Dr. Russell Robinson, Professor and Head of Music Education, is completing a ten-day US State Department sponsored tour of American Schools in Monterrey, Guadalajara and Mexico City, Mexico. Robinson is evaluating and working with school music programs for music and school improvement. He worked with each school two full days, meeting with administrators and performing arts teachers and working with school music groups for staff development to develop basic and advanced music teaching techniques.
Follow the study abroad students from the UF Center for Arts in Medicine as they travel across Northern Ireland! Read about their adventures in Belfast, Newgrange, Knowth, and Dublin as they learn, dance, and explore!
Click on the link below to follow as the students blog about their experiences.
http://artsinhealth.wordpress.com/
UF MFA Ceramics alums TJ Erdahl and Stephanie Steufer were awarded a one-month summer residency at Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark. They will travel overseas to begin work in August.
The program offers artists, designers and craftsmen the opportunity to work together, therefore, increasing artistic development, professional experience and network.
TJ is known for his figurative sculpture style, and Stephanie is recognized for her gestural vessels.
The College of Fine Arts wishes them the best of luck!
A group of 17 students participating in this year’s UF in Salzburg summer study abroad program for music, European studies and business started their educational adventures last Thursday with their first stop in Munich, Germany.
The group spent three days in the famous Bavarian city and visited sites such as the 1972 Olympic Park, BMW World, BMW Museum and the famous Glockenspiel at Marienplatz. They also spent a day at Nuremberg, where the famous Nuremberg Trials took place in 1945 and 1946.
The students are currently in Salzburg attending their regular classes, which resumed on Monday.
Sixteen education majors from the College of Education and the College of Fine Arts just completed the UF in Paris— Teach the World study abroad program, where they interned at the prestigious Marymount International School of Paris.
The program was founded by Dr. Russell Robinson, Professor of Music and Head of Music Education, and his wife, Brenda. After two years in Rome, this year the program moved to Paris. Students were able to have a short-term internship as well as experience the many cultural and artistic aspects of one of the world’s most beautiful and treasured cities.
“Entrance into the Teach the World program has become more selective and competitive. This year, we were able to close applications within five weeks of opening,” Robinson said.
“These interns are the highest level of student ambassadors and representatives of the University of Florida. We take great joy in directing the Teach the World program as we hear from the students that our program is a life-changing experience for them.”
The Marymount International School of Paris has invited the program back for 2013. For more information about next year’s program, contact Dr. Robinson at rlrob@ufl.edu or visit the UF International Center.
E-Mining the Archive: Digital practices in Cuban contemporary art
April 13 (Friday), from 2:00pm-4:00pm at the Harn Museum.
With works and presentation by Cuban artists Hamlet Lavastida and Rodolfo Peraza.
Panel: Kerry Oliver-Smith (Curator of Contemporary Art, Harn Museum), Allison Rittmayer (PhD. candidate in English), Choi Jung (PhD. Art History, UF), and Gerardo Munoz (M.A Literature, Romance Languages).
How are we to understand the current condition of the digital in contemporary art practices? What are the new conditions for the museum, the curator, and the artist as we move from the traditional white gallery space to the black box? What is the relation between time and the image in recent productions of contemporary art? Having as our starting point the specific case of contemporary Cuban art, the event “E-Mining the Archive: Digital practices in Cuban contemporary art” invites you to take part in a debate centered around questions such as time-based art, video and animation in globalization, the role of the archive and the artist as ethnographer, post-communism, and the return of the political.
We are please to have in this event two important artists of the new Cuban generation from ISA (Institute of Superior Art in Havana): Hamlet Lavastida and Rodolfo Peraza. These two artists have exhibited around the globe (London, Rio, Tokyo, Vienna, Washington) with international artists such as Tania Bruguera, Thomas Hirchhorn, Lazaro Saavedra, and Carlos Garaicoa. They will present some of their most recent video/animation works with a critical commentary. Along with their presentations, a panel of critics will engage in a discussion about the role of video and time-based art in new global trends in contemporary art.
Event sponsored by the Center for the Humanities in Public Sphere, the Harn Museum of Art, and the Film Studies Group.
The UF Center for European Studies, the International Center and Santa Fe College invites you to VIVA EUROPE!, a day-long celebration of the cultures of Europe. This free festival will be held on Saturday April 7, 2012 from 11:00-4:00 at the Bo Diddley Downtown Plaza in Gainesville, FL. The goal of this event is for the public to increase their appreciation and understanding of the diversity represented in our community and throughout Europe.
A five-night film festival will fill the week leading up to Saturday’s festival. Award-winning films from the Eurochannel Short Films Tour will have their North Florida premier at three of the branch libraries and at Sante Fe College, each night at 6:00 p.m.
On Saturday the 7th, the day will start with Mayor Craig Lowe issuing a proclamation for VIVA EUROPE!, followed by UF School of Music Director and Professor Dr. John Duff on the bagpipes at 11:10. (See schedule at the bottom.) Attendants will be able to use their senses to see, hear, taste, and touch Europe at VIVA EUROPE! This full day of music and dance performance is accompanied by food vendors, country display tables that may have goodies to taste and interesting objects to touch, contests, kid’s activities, a marketplace, mini-language lessons, and more.
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African Student Union - 40th Annual African Showcase
Co-Sponsored by the College of Fine Arts and will feature the Pazeni Sauti Africa Choir
Every spring the African Student Union (ASU) celebrates our annual Showcase with the University of Florida, African Communities of Gainesville, and around the state of Florida. This April 7, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. the 40th Annual African Student Union Showcase: Reigniting the Fire will take place in the J. Wayne Reitz Union Grand Ballroom. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. The richness, diversity, and beauty of the African continent is sometimes unrecognized. Our goal is to educate in an enticing manner.
Now in its 40th year, ASU Showcase is making great strides to display the many great things that Africa has to offer. We are celebrating our Past, Present, and Our Bright Future. We would love to celebrate and enjoy this event with all of you. The African Student Union would be pleased to have you partake in this year’s festivities. Any and everyone is encouraged to attend! Please direct any questions to ufafrisu@gmail.com.
The University of Florida International Piano Festival (UFIPF), first held in 2007 as the Chinese-American International Piano Institute (CAIPI), assembles exceptional college and pre-college pianists for lessons and master classes with distinguished piano teachers from North America and China. The 2012 UFIPF will run in two concurrent divisions: College Division and Pre-College Division, June 16-23, 2012. Additionally, a limited number of observers will be accepted.
Participants will work with faculty in small, rotating lesson groups, and in masterclasses. Public recitals will feature participants every evening. UFIPF is proudly hosted by the University of Florida School of Music, an All-Steinway institution.
2012 Artist Faculty:
Marian Hahn, Peabody Conservatory
Nelita True, Eastman School of Music
Chengang Yang, Sichuan Conservatory
Hee Jung Kang, University of Florida
Kevin Robert Orr, University of Florida
Alexander Tutunov, Southern Oregon University
Check out the website for more information or to apply. The application deadline is April 20, 2012.
The University of Florida School of Music, Center for Latin American Studies and the Center for World Arts presents Jacaré Brazil’s 2012 Spring Chamber Concert. The concert is at 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 26 and is free and open to the public. The concert will be held at the School of Music’s newly refurbished performance space, Music Building Room 101.
Led by UF School of Music faculty Welson Tremura and Larry Crook, this concert involves three ensembles including a guitar quartet, choro instrumental ensemble (guitars, cavaquinho, flutes and percussion) and vocal and percussion ensembles. The program features the music of Garoto, Pixinguinha, Ernesto Nazareth, Jacob do Bandolim, Chico Buarque and Tom Jobim. We also are specially honored to have João Kouyoumdjian from Brazil performing classical guitar and sharing a set of arrangements by Brazilian guitarist Paulo Bellinati.
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