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The Art museum will collaborate with the College of Architecture + the Arts, and the Wolfsonian-FIU to kick off the “Fall Arts Preview” during “Target Wednesday After Hours”.
“The Fall Arts Preview is an opportunity for the university community to get a better appreciation of the [upcoming] performing and visual art season the university offers,” explained Brian Schriner, dean of the College of Architecture + the Arts.
The College of Architecture + the Arts sponsors over 150 events throughout the year — from concerts on and off campus by the School of Music, to plays by the Department of Theatre in the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, to exhibitions by the Department of Art + Art History.
During the “Fall Arts Preview”, attendees will get a taste of the upcoming events, receive the fall calendar from the departments, meet with the students and faculty, and catch a glimpse of some exhibits and performances like the Department of Theatre’s musical “Songs for a New World” which premieres on Sept. 21 at 8 p.m. in the Wertheim Performing Arts Center.
“The cool thing is that in this one place on this one night, we’re going to showcase all the arts at FIU” said Mari de Armas, assistant director of the College of Art + Architecture. They might not be able to fit all of the arts at the University, since each department surely has a load to cover this fall.
The event will include the annual “Faculty Show” which will feature works by Tori Arpad-Cotta, associate professor of Art + Art History, and Professor Ralph F. Buckley’s “Reflections on Water”.
The Department of Art + Art History does not only organize exhibitions for their faculty, but also for their bachelor of fine arts and master of fine arts students.
Later this September, the Department of Art + Art History will host an exhibition of works by their first year M.F.A. students at Miami Beach Urban Studios. MBUS, an art gallery of the department located at Miami Beach, will show works by those students and the sources of inspiration they used.
It will be organized by Jacek Kolasinski, assistant professor of the Department of Art + Art History and Alpesh Patel. There will also be an exhibition for the students graduating from their B.F.A. program at the end of this semester.
Additionally, in October, Art + Art History Associate Professor Pip Brabt and Professor Kathy Dambach will hold workshops in the Miami Beach area on “Renegade Craft” to explore the craft of ceramics and fabric.
The Art + Art History department will exhibit some works by Professor Geraldine Ondrizek of Reed College in November at MBUS; the center piece will be a projection called “Cellular”; complemented with sounds, it will give the viewer “synaesthetic” experience. Art historians Jane Chin and Alpesh Patel will organize this event. It’s also projected to be shown at the University of Houston, Clear Lake, and NASA (Houston).
The “Fall Arts Preview” is definitely the place to be. “It lets the university community know what’s happening in the arts and why they’re so important to the life of the university,” said Schriner.
–edwive.seme@fiusm.com
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