Baker Museum

Long before patrons step inside Naples’ Baker Museum of Art, they’re treated to nearly a dozen magnificent works of art, free of charge. In furtherance of its commitment to outdoor sculpture, The Baker Museum has partnered with the Pelican Bay Foundation to create a sculpture walk along the sidewalk across the street from the Hayes Hall and museum entrances on Pelican Bay Boulevard.

“Alex Katz: Theater and Dance” constitutes the first comprehensive exploration of Katzʼs playful and inventive collaborations with choreographers, dancers and members of avant-garde theater ensembles over six decades. In addition to presenting a range of works by innovators across the performing arts and poetry, it spotlights 15 shows Katz produced with Paul Taylor, exploring the creative partnership that generated some of the most significant postmodern dance and art of the 20th century.

An exhibition titled “Prison Nation,” is now at the Baker Museum at Artis-Naples. Through photography, the exhibition creates a visual record of the national crisis of mass incarceration. We talk with the exhibition’s co-curator Nicole Fleetwood, Ph.D., who will deliver a lecture about the exhibition Aug. 31 at the Baker Museum.

In late July, Artis-Naples announced its full plans for the coming season. The overarching theme is “Distance – Devotion.” We’ll have an encore presentation of our recent conversation all about the 2022-2023 season with Artis-Naples CEO and President Kathleen van Bergen.

Artis-Naples has announced its full plans for the coming season. The overarching theme is “Distance – Devotion.” We’ll get a preview of the upcoming season with Artis-Naples CEO and President Kathleen van Bergen.

The Baker Museum at Artis-Naples has emerged from challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and damage from Hurricane Irma with new exhibitions “True Likeness,” and “Recent Acquisitions: 2019 – Present.”“True Likeness” invites viewers to re-examines why we are so mesmerized by our own faces and the ones we encounter as we re-emerge from our homes in the wake of the pandemic.“Recent Acquisitions” includes 50 works that have been added to the museum’s permanent collection since 2019, most of which are now available for public view for the first time.

Myra Janco Daniels, who founded the Philharmonic Center for the Arts (now Artis-Naples) and the Naples Museum of Art (now the Baker Museum), died Wednesday, June 22, at the age of 96.

A conversation with the Baker Museum at Artis-Naples Director Courtney McNeil about new complimentary exhibitions titled, “Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group,” and “Invisible Thread.” Both exhibitions feature works by artists who strive to transcend the physical world and reach a higher spiritual reality through abstraction synesthetic experiences, and metaphorical representation.

A conversation with artist and founder the Drifters Project Pam Longobardi about her exhibition in the Baker Museum at Artis-Naples, which aims to raise awareness about the dangers of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans.

We speak with the namesakes of the Baker Museum at Artis-Naples, Jay and Patty Baker, about complimentary exhibitions currently featured that include remarkable items from Jay’s collection of Yankees baseball memorabilia and including fine art from the Baker’s private collection covering the most significant art historical movements of the past 150 years.