August 19 – November 9, 2019

Camera phones and social media have fueled a renaissance in portraiture. We are all now photographers and artists, with our friends, family, and pets serving as our inspiration. Whose creative genius is on display when you take a picture of your friend doing something great? This breakdown in authorship is particularly acute when artists depict other artists. This interactive exhibition places the visitor in the role of artist and influencer, drawing inspiration from both traditional and new portrait mediums. There will be an evening reception on Friday, August 30 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., and we hope you will join us!

The Museum is pleased to announce new hours this fall: Monday-Friday 10:00 to 5:00 p.m. with extended hours on Thursdays until 8:00 p.m., and Saturday hours from 10:00 to 4:00 p.m. The Museum will be closed on Sundays. Admission is always FREE!

August 19 – November 9, 2019

An exploration of the diverse ethnic and religious identities that coexisted in the Ottoman Empire (ca. 1300-1922). Architecture, period photography, stamps, textiles, calligraphy, illustrated documents, and interactive displays bring to life this complex period in world history. There will be an evening reception on Friday, August 30, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., and we hope you will join us!

The Museum is also pleased to announce new hours this fall: Monday-Friday 10:00 to 5:00 p.m. with extended hours on Thursdays until 8:00 p.m., and Saturday hours from 10:00 to 4:00 p.m. The Museum will be closed on Sundays. Admission is always FREE!

The Working Method Contemporary Gallery Opening titled “Fieldwork”, featuring MFA Candidates Brian Holcombe and Camden Goddard, will take place Friday, Oct. 4th @ 7 p.m. until Tuesday October 22nd.

The First Friday Art Opening will be on Nov. 1st, from 5-8pm.
The exhibition will be open from Nov. 1st – Dec. 14th, on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, from 2-6 pm.

Mark Messersmith has always been the greenest of Florida artists. His paintings explore a dense and tangled world that shows the beauty of the natural environment, and also highlights its fragility and vulnerability. Each painting develops an inventive narrative that strives to be eternal in scope and suggests we are witnessing the ruin of mankind. At times like this, when the news is filled with images of the Amazon burning, Mark draws on our protective instincts by presenting our own North Florida’s plants and animals threatened by the encroachment of human development on their environment.

Messersmith teaches painting and drawing at Florida State University. He has mentored countless students who have gone on to make a mark in the art world and the education of artists. Mark received a Joan Mitchel Award in 2006, and a purchase award at Le Grand Prix XXXIII Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, Numerous Florida Individual Artist Fellowships, and two Southern Arts Federation, Regional Fellowships. He has a long solo exhibition record in addition to the recent Beauty and Vulnerability at Venvi Gallery.

The Florida State University Civil Rights Institute invites you to join us on Friday, November 1, 2019 at CMX Cinemas Fallschase for the premiere of Harriet, a new biographical film about Harriet Tubman, starring Cynthia Erivo as Tubman, with Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, and Janelle Monáe in supporting roles.

This fundraising event will include a pre-show program featuring world-renowned artist and FSU alumnus Michael Rosato, plus additional surprise guests. Program to begin at 6:00 p.m., with film screening at 7pm. Tickets are $50 per person.

Your ticket includes admission to the pre-show program, film screening, and one drink ticket. There will also be a silent auction for an autographed Rosato print.

Liat Berdugo is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Berdugo holds a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Brown University, an M.F.A. in digital + media from the Rhode Island School of Design, and is currently an assistant professor of Art and Architecture at the University of San Francisco. Her work strives to create an expanded, thoughtful consideration for new media and digital culture. She is the co-founder of World Wide West, co-founder of the Living Room Light Exchange, and Net Art and Special Programs Curator for Israel’s Print Screen Festival. Current research projects include a series of works that interrogate citizen video archives in zones of conflict.

Residency Dates: November 3-6

Sam Van Aken is a contemporary artist and Associate Professor of sculpture at Syracuse University who works beyond traditional modes of art making, crossing artistic genres and disciplines to develop new perspectives on such themes as communication, botany, agriculture, climatology, and the ever-increasing impact of technology. Employing “anti-structures and unknowing as generative processes”, Van Aken’s interventions in the natural and public realm are seen as metaphors that serve as the basis of narrative, sites of place making, and in some cases even become the basis of scientific research.

Residency Dates: December 8-11