Satellite Museum in Water Color, FL
About The Ogden Museum @ WaterColor
Building upon the larger regional and national interest in the Ogden Museum of Southern Art/University of New Orleans, the Ogden opened a new satellite museum located in one of the South's most popular and rapidly growing regions along Highway 30A in Northwest Florida.
Thursday, July 3, 2008, marked the opening of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art @ WaterColor which showcases a number of changing exhibitions, and incorporates a branch of the Ogden's Center for Southern Craft and Design.
Admission is FREE.
Summer schedule and will be open from 11am - 7pm and closed on Wednesdays
"Our new collaboration with WaterColor will allow the Ogden Museum to serve Florida audiences directly and will reach a significant new range of cultural tourists through our exhibitions, educational projects, and crafts and outreach programs. These will complement the existing design, environmental and lifestyle initiatives of the 30A area-increasingly called Florida's Design Coast-reflecting the region's remarkable architectural and design aesthetic," says Ogden Museum Director J. Richard Gruber.
Contact the Ogden Museum @ WaterColor at (850) 231-0038.
Picturing the South - People, Land, Architecture, Cities
Photographs from the Permanent Collection of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
Works on view are by Eudora Welty, Birney Imes, Theodore Fonville WinansArthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, Winston Ogle Link, William Christenberry, Jack Kotz, Jack Spencer, William Claxton, Mark Steinmetz, Thomas Neff, Stuart Klipper, Elemore Morgan, Sr., Richard Sexton, Thomas Rankin, Gay Block, Lyle Bongé, Allison Nowlin, George Yerger.
Special Events with Tom Neff and Joshua Mann Pailet
Saturday August 1, 2009 - Art Talk with Photographer Tomas Neff - 9am - 11am
An art professor at Louisiana State University, photographer Thomas Neff was in New Orleans days after Hurricane Katrina, and while volunteering to help, he photographed those who stayed behind. These images were published in his frist book, "Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina."
Thursday, August 6, 2009 - Art Talk with Joshua Mann Pailet - 4pm - 7pm
Founder of "A Gallery for Fine Photography," in New Orleans, Pailet will discuss the subtle points of collecting fine photography with a reception to follow.
About St. Joe
The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE), a publicly held company based in Jacksonville, is one of Florida's largest real-estate development companies. It is primarily engaged in real-estate development and sales, with significant interests in timber. The company's mission is to create places that inspire people and make JOE's Florida an even better place to live, work and play. We're no ordinary JOE.
More information about JOE can be found at its Web site: www.joe.com.
About WaterColor Inn and Resort
Voted one of the "Top 50 Mainland U.S. Resorts" by readers of Condo Nast Traveler and "Best Hotel in Florida" by the readers of Travel + Leisure, the exclusive 60-room WaterColor Inn and Resort offers luxurious waterfront accommodations, award-winning dining at Fish Out Of Water, a full-service spa, Camp WaterColor for kids and a multitude of recreational activities including three golf courses, tennis, biking, kayaking and fishing. Well appointed Gulf-view residences and charming cottages are also available for rent and sale. WaterColor is managed by Seattle-based Noble House Hotels & Resorts. For more information about WaterColor, visit www.watercolorresort.com or call 866/426-2656.
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