On Thursday, November 21st, at 6:00 PM EST, join a member of the curatorial team, Dr. Michael Carrasco, as he takes you on a guided tour of the exhibition, HOMO SARGASSUM. Created in partnership with the TOUT-MONDE Art FOUNDATION and Winthrop King Institute, HOMO SARGASSUM is an exhibition featuring the work of twenty-five Caribbean artists as they consider the human-induced adverse environmental effects of sargassum in Florida and the Caribbean, where sargassum takes on metaphoric roles to address the social and historical atrocities of the Middle Passage. During this tour, you will have the opportunity to learn more about the project with an in-depth discussion of works by included artists like Billy Gerard Frank, with the opportunity to ask questions and learn about what happens behind the scenes in making an exhibition.
 
Michael Carrasco is the Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art History. His research centers on the pre-Colonial and Indigenous people of the Americas, particularly the cultures of Mesoamerica, as well as critical heritage studies and the relationship between indigenous artistic traditions and the global art system. 
 
This exhibition is presented by the TOUT-MONDE Art FOUNDATION in partnership with the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts and the Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies; this project is sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture, InPulse, a program of Rubis Mécénat; Holdex Environment; Société Anonyme de la Raffinerie des Antilles; Direction of Cultural Affairs of the French Ministry of Culture in Guadeloupe, Étant donnés, a program of Villa Albertine, Robert & Mercedes Eichholz Foundation; and individual support from Sarah Arison, Sophia Budianto and Ian Dominguez, and Samir Agili.