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Diana Al-Hadid Receives 2010 Nucci Award
The annual Nucci Award honors an emerging or mid-career
artist whose practice has received critical attention in recent
years. An independent jury of artists, collectors, critics, curators
and gallerists recommends possible recipients. The award, given by Dr. Robert Nucci, supports the selected artist’s residency at USF’s acclaimed Graphicstudio. Brooklyn-based Diana Al-Hadid was chosen to receive the first annual (2010) Nucci Award. Al-Hadid’s staggering architectural sculptures, constructed from steel, polystyrene, plaster, wood, resin
and wax, appear ripped from their origins, dragged through time and space, collapsing from the weight of time and gravity. Diana Al-Hadid’s work is on view at USFCAM through March 6 in the exhibition New Weather: Diana Al-Hadid, Robyn O’Neil and Iva Gueorguieva. (Download Nucci Award Brochure pdf)
NEA Access to Artistic Excellence Grant
The USF Contemporary Art Museum was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts grant for Access to Artistic Excellence developed by Alexa Favata, Associate Director. The grant is to organize and present a major traveling exhibition with artist Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Black Brain Uprising, curated by David Louis Norr, Chief Curator. The exhibition will premier at CAM in August 2010 and travel to the Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro and the Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta.
Blanton Museum presents Blind Landscape
The USF Contemporary Art Museum exhibition Teresita Fernández: Blind Landscape traveled to The Blanton Museum of Art at The University of Texas at Austin. The exhibtion ran November 1, 2009 – January 3, 2010.
NEA Recovery Grant
Alexa Favata, Associate Director of the Contemporary Art Museum, successfully crafted a grant to the National Endowment for the Arts to support two staff positions at the museum. The National Endowment Recovery Grants went to 63 museums in the United States, and only 3 in Florida, “to support the preservation of jobs that are threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn.” Among the other museum grantees were the Baltimore Museum, Dia Center, Menil Foundation, San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
New Public Art Commission
Stacy Levy has recently completed a new public art commission titled Tampa Wind, located on the exterior of the four-story Natural and Environmental Sciences facility on USF's Tampa campus. The work is a wind-activated rendering of a section of the Hillsborough River, fabricated using over 2000 stainless steel discs. The slightest breeze causes the discs to move creating an ever-changing field of reflected light that can be seen thousands of yards away from the site.
Andy Warhol Foundation Gift
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has designated the USF Contemporary Art Museum as a recipient of a substantial gift from its Photographic Legacy Program. USFCAM will receive a curated selection of approximately 100 original Polaroid photographs and 50 gelatin silver prints produced by Andy Warhol between 1970 and 1987. These images often served as the basis for the artist’s portraits, silk-screen paintings, drawings and prints. This gift will offer a significant opportunity for our scholars and students to access Warhol’s work in a direct way.
Museum Studies Graduate Certificate
The USF Institute for Research in Art is now offering a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies. This interdisciplinary program draws on the expertise of scholars from various departments across USF including Art History, Anthropology, Communication, Public Administration and the School of Library and Information Sciences.
Upcoming Events
Music for New Weather
Friday, February 19, 7pm
Faculty Panel on Contemporary Art Practice
Monday, March 1, 6pm
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