Florida Southern College
Melvin Art Gallery Schedule
April 18-May 4 – Senior Graphic Design Show. Florida Southern’s senior graphic designers bring creativity and professionalism to their work in both print and digital media. The senior graphic design awards will be announced at the opening reception.
May 10-30 – Annual Lakeland Art Guild Exhibition. Once again, as it has for more than thirty years, The Melvin Art Gallery is pleased to host this annual exhibition for The Lakeland Art Guild. Founded in 1952 and incorporated in 1956, the Guild is Lakeland’s oldest community arts organization. Awards will be announced at the opening.
About Florida Southern College
Founded in 1883, Florida Southern College is a private, comprehensive United Methodist-affiliated college with a liberal arts core. The College maintains its commitment to academic excellence through 46 undergraduate majors and distinctive graduate programs in business administration, education, and nursing.
Florida Southern has a 14:1 student/faculty ratio; is a national leader in engaged learning; and boasts 26 NCAA Division II national championships. It is ranked in the Top 5 “Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the South” by U.S. News & World Report and is included in The Princeton Review’s “366 Best Colleges” guide.
The College is committed to the development of the whole student through vibrant student life programs that prepare graduates to make a positive, consequential impact on society.
Located on scenic Lake Hollingsworth, Florida Southern is home to the world’s largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.
Melvin Art Gallery exhibits works
by area high school juniors and seniors
Florida Southern College and the Melvin Art Gallery present “200 Miles of Art: A Juried Invitational Exhibition for High School Seniors and Juniors.” The exhibit opens on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 6 and runs through Oct. 29.
Promising young artists who are currently juniors or seniors from high schools throughout central Florida were invited to submit work to this exhibition. Works were selected by Florida Southern College art faculty and the director of the Melvin Gallery and juried by Ken Rollins, Director of the Tampa Museum of Art.
Florida Southern College, a private, comprehensive United Methodist college with a liberal arts core, is nationally recognized for the quality of its fine arts programs, a hallmark of the institution since its founding in 1885. Located on scenic Lake Hollingsworth, Florida Southern is the home of the world’s largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, a distinction for which the campus recently earned inclusion on the World Monument Fund’s watch list of 100 most endangered sites in the world.
Florida Southern College maintains its commitment to academic excellence as evidenced by being ranked by U.S. News and World Report as one of the top ten Southern Comprehensive Colleges — Bachelors and by The Princeton Review as one of the nation’s Best 366 Colleges. For students pursuing a degree in the arts, Florida Southern offers bachelor’s degrees in areas such as studio art, graphic design, art education, art history, theatre arts, music education, sacred music, music management and music performance.
This extraordinary campus provides the perfect backdrop for the College’s nationally-acclaimed Festival of Fine Arts, a diverse showcase of world-class performances that runs from fall to spring. The series has been an annual Lakeland tradition for more than four decades and provides once-in-a-lifetime opportunities for the College’s music and theatre arts students to learn from and even share the stage with world renowned performers. The College’s Festival of Fine Arts, Melvin Art Gallery, “Child of the Sun” Jazz Festival, Florida Lecture Series and summer music camps provide for the area community an unmatched resource of cultural enrichment.
Rendering of the Water Dome after restoration---another area on the Florida Southern College campus where arts students will be inspired.
The Robert A. Davis Performing Arts Center consists of Branscomb Auditorium, the Anne MacGregor Jenkins Recital Hall, the Loca Lee Buckner Theatre, the Honeyman Pavilion, and the music building addition.
To tour the College’s Frank Lloyd Wright campus, visit http://www.flsouthern.edu/fllwctr/ or call (863) 680-4110 or (863) 680-4597.
The “Child of the Sun” Visitor Center is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Campus is open year round although some buildings are locked when school is not in session and on weekends.
For more information about arts, entertainment and enrichment offerings at Florida Southern College, please visit www.flsouthern.edu and find contact information below.
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