JAN
Tea at the Terry
In partnership with the City of Jacksonville Senior Services Division, the Ritz Chamber Players perform a sampling of works from Freedom and Liberation for our senior community as part of the Art and Mental Wellbeing program.
Friday, January 16 at 1:00 PM TERRY CONCERT HALL
Ritz Chamber Players Freedom and Liberation
In tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’ s legacy, the Ritz Chamber Players recreate Coretta Scott King ' s pioneering Freedom Concerts. Drawing on her training as an opera singer, Mrs. King created a unique format that wove together storytelling, poetry, freedom songs, spirituals, and classical pieces to tell the story of the Civil Rights Movement. Our tribute evening captures this powerful format as we trace the arc from Montgomery to Washington, from struggle to triumph.
Saturday, January 17 at 7:30 PM TERRY CONCERT HALL
Shapeshifters
Leah Aegerter
Shapeshifters, the embodiment of change, lives eternally in the form of the landscape and mortally in the form of the artist. In the way that geology fossilizes the past into a current existence, so too does the artist synthesize experience and knowledge into new objects; both entities are constantly, imperceptibly in motion. In this exhibition, I consider what it means to shapeshift in my practice, presenting a new body of work that expands upon a multi-year exploration of paper as material for representing geology. Performers activate a sculptural blanket of rocks, the paper scraps of that sculpture become collage, and collage is bent and layered, expanding back into space. I ask the viewer to substitute the material transformations for natural vicissitudes of formation and erosion, deconstructing the apparent permanency of the rock. Making becomes a way of freeing myself from the bounds of human time as I attune to the beauty and detail that can only be achieved over the span of millions of years. In the present, I sit with the past to create a future, knowing that, like the land, I can shapeshift.
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Faculty Biennial
A variety of media and styles from the Fine Arts Faculty of Jacksonville University come together in the Biennial showcase. The exhibition includes illustration, print, photography, ceramics, sculpture, and computer-generated works.
November 20 through January 21 ALEXANDER BREST GALLERY
Career Conversations Series
From Science to Strategy: Building a Career in Sustainability and Impact, Featuring Meaghan Atkinson, Environmental Executive and Vice President of Operations, Crowley Maritime
How can a science degree lead to global impact? Environmental leader Meaghan Atkinson shares her path from the classroom to leading sustainability and safety initiatives worldwide, offering insights on career flexibility, purpose-driven leadership, and finding opportunity in unexpected places. The one-hour event will feature a 30-minute presentation followed by open Q & A.
Tuesday, January 27 at 4:00 PM REID AUDITORIUM
Restless Earth
Terri Warpinski
Restless Earth disrupts traditional notions of landscape photography using multiple frames and fractured views, providing an opportunity for reflection on symbiotic relationships and systems. Through the integration of text in multiple forms, and the incorporation of found objects and materials, relationships are forged between personal, cultural and natural histories. Warpinski is particularly interested in unfolding the complex and messy patterns of our species ' impacts on the environment, and our ongoing renegotiation of its value to all forms of life.
January 29 through March 4
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 29 at 5:00 PM ALEXANDER BREST GALLERY