2025 Elements of Art:Student Art Exhibition
January 7 - February 2, 2025
An exhibition of artwork from Marion County Independent School students. (more…)
Read More About2025 Elements of Art2025 License Plate Tag Art:Student Art Exhibition
January 14 - February 10, 2025
An annual exhibition of license plate tag art submitted by Marion County fifth-grade students for the “Marion County Tax Collector Kids Tag Art” program. (more…)
Read More About2025 License Plate Tag Art2025 Arts4All Florida:Student Art Exhibition
February 18 - March 2, 2025
Featuring artwork created during ARTS4ALL Florida's "My Art My Way" artist-in-residence program. (more…)
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March 18 - April 20, 2025
An annual exhibition featuring artwork from Marion County K-12 students. (more…)
Read More About2025 Young in Art2025 Superintendent’s Art Show
April 15 - April 27, 2025
An annual exhibition featuring one work of art that represents the art program from each Marion County public school. (more…)
Read More About2025 Superintendent’s Art Show2025 Appleton Studio Art Showcase
May 13 - August 10, 2025
The seventh annual "Appleton Studio Art Showcase" features work created throughout the year by adults and children enrolled in the museum's studio arts programs. On view in the Education Rotunda, get a glimpse of the talent and creativity that occurs in the studio art classes, workshops and art camps. (more…)
Read More About2025 Appleton Studio Art ShowcaseFraming Tokyo:Joel Bustamante's Architectural Photography
January 18 - June 8, 2025
Opening in the Balcony Gallery for Florida Artists, 30 black-and-white and color photographs by Joel Bustamante (Venezuela, b. 1949). (more…)
Read More AboutFraming TokyoTo the MAX:Magnolia Art Xchange's 10-Year Anniversary
February 15 - May 18, 2025
“To the MAX” celebrates the 10-year anniversary of Ocala’s Magnolia Art Xchange. Represented in the show are MAX’s 2025 Resident Artists: Rod Acosta, Kendra Brazzel, Joan Elizabeth, Sarah Lajealle, Z Reyes and Tyrek Studivant. (more…)
Read More AboutTo the MAXTransformational Gifts:Recent Acquisitions (2019–2024)
October 19, 2024 - February 2, 2025
Most of the Appleton’s encyclopedic collection is comprised of gifts, including 6,000 works added over the last five years alone. Acquisitional gifts come to us from a variety of sources, beginning with Arthur I. Appleton, and since then, from institutions, collectors and community members both near and far. With a collection now exceeding 24,000 world-class works, the Appleton serves as a bridge, connecting individuals to diverse cultures and histories from around the globe. The collection spans centuries and continents, featuring an expansive range of art and artifacts from ancient to contemporary. (more…)
Read More AboutTransformational GiftsStriking Poses:Portrait Photography from the Permanent Collection
September 14, 2024 - February 9, 2025
After photography’s inception in the early 1800s, the camera quickly became a desirable mechanism for portrait making, and humans an endlessly fascinating subject on which to focus the lens. (more…)
Read More AboutStriking PosesWALL:Five Decades of Contemporary Art
July 27, 2024 - March 9, 2025
"Wall" is an inventive survey of artwork from the permanent collection featuring 30 works by 28 artists, created over a 53-year timespan (1964-2017) anchored in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. (more…)
Read More AboutWALLWhat If Eye:Fifty Years of Exploration with Ummarid Eitharong
February 22 - August 3, 2025
As a young man visiting the Kennedy Space Center with a friend, Ummarid “Tony” Eitharong remarked of an impressive wall mural, “I bet I could draw that.” Winning that bet was the genesis of a long and successful career in art. (more…)
Read More AboutWhat If EyeAncient Pathways:A Legacy of Trade
February 16, 2024 - December 31, 2025
The Silk Road wasn’t just one road but a vast network of land and sea trade routes that started around the 2nd century BCE. It connected the far reaches of China with the Mediterranean Sea, stretching over 4,000 miles through challenging terrains like harsh deserts, towering mountains and fertile plains. (more…)
Read More AboutAncient PathwaysArtistic Legacy:The Story of Arthur I. Appleton
July 5, 2021 - December 31, 2025
Ever wondered where the Appleton Museum of Art got its name, or how the museum found a home in Ocala? Stroll through the history of the Appleton Family and the museum to learn all about Marion County's cultural gem. (more…)
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