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2007-2008 Season

August 27 - September 30, 2007

Combined Talents: The Florida International (Second Floor Gallery)— is an annual, juried competition.  Jurors: Holly Hanessian and Joe Sanders . From  a field of 359 entrants, competing from across the nation and internationally, this year's Faculty jurors selected 65 works to be exhibited. The works represent a wide variety of media and are artistically diverse. Co-ordinator Jean Young [Catalogue] Reception August 31, 5-8pm.

August 27 - September 23, 2007

India — Festival of Light (First Floor Gallery)— B&W photography of Giraud Foster.

August 27 - September 23, 2007

Police and Street Encounters: International Perspectives (Walmsley Gallery)— Cecil Greek, Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. http://www.pbase.com/cgreek/fsu_museum

October 1 - November 11, 2007

Locating Secret Psychological Space (First Floor Gallery)— Guest Curator Joelle Dietrick, Department of Art. Reception on October 12 in tandem with Running Around the Pool opening.

Related Lectures: Jonathan Van Dyke on Sept. 27 and Melinda Barlow on October 4. More information.

October 12 - November 18, 2007

Running Around the Pool (Second Floor Gallery)— Guest Curator Prof. Terri Lindbloom, Department of Art. [Catalogue] Reception October 12, 7-9pm.

Related Lecture:  Andrew Schoultz on October 11. More information.

November 16 - December 7, 2007

Graduating Artists (First Floor Gallery)

November 29 - December 1, 2007

Art & Antiques Fair (Second Floor Gallery)

January 11 - February 3, 2008

The Art Department Faculty (Second Floor Gallery)— Annual Review

January 7 - 27, 2008

Art Across All Ages (Sacramenia Arch Case & Grand Entrance)— [K-5 - exhibition]

January 7 - February 8, 2008

Art History Teaching exhibition (Walmsley Gallery)—
Stairwells and Entrance Hall: Spring Semester: Art History teaching requests

February 15 - March 23, 2008

‘Full & Spare’— Ceramics in the 21st Century (Second Floor Gallery)— Public Lectures by selected artists in the exhibition and walking tour by Professor Holly Hanessian, Department of Art.

Straus & Straus (First Floor Gallery)— Sculpture by Phyllis Straus and paintings by her son Adam. The work of Adam Straus appears courtesy of Nora Haime Gallery, New York.

[Spring Break March 10-14. Closed weekend days March 8-9 and 15-16]

April 4 - 25, 2008

Graduating Artists (Second Floor Gallery, First Floor Museum, Walmsley Gallery)— Spring Semester

May 9 - July 11, 2008

The Story (Second Floor Gallery)— Dr. Viki Thompson Wylder, Education Curator, and teachers from 13 area schools.

May 9 - June 6, 2008

School Projects for The Story (Walmsley Gallery)— Partially underwritten by local grants.

June 13 - July 11, 2008

The Artists' League Summer Annual (Lower Gallery)

July 18 - August 6, 2008

Graduating Artists (Upper Gallery)— Summer Semester.

Photocentric / MFA Photography (Walmsley and Lower Gallery)— Statewide coordinator George Blakely.

2006-2007 Season

August 13 - September 24, 2006

Josef Albers — Color Genius (Lower Gallery)— on tour from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

August 28 - September 24, 2006

Combined Talents: The Florida International (Upper Level)— is an annual, juried competition. Jurors: Janice Hartwell and Kirsten Rae Simonsen. From a field of over 316 entrants, competing from across the nation and internationally, this year's Faculty jurors selected 41 works to be exhibited. The works represent a wide variety of media and are artistically diverse. Co-ordinator Jean Young [Catalogue] Reception September 1, 7-9pm. (Welcome for VAT&D students 5-7pm.)

August 28 - November 12, 2006

Judy Chicago, works from the Birth Project (Walmsley Gallery)— Origins— The Origins and Legacies of the Women's Art Movement— Learn about the origins and legacy of the feminist art movement. The Museum of Fine Art’s Walmsley Gallery and Strozier Library’s Special Collections will host Origins, an exhibition participating in The Feminist Art Project, a four-year national initiative celebrating the accomplishments of women artists globally. FSU professor Karen A. Bearor is curator.

The Walmsley Gallery will host selections from the permanent collection, including pieces from Judy Chicago’s Birth Project.

At Strozier Library, issues of early journals devoted to women’s art, including the Woman’s Art Journal, and archival materials from the history of FSU’s Women’s Studies Program will be on display.

For more information about The Feminist Art Project, visit http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/.
TFAP
"Recognizing the aesethetic and intellectual impact of women on the visual arts and culture."

October 6 - November 19, 2006

Ink! — Contemporary Prints from Graphicstudio (Upper Gallery)— On tour from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Art History Teaching Exhibitions (Lower Gallery)

November 17 - December 8, 2006

Fall Graduating Artists (Lower Gallery and Walmsley Gallery)— Wayne Vonada, Co-ordinator. Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show. Reception November 17, 7-9pm.

December 1 & 2, 2006

Annual Art & Antiques Fair (Upper Gallery)— Every year for the past seventeen seasons, the Museum has hosted a two-day event that brings regional artists and crafts persons together with antiques dealers (jewelry, furniture, collectibles) and a selection of fine art prints offered by the Museum (from delicate Japanese woodblock prints to 17th century Dutch landscapes and back again to contemporary American printmakers). The offerings for giving or collecting are diverse, reasonable, and unique. There is no admission charge: daily hours vary. In past seasons hours have been generally Fri. 10am-6pm and Sat. 10 am-4pm, but please call 644-6836 (press 1) for updates on daily hours.

January 8 - January 28, 2007

Consciously Complex -- *the conscious use of meaning, detail, technique and skill in art* (Lower Gallery)— Viki Thompson Wylder Co-ordinator. Museum Education K-12 Programming (Art Across All Ages) - exhibition, event.

January 8 - February 4, 2007

Art History Teaching Exhibitions (Walmsley Gallery and Stairwell Rotundas)

January 12 - February 4, 2007

Introductions 2007: New Art Faculty (Upper Gallery)— Wayne Vonada, Co-ordinator. Joelle Dietrich, Chad Eby, Holly Hanessian, John Mann, Joe Sanders, Mary Stewart. Reception January 12, 7-9pm.

February 16 - March 25, 2007

'More is More' — Maximalist Painting (Upper Gallery)— Public Lectures by Selected Artists in the exhibition and walking tour by Dr. Tatiana Flores, Curator. [Catalogue]. Seven Days of Opening Nights. Reception February 16.

'Less is More' (Lower Gallery)— Ray Burggraf retrospective.

April 6 - April 27, 2007

Spring Graduating Artists [MFA and BFA] (Upper Gallery, Lower Gallery and Walmsley Gallery)— Wayne Vonada, Co-ordinator. The most ambitious student exhibition of the season offers the thesis exhibitions of MFA candidates and the final projects of BFA graduates in this late Spring event. Studio art students will be completing their academic training and their exhibition is a great celebration with surprises and enthusiasm to spare. Reception April 6, 7-9pm.

May 7 - May 10, 2007

Preface to 'The Story' (Walmsley Gallery)— Curators: Viki Thompson Wylder and teachers of Buck Lake Elementary School.

June 8 - July 6, 2007

"St. Marks Wildlife Refugees: The Triumph of Plein Air" (Lower Gallery)— Reception June 8, 7-9pm.

June 8 - July 6, 2007

Artists' League Summer Annual (Upper Gallery)— Annual Summer Salon. Reception June 8, 7-9pm.

July 13 - August 3, 2007

Summer Graduating Artists (Upper Gallery)— Wayne Vonada, Co-ordinator. Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

Permanent Collection (Walmsley Gallery)

2005-2006 Season

August 29 - September 25, 2005

Combined Talents: The Florida International (Upper Level)— is an annual, juried competition. Jurors: Scott Groeniger and Mark Messersmith. From a field of over 281entrants, competing from across the nation and internationally, this year's Faculty jurors selected 54 works to be exhibited. The works represent a wide variety of media and are artistically diverse. Co-ordinator Jean Young [Catalogue] Reception September 2, 7-9pm. (Welcome for VAT&D students 5-7pm.)

August 29 - November 13, 2005

Teaching Exhibitions (Grand Foyer)— Selections from the Permanent Collection.

October 7- November 14, 2005

Society for Photographic Education (Lower Gallery)— Guest Curators Scott Groeniger and Daniel Kariko: Power: Sex, Politics and the Pursuit of Global Domination. (Walmsley Gallery)— Robert W. Fichter: Selected Works. October 7- November 20, 2005
Heartfelt (Upper Gallery)— Curator: George Blakely. [Catalogue] Public Lecture in 249: George Blakely, 7pm October 6, 2005. Reception October 7, 7-9pm.

November 18 - December 9, 2005

Fall Graduating Artists (Lower Gallery and Walmsley Gallery)— Wayne Vonada, Co-ordinator. Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show. Reception November 18, 7-9pm.

December 1 - 3, 2005

Annual Art & Antiques Fair (Upper Gallery)— Every year for the past seventeen seasons, the Museum has hosted a three-day event that brings regional artists and crafts persons together with antiques dealers (jewelry, furniture, collectibles) and a selection of fine art prints offered by the Museum (from delicate Japanese woodblock prints to 17th century Dutch landscapes and back again to contemporary American printmakers). The offerings for giving or collecting are diverse, reasonable, and unique. There is no admission charge: daily hours vary.

January 9 - January 22, 2006

Tallahassee Journeys: High Roads and Low Roads (Lower Gallery and Walmsley Gallery)— Art Across All Ages Series; Viki Thompson Wylder Co-ordinator. Museum Education K-12 projects / Elementary schools. Parent, Student, Teacher Night: Fri., Jan 20th 6:30-8PM with musical performances and "Make & Take" tables.

January 13 - February 5, 2006

New Work, New Faces (Upper Gallery)— Wayne Vonada, Co-ordinator. Visiting artist, and the Faculty of the Florida State University Department of Art. The artists who will exhibit works in many different media confront traditional notions of art, push boundaries and expectations, and make contemporary points with humor and passion. Reception January 13, 7-9pm.

January 27 - March 26, 2006

"The Way We Were" (Lower Gallery and Walmsley Gallery)— photographic tour of by-gone Tallahassee sites and vistas (Jean Joung and Teri Yoo). Guest appearance of a mystery work from the collection of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.

February 17 - March 26, 2006

High Roads & Low Roads: anthems, dirges and myths (Upper Gallery)— Curators: Allys Palladino-Craig, Preston McLane [Catalogue]. Public Lecture in 249: Road tattoo artist Steed Taylor, 7pm February 16, 2006.Seven Days of Opening Nights. Reception February 17, 6:30 - 8:30pm.

April 7 - April 28, 2006

Spring Graduating Artists [MFA and BFA] (Upper Gallery, Lower Gallery and Walmsley Gallery)— Wayne Vonada, Co-ordinator. The most ambitious student exhibition of the season offers the thesis exhibitions of MFA candidates and the final projects of BFA graduates in this late Spring event. Studio art students will be completing their academic training and their exhibition is a great celebration with surprises and enthusiasm to spare. Reception April 7, 7-9pm.

May 12 - June 2, 2006

The Family Experience (Upper Gallery)—Curators: Marcia Rosal and Viki Thompson Wylder [Catalogue].

May 12 - August 4, 2006

Selections from the Carter Permanent Collection (Walmsley Gallery)

June 9 - July 7, 2006

Artists' League Summer Annual (Upper Gallery).

July 14 - July 28, 2006

Summer Graduating Artists (Upper Gallery)— Wayne Vonada, Co-ordinator. Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.
New Acquisitions (Walmsley Gallery)

2004-2005 Season

August 23 - September 26, 2004

Combined Talents: The Florida International (Upper Level)— is an annual, juried competition. Jurors: Lilian Garcia-Roig and Adam Jolles. From a field of over 430 entrants, competing from across the nation and internationally, this year's Faculty jurors selected works from 48 artists to be exhibited. The works represent a wide variety of media and are artistically diverse. Co-ordinator Jean Young [Catalogue] Reception August 27, 7-9pm. (Welcome for SVAD students 5-7pm.)

August 23 - November 14, 2004

Teaching Exhibitions (Walmsley Gallery)— Loans from the Ringling Museum of Art [Art History Teaching Exhibitions Series, History of Photography, Professor Adam Jolles]

The Print: Five Centuries of the Print Makers' Art (Lower Level)—These works are from the Museum of Fine Arts' permanent collection, curated by Preston McLane [Art History Teaching Exhibitions Series]

October 8 - November 21, 2004

Terrestrial Forces (Upper Gallery)— A. Palladino-Craig, Paula Gerson and Preston McLane curators. [Catalogue essays by Palladino-Craig and McLane.] Public Lecture in 249: Diane Burko, 7pm October 7, 2004. Terrestrial Forces Museum Education Program Website.

November 19 - December 9, 2004

Fall Graduating Artists (Lower Level and Walmsley Gallery) —Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show. Reception November 19, 7-9pm.

December 2 - 4, 2004

Annual Art & Antiques Fair (Upper Level)—Every year for the past sixteen seasons, the Museum has hosted a three-day event that brings regional artists and crafts persons together with antiques dealers (jewelry, furniture, collectibles) and a selection of fine art prints offered by the Museum (from delicate Japanese woodblock prints to 17th century Dutch landscapes and back again to contemporary American printmakers). The offerings for giving or collecting are diverse, reasonable, and unique.

January 7 - February 6, 2005

New Work, New Faces (Upper Level)—Visiting artist, and the Faculty of the Florida State University Department of Art. The artists who will exhibit works in many different media confront traditional notions of art, push boundaries and expectations, and make contemporary points with humor and passion.

January 5- January 23, 2005

Art Across All Ages (Lower Level and Walmsley Gallery)—Coming Home: Tallahassee, the Big Bend, and the American South: A Secondary Level Student Display.

January 28 - March 27, 2005

Robert Fichter (Lower Level and Walmsley Gallery)—Photographic selections from the publication Italian Memorial Sculpture 1820-1940 (London: Frances Lincoln Ltd., 2004)

February 18 - March 27, 2005

Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible and the American South (Upper Level)—Carol Crown, University of Memphis, curator (Traveling Exhibition). Seven Days of Opening Nights. Coming Home! Museum Education Program Website.

April 8 - April 29, 2005

Spring Graduating Artists [MFA and BFA] (Upper Level, Lower Level and Walmsley Gallery)—The most ambitious student exhibition of the season offers the thesis exhibitions of MFA candidates and the final projects of BFA graduates in this late Spring event. Studio art students will be completing their academic training and their exhibition is a great celebration with surprises and enthusiasm to spare.

May 13 - June 3, 2005

Tallahassee Watercolor Society (Upper Level)

May 13 - August 5, 2005

Shared Vision: Photographs of Baracoa, Cuba (Lower Level)—Four photographers look at the simple, remote culture of Baracoa---two from St. Augustine, Florida, and two Cuban photographers: James Quine, Theresa Segal, Jose Marti and Lissette Solorzano.

June 10 - July 8, 2005

Artists' League Summer Annual (Upper Level).

Small Treasures Series: Teapots From Regional Collectors (Walmsley Gallery)

July 15 - July 29, 2005

Summer Graduating Artists (Upper Level)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

2003-2004 Season

July 18-August 1, 2003

Graduating Artists (Upper Level)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

July 18-September 21, 2003

Studies From Life: An Exhibition of Drawings and Paintings (Lower Level)—Participating Artists are The Broome Street Painting Group: Professor Mark Messersmith, Florida State University Department of Art, his students and professional colleagues.

The World of Walmsley (Walmsley Gallery)—Walmsley prints like they never have been shown before (but should have!).

August 25-September 28, 2003

Combined Talents: The Florida International (Upper Level)— is an annual, juried competition. Jurors: Kabuya P. Bowens and Janice Hartwell. From a field of over 420 entrants, competing from across the nation and internationally, this year's Faculty jurors selected works from 43 artists to be exhibited. The works represent a wide variety of media and are artistically diverse. [Catalogue]

September 26-November 16, 2003

Teaching Exhibitions (Lower Level and Walmsley Gallery)— Art History Teaching Exhibitions [Profs. Neuman: Baroque, and Jolles: History of Photography]

October 10-November 23, 2003

Trevor Bell: A British Painter in America (Upper Gallery)— A. Palladino-Craig, curator. [Catalogue essays by Nasgaard, Slade, Green, Tooby] Trevor Bell Museum Education Program Website

November 21-December 11, 2003

Fall Graduating Artists (Lower Level and Walmsley Gallery)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

December 4-6, 2003

Annual Art & Antiques Fair (Upper Level)—Every year for the past fifteen seasons, the Museum has hosted a three-day event that brings regional artists and crafts persons together with antiques dealers (jewelry, furniture, collectibles) and a selection of fine art prints offered by the Museum (from delicate Japanese woodblock prints to 17th century Dutch landscapes and back again to contemporary American printmakers). The offerings for giving or collecting are diverse, reasonable, and unique. There is no admission charge: daily hours vary. In past seasons hours have been generally Thurs. & Fri. 10am-6pm and Sat. 10 am-4pm, but please call 644-6836 (press 1) for updates on daily hours.

January 9- February 8, 2004

New Work, New Faces (Upper Level)—Visiting artist, and the Faculty of the Florida State University Department of Art. The artists who will exhibit works in many different media confront traditional notions of art, push boundaries and expectations, and make contemporary points with humor and passion.

January 19- March 21, 2004

Japanese Tradition and Refinement: Netsuke, Furisode and Ukiyo-e Prints (Lower Level and Walmsley Gallery)

January 19-February 1, 2004

Art Across All Ages (Grand Entrance)—Elementary School Programing

February 20-March 28, 2004

Of Hands and Fire, Masterpieces of Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art (Upper Level)—Seven Days of Opening Nights.

April 9-April 30, 2004

Spring Graduating Artists [MFA and BFA] (Upper Level, Lower Level and Walmsley Gallery)—The most ambitious student exhibition of the season offers the thesis exhibitions of MFA candidates and the final projects of BFA graduates in this late Spring event. Studio art students will be completing their academic training and their exhibition is a great celebration with surprises and enthusiasm to spare.

May 10-June 4, 2004

Student Component of Grant Exhibition K - 12 (Walmsley Gallery)—Pace for Girls Programming (special needs students)

May 10-June 4, 2004

Works from the Permanent Collection (Upper and Lower Level)—Reflects 2003-2004 new research on collections.

June 11- July 9, 2004

Artists' League Summer Annual (Upper Level).

June 11- July 9, 2004

Museum Studies Project (Lower Level and Walmsley Gallery)—Student curated exhibition.

July 16-August 6, 2004

Summer Graduating Artists (Upper Level)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

2002-2003 Season

July 19-August 2, 2002

Graduating Artists (Upper Level)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

August 26-September 29, 2002

Combined Talents: The Florida National (Upper Level)— is an annual, juried competition. Jurors: Lilian Garcia-Roig, Scott Groeniger and Keith Roberson. From a field of over 430 entrants, competing from across the nation and internationally, this year's Faculty jurors selected works from 46 artists to be exhibited. The works represent a wide variety of media and are artistically diverse. [Catalogue]

August 26-October 13, 2002

Wake Up Little Susie (Lower Level)— thoughts on Roe vs Wade, Kay Obering.

August 26-September 8, 2002

Northern Baroque Prints (Permenant Collection Gallery)— Prints and drawings from the Permanent Collection.

September 10-October 13, 2002

Shed, humain hair and society (Permenant Collection Gallery)— Takes up the topic of human hair and society. Student curated by Kim Lawson.

October 11-November 24, 2002

Design X, critical reflections (Upper Level)—co-curated by Professors Gail Rubini and Keith Roberson. A cutting edge exhibition celebrating experimental work in the design arena and an exploration of the way it affects every aspect of our lives, from how we get our news to how we choose our next car. The artists involved in the exhibition are all technology wizards in music, visual art and communication. [Catalogue]

October 19-November 17, 2002

Art History Teaching Exhibition (Lower Level and Permanent Collection Gallery)

November 22-December 12, 2002

Fall Graduating Artists (Lower Level and Permanent Collection Gallery)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: BFA graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

December 5-7, 2002

Annual Art & Antiques Fair (Upper Level)—Every year for the past fourteen seasons, the Museum has hosted a three-day event that brings regional artists and crafts persons together with antiques dealers (jewelry, furniture, collectibles) and a selection of fine art prints offered by the Museum (from delicate Japanese woodblock prints to 17th century Dutch landscapes and back again to contemporary American printmakers). The offerings for giving or collecting are diverse, reasonable, and unique. There is no admission charge: daily hours vary. In past seasons hours have been generally Thurs. & Fri. 10am-6pm and Sat. 10 am-4pm, but please call 644-6836 (press 1) for updates on daily hours.

January 10- March 2, 2003

New Work, New Faces (Upper Level)—Visiting artist, and the Faculty of the Florida State University Department of Art. The artists who will exhibit works in many different media confront traditional notions of art, push boundaries and expectations, and make contemporary points with humor and passion.

January 10- March 2, 2003

The Power and Passion of Dance: The Carol Halsted Dance Photography Collection—(Lower Level)—Supported in part by the FSU Department of Dance.

January 22-March 30, 2003

A Short History of Glass—(Permanent Collection Gallery)

February 14-March 30, 2003

Trial by Fire-Contemporary Studio Glass (Upper Level)—Transparent and transulent sculpture with dazzling color and cool attitude. With glass an artist may consider what very few other sculpture materials allow: the relationship of outer surface to inner volume, to the inner suspension of color or form. Viewers peer into the core of a transparent artwork, or attention is demanded by surfaces that are beveled, faceted, polished, chipped, electroform plated, or altered in innumerable ways. Only the imagination and the melting point limit creativity. [Catalogue] Trial by Fire Museum Education Program Website.

March 10- March 23, 2003

Art Across All Ages-K-12 Programming (Lower Level)

April 11-May 2, 2003

Spring Graduating Artists [MFA and BFA] (Upper Level, Lower Level and Permanent Collection Gallery)—The most ambitious student exhibition of the season offers the thesis exhibitions of MFA candidates and the final projects of BFA graduates in this late Spring event. Studio art students will be completing their academic training and their exhibition is a great celebration with surprises and enthusiasm to spare.

May 9-June 6, 2003

In Print, the language of art (Upper Level)—The second exhibition in MoFA's innovative series of guest curators drawn from the K-12 School System. Lawton Chiles High School. [Education Publication]

May 9-July 6, 2003

Submerged! The World of Underwater Archaeology (Lower Level)—The culmination of a two semester Underwater Archaeology course. The first semester is dedicated to research in the field and the second concentrates on the coordination and curation of the exhibition. The coordinator of the project is Amy Kowal, a student and teaching assistant in the Department of Anthropology.

June 13- July 11, 2003

Artists' League Summer Annual (Upper Level).

June 23- September 21, 2003

The World of Walmsley (Walmsley Gallery)—Walmsley prints like they never have been shown before (but should have!).

July 18-August 1, 2003

Graduating Artists (Upper Level)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

2001-2002 Season

July 20- August 3

Graduating Artists (Upper Level)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

August 27-September 30

Combined Talents: The Florida National (Upper Level)— is an annual, juried competition. From a field of 433 entrants, competing from across the nation and internationally. This year's Visiting Faculty jurors were George Blakely, Odili Donald Odita, and Mark Messersmith who selected works from 40 artists to be exhibited. The competition is open to all media, and a variety of works and styles are represented, singled out by the high caliber of quality and apparent sense of daring on the part of the artist.

August 27-November 11

Loans from the Appleton "Images of the Miccosukee"(Lower Level)— by Florence Stiles Randle

September 11-November 11

British Watercolors and Drawings from the Dorothy and William Walmsley Collection (Permanent Collection Gallery)

October 12-November 18

Imprimatur: Albert Paley-Sculpture, Drawings, Graphics and Decorative Arts (Upper Level)—Professor Craig Adcock, Author; Allys Palladino-Craig, Curator. Touring to the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, and the City Hall of Orlando.

To celebrate and set the context for his major commission of architectural gates at University Center, the Museum of Fine Arts is hosting a mini-retrospective of the works of ALbert Paley. The exhibition opens to the public on October 12 and closes November 18, 2001. (M-F 9-4 daily, SS 1-4 daily, closed University holidays.) Albert Paley has altered his scale of working dramatically from the early part of his career—and yet the interest he expressed in treating materials as fluid shapes (shapes as supple as pennants unfurling in the wind) has persisted. At the same time, he has taken on a more formal and ceremonial sensibility in designing some of his monumental sculptures of both civic and private commissions, such as the gates for Florida State University located on the north face of tower A at University Center. Paley is Distinguished Professor holding the Charlotte Fredericks Mowris Professorship in Contemporary Crafts, School for American Crafts, College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York. His honorary doctorates are from the State University of New York at Brockport (1997), the St. Lawrence University (1996), and the University of Rochester (1989). He has both a Bachelor of Fine Arts (1966) and a Masters of Fine Arts (1969) from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia. His recent commissions include Solstice (1998), for the Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska, Symbion (1998) for the University of Toledo, Ohio, but his permanent collections include: The British Museum; the High Museum; the MET; the MFA in Boston; the Smithsonian (Renwick Gallery); the Victoria and Albert Museum; and the White House in Washington, D.C.[Catalogue].

November 16-December 7

Fall Graduating Artists (Lower Level)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: BFA graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

November 29, 30 and December 1

Annual Art & Antiques Fair (Upper Level)—Every year for the past thirteen seasons, the Museum has hosted a three-day event that brings regional artists and crafts persons together with antiques dealers (jewelry, furniture, collectibles) and a selection of fine art prints offered by the Museum (from delicate Japanese woodblock prints to 17th century Dutch landscapes and back again to contemporary American printmakers). The offerings for giving or collecting are diverse, reasonable, and unique. There is no admission charge: daily hours vary.

January 11- February 10, 2002

The Faculty Annual (Upper Level)—This exhibition is a showcase for artists of the School of Visual Arts & Dance. A really vigorous Art Department is a magnet for permanent faculty and visiting artists known for their individual accomplishments. The artists who will exhibit works in many different media confront traditional notions of art, push boundaries and expectations, and make contemporary points with humor and passion.

January 11- February 24, 2002

Alan Lomax, Ethnomuslcologist [School of Music (Permanent Collection Gallery)—Lecture by Dr. Anna Lomax.

January 23- March 24, 2002

Highlights of the Career of Ralph Hurst (Lower Level)

February 15-March 24, 2002

Treasures of the Ringling and Appleton Museums of Art (Upper Level)

March 4- March 24, 2002

Art Across All Ages-K-12 Programming (Permanent Collection Gallery)—

April 5-April 26, 2002

Spring Graduating Artists [MFA and BFA] (Upper Level, Lower Level and Permanent Collection Gallery)—The most ambitious student exhibition of the season offers the thesis exhibitions of MFA candidates and the final projects of BFA graduates in this late Spring event. Over twenty artists will be completing their academic training and their exhibition is a great celebration with surprises and enthusiasm to spare.


May 10-June 7, 2002

Buck Lake Elementary Environmental Exhibition Project - Visions of the North Florida Environment (Upper Level) Visions of the North Florida Environment Museum Education Program Website.

May 10-July 12, 2002

Works from the Permanent Collection (Lower Level)—Guest curated by FSU Art History graduate student Preston McLane.

June 17- July 12, 2002

Artists' League Summer Annual (Upper Level)—

July 19-August 2, 2002

Graduating Artists (Upper Level)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

2000-2001 Season

August 28-October 1, 2000

Combined Talents: The Florida National (Upper Level)— is an annual, juried competition. From a field of 479 entrants, competing from across the nation and internationally. This year's Visiting Faculty jurors were Jaia Chen (Ohio), Nick Potter (London) and Michael Oliveri (California), who selected works from 36 artists to be exhibited. The competition is open to all media, and a variety of works and styles are represented, singled out by the high caliber of quality and apparent sense of daring on the part of the artist. (Public reception September 1, 7-9pm).

October 6-November 5

50th Anniversary of Anthropology (Lower Level)—featuring The Carter Collection of Pre-Columbian Artifacts, The Lewis Basket Collection and others under the direction of the Department of Anthropology.

October 6-November 19

Florida Photogenesis: The Works of Creative and Experimental Photographers in Florida (Upper Level)—Exhibition, Publication, Lecture Series: This project is a history of the group of photographic artists who, beginning in the 1960s, created the experimental aspect of the discipline in Florida primarily through their positions at academic institutions: Oscar Bailey; George Blakely; Van Deren Coke; Robert Fichter; Virgil Mirano; Doug Prince; Evon Streetman; Tyler Turkle; Jerry Uelsmann; Todd Walker (Estate: Melanie Walker); Wallace Wilson; David Yager. These artists influenced generations of students at the University of Florida, the University of South Florida, Florida State University and other institutions. Some of them moved on, like Van Deren Coke (Chair of the Art Dept. at UNM, who served as Director of George Eastman House and as Photography Curator of the San Francisco Art Museum), Todd Walker (U of Arizona / Tucson), Oscar Bailey (Penland, NC), and David Yager (Distinguished Research Professor, U of Maryland / Baltimore). The Museum staff has invited both Professor Robert Fichter (essay / videotapes) and Professor Van Deren Coke (essay) to describe this innovative period of photography in Florida and their generation of vivid experimentalists. [Catalogue]See also: Florida Photogenesis Museum Education Program Website.

November 17-December 8

Fall Graduating Artists (Lower Level)—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: BFA graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

November 30, December 1 and 2

Annual Art & Antiques Fair (Upper Level)—Every year for the past twelve seasons, the Museum has hosted a three-day event that brings regional artists and crafts persons together with antiques dealers (jewelry, furniture, collectibles) and a selection of fine art prints offered by the Museum (from delicate Japanese woodblock prints to 17th century Dutch landscapes and back again to contemporary American printmakers). The offerings for giving or collecting are diverse, reasonable, and unique. There is no admission charge: daily hours vary. In past seasons hours have been generally Thurs. & Fri. 10am-8pm and Sat. 10 am-4pm, but please call 644-6836 (press 1) for updates on daily hours.

January 12- March 5, 2001

Ukiyo-e Prints from Private Collections (Lower Level)—Brenda Jordan, Curator.

January 12- February 11, 2001

The Faculty Annual (Upper Level)—This exhibition is a showcase for artists of the School of Visual Arts & Dance. A really vigorous Art Department is a magnet for permanent faculty and visiting artists known for their individual accomplishments. The artists who will exhibit works in many different media confront traditional notions of art, push boundaries and expectations, and make contemporary points with humor and passion.

February 16-April 1, 2001

Pleasures of Sight and States of Being (Upper Level)—Roald Nasgaard, Curator . “The term abstract painting is perhaps no longer a useful designation, and does not constitute a unified practice. As much as the various critical readings of Pollock’s painting - as action painting, as expressionist, formalist or literalist - proved the basis, not only for postpainterly abstraction, but happenings and minimalist, subsequently painting had been able, as Roberta Smith once observed, ‘to be perversely resilient, able to absorb from every quarter, even those which seemed--or claimed--to threaten its very existence...and from conceptual and performance art’s emphasis on subject matter, autobiography, narrative and allusive imagery.’ There are a number of abstract artists working that way today across the international spectrum - Richter, Helmut Federle, Chris Cran, Ron Martin to name a few. Theirs is painting that may partake of the idealist traditions of Modernist abstraction. Yet the place this painting constructs is not place of meaning or resolution, but a space of conflict, undecidedness and pulsating instability. Here form makes chaos visible; or here it is through form that chaos can just be ‘conditionally and beautifully held at bay,’ to apply Richard Ford’s description of the precarious nature of a literary construction.” Roald Nasgaard, April, 1999

April 6-April 27, 2001

Spring Graduating Artists [MFA and BFA] (Upper and Lower Level)—The most ambitious student exhibition of the season offers the thesis exhibitions of MFA candidates and the final projects of BFA graduates in this late Spring event. Over twenty artists will be completing their academic training and their exhibition is a great celebration with surprises and enthusiasm to spare.

May 11-June 8, 2001

Images of the Miccosukee (Upper Level)—photographs taken in the 1930s by Florence Stiles Randle [on tour from the Appleton].
Regional Artists' League: 12 x 12" Exhibition of Small Works (Upper Level)

June 15-July 13, 2001

Studies from Life (Upper Level)
Selections from the Permanent Collection (Lower Level)

1999-2000 Season

August 30-October 3, 1999

Combined Talents: The Florida National (Upper Level)— is an annual, juried competition. From a field of nearly 355 entrants, competing from across the nation, this year's faculty jurors selected works from 43 artists to be featured in this exhibition. As the competition is open to all media, a variety of works and styles are represented, singled out by the high caliber of quality and apparent sense of daring on the part of the artist. (Public reception September 10, 7-9pm)

August 30-September 26, 1999

Requests from the Permanent Collections of the Appleton Museum and MoFA Teaching Exhibitions (Lower Level)—In response to faculty requests for works of art to be displayed for teaching purposes, the Permanent Collection gallery and areas of the first floor of the Museum will be available as a ‘lab’ of specially chosen works for student research.

October 2-November 14, 1999

The William and Dorothy Walmsley Collection (Lower Level)—As a companion exhibition to the retrospective for Bill Walmsley opening on October 8, the Museum plans to exhibit a number of works of from the MoFA Collection donated by Bill and his wife Dorothy. Bill's love of collecting vintage prints, watercolors and drawings has been utilized by a number of Museums in the region, including a recent exhibition at the Cummer Museum of Art in Jacksonville.

October 8-November 21, 1999

The Abridged Walmsley: Selections from the Career of a Master Printmaker—In 1989 Bill Walmsley retired from active teaching at Florida State University. An artist trained in the heady atmosphere of renewed life and freedom after WWII, Bill studied in Paris and New York as well as attaining his academic degrees at the University of Alabama. He was not a printmaker when he first came to Florida State, but opportunity and affinity made him a convert. He took the best of modern artistic philosophy and translated it into an eccentric and long running series of works loosely organized around a central title–Ding Dong Daddy–the name of a mythic San Francisco character of good spirits and free loving (immortalized in a popular song of the same name in the ’30s). Over the years, Ding Dong Daddy has commented on everything (from “meat by products” to “no-fault insurance”) as the legends and phrases in Walmsley’s maps and stamps and zoomorphic imagery integrate aphorisms and commercial jingles, contemporary issues and social commentary. And always with a sense of humor and good-natured satire or even self-deprecation. Traveling to the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Fl, July 15 - October 15, 2000. [Catalogue]See also: William Walmsley Museum Education Program Website.

November 19-December 12, 1999

Graduating Artists —Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art: BFA graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

December 2-3-4, 1999

Art & Antiques Fair—Every year for the past eleven seasons, the Museum has hosted a three-day event that brings regional artists and crafts persons together with antiques dealers (jewelry, furniture, collectibles) and a selection of fine art prints offered by the Museum (from delicate Japanese woodblock prints to 17th century Dutch landscapes and back again to contemporary American printmakers). The offerings for giving or collecting are diverse, reasonable, and unique. There is no admission charge: daily hours vary. In past seasons hours have been generally Thurs. & Fri. 10am-8pm and Sat. 10 am-4pm, but please call 644-6836 (press 1) for updates on daily hours.

January 14-February 13, 2000

The Faculty Annual of the School of Visual Arts & Dance—This exhibition is a showcase for artists of the School of Visual Arts & Dance. A really vigorous Art Department is a magnet for permanent faculty and visiting artists known for their individual accomplishments. The artists who will exhibit works in many different media confront traditional notions of art, push boundaries and expectations, and make contemporary points with humor and passion. This year's visiting artists are: Michael Oliveri, Nick Potter and Jaia Chen. (Public reception January 14, 7-9pm)

February 18-April 2, 2000

ABCs of POP: America, Britain, Canada— Major Artists and Their Legacy—Drawn from the collections of the University of Lethbridge in Alberta province in Canada, this exhibition co-organized by FSU Museum of Fine Arts and Jeffrey Spalding, Director of the Art Gallery at Lethbridge, reviews the greatest names of the ’60s Pop Art Movement, updating the imagery and the historical perspective by looking at those who continued to derive a practicing philosophy from the concepts of the original artists. Works of sculpture as well as paintings, prints and installation. (Public reception February 18, 7-9pm). [Catalogue] Also see: Pop Art Museum Education Program Website.

February 18-April 2, 2000

Ewing Galloway: Scenes of New York in the ’20s and ’30s (Lower Level)—Drawn from the Museum’s Permanent Collection and utilizing the research of students of the Museum Studies Program, MoFA will utilize a collection of 200 photographs by Ewing Galloway (donation of Mark Jacobson) that have not yet been shown to the public.

April 7-28, 2000

Graduating Artists [MFA and BFA]—The most ambitious student exhibition of the season offers the thesis exhibitions of MFA candidates and the final projects of BFA graduates in this late Spring event. Over twenty artists will be completing their academic training and their exhibition is a great celebration with surprises and enthusiasm to spare.

May 12-June 16, 2000

The Artists’ League Summer Annual—For over a decade, the artists who have met both casually and for workshops at the Museum have produced one or more group exhibitions each year. The venue at the Museum is an opportunity for many to participate in the contemporary art dialogue of peers; the exhibition is juried, diverse in presentation, and a project of forty or more regional artists. Membership in the League is open to all interested persons; call 644-1254 for more information. (Public reception May 12, 7-9pm)

May 12-June 16, 2000

Woven Voices: Textile Traditions of the Highland Maya—The Mesoamerican Textile Seminar in conjunction with the Department of Anthropology at Florida State University in Tallahassee, is proud to announce a major exhibition of the textiles and weaving of the Highland Maya of Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico.. (Public reception May 12, 7-9pm)

June 26-July 14, 2000
Acquisitions of the 1999-2000 Season

1998-1999 Season

July 24-August 7

Graduating Artists—At the close of each summer semester, students graduating from Florida State University with a BFA in studio art present exhibitions of their artworks at the museum.

June 12-September 6

Selections from the Permanent Collection Acquisitions—The Museum of Fine Arts has a collection of over 3,000 objects of art in diverse media. This exhibition is an opportunity for visitors to see favorite treasures and new acquisitions of the Collection. Summer is the best time to catch a glimpse of American art glass, Peruvian ceramic vessels, Asian holdings and contemporary art from the Permanent Collection of the Museum.

August 24-September 27

Combined Talents: The Florida National—From a field of 495 entrants competing from across the nation, this year's faculty jurors selected the works of 47 artists to be featured: the exhibition works have no thematic relationship to one another but were instead distinguished by a high calibur of quality and the apparent sense of daring on the part of the artists selected. All media are represented. Bill Fisher, Professor of Graphics, Sara Bates, Visiting Artist 1998 and Allys Palladino-Craig, Director of the Museum were the jurors for the 1998 exhibition which will tour to the Appleton Museum of Art.

September 12-October 11 and October 2-November 21

Points of the Compass—Florida State Expatriates. As a cognizant art public, we are well aware of the New York artists who have been past emigres to (and are now long-time residents of) Florida: James Rosenquist and Robert Rauschenburg come immediately to mind. There has been no real opportunity to survey the successes of artists trained in Florida who have left home for the contemporary mainstream. This exhibition is intended as a beginning point, a place from which to proceed in identifying our artists who have emigrated to other points of the compass for professional opportunities.

October 16-November 15

Remarkable Remains of the Ancient Peoples of Guatemala—Touring from the Appleton Museum of Art. This exhibition documents numerous sites in Guatemala with remains of Mayan peoples. In addition, artifacts in the collections of the Appleton Museum are incorporated in the photographic exhibition. Katherine Josserand, Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University, has agreed to give a walking tour of the Appleton pieces and the exhibition since she has been involved with Appleton research on works in their colleciton.

November 20-December 11

Graduating Artists—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art. BFA graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

December 3-5

Art & Antiques Fair—Every year for the past eleven seasons, the Museum has hosted a three-day event that brings regional artists and craftspersons together with antiques dealers (jewelry, furniture and collectibles) and a selection of fine art prints offered by the Museum (from delicate Japanese woodblock prints to 17th century Dutch landscapes and back again to contemporary American printmakers). The offerings for giving or collecting are diverse, reasonable and unique. Once again, a favorite event, the Museum will import a bale of Japanese kimono and make these lovely fabrics available for purchase to patrons of the Fair. There is no admission charge: daily hours vary. Please call 644-6836 for updates.

January 8-February 14

The Faculty Annual of the School of Visual Arts & Dance—A really vigorous Art Department is a magnet for permanent faculty and visiting artists known for their individual accomplishments. The artists who will exhibit works in many different media confront traditional notions of art, push boundaries and expectations and make contemporary points with humor and passion. Whether visitors love to be delighted or delight in being challenged, this is an exhibition that should not be missed.

Insider Trading—Privately traded portfolios of contemporary printmakers. Through the generosity of Professor Emeritus William Walmsley and others, the Museum possesses five portfolios of prints which were all hand-pulled editions created by members of the (primarily academic) world of contemporary printmakers. These men and women have made names for themselves as printmakers, and have occasionally made limited editions of their works to bind in private portfolios which they then share among themselves (as artist-makers).

February 19-April 3

Judy Chicago: Trials and Tributes A Retrospective Exhibtion—Organized by the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, curated by Viki D. Thompson Wylder and supported in part by grants from the Florida Humanities Council and the Florida Arts Council. Traces Judy Chicago's career and concerns from the late 1960s to the present, form her turn away from the Finish Fetish Movement to her early California days to her recent projects. Up-to-the-minute works will be included allowing the Retrospective to integrate new work, never exhibited, with well-known work. This exhibition which opens at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts as part of the Seven Days of Opening Nights Festival will be traveling through the year 2002. [Catalogue]

Spring 1999 Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Fall 1999 Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN; Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
Spring 2000 Winthrop University Galleries, Rock Hill, SC
Fall 2000 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Spring 2001 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Fall 2001 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
Winter 2001/Spring 2002 New Mexico State University Gallery, Las Cruces, NM

April 9-23

Graduating Artists (MFA and BFA)—The most ambitious student exhibition of the season offers the thesis exhibitions of MFA candidates and the final projects of BFA graduates in this late Spring event. Over twenty artists will be completing their academic training and their exhibition is a great celebration with surprises and enthusiasm to spare.

May 14-June 11
Artists' League, "What I Did Last Summer"—For over a decade, the artists who have met both casually and for workshops at the Museum have produced one or more group exhibitions each year. The venue at the Museum is an opportunity for many to participate in the ocntemporary art dialogue of peers; the exhibition is juried, diverse in presentation and a project of forty or more regional artists. Membership in the League is open to all interested persons. Call 644-1254 for information.

1997-1998 Season

July 18-25

Graduating Artists—At the close of each summer semester, students graduating from Florida State University with a BFA in studio art present exhibitions of their artworks at the Museum.

September 2-October 12

Combined Talents: The Florida National—From a field of more than 450 entrants competing from across the nation, this year's faculty jurors selected the works of 23 artists to be featured: the exhibition works have no thematic relationship to one another but were instead distinguished by a high calibre of quality and the apparent sense of daring on the part of the artists selected. All media are represented. Professors Mark Messersmith, Roald Nasgaard and Lauren Weingarden juried the exhibition.

Contemporary Latin American Artists—This exhibition takes its place in the cultural heritage celebration of a number of organizations at the university: the Hispanic Student Union, the Cuban American Student Association, the United Latin Society and the Oscar Arias Sanchex HIspanic Honor Society. Coordinated by Lissete Madrazo, ten artists' works will be augmented by visiting speakers and cultural events.

October 17-November 16

Concealing/Revealing: Voices from the Canadian Foothills—For eighteen years Dr. Roald Nasgaard served as Chief Curator of the Art Gallery of Ontario before joining Florida State University faculty as the Chairman of the Art Department. He was also a lecturer in art history at the University of Toronto and he currently serves as co-director of Programmes at teh Institute for Modern and Contemporary Art in Calgary. Persuaded by the Museum to curate an exhibition of contemporary Canadian artists, he introduces seven Canadian artists with international reputations to our audiences in this region. Sculpture, painting, installation, videography and mixed media are all included in this exhibition of works by Eric Cameron, Janet Cardiff, Chris Cran, Jeffrey Spalding, Arlene Stamp, Nick Wade and John Will.

Acquisitions of 1996-97/Appleton Selections—Selections drawn from the collections at the Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala will be shown with recent acquisitions of the FSU MoFA, which will include the folklore sculpture of Harriet Bell, the risque fluorescent maps of Bill Walmsley, the etching and aquatints of Old Masters (including Rembrandt) and other recent acquisitions of the Permanent Collection which enrich the university and the Museum holdings.

November 21-December 12

Graduating Artists—Once again as the semester draws to a close, the Museum provides the forum for young artists taking their first opportunities to display the achievements of their academic course of study in studio art. BFA graduating artists exhibit a range of media and styles for their joyous exit show.

December 4-6

Art & Antiques Fair—Every year for the past ten seasons, the Museum has hosted a three-day event that brings regional artists and craftspersons together with antiques dealers (jewelry, furniture and collectibles) and a selection of fine art prints offered by the Museum (from delicate Japanese woodblock prints to 17th century Dutch landscapes and back again to contemporary American printmakers). The offerings for giving or collecting are diverse, reasonable and unique. Once again, a favorite event, the Museum will import a bale of Japanese kimono and make these lovely fabrics available for purchase to patrons of the Fair. There is no admission charge. Daily hours vary, please call 644-6836 for updates.

January 9-February 8

The Faculty Annual & Visiting Artists—A really vigorous Art Department is a magnet for permanent faculty and visiting artists known for their individual accomplishments. The artists who will exhibit works in many different media confront traditional notions of art, push boundaries and expectations and make contemporary points with humor and passion. Whether visitors love to be delighted or delight in being challenged , this is an exhibition that should not be missed.

February 13-March 31

Dimensions of Native America—Co-Curators Dr. Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk and Robin Nigh have orchestrated an exhibition that examines the results of interaction when cultures of the Americas, Native and non-Native, have encountered one another. Changes to indigenous artworks (e.g. Spanish motifs on Native pottery, Navajo weavings made for Euro-American client tastes, etc.) are no less profound than the subtle and more difficult to detect changes in historical perceptions drawn from source material that was perceived as historically trustworthy. Art history, like all other scholary disciplines, moves through research philosophies. The deconstruction of artworks related to Native Americans has been the subject of re-evaluaton of late-19th / early 20th century Edward S. Curtis's 'documentary' photographs in light of conscious studio manipulations by the photographer. He was not alone in his attempt to create art: painters (like Henry Sharp, 1859-1953) also shaped the 'truths' of their images and sometimes anthropologists and ethnologists utilized such art (e.g. Phoebe Hearst at Berkeley developing museum exhibitions in the first decades of the 20th century). And the cultural door swings two ways: a number of contemporary artists of Native American heritage comment upon all aspects of this interaction that produced the legacy of representations—the fascinating aspect of placing value on Native imagery in sports (teams' names including the one here at Florida State, the Seminoles) anad commercial appropriations (e.g. Pontiac Motors and its old insignia of the chief, now replaced by the abstract arrowhead). The goal of this exhibition is to produce examples at different levels and of different materials which elucidate the interaction of cultures and the misconceptions that contemporary scholarship takes to task as well as the issues of hybridity and identity that contemporary Native American artists address. Participating contemporary artists include James Luna, Rebecca Belmore, Hulleah Tsinhajinnie. [Catalogue]

April 17-May 1

Graduating Artists—The most ambitious student exhibition of the season offers the thesis exhibitions of MFA candidates and the final projects of BFA graduates in this late Spring event. Over twenty artists will be completing their academic training and their exhibition is a great celebration with surprises and enthusiasm to spare.

May-June

Artists' League Annual—For over a decade, the artists who have met both casually and for workshops at the Museum have produced one or more group exhibitions each year. The venue at the Museum is an opportunity for many to participate in the contemporary art dialogue of peers; the exhibition is juried, diverse in presentation and a project of forty or more regional artists. Membership in the League is open to all interested persons. Call 644-1254 for more information.

June-July

Selections from the Permanent Collection—Summer is the best time to catch a glimpse of American art glass, Peruvian ceramic vessels, Asian holdings and contemporary art from the Permanent Collection of the Museum. New acquisitions and favorite treasures share the galleries.

 

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