Boca Raton, FL – The University Galleries in Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters has announced its 2018-19 season. All events will be held in the Schmidt Center Gallery or Ritter Art Gallery, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. Each season, the University Galleries presents a variety of events including traveling exhibitions, lectures, panel discussions, film series and music performances, bringing the community an opportunity to explore art. The 2018-19 season continues this tradition with another extraordinary lineup of programs that are free and open to the public. For more information, visit fau.edu/galleries.
The season begins with “New Art: South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Program” (SFCC) which opens on Friday, Sept. 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the Ritter Art Gallery, and will remain on view in both the Ritter Art Gallery and the Schmidt Center Gallery through Saturday, Oct. 27. SFCC offers grants to visual and media artists from the counties of Broward, Martin, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach. In addition to receiving the grant, the artists take part in an exhibition. The themes that emerge during this exhibition range from social issues to politics to identity. Artists in the exhibition and their respective counties of residence are WE ARE NICE N EASY LLC (Alison Matherly & Jeffrey Noble); Eddie Arroyo, Cristine Brache, Leo Castaneda, Rosa Garmendia, Kat Hernandez, Joseriberto Perez (Miami-Dade); Marielle Plaisir, Samantha Salzinger, Keisha Witherspoon (Broward); Rick Newton (Palm Beach); Linda Finch (Martin).
Next up is “Decolonizing Refinement: Contemporary Pursuits in the Arts of Edouard Duval-Carrié,” which opens Friday, Nov. 8 at 6:30 p.m. and remains on view through Saturday, Feb. 2, 2019 in the Schmidt Gallery. This exhibition of Duval-Carrie’s multimedia arts exemplifies the merging of Caribbean visual culture with a powerful message of the African Diaspora. Exhibited alongside with Duval-Carrié’s artwork will be artifacts from the local area which will be used to build upon his artistic statements to demonstrate how these problematic processes extend to Florida’s visual and material culture. The work critiques the Eurocentric history of Caribbean representation, implicating the colonial heritage of Florida and the broader U.S. Southeast. The exhibition furthers the University Galleries’ mission to promote the understanding of our complex, diverse world through contemporary art.
“Black Mirror: Selections from the Mario Cader-Frech Collection” opens at the Schmidt Center Gallery on Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. and remains on view through Saturday, April 6, 2019. The exhibition features work from underrepresented, rising, as well as established artists in order to provide their perspective of everyday life in El Salvador. The artists tackle difficult subjects such as domestic violence, death and other after effects of the Salvadoran Civil War, through the representation of trading, body violence and street culture. “Black Mirror” explores the controversial concept of a “Third World” city. Although considered derogatory, the term is used here to convey the contrast to popular thought in order to re-appropriate the term, specifically to highlight the financial and social disparity that exists between western regions and the global south.
The 2018-2019 Season also includes:
- “Fall Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition,” Ritter Art Gallery, opens Thursday, Nov. 15 at 6:30 p.m. and runs throughSaturday, Dec. 8.
- “Fall AMPlified Exhibition,” Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space, opens Thursday, Dec. 6, and will remain on view through Dec. 14. The “Spring AMPlified Exhibition” will open in the Schmidt Center Gallery Public Space on Thursday, May 9, 2019 and will run through Wednesday, July 31, 2019.
- Two Free “Family Art Days,” Schmidt Center Gallery, Saturday, Sept. 29 from 1 to 4 p.m. and Saturday, March 16, 2019, from 1 to 4 p.m. Children and families can participate in fun and interactive tours of exhibitions to experience art and create their very own works of art.
- “FAU Potters Guild Fall & Spring Show and Sale,” Ritter Art Gallery, Thursday, Dec. 13 through Sunday, Dec. 16; and Monday, May 13 through Tuesday, May 14, 2019.
- The “Boys & Girls Club of Palm Beach County: Annual Imagemakers Exhibition,” Ritter Art Gallery, Saturday, March 18 through Thursday March 23, 2019.
- “Annual Juried Student Exhibition,” Ritter Art Gallery, opens Thursday, March 28, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. and will remain on view through Friday, April 12, 2019.
- “Masters of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition,” Schmidt Center Gallery, Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. and remains open through Saturday, May 18, 2019.
- “Spring Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition,” Ritter Art Gallery, opens on Thursday, April 18, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. and remains open through Friday, May 3, 2019.
For more information call 561-297-2661, email galleries@fau.edu or visit www.fau.edu/galleries.