University Galleries
For 50 years University Gallery has presented exciting art exhibitions to the University of Florida campus and our regional community. A yearlong celebration kicked off in the fall of 2014 with Come Home, Selections from the Collection of Hector Puig.
Golden Anniversary 50th Anniversary Steering Committee
GARY LIBBY, HONORARY CO-CHAIR CHRIS MACHEN, HONORARY CO-CHAIR HAROLD BARRAND SARAH FITZPATRICK REGAN GARNER BUFF GORDON ROY HUNT MARCIA ISAACSON ROSLYN LEVY DON MCGLOTHLIN NORMA ROTH CHARLOTTE PORTER MICHELLE TILLANDER CHUCK WOODS
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MUSE Magazine | Spring 2015
PHOTOS BY JESSIE WARD
1965-2015: University Gallery celebrates 50 years at UF
University Galleries mounted a series of 12 important exhibitions honoring Roy Craven, the Gallery’s first and longest standing director of 25 years. The Roy Craven Legacy, curated by Roy Hunt in University Gallery, showcased objects that were originally in the gallery’s collections and were transferred to the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in 1988. The Making of a Museum, Part I of the 50year timeline, in Focus Gallery (recently renamed the Gary R. Libby Gallery) defined the relationship between University Gallery and the Harn and its collecting areas. Two exhibitions in Grinter Gallery, curated by Roslyn Levy and John F. Scott, explored Craven’s connection to South America through the gallery’s former holdings transferred to the Florida Museum of Natural History as well as the Harn. In the fall of 2015 we look to the future of University Gallery with an invitational exhibition of alumni work Sept. 8-Oct. 8, 2015. The final 50th anniversary exhibition, UG at 50, Class of (circa) ’65, showcasing the work of Robert Fichter and Mernet Larsen, takes place Oct. 27Dec. 4, 2015. The Henri Theil Collection of University Gallery purchase awards will be exhibited in the Gary R. Libby Gallery simultaneously, followed by Part II of the 50-year timeline. Please join us in wrapping up a truly meaningful and dynamic year!