UWF English students will exhibit artwork inspired by poet Claudia Rankine.
Using words, images and everything in between, students from the University of West Florida are preparing an exhibition based on the work of a provocative, award winning writer.
“She is a playwright, she is an essayist, she is a poet,” said Robin Blyn, a professor of English at UWF. She s talking about Claudia Rankine, whose 2014 book called Citizen: An American Lyric is the subject of the exhibit. Blyn says the book combines all of her writing styles with visual art. ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’ is really a kind of collage book. It uses a variety of different genres and, in fact, puts visual and verbal art into conversation with one and other.”
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Antarctica exhibit pairs art with science at PMA
Mike Roberts
A photography exhibit at the Pensacola Museum of Art blurs the line between science and art. Running through April 4, “Antarctica: Seasons of Water and Ice” is a chilling document of the continent’s ice-covered idyll taken by Wade Jeffrey during two research expeditions in 2019.
“I think I have a little bit of an artistic eye,” said Jeffrey, an oceanographer and a Distinguished University Professor at UWF.
Jeffrey also is the director of UWF’s Center for Environmental Diagnostics and Bioremediation, which facilitates modern biological research.
“It was very much the interaction of the science and the arts that allowed me to go there in the first place,” he continued. “Some of the things that captured my eye have some scientific underlining that made them interesting.”