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College of Design, Art & Performance

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Spotlight! A Free Daylong Festival of the Arts

MARCH 5, 2026

SPOTLIGHT! returns for its second year with an all-day arts festival created for the USF community, featuring more than 130 students showcasing their talents through 15 performances, art exhibitions, and architecture designs! Explore the College of Design, Art & Performance Arts District and enjoy FREE food, live music, theatre and dance, pop‑up art galleries, tours, and activities across all disciplines. Drop in anytime!

Time: 12:00pm – 9:00pm

Location:
USF College of Design, Art & Performance

Outdoor event between the Fine Art Building (FAH), 13001 USF Laurel Drive, Tampa, FL 33620, and Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) lawn, 3821 USF Holly Drive, Tampa, FL 33620

Parking: Free guest parking, lot 3C.

Spotlight! Schedule

(subject to change)

Lunch*
Outside Fine Arts building (FAH)

  • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM or *while supplies last.
  • Food Trucks + Dirty Soda.
  • 3 food tickets per person.

Performances: Main Stage
Stage on the lawn between Fine Arts building (FAH) and Contemporary Art Museum (CAM)

Audiences can look forward to performances from the School of Theatre & Dance and the School of Music, featuring theatre pieces, vocal and instrumental ensembles, hip-hop choreography from new faculty member Jennifer Archibald, and a routine by the USF Sun Dolls led by head coach Taylor Delgado.

  • 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Steel Pan Performance 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM
    In addition to classical training, School of Music percussion students perform with the USF Steel Pan Steel Ensemble, presenting a varied program of music spanning genres from across the Americas. The ensemble is directed by Dr. Kevin von Kampen.
  • Pep Band / Sun Dolls 1:00 PM 
  • Tuba & Euphonium Ensemble 1:20 PM
  • Opera Workshop 1:40 PM
  • Latin Jazz 2:00 PM
  • Bone Band 2:20 PM
  • Saxophone Quartet 2:40 PM
  • Hiphop Dance 3:00 PM
  • Shakespeare Sonnets 3:05 PM
  • Contemporary Dance 3:20 PM
  • Shakespeare Sonnets 4:00 PM
  • Musical Theatre Songs 4:15 PM
School of Architecture & Community Design and School of Art & Art History
FAH Courtyards
  • 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • The School of Architecture and Community Design will share a selection of outstanding work by Master of Architecture students, with a focus on 3D studies and architectural models in room FAH 132.
  • The School of Art & Art History will program a large-scale sculpture by MFA Studio Art students, Ana Ion and Mike Cannata.
  • A large-scale drawing class co-taught by Neil Bender and visiting artist William Downs will create a wall-to-wall display of large-scale drawings in room FAH 133.
Graphicstudio Pop-Up Gallery
FAH 110 1st Floor, Dean's Office
  • 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Graphicstudio works installed will demonstrate a range of printmaking processes - lithography, cyanotype, etching, screenprint, and photography. Artists featured include Mernet Larsen, Sandra Cinto, Iva Gueorguieva, Vik Muniz, William Villalongo, and Robert Rauschenberg.
  • Guided tours available.

Student Art Exhibition
Carolyn M. Wilson Gallery (FAS 100)

  • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Wilt Theory is an exhibition focused on photography and other media that explores how decay and renewal coexist, showing how light, time, and matter slowly fade, transform, and take new forms rather than disappear. Assistant Professor Marcus Desieno, the exhibition's sponsor, will give a short gallery talk and walk-through for the event.
  • Line Weight is a drawing-focused exhibition that brings together artists, designers, and students to explore how lines—literal and metaphorical—define boundaries, agency, and lived experience, revealing how the lines we draw, cross, or are confined by shape who we are and how we exist.

CAM Exhibition Guided Tour: Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion
USF Contemporary Art Museum (CAM)

  • 1:30 PM - 2:20 PM 
  • Maximum of 30 people led by Jennifer Miller, Curator of Education and Public Art.
  • One of Ireland's leading cultural figures, Maguire has turned the practice and tradition of painting into acts of visual testimony. His paintings are global in scope and derived from projects in Mexico, the Mediterranean, Syria, Sudan, the United States, and the Amazon.

Guided Public Art Walking Tour
Starts at USF Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) 

  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Led by the Contemporary Art Museum’s Curator of Education and Public Art, the tour explores selected works from the USF Public Art Collection on the Tampa campus. Learn about the program's history and the artists and collaborators who created these site-specific works. Featured artists and works for this tour are Alexander Liberman’s ‘Icon II’, Tomás Saraceno’s ‘Caelum Dust’, Stacy Levy’s ‘Tampa Wind’, and Joe Testa-Secca’s ‘Forum II’.
  • Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.

World Music Ensemble and Commercial Music Collective
Outside USF School of Music building (MUS)

  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • The World Music Ensemble performs global percussion works, followed by the Commercial Music Collective with covers and original songs by USF music majors, led by Professors Kevin von Kampen, Patrick Hernly, and Dr. Clint Randles.
USF Symphony Orchestra Ticket Holder Cocktail Reception
School of Music Concert Hall Lobby
  • 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM
  • See below for ticketing information.

USF Symphony Orchestra conducted by The 91ÉçÇø Orchestra’s Music Director, Michael Francis
Peter and Cynthia Zinober Concert Hall (School of Music)

  • 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  • This is a ticketed event. Reserve your today!

Accessibility & Accommodations

The 91ÉçÇø is an affirmative action/equal access/equal opportunity institution. Please notify the USF College of Design, Art & Performance box office at cdap-boxoffice@usf.edu, at least 5 working days prior to the event, if a reasonable accommodation of a disability is needed.