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Art Without Boundaries: Florida State University

Studio Art at Florida State emphasizes interdisciplinary thinking and offers diverse opportunities for creative development and expression on both the graduate and undergraduate levels. We are proud of the accomplishments of our esteemed faculty, who provide guidance in the skills necessary for not only artistic creation, but also in expressing contemporary issues through their visual arts. Committed to excellence in all programs, the program strives to combine curricular flexibility with a rigorous mix of experiences and opportunities for serious, focused study in visual art. Take this opportunity to explore our website, or join us at one of our upcoming artist talks, student exhibitions, and community events.

FSU DEPARTMENT OF ART PRESENTS “UNSTILL LIFE: A STUDY,” CURATED BY JEAN SHON AND NIA LOVE AT THE FAB GALLERY!The Florida...
10/22/2026

FSU DEPARTMENT OF ART PRESENTS “UNSTILL LIFE: A STUDY,” CURATED BY JEAN SHON AND NIA LOVE AT THE FAB GALLERY!

The Florida State University Department of Art and FAB Gallery will open an exhibition this October showcasing the work of students in Jean Shon and Nia Love’s co-taught class “Unstill Life”. “Unstill Life: A Study” brings together nine students participating in this class focused on combining visual art, dance, and theater to explore environmental sites around Tallahassee: the historical sculptures on the FSU campus (Site 1), Railroad Square (Site 2), and the FAB Gallery (Site 3). 

Through research, body scores, and conversations around each site’s history, student artists Max Allen, Lilian Baker, Alyssa Barbee, Aryama Bej, Addison Jedd, Andres Laguna, Nneka Onwuka, Farrah Phillips, and Smyrna Troncoso create embodied responses, narratives, and generative works using the body, video, performance, installation, and sound scores. Each site is confluent upon the next, creating collective relationships, iterations of transformations, and transmissions that examine, rethink, and destabilize preconceived notions of traditional and non-traditional space and place. Ultimately, this study investigates sensory experiences and relationships to the vo**ur, engaging how the body acts as both an instrument and archive within the landscape.

Regarding the Unstill Life Class, 2nd Year MFA student Farrah Phillips states:
“Unstill Life has pushed me to step outside of my initial artistic practices, in both concept and materiality alike. As a class, we have been called to research various settings in Tallahassee and respond to the information with collaborative feats of physical and tactile creativity. My appreciation for performance art as a whole has grown and deepened, and I could not be more grateful for my experiences in Unstill Life!”

The exhibit will run from October 29 through December 2, with an opening reception on Thursday, October 29 from 5:00-7:00 p.m.

Alumna Spotlight: Christina Klein (MFA 2017, Studio Art)! 😍😍😍Fine Arts Alumna Christina Klein ’17 Earns People’s Choice ...
10/21/2026

Alumna Spotlight: Christina Klein (MFA 2017, Studio Art)! 😍😍😍

Fine Arts Alumna Christina Klein ’17 Earns People’s Choice Recognition at Oakland’s Autumn Lights Festival!

Christina Klein, Department of Arts class of 2017, recently participated in the Autumn Lights Festival in Oakland, California, where her installation, The Quiet Hours, earned third place in the People’s Choice Award.

Constructed with a wood frame to create a fan-vaulted walkway, The Quiet Hours showcases Klein’s craftsmanship and textile skills. She sewed and upholstered the installation using cotton and tinted vinyl fabrics, transforming these materials into an immersive, light-filled experience.

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Alum Spotlight: Channing Gray (2020 MFA, Studio Art)! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Channing Gray just recently opened their exhibition “Into Ne...
10/20/2026

Alum Spotlight: Channing Gray (2020 MFA, Studio Art)! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Channing Gray just recently opened their exhibition “Into Neverland: Swirling Dreams of Southern Memories” at Bailey Contemporary Arts (BaCA) in Pompano Beach.

Into Neverland: Swirling Dreams of Southern Memories
October 2nd - December 17th

Into Neverland is a constellation of memories illustrated through dreaming bodies, found objects, and colorful motifs. Such echoes include bright patterns from grandmother’s quilt, wishes between stars and stones, friend tumbling together with personal artifacts, and vivid sunsets blending into sketched ideas. Between dreaming and reality, the border of what is real is blurred as these characters enter a portal with symbolic guides to find their way through the sheets of nostalgia. These swirling pieces depict a realm inspired by connections with strangers, cherished objects, and places dwelled.

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Alum Spotlight: Tenee’ Hart (2015 MFA, Studio Art)! 🔥🔥🔥Tenee’ Hart was recently invited to be the juror for Jacksonville...
10/19/2026

Alum Spotlight: Tenee’ Hart (2015 MFA, Studio Art)! 🔥🔥🔥

Tenee’ Hart was recently invited to be the juror for Jacksonville University’s 2026 Annual Student Juried Exhibition. JU’s Annual Student Juried Exhibition is set to open on October 15th.

Juror Statement:

As I moved through the submissions, I kept returning to this idea of ‘heart’ - the place where we carry what we love, what we lose, what we fear, and what we refuse to let go.

Across these works, this idea revealed itself in many forms. Sometimes it was literal; more often, it existed beneath the surface - in a gesture, a material, a memory, a wound. I encountered joy and tenderness alongside grief, longing, anger, desire, and courage. What connected the work was not simply emotion, but the willingness to make something from it.

The exhibition moves through these experiences in color: yellow holds happiness, warmth, and possibility; blue carries grief, longing, and absence; red pulses with passion, rage, and courage. Yet the heart rarely experiences these emotions in isolation. Joy can ache. Grief is often proof that we have loved deeply. Rage can emerge from tenderness. Reminding us that courage is not defined by invulnerability, but by our capacity to endure, resist, and become more than what has tried to break us.

As a juror, I was drawn to the works that allowed these contradictions to remain unresolved. The strongest pieces did not ask me simply to look - they asked me to feel. They took risks. They revealed vulnerability. They trusted that something personal could become something shared.

There is a particular bravery in making art while you are still discovering your voice. To create is to place something of yourself into the world without knowing how it will be received. These students offered us that vulnerability generously, and it was an honor to witness these collective works of ‘heart’ as a juror. 

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Art+Tech Spring 2027 Course Offering!ART4645-0001 Advanced Art+Tech: InteractivityListed as Advanced Electronic Art: Ele...
10/19/2026

Art+Tech Spring 2027 Course Offering!

ART4645-0001 Advanced Art+Tech: Interactivity
Listed as Advanced Electronic Art: Electronic Objects

This course explores interactivity through connections between technology, space, and the body. Students will learn to use code, sensors, and machine learning to create audiovisual art installations that respond to audiences. We will also learn how to critically engage with these technologies and reflect on the ways that they see, watch, and ignore human bodies.

This class is suitable for art students working in any focus area who are interested in exploring and experimenting with ways interactivity, technology, and the body can be incorporated into their practice. Prior experience with code and electronics is not required.

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Sculpture + Expanded Media Spring 2027 Course Offering!ART 3710C-0001: Intermediate Sculpture T/TH 9:00 am-11:30 amThis ...
10/19/2026

Sculpture + Expanded Media Spring 2027 Course Offering!

ART 3710C-0001: Intermediate Sculpture T/TH 9:00 am-11:30 am

This course explores sculpture as an expanded field, examining how contemporary practices extend beyond traditional materials and methods. Students investigate the relationship between objects, bodies, space, audience and time, with emphasis on process, embodied experience, and interdisciplinary approaches to making.

This class is suitable for art students working in any focus area who are interested in exploring and experimenting with ways installation, performative objects, and the body can be incorporated into their practice.

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Sculpture + Expanded Media Spring 2027 Course Offering!ART 2701C-0001 Intro to Sculpture T/TH 12:00 pm-2:30 pmThis cours...
10/19/2026

Sculpture + Expanded Media Spring 2027 Course Offering!

ART 2701C-0001 Intro to Sculpture T/TH 12:00 pm-2:30 pm

This course is an introduction to basic sculptural processes. Students are introduced to the proper use and function of the wood and metal shops, as well as a variety of other tools and techniques for making sculpture.

This class is suitable for Studio Art Majors and Minors and can be taken in the same semester as 3D Foundations.

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Alum Spotlight: J Woltz (2026 MFA, Studio Art)! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼J Woltz was recently hired in the Department of Art & Art History ...
10/15/2026

Alum Spotlight: J Woltz (2026 MFA, Studio Art)! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

J Woltz was recently hired in the Department of Art & Art History at Auburn University as well as accepted into several notable projects and residencies. 

J Woltz is an interdisciplinary artist and educator currently serving as an Adjunct Instructor in the Department of Art and Art History at Auburn University, where they teach Introduction to Digital Art. Woltz also serves as a Teaching Assistant at Florida State University, where they earned an MFA in Studio Art.

Woltz’s recent work has been invited to Foreign Objekt, a Posthuman Research Residency. Their collaborative film project, The Great Billionaire Purge, developed with Tallahassee-based theater group Mickee Faust, will be screened at Punkfilmfest Berlin. Woltz has also been involved in Fall of Freedom, a film initiative presented in collaboration with the Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Canyon Cinema.

Working across video, sculpture, performance, drag, puppetry, sound, and installation, Woltz constructs absurd and often grotesque fictional worlds that examine how power operates through spectacle, consumption, political performance, and the construction of the monstrous. Combining handmade environments, fabricated media, camp, horror, and humor, their practice explores the instability between performance and reality, control and resistance, and the figures society designates as monstrous or other.

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HITM & IDEA Grant BA Student Info SessionLearn about FSU’s Honors in the Major and IDEA Grant funding opportunities with...
10/15/2026

HITM & IDEA Grant BA Student Info Session

Learn about FSU’s Honors in the Major and IDEA Grant funding opportunities with Professor Carrie Ann Baade, art students and alumni.

Tuesday, October 27, 11:30 am
The session will be held in FAB 249
Presented by the BA Studio Art Program

Session Presenters Include:
*Professor, Carrie Ann Baade, Department of Art, HITM Liaison
*BA student, Anna Garufo, currently enrolled in HITM and a recent Idea Grant awardee
*Alumna, Raven Watkins, graduated with HITM and recipient of the Tyler Grant
Presentations will be followed by a Q&A.
We hope to see you there!

Details on Honors in the Major and IDEA Grants at the link in bio.

📸: Artwork by Allie Zieper, BA Honors in Studio Art.

Graduate Spotlight: Farrah Phillips (2028 MFA Candidate, Studio Art)! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Farrah Phillips recently curated “Make it La...
10/13/2026

Graduate Spotlight: Farrah Phillips (2028 MFA Candidate, Studio Art)! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Farrah Phillips recently curated “Make it Last”, a multimedia art exhibition for the University of West Florida’s The Art Gallery (TAG)! The show features works from Lewis Denver, Rubin Gabeau, Kierra Korpolinski, Farrah Phillips, Denton Shields, and MiJung Yun. 

Make It Last
The Art Gallery (TAG)
University of West Florida
October 1st - November 12th

Make It Last, curated by UWF Alum + FSU MFA Candidate Farrah Phillips, exists to encourage fellowship within the act of reflection. Six artists ranging in both medium and imagery come together in TAG to form a unified statement of strength through mindfulness and rest. The exhibition will slowly gain vitality as it is added to via communal participation, taking on new lives as a growing repository for the musings and engagements of each visitor. Purpose can be found in the journey, not just one’s destination, and Make It Last perpetuates this by advocating internal consideration and connection with others through the art and the interactions they encourage.

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