New portal makes it easier to LivetheArts at FIU

Oct 18

Consider this news rated Art for art-mazing: FIU has launched LivetheArts.com, a new portal that will serve as the hub for everything artistic at the university. No longer will FIU arts aficionados have to surf numerous websites to find out what’s coming up in, say, the worlds of FIU Music [...]

Wolfsonian-FIU ‘Modern Meals’ exhibition to open at the Frost Art Museum Oct. 12

Poster, "Corn." The Food of the Nation, 1918. Designed by Lloyd Harrison (dates unknown). Published by the United States Food Administration. Commercial color lithograph. The Wolfsonian-FIU, Miami Beach, Fla. Gift of Henry S. Hacker.

Beginning Oct. 12 at the Frost Art Museum at Modesto A. Maidique Campus,  The Wolfsonian-FIU will present “Modern Meals: Remaking American Foods from Farm to Kitchen,” an exhibition that explores how technology and design remade the places where food was produced, sold, cooked and eaten from the turn of the [...]

Free screening of ‘I Am’ kicks off Movies on the Lawn series

Tom Shadyac and Desmond Tutu in 'I Am.' Photo: VisionMagazine.com.

The Frost Art Museum at Modesto A. Maidique Campus will observe International Day of Peace on Wednesday, Sept. 21, with the museum’s new Movies on the Lawn program. To kick off this series of outdoor screenings, the Frost will show I Am, a documentary written, directed and narrated by filmmaker [...]

Czech Republic’s foreign affairs minister to speak at MMC Sept. 19

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Czech Republic Minister of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg will deliver a lecture on Monday, Sept. 19, at FIU’s Frost Art Museum, reflecting on the Arab Spring and other global events that have transformed the Czech Republic. Titled “Through the Lens of the Czech Experience,” the lecture is set for 2:30 p.m. [...]

FIU to commemorate 9/11 with day of reflection

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Events are part of  “Unity/Diversity: Reflecting on the Meaning of 9/11” On Sept. 9, as the country readies to observe the 10th anniversary of 9/11, the FIU family will come together to honor victims, survivors, first responders and the armed forces. A day of events has been planned that includes [...]

FIU students paint sneakers for Haiti’s children

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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 [...]

FIU to observe 9/11 with Arianna Caroli exhibit Sept. 5-11

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Italian-born multimedia artist Arianna Caroli was in New York City after 9/11, roaming the city with her father’s old Olympus camera. Ten years later, the artwork inspired by the photographs she captured – on film – will be displayed at the Frost Art Museum at Modesto A. Maidique Campus beginning [...]

Help the Honors College win a Pepsi Refresh Grant

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Vote on the Pepsi Refresh website or text 107334 to Pepsi (73774). Standard text messaging rates apply. Voting closes July 31. FIU is in the running for a $25,000 Pepsi Refresh grant to bring art to students who are non-art majors. Every year, Honors College students work with local artists [...]

Day at the museum

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Professor Paul Kowert’s international relations class visits the Frost Art Museum to examine how national identity shows up in art.

FIU hosts more than a dozen summer camps

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From scuba lessons to art lessons to improving sports skills, FIU is offering kids and teens many options at camps this summer. FIU’s coaches, faculty and staff are running camps in art, culture, the environment, sports, as well as a summer treatment program for children and teens with behavioral problems. [...]