art after dark frost art museum miami paint night

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

Art After Dark: Absinthe in Art

Create your own masterpiece!

Frost Art Museum at FIU, 6pm

Paint Night presents local artists whom guide participants in painting their interpretation of the evening’s selected piece or theme while enjoying a glass of wine. RSVP by January 13 space is limited to 30 participants, $30.00 per person includes all materials, drinks and fun!

To RSVP or for more information call 305.348.1808 or email mmachado@fiu.edu.

FIU frost art museum Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time

Jui-chung Yao. Heaven. 2001. Photo Installation. 354.3 x 141.7 x 196.9 in. Courtesy Galerie Grand Siecle The Frost Art Museum welcomes you to join them for the opening of Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time Friday, February 19th, 6:00 p.m. The Frost Art Museum at FIU’s Maidique Campus 10975 SW 17th Street Miami, FL 33199 This event is free and open to the public

Join The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum as they present Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time. “Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time continues The Frost Art Museum’s foray into the world of Asian Art. This exhibition will showcase true Taiwanese contemporary artists,” said Dr. Carol Damian, director & chief curator of The Frost Art Museum. “Asia is receiving more attention than any other country in the art world, and Taiwan competes for this attention.“ Taiwan Discovered: In Place and Time, will be curated in-house by Director Carol Damian and Catalina Jaramillo. The exhibition will showcase Taiwanese contemporary artists: mixing traditional and contemporary, Asian and Western, local and international. Taiwan's artists are exploring different approaches and developing their own unique styles through a wide variety of media, from painting and rock art to multimedia installations. ALSO ON VIEW In Body and Soul - The Performance Art of Maria Teresa Hincapié Women's Work/Men's Work: Labor and Gender in America About The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museumat Florida International University The Frost Art Museum opened its current 46,000-square-foot state of the art building in November 2008. Over 30,000 people have visited The Museum in its new building since its opening in November 2008. Admission to The Museum is always free. The Frost is an AAM accredited museum and Smithsonian affiliate and is located at 10975 SW 17thSt across from the Blue garage and adjacent to the Wertheim Performing Arts Center on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus. Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. and Sunday noon - 5:00 p.m. Closed on Mondays and most legal holidays. For more information, please visit www.thefrost.fiu.edu or call 305.348.2890. Find The Frost Art Museum on Twitter and Facebook.

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Target has teamed up with the Frost Art Museum to sponsor the museum’s popular educational series Wednesday After Hours. Designed to complement Frost exhibitions, the events gives visitors the chance to engage with the contemporary and confront the controversial with art, live music, talks, films, dance performances, poetry slams and performance art.

Target Wednesday After Hours provide an excellent opportunity to meet and socialize with other people interested in the arts while learning more about the museum, exhibitions and artists.

The events are free and open to the public and take place from 7pm – 9pm one Wednesday each month. For more information please contact the Education Department at 305.348.6963.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 from 6pm-9pm
Target Wednesday After Hours:
The Miami Paintings, Geoffrey Olsen, exhibition opening reception and theIsadora Duncan Dance Ensemble.
Geoffrey Olsen, exhibition opening reception and the Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble. Geoffrey Olsen was the graduate director and senior painting professor in the Department of Art and Art History until his passing in 2008. This exhibition is a retrospective of his works, inspired by the landscape and legends of his homeland of Great Britain. Isadora Duncan Dance Ensemble, the Miami-based company which is the fifth generation to perpetuate Isadora’s legacy as the mother of Modern Dance. Target Wednesday After Hours are free and open to the public and take place from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. one Wednesday each month. For more information please contact the Education Department at 305.348.6963.

Geoffrey Olsen
September 2, 2009-October 4, 2009
Geoffrey Olsen was one of the most original painters to come from the Welsh valleys. His paintings are characterized by a bold, free-flowing use of oil paint in layers, and his work builds on the natural forms of his native post-industrial Merthyr Tydfil, on the Cotswolds escarpments of his home in England, and on the light and environment of Miami, where he lived for several years. Olsen's paintings excavate our past and re-present the world which we have marked.
Geoffrey Olsen was born in Merthyr Tydfil in 1943 and educated at Cyfarthfa Grammar School. He studied in Bristol, Newport and Cardiff, and at the Academy of Fine Art in Munich before teaching in Oxfordshire. In 1978 he joined Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University) where he lectured in art and design and became Principal Lecturer in the Visual Arts. From 1997 to 2001 he was Senior Lecturer in Fine Art. In 2002 he joined the faculty at FIU as Director of Graduate Studies. He passed away in December 2007.
This exhibition is a retrospective of his works, inspired by the landscape and legends of his homeland of Great Britain, and a tribute to his life and work.