New art installation open at Art in Public Places Gallery in Winter Garden City Hall

An opening reception for holiday tribute exhibition called, It's a Wonderful Life in Winter Garden, to be held Thursday, Nov. 9 at Winter Garden City Hall

By Sam Albuquerque
| 12:40 p.m. November 9, 2023

Photo of a couple in downtown Winter Garden circa 1960 by former Winter Garden photographer and camera store owner B.P. Hannon.

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A reception will be held tonight, Nov. 9, 2023 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Art in Public Places Gallery in Winter Garden City Hall to celebrate the opening of a new holiday tribute photo and art exhibition called, It's a Wonderful Life in Winter Garden.

According to the Crealdé School of Art's website, the school and the Winter Garden Heritage Foundation partnered "to curate an exhibition of photographs and paintings that celebrate the special character of the historic downtown district."

Led by instructor Cathy Hempel, Crealdé students from the Jesse Brock Community Center created "a series of plein-air paintings depicting familiar and lesser-known scenes of Winter Garden," the website says.

As part of this exhibition, the Heritage Foundation will be featuring archival photographs from B.P. Hannon, a photographer and camera store owner, who captured photos of local life in Winter Garden during the mid-twentieth century.

More information is available here on the school's website.

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Sam Albuquerque

A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.