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<span style="color: black;">Please join the 3rd Year MFA cohort for a meet + greet and artist talks<b> </b>on<b>
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</b></span><span style="color: rgb(134, 17, 6);"><b>April 24, from 5-8pm</b></span><span style="color: black;"> at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);">On</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(134, 17, 6);"><b> Thursday, April, 24</b></span></p>
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5-6PM Meet and Greet with the Artists in MoFA</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); margin: 0px;">
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The exhibition is open from April 11 - May 3<sup>rd</sup> </div>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Dear Department of Art,</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">On behalf of the MFA Program, we wholeheartedly encourage everyone to attend
<b>Origins & Afterlives</b>, the 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition. The work on display in MoFA is the distillation of 3 years of experimentation, risk taking, technical prowess, and merging visual language with concept. As instructors of the 3<sup>rd</sup> Year Exhibition
Seminar, we have had the pleasure of seeing these emerging artists make decisions on their finishing stitches, brushstrokes, firings, braids, bindings, glitches, and assemblages. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Come cheer these artists on as they celebrate the end this phase and move on to the beginning of what is next! </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We look forward to seeing you at the opening!</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">Jiha and Marty</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><img id="x_Picture_x0020_3" width="790" height="396" size="944091" contenttype="image/png" style="width: 8.2395in; height: 4.1354in; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-outlook-trace="F:1|T:1" src="cid:image001.png@01DBA545.A0B75EE0"></span></p>
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April, 24</b></span></p>
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<li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">5-6PM Meet and Greet with the Artists in MoFA</li><li style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; margin: 0in;">
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><i>Origins & Afterlives</i><b> </b>explores themes of memory, bodies, environments, and identity- examining
how stories originate and how they are collected, fragmented, or reimagined in their afterlives. Through painting, sculpture, installation, and digital media, artists transform, deconstruct, and reconstruct- thread, pigment, pixels, organic matter- revealing
cycles of preservation, entropy, and adaptation. Memory becomes subject and process through the collection of the ephemeral, and the ways personal and collective histories are altered and retold. Human and non-human bodies become vessels for resilience and
fragility, a site of trauma, care, and transformation. Interspecies and intersystem relationships intertwine and shift, blending natural and digital to question hierarchies, networks, and speculative futures. As fragments are stitched, layered, and repurposed,
<i>Origins and Afterlives</i> proposes an ongoing negotiation between presence and absence, permanence and decay- inviting viewers to reconsider what is kept, lost, or reborn.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;"><b>Marty Fielding (he, him)</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Assistant Professor</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Florida State University</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black;">Department of Art</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="mailto:mfielding@fsu.edu" id="OWAb1facb7b-cffd-0829-a7b8-af571f6a1851" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">mfielding@fsu.edu</a></u></span></p>
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