The Tree of Life addressed the importance of biodiversity and the interrelation of all species on Earth. The exhibition explored these themes through a selection of prints and photographs depicting Florida species, as well as a touch table with interactive and video elements. Spanning the 18th century to the present, the...
This exhibition coinciding with a Donald Judd retrospective at MOMA, details five projects, within a threefold thematic framework, to reveal a significant body of architecture (1984 – 1994). The three themes addressed are drawing abstraction, concrete expression and Swiss situation. The exhibition contributes to architectural discourse by addressing overarching aspects...
Capturing Nature: The Insect World in Art explores the naturalist illustrations of four artists who were active in the 18th century: John Abbot, Mark Catesby, Moses Harris and Maria Sibylla Merian. These artists set out to capture the living world and render it large, beautiful and in vivid color. As demonstrated...
Sahel, derived from the Arabic word meaning shore, also refers to a topographically and culturally diverse trans-continental zone at the southern edge of the Sahara. For many centuries merchants scholars and artists from North Africa and beyond crossed the great desert along a web of trade routes, transporting materials, technical...
Monsters and the Monstrous springs from a UF undergraduate course designed by Nina Stoyan-Rosenzweig (UF Health Science Center Library), and team-taught by four undergraduates in the Honors Program in the 2018 fall semester. Its focus is on the nature of “monsters”–how society fears, defines, or embraces monsters of all kinds, in...
Plants accompany every aspect of human life. We breathe in the oxygen they breathe out, we eat them (or we eat animals that eat them), we wear them, we make our dwellings and furnishings from them, we kill them when they are inconvenient to us. Eighty percent of the Earth’s...
