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Art & Culture

Arts and culture are an integral part of the FIU experience. Since our start, we’ve promoted, nurtured and fostered creativity as part of our student curriculum. Reaching out to the community with cultural offerings has also been a vital part of our mission.

The College of Architecture + The Arts
The College of Architecture + The Arts is a vibrant and diverse community of scholars, educators, performers, and practitioners unified by a vision of excellence in art, design, performance and communication. With over 150 events a year, the College offers South Florida art and culture at its finest with music concerts from classical to contemporary electronic music, theatre productions including musicals and plays by nationally and internationally acclaimed directors, design lectures by world-renowned architects and designers, art exhibits by acclaimed artists and prestigious fine arts students, and much more. Events take place on campus at the beautiful Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Arts Center, The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the Mary Ann Wolf Theatre located in FIU’s Biscayne Bay Campus and other popular locations in Miami including the Ritz-Carlton South Beach, the Spanish Cultural Center in Coral Gables, and the Wolfsonian-FIU on Miami Beach.

Exhibit at Frost Art MuseumFrost Art Museum at FIU
Initially a small gallery of less than 3000 square feet in 1977, the museum grew to achieve local, national and international recognition as one of South Florida’s key cultural institutions. The Frost Art Museum transitioned to a new 46,000-foot building in November 2008 to critical acclaim.

The Wolfsonian-FIU
Steps from the Art Deco hotels of Miami Beach, The Wolfsonian-FIU promotes a diverse array of broad themes of the late 19th and 20th centuries including nationalism, political persuasion, industrialization, architecture and urbanism, consumerism and advertising, transportation and the worlds’ fairs. With more than 100,000 objects, the Wolfsonian-FIU investigates the ways design shapes and reflects human experience.

Writers on the Bay
Under the direction of one of the top ten U.S. ranked Creative Writing Programs, Writers on the Bay presents noted authors and poets. Guests have included novelists Elmore Leonard, Marge Piercy and Gay Talese, and poets (and faculty members) Maxine Kumin and Campbell McGrath.

The South Beach Wine and Food Festival
The Annual South Beach Wine and Food Festival, presented by FIU, Food & Wine Magazine, and the Food Network features spectacular wine and culinary tastings, star-studded dinners and seminars.