[Art-instructors] Tomorrow!! 3 Openings in the FSU Fine Arts Building -- Friday, April 11, 6-8pm!

[Celeste Ivory]

Dear Department of Art,

We look forward to seeing you at tomorrow's openings!


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Origins & Afterlives, the 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition.
Origins & Afterlives 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, Origins and Afterlives proposes an ongoing negotiation between presence and absence, permanence and decay- inviting viewers to reconsider what is kept, lost, or reborn.

The exhibit will run from April 11 through May 3, with an opening reception from 6-8 p.m. on Friday, April 11. The artists also invite the public to a meet-and-greet from 5:00 – 6:00pm at the Museum of Fine Arts followed by a series of artist talks from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 17.

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Please join the BFA thesis class for a preview exhibition of their work.
Everything I've Ever Known: Preview
Friday, April 11, 6-8pm Fine Arts Building Gallery

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Please join Natalie Lusk and Alex Davidoff for Cornered
Friday, April 11, 6-8pm in the FAB Gallery

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