Exciting new season begins at VBMA
The Vero Beach Museum of Art (VBMA) is ready for another exciting season of blockbuster exhibitions, artistic and educational programs, and signature events. Please make a note of the following enhancements and updates:
- Galleries Open 7-Days A Week Beginning Monday, October 7, 2024
Vero Beach Museum of Art will resume Monday hours effective October 7: Monday–Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. Complimentary docent-led gallery tours take place daily at 2 p.m. - Free Admission Saturdays Now “Second Saturdays” With Expanded Programming Effective October 12, 2024
Effective October 12, free admission to the Vero Beach Museum of Art moves from the last Saturday of the month to the second Saturday. Enhanced “Second Saturday” programming includes a variety of cultural offerings for guests of all ages, including art-making activities in the studios, performances, lectures, films, and related expressions of arts and humanities. - Wood N Spoon Café Reopens for Weekday Lunch Service on Monday, October 7, 2024
Located off the Museum Atrium, the Wood N Spoon Café operates Monday through Friday, from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., beginning October 7.
Follows is the upcoming season exhibition calendar:
- Roadside Reverie: Glass Works by John Miller, October 5, 2024–January 5, 2025
This solo exhibition, replete with over 40 large-scale glass sculptures by John Miller, comprising hundreds of individually molded and blown glass components, marks the artist’s largest solo museum exhibition to date. It is VBMA’s first solo glass exhibition in nearly a decade and the firstorganized for the Museum by Chief Curator Caitlin Swindell. Meet artist John Miller on opening day, October 5, and watch as he creates glass artwork in the Duncan McLellan Mobile Hot Shop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. - Art After Dark, December 13 & 14, 2024—FREE, outdoor exhibition
Experience the Treasure Coast’s pre-eminent digital art exhibition when the Vero Beach Museum of Art hosts Art After Dark on Friday, December 13, and Saturday, December 14, 2024, from 6 to 8 p.m. Bring your lawn chairs and revel in a selection of imagery by dozens of new media artists, celebrating digital art in many possibilities—motion graphics, experimental film, and animation.
- French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950, February 1–June 22, 2025
This winter, the internationally touring French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950, makes its first-ever stop in southeast Florida at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. The exhibition showcases 59 artworks from the Brooklyn Museum’s esteemed collection of European art, spanning the era between the Revolution of 1848 and the conclusion of World War II—a period marked by significant social, intellectual, and political upheaval in France.
- Timeless: Robert Farber’s Fashion Photography, February 10–August 31, 2025
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 colorful and otherworldly distortions. These effects are entirely natural and reveal the beauty in the unexpected transformations of the film over time. Timeless brings both series together for the first time in a museum exhibition.
VBMA’s Signature Events and Family Events are among the seasons’ favorites:
- Holidays at the Museum, December 14, 2024—FREE
Guests will enjoy free admission to the current exhibitions as docents facilitate family-friendly tours and activities themed around artworks on display. Guests can create festive art projects in the studios and enjoy music and dance performances by local student and community groups. - International Lecture Series—January 27, February 24, March 10 & April 7, 2025
VBMA’s 43rd season of the Treasure Coast’s most celebrated arts and humanities lecture series is presented in conjunction with the exhibition French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950. The featured speakers will provide audiences with multiple perspectives to help frame the exhibition’s themes. For tickets, visit https://www.vbmuseum.org/international-lecture-series/. - GALA 2025: A Moveable Feast, Friday, January 31—SOLD OUT
Take a delicious stroll through an outdoor Parisian Street Market, sip wines from Bordeaux, sample French delicacies, enjoy a delectable French family-style dinner, and be among the first to experience the French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950 exhibition. - Fashion Meets Art Presents Christie Brinkley, Wednesday, February 19
Christie Brinkley, renowned as one of the world’s most iconic supermodels, will headline the Fashion Meets Art fundraising event on Wednesday, February 19, 2025. For sponsorships and ticket information, visit https://www.vbmuseum.org/events/fma/. - Art in Bloom with Designer and Author Sybil Brooke Sylvester, Thursday, March 6
Art in Bloom celebrates its 15th anniversary with floral designer, author, and Wildflower School Founder Sybil Brooke Sylvester and a display of floral creations inspired by the Museum’s permanent collection and exhibitions. For sponsorship and tickets, visit https://www.vbmuseum.org/events/art-in-bloom/. - Children’s Art Festival, April 12, 2025—FREE
This 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 our exhibitions.
Additionally, VBMA has partnered with arts and cultural organizations to present these performances, lectures, and screenings. Tickets are available at vbmuseum.org.
- Asbury Shorts USA, February 15, 2025
- Atlantic Classical Orchestra, January 19, February 16 & March 16, 2025
- Ballet Vero Beach, November 16, 2024, and February 8, 2025
- Vero Beach Opera, March 2, 202
The Vero Beach Museum of Art is at 3001 Riverside Park Drive, Vero Beach, Florida 32963. For hours, admission fees, membership, and tickets to classes, programs, and events visit vbmuseum.org.
Directions: From I-95 (Exit 147), from U.S.1, and Indian River Boulevard, take State Road 60 east over the Merrill Barber Bridge to the beachside, and turn right at the first traffic light into Riverside Park. Parking is free.
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