2019 CFA Viewbook by FSU College of Fine Arts

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

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A MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN reetings! The Florida State University College of Fine Arts is poised for another outstanding academic year and I am excited to be a part of it! As a two-time graduate, I was a ‘Nole from the start and am a ‘Nole at heart. On campus, walking familiar paths from my student days and my staff and faculty days, I am inspired by what has changed and what remains the same at the core – the commitment to providing students with the highest caliber of education. After 19 years away, I am particularly happy to be “home.” And, I look forward to helping move the College of Fine Arts into the next phase of its existence, with a renewed commitment to our students and to supporting the research and creativity of our exceptional faculty. The College of Fine Arts (CFA) boasts highly successful programs across an array of disciplines. Undergraduate students here benefit from the expertise of accomplished faculty members, as well as from the presence and contributions of sought-after graduate students, who represent the best and brightest in their respective fields of study. While this publication is primarily dedicated to undergraduate programming, it is the full expanse of what the CFA has to offer that defines students’ experiences. Our students are exposed to world-class art and artistry though the programming of the Maggie Allesee National Choreographic Center (MANCC) and the Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) — both located on the Tallahassee campus — and through connection to our Sarasota campus, which is the site of the renowned Ringling Museum of Art and the immersive FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training. I encourage you to look closely at FSU and the College of Fine Arts. This is a place like no other. Please enjoy reading about us and about a few of our featured alums and I hope to see you soon at an exhibition, in a lecture hall, a studio, or on one of our stages. I wish you the very best! Sincerely,

James Frazier, Ed.D., M.F.A. Dean College of Fine Arts Florida State University

TLH ARTS AT FSU Florida State University is home to a unique combination of visual and performing arts studios, classrooms, performance spaces, and museums. It is where learning and creativity are nurtured through instruction, research, and practice. Our students are some of tomorrow’s most promising artists, researchers, and professionals in their fields. The Colleges of Fine Arts, Motion Picture Arts, and Music each offer a variety of highly competitive degree programs, drawing in a diverse group of exceptionally talented students from across the country and around the globe. Together, these three Colleges provide educational, professional, and cultural resources for the entire campus community, state, and nation, thus distinguishing FSU as one of our nation’s most unique and comprehensive cultural centers. The College of Fine Arts is a community where innovation permeates all of our efforts. We provide the highest levels of training and scholarship in the arts, in the context of a premier research institution. Our vibrant community of performers, designers, educators, historians and theorists includes exceptional faculty members who are outstanding and active in their respective fields, each helping to deliver the finest quality educational experience for a truly extraordinary population of emerging arts professionals. Imagination and creation live in our teaching, research, and performances. The College has six academic units — Departments of Art, Art Education, Art History, and Interior Architecture & Design, and the Schools of Dance and Theatre. It is also home to several non-academic units such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Facility for Arts Research, and the Maggie Allesee Center for Choreography (MANCC). Additionally, the FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor

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Training based in Sarasota, FL is a three-year graduate program culminating in a Master of Fine Arts degree. We encourage you to visit our campus or cfa.fsu.edu for a more in-depth look at the arts at FSU. The College of Motion Picture Arts is dedicated to preparing graduate and undergraduate students for successful careers in the motion picture industry. As you work alongside peers and professors, you’ll gain valuable industry-standard skills, using a range of professional-grade equipment and facilities, and gain a story-first education to prepare for your future in film. The journey doesn’t end when you have your degree: our community has created a tight alumni network that will provide you with support and guidance as you embark on your path into the entertainment industry. Please visit our website at film.fsu.edu for more information. The College of Music is a vibrant community where talented students come together to study with renowned faculty at a top-ranked, comprehensive music program. Our graduates are placed throughout the state of Florida as well as nationally and internationally. Ranked high among the best music programs in the United States, the College supports a variety of campus orchestras, bands, choral ensembles, jazz bands, chamber ensembles, early music groups, world music ensembles, music theatre, and the Florida State Opera. The College of Music is caring, competitive, comprehensive, and career oriented, placing a focus on students first. Should you pursue the next stage of your education with us, we are confident that you will find a stimulating and friendly environment filled with musical opportunity. Visit us at music.fsu.edu for more information.

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

The College houses several units that engage students and faculty, enriching the academic environment. Forward thinking programming in curricula and by the Museum of Fine Arts, the Facility for Arts Research (FAR), and the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) help to produce an ethos of rigorous preparation, artistry, and professional development. The CFA is a place where students can study with outstanding faculty and acclaimed professionalsin-residence. Value placed on the inclusion of visiting professors contributes to a vibrant learning community. Growing support from our alumni and donors allow us to engage the world’s finest artists, designers, and scholars on a continuing basis.

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Artwork by Danielle Delph, Studio Art BFA ‘11.

The College of Fine Arts offers some of the most diverse and renowned programs in the visual and performing arts of any public university. Its six academic units — Art, Art Education, Art History, Dance, Interior Architecture & Design, and Theatre — are all committed to preparing each student for a successful academic and professional career in the arts. In order to fulfill this mission, the College puts students at the forefront of all of its efforts by emphasizing research and creative scholarship, excellent teaching and serving with well-informed passion.

IN THE NEWS

From left to right: Owen Paul, Maddie Wishart, Associate Professor Jonathan Clark and Brianna Wylie show off their mechatronic installation. Photo by Patricia Radulovich.

FSU ART AND ENGINEERING STUDENTS COLLABORATE ON KID-FRIENDLY PROJECT FOR LOCAL NONPROFIT Courtesy of: Kelsey Klopfenstein

Florida State University brings students from two different disciplines together for a Mechatronic Art class, where they collaborate to design interactive stations for a creative play lab at The Sharing Tree, a local nonprofit. Mechatronics is an engineering field that brings together multiple disciplines to design objects that involve mechanical parts, electronics and software. The class, taught by Assistant Professor Rob Duarte from the College of Fine Arts and Associate Professor Jonathan Clark from the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, fuses the disciplines of art and engineering to create an environment where technical practice can merge with theoretical technique. Clark said that while engineers are clever at creating the functioning for mechatronic devices, these devices typically arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t visually appealing or user-friendly. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where art students come in.

Photo by Anna Prentiss.

“Engineering students have lots of technical skills, but in the world, they’re going to need to connect those technical skills with other people in order to accomplish things,” Clark said. “In this class, they see that when they work together with artists, they can create amazing things.” For their class project, students were divided into three groups — half engineers and half artists — and charged with creating interactive play stations for The Sharing Tree. The nonprofit, which started as a reusable resource center for artists, educators and the broader learning community, recently expanded to offer summer camps for children, art classes and a rental space for kids’ parties. The interactive play stations were required to incorporate mechatronic engineering in a way that was kid-friendly. At one station, yoga balls are inserted into a mat serving as a dance floor. Jumping on the balls activates sounds and moving objects. Another station is a large horn with spinning seats around it.

When the seats spin, the horn generates a mixture of electronic sounds and bird noises. The third station is a spaceship-like structure for kids to play astronaut in. It’s complete with a mock control panel and a monitor displaying a moving starfield, creating the illusion that the children are actually driving through space in a spaceship. Duarte said that one objective of the class is to teach how students from different scholastic backgrounds can work together. “The goal of the class is to have them not only teaching each other and learning how to work with each other, but also recognizing the overlap between the two disciplines,” Duarte said. “Also, I think engineering and art students benefit from getting outside of the classroom and interacting with someone who’s like a client. They’ve had to deal with this really unique set of requirements of making something that’s going to exist in public, around kids, and those challenges combine to create a unique experience for our class.”

Dillon Gleeson, who recently graduated from FSU with a bachelor’s degree in studio art, compared the opportunity offered by this class to what’s expected in the real world. “A lot of the work that we’ve done as art students exists in an art-school setting,” Gleeson said. “Realistically, if we want careers in art, we are going to need to communicate with other professions in order to execute projects or to become a part of projects. I think it’s really important to collaborate in any way, and this is one of the largest collaborations that any of us have been a part of in our college careers.” The art students in this semester’s Mechatronic Art class were Sophia Baldwin, Derek Brown, Dillon Gleeson, Robert Riley, Maddie Wishart and Reona Woods. The engineering students were Ashley Chase, Tomas Fajardo, Ben Leathers, Todd Montuoro, Owen Paul, Kyle Voycheske, and Brianna Wylie.

“The students created amazing, modern works of art for our creative kids to experience. The contribution to something real and tangible is empowering, and as a nonprofit organization, this is a mutually beneficial relationship.” -Carly Sinnadurai, Executive Director of The Sharing Tree

DEPARTMENT OF ART The Department of Art is a research-driven community of students and faculty dedicated to the dynamic interrelationships of ideas, processes, and practices. By crossing geographical and disciplinary boundaries, we both discover and create new opportunities for practicing art and design. We cultivate critical, creative, and compassionate thinking in an evolving global environment, developing and pursuing innovation while valuing our traditions. We foster a vibrant culture of creative problem-solvers, responsible both to themselves and to the needs of the larger communities to which they are connected. We celebrate the unique role that art and design play in the construction of culture and embrace our duty to advance and share the knowledge gained through our creative research.

Accept [(Self) + Elsewhere]. Brittany Watkins, (former) Adjunct Instructor & FSU Art MFA â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;16.

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Elton Burgest, BFA Art Student, class of 2018.

Adjunct instructor Haley Lauw demonstrating printmaking process.

Artwork by BFA student Kristen Valle, class of 2018.

Jenna Claire, BFA Art Student, Class of 2018.

Artwork by BFA student Kristen Valle, class of 2018.

DEPARTMENT OF ART EDUCATION The Department of Art Education is a comprehensive higher education program that consists of four graduate-level degree programs in: Arts Administration, Art Education, Art Therapy, and Museum Education and Visitor-Centered Curation. As renowned experts in their field, our faculty produce top-notch teaching and research that make for a spirited learning environment. Our course offerings aim to harness a sense of community through social justice. In pursuit of our mission, we value raising social consciousness, deepening empathy, embracing complex social identities, fostering community integration, and championing participatory action. Upon graduation, our students have successfully attained employment in both national and international settings as K-12 educators, public and private clinicians, managers in cultural organizations, and as museum educators.

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Classroom discussion in Theories of Art Therapy.

Art Education: Arts Based Revolutions Exhibition. Summer 2019, WJB Art Gallery.

DEPARTMENT OF ART HISTORY The Art History program at FSU was the first â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and remains the preeminent â&#x20AC;&#x201D; graduate art history program in Florida, with fourteen core faculty members who research, publish, and teach in a range of historical periods, regions, and methodologies. Our Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies program is the only one of its kind in the Southeast, offering students the opportunity to spend a year interning at the world-class Ringling Museum of Art. Undergraduate students have the opportunity to undertake in-depth honors research projects, to pursue prestigious museum internships, and to study abroad on international programs. Graduate students are eligible to receive teaching assistantships, research fellowships, and travel subsidies to international conferences. Graduates from all of our programs are active throughout the world in academic, museum, research, entrepreneurial, and professional positions. We pride ourselves on fostering a robust intellectual community, an intensive yet supportive learning environment, and a dynamic and engaged alumni network.

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From left to right: Undergraduates Installing a Museum Object Exhibition in the WJB Gallery; Graduate Interns Giving Tours at The Ringling.

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN The Department of Interior Architecture and Design, encompasses a CIDA accredited undergraduate curriculum as well as three masterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program options. Students use design theory, history, technical, and presentation skills while engaging in projects for residential, healthcare, retail, workplace, hospitality, and spaces for special populations. The curriculum prepares students to work as interior designers in design or architectural firms, as well as in a number of other design-related settings. The undergraduate program has been highly ranked in the annual survey by Design Intelligence for many years and the graduate program was listed as the most admired by deans and chairs in five of the last six years. The Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission is to impart values that focus on human-centered design. Providing students with the knowledge necessary to pursue careers as designers who create beautiful, functional and sustainable interiors that positively impact human health, safety and well-being is the primary goal. Through the application of evidence-based design, creative and critical thinking in history, theory and studio courses, students are prepared to create well-designed commercial and residential spaces where people live, work, and play.

interiordesign.fsu.edu Senior Ilana Frierson works on her Healthcare Studio project. Photo by Samantha Becker.

Senior interior architecture and design students working in the studio. Each student has their own dedicated work space. Photo by Samantha Becker.

SCHOOL OF DANCE Accredited by the National Association of Schools of Dance (NASD), the School of Dance upholds the scholarly rigor of a preeminent research institution while drawing upon its lineage of a conservatory model in dance training. The School delivers high quality technical training in both classical and contemporary techniques from a faculty that boasts extensive professional and academic expertise both nationally and internationally. The mission of the School of Dance is to provide an environment conducive to the highest caliber of dance training, art making, and scholarship. The Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach encourages fluidity between the processes of making art, honing craft, and deepening intellectual explorations while cultivating the individual creative voices with exposure to diverse technical and philosophical approaches. Such an environment nurtures exceptional dance practitioners, allowing creative and intellectual contributions to the larger dance community, and fosters collaborative endeavors within and beyond the field. Several concert series are presented annually including Days of Dance, Evening of Dance, and Master Thesis Projects affording students many performance and choreographic opportunities.

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Images of School of Dance BFA students. Photos by Meagan Helman.

SCHOOL OF THEATRE The School of Theatre is consistently recognized as one of the finest theatre programs in the nation. The BFA Music Theatre Program is a highly competitive joint-program offered through both the College of Music and the School of Theatre. Students are offered a comprehensive curriculum with courses in theatre, music, and dance to provide them with the training and skills necessary to meet the demands of a challenging career. The BFA Acting Program is a competitive program designed to prepare highly talented students for work in professional theatre. This comprehensive curriculum includes a sequence of courses in acting, voice, movement, and specialized workshops. The BA Program offers a balance of theatre core classes and electives, allowing students the freedom to explore the many areas in theatre. The graduate programs offer both a comprehensive learning degree coupled with direct hands-on, practical experiences that make them unique from many other programs. Graduate students have the opportunity to interact with the highly trained and experienced professional faculty and staff, as well as the opportunity to be leaders amongst their student peers. Many of the creative teams for the School of Theatre productions consist of graduate student designers, dramaturges, managers, and directors.

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The Addams Family. Photo by Bruce Palmer.

Pinkalicious The Musical. Photo by Bruce Palmer.

MANCC The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography (MANCC) is the only national choreographic

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MANCC Artist Marjani Forté Saunders’s showing of Memoirs of A...Unicorn. Photo by Chris Cameron.

School of Dance student Elle Nielsen performs in front of a sculptural installation by artist Forrest Sincoff Gard.

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS The Museum of Fine Arts (MoFA) connects Florida State University and the broader community to the arts. In addition to maintaining a permanent collection of over 6,000 objects, MoFA presents exhibitions of historical and contemporary art works that contribute meaningfully to the scholarship and conversations that sustain the civic and intellectual life of our campus, city, and region. By introducing diverse audiences to the integral roles that art and culture play in shaping societies, MoFA fosters collaboration, creativity, and critical engagement. MoFA also supports the Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s educational mission through a range of teaching initiatives. Students in the Department of Art exhibit their graduating theses in the Museum, while undergraduate and graduate students from across the College of Fine Arts participate in curatorial and educational projects using the Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collections and venues.

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ARTS AT FSU (IN SARASOTA)

Looking east towards the Museum of Art and Chao Center for Asian Art. Photo by Anton Grassi/Esto.

THE RINGLING

The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is a 66-acre museum complex in Sarasota, Florida, featuring the Museum of Art, Circus Museum, Ca’ d’Zan mansion, Historic Asolo Theater, Art Library, and Bayfront Gardens. The Ringling is the State Art Museum of Florida, under the stewardship of Florida State University. The legacy of John and Mable Ringling, the museum is a place of art, architecture, and circus in an environment that inspires, educates, and entertains.

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Brian Ritchie and Amber McNew in FSU/Asolo Conservatory production of Reckless. Photo by Frank Atura.

in a Master of Fine Arts degree. Partnership with the Asolo Repertory Theatre provides students with the ideal combination of rigorous classical classroom work and professional performance opportunities. World-class resident and visiting faculty provide a setting for supportive, individualized instruction in years one and two; on-stage work in year three furnishes an environment for mentoring and networking in preparation for a career in the theatre.

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ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS Trevor Williams is the Associate Art Director at Hearst’s Women’s Health Magazine and previously held this position at Cosmopolitan and Seventeen magazines. Even though his days now start at a photo shoot or in a content meeting, Trevor still fondly remembers sitting in design and art history classes at FSU. Trevor encourages today’s students to reach out beyond the classroom. “If there is one piece of advice I would stress, it’s to apply for jobs and internships that give you professional experience and build your portfolio.” While at Florida State University, he served as designer for the Center for Global Engagement, where he created posters, flyers, programs, and more. A summer internship with Hearst at Food Network Magazine made him realize he wanted to work in publishing. “I have the best job. No day is the same.” BFA Graphic Design 2013

Megan Boone

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has played FBI agent and profiler Elizabeth Keen on the NBC drama series The Blacklist for all seven seasons. Boone says that she has been “hooked” on acting since age seven, when her grandparents took her to New York to see a Broadway play starring Nathan Lane. Growing up in Florida, it seemed natural for her to attend FSU. While pursuing her degree, Boone was able to study with Jane Alexander and Edwin Sherin, as well as playwright Mark Medoff, all of whom held residencies at FSU. Boone credits Alexander with influencing her to continue her acting career, even though she expressed an interest in quitting early in her career. Despite the struggles she faced when first starting off in Los Angeles, Boone landed on top and fans of The Blacklist are certainly thankful that she stuck to her dreams. When she’s not acting, Boone is playing the role of a mother and advocating for environmental issues with Moms Clean Air Force, Earthjustice, and the National Resources Defense Council.

was recently appointed Program Director for Dance at the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA). Prior to this appointment, she served as the inaugural Managing Director of Camille A. Brown & Dancers (CABD,Inc.). She has participated in notable programs, such as the American Express Leadership Academy and Dance/USA’s DILT Program. She has also contributed to various panel discussions within the dance field. She was a 2016 New York Community Trust Fellow and continues to receive accolades and awards for her work, both professionally and within her community. While at FSU, Indira received scholarships from FSU Friends of Dance and FSU Black Female Development Circle. In addition to her BFA in Dance, she earned a Minor in Communications so that she could incorporate media and promotion into her career. Indira says she hasn’t stopped dancing since she took her first class at age four. ”I knew I wanted to be a performer after that first class.”

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ADMISSIONS INFORMATION FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS Florida State University Office of Admissions 282 Champions Way PO Box 32306-2400 Tallahassee, FL 32306-2400 Undergraduate: 850.644.6200 | admissions@fsu.edu Graduate: 850.644.3420 | graduateadmissions@fsu.edu

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS Florida State University College of Fine Arts 236 Fine Arts Building 540 W. Call Street Tallahassee, FL 32304 cfa.fsu.edu

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Cover image: School of Dance student Ryker Laramore. Photo by Clara Molina.