Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens to Host ISEA Innovations 2025:
The 34th Annual Open Juried Exhibition and Art Innovation Symposium
(Ormond Beach, FL — August 25, 2025) Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens will host the International Society of Experimental Artists (ISEA) for their annual exhibition, “Innovations 2025” and Art Innovation Symposium, which includes six workshops.
INNOVATIONS 2025: Juried Exhibition
September 18-November 30
Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday, 12-4 p.m.
Admission by donation; free for members & U.S. Veterans
The museum’s main galleries will be filled with nearly 90 innovative artworks in all mediums and styles, taking the viewer on an awesome, inspiring journey. Innovations is the premier annual exhibition of ISEA, and OMAM is honored to host it this year. Experimental artists from across the globe explore, learn, and apply new techniques, new compositional approaches, and new concepts to create. Whether realistic or abstract, an innovative approach to making art is applied.
Thursday, September 18 – Exhibition Opening Reception & Awards Ceremony
5:30-8 p.m.; admission by donation; free for members and U.S. Veterans
The public is invited to celebrate the opening of “Innovations 2025,” the premier annual exhibition of the International Society of Experimental Artists (ISEA). The evening includes artist talks and light refreshments.
ART INNOVATION SYMPOSIUM: Workshops at OMAM
September 17 & 18 – What is Creativity and How Do We Access It?
Two-Day Workshop with Fran Gardner
Wednesday & Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; cost is $300.
Learn more and register at www.iseaartexhibit.org/Symposium2025.
This workshop welcomes artists of all mediums to experiment with deepening creativity, explore their artistic voice, understand how creativity functions, and develop ideas to take back to the studio.
September 17 & 18 – Memory Ware Mosaics
Two-Day Workshop with Gila Rayberg
Wednesday & Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; cost is $345 (including materials fee).
Learn more and register at www.iseaartexhibit.org/Symposium2025.
Participants will learn new tools and ways of seeing what their old pottery and dishes can become. Gila will guide the process of breaking old pottery and creating a new work of art.
September 18 – Design Elements with Mixed Media
One-Day Workshop with Christine Peloquin
Thursday, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; cost is $150
Learn more and register at www.iseaartexhibit.org/Symposium2025.
This workshop will focus on the fundamentals of mixed media collage and design and challenge artists to unlock and find their inner voice. Artists will be working with gelli plate printing on paper and fabrics to create original and colorful mono-prints. Artists will use the mono-prints they have made, along with papers, fabrics, and found objects to create collages on wood, canvas boards or even over past work.
September 19 – Chinese Brush Painting
One-Day Workshop with Ann Kozeliski
Friday, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; cost is $160 (including materials fee)
Learn more and register at www.iseaartexhibit.org/Symposium2025.
Artists will have the opportunity to do Chinese brush painting on an organza panel to create a work of art that appears transparent but morphs into opaque — A magical feat!
September 19 – Batik Techniques
One-Day Workshop with Muffy Clark Gill
Friday, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; cost is $175 (including materials fee)
Learn more and register at www.iseaartexhibit.org/Symposium2025.
Artists will learn traditional Batik dyeing techniques — design and create their own stencil, apply it to fabric, and then dye. Artists will learn how to incorporate their creations with new media to create new work.
September 19 – Dyes with Native Plants
One-Day Workshop with Aida Tejada & Deborah Rosental
Friday, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; cost is $170 (including materials fee)
Learn more and register at www.iseaartexhibit.org/Symposium2025.
Artists will use native Florida plants to create dyes and will learn how to extract color from the plants and use them in art projects.
CLOSING EVENT
September 19 – Celebration Dinner
Friday, 6-9 p.m.; cost is $60 (seats are limited)
Register at www.iseaartexhibit.org/Symposium2025.
The final evening of the International Society of Experimental Artists Symposium will be one of celebration and entertainment, with a delicious meal and fellowship — a spectacular way to end a wonderful week of art making and camaraderie with all the artists and guests.
ABOUT ISEA
The International Society of Experimental Artists was founded in 1991 with the idea that artists working in an experimental manner need a society where they can share ideas and techniques – both old and new – and encourage the development of new talents and skills. There is a need to connect, encourage, inform and promote artists who create art by experimentation and exploration. The Society offers members three opportunities a year to exhibit their work, with the annual INNOVATIONS/Symposium as an opportunity to exhibit in a public space.
The International Society of Experimental Artists’ mission is to enthusiastically embrace creative thinking, imagination, and experimentation. ISEA promotes public interest in experimental art, encourages and supports artists’ creative journeys through exhibition, education, and communication. Since 1991 ISEA has had over 500 members in the U.S. and around the world.
ABOUT OMAM
The Ormond Memorial Art Museum & Gardens was founded in 1946 with a mission to inspire the community through art and nature while honoring those who fought for freedom. The museum offers outreach programming for youth and veterans, creative and environmental education for all ages, and art exhibitions featuring local, national, and internationally acclaimed artists. The museum and gardens are located at 78 E. Granada Blvd., Ormond Beach and are part of the beachside Ormond Arts District. The museum galleries and gift shop are open Monday-Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm and Sunday, noon to 4 pm. The gardens are accessible, daily, from sunrise to sunset. Admission is by donation and is free for museum members and U.S. veterans. For more information, call 386-676-3347 or visit ormondartmuseum.org.
