To Imagine a Home

What are the key qualities that make a place feel like home? How do spaces and structures influence our understanding of history, community, and belonging over time? To Imagine a Home features a selection of works from the museum’s collection that explore the many, often complex ways we connect with the spaces we live in. Together, these works examine the physical, metaphorical, and imagined aspects of the concept of home. Each piece offers a unique perspective, encouraging reflection on how lived spaces hold memories, while also offering opportunities to reinterpret them.

To Imagine a Home is organized by The Rollins Museum of Art and features works by Allen Fireall, Pepón Osorio, Emilio Sánchez, Yinka Shonibare, Becky Suss, and two new acquisitions by La Vaughn Belle. The exhibition is in dialogue with Belle’s installation, The House That Freedoms Built, on view concurrently on the Rollins College campus.

Presenting Sponsor: The Jacqueline Bradley Endowment for the Rollins Museum of Art

Exhibition Funding Funding for exhibitions is provided in perpetuity through the Rachel and Kenneth Murrah Exhibition Fund and the Drey Exhibition Fund.

Additional Support Additional support for exhibitions at the Rollins Museum of Art is provided, in part, by Orange County Government through the Arts & Cultural Affairs Program.

Image right: Allen Fireall (American, 1954-2014) Uncle Harry’s Visit, 2010 Acrylic on canvas 24 X 30 in. Gift of Fred W. Hicks III 2016.19.4

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Victoria Brown, Associate Professor of English at Rollins College

Victoria Brown is a fiction writer and Associate Professor of English at Rollins College, where she also directs the Creative Writing Minor. She hosts the college’s long-running Winter with the Writer’s program. She is the author of Minding Ben (Hyperion, 2011). Her short fiction, creative nonfiction, and scholarly articles have been published widely.

The Rollins Museum of Art is pleased to collaborate with Faculty Thought Partners across departments at Rollins College. Together, the Museum and Faculty partners connect dynamic exhibitions with the latest in academic scholarship, student engagement, and public programs. The goal of each partnership is to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and demonstrate how art museums and higher education can inspire critical thinking, creativity, and lifelong learning.