Florida Prize Exhibition Preview Party happens on Friday Credit: Yosnier, Shadow Work I, © Yosnier
Friday marks the opening of the ninth edition of the Florida Prize in Contemporary Art, aka one of the best things the Orlando Museum of Art has pulled off in the last decade and the most likely to help save its reputation after the annus horribilis of 2022.

The Florida Prize is that rare Orlando art event that manages to celebrate locals while still being artistically rigorous: Ten working contemporary artists are singled out as part of this prestigious annual exhibition, each with a chance to win a $20,000 award.

The party gets you in to see the work before (most) other people in town, plus a full bar and a chance to rub elbows with Orlando’s cultural elites. Proceeds from the party support the exhibition and OMA education programs.

The exhibition opens to the public for regular admission Saturday, June 3, and is slated to run through Aug. 27.

6 p.m., Friday, June 2, Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., omart.org, $50-$60.

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2416 N. Mills Ave., Orlando, FL

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This article appears in May 31 – Jun 6, 2023.

Jessica Bryce Young has been working with Orlando Weekly since 2003, serving as copy editor, dining editor and arts editor before becoming editor in chief in 2016.