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Featured Work
Hannibal Square Memory Wall
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Mr ImaginationSculpture (EXTERIOR)
Hannibal Square Heritage Center
About the Artwork
This artistic collaboration uses a traditional form of folk art to memorialize a community. Working with Pennsylvania-based African American folk artist Mr. Imagination, participants— primarily school children and seniors--built this 12 foot long public art sculpture using memorabilia donated from the community. Produced by Crealdé School of Art in partnership with the Golden Rule Foundation with majority funding from Joseph and Lynn Conte.
About the Artist
Mr Imagination
Mr. Imagination, born in 1948, is a native of Chicago now living in Pennsylvania. “As a kid, I would cut up old boxes and paint on those or just use anything I could find. By the time I was a teenager, my room was so full of art I slept under the kitchen table.” Once known as Gregory Warmack, he took the name “Mr. Imagination” when he survived a near-fatal shooting in 1978. His brush with death inspired a new awakening in his artwork that expresses his declaration of faith and a sense of pride and dignity in where he came from. His art can be found at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. , the American Museum of American Folk Art in New York, and the House of Blues in both Chicago and Orlando. He was chosen to create a piece for the Coca Cola Olympic salute to Folk Art at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and was featured in an exhibit at the Terra Museum in 1993, which the New York Times hailed as one of the most significant shows of the year. He is represented by Carl Hammer Galleries in Chicago, Illinois and Jeanine Taylor Folk Art in Sanford, Florida.
Did you know?
UCF has a large collection of public art, since many of their buildings were built in recent years under state regulations that invests a percentage of the construction for original art.
Discover Art in Central Florida!
For those who have eyes to see, there are hundreds of works of art around them.
This web site provides some information on many of those works of art that can
be regularly viewed in Orange County by any member of the public without an
admission fee. They are outside in public view, or located in an interior area
that is normally open to the public.
Look around this web site and find something that interests you. Then go see it
in person. The information you find here will add to the pleasure of exploring
public art in Central Florida.
If, in your travels around Orange County, you come across some public art that
is not listed here, please let us know so we can add it. If you are aware of
additional information about art or artist that is included here, again, please
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