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The 10th annual Art in the Park event, presented by the Pensacola Museum of Art and held on Saturday, May 12 and Sunday, May 13, is a two day art festival that will include over 100 local, regional and national artists displaying their work downtown in the historic Seville Square. The invited artists will bring [...]

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Art students at the University of West Florida  are ready to show off their talent and hard work. Students will be displaying their creative pieces in “TAGGED: Student Art Exhibition” in The Art Gallery in the Center for Fine and Performing Arts. A non-profit gallery, TAG UWF sponsors the event in an effort to foster [...]

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Shimmering green glasswork and centuries-old African trade beads of brass are carefully strung by jewelry artist Kathi Gordon to form a series of work that Gordon calls “Blue Water Arts.” Her son, Joe Waitsman, carves intricate designs into bone and antlers, and the two have recently begun to collaborate on Gordon’s jewelry pieces. The mother-son [...]

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The year’s last Gallery Night in downtown Pensacola will be this Friday, Nov. 18, from 5 p.m. until midnight. Gallery Night is an event held on seven Friday nights each year and features art work and live music, along with shops, restaurants and bars that keep their doors open later than usual. Dating back to [...]

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The Greater Gulfcoast Arts Festival will take place at Seville Square in downtown Pensacola this weekend. The GGAF includes a juried arts show featuring more than 200 artists from around the country. The show exhibits works of art in such mediums as ceramics, drawing, fiber, leather, glass, jewelry, photography, sculpture, watercolor and wood. Three stages [...]

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The Center for Fine and Performing Arts will spotlight the talents of both current students and alumni of various sections of the art department at the University of West Florida’s Family Weekend on Sept. 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Showcase of the Arts. The assortment of acts will include tributes to musical theater, symphonic praise, [...]

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One of the fastest growing departments at UWF is the art department, more specifically the Graphic Design program. The department program director, John Markowitz, said that from fall 2009 to fall 2011, the department has had a great increase in enrollment. “The number of majors has increased by about 25 percent, and the number of [...]

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The University of West Florida’s Art Gallery will soon be open for the semester. The first visiting artist, Derek Coté, will showcase his exhibit “Watered Down Kegs of Rum” on Sept. 15 from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibition combines elements of architecture, light, sound and video, and will be on display at the UWF [...]

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They’re everywhere: in the library, in front of the gym and outside various buildings and classrooms. Eerily captivating and boasting a stop-and-stare kind of beauty, the University of West Florida’s sculpture collection is definitely something to stare at. But once the surprise of seeing such a strange sculpture is over, a series of questions arises. [...]

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