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The College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance Wishes All a Safe and Happy Holiday!
Greeting students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance! With the winter break right around the corner, we would like to extend our warmest regards this season.
The 2013 year is quickly coming to an end and we would like to take this time to acknowledge a few outstanding moments of our college. Among these moments were the welcoming of our new Dean, Peter Weishar, hosting the grand opening of the Carnaghi Arts Building, having our Interior Design Master’s program ranked #1 by Design Intelligence, launching our newsletter, hosting an in-house production of a commercial for CVATD yet to be released and so much more!
With the Spring semester comes a new year, and we look forward to all it has to offer. Have a safe, happy holiday season and a wonderful new year from all of us at the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance!
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| Happy Holidays from the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance |
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Diverse Offerings at MoFA in December
The Museum of Fine Arts serves a number of distinct constituencies and never more diverse than in the month of December when the Graduating Artists, usually BFAs, share the museum with the annual exhibition known as the Art & Antiques Fair. By policy mandate, the Museum has been the chosen location to satisfy National Schools of Art and Design requirements for graduating MFA and BFA students’ exit or thesis exhibitions.
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Visitors during the opening of the Fall Graduating Artists’ exhibition watch as Jacob Waites’ ice-work “Polar Melt” reveals the inner images: the piece was frozen into three blocks and was made of ice, Shoji Gami rice paper and acrylic ink.
Items for sale during the Arts and Antiques Fair include: silver, glassware, prints, collectibles and crafts made by local artists. |
At the same time, the Museum functions as an accredited institution with its own community following and one of the most popular events — especially for university faculty and staff outside the College — has been the seasonal Fair that closes out Fall semester. December at MoFA is a pairing of the most untraditional artworks by young artists earning their degrees and simultaneously the traditional appreciation of fine crafts and antiques, books, prints, and collectible objects.
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The Ringling Debuts Studio Glass Works
The Ringling adds to its contemporary art offerings with the debut of the Philip and Nancy Kotler Glass Collection. The exhibition presents works by some of the leading modern American and European glass artists. To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, more than 150 guests gathered on November 18, 2013 for a reception in galleries of the Ulla R. and Arthur F. Searing Wing of The Ringling Museum of Art.
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| Robert Palusky, Last Waltz, 2004 |
The collection features contemporary studio glass sculptures from a number of important artists including Nicolas Africano, Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová, Peter Hora, Karen LaMonte, Michael Glancey and many others. The works will be on display until June 29, 2014.
This exhibition displays an overview of the larger donated collection. A more comprehensive exhibition of the collection will occur in the future.
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FSU Art Painting Professors at Art Basel Miami Beach
There is one annual art show and the winter meeting place for the international art world: Art Basel Miami Beach. This art fair transforms the city, from Wynwood to Little Havana to the traditional Miami Beach hot spots, for one week a year. Record numbers of collectors, artists, dealers, curators, critics and art enthusiasts, will descend upon Miami for this once a year event.
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| Painting by FSU Art Faculty Mark Messersmith |
Art Basel stages the world’s premier Modern and contemporary art shows, held annually in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong. Founded by gallerists in 1970, Art Basel has been a driving force in supporting the role that galleries play in the nurturing of artists and the development and promotion of visual arts.
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Art Ed Alum Chosen to Represent State of Florida in National Christmas Tree Display
FSU Art Education alumni Kathleen Carter (MS ’91) and students of her Starry Night Studio in Tallahassee, FL have been given the honor of designing and creating the ornaments for the State of Florida tree as part of the National Christmas Tree Display in President’s Park in Washington, D.C. Local artists and students from each state are selected to create 24 ornaments for their respective state tree.
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| One of the hand painted ornaments by Aluma Kathleen Carter |
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Professor Jack Freiberg's Forthcoming Book
Jack Freiberg, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Associate Dean of the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance, announces his forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press entitled, Bramante's Tempietto, the Roman Renaissance, and the Spanish Crown. From the Introduction: This book appears during the quincentennial of the death of Donato Bramante (1444-1514), who was recognized in his own time and still today for recovering the principles of Classical architecture that define the Renaissance.
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With only slight exaggeration it could be said that Bramante changed the history of western art, influencing everything that came after and informing our vision of antiquity itself. By common consent, the first fully articulated expression of his achievement is found in the Tempietto, the memorial chapel honoring Saint Peter on the site of his martyrdom in Rome.
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FSU/Asolo Conservatory Presents LOOT
Join the FSU / Asolo Conservatory for their presentation of LOOT, By Joe Orton, December 31 - January 19. LOOT is a wild, black farce by one of the 20th century’s most anarchic playwrights. Hal and Dennis try to hide the loot from a bank robbery while juggling a grieving widower, a mother’s corpse, a predatory nurse and a sinister policy inspector in this brilliant English comedy.
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Tickets available at the Asolo Rep box office at the FSU Center for the Performing Arts, 5555 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, FL.
For ticket information, call 941-351-8000 or visit tickets.asolorep.org.
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Suzanne Farrell Workshop for Young Dancers
Florida State University’s School of Dance and Friends of Dance will once again host the Suzanne Farrell Workshop for Young Dancers on February 1st and 2nd at Montgomery Hall. The workshop, now in its 9th year, is geared towards intermediate and advanced students ages 10-18, and will provide the student a once in a life time opportunity to take a master class from world-renowned ballerina Suzanne Farrell.
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In addition to a master class taught by Ms. Farrell, workshop attendees will have the opportunity to take classes in modern, conditioning, jazz and Afro/contemporary from Florida State School of Dance faculty. All classes will be held in Montgomery Hall, boasting 6 spacious studios, computer and music labs, a conditioning studio, a black box theatre and the Nancy Smith Fichter Dance Theatre.
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A Month of Interactions at FAR
In November, the Facility for Arts Research (FAR) welcomed its inaugural formLab Project Fellow, Michael Rees, Associate Professor of Sculpture and Digital Media and Director of the Center for New Art at William Paterson University. Rees utilized many of FAR’s resources, including the MMAP 3D printer, to produce sculptural work with an augmented reality component.
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| Michael Rees with experimental sculpture |
During his visit, Rees gave a well-attended lecture about his body of work and experience at FAR. FAR also celebrated the opening of its exhibit, FAR Exchanges: Interactions with SCAP and formLab, featuring the creative output of FAR in 2013. Over the past year, FAR’s internal units — Small Craft Advisory Press (SCAP) and formLab — have hosted several local and national visiting artists, held numerous class interactions led by FAR Faculty in Residence and organized a Listening Post sound art installation. The artistic products of these interactions are currently on display at the FAR Gallery.
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MANCC Artist Dayna Hanson Premieres The Clay Duke at On The Boards
MANCC Visiting Artist Dayna Hanson premieres The Clay Duke December 5-8 at On the Boards (Seattle, WA).
Hanson came to MANCC in mid-May, fresh on the heels of the premiere of her feature film, Improvement Club, at South by Southwest (SXSW), to continue the development of The Clay Duke.
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| Wade Madsen and Thomas Graves rehearse ”The Clay Duke”. Photo by Chris Cameron |
The dance theater piece draws details from such incongruous sources as the 2010 Panama City school board shooting, the writing of Anton Chekhov and the 1970s film, Death Wish.
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New Installations Underway
For the past few months the artists at Master Craftsman Studio have been working on glass interior walls for a mixed use office building in Austin, Texas. The building is new construction, and the architects have contracted us to create custom colored and textured walls. Each panel measures 12 x 3 feet and was enameled by hand and textured using our custom molds. Once fired, strips of light reflecting dichroic glass were added in a contrasting color.
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| New Installations Underway |
To add depth, offset panels of clear were added to the back of each panel at a ninety degree angle. This is a great example of how art can be further integrated within architecture. MCS artist Charlie Scott-Smith has been working closely with Kenn von Roenn as well as the architects for the building to create these art glass panels.
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