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A group of people stands in awe of a projection of a night sky with a gallaxy in the MOSI digital dome.

USF students and MOSI spotlight new era for digital dome planetarium

The Museum of Science & Industry is set to redefine immersive learning and entertainment with the unveiling of America’s second-largest digital dome planetarium, as announced in a recent press release from MOSI. Students from USF’s College of Design, Art & Performance were invited to explore the space to imagine the real possibilities this groundbreaking technology holds for their art.

January 17, 2025Art & Art History

Design students working with clients.

Graphic arts students work with clients to elevate their brand

A senior research course is giving graphic arts students the opportunity to produce real-world design work for local clients. This semester, students in the class collaborated with the USF College of Marine Science to design branding for the Tampa Bay Surveillance Project. The project combines skills and knowledge of the region’s fishing captains with scientists from the University of South Florida and Eckerd College to investigate contaminants in local waterways for human and environmental health.

December 2, 2024Art & Art History

An alligator in a pool slowly filling with water from a pipe.

From USF's Contemporary Art Museum to The Met

Miami-based artist Anastasia Samoylova made waves with her first solo museum exhibition, FloodZone, which debuted at USF’s Contemporary Art Museum in 2020. This ongoing photographic series offers a striking visual response to the urgent realities of sea level rise in South Florida.

November 8, 2024Art & Art History

Visitors to the USF Contemporary Art Museum view Elisabeth Condon's work

Check out the USF Contemporary Art Museum's feature on FOX13 Tampa Bay to get an inside look at Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration exhibition.

For 2024, the work of 63 local artists is being showcased at the Tampa Museum of Art, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Sarasota Art Museum and The Ringling Museum of Art. Twelve artists are featured at the USF Contemporary Art Museum (CAM).

October 31, 2024Art & Art History

Eyes shown with a heavy blue tint. Agustin Collazo Jr - La Mirada 2023

Breaking Barriers - Exhibition | Reception | Artists Panel

The USF Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present the exhibition Breaking Barriers: PORTRAIT as part of its arts programming for military veterans.

May 14, 2024Art & Art History

‘Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration’ Unites Five Tampa Bay Area Museums in an Innovative Art Exhibition

The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design; the Tampa Museum of Art; and the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum—are proud to announce their joint effort in presenting this groundbreaking showcase.

April 19, 2024Art & Art History

Solar Eclipse (August 21, 2017)  Used, handmade solar eclipse viewers created by the public from everyday ephemera.  Dimensions Variable, 2018

Associate Professor of Art & Art History Jason Lazarus to host a two-day, open call exhibition, HOW TO WATCH A SOLAR ECLIPSE: A Symphony and a Score

Heiress Gallery is pleased to announce, A Symphony and a Score (HOW TO WATCH A SOLAR ECLIPSE), a two-day, open-call exhibition (Friday April 5th and Saturday, April 6th) hosted by artist Jason Lazarus, in collaboration with the gallery, to prepare for and celebrate the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8th, 2024.

April 1, 2024Art & Art History, Community Outreach, Faculty

Ground Control (Mexicali/Calexico), hand-woven wool, 6' x 8' © Noelle Mason

Associate Professor Noelle Mason's work featured in Oxford American Magazine

Ground Control is a series of wool tapestries ranging from eight to twelve feet tall that depict satellite images of the U.S./Mexico border at current and historical places of conflict. The electromagnetic images used in this project are collected by U.S. government satellites used for “remote sensing” of the earth’s surface. Unlike photography that attempts to mimic the function of the eye, remote sensing collects data and constructs images through a process antimemetic to human experience.

March 20, 2024Art & Art History

Painting of mannequins standing in front of a house

New Exhibition: Ezra Johnson, Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, at the Mindy Solomon Gallery

Mindy Solomon Gallery is pleased to present Sunday Morning Coming Down. Ezra Johnson’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. In this group of new paintings, Johnson has been inspired by what he calls the “tropical noir” atmosphere of Tampa, engaging with objects, spaces and scenes that are built up with many layers of oil paint, applied in sheets of color often showing the residue of earlier layers.

February 29, 2024Art & Art History, Faculty

Mernet Larsen, Cézanne's House (2023) Photo: Phoebed'Heurle. Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery. by Katie White

What Do Artists Diane Simpson and Professor Emerita Mernet Larsen Have In Common? A Fascination With the 45-Degree Angle - artnet

What if we saw the world from a 45-degree angle? This topsy-turvy premise united two shows “Mernet Larsen: Thinking About Cézanne” and “Diane Simpson: 1977–1980” at James Cohan, New York (Simpson’s show is on view through March 23; Larsen’s closed on March 16), wherein sculptures (Simpson’s) and paintings (Larsen’s) playfully vacillate between two and three dimensions.

February 20, 2024Art & Art History, Faculty

Cans of printing ink

Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Elizabeth Herrmann, recognized with an Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award

Congratulations to Elizabeth Herrmann as a top-3 awardee for the 2022-23 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. This recognition is part of USF’s ongoing commitment to enhance undergraduate teaching by recognizing and rewarding excellence. It is an important focus of the university to ensure that the foundation courses of the undergraduate curriculum receive the proper emphasis in preparing students for work in the major, as well as providing the proper foundation in critical thinking, problem-solving, and written and oral communication skills.

February 13, 2024Art & Art History

Art History undergraduates Ellie Saylor and Jessica Loaiza

Congratulations to Art History undergraduates Ellie Saylor and Jessica Loaiza

Congratulations to USF School of Art & Art History undergraduates Ellie Saylor and Jessica Loaiza on their presentations as part of USF’s 5th Annual Undergraduate Humanities Conference. Both students’ papers were composed in Prof. Ali Reilly’s “Artist as Curator” seminar.

February 5, 2024Art & Art History, Students & Alumni

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