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Strong talent pipeline and collaborative connections in Tampa inspires architectural firm JSWD to open first office outside of Germany - Business Observer
A German architecture firm is opening its first United States office in Tampa and is in the process of hiring 30 new employees to run it. The firm is JSWD and is based in Cologne. It has a second office in Berlin. Its new 2,960-square-foot office in Tampa will be in a former storefront at 8401 N. Dale Mabry Highway, off Waters Avenue and just outside the city鈥檚 Carrollwood neighborhood. The space was previously occupied by Sorrento Sweets, a local Italian bakery. The firm is scheduled to open next week in the space.
April 10, 2024Architecture, Faculty
Associate Professor of Art & Art History Jason Lazarus to host a two-day, open call exhibition, HOW TO WATCH A SOLAR ECLIPSE: A Symphony and a Score
Heiress Gallery is pleased to announce, A Symphony and a Score (HOW TO WATCH A SOLAR ECLIPSE), a two-day, open-call exhibition (Friday April 5th and Saturday, April 6th) hosted by artist Jason Lazarus, in collaboration with the gallery, to prepare for and celebrate the upcoming solar eclipse on April 8th, 2024.
April 1, 2024Art & Art History, Community Outreach, Faculty
New Exhibition: Ezra Johnson, Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, at the Mindy Solomon Gallery
Mindy Solomon Gallery is pleased to present Sunday Morning Coming Down. Ezra Johnson鈥檚 fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. In this group of new paintings, Johnson has been inspired by what he calls the 鈥渢ropical noir鈥� atmosphere of Tampa, engaging with objects, spaces and scenes that are built up with many layers of oil paint, applied in sheets of color often showing the residue of earlier layers.
February 29, 2024Art & Art History, Faculty
What Do Artists Diane Simpson and Professor Emerita Mernet Larsen Have In Common? A Fascination With the 45-Degree Angle - artnet
What if we saw the world from a 45-degree angle? This topsy-turvy premise united two shows 鈥淢ernet Larsen: Thinking About C茅zanne鈥� and 鈥淒iane Simpson: 1977鈥�1980鈥� at James Cohan, New York (Simpson鈥檚 show is on view through March 23; Larsen鈥檚 closed on March 16), wherein sculptures (Simpson鈥檚) and paintings (Larsen鈥檚) playfully vacillate between two and three dimensions.
February 20, 2024Art & Art History, Faculty
Rebecca Penneys: Acclaimed pianist aims to spread the 鈥榣anguage of peace鈥�
A child prodigy, pianist Rebecca Penneys has been immersed in music since she began playing by ear as a toddler. It鈥檚 a powerful language, she says. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a language of peace, and I鈥檓 definitely an advocate of peace on earth,鈥� she says. 鈥淢usic makes you smarter. When you play an instrument, it changes your thinking. The whole idea is that civilization then can go forward in a more peaceful way.鈥�
Kenrick Wagner, Assistant Instructor of Commercial Music: Hip-hop still as transcendent 50 years later - BayNews 9
鈥淎 lot of the things that we say in the music, we say it in the music because in other spaces and places it may not resonate as strongly as it would. Unless we have a fly beat behind it.鈥�
Selected Topics: USF Faculty Exhibition at Gallery114
This exhibition is intended to introduce HCC students to potential mentors, departments and schools to consider for further study upon completion of their AA degree at HCC. Selected Topics: USF Faculty Exhibition features artists from both Tampa and St. Petersburg campuses who work across a wide array of media and conceptual frameworks, offering a glimpse into the breadth and variety of artistic and pedagogical perspectives at the 最新天美传媒鈥檚 College of the Arts.
January 8, 2024Art & Art History, Faculty