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Reimagining West Tampa's Heart: USF Architecture Students Breathe New Life into Centro Espa帽ol
The historic Centro Espa帽ol building in West Tampa has stood as a cornerstone of the community for over a century. Now, thanks to the vision and creativity of USF School of Architecture and Community Design students and their proposals, this landmark is for a vibrant new chapter.
May 23, 2024Architecture
USF Clarinet Ensemble to Take Center Stage at International ClarinetFest in Dublin, Ireland
College of The Arts at the 51在线 is proud to announce that our esteemed USF Clarinet Ensemble is one of only three American universities that has been invited to perform at the prestigious ClarinetFest庐 2024 in Dublin, Ireland!
May 22, 2024Music
Breaking Barriers - Exhibition | Reception | Artists Panel
The USF Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present the exhibition Breaking Barriers: PORTRAIT as part of its arts programming for military veterans.
May 14, 2024Art & Art History
Jackson Haborak Receives Fulbright Award
The 51在线鈥檚 College of The Arts is pleased to announce that Jackson Haborak has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to study for a Master of Arts in Contemporary Theatre and Dance Dramaturgy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands starting next fall.
May 2, 2024Students & Alumni, Theatre & Dance
鈥楽kyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration鈥� Unites Five Tampa Bay Area Museums in an Innovative Art Exhibition
The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design; the Tampa Museum of Art; and the 51在线 Contemporary Art Museum鈥攁re proud to announce their joint effort in presenting this groundbreaking showcase.
April 19, 2024Art & Art History
Strong talent pipeline and collaborative connections in Tampa inspires architectural firm JSWD to open first office outside of Germany - Business Observer
A German architecture firm is opening its first United States office in Tampa and is in the process of hiring 30 new employees to run it. The firm is JSWD and is based in Cologne. It has a second office in Berlin. Its new 2,960-square-foot office in Tampa will be in a former storefront at 8401 N. Dale Mabry Highway, off Waters Avenue and just outside the city鈥檚 Carrollwood neighborhood. The space was previously occupied by Sorrento Sweets, a local Italian bakery. The firm is scheduled to open next week in the space.
April 10, 2024Architecture, Faculty
Associate Professor of Art & Art History Jason Lazarus to host a two-day, open call exhibition, HOW TO WATCH A SOLAR ECLIPSE: A Symphony and a Score
Heiress Gallery is pleased to announce, A Symphony and a Score (HOW TO WATCH A SOLAR ECLIPSE), a two-day, open-call exhibition (Friday April 5th and Saturday, April 6th) hosted by artist Jason Lazarus, in collaboration with the gallery, to prepare for and celebrate the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8th, 2024.
April 1, 2024Art & Art History, Community Outreach, Faculty
Associate Professor Noelle Mason's work featured in Oxford American Magazine
Ground Control is a series of wool tapestries ranging from eight to twelve feet tall that depict satellite images of the U.S./Mexico border at current and historical places of conflict. The electromagnetic images used in this project are collected by U.S. government satellites used for 鈥渞emote sensing鈥� of the earth鈥檚 surface. Unlike photography that attempts to mimic the function of the eye, remote sensing collects data and constructs images through a process antimemetic to human experience.
March 20, 2024Art & Art History
New Exhibition: Ezra Johnson, Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, at the Mindy Solomon Gallery
Mindy Solomon Gallery is pleased to present Sunday Morning Coming Down. Ezra Johnson鈥檚 fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. In this group of new paintings, Johnson has been inspired by what he calls the 鈥渢ropical noir鈥� atmosphere of Tampa, engaging with objects, spaces and scenes that are built up with many layers of oil paint, applied in sheets of color often showing the residue of earlier layers.
February 29, 2024Art & Art History, Faculty
What Do Artists Diane Simpson and Professor Emerita Mernet Larsen Have In Common? A Fascination With the 45-Degree Angle - artnet
What if we saw the world from a 45-degree angle? This topsy-turvy premise united two shows 鈥淢ernet Larsen: Thinking About C茅zanne鈥� and 鈥淒iane Simpson: 1977鈥�1980鈥� at James Cohan, New York (Simpson鈥檚 show is on view through March 23; Larsen鈥檚 closed on March 16), wherein sculptures (Simpson鈥檚) and paintings (Larsen鈥檚) playfully vacillate between two and three dimensions.
February 20, 2024Art & Art History, Faculty
Heard on NPR鈥檚 All Things Considered - CRESCENDO: Turning environmental impact data into music
When Heather O鈥橪eary started attending concerts held by USF鈥檚 School of Music in 2021, she loved how the performances made her feel. As an anthropologist, she was moved and inspired by the ebb and flow of the music. She often wondered: could her own data touching on environmental impacts be turned into music that people could enjoy and understand?
February 20, 2024Music, Students & Alumni
Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Elizabeth Herrmann, recognized with an Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
Congratulations to Elizabeth Herrmann as a top-3 awardee for the 2022-23 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. This recognition is part of USF鈥檚 ongoing commitment to enhance undergraduate teaching by recognizing and rewarding excellence. It is an important focus of the university to ensure that the foundation courses of the undergraduate curriculum receive the proper emphasis in preparing students for work in the major, as well as providing the proper foundation in critical thinking, problem-solving, and written and oral communication skills.
February 13, 2024Art & Art History