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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 [...]

FIU students to perform ‘Body and Sold’ at International Youth Arts Festival in Great Britain

FIU theater students are in the United Kingdom this week to perform Body and Sold, a play about modern-day human trafficking. Actors from three universities representing the United States and United Kingdom are joining forces to perform the docudrama by playwright Deborah Fortson. Performers from Florida International University and the [...]

Miami Artist Xavier Cortada joins FIU’s College of Architecture + The Arts at Lincoln Road

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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 [...]

Students unveil Aesthetics & Values exhibit at The Frost

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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 [...]

Honors College’s 2010 Aesthetics & Values exhibit on view at the Frost

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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, [...]