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Spotlight: Maitland Art Center Earns Rare 'National Historic Landmark' Designation

Photos of the Maitland Art Center courtesy of Art & History Museums Maitland
Photos of the Maitland Art Center courtesy of Art & History Museums Maitland

This week's "Spotlight" focuses on the Maitland Art Center, which recently received designation as a National Historic Landmark. The designation itself makes history – the art center is the first and only official national landmark in all of Orange, Seminole, Osceola, and Lake Counties.

[caption id="attachment_37430" align="alignleft" width="218"] Photos of the Maitland Art Center courtesy of Art & History Museums Maitland[/caption]

 

This week, Art & History Museums Maitland CEO/Executive Director Andrea Bailey Cox tells 90.7’s Nicole Creston what’s so special about the Maitland Art Center.

 

Find more on the Maitland Art Center, including its national landmark status and current exhibitions, on the Maitland Art Center page at the Art & History Museums Maitland website.

Nicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined WMFE in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy.