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University Honors Dr. Sally McRorie as Dean Emerita
During the annual College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance Awards Ceremony held on April 10, 2013, University Provost Garnett Stokes honored Dr. Sally McRorie with the title of Dean Emerita in recognition for all she has done for the College of Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance and the Florida State University community. Provost Stokes commented on Dr. McRorie's years of exemplary service as she led the College and lauded her track record for promoting excellence in teaching, research and service. As the College's inaugural Dean, Dr. McRorie oversaw the inclusion of the School of Theatre and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Dr. McRorie's own creative and scholarly achievements render her more than deserving of this award.
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| Dr. T. Lynn Hogan and Dr. Sally McRorie |
Before serving as Dean, Dr. McRorie was Chair and Professor of the Department of Art Education and previously served as Chair of Art & Design of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Perdue University. The National Art Education Association has recognized her multiple times, including in 1998 when she was named recipient of the Manuel Barkan Memorial Award for the Outstanding Paper in the Field of Art Education. In 1997, she was named the Florida Higher Education Art Educator of the Year by the Florida Art Education Association, and she received a Florida State University Teaching Award in 1998. She has directed multiple grants, written numerous journal articles, and served the University in many capacities including as chair of the Council of Deans Personnel Committee and the Deans and Chairs Education Committee.
"I cannot think of a more appropriate way to honor Sally than this recognition. Her efforts have secured the future of the College," said T. Lynn Hogan, Interim Dean.
For the full story on this year's Annual College Awards Ceremony, please visit: http://info.cvatd.fsu.edu/2013/04/annual-college-awards-ceremony/.
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FSU/Asolo Conservatory Named one of the Top 25 Training Programs in World!
The Hollywood Reporter has named FSU/Asolo Conservatory one of the top 25 drama schools in the World! MFA candidates get tuition waivers and experience at the Asolo Theatre. The Florida State University graduate acting program based at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota is ranked 18 on the list, just behind the USC School of Dramatic Arts and DePaul in Chicago and ahead of Harvard University and Syracuse University.
View the entire Hollywood Reporter list here.
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| FSU/Asolo Conservatory third year acting students (standing from left): Lindsay Tornquist, Joseph McGranaghan, Brittany Proia and Brendan Ragan with the Asolo Rep acting company in the Asolo Repertory Theatre 2013 production of YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU |
Greg Leaming, Director of FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training encourages students to keep up the great success. “It’s an honor to be part of such an august list of programs. And being included is validation of all of the work of our students, our faculty, our staff and, most importantly, the truly spectacular partnership with Asolo Repertory Theatre. This unique partnership is what makes this training program so special. As I’m very fond of saying, our students are most definitely the future of the American Theatre!”
Excerpts pulled from Arts.HeraldTribune.com
 
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FSU School of Dance Summer Intensive Workshop
The FSU School of Dance Summer Intensive Workshop begins on Sunday, June 16 with the arrival of sixty-five young dancers to campus. These students, between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, audition for the program in February during the Suzanne Farrell Young Dancers Workshop. This summer program is designed for the dancer who is interested in a variety of dance forms and is offered in an immersive schedule.
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| FSU School of Dance Summer Intensive Workshop |
Their days are filled with ballet and contemporary technique classes as well as conditioning and repertory classes. Evening offerings range from lectures, films, and special classes in technology, jazz, hip hop and improvisation. They do take the occasional break with trips to the beach or Wakulla Springs. The culmination of the two-week program is an informal showing of work from the repertory classes on Saturday, June 29.
Parents and friends are invited.
 
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Judy Rushin in Residence
Visiting artist Judy Rushin arrived at the Facility for Arts Research (FAR) May 28, 2013 to begin work on her project Variance/Invariance (working title). The project will include production of six sets of modular paintings that will be boxed and shipped to participants across the country, an edition of miniature modular sets, and a free paper version downloadable from her website, http://swallowawindchime.com/. Each full sized set will include paintings in an array of sizes, an instruction manual produced at FAR’s Small Craft Advisory Press, and hardware for assembly. Participants will assemble the paintings into varying compositions, document them, and ship them back to Rushin. In Spring 2014 the paintings, documentation, and shipping materials will reconvene in Tallahassee, FL and in Washington, DC to display the works’ journey.
According to Rushin, “the project’s aim is to locate the context of my work more specifically in the realm of topography, thinking of the works as ‘things-in-motion’ rather than inert artifacts.”
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Carapace: Soho20 by Judy Rushin
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Judy Rushin is an Assistant Professor of Painting at Florida State University. Her work explores relationships between people and spatial environments through painting, sculpture, and installation. Rushin’s work has appeared across the US and in Korea including Aqua Art Miami, Threewalls in Chicago, Orlando Museum of Art, Prospect 1-Satellite at Trumpet in New Orleans, Mass MoCA, and Soho20 New York.
Learn more about Rushin and her work at her website, http://swallowawindchime.com.
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Tony Purvis Wins Prestigious Awards
Recent Interior Design MFA graduate Tony Purvis has been awarded two prominent awards in design. Purvis has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 American Society of Interior Designer’s (ASID) Joel Polsky Academic Achievement Award and the 2013 Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Student Paper Award. The ASID Joel Polsky Academic Achievement Award is given annually by the ASID Educational Foundation to recognize an outstanding undergraduate or graduate student’s interior design research or thesis project.
Entries were judged on content, breadth of material, comprehensive coverage of topic, innovative subject matter, and the quality of the bibliography and references.
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| FSU Interior Design MFA Graduate, Tony Purvis |
Tony’s thesis was titled “Conflict Resolution and the Interior Built Environment: Design Considerations for Consensus Building.” In the course of the study, which involved surveys and interviews with 476 members of the Association for Conflict Resolution (North America’s largest dispute professional trade organization), eight ideal characteristics of spaces supportive for conflict mediation purposes were identified. Future studies intend to develop a practical tool for dispute professionals to use onsite to assess and modify spaces for this purpose.
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MANCC Artists on Tour this Summer
The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography is proud to share that many of our former artists in residence will be touring work this summer developed at FSU. MANCC choreographers Emily Johnson, Faye Driscoll, Chris Yon, Yanira Castro, Miguel Gutierrez and Reggie Wilson are participating in festivals and at venues across the country. While at FSU, these artists interacted with and developed work alongside students and faculty from Dance, Theater, English, Art and Art Therapy, Religion, Communication Disorders, Biology and FAMU's Architecture program.
Please check the MANCC website for more information on these artists tour schedules and consider seeing a work if it coincides with your own travel plans.
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| Driscoll during her 2011 Fellowship exploring transformation with FSU dance students |
Tour Schedule
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Stained Glass Window in Honor of FSU
On Friday, May 10, 2013 MCS was honored to host fifteen members of the FSU Gymnastics Team for an unveiling of a stained glass window in Dodd Hall. We spent a lot of time with the team members in planning this piece and enjoyed learning more about their impressive history and contributions to FSU Athletics. In 1951, FSU Gymnastics secured the first NCAA National Championships in the state of Florida. In 1952, three members, Bill Roetzheim, Don Holder and Raphael lecuona participated in the Olympics. The Tumbling Tots program, a favorite activity for local children had grown so popular by 1953 that it was taken over by the City of Tallahassee.
"With every window we create, we are privileged to spend time with the donor learning more about the history of our university. We look forward to creating a second window soon to honor the Gymkana team." -- Sarah Coakley
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Generations Activities and Events at MoFA
On May 10, 2013, Generations, which focuses on the means of transferring artistic legacy, opened at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition and accompanying programs, spearheaded by the Museum’s Education Program, took four years to develop and implement. Teachers from fourteen Leon County schools and representatives from four other Tallahassee organizations were invited to become a curatorial committee for this exhibition. Among others, the committee selected works for the exhibition by Maya Lin and her father, Henry Lin; Judy Chicago and her student, Nancy Youdelman; Professor Emeritus, Trevor Bell, and his student, John Hathorn; and current professor, Carrie Ann Baade, and her student, Jim Graham.
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Artist, Jean Charles Duffaut, posing with students from Kate Sullivan Elementary during his class visit.
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The accompanying Generations program includes:
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Catalogue and lesson plan book (sent to art teachers in and out of Leon County)
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Tours (200 public school students in one day is the record!); artists’ interactions with students (Haitian artist Jean Charles Duffaut recently spent three days in Tallahassee)
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Teacher workshops (Holocaust survivor Ela Weissberger talked to teachers about the legacy of her art teacher, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, who surreptitiously taught in the camp at Terezin)
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Integration of the art and artists into the curriculum of participating schools
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Parallel student exhibitions under the title The Younger Generations (works by 622 students are on display in the downstairs galleries of the FSU Museum)
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Reception on Friday, May 24 that included activities for kids and performances by kids. At the reception, Carrie Ann Baade sold Generations posters she produced for the occasion with proceeds donated for art supplies at public schools.
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The Ringling Exhibits "Witness to War"
The Ringling and the Institute on World War II and The Human Experience at Florida State University have partnered to honor World War II Veterans in an exhibition of photographs at The Ringling Museum of Art. Opening June 21, 2013 in Sarasota, Witness to War will include a selection of photographs taken by service members who worked tirelessly, under duress, and often in harm’s way to record and produce a gripping visual account of World War II. The Ringling collection includes photographs taken by World War II veteran, Warren J. Coville, a prominent philanthropist and photographer, who recorded perilous bombing missions in action from his position within a B-17 “Flying Fortress.”
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Photographer Unknown, Soldiers on Amtrac in Ocean, n.d., The Institute on World War II and the Human Experience, Florida State University.
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These photographs are part of a recently donated collection of more than 1,600 images from the Warren J. and Margot Coville Collection. Photographs from the collections of six other veterans, on loan from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience at Florida State University, give testament to the global scope of the war, as they document the service and sacrifice of GIs in the European and Pacific theaters. Resourced from a collection of over 6,500 photographs, these images include not only official military photographs, but also candid snapshots of war buddies, scenes of the destruction of war, and images showing the daily lives of GIs deployed overseas. Related programs include Gallery Walk and Talks on July 11 and August 1; a Viewpoint lecture on Saturday, June 15, with Kenny Irby, senior faculty for Visual Journalism and Diversity and Director of Community Relations at the Poynter Institute; and a Sunday film series in the month of August in the Historic Asolo Theater.
For more information, log on to www.ringling.org.
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A Great Man Has Passed Away
We are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Richard G. Fallon. Even though he is no longer with us, his legacy lives on in the hearts and minds of all those who knew him. A memorial service for Richard G. Fallon was held on Wednesday, May 29th in the Richard G. Fallon Theatre. Because Dean Fallon’s influence was so far-reaching, on November 9, 2013, there will be an event celebrating the life of Richard G. Fallon in the theatre named after him. This event is open to the public -- more details will be available soon.
A tribute to Dean Fallon can be found at: http://theatre.fsu.edu/News/Top-Stories/A-Great-Man-Has-Passed-Away
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| Richard G. Fallon |
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FSU Art Professor John Mann at Hyeres Festival of Fashion and Photography
FSU Art Professor, John Mann, showed his new photographic work at the Villa Noailles during the Hyeres Festival of Fashion and Photography. The festival was held in Hyeres, France, running from April 26- May 26, 2013. John Mann participated in a large exhibition in Hyeres, France, where he was able to meet with European curators, gallerists, writers, and photographers from the international community. This month-long exhibition, with a five day Hyeres festival, consisted of ten international photographers, two of whom were from the United States.
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| John Mann at Hyeres Festival of Fashion and Photography |
Mann exhibited ten black and white works of art in the Hyeres festival that provided abstractions and intense contrast using optical confusion (an effect of an image initially appearing to be one thing, but then morphing into something else). Mann’s work considers the intense light seen by the very first Arctic explorers. He examined how the explorers must have encountered the horizon, which blended into the sky or was completely shrouded by darkness. His personal challenge in developing these works centered on imaging the effects and developing the images photographically without having visited the Antarctic region. His works focus on how the person would feel in this situation, not on what the region looks like.
Please visit the Hyeres Festival website for more information on this event. For the full story on John Mann and his exhibit with this festival, visit the Department of Art News Blog.
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Annual American Art Therapy Association Conference
The Annual American Art Therapy Association Conference will be held in Seattle, Washington from June 26 - 30, 2013. This year's theme will be Art Therapy: Creating Visual Expression and Healing, which will focus on art therapy as an effective tool for promoting and supporting emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual wellness and recovery. It includes the focus on the power of the image and the ability of the creative process to promote integration, enhance self-awareness, and support growth and healing. This theme also encompasses the use of art therapy for the strengthening of community physical and social health.
Dr. Marcia Rosal and Dr. Dave Gussak will both be presenting at this conference. Two of our current students, Frances Morris and Mallori Willis-Rauch, will also be presenting a paper together, along with countless alumni. The FSU Alumni and Friends of the FSU Art Therapy Program Reception will be held on Friday, June 28, 2013, in the nearby Pikes Market, beginning at 8:00pm.
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| Annual American Art Therapy Association Conference |
Book signings and Lectures for Dr. Dave Gussak's New Book: Art on Trial: Art Therapy in Capital Murder Cases
American Art Therapy Association Conference
Seattle, Washington
Saturday, June 29, 2013
Florida State University Book Store
Tallahassee, Florida
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
1:00 pm
Book Available at:
Columbia University Press
Amazon.com
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FSU’s Strong Showing at International Congress on Medieval Studies
The Department of Art History was well represented by graduate students and alumni at the International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 9 - 12, 2013. Alumna Dr. Jennifer Feltman organized two sessions: New Studies of the North Transept of Reims I: Archeaology, Architecture, and Glass and New Studies of the North Transept of Reims II: Sculpture. She also presented her paper “Royal and Clerical Iconography and the Chronology of the Reims Last Judgement Portal” as part of session II.
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FSU’s Strong Showing at International Congress on Medieval Studies
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PhD Candidate Sarah Andyshak presented “Transfiguring Chartres: Cross-Cultural Currents in Glass” in the session Byzantium and the Latin West: Comparisons, Dialogues, and Analogies.
PhD Candidate Brad Hostetler presented “The Presence of Nature within a Devotional Context: A Case Study of a Middle Byzantine Reliquary from Mount Athos” in the session Eco-Critical Approaches to Medieval Art, East and West II: Objects.
Doctoral student Sarah C. Simmons presented “The ‘God Bearing’ Patriarch: Liturgy as Political Symbolism in Ninth-Century Constantinople” in the session Ritual, History, and Identity: Social Dimensions of Byzantine Liturgy.
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