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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">All students are invited to join us for</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black"> </span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#7030A0">Success Stories — From Art Students To Art
Careers</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:#C00000">Happening tomorrow!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">Friday, March 12 from 1:00pm – 2:30pm</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">To register:</span></b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/success-stories-2nd-edition-focus-on-design-registration-144668440199"><span style="color:#954F72">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/success-stories-2nd-edition-focus-on-design-registration-144668440199</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">FSU Studio Art alumni will gather to share stories about their time as studio art students to their current statuses as emerging art professionals. Four of our own will join us for a virtual conversation
about their respective journeys from art students to art careers. We will have a Q & A session as a part of the talk. </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#7030A0">Our guest speakers are:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000;background:white">Larry Weru</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000;background:white"> </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45;background:white">– <b>BA ‘14 with degrees in Studio Art
and Biological Science, App designer and </b></span><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white">W</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45;background:white">eb </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white">D</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45;background:white">evelopment </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black;background:white">C</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45;background:white">onsultant. </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45">Larry is a Digital Storyteller exploring how information design, data viz, and narrative rooted in science can help build a more just and sustainable
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000">Kathryn-kay Johnson </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45">– BA ‘16 – Digital Media and Video Artist</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45">Kathryn utilizes appropriated media from contemporary advertising culture, along with text, fabric, audio, video, and digital fabrication processes
to develop a sensorial fictive placemaking that is rooted in African Diasporic mythologies and a womanist perspective. Her work gives voice to the powerful, inarticulable, contradiction-filled crises and delights of the human experience. She is currently an
MFA candidate at the Yale University School of Art.<b> </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#C00000">Brittany Gress </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45">– BA ’16 – Graphic Designer, co- founder of the Tallahassee chapter of AIGA, and </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">L</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45">ead </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">O</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45">rganizer
for Tallahassee Design Week</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:9.0pt;background:white"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:#2D3B45">Brittany is a visual artist who specializes in social design and community innovation. Her passion for the fine arts fuels her work with local nonprofits
to create meaningful projects that question, uplift, and empower the community. </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#9190D8">Elizabeth Di Donna</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Light",sans-serif;color:black">BA Program Director </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#7A81FF">|</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica-Light",sans-serif;color:black">Teaching
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:#5E5E5E">Department of Art</span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:#7A81FF">|</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black"> </span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:#5E5E5E">College
of Fine Arts</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;color:#5E5E5E">Florida State University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><a href="http://art.fsu.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#7A81FF">art.fsu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light;color:black"><a href="http://elizabethdidonna.com"><span style="color:#7A81FF">elizabethdidonna.com</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-di-donna-22b89094"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="38" height="38" style="width:.3958in;height:.3958in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01D7167B.31218DB0" alt="/Users/ead10g/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.Outlook/Data/Library/Caches/Signatures/signature_376188175"></span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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