Mindsight exhibit at the Harn

Touching art displayed at museums is typically against the rules, but the Harn Museum of Art and the Gator Lions Club are inviting people to do just that April 4 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Held annually at the Harn Museum, MindSight is a program that encourages all participants, including those who are blind or visually impaired, to experience art through senses other than sight.

“This partnership celebrates a real connection between the mission of the Gator Lions Club and the mission of the museum to promote the power of the arts to inspire and educate people and enrich their lives,” said Bonnie Bernau, director of education at the Harn Museum. "Both groups endorse the concept that there are many ways to experience art, and this program gives everyone the opportunity to use senses beyond that of sight.”

Community artists and University of Florida student and faculty artists provided works of art to be explored through touch while the works are verbally described by student guides or the artists themselves. MindSight also invites those with sight to experience the artwork in the same way by wearing a blindfold.

Celeste Roberge

Celeste Roberge is a William Randolph Hearst Foundation Creative Artist Fellow with the American Antiquarian Society. She is researching American furniture, in particular its fabrication, use, history, and depiction in American painting, photography, and sculpture.

Roberge recently gave a lecture at the American Antiquarian Society on her ongoing sculpture project involving American furniture.

Barbara Barletta

Secrets of the Parthenon featuring and interview with Art Historian Barbara Barletta

From: Providence Pictures

We are pleased to announce that our film Parthenon won first prize at the XIX International Festival of Archaeological Film in Rovereto, Italy.

Parthenon was the highest rated show of the year on ARTE's flagship series Human Adventure, and the second highest rated show for the past two years on PBS's premiere science series, NOVA.

Providence Pictures thanks our co-production partners Studio Internationale, ARTE, and NOVA. Coming up on NOVA/PBS - November 18, 2008
http://www.providencepictures.com/

Julia Morrisroe

Julia Morrisroe has completed a commission for the Jacksonville International Airport, the opening reception is Wednesday, October 29, 2008.

Morrisroe will also exhibit paintings and prints in the Haskell Gallery at Jacksonville International Airport through January 2009.

Brad Smith

Public Art Sculpture “Rejoined” Installed at the Southwest 5th Avenue Triangle

Gainesville, Florida - The City of Gainesville is pleased to announce the installation of public artwork “Rejoined” by Brad Smith at the Southwest 5th Avenue Triangle. The artwork was purchased through the Community Redevelopment Agency and the City of Gainesville Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs Art in Public Places Trust program. The sculpture is scheduled to be presented to the Gainesville Mayor and City Commission at the November 6, 2008 City Commission meeting.

The origin of “Rejoined” dates back to the early 1900s when construction began on the “old Federal Building” in downtown Gainesville. Granite blocks were laid as the foundation, upon which a steel frame supported limestone moldings and entablature. The building was finished in 1911 and housed the Post Office and the Federal Court until 1964 when those offices were moved to the new Federal building. When the building was renovated to house Gainesville’s Hippodrome Theatre, a number of granite foundation blocks and limestone molding were removed from the structure and put into storage in the building’s basement. The artist later used these materials to create the sculpture.

Artist Brad Smith states, “The design, a split column joined by three stainless steel bars, was to symbolize the old made new. It was also to act as a symbolic gateway connecting the University of Florida with the redeveloped University Heights neighborhood located adjacent to it.”

Funded by the Community Redevelopment Agency, the Southwest 5th Avenue Triangle pocket park is gateway to the historic University Heights neighborhood. Located between heavily trafficked 13th Street, the University of Florida’s College of Education (historic Norman Hall) and within the College Park/University Heights Community Redevelopment Area, the sculpture is visible by both high volume student pedestrian and automobile traffic. The park’s landscape architecture was designed by Buford Davis and Associates and the artwork was installed by Painter Masonry, Inc.

Bradley Smith is currently a Teaching Lab Specialist in sculpture at the School of Art and Art History at the University of Florida. After receiving his MFA in 1986, he taught sculpture for two years as an Adjunct Instructor at the Art Department prior to accepting the position of Chief Preparator at the Samuel P. Harn Museum, where he oversaw the installation of over 125 exhibitions during his nine year tenure there. Inspiration for Smith’s sculptures is drawn from ritual objects from diverse cultures and time periods. Multiple materials such as stone, wood and metal are combined to produce visual contrast and the depiction of oppositional forces in his totemic forms. His sculptures have been exhibited throughout Florida and have been included in nationally juried and invitational exhibitions.

WHITE BOX GROUP SHOW 2

The [5]art artist collective will host WHITE BOX GROUP SHOW 2 at their exhibition space at the West Tampa Center for the Arts.

WHITE BOX GROUP SHOW 2 is the second installment of this annual exhibition and will include local, national and international artists working in a variety of media. The exhibition is curated by the [5]art members and will feature works by:
Elizabeth Alley (Tennessee), Chalet Comellas (Florida), Chad Erpelding(Texas), Arpad Forgo (Budapest), Lauren Garber Lake (Florida), Lynn Manos (Florida), Daniel McFarlane (Florida), Julia Morrisroe (Florida), Liz Rodda (Oklahoma)and Ryann Slauson (Florida).

The opening reception will be held Friday October 10 from 7 - 11 p.m. on the second floor of 1906 N. Armenia Ave. #211 Tampa, FL 33607.
This exhibition runs through October 31, 2008 with Gallery hours by appointment 813.340.9056

This exhibition is free and open to the public. (Donations are always welcomed and appreciated)
Hors d'oeuvres :: Donation Bar

http://www.five-art.com/

mailto:art.five@gmail.com

Elegance of Science contest

Have you looked through the microscope to find something beautiful? Is your art focused on the tools and concepts of science? The Marston Science Library invites all UF faculty, students and staff to submit artwork to its first annual “Elegance of Science” contest. Winning entries and select other entries will be displayed on the walls of the Marston Science Library and the Health Science Center Libraries. The contest is limited to images produced in the course of research or that incorporate tools and concepts from science. Cash prizes include $150 for first place, $100 for second place and $50 for third place winning artwork. All entries must be received by Dec. 19.

For complete details and official entry form, go to For complete details and official entry form, go to www.uflib.ufl.edu/msl/art.

Co-sponsors of the contest are the UF Health Science Center Libraries, the Architecture and Fine Arts Library and the UF Alumni Association. For more information, contact Amy Buhler amybuhl@uflib.ufl.edu, Val Davis vdavis@ufl.edu or Carrie Newsom carnews@uflib.ufl.edu

Cyríaco Lopes: REALDOLLAR, and Cottage Industry

The John Erickson Museum of Art (JEMA) is an example of one possible method of developing an exciting new venue for artists and viewers. It also functions as a model for discussing innovative possibilities toward the development of vital yet affordable art centers. JEMA’s portable quality offers artists an exhibition space that encourages radical experimentation with a low financial overhead. This new museum space is founded on an unwavering belief concerning the quick, decisive and efficient delivering art to the viewing public. This type of activity is an important sign of a vital cultural institution. Many art museums require years to schedule exhibitions. Moving slowly – these institutions function with power and strength but remain bogged down by red tape and expensive exhibitions. http://www.jema.us/

Victoria Rovine

Lauren Garber Lake

Skopelos Foundation of the Arts

Architecture, Graphic Design, Art History, Art Education, Drawing, Photography, Painting and Printmaking under the direction of SA+AH faculty members Robert Mueller and Lauren Garber Lake spent three weeks at the Skopelos Foundation of the Arts . While in Greece, they used the island of Skopelos and Greek culture as a starting point for artist’s books, drawings and prints. For more information please visit skopelos2008.blogspot.com.

Yoko Ono: Imagine Peace

Professor, Sean Mille, has show up at JEMA, Belfast, U.K.. Check out http://www.jema.us/ for more information!

Richard Heipp

Connie Hwang selected as American Corporate Identity Winner

SA+AH would like to congratulate Connie Hwang for her award winning designs! The University Galleries Make a Splash calendar/poster/mailer and www.paradiseinthenewworld.com website have been chosen as winners in the American Corporate Identity 24 competition . The will be published in American Corporate Identity 2009 by Harper Collins this fall. Kudos!

Professor Barletta on PBS

In January, Art History Professor Barbara Barletta shared her expertise about Ancient Greece for a Nova episode on "Secrets of the Parthenon." If you missed the TV broadcast, you can still view the program on the PBS web site at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/parthenon/ .

CAA Dallas 2008

We had so many faculty in attendance at the College Art Associate Conference this year! It was wonderful to see so many from the School of Art + Art History. Here are some images from the reunion party!

Richard Heipp Gallery Exhibit

PACKED

W.A.R.P. Professor, Sean Miller organized "PACKED", at Stetson University. The show features Bethany Taylor, Connie Hwang, Sergio Vega, and Arnold Mesches. Check out the fantastic review below!

Daytona Beach News-Journal
Art 'packs' heat in Stetson gallery show
By LAURA STEWART Fine Arts Writer

DELAND -- The provocative, surprisingly witty new exhibit at the Duncan Gallery of Art offers a brave new world of bold, broad and probing statements.

That's not so much because pieces like Sean Taylor's "100 Paces" is a 2006 videotape, projected onto a blank wall, or because Bethany Taylor's 2007 installation, "After the Clean-up," uses nothing more than bent wires and tangled skeins of red string to make its powerful statement.

It's simply because all of the show's unconventional pieces conform to an even more unconventional thesis: they're portable, easily packed and set up in a new space -- even on the fly, and even without the special atmosphere of a gallery.

Deceptively simple and as small as the disc that contains it, Taylor's video is a gripping time-bomb of complex concepts. Both beautiful and terrible in its martial precision, a drill team of Irish Defense Force soldiers pinwheel and pivot, their grim camouflage reflecting the gray walls of their Dublin barracks.

Warriors become part of a grand choregraphed chorale, in a blurring of the line between war's destructive impulses and art's creative energies that lasts only for the length of the recording -- or, thanks to its transformation into art -- forever.

Just so is "After the Clean-up" an arrangement of everyday materials that can be set up quickly, and revised in keeping with whatever setting Taylor chooses for its future installation. A pile of mops rests on the gallery floor, stained the same unsettling red-brown as the piles of string that surround them. Scattered on the white gallery wall behind the cleaning supplies are clusters of disaster-related imagery, each shaped from thread-like wires to resemble doodles. There are bombs falling from an airplane and grenades of all sizes, gas masks and prone bodies, skeletal ladies with mops, actual skeletons.

Compact though the objects in "After the Clean-up" would be, packed into a box or bag, they expand hugely on the wall to illustrate monumental concerns, and societal problems. Not the least among them, ironically, is the main idea underlying the work: of cleaning up after a variety of man-made disasters, whitewashing their impact, and covering up their causes.

"Packed" is a marvelous exhibit, one that combines sharp intelligence with profound questions about contemporary life. A former prison guard addresses past atrocities in Amanda Dunsmore's "Billy's Museum" and, by lavishly adorning the smallest details of museum life, Connie Hwang and Sean Miller confront traditional approaches to art.

And in a work like "Gore Buses and Pretty Buses," a black-and-white wall-mounted poster that's part of Aisling O'Beirne's "Some Things About Belfast (Or So I'm Told)," humor and horror vie for dominance -- and end up enlightening their viewer. The new Duncan gallery exhibit, easily packed and shipped and reassembled, is everything art should be: serious, and serially