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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Lilian Garcia Roig <lgarciaroig@fsu.edu> <br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Art Department Faculty, Staff & Students</span><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:#2C2A29">,</span><span style="font-family:"Times",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:#2C2A29">This year the Excellence in the Visual Arts Exhibition Awards will be virtual! </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Times",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">And guess what-you do get to vote twice during this election year– but for  2020 Excellence in Visual Arts Graduate & Undergraduate Exhibition People’s Choice
 Awards!</span><span style="font-family:"Times",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Although this exhibition is open to all FSU students, there are quite a number of FSU Art Department students in the show and I hope we can support them by
 viewing and reading about their work in this show.</span><span style="font-family:"Times",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2C2A29">On Friday, October 30th, our online gallery and voting
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">opened and I an encouraging all of you to visit the site and to vote on the various PEOPLE’S CHOICE Awards we have.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">There are two galleries; a graduate and undergraduate gallery, so please visit both and vote for your favorite in each gallery-
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<p style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">VOTING CLOSES ON NOVEMBER 6<sup>th</sup> at 4pm,
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<p style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">When you will then be able to
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2C2A29">join us to celebrate our undergraduate and graduate winners!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2C2A29">Please visit our online gallery here: <a href="https://hsf.fsu.edu/art-awards"><b><span style="color:#782F40">https://hsf.fsu.edu/art-awards</span></b></a> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2C2A29">Vote for your favorite
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(PEOPLE’s CHOICE)
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2C2A29">art here: <a href="http://bit.ly/ArtVoting%C2%A0"><b><span style="color:#782F40">http://bit.ly/ArtVoting </span></b></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2C2A29">Register for the event here: <a href="https://fsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvd-ipqj4tEtFX4W3raO1y8Ok4v-ZgrhFL%C2%A0"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#782F40">https://fsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvd-ipqj4tEtFX4W3raO1y8Ok4v-ZgrhFL </span></b></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Please feel free to support your favorite artists and join us for this virtual launch and presentation. We will announce the recipients of this year’s awards
 from the incredible field of work that was submitted to us for our gallery. We will also announce the recipient of the audience favorite. Please to forward this information and encourage people to vote for the audience favorite before 4pm. </span><span style="font-family:"Times",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:10.5pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Although we hoped to have this exhibition and presentation in the Honors, Scholar’s & Fellow’s House (HSF) galleries, the HSF House folks have done a great
 job of creating a wonderful online gallery of the works selected for exhibition. I am incredibly thankful for everyone’s patience and for the beautiful and thoughtful artwork the students provided for us this year, and look forward to being able to see most
 of this year’s selected artist’s works in person in the galleries next spring. </span><span style="font-family:"Times",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif">Thank you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Lilian Garcia-Roig<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Professor & Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black">Florida State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times",serif">D. Craig Filar, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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