Museum Of Art + Design Hosts Exhibit

The College’s Museum of Art + Design presents A Patch of Blue: Illustrations of Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol, an exhibit curated by Miami Dade College students enrolled in the Museum Studies Program at the Freedom Tower at 600 Biscayne Blvd.

On view through July 31, the show is free and open to the public. The collection, which is on loan from the Wolfsonian-FIU museum, features work from French Symbolist artist Jean-Georges Cornelius, whose paintings and drawings depict the struggles Wilde experienced as an LGBTQ prisoner from 1895-1897.

A Patch of Blue refers to the policy of punishing inmates who attempted to look out of their windows at the sky. It later became a symbol of rebellion for both Wilde and Cornelius alike.   

For more information, contact: MDC Museum of Art + Design at museum@mdc.edu, (305) 237-7700.