What Arts & Culture Are Available in Ocala, Florida?

The Appleton Museum of Art screens The Yearling on Saturday, October 3, 2026, at 11:00 AM and again at 2:00 PM in the museum auditorium at 4333 E Silver Springs Blvd in Ocala. The 1946 Best Picture nominee, rated TV-G and running 2 hours 8 minutes, is based on Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a backwoods farm family in 1878 Florida and a boy who raises an orphaned fawn. Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman earned acting nominations for their roles as the boy's parents. The screenings are free as part of Free First Saturday, with first-come, first-served seating for 250 and doors opening at 10:30 AM for the morning show.

The Appleton Museum of Art opens Jeffrey Kronsnoble: Master of Allusion, A Life of Art on Saturday, October 3, 2026, in the Edith-Marie Gallery at 4333 E Silver Springs Blvd in Ocala, with the retrospective on view through March 21, 2027. The exhibition gathers more than 80 works from the artist's 60-plus-year career, highlighting his shadowbox collages painted in hyperrealistic dry-brush oil. Kronsnoble's layered, fragmented compositions draw on news media, family photographs and art history, and the show also includes landscapes, trompe l'oeil still lifes, abstractions and portraits. Admission details are listed on the museum's website.

[Ocala Civic Theatre](/businesses/ocala-civic-theatre) presents The Stories We Tell: Indigenous History, Theatre & Silver Springs on Saturday, October 10, 2026, from 1:00 to 3:00 PM at the Silver River Museum, 1445 NE 58th Ave in Ocala. Vickie Ramirez, Indigenous playwright and director of the Civic's upcoming production of The Thanksgiving Play, joins Silver River Museum director Scott Mitchell to explore Indigenous history and storytelling through a theatrical lens. The program looks at how representation shapes the stories told about a place. Admission is free with refreshments provided, but space is limited and an RSVP is requested by Friday, October 9.