More kudos for WMODA! The Florida Association of Museums presented Louise Irvine, Executive Director and Curator, with the 2023 Museum Excellence Award for her role in the relocation of WMODA. At the annual FAM conference ceremony, which was held in the Henry B. Plant Museum at the University of Tampa,

By Louise Irvine The Wiener Museum of Decorative Arts owes its existence to Arthur Wiener’s passion for collecting Royal Doulton art pottery. During the last 50 years, he has built a vast collection of Doulton wares and hundreds of pieces are exhibited in the new WMODA galleries in Hollywood. We

By Louise Irvine The bizarre dreams of the eccentric Martin Brothers continue to haunt Andrew Hull in Stoke-on-Trent. The fantasies of the Victorian artist-potters have inspired the master modeler throughout his career and he has kept their legacy alive with his humorous sculptures of birds and other strange creatures that

By Louise Irvine Over the years, WMODA has presented the work of many talented artists in our community. They have been stars of our Artist Showcase events and their art has been sold in our museum shop. We have missed them all while we have been relocating WMODA and it

By Louise Irvine For over 30 years, Shawn Waggoner has been writing about the world’s greatest glass artists working with the furnace and the torch. She was editor of Glass Art magazine before devoting her attention to podcast programs in 2016. She has interviewed several artists represented in the WMODA

By Louise Irvine Chelsea Rousso’s collaborative glass project Unity in the Community · Transparency Through Glass will be unveiled at the Plunge Beach Resort on September 13. More than 100 fused glass symbols representing unity are being assembled by Chelsea into a wall of glass. The WMODA team is proud

By Louise Irvine The new Thanda sofa has just arrived in Florida and will add the finishing touches to our new Ardmore Design Shop.  We have high hopes for our home décor showroom resonating with the rhythms of Africa in the heart of Hollywood’s Design and Commerce District. Thanda means

As we continue the monumental task of rebuilding WMODA in Hollywood, we were encouraged to receive the Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice award for 2023 thanks to consistently high reviews from visitors to our original museum last year. This is the 8th year in a row that WMODA has received this accolade

By Louise Irvine In the last few weeks, we have been going up the walls at WMODA! Fortunately, not in a metaphorical sense but literally as we have been hanging highlights of our 2-dimensional art collection. In the past, we did not have much wall space for paintings but we

By Louise Irvine As summer temperatures soar outside in Florida, we are keeping cool inside as we reset the WMODA galleries. We have started unpacking the Chihuly collection and we are arranging his giant Ikebana and Macchia vessels into a new garden of glass. We marvel at Chihuly’s brilliant colors