CVATD Board Coordinates College Promotional Video
Recently, Brett Player and Chuck Whited, members of the the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance Dean's Advisory Board, coordinated the filming of a new college promotion video. With the help of the Florida State Film School, the pair created a short promotional video highlighting the outstanding work of the College. We would like to extend a warm Thank You to all who participated in this filming. We truly could not have done it without all of your donated time and hard work.
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| School of Theatre Alumna, Heather Provost |
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Mapping Time and Place
FAR welcomes visiting artist Valerie S. Goodwin this July. Goodwin, an award winning fiber artist and Associate Professor of Architecture at Florida A&M University, creates densely collaged works that focus on geometrical relationships, patterns, and ordering principles used in architecture.
While at FAR, Goodwin will explore the boundaries of the quilt form with her project "Mapping Time and Place: Path/Place-Line/Shape – Figure/Ground – Light/Shadow – Positive/Negative”, a layered fiber art map documenting the displacement of an African-American Village that once occupied the current site of Central Park.
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FSU Well-Represented at ASID Awards Celebration
Florida State University was well-represented at the recent American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Awards Celebration in Los Angeles on June 21, 2013. Alumna Julie Schulte was inducted into the ASID College of Fellows, one of the highest honors awarded by the society for sustained service to the profession. Along with her years of service to ASID, Julie is currently a member of FSU Interior Design Advisory Board.
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| Alicia Facini Weaver, Tony Purvis, Julie Schulte, Kendall Schulte, Melanie Murata, and Judy Pickett |
Julie is also an active member of the Florida Coalition for Interior Design and played an integral role in the passage of interior design legislation in Florida. Recent MFA graduate and FSU Visiting Professor Tony Purvis received the Joel Polsky Academic Achievement Award for his outstanding thesis. Melanie Murata also garnered a prestigious award as the outstanding ASID student chapter leader.
The department is proud of these outstanding leaders, designers, and students.
  
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School of Dance Students Desiree Amadeo and Yeman Brown Awarded MANCC Scholarships to Continue their Studies with Visiting Artists
Two recent students' experiences with MANCC artists exemplify why the FSU School of Dance is one of the top rated programs in this country. SOD undergraduate Yeman Brown first met MANCC artist Reggie Wilson at the American Dance Festival last summer. In advance of his MANCC residency, Wilson reached out to see if Yeman could serve as a 'Residency Apprentice' to help learn phrase work alongside the Fist and Heel Performance Group while the company was building their latest project, Moseses, at FSU.
School of Dance faculty helped make the opportunity possible and subsequently Yeman has been invited by Wilson to join the cast of Moseses which will tour the U.S. and will be presented as a part of BAM’s Next Wave Festival in New York. Yeman’s scholarship will help offset costs associated with the opportunity.
Brown described his experience to date as “…absolutely magical. I learned what it took to make the transition from being a student to being a professional.”
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| Residency Apprentice Yeman Brown rehearses with Reggie Wilson’s Fist and Heel Performance Group (MANCC photo by Chris Cameron) |
Desiree Amadeo was an intern with MANCC this past year and worked closely with a number of guest choreographers. Her scholarship will support her participation in the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance Summer Intensive to work alongside 2012 MANCC Media Fellow, Alex Ketley. Ketley, who also served as guest ballet faculty in Spring 2013, mentored Amadeo in the creation of her latest piece and supported her semester long research project on his award winning work No Hero.
Amadeo will also participate this fall in the FSU in NYC program where she will intern with MANCC Choreographic Fellow and Seven Days of Opening Nights guest artist Kyle Abraham.
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Visiting Artist, Devin French
Devin French of Louisville Glassworks will be visiting Master Craftsman Studio from July 7 - 14, 2013. Devin has previously worked with MCS Director, Kenneth vonRoenn, and has developed a very painterly technique using powdered glass and hand sifters. Master Craftsman Studio is looking forward to his joining us for staff training in his process as well as a special weekend workshop open to the community.
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The two day workshop will take place at Master Craftsman Studio on Saturday and Sunday, July 13 and 14, 2013. A moderate fee of $200 will cover all materials and firings. There is limited seating for this opportunity; only six spaces are available and they are filling quickly.
If you are interested in joining us, please contact Sarah Coakley, scoakley@fsu.edu. We are very excited to be bringing visiting artists to the studio and look forward to working with Devin and learning his beautiful method of painting with glass.
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Artists’ League Summer Annual
MoFA has built a special network for one of its primary constituent groups: the Artists’ League was formed in the Fall of 1986 as a meeting place for discussion, exchange of professional information and critical commentary, and the Museum supports artists who, in turn, support the programming of the Museum.
Self-help seminars, workshops with guest lecturers, exhibitions at other regional sites, the annual summer exhibition – the Artists’ League Summer Annual, and other opportunities continue to be explored by Artists’ League members who vary the format of their juried exhibitions, sometimes selecting a topical focus, sometimes highlighting guild sub-organizations and at all times celebrating individual ways of working.
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| Susan E. Frisbee, Detail of Dragonfly Lampshade, stained glass. The design is styled after the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany. |
As the parent organization for a number of guild sub-organizations, during the run of the Summer Annual, the League spotlights one of its guilds in the Museum’s Walmsley Gallery. For the 27th Summer Annual the League featured Glass at the Walmsley, which included eighteen “emerging and recognized regional glass artists working in a variety of techniques.”
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The Ringling Receives Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor
The State Art Museum of Florida is growing a larger and more loyal audience through Trip Advisor. As a recent recipient of Trip Advisor’s 2013 Certificate of Excellence for Top Performing Business, The Ringling is now ranked in the top 10% worldwide for positive traveler feedback. Over 700 volunteers and staff work together daily to ensure each and every visitor has a memorable experience.
From the Ambassadors and Front Line staff to the Curators and Educators, to the Security and Grounds Crew, each team member plays an important role in creating an environment that is inclusive and inviting for the many international tourists that make The Ringling their destination.
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The School of Theatre 2013-2014 Season
The School of Theatre at Florida State is excited to announce our 2013-14 Season!
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Art Professor Rob Duarte Attends Inaugural Residency at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Assistant Professor of Art at FSU, Rob Duarte, has just returned from a two-week residency at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. This highly competitive residency was available to 50 selected applicants and was the first iteration of the residency, which has been funded by an anonymous foundation for three years. The Haystack campus has been awarded the American Institute of Architects Twenty-Five Year Award and is in the National Register of Historic Places.
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| Assistant Professor of Art at FSU, Rob Duarte |
During the two week residency at Haystack, the participants are provided two-weeks of studio time with an opportunity to work amongst a supportive community of makers. Participants have access to the tools and resources housed at Haystack, which provides an opportunity for experimentation and an augmentation of creative practices.
For the full story on Rob Duarte, visit the Department of Art News Blog.
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Annual American Art Therapy Association Conference Recap
The Annual American Art Therapy Association Conference was recently held in Seattle, Washington from June 26 - 30, 2013.
"I will say the alumni reception was a HUGE success, with more than a couple of hundred attending throughout the night–at one point we had 5 Annual American Art Therapy Association Honorary Life Members and 6 past presidents all in attendance. It was simply amazing. All the presentations by all the alumni, students and faculty were extremely well-attended. Drs. Rosal and Gussak also presented at a mini-conference the Sunday after the conference, along with Dr. Debbie Good and Dr. Judy Rubin, at Antioch University’s art therapy program in Seattle, directed by Dr. Janice Hoshino, for their students, faculty and alumni. This was a blast; each one of us presented separately, and the highpoint for all of us was presenting a discussion panel focusing on the Generations of the field, all providing our various viewpoints and histories and where the field is going." - Dr. David Gussak, Art Education Chair
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Book signings and Lectures for Dr. Dave Gussak's New Book: Art on Trial: Art Therapy in Capital Murder Cases
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New Positions for Art History Alumni
We are proud to announce that three alumni of our PhD program have recently accepted faculty positions for the fall of 2013, continuing our ten-year trend of 100% placement of PhDs in careers in art history.
Jennifer Courts (PhD 2011) will return to the southeast as Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Art and Design at the University of Southern Mississippi. She recently completed the manuscript for her first book, A Desire for Representation: Painting and Identity in Fifteenth-Century France, and is currently working on her second, Erotic Femininity, Ideal Beauty, and Spiritual Commodity in Fifteenth-Century French Art. In the coming year Courts will present papers at SECAC (in a session chaired by Elizabeth Heuer, PhD 2008) and CAA.
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| Jennifer Courts, Jennifer Feltman and Keri Watson |
Jennifer Feltman (PhD 2011) has accepted a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor of Art History at Young Harris College, a private liberal arts college established in 1886. At Young Harris, Feltman will teach courses in art history while continuing her research in the art and architecture of twelfth- and thirteenth-century Europe. Her latest article is forthcoming with the Princeton Index of Christian Art's Studies in Iconography, and she is currently preparing a volume on the chronology of the north transept of Reims Cathedral and a book, Moral Theology and the Cathedral: Sculpted Portals of the Last Judgment in Thirteenth-Century France.
Keri Watson (PhD 2010) has accepted a position in the Department of Art History at Ithaca College. Watson has a chapter, “Eudora Welty’s Making a Date, Grenada, Mississippi: One Photograph, Five Performances,” in Eudora Welty, Whiteness, and Race (University of Georgia Press, 2013) and is developing a book, The Photo-book, Race, and the Great Depression, for the University Press of Mississippi.
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| The 2nd year FSU Asolo conservatory acting students and a loyal group of donors met in London to explore the theatre scene. |
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