UF School of Art + Art History

08/10/2026

Call to Artists! Applications are open through August 28 for site-specific artwork at the UF Disability Resource Center:

The Art Selection Committee seeks qualifications from artists interested in creating a new, site-specific artwork that is welcoming, accessible, and engaging for a wide range of users and experiences at the UF Disability Resource Center. Preference may be given to disabled artists and artists with lived experience of disability. The artwork should provide a meaningful multisensory experience and may incorporate tactile, auditory, and braille elements. Color, texture, and opportunities for interaction are encouraged. Artists may also choose to explore themes related to disability culture, disability justice, accessibility, or significant moments in disability rights history, including the ADA and the Capitol Crawl.

See UF College of the Arts post linked below for full details and application link 👇

Call to Artists: University of Florida Art in State Buildings
UF-675 Disability Resource Center

The Art Selection Committee seeks qualifications from artists interested in creating a new, site-specific artwork that is welcoming, accessible, and engaging for a wide range of users and experiences at the UF Disability Resource Center. Preference may be given to disabled artists and artists with lived experience of disability. The artwork should provide a meaningful multisensory experience and may incorporate tactile, auditory, and braille elements. Color, texture, and opportunities for interaction are encouraged. Artists may also choose to explore themes related to disability culture, disability justice, accessibility, or significant moments in disability rights history, including the ADA and the Capitol Crawl.

Location: Gainesville, FL
Art Budget: $76,250 for site specific art

Honoraria: Up to 3 finalists (artists or artist teams) will receive a $1,250 honorarium to meet virtually, and to create and virtually present a site-specific proposal. The honoraria are separate from the art budget.

Application Deadlines:
Stage 1 (10 images) due: August 28th, 2026 11:59 p.m. EST
Stage 2 (full applications) due: October 2, 2026 11:59 p.m. EST

More Information and Apply at: https://monochronicle.com/property/uf-675-disability-resource-center/

Criteria to Apply:
Artist has met at least two (2) of the following:
• The artist’s works are included in private, public, corporate or museum, collections;
• The artist has received awards, grants or fellowships;
• The artist has completed other public commissions on a similar scale;
· The artist has participated in exhibitions at major museums or galleries.

Questions? Contact: Oaklianna Caraballo (352) 240-4080 or [email protected]

07/08/2026

The University of Florida University Galleries and the UF School of Art + Art History at the UF College of the Arts, University of Florida, join in mourning the passing of Trinidadian-Venezuelan artist Valerie Brathwaite.

We had the distinct honor of presenting her work as part of the exhibition "Vital and Veiled: Valerie Brathwaite and José Gabriel Fernández" hosted at University Galleries from October 2023 to January 2024. The exhibition, which traveled to the American University Museum in Washington, D.C. earlier this year, was accompanied by a publication featuring a comprehensive essay on Brathwaite's oeuvre by our colleague and professor, Dr. Rachel Silveri.

Dr. Silveri masterfully navigated the inherent vitality that Brathwaite transferred to her art, capturing it in this eloquent passage: "The work's title references a folk song made by Peter, Paul and Mary, whose lyrics are explicitly antiwar, suggesting that the cycles of nature will outlast humankind's folly. In its use by Brathwaite, the title announces the disappearance of the world's flora only to reimagine a new species in the outcrops of this chromatically rich sculptural form."

As beautifully demonstrated in the exhibition co-curated by Kaira M. Cabañas and Jesús Fuenmayor, Braithwaite's dynamic, colorful forms brought an urgent liveliness to the afterlife of modern sculpture. It is this profound energy that so many of us will carry forward whenever we remember Valerie and her enduring legacy.

06/22/2026

K.Selley Studios to do another artist talk in Nepal for his residency at Kala Yatra.

For more info about Kala Yatra, go to kalayatra.org/

06/01/2026

Congratulations to Charis Cochran (BFA '26, art), one of the finalists for the 36th Annual University Student Exhibition at the Atlantic Center for the Arts! Her work is currently exhibiting through August 8, 2026.

Through the annual University Student Exhibition, Atlantic Center for the Arts honors the outstanding work being produced by state university art students and recognizes their dedication to the pursuit of excellence. The juror for this year’s exhibition was past Atlantic Center for the Arts Mentoring Artist (2022) Ryan McGinness.

For more info, go to https://atlanticcenterforthearts.org/event-or-exhibition/36th-annual-university-student-exhibition/

06/01/2026

05/28/2026

🔎 Join the UF School of Art + Art History at UF College of the Arts! 📣 We're looking for an Administrative Assistant II.

🔗 Application link: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/540033/administrative-assistant-ii

ℹ️ All application documents must be submitted by June 15, 2026.

The School of Art + Art History in the College of the Arts seeks an Administrative Assistant to join our team of 9 staff and 37 faculty members. Your role will be to provide critical support to School faculty, staff, and leadership and work closely with the College’s communications, human resources, and business offices.

Your role will be responsible for managing the School’s public relations materials, including managing the School’s social media accounts, producing weekly newsletters, and updating web content. You would be the primary administrative liaison for initiating personnel transactions, serving as the primary administrative contact for faculty and staff search needs, support travel, and managing the School’s shipping and receiving. You would also be responsible for making sure the School administrative offices are open, closed, and staffed during normal business hours, ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in general office administrative functions. If you have administrative office experience, especially in higher education, government or non-profit organizations and you possess strong organizational skills, and a desire to grow professionally in a critical administrative role, this position is a wonderful opportunity for you.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating foundational shifts in the arts and beyond. As business and academic professionals, artists, scholars, advisors, and teachers, we, the staff of the College, embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our colleagues, students, and faculty to respond to and shape that experience fearlessly through critical thinking, creativity, constructive questioning, and respectful dialogue. We seek a colleague who engages with openness and enthusiasm for the work and the mission of the college. We seek a colleague who possesses skills in designing and facilitating work that advances curiosity, open intellectual discourse, and the well-being of all in an environment of complex differences. We seek a colleague who identifies as a trusted steward of resources, balancing institutional requirements and the demand for innovative solutions.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution.

05/26/2026

🔎 Join the UF School of Art + Art History at the UF College of the Arts! 📣 We're looking for an Administrative Specialist III.

🔗 Application link: explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/539997/administrative-spec-iii

ℹ️ All application documents must be submitted by June 15, 2026.

This highly responsible position serves as the administrative lead for the School of Art + Art History, which houses 37 full-time faculty, 9 staff, 320 undergraduate students, and more than 120 graduate students across five academic programs and the University Galleries. Reporting to the School Director, this position functions as a key member of the School’s leadership team, working to ensure that the School’s daily and long-term goals are met in all mission-critical areas. The Administrative Specialist III optimizes all aspects of the school’s administrative functioning. The position provides leadership support and operational guidance, establishes priorities and workflows, maintains confidential information, and may act on the Director’s behalf in designated administrative matters.

The University of Florida College of the Arts intends to be a transformative community, responding to and generating foundational shifts in the arts and beyond. As business and academic professionals, artists, scholars, advisors, and teachers, we, the staff of the College, embrace the complexity of our evolving human experience and seek to empower our colleagues, students, and faculty to respond to and shape that experience fearlessly through critical thinking, creativity, constructive questioning, and respectful dialogue. We seek a colleague who engages with openness and enthusiasm for the work and the mission of the college. We seek a colleague who possesses skills in designing and facilitating work that advances curiosity, respect, open intellectual discourse, and the welcome incorporation and well-being of all in an environment of complex differences. We seek a colleague who identifies as a trusted steward of resources, balancing institutional requirements and the demand for innovative solutions.

The University of Florida is an equal opportunity institution.

05/22/2026

🌟OPENING RECEPTION: "Loading Proxies..."

🕕 Friday, May 29, 6:00-8:00 PM

📍4Most Gallery

Duo Art Exhibition

Lindsay Carlton (4Most Resident 2025-2026, Creative Photography Teaching Lab Specialist, & MFA '25)

Komal Goswami (SAAH Administrative Assistant & BFA '23)

“Loading Proxies…” is a duo exhibition between artists exploring the proxy as both embodied and simulated.

More info below and via arts.ufl.edu/event/loading-proxies-a-duo-art-exhibition-by-lindsay-carlton-and-komal-goswami/


UF College of the Arts

Join us for the FINAL 4Most exhibition of the season next Friday, May 29 from 6 – 8 pm for the duo exhibition, “Loading Proxies….” by Lindsay Carlton and Komal Goswami!

“Loading Proxies…” is a duo exhibition between artists exploring the proxy as both embodied and simulated.

Lindsay Carlton: My work utilizes self-portrait photography as a method of avatar performance, where I use my own body as a tool to construct and perform characters that are separate from myself; proxies rather than representations of my own identity. Through these works, I explore how femininity is performed through digital media, cinema, and the history of visual culture. Throughout my work, I also remix and reference existing imagery from popular culture, using these visual languages to construct my characters. The works exist in the tension between seduction and abjection, where femininity is both performed and distorted, exposing the constructed nature of idealized beauty.

Komal Goswami: My work employs 3D/CG generation, creative coding, and digital imaging processes to further investigate “living in the hyphen” culturally and tangibly, exploring the evolving landscape of human expression, meaning, and thought within an increasingly digitally assimilated world. These works emerge from experimentation with the detachment of the self through busts that are 3D-rendered, 3D-animated, or digitally replicated. Using my own likeness and animal-based mythic forms as source material, and referencing both Hindu and Western portrait conventions, I create abstract self-portraiture and portrait forms that deny autobiography. Instead, these figures – suspended between portrait, avatar, idol, and simulation – operate as provisional proxies through which identity and embodiment are continuously generated, processed, and displaced between the “reel” and the “real” world. 

05/21/2026

Fatimah Tuggar, a Nigerian interdisciplinary artist and associate professor of artificial intelligence in the arts at UF, has always kept an eye to the future.

05/19/2026