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Common Ground: Artists in the Everglades
Schmidt Center Gallery: September 20 – November 5, 2014

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ÌýCo-Curated by Sybille Welter and Jill Lavetsky,ÌýCommon GroundÌýpresents selected contemporary artists who have participated inÌýArtist in Residence in the Everglades, AIRIE.ÌýSince 2001,ÌýAIRIEÌýhas welcomed one artist per month to live and create in the Everglades National Park.Ìý

Artists

Harumi Abe
Karen Glaser
Dana Levy
Gustavo Matamoros
Adam Nadel
Alice Raymond
Rebecca Reeve
Susan Silas

Archive Public Programs

ÌýArtist Talk with Gustavo Matamoros

Thursday, October 2
12pm in VA-105

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Doris Sommer, Ph.D., Harvard University presents
Art Works: Cultural Agents Tackle Urgent Social Challenges
Monday, October 6
7pm at the University Theatre
Advocacy & Activism:
Catalysts for Social Change

The Doris Sommer public lecture is sponsored by the generous support of Walter and Lalita Janke and the Peace, Justice and Human Rights Initiative.

MODERATOR
Michael J. Horswell, Ph.D., ´óÏó´«Ã½ Associate
Professor and Interim Associate Dean
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

PANELISTS
Fred Fejes, Ph.D., ´óÏó´«Ã½ Professor
School of Communications and Multimedia Studies
Jane Caputi, Ph.D., ´óÏó´«Ã½ Professor
Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
and Communications and Multimedia Studies
Kate MacMillin, FIU Assistant Professor
Department of Journalism and Broadcasting
Jay Critchley
Multi-media artist and activist

This program is in conjunction with Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001– 2012 presented at the
Ritter Art Gallery from September 5 through October 25, 2014.

Friday, October 10Ìý

6:30pm at the Schmidt Center Gallery
Reading by Andrew Furman
Andrew Furman is the author of Bitten: My Unexpected Love Affair with Florida, the memoir,Ìý My Los Angeles in Black and (Almost) White (Syracuse UP 2010), the novel, Alligators May Be Present (Terrace Books/University of Wisconsin Press 2005), and two works of literary criticism,Ìý Israel Through the Jewish-American Imagination (SUNY Press 1997) and Contemporary Jewish-American Writers and the Multicultural Dilemma (Syracuse UP 2000). His essays, reviews, and fiction have appearedÌý in such publications as Poets & Writers, Oxford American, Ecotone, Agni Online, JewishFiction.Net,Ìý The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Forward, Image, Tikkun, and the Miami Herald.Ìý

Thursday, October 16Ìý
7pm at the University Theatre
Everything everGLADESÌý
An in-depth discussion on the ecology, sustainability, social justice and the arts in the Everglades. This public programÌý is in-conjunction with Common Ground: Artists in the Everglades presented in the Schmidt Center Gallery from
September 20 – November 5, 2014

Thursday, October 23Ìý
12pm in VA-105
In Conversation with AIRIE

Thursday, October 30Ìý
12pm in VA-105Ìý
Artist Talk with Tim B. Wride

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