Summer 2026 Issue

Summer 2026

Leslie Rossetti’s Blue Bayou was awarded Best of Show at the Central Florida Watercolor Society’s annual juried competition. For more information, see Liquid Assets.

Artist Meredith Sand creates collections of whimsical cards and textiles that celebrate the Sunshine State.
Summer 2026

Leslie Rossetti’s Blue Bayou was awarded Best of Show at the Central Florida Watercolor Society’s annual juried competition. For more information, see Liquid Assets.

Leslie Rossetti’s Blue Bayou was awarded Best of Show at the Central Florida Watercolor Society’s annual juried competition. For more information, see Liquid Assets.

The ever-weird Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival celebrates its 35th anniversary by embracing its unconventionality.
How an iconic Winter Park architect’s 1955 home was preserved in spirit but updated for the needs of today’s buyers.
A new exhibition traces the legacy of European Jews who survived the Nazi persecutions of World War II to settle in Central Florida.
Milk Mart started as a small pop-up market, but it has since become a quarterly celebration of the region’s creative businesses.
The Southern Fried Poetry Slam is, at last, coming to Orlando. It’s bold. It’s fierce. It’s not your grandmother’s poetry reading.
The show must go on! So it will, when Winter Park’s headquarters for mirthful musicals reopens next season to a revitalized venue.

Looking for something to do? We’ve got a few suggestions in this roundup of upcoming events—in every artistic genre—offered by Central Florida’s plethora of arts and cultural organizations.

April 30 to May 3
Orlando Ballet
Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center
May 16
Opera Orlando
Steinmetz Hall at Dr. Phillips Center
May 17 to September 7
Orlando Science Center
May 22 and 23
Central Florida Community Arts
Calvary Orlando
May 31
Flamenco del Sol
Ritz Theater
June 8 to 20
Central Florida Vocal Arts
Winter Park High School Ninth Grade Center
June 16
Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra
Valencia College East Campus
July 10 to August 21
Casselberry Sculpture House
Artist La Vaughn Belle invites viewers to consider complex narratives of colonization and cultural heritage on St. Croix.
Orlando Museum of Art’s juried Florida Prize is a highly prestigious honor and one of the museum’s signature exhibitions.
Artist Mär Martinez explores the physical and metaphorical materials used to define space, both benign and hostile.
Central Florida Watercolor Society’s annual competition, as always, showcases wet and wonderful strokes of genius.
An exhibition series that began in the wake of the Pulse tragedy resumes with work from three acclaimed local artists.
Carlos Gamez de Francisco’s regal portraits of people, surreal equine-human hybrids and insects highlight Myth & Majesty at Solana Fine Art.