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A student speaks about their work while Laura Hobby, Supervisor of Visual and Theatre Arts Education for Hillsborough County Public Schools, looks on.

Creative Teens Take Center Stage at USF for the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

Brimming with imagination, talent, and bold perspective, the 2025 Hillsborough County Region Scholastic Art & Writing Awards lit up the University of South Florida’s College of Design, Art & Performance this May. From gallery walls to the mainstage, students in grades 7 through 12 showed what happens when young artists and writers are given space to explore and the power to express their personal vision.

May 21, 2025Community Outreach

Brightly colored origami birds. - John Leduc, A Mother’s Gift, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.

USF’s Breaking Barriers Returns with a Poetic Look at the Power of Objects

This spring, the USF Contemporary Art Museum unveils Breaking Barriers: Beyond the Object—a photography exhibition that reimagines still life through the eyes of those who’ve lived extraordinary lives. Featuring the work of thirty-two U.S. military veterans and their family members, the show invites viewers to pause, look closely, and consider the personal meaning we place on everyday things.

May 19, 2025Community Outreach, USF CAM

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Remembering Robert Campbell: Critic, Architect, and Former Endowed Chair at USF

The School of Architecture and Community Design at the University of South Florida remembers Robert Campbell—Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, celebrated architect, and one of the school’s earliest Gibbons or Markborough Endowed Chairs. Known for the clarity, wit, and warmth he brought to architectural criticism, Campbell left a lasting impression on the school during its formative years and helped shape a culture of curiosity and rigor that continues to guide SACD today.

May 19, 2025Architecture

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