Pensacola Museum of Art Property

407 South Jefferson Street., Pensacola, FL 32502

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The University of West Florida Pensacola Museum of Art augments the academic and community missions of the University and the UWF Historic Trust Museums by promoting an open and inclusive space of discovery and dialogue rooted in art, ideas and culture. We aim to facilitate the preservation, understanding, and engagement of visual culture for audiences in the Northwest Florida region and beyond through our permanent collection, interpretive programs, a vital and dynamic exhibition schedule, academic research and education.

On Exhibit

Rising Tide: Photography by Ben Depp

December 6 - April 4

Southern Louisiana, once formed by sediment deposited by the Mississippi River, is now rapidly eroding. Over the past eighty years, Louisiana has lost 2,000 square miles of wetlands, accounting for ninety percent of the coastal marsh loss in the US. Louisiana’s eroding wetlands provide a natural barrier from hurricanes and storm surges that protect seventy percent of the state’s population. They also support the largest commercial fishing grounds in the lower 48 US states and provide crucial habitat for many endangered and threatened species of birds and animals.

This exhibition is part of Ben Depp’s ongoing project documenting the rapidly shifting landscape of southern Louisiana. Depp has been flying above the bayous and wetlands of southern Louisiana in a powered paraglider for ten years, photographing the incredible beauty and the visual clues that tell the story of this place and its destruction. With a powered paraglider, Depp can fly between ten and ten thousand feet above the ground. He spends hours in the air, camera in hand, waiting for the brief moments when the first rays of sunlight mix with cool pre dawn light and illuminate forms in the grass, or when evening light sculpts fragments of marsh and the geometric patterns of human enterprise—canals, oil platforms, pipelines, and roads.

In Depp’s photographs, one can make out varieties of plants, see the weather and seasonal changes—from the shifting high-water line, color temperature and softness of light, to what is in bloom—distinguish living cypress trees from those that have been killed by saltwater intrusion, or see the patterns made by wave energy on barrier island beaches. This intimate view of Louisiana, from a bird’s-eye perspective, prompts Depp – and he hopes, others – to see and appreciate this landscape in new ways.

Coming Soon!

71st Youth Art Focus

January 24 - February 23

The Pensacola Museum of Art, in partnership with the PMA Guild and Escambia County Public Schools, is proud to present the 71st Annual Youth Art Focus exhibition, showcasing artwork from across the Escambia County School District. The exhibition serves as a celebration of the strong artistic achievements of K-12 students and their teachers.

Since our first year in 1954, Youth Art Focus has created an opportunity to expose students to the fine art world in a professional museum environment while providing a platform for our community to engage with and appreciate Escambia County’s art education programs. Escambia County Schools can tour the museum for free as a part of this partnership, welcoming approximately 2,000 visitors through our doors while this exhibition is on view.