Mary Ann Carroll, ‘Queen of the Highwaymen,’ gets retrospective exhibition at Orlando City Hall

Mary Ann Carroll, a member of the famed Floridian Black artist collective The Highwaymen, is getting her due with a new exhibition opening Friday.

Carroll, the only woman who was part of the renowned collective, is the subject of the exhibition Queen of the Highwaymen: A Retrospective Exhibition of Mary Ann Carroll, on display at the Orlando City Hall’s Terrace Gallery for the next couple of months.

This is the first exhibition to shine the solo spotlight on Carroll, a Black single mother who often created her evocative landscape paintings by night after working and parenting all day.

Carroll, who passed away in 2019, counted among her many fans First Lady Michelle Obama and was a true Florida original. See why this week. The exhibition runs through June 22.

6 p.m. Friday, April 4, Terrace Gallery, 400 S. Orange Ave., orlando.gov, free.

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This article appears in Apr 2-8, 2025.