V-Day


" V-Day Pensacola 2009 presents a benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues. Saturday February 21st join UWF women at Sluggo's for an evening of art and exploration. There will be an art auction at 6pm with the performance at 8 pm. $5 all proceeds from the evening will go to Favor House. Contact Sluggo's 850-435-1541 or Jennifer Shellman 850-341-9205 for tickets. "

Moving Hearts/Beating Sound












UWF Gallery of Art
Saturday, February 14th
9PM - Midnight
An evening of collaboration, sounds, projections, and surprises: featuring
Valerie George
Felecia Carlisle


Plugged Art Collective
Raine Bedsole:
Instruments for Navigating Inner Worlds
@ the UWF Gallery of Art
February 19 - March 20

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 19,
5:00PM - 8:00PM

Artist Lecture: Thursday, February, 19,
4:00PM



Inspired by myth, history, and her southern roots, Raine Bedsole’s artwork reveals older worlds, a world of ritual and transcendence. Instruments for Navigating Inner Worlds is a poetic mixture of painting, sculpture, and text. This exhibition delves with the surge of misplaced things and emotions left after post “K”… “Boats, left in trees with the ragged remains of possessions dangling from the branches tell the story of hurricane Katrina’s storm surge and aftermath here on the Gulf Coast.  All too often this is becoming a familiar sight in coastal areas…”says Bedsole.  Instruments for Navigating Inner Worlds is an emotive body of work that uses the flood as a universal archetype symbolizing both death and birth.

Bedsole received a BFA from Auburn University and a MFA in 1989 from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her works are included in the collections of New Orleans’ Museum of Art and Louis Armstrong Airport, the South Carolina Museum of Art, the Miami Herald and Nordstroms, among others. Born in 1960 in Mobile, Alabama she currently resides in New Orleans, La.


Artist and Scholar Lecture Series:
Benjamin Lord


Thursday, February 12th at 4:00 pm

The University of West Florida Department of Art will host the Genius Loci Artist & Scholar Lecture series, an event and lecture by Artist Benjamin Lord, Feb. 12th at 4 p.m. in the UWF Gallery of Art, Building 82. All events are free and open to the public.

Since receiving his MFA from UCLA in 2002, Lord's art has taken a variety of forms including large color prints, books, sculpture, reading-room installations and print portfolios. Employing vocabularies from the contradictory legacies of art photography and conceptual art, his work explores illusionism, the evolving California landscape, the cultural mechanisms of photography, the boundary between process and product, and the relationship between fiction and reality. He has exhibited in New York, Paris, and Barcelona. He lives and works in Los Angeles.



Genius Loci Artist & Scholar Series: Tom Williams

Thursday, January 8th 4:00Pm - 6:00PM
The UWF Department of Art and the
Genius Loci Lecture Series Present:

Tom Williams
"Lipstick Ascending: Claes Oldenburg in
New Haven in 1969 at Yale University"


http://www.salon.com/bc/1998/12/22bc.html

Visiting Scholar Tom Williams will present his lecture, "Lipstick Ascending: Claes Oldenburg in New Haven in 1969 at Yale University" which he has also presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Williams is attending the Genius Loci Lecture series by invitation from Art Department Chair, Dr. Suzette Doyon. Tom Williams is currently completing his dissertation entitled, "Claes Oldenburg, Eros, and the 1960s" for his Ph.D. in art history and criticism from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is also a 2008-2009 Critical Studies Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York City, and he has published articles on Oldenburg, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and other topics.

On January 9th at 6PM, Williams will present a second lecture "Pop Art in General" at the Pensacola Museum of Art that will be in conjunction with the Jasper Johns exhibition at the museum.

Paperworks: On and of Paper Exhibition




Opening Reception: Thursday, January 15th,
5:00PM - 8:00PM
Juror Molly SmithThursday, January 15th, 5:00PM












Awarded Artists:
Transformative Use of Paper:

Daniel Brickman, "Several Heavy Thoughts"

Evocative Use of Paper:
Ray Stratton "Thought and Memory in Flight"

Resourceful use of Paper:
Elizabeth Wyrsch "Woodstack #5"

“Paperworks” is a national juried exhibition that explores the art of paper; highlighting twenty-four artworks and artists from various geographic locations in the United States, Croatia, New Zealand, and Poland. Juror Molly Smith’s careful selection has created a cohesive exhibit that will surprise, humor, and delight. If you think artwork on paper is merely decorative and fragile let the UWF Gallery of Art charmingly prove you wrong.


Emulsification Exhibition #2 Featuring Hamlet (The Worst of Hamlet)


Marzia Prendergast &

John Ransom

Present the photo series:

Emulsification Exhibition #2 Featuring Hamlet

(The Worst of Hamlet)

Gallery 88

University of West Florida

December 11, 2008

5 to 7 pm

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