Hand Art Center

Museum Lecture with Diamond Johnson
2024-09-20 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
Museum & Curatorial Studies Professional Development Series

Diamond Johnson

Curator of Youth & Outreach Programs

Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens

Diamond Johnson is the Youth Programs & Outreach Curator for Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens. A Graduate of the University of Central Florida, with less than ten years of art, education, and community professional experiences, she’s successfully developed Art Programs and expanded the Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens’ Outreach influence. Through creativity and activity, Diamond passionately connects youth and adults to new, exciting, interactions with art and history. Inspired by acrylic paints, Maidenhair Ferns, and Veterans, she believes cultivating art, nature, history, and community can positively impact and transform an environment.

Categories: cultural credit, Museum and Curatorial Studies, satellite

Open Forum: Migration
2024-10-03 11:30 - 12:30 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
In association with current exhibitions at the Hand Art Center, a student-led discussion on migration. Moderated by Karl Ng, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Sociology, and Joshua R. Deckman, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Spanish and Latine/x Studies.

Heritage in Color
2024-10-03 17:00 - 19:00
Celebrating Hispanic Art & Culture

Hand Art Center: 5-6 pm

Gallery Dupont: 6-7 pm

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, the Hand Art Center invites the Stetson community to its first pop-up exhibition featuring art submissions from current students and alumni alike to celebrate this special occasion. Join us for an engaging artist talk from 5pm to 6pm at the Hand Art Center, followed by a reception from 6pm to 7pm in Gallery DuPont (Second Floor of Library) . This exhibition, in collaboration with the Latin Student Union (LSU) and La Casa Cultural Latina, includes a cultural credit opportunity along with food, lively music and interactive activities. Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate and explore Hispanic heritage with us!

Curator: Sierra Rouse

Arts & Crafts
2024-10-05 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-11-16 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-01 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-03-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States

Reading and Performance with Leah Sandler
2024-10-18 18:00 - 19:00
Notes from the Archivist

Notes from the Archivist, a collection of fragmented writings and photographs, is a parafictional dérive through the sensory landscape of declining coastal Central Florida’s Late Capitalist spectacle from the perspective of the Archivist of the Center For Post-Capitalist History. The second publication project of the Center For Post-Capitalist History by artist and writer Leah Sandler, Notes From the Archivist chronicles the Archivist’s attempt to log shifting scales of time through accretions of daily life in the form of journal entries, memorandums, manifestos and photographs.

A Field Guide to Embodied Archiving

The Center for Post-Capitalist History invites you to consider your own body and subjectivity in relation to the writing of history. As a field guide, this publication has a goal of helping you identify your own body as a valuable archive of information. Through this process, your body-archive reveals inconsistencies between Capitalism’s promises of infinite progress and the reality of the unsustainable and destructive nature inherent in its systems of production.

A Field Guide to Embodied Archiving will be available for purchase after the performance.

Leah Sandler (born 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator based in Central Florida. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Rollins College in 2014 and a Master of Fine Arts from University of the Arts Philadelphia in 2017, and currently teaches video and photography at Stetson University. Recent exhibitions include CPCH TV (a solo exhibition at the South Bend Museum of Art), Quarter Life Crisis! (a 2-person exhibition at the Casselberry Sculpture House), Body Acclimation Strategies (a solo exhibition at Touche Boutique Miami), and CPCH Staging Area (a solo exhibition at Laundromat Art Space Miami). Sandler’s writing and projects have been featured in publications including Burrow Press Review, Locust Projects: A Closer Look, Textur Magazin, Salat Magazin, SPECS Journal, and Mapping Meaning Journal. She is the author of The Center For Post-Capitalist History’s Field Guide to Embodied Archiving, published by Burrow Press, released in September 2021, and Notes From the Archivist, published by Bodiless Editions, forthcoming Fall/Winter 2024.

Art portfolio: leahsandler.art

Event partners: Burrow Press, Volusia-County ECHO, duPont-Ball Library, and the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center

Funding for this program was provided in part through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.

35th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
2024-10-25 00:00 - 2024-12-07 23:59 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
Guest Juror

Trent Tomengo

Featured Artists

Aaleeany Hargrove, Ayoola Olubukola, Christine Glezer, Daniella Dipasquale, Danielle Hunt, Ella Swartz, Emma Avellino, Ginger Anders, Iris Hunt, Jordan Brewster, Jose Martinez Castro, Julia Hocking, Justin Bardell, Maddysun Castaneda, Marina Burgner, Moira Hughes, Milo Silva, Natalie Thomas

Juried Show Reception
2024-10-25 06:00 - 20:00 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
35th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition

Fundraising Campaign
2024-11-04 00:00 - 2024-11-20 23:59
A Local Gem with Global Impact

Friends, we are raising funds for a public access platform. Generous acts, whether cash-based or simply sharing our campaign link, support our efforts to digitize and share our Permanent Collection with the world!

Safeguarded by the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center, Stetson’s Permanent Collection reflects the creative energy of our campus community. Composed of over 3,000 items, the collection represents a myriad of art periods and styles. In addition to Stetson alumni, artists in the collection include Elsie Bates-Freund, Betty Woodman, Le Corbusier, Jack Earl, Mary Drake Coles, and most notably, Modernist painter Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938).

Bluemner is a household name on campus, and for good reason! Vera Bluemner Kouba, the artist’s daughter, generously gifted 1,000 pieces of her late father’s art and personal effects to Stetson. As a result, we are the largest repository of Oscar Bluemner’s art —an artist also represented in the Smithsonian, the Whitney and other internationally renowned museums—resides in the heart of DeLand, Florida.

Let’s share this incredible legacy with the world!

Contributions to this campaign kickstarts digitization efforts while fully funding the set-up of a public access platform containing artworks, exhibition history, and museum archive.

Local and global impacts:

Educational resource for Stetson students

Extended reach for scholars, curators, and cultural advocates

Increased visibility for artists in the collection (especially rising artists!)

And finally, expanding the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center’s mission to provide enriching cultural resources and programming to all.

Annual donations of $150 or more include recognition as a Friend of the Hand Art Center. Support from Friends enhances the Hand’s mission to empower our community through critical engagement in the arts. As a benefit of this level of annual support, Friends receive a biannual magazine, invitation to special events, and opportunities for greater involvement in the museum and arts on campus.

Curator's Talk: Dr. Katya Kudryavtseva
2024-11-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States

Landon Newton: Seed Garden
2024-11-14 00:00 - 2025-04-30 23:59

Cyanotype Workshop with Landon Newton
2024-11-14 08:30 - 11:15

Relax, Reset Let Loose!
2024-12-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States

Faculty Biennale
2025-01-21 00:00 - 2025-02-22 23:59 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States

A Painter's Diary: Oscar Bluemner and Amy Vigilante
2025-01-21 00:00 - 2025-03-29 23:59 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States

January Art Reception
2025-01-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
A Painter’s Diary: Oscar Bluemner and Amy Vigilante

Featuring works by Oscar Bluemner (1867-1938) from the Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection and contemporary artist Amy Vigilante

Exhibition team: Dr. Natália Marques da Silva, Amarige Champion, Reagan Swayze, and Sonia Erzhenina

Sponsored by the Gary R. Libby Charitable Trust

Spring 2025 Faculty Biennale

Featuring Leah Sandler, Matt Roberts, Nathan Wolek, Justin Quaid Grubb, Chaz Underriner, Terri Witek,, Cyriaco Lopes, Brianna Angelakis, Steven Benson, Martha Underriner, Molly Koehn, and Rajni Shankar-Brown. Also featuring a curated space on reproductive justice by Luca Molnar

Reading with Luca Molnar
2025-02-06 18:00 - 19:00 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
Join us for a reading by curator and artist Luca Molnar, Assistant Professor of Art, from the exhibition catalog Moonlight Over Sea Trees: Edgar Heap of Birds and Michael Maxwell (2024) Burrow Press

Moonlight Over Sea Trees

Heritage in Color: A Celebration of Artistry and Black History Month
2025-02-13 00:00 - 2025-02-25 23:59 | Gallery duPont, 134 E Minnesota Ave, DeLand, FL, 32724, United States

Paint, write and be KIND with Stetson HeARTs
2025-02-19 14:30 - 16:00 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States

KINDness Meditation and Art with Dr. Rajni Shankar-Brown
2025-02-21 09:30 - 11:00 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States

Meaningful Museums
2025-03-12 00:00 - 2025-03-29 23:59 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
Exhibition produced in collaboration with Stetson’s Museum & Curatorial Studies Major

and made possible in part by the LaValle Experiential Learning Fund

Upstate Camp: Amy Vigilante
2025-03-12 00:00 - 2025-03-29 23:59 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States

She Creates, She Inspires
2025-03-13 00:00 - 2025-03-25 23:59 | Gallery duPont, 134 E Minnesota Ave, DeLand, FL, 32724, United States

Reception and Artist Talk
2025-03-21 18:00 - 20:00
Upstate Camp: Amy Vigilante

Exhibit reception at 6 pm. At 7 pm Amy Vigilante will discuss textile works in Upstate Camp as well as works in the concurrent exhibit A Painter’s Diary: Oscar Bluemner and Amy Vigilante.

Meaningful Museums

Organized by Maddysun Castaneda, Amarige Champion, Callie Dawson, Robbie Gonzalez, Caleb Hasebe, Charlotte Holley, Moira Hughes, Avery Krowl, Emil Rasen, Sierra Rouse, Reagan Shivers, Reagan Swayze, Courtney Wood, and Lily Woolard. Faculty advisor Natália Marques da Silva, PhD.

Juried Show – Call to Artists!
2025-04-01 00:00 - 2025-07-31 23:59
36th Annual Student Juried Exhibition. Stetson students of any major, graduate or undergraduate, can submit up to 5 artworks of any medium for consideration by guest juror Blair Updike. Awards and cash prizes available for participating artists!

Submissions accepted from April 1 to July 31

Note: submissions must be ready to hang. The Hand Art Center does not print, mat, nor frame student artwork.

Exhibit on view September 5 to October 4. Reception on Friday, September 5 from 6-8 pm, 7 pm awards.

How to Hold a Folk Festival in 10 Easy Steps
2025-04-10 18:00 - 19:15 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
Lecture by Dr. Dominick Tartaglia

State Folklorist and Director of the Florida Folklife Program

Venetian Impressions
2025-04-14 00:00 - 2025-04-30 23:59 | Gallery duPont, 134 E Minnesota Ave, DeLand, FL, 32724, United States
Reception on April 14, 6-7 pm at Gallery Dupont

Stetson Showcase
2025-04-15 10:00 - 15:30 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
Artist Talks and Research Presentations

Stetson Showcase is open to all – you don’t have to be a current student nor affiliated with the University to attend. Below is the tentative schedule for presentations taking place at the Hand. Click here to view the latest information and all of the programming locations.

STUDIO ART PRESENTATIONS

10:00 – Marina Burgner “Swamps Gaze”

10:20 – Maddysun Casteneda A Family’s Primary Colors

10:40 – Danielle Hunt “The JungleBrunch89”

11:00 – Natalie Thomas “Let’s Go to Wawa”

11:20 – Ian Wu

MUSEUM STUDIES AND PUBLIC HISTORY

1:00 – Amarige Champion From Legal Dispute to Artistic Legacy: The Bluemner v. Garvin Case

1:20 – John Owen Ideology and the Holocaust: How Americanization Manifests in Holocaust Memory

1:45 – Moira Hughes Venetian Impressions: The Making of an Exhibition

2:00-2:15 BREAK

2:15 – Serena Dowling and Reagan Shivers The Stetson 150 Project

2:40 – Charlotte Holley Cataloging Danielle Hunt: Process and Experimentation

3:00 – Reagan Shivers Keeping the Home Hearth Burning: The Historic Preservation of Mount Vernon 1850-1865

3:20 – Reagan Swayze Jewish Architecture in Florida: An Exploration of Identity in the Temple Beth Jacob
