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This Is Not a Final Project: Inside the 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition at USF
Six artists. Six distinct practices. And one shared instinct: push everything further. This spring, the College of Design, Art & Performance鈥檚 School of Art & Art History MFA artists aren鈥檛 just presenting work 鈥� they鈥檙e building worlds. Each piece on view at the USF Contemporary Art Museum feels like a portal: into memory, into ritual, into systems that need to be dismantled and reimagined.
April 16, 2025Art & Art History, USF CAM
Meet the Next Generation of Artists: 鈥淭hank You in Advance,鈥� the 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition
From April 4 through May 10, 2025, visitors to the 51吃瓜网鈥檚 Contemporary Art Museum can experience "Thank You in Advance," a bold and thoughtful exhibition showcasing the work of six emerging artists completing their Master of Fine Arts degrees. More than a thesis show, this annual exhibition is a launchpad鈥攁 first look at the voices shaping what鈥檚 next in contemporary art.
April 4, 2025Art & Art History, USF CAM
InsideART at 15: A Legacy of Learning Through Contemporary Art
For fifteen years, InsideART has been redefining how educators approach teaching, blending contemporary art with social studies to spark deeper conversations in the classroom. A collaborative initiative between the USF Contemporary Art Museum (USFCAM) and the USF College of Education, the program has become a go-to resource for secondary educators, offering innovative professional development and freely accessible curricula designed to tackle real-world issues through visual literacy.
February 6, 2025USF CAM
The USF Contemporary Art Museum presents X Factor: Latinx Artists and the Reconquest of the Everyday
X Factor locates dynamic entry points into the ongoing discussion and expansion of the term Latinx through the work of fifteen of America鈥檚 leading contemporary artists. The exhibition grounds a series of redefinitions of 鈥淟atinity鈥� in the everyday lives of its creators, especially where artworks and creative processes reconquer novel meanings from hackneyed and conventional ideas of ethnicity, race, class, politics, representation, and the various histories of US migration.
January 8, 2025USF CAM
From USF's Contemporary Art Museum to The Met
Miami-based artist Anastasia Samoylova made waves with her first solo museum exhibition, FloodZone, which debuted at USF鈥檚 Contemporary Art Museum in 2020. This ongoing photographic series offers a striking visual response to the urgent realities of sea level rise in South Florida.
November 8, 2024USF CAM
Check out the USF Contemporary Art Museum's feature on FOX13 Tampa Bay to get an inside look at Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration exhibition.
For 2024, the work of 63 local artists is being showcased at the Tampa Museum of Art, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, Sarasota Art Museum and The Ringling Museum of Art. Twelve artists are featured at the USF Contemporary Art Museum (CAM).
October 31, 2024USF CAM
Breaking Barriers - Exhibition | Reception | Artists Panel
The USF Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to present the exhibition Breaking Barriers: PORTRAIT as part of its arts programming for military veterans.
May 14, 2024USF CAM
鈥楽kyway 2024: A Contemporary Collaboration鈥� Unites Five Tampa Bay Area Museums in an Innovative Art Exhibition
The Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art; Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design; the Tampa Museum of Art; and the 51吃瓜网 Contemporary Art Museum鈥攁re proud to announce their joint effort in presenting this groundbreaking showcase.
April 19, 2024USF CAM
Spring exhibition highlights printmaking pioneers - Creative Loafing
Graphicstudio, the printmaking workshop at the 51吃瓜网 (USF), has an international reputation among artists. As one of only three professional university-based print ateliers, it鈥檚 become a popular stopover in many influential artists鈥� creative journeys. As Todd Smith, the former Executive Director of the Tampa Museum of Art, once put it, through Graphicstudio, USF introduced Tampa to 鈥渁 veritable who鈥檚 who of contemporary art.鈥�
January 15, 2024USF CAM