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Venvi Art Gallery is thrilled to announce The Architecture of Pattern, a two-artist exhibition of works by artists Christina Klein and Selena Nawrocki. This exhibition will be on display from September 4th to October 17th, with its opening reception on September 4th from 5-8pm.

The Architecture of Pattern brings together Selena C. Nawrocki and Christina A. Klein in an exhibition exploring the relationship between space, memory, and material. Nawrocki's layered abstractions suggest interior worlds shaped by color and emotion, while Klein's materials reflect patterns in the natural world and the fabrics they inspire. Together, their works invite viewers into something deeply personal, that examines not only the nature of how our world is built, but how it is remembered. For both Nawrocki and Klein, inspiration begins with the built environment, though each approach it from a distinct perspective, Nawrocki through the symbolic movement of staircases that map emotional journeys, and Klein through daily observations layered into imagined environments. Together, the artists reveal architecture not simply as physical structure, but as a repository of history, emotion, and lived experience, inviting viewers to consider the lasting impact of the spaces we inhabit and leave behind.

Christina A. Klein earned her B.F.A. from Kansas State University and her M.F.A. from Florida State University. Her artistic practice has been shaped by her rural Kansas upbringing and studies in Austria and Germany. She currently lives in Oakland, California, where she does custom woodworking.

Dr. Selena C. Nawrocki is Professor of Interior Design and Art at Valdosta State University. She received her B.F.A. from Mississippi University for Women, her M.F.A. from the University of Memphis, and her Ph.D. degree from Mississippi State University. She is professional member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC). An award-winning artist and educator, her work has been featured in more than 150 international juried exhibitions and has received multiple Best in Show honors.

The Architecture of Pattern will be on display from September 4th to October 17th. Its opening will be on September 4th from 5-8pm. Venvi Art Gallery is located at 2901 E Park Ave Unit 2800 Tallahassee, FL 32301. To learn more about this exhibition and both Christina Klein and Selena Nawrocki's work, please visit www.venviartgallery.com.

Artists / Speakers: Christina Klein, Selena Nawrocki

Category: Arts | Visual Arts

Date and Time: Friday October 02, 2026 at 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Venue details: Venvi Art Gallery, 2901 East Park Avenue Ste 2800, Tallahassee, Florida, 32301, United States

Join The Grove Museum on the second Wednesday of each month for children's storytime!

We will celebrate the season by reading "The Gingerbread Man" by Jim Aylesworth on December 9 at 10:00a.m..

Storytime will be followed by an activity, and we encourage families to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the museum's grounds following the program.
The program is FREE and open to the public! Storytime at The Grove is recommended for children ages 8 and younger.

Join The Grove Museum on the second Wednesday of each month for children's storytime!

Don't miss our Veterans Day storytime on November 11 where we will be reading "Mission to Space" by Commander John Herrington at 10AM.

Storytime will be followed by an activity, and we encourage families to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the museum's grounds following the program.

The program is FREE and open to the public! Storytime at The Grove is recommended for children ages 8 and younger.

Join The Grove Museum on the second Wednesday of each month for children's storytime!

We will be reading "Our Oak Tree" by Jane L. Howard on October 14 at 10AM.

Storytime will be followed by an activity, and we encourage families to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the museum's grounds following the program.
The program is FREE and open to the public! Storytime at The Grove is recommended for children ages 8 and younger.

Florida led the United States in executions in 2025, accounting for 19 executions—approximately 40% of the national total. Against this backdrop, the International Human Rights and the Death Penalty Symposium will convene an exceptional group of globally recognized scholars, practitioners, and policymakers at Florida State University College of Law.

Bringing together leading voices on this topic from across the world, the symposium will examine capital punishment through an international human rights lens. Discussions will explore legal, ethical, and comparative perspectives, fostering rigorous and informed dialogue on one of the most complex and consequential issues in modern law.

Distinguished speakers include Sister Helen Prejean; Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj, former President of Mongolia; Mario Marazziti, former deputy in Italy's Camera dei Deputati; Mark Olive, a nationally recognized death penalty litigation expert; Professor Corinna Barrett Lain, University of Richmond School of Law; Professor William Schabas, Middlesex University, London; Robin Maher, Executive Director of the Death Penalty Information Center, with more to come.

We hope you will join us for this important and globally informed discussion.

This event is free and open to the public. CLE credit pending.

The Jack Hadley Black History Museum, Pebble Hill Plantation, and Thomasville History Center present a free Lunch & Learn Speaker Series exploring the people, places, and stories that have shaped our community over the past 200 years.

Join Dr. John Cable as he discusses the topic of his next book: Homesteads and Hope: Georgia’s Midcentury Experiments in Communal Farming. Dr. Cable received his doctorate from Florida States University and leads classes in the History Department at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton.

In the 1930s and 1940s — amid depression and war — hundreds of Georgians joined planned farming communities. Dr. Cable will give an overview of resettlement communities run by the federal government, including Irwinville (Irwin County), Wolf Creek (Grady County), and the all-African American Flint River Farms project (Macon County) as well as non-government farming communities like Koinonia (Sumter County) and the Monastery of the Holy Spirit (Rockdale County).

Years of photographing North Florida bees for the WFSU Ecology Blog have changed Rob Diaz de Villegas' perspective on seasonality. Whether in the garden or in the Apalachicola National Forest, our area's bees are a diverse lot. Some fly for most of the year, taking pollen and nectar from a variety of flowers. Many others, however, are specialists we only see for the weeks their host flowers are in bloom. A few of these local specialists are rare. Every bee tells a story about the changing of the seasons, and the smaller seasons within each season.

You are invited to the pubic reception of "Floating Metal: UNDERcurrents In My Father's Garden," on Thursday, September 3, from 5:30-7:30 pm. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

“Floating Metal” brings together sculpture, image, video, performance, and sound to honor the artistic legacy of Ed Love (1936-1999) and the intergenerational creative practice of choreographer and performer nia love (b. 1963). The exhibition extends nia love’s long-term serial projects g1(host) and UNDERcurrents, which explore the enduring histories of the Middle Passage and transatlantic slavery. This newest iteration continues to invite audiences to probe the seam between catastrophic history and everyday memory, pivoting on the elemental medium of water.

The presentation of "Floating Metal: UNDERcurrents In My Father's Garden" by nia love was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Additional support comes from FSU’s Council on Research + Creativity (CRC).

The Forgotten Coast Parrot Head Club’s “Fins Up on the Forgotten Coast” Music Festival is returning to the Crooked River Lighthouse and the Forgotten Coast. On Saturday, September 5, the Crooked River Lighthouse will host three fabulous musicians for three shows:
-- Brian Rowland from 1:00 - 2:30 pm,
-- Sticky Tim from 5:00 - 6:30 pm and,
-- Harold Boothe from 7:00 - 8:30 pm.
Plus guests can enjoy food and beverages from the LINK Sausages & Beer Food Truck. This relaxing event offers free museum visits, gift shop browsing, daytime and twilight tower climbs, and the peaceful natural surroundings of St. George Sound and Carrabelle Beach. For event details and artists’ bios – https://www.crookedriverlighthouse.com/fins-up-on-the-forgotten-coast/. Admission is FREE. Donations welcome to benefit Bring Me A Book Forgotten Coast & Franklin Education Foundation's Tango Flight Program.

The Keeper's House Museum will be open for special hours, featuring the lighthouse's original Fourth Order Fresnel lens, constructed in Paris, France, in 1894. The Beacon Bistro will offer baked goodies, popcorn, and refreshments by donation. Plus guests can enjoy food and beverages from the LINK Sausages & Beer Food Truck.

For those looking for an unforgettable view, twilight tower climbs provide a chance to experience the tallest lighthouse on the Forgotten Coast from the top. Climbers will enjoy panoramic views of St. George Sound, Carrabelle Beach, and the beautiful colors of twilight stretching across the horizon as dusk settles over the coast. Climbs are $6 for the public, free for current members and free for kids 12 and under with a ticketed adult. All climbers must be at least 44 inches tall.

Funded in part by the Franklin County Tourist Development Council.

The FSU Museum of Fine Arts invites you to "Floating Metal: UNDERcurrents In My Father's Garden," on view from August 24, 2026 - March 13, 2027.

“Floating Metal” brings together sculpture, image, video, performance, and sound to honor the artistic legacy of Ed Love (1936-1999) and the intergenerational creative practice of choreographer and performer nia love (b. 1963). The exhibition extends nia love’s long-term serial projects g1(host) and UNDERcurrents, which explore the enduring histories of the Middle Passage and transatlantic slavery. This newest iteration continues to invite audiences to probe the seam between catastrophic history and everyday memory, pivoting on the elemental medium of water.

The exhibition also marks the first museum presentation of Ed Love’s Beloved series (1988) with metal sculptures commemorating black historical figures, completed shortly before his untimely passing in 1999. As a representative yet under-recognized artist of the Black Arts generation, Ed Love is known for welding discarded metal salvaged from scrap yards into powerful totems of global black consciousness. Likewise driven by the social force and weight of blackness, nia love’s multi-modal movement practice aims to breach the propriety of “dance,” refashioning it as gesture–the embodied memory of movement, geographies, and scales of time gathered and shared through black forms of life and culture.

The presentation of Floating Metal: UNDERcurrents In My Father’s Garden by nia love was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. Additional support comes from FSU’s Council on Research + Creativity (CRC).

Hours subject to change due to holidays and University closures.