The exhibition Illustrating Orchids at the Florida Museum for Women Artists presents 80 works by two botanical illustrators whose work is the epitome, not only of scientific illustration, but also of the creative perfection that makes these works great art. Blanche Ames Ames (1878 – 1969) and Marion Ruff Sheehan (1924 – 1998) used their [...]

We bounded up the stairs at The Fish building to the second floor. I had been here once before this place was viable, it was in construction phase with no defining rooms, just framing wood to map out space.  The Florida Museum For Women Artists is all about promoting women’s art, simple as that. So [...]

Over the weekend I went up to DeLand, FL to visit the Florida Museum for Women Artists, this wonderful museum is 7,000 square feet of newly remodeled space upstairs in the historic Fish Building. The mission of the museum is to promote women artists and to educate the public about women in the arts. The current exhibition is a collection of work called “Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor” it’s open through May 2 and I’d highly recommend it.

Posted by jimabbott on March, 22 2010 – It was Stetson homecoming weekend in DeLand… My stroll offered the opportunity to finally venture upstairs to the Florida Museum for Women Artists…

The Florida Museum for Women Artists participated in the Channel 9 Family Special: State of the Arts. If you missed the March 24, 2010 airing, you may view online.

The next show at the Florida Museum for Women Artists, in DeLand, is an Alice in Wonderland-themed show, with illustrations by Maggie Taylor.  Organized by the Samuel P. Harn Museum of ArtUniversity of Florida, Gainesville, Tom Southall,
Curator. 
Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor
On Exhibit: February 20 – May 3, 2010

There was a time, not too long ago, that you might hear someone say, “that’s women’s work” as a disparagement directed to a man or a woman. The underlying idea was that what women do is somehow less important and not to be taken seriously. If a man were to put a urinal in a [...]

Almost Alice: New Illustrations of Wonderland by Maggie Taylor opens Saturday, February 20, 2010 at the Florida Museum for Women Artists