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 The Princeton Review has named New College of Florida one of the country's best colleges for the 11th consecutive year in its newly published college guide, The Best 377 Colleges: 2013 Edition. New College is one of only 15 percent of America's 2,500 four-year colleges profiled in the book and was ranked No. 3 on The Princeton Review's annual "100 Best Value Colleges" in February. The Best 377 Colleges includes detailed college profiles with rating scores (60 to 99) for all schools in eight categories. The rating scores are based primarily on institutional data collected during the 2011-12 academic year and/or student surveys. New College received the following ratings:
- 96 for Academics
- 96 for Interesting Professors
- 90 for Financial Aid Read More
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 Visitors to the New College Public Archaeology Lab (NCPAL) will now enjoy looking at an award-winning quilt donated by the quilters: Joy Abbott, Cass Bowen, Christina Keys, Linda Kirby, Helen Lucas, Lynne Minguez and Cathy Washburn. The quilt focuses on the fishermen of the 19th-century ranchos.
"The donation is an opportunity to use art to inspire children and adults to imagine the fishermen on Sarasota Bay," said Uzi Baram,  NCPAL director and New College anthropology professor. "Lectures, educational programs and research reports are important components of public archaeology, but the beauty of the quilt might spark an interest in this region's history for some and, when it does, the quilters will earn my gratitude." As part of the Looking for Angola project, Baram has been studying the locations and history of the ranchos for insights into the lives of the escaped slaves and free blacks of Angola. Through NCPAL, Baram guides an educational program for schoolchildren on the environment and archaeology of Sarasota Bay that includes a rancho regatta, where they "race" replica 19th-century Cuban fishing vessels from Sarasota to Havana. |
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Ongoing Art Exhibitions
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A Mighty Light Flight
Through OCT 5, 2012
Hours for July and August: Tues-Thurs, 10 am-3 pm
Durante Gallery, Longboat Key Center for the Arts
6860 Longboat Drive South, Longboat Key
Call 941.383.2345 for more information.
A Mighty Light Flight is an exhibition featuring work by Dustin Juengel and Mark Humphrey. Humphrey and Juengel's artwork defies restrictions. Humphrey's sculpture tackles the physical phenomenon of gravity. The sculptures, constructed out of steel are arranged to create precarious constellations of form and movement. Juengel's large scale oil paintings inspire flight from the prosaic and mundane. Dustin Juengel is the Studio Arts Shop Technician at New College of Florida. Lighty Might Fly
Through OCT 5, 2012
Hours for July and August: Tues-Thurs, 10 am-3 pm
6860 Longboat Drive South, Longboat Key
Exhibition of Ringling College and New College Student Works Curated by Mark Humphrey & Dustin Juengel Call 941.383.2345 for more information.Lighty Might Fly is a painting exhibition showcasing the work of promising young students from New College of Florida and Ringling College of Art and Design.  Everything is Touching by Underground Wires Through SEP 28, 2012
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat: 10 am-4 pm (closed Sun-Mon)
Everything is Touching by Underground Wires is an installation by New College Professor Richard Herzog on display in Gallery 3 at Art Center Sarasota, through September 28, 2012. Using non-traditional materials, Herzog constructs around the space to create a new environment inside the gallery. Herzog's goal as an artist is to make viewers look at things a bit differently and consider more closely the world that surrounds them. His recent work has been exploring the "artificialization" of nature. Richard Herzog is an assistant professor of sculpture at New College of Florida. Click here for a complete calendar listing of events
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