Hand Art Center

35th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition
2024-10-25 00:00 - 2024-12-07 23:59 (America/New_York) | 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

Arts & Crafts
2024-11-16 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-02-01 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-03-15 14:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-26 12:00 - 16:00 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States

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

House of Echos
2025-04-17 00:00 - 2025-05-10 23:59 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
Creative Arts Senior Exhibition

Participating Artists

Abigail Edwards, Aidan Sullivan, Chris Hernandez, Craig Kohler, Daniel Howard, Danielle Hunt, Hannah Ascia, Jeremy Howard, Joe Owen, Josette Hicks, Logan Creed, Maddysun Castaneda, Marina Renee Burgner, Michelle Marshall, Nadia Fields, Natalie Thomas, Rodrigo Teixeira, Sonia Erzhenina, Sophie Chinelli and Stephanie Charles

Reception and Award – April 17, 6-8 pm

Image: studio shot of works in progress by Marina Burgner (front) and Natalie Thomas (back)

Creative Arts Senior Exhibition
2025-04-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States

Off The Beaten Path: West Volusia 2025
2025-06-07 00:00 - 2025-07-05 23:59 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
Opening Reception on Thursday, June 12, 5-7 pm

Closing Reception on Saturday, July 5, noon-4 pm

Off The Beaten Path Florida Arts Tours are grass roots events created by a federation of practicing artists and community patrons with shared purpose and vision. Namely, to showcase and increase awareness and appreciation of Central Florida’s finest professional and emerging artists, as well as cultural institutions that are “off the beaten path.”

Each year, participating artists across Volusia County and Lake County open their private working studios to the public. Art patrons, collectors and curators, as well as families and children, follow a self-guided map. They are welcomed into the studios to meet the artists in their work environments, watch demonstrations, enjoy light refreshments, and shop for unique original works of art. The West Volusia Tour is a program of the Fall Festival of the Arts – DeLand.

Organized by John Wilton and co-sponsored by West Volusia Tourism, this exhibit features West Volusia artists who participated in the 2025 edition of the tour. In the museum setting, the works invite closer inspection and the opportunity to view artists side by side.

Exhibiting artists: Alison Burnett, Bobbi Baugh, Cal Ledy, Carly Gibran, Courtney Canova, David Bryan, David Fithian, Douglas Alexander, Jack Hill, Jaivis Carolina Rojas, Jorge Fernandini, John Wilton, Judi Bradford, Karen Tweedie, Kelly Canova, Laura Bohn, Mary Holtz, Nancy Esther Livingston, Sherrill Schoening, Tess Blum, Tom Burns and Hi Octane Jewelry.

Visit artstours.org for information on upcoming tours

My Kind of Town: A "Kid-centric" Exhibit
2025-06-07 00:00 - 2025-07-05 23:59 | Hand Art Center, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand, FL, United States
What kind of town do you want to live in?

Inspired by renowned Modernist Oscar Bluemner, our interactive summer exhibit is all about kindness, creativity, and world-building.

Stay tuned for an exciting activities calendar or join our newsletter to learn more!
