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.

Currents: Contemporary Florida Ceramics

Juror's Choice Award Winners: Cheyenne Chapman Rudolph, Stephanie Stuefer, Elliot Marquet

The juror's choice awards for Currents: Contemporary Florida Ceramics, a juried ceramics exhibition sponsored by H.O.T. Clay were announced Friday, January 23rd at the exhibition reception. The jurors Holly Hanessian and Anna Cullouri Holcombe awarded cash prizes to Cheyenne Chapman Rudolph, current ceramics MFA candidate Stephanie Stuefer, & Current Post-Bac Elliot Marquet.

Click here for more information about the exhibition.

Healing the World Inch x Inch: An Art Benefit Show

Healing the World Inch x Inch: An Art Benefit Show

Nov 21, 2008

IFAH - International Fine Arts in Healing, a student organization designed to use member's artistic skills to enhance the lives of people around the world and within the Gainesville community, held a fund raising benefit on November 21st. Proceeds from the event will help send IFAH artists to Rawanda on an AIM for Africa initiative to bring the arts to a genocide survivor vilage. There was a silent auction of UF faculty and community artist artworks. All student work was priced 10 cents per square inch.

For more information about IFAH visit http://www.arts.ufl.edu/cahre/ifah.asp

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/

Nina Logan & Varian Wolf

Artworks by ceramics seniors Nina Logan and Varian Wolf are included in Art of the Next Generation at Brick City Center for the Arts, Ocala, FL. The exhibition includes more than 40 students in Tampa, Orlando, Daytona Beach, Lake County, and Alachua County.

Nina Logan's piece entitled "Catch of the Day" (pictured above) received the Best of show award. The following is an excerpt from the Nov 5th issue of the Gainesville Sun:

Nina Logan's "Catch of the Day" is an example of creativ­ity at its best. Logan, a UF senior, used a bunch of palm tree fronds and assembled them to look like a fish. Many people think it resembles a marlin, but Logan said she didn't have a particular fish in mind when she started making the piece. It won Best of Show.
"I always look for inspiration wherever I go. Driving home one day and I noticed the neighbor's had these palm fronds laid out on the curb," she explained. "They just had this beautiful red color to them, so I picked them up and took them home and just started playing with them.”

The show will run through Nov. 15th
Brick City Center for the Arts
23 S Broadway St.
Ocala, FL
9-5 Tu- Sat.
369-1500
nextgenerationartshow.webs.com

Schizzi: An Exhibition of Sketchbooks at "the gallery"

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

Florida Consortium of Art Schools (FLoCAS) Exhibition

The FLoCAS exhibition opened in the WARPhaus gallery Friday, September 19th. The Florida Consortium of Art Schools (FLoCAS) is a collaboration between dedicated graduate students and educators at major Florida universities who work to create professional exhibitions, lectures, and symposia throughout the year – culminating in a very large group show at Art Basel Miami. The impressive schools involved are as follows: Florida State University, Florida International University, University of Miami, University of Central Florida, University of South Florida, and University of Florida.

http://www.flocas.org/index.html

This exhibition juried by Bonnie Clearwater, the director of The North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, features graduate students from Florida State University, University of Florida, and University of South Florida.

Featuring: (UF) Anna Kell, Samuel Kingsley, Jennifer Kahn, Ariel Koller-Faloon, Patrick Lemieux, Brian Mann, Jayanti Seiler, Scott Robinson, Matthew Whitehead, Mark Zimmerman (FSU) Matt Gordon, Stephen Hawks, Tina Larkin, David Mcleish, Matt Miley, Jason Orman, Mason Rankin (USF) Ariel Baron-Robbins, Jeremy Chandler, April S. Childers, Ryan Foster, Lin Lin, Ellen Mueller, Daniel Moore, Chris Otten, James Reiman, Marta Slaughter

Call for Undergraduate UF Artists

The HHMI Science for Life program, the Harn Museum of Art, and the Florida Museum of Natural History invite you to participate in an event which will celebrate UF undergraduate creativity in the arts and sciences. The event follows up on last year’s science-only display and poster session at the FLMNH which drew almost 100 posters from across the US and was attended by about 800 people. This year, thanks to support from the the Harn Museum and the FLMNH, we will expand the event to incorporate both museums.

We are looking for students interested in displaying any type of art work, performance or visual. You could set up a lighting display, do a dance routine or play electronic music as long as we are able to accommodate your work at one of our venues. Your work will be displayed along with that of science-majoring students, who will be presenting posters detailing their research.

In addition, participants will compete for the Science for Life Undergraduate Creativity Award, a $2,500 prize which will go to one student in the arts and one in the sciences. The $2,500 will fund the student to attend his or her choice of a meeting, workshop, exhibition or the like anywhere in the world.

Unfortunately, due to space and time limitations, art-majoring students must apply. Your application will be evaluated by faculty from both the University of Florida College of Fine Arts and the UF Chemistry Department. The application deadline is October 31, 2008.

For information, please contact Dylan Walsh, the coordinator for this event.Email: dylanwalsh033@chem.ufl.edu
Ph: 352-392-9306
Fx: 352-392-7426
Web site: http://hhmi.chem.ufl.edu/creativity/
Facebook Event Page: http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=27481827638

UF and New World School of the Arts

Students from the University of Florida School of Art + Art History and students from the New World School of the Arts (Miami, FL) under the direction of Lauren Garber Lake and Celeste Pierson record their adaptation of the Exquisite Corpse method by sharing their "personal geographies" through anonymously exchanged sketchbooks.

Student Art Juried Show Winners

SAJE was a great success! We has Seventeen winners this year, check out the recipients below:

Visual Arts Award Winners:
1st Place, Presidents’s Award - Sonja McAlister, Spines 2
nd Place, Dean’s Award - Natalie Richardson, Series
3rd Place, Dean’s Award - Jonathan Frey, Interiors #2
Henri Theil Memorial Award – Kyle White, Good Game
Sarah and Kenneth Kerslake Printmaking Award - Adam Brown, Skull Study
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art Award - Josh Cajinarobleto, The Venting Box
School of Art + Art History Faculty Award - Alison McNulty, Dust Display
Central Florida Office Plus Award – Tommy Frank, Mission Accomplished
Hector Framing and Gallery Award - Nicolas Pilato, Miracle Pod
Creative Workshop Award – Juliane Elin, Cerclage
Goering’s Bookstore Award - Brian Bivona, tie-breaker
Judge’s Honor – Sonya McAlister, Untitled

Art History Award Winners:
William M. Goza and Sue Goza Award – Gianina Valle
2008 Harn Museum Outstanding Art History Student Award - Thuvia Martin

University Scholars

Art History students Brady Lee and Thuvia Martin will be presenting the results of their research in the 2007-2008 University Scholars Program on Saturday, March 1 at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Brady will speak at 10:45am in Anderson Hall 119 on “Powerful Patrons: Art and conflict in Quattrocento Florence.” Thuvia will talk at 1:15pm in Anderson Hall 132 on “Crisis of Spanish Royal Masculinity: Representations of Philip V, 1701-1723.”

Congrats!

Hearty congrats to post-bacc Tommy Frank on his grad school acceptance with assistantship at Bowling Green State University with faculty John Balistreri and Joe Pintz!

Penland School of Crafts

Congratulations to Patrick Coughlin! He was selected to represent the University of Florida and the School of Art + Art History at Penland School of Crafts.

Patrick Coughlin is a ceramic artist from rural Western New York who creates functional ceramic art inspired by family heritage and the regions predominate farming culture. Patrick's ornate ceramic vessels explore the conditions of being part of an existence in decline and decay. Through his work Patrick investigates the relations of Earthenware clay, Victorian service ware and his own experiences with the onion farming industry.

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.

Adam Frezza

Adam Frezza graduated with an MFA in Painting and Drawing in 2007. He was recently one of the top 50 finalists of the Myartspace NY, NY 2007 Competition. He was interviewed on the myartspace blog and spoke about his new artistic ventures and time at the Unviersity of Florida. Click the link and see what he has to say.

Art Basel 2007

This past December, five of our graduate students attended Art Basel, Miami Beach. Over the course of five days our grads walked miles, ate delicious Cuban cuisine, and attended many of the 20+ satellite fairs showcased in Miami! NADA, Pulse, and Scope, were some of our favorite art fairs . Here is a taste of what our students remembered from the trip:

Wynwood District.

New Art Dealers Alliance, Art Basel Maimi Beach.

Margulies Collection, Miami Beach.

The favorite by far was the Rubell Family Collection. The group was invited to a special breakfast reception. For their guests, Rubell had three enormous tables of food. Each surreal and piled with with eggs, bacon, and jam. Guest wandered the current collection, which featured Euro-Centric and works by Hernan Bas.

Euro-Centric and Hernan Bas, Rubell Family Collection.