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FSU’s Museum of Fine Arts hosts virtual activities during COVID-19

Published: May 14, 2020 | 11:48 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Nearly 60,000 people visit Florida State University’s Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) annually, but the COVID-19 pandemic has temporarily closed one of the largest academic art museums in the Big Bend. That’s prompted MoFA staff to reschedule exhibitions and programs and develop remote internships and educational opportunities for students, as well as generate new activities that would attract visitors to make virtual trips to the museum through a new “MoFA at Home” initiative. Museum Director Preston McLane, Assistant Curator and Director […]

FSU Museum of Fine Arts presents ‘Rising Water’ exhibition

Published: January 16, 2020 | 3:38 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Pictured: "Destroy This Memory" by Richard Misrach will be on display Jan. 16 - March 28 as part of the "Rising Water" exhibition at MoFA.

The Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) at Florida State University presents “Rising Water: Artists Working in Response to Hurricanes,” an exhibition featuring work from artists across hurricane-impacted areas of the United States and the Caribbean. “Rising Water” explores how to center creativity, empathy and humanity in planning for a future that will include increasingly violent […]

Florida State to take part in global celebration of influential American dance artist, Merce Cunningham

Published: April 1, 2019 | 3:58 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Florida State University will host a series of events as part of a global celebration of the life and work of one of the greatest American dance artists, Merce Cunningham. The events — a collaboration between the FSU School of Dance, the FSU College of Music, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Student Life Cinema and the […]

FSU Rembrandt exhibit results in new interpretation of Dutch master’s work

Published: March 21, 2019 | 11:17 am | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

Dr. Morton Mower and former FSU graduate student Lesley Wolff offered a new look at Rembrandt's "Death of a Virgin."

Sometimes, a new project reaches you at an unexpected time. That was the case when former FSU doctoral student Lesley Wolff was working as a research assistant at FSU’s Museum of Fine Arts. Wolff, now a postdoctoral fellow at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, was helping former museum director Allys Palladino-Craig […]

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’s Museum of Fine Arts to host exhibition featuring renowned Haitian-American artist

Published: January 23, 2018 | 2:23 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

"Of Cotton, Gunboats and Petticoats," by Edouard Duval-Carrié, 2017, mixed media on aluminum artist’s frame.

A new exhibition at Florida State University’s Museum of Fine Arts will explore historical themes such as regional plantation agriculture and slavery, while highlighting the work of renowned Haitian-born artist Edouard Duval-Carrié. The exhibition, “Decolonizing Refinement: Contemporary Pursuits in the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié,” curated in collaboration with the FSU Department of Art History, will […]

FSU exhibition referenced by New York Times as impacting the art market

Published: November 4, 2016 | 2:32 pm | Posted in: Arts & Humanities

An original exhibition developed by the Florida State University College of Fine Arts is affecting the art market according to a recent New York Times article. “Cuban Art in the Twentieth Century,” the exhibition referenced by the newspaper, was first shown at the FSU Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) in February 2016, where it drew the museum’s largest […]

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