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Faculty-artists from the School of the Arts at Tianjin University of Commerce visited MMC Feb. 10 to share the art of Chinese brush painting FIU art lovers were schooled in Chinese brush painting Feb. 10. A delegation from the School of the Arts at Tianjin University of Commerce (TUC) in [...]
At one point in his life, after he joined the army to escape a girlfriend who broke his heart, after he left his wife for gambling away their money, after he was kicked out of the military for abusing alcohol, Aaron Alvin Sr. lived in Memphis, homeless and addicted to [...]
Two years ago, architecture professor Marilys Nepomechie and a group of FIU students conceived a home design perfect for South Florida – one that could get all its energy from the sun. Last fall, they traveled to Washington, D.C., and built that house for a world-renowned competition: the 2011 U.S. [...]
Everyone is all smiles at the official ribbon-cutting ceremony for the College of Architecture + The Arts Miami Beach Urban Studios, FIU’s new facility on South Beach. The space will house graduate design studios for architecture, landscape architecture and interior architecture students, practice rooms for music students, exhibition and graduate studios for [...]
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is in the running for a grant to help fund and expand its current Virtual Frost Project. The project will allow the museum’s exhibitions to be seen over the web in 360-degree views. Currently, the Frost is in third place. With this grant, [...]
Construction on FIU’s house entry in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon is officially underway. The Solar Decathlon is an international competition that challenges 20 collegiate teams to design, build, and operate solar-powered houses that are cost-effective, energy-efficient and attractive. A team of FIU students and faculty from the [...]
Miami artist Xavier Cortada will serve as founding director of the Office of Engaged Teaching, Scholarship, and Creative Activities (ETSCA) at Florida International University’s College of Architecture + The Arts. ETSCA will be located at FIU’s new space at 420 Lincoln Road, on South Beach and will offer an extraordinary [...]
Name: Kemal Gekic Hometown: Miami, Fla. Job Title/Department: Professor (Piano Performance), College of Architecture + the Arts, Music Department Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: I teach piano and piano ensemble, performing, recording and master classes. Number of years at FIU: 11 What do you enjoy most about [...]
