August 19-September 30, 2021

In conjunction with the exhibition Erwin Eisch: Heaven Starts on Earth, a selection of vitreographs (prints from glass plates) from four artists who created work in Littleton Studios are on display. Contemporary vitreography was developed and established as a printmaking medium by Erwin Eisch's dear friend, Harvey Littleton, at Littleton Studios in Spruce Pine, NC. Littleton along with Erwin Eisch founded the international studio glass movement. Gretel Eisch, known for her sculpture and woodcuts, creates lyrical images that are poetic statements of the human condition. Hollis Sigler also speaks of the human condition in her profound series of vitreographs alluding to her battle with breast cancer. FGCU Art Professor Andy Owen’s works are based on observing the dynamics of nature while immersed in a variety of landscapes.

Sponsored by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and WGCU Public Media

The Galleries are open Monday-Friday from 10:00 am-4:00 pm, and closed weekends, all FGCU hollidays and breaks, and for the summer. More information can be found at https://www.fgcu.edu/artgalleries/currentseason/#CurrentShow

Image credit: Gretel Eisch, Shadow Search, 2001; Vitreograph, 22 ½ x 28 in; 2020.0001.0019; Gift of Carol L. Shay, Collection of FGCU Art Galleries

August 19-September 30, 2021

In conjunction with the exhibition Erwin Eisch: Heaven Starts on Earth, a selection of vitreographs (prints from glass plates) from four artists who created work in Littleton Studios are on display. Contemporary vitreography was developed and established as a printmaking medium by Erwin Eisch's dear friend, Harvey Littleton, at Littleton Studios in Spruce Pine, NC. Littleton along with Erwin Eisch founded the international studio glass movement. Gretel Eisch, known for her sculpture and woodcuts, creates lyrical images that are poetic statements of the human condition. Hollis Sigler also speaks of the human condition in her profound series of vitreographs alluding to her battle with breast cancer. FGCU Art Professor Andy Owen’s works are based on observing the dynamics of nature while immersed in a variety of landscapes.

Sponsored by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; and WGCU Public Media

The Galleries are open Monday-Friday from 10:00 am-4:00 pm, and closed weekends, all FGCU hollidays and breaks, and for the summer. More information can be found at https://www.fgcu.edu/artgalleries/currentseason/#CurrentShow

Image credit: Gretel Eisch, Shadow Search, 2001; Vitreograph, 22 ½ x 28 in; 2020.0001.0019; Gift of Carol L. Shay, Collection of FGCU Art Galleries

Suzanne Kirton, flute

Judy Christy, oboe

Paul Votapek, clarinet

Kristen Sonneborn, bassoon

Ryan Little, horn

with Michael Baron, piano

Woodwind music at its finest! The five principal woodwind musicians from the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra will perform works for a woodwind quartet. They will then be joined by pianist Michael Baron for a performance of Francis Poulenc’s magnificent Sextet for Piano and Winds.

Tickets are $10 for the general public and $7 for students and are available at fgcu.edu/concerts

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August 27-November 10, 2021

Erwin Eisch is an international artist known for his figurative/expressionistic work in a variety of mediums.  As a founder of the international studio glass movement he was one of the first artists to use glass purely as a means of expression in Europe. His innovations and creative spirit have broadened the potential for the medium to be used by countless artists. This retrospective exhibition is the first of its kind in Florida and features his work in glass, printmaking and painting. Eisch’s work celebrates the joy of living and the human potential.

Sponsored by Gene and Lee Seidler; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture and the Florida Council on Arts and Culture; WGCU Public Media; Erwin and Gretel Eisch and Carol L. Shay

The Galleries are open Monday-Friday from 10:00 am-4:00 pm, and closed weekends, all FGCU hollidays and breaks, and for the summer. More information can be found at https://www.fgcu.edu/artgalleries/currentseason/#CurrentShow

Image credit: Erwin Eisch, Full Moon Has Passed (detail), 1992; Vitreograph, 30 x 22 in.; 2020.0001.0010; Gift of Carol L. Shay, Collection of FGCU Art Galleries

April 16, 17, 23 & 24 at 7:30 p.m. 

April 18, 24 & 25 at 2:00 p.m.

Written by Richard Nelson

Directed by Kristin Mellian

Tickets are $10 for the general public and $7 for students and can be purchased at fgcu.edu/theatrelab 

An Apple family brunch stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change.

Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois

April 16, 17, 23 & 24 at 7:30 p.m. 

April 18, 24 & 25 at 2:00 p.m.

Written by Richard Nelson

Directed by Kristin Mellian

Tickets are $10 for the general public and $7 for students and can be purchased at fgcu.edu/theatrelab 

An Apple family brunch stirs up discussions of loss, remembrance and a decade of change.

Produced by special arrangement with THE DRAMATIC PUBLISHING COMPANY of Woodstock, Illinois

A bewildering series of dreams torments a young woman, leaving her isolated in an unfamiliar world. She searches for an interpretation of her shadowy visions with the help of a doctor who is from a disjointed time.  

River Sonnets is a digital play performed in the time of a great pandemic, a time when language is such an important bridge between people but a time when that linguistic architecture is crumbling and failing. At a time like this, we have to invent new ways of thinking about theater, new ways to question our assumptions about the human condition. River Sonnets is an experiment in language. It is ancient poetry set to contemporary circumstance, it is visual poetry nestled in popular streaming media.  River Sonnets features the poems of Edmund Spenser, a 16th century English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, and by Edna St. Vincent Millay, an American poet who, in 1923, became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. River Sonnets is a deep exploration into the desire for love and a timid look into the vagaries of our final transition. It is a universal warning wrapped in a personal metaphor.
This event can be accessed on YouTube.

Live, on Instagram!

Senior Dance Major, Taylor Greco from Palm Beach Atlantic University will be presenting her dance performance live in the Wasmer Art Gallery. Her performance entitled Art Essential portrays her experience and connection to the Coronavirus pandemic. The piece has been created during her recovering from COVID-19. This work explores elements of spirit, fragility, and resilience in response to and inspired by the works of Heather Couch, Terre Rybovich, Marina Font, and Renee Rey seen in the exhibition When We See Further.

This event can be viewed on the FGCU Art Galleries’ Instagram page.