Exhibits through 2021 at Old Courthouse Heritage Museum in Inverness: Art, Cinema & Aprons!

Old Courthouse Heritage Museum
1 Courthouse Square - Inverness, Florida
Museum Gallery Hours:
Monday-Fridays, 10:00 am-4:00 pm
Phone: 352-341-6429
Website: cccourthouse.org.
Email: email.museum@citrusbocc.com

13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
May 26, 2021 – June 18, 2021

Calling themselves “birds of a feather,” a group of seven local artists have come together to display this inspired and unique art exhibition. Using Wallace Stevens’ poem “13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” as inspiration. The exhibit includes approximately twenty-five 2D and ten 3D art pieces that will make you think about how you look at the world around you using various medias: oil, acrylic, and watercolor, ceramic sculpture, assemblages, collages, mixed media, pottery and art journaling.

Cinema and the Sunshine State
August 30, 2021 – November 2, 2021

We roll our the red carpet for this traveling exhibit! Many films throughout Hollywood’s history have been shot on location in the sunshine state. Florida’s long film history is explored in this exciting exhibit from classics such as a the Monster of the Black Lagoon, to local legends like Elvis Presley filming Follow that Dream - right here in the museum, in 1961!

Apron Strings: Ties to the Past
November 10, 2021 – January 7, 2022

Although the apron has been taken for granted by many art and social historians, the apron will be reevaluated in this exhibit from ExhibitsUSA, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts. This exhibit will feature 51 vintage and contemporary aprons, dating from the 1900s to the present, such as the elaborately embroidered cotton aprons worn by well-heeled women of the 1920s, the sturdy calico aprons worn during the Depression and war years of the 1930s and 1940s, the commercial hand-decorated aprons worn during the post-war 1940s and 1950s, to the functional, protective ones used today worn by both men and women.