[Art-mfastudio] FSU|MFA + Excellence in the Visual Arts Exhibition Award

[Tenee Hart]

To ALL Department of Art Graduate Students,

The 2020 Applications for the Excellence in the Visual Arts Exhibition Awards are open!
DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 20, 2020.

This annual event is a special combination award & year-long exhibition of your work at the beautiful Honors Scholar’s and Fellows House on the FSU campus. This high-traffic building is a great way to showcase what you have made and what it is about to a broad group of students, parent, faculty and general visitors.

This award is different and separate from the Art Department Awards.
It has a different application.
You CAN apply for this award even if you have also applied for the Art Department student awards.

The main difference is that this is a juried exhibition in a public place
(so there are specific criteria and limitations placed on what can and can not be shown)
and there is a required artists’s statement that is really a description of work.

Essentially we are looking for high quality works of art that clearly show excellence in visual arts but, in addition, the artist’s statement will be assessed for its success in conveying to the judges (and a broad, general audience) why the artist was moved to create the piece, what the artist is trying to convey to the viewer and how
successful the statement was in creating a deeper understanding and connection to the specific work
presented. Consider the combination of the art work and the statement about the work to be a type of
visual “Three Minute Thesis” combo…. bringing to life what the artwork is about.
In the statement, we are looking for the “so what factor.” Questions to consider addressing are: What
is this?; Why does this piece matter?; Why is it important?; What is the connection to your field of study
and what broader connections can one see in the work?, etc.

In addition, if selected to be in the exhibition (as a finalist for an award), you agree to have your work hung in the HSF House for a full year (March 2020-March 2021).

I HIGHLY SUGGEST YOU VISIT THE CURRENT SHOWS at the HSF House  which is located across Landis Green (above the Chick-fil-A).  Look at the space layout (and constraints), the selected works and read the statements to get a better idea of what to apply with.
The exhibitions are on the 2 & 3rd floors student lounge spaces on those floors.


GENERAL INFORMATION & GUIDELINES:

Interested graduate students APPLY HERE: Bit.ly/HSFGradArtApp<http://bit.ly/HSFGradArtApp>

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If you have any additional questions after reading the guidelines, please contact
Lilian Garcia-Roig at lgarciaroig at fsu.edu<mailto:lgarciaroig at fsu.edu>.
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