Call for Sculptors

2009 Juried Student and Alumni Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition and Florida's First Coast Arts Festival

The College of Fine Arts at The University of Florida is producing Florida's First Coast Arts Festival to be held in St. Augustine, Florida from May 18-24 2009. The festival will be a week full of engaging art including dance, theatre, music, and sculpture. The sculpture exhibition will be Juried by Amy Vigilante, Director of the University Galleries at UF. Five finalists will exhibit work on the grounds of the St. Augustine Amphitheatre.

For more information and an application, visit http://www.ufsculpture.blogspot.com/

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.

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.

First and Second Year MFA Show

Aug. 22nd through Sept. 11th

WARPhaus 818 NW 1st Ave.

Featuring:
First Year
Charles Benton, Sheila Bishop, Benjamin Carter, Abby Chryst, Patrick Coughlin, Chandra DeBuse, Maria-Gabriela Hernandez, Susan Johnson, Jennifer Kahn, Samuel Kingsley, Patrick LeMieux, Chesley Lewis, Daniel McFarlane, John O'Hearn , Scott RobinsonKelly Rogers, Kristin Schimik, Nancy Schreck, Daniel Tankersley, Mark Zimmerman.

Second Year
Michael Christopher, Courtney Crowell, Kelley Eggert, Thaddeus Erdahl, Patrick Grigsby, Hilary Francis Hoffman, Anna Kell, Aaron Kirker, Ariel Koller, Brian Mann, Sonya McAlister, Timothy McLaughlin, Stephanie Stuefer, Matthew Whitehead.

Scholarship Awards

Congratulations to our 14 Scholarship Recipients. The School of Art + Art History set a record and awarded the most funds ever!

















Great Job:
Francesca Lyn, Courtney Bowditch, Jennifer Fourmont, Stefanie Storm, Bailey Robb, Natalie Richardson, Alison McNulty, Anna Kell, Allison Spence, Kelly Sims, Alan Gutierrez, Alexis Cummins, Christian Kwan, and Jennifer Kahn.

Visiting Artist

John Himmelfarb
Thursday February 14 FAB 103 at 5:15















John Himmelfarb is an established artist whose lush, calligraphic drawings and paintings have always been driven by an unceasing devotion to line. Consistently blurring the boundaries between drawing and painting, Himmelfarb revels in line’s evocative potential to create a synthesis of graphic sign, text and elusive image that challenges one’s ability to interpret visual language.

Visting Artist

Gregory Green

Thursday, January 17th at 5:15 PM, FAB 103.

Since the mid-1980’s Gregory Green has created artworks and performances exploring the evolution of empowerment, which consider the use of violence, alternatives to violence and the accessibility to information and technology as vehicles for social or political change. Many of Green’s artistic investigations have focused on terrorism and the possibilities for sabotage of the physical infrastructure, and the ease in which individuals, armed with readily available information, can endanger the status quo.

Green’s work is included in major public and private collections, including among others the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Tate Gallery, London, the Saatchi Gallery, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and MAMCO, Geneva; and his work is represented by numerous commercial Galleries in Europe and the United States. Green had been a working Artist in New York City for the past 17 years until joining the faculty at USF in the fall of 2006 to begin a career in teaching. Gregory attended undergraduate school at The Art Academy of Cincinnati (1981) and graduate school at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1984).

This lecture is sponsored by the School of Art and Art History Visiting Artists and Scholars Committee.