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Fun for All Ages at the VBMA Children’s Art Festival
The entire family is welcome at the Vero Beach Museum of Art on Saturday, April 12, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the Children’s Art Festival. The free, all-ages event is the museum’s annual celebration of the arts and art making. Attendees will enjoy art-making activities, music and dance performances, food trucks, art hunts, docent-led tours of the galleries, and free admission to French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950. Children will awaken their inner artists as they engage with VBMA instructors and
The Learning Alliance Invitational Breakfast at Orchid Island Golf and Beach Club
The Learning Alliance Highlights Literacy Success at Orchid Island Invitational BreakfastVERO BEACH, FL – The Learning Alliance (TLA) hosted an invitational breakfast on February 5 at the Orchid Island Golf and Beach Club, celebrating progress toward its goal of 90-percent of Indian River County children reading at grade level by third grade. Board Chairman Ray Oglethorpe credited community support for TLA’s impact, noting that nearly two-thirds of students now read at grade level – the highest
March Programming at VBMA Offers a French Flair
Vero Beach Museum of Art is proud to present a selection of programs to complement and enhance the French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950 exhibition now on view. Register at visit https://www.vbmuseum.org/upcoming-events-lectures-seminars/. Vero Beach Opera Presents La Bohème and Puccini—The Search for a LibrettoSunday, March 2, 2:30 p.m. In his talk, Vero Beach Opera Master of CeremoniesIan Campbell shows how Puccini and his librettists created an opera by sifting through Henry Murger’s Scènes de
Registration for VBMA Summer Art Camp Opens in March
Families can soon enroll their budding artists ages 5 to 16 in their choice of weekly themed sessions at the Vero Beach Museum of Art’s Summer Art Camp. Museum members may begin registering on March 10; registration opens to the public on March 24. Summer Art Camp includes time in VBMA’s studios and galleries. Campers, grouped by age, will explore a variety of artmaking techniques, materials, and processes. All supplies are included. This year’s weekly themes are inspired by the French Moderns:
Orchid Outreach Cocktail Party Honors 22 Scholarship Recipients (Vero Beac
VERO BEACH, FL – More than 200 guests gathered at the Orchid Outreach Cocktail Party on February 2 at Orchid Island Golf and Beach Club. Orchid Outreach, an organization started in 2002 to provide scholarship assistance to Orchid Island Golf and Beach Club employees and their families, first responders and their families, and Indian River County students in need, named 22 new scholarship recipients for the 2024-25 academic year, five of whom have ties to Orchid Island. Hosted this year at the home of
Vero Beach Museum of Art to Host the Only Southeast/Central Florida Stop for French Moderns: Monet to Matisse Exhibition
Explore one of the most pivotal and dynamic periods in art history when the internationally touring French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950 exhibition makes its first and only South/Central Florida stop at the Vero Beach Museum of Art (VBMA), February 1 through June 22. The exhibition is organized by Lisa Small, Senior Curator of European Art, and Richard Aste, former Curator of European Art, Brooklyn Museum. Featuring 59 paintings and sculptures from the Brooklyn Museum’s esteemed collection of
VBMA Presents Timeless: Robert Farber’s Fashion Photography
Robert Farber’s professional practice spans commercial and fine art photography, with subject matter ranging from fashion and portraits to still life and landscapes. The works featured in Timeless are drawn from two major bodies of work: his Vintage Fashion series, captured during commercial shoots, and the Deterioration series, which consists of prints from his earlier fashion photography. These prints, created from film that became vulnerable to heat, humidity, and other elements over the years, reveal
