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VBMA to Open Seven Days a Week, Beginning September 14

The Vero Beach Museum of Art (VBMA) is reopening to visitors on Mondays beginning September 14. Galleries, along with the Museum Store, will be open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sunday, 1 to 4 p.m. Complimentary docent-led tours, free with paid admission, take place daily at 2 p.m.

In exhibition news, James Prosek: At Work remains on view through Sunday, October 25 in the Holmes Gallery; Jill Nathanson: Chromatic Phrases is open through Sunday, February 7, 2027; The Museum in the Garden: Envisioning the New VBMA is open through Sunday, January 3, 2027.

The Museum will present Hokusai, Hiroshige, Hasui: Japanese Landscapes in Print as its final touring exhibition in the current Museum. Coming from MFA Boston and opening on Saturday, November 21, the expansive exhibition features more than 100 works of art and will span both the Holmes and Titelman galleries.

James Prosek: At Work

Through October 25, 2026

Holmes Gallery

Celebrating 30 years of art making, James Prosek shares more than 70 works from his studio and field studies in painting, watercolor, and sculpture with the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Prosek is a naturalist whose creations reflect the immense biodiversity of our planet and its imaginative potential through botanical portraits, fish, and wildlife found during his travels. 
This exhibition is organized by the Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, and features new interpretive texts authored by the Vero Beach Museum of Art. Support of this exhibition is provided by Barry and Jennifer Jaruzelski and the Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation.

Jill Nathanson: Chromatic Phrases

Through February 7, 2027

Schumann and Titelman galleries through Oct. 25, Schumann Gallery through Feb. 7

This original exhibition presents recent works by Jill Nathanson whose abstract paintings are shaped through a deliberate process that balances spontaneity with a predetermined structure. This interplay between intention and material response brings into focus the dynamic movement of layered color relationships. Informed by her early immersion in Color Field painting of the 1960s and 1970s, Nathanson extends this lineage through a sustained exploration of color as an experiential phenomenon. In her work, color does not remain fixed or purely descriptive but instead suggests movement as it is shaped by the interaction of light and perception. Chromatic Phrases is curated by VBMA Chief Curator Caitlin Swindell and organized by the Vero Beach Museum of Art.

The Museum in the Garden: Envisioning the New VBMA

Through January 3, 2027

Stark Gallery

This exhibition traces the evolution of the designs for VBMA’s new building and transformed campus created by Allied Works architecture and Unknown Studio Landscape Architecture & Urban Design. Beginning with conceptual sketches from 2022 and progressing to the fully realized renderings of the project now underway, this exhibition showcases the bold plans that will propel the Museum’s growth and broaden its reach, deepening its commitment to art education, presenting its collection and new exhibitions, and hosting speakers and performances. Museum in the Garden is organized by the Vero Beach Museum of Art with Allied Works. 

Hokusai, Hiroshige, Hasui: Japanese Landscapes in Print

November 21, 2026–February 7, 2027

Holmes and Titelman Galleries

The Vero Beach Museum of Art is the first venue in the United States to host this exhibition of more than 100 works by the two great 19th-century masters of the “Floating World,” Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) and Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), with modern prints by Kawase Hasui (1883–1957), a key member of the shin hanga (“new prints”) movement. Hasui developed new subjects and themes in landscape prints through the mid-1950s, when he was named a “living national treasure” in 1956. 

Through a selection of extraordinary color woodblock prints by these three masters, the exhibition will take visitors on a journey through the most evocative places in Japan, both real and imagined. It will illustrate a period of cultural change in Japan as Western influence shaped artistic tastes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Together, these artworks by three artists trace the evolution of the Japanese landscape print tradition, with Hokusai as innovator, Hiroshige as developer, and Hasui as the artist who reinvented the field in modern terms. This exhibition is organized by MFA Boston.

Holiday closures: The Museum will be closed on Labor Day (Monday, September 7, 2026); Thanksgiving (Thursday, November 26 and Friday, November 27, 2026); Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (Thursday, December 24 and Friday, December 25, 2026); as well as New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day (Thursday, December 31, 2026, and Friday, January 1, 2027); Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (Monday, January 18, 2027). The Museum will also close at 4 p.m. on Friday, November 6 and again Friday, November 20 for member events.