Selected Recent Press
9/6/2024 - Exploring All Five Skyway Museums
- Tony Wong Palms, Creative Pinellas
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8/19/2024 - Immersive video installation coming to USF gallery - By Bill DeYoung, St Pete Catalyst
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7/31/2024 - August Arts Roundup - By Christopher Curry, 83degrees
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8/7/2024 - Take the Skyway bridge to an art adventure - By Monica Roman Gagnier, Observer
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5/29/2024 - "Breaking Barriers: PORTRAIT" Exhibit Captures Healing Benefits of Art - Hillsborough County
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2/8/2024 - Outstanding Robert Rauschenberg Exhibit at USF
- Tony Wong Palms, Creative Pinellas
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1/15/24 - Spring exhibition at USF Tampa campus highlights printmaking pioneers – Jennifer Ring, CLTampa.com
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10/20/2023 - Graphicstudio at USF Tampa is the preferred printmaking shop of legendary artists - Sean Daly, ABC Action News, WFTS-Tampa
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10/6/2023 - Coexisting in a Changing Environment
- Kurt Loft, Creative Pinellas
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9/18/2023 - ‘Superflex: This Is the Tip of the Iceberg’ - Tampa Bay Newspapers
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8/25/2023 - Wendy Red Star Introduces Kimowan Metchewais Through Indigenous Photography Exhibition - By Chadd Scott, Forbes
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8/5/2023 - Tampa Bay August arts roundup: comic book art, comedy improv, a cupcake contest and much more - By Christopher Curry, 83degrees
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6/02/2023 - Rico Gatson and Christian Viveros-Fauné on Art in Your Ear - By JoEllen Schilke, WMNF Radio
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6/1/2023 - Artist Rico Gatson turns USF Tampa museum into celebration of Black heroes - By Sean Daly, ABC Action News, WFTS-Tampa
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5/19/2023 - Editor's notebook: Tampa Bay makes global gains in the ‘art as infrastructure’ arena - By Alexis Muellner, Tampa Bay Business Journal
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4/16/2023 - At USF, a hidden gem of a print studio - By Pegie Stark, Tampa Bay Times
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3/5/2023 - Joe Testa-Secca spent decades making art in Tampa. Here’s where you can see it. - By Kristen Hare, Tampa Bay Times
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About the USF Institute for Research in Art
The USF Institute for Research in Art (IRA) is the umbrella organization for the Contemporary Art Museum, Graphicstudio, Public Art program, and Art in Health. Part of the University of South Florida College of The Arts, the IRA is dedicated to an international artists' residency program that brings to the University and Tampa Bay community today's most accomplished and influential artists working in the international art arena. Exhibitions, collection development, publication of limited edition graphics and sculpture multiples, commissioned public art works, interdisciplinary arts research, lectures, symposia, workshops and special events are designed to foster awareness about the role of contemporary artists in shaping our culture and society. Participating artists represent the full and diverse spectrum of contemporary art practice including, but not limited to, painting, sculpture, photography, electronic media, and performance.
About the College of The Arts
As the creative center of the University of South Florida, the College of The Arts provides an enriched, creative, and professional environment for tomorrow’s leaders in architecture, art, art history, music, theatre, dance, and design. The college embraces opportunities to embed new and existing arts programming in the rapidly growing regional communities and serves as an integral engine for socioeconomic progress through its research, advocacy, and engagement.
About the University of South Florida
The University of South Florida, a high-impact research university dedicated to student success and committed to community engagement, generates an annual economic impact of more than $6 billion. With campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg and Sarasota-Manatee, USF serves approxi-mately 50,000 students who represent nearly 150 different countries. U.S. News & World Report has ranked USF as one of the nation’s top 50 public universities for five consecutive years, and this year USF earned its highest ranking ever among all universities public or private. In 2023, USF became the first public university in Florida in nearly 40 years to be invited to join the Asso-ciation of American Universities, a prestigious group of the leading universities in the United States and Canada. Through hundreds of millions of dollars in research activity each year and as one of the top universities in the world for securing new patents, USF is a leader in solving global problems and improving lives. USF is a member of the American Athletic Conference. Learn more at www.usf.edu.
Museum Sponsors
National Endowment for the Arts // Florida Department of State, Florida Arts & Cultur // H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute // Knox Family Foundation // Lee & Victor Leavengood Endowment // Raymond James Financial // The Tampa Tribune // Time Warner Communications // Time Customer Service, Inc. // The Brabson Family // Genevieve Lykes Dimmitt // The Feil Organization // The Wilson Company // Bajo | Cuva | Cohen | Turkel // Carlton Fields // Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation // Gobioff Foundation // Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation P/ARTS Program // The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation // Dr. Allen Root / In Memory of Janet G. Root // Arts Council of Hillsborough County, Board of County Commissioners // The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts // Aparium Hotel Group's Hotel Haya // Strategic Property Partners and Water Street Tampa
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 // Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation // Michael Paonessa and Robert Iles
UPCOMING EVENTS
11/7/24
Film on the Lawn, The Florida Project
11/22/24
Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape Closing Celebration Reception
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