Arts & Humanities

FSU invests in the future of the Museum of Fine Arts with two new appointments

Published: June 27, 2018 | 12:53 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

The Museum of Fine Arts is the largest academic art museum in the Big Bend and is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. (Photo by Matthew A. Miley)

Florida State University’s Museum of Fine Arts has appointed two new staff members to oversee its activities and exhibition space, effective July 30. Preston McLane will serve as the museum’s new director. He will succeed MoFA founding director Allys Palladino-Craig, who will retire in September after 38 years at the helm of the museum. Meredith […]

FSU Summer Music Camps celebrate 77 years of musical delight

Published: June 26, 2018 | 8:41 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Jazz Ensemble Campers prepare for their final performance at FSU Summer Music Camps.

Hundreds of middle and high music students from across the world are participating in the 77th season of Florida State University’s renowned FSU Summer Music Camps. Camps began on June 10, and over the course of five weeks, 1,500 young musicians will take part in 14 different programs. “Our camps not only provide great musical […]

Art history graduate student curates exhibition at the Embassy of Peru Art Gallery

Published: June 20, 2018 | 10:31 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

A Florida State University doctoral candidate in art history has curated an exhibit that will open June 28 at the Embassy of Peru Art Gallery in Washington, D.C. Gabriela Germana curated the exhibition “Metal Bodies: Contemporary Peruvian Women Artists,” which showcases the art of 10 contemporary Peruvian women artists who have explored the female form through the […]

Teachers learn dance moves for math lessons as part of innovative program hosted by FSU’s Opening Nights

Published: June 13, 2018 | 4:23 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

Teachers combined dance and math during a workshop designed to show participants how to present math lessons in a different way. (FSU Photography Services)

Florida State University’s Opening Nights and Leon County Schools teamed up this week to offer elementary and middle school teachers a creative new tool to teach math, in partnership with the John F. Kennedy Center’s Partners in Education program. About 40 teachers attended “Math Dance” workshops at FSU to learn dance moves that can be […]

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 […]