Arts & Humanities

An international gathering of artists, designers, teachers and social justice advocates from at least 14 states and 12 countries are conversing on The Florida State University for the 4th Annual Art and Design for Social Justice Symposium, which begins at 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 17, and continues on Monday, Jan. 18, from 8 a.m. […]

Florida State University College of Music Dean Don Gibson has been elected president of the National Association of Schools of Music, the nation’s oldest and largest accrediting agency for the arts. Gibson has taken the NASM helm after serving as the association’s president-elect since 2006. His term as president will run through November 2012. “I […]

No one writes songs like Lyle Lovett. Finely wrought and full of wit, wisdom and Texas-sized storytelling, the singer/songwriter’s catalog is rife with characters and concepts that loom large on the American landscape. You can hear Lovett and his amazing Large Band perform those songs when they take the stage at the Leon County Civic […]

Students in the Florida State University College of Motion Picture, Television and Recording Arts have given another bravura performance, claiming a majority of the awards handed out in a new film documentary competition devoted to highlighting the works of philanthropic and charitable organizations. The John Templeton Foundation last year created a documentary competition called Filmanthropy, […]

Florida State University students will be in the spotlight in Sarasota as The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, operated by The Florida State University in Sarasota, Florida, and New York’s Baryshnikov Arts Center launch the inaugural Ringling International Arts Festival, October 7-11, 2009. The unique partnership will bring together more than 100 artists […]

The 12th season of Florida State University’s annual festival of the fine and performing arts has been announced. Running from Feb. 12-22, Tallahassee’s premier arts event will offer a unique combination of performances and exhibits ranging from the Vienna Boys Choir to hip-hop dance, and from the Company of Angels to Margaret Atwood’s dystopic vision […]

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, operated by The Florida State University in Sarasota, Florida, and New York’s Baryshnikov Arts Center have partnered for the launch of the Ringling International Arts Festival, October 7-11, 2009. The festival will take place throughout the Ringling Museum of Art’s 66-acre waterfront cultural estate on Sarasota Bay. […]

A Florida State University historian who leads an international team working to produce a comprehensive modern history of the Earth’s northernmost region has won the largest individual research grant ever received by a member of his department. Ronald E. Doel, an associate professor in the Department of History, is the recipient of a $489,000 grant […]

The Florida State University is one of the nation’s most prolific research institutions in the arts, according to rankings recently released by Science Watch that place Florida State third among the universities with the most published papers in the field of performing arts between 2003 and 2007. Science Watch conferred that No. 3 rank on […]