The UF College of Fine Arts will hold a “Pop-Up Culture” event Wednesday to celebrate National Arts and Humanities Month.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, along with the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art and the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts will host events including clay throwing, art exhibitions and photography workshops.
The events are to raise awareness for arts and humanities and will be held from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. around campus.
Jessica Ward, marketing assistant for the College of Fine Arts, wrote in an email that the event will feature swing dancing, as well as poetry readings, spoken word performances and philosophical debates.
Ward said the events are important because they showcase the arts, which often take a back seat to the science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum.
“We cannot afford to neglect the arts,” Ward said. “I do think enough students appreciate the arts, but it might not be coming from their educational experiences but from innate desires to do so.”
The events will take place on the Plaza of the Americas, the Fine Arts Complex and the Southwest Recreation Center, according to a press release.
“These performances are outside, so we will reach many who would not purchase performance tickets,” Ward said.
Tori Glod, a UF dance junior, is participating in “Pop-Up Culture” this year. She said the School of Theatre and Dance will perform excerpts around campus from a dance piece.
Glod, 22, said the event is a great opportunity to bring awareness to the arts that are prevalent on campus.
