{"id":389779,"date":"2026-09-03T23:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389779\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T23:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:56:12","slug":"by-heart-and-by-hand-opens-at-the-history-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/389779\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018By Heart and By Hand\u2019 opens at the History Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe new exhibit honors the heritage and traditions of Black craft artists.<\/p>\n<p>How do family tradition, oral history and ancestral knowledge affect crafted works of art? That\u2019s the question behind a new exhibit at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehistorycenter.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Orange County Regional History Center<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehistorycenter.org\/exhibition\/by-heart-and-by-hand\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBy Heart and By Hand\u201d<\/a> not only shares the work of local Black craft artists, it also dives into the inspiration and historical context of each piece.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59721\" class=\"size-large wp-image-59721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Linda-Journey-to-Freedom-1024x935.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"935\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-59721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(COURTESY OF THE ORANGE COUNTY REGIONAL HISTORY CENTER)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory lives not only in documents and archives, but also in the skills, traditions, and memories that people share across generations,\u201d said Azela Santana, executive director of the History Center, in a press release. \u201cBy Heart and By Hand gives us an opportunity to honor artists who keep those stories alive and to recognize their work as an important part of Central Florida\u2019s history.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition is a collaborative project between the History Center, the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage\u2019s African American Craft Initiative, and the Craft Emergency Relief Fund.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59725\" class=\"size-large wp-image-59725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/20260727_OCRHC_0062-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"688\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-59725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(COURTESY OF THE ORANGE COUNTY REGIONAL HISTORY CENTER)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy Heart and By Hand\u201d opens September 5 and will be on exhibit through March 28, 2027. Access is included with museum admission.\n\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new exhibit honors the heritage and traditions of Black craft artists. How do family tradition, oral history&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-389779","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\/389779","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=389779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}