Honoring our Heroes: The Art of Service and Sacrifice is on display in the Pabst Visitor Center & Gallery at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, located at 1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach.

Join us for a formal reception, January 8th at 5pm!

In partnership with the Atlantic Center for the Arts, this exhibition brings together works created by veterans with years of military service to explore their unique perspectives, personal narratives, and themes of service and sacrifice. With a specific focus on photography, Honoring our Heroes: The Art of Service and Sacrifice showcases an array of works–from film to digital to alternative processes–meant to raise awareness of our veterans’ experiences and honor their service to their country. Veterans from four branches of service–the United States Air Force, Army, Marine Corps and Navy–are represented and their photographic memories and service collectively range from 1959-2018, spanning conflicts from Vietnam to the present.

The majority of the works presented in this exhibition are an extension of the Southeast Museum of Photography’s Art in Action: Veterans Exploring the Visual Arts program. Through a series of workshops and open-studio sessions, Art in Action allowed veterans to meet and learn from professional artists, to discover and cultivate their own talents, and to transform their experiences through thoughtful and therapeutic forms of self-expression. Betsy Stange, a local veteran from DeLand and retired Lieutenant Colonel with the United States Army, stated of her work: “I love for my photos to tell a story…for those that understand the history before them, these images speak of times past and sacrifices made.”