Claire Pentecost presenting at InsideART Teacher's Workshop for Extracted exhibition. Photo: Will Lytch.
INSIDE ART
Welcome to InsideART, an innovative arts-based learning and visual literacy program that integrates social studies with contemporary art in an examination and discussion of pressing societal issues. This secondary school program is provided free of charge to all teachers and students by the Institute for Research in Art (IRA) at the University of South Florida, Tampa, and is hosted on the IRA website.
Developed to benefit secondary school students (grades 6-12) and their teachers, InsideART facilitates the appreciation of socially-engaged contemporary art and helps develop creativity and critical thinking skills, allowing students to view their communities and the world in new and more sophisticated ways.
There are two central components to the program: professional development workshops attended by secondary visual arts and social studies teachers, and a free supplemental curriculum hosted online. Optional components included in the program are field trips to view the museum exhibitions with tours and supplemental learning tools.
The curricula are based on temporary art exhibitions at the USFCAM and follow national and state educational standards, as well as Common Core requirements. The interactive lessons are classroom-ready, field-tested, and include all materials needed by both teachers and students.
Twice-yearly workshops, in conjunction with CAM exhibitions, provide teachers with the tools necessary to integrate the curriculum and concepts into their teaching. The workshops are open to all secondary school visual arts and social studies teachers and include presentations from faculty, curators and artists, museum visits, discussions, group interactions, and networking opportunities. For each workshop offered, teachers bring their experiences and lessons plans back to their schools. Participating faculty have published multiple articles in various scholarly and practitioner-oriented journals (e.g., The Social Studies, Art Education), and have delivered numerous state and national presentations highlighting InsideART, increasing the outreach and impact of this initiative.
Arts-based learning is defined as “the instrumental use of artistic skills, processes and experiences as educational tools to foster learning in non-artistic disciplines and domains.” The Art of Science Learning (with major NSF funding) found “clear evidence of a strong causal relationship between arts-based learning and improved creativity skills and innovation outcomes in adolescents…” with improved creative thinking skills and stronger STEM innovation outcomes. Moreover, students were more likely to apply this learning to school, extracurricular, work, or volunteer activities than their peers who received more traditional learning.
The collaboration among the USFCAM, the USF College of Education, and the School District of Hillsborough County (SDHC) results in a unique partnership. Noel Smith, Deputy Director of USFCAM, and Dr. Bárbara Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education at USF, initiated the project in 2010. The curriculum is currently developed by Dr. Cruz and Dr. Clarence V. Walker in USF’s College of Education. The SDHC collaborates with the program by facilitating the attendance of teachers and assisting in their recruitment.
Thanks for using USF Institute for Research in Art's InsideART! We hope you find it a valuable resource for your classroom. As we create new installments of our unique online curriculum, we will add them to this page. Each edition will contain a link to its own webpage to allow you to download all the necessary files for that series of lessons.
If you are a secondary school teacher in the Tampa Bay area and wish to inquire about participating in the workshops or using the curricula, please contact Amy Allison or Dr. Bárbara Cruz.
Curricular resources
Click here to access the Fall 2024 Skyway 2024 Andrés Ramírez InsideART teaching resources.
The Fall 2024 edition of InsideART highlights the work of Andrés Ramírez, one of the artists featured in the USFCAM exhibition Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape. The exhibition presents varied representations of the rich artistic landscape of a cultural region that has very much come into its own. The lesson and instructional materials are aligned with curricular standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education, introducing students to Ramírez’s work and engaging them in critical analysis and reflection on humans’ interaction with their environment.
This edition of InsideART was written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz and Dr. Clarence V. Walker, both professors in Social Science Education with support from Amy Allison, USFCAM.
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The Spring 2024 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition OFFSET: Robert Rauschenberg at USF Graphicstudio. The exhibition tells the story of Robert Rauschenberg’s long and fruitful collaboration with Donald J. Saff, founder of Graphicstudio in 1968, Distinguished Professor, Chair of the Art Department, and Founding Dean of the College of The Arts at the University of South Florida. Together, Rauschenberg and Saff worked on projects that had profound impacts locally, regionally, nationally, and globally. Lessons are aligned with curricular and instructional standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education.
The lessons in this edition of InsideART lessons were written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Leslie Elsasser, Curator of Education, USFCAM, with support from Amy Allison, USFCAM.
Click here to access the Fall 2023 Native America: In Translation InsideART teaching resources.
The Fall 2023 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Native America: In Translation. The exhibition assembles the wide-ranging work of nine Indigenous artists who pose challenging questions about identity and heritage, land rights, and histories of colonialism. Probing the legacies of settler colonialism, and photography’s complex and often fraught role in constructing representation of Native cultures, the exhibition includes works by lens-based artists offering new perspectives on Indigenous identity, reimagining what it means to be a citizen in North America today. Lessons are aligned with curricular and instructional standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education.
The lessons in this edition of InsideART lessons were written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Ashlee Highfill, M.Ed. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Leslie Elsasser, Curator of Education, USFCAM, with support from Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, College of Education and Amy Allison, USFCAM.
Click here to access the Spring 2023 Poor People's Art InsideART teaching resources.
The Spring 2023 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Poor People’s Art: A (Short) Visual History of Poverty in the United States. The exhibition presents a social history of the experience of underrepresented and underserved communities in the US since 1968. Individually and collectively, the artists included in Poor People's Art tell a story of intersecting injustices of race, class, immigration status, healthcare systems, food insecurity, and gender issues. Lessons are aligned with curricular and instructional standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education.
InsideART lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; Ashlee Highfill, M.Ed.; and Kerrijo Ellis, M.Ed.. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Leslie Elsasser, Curator of Education, USFCAM, with support from Amy Allison, USFCAM.
Click here to access the Fall 2022 Public Art: InsideART Goes Public teaching resources.
The Fall 2022 edition of InsideART focuses on works in the USF Public Art program. Through a collection of teaching resources, learning activities, and biographical information about the artists, teachers and students are invited to examine how art can explore culture, history, and critical social issues. Lessons are aligned with curricular and instructional standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education.
InsideART lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; and Ashlee Highfill, M.Ed.. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Leslie Elsasser, Curator of Education, USFCAM, with support from Amy Allison, USFCAM.
Click here to access the Summer 2022 The Lyrical Moment InsideART teaching resources.
The Summer 2022 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition The Lyrical Moment: Modern and Contemporary Abstraction by Helen Frankenthaler and Heather Gwen Martin. The exhibition features elegant, hand-processed paintings and prints by pioneering artist Helen Frankenthaler and digitally-informed, pop-inflected canvases and works on paper by contemporary Los Angeles painter Heather Gwen Martin. Through a collection of teaching resources, learning activities, and biographical information about the artists, teachers and students are invited to examine how art can explore culture, history, and critical social issues.
Lessons are aligned with curricular and instructional standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education. InsideART lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; Ashlee Highfill, M.Ed.; and Shannon Peck-Bartle, M.A.. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Leslie Elsasser, Curator of Education, USFCAM, with support from Amy Allison, USFCAM.
The Spring 2022 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Bosco Sodi: Básico. Básico brings together Bosco Sodi’s various sources of artistic inspiration as examples of sustainable art making. Through the multimedia curriculum, teachers and students are invited to examine how art can explore culture, history, and critical social issues. Lessons are aligned with curricular and instructional standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education.
InsideART lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; Miranda Ferguson, M.A.; and Shannon Peck-Bartle, M.A.. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Leslie Elsasser, Curator of Education, USFCAM, with support from Amy Allison, USFCAM.
The Fall 2021 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Constant Storm: Art from Puerto Rico and the Diaspora. Constant Storm brings together Puerto Rican artists from diverse generations, living on the island and in the diaspora. Through the multimedia curriculum, teachers and students are invited to examine how art can explore culture, history, and critical social issues. Lessons are aligned with curricular and instructional standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education.
InsideART lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; Miranda Ferguson, M.A.; Shannon Peck-Bartle, M.A.; and Cristina M. Viera, Ph.D. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Noel Smith, Former Deputy Director, USFCAM and Leslie Elsasser, Curator of Education, USFCAM.
The Spring 2021 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibitions Marking Monuments and Still Here: The Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Archives in Context. Exploring the groundbreaking photography of diplomat and photojournalist Griffith J. Davis, and the thematically complementary multimedia works of contemporary artists, teachers and students are invited to examine how art can be a medium of protest and resistance. Lessons are aligned with curricular and instructional standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education.
Marking Monuments and Still Here: The Griffith J. Davis Photographs and Archives in Context InsideART lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; Shannon Peck-Bartle, M.A. and Cristina M. Viera, M.A. & M.Ed., Doctoral Students in the USF College of Education; and Miranda Ferguson, graduate student in the USF College of Education. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Noel Smith, Deputy Director, USFCAM.
The Fall 2020 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition The Neighbors: Slide Shows for America. Exploring the rich diversity of ethnicity and culture in the United States, teachers and students are invited to explore not only ethnic enclaves in America but also in their own communities as well. Lessons are aligned with curricular and instructional standards of state and national learned bodies in social studies and art education.
The Neighbors: Slide Shows for America InsideART lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; Shannon Peck-Bartle, M.A. and Cristina M. Viera, M.A. & M.Ed., Doctoral Students in the USF College of Education; and Miranda Ferguson, graduate student in the USF College of Education. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Noel Smith, Deputy Director, USFCAM.
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This special edition of InsideART is the result of a collaboration between co-director Dr. Bárbara Cruz and Dra. María Isabel Vera Muñoz, Profesora Titular de Universidad Jubilada at the Universidad de Alicante.
Haciendo Lo Invisible, Visible: La Mujer en el Arte Contemporáneo (Making the Invisible, Visible: The Woman in Contemporary Art) is an exploration of feminist art in the contemporary art worlds of Spain and the United States. By studying art from 3 American and 3 Spanish artists --- Vero McClain, David Ortega del Campo, Isabel Oliver, Judy Chicago, Barbara Kruger, and the Guerrilla Girls --- teachers and students are invited to consider the nexus of feminism and socially conscious art.
The authors would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Fulbright Commission, the USF Contemporary Art Museum, and the Museo de la Universidad de Alicante.
Esta edición de InsideART es el resultado de una colaboración entre co-directora Dra. Bárbara Cruz y Dra. María Isabel Vera Muñoz, Profesora Titular de Universidad Jubilada en la Universidad de Alicante.
Haciendo Lo Invisible, Visible: La Mujer en el Arte Contemporáneo es una exploración del arte feminista en el arte contemporáneo de España y los Estados Unidos. Con estudiar el arte de 3 artistas estadounidenses y 3 españoles --- Vero McClain, David Ortega del Campo, Isabel Oliver, Judy Chicago, Barbara Kruger, and the Guerrilla Girls --- maestros y estudiantes están invitados a considerer el nexo del feminismo y el arte comprometido.
Las autoras desean agradecer el generoso apoyo de la Comisión Fulbright, el USF Contemporary Art Museum, y el Museo de la Universidad de Alicante.
The Spring 2020 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibitions FloodZone and Sponge Exchange.
USF Contemporary Art Museum, part of the USF Institute for Research in Art in the College of The Arts, presents two new solo exhibitions, Sponge Exchange with artist and educator Hope Ginsburg and FloodZone with artist Anastasia Samoylova. These exhibitions document vulnerable and threatened environments both above and below the sea’s surface to reveal human interventions into our natural ocean ecology and the ocean’s intrusion into our constructed landscape. Submerging viewers within these habitats spotlights the critical issues surrounding our climate crisis, rising temperatures and sea levels; their impact on the health, sustainability and resiliency of Florida’s environment; and the social and economic life of South Florida and the Gulf Coast.
InsideART FloodZone + Sponge Exchange lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; and Shannon Peck-Bartle, M.A. and Cristina M. Viera, M.A. & M.Ed., Doctoral Students in the USF College of Education. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Noel Smith, Deputy Director, USFCAM.
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The Fall 2019 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition The Return of the Real: Robert Lazzarini and Rodrigo Valenzuela.
A two-person exhibition, featuring the work of Los Angeles-based artist Rodrigo Valenzuela (b. 1982 Santiago, Chile) and New York-based sculptor Robert Lazzarini (b. 1965, Denville, N.J.), The Return of the Real presents the work of two U.S.-based artists who are distinctly committed to re-presentation as a mode of visual experimentation and reasoning. Though both artists rearrange, reconstruct and ultimately distort reality, they do so ultimately to arrive at objects and images that undermine their own truth telling.
InsideART The Return of the Real lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; and Shannon Peck-Bartle, M.A. and Cristina M. Viera, M.A. & M.Ed., Doctoral Students in the USF College of Education. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Noel Smith, Deputy Director, USFCAM.
The Spring 2019 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility.
The four international artists in The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility, Karolina Sobecka, Bosco Sodi, Tavares Strachan, and Jorge Tacla, created installations in response to the phenomenon of cultural concealment. They combined the presentation of objects and performances inside an exhibition venue with artist-directed activities that engaged and supported communities in the Tampa Bay area affected by political or social invisibility. Together, the works refer to people and ideas that have crucially been omitted from today’s social, political, economic, and cultural processes. According to Duchamp’s logic, invisibility is impotence. What is powerful is to be seen. Curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum. The Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation is the major supporter of The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility. Bosco Sodi, MURO is sponsored by The Gobioff Foundation and USF World. The opening night artist conversation is made possible by the generous support of Dr. Allen Root in honor of his late wife Janet G. Root. Film on the Lawn presented by CAM Club.
InsideART The Visible Turn: Contemporary Artists Confront Political Invisibility lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; and Sarah Mead, M.A.T. and Cristina M. Viera, M.A. & M.Ed., Doctoral Students in the USF College of Education. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Noel Smith, Deputy Director, USFCAM.
The Fall 2018 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Miki Kratsman: People I Met.
For three decades, Miki Kratsman has been one of the leading chroniclers of life in the Israeli-occupied territories. His photographs—many of them documentary images taken during a previous life as a press photographer for the Israeli newspapers Hadashot and Haaretz—uncover personal stories while revealing the violent, often detached nature of Israel's military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. While trying to answer the question “What happened to the people in the photographs?,” Kratsman amassed a vast archive of more than 9,000 portraits of anonymous Palestinians, which he first uploaded onto a dedicated Facebook page in 2011. The USFCAM installation materializes the artist’s growing portrait archive together with identifying commentary that, in some cases, serves as a literal proof of life—or death. People I Met raises questions about the culture of representation and continues the museum’s tradition of presenting challenging artwork with social content. The exhibition also includes a video titled 70 Meters...White T-shirt, and several recent photographic series. Curated by USF Contemporary Art Museum curator-at-large Christian Viveros-Fauné; organized by USFCAM.
InsideART Miki Kratsman: People I Met lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; and Sarah Mead, M.A.T. and Cristina M. Viera, M.A. & M.Ed., Doctoral Students in the USF College of Education. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Noel Smith, Deputy Director, USFCAM
The Spring 2018 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Climate Change: Cuba/USA.
This exhibition invites Cuban and Cuban-American artists to reflect on the consequences of the recent fluctuations in the relationship between the two countries. Artists Glexis Novoa, Celia y Yunior, Antonio Fernández "Tonel" and Javier Castro will produce new works, in sculpture, painting, drawing, installation and video, that consider the changes, or "no changes," that the political and diplomatic developments have wrought in their personal lives and in Cuban society. Curated by Noel Smith; organized by USFCAM.
InsideART Climate Change: Cuba/USA lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; and Sarah Mead, M.A.T., Doctoral Student in the USF College of Education. The program is co-directed by Dr. Cruz and Noel Smith, Deputy Director, USFCAM.
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The Fall 2017 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition David Claerbout.
Belgian artist David Claerbout has explored the conceptual framework of duration through use of film and digital photography throughout his career. His skilled manipulation of still and moving images appears to capture another dimension of existence, shifting between past and present. The element of sound is critical in many of his works, used as either a narrative device or a “guide” for the viewer to navigate the architectural space in the film. Claerbout’s oeuvre is characterized by a meticulous attention to production details, painstakingly created often over a period of years. The resultant works are immersive environments in which the viewer is invited to engage both philosophically and aesthetically. Curated by Margaret Miller; organized by USFCAM.
InsideART David Claerbout lessons are written by USF College of Education faculty Dr. Bárbara C. Cruz, Professor of Social Science Education and Dr. Cheryl Ellerbrock, Associate Professor of Middle Grades and General Secondary Education; Sarah Mead, M.A.T., Doctoral Student in the USF College of Education; and Noel Smith, Deputy Director, USFCAM.
Download the Summer 2017 teaching resources document for Black Pulp! InsideArt: PDF
The Summer 2017 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Black Pulp!
Black Pulp! examines evolving perspectives of Black identity in American culture and history from 1912 to 2016 through rare historical printed media shown in dialogue with contemporary works of art. The exhibition highlights works by artists, graphic designers, writers, and publishers in formats ranging from little known comic books to covers for historic books and magazines, to etchings, digital prints, drawings, and media-based works by some of today’s leading artists. Black Pulp! is curated by William Villalongo and Mark Thomas Gibson. The exhibition tour is organized by International Print Center New York. Black Pulp! is supported in part by the USF Institute on Black Life.
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The Spring 2017 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Duke Riley: Flights of Fancy.
USFCAM presents a solo exhibition of Brooklyn-based artist Duke Riley, known for his ambitious and immersive projects which engage historical and contemporary social issues often through subversive performative action. Flights of Fancy will feature two projects exploring and celebrating Riley’s history of working with pigeons and waterfront districts within the nautical landscape. Curated by Sarah Howard; organized by USFCAM. A free poster is available for exhibition visitors. Duke Riley: Flights of Fancy is supported in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Board of County Commissioners, and by the USFCAM Art for Community Engagement (ACE) Fund Patrons: Allison and Robby Adams; Frank E. Duckwall Foundation; Francesca and Richard Forsyth;Gobioff Foundation; Courtney and Jason Kuhn; Linda Saul-Sena and Mark Sena; Sharmila and Vivek Seth; and Stanton Storer.
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The Fall 2016 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Extracted.
Growing consensus among scientists suggests that we live in a new geological epoch characterized by humankind’s impact on Earth: the Anthropocene. This impact is evidenced in part by remainders of fossil fuel production and consumption, petrochemical use, industrial agriculture and mining. Extracted brings together a group of artists whose work investigates the extraction of natural resources, and the material and cultural circulation of such resources around the globe. Participating artists: Mary Mattingly, Otobong Nkanga, Claire Pentecost, David Zink Yi and Marina Zurkow. Extracted is curated by Megan Voeller and organized by USFCAM. Claire Pentecost's participation is supported by USFCAM's Art for Community Engagement (ACE) patrons: Sharmila and Vivek Seth, Allison and Robbie Adams, Courtney and Jason Kuhn, Francesca and Richard Forsyth, the Stanton Storer Embrace The Arts Foundation, and the Frank E. Duckwall Foundation.
The Spring 2016 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Histórias/Histories: Contemporary Art from Brazil.
Histórias will showcase works by Jonathas de Andrade, Sonia Gomes, Virginia de Medeiros, Caio Reisewitz, and Luiz Zerbini, whose approaches address the varied histories of Brazil, some collective, some individual, but all rooted in reflections on the country’s complicated past and present, and vast geographical, racial, and cultural wealth and diversity. Curated by USFCAM Curator Noel Smith, with Dr. Agnaldo Farias, University of São Paulo; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum. Exhibition sponsored in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Board of Hillsborough County Commissioners, the USF Institute for the Study of Latin America and the Caribbean, USF World, and The Gobioff Foundation.
The Fall 2015 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition A Family Affair.
A Family Affair presents seven artists who explore personal identity and family relationships through photography, video, performance and animation: Renee Cox, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Kalup Linzy, Jacolby Satterwhite, Hank Willis Thomas, Corine Vermeulen and Deborah Willis. Adopting a range of approaches from documentary to fiction, they articulate visions of self situated within interpersonal and historical family contexts as well as broader social frameworks of race, class and gender, often working in collaboration with family members to realize their art. During the exhibition Corine Vermeulen will be in residence and undertake a three-month community-based project in collaboration with the University Area Community Development Corporation, photographing residents of the University Area community adjacent to USF in exchange for stories of neighborhood and family life. A Family Affair is curated by Megan Voeller and organized by USFCAM. The exhibition catalogue for A Family Affair is supported by a grant from the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation. Corine Vermeulen’s residency is supported by Caspers Company and Sharmila and Vivek Seth.
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The Spring 2015 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Enhanced: Photographic Works from the Drapkin Collections with Contemporary Light-Based Media.
Enhanced! presents a selection of vintage and contemporary manipulated photographs that span the history of photography. The images selected for the exhibition have been transformed manually and digitally to enhance them in a variety of ways and to fool the eye of the viewer, and to expand and shift our understanding of photography as a medium. Works selected from The Drapkin Collections anchor the exhibition, with classic images dating from the 1850s to the 1960s, including works by Anna Atkins, Harold Edgerton, Alexander Gardner, Gustave Le Gray, Man Ray, Eadweard Muybridge, Jerry Uelsmann, Weegee and many others. Examples of vernacular photography reflect collector Dr. Robert Drapkin’s broad range of interests. Contemporary selections include works by Yoan Capote, James Casebere, Jerome Favre, Adam Fuss, Debbie Grossman, Kalup Linzy, Christian Marclay, Vik Muniz, Yamini Nayar, Roman Signer, and Peter Tscherkassky. Curated by Noel Smith; organized by USF Contemporary Art Museum.
Click here to access the 2014 CAM@25 InsideART lesson plans and instructional materials.
The 2014 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition CAM@25: Social Engagement.
The USF Contemporary Art Museum celebrates its 25th anniversary with CAM@25: Social Engagement to highlight its history of bringing artists, and the practice of making contemporary art, to the Tampa Bay community. This selection of installations serves to mark CAM’s extensive history of exhibitions, commissions and collaborations with artists whose practices and projects embrace an ethos of responsible social meaning, purpose and motivation in the public sphere. Artists include Los Carpinteros (Cuba/Spain), Pedro Reyes (Mexico), and Janaina Tschäpe (Brazil/Germany).
Click here to access the 2013 SubRosa InsideART lesson plans and instructional materials.
The 2013 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition SubRosa: The Language of Resistance.
Referencing the ancient practice of hanging a rose to designate covert meetings, the Latin term sub rosa for centuries has denoted secrecy or confidentiality. The seven international artists in this exhibition are among the untold many around the world who contend with environments where censorship—real and threatened—violence and imprisonment are daily realities for those who speak out against the social and political oppression they experience. Together with their compatriots, these artists find ways to live with dignity, honesty and hope for change, and they choose to use their art for activism. Operating often in a sub rosa mode—covert, coded, dissimulated—they find languages for resistance in accomplished and intriguing works that span a range of media and registers, reaching diverse audiences in their own countries and across the world. Artists include Ai Weiwei (China), Ramón Esono Ebalé (Equatorial Guinea), Barbad Golshiri (Iran), Khaled Jarrar (Palestine), Zanele Muholi (South Africa), and José Toirac and Meira Marrero (Cuba).
Click here to access the 2012 Mark Dion InsideART lesson plans and instructional materials.
The 2012 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Mark Dion: Troubleshooting.
For decades, Mark Dion has created drawings, prints, cabinets of curiosity, archaeological digs, and sprawling installations about the discrepancy between perceived knowledge and scientific inquiry, between common perception and advanced research. His works have addressed famous intellectuals in history, such as William Bartram, as well as important social and environmental sites, most recently the fragile Florida Everglades. Mark Dion: Troubleshooting is a focused survey of his most ecologically-themed works.
Click here to access the 2010 Carlos Garaicoa InsideART lesson plans and instructional materials.
The 2010 edition of InsideART focuses on the USFCAM exhibition Carlos Garaicoa: La enmienda que hay en mí (Making Amends).
Inspired by the architecture and culture of his native Havana, Cuba, Garaicoa explores issues relevant to contemporary society including urbanism, politics, history and human rights. He incorporates drawing, photography, sculpture and text in dramatic, large-scale installations as well as precious miniatures.
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