{"id":313602,"date":"2026-06-19T22:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313602\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:26:07","slug":"winter-garden-art-association-calls-for-artists-for-florida-roots-land-light-life-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/313602\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Garden Art Association calls for artists for &#8220;Florida Roots: Land, Light &#038; Life&#8221; exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h963149-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Winter Garden Art Association is calling for artists for its next exhibit, &#8220;Florida Roots: Land, Light &amp; Life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"h963149-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">The exhibit will feature artists celebrating the beauty, character and spirit of Florida through artwork inspired by the state&#8217;s wildlife, wetlands, coastlines, orange groves, culture and history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h963149-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">All media forms are accepted. Submissions will run from Wednesday, July 1, through Wednesday, July 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h963149-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The opening reception will take place place Thursday, Aug. 6.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h963149-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The exhibit also will feature &#8220;Orange Grove,&#8221; an original Florida Highwaymen painting by Roy A. McLendon Sr., &#8220;known for capturing Florida&#8217;s natural beauty with bold color and expressive brushwork,&#8221; WGAA officials said online. &#8220;Join us as we celebrate the land, light and life that make Florida unique.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h963149-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">To learn about specific requirements, click <a href=\"https:\/\/wgart.org\/call-to-artists\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winter Garden Art Association is calling for artists for its next exhibit, &#8220;Florida Roots: Land, Light &amp;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-313602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}