Category: Arts of the Treasure Coast

The groundbreaking ceremony for the new Highwaymen Museum was a joyous day for many. Museum founder Doretha Hair Truesdell and Fort Pierce Mayor Linda Hudson, center, work together to turn some earth with a shovel in front of the museum at 1234 Avenue D. MARYANN KETCHAM

Highway Museum opening may be pushed to fall

Post author:Deborah Maldonado
Post published:February 6, 2025
Post category:Fort Pierce Museums

Anticipation that only the fruition of a long-held dream can have will spill over when the new Highwaymen Museum at 1234 Avenue D throws open its doors to welcome its first guests this summer.

LOCAL ARTIST KEEPING ‘LIFE IN FOCUS’

Post author:Deborah Maldonado
Post published:January 12, 2025
Post category:Arts of the Treasure Coast Martin at 100 Sponsored Content Treasure Coast History

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see,” a famous quote by Thoreau and the slogan of Gallery 36 and the belief of photography artist Lisa Renee Ludlum.

CENTER STAGE

Post author:Deborah Maldonado
Post published:January 5, 2025
Post category:Theater

One hundred years ago The Lyric Theatre we know today was a silent movie house under construction in Stuart. It opened on March 15, 1926. But the Lyric’s story really began before that.

A.E. “Beanie” Backus, a legendary painter who mastered scenes of the Florida landscape, created an artistic path for the Florida Highwaymen. More than 50 paintings by the Highwaymen will be exhibited at the Backus Museum. A.E. BACKUS MUSEUM & GALLERY

Visual feast

Post author:Deborah Maldonado
Post published:November 21, 2024
Post category:Museums

Museums along the Treasure Coast are getting ready for an exciting season that is sure to please a wide variety of art lovers.

Bright spot

Post author:Deborah Maldonado
Post published:November 20, 2024
Post category:Festivals and Special Events Holiday Theater

The Treasure Coast doesn’t have snow to look forward to, but Heathcote Botanical Gardens in Fort Pierce provides a winter wonderland with the annual Garden of Lights, now celebrating its 10th year.

Fort Pierce is aglow whenever the Sunrise Theatre has a performance. SUNRISE THEATRE

Bright Future

Post author:Deborah Maldonado
Post published:September 26, 2024
Post category:Arts of the Treasure Coast Theater Treasure Coast Nonprofits

Fort Pierce’s landmark Sunrise Theatre has celebrated glitzy nights and endured dark days. Its 101-year history even included a period, during the 1980s, when its doors were shut and its future uncertain.

Display items for the new Port St. Lucie History Museum and Education Center are being cataloged and sorted by Port St. Lucie Historical Society members Rachel Heid and Patricia Christensen, society board chairwoman, as they prepare for the fall opening. RUSTY DURHAM

Colorful Characters

Post author:Deborah Maldonado
Post published:August 21, 2024
Post category:Museums Port St. Lucie Treasure Coast History

The city of Port St. Lucie sprang up in 1961, seemingly out of nowhere. From jungle-like riverbanks, swarms of giant mosquitos and no residents, its population zoomed from zero to 240,000 in 63 years.

The world’s tallest heart, a public sculpture commissioned by Mattamy Homes in Port St. Lucie, will tower over the Tradition community and I-95 when installation is completed in October. This rendering shows the silver heart and the small park around it.

Big, big love

Post author:Deborah Maldonado
Post published:June 11, 2024
Post category:Arts of the Treasure Coast Port St. Lucie Public art

The heart of Port St. Lucie will soon be impossible to miss: The world’s tallest sculpture of a heart is being assembled in Tradition by Mattamy Homes.

The Headwaters Heritage & Cultural Center coming to Fellsmere will showcase Florida’s food history with displays of cooking tools from pioneer homes. Note the flour sifter once found in nearly every kitchen, essential for baking without benefit of mixes. GREG RODGERS

PAST FORWARD

Post author:Deborah Maldonado
Post published:May 2, 2024
Post category:Museums

While citrus groves, pastures, oaks and tall pines disappear around us, a group of history enthusiasts — with deep roots in Florida — plan to build a museum that will showcase the state’s fascinating past.

A visitor studies Edwin Longsden Long’s, Love’s Labour Lost, at the Vero Beach Museum of Art. VBMA

EGYPTIAN DELIGHTS

Post author:Deborah Maldonado
Post published:February 29, 2024
Post category:Arts of the Treasure Coast Museums

Ancient Egypt remained a mystery to most of Western Europe for centuries. While the magical civilization with its pyramids, temples, pharaohs and hieroglyphics had fascinated the world since the Greek and Roman periods.