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  SENIOR Thesis Exhibition at Florida Southern

    I often say that writing is my way of connecting to the world and for me, writing about the arts is one of my favorite avenues for connecting. This first post to my blog is a soft beginning with  reminders about two events at Florida Southern that are almost over. First, is the senior thesis exhibition at the Melvin Gallery for the visual artists KeTia S. Harris, Amy Inglis, and Cori Rainer.
     This exhibition will be dismantled on Monday April 11. Adam Justice, the curator for the Polk Museum of Art, was the judge and in my opinion, he had a real challenge. KeTia Harris was awarded top honors for her body of work, Alter Ego. As the title suggests, this is a self-reflective oeuvre. Amy Inglis undertook an ambitious thesis titled The Authority of Sound, based on Cymatics. She explains in her artist's statement that, "In the realm of Cymatics, form is created by submission to the authority of sound." Cori Rainer explored moments in time through he work titled Escape. These large pieces could be read as abstract landscapes, or not. As we discovered during the critique, when these works are hung vertically rather than horizontally, they express an entirely different visual vocabulary.

THEATER ARTS DEPARTMENT PLAY at FLORIDA SOUTHERN

     The last play of the season at FSC is Daddy's Dyin' Who's got the will? There only are three more performances; Friday April 8, Saturday April 9, and a Sunday matinee April 10. Curtain times for Friday and Saturday are 7:30 PM, and for the matinee on Sunday, 2:30 PM. As the Director Mary T. says in her program notes, this is the story of a dysfunctional family with a capital  "D." The compelling thing about this theme is that it is one almost all of us can identify with. In fact I was reminded of a time several years ago when author Pat Conroy was doing a reading and book signing for Beach Music. He started off by saying, "My name is Pat Conroy, and I come from a dysfunctional family." I knew that from that moment on, he had the audience in his camp!
     Another theme in this play is the power of music to bring us all together. I can think of two moments when characters who are resolved to let their differences interfere with relationships, are overcome by the music and join with the others in song.