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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 FIU School of Music presents two holiday concerts, Dec. 1 and Dec. 7, at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center. The first is a collaboration between the different voice ensembles in a production titled, Choral Arts Series: A Holiday Festival Choral Concert. The second is the annual concert event of [...]
By Mari de Armas
FIU’s Interior Architecture Department hosts Festival of the Trees on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 6:30 p.m. at the Coral Gables Museum. Tickets are $70 and can be purchased by clicking here. In its 26th year, the event has raised more than $100,000 for student scholarships, field trips, guest speakers, and visiting designers. Each year, the [...]
By Angeline Evans
FIU Magazine, the flagship publication of Florida International University, launched its first online-only issue this week, featuring stories, photos, videos and audio. With this digital presence, FIU Magazine will reach new audiences and bring the university to life for more readers through multimedia features. “It’s FIU Magazine taken to the [...]
By Mari de Armas
FIU’s School of Music kicks off its season of Jazz with its “Jazz at the Wertheim Series” on Oct. 12, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center (WPAC). The first concert features the FIU Studio Jazz Big Band, under the direction of Jim Hacker, [...]
By Mari de Armas
FIU Theatre presents Medea, a new adaptation of Euripides’ iconic tragedy starting Friday, Nov. 2, at 8 p.m. The student production will run for two weeks (Wednesday through Sunday) at the Wertheim Performing Arts Center on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Written and directed by Marilyn R. Skow, chair of the [...]
By Martin Haro
The Wolfsonian-FIU recently appointed businessman and biotech executive Neil Flanzraich as the museum’s new advisory board chair. Flanzraich – who is also the executive chairman of the Kirax Corporation and ParinGenix, Inc., as well as member of the board of directors of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., Equity One, Inc., and [...]
By Karen Cochrane
Tickets for America’s favorite gourmet gathering – the 12th annual Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Food & Wine – go on sale Monday, Oct. 8, for MasterCard® cardholders. The 2013 Festival will take place Feb. 21-24, with a variety of events to choose from taking place [...]
By Evelyn Perez
The School of Environment, Arts and Society (SEAS) is commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month with a screening of Cuban America Tuesday, Oct. 2., at the WUC Mary Ann Wolfe Theater on the Biscayne Bay Campus (BBC). The event is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. [...]
By Mari de Armas
Svetozar Ivanov, associate professor of piano at University of South Florida, kicks-off the FIU Keyboard Arts Series with a performance of his multimedia piano recital based on Jean Cocteau’s 1930 film titled, “Le sang d’un poet” (Blood of A Poet). Ivanov is recognized for his creative work in designing unusual concert [...]
By Mari de Armas
FIU Theatre will present Songs for a New World, a musical revue written and composed by Jason Robert Brown, beginning Friday, Sept. 21, at Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Professor Lesley-Ann Timlick directs this student production with a spectacular cast featuring Ashley Capo, Julio Liverpool, Jose Contreras, Caitlyn Lincoln and Amber Benson. Since [...]
By Mari de Armas
Roberto Rovira, chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture and principal of Azimuth Studio, Inc., will speak about his teaching, research and creative work in the field of landscape architecture through design and fine art on Thursday, Oct. 4. The lecture starts at 5 p.m. and will be held in [...]
By Mari de Armas
The FIU Opera ensemble presents “Golden Days! An Afternoon of Great American Operetta” at the College of Architecture + The Arts Miami Beach Urban Studios Oct. 28. The student ensemble, comprised of soloists from the Voice Division within the School of Music, performs the works of John Phillip Sousa, Victor [...]
By Mari de Armas
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum and FIU’s Sculpture Park will welcome the addition of 11 large-scale sculptures for an unprecedented outdoor exhibition titled American Sculpture in the Tropics for the fall-winter season. The works originated in the United States and have traveled from their original installation in St. Urban, Switzerland, [...]
By Mari de Armas
Monica Vazquez ’98, MArch ’00 is an associate architect for the award-winning firm Rene Gonzalez Architect, Inc. Before joining the firm and working on significant projects like the Museum of Contemporary Art, she was a student at FIU, president of the Architecture Graduate Student Association, and a member of both the [...]
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