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By Karen Cochrane
Students in Pip Brant’s Land Art/Earth Art (ART 3843-B51) are making their mark at the Biscayne Bay Campus. Works that reflect an “ecovention” sensibility will be appearing all over campus this semester, including post cozies, yarn birdhouses, moss drawings and pop-up spice gardens. The work displayed here is part of [...]
By Mari de Armas
“Reflections Across Time: Seminole Portraits” will be on view at The Frost from now until Jan. 13, 2013. The Frost Art Museum presents “Reflections Across Time: Seminole Portraits.” The exhibit that merges Native American portraiture with Native American ethnographic materials in a historic exhibition that shows more than 150 years [...]
By Mari de Armas
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is showcasing the FIU Faculty Show, featuring the work of Art + Art History professors Tori Arpad-Cotta and R.F. Buckley. The FIU Faculty Show opens alongside Lydia Azout’s exhibition titled “Out of the Ordinary Geometry,” on Wednesday, Sept. 12, at 6 p.m., during Target [...]
By Mari de Armas
For two days last week, internationally acclaimed artist and conservationist Wyland brought his larger-than-life painting style to Miami Beach, creating a 90-foot mural depicting indigenous South Florida marine life. Students from six Miami Beach schools helped bring the artwork, which is actually comprised of two canvases, to life. The event [...]
By Martin Haro
In the last year, FIU demonstrated its commitment to community engagement through the arts, encouraging students and friends to participate in several creative initiatives. Last summer, FIU worked with hundreds of people of all ages on its Worlds Ahead Mural and Ship of Tolerance projects, as well as The Art [...]
By Martin Haro
Ever since Haiti was struck by the devastating earthquake of January 2010, FIU has remained committed to helping the island recover. Through its Hope for Haiti Task Force the university has overseen ideas big and small that have developed into long-term initiatives to assist the Haitian people. One of these [...]
By Karen Cochrane
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A flattened cigarette pack lying in the dirt. Stone crab claws lined up on a bed of ice. Patients biding time in a waiting room. Fine art? You be the judge. Students in “Art Special Topics: From Analog to Digital” have created an exhibition comprised entirely of cellphone images and [...]
By Karen Cochrane
Student Linda Aragon works on a color-wheel assignment in her Two-Dimensional Design class taught by professor Helen Burgos.
By jprenaud
WHAT: Students and faculty from the FIU Art + Art History Department will join forces with the FIU’s Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity brothers, the Miami Heat Dance Team and the Institute of Black Family Life to assist Haitian children through art. As part of their contribution to FIU’s Global [...]
By Sissi Aguila
Inspired by the Frost Art Museum’s Gran Torino: Italian Contemporary Art exhibition, 12 FIU art students used a Fiat 500 as their canvas. The car, known in Europe as a modern symbol of Italian design for more than 50 years, was donated to the Frost Art Museum earlier this year. [...]
By Karen Cochrane
FIU employee Kevin Huggins, a statistical research coordinator in the Office of Planning & Institutional Research, created this video and brief write-up about the university’s April 8 TAG: The Art of Giving event. When the FIU News team saw it, we asked Huggins if we could share his work on [...]
By Sissi Aguila
The FIU Art + Art History Department is inspired by The Art of Giving project, a national fundraising campaign that assists children in the world’s neediest countries, but wants to do something a little different. FIU will send underprivileged Haitian kids Converse shoes adorned with creative designs painted by art [...]
By Martin Haro
Name: Gretchen Scharnagl ’00, MFA ’04 Hometown: Miami, Fla. I’m originally from Connecticut. Job Title/Department: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art and Art History Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: I teach drawing, visual thinking, ceramics and 2-D design in the Art and Art History Department, color theory in [...]
By garciage
FIU Art + Art History Chair Juan Martinez was awarded first place in the Best Arts Book category at the 11th annual International Latin Book Awards. The awards were presented during Book Expo America on May 25 at the Javits Center in New York, N.Y. Martinez was named a Triple [...]
By Sissi Aguila
The internationally renowned artist will deliver a lecture titled “Theatrum mundi: A Journey Through 17 Years of Work” on June 3 at the Frost Art Museum. By Sissi Aguila The Latin American and Caribbean Center in partnership with the Cuban Research Institute and the Department of Art and Art History [...]
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