Studer Community Institute

Foo Foo Fest: The Art of the Highwaymen

November 5, 2014
/ Staff Reports
/ training-development

University of West Florida Historic Trust will present “Against the Odds: The Art of the Highwaymen,” a traveling exhibit, from Nov. 6 to Dec. 28 at the Voices of Pensacola presented by Gulf Power. The exhibit is part of the 2014 Pensacola Foo Foo Fest, a 12-day eclectic mixture of art and culture events that will take place Nov. 6 to 17. The Florida Highwaymen were a group of 26 African-Americans who broke convention to paint beautiful iconic landscapes on basic materials, such as Upson board and crown molding, in the segregated South during the mid-1950s and 1960s. Collectively, they produced more than 200,000 paintings over a 30-year period. Historic Trust will host an opening reception that is free and open to the public for the exhibit on Friday, Nov. 7 from 5 to 7 p.m. On Dec. 5, Historic Trust will also host guest speaker Gary Monroe, author of “The Highwaymen: Florida’s African-American Landscape Painters.” The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin with a reception at 5:30 p.m., followed by Monroe’s lecture at 6 p.m. The “Against the Odds: The Art of the Highwaymen” exhibit is free and open to the public. The Voices of Pensacola hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For additional information about the exhibit, visit historicpensacola.org. ### About UWF Historic Trust:  UWF Historic Trust is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and sharing the history of Northwest Florida. The Trust manages the Historic Pensacola campus of the University of West Florida, which includes 28 properties in downtown Historic Pensacola and the Arcadia Mill Archeological site in Milton.

Back to Blogs

Foo Foo Fest: The Art of the Highwaymen

Recent Posts