Exhibition on view : April 26th thru August at the Gary R. Libby Gallery (map)

Be sure not to miss, STUDIOLAB: Experiments in Art + Science, an exhibition of UF student scientists and art students working together in a course co-taught by UF Biology Professor, Jamie Gillooly and UF Sculpture Professor, Sean Miller.

Read: WHERE ART AND SCIENCE MEET UF's Studiolab brings together two cultures:

https://ufliberalartsandsciences.exposure.co/where-art-and-science-meet?source=share-UFLiberalArtsandSciences​

Friday, October 19, 6 pm
Keynote Lecture, Reception to follow

Saturday, October 20, 10 am - 5 pm
Lectures + Panel Discussions, Reception to follow

“The World to Come: Art, Politics and Climate Change” is an interdisciplinary symposium fostering dialogue around artistic experimental practices, scientific fieldwork, and anthropological research in response to the greatest planetary crisis of our era. 

The symposium is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene" (September 18, 2018 – March 3, 2019). Lively conversations between guest speakers, UF faculty and attendees will confront the challenges of artistic, political and personal practice in the late Anthropocene, in search of ways forward to a more vibrant, compassionate and just future. 

This program is open to the public and presented by the Harn Museum of Art and UF Imagining Climate Change. 

Please see the full schedule + details below.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 6 PM 

Keynote Lecture:

"Blackout: The Necropolitics of Extraction"
T.J. Demos, Professor of History of Art; Director the Center for Creative Ecologies, UC Santa Cruz
Reception to follow

This presentation addresses extraction, as well as the politics and aesthetics of emergent forms of resistance today. In view of spreading sacrifice zones given over to resource mining, abetted by exploitative international trade agreements and the finance of debt servitude, what forms do the cultural politics of resistance take, and how are artist-activists materializing the images and sounds of emancipation and decolonization? With reference to the diverse artwork of Angela Melitopoulos, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ursula Biemann, which considers geographies of conflict in such regions as Greece, Puerto Rico, and Canada and Bangladesh, this analysis addresses a range of leading artistic approaches that adopt an aesthetics of intersectionality that reveals complex causalities and effects, offers a modeling of politico-ecological interpretation, and proposes forms of solidarity with those on the frontlines of opposition.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 10 AM - 5 PM

Schedule:

10 – 10:15 am
Welcome and Introductions
Kerry Oliver-Smith, Curator of Contemporary Art, Harn Museum of Art

10:15 – 11:15 am
Lecture: "Runakuna, human but not only" + Q+A
Marisol de la Cadena, Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis

11:20 – 12:20 pm
Panel Discussion + Q+A
Ellen E. Martin, Professor, UF Department of Geological Sciences; Co-Director, Florida Climate Institute; Brett Scheffers, Assistant Professor, UF IFAS Wildlife Ecology and Conservation; Les Thiele, Professor, University of Florida Department of Political Science; Director of Sustainability Studies and Caires: UF Center for Adaptive Innovation, Resilience, Ethics, and Science; Moderator: Terry Harpold, Associate Professor, UF Department of English; Director, Imagining Climate Change

12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch (on your own)

1:45 – 2:45 pm
Lecture: "Rooting into the Planthroposcene" + Q+A
Natasha Myers, Associate Professor of Anthropology, York University

2:50 – 3:50 pm
Lecture: "Parallel Futures: Images, Friends" + Q+A
Pedro Neves Marques, Visual artist, writer and editor

4 – 5 pm
Panel Discussion
All speakers

5 – 6 pm
Closing Remarks + Reception 

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Support for the symposium is from the National Endowment for the Arts, UF Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere (Rothman Endowment), Harn Eminent Scholar Chair in Art History Lecture Series (keynote), UF Imagining Climate Change and University of Florida Research.

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September 18, 2018 - March 3, 2019
Gladys Gracy Harn Exhibition Hall

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene chronicles an era of rapid, radical and irrevocable ecological change through works of art by more than 45 contemporary international artists. We live in a world of imminent extinctions, runaway climate change and the depletion of biodiversity and resources. Our age has been identified as the Anthropocene, a controversial term used to name a new geological epoch defined by human impact. While geological epochs are known as products of slow change, the Anthropocene has been characterized by speed.  Rising water, surging population and new technologies that compress our breathless sense of space and time. Philosopher Santiago Zabala, echoing Heidegger, warns, “The greatest emergency is the absence of emergency.”

Despite the challenges of disaster and denial, artists in the exhibition respond with resistance, imagination and new ways of seeing and thinking about the world to come. The artists contest mastery of human power over nature while re-visioning the bond of humans to non-human life. In this way, they sustain an openness, wonder and curiosity, keeping optimism in check and nihilism at bay. Organized around overlapping trajectories, the exhibition is structured as a collage of networked ecologies and stories within stories.  They include raw material, disaster, consumption, loss, justice and the emergence of new and nonhierarchical alliances in human-non-human relations.

Florida is one of the most environmentally vulnerable locations worldwide, making The World to Come especially relevant. The exhibition will include a catalogue and dynamic interdisciplinary programs. In January 2017, the Harn Museum of Art received a $100,000 grant from the prestigious Andy Warhol Foundation, providing welcome support for the exhibition.

http://www.harn.ufl.edu/theworldtocome

Exhibition
September 4 - October 26, 2018
University Gallery, Gary R. Libby Gallery, Grinter Gallery

Lecture
September 6 | 6 p.m.
University Gallery

Reception
September 7 | 7 - 9 p.m.
University Gallery

All events are free and open to the public. 

Join the University Galleries for An Evolutionary Moment | Steven Siegel from September 4 through October 26, 2018 in the University Gallery, Gary R. Libby Gallery and Grinter Gallery. 

\Steven Siegel is a visual artist whose work has emulated the natural world for decades. His affinity for nature is most clearly seen in the fervor for the real, raw materials. His work process parallels the evolutionary reality of life and materials. There is much physicality and presence in the objects he builds. The projects in this exhibition grew without predetermined plan or design.

University Gallery
400 SW 13th Street
Fine Arts Building B (FAB)
Gainesville, FL 32611

PHONE
(352) 273-3000

WEBSITE
University Gallery Website

Gallery Talk | Sean Miller
Sunday Sept. 16th 3:00pm - 3:30pm
Cade Museum for Creativity & Invention, 811 S Main St, Gainesville, FL 32601, USA map 

Visit the Cade Museum on Sunday, September 16th to meet Sean Miller and some of the scientists that were involved with creating the Drifting Cabinets exhibit. The gallery talk will take place from 3:00PM-3:30PM upstairs.

Drifting Cabinets is an interdisciplinary art, science, and outreach project investigating the Gulf of Mexico biodiversity following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. This multifaceted exhibit will be displayed at the Cade from September 1st, 2018 through September 30th, 2018. An incredibly beautiful and thought-provoking series of displays, this hands-on “collection-on-the-move” is neither static nor institutional but rather exists in a constant state-of-play, aiming to stimulate dialogue, imagination, and seeking to create ongoing interdisciplinary relationships and learning throughout the region.

Collaborating with Strangers (CoLAB) Workshops
Thursday, 7 December, 2017 - 10:00 am-12:00 pm or
Friday, 5 January, 2018 - 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Smathers Library 100

Hey Stranger... looking for a way to combine forces with other folks in the humanities and beyond? Collaborating with Strangers workshops connect students, faculty, and researchers on campus during 3-minute speed-meetings. You’ll walk away with more resources, solutions, and creative ideas than you ever imagined! Focused conversations will yield the following:
    1) potential collaborative relationships;
    2) generation of research “grand-challenge” questions spanning disciplines; and,
    3) problem solving of issues by discovering hidden resources.
 
CoLAB Workshops will be followed by lunch.

CoLAB Idea Table Cafés
Thursday, 11 January, 2018 - 3:00 pm-5:00 pm or
Friday, 19 January, 2018 - 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Smathers Library 100

Join other CoLABers for Idea Table Cafés where we will extend the benefits of CoLAB Workshops by expanding the connections and ideas that were generated during a CoLAB Workshop. This facilitated, casual environment will stimulate new possibilities of working with each other to combine research, teaching, and other collaborative opportunities, including a proposal to the Intersections Research into Teaching Grant.

CoLAB Idea Table Café sessions will be followed by a lunch or reception.

**Registration**

To register, email humanities-center@ufl.edu. Include your name, department, date(s) you plan to attend, and your email address. Although we hope that interested scholars will attend a CoLAB Workshop and then an Idea Table Café, you are welcome to attend any and all events.

These events are open to all UF faculty, staff, and students.

These events are sponsored by the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere,Intersections: Animating Conversations with the Humanities, and the George A. Smathers Libraries.

For more information, visit: http://www.humanities.ufl.edu/calendar/2017-2018-Intersections-CoLABs.html

Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Florida
www.humanities.ufl.edu
tel 352.392.0796
humanities-center@ufl.edu

Paris-based artist and architect Naziha Mestaoui is a pioneer of digital art whose multimedia exhibits question Western culture’s disconnection with the environment and re-center nature at the heart of cultural issues.

Join Mestaoui for a lunch-time conversation about the intersection of art and science in Fine Arts Building C, Room 118 on November 17, 2017, 11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

Drinks and cookies will be provided.

This event is FREE for UF students. Seating is limited. Please RSVP atwww.eventbrite.com/e/brown-bag-lunch-and-lecture-naziha-mestaoui-tickets-38951126869.

For more information, visit www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/onetree.

Partners: UF Biodiversity Institute | UF Genetics Institute and Graduate Program | UF College of the Arts | UF Digital Worlds Institute | Harn Museum of Art | UF Learning Without Borders | UF Office of the Provost |Florida Museum of Natural History

UF Associate Professor of Sculpture, Sean Miller, in collaboration with visual artist, biologist and environmental educator Brandon Ballengée, and other collaborators at Louisiana State University and Harvey Mudd College, present the Crude Life Portable Biodiversity Museum, exhibiting in Southern California November 2017 at the following venues:

Laguna Art Museum Art and Nature Festival 11/5/2017
Aquarium of the Pacific 11/6/2017
National Academy of Sciences Convention Exhibition 11/7-11/2017

The pop-up exhibitions offered by the portable museum include a series of 10 retrofitted sea chests featuring specimens, artworks,  and information regarding biodiversity in Gulf of Mexico after the BP Oil Spill. The repurposed sea chests feature watercolors painted with water from Hurricane Irma, wood recycled from the architecture of New Orleans and Gainesville, Florida and trees felled by Hurricane Irma.

Beacon College Features Environmental Artist Kate Helms at Leesburg Gallery

LEESBURG, Fla. -- Kate Helms, a 5th-generation Floridian, environmental scientist and artist, is presenting her latest series "Rise" at Beacon College's Kristen Michelle Mason Art Gallery in Leesburg from Nov. 1 to Dec. 8.

"Rise" centers around fantasies of a luxuriously ornate home being dismantled by the climatic effects of sea level rise and tossed into the ocean, where it becomes an artificial reef for a variety of barnacle, coral and sponge-like encrustations. In contrast to widespread coral bleaching, which is causing vast swaths of coral reefs to rapidly perish into milky oblivion, these new species spontaneously evolve to thrive in the changing environment.

Incorporating Victorian furniture, the show references the beginnings of the industrial era, in which humans began to substantially contribute to climate change by adding heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. The walls feature a variety of two-dimensional works, including altered bathymetric maps demonstrating the effects of rising sea level to coastal communities in Florida, as well as surrealistic collages.

Helms is currently the Stormwater Program Administrator for the City of Largo in Florida, where she oversees stormwater pollution prevention efforts. She has previously worked on projects dealing with Everglades restoration, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, oyster restoration, wetlands mitigation, and compliance and enforcement with environmental regulations as a member of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. She has a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science, a Bachelor of Arts in Art, and Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the University of Florida.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida students, staff and faculty have until Dec. 20 to enter the seventh Elegance of Science art competition.

Organized by the Marston Science Library and Florida Museum of Natural History, the contest is open to UF students and employees who create two-dimensional images or videos as part of their research or incorporate scientific tools or concepts in their artwork.

“In the past competitions, we received entries as diverse as photos of armadillo embryo, a mosquito carrying a botfly larva and a painting of a virus and of a sinus cavity, Picasso style,” said Andrei Sourakov, the collection coordinator at the Florida Museum McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity and one of the event organizers. “This event teaches the public about diverse sciences at UF and bridges gaps between people from across campus.”

Each participant may submit a maximum of five entries, which must be high-resolution images accompanied by no more than a 150-word description on its artistic, scientific and educational value. Descriptions should be written for a non-scientific audience. Entries are scored by a panel of judges based on how well they highlight the connection between artistic and scientific perceptions of reality.

Prizes include $150 for first place, $100 for second place, $50 for third place and honorable mentions.
An awards reception and short presentations by contestants will take place in 2018.

For more information on entering the competition, contest rules or to view past entries, visit www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/eos.

Writer: Catalina Ruiz, printern@flmnh.ufl.edu
Source: Andrei Sourakov, 352-273-2013, asourakov@flmnh.ufl.edu
Media contact: Paul Ramey, 352-273-2054, pramey@flmnh.ufl.edu

More info will be posted soon.  Exact dates/times T.B.A.

http://harn.ufl.edu/treeoflife

August 22 - January 14, 2018
In the Harn Museum of Art - Langley Foyer

The Tree of Life will address the importance of biodiversity and the interrelation of all species on Earth. The exhibition explores these themes through a selection of prints and photographs depicting Florida species, as well as a touch table with interactive and video elements. Spanning the 18th century to the present, the works on view will include engravings by John James Audubon, Mark Catesby and Pierre-Joseph Redouté, and photographs by Robert Fichter, Bea Nettles and Jerry Uelsmann.

The Tree of Life is curated by Professors Doug and Pam Soltis, faculty in the Florida Museum of Natural History, with assistance from Dr. Matt Gitzendanner of the University of Florida’s Department of Biology and Annika Smith, doctoral student in Biology. The exhibition is made possible by The Dr. Madelyn M. Lockhart Endowment for Focus Exhibitions at the Harn Museum of Art.