April 5, 2013 – June 1, 2013

The Florida Museum for Women Artists is pleased to present an exciting exhibit featuring eight female artists who participated in the Second Juried Exhibition in September 2011.

Expanding Visions is a group show of multiple works from eight women who were chosen at the Second Annual Juried Exhibition (2011). The show depicts the growth of each artist since the show nearly 18 months ago. The exhibit features both two-dimensional and three-dimensional art in a variety of mediums.

CLICK HEREfor a preview of the participating artists and their work.

Join us for an Artist Talk!

Expanding Visions Artist Talk
Saturday, June 1
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Take a last look at this fabulous exhibition of varied styles and mediums, and hear what the artists have to say about their vision, process and specific mediums. The event is FREE for members, $5 non-members including museum admission. Refreshments will be served.

Upcoming Programs

Illustrated Talk with Master Artist Coco Fusco
Wednesday, May 22
7:00 p.m.
FREE! 

Join FMWA and Master Artist, Coco Fusco for an illustrated talk followed by a question and answer session. Ms. Fusco is a visual artist who has been selected to participate in the Atlantic Center for the Arts artists-in-residence program.

Attendees will have the opportunity to meet, learn from, and engage with Ms. Fusco at this event offered at no cost.  The public is invited to attend. To reserve a seat, please call the Florida Museum for Women Artists at 386.873.2976.

About the Master Artist: Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist, writer and Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons The New School for Design. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco’s performances and videos have been presented in two Whitney Biennials (2008 and 1993), the Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The Shanghai Biennale, InSite O5, the 2011 Mercosul Biennial, Transmediale, The London International Theatre Festival, VideoBrasil and Performa05. Her works have also been shown at the Tate Liverpool, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. Fusco is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001), and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is also the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003).

Fusco’s work combine electronic media and performance in a variety of formats, from staged multi-media performances incorporating large scale projections and closed circuit television to live performances streamed to the internet that invite audiences to chart the course of action through chat interaction. Her recent solo exhibition at Alexander Gray Associates featured her new video work The Empty Plaza/La Plaza Vacia. Inspired by the organized public protests in the Middle East beginning in 2011, the artist took note of the communal spaces around the world being utilized and, in contrast, those left empty.The empty Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, Cuba becomes the protagonist in Fusco’s meditation on public space, revolutionary promise, and memory.

The appearance of Coco Fusco is made possible by Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist in-Residence Outreach Program. For more information please go to www. atlanticcenterforthearts.org