Study Abroad Spring 2009

A partnership between the UF's Honors Program and the Paris Research Center offers the opportunity for high achieving students to enroll in challenging, interactive courses, enhanced by excursions, guest speakers, and tours. The curriculum is tailored for high-caliber students who are enthusiastic about living in France with Paris as their classroom. In addition to intensive studies of Modern French Culture taught by distinguished UF faculty members, students will participate in activities including a week-long trip (location TBA), lectures by esteemed guest speakers, group dinners, a wine tasting, concerts, and excursions to other areas of France. You will also be able to take advantage of an array of weekly activities designed by native Parisian students to provide an insider's view of Paris for students. Classes are held at the UF Paris Research Center, located in Columbia University's Reid Hall, an innovative center for American academic life in the heart of Paris.

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Art Bash 2008

Art Bash is the University of Florida School of Art and Art History’s yearly open house event. The event showcases the breadth of the school’s disciplines to the community. This is an opportunity for students to share projects, recruit for areas, and encourage discussion between students and the community. The yearly event is free and open to the public.

View images from the event on the Art Bash blog: http://www.artbash.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

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.

Visiting Artist Fritz Haeg

Fritz Haeg works between his architecture and design practice Fritz Haeg Studio (though the currently preferred clients are animals), the happenings and gatherings of Sundown Salon (now schoolhouse), the ecology initiatives of Gardenlab (including Edible Estates), and other various combinations of building, designing, gardening, exhibiting, dancing, organizing and talking. His new on-going series of projects for 2008, Animal Estates, debuted at the Whitney Biennial with commissioned performances and installations in front of the museum. It is followed by six other editions in 2008, commissioned by museums and art institutions in the U.S. and abroad. His first book, "Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn", was published by Metropolis Books and distributed by D.A.P. in spring 2008. "The Sundown Salon Unfolding Archive" will be released in summer 2009 by Evil Twin Publications. Haeg has produced projects and exhibited work at Tate Modern, London; the Whitney Museum of American Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Casco Office of Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht; Mass MoCA; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Wattis Institute, San Francisco; the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Maastricht; The Indianapolis Museum of Art; and the MAK Center, Los Angeles, among other institutions. He studied architecture in Italy at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and Carnegie Mellon University, where he received his B. Arch. He has variously taught in architecture, design, and fine art programs at CalArts, Art Center College of Design, Parsons, and the University of Southern California. In 2006 he initiated Sundown Schoolhouse, the self-organized educational environment originally based in his geodesic dome in Los Angeles.

Selected profiles and features: New York Times - Topic webpage: Fritz Haeg ; T Magazine A Fertile Imagination by Susan Morgan, 2008; Art and Life, Steeping in a Teapot by David Coleman, 2008; Spanish-Modern Mashup in Los Angeles by Michael Cannell, 2008; Redefining American Beauty, by the Yard, by Patricia Leigh Brown, 2006 / Financial Times - Turf Wars by Simon Busch, 2008; NPR - Day to Day feature: Architect creates Estates for Wild Creatures, 2008 / Here & Now on WBUR , Edible Estates, 2007; Studio 360 feature - Edible Estates, 2008 / The Independant - The urban farmer: One man's crusade to plough up the inner city by Kate Burt, 2008 / Frieze Magazine - Edible Estates by Bradley Horn; Anyone Home? by James Trainor, 2006 / BBC Radio - Animal Estates in the Manhattan Wilderness, 2008 / Dwell Magazine - Emerging Designer: Fritz Haeg, video feature, 2008; The Lawn Goodbye by Arnie Cooper, 2007 / Men's Vogue - Greener than Grass by Tim McKeough, 2008; KCET - Sustaining L.A., 2008 / Creative Time - Interview with Nato Thompson, 2007 / Archinect - Fritz Haeg : Small Revolutions by Amy Seek, 2007 / Treehugger - Edible Estates video, 2006 / ABC World News Tonight - Front Lawns Uprooted for Greener Pastures, 2006 / index magazine - Can a Young L.A. Architect Change the World? by Ariana Speyer, 2004.

Bullet Proof

Bullet Proof: Photography at UF in a Time of Economic Crisis.

While Photography plays a central role in contemporary art worldwide, here at UF the Photography Area has suffered unprecedented losses. Faculty lines have not been filled and spaces where photo students used to work have been taken away.

Featuring the works of 23 artists from the Advanced Undergraduate and Graduate Photography classes, "Bullet Proof" evidences the resourcefulness and resilience or our students in a time of financial crisis. The works, often ambitious in scale and experimental in nature, reflect a range of highly individual responses to a precarious world and to the challenges facing photography students working in UF's School of Art and Art History at this juncture.

Artists in this exhibition: Charles Benton Leah Floyd Hilary Hoffman Samuel Kingsley Brian Mann Timothy McLaughlin Jill Mullins Austin Reeves Kelly Rogers Jayanti Seiler Mark Zimmerman Jessica Beer Elise Carlson Loren Knack Christopher Kristiansen Alyson Maier Alice Mayeron Catherine Murry Ngani Ndimbie Alexis Patterson Jane Pavis Kelly Sims Kayte Susse Stephanie Tyler.

Please join us at WARPhaus this Friday November 7th from 7-10 PM for great food and drink and some very engaging art projects.

The WARPhaus is located behind the Taco Bell on University Avenue at 818 NW 1st Ave. Directions to WARPhaus: From Campus, travel East on University Avenue. Be prepared to take a Left turn when you reach the Checkers/Taco Bell. The WARPhaus Gallery is in a renovated grey warehouse located at 818 N.W. 1st Avenue. The gallery entrance is on the east side of the building. Visitor parking is available in spaces marked for the WARPhaus.

Margaret Ross Tolbert

Gainesville, FLorida
The Cofrin Gallery is proud to present:
Portals in Transition
by Anna Lowdin and Margaret Ross Tolbert
Nov. 6 through December 16, 2008
Swedish Artist Anna Lowdin is a painter and sculptor living and working in Uppsala, Sweden and Margaret Ross Tolbert is a painter based in Gainesville, Florida. Through many years of traveling, working and exhibiting together, these two artists utilize their own unique vision to respond to the light, surface, space and energy of nature, while contemplating our relationship to it.

Please join us for a Reception honoring these artists on Thursday, November, 6 from 7 - 9M
Featuring live improvisational Jazz by Jason Stahl and Ed Legare
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 - 4pm, Sundays 12-4pm
More info: http://www.oakhall.org/home/content.asp?section=fine%20arts

Ben Carter & Patrick Coughlin

Crossing The Domestic Divide

Ceramics by Ben Carter & Patrick Coughlin

Focus Gallery - Fine Arts Building C

Reception November 14th - 7-10PM

Image: Plate by Ben Carter