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. 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
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/New 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.
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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.
