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Feminist Iconography IV

The Women Studies Collective in partnership with the Pensacola Museum of Art and the UWF Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program invites you to Feminist Iconography, a special pop-up exhibition held with the traveling exhibit Rebels with a Cause: American Impressionist Women organized by the Huntsville Museum of Art. ​Feminist Iconography will feature an interdisciplinary …
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Rebels With a Cause: American Impressionist Women

Women. Rebels. Artists. Rebels With a Cause presents a selection of works by female artists active between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries who rebelled against the conventions of their day by exhibiting alongside their male counterparts, receiving awards, and clearing a path for future artists. The collection of paintings embody the early influence of French …
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Warren Thompson: Moonpies

A series of black-and-white portraits by nationally acclaimed artist Warren Thompson. A Florida native, Warren stumbled upon photography in his senior year of college. From that point on he dedicated his life to learning and teaching photography. Thompson’s favorite subject to shoot is street photography and always advises to “shoot more.” He is responsible for …
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Controversial Lines: Late Prints by Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali (1904 – 1989) was one of the most famous and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Prolific for more than sixty years, Dali created countless oil paintings, drawings, sculptures, theatre and fashion designs, jewelry, book illustrations and prints. This exhibition focuses on multiple print suites and single prints by Dali, from the 1940s …
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CITIZENS: Rhetoric, Response, Representation

As the UWF 2021 Common Read, Claudia Rankine’s award-winning, genre-defying Citizen: An American Lyric, created a safe space for students to engage with issues of race during a time of national reckoning with racism. Woven into classes in English, Art, and Honors, Citizen engaged students with the banal, daily experience of racism in this country, …
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A Dead Reckoning: Navigating Contemporary Ceramics

Dead Reckoning is a navigational term to determine the current position, or fix, of a moving object or form by relying on known previous movements and locations of that object. Ceramics is an art form currently moving in all directions: ceramicists are exploring novel technologies such as 3D printing, while also re-imagining traditional techniques of …
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Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom

Visionary Aponte: Art and Black Freedom takes as its point of departure an extraordinary—and now lost—historical artifact: a so-called “Book of Paintings.” Its creator was José Antonio Aponte, a free black carpenter, artist, and former soldier who was also the leader of an ambitious antislavery conspiracy in Cuba in 1812. During his trial, Aponte was …
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The Kingdom of This World, Reimagined

The Kingdom of This World, Reimagined originally opened in 2019 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier’s renowned novel, The Kingdom of This World (1949). The book takes an imaginative dive into the volatile epoch of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), when an extraordinary uprising, led by enslaved and freed people of color, …
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End of Century

Globalization and industrialization prompted a period of immense artistic experimentation and production in the late 19th century. With the opening of trade with Japan in 1853 and the proliferation of International Exhibitions across Europe, artists had unprecedented access to artwork from around the world, exposing them to new subject matters and modes of production. Unencumbered …
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Kissed in Digital Gloss

Anastasia Moray Leech creates using installation, sculpture, and digital multimedia to address the effervescence of popular culture and its evolving modes of physical and digital connection. Reoccurring themes in her work address hedonism, camp, and sensuality while also investigating their conceptual relation to hyper-stimulation and the ephemerality of physical and digital interfaces. Kissed in Digital …
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