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Ian Scrap Metal Turned Sculpture

Johnathan Minehan, Staff Writer February 27, 2024

An FGCU professor and several students teamed up to create a statue from scraps of metal left in the wake of Hurricane Ian.  The sculpture was donated to the Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization...

Alumni Murals Installed Outside of the Arts Complex

Alumni Murals Installed Outside of the Arts Complex

Julianna Perez, Staff Writer November 13, 2023

A new, outdoor mural has been installed in the Arts Complex Courtyard.  The piece, titled “The Psychology of Sustainability,” is a collaborative project made by FGCU alumni Ehren Fritz Gerhard...

Spring Graduates Pour Emotion into Their Final FGCU Art Exhibits

Spring Graduates Pour Emotion into Their Final FGCU Art Exhibits

Alexandra Cavalier, Assistant Assignment & Features Editor June 1, 2023

The Spring Senior Project Exhibition opened on April 20. Attendees gathered in the Wasmer Gallery at the Arts Complex to view the 12 artworks. This exhibition requires art majors to develop and present...

The girl behind the mask

February 13, 2016

Megan Shindler, a political science and theatre major, is conducting an ethnographic theatre project that utilizes art as activism against sexual violence and in exploration of reproductive rights. The...

Estero Fine Art Show to help support Institute for Arts in Education

December 30, 2015

The Estero Fine Art Show will take place at the Miromar Design Center this weekend on Jan. 2 and 3. The Estero Fine Art Show has occurred annually for 17 years. The art show was voted in the top 100 art...

Annual art festival set to take place in Estero next weekend

Annual art festival set to take place in Estero next weekend

December 28, 2015

The Coconut Point New Year’s Weekend Art Festival is in its fifth year of showcasing the work of talented artists to Southwest Florida’s residents and tourists. This popular event has regularly ranked...

FGCU Art Program alumni showcase their work at ArtLab exhibit

October 28, 2015

FGCU welcomes back alumni of the Art Program for an annual reunion to catch up, reminisce and show students what they have created since graduation. The Reunion: Courtright, Davis & Wood exhibit gives...

Soviet art pays FGCU a visit

Soviet art pays FGCU a visit

September 4, 2015

FGCU Eagles will have the opportunity to visit the Soviet Union in an artistic way this semester. The university library opened an exhibit of socialist-realism art Aug. 28. The Archives, Special Collections...

FGCU senior art gallery presentation starts April 24

April 23, 2014

As the rapper Macklemore said, “A life lived for art is never a life wasted.” At the end of an art major’s studies, they complete a senior project “in which he or she successfully executes a body...

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