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2009/2010
Curiosities: Rick Valicenti + 21st Century Thirst
Opening Reception + Lecture by Rick Valicenti
Friday, February 12, 2010
6 - 9 PM // Schmidt Center Gallery
Lecture: 7- 8 PM // PA 101 (lecture hall next to the Schmidt Center Gallery)
Schmidt Center Gallery
February 13 - April 3
New Art: 2009 South Florida Cultural Consortium
Media and Visual Arts Fellowship Winners
Opening Reception: Friday, September 11, 2009
7 - 9:30 PM / Schmidt Center Gallery and Ritter Art Gallery
Schmidt Center Gallery
Ritter Art Gallery
September 12 - October 31, 2009
Nights at the Galleries - the University Galleries will be open to the public and an hour after the Artists Talks on each of the three following evenings. The talks feature 5 of the 10 artists participating in the South Florida Cultural Consortium exhibition.
7 PM / PA 101 (lecture hall next to the Schmidt Center Gallery)
Artist Talks with Miami-based Jim Drain who has just completed a major installation at the Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, along with Broward County photographer Colby Katz whose current documentary photography explores the behind the scenes world of beauty pageants. Katz was awarded the Magenta Foundation's 2006 Emerging Photographer Award.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 CANCELLED
7 PM / PA 101 (lecture hall next to the Schmidt Center Gallery)
Artist Talk with Blane De St Croix, FAU associate professor of art (sculpture) returns from sabbatical and will discuss his active exhibition and residency experiences while living in New York City during 2008/09.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
7 PM / PA 101 (lecture hall next to the Schmidt Center Gallery)
Artists Talks with politically oriented Key West sculptor Karley Klopfenstein, whose work focuses on specific American military weaponry, rendered domestic with traditional craft techniques along with Miami-based Gavin Perry whose paintings and other works simultaneously pay tribute to, extend and subvert modernist notions of abstraction.
2008/2009
Designing Intelligence? Continuing the Intelligent Design Project
Opening Reception: Friday, January 30, 2008
6 - 9 PM / Schmidt Center Gallery
Schmidt Center Gallery
January 30 - April 3, 2009
The exhibition and public programs coincide and include a series of events presented by the Anthropology Graduate Student Union (AGSU) in celebration of the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150-year anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
7 PM / PA 101 (lecture hall next to Schmidt Center Gallery)
Intelligent Design and the Arguments for and Against the Existence of God
A lecture by Simon Glynn, professor of philosophy at FAU that examines the strengths and weaknesses surrounding arguments for and against the existence of God.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
4 PM / PS 227
Flock of Dodo's
This 2006 documentary examines both sides of the evolution versus intelligent design controversy. Flock of Dodos also examines ways in which scientists can make their message more approachable to the public. (AGSU)
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
7 PM / PS 109
Evolution Education Seminar
Teaching science is a rewarding but sometimes challenging job. Deborah Cunningham, PhD will lead the workshop, discussing tools to make science education accurate and exciting. The evolution education seminar is geared towards biology teachers but is open to all teachers as well as the general public. (AGSU)
Friday, February 13, 2009
7 PM / Location GS 119
Panel Discussion
Darwin's theory of natural selection has impacted many disciplines and changed the way we view the world. Come and learn how one theory has impacted biology, philosophy, psychology and anthropology as well as many other fields. (AGSU)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
7 PM / PA 101 (lecture hall next to Schmidt Center Gallery)
Artist Lecture with Deborah Aschheim, who holds degrees in both Anthropology and Art creates installations based on invisible networks of perception and thought exploring the subject of memory, which has led her to collaborate with musicians and neuroscientists.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
7 PM / PA 101 (lecture hall next to Schmidt Center Gallery)
Who We Are & How We Came to Be: Perspectives on Our Origin
A symposium introduced by Robert McCarthy, assistant professor of anthropology at FAU and moderated by Simon Glynn brings together leaders from Buddhist, Hindu, Judaic, Seminole Indian, Islamic and scientific viewpoints to promote cross-cultural insight about the origins of humans.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
7 PM / Schmidt Center Gallery
Birth: A Storytelling Event
A performance collage of cultural myths and personal stories focusing on varying perspectives of birth, creation and the creative process. Presented by students of Dr. Caren Neile's Social Drama Workshop and Storytelling classes.
Bodies of Work
Juried Student Exhibition
Opening Reception + Lecture by Gean Moreno: Friday, January 16, 2009
6 - 8 PM / Ritter Art Gallery
Lecture: "Forget The Art Object" 6 PM / GCS 119
Ritter Art Gallery
January 16 – February 27, 2009
Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space
November 24 – December 18, 2008
De Furia y Redención: El Arte de Oswaldo Guayasamín Of Rage and Redemption (The Art of Oswaldo Guayasamín)
Opening Lecture + Reception with acoustic music by Kuyayky: Friday, September 19, 2008
6:30 - 9:30 PM / Schmidt Center Gallery
6:30 - 6:55 PM Exhibition Viewing
7 PM Pre-Opening Lecture by Galo Mora, Republic of Ecuador's Minister of Culture
Schmidt Center Gallery
September 19 - December 6, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
12 Noon
at the Holiday Inn Town Center, Boca Raton
Southeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Studies**
Keynote Address by Dr. Regina Harrison
Insistent Images: Machu Picchu as Icon
**Conference Registration and Lunch purchase required.
Call Isabelle Schmidt for details: 561-297-3860
Saturday, September 20, 2008
12 Noon / Holiday Inn Town Center, Boca Raton
Southeast Conference on Andean and Amazonian Studies**
Keynote Address by Dr. Norman Whitten
Interculturality and the Indigenization of Modernity:
A view from Amazonian Ecuador
**Conference Registration and Lunch purchase required.
Call Isabelle Schmidt for details: 561-297-3860
Saturday, October 4, 2008
8 PM / University Theatre (adjacent to Schmidt Center Gallery)
Exhibition open 1/2 hour before and after concert.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
7 PM / Schmidt Center Gallery
Andean Poetry Reading: An evening of bi-lingual poetry
reading presented by undergraduate and graduate students
from the Spanish Studies program.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
7 PM / AL 189 (Schmidt Center Gallery)
Lecture by Michele Greet, Assistant Professor of Art History at George Mason University
Art in the Andean World of Oswaldo Guayasamín
Dr. Greet examines Guayasamín in the context of modern art
and other Ecuadorian artists. She presents Indigenism not as
style or theme, but rather as a constantly shifting strategy
for interacting with an increasingly international art world.
Friday, October 17, 2008
3:30 PM / Schmidt Center Gallery
Gallery Talk by Michele Greet, Assistant Professor of
Art History at George Mason University
ECUADORIAN FILM SERIES
(exhibition open before & after screenings)
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
7 PM / PA 101 (Schmidt Center Gallery)
Ratas, ratones, rateros (Sebastián Cordero, 1999) ,
Cordero's first feature film follows in the Ecuadorian and Latin American
social realism tradition of. Ratas invokes similar themes, images, and
aesthetics seen in other recent Latin American films such as
Rodrigo D. No futuro, Ciudade de Deus and Amores Perros.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
7 PM, PA 101 (Schmidt Center Gallery)
Que tan lejos (Tania Hermida, 2006)
This first feature film by Tania Hermida who worked on the award-winning films
Cronicas (2004) and Maria Full of Grace (2004), is a road movie shot in the
majestic Ecuadorian Andes.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
7 PM, PA 101 (Schmidt Center Gallery)
Primer día (Galo Recalde, 2001) and
El poeta suicida (Darwin Robles, 1998 ).
Miami-based Ecuadorian film-makers present their short films.
Both Directors will present for a post-screening discussion.
Political Circus: A 3-Ring Reflection on the 2008 Election Campaigns
Opening Reception and Symposium:
6:30 PM- 9:30 PM / Ritter Art Gallery
Symposium
6:30 PM / GS 119
Ritter Art Gallery
September 5 - November 1, 2008
Hating Hillary, Baiting Barack and Mocking McCain’
- Jane Caputi, professor, Women’s Studies / Communication and Multimedia Studies
Minority Competitor and Dominant Fears
- Art Evans, professor, Sociology
“Femininity Misogyny and the Male of the Presidential Species”
- Christine Scodari, Professor, Communication and Multimedia Studies
With Visiting Artist: Kenneth Tin-Kim Hung
Thursday, September 25, 2008
7 – 9 PM (Ritter Art Gallery)
Spoken Word Café
Hosted by Dr. Caren Neile Director, South Florida Storytelling Project, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, School of the Arts
Let your voice be heard! Here’s your change to share your thoughts and feelings, either on the exhibition or on the political circus hat inspired it. Participants are invited to share a reading, artistic performance or impromptu remarks with the audience. Please limit each presentation to five minutes; more than one presentation per person is possible if time permits.
Advance sign-up is encouraged, but not required.
2007/2008
southXeast: Contemporary Southeastern Art
Ritter Art Gallery
January 26 – March 8, 2008
Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space
February 8 – April 5, 2008
Opening Reception
Friday, February 8, 2008
8 - 9:30 PM / Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space & Ritter Art Gallery
Friday, February 8, 2008
6:30 - 7:00 PM
Performance by Irene Moon
Friday, February 8, 2008
Artists Panel Presentation with Avantika Bawa, Mike Calway-Fagen, Phillip Estlund, and Critz Campbell
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
12 noon / VA 105
Artist Lecture by Cedric Smith
Delicatessen
(Thematic exhibition with 22 international artists)
Schmidt Center Gallery / Public Space
November 9 – January 26, 2008
Opening Reception
Friday, November 9, 7:30 - 9 PM
Pre-Opening Curator and Artist Presentations with
Diana Shpungin, guest curator; and artists Thordis Adalsteindottir, Andrew Scott Ross, Louisa Caldwell, and Boyce Cummings
Fear and Trembling
Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space
April 26 – July 15, 2007
An installation by Grzegorz Klaman, visiting Fulbright Scholar from Gdansk, Poland and Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar Chair in the Arts.
Opening Lecture and Reception
Thursday, April 26, 6-9 PM
Lecture by Grzegorz Klaman with Aneta Szylak, Director, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland
Weavings of War & Allison Smith
Opening Reception
Thursday, February 8, 7:30-9pm
Friday, February 9, 2007
6:30 PM Gallery Talks with Marsha MacDowell and Allison Smith
Thursday, February 8, 4:30 pm – PA 101
Lecture: Weavings of War: Museums, Arts and Civic Engagement, By Marsha MacDowell,
Thursday, February 8, 6:30 pm – PA 101, Panel Discussion: Weaving, Women, War
With visiting scholar Marsha MacDowell; visiting artist Allison Smith; Jeffrey Morton, FAU associate professor of Political Science and Director, Peace Studies Program; Josephine Beoku-Betts, FAU associate professor of Women’s Studies.
Weavings of War & Allison Smit h (continued)
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, February 8, 7:30-9pm
Friday, February 9, 6:30pm, Gallery Talks: with Marsha MacDowell and Allison Smith
February 9 – April 7, 2007
SCHMIDT CENTER GALLERY
Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory
SCHMIDT CENTER GALLERY PUBLIC SPACE
Allison Smith: Banner Valance (an installation in association with Weavings of War).
Drawn In/Drawn Out:
Diego Sing h , Glexis Novoa, Frances Trombly, Carol Prusa
Opening Reception & Gallery Talk with Rod Faulds, University Galleries Director and Carol Prusa: Thursday, January 18, 6:30-9pm
January 19 – February 24, 200 7
RITTER ART GALLERY
Fall 2007
November 10 – January 27, 2007
SCHMIDT CENTER GALLERY & PUBLIC SPACE
2 Poster Shows: The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice & the Environment 1965 – 2005 and Graphic Noise: Art at 1,000 decibels
Thursday, November 9, 2006 7pm – PA 101: Pre-Opening Lecture: Elizabeth Resnick
2 Poster Shows :
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, November 9, 7-9:30 pm
Thursday, January 25, 2007 7pm – PA 101
Lecture: Jeff Matz
Silkscreen Demonstration/Workshop: Jeff Matz
Saturday, January 27, 2007 1pm – VA 104
2006/07
September 15 – October 28, 2006
SCHMIDT CENTER GALLERY/PUBLIC SPACE & RITTER ART GALLERY
Nu Art 06 - South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual & Media Artists Fellowship Exhibition
Public Opening Reception: Friday, September 15, 7-9:30 pm
Contemporary Artists Lecture Series in association with Nu Art 06:
Thursday, September 21, 7pm – PA 101: Allison Smith and Julie Kahn
Tuesday, October 3, 7pm – PA 101: Asser-Saint-Val and John Bailly
Wednesday, October 11, 7pm: Eric Freedman and Chad Tingle
Gallery Talk with Eric Freedman – Ritter Art Gallery, 7pm
Film Screening: Another Day Another Dollar with Chad Tingle – GCS 120, 7:45 pm
Tuesday, October 24, 7pm – PA 101: Tim Curtis and Christina Pettersson
February 10 – April 8, 2006
SCHMIDT CENTER GALLERY
Picturing Florida: Ellen Harvey and Mark Dean Veca
Picturing Florida was an Artist-in-Residence project involving 7 community organizations – schools, after school programs and senior centers - occurring over an 18-month period.
Thursday, September 29, 2005, 7 pm, PA 101
Artist Lecture: Mark Dean Veca, Artist-in-Residence. Veca will create a large-scale mural in the Schmidt Center Gallery in early February 2006.
Thursday, October 20, 2005, 7 pm, PA 101
Artist Lecture: Ellen Harvey, Artist-in-Residence. Harvey will create an installation in the Schmidt Center Gallery in early February 2006.
Artists creating works on-site: January 27 – February 8, 2006
Public Opening Reception: February 10, 2006
January 7- February 11, 2006
RITTER ART GALLERY
Rebirth After the Holocaust: The Bergen-Belsen Displaced Persons Camp, 1945-1950
Public Opening Reception: Sunday, January 22, 2-4pm; Gallery Talk: 1:30 pm
Presented by Hebrew Union College and the Human Rights and Holocaust Education Center, FAU College of Education.
November 4, 2005 – January 21, 2006
SCHMIDT CENTER GALLERY
Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions ,
1961 – 2002
Wednesday, November 2, 7 pm
Film Screening with Yvonne Rainer
A Film About a Woman Who… (1974)
Presented as part of “Women Directors: From Margin to Center,” a series sponsored by FAU’s Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and the Program in Film and Video
Public Opening Reception: Thursday, November 3, 6 – 9 pm
Lecture by Yvonne Rainer (lecture @ 7:30 pm in PA 101).
Fall 2005
September 9 - November 12, 2005
RITTER ART GALLERY
It’s a Dog’s Life: Photographs by William Wegman from the Polaroid Collection
Thursday, October 6, 7 pm
Lecture by Charles Stainback, former Director of the International Center for Photography, New York City, and Site, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Tuesday, October 11, 7 pm
Lecture and Gallery Talk on William Wegman by Barbara Hitchcock, Director of Cultural Affairs, Polaroid Corporation.
Saturday, November 12, 11 am – 2 pm
(Humane Society Dog Walk at 9 am)
Pictures & Pooches: A William Wegman Family Day Event: Children’s Art activities, photo contest and Tri-County Humane Society Dog Walk.
February 10 – April 8, 2006
SCHMIDT CENTER GALLERY
Picturing Florida:
Ellen Harvey and Mark Dean Veca
Artists creating works on-site
January 27 – February 8, 2006
Thursday, September 29, 2005, 7 pm, PA 101
Artist Lecture: Mark Dean Veca, Artist-in-Residence. Veca will create a large-scale mural in the Schmidt Center Gallery in early February 2006.
Thursday, October 20, 2005, 7 pm, PA 101
Artist Lecture: Ellen Harvey, Artist-in-Residence. Harvey will create an installation in the Schmidt Center Gallery in early February 2006.
November 4, 2005 – January 21, 2006
SCHMIDT CENTER GALLERY
Yvonne Rainer:
Radical Juxtapositions, 1961 – 2002
Wednesday, November 2, 7 pm
Film Screening with Yvonne Rainer
A Film About a Woman Who… (1974)
Presented as part of “Women Directors: From Margin to Center,” a series sponsored by FAU’s Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
and the Program in Film and Video.
Thursday, November 3, 6 – 9 pm,
Opening Reception, Yvonne Rainer: Radical Juxtapositions, 1962 - 2002 & Lecture by Yvonne Rainer (lecture @ 7:30 pm in PA 101).
Fall 2003
October 24, 2003 - January 24, 2004
CORPORAL
Fourteen Contemporary Artists
From Latin America
Guest Curator: Giannina Dwin
November 20 Lecture: Eugenia Vargas
Artist gives slide presentation and lecture about her work.
November 13 Lecture: Carol Damian
FIU Art History Professor lectures on Andean culture.
October 24 Lecture: Elena Poniatowska
Renowned journalist and writer lectures on Latin America.
Exhibition Catalog: Giannina Dwin, FAU Visual Arts & Arts History Faculty.
Catalog highlights life and work of the 14 Latin American artists included in CORPORAL.
Spring 2003
January 30 - April 19, 2003
Hey Yud Dalet
Large scale drawings of Nazi
Concentration Camps
April 5 Concert: Department of Music performs Holocaust-and exile-related music.
March 27 Symposium: Faculty discusses intolerance and xenophobia.
March 20 Lecture: FIU Professor of Religious Studies, Oren Baruch Stier, Ph.D., discusses options for Holocaust commemoration.
Images of Intolerance: Catalog depicting anti-Semitism and other examples of intolerance.
Fall 2002
November 8, 2002 - January 18, 2003
Lucy Orta: Nexus Arthitecture +
Connector IV
Sculpture that combines fashion design, architecture and social messages
November 8 Lecture: Gallery Director W. Rod Faulds and Lucy Orta: Nexus Arthitecture + and other panelists discuss Lucy Orta’s work and that of other contemporary artists.
September 11 - November 9, 2002
Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs
Photographic exhibition of images
from the 9-11 disaster
September 11 Ceremony: Tree dedication and community ceremony in remembrance of September 11th victims.
September 10 Discussion: Panel discussion on issues and perspectives surrounding the 9-11 attacks.
September 9 Symposium: Student symposium focusing on reactions to the 9-11 attacks.
September 19 - October 26, 2002
The Longest Winter
Images of feelings, moods and wanderings of a desolate winter
by several artists
Guest Curator: Jean Moreno
October 17 Reading: Poet and author Wayne Koestenbaum reads from some of his books of prose.
October 3 Lecture: Miami-based sculptor Westen Charles talks about his work.
September 19 Talk: Guest curator Jean Moreno, Gallery director W. Rod Faulds and artists Genie Kell and Anne Howard give a talk on the exhibition.
Exhibition catalog: The Longest Winter explores the artists’ works.
Asian/Caribbean Festival: Family entertainment and events
to showcase Asian and Caribbean cultures
Activities: Music, dance, food tasting, storytelling
Fall 2001
November 9, 2001 - January 19, 2002
Mark Catesby’s Travels in La Florida 1722- 1726
Prints of 18th century artist Mark Catesby’s
watercolors of nature and the environment
November 9 Lecture: Chief Curator, Worcester Museum of Art, talks about Mark Catesby’s natural art in a lecture titled “Mark Catesby and His Transatlantic Supporters.”
Concurrently showing:
Natural Histories - Artists Forage
Work of nine naturalist artists
January 18 Lecture/Symposium: artist Jay Critchley uses slides and talks about his work that focuses on the environment, social criticism and performance.
January 16 Lecture/Symposium/Book Signing: Native American author Linda Hogan lectures on her writing on native traditions and the environment.
FLUXUS
Life and work of artist Dick Higgins
Also showing:
October 17 - 27 2001 Biennial FAU Art Faculty Exhibition
October 29 Gallery Talk: Art Historian Hannah Higgins presents a walking tour of the exhibition.
October 23 Reading: Author Fanny Howe reads a selection of her poems.
October 17 Lecture: Art Critic Peter Frank talks about modern and contemporary art.
October 5 Student Readings: FAU students read poetry from the University’s literary magazine, Coastlines.
Spring 2001
March 10 - April 14, 2001
MARKS of the SOUL: Poetics, Philosophies, Religions of Eight
Caribbean Artists
March 26 - 31, 2001
Caribbean IMAGININGS
Symposium & Film Series on
Caribbean Identity, Location and Migration
March 30 Film Screening: Maria Antonia (Cuba) with panel discussion on African retentions in Cuban film.
Film Screening: Eyes of the Rainbow and My Footsteps in Baragua (Cuba).
An evening with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott who reads from his book Tiepolo’s Hound.
March 29 Colloquium: Identify, Place and Migration with a Focus on the Caribbean Idea of Place.
Film Screening: Brincando El Charco Portrait of a Puerto Rican.
March 28 Panel Discussion: African Poetics, Philosophies and Religions in Contemporary Caribbean Art.
March 27 Panel Discussion: Black & Blackness - Exploring historical similarities and differences among people of color.
March 26 - 31 Caribbean Festival: Dance, Music and Storytelling representing various Caribbean cultures.
March 31 Panel Discussion: Visions & Steoreotypes
Film Screening: Dancehall Queen with panel discussion on Jamaican popular culture.
Panel Discussion: Caribbean Aesthetics with Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott
Film Screening: Ava and Gabriel (Holland/Curacao)
FALL 2000
November 11 - December 22, 2000
Never Never Land
Artists whose works represent the
Disney phenomenon and other commercial fantasies
Guest Curator: Omar Lopez-Chahoud
November 10 Panel Discussion: The concept and culture of Disney.
Exhibition Catalog: Dick Hebdige, Dean, California Institute of the Arts
Explanation of Disney style and culture.
February 15 - March 26, 2000
Women of the Book
Jewish Artists Jewish Themes
February 29 Readings: Novelist Rayna Rubenstein Harris reads from her book in progress, which is set in Jerusalem.
Nancy Kalikow Maxwell reads from her essays
reflecting Jewish themes.
February 15 Lecture: Artist Carol Hamoy discusses her work.
February 13 Artists' Panel Discussion: Jewish themes.
