I Keep the Ladders Clean
2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
March 29 - May 4, 2024, USFCAM
What We Keep
A Reading of Original Poetry
ART Thursday, April 18, USFCAM
I Keep the Ladders Clean MFA Artists Panel Discussion
ART Thursday, April 25, USFCAM
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All USFCAM, Graphicstudio, and Public Art events are FREE unless otherwise noted. For reasonable accommodations please email Amy or call (813) 974-4164. (FL Relay 711)
Thursday, April 18, 2024
ART Thursday: What We Keep, A Reading of Original Poetry
6:00–8:00pm
USF Contemporary Art Museum (CAM)
3821 USF Holly Drive, Tampa, FL 33620
Join us for What We Keep, a night of poetry readings by USF graduate students in the “Graduate Poetry Workshop” class. The original poems were written with imagination, mystery, and wildness in response to the MFA artists’ work featured in the exhibition I Keep the Ladders Clean.
For questions or more information please email caminfo@usf.edu or call (813) 974-4133. This event is free and open to all.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
ART Thursday: I Keep the Ladders Clean MFA Panel Discussion
6:30–8:00pm
USF Contemporary Art Museum (CAM)
3821 USF Holly Drive, Tampa, FL 33620
Join us for a panel conversation with 3rd year Master of Fine Arts candidates in the USF School of Art and Art History, whose thesis work is exhibited in I Keep the Ladders Clean. Panel is moderated by USFCAM Curator of Education Leslie Elsasser, and followed by Q&A.
For questions or more information please email caminfo@usf.edu or call (813) 974-4133. This event is free and open to all.
Friday, May 17, 2024
Breaking Barriers: PORTRAIT
Reception + Artists Panel
7:00–9:00pm
USF Contemporary Art Museum (CAM)
3821 USF Holly Drive, Tampa, FL 33620
Join the military veteran artists as they share their work in Breaking Barriers: PORTRAIT, transforming the perception of the "silent veteran" into that of a storyteller and witness.
Artists Panel will be 7:30-8:30pm.
For questions or more information please email caminfo@usf.edu or call (813) 974-4133. This event is free and open to all.
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