Florida History

This exhibition, made possible through the cooperation of two Florida museums, the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society in Key West and the Museum of Arts and Sciences in Daytona Beach, provides an historic account of some of the more famous Pirates of Florida’s East Coast. Such legendary pirates as Edward Teach, A.K.A. Black Beard and others who plied the coastal waters of Florida in search of treasure, primarily during the 16th through the 18th centuries, are noted. Along with artifacts, including coins, bullion, ingots and tools recovered from shipwrecks off the East Coast of Florida, weapons from the period help illustrate the persuasive means that were used to relieve those less-fortunate of their assets.