Jen Kostad
Global Design Director
Ford Motor Company

Join the Florida State University Department of Interior Architecture & Design and Global Design Director Jen Kostad for a discussion on Ford Motor Company’s plans for the design of the workplace in a post-COVID world.  To register for this event email: events@cfa.fsu.edu.

This year the Excellence in the Visual Arts Exhibition Awards will be virtual!

And guess what-you do get to vote twice during this election year– but for 2020 Excellence in Visual Arts Graduate & Undergraduate Exhibition People’s Choice Awards!

This exhibition is part of the Art on Campus Initiative and is funded by the Graduate School and the College of Undergraduate Studies.
It is open to creative students from across the entire FSU campus I hope we can support them by viewing and reading about their work in this show.

On Friday, October 30th, our online gallery and voting opened and I an encouraging everyone to visit the site and to vote on the various PEOPLE’S CHOICE Awards we have.

There are two galleries; a graduate and undergraduate gallery, so please visit both and vote for your favorite in each gallery-

VOTING CLOSES ON NOVEMBER 6th at 4pm,

When you will then be able to join us to celebrate our undergraduate and graduate winners!

Please visit our online gallery here: https://hsf.fsu.edu/art-awards

Vote for your favorite (PEOPLE’s CHOICE) art here: http://bit.ly/ArtVoting

Register for the event here: https://fsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcvd-ipqj4tEtFX4W3raO1y8Ok4v-ZgrhFL

Please feel free to support your favorite artists and join us for this virtual launch and presentation. We will announce the recipients of this year’s awards from the incredible field of work that was submitted to us for our gallery. We will also announce the recipient of the audience favorite. Please feel free to forward this information and encourage people to vote for the audience favorite before 4pm.

Although we hoped to have this exhibition and presentation in the Honors, Scholar’s & Fellow’s House (HSF) galleries, the HSF House folks have done a great job of creating a wonderful online gallery of the works selected for exhibition. I am incredibly thankful for everyone’s patience and for the beautiful and thoughtful artwork the students provided for us this year, and look forward to being able to see most of this year’s selected artist’s works in person in the galleries next spring as part of the Art on Campus Initiative.

For the second installment of FAR & Away Conversations, artist Noel W. Anderson has invited gallerist Jayne Johnson to join him in a virtual live-streamed discussion. In this live-streamed event the collaborators have the platform to talk about topics that they feel are pertinent in the moment and you as the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions via the chat. The event is free, but registration is required: FAR & AWAY

Noel W Anderson (b. Louisville, KY) received an MFA from Indiana University in Printmaking, and an MFA from Yale University in Sculpture. He is also Area Head of Printmaking in NYU’s Steinhardt Department of Art and Art Professions. Anderson utilizes print-media and arts-based-research to explore philosophical inquiry methodologies. He primarily focuses on the mediation of socially constructed images on identity formation as it relates to black masculinity and celebrity. In 2018, Noel was awarded the NYFA artist fellowship grant and the prestigious Jerome Prize. His solo exhibition Blak Origin Moment debuted at the Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati) in February 2017 and travelled to the Hunter Museum of American Art in October 2019. His first monograph, Blak Origin Moment, was also recently published. https://www.nwastudios.com

Jayne Johnson is the owner of JDJ, a contemporary art gallery located in New York’s Hudson Valley. Opened in 2018, JDJ highlights artists who embody a range of artistic practices and sociopolitical perspectives. Johnson has nearly 20 years of experience in a variety of roles in the New York art world: as a director of Independent art fair, as a gallery director for Peter Freeman, Lehmann Maupin, and Elizabeth Dee, and with institutions such as MoMA PS1 and The Drawing Center.

We invite you to join our Virtual Public Watch Party for A Midsummer Night’s Dream followed by a LIVE Digital Talkback with the artists.

On Thursday, November 12th, join us for this magical 45-minute digital adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream on your own device and from the comfort of your home. After experiencing the magic of Midsummer, click into our live digital talkback, hosted on YouTube Live. We’d love to answer your questions, so have them ready to share in the Live Chat during the conversation!

If you would like to see a Sneak Peek of the show prior to November 12th: https://youtu.be/scLxB1TGUKk

• Tickets are $15 per household, $5 for student households.
  • To purchase your ticket, please go to: https://tickets.asolorep.org/4133/4153
  • Use the code DREAMFREE to claim your complimentary “ticket.”

How to order tickets step by step:

• Step 1: Go to asolorep.org and click on the A Midsummer Night’s Dream banner OR click on this direct link: https://tickets.asolorep.org/4133/4153
• Step 2: Log into your Tessitura Account by clicking the Log-in button on the top left.
  • To log-in, type in your email address. If you don’t remember your password, click on “Reset your Password” and follow the instructions.  Hint:  If you choose to check out as a guest, you will have to fill in a lot of extra information.
• Step 3: Choose 1 for the number of households you are purchasing.

• Step 4: In the top right corner, click on the box next to Promo Code, and enter DREAMFREE and hit the Submit button. Your ticket is now free of charge!
• Step 5: Complete your purchase by clicking on the red Reserve button.

Once you​ have completed the process, you will receive a confirmation via email. We will be sending you specific instructions about how to access the performance and talkback before November 12th.

A few FAQs:

• What is a Digital Talkback? As a way to be responsive to our schools and community organizations, we have devised a way that a large amount of audience members can come together to ask our cast and creative team questions. Whether at home or in a classroom, this style of talkback allows our audiences to have conversations about the art with each other and with our team. This Digital Talkback will be on YouTube live, and participants are encouraged to ask questions by typing them into the LIVE CHAT box on their screen.

If you’d like to learn more about Asolo Rep’s BardWired program, please go to https://www.asolorep.org/engage-learn/school-programs/asolo-rep-online-tour.