Arts at FIU celebrated at Frost reception

Student work was highlighted at the Oct. 22 event attended by community supporters and members of the FIU family.

By Martin Haro

Students and faculty from the disciplines that comprise the College of Architecture + The Arts – which includes architecture, art and art history, communication arts, dance, interior design, landscape architecture, music and theatre – as well as the university’s Frost Art Museum and The Wolfsonian-FIU, gathered for a celebration of the arts at FIU on Oct. 22.

Nearly 400 students, alumni, faculty/staff and administrators – including deans Kenneth Furton (Arts and Sciences), John Rock (Wertheim College of Medicine) and Divina Grossman (Nursing and Health Sciences) and CARTA Interim Dean Brian Schriner, among others – and community supporters attended the soirée.

The evening served as a welcome for FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg, “through the arts,” as Frost Art Museum Director Carol Damian described it, and featured performances by FIU Theatre students and live music.

There were displays showcasing and promoting the 2009-’10 theatrical season and award-winning costumes, architectural student models and previews from the upcoming 23^rd Annual Festival of the Trees and 6^th Masters’ Mystery Art, scheduled for Nov. 12 and Dec. 3, respectively.

All in all, it was, as President Rosenberg said, an evening of “air-conditioning for the mind.”