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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Wednesday, April 8, 2008 at 7pm LoudSOUNDLive presents a screening of Bill Morrison’s 2002 film "Decasia: The State of Decay" (with music by Michael Gordon). Preceding the film, there will be five minute guest performances (on the theme of decay) by Christina Breza, Mark Creegan, Joseph Goosey, Matt Grey, Douglas Henning & Thomas Karst. This performance will take place in the UNF Art Gallery on Wednesday, April 8, at 7pm. This event is free and open to the public. For more information about this show (and other upcoming LoudSOUNDLive events), contact Prof. Clark Lunberry, Dept. of English, 620-1284 or at clark.lunberry@unf.edu. |
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Amnesty International Event : Monday, April 6 from 7 - 9pm Join the Amnesty International Club and the Pride Club for a meeting/party to focus on LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, BiSexual, Transgender) human rights. LGBT populations around the world suffer from severe discrimination and denial of their human rights and we will take action to help stop these abuses. Both clubs will also be holding elections, so if you've ever had any interest in holding an officer position with AI or Pride then now is your chance! This is a great way t get involved in human rights and international issues. Refreshments will be served. |
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Film: Sunday, April 5 from 7:30-10pm Please join us for the third and final night of the Gallery's three night "LGBT Film Fest." What happens |
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Film: Saturday, April 4 from 8:30-11pm "Fire" is the first film in a trilogy by the Indian director Deepa Mehta. The film explores issues of marriage, family responsibilities, gender roles and sexuality in the context of Indian society and the Hindu faith. This the second night of the Gallery's three night "LGBT Film Fest." The film is free and refreshments will be served. |
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Film: Friday, April 3 from 7:30-10pm The film "Milk" starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. This the first night of the Gallery's three night "LGBT Film Fest." The film is free and a reception with free refreshments will precede the showing of the film. |
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Opening Reception : Thursday, April 2 from 5-7pm This exhibition features the work of graduating seniors from the Department of Art and Design at the University of North Florida. The works exhibited include paintings, sculptures, photographs, ceramics, prints, drawings, mixed media and graphic design. Refreshments will be served. |
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Art Historian Lecture: Wednesday, April 1, Time TBA For the past year Dr. Burdan has been the scholar-in-residence at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut where she has been engaged in research on a variety of artists associated with Lyme and Old Lyme, the site of an important art colony in the early twentieth century. The renowned American photographer Walker Evans spent many years in Lyme, first as a summer resident and then on a more permanent basis beginning in the mid-1960s while teaching at Yale University. In the lesser-known works of his late career Evans revisited the themes and subjects that brought him notoriety during the Depression years and discovered the Polaroid camera, a technical development that vastly increased his artistic output in the 1970s. |
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Artist Talk: Tuesday, March 31 at 7pm Angie Bechanan left UNF’s Photography Program in 2006. While studying at UNF she concentrated in portrait photography. Since that time her field of vision has greatly expanded as she has captured a vision of the third world few of us have seen first hand. Most of her travels were in conjunction with Hopegivers, International. With this organization Angie spent time in India and Haiti, providing the organization with images for their orphanages and outreach programs. Following her work with Hopegivers, she had the privilege of spending a week photographing the people of Cuba. “Talent and skills will take you only so far, the rest of the distance needs to be carried by your heart. Find out what your desires are -- and you will find a new dimension to pour into your art.” |
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Art Historian Lecture: Monday, March 30 at 5pm Currently Visiting Assistant Professor of American Art at Michigan State University and an adjunct curator at the Kresge Art Museum, Louise Siddons received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2005. Her dissertation, "The Future of the American Race: Reproducing the Racialized Nation in Print Media, 1925-1940," considered representations of reproductive sexuality in the context of early twentieth century discourses that racialized national identity. Formerly assistant curator of works on paper at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and a lecturer at San Francisco State University, Louise's recent research interests include contemporary engagements with the history of photographic media as well as continuing studies in early-twentieth-century modernism. The contributions of black artists to modernism are critical to an understanding of its development, and an impressive canon of African American modernists has by now been thoroughly established. The definition of modernism upon which this canon relies, however, has forced scholars to work in uneasy relation to their subjects. Throughout my work, I seek to explicate the alternative modernisms that developed simultaneously with canonical/white modernism as a response to-and rejection of-the racist elements of that modernism. In this paper, I will examine a 1924 photograph by James VanDerZee, Identical Twins, suggesting the ways in which he collaborated with his sitters to fashion an image of modern African American identity that engaged positively with African sources, contemporary modernism, and also a specifically African American cultural history. |
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Art Historian Lecture: Monday, March 23 at 5pm Elizabeth Heuer specializes in nineteenth and twentieth century American art, with a focus on Southern Regionalism. She is also interested in non-western arts, the history of photography, and issues concerning tourism and communication theory. Heuer received her PhD in Art History from Florida State University in 2008 after completing her dissertation titled “Going Postal: Surrealism and the Discourses of Mail Art.” Her upcoming publications include the essays “Picturing America: The Postcards of Walker Evans” and “Billets-doux et albums poétiques: les plus belles cartes postales de Paul Éluard” in the book Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity (PSU Press, in press). Dr. Heuer's lecture will examine how American trompe l’oeil artist John Haberle enlisted postal space and its ephemera as a means to challenge cultural institutions and subvert conventional relationships between artist and viewer. |
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Amnesty International Event : Thursday, March 12, 2008 at 5:30pm For over 30 years Anne Feeney has acted as an outspoken advocate for social and economic justice. Her world-wide performances include serving as “Artist in Residence” at numerous universities – among them Harvard, Cornell, and Yale. She is witty, engaging, and refreshing – and an eye-witness to many of the events she describes so vividly in story and song. An attorney by education and mother of two grown children, Anne is a spellbinding performer who inspires everyone! For more information about Anne Feeney, click on the following link: www.annefeeney.com Refreshments will be served. |
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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Wednesday, March 11, 2008 at 7pm LoudSOUNDLive presents a performance by Jacksonville's own "A Woman's Weapon," an evening of contemporary cabaret. This performance will take place in the UNF Art Gallery on Wednesday, March 11, |
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Lecture : Thursday, February 26 from 11am - 12pm History Professor Dr. Carolyn Williams will be speaking about the life and work of the great 20th Century American painter Jacob Lawrence in the University Gallery from 11am-12pm on Thursday, February 26, 2009. Dr. Williams will focus on Lawrence's Toussaint L'Ouverture Series and The Migration Series. Audio from Dr. Williams' Lecture Whitney Museum website about Jacob Lawrence
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Amnesty International Event : Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 12:15pm |
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Research Reception: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 from 5 - 7pm |
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Opening Reception: Thursday, February 12 from 5-7pm This annual exhibition features student work selected by a juror to represent the Department of Art and Design. This year's juror is Jacksonville artist and UNF alum Sarah Crooks Flaire. Refreshments will be served. |
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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Wednesday, February 11, 2008 at 7pm LoudSOUNDLive presents a performance by Jacksonville’s own “After the Bomb Baby,” an evening event entitled “Unzip, Uncork and Unexist” and “Nuke: The Teenage Thrills, the Sexed-Up Technocracy.” This event is free and open to the public. For more information about this show (and other upcoming LoudSOUNDLive events), contact Prof. Clark Lunberry, Dept. of English, x-1284 or at clark.lunberry@unf.edu, or: <http://www.myspace.com/loudsoundlive>, or: <www.myspace.com/afterthebombbaby> |
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Ceremony: Monday, February 2, 2009 from 5 - 6:30pm The Black History Proclamation Ceremony will be held at the University Art Gallery, Founders Hall, Building Two, I UNF Drive, at 5pm. The Proclamation will be read by Mr. Oupa Seane, Director of the Intercultural Center for PEACE. The guest speaker for the evening will be Dr. Melissa Hargrove, UNF Anthropolgy Professor. Dr Hargrove's feild of study includes Gullah Culture of the South Carolina Sea Islands,African Diaspora,Racism and Social Inequality,Tourism and Cultural Commoditization.Refresments will be provided by the African American Student Union. The event is free and open to the public.Questions may directed to Chris Bender, 620-2475. |
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Closing Reception: Thursday, January 29 from 6-8pm The Imagillaboration (i-ma-ji-la-bôr-ã-shun) National Collaborative Sculpture Project is an ongoing, ground-breaking endeavor comprised of over one hundred sculptors nationwide. Working together over the course of a year in regional groups of five to nine people, the artists are creating a dynamic body of innovative sculptural artwork. Each participant has created the beginning segment of a sculpture which has been passed onto other group members who each added their own artistic element to every piece. Once the cycle of exchange was completed, each artist had contributed to every sculpture in their group, resulting in one finished sculpture for each person participating. This exhibition is being held in partnership with the Florida Community College at Jacksonville. A different selection of sculptures from the project is being shown in the FCCJ South Gallery where a closing reception will also be held on January 29 from 5-7pm. The UNF reception will begin an hour later and run from 6-8pm. Refreshments will be served. |
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Artist Lecture : Thursday, January 29 from 9:30 - 11am Artists Michael Cottrell, Jenny Hager, Patrick Miko, and Lance Vickery will discuss their experiences working on the Imagillaboration National Collaborative Sculpture Project. The presentation includes information about the genesis of the project, images of the works in progress, and video of other participants discussing the project. The artists will also answer questions throughout the presentation. |
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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Wednesday, January 13, 2008 at 7:04pm Sound art performance featuring Kirsten Walsh and Charlotte Mabrey in an adaptation of The event is free and open to the public. |
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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Wednesday, December 10, 2008 at 7pm Sound art performance featuring Doug Henning, Micah Redmond, and Cohorts. The event is free and open to the public. |
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Opening Reception: Thursday, October 30 from 5-7pm This annual exhibition features works in a variety of media produced by full- and part-time Art and Design Faculty. Refreshments will be served. |
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Music Performance : Thursday, October 9, 2008 at 5pm Like any good candidate in an election year, Roy Zimmerman is trying to sell his record. “Thanks for the Support” is Zimmerman’s new CD, full of fiercely funny songs lambasting all things political in this most political year. And he’s made a “campaign promise” to perform in all fifty states before the election. This quest brings him to the University of North Florida for a performance in the University Gallery on Thursday, October 9 from 5-6:30pm. Zimmerman’s CD “Thanks for the Support” features twelve new satirical songs, all originals. The tracks were recorded live over the last few months capturing the infectious comedic energy of Zimmerman’s performance, his manic vocalizations and his virtuosity as a guitarist. The Los Angeles Times says, “Zimmerman displays a lacerating wit and keen awareness of society’s foibles that bring to mind a latter-day Tom Lehrer.” Zimmerman has shared the stage with George Carlin, Ellen Degeneres, Arlo Guthrie, |
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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 7pm This event features UNF alums Ryan Reno and Jason Irvin. More information will be posted here in the coming weeks. The event is free and open to the public. |
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Amnesty International Event : Wednesday, October 1, 2008 at 5:30pm |
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Presidential Professor Lecture : Thursday, September 11 at 6:30pm This is the culminating lecture by the John A. Delaney Presidential Professor. It is co-sponsored by the History Department as a “Past to Present” lecture, and by the Office of Faculty Enhancement as part of the “Stretch Your Noodle” series. |
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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 7pm "LoudSOUNDLive" presents "Altered States: An Evening of Wind, String and Object Improvisations," with Jason Arnold, Daniel McCoy and others. “LoudSOUNDLive” is a monthly sound art and performance event held at the University of North Florida’s Art Gallery. LSL offers local and regional artists a space to explore and experiment with sound/noise/language/music and performance art. With a multi-media approach, a certain energized “spectacle” is regularly presented, establishing in Jacksonville a venue for a kind of event otherwise rarely encountered here.The event is free and open to the public. |
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Opening Reception: Thursday, September 4 from 5-7pm Jason Godeke’s recent paintings explore theatrical narratives dealing with themes such as the nuclear family and eschatology (the body of religious doctrines concerning the human soul in its relation to death, judgment, heaven, and hell.) Refreshments will be served. |
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Artist Lecture : Thursday, September 4 at 11am Artist Jason Godeke will discuss his recent series of paintings. |
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Closing Reception : Friday, August 29 from 4:30 - 6:30pm Come celebrate Charlotte Mabrey's concert series An Evening of 20th Century Music and thank Charlotte for her many years of entertainment while enjoying an exhibition of concert posters designed by Tom Schifanella and a video of concert highlights from over the years. |
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Opening Reception : Friday, May 16, 2008 from 5-7pm Please join us for the opening reception of this National Sculpture Invitational Exhibition. Refreshments will be served (catered by Elaine Wheeler.) |
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Art & Design Event : Friday, May 2, 2008 from 4:30-6pm Faculty and staff from the Department of Art & Design welcome our seniors and their families for a "happy hour" reception prior to the 2008 Commencement Ceremony. Refreshments will be served. |
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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Thursday, May 1, 2008 at 7pm LoudSOUNDlive and Mother's Basement Presents: "KING TRUCK: A Demonstration of 'Push/Pull' in a Semi-Improvised Something-Or-Other," with Jacksonville musicians Ben Cooper, Rick Colado and Jeremiah E. Johnson. |
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Yoga: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 from 5:30 - 6:45pm Finals have you stressed? Join us in the University Art Gallery for an hour of yoga. You will leave feeling energized, peaceful, stretched and ready to finish the school year positively. All levels will be accommodated and no experience is necessary. Please bring a towel or mat and wear comfortable clothing. This event is free and open to students, faculty and staff. |
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History Dept. Event : Tuesday, April 22, 2008 from 5:00 - 6:30pm Please join the History Department in celebrating a trio of new books Tuesday, April 22, in the University Gallery, 5-6:30 p.m. The books are by Dr. J. Michael Francis, Associate Professor of History, Invading Colombia: Spanish Accounts of the Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada Expedition of Conquest (Penn State Univ. Press, 2008); Dr. Aaron Sheehan-Dean, Associate Professor of History, Why Confederates Fought: Family & Nation in Civil War Virginia (University of North Carolina Press, 2007); and Dr. N. Harry Rothschild, Assistant Professor of History, Wu Zhao: China’s Only Woman Emperor (Longman, 2008). Light refreshments will be served, and the celebration is free and open to the public. Free and open to the public. |
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French Music Concert : Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 7:30pm Lee Hunter of Jacksonville’s own Tammerlin will be singing French songs along with the French musical duo Mary-Lou at UNF on Wednesday, April 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Gallery (first floor of building 2, Founders Hall, room 1001). This musical combination is inspired by the traditional music of North America mixed with French traditional songs. The songs talk about Acadia, Mississippi, Louisiana, swamps … French lyrics tell stories of the deep South, the hobos, the trains, the dust storms.… These musicians love the blues, jug bands, old country songs, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, and Pasty Cline. The concert is free and open to the public. For further information, contact Shira Schwam-Baird, 620-1248, sschwam@unf.edu. |
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Amnesty International Event : Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 5:30pm Students from sociology professor Dr. Sasha Milicevic’s “ War and Violence” class, along with AI, present crucial information on the conflict and human rights abuses in Darfur, Sudan. Join us to write a letter to your congressperson and investors to urge them to take action. Indulge at a bake sale where proceeds will be sent to support Save Darfur. Gain information and the tools you need to be an Free and open to the public. www.unf.edu/groups/amnesty |
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Diversity Taskforce Lecture : Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 7:00pm Join the Provost's Diversity Task Force for an evening talk with Dr. Mordean Taylor-Archer, University of Louisville's Vice Provost for Diversity and Equal Opportunity. A small reception will begin at 6:00 pm in the courtyard outside the Gallery. The talk will begin at 7:00 pm. Seating is limited. |
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Opening Reception : Friday, April 4, 2008 from 5-7pm This exhibition features the work of thirty five graduating seniors from the Department of Art and Design at the University of North Florida. The works exhibited include paintings, sculptures, photographs, ceramics, prints, drawings, mixed media and graphic design. Refreshments will be served. |
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Artist Lecture : Friday, April 4, 2008 at 10:30am Dean Mitchell's paintings are currently featured in the Contemporary Visions exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Jacksonville. An award-winning painter of figures depicting black middle and lower class people and landscapes from his southern background and other personal experiences, Mitchell is inspired by grizzled laborers, time-worn elderly faces, and persons like himself who have lived in a segregated environment. In 2002, art critic Michael Kimmelman wrote in The New York Times that Mitchell was "a virtual modern-day Vermeer". The book Against All Odds: Artist Dean Mitchell’s Story by Betty R. James was published September 2007. |
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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 7pm The next in UNF’s ongoing series, "LoudSOUNDLive" will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the UNF Art Gallery. This event features media artist and writer Joe Milutis, from Columbia, S.C. Milutis is an art professor at the University of South Carolina and the author of the recent book "Ether: The Nothing that Connects Everything." He will give a sound art performance titled "Airspace: Radio Transmission, Sound Poetry and Live Laptop Performances." The event is free and open to the public. LoudSOUNDLive offers performances the first Thursday of each month in the UNF Art Gallery. |
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Poetry Event : Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 7:30pm Please join us for this FREE spoken word and poetry event. |
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Amnesty International Event : Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 5:00pm For over 30 years Anne Feeney has acted as an outspoken advocate for social and economic justice. Her world-wide performances include serving as “Artist in Residence” at numerous universities – among them Harvard, Cornell, and Yale. She is witty, engaging, and refreshing – and an eye-witness to many of the events she describes so vividly in story and song. An attorney by education and mother of two grown children, Anne is a spellbinding performer who inspires everyone! For more information about Anne Feeney, click on the following link: www.annefeeney.com Refreshments will be served. |
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Interactive Lecture : Monday, March 10, 2008 at 7:30pm Dr. Addiss is Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities at the University of Richmond and the author of thirty-five books. His lecture will address the following: "Haiku painting has been done by all the major haiku poets in Japanese history, including Basho, Buson, and Issa, although they had different levels of painterly skills. In some ways the simple, almost childlike images by Issa may be the most appropriate to a form of poetry that features suggestion rather than statement, and modesty rather than elaboration. The interesting question, as always when combining words and images, is how they may interact. Does the image illustrate the words, or do the words illustrate the image? Or is there a third choice, where they each add something new while supporting each other? This talk will present examples from many poet-painters of Japan, and also suggest how haiku painting may continue in the Western art world of today and tomorrow." A reception will precede the lecture from 6:30 - 7:30pm. |
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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 7pm A 60-Minute Performance with Intermission by Amy Moore, St. Elmo’s Fire is a natural electrical phenomenon which causes swells of light To prevent interruption of light and sound conditions, performers request |
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Opening Reception : Thursday, February 28, 2008 from 5-7pm Juror George Kinghorn, Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Jacksonville, will select Art & Design student work from a variety of disciplines (painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, ceramics, photography, graphic design, multimedia, etc.) Awards will be given to the pieces judged to be the strongest. Refreshments will be served. |
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Closing Reception : Thursday, February 21, 2008 from 5-7pm Mr. Pinder, a former student of Dr. Driskell, is a dynamic young artist whose work has been featured in numerous international solo and group shows including exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT, and the Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw, Poland. His film Shoeshine Variations, currently on exhibit in the University Gallery, was recently shown at Art Basel Miami Beach. Refreshments will be served. |
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Artist Lectures : Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 6:00pm 6:00pm - Music by Dr. Charlotte Mabrey & her students Highly regarded as an artist and a scholar, Driskell is cited as one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of African American art. He is also the recipient of nine honorary doctoral degrees in art and he has contributed significantly to scholarships in the history of art on the role of Black artists in America. He has authored five exhibition books on the subject of African American art, co-authored four others, and published more than 40 catalogues from exhibitions he has curated. His articles and essays on African American art have appeared in major publications throughout the world. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award in Art from Howard University in 1981 and from The Catholic University of America in 1996. In October 1997, Driskell was awarded the President's Medal, the highest honor the University of Maryland bestows on a member of the faculty. In 1997, Dr. Driskell was advisor to President Bill Clinton on the purchase of the first artwork by an African American artist to be added to the White House art collection. Since 1980, he has been curator of the William and Camille O. Cosby Collection, the largest private holding of African American art in the world. His book, The Other Side of Color: The African American Collection of Camille O. and William H. Cosby, Jr. offers in-depth commentary on these works. In 2000, Dr. Driskell received the National Humanities Medal from President Bill Clinton for his contribution to American culture. |
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Poetry Reading : Thursday, February 14, 2008 at 7:30pm What could be more romantic than listening to an Irish poet on Valentine's Day? Prior to the reading, there will be a reception at 7:00pm. |
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Amnesty International Event : Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 5:00pm This Amnesty International event features the following: |
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"LoudSOUNDlive" Event : Thursday, February 7, 2008 at 7pm Come One, Come All! The initiating evening of a monthly series of sound art performance events to be held every first Thursday from now until the end of time in the UNF Gallery. Refreshments will be served. |
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Poetry/Spoken Art : Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 9:00pm Hosted by Ms. AASU, this event promises "a night of poetry of the soul. An evening of lyrical atmospheres, Intertwined with melodies and rhyme and symbols." For more information, email the African American Student Union at aasu@unf.edu or call 620-2689. |
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Ceremony: Thursday, January 31, 2008 at 6:00pm Black History Month will commence with the reading of the Black History Proclamation. Dr Carolyn Williams, UNF History Professor, will be the guest speaker, and members of the UNF Gospel Choir will perform. Following the program, refreshments will be provided by the African American Student Union . Please contact the Intercultural Center for PEACE for more information - |
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Lecture: Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 11:00am David Fenner, Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Aesthetics, will honor the anniversary of The Women's Center at UNF by giving a public lecture on Feminism and Feminist Art. |
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Performances: Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 7:00pm Miami-based Erik Deluca will perform a conceptual sound piece symbolizing his interactions with Paris in which each instrumental element and sound represents a traveler's motions and ideas. Also, UNF English Professor Clark Lunberry and Erik Deluca will perform a variation of John Cage's Indeterminacy.
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Reading/Lecture: Thursday, October 25, 2007 at 7:00pm UNF English Professor Michael Wiley will be reading and discussing his new novel, The Last Striptease, winner of the PWA/SMP Best First Private Eye Novel Contest. |
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Film: Monday, October 22 - Friday, October 26, 2007 (every 1/2 hour) UNF Professor Jillian Smith's documentary film Evoking Rights will be shown |
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Lecture: Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 7:00pm UNF English Professor Sam Kimball will explain the thesis and outline |
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Meditation: Thursday, October 4, 2007 from 5:00 - 5:30pm Instructor Shelly Clay-Robison will lead a group, guided meditation for peace. This meditation will focus on inner peace as a pathway to creating peace in our communities and in our world. Group meditation has the power to heal each individual, which, like a pebble thrown into a pond will ripple out and help heal the world. This guided meditation is the perfect way to kick off the Conflict Transformation Symposium. Light refreshments will be served following the meditation practice. |
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Yoga: Tues/Wed, October 2 & 3, 2007 from 4:00 - 5:15pm Join us in the University Art Gallery for an hour of Anusara Yoga. Anusara is a "celebration of the heart," that looks for the good in all people and all things. You will leave feeling energized, peaceful, stretched and walking with ease. All levels will be accommodated and no experience is necessary. Yoga mats will be available and please wear comfortable clothing. |
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Lecture: Thursday, September 27, 2007 at 7:30pm Louise Freshman Brown discusses her mixed medium photo collages currently on display in the University Gallery. |
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Lecture: Friday, September 14, 2007 at 11:00am James Greene (graphic artist, educator and former grocery store employee) discusses "Valusitics" a neologism that he coined to describe the politics of a consumer-citizen in an era where the latter has been thoroughly eclipsed by the former. By Greene’s reckoning, valuistics are consumer decisions (whether made consciously or not) that reflect a consumer’s personal politics and may be self-represented visually with brand logos. When combined and displayed by the consumer as a form of art, the logos work together to create a consumer’s self-portrait. Greene's self-portrait "The Making of" is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art - Jacksonville. |
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Lecture: Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 11:00am Carol Prusa’s paintings are inspired by in her on-going fascination with science, alchemy, organizational systems, and botany. Highly finished elliptical and round wooded panels serve as supports for an ethereal arena where Prusa’s depictions of ambiguous microscopic cellular structures, flora and cosmological symbols take on monumental presence. The works are meditative in the repetitive and meticulously drawn organic forms that hover, weightless amidst the fluidity of the artist’s layered washes of suspended pigment. Prusa’s obsessively rendered drawings are created in silverpoint, a medium that was utilized by Renaissance masters Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, and Albrecht Durer. The artist’s skillful blending of materials ranging from powdered sulfur, titanium white, graphite and acrylic media, produce works that are subtle and complex in the same instance. The silverpoint drawing that is later heightened with titanium is somewhat faint and partially obscured by the transparent graphite veils. This exhibition features more than twenty works including a new installation that consists of more than a dozen various sized circular disks that are arranged on the gallery walls in a constellation-like configuration.. |
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Lecture: Thursday, September 13, 2007 at 9:30am Minoru Ohira’s simple and elegant sculptures are inspired by forms observed in nature. The artist transforms raw materials, primarily wood salvaged from construction sites and roadside discards, into a dynamic assortment of meticulously crafted seductive forms. The rounded and curvilinear sculptural forms, some over eight feet in length, exhibit a range of highly polished to jagged, scale-like textured surfaces. Central to the understanding of these works is the artist’s steadfast commitment to traditional woodworking techniques and a deep respect for the inherent nature of materials. Many of Minoru’s sculptures are created not by the use of power tools, but by his painstaking use of hand saws and hatchets. |
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