“To read that which has never been written” / Books from the Marjorie S. Coffey Artists’ Book Collection, part of the Special and Area Studies Rare Book Collections at The University of Florida, is an artist’s books exhibition organized in collaboration with Ellen Knudson, Associate in Book Arts at The University of Florida, where she […]
Adrian Piper Dance Lessons is an exhibition of Adrian Piper that features her Funk Lessons (1983) and Shiva Dances (2004)—two participatory group performances—through which Piper challenges racism and xenophobia, using art to generate social and political awareness. Piper is a prolific artist, philosopher, and pioneer of conceptual art, who has profoundly shaped the field through her […]
Dr. Kellie Jones, Hans Hofmann Professor of Modern Art, Department of Art History & Archaeology, and Professor of African American & African Diaspora Studies, Columbia University__"Women and the Dreamwork"This lecture inaugurates part 2 of the series “Art’s Inclusive Histories: In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage.” For Fall 2020, HESCAH commemorates the centennial […]
Managing transitions requires a high level of creativity, innovation, leadership, and adaptability skills; therefore, innovative business and management skills become an obligation for creators of arts and values. ReSource is proposed as a virtual creative and business meeting to mentor and up-skill artists and managers who are ready to reinvigorate their knowledge and properly manage […]
Exhibition Dates: September 17, 2020 through January 29, 2021Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. In, Of, From: Experiments in Sound is an exhibition that explores new ways of understanding the relationship between sound art and the traditional gallery experience. This exhibition will focus on a group of contemporary artists who have […]
Please join us on Saturday, September 19, 2020 at 1:00 p.m. for the first event of Conversations in the Neighborhood, a public humanities series that focuses on food, which under normal circumstances brings us together in families, among friends, and in larger communities. Brought to you by the Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, […]
Pastor Gerard Duncan joins us as the inaugural speaker for the Codesigning Equitable Futures Speaker Series. A social entrepreneur and civic engagement advocate for children and families, Pastor Duncan will share his insights on how we might establish long-term, sustainable, and respectful collaborations. Gerard Duncan is Senior Pastor of Prayers By Faith Ministries in Gainesville […]
Codesigning Equitable Futures Speaker Series is part of a community engagement initiative to build connections between UF and the local community. To do this, we invited Robin Lewy, Co-Founder and Director of Programming at the Rural Women's Health Project (RWHP), the only health justice organization in North Florida, for a conversation to share insights on […]
Dr. Aruna D'Souza, Independent Art Historian, Curator, and Art CriticDr. D’Souza will lecture on the work of feminist performance and conceptual artist Lorraine O’Grady (b. 1934). Editor of O’Grady’s collected essays, Writing in Space, 1973–2019 (Duke University Press, 2020) and curator of her forthcoming retrospective, Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And (New Museum, Spring 2021), Dr. D’Souza explores how O’Grady’s […]
Ulises Carrión: Post/Master, curated by María Paula Varela, Ph.D. Candidate in Art History, will be Ulises Carrión’s first public exhibition in the United States. Carrión was a crucial figure in Mail Art, a prominent international movement of the 1970s and 1980s related to Conceptual Art, and in which artists exhibited material they had mailed to […]