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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 [...]
Sixty-four Honors College students worked with 10 of Miami’s most notable artists for the 2011 Aesthetics and Values exhibit on view through April 17 at the Frost Art Museum. Artists featured at this year’s exhibition include: Daniel Arsham, Jose Bedia, Ivan Toth Depeña, Jacin Giordano, Fabian Peña, Karen Rifas, Cristina [...]
Writing done with fly pigment, ping pong balls in the shape of clouds and paper shapes that seem to go on forever are just a few of the objects that bridge the line between the real and surreal, the natural and man-made and the figurative and abstract works in the [...]
A memorial service celebrating the life of Honors College student Veronica Allais will be held at MMC on July 6. A scholarship fund has been set up in her memory. French-born Honors College student Veronica Allais came to FIU last year to complete her bachelor’s degree in international relations after [...]
The exhibit will be on view through April 18 By Sissi Aguila ’99, MA ’08 Miriam Blasco Turrion is a business management major at FIU, but for months she has been immersed in the art world planning and installing MORT, a sculpture constructed using old clothing. She is one of [...]
The exhibit examines the vital role visual art plays in the social and cultural dialogue surrounding controversial issues. FIU Honors College students have partnered with The Frost Art Museum for the fifth annual Aesthetics and Values Fine Art exhibition (A&V). The exhibit features the works of Bhakti Baxter, Xavier Cortada, [...]
Name: John Bailly ’90 (I received my MFA from the Yale School of Art in 1993) Hometown: I was born in Slough, U.K. I lived in Long Island, Paris and Lyon prior to settling in Miami. Job Title/Department: Fellow, The Honors College Campus: Modesto A. Maidique Campus In a nutshell: [...]
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