Arts & Humanities

FSU Orchestras to play unique weekend of concerts

Published: February 12, 2019 | 3:23 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

The University Symphony Orchestra will take the stage in Ruby Diamond Concert Hall at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17. (FSU College of Music)

Music lovers get a rare treat this weekend with special concerts by two of Florida State University’s premier ensembles. At 7:30 p.m. Friday, the University Philharmonia will host its first concert of the spring semester in Opperman Music Hall, located in the Kuersteiner Music Building. Then on Sunday at 3 p.m., the University Symphony Orchestra […]

FSU dance students to present ‘Fractured Form’

Published: February 12, 2019 | 9:22 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Dancers Mackenzie Pane, Rachel Hickman and Aaron Smith perform Bridget Close's "Consider the Source." (Photo: Meagan Helman)

Florida State University’s School of Dance will present a performance featuring three choreographies by graduate students that examine, question and promote a new understanding of form. Master of Fine Arts candidates Julie Opiel, Bridget Close and Sarah Rose will present “Fractured Form” at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2, in the Nancy […]

Biennial Festival of New Music underway at FSU College of Music

Published: February 1, 2019 | 9:00 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

The Meitar Ensemble and Pierre-André Valade perform at 7:30 p.m. Friday in Opperman Music Hall. (Photo: The Meitar Ensemble)

The 19th Biennial Festival of New Music is underway at Florida State University’s College of Music and will continue through Feb. 2. The festival includes masterclasses and presentations by guest artists, plus seven different concerts featuring acoustic and electroacoustic compositions for both small and large ensembles. Except for the Saturday evening closing concert, all events […]

FSU’s School of Dance and Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography among best in the nation

Published: January 31, 2019 | 1:47 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Florida State's School of Dance is one of the most respected programs in the nation.

Florida State University’s School of Dance and Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) have been nationally recognized by College Magazine for their top-notch dance and choreography programs. College Magazine ranked Florida State No. 6 on the list of The 10 Best Schools for Dance in 2019 and No. 4 on the list of The […]

Two FSU alumni team up on film shown at Sundance Film Festival

Published: January 30, 2019 | 10:23 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

Members of the film team who made "I Snuck Off the Slave Ship."

Two Florida State University graduates are attending the renowned Sundance Film Festival, the largest showcase of independent films in the country, to participate in the premiere of a film they both worked on. Film editor Joy Elaine Davenport and videographer Pablo Correa, both graduates of FSU’s School of Communication, collaborated on the film “I Snuck […]

FSU’s interior architecture and design program among nation’s best

Published: January 28, 2019 | 3:25 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

FSU's Interior Architecture & Design program is among the nation's best. (College of Fine Arts)

Florida State University’s Department of Interior Architecture and Design climbed in the national rankings published by DesignIntelligence, which ranks programs based on reviews from professionals in the field, architecture and design deans, program chairs, department heads, students and graduates. This year, FSU’s program ranked No. 5 nationally, and No. 2 among public universities, on a […]

FSU film student wins national award for documentary on ‘bionic woman’

Published: January 23, 2019 | 12:30 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

Chris Violette, a junior in FSU's College of Motion Picture Arts, won a $10,000 cash award from the Television Academy Foundation for his documentary "Woman of Steel."

A Florida State University film student has won a prestigious award from the Television Academy Foundation for his documentary about a Florida woman who lives with a bionic arm and considers herself a human cyborg. Chris Violette, a junior in the College of Motion Picture Arts, was named the winner of the Loreen Arbus Focus […]

FSU graduate Barry Jenkins earns another Oscar nomination

Published: January 22, 2019 | 3:33 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

In 2017, Barry Jenkins thrilled students and staff with his visit to Florida State after winning an Oscar for his film "Moonlight." Jenkins is nominated again for an Academy Award at the 91st Oscars this Sunday.

Florida State University film school phenom and Academy Award winner Barry Jenkins has earned his third Oscar nomination. When the 2019 Academy Award nominations were announced today, the movie director and screenwriter received a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for his film “If Beale Street Could Talk.” Jenkins adapted the screenplay from the 1974 novel […]

FSU’s medical music therapy for vulnerable babies to expand

Published: January 8, 2019 | 9:30 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, Health & Medicine

FSU alumna Ciele Gutierrez offers medical music therapy to a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit. "Sometimes when a mom is holding her baby and I’m providing music therapy she will say, 'Wow, I can feel her breathing slowing down and she's just kind of melting into me and becoming more relaxed.' So, the moms themselves are feeling their babies' physical change.” (Photo: Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare)

Critically ill babies fighting for their lives will now benefit from the services of Florida State University’s world-renowned Medical Music Therapy program even after they leave the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit. Expanded music therapy services start this month thanks to funding provided by an FSU Dance Marathon grant to FSU’s College of Medicine Neonatal […]

FSU alum makes ‘thrilling debut’ at world-renowned opera house

Published: December 7, 2018 | 3:03 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, News

Alexander Elliott earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music from Florida State in 2008 and 2010. He appreciates his time at Florida State: “FSU has a phenomenal music program."

Florida State University alumnus Alexander Birch Elliott will not forget a chaotic, but thrilling, evening last month when he was unexpectedly thrust into the bright spotlight of the nation’s premier opera house. Elliott, a talented baritone who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from FSU, had been hired as the understudy for a lead […]

FSU art professor to be featured in prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation exhibit

Published: December 4, 2018 | 2:44 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Florida State University Professor of Art Lilian Garcia-Roig is one of the 25 artists in the nation who will be featured by the Joan Mitchell Foundation as part of the organization’s 25th anniversary celebration. In 2006, Garcia-Roig won a Joan Mitchell Award — one of the premier national honors bestowed in the visual arts — along with a $25,000 grant […]

‘Silent Night’ still making a joyful noise on 200th birthday

Published: November 30, 2018 | 12:25 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities, Expert Pitches, News

FSU musicologist Sarah Eyerly notes the impact of the iconic Christmas carol over the centuries. "'Silent Night' has come to represent a universal message of peace." (Image: Silent Night Society, Oberndorf, Austria)

“Silent night, holy night. All is calm, all is bright…” The words of “Silent Night,” written by a young Catholic priest in war-ravaged Austria in 1816, and their accompanying melody composed two years later by a schoolteacher, have resonated with people across cultures worldwide ever since they were first sung on Christmas Eve in a […]