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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

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.

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This oil on canvas by A.E. Backus, Orange Grove, will be on display as part of the upcoming exhibit titled Kindred Spirits: Paintings and Letters from the Kiplinger Family Collection. The exhibit runs from Nov. 17 through Jan. 7 at the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery in Fort Pierce. BRIAN GILLIGAN

THE FINE ART OF FRIENDSHIP

An upcoming exhibition at the Backus Museum highlights the bonds between artist ‘Bean’ Backus and publishing magnate ‘Kip’ Kiplinger

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The Vero Beach Museum of Art offers a free outdoor digital art exhibition in December. Eighteen works from various international artists will be projected onto the exterior walls of the museum building. VBMA PHOTOS

Visual Virtuosity

This Treasure Coast art season is packed with thrilling exhibitions. Art enthusiasts interested in Modern art will be captivated by shows featuring M.C. Escher at the Vero Beach Museum of Art as well as science fiction illustrations at the A.E. Backus Museum.

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The work of renowned light artist Chul Hyun Ahn is on exhibit at the Vero Beach Museum of Art through April 30. Using lights and mirrors and ordinary objects, Ahn creates Zen-inspired works that are windows into infinity and space, such as this work, entitled Five Squares, from 2016. VBMA PHOTOS

Mirroring an illusion

VBMA exhibit invites viewers to explore space through their own perspectives

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Celebrating its 60th season, the A.E. Backus Museum and Gallery was first envisioned as a building with an open air atrium. Backus painted this as an artist’s rendering in 1959. A.E. Backus [American, 1906-1990] Fort Pierce Art Gallery, 1959. Oil on board, 15x30 inches. Gift of Dorothy Shapiro Manello.

Backus turns 60

Community support has helped the museum survive difficult times including the pandemic

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