Downtown Arts District

3rd Thursday Opening Night Reception - March 2026
2026-03-19 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | CityArts, 39 S. Magnolia Avenue, Orlando, FL, 32801, United States
Join us for Third Thursday at CityArts. Enjoy drink specials, curator conversations, artist connections, and seven new exhibitions. Meet the artists and explore what’s new in the galleries.
CityArts is a proud partner of the newly expanded 3rd Thursday Orlando: Arts. Making. History.
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Featured exhibitions at CityArts include:
Austin Commercial Gallery – Group Exhibition by the Asian Cultural Association
Upstairs Signature Gallery – H2Show Group Exhibition
Side Gallery – Solo Exhibition by Martha Sanders
CityArts Cafe Gallery – “faces” Solo Exhibition by Juan Sostre
The Mahesh Chaddah Family Trust Spotlight Gallery – Duo Exhibition by Paul Columbus and Jennifer Columbus
New Art in the Young Artists Gallery and Redefine Gallery!
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PARKING
CityArts provides parking validations for the Plaza Parking Garage ONLY. The validation reduces the parking fee to $4. The Library Parking Garage is closer, but CityArts does not provide parking validations for that garage. Metered street parking is free after 6:00 p.m.
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Thank You to Our Annual Sponsors:
Orange County Arts and Cultural Affairs
City of Orlando
United Arts of Central Florida
Downtown Development Board
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3rd Thursday Opening Night Reception - April 2026
2026-04-16 18:00 - 21:00
Join us for Third Thursday at CityArts. Enjoy drink specials, curator conversations, artist connections, and seven new exhibitions. Meet the artists and explore what’s new in the galleries.
CityArts is a proud partner of the newly expanded 3rd Thursday Orlando: Arts. Making. History.
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Featured exhibitions at CityArts include:
Austin Commercial Gallery – “Echoes of US” Group Exhibition in Collaboration with Ecos Fest & CityArts
Upstairs Signature Gallery – Japanese Artists Exhibition
Side Gallery – Solo Exhibition by Roland Cruse
CityArts Cafe Gallery – “Echoes of US” Group Exhibition in Collaboration with Ecos Fest & CityArts
The Mahesh Chaddah Family Trust Spotlight Gallery – Solo Exhibition by Julio “Julsan” Sanchez
Young Artists Gallery – “The Art of Hope” An Exhibition Benefitting Runway to Hope
New Art in the Young Artists Gallery and Redefine Gallery!
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PARKING
CityArts provides parking validations for the Plaza Parking Garage ONLY. The validation reduces the parking fee to $4. The Library Parking Garage is closer, but CityArts does not provide parking validations for that garage. Metered street parking is free after 6:00 p.m.
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Thank You to Our Annual Sponsors:
Orange County Arts and Cultural Affairs
City of Orlando
United Arts of Central Florida
Downtown Development Board
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Mind, Body and Color: Orlando Health Arts in Medicine Exhibition
2026-05-21 18:00 - 21:00
Mind, Body and Color

For 30 years, artists have connected with Orlando Health cancer patients through the Arts in Medicine program. Whether writing, dancing, or painting, patients take their minds off treatment and focus simply on creating. For many, this reconnects them with who they are—not simply a patient, but a person.

Since 2013, the Arts in Medicine program has hosted an annual exhibition at City Arts Gallery, celebrating the creative works of patients at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute.

This year’s theme, “Mind, Body and Color” celebrates how creativity provides a wholistic approach to wellness. Each piece offers a glimpse into how patients use art to transform their personal challenges into expressions of wholeness, vitality, and the world they aspire to see.

From May 21 through June 13, this inspiring exhibition will feature over 50 works created by cancer patients and their loved ones. Join us at City Arts Gallery to experience the healing power of creativity and honor those on their journey to wellness.

3rd Thursday Opening Night Reception (May)
2026-05-21 18:00 - 21:00
Join us for Third Thursday at CityArts. Enjoy drink specials, curator conversations, artist connections, and seven new exhibitions. Meet the artists and explore what’s new in the galleries.
CityArts is a proud partner of the newly expanded 3rd Thursday Orlando: Arts. Making. History.
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Featured exhibitions at CityArts include:
Austin Commercial Gallery – “Mind, Body and Color”: Orlando Health Arts in Medicine Exhibition
Upstairs Signature Gallery – Osceola County School for the Arts Student & Alumni Exhibition
Side Gallery – Solo Exhibition by Brian Strigel
CityArts Cafe Gallery – “Mind, Body and Color”: Orlando Health Arts in Medicine Exhibition
The Mahesh Chaddah Family Trust Spotlight Gallery – Solo Exhibition by Stemberger
New Art in the Young Artists Gallery & Redefine Gallery
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PARKING
CityArts provides parking validations for the Plaza Parking Garage ONLY. The validation reduces the parking fee to $4. The Library Parking Garage is closer, but CityArts does not provide parking validations for that garage. Metered street parking is free after 6:00 p.m.
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Thank You to Our Annual Sponsors:
Orange County Arts and Cultural Affairs
City of Orlando
United Arts of Central Florida
Downtown Development Board
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"State Flower Ladies" Exhibition by June Bunch Opens in the CityArts Café on June 18, 2026
2026-06-18 18:00 - 21:00
For State Flower Ladies, June Bunch transforms 50 state flowers into botanical ballerinas. Her illustrations combine figure drawing with floral theatrics, adding elements of vibrant colors and texture-rich embroidery to her work. In an instant, her images stretch the viewer’s eye past the present to see the blossom’s full-seasonal vitality, summarized in one frozen motion.

Bunch curates contemporary illustrations by studying plants’ “choreography” of growth, illuminating their dance with vibrant colors and clean lines. Her visual art remains rooted in botany and ballet, featuring postures that hold emotional richness, highlighting human nature and flora in a bold, empowering way.

The art is created first through expressive figure drawings and botanical sketches that are then translated digitally and drawn line-by-line with a pen-tool, tending to each marking with thoughtful detail.

To dive into the story behind each illustration, you can visit https://www.junebunch.com/illustration

About the artist:
June Bunch (@junebunchstudio) is a self-taught illustrator from St. Petersburg, FL. Her art focuses on natural growth, interpreting plants’ movement through human body language. She studied botany and illustrated for plant nurseries before moving to Juneau, AK as a naturalist guide. There, June grew inspired by the “choreography” of the natural world around her and humanized it, incorporating figure drawing paired with a love of dance.

Her work has won an honorable mention at the Morean Arts Center and has been on display at the Imagine Museum, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Five Deuces Galleria, Art@400, The Werk Gallery, and the Gulf Coast Arts Alliance Gallery. She has recently been awarded a micro-grant from the Gobioff Foundation which sponsored a portion of the State Flower Ladies exhibition.
