“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Achebe | Baldwin @ 40 - Day 1Thursday, October 22, 2020 from 10:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Achebe | Baldwin @ 40 - Day 2Friday, October 23, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.View the full schedule here On the 40th anniversary of Baldwin and Achebe’s historic encounter at the University of Florida, this two-day […]
In 1988, the celebrated Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic Chinua Achebe, published an essay with the title An Image of Africa, the seminal text is a critique of a certain gaze upon Africa as “the other world.”Qudus Onikeku, the current maker in residence of the Center for Arts, Migration, and Entrepreneurship, will be presenting during the […]
Dr. Branden W. Joseph, Frank Gallipoli Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Columbia UniversityDr. Joseph will lecture on the cross-disciplinary work of the artist and musician Kim Gordon. Focusing upon Gordon’s early critical writings (which Joseph edited in 2014) and hybrid artistic practice with such collaborators as Vikky Alexander and Dan Graham, the talk will […]