Community Calendar

Art and our Environment
September 25 – December 12, 2026
Zoe Golloway Gallery

This exhibition brings together the work of five distinguished Florida artists,
Beth Appleton, Mark Messersmith, Bob Bischoff, Jesse Aaron, and Bessie Harvey, whose work illuminates our evolving relationship with the natural world. Beth Appleton (b. 1949) creates intricate cut-paper assemblages shaped by a lifetime of observing Florida’s shifting landscapes. Mark Messersmith (b. 1955) is known for his vibrant, layered paintings that merge wildlife, lush vegetation, and human impact into dramatic narratives, often extending beyond the canvas with sculptural frames. Bob Bischoff (1950-2023) became known for creating large, public stained-glass installations with his wife Jo Ann Bischoff. Together, these artists’ work forms a compelling exploration of the beauty, fragility, and resilience of the natural world, inviting viewers to reflect on the connections between art, place, and the environment.

Image: Beth Appleton, Hurricane Charley, paper, watercolor paint, 2006, 28 x 22 in

The FSU Museum of Fine Arts invites you to "Floating Metal: UNDERcurrents In My Father's Garden," on view from August 24, 2026 - March 13, 2027.

“Floating Metal” brings together sculpture, image, video, performance, and sound to honor the artistic legacy of Ed Love (1936-1999) and the intergenerational creative practice of choreographer and performer nia love (b. 1963). The exhibition extends nia love’s long-term serial projects g1(host) and UNDERcurrents, which explore the enduring histories of the Middle Passage and transatlantic slavery. This newest iteration continues to invite audiences to probe the seam between catastrophic history and everyday memory, pivoting on the elemental medium of water.

The exhibition also marks the first museum presentation of Ed Love’s Beloved series (1988) with metal sculptures commemorating black historical figures, completed shortly before his untimely passing in 1999. As a representative yet under-recognized artist of the Black Arts generation, Ed Love is known for welding discarded metal salvaged from scrap yards into powerful totems of global black consciousness. Likewise driven by the social force and weight of blackness, nia love’s multi-modal movement practice aims to breach the propriety of “dance,” refashioning it as gesture–the embodied memory of movement, geographies, and scales of time gathered and shared through black forms of life and culture.

The presentation of Floating Metal: UNDERcurrents In My Father’s Garden by nia love was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Additional support comes from FSU’s Council on Research + Creativity (CRC).

Hours subject to change due to holidays and University closures.

Jefferson Arts Gallery 575 West Washington Street Monticello, FL 32344
invites you to the Opening of “Swamp Buddha Sumi-e Old Friends New Brush Strokes”

Please join us for refreshments -12 Noon until 4 pm Saturday September 5, 2026

The exhibit will continue thru Wednesday September 30, 2026

Regular Gallery Hours are
Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10am until 2pm
call (850) 997-3311 for additional times to visit

Email : jeffersonartsgallery @gmail.com
Web site: www.jeffersonartsgallery.com
Facebook: JeffersonartsgalleryJAG
Or Jefferson Arts Gallery

LeMoyne Arts invites you to experience Loose Thread, a solo exhibition featuring the work of Laura De Valencia-Kirk.
Through fiber and mixed-media works, Loose Thread explores themes of identity, resilience, displacement, adaptation, and belonging. Drawing upon the personal stories and experiences that shape individuals and communities, De Valencia-Kirk invites viewers to consider the threads that connect us, to place, memory, culture, and one another.

Join us throughout the exhibition and celebrate with us at these special events:

Opening Reception
Thursday, September 24 | 5:00–7:30 PM
Be among the first to experience Loose Thread and enjoy an evening of art and community at LeMoyne Arts. Food by Klassic Katering & Events. Live classical guitar by Susana Frade.

Muffins & Mimosas
Saturday, September 26 | 11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Spend your Saturday morning immersed in the exhibition while enjoying in-house mimosas, baked goods from Uptown Cafe, and freshly brewed coffee from Argonaut Coffee. Live Music by the Community Youth Orchestra of Tallahassee.

LeMoyne Arts
125 N. Gadsden Street | Tallahassee, FL
Exhibition on view September 24–October 31, 2026

Join Infinite Spectrum Foundation for a Sensory Saturday Playdate at FAAST (Florida Alliance for Assistive Services and Technology).

This Spectrum Outing is a chance to connect with other families while exploring FAAST's sensory play space. During your visit, you'll also learn about the many resources FAAST offers, including assistive technology device loans, demonstrations, training, financing options, and other services available to individuals with disabilities, families, educators, therapists, and providers throughout Florida.

Date: Saturday, October 10
Time: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Location: FAAST Sensory Play

Come explore, connect, and discover resources that support independence and accessibility for individuals across the lifespan. We look forward to seeing you there.

Winner of three Tony Awards, three Outer Critics Circle Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards, Urinetown is a hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, environmental collapse, privatization of natural resources, bureaucracy, municipal politics, and musical theatre itself! Hilariously funny and touchingly honest, Urinetown provides a fresh perspective on one of America’s greatest art forms.

In a Gotham-like city, a terrible water shortage, caused by a 20-year drought, has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. The citizens must use public amenities, regulated by a single malevolent company that profits by charging admission for one of humanity’s most basic needs. Amid the people, a hero decides that he’s had enough and plans a revolution to lead them all to freedom!

Inspired by the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, Urinetown is an irreverently humorous satire in which no one is safe from scrutiny. Praised for reinvigorating the very notion of what a musical could be, Urinetown catapults the “comedic romp” into the new millennium with its outrageous perspective, wickedly modern wit and sustained ability to produce gales of unbridled laughter.

URINETOWN IS PRESENTED THROUGH SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT WITH MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Sponsored By:

The State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida Council on the Arts and Culture

Legendary sound collage group Negativland and live cinema visual artist SUE-C collaborate to bring Tallahassee their latest audio-visual performance about our minds, our current realities, and the evolving forms of media and technology that orchestrate our perceptions: SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE.

For more than four decades, Negativland has redefined experimental media through their culture-jamming practice, exposing the mechanics of misinformation and spectacle. Paired with SUE-C’s handmade real-time video, SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE becomes a dense, multi-sensory investigation into how our brains and collective belief systems are shaped.

This is Negativland's first performance in Tallahassee ever, co-presented by Tallahassee Film Festival & Super Cool Awesome Music Services.

Now in its sixth year, Florida Climate Week (FCW) is a powerful celebration of engagement, education, and collective action focused on environmental challenges facing our state. Unlike a traditional conference, FCW is a free, community-powered initiative featuring more than 120 independently organized events.

Virtual sessions will be hosted throughout the week on Whova, FCW's official event app and web platform, while in-person events will take place across South, Southwest, Central, Northeast and North Florida. Explore the full schedule of events at floridaclimateweek.org/schedule-of-events.

America’s Everglades: Through the Lens of Clyde Butcher
September 25 – December 12, 2026
Sara May Love Gallery

This exhibition presents the America’s Everglades, the most acclaimed body of work by Clyde Butcher, and celebrates the life and legacy of Harry S. Truman, the visionary who dedicated the Everglades National Park and expanded our National Parks system.

Clyde Butcher is one of America’s foremost landscape photographers and a leading voice for environmental conservation in Florida. His accolades include the National Medal of Arts in 2022, the highest honor given to artists and arts patrons by the United States government, and Florida Artists Hall of Fame recognition in 1998, the highest honor given to an artist by the State of Florida.

Through his monumental images of the Florida Everglades, Butcher captures the quiet beauty, mystery, and resilience of one of the nation’s most treasured natural landscapes. His photographs reveal the delicate balance of life within this vast wilderness, inspiring viewers to reflect on the importance of preservation and the enduring relationship between humanity and nature.

Support for this program is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, celebrating NEA America250: Arts Projects Honoring the National Garden of American Heroes.

Funding for this program was provided through a grant from the Florida Humanities with funds from The Mosaic Company. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this (publication) (program) (exhibition) (website) do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or The Mosaic Company.

Joel Thornton
September 12 – December 12, 2026
Munroe Family Community Gallery

Joel Thornton, a Tallahassee-based artist, brings together a vibrant body of work shaped by many years of dedicated practice and ongoing artistic study. Born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, Thornton discovered his love of painting in his youth, guided by his mother, who inspired him to create and cultivated his passion for the arts. After setting aside painting to build a career and raise a family, Thornton rediscovered his passion for painting. His paintings span portraits of both iconic figures and people from his everyday life, animals, and vibrant landscapes, all unified by his expressive use of color, attention to form, and deep interest in storytelling.

Image: Joel Thornton, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 2022, oil, 20 x 24 inches