Art & Culture
It’s Official: From Flagship Program to UNF School of Music
The University of North Florida’s Music Flagship Program is officially a School of Music. The announcement was made in March at a special showcase concert featuring student, alumni and faculty musicians.
read moreTuba, Trombone, & Technology
DA music grad Adam Jones built an engineering career on creativity and questioning
read moreMOSH: 75 Years
Famed documentary maker Ken Burns says, “People tend to forget that the word ‘history’ contains the word ‘story’,” but this is not the case at Jacksonville’s Museum of Science & History (MOSH). For the past seventy-five years, every exhibit, whether it be the movement of blood through our body or waves along our shore, is referenced back to us in both science and story, providing us a connected perspective to each other and to our world.
read moreFamily Folky Fun
If you and the kids haven’t heard the prolific Mrs. Kate yet, you’re missing out.
read moreSTEAM at Work: Dr. Barbara Nye
DA dance grad now prescribes dance as a headache neurologist.
read moreAngels in the River City
I’m at a local coffee shop with a friend working on a project. We wrap up and head out. I’m unlocking my car door when I hear a woman across the street yell the word “Watermelon.” I turn to look at her. The woman looks directly at me again and yells “Watermelon.” Then clickety-clack proceeds up the street with her shopping cart full of things. I’m stunned and my friend looks at me in disbelief. It’s not important for the purposes of this article why watermelon is significant, but it is. A lifesaving message I needed to hear at that point in my life. I see her again a year later and run down the street to catch up with her.
read moreArt as Marketing Weapon
Jacksonville graphic designer Adam Sugalski received a BFA in Art and Photography from UNF in 1996 and has since not only made a career in design, but committed himself to protesting for animal rights and using art as his tool in the fight.
read moreLIFT: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience
LIFT: Contemporary Expressions of the African American Experience presents area contemporary artists’ responses to Jacksonville’s rich artistic African American heritage, with an emphasis on creating an artful platform to discuss issues around race, equity, and community.
read moreWomen of the Knife
Women of the Knife is a multi-course tasting event Kathy Collins says was inspired by the exhibition Confronting the Canvas: Women of Abstraction, which is currently on view at the contemporary art museum.
read moreThe Malleable Metal Mark McCombs
Mark is executive director for Renaissance Jax, a nonprofit dedicated to building FIRST Robotics teams in every school in Northeast Florida.
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