BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//University of Florida | College of the Arts - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:University of Florida | College of the Arts X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://arts.ufl.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for University of Florida | College of the Arts REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260213T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260829T170000 DTSTAMP:20260518T182855 CREATED:20260210T021028Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260210T022957Z UID:28279-1771007400-1788022800@arts.ufl.edu SUMMARY:The Wisdom of Ananse: Ceramic Sculptures by Alex Awuku DESCRIPTION:February 13\, 2026\, at 6:30 p.m.\, Opening Reception \n\n\n\nThe Wisdom of Ananse: Ceramic Sculptures by Alex Awuku opens Friday\, Feb 13 at 6:30pm at the Cotton Club Museum! \n\n\n\nThe exhibition will feature original clay sculptures that feature Ghanaian folk tales and the centuries-old wisdom gleaned from them. The sculptures also reveal Awuku’s concern that these stories\, and the wisdom they impart\, are being ignored and therefore lost with the current generation. Featuring Guest Curator\, Dr. Rebecca M. Nagy. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition will be on view Feb 13 – Aug 29 during regular museum hours. Free and open to the public. URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/the-wisdom-of-ananse-ceramic-sculptures-by-alex-awuku/ LOCATION:Cotton Club Museum and Cultural Center\, 837 SE 7th Avenue\, Gainesville\, Florida\, 32601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arts.ufl.edu/app/uploads/2026/02/Awuku-CCMCC.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260522T170000 DTSTAMP:20260518T182855 CREATED:20260512T034711Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260512T034714Z UID:30299-1778868000-1779469200@arts.ufl.edu SUMMARY:The Way Things Are: A Solo Exhibition By Dylan A. Taylor DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: May 15\, 2026 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nJoin us Friday\, May 15 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for the solo exhibition\, “The Way Things Are” by Dylan A. Taylor! \n\n\n\nArtist Statement:  \n\n\n\nMy art employs narrative storytelling to investigate the construction of social reality — primarily through short-form filmmaking and tableau photography. I observe how cultural and cinematic codes are arbitrarily naturalized to perpetuate a particular status quo characterized by artificiality\, absurdity\, and mundanity. Additionally\, I explore how this contemporary discontent manifests itself as a motivation to reproduce and control the world through visual media. As representations increasingly pervade and supersede the ‘real world’\, my work argues that the reality we collectively inhabit is as fabricated and narratively controlled as film itself. \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with film production crews\, my practice applies the visual language and logistical operations of traditional cinema. Through this methodology\, apparatus and fictionality are foregrounded — supporting an interrogative intersection between artifice and actual. Additionally\, through the engagement of antimimetic narrative\, I survey the properties of temporality\, continuity\, and metafiction in visual storytelling; this ultimately contributes to the evolving dialogue on how cinematic language can be reinterpreted across contemporary film\, photography\, and visual art. URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/the-way-things-are-a-solo-exhibition-by-dylan-a-taylor/ LOCATION:4Most Gallery & Studio\, 534 SW 4th Avenue\, Gainesville\, Florida\, 32601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arts.ufl.edu/app/uploads/2026/05/The-Way-Things-Are.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260523T164500 DTSTAMP:20260518T182855 CREATED:20260512T032845Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T143318Z UID:30285-1779548400-1779554700@arts.ufl.edu SUMMARY:Soundscapes as Oral History DESCRIPTION:As part of the Stories for Sustainability series\, the Soundscapes as Oral History Workshop will focus on learning how to relay a personal story through a soundscape. Workshop participants will reflect on their personal relationships between sound and memory in order to create a brief “narrative” in the form of an audio soundscape\, while also gaining familiarity with Audacity—a creative audio tool that can facilitate soundscape creation. The workshop will be led by Dr. Jillian Rogers (School of Music). Advance registration is requested\, as space at the workshop venue will be limited. \n\n\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Eventbrite QR Code URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/soundscapes-as-oral-history/ LOCATION:Alachua County Headquarters Library\, 401 E University Ave\, Gainesville\, Florida\, 32601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arts.ufl.edu/app/uploads/2026/05/TheFutureIsListening2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T140000 DTSTAMP:20260518T182855 CREATED:20260512T025640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260512T025655Z UID:30279-1779800400-1779804000@arts.ufl.edu SUMMARY:From Vision to Victory: Arts in Health Legislation in Georgia DESCRIPTION:Join the UF Center for Arts in Medicine for a moderated conversation exploring the successful passage of landmark arts in health legislation in Georgia and what it means for the future of the field. This webinar will examine the strategy\, partnerships\, and advocacy that helped make Georgia the first state in the nation to formally pass legislation acknowledging the effectiveness of arts for health initiatives in improving mental health outcomes across clinical and community contexts. \n\n\n\nModerated by Alex Rodriguez\, MPH\, PhD (abd)\, Research Associate\, UF Center for Arts in Medicine\, the conversation will feature panelists who were instrumental in advancing and securing passage of this landmark legislation: \n\n\n\n• Marcel Foster\, MPH\, CEO & Co-Founder of Performance Hypothesis• Representative Kim Schofield\, Member of the Georgia House of Representatives• Dyllón Burnside\, Artist and Founder of Burnside Artist Retreat• Khadijah Ameen\, PhD\, MPH\, Co-founder and Director of Policy and Research at BLKHLTH \n\n\n\nTogether\, speakers will share lessons in coalition-building\, policy development\, and how arts in health leaders across the country can advance similar efforts in their own communities. \n\n\n\nBy the end of this webinar\, participants will be able to:• Describe the significance of Georgia’s arts in health legislation and its implications for the field.• Identify strategies and partnerships that supported successful policy advancement.• Explore actionable approaches for advocating for arts in health policy in their own states or communities. URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/from-vision-to-victory-arts-in-health-legislation-in-georgia/ LOCATION:Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arts.ufl.edu/app/uploads/2026/05/Webinar-Series-4-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260529T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260605T170000 DTSTAMP:20260518T182855 CREATED:20260514T014939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T015912Z UID:30321-1780077600-1780678800@arts.ufl.edu SUMMARY:Loading Proxies... a duo art exhibition by Lindsay Carlton and Komal Goswami DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: May 29\, 2026 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. \n\n\n\nJoin us Friday\, May 29\, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. for the duo art exhibition\, “Loading Proxies…” by Lindsay Carlton and Komal Goswami! \n\n\n\n“Loading Proxies…” is a duo exhibition between artists exploring the proxy as both embodied and simulated. \n\n\n\nStatements from the artists: \n\n\n\nLindsay Carlton: My work utilizes self-portrait photography as a method of avatar performance\, where I use my own body as a tool to construct and perform characters that are separate from myself—proxies rather than representations of my own identity. Through these works\, I explore how femininity and gendered archetypes are performed through digital media\, cinema\, and the history of visual culture. Throughout my work\, I also remix and reference existing imagery from popular culture\, using these visual languages to construct my characters. The works exist in the tension between seduction and abjection\, where femininity is both performed and destabilized\, exposing the constructed nature of idealized beauty.  \n\n\n\nKomal Goswami: My work employs 3D/CG generation\, creative coding\, and digital imaging processes to further investigate “living in the hyphen” culturally and tangibly\, exploring the evolving landscape of human expression\, meaning\, and thought within an increasingly digitally assimilated world. These works emerge from experimentation with the detachment of the self through busts that are 3D-rendered\, 3D-animated\, or digitally replicated. Using my own likeness and animal-based mythic forms as source material\, and referencing both Hindu and Western portrait conventions\, I create abstract self-portraiture and portrait forms that deny autobiography. Instead\, these figures – suspended between portrait\, avatar\, idol\, and simulation – operate as provisional proxies through which identity and embodiment are continuously generated\, processed\, and displaced between the “reel” and the “real” world.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition will be on view through June 5\, 2026. URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/loading-proxies-a-duo-art-exhibition-by-lindsay-carlton-and-komal-goswami/ LOCATION:4Most Gallery & Studio\, 534 SW 4th Avenue\, Gainesville\, Florida\, 32601\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arts.ufl.edu/app/uploads/2026/05/Loading-Proxies.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260530T235959 DTSTAMP:20260518T182855 CREATED:20260123T193908Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260511T131639Z UID:27645-1780099200-1780185599@arts.ufl.edu SUMMARY:International Piano Festival DESCRIPTION:May 30: 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Festival Competition (Steinbrenner Band Hall)\n\n\n\n\n10:00am Session I \n\n\n\n11:20am Session II \n\n\n\n1:15pm Session III\n\n\n\n2:40pm Session IV\n\n\n\n\n7:00 p.m. Festival Faculty Concert (University Auditorium)\n\n\n\nThe International Piano Festival at the University of Florida assembles promising young pianists for lessons and masterclasses with distinguished piano teachers from North America and across the globe. Originating in 2007 as the Chinese-American International Piano Institute (CAIPI)\, the event has hosted some of the finest performers and teachers from around the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccommodations & Travel\nParticipants are responsible for securing their own hotel accommodation\, as the festival does not offer accommodation through the UF housing office this year. \n\n\n\nHoliday Inn University (across the UF campus\, about 12 min walk to School of Music) offers a discount for the UFIPF participants: \n\n\n\nHoliday Inn Gainesville- University Center1250 W. University AveGainesville\, Florida\, 32601 \n\n\n\n\n \n \n Festival Artists/Competition Judges\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Kevin Robert Orr\n \n\n \n \n \n School Director and Professor of the School of Music\n \n \n \n \n \n School of Music\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n korr@ufl.edu\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Evan Mitchell\n \n\n \n \n \n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n School of Music\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n evan.mitchell@ufl.edu\n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Hsiang Tu\n \n\n \n \n \n Assistant Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n School of Music\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n hsiangtu@ufl.edu\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n \n Festival Director\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n Jasmin Arakawa\n \n\n \n \n \n Associate Professor\n \n \n \n \n \n School of Music\n \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n \n jarakawa@ufl.edu\n \n \n \n \n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nMake a donation\n\n\n\nUFIPF brings you fifteen events each year\, all of them open to the public\, free of charge. The festival attracts many young talents nationally and internationally as well as world-renowned guest artists. If you enjoyed any of our concerts\, please consider becoming a sponsor to help us continue to bring young talents to Gainesville!! \n\n\n\n \n \n Make a gift URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/international-piano-festival/ LOCATION:UF School of Music\, 435 Newell Dr.\, Gainesville\, Florida\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arts.ufl.edu/app/uploads/2026/01/PianoFest2026_CotA_v1-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260602T160000 DTSTAMP:20260518T182855 CREATED:20260516T035308Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260516T035357Z UID:30379-1780408800-1780416000@arts.ufl.edu SUMMARY:Arts in Health: Nontraditional & Interdisciplinary Careers DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Arts in Medicine virtually to learn about what professionals are doing in careers around arts in health. \n\n\n\nArts in health is an interdisciplinary field where the arts and creative engagement are used to support health\, healing\, and wellbeing in hospitals\, communities\, and public health settings. The University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine is committed to advancing education\, research\, policy\, and practice at the intersections of the arts and health\, locally and globally. \n\n\n\nIf you want to learn more about how the University of Florida can support students who are considering a career in arts in health\, an overview of graduate programs at the UF Center for Arts in Medicine will follow and feature faculty and a current M.A. degree in Arts in Medicine student perspective as well as a Q&A. URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/arts-in-health-nontraditional-interdisciplinary-careers/ LOCATION:Zoom ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://arts.ufl.edu/app/uploads/2026/05/arts-in-health-nontraditional-and-interdisciplinary-careers.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260620T164500 DTSTAMP:20260518T182855 CREATED:20260514T015701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260514T143207Z UID:30329-1781967600-1781973900@arts.ufl.edu SUMMARY:Public Storytelling Practices Workshop DESCRIPTION:As part of the Stories for Sustainability Series\, the Public Storytelling Practices Workshop will focus on developing skills for public storytelling. The workshop will be led by Dr. Jashodhara Sen (School of Theatre & Dance). Advance registration is requested\, as space at the workshop venue will be limited (Max 25). \n\n\n\n \n \n \n Dr. Jashodhara Sen\n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n Eventbrite QR code – Public Storytelling Practices URL:https://arts.ufl.edu/event/public-storytelling-practices-workshop/ LOCATION:Alachua County Library – Millhopper Branch\, 3145 NW 43 St\, Gainesville\, Florida\, 32606\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://arts.ufl.edu/app/uploads/2026/05/TheFutureIsListening3.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR