The FAMU Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery in partnership with The Lola Hampton-Frank Pinder Center for Agroecology at FAMU presents a student exhibition exploring themes in and around agriculture, the environment within the African Diaspora.
The Land, the Environment and the African Diaspora is a student exhibit featuring themes in an around agroecology (which includes our agricultural production and consumption practices) This exhibit is a partnership with the The Lola Hampton-Frank Pinder Center for Agroecology at FAMU. The Lola Hampton- Frank Pinder Center for Agroecology at FAMU serves to provide an interdisciplinary space and think tank for training, developing, and building a sustainable future for Black regenerative farmers and land stewards. This exhibition presents the themes around the environment and agroecology, and how it impacts us culturally, historically, socially, and many other ways from student perspectives. During the fall 2023 semester, a call to artists was announced to create artwork focusing on their relationship with the land, the environment, and the African Diaspora. All college majors and classifications were welcome to submit artwork.
The opening reception for "The Land, the Environment, and the African Diaspora" will be held Thursday, February 1, from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. in the Upper-Level Gallery at the Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery. This opening reception and everyday gallery admission is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. For more information, contact (850) 412-5478.
Free Admission
2024/01/29 - 2024/04/26
Additional time info:
Opening reception will be Thursday, February 1, from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery- FAMU
1630 Pinder Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32307
Metered parking is available on Wahnish Way, between Osceola and Gamble streets
This exhibition will be located only in the Upper Level Gallery of the Foster-Tanner Fine Arts Gallery (located on the east side of the Foster-Tanner Art Center). There is an exterior entrance found at the bottom of the building's steps that will open to the lower level of Foster-Tanner (East). There is an elevator at this entrance that will take you to the Upper Level Gallery to view the exhibit.