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<b>Thursday, November 2, 6:00pm</b></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt; font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>Artist Talk: Yvonne Osei</b> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>Thursday, November 2 | 6:00 PM EST | FAB 249 </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">On Thursday, Nov. 2 at 6:00 PM EST, join “Intertwined” curators Annie Booth and Keidra Daniels Navaroli in conversation with featured artist Yvonne Osei. Osei
is a Ghanaian, multidisciplinary artist with a transnational creative practice that explores the topics of beauty and colorism, the politics of clothing, and how global trade and colonialism impact post-colonial West African & Western cultures. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Osei received her BFA and a BA with a concentration in International Studies from Webster University and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Sam Fox School of Design
and Visual Arts at Washington University. She is represented by the Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis. Learn more at
</span><span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(120, 47, 64);"><b><a href="http://yvonneosei.com/" id="OWAd6943feb-566c-bf91-8732-aa14ac4b1737" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(120, 47, 64);">http://yvonneosei.com/</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">.
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>Friday, November 3, 4:00-6:00pm</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>"roads (un)known" BFA Fundamentals Showcase</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>Friday, November 3 | 4-6pm | Phyllis Straus Gallery, Carnaghi Arts Building, 2214 Belle Vue Way</b></span></p>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The FSU Department of Art and
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Phyllis Straus Gallery</a> invite you to the BFA Fundamentals Showcase opening exhibition, "roads (un)known", on Friday, November 3, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">"roads (un)known" showcases featured works curated by: Clay Barczak, Emma Bryson, Lily Crocamo, Emma Grinkmeyer, Sophia Jusino, Audrey Lendway, Natalie Lusk,
Angela McCall, Maya Montaner, Amanda Monteiro, Gabbie Shakir, and Alexandra Vergopia.</span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Friday, November 3, 4:00-6:00pm</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>"Self Dissection"</b></span></p>
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<span style="letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Friday, November 3 | 4-6pm | Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Carnaghi Arts Building, 2214
Belle Vue Way</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">The FSU Department of Art and
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Working Method Contemporary Gallery</a> invite you to the opening reception of Self Dissection, on Friday, November 3, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>Visiting Artist Series Lecture with
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Raheleh Filsoofi</a></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>Monday, November 6 | 6pm | Fine Arts Building (FAB) Room 249</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>Please join us for the inaugural lecture in the Department of Art's 2023/24 Visiting Artist Series. For this academic year's programming we have invited guests
whose creative work and research connect with a broadly defined theme of "listening". </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Filsoofi, a collector of soil and sound, is an itinerant artist and feminist curator. Her work revolves around themes of movement, immigration, and social activism.
Clay and sound serve as her primary expressive mediums, enabling her to create diverse narratives through multimedia installations and immersive sound performances. Her art disrupts the borders that exist between us and seeks a more inclusive world, illuminating
and challenging policies and politics.</span></p>
<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Her current and recent exhibitions include Imagined Boundaries, an interactive multimedia installation at Gibbes Museum in Charleston,
SC (2023-2024), and Only Sound Remains, an interactive multimedia installation at the Sharjah Biennial 15, Thinking Historically in the Present in Sharjah, UAE (2023).</span></div>
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<div class="elementToProof"><span style="font-family: "Yu Gothic Medium", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Filsoofi is the 2023 recipient of Joan Mitchell Fellowship award, the 2022 Winner of the 1858 Contemporary Southern Art Award and
the recipient of the 2021 Southern Prize Tennessee State Fellowship. She is an Assistant Professor of Ceramics in the Department of Art at Vanderbilt University and holds the secondary appointment at the Blair School of Music. She received her M.F.A. in Fine
Arts from Florida Atlantic University and a B.F.A. in Ceramics from Al-Zahra University in Tehran, Iran.</span></div>
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