FSU Dedicates Arts Facility for the Late John Carnaghi
On October 24, 2013, Florida State University paid tribute to one of its former vice presidents when it named a newly acquired building in honor of the late John R. Carnaghi.
"On behalf of the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance, I would like to express my appreciation for administration, patrons and our community for their support of the arts at Florida State University. Great things will be accomplished here. Inspiring and beautiful work will be produced within these walls. Our students now have an incredible space to create, innovate and collaborate that will help FSU continue to grow as a leader in the arts." - Dean Weishar
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| FSU Dedicates Arts Facility for the Late John Carnaghi |
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Tallahassee/Leon County Civil Rights Heritage Walk
On September 30, 2013 the Tallahassee/Leon County Civil Rights Heritage Walk was unveiled during an emotional dedication ceremony at City Hall. More than five hundred people filled two rooms to capacity to witness this historical event and listen to the accounts of the "foot soldiers". Fifty eight foot soldiers were honored in this sidewalk, with their names being placed within brass footprints.
The sidewalk, consisting of 16 panels was installed on Jefferson Street, right off Monroe St. This corner is the site of the lunch counter sit-ins which took place in the 1960’s.
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| Tallahassee/Leon County Civil Rights Heritage Walk |
This was our first permanent installation for the City of Tallahassee as well as our first large scale terrazzo project. Phil Gleason did a wonderful job managing this project. He, along with MCS artists, Charlie Scott-Smith and Chris Horne created this work. It was an honor for us to work with the CRA on this project. Please stop by and view this new addition to our community.
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MoFA Collaborations and K-12 Events
MoFA is in full swing pursuing new collaborations and K-12 events: with the exhibition by Gabrielle Wu Lee newly opened, MoFA staff been working with the Tallahassee Film Festival to present Jem Cohen's film, Museum Hours, the story of a former road manager of hard-rock bands who becomes a museum security guard at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. As film critic A.O. Scott describes the narrative, the guard is a “tolerant, philosophical fellow” who muses “on both the artworks and the tourists and schoolchildren… finding the spectacle of spectatorship endlessly interesting.”
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| Film Festival Director Chris Faupel stands with Dr. Paul Lee for a photo op at the Museum [After] Hours event for the Tallahassee premier of “Museum Hours,” a film by Jem Cohen; evening performances included that of the Eppes String Quartet from the College of Music. Dr. Lee has shared paintings by his wife Gabrielle Wu Lee in a stunning exhibition of her lifeʼs works. The exhibition also allows children to reflect upon and respond to her paintings on Family Day and during field trips from their K-12 area schools. |
So while MoFA audiences can’t visit Vienna as in Jem Cohen's film, the international experience will be brought to Tallahassee, and there will definitely be schoolchildren (as well as parents) for MoFA's Family Day with eleven schools participating in Saturday activities built around the concepts and the paintings of Gabrielle Wu Lee.
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92 Days, 17 Encounters, 100 Artists
One Common Journey of nowHERE at The Ringling
The Ringling presents the 2013/14 season of the Art of Our Time with nowHERE: Finding Our Way in the 21st Century - a journey into the oft-perceived “nowhere” of contemporary culture through a series of dynamic encounters with the art of “here” and “now.” Framed by the sun’s journey from the Winter Solstice to the Vernal Equinox, nowHERE explores the emerging aesthetics of the twenty-first century through a direct engagement with the creative interpretations of the artists of our time.
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| Art of Our Time – nowHERE |
Greet the Light, a Winter Solstice Celebration in the Museum of Art Courtyard, will mark the onset of the 92 day journey of the nowHERE experience highlighting the two year anniversary of the opening of Joseph’s Coat, the Skyspace created by artist James Turrell. On January 31, the special exhibition, R. Luke DuBois – NOW will open in the Museum of Art with the first solo museum exhibition of an artist who defies categorization. The Ringling anchors the nowHERE experience in the Historic Asolo Theater and Museum of Art, January through March 2014, with HERE: New Stages, a five-part series that complements the theatrical character of Turrell’s work in the context of performances that utilize light, movement, music, and poetry as the materials of imaginative creation. The nowHERE experience is further explored throughout the 92 day journey with complimentary programs including Conversations on the Contemporary, Collecting Recollections and Genre Creates Ghetto. For more information and to be part of the journey, log on to www.ringling.org/nowHERE.
nowHERE is part of The Ringling’s 2013 Art of Our Time season supported in part by a grant from Gulf Coast Community Foundation. Thank you to our nowHERE sponsors: Bernice Davis, Ina Schnell, Stephen and Judith Shank, Gerri Aaron, Charlie Huisking, Blalock Walters PA, and Cumberland Advisors.
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School of Theatre Alums in Theaters Near You
This November, two School of Theatre alums will be coming to a theater near you! Henry Zebrowski (class of 2005) can be seen in the upcoming film The Wolf of Wall Street starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Matthew McConaughey and directed by Martin Scorsese. The Wolf of Wall Street will be released nationally in theaters on November 15, 2013.
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| School of Theatre Alums in Theaters Near You |
Henry’s credits feature numerous television shows including Law and Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, Girls, and Royal Pains. Marc Hester (class of 1998) can be seen in the upcoming film Homefront, which hits theaters on November 27, 2013. Marc can also be seen in the Cinemax series Banshee. Marc’s previous film credits include Looper, Lawless, The Conspirator, All the King’s Men, and Runaway Jury.
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| Morgan Hamilton explores the concept of the problem faced by the United States today |
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Mark Messersmith: A Sense of Place
Mark Messersmith, a native of the Midwest, is interested in capturing this present moment in his new home, the “wilderness” of North Florida, before it is lost to commercial development. The characters in his paintings are specific to this region, but the locations are more vague, representing a universal “just outside of town.” This documentary by Tom Anderson and Barry Fraser is an exploration of Messersmith’s artistic history, his teaching, and his creative process. The film follows Messersmith through the creation of a large painting, predella box, and pediment.
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| Mark Messersmith: A Sense of Place |
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FSU Art Historians at the Southeastern College Art Conference
FSU was once again well represented by Art History graduate students and alumni at the Southeastern College Art Conference this year. The 2013 conference was held in Greensboro, NC, October 30 to November 2.
In the session In Search of Justice, chaired by alumnus Elizabeth Heuer (PhD 2008), MA student Krystle Stricklin presented “Memorial Cranes Trapped in Barbwire: Untangling Language and Memories of the Japanese American Incarceration.” Stricklin considered the use of language in monuments to the Japanese American incarceration and how these memorial spaces draw from a conflict-ridden history of euphemistic stratagems and the politics of forgetting.
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| FSU Art Historians at the Southeastern College Art Conference |
In the same session, alumnus Jennifer Courts (PhD 2011) presented “The Crucifixion of the Parlement de Paris: National Justice in Fifteenth-Century France,” exploring the renovation of the justice system in fifteenth-century France in the wake of the Hundred Years’ War.
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FSU/Asolo Conservatory ’13-’14 Season Opening October 30
The second year company of actors at the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training opened their 2013-14 season on Wednesday, October 30th, with a production of David Ives’ THE SCHOOL FOR LIES, a very liberal adaptation of Moliere’s classic comedy, THE MISANTHROPE.
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| Andrea Adnoff, Brian Owen, and Matthew Olsen in the FSU/Asolo Conservatory production of David Ives’ THE SCHOOL FOR LIES. |
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Dance Celebrates Anniversary by Celebrating Alumni
This year, the School of Dance celebrates the anniversary of 80 years of dance on campus and 50 years of professional degree programs. In honor if this anniversary, the school welcomed back their alum for a reunion over a recent performance weekend. Nearly 40 alums attended the event, with their graduation years ranging from 1968 to 2013. They participated in master classes and a panel discussion, as well as presented their own work in an informal choreographic showing.
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| Alumni Celebration, photo by Jon Nalon |
The alums of Florida State University’s School of Dance are certainly making their mark on the dance world!
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From Instructor to Student, FAR Provides an Education for Artists
In October, FAR hosted students, faculty, staff and community members for a variety of classes. Book artist, Ellen Knudson, taught a workshop co-sponsored by Small Craft Advisory Press and the Southeast Guild of Book Workers. Cleverly titled Pressure and Relief, the workshop introduced attendees to collagraph and pressure printing techniques using Vandercook printing presses. This month, a number of CVATD students learned and created at FAR, including students of Denise Bookwalter, Rob Duarte, Dr. Marlo Ransdell, Joelle Dietrick and Kevin Curry.
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| From Instructor to Student, FAR Provides an Education for Artists |
They worked on projects representing a broad range of creative disciplines, shooting experimental animation with a converted ShopBot CNC router ( Duarte’s Advanced Workshop: Experimental Animation), developing joinery design compatible with CNC production methods ( Ransdell’s Graduate Furniture Design) and creating large-scale modular printmaking matrices ( Bookwalter’s Advanced Printmaking Workshop: Hybrid Printmaking). FAR also officially welcomed three additional Faculty in Residence: Dr. Marlo Ransdell, Joelle Dietrick and Julietta Cheung.
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Living Legacy Artist Liz Lerman Returns to Develop “Healing Wars”
Renowned choreographer and MacArthur award winner Liz Lerman returns to FSU November 15 - 22 to develop “Healing Wars”. This new work by Lerman with media design by Kate Freer, sound by Darron West, and featuring actor Bill Pullman with a cast of six professional dancers and an ex-marine, will examine our Civil War and the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan through the eyes of the healers involved.
With a multi-site development process spanning the archives of Harvard, to head-trauma research labs, to Gettysburg, Lerman is using partners in medicine, academia, and veterans’ communities to further her practice and develop the new work. While on campus, Lerman will be sharing the work in progress with students and veterans in small groups for input, dialog and reflection.
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| Lerman meets with FSU-FAMU College of Engineering Professor Dr. Changchun Zeng in Spring, 2013 to discuss the development of the next generation of prosthetic limbs for military-veteran amputee patients. MANCC Photo by Chris Cameron |
Please visit mancc.org/artists/liz-lerman for a complete description of Lerman’s project and to learn more about her visit to FSU in March, to meet with Dr. Changchun Zeng, from the FSU-FAMU College, who is involved in a major VA Innovation Initiative project aimed at addressing the shortcomings of current prosthetic socket systems, Col. Billy Francis, Director of FSU’s Veteran Center and Dr. Kristine C. Harper, Associate Professor in FSU’s History Department and retired Naval Commander about her experiences as a female commissioned officer.
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