Arts & Humanities

AT&T donates $10,000 to Opening Nights at Florida State University for cultural arts programming in high schools

Published: June 6, 2018 | 11:50 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

AT&T is donating $10,000 to Opening Nights at Florida State University to help provide enhanced cultural arts programming for Leon County high school students. With AT&T’s support, Opening Nights is bringing artists from two different continents to Tallahassee as part of its “Opening Nights in Class” initiative. Singer-songwriter Graeme James of New Zealand will perform […]

FSU’s Opening Nights announces 2018-2019 season lineup

Published: May 31, 2018 | 8:00 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, University News

Opening Nights at Florida State University has announced its 2018-2019 season of performances and events. The lineup boasts 45 performances with artists from 11 different countries representing music, dance, theatre, comedy, spoken word and visual arts. Emerging artists, such as classical performing artist and accordion prodigy Hanzhi Wang and popular favorites like The Temptations and […]

Dream comes true for FSU students at 2018 Cannes Film Festival

Published: May 15, 2018 | 2:00 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

FSU film students Nick Markart and Tyler Knutt were invited to the 2018 Cannes Film Festival in the south of France to screen "Peacekeeper," a documentary produced for a film class. “Cannes is one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world and to be part of that, to showcase yourself and meet other filmmakers is unreal.”

Two Florida State University film students are rubbing shoulders this week with some of the world’s most famous movie stars and directors at the prestigious 2018 Cannes Film Festival. Tyler Knutt and Nicholas Markart, both 21 years old and seniors in FSU’s College of Motion Picture Arts, are presenting their documentary, “Peacekeeper,” at the festival’s […]

FSU music professor earns prestigious research fellowship

Published: May 10, 2018 | 9:45 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

FSU College of Music Professor Iain Quinn has received a fellowship from the Newberry Library in Chicago to study the archival materials of renowned 20th-century composer and conductor Rudolph Ganz.

Florida State University Music Professor Iain Quinn has received a prestigious fellowship to study and bring new life to the musical archive of Rudolph Ganz, an influential and celebrated 20th-century composer, conductor, pianist and music educator. The fellowship comes from the Newberry, a historic research library in Chicago and the repository for Ganz’s extensive collection […]

FSU’s MANCC awarded national grant to support next generation of artists

Published: May 9, 2018 | 4:59 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Florida State University’s Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography has been awarded a second round of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support creative laboratories for emerging dance artists and their collaborators. The MANCC Forward Dialogues (MFD) program is a laboratory designed to support and catalyze the ideas of emergent movement-based artists by […]

Florida State University Singers to celebrate 70th anniversary with reunion concert

Published: April 11, 2018 | 2:10 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

The University Singers will celebrate their 70th anniversary with a reunion concert Saturday, April 14.

The Florida State University Singers and alumni choir will raise their voices to celebrate 70 years during their spring concert, “We Enter with Singing! Celebrating 70 Years,” April 14 at Ruby Diamond Concert Hall. Kevin Fenton, director of the University Singers, and former director André Thomas, will lead the choirs, featuring more than 100 alumni […]

Classics professor named director of excavations at longest-running American archaeological project in Greece

Published: April 10, 2018 | 2:24 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

A Florida State University faculty member has achieved a top honor in the field of classical archaeology. Christopher A. Pfaff, an associate professor in FSU’s Department of Classics, was recently named director of excavations at Ancient Corinth by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Considered one of the most important archaeological sites from […]

FSU to host first-ever national state of the field of 18th-century French history conference

Published: April 6, 2018 | 3:52 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Florida State University is set to convene dozens of top historians of long 18th-century and revolutionary France from throughout the United States for a landmark conference on French history in American academia — the first-ever national conference of its kind. The two-day meeting, to be presented by FSU’s Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution […]

70 years later: FSU professor reflects on legacy of the Marshall Plan

Published: April 5, 2018 | 11:51 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, Experts

On June 5, 1947, as Europe sat smoldering in the wake of World War II, U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall rose to address a Harvard University convocation. During his remarks, Marshall outlined the need for an international cooperative plan for European recovery, drafted by participating European nations and buttressed by “friendly advice” and […]

English professor earns top award in field of composition studies

Published: March 12, 2018 | 2:08 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

A professor in Florida State University’s Department of English has received a top honor in her field as the 2018 recipient of the prestigious Exemplar Award from the Conference on College Composition and Communication. The CCCC is the world’s largest professional organization for researching and teaching composition, from writing to new media. The Exemplar Award […]

FSU film professor wins prestigious Independent Spirit Award

Published: March 7, 2018 | 5:10 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

FSU's faculty filmmaker Antonio Méndez Esparza won the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award for his film “Life and Nothing More” at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, California, March 3.

Something very unexpected happened when Florida State University’s Antonio Méndez Esparza, a gifted and impassioned faculty filmmaker and teacher at the College of Motion Picture Arts, heard his film “Life and Nothing More” announced as a winner at the 2018 Film Independent Spirit Awards. His mind went blank. Esparza didn’t expect that. He’d practiced a […]

Art alumnus donates hundreds of hand-painted backdrops to College of Fine Arts

Published: March 5, 2018 | 12:42 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

A Florida State University alumnus has donated hundreds of hand-painted backdrops to the College of Fine Arts for use in photo shoots and filming. Chuck Whited, who graduated from FSU in 1976 with a degree in studio art, donated the inventory of backdrops from his Atlanta-based company, C&M Backdrops. He recently closed the business after […]