Register by June 25!
Workshops: July 12 – August 16, 2024

Breaking Barriers Summer 2024 Veterans Photography Workshops

Breaking Barriers is a free 6-week artist-led online photography workshop series open to U.S. military veterans and their families.

Beginning Workshop:
Dressing the Table - A Brief Look into Still Life Photography
July 12 – August 16, 2024
Fridays, 8am-12pm
No previous experience is required. 

Advanced Workshop:
Bringing Objects to Life - Examining Our Fascination With the Object
July 12 – August 16, 2024
Fridays, 1pm-5pm
Previous Breaking Barriers or photography experience is requested. 

Visit the Breaking Barriers website for workshop complete descriptions, equipment, and registration info.

Please email Amy at amyallison@usf.edu to register, or for more information. Must register by June 25 at 5pm!

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Saturday, August 24, 2024

EDISON PEÑAFIEL: MARE MAGNVM Artist Talk + Opening Reception

11am-2pm
Harbor Hall Auditorium + Gallery, USF St. Petersburg - 1000 3rd St S, St Petersburg, FL - Gallery entrance on South end of building

Join us Saturday morning at Harbor Hall on the USF St. Petersburg campus. Artist Edison Peñafiel will provide an artist talk at 11am in the Harbor Hall Auditorium with CAM Curator-at-Large Christian Viveros-Fauné. An opening reception follows for the GENERATOR: USFCAM exhibition EDISON PEÑAFIEL: MARE MAGNVM (A Floridian Odyssey/Una Odisea en la Florida) in the Harbor Hall Gallery until 2pm.

EDISON PEÑAFIEL: MARE MAGNVM (A Floridian Odyssey/Una Odisea en la Florida) is a panoramic video installation that immerses viewers in the struggle of crossing borders, alerting them to a future in which rising waters will push unprecedented numbers of people away from the places they call home.

For questions or more information send us a DM, an email at caminfo@usf.edu, or call (813) 974-4133. This event is free and open to all.

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Art & Ice WOW (Week of Welcome) Student Event

3-5pm, USF Contemporary Art Museum, CAM 

This #WeekofWelcome event invites USF students into CAM’s galleries for a digital scavenger hunt in our exhibition Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape, then to enjoy FREE icy treats on the museum patio!

For questions or more information send us a DM, an email at caminfo@usf.edu, or call (813) 974-4133. This event is free and open to all.

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape Artists Conversation

6-7pm, Barness Hall, USF School of Music, MUS107 - 3755 USF Holly Dr, Tampa, FL 33612

Join us for a lively conversation with six of the exhibiting artists featured in Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape, moderated by CAM Curator-at-Large Christian Viveros-Fauné. Their varied artworks focus on a wide-open notion of landscape, invoking both the particularities of place and the universal ideas they provoke. 

Skyway 2024 Coffee + Dessert Reception

7-8pm, USF Contemporary Art Museum, CAM 

Following the conversation will be a Coffee and Dessert Reception at USF Contemporary Art Museum until 8pm.

For questions or more information send us a DM, an email at caminfo@usf.edu, or call (813) 974-4133. This event is free and open to all.

Friday, October 4, 2024

Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape Artists Conversation

6-7pm, Barness Hall, USF School of Music, MUS107 - 3755 USF Holly Dr, Tampa, FL 33612

Join us for a lively conversation with six of the exhibiting artists featured in Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape, moderated by CAM Curator-at-Large Christian Viveros-Fauné. Their varied artworks focus on a wide-open notion of landscape, invoking both the particularities of place and the universal ideas they provoke. 

Skyway 2024 Coffee + Dessert Reception

7-8pm, USF Contemporary Art Museum, CAM 

Following the conversation will be a Coffee and Dessert Reception at USF Contemporary Art Museum until 8pm.

For questions or more information send us a DM, an email at caminfo@usf.edu, or call (813) 974-4133. This event is free and open to all.

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Graphicstudio Open House + Benefit Sale

10am-5pm, USF Graphicstudio - 3702 Spectrum Blvd, Ste 100 Tampa, FL

Please plan to join us to celebrate the 26th Annual Graphicstudio Benefit Sale. Hundreds of original, artist-signed, fine art prints and sculpture multiples will be on display and available for sale at discounted prices. Some prints are the last available in inventory, with just one impression available.

The sale is a one-day event, Saturday, October 19 from 10am until 5pm, and all sales benefit Graphicstudio's continuing research and educational programming. In addition to the sale, guests may visit with Graphicstudio master printers and learn more about printmaking processes and techniques during etching demonstrations conducted throughout the day.

For questions or more information please email Kristin at soderqvi@usf.edu. This event is free and open to all.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

Film on the Lawn, The Florida Project

6-8:30pm, Outside USF Contemporary Art Museum, CAM

Bring a lawn chair or blanket and join us at CAM for a free film screening of The Florida Project. Pre-movie popcorn and snacks will be served at 6pm, and the movie starts at 6:30 outside on the lawn.

The Florida Project (2017) follows the summertime adventures and daily life of a precocious six-year-old girl and her friends living in a Kissimmee, Florida motel. The story follows the local children as they make the most of their surroundings in an environment dominated by nearby Disney World, code-named "The Florida Project". Filmed in Florida, and written and directed by Sean Baker and Chris Bergoch, The Florida Project stars Willem Dafoe, Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince, with Valeria Cotto, Christopher Rivera, and Caleb Landry Jones in supporting roles.

For questions or more information send us a DM, an email at caminfo@usf.edu, or call (813) 974-4133. This event is free and open to all.

Friday, November 22, 2024

Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape Closing Celebration Reception

7-9pm, USF Contemporary Art Museum, CAM

Join us to celebrate Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape, USF Contemporary Art Museum’s contribution to Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration, a concurrent multi-venue exhibition that profiles the best new art in the Tampa Bay region. Other institutions participating in Skyway 2024 include The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, the Sarasota Art Museum, and the Tampa Museum of Art.

Skyway 2024: 12 Ways of Looking at a Landscape features artworks by Elisabeth Condon, Keith Crowley, John Gurbacs, Karen Tucker Kuykendall, Caui Lofgren, Bruce Marsh, Eric Ondina, Sebastian Ore Blas, Andrés Ramírez, Bradford Robotham, Erin Titus, and Susanna Wallin. Their artworks focus on a wide-open notion of landscape, invoking both the particularities of place and the universal ideas they provoke. Their wildly varied representations give sharp-eyed evidence of a common territory—the rich artistic landscape of a cultural region that has very much come into its own.

For questions or more information send us a DM, an email at caminfo@usf.edu, or call (813) 974-4133. This event is free and open to all.