EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION
THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2025
6:00 – 8:00 PM
Join Mandarin Museum for a wonderful evening as we open artist Kathy Stark’s exhibition, “SEE JACKSONVILLE.”
SEE JACKSONVILLE will feature Stark’s original acrylic gouache on panel pieces that inform her popular series of 1930s WPA National Park Service-inspired posters of North Florida parks. Each work was designed and painted in the style of silk-screened NPS posters created by The Federal Arts Project poster division during President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal program.
During the reception, we will unveil Kathy Stark’s newest original piece – a WPA National Park Service-inspired poster for WALTER JONES HISTORICAL PARK! A limited quantity of Walter Jones Historical Park poster prints will be available for purchase. A pre-order list will form at the event once sold out.
When: Thursday, May 1, 2025, 6:00-8:00 PM
Where: Mandarin Museum, 11964 Mandarin Rd.
Admission: Free, refreshments will be served
Kathy Stark’s book, “The Wilderness of North Florida’s Parks,” as well as prints of other parks in her poster series will also be available.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
A Jacksonville native and resident Kathy Stark specializes in watercolor and oil painting. Her favorite subject matter is her natural Florida surroundings which she explores by hiking, kayaking, canoeing, mountain biking and dog walking. She recently completed a series of large even monumental watercolors of her area’s amazing wild park system for her book and traveling exhibit titled “The Wilderness of North Florida’s Parks”. A unique blend of art and education, the family friendly bookand exhibit serves as a tribute and guide to the great unspoiled stretches of the North Florida region. Kathy’s work has been collected both privately and corporately and has been shown in museums and galleries in Northeast Florida and beyond.
For more about Kathy Stark, visit www.KathyStark.com.