For Wellington residents looking for an Everglades art exhibition, the River of Grass exhibition calls for a trip to Delray Beach.

Despite the Wellington framing, Cornell Art Museum is at Old School Square in downtown Delray Beach, not Wellington.

River of Grass opens October 1, 2026, with a reception from 6 to 8 in the evening.

Admission to the opening is $5, and the exhibition is scheduled to continue through January 24, 2027.

Inside, 12 artists reshape the museum’s two lower galleries into a walk-through encounter with Florida’s defining wetland.

Six-foot-square looms provide the framework, turning woven surfaces into structures visitors can move alongside rather than simply admire from a distance.

The result promises a closer, more personal view of a landscape often discussed only in terms of what could be lost.

The site-specific installation brings together artists working in collaboration with the Fiber Artist Miami Association and The Center: Hollywood Art & Culture Center.

Its title recalls Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s 1947 book, which helped change how Floridians understood the Everglades and why they should protect it.

Here, that environmental story becomes something visitors can physically navigate.

Rather than present the wetlands as scenery, the exhibition asks viewers to notice texture, movement and the connections that hold an ecosystem together.

That perspective may resonate with Wellington families, for whom South Florida’s waterways and open spaces are more than distant abstractions.

An artist meet-and-greet is part of the opening, offering a chance to hear how individual interpretations grew from the same landscape.

It is an inviting idea at a time when the Everglades’ future still feels deeply consequential.

The museum sits at 51 North Swinton Avenue, making downtown Delray Beach the place to head for this particular show.

For anyone making the drive from Wellington, the payoff is a fresh way to see a familiar Florida landscape.