John Mann participated in a large exhibition in Hyeres, France, where he was able to meet with European curators, gallerists, writers, and photographers from the international community. This month-long exhibition, with a five day Hyeres festival, consisted of ten international photographers, two of which were from the United States.

Mann exhibited ten black and white works of art in the Hyeres festival that provided abstractions and intense contrast using optical confusion, an effect of an image initially appearing to be one thing, but then morphing into something else. Mann’s work considers the intense light seen by the very first Arctic explorers. He examined how the explorers must have encountered the horizon, which blended into the sky or was completely shrouded by darkness. His personal challenge in developing these works centered on imaging the effects and developing the images photographically without having visited the Antarctic region. His works focus on how the person would feel in this situation, not on what the region looks like.

For more information on this festival visit: http://www.villanoailles-hyeres.com/hyeres2013/show_en.php?cat_id=4&id=23

Sara Howard (Far Left)

FSU Art Advisor Sara Howard Honored at the Employee Recognition Ceremony

Congratulations to our own Sara Howard who was nominated for the Division of Academic Affairs 2013 Gabor Award in recognition of her exceptional dedication and hard work.   She was honored at the  Employee Recognition Ceremony on Tuesday, April 30, 2013, where she received a certificate of nomination.

We all sincerely appreciate her commitment to The Florida State University, its students, faculty and her colleagues.

FSU Art Professor Keith Roberson just ran across her again, when he noticed she was the PixelPops Exhibition Curator last year: http://thepixelpops.com/Grid/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=128&Itemid=53

2012 Curator, Carolina Vasquez is a multi-media artist exploring new technologies and mixing them with more traditional forms of expression. She believes that by being an artist it is important to also lead workshops, program exhibitions and help in the continual cycle of creative opportunities.

Her desire for investigating human behaviour and personal stories is repeatedly expressed throughout the work. The process of invention is integral, as are her narrative explorations and through this she creates and manipulates images.

She was born in the Dominican Republic, raised in Miami and now lives in Wales. She obtained an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art in London and continues to exhibit internationally.

Imagine Tallahassee is having two Community Open Houses

May 20th at 5:30pm at Bethel AME Church located at 501 W Orange Ave, Tallahassee, FL 32310

AND

May 21st at 2:00p.m. at the City Commission Chambers at City Hall.

Dawn McMillan and Robin Rodgers at the opening on 5/10/2013.

Dawn McMillan co-Chaired the exhibition which coincided with the release of Arcadia Publishing Company’s “Images of America: Gadsden County” written by local authors David Gardner, Joe Munroe and Dawn McMillan. A Portrait of Historic Gadsden County is included in the Viva Florida 500 commemoration, the state of Florida’s initiative to promote 500 years of Florida history – its people, places and cultural achievement – on the 500th anniversary of Ponce de Leon’s arrival here.

Robin Rodgers showed the work pictured and others and many of his pottery finds from along the banks of the Apalachicola River.   Robin has been running his own studio, Rabbit Pond Studio, in Tallahassee since 1995.

His work can be seen on Facebook, Robin Rodgers Pottery.   You’ll also see him in a kilt as he is also part of the band, Scots on the Rock!

May 10 – July 13, 2013 at Gadsden Art Center, Quincy, Florida
Museum hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Jean Charles Duffaut, Memory, 2012, acrylic 24 x 18 inches.

FSU’s MoFA: Generations Exhibition and Artistic Conversation
MoFA is proud to announce that our Generations exhibition is underway!

The exhibition traces artistic legacy and was curated by teachers from 14 schools with the curator of education at MoFA. Representatives from other Tallahassee organizations also joined the team. Benefiting from their teachers’ hard work, MoFA is hosting school children during the opening days of the exhibition.

As part of the activities planned in conjunction with the exhibition, Dr. Preston McLane, attorney and FSU Art History Department faculty,  will be moderating a conversation with Jean Charles Duffaut, one of the artists in the exhibition. This event will take place on Thursday, May 16th from 7-8pm at the museum.

Amongst the artists are FSU faculty and instructors:  Carrie Ann Baade, Ananda Balingit-Lefils, and Trevor Bell.

The exhibition runs through July 12th and there will be a reception held on Friday, May 24th from 6:30 to 8pm.

Museum hours for the summer are:
Monday – Friday 9am – 4pm
Closed: May 27th and July 4th.

Generations is an exhibition curated by the MoFA Education Program with a team of visual arts teachers from Leon County Schools, that explores the various ways artistic legacy can be transferred from one generation to the next. The exhibition will be on display from May 10th through July 12th, 2013 with a reception on May 24th from 6:30-8:00pm.
Image: James Bison, detail of Lake Bradford, oil on canvas 25.9 x 29.5 inches. Collections: Tallahassee Museum. Photo courtesy of the Tallahassee Museum.

Directed by Samantha Johns & George McConnell

May 10th & 11th – 8pm – $5

621 Gallery – 621 Industrial Drive Railroad Square Tallahassee FL 612.385.6298

produced by George McConnell, professor in the FSU Theater Dept.
Event is from 8-9pm and is $5… and should be very interesting…

www.621gallery.org

Documenting events from 2005 and 2011, the video installation at the Boca Raton Museum of Art That Was Then/ This Is now Vigil, tells a story of loss occurring in a mysterious place, north Florida’s Suwannee Springs. The pungent smell of sulfur emitted from this natural wonder where thousands of tourists once sought relief in its healing waters now holds death; death not only of life but also of the spring itself, bringing questions of environmental loss. This work will be on display from May 8th-July 14th.
Floater III was chosen as one of fifty photographs selected nationally that will be on exhibit from June 17th-August 23rd at The von Liebig Art Center in Naples, Florida. The jurors in this exhibition include world-renowned photojournalist Harry Benson, photographer of the Beatles and every American president from Eisenhower to Barack Obama. Christopher Rauschenberg, photographer and son of Robert Rauschenberg and Susan Weil, and Ron Bishop, Director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Edison State College, assisted Benson in jurying this exhibition. The opening reception will be held on Friday, June 14th from 5:30 PM-7:30 PM.

For more information on this event, visit The Von Liebig Art Center website at https://www.naplesart.org/content/camera-usa-national-photography-award-and-exhibition-2013

For more information about Janis Brothers, visit http://www.janisbrothersart.com/

Floater III
Camera USA National

That Was Then/This Is Now
Boca Raton Museum of Art

Emil Alzamora “Soft Pioneers”

KRAUSE GALLERY is pleased to present Emil Alzamora’s second solo exhibition. In his most recent body of work Alzamora explores a fragment of a possible future. Inspired largely by his observations of technology, social media and diminishing solitude, “Soft Pioneers” delves into the murky waters of the digital realm and its effect on the human conscience. As the title of the exhibition implies, the unchartered territories of the future are those of the mind and spirit and of a digital immersion that is shaping them. The nine new sculptures and installations, exquisitely sculpted by hand in obdurate materials such as gypsum and resin as well as an exploration into 3D printing and CNC milling technologies, provide a tactile glimpse into the ruminations and predictions of the artist’s both hopeful and alarming vision of humanity.

http://www.krausegallery.com/WP/category/current-exhibition/