Spoken Word Competition | Faculty Book Club

Feb 1

5:30 PM ET

FIU MFA alumna and Miami-based artist Lorna Ruth Galloway discusses her art and printmaking process with MBUS senior special events manager, Colette Mello. 

Feb 4

4:00 PM ET

FIU’s Department of Art & Art History presents Nathan Delinois, award-winning artist, muralist, educator. This artist talk will focus on art reflecting black culture and identity.

Feb 8

5:30 PM ET

Miami-Berlin-based artist Giovanna Gonzalez talks with MBUS senior special events manager, Colette Mello about visual art collaborations with movement and sound.

Feb 12

12:00-1:00 PM ET

Instagram LIVE: @fiucarta – with Juliette St. Louis

Two-time FIU graduate, academic advisor and CARTA Diversity Equity & Inclusion advocate will share her journey in an interactive and informative IG live session. This IG live session will also provide students with the opportunity to learn more about CARTA resources and meet some of our amazing black student leaders from different Black student organizations and leadership positions at FIU.

Feb 15

5:30 PM ET

Parsons and Cuny Queens college professor, Yale MFA and independent artist, Chat Trevieso discusses his practice based in participatory architecture and art environments

Feb 15

7:00 PM ET

MBUS partners with The Betsy Hotel for a conversation between FIU senior associate dean Dr. Heather Russell and Dr. Kali Nicole Gross, author of a Black Women’s History of the United States.

Feb 19

12:00-1:00 PM ET

Instagram LIVE: @fiucarta – with Dr. Karla Kennedy

Whether you believe that your life’s journey is preset for you or that you are in charge of your own destiny, you never know where life’s path is going to take you. There will be some trials, turns, triumphs, and tribulation, along the way. Come join Miami native and graduate of Miami Northwestern Senior High, the University of Miami, Florida International University and the University of Florida as she navigates and shares the path that led her to FIU.

Feb 21

12:30 PM ET

IDEA – Diversity in Performing Arts

GuitART Festival Panel: “IDEA in Performing Arts: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access”
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access (IDEA) are four related but distinct goals that must be embraced and developed to create a society where everyone belongs and can thrive. In the performing arts, there are specific challenges to reaching these ideals that differ from that of other disciplines. Through this panel, we will discuss the differences and interconnectedness between these four concepts, how they manifest (or not), and how the performing arts and our education programs can take the lead in these efforts. Panelists represent music and theater performance, music education and academia.

Feb 23

5:30 PM ET

A Virtual Lecture Series Curated by Alpesh Kantilal Patel

Trans-identified artist Cassils works across live performance, sculpture, photography, sound and film. They will discuss their practice, including the groundbreaking project In Plain Sight (2000), a coalition of 80 artists, led by Cassils and artist Rafa Esparza, who united to create artwork dedicated to abolishing immigrant detention centers and the United States culture of incarceration. Students and faculty will have an opportunity to ask questions.

Feb 26

12:00-1:00 PM ET

Instagram LIVE: @fiucarta – with Dr. Rokeshia Renné Ashley

A candid roundtable among students, faculty and staff discussing research projects concerning Black people, Blackness and Black culture celebrating the progress of #Blackscholarship and #Blackexcellence.

Feb 26-27

8:00 PM ET

On February 27, 2021 at 8 pm (EST) the FIU Opera Theater and Symphony Orchestra in partnership with the Santa Fe Opera will present a special, free live stream of Is This America?, based on the new, one-act opera This Little Light of Mine that portrays key events in the life of voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer. A black woman of humble origins, she spoke truth to power and her tireless efforts culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.