Student Curated Exhibition examines Jamaican Intuitive Art at Second Annual Frost Art Museum Exhibition, FIU
MIAMI – Jamaican Intuitive Art will be showcased at the second annual Frost Art Museum Exhibition at the Florida International University (FIU), Miami.
The exhibition begins Wednesday, April 25, with an Opening Reception, and runs through August 26, 2012 at the Modesto A. Maidique Campus located at 10975 SW 17 Street, Miami, Florida 33199.
This exhibition is partnered with the Consulate General of Jamaica as part of the schedule of activities commemorating the nation’s golden jubilee anniversary of Independence across the South Florida community.
The exhibition, drawn from a comprehensive group of paintings and sculptures of Jamaican art in The Frost Art Museum’s permanent collection, is curated, designed and installed by students in the Graduate Certificate of Museum Studies Program of FIU.
Jamaican Intuitive Art is artwork created by self-trained and non-academically trained artists. These are individuals who through their paintings, drawings, and sculptures express thoughts about life and their surroundings.
Themes addressed in this artwork can be religious or mystical with reference to Rastafarianism or other forms of indigenous faith found in Jamaica; African roots, the unique Jamaican Back to Africa movement, and narrative paintings depicting urban and rural landscapes.
Intuitive Art and artists have been recognized in Jamaica since the late 1970’s when three major exhibits at the National Gallery in Kingston brought attention to the flourishing of these expressive artists.
The annual FIU exhibition is part of the Introduction to Museum Ethics, Policies and Procedures course, intended to teach students about the inner workings of museums. By having firsthand experience creating an exhibition, students are introduced to a portion of the collection, for which they research the artists and art movements, and work in a team to develop the curatorial threads of the exhibition. They also learn proper collections and registration procedures by creating the catalog, labels, and supplemental educational materials.
The exhibition is open to the public and runs from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
