Holidays at the Museum - December 14
Join the Vero Beach Museum of Art on Saturday, December 14, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for our annual Holidays at the Museum celebration. Families, children, and adults of all ages will enjoy FREE admission to the entire Museum—including the Roadside Reverie: Glass Works by John Miller exhibition—along with holiday art-making activities, music and dance performances, and other festivities inspired by the season.
Explore the Museum’s galleries on your own or take a docent-led tour of the exhibitions. Gather clues to an Art Hunt and enjoy other fun gallery games themed around artworks on display. Visit the studios to make festive decorations and ornaments.
Enjoy lively music and dance performances from student and community groups in Holmes Great Hall, Laura and Bill Buck Atrium, and Leonhardt Auditorium.
The Museum Store will be open for guests looking for extra special holiday gifts, and food trucks will be on-site for guests interested in purchasing snacks, meals, and refreshments.
Studio Art Projects:
- Easel Painting with Vickie Marsango
- Creating a Holiday Village with Lauren Kennedy
- Modeling Clay Donuts with Sophia Strazinsky and more!
Community Performances:
- Rhythm & Soul Dance Company
- Imagine South Vero Tangerines
- VB Elementary Drama Club
- Gifford Youth Orchestra
- Fellsmere Elementary Musical Mustangs, and more!
Art After Dark - December 13 & 14
Experience the Treasure Coast’s pre-eminent outdoor 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 immerse yourself in this celebration of digital art in its many possibilities—motion graphics, experimental film, and animation—as works by more than a dozen new media artists from around the globe are projected onto the Museum’s iconic white walls.
The outdoor exhibition for all ages is FREE and open to the public. Food and beverages will be available for purchase. A cash bar is available for adults interested in wine and beer.
The works in the exhibition, selected by the Museum and Brett Phares, lead curator of Art After Dark, provide attendees with new perspectives and experiences. The international roster includes:
- Alex Purcell (United Kingdom), Creation, 2023. Experimental Cinema, Animation
- Matiry Rao (United Kingdom), Anywhere but here, 2021. Animation
- Anna Katalin Lovrity (Hungary), Volcano Island, 2019. Animation
- Thisisnotdesign (Canada), Loraine Ipsum (D20+1), 2021. Experimental Cinema, Generative/Algorithmic
- Susi Sie (Germany), Chrysopoeia, 2023. Experimental Cinema
- Boris Seewald (Germany), Sway –Video Projection #2, 2024. Projection Mapping and Animation
- Aric Attas (United States), A Glimpse of Infinity No. 274, 2023. Generative/Algorithmic
- Camille Scherrer (Switzerland), Monumental Tree, 2018 Animation
- Violetta Pavlovskaia (Russia), POP SHOVE IT, 2019. Animation
- Eryk Salvaggio (United States), Moth Glitch, 2024. Experimental Cinema,
Generative/Algorithmic - [dNASAb] (United States), Faux Ecologies + Augmented Visions of Nature, 2024. Experimental Cinema, Generative/Algorithmic
- Dev Harlan (United States), Afterlives II, 2023. Animation and Generative/Algorithmic
- Bora Rex (United States), Quiet Street Noisy, 2023. Experimental Cinema,
Generative/Algorithmic - David Bennett (United States), Radiation, 2023. Experimental Cinema, Animation, Generative/Algorithmic, Hybrid: animation, video, audio synthesis, generative text-to-image AI
- GRAPHSET (France), Othello, 2018. Experimental Cinema
- Joonmoe Park (South Korea), Loop, 2024. Animation
- Nina-Lou Giachetti (France), Pique-nique au bord du chemin, 2022. Experimental Cinema
- Ruben Frosali (Japan), Dissolving Realities Vietnam #4, 2022. Generative/Algorithmic
