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Upcoming Events and Lectures

MoFA is excited to announce that some of our public programs will be hosted in the digital space and in person this spring! These events are free and open to the public. For virtual events, please register up until the time of the event to receive the link to attend.

 

Upcoming Events

 

Opening Reception of Talamh agus Teanga: Land and Language in Contemporary Irish Art 

January 25th from 6:00-8:00 PM  

Join us for the opening reception of Talamh agus Teanga: Land and Language in Contemporary Irish Art featuring the work of Kari Cahill, Ceara Conway, Liadin Cooke, Dorothy Cross, Miriam de Búrca, Katie Holten, Siobhán Ní Dhuinnín, Méadhbh O’Connor, Éimear O’Keane and Kathy Scott of The Trailblazery. This exhibition gathers artists engaged with land-based practices who are both native speakers as well as learners of Irish in a celebration of the rich history and vitality of the Irish language, culture, and art. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided. 

  

Imbolc Immram: A Wonder Voyage in Celebration of Spring led by Kathy Scott  

February 1st at 6:00 PM  

On February 1st, we invite you to join Kathy Scott, Creative Director of The Trailblazery, Ireland as she leads a live Immram or Wonder Voyage live at MoFA. This bilingual soundscape is inspired by Imbolc, the Irish festival celebrating the beginning of Spring and the Irish Goddess Brigid. Evoking the spirit of the land, the immram is a guided immersive experience for anyone interested in learning more about Irish language, culture, ecological knowledge, and heritage. Kathy will be joined by Anne Walsh, sean-nós singer, vocalist, and Irish language learner. It is recommended that you bring a blanket and wear comfortable clothing. This event is free and open to the public. Learn more about The Trailblazery at www.thetrailblazery.com/. 

 

FSU Museum of Fine Arts 2nd Annual Roaming Art & Wine Tour

February 8th at 6:00-8:00 PM

FSU’s Museum of Fine Arts presents its “2nd Annual Roaming Art & Wine Tour” on Thursday, February 8, 2024. Explore the galleries and learn about key pieces in each of the three spring exhibits-All Hands on Deck: 15 Years of Collaboration at Small Craft Advisory Press, Talamh agus Teanga: Land and Language in Contemporary Irish Art, and a look at 50 years of permanent art collecting by MoFA.

Enjoy lite bites and curated wines selected by Poco Vino. Printed guides will be available to ensure you don’t miss a thing! Limited-edition wine totes with your choice of bottle will be available to purchase the night of the event.  Souvenir Photos will be available to take home and commemorate the evening.  Complimentary  Parking is offered in the Call Street Garage, just steps from the Museum.

Proceeds from the event support the mission of the FSU Museum of Fine Arts, the only AAM accredited art museum in Florida’s capital city. All gifts made to the Museum are being matched by a State of Florida Cultural Affairs grant. Tickets start at $75.

 

Artist Talk: Kari Cahill  

Thursday, March 7th at 6:00 PM in Room 249 

We invite you to an artist talk featuring Kari Cahill, a site-responsive visual artist whose paintings are featured in Talamh agus Teanga. Working with natural materials to create bio-pigment, Cahill’s paintings become intertwined with the landscape through color, texture, and emotion as she creates visceral, bold works dedicated to place. This event is free and open to the public. 

 

Natural Pigment Workshop 

Saturday, March 9th 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM 

On Saturday, March 9th, Kari Cahill will host a natural pigment-making workshop in which participants will learn the process of harnessing color from the landscape. You will learn what tools are needed to process pigment, color-making process, and recipe tracking, and you will have plenty of time to ask questions. No tools or previous experience are required. This workshop is free but limited to 15 participants. Email mofa@fsu.edu to reserve your spot beginning January 25th, 2024. 

 

Let All Languages Live: Celebrating Language Revitalization 

March 28th at 6:00 PM EST (in-person & virtual) 

Join us for an Indigenous language revitalization panel as experts discuss current practices and strategies in their field. The moderator, Dr. Mary Linn (Curator of Language and Cultural Vitality at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage), will be joined by Manchán Magan (a native Irish speaker, writer, and documentary filmmaker), Everett Osceola (Cultural Ambassador of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and Mvskoke speaker), and Dr. Jennifer Johnson,(Seminole Nation of Oklahoma/Sac & Fox Nation, co-founder of the language immersion school for the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma). The panel will be a hybrid event with registration required for virtual participants. Click here to register. 

 

Artist Talk: Méadhbh O’Connor  

Thursday, April 11th at 6:00 PM EST (virtual) 

Meet Talamh agus Teanga featured artist Méadhbh O’Connor as she shares her sculptural and multi-media installation practice focusing on the intersection of science and the environment. MoFA’s exhibition marks the first time O’Connor’s artwork will be shown in the United States. Learn about her site-specific work, Biosystem VIII, which reflects her ongoing series of living orbs alluding to the temporality and cycle of life and the artist’s upcoming collaborations.  Click here to register.

 

 

Past Events

Fashioning

“Fashioning,” 2019, a book collaboration between Denise Bookwalter and Lee Emma Running.

Opening Reception! All Hands on Deck: 15 Years of Collaboration at Small Craft Advisory Press

Thursday, November 30th, 2023  ●  6:00 – 8:00 PM EST

Join us in celebrating 15 years of Small Craft Advisory Press. Founded in 2009, Small Craft Advisory Press (SCAP) is an artists book press at Florida State University. With a mission to enable artists and scholars to create artists book editions that push the boundaries and traditions of the book arts, SCAP collaborates with creatives from across the world to produce sculptural and experimental artist books. This exhibition will feature books, printed ephemera, and the equipment and tools that go into producing these elaborate, interactive works of art.

 

vvvvv, 2015.

MoFA Uncorked: Small Craft Advisory Press

Thursday, December 6th, 2023  ●  5:30 – 7:00 PM EST

Join SCAP‘s founding director, Denise Bookwalter, on a guided tour of All Hands on Deck: 15 Years of Collaboration at Small Craft Advisory Press. This is a ticketed event, and space is limited. All proceeds will support the College of Fine Arts. The $25 ticket includes an expert-led tour, refreshments, and a glass of wine courtesy of Poco Vino.

 

 

 


Thursday, October 26, 2023 ● 5:30-7:00 p.m.

Join us for the next installment of MoFA’s Uncorked series! Focusing on our new exhibition Intertwined: Labor and Technology in Contemporary Textile Art, curators will give a behind-the-scenes tour, and Dr. Tenley Bick, assistant professor of global contemporary art in the Department of Art History, will discuss Jeffrey Gibson and the history of the Venice Biennale. Gibson, whose work “PROTECTS THE LAND” is currently on view at MoFA, will represent the United States in the influential art exhibition in Italy next year.This is a ticketed event and space is limited, so we encourage you to make reservations in advance. All proceeds will support the College of Fine Arts. Your $25 ticket includes an expert-led tour, nibbles and a glass of wine courtesy of Poco Vino.

Jeffrey Gibson, PROTECTS THE LAND, 2019.
Courtesy of The Bunker Art Space, Collection of Ruth Rudin DeWoody.

 

 

 

Artist Talk: Yvonne Osei

Thursday, Nov. 2 ● 6:00 PM EST

On Thursday, Nov. 2 at 6:00 PM EST, join “Intertwined” curators Annie Booth and Keidra Daniels Navaroli in conversation with featured artist Yvonne Osei. Osei is a Ghanaian, multidisciplinary artist with a transnational creative practice that explores the topics of beauty and colorism, the politics of clothing, and how global trade and colonialism impact post-colonial West African & Western cultures.

Osei received her BFA and a BA with a concentration in International Studies from Webster University and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University. She is represented by the Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis. Learn more at http://yvonneosei.com/

 

 

Make it with MoFA: Pocket Weaving

Thursday, Nov. 9th, 2023 ● 5:30-6:30 and 7:00-8:00 PM EST

Thursday, Nov 16th, 2023 ● 5:30-6:30 and 7:00-8:00 PM EST

Inspired by the exhibition “Intertwined,” we want to share the practice of weaving with our visitors! Join MoFA interns Natalia and Siena as they teach you how to create a small-scale weaving on your own mini loom. Through this fun, hands-on experience with weaving, participants will better understand the process behind artworks within the exhibition. MoFA will provide participants with all of the necessary tools; just bring yourself! We will offer four opportunities to weave with us on November 9th and 16th from 5:30-6:30 and 7:00-8:00. This event is free, but spots are limited, so registration is required. Click the link in our bio or follow the link below to sign up. We look forward to weaving with you! 

Click to register: https://forms.gle/N9GoUcvuPv74Xmm97

Artist Talk: Lesia Khomenko

Thursday, October 12th, 2023 6:00 PM EST

On Thursday, October 12th at 6:00 PM EST, join us for a virtual artist talk with Lesia Khomenko, featured in MoFA’s current exhibition, “Women at War.” 

Lesia Khomenko is a multidisciplinary artist who reconsiders the role of painting as she deconstructs narrative images and transforms paintings into objects, installations, performances, or videos. Her interest lies in revealing tools of visual manipulation in the context of history-making and myth-making. She graduated from the National Academy of Fine Art and Architecture in Kyiv in 2004. Khomenko is an initiator and program director of the “Contemporary Art” course at the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts. She lives and works in Kyiv, but since March 2022, she has temporarily been in the U.S. Learn more about Khomenko at https://www.lesiakhomenko.com/.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. A Zoom link will be sent to the email you registered with the week of the event. “Women at War” is on view until October 28th.

 

Kate Nartker, Not too far apart and Square the block, 2023.

‘Intertwined’ Opening Reception

Thursday, September 14, 2023 ● 6:00 to 8:00 pm EST

The history of textile and fiber arts is defined by transmission – the exchange of knowledge, custom, and practice from person to person, culture to culture, and generation to generation. Today, technology has fundamentally shaped the nature of these exchanges, impacting the creation, presentation, and interpretation of artistic traditions in unprecedented ways. Intertwined: Labor and Technology in Contemporary Textile Art calls attention to the dynamism of textile-related practice across various interdisciplinary lenses and media to explore themes of labor and agency that simultaneously highlight and subvert our expectations.

Curated by Keidra Daniels Navaroli and Annie Booth, Intertwined features the work of Tawny Chatmon, Jeffrey Gibson, Fabiola Jean-Louis, Ahree Lee, Kate Nartker, Yvonne Osei, Aaron Rothman, Carrie Sieh, and Shaheer Zazai, with a critical focus on process and materiality.

We invite you to join us for the opening reception on September 14 from 6:00-8:00pm EST. This event is FREE and open to the public, and parking is available to visitors in the Call Street garage.

Curator’s Talk: Monika Fabijanska of “Women at War”

Thursday, September 28, 2023  6:00 PM EST

On Thursday, September 28th at 6:00 PM EST, join us for a talk featuring Monika Fabijanska, the curator of MoFA’s current exhibition, “Women at War.” 

Monika Fabijanska is an art historian and curator based in New York City. Fabijanska’s critically acclaimed exhibition, “Women at War,” was listed among the ten best art exhibitions of 2022 by both The Washington Post and Frieze Magazine and is currently on its national tour. 

Fabijanska will discuss her curatorial practice, which includes groundbreaking exhibitions like “The Un-Heroic Act: Representations of Rape in Contemporary Women’s Art in the U.S.,” “Betsy Damon – Passages: Rites and Rituals,” “ecofeminism(s),” and “Women at War.” 

The talk will take place in MoFA’s adjacent classroom, room 249, and is free and open to the public. Fabijanska will host a curator’s tour the following morning, with limited availability (email mofa@fsu.edu to reserve a spot). “Women at War” is on view until October 28th.

 

Opening Reception: Women at War

July 13th, 2023 at 6:00 PM EST

The Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts is honored to present Women at War, curated by Monika Fabijanska and on loan from the Fridman Gallery (NYC), on view from July 13 to October 28, 2023. We invite you to attend the opening reception on July 13 from 6:00-8:00 PM EST. 

Women at War features works by a selection of the leading contemporary women artists working in Ukraine, and provides context for the current war, as represented in art across media. Several works in the exhibition were made immediately following February 24, 2022, when Russia began the full-scale invasion of Ukraine; others date from the eight years of war following the annexation of Crimea and the creation of separatist Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” in Donbas in 2014.

War is central to history. History has been written (and painted) by men. This exhibition provides a platform for women narrators of history and also examines gendered perspectives of war. Many artists in this exhibition struggle with the notion of victimhood and pose the question in what way women have agency during war. 

The exhibition, curated by Monika Fabijanska, was listed among ten best art exhibitions of 2022 by both The Washington Post and Frieze Magazine

 

 

 

Combined Talents: Southern Futurisms Opening Reception

Thursday, June 1st, at 6:00 PM EST, join us for the opening reception of “Combined Talents: Southern Futurisms.” The future of the South is on our minds. With the ample creative praxis in the South today, we called for the submission of artworks for this juried exhibition by artists who think of their work as a lens through which we can consider the future of our region. Anyone who self-identified as Southern was eligible to apply. After much consideration, and out of over two hundred submitted artworks, guest jurors Dana-Marie Lemmer and TK Smith selected the thirty-six pieces in the exhibition.

Refreshments will be provided. Free parking is available in the Call Street parking garage. This event is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

 

be/longing Opening Reception

Friday, April 14th 6:00 PM EST

The Florida State University Department of Art is pleased to announce be/longing, an exhibition of works by Florida State University’s 2023 MFA graduating class Jenae Christopher, AnnaBrooke Greene, Camille Modesto, nik rye, Chayse Sampy, and Chansong Woo. Hosted by the Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibition will focus on their shared considerations of being in the state of longing regarding the diaspora, community and home.

 

 

Make it With MoFA: Passport Stamps

Inspired by the exhibit “Are We Free to Move About the World: The Passport in Contemporary Art,” we invite you to create your own passport stamp. Use rubber blocks and carving tools to learn basic stamp carving techniques and design a stamp you can take home. Through this, you can make a stamp representing you, your connections to place, and the overarching question, “Are We Free to Move About the World.”

You will have two opportunities to join in, Thursday, March 23rd, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM EST and Saturday, April 1st, from 12:00 to 3:00 PM EST in MoFA’s galleries. The workshop is free and open to the public.

 

 

Silenced Voices Concert Series

On March 4th at 2:00 PM EST, join us for an in-gallery concert directed by Liliya Ugay as a part of the chamber music series titled Silent Voices. 

 

Artist Talk: Evan Meaney

March 9th, 7:00 PM EST, Room 249 (adjacent to MoFA’s lobby)

On Thursday, March 9th, at 7:00 EST, please join us for an artist talk with MoFA featured artist Evan Meaney. Evan Meaney is an artist, game designer, and developer who teaches new media practices at the University of South Carolina. Through his work, Meaney discovers “liminalities and glitches of all sorts, equating failing data to ghosts, seances, and archival hauntologies.” 

Amy Szczepanski and Meaney’s work, “Big_Sleep™,” is on view in “Cut Frames, Captured Pixels” until March 18th. Learn more about the artist at https://evanmeaney.com/.

Opening Reception

Are We Free to Move About the World: The Passport in Contemporary Art

Join us Thursday evening, February 2, 2023, from 6:00-8:00 pm for the opening reception of Are We Free to Move About the World: The Passport in Contemporary Art. Curated by Grace Aneiza Alithis exhibition explores how contemporary artists engage with the passport – an archive, document, symbol, object of migration, and instrument of mobility with control – to reflect one’s freedom of movement or lack thereof. The exhibition aims to investigate how artists treat the passport as an object of inquiry, both precious and stripped of its meaning, unpacking it as an urgent response to the global migration crisis.

Are We Free to Move About the World will be on display through May 20, 2023.

Artist Talk and Opening Reception

Artist Talk
January 19th at 5:00 PM EST

Opening reception
January 19th at 6:00 PM EST

Thursday, January 19th, at 5:00 pm EST, join us for an artist talk with MoFA featured artist Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku. 

At 6:00 pm following the talk, we invite you to the opening reception of Un sentimento di libertà | A Feeling of Freedom: New Italians in the Work of Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku, curated by Dr. Tenley Bick and Cut Frames, Captured Pixels: Found Footage Film & Video curated by Dave Rodriguez. 

Afro-Italian artist Luigi Christopher Veggetti Kanku (b. 1978) is known for his monumental portraits that celebrate Black women. He lives and works in Milan. He has recently exhibited his works at Afro Fashion Week and in a solo show, SOTTOPELLE, at his new exhibition space, THE OFFICE, situated in the center of Milan, and a cycle of exhibitions entitled Tricolore, shown at Akka Projects (Venice) and Reggia di Venaria, outside of Turin, among other locations.

 

 

Artist Talk: Doug Baulos

Rescheduled for January 12th at 7:00 PM on Zoom

Click here or visit https://artisttalkdougbaulos.eventbrite.com to register.

On January 12th, at 7 PM EST, join us for a virtual artist talk with Doug Baulos, who was featured in the recent MoFA exhibition Boundless Terrain.

Baulos is currently an Assistant Professor of Drawing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the curricular director at Studio by the Tracks, an art center that provides free art classes. Their drawings, installations, and books have been exhibited/published both nationally and internationally. Their current works are explorations (visual) and meditations (poetry) centering on their ideas of spirituality, love, death, shelter, and hope.

Baulos received their MFA from the University of New Orleans and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. They regularly teach workshops and lecture on their research in book arts, drawing, and visual ecology.