On March 28th, 2014, FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg recognized The College of Architecture + The Arts | Department of Art + Art History’s Mirta Gómez, Professor and Eduardo del Valle, Professor as Top Scholars and distinguished members of the FIU academic community. Gómez and del Valle were recognized for their achievements in research and scholarship at the Top Scholars Reception, which was held at the Ronald W. Reagan Presidential House on the Modesto A. Maidique Campus.
Gómez and del Valle were nominated by Brian Schriner, Dean of the FIU College of Architecture + The Arts. He wrote the below statement about Gomez and del Valle’s creative work over the past ten years. After reading this statement, Douglas Wartzok, FIU Provost and Executive Vice President accepted Dean Schriner’s nomination. Gómez and del Valle were then recognized under the category of “Award-winning publications or creative work.”
The Cuban-born husband and wife team of Eduardo del Valle and Mirta Gómez has worked collaboratively for more than thirty-five years, receiving international acclaim for their photographs of subjects in a state of flux. Del Valle and Gómez are the recipients of numerous artist’s fellowships including the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1997); Oscar B. Cintas Foundation (1989 and 1996); South Florida Cultural Consortium (1993); National Endowment for the Arts (1976 and 1990); Florida Art Council (1987) and New York State Council for the Arts (1979). Their photographs were exhibited in the groundbreaking Inaugural Exhibition 2004 marking the reopening of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and exhibited again at MoMA’s Landscape: Recent Acquisitions in 2006. Their work is widely shown internationally and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA and others. Their work is represented by Jim Kempner Fine Art Gallery in the city of New York.Del Valle and Gómez are Professors of Art/Photography at Florida International University, Miami where they have taught collaboratively since 1983. Visiting artists lectures and workshops presented by the couple include Columbia University, NY; The Museum of Modern Art, NY; Penland School of Art, NC and others. They are the authors of several monographs, including From the Ground Up (2003); Four Sections of Time (2004); Fried Waters (2005); Between Runs (2006); Witness Number Four (2008); En Vista (2009) and most recently On View (2012) all published by The Nazraeli Press.
FIU’s 2014 Top Scholars
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Patricia Barbetta, Teaching & Learning, College of Education
Marianna Baum, Robert Stempel College Public Health & Social Work
Consuelo Beck-Sague, Robert Stempel College Public Health & Social Work
Shekhar Bhansali, College of Engineering & Computing
Erick Brewe, College of Education
Rosales Camilo, College of Architecture + The Arts
Chip Cassidy, Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management
Lampert Curba, Management, College of Business
Ed Del Valle, College of Architecture + The Arts
Eric Fenkl, College of Nursing & Health Sciences
Kristopher Fennie, Robert Stempel College Public Health & Social Work
Maria L. Fernandez, Teaching & Learning, College of Education
Sandra Garcia Jones, College of Nursing & Health Sciences
Stavros Georgakopoulos, College of Engineering & Computing
Bernard Gerstman, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences
Mirta Gómez, College of Architecture + The Arts
Rosemary Hickey-Vargas, College of Arts & Sciences
Rudolf Jaffe, Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
Haiyan Jiang, College of Arts & Sciences
Miranda Kitterlin, Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management
Kingsley Lau , College of Engineering & Computing
Iveris Martinez, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Wasim Maziak, Epidemiology, Robert Stempel College Public Health & Social Work
Bruce McCord, Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
Madhavan Nair, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
William Newburry, Management, College of Business
Winifred Elysse Newman, Architecture, College of Architecture + The Arts
Mark Padilla, College of Arts & Sciences
Iyengar Ram, College of Engineering and Computing
Camilo Rosales, Architecture, College of Architecture + The Arts
Suzanna Rose, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences
Laurie Shrage, College of Arts & Sciences
Jayati Sinha, Marketing, College of Business
Kerri Stone, College of Law
Chockalingam (Vish) Viswesvaran, Psychology, College of Arts & Sciences
Aaron Welch, Chaplin School of Hospitality & Tourism Management
Liu Yuan, Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences
Ming Zhao, College of Engineering & Computing
The featured image is provided courtesy of Ivan Santiago. The group image is provided courtesy of FIU News.
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