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Guitarist Welson Tremura plays Latin-American music in the contemporary art section at the Harn. He and five other musicians played live music throughout the museum's halls and galleries during the celebration on Sept. 25, 2015.
Marta Wayne (left), 49, and her daughter Norma Wayne, 9, draw on foam letters at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art’s 25th anniversary public celebration on Sept. 27, 2015. Visitors drew on the letters throughout the day. The concept was based on the sculpture “Zandvoort” by Frank Stella.
The Harn Museum of Art is not much older than most of UF’s students.
Emotions overflowed and personal attacks fired among Floridians Tuesday night when Alachua County Commissioners voted 3-2 to relocate a controversial Confederate statue in downtown Gainesville.
Michael Schuering is the visiting associate professor of history at the UF Center for European Studies. His position is partly funded by DAAD, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, or the German Academic Exchange Service. He is currently teaching "Weimar Germany Culture" and "Genes, Blood and the Body."
The fate of a controversial confederate statue in downtown Gainesville may be determined today.
In the last week alone, I’ve been asked if I’ve ever studied abroad on four separate occasions. Sadly enough, the answer has been "no" every time. Both of my collegiate summers have been spent interning and feeling jealous while stalking social media either here in Gainesville or back home in Palm Beach. Yet, nearly all of my friends have spent a semester or two gallivanting across the globe, whether in Madrid, Beijing or London, and all have returned claiming to be much worldlier than when they left.
Butterflies will flutter and perch on Florida Museum of Natural History visitors during it’s annual Butterfly Fest.
A woman stares into a camera lens as her white turtleneck blouse and long, dark skirt pop out from the neighboring construction site.
The Gator family just lost a prehistoric friend.
In 2011, Rebecca Fitzsimmons was a University of South Florida graduate student scanning early pictures of Florida for the Matheson History Museum.
Easton Roorda, 8, gets his face painted with a Dia De Los Muertos theme in celebration of Latin culture on Sept. 10, 2015. “It’s great how the museum has a different theme every month," said his father, Ben Roorda. "The kids love the crafts too.”
Stephanie Norman (right), a 27-year-old UF ecological restoration student, practices her salsa moves with Maria Guijarro, a postdoctorate associate at the Orthopedics Rehabilitation Center, at the Harn Museum Sept. 10, 2015. “I really enjoyed learning how to dance salsa as well as the other performances taking place tonight,” Norman said.
Easton Roorda, 8, gets his face painted with a Dia De Los Muertos theme in celebration of Latin culture on Sept. 10, 2015. “It’s great how the museum has a different theme every month," said his father, Ben Roorda. "The kids love the crafts too.”
Whether you enjoy learning through films, discussions, musical performances or art exhibits, there is something for everyone to learn about Latino culture at Gainesville’s September film festival.
About 20 people huddled outside Maude’s Classic Cafe watching “Casablanca” on a large screen projector at 9 p.m. Tuesday. Cloth napkins were draped over the streetlights to set the mood.
Collection Day UF Office of Sustainability manager Jacob Adams, right, waits for Colelction Day dropoffs in the parking lot across Museum Road from the Reitz Union on Wednesday. Sustainable UF holds the event each semester to collect used goods and food items for donation, as well as hazardous materials for recycling and disposal.
To celebrate St. Augustine’s 450th birthday, UF archaeologists are revisiting the excavation site of the oldest stone mission church in colonial Spanish Florida.
Authorities arrested a UF student Saturday afternoon after she reportedly used a false ID and resisted arrest.
Six pictures of women who changed Florida’s history lined the walls of the Matheson History Museum; their stories are interconnected and interwoven into the state’s history, undoubtedly changing it forever. Without them, Florida would have lost the Everglades and suffrage, and civil rights and environmentalism might not have progressed as quickly.
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