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SUMMARY:Excavating a Legacy: Dr. Kathleen Deagan
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kathleen Deagan began her career as one of only a few women archaeologists. Despite the professional challenges that brought\, she pioneered historical archaeology techniques that are utilized worldwide. Since 1972\, she has excavated in St. Augustine\, Florida. Her work there led to one of her most significant achievements\, identifying Ft. Mose\, the first free Black community in what would later become the United States. Today\, after more than 50 years in the field\, she is a world-renowned scholar who continues to publish books and excavate historic sites. \n\n\n\nExcavating a Legacy was curated by Maile McCall\, in partial fulfillment of a Master of Arts in Museum Studies (UF). McCall worked with Dr. Gifford Waters (Collections Manager for Historical Archaeology\, Florida Museum of Natural History) and Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler (Exhibits Director\, Smathers Libraries) to research and create the exhibit. It was designed by Katiana Bagué (Exhibits Associate\, Smathers Libraries) and Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler. The exhibit features items from the Smathers Libraries\, excerpts from oral history interviews\, and artifacts from the Florida Museum of Natural History\, where Dr. Deagan was Curator of Historical Archaeology for 28 years. Exhibition highlights include 16th-\, 17th-\, and 18th-century archaeological artifacts\, several of Dr. Deagan’s numerous publications\, and personal letters and ephemera. \n\n\n\nThe exhibit is on view on the second floor of Marston Science Library from August 20\, 2026 through December 18\, 2026. The building is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. except for university holidays and semester breaks. For exceptions and holidays view the building hours on the Libraries’ shared calendar. All exhibitions are open to the public and free of charge.
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/excavating-a-legacy-dr-kathleen-deagan/
LOCATION:Marston Science Library\, 444 Newell Dr\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
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SUMMARY:Transmitted Futures: bytes not boxes — Solarpunk\, Cofuturisms and other everyday tomorrows
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: September 10\, 2026 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nThe Gary R. Libby University Gallery presents “Transmitted Futures: bytes not boxes — Solarpunk\, Cofuturisms and other everyday tomorrows” curated by Flounder Lee\, Visiting Professor of Studio Art at UF’s School of Art and Art History. Lee draws upon “many\, sometimes conflicting\, ways of imagining what comes next” to suggest that futures are always multiple\, negotiated and made through everyday life.  \n\n\n\nThe exhibition brings together a range of visions for everyday life in possible futures: a coastline heard through headphones\, two video game players cooperating through a first contact that has not yet happened\, fictional organisms sprouting from a corner\, a hovercraft with its storm shield raised\, a deck of cards asking viewers to remember how things were done somewhere better\, a trashcan resembling a reliquary\, a greenhouse in an arid world and a time machine made from plywood and projections. Rather than presenting a single vision of the future\, these works explore the many ways that the future might be imagined\, constructed and experienced. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features work from fifteen artists and collectives around the world. Rather than shipping finished physical objects\, the artists transmitted their work as files\, which were then transformed into physical works in Gainesville through processes including 3D printing\, inkjet printing\, projection\, cutting and construction. Some files arrived ready to be printed or played\, while others were developed through months of conversation that transformed a flat drawing into a full-color object that could be experienced in physical space. \n\n\n\nLee frames the exhibition through two ideas: Solarpunk and Cofuturisms. Solarpunk is a hopeful but practical strand of art and design that is less interested in simply imagining future worlds than in building them from technologies that already exist\, emphasizing many small solutions rather than one sweeping answer. Cofuturisms is a broader term for art and writing that understands the future as something made collectively and incorporates perspectives including Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms. \n\n\n\n“A file is not finished\,” Lee said. “It is an instruction\, and someone has to decide how large it is\, what it is made from\, what color it comes out. Those decisions get made in a particular place with particular tools\, which is a reasonable description of how futures arrive anywhere.” \n\n\n\nArtists and collectives represented in “Transmitted Futures” include Saks Afridi\, Morehshin Allahyari\, Nicole Dextras\, Finbarr Fallon\, Jason J Ferguson\, Terence Hannum\, Dustin Jacobus\, Mirabelle Jones\, Golan Levin and Shawn Sims\, Maize Longboat\, Ong Kian Peng\, Kate Paxman\, Saba Qizilbash\, Solarpunk Surf Club and Taryn Walker.
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/transmitted-futures-bytes-not-boxes-solarpunk-cofuturisms-and-other-everyday-tomorrows/
LOCATION:Gary R. Libby University Gallery\, 400 SW 13th Street\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
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SUMMARY:Vico's Spiral: Half a Century of Artists' Books
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: September 10\, 2026 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nGary R. Libby Focus Gallery from September 10 through December 2\, 2026  \n\n\n\nConstance and Linton Grinter Gallery from September 10 through November 12\, 2026. \n\n\n\nThe University Galleries at the University of Florida presents Vico’s Spiral: Half a Century of Artists’ Books curated by Robbin Ami Silverberg and Carole Naggar. The exhibition includes a thoughtful selection of historical and contemporary works\, referential documents and related memorabilia. Originating at the Center for Book Arts in New York in 2024 to celebrate its 50th anniversary\, the exhibition provides a unique opportunity to appreciate\, examine and reflect on the recent history of the artist’s book. It will be on view at the Gary R. Libby Focus Gallery from September 10 – December 2\, 2026 and at the Constance and Linton Grinter Gallery from September 10 – November 12\, 2026. \n\n\n\nThis rich history is covered by presenting a selection of fifty artists’ books\, each of them echoing the unique immanent hybridity of this centuries-old practice\, emblematic for fluently incorporating the contradictions and paradoxes between the new and the old\, the traditional and the experimental\, the radical and the conversative and the political and the aesthetics\, all within one’s own reach. \n\n\n\nThis international global survey presents a broad selection of artists\, including widely recognized artists such as Tauba Auerbach\, Bruno Munari\, John Lathan\, Bruce Nauman and Liliana Porter. According to curator Silverberg\, the exhibition was “curated using the rubric of Vico’s Spiral\, a nonlinear conception of history developed by Giambattista Vico (1668-1744)\, an Italian historian\, political philosopher and jurist credited with founding the philosophy of history. Vico argued that ‘distinct periods of history can have identical or similar general characteristics; therefore\, we can discuss them using an analogy’ and that history’s tendency ‘to repeat itself’ resembled the movement of a spiral or helix. Structured after Vico’s Spiral\, the exhibition pairs books created in different decades yet concerned with similar themes or questions.” \n\n\n\nA comprehensive and fully illustrated\, 256-page catalog was published to accompany the exhibition\, which includes curatorial introductions and thoughtful essays\, revisions of the artists’ books history\, theoretical debates\, a playful list of books defining the field and a well-informed look to the global reach of the practice. It will be available for purchase at UG’s main space for the duration of the exhibition. \n\n\n\nThe artists’ books and the referential documents will be shown at the Gary R. Libby Focus Gallery\, and the second part of the exhibition\, which is focused on various ephemera including posters\, flyers and postcards\, can be seen at the Constance and Linton Grinter Gallery. Seventy-seven artists\, including collectives\, individual members and ephemera authors\, are participating in the exhibition. \n\n\n\nRobbin Silverberg will be giving a virtual talk for students and other members of our community; the dates will be announced in the coming weeks. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is possible thanks to the generosity of the Center for Book Arts\, its Director’s Corina Reynolds and staff\, the curators\, and our exhibition coordinator Kayli Ricther\, the installation manager Mario Mutis\, the assistant Tabatha Seiter\, and the grad assistants Elise Goosen\, Kyle Christiana\, Kodie Mahone\, Jiwon Seo\, and Azariah Rodriguez. We are thankful to Dianne Caple\, Brian Caple\, Colleen Rua and Dr. Elizabeth Ross for their vital support.
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/vicos-spiral-half-a-century-of-artists-books/
LOCATION:Gary R. Libby Focus Gallery\, 1370 Inner Road\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611\, United States
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SUMMARY:Craig Smith: Social Practices (2001-2026)
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: September 18\, 2026 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nA solo exhibition by Craig Smith is coming to the campus of Santa Fe Community College (Santa Fe Art Gallery) from September 18\, 2026 through October 23\, 2026. The exhibition is entitled: Craig Smith: Social Practices (2001-2026) and includes photography\, sculptures and video documenting twenty-five years of socially engaged artworks and exhibitions in New York\, London\, Pittsburgh\, Beijing and now\, Gainesville.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition in the Santa Fe College Art Gallery includes videos\, photographs\, and sculptural ‘relics’ from Smith’s individual and collaborative art projects over the last twenty-five years. Each section of the exhibition focuses on a particular element of socially engaged art\, or an art form that\, in part\, utilizes social relations as a formal element in the production of art. The artworks on view in the exhibition include video and photographs produced during public performances on the streets of New York and in the shadows of the World Trade Center just weeks before 9/11. The exhibition also includes large-scale “social sculptures” of art seeking viewer participation in the handling\, curating and exhibition of federally controlled commodities such as firearms. There are also documents of live sound performances by Smith accompanied by New York punk legends the Vores\, collaborations with long-time colleague Colin Beatty\, as well as photographs produced with the New York-based group “C” featuring Smith with artists Lillah Friedland and Matthew Bakkom.  \n\n\n\nCraig Smith is a visual and performing artist whose research and practice explores the foundations of social relations as an agent in cultural production. Smith creates photographs\, videos\, sounds\, and live performances for a wide range of exhibition spaces including museums\, galleries\, athletic facilities\, health care clinics\, and financial institutions. Smith has been included in solo exhibitions and performances across thirteen countries. Smith has been featured at PS1MOMA in New York\, the Tate Modern in London\, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. and has been featured as an artist and a curator by CEPA Gallery in Buffalo\, one of New York state’s oldest not-for-profit galleries specializing in testing the boundaries of the photographic. Smith’s most recent book of photography is entitled American Ace: Limited Edition (with Ben Wise) and is available from Printed Matter in NYC. His most recent book of theory is entitled Relational Art: A Guided Tour (published by Bloomsbury LLC). Smith has released multiple sound recordings with both Lunacy Records and Legacy 405 (produced by Dave Copenhaver) and has performed these sound pieces live at venues including the Cantor Film Center in New York City and the Central Academy of Fine Art (CAFA) in Beijing\, China. Smith is currently a senior faculty member in the College of the Arts at the University of Florida.
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/craig-smith-social-practices-2001-2026/
LOCATION:Santa Fe College\, 3000 NW 83 Street\, Gainesville\, Florida\, 32606\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Unreasonable Commitment to the Square
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Tuesday\, October 13 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nKelsey Barton’s “An Unreasonable Commitment to the Square” opens for viewing Monday\, October 12 through Friday\, October 23. \n\n\n\n“I have become unreasonably committed to the square. \n\n\n\n“The square is rigid\, predictable\, and ordinary. Squares are the units that make up our civilizations. Through repetition and accumulation\, however\, they can become something less stable: geological\, bodily\, architectural\, ornamental\, or ambiguously familiar. My preoccupation with the square has led me to explore its potential as both an individual unit and a means of constructing larger forms. \n\n\n\n“Working with an aggregation of small units allows low-risk decisions to accumulate into something more consequential. A single square requires little commitment\, but hundreds of them can produce a structure that is difficult to ignore or undo. Through this accumulation\, I can build complexity from a series of simple decisions\, allowing the scale and weight of the whole to emerge gradually from its parts. \n\n\n\n“The nature of clay further complicates the apparent rigidity of the square. Its malleability\, warping\, surface variation\, and unpredictability during firing allow something intentionally precise to be altered in ways that are both controlled and beyond my control. I am interested in what happens when a simple form is repeated to an unreasonable degree—when repetition becomes excess\, and a constraint becomes generative” (Barton\, 2026).
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/an-unreasonable-commitment-to-the-square/
LOCATION:4Most Gallery & Studio\, 534 SW 4th Avenue\, Gainesville\, Florida\, 32601\, United States
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SUMMARY:Into the Woods
DESCRIPTION:Into the WoodsPresented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI).Music & Lyrics by Stephen SondheimBook by James LapineDirected by Colleen RuaMusical Direction by Anthony OfferleLittle Red wanders far from safety\, Jack discovers another beanstalk\, Prince Charming’s attention begins to drift\, and a Witch lives right next door. In Into the Woods\, a Baker and his Wife set out on a quest to break a childless curse\, crossing paths with these classic characters as their stories unfold. Stephen Sondheim’s most popular musical flips fairy tales upside down\, revealing that wishes granted rarely come without complications. With exquisite music and razor-sharp lyrics\, this imaginative production enchants as it journeys beyond “happily ever after\,” where every choice carries unexpected consequences.Recommended for ages 13+\n\n\n\nShow dates and times:\n\n\n\n\nOctober 16\, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nOctober 17\, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nOctober 18\, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nOctober 20\, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nOctober 21\, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nOctober 22\, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nOctober 23\, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nOctober 24\, 2026 at 7:30 p.m.\n\n\n\nOctober 25\, 2026 at 2:00 p.m.
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/into-the-woods/
LOCATION:Nadine McGuire Theatre and Dance Pavilion\, 1800 McCarty Dr\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32603\, United States
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SUMMARY:HESCAH Symposium | Creative Commodities: Art\, Ecology\, and the Spanish Empire
DESCRIPTION:View Full-Size Event Poster\n    \n		\n            \n\n\n\n\n\nThis two day symposium brings together twelve scholars of colonial Latin America at the University of Florida to explore the intersections of art\, environment\, materiality\, and colonialism. The invitees work across disciplines including art history\, history\, and Spanish literature and language. This HESCAH event will feature two days of panels plus a keynote roundtable discussion to conclude the event\, titled “Beyond the Beautiful: Lessons from the Ecocritical Study of Spanish Colonial Art and Culture” at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday\, October 17. \n\n\n\nSchedule: Friday\, October 16\n\n\n\n9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.\n\n\n\nCoffee and Conversation \n\n\n\n9:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.\n\n\n\nWelcome and Opening RemarksDerek Burdette\, Associate Professor of Art History\, University of Florida \n\n\n\n10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. | Panel 1\n\n\n\n“Mapping the Liquid Landscape of Early Colonial Mexico”Savannah Esquivel\, Assistant Professor of Art History\, University of California\, Riverside \n\n\n\n“Las raíces humanas de los colorantes novohispanos: productores de grana cochinilla en Oaxaca\, siglo XVIII.”Huemac Escalona Lüttig\, Associate Researcher\, Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas\, Universidad Nacional de México (UNAM)\, Unidad Oaxaca. Talk to be delivered in Spanish. \n\n\n\n“Tecali in Translation: The Place of Stone in Colonial Mexico”Brendan McMahon\, Assistant Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Studies\, University of Michigan \n\n\n\n11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nLunch \n\n\n\n1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. | Panel 2\n\n\n\n“Cotton to Feather: Palampore Aesthetics in Amazonia”Juliana Fagua Arias\, Ph.D. Candidate in the History of Art\, Cornell University \n\n\n\n“Highlands of Ruin and Remedy: Plants\, Agency\, and Subaltern Ecologies in Caribbean Coffee Landscapes”Paul Niell\, Associate Professor of Art History\, Florida State University \n\n\n\n“Gather to Burn: Working Wax in the Colonial Philippines”Dana Leibsohn\, Alice Pratt Brown Professor of Art\, Smith College \n\n\n\n2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nCoffee Break \n\n\n\n3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. | Panel 3\n\n\n\n“A Matter of Taste: Salt\, Ritual\, and Ceremony in Colonial Mexico”Paul Ramírez\, Associate Professor of History\, Northwestern University \n\n\n\n“Salt\, Sicily\, and the Colonial Waterscape”Elizabeth Kassler-Taub\, Assistant Professor of Art History\, Dartmouth College \n\n\n\nSchedule: Saturday\, October 17\n\n\n\n10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.\n\n\n\nCoffee \n\n\n\n10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | Panel 4\n\n\n\n“Capitalist Logic and Artistic Production in the Villa Imperial de Potosí”Maya Stanfield-Mazzi\, Professor of Art History\, University of Florida \n\n\n\n“The Art of Logistics in the Global Spanish Empire”Daniel Nemser\, Associate Professor of Spanish\, University of Michigan \n\n\n\n“Captured Spanish Sea Charts as English Imperial Commodities”Juliet Wiersema\, Professor\, Art and Art History\, University of Texas\, San Antonio \n\n\n\n12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nLunch \n\n\n\n2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. | Keynote Conversation\n\n\n\n“Beyond the Beautiful: Lessons from the Ecocritical Study of Spanish Colonial Art and Culture”A moderated conversation between all invited speakers
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/hescah-symposium-creative-commodities-art-ecology-and-the-spanish-empire/
LOCATION:Emerson Alumni Hall\, 1938 W University Ave\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32603\, United States
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SUMMARY:UF Viola Day
DESCRIPTION:UF Viola Day 2026\n\n\n\nJoin Dr. Lauren Hodges and her students on Saturday\, October 17\, 2026\, for a full day of viola playing\, learning\, and fun at the University of Florida School of Music! \n\n\n\nDesigned for middle school\, high school\, and college students\, the UF Viola Day offers an exciting opportunity to experience the vibrant music community at the University of Florida. \n\n\n\nA Day Full of Viola! \n\n\n\nOur special guest artist\, Dr. Tze-Ying Wu of the University of Kentucky\, will present a mindfulness class\, viola masterclass\, and guest artist recital with pianist Jacob Coleman. \n\n\n\nProspective UF students will have the opportunity to participate in a group scale and technique class and a masterclass with Dr. Lauren Hodges. \n\n\n\nYoung violinists ages 12–18 can discover the viola through our half-day Violin to Viola Lab\, led by Dr. June Xu of the Gainesville Orchestra. Participants will have the chance to try the viola for the first time\, and a limited number of instruments will be available for students who do not own and instrument. \n\n\n\nTeachers and professional musicians are welcome to audit the day’s events. \n\n\n\nAll participants will have the chance to:\n\n\n\n\nPlay in a huge viola ensemble\n\n\n\nParticipate in group classes and masterclasses\n\n\n\nExplore mindfulness and musicianship\n\n\n\nEnjoy a guest artist recital and viola concert\n\n\n\nTour the UF School of Music with UF School of Music Ambassadors\n\n\n\nLearn more about studying music at the University of Florida\n\n\n\n\nWho can participate?\n\n\n\nUF Viola Day is geared toward viola students and young musicians ages 12–30\, including: \n\n\n\n\nMiddle school students\n\n\n\nHigh school students\n\n\n\nCollege students\n\n\n\nYoung professionals\n\n\n\n\nViolinists ages 12–18 are especially invited to participate in the Violin to Viola Lab and experience the viola for the first time! \n\n\n\n*Minors must be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the event. \n\n\n\nEvent Details\n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 17\, 20269:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nUniversity of Florida School of MusicMusic Building435 Newell DriveGainesville\, FL 32611 \n\n\n\nHave questions? Contact host Dr. Lauren Hodges at lbhodges@ufl.edu. We can’t wait to welcome you to UF Viola Day 2026!
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/uf-viola-day/
LOCATION:UF School of Music\, 435 Newell Dr.\, Gainesville\, Florida\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T140000
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SUMMARY:Living with Others: The Art and Ecology of a Multi-species Future | Program I
DESCRIPTION:Living with Others is a speaker series organized by Eury Kim\, Assistant Professor of Visual Communication Design\, with support from the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS)\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Gender\, Sexuality and Women’s Studies. The series aims to build ways of learning that go beyond aesthetic experience and demonstrate how art practices generate knowledge alongside traditional forms of humanities research. Programming will include artist talks and nature walks designed to engage students\, staff\, faculty and the broader Gainesville community with life that thrives on campus grounds. Activities will focus on caring for plants and animals in nearby swamps and wetlands\, including Lake Alice and the Harn Museum of Art. \n\n\n\nProgram I: Lee Pivnik\n\n\n\nLee Pivnik is an artist living in Miami\, Florida. He creates drawings\, sculptures\, and installations that explore interspecies relationships. Pivnik draws inspiration from animals\, insects\, and plants in South Florida\, imagining futures of mutual care rather than extraction. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design’s Sculpture program. \n\n\n\nProgramming for Living with Others is made possible by our sponsors. We are grateful for the support provided by the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere (CHPS)\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida. \n\n\n\nLiving with Others | Program II Information\nProgram II: Cornelius Tulloch and Arsimmer McCoySaturday\, November 14 at the Lake Alice viewing area. \n\n\n\n    \n    \n        View Program II
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/living-with-others-the-art-and-ecology-of-a-multi-species-future-program-i/
LOCATION:Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art\, 3259 Hull Rd\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32608\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261017T164500
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SUMMARY:Guest Artist Recital: Tze-Ying Wu and Jacob Coleman
DESCRIPTION:Program \n\n\n\nSonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano (1955) Bohuslav MartinůI. Poco andante (1890-1959)II. Allegro non troppo \n\n\n\nLet Down by Radiohead Christopher O’Riley(b. 1956) \n\n\n\nin manus tuas for Solo Viola (2009) Caroline Shaw(b. 1982) \n\n\n\nFantasy for Solo Viola (2014) Ellen Taaffe Zwilich(b. 1939) \n\n\n\nSonata No. 1 for Viola and Piano (1926) Nikolai Roslavets(1880 – 1944) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Tze-Ying Wu is an Associate Professor of Viola and String Education at the University of Kentucky and the director of the UK String Project. Before joining the University of Kentucky\, she was the founding director of the Sturgis Music Academy (now ASO String Academy) of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Dr. Wu earned her Doctor of Music and Master of Music degrees in viola performance from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University\, studying under Professor Atar Arad. She has also worked closely with Mimi Zweig and Dr. Brenda Brenner as a violin/viola instructor at Indiana University String Academy. Her undergraduate studies culminated in a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from National Taiwan Normal University. \n\n\n\nDr. Wu’s performance experience includes playing with orchestras such as the Lexington Philharmonic\, Arkansas Symphony Orchestra\, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra\, and Singapore Symphony Orchestra. As a dedicated chamber musician\, she performs extensively with her harp trio\, the Formosa Trio. The trio recently premiered commissioned works by Zhou Tian and Hsieh Tsung Jen at the American Harp Society’s 2023 Summer Institute at Colburn School and gave a recital at the National Taichung Theater in Taiwan. Their performances have also graced the stages of the 13th World Harp Congress in Hong Kong\, the University of Illinois\, Western Illinois University\, Central Michigan University\, Shanghai Concert Hall\, and the National Concert Hall in Taipei. Their album\, “First Impression\,” was released in 2018. \n\n\n\nIn addition to her academic year commitments\, Dr. Wu contributes her expertise during the summer as a faculty member at the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts and the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute. She is an active member of the American String Teachers Association and the American Viola Society\, and she currently serves as the board president for the National String Project Consortium. In recognition of her contributions to music education\, Dr. Wu was honored with the Outstanding Educator Award by the Kentucky Chapter of the American String Teachers Association in 2024. \n\n\n\nA native of Athens\, Georgia\, pianist Jacob Coleman is Associate Professor of Piano and Collaborative Piano at the University of Kentucky School of Music. As a collaborator\, Dr. Coleman has performed with artists such as Franklin Cohen\, David Kim\, Jeff Nelsen\, Leone Busye\, Amy Porter as well as the Zohn Collective and Kenari Quartet. He has served as an official pianist for the Mid-South Flute Fest\, National Trumpet Competition\, ProjetoBone Brasil (2019)\, and Muestra Internacional de Clarinete de Panamá (2019). Coleman has also frequently appeared at the North American Saxophone Alliance and International Double Reed Society conferences. \n\n\n\nPrior to coming to Kentucky Dr. Coleman taught at the University of Southern Mississippi\, where he directed the Collaborative Piano Program and created a new doctoral degree. From 2014-2016\, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Collaborative Piano at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. For six summers\, he was a member of the piano staff at the Meadowmount School of Music founded by Ivan Galamian. Dr. Coleman holds degrees from The University of Texas at Austin (DMA\, Collaborative Piano)\, University of Oregon (MM\, Collaborative Piano)\, and University of Georgia (BM\, Piano Performance). His primary teachers were Richard Zimdars\, David Riley\, and Anne Epperson.
URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/guest-artist-recital-tze-ying-wu-and-jacob-coleman/
LOCATION:UF School of Music\, 435 Newell Dr.\, Gainesville\, Florida\, United States
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