From mivory at fsu.edu Wed Nov 5 14:06:31 2025 From: mivory at fsu.edu (Celeste Ivory) Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 19:06:31 +0000 Subject: [Art-instructors] Art Opening Venvi Gallery - Friday, Nov 7th, 5pm to 8pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [From Vision to Reality: 10 Years of Venvi Art Gallery - Opening Reception] Opening- From Vision to Reality: 10 Years of Venvi Art Gallery Fri, Nov 7, 2025 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM 2901 E Park Ave Unit 2800 Tallahassee, FL Carrie Ann Baade, Ray Burggraf, Debbie Bzdyl, Nancy Dillen, Cheryl Eggleston, Bella Falbo, Leon Hicks, Christina Klein, Grace Leal, Leah Macdonald, Sam McCoy, Mark Messersmith, Selena Nawrocki, Brinda Pamulapati, Michelle Phillips, Jack Reilly, Anne Stagg, Mary Stewart Venvi Art Gallery is delighted to showcase "From Vision to Reality: 10 Years of Venvi Art Gallery", a group exhibit in honor of Venvi's tenth year anniversary. Its opening reception will be held on November 7th from 5-8pm with refreshments and charcuterie provided. https://www.instagram.com/venviartgallery/ https://www.venviartgallery.com/ Carrie Ann Baade (she/her/hers) Area Head: Painting + Drawing Professor of Art FSU Department of Art Email: cjonesbaade at fsu.edu Website: www.carrieannbaade.com Book: Scissors & Tears: La Luz de Jesus Press Winter Newsletter 2025 [cid:4748cd91-ea77-4cd0-9714-8a5cae815c88] Book time to meet with me -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Outlook-s4f5opew.png Type: image/png Size: 528 bytes Desc: Outlook-s4f5opew.png URL: From mivory at fsu.edu Thu Nov 6 11:16:33 2025 From: mivory at fsu.edu (Celeste Ivory) Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2025 16:16:33 +0000 Subject: [Art-instructors] Reminder: TODAY (11/06) - Visiting Artist Talk with Dayna Thacker at 6pm in FAB 249! Message-ID: [cid:0162a320-197e-46d3-8e49-792c591fbee6] The Departments of Art and Art Education are excited to invite you to an artist talk with Dayna Thacker Today, Thursday, November 6 at 6:00PM in Room 249 of the FSU Fine Arts Building! Thacker served as the Director of Programming at Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and will share ways that artist residencies nurture community and creativity across disciplines. Dayna Thacker?s art practice investigates thought systems that focus on the overlap of contemplative disciplines and scientific theory and reflects an ongoing inquiry into impermanence, systems of meaning, and the interconnectedness of all things. **Our department will be making an exciting announcement immediately preceding the talk at 6:00pm.** Visiting Artist Talk with Dayna Thacker Thursday, November 6, 6:00pm Fine Arts Building (FAB), Room 249 530 W. 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George Blakely The Postcard, The Whole Postcard, and Nothing But The Postcard SMALLS 525 W. 8th Ave Tallahassee Saturday, Nov 8th, 3-6:30pm --------------- Dear Ones, For his Nov 8th exhibit, George Blakely has added to his famous 'Postcards' exhibition Series with a new group of pieces made just for SMALLS: The Postcard, The Whole Postcard, and Nothing But The Postcard His exhibit will feature well over a hundred framed and beautiful 'Postcard Constructs'. Because George wants this to be a 100% benefit for Apalachicola Riverkeeper, a group we all know and love, these fabulous 8"x10" framed works are being given away, in exchange for donations of $50 - $150 per piece to Apalachicola Riverkeeper. People from Riverkeeper will be on-site to facilitate your donations. Even more: Blakely will match the total of all donations if all the works are taken by evening's end. fyi: works can be taken off the walls starting at 6pm. 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Name: Soft Opening_WMC Gallery_Nov 7 2025.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 2484412 bytes Desc: Soft Opening_WMC Gallery_Nov 7 2025.pdf URL: From mivory at fsu.edu Mon Nov 10 11:44:56 2025 From: mivory at fsu.edu (Celeste Ivory) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:44:56 +0000 Subject: [Art-instructors] =?windows-1252?q?Nov_12=9613=3A_Visiting_Schol?= =?windows-1252?q?ar_Ara_H=2E_Merjian?= Message-ID: >From the Department of Art History regarding an upcoming guest scholar program, to be held Nov. 12?13, with Dr. Ara Merjian (NYU, Italian Studies, affiliate faculty Art History and Comp Lit) on Futurist photography and on Professor Tenley Bick's book on Pistoletto (program information below). This may be of interest to students in art, especially any interested in Futurism, photography, experimental figuration, and Arte Povera. View this email in your browser [https://mcusercontent.com/140029a316520907db0f05b5f/images/906f036c-9dd1-9735-70e3-f9653fbc81b6.jpg] [https://mcusercontent.com/140029a316520907db0f05b5f/images/35a9f24c-1023-4be5-b54a-91ad083722f0.jpg] Please join us on November 12 and 13 for two events featuring visiting scholar Ara H. Merjian, Professor of Italian Studies and Affiliated Faculty, Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, New York University. [https://mcusercontent.com/140029a316520907db0f05b5f/images/7a99a815-eb5c-3d66-21a5-a41c232a7c92.jpg] WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12 Lecture: ?A Collective of One: Umberto Boccioni?s I/We and Photography before Futurism? 5:30PM WJB G40 [https://mcusercontent.com/140029a316520907db0f05b5f/images/05511c92-aa76-7de0-dc8f-038584da7444.jpg] THURSDAY NOVEMBER 13 Book Talk: A conversation with Art History Associate Professor Tenley Bick, about her new book Michelangelo Pistoletto: Figuration and Cultural Politics 4:30PM WJB G40 Ara H. Merjian is Professor in the department of Italian Studies at NYU, where he is an affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and Comparative Literature. He is the author and editor of several books, including Gramsci?s Circle of Humanity and Armenia (2016); Surrealism and Anti-Fascism (2024); and Beat, Black, Queer: Pasolini?s Other America, out with Verso in 2026. Other books include Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris (Yale University Press, 2014), Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art, Neo-Capitalism (University of Chicago Press, 2020), and Futurism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2025). Before arriving at NYU, Dr. Merjian taught at Harvard, Stanford, and the San Quentin State Penitentiary College Education Program. His book from Yale University Press, Fragments of Totality: Futurism, Fascism, and the Sculptural Avant-Garde recently won the 2025 Robert Motherwell Book Award and the 2025 Scaglione Prize in Italian Studies from the MLA. [https://mcusercontent.com/140029a316520907db0f05b5f/images/c84f6d71-2895-6461-f181-cfa978399608.jpg] Art History Associate Professor Tenley Bick published Michelangelo Pistoletto: Figuration and Cultural Politics this year with Yale University Press. Examining the Italian artist?s career-long exploration of the human figure, the book offers new perspectives on the history of postwar and contemporary art. Dr. Bick?s book is the first English-language scholarly monograph on the artist and first monograph in any language since the mid-1980s. With 140 illustrations (81 in color), the book features many previously unseen images and works of art, including early drawings and design work. All Art History visiting scholar events are free and open to the public. ART HISTORY at FSU [Facebook Page] [Website] [Email] [Instagram] Copyright ? 2025 CFA Art History, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you have expressed interest in receiving information from Florida State University, College of Fine Arts affiliated entities. Our mailing address is: CFA Art History 1019 William Johnston Building 143 Honors Way Tallahassee, FL 32306 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list [Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mivory at fsu.edu Mon Nov 17 15:57:32 2025 From: mivory at fsu.edu (Celeste Ivory) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:57:32 +0000 Subject: [Art-instructors] "Reimagined Icon" opening in the FAB Gallery this week! Message-ID: [cid:2958f0fd-591b-4941-b03d-560ffc56182e] Reimagined Icon Group Exhibition from ?Iconic Spectacle: A Media Workshop in Painting/Drawing? ART4921C Participating Artists: Miranda Bay, Chloe Brown, Eliana Cohn, Alex Davidoff, Delaney Davis, Emily Jennings, Victoria Pagan, Anna Parson, Antonia Pretelt, Julia Stephens On View: Thursday, November 20 - December 11, 2025 Closing Reception: Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 4:00 ? 6:00pm The FAB Gallery 236, Fine Arts Building (FAB) 530 W. Call Street Tallahassee, FL 32306 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Reimagined Icon.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 443194 bytes Desc: Reimagined Icon.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Awards: The following prizes will be awarded during the opening reception on January 15th. * First place: $500 * Second place: $250 * Third place: $250 * Three Honorable Mentions: $100 each Key Dates: * Deadline to submit work: December 12 * Notification of acceptance: December 17 * Artwork drop-off (framed and ready-to-install) at FAB Gallery: January 8 * Opening reception and awards announcement: January 15 from 5:00-8:00 pm * Closing reception: January 29 * Artwork pick-up: January 30 Submission Guidelines: Who is eligible to apply: * Anyone who is enrolled in an art class during the Fall 2025 semester. How to apply: * All applicants are required to email their artist statement and up to seven works. Application Requirements: * Email your artist statement along with your images to mbozorgi at fsu.edu before December 12th. Email subject line should be ?Photo Exhibition 2026.? Incomplete submissions will not be reviewed. * Artist statement 200 words * Image files with the following format: * File Format: JPEG * Image Size: 72 dpi and the longest side no more than 1000 pixels * File Naming: submission number_last name_first name_image title_year_size Image credit: Samantha Haas. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Open call 1 copy.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 496754 bytes Desc: Open call 1 copy.jpg URL: From mfielding at fsu.edu Tue Nov 25 10:53:47 2025 From: mfielding at fsu.edu (Marty Fielding) Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:53:47 +0000 Subject: [Art-instructors] Clay Club Sale 12/2 & 12/3 Message-ID: Good Morning Department of Art! The Clay Club will be holding a sale next Tuesday and Wednesday! Come shopping and help support students? travel to the NCECA Conference in Detroit this March. Nice pieces are coming out of the kilns! 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