Art is not limited to framed pictures hanging in a gallery. In fact, many students live among art every day. Artistic sculptures, instillations, fountains and seating areas decorate the University’s campus. The University’s public art is viewed daily but is rarely understood since the plaques on the pieces only display the title, artist and year of creation.
Even death can’t stop the artistic voice of fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Last week, a quiet boutique in the Francois-Henri Pinault headquarters in Paris presented McQueen’s final line created just weeks before he died.
Bears, downtown Ybor, iPhone photos and naked bodies are among the artwork done by USF students in a campus gallery. Thirty-two student artists are featured in the 34th Annual Student Art Exhibition and Art History Research Paper Competition in the Marshall Student Center Centre Gallery and the William and Nancy Oliver Gallery.
“Campus Joe” is a biweekly column from Oracle columnist Joe Polito that explores random spots on USF’s campus. How does it work? Polito throws a dart at a large map and goes there to find a story. My dart found its way to the loudest part of campus this week, landing between the Fine Arts Building (FAH) and the music department.
In 1865, author Lewis Carroll published “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,’’ a story about a young girl who follows a white rabbit into a strange and frightening world. And in 1871 he published “Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There,’’ which recounts other adventures by Alice with similar characters.
If you missed this weekend’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, don’t worry. It’s not the only event turning Tampa green this month. Many bars and other locations are channeling the St. Patrick’s Day spirit with drink specials, green dye and good music.
No, it’s not 2012, but if you’ve seen people with bandanas on their arms and heads running around campus, you probably witnessed the newest USF game: humans vs. zombies. It’s a new trend on college campuses, even gaining enough notoriety to be called the “No.
It doesn’t always have to be Miami or transcontinental to be a spring break vacation spot. Sometimes it’s nice to stay close to home and relax. If you’re trying to avoid the crowds and clichés next week, the editors of The Oracle have some suggestions.
Working with a single wooden knife in a disorganized office, Zachary Hemsteger creates his primitive, clay sculptures. The 27-year-old USF graduate student moved to Florida a year and a half ago after graduating from Western Michigan University with a bachelor’s degree in ceramics.
Vancouver has been the site of amazing athletics and interesting television throughout the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. From the fatal luge incident to the U.S. defeating Canada in hockey for the first time since 1960, this round of Olympic events have been memorable — if nothing else.
“Campus Joe” is a biweekly column from Oracle columnist Joe Polito that explores random spots on USF’s campus. How does it work? Polito throws a dart at a large map and goes there to find a story. This week my dart landed dead center on the USF Sun Dome.
Students between the ages of 18 and 29 are part of what’s been dubbed the “Millennial Generation,” and, according to a new study by Pew Research, they’re generally more optimistic and satisfied. The study was conducted mostly via telephone in January.
“Seeing Through the Fence” is not intended to be an average, run-of-the-mill documentary about the ins and outs of meat consumption. The maker of the film, which was screened Friday at the Marshall Student Center by members of the Students Protecting the Environment and Animals with Knowledge (SPEAK), tried to go a different route to portray society’s relationship with food and how people feel about the subject across the U.
National Eating Disorder Awareness Week, which ends Saturday, aims to bring attention to medical disorders affecting one in five women, according to the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness. National Eating Disorders Association, which created the week, organizes walks and events this time each year to help educate people and combat disorders like binge eating disorder (BED), anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
The idea for a new exhibit at the Marshall Student Center’s Centre Gallery was born from a relationship that went wrong and lacked closure, said Kimberly Adams, who graduated from USF in 2009 with a master’s degree in painting and who helped bring the exhibit to the gallery.
For three years, Campus MovieFest (CMF) has offered college students the chance at fame in film. USF students responded to the self-proclaimed “world’s largest student film festival” in record numbers this year, with more than 110 crews signing up to participate, said CMF official Jessica Reynoso.
USF graduate student Alicia Thompson gained more than an undergraduate degree when studying psychology at New College. Her experiences formed the beginnings of her novel, “Psych Major Syndrome,” which targets the college crowd by following the struggles of fictional freshman, Leigh, who is working on her psychology degree while surviving college.
Dear Alicia: For the last two years, my girlfriend and I have been going through our ups and downs, but we have managed to make it through everything. Now we have a new problem, and I’m dumbfounded on how to fix it. Since the semester started, I can tell that we’ve calmed down physically and are distancing ourselves from each other.
Naomi Campbell brings fundraising to fashion in her “Fashion for Relief” event — this year benefiting Haiti’s earthquake victims. Her charity runway event, which took place last week during New York’s fashion week in Bryant Park, was styled by Rachel Zoe and hosted by Campbell and the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson.
Things are getting personal at the Marshall Student Center (MSC) Centre Gallery’s new exhibit. The exhibit, which starts next week, will display personal secrets from USF students in recognition of the PostSecret phenomenon, a project created by Frank Warren that encourages people to let go of their deepest, darkest secrets by sending them away in anonymous postcards.
For an art major, there’s always a need to create — even after graduation. The Marshall Student Center (MSC) Centre Gallery is hosting the exhibition “We’re Still Alive” this week where nine former and current USF fine arts students are displaying their work to show they still make art a priority despite entering the workforce.
The Robert Helps Festival at USF is a weekend of musical concerts, critiques and lectures, this year featuring renowned Dutch composer Louis Andriessen and Jonathan Howard Katz, winner of the Robert Helps prize. Headlined by a multimedia-collaborated concert, “Late Night With Louis,” at 10 p.
Valentine’s Day is traditionally a celebration full of heart-shaped candies and roses. For a holiday that’s supposed to celebrate the unique traits that make you love someone, it sure doesn’t have any of its own. This year, skip the flower cart and candy shop, and try a date or gift requiring a little more thought.
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