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Dear Friends –
The College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance at Florida State University is proud to present News Around the College, an electronic monthly newsletter featuring updates from the various units in the College and a calendar of upcoming events.
Because of your affiliation with one or more units in the College, we included you in this inaugural distribution. However, the last thing I want to do is to clutter your inbox with unwanted material. You can elect to no longer receive the publication by simply clicking the "Unsubscribe" button at the end of the newsletter.
We extend a warm thank you to Brett Player and Erin Barthold at Jackson Spalding for their guidance as we planned for this project, as well as, for the design and implementation of this online format. The College is fortunate to have friends such as Brett and Erin!
I hope you enjoy learning about the exciting activities of the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance! Please share News Around the College with friends and encourage others to subscribe by visiting our website at www.cvatd.fsu.edu.
Thank you,
T. Lynn Hogan
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FSU Art Professor, John Mann, Shows Work at Daniel Cooney Fine Art
John Mann's exhibition, Folded in Place, at Daniel Cooney Fine Art was reviewed in the New Yorker's "Goings On About Town: Art".
To view the article, visit:
http://www.rockpapercloud.com/projects/new-yorker-review/
Review of the exhibition Folded in Place in the March 4, 2013 issue of The New Yorker (page 9) // Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY
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| "Folded in Place", by John Mann |
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| Art Education Alumni reception at the National Art Education Association (NAEA) In Ft. Worth, TX |
Art Education Alumni Reception
The FSU Department of Art Education will be hosting its annual Art Education Alumni reception at the National Art Education Association (NAEA).
Location: Ft. Worth, TX held in the Flatiron Building, close to the conference site
Date: March 8, 2013
Time: 8:00pm. .
To RSVP for this event, email Dave Gussak at DGussak@fsu.edu
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Art History Faculty Presentations
Three Art History professors are presenting their research at major national venues this spring. In March, Paula Gerson will participate as a visiting scholar in the Columbia University Seminar on Law and Politics. Gerson will present "Scatological Images, Obscenity, Sex, and Questions of Law in the Middle Ages" on Tuesday, March 12, 2013. Her research investigates the function of scatological and obscene images found in Medieval church sculpture, devotional manuscripts and clothing badges. Gerson questions previous understandings of these images as simply apotropaic and argues for a more complex reading within the context of the Middle Ages, one in which piety lives happily side-by-side with uncouth humor.
Robert Neuman will present a paper at the annual joint national meeting of the Popular Culture Association and the American Culture Association, to be held in Washington, DC, in March. Entitled "Westward Ho! Disneyland’s Frontierland and Its Origins in the Hollywood Western," the paper revisits the world's first theme park, at the time of its inauguration in 1955. Neuman focuses on a little-discussed source for Walt Disney’s celebration of America’s pioneering spirit: the Western movies, to which the public flocked in the 1940s and 1950s. Neuman's investigation of standard plotlines shows how they conditioned guest expectations for the park’s rides, while his exploration of Hollywood studio backlots reveals numerous motifs that inspired Frontierland’s designers, such as the ubiquitous false-front towns recycled in scores of films.
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| Art History Faculty Presentations |
Jack Freiberg will present the "Image of Pity in Santa Croce in Gerusalemme and the Catholic Monarchs" at the 59th annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in San Diego, in April. Freiberg's paper is part of the session "Before and After 1453: Preserving, Promoting, and Presenting Sacred Heritage between East and West" on Saturday, April 6, 2013. The session was organized by FSU alumni Timothy B. Smith of Birmingham-Southern College and Tanja L. Jones of the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. Freiberg's paper investigates how the prominent Byzantine mosaic icon of Christ, known as the Imago Pietatis (Image of Pity), became charged with new devotional and political meanings when it was brought to Rome toward the end of the fourteenth century and how a century later those meanings were enlisted to honor the king and queen of Spain, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castile. This study forms part of Freiberg's broader investigation of Spanish royal patronage in Renaissance Rome.
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| CANDIDA - By George Bernard Shaw - April 9-28 |
The FSU / Asolo Conservatory Presents for Actor Training:
CANDIDA
BY George Bernard Shaw
April 9 - 28
Who will housewife Candida choose – her middle-paged clergyman husband, or the handsome, young poet hoping to whisk her away from her life of domesticity? Caught between loyalty and passion, Candida teaches men, both, basic truths about themselves and a thing or two about women. Over 100 years after it was written, Shaw’s sparkling comedy about love, passion and the liberated woman is as relevant and compelling today as it ever was.
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School of Dance
Friends of Dance and Allies for Art will present a Paint-Around Gala & Auction on Saturday, April 6, 2013 beginning at 7:00pm. This unique evening of collaborative painting inspired by dance and music will also feature local cuisine in the newly renovated, architectural setting of the William Johnston Building. The Gala will benefit FSU's School of Dance, Department of Art and Department of Art Education.
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| (photo credit: Rick McCullough) |
For more information or requests for a printed invitation, please contact Joyce Fausone at 850-645-2449.
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Facility for Arts Research
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SCAP at CODEX
Denise Bookwalter represented the Facility for Arts Research's (FAR) Small Craft Advisory Press (SCAP) at CODEX International Book Fair earlier this month, in San Francisco. SCAP exhibited with many of the world’s most distinguished book artists and artisans, private presses and fine art publishers, at this prestigious fair. The event led to the placement of SCAP published artists' books in several prominent special collections libraries, including Stanford, Swarthmore, University of Virginia and University of Miami, in addition to private collections.
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| SCAP at CODEX |
We are so pleased to have these works in collections accessible to students and researchers across the country.
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Interior Design Welcomes the Advisory Board
The Interior Design Advisory Board convened February 28 and March 1, 2013 in Tallahassee. The event kicked off with a forum on Thursday, February 28 for students titled, A Day in the Life of a Designer. Advisory board members spoke with students about the evolution of their careers and offered advice to the young designers. Following the forum, students had the opportunity to interact with the designers and ask individual questions and share their portfolios. Friday began with a breakfast in the William Johnston Gallery, which is currently featuring a graduate furniture design show. The advisory board meeting followed.
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| Interior Design Advisory Board |
The board consists of 20 members representing various areas of the industry. They include: Grant Gribble, chair, Sue Markham, Judy Brett, Bobby Johnston, J. Emory Johnson, Clay Sechrest, Bonnie Dinkle, Ron McCarty, John Morris, Julie Schulte, Teresa Finch, Ray Goodson, Margaret Douglass, Craig Anderchak, Peter Greene, Natalie Scott, Tom Wilkinson, Michelle Wiebe, and students Heather McAlister and Elisha McDonald.
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FSU Welcomes Back Monica Bill Barnes
FSU welcomes back Monica Bill Barnes as she returns to Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC), for her second Choreographic Fellowship March 14 - 26, 2013. Barnes’ witty and clever movement vocabulary mark her as one of today’s most accessible dance artists. In 2007, Barnes developed Suddenly Summer Somewhere at MANCC, which premiered at Danspace Project (NY) in 2008. Following an extensive U.S. tour, the work was shown as part of FSU’s Seven Days of Opening Nights in September 2011. Barnes also set work on School of Dance students, which has been performed on campus, in New York and at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, in 2009.
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| Anna Bass and Monica Bill Barnes in Luster |
In 2012 as part of a MANCC Media Fellowship Project, Barnes began conversations with Ira Glass, Host and Executive Producer of public radio's This American Life, about the possibility of mixing dance, theater and radio. In May 2012, Barnes performed Luster, as part of a live episode of This American Life, at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, which was shared via satellite to more than 500 movie theaters around the US and Canada. Barnes will continue to work with Glass in her upcoming residency, as she explores the possibilities of expanding dance beyond traditional dance performance outlets.
For more information on Monica Bill Barnes, visit: http://mancc.org/artists/monica-bill-barnes/
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Seven Days of Opening Nights in February
The Museum of Fine Arts continues to host exhibitions opened as part of Seven Days of Opening Nights. Community programming and interpretive events for the I Am Me: Artists & Autism exhibition included an evening of performances with special guests, featuring the Artism Ensemble.
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| I Am Me: Artists and Autism evening performance at MoFA |
Curator of Education, Viki D. Thompson Wylder provides tours to a variety of academic visitors—from college English classes to English as a Second Language (ESL) classes and local high school groups. Dr. Wylder worked through an exercise with the ESL group on investigating the meaning of a "blood work" painting by Robert Sherer from Head, Shoulders, Genes & Toes, curated by Judith Rushin. On March 6th, she held a workshop for an AP Art History class from Chiles High School that focuses on Peter Paul Rubens: Impressions of a Master, on tour from the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota. The exhibition is the perfect forum to discuss the printmaking process within the context of the series of works represented.
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The Second City Comedy Troupe
In conjunction with Seven Days of Opening Nights, the School of Theatre hosted The Second City comedy troupe from March 5 - 7, 2013. In addition to their performances, actors from The Second City held workshops for students within the School of Theatre on improv and sketch-comedy. Thirty students had the opportunity to participate in these specialized workshops which took place on March 6 & 7, 2013. The Second City is the leading brand in improv-based sketch comedy. With theatres in Chicago and Toronto, Training Centers in those cites as well as Hollywood, 11 full time touring ensembles, thriving corporate communications and theatricals divisions, as well as television and film operations, The Second City has been called "A Comedy Empire" by the New York Times.
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| March 29 – April 7, 2013 / Much Ado About Nothing |
Much Ado About Nothing
March 29 – April 7, 2013
Much Ado About Nothing at the Lab Theatre
Directed by Walter Kmiec
Benedick and Beatrice are tricked into confessing their love for each other; Claudio is tricked into rejecting Hero at the altar. Shakespeare’s comedy shows us how love can start with gossip, rumors, eavesdropping and deceit - you know, the usual – and still end in the joyous celebration of two marriages.
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