FSU Department of Art

FSU Department of Art INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/fsuart The Department of Art is one of the largest and most comprehensive departments in the College of Fine Arts.

Art Without Boundaries: Florida State University

Studio Art at Florida State emphasizes interdisciplinary thinking and offers diverse opportunities for creative development and expression on both the graduate and undergraduate levels. We are proud of the accomplishments of our esteemed faculty, who provide guidance in the skills necessary for not only artistic creation, but also in expressing contemporary issues through their visual arts. Committed to excellence in all programs, the program strives to combine curricular flexibility with a rigorous mix of experiences and opportunities for serious, focused study in visual art. Take this opportunity to explore our website, or join us at one of our upcoming artist talks, student exhibitions, and community events.

“Rhizomatic Perspectives” Opening at WMC Gallery this Friday!Rhizomatic PerspectivesOpening Reception: Friday, September...
09/08/2026

“Rhizomatic Perspectives” Opening at WMC Gallery this Friday!

Rhizomatic Perspectives

Opening Reception: Friday, September 11, 4:00 – 7:00pm
On View: September 11 – October 2, 2026

On September 11th, the League of Graduate Artists (LGA) will host the exhibition opening for “Rhizomatic Perspectives.” This exhibition is a showcase of the MFA’s 2nd Year Graduate Candidates’ current work.

Working Method Contemporary Gallery
Carnaghi Arts Building (CAB)
2214 Belle Vue Way

The event is free + open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!

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“SYNCED” Opening at PSG this Friday!SYNCEDOpening Reception: Friday, September 11, 2026, 4:00 – 7:00pmOn September 11th,...
09/08/2026

“SYNCED” Opening at PSG this Friday!

SYNCED

Opening Reception: Friday, September 11, 2026, 4:00 – 7:00pm

On September 11th, the Art Students League (ASL) will host the exhibition opening for “SYNCED.” This exhibition is exclusively accepting work from Tallahassee State College students and alumni, as a way of bridging the two campuses.

Phyllis Straus Gallery
Carnaghi Arts Building (CAB)
2214 Belle Vue Way

The event is free + open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Department of Art Staff Member Spotlight: Heather Rushing, Senior Administrative Specialist! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼Heather attended the ...
09/04/2026

Department of Art Staff Member Spotlight: Heather Rushing, Senior Administrative Specialist! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Heather attended the second year of the College Business Management Institute (CBMI), a three-year professional development program, with support from a UBA travel grant. The conference focuses on business management practices in higher education and provides participants with practical strategies to strengthen leadership and administrative effectiveness. The sessions she attended this year concentrated on Management Services, Personal Development, Personnel/Human Resources, and Communications and Marketing. 

Kudos, Heather!

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On the Rise: Celebrating Award-Winning Student Artists! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️The FSU Department of Art presents “On the...
09/04/2026

On the Rise: Celebrating Award-Winning Student Artists! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The FSU Department of Art presents “On the Rise: Celebrating Award-Winning Student Artists”, an exhibition showcasing recipients of the 2026 Department of Art Student Awards and celebrating the creativity, experimentation, and excellence of FSU Studio Art students.

Featured Undergraduate Artists:
Michelle Howe, Sophia Fortin, Kaylee Aguas, Stephen T. Snyder, Casey Jewett, Ricky Blosser, Mina An Dinh, Carmin Kirkpatrick, and Erika Kime

Special Feature in our 2nd Room: Graduate Award Winners

This year’s exhibition also includes a special two-person exhibition featuring graduate award winners Pim Ruby and Ricder Ricardo. Their work highlights the distinctive voices, ambitious practices, and range of experimentation taking place within FSU’s graduate studio art community.

Together, these exhibitions recognize outstanding student achievement while demonstrating how Department of Art awards support artists as they develop their practices, pursue ambitious projects, and build their professional careers.

Please join us for the opening reception of On the Rise in the FAB Gallery from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Come celebrate our award-winning artists, see what they have accomplished, and learn more about opportunities available to FSU Studio Art students.

“On the Rise”
On View: September 1 - 24, 2026
Soft Opening: Tuesday, September 8, 12:00-5:00 pm
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. with Gallery Talks at 6:00 p.m.
FAB Gallery, FSU Fine Arts Building, 530 W. Call St.

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Ricder Ricardo + Pim Ruby | 2028 MFA Candidates:Co-Exhibition “On the Rise” opening this month at Fine Arts Building Gal...
09/04/2026

Ricder Ricardo + Pim Ruby | 2028 MFA Candidates:
Co-Exhibition “On the Rise” opening this month at Fine Arts Building Gallery, Tallahassee, FL.

This exhibition unites two bodies of work exploring identity as a site of tension rather than resolution. Pim Ruby’s paintings navigate the pull between Western skepticism and Eastern spirituality, questioning inherited Thai belief systems—fortune tellers, shrines, unforeseen forces—not to debunk them but to understand the contradictions they leave behind. Ricder Ricardo’s practice occupies a parallel in-between terrain shaped by displacement and intersectionality, where myth and colonial history converge into personal folklore that resists fixed narratives of belonging.

Both treat material as language for these tensions: Ruby through drapery, moving between visibility and doubt; Ricardo through collage and layering, materials bearing traces of erosion that mirror how memory is preserved or overwritten. Where Ruby’s tension plays out within a single self, Ricardo’s unfolds across collective diasporic experience—together suggesting identity as an ongoing negotiation between faith and effort, rupture and resilience.

“On the Rise”
On View: September 1 - 24, 2026
Soft Opening: Tuesday, September 8, 12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17, 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. with Gallery Talks at 6pm
FAB Gallery, Fine Arts Building, 530 W. Call Street

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Amanda Lyon | 2028 FSU Art MFA CandidateRecipient of the Bailey Emerging Artist Scholarship for the Hollin’s University’...
09/04/2026

Amanda Lyon | 2028 FSU Art MFA Candidate
Recipient of the Bailey Emerging Artist Scholarship for the Hollin’s University’s 2026 Women Working in Clay Symposium! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Women Working with Clay Symposium is about women who work with clay to create pottery, art vessels, and sculpture, and whatever point of view may come with that distinction. The symposium explores the connections of the long history of women in cultures all over the world as vessel makers, artists, and artisans.

Founded in 2011, this symposium was created to honor the great accomplishments of women ceramic artists today. The objective of the symposium is to create an environment that is full of ideas, images, demonstrations, artwork, and discussions. It is intended as a place for learning and inspiration. It is a place for everyone to share stories of struggles and successes. It is a place to see where we stand in the present, to better understand our past, and to support each other in our future.

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Jillian Heusohn | 2025 FSU Art MFA Alum Recently featured in Tallahassee Magazine, Memory Made Material: The ceramic wor...
09/04/2026

Jillian Heusohn | 2025 FSU Art MFA Alum
Recently featured in Tallahassee Magazine, Memory Made Material: The ceramic work of Jillian Heusohn!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

“I had the pleasure of being featured in the September/October issue of Tallahassee Magazine, where I got to share how theories of holding and memory entangle themselves in my work. In an interview with author Amanda Karioth Thompson, I explained how I use my old childhood drawings that my parents held onto for decades to recreate them onto ceramic forms. By working directly with these preserved memories, I immortalize a past based in love and hold space for that silly, expressive kid to openly share parts of herself.” - Jillian Heusohn

Memory Made Material: The ceramic work of Jillian Heusohn can be read for free on the Tallahassee Magazine website or through a subscription fee for a physical copy of the magazine.

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Alumni Spotlight: Jillian M BrowningJillian M Browning (FSU Art MFA ‘15) was featured in LENSCRATCH in their monthly ser...
09/03/2026

Alumni Spotlight: Jillian M Browning

Jillian M Browning (FSU Art MFA ‘15) was featured in LENSCRATCH in their monthly series, Photography Educator, which highlights outstanding photography teachers who inspire students of all ages! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Browning’s work explores identity, memory, and the ways the places we call home continue to shape us. Sharing “As a Black femme artist, I use cyanotype to question who gets remembered, how histories are preserved, and whose stories are left out. Across my practice, photographs, plants, and textiles become living archives that hold memory, resilience, and connection, inviting viewers to consider how land remembers us and how returning to place can become an act of healing.”

When asked what advice you would give photography students, Browning said “This is honestly my advice for any student, not just photography students. Do as much as you can while you’re a student. There are so many opportunities that are only available to you because you’re a student. Grants, internships, portfolio reviews, mentorships, conferences. People are often much more willing to help, give advice, or open a door for you when they know you’re still learning. Take advantage of that while you can.”

Read the full article here:
https://lenscratch.com/2026/07/photography-educator-jillian-m-browning/

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Ricder Ricardo | 2028 MFA CandidateInvited to be part of the Voces y Caras: Latinx Communities of North Florida exhibiti...
09/01/2026

Ricder Ricardo | 2028 MFA Candidate

Invited to be part of the Voces y Caras: Latinx Communities of North Florida exhibition at MOCA Jacksonville, FL! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

August 29 – September 20, 2026

Voces y Caras: Latinx Communities of North Florida is a digital oral history project at the University of North Florida that engages students of Latinx heritage in developing questions, recording interviews with members of the growing Latinx community, and documenting their experiences as immigrants. The project explores the power of people’s stories, seeks to make visible hidden communities, and enables processes of self-discovery by students of Latinx origin in the U.S.

The project began in the spring semester of 2012 when the students in Dr. Constanza López Baquero’s course, Communication and Communities for Heritage Speakers, interviewed 24 members of the Jacksonville community. Over 200 interviews have since been conducted, recorded, transcribed and archived, serving at least four purposes: Recognizing immigrants as an indispensable part of our society in a political environment increasingly hostile to them, (2) putting students who are heritage speakers of Spanish in contact with their cultural and historical backgrounds, (3) allowing these students to recognize themselves in the stories of others, and (4) serving as a pedagogical tool that creates communities both in and outside of the classroom. 

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Ricder Ricardo | 2028 MFA CandidateRicder Ricardo, 2028 FSU Art MFA Candidate, invited to be part of the 72nd Members Sh...
09/01/2026

Ricder Ricardo | 2028 MFA Candidate

Ricder Ricardo, 2028 FSU Art MFA Candidate, invited to be part of the 72nd Members Show at the Pensacola Museum of Art! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

This year the PMA celebrates the 72nd Annual Members Show - this exhibition is a benefit for existing members and helps to build the Pensacola community of local artists. The show will feature artists of all skill levels, from beginning and emerging artists, to those with established careers. The 2025 exhibition showcased over eighty local, regional, and national artists, working in a diverse range of media. Prizes are awarded to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners, and a special People’s Choice winner is determined by visitors during the opening reception. This year’s exhibition will be judged by acclaimed artist Pippin Frisbie-Calder.

Opening Reception:
September 18, 2026, 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Pensacola Museum of Art

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