Master Craftsman Studio
Encyclopedia
The Master Craftsman Studio describes the physical facility of the Florida State University
Master Craftsman Program http://craft.fsu.edu/. The program is part of the university's curriculum. The program was the first of its kind in the United States http://mailer.fsu.edu/~jkoslow/studentprojects/pubhisfall06website/. It entails faculty, staff, and students that create, design, and fabricate sculptures, statues, and other art forms which are placed permanently on the campus of Florida State University
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The program started in 2000, under the direction of Florida State University
President Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte. The Studio’s Director is Robert Bischoff, who began the program in order to 'give back' to the students, in an effort to bring creativity and entrepreneurship together to facilitate sustainable artistic enterprise and education.
The program was responsible for designing and constructing 50 stone benches for the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida
. The Studio also is responsible for designing and fabricating similar artistic stone benches http://craft.fsu.edu/bench/bench.html across the campus of Florida State University
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Commemorative benches memorialize historically worthy faculty, alumni and friends of Florida State University
of Tallahassee, Florida
. Pulitzer Prize
winning novelist Michael Shaara
is memorialized as a past faculty member by a commemorative bench http://craft.fsu.edu/bench/bench.html. Nobel Prize
winner Paul Dirac
, founder of the field of quantum physics, also is memorialized as a past faculty member. Dirac’s commemorative bench sits in Landis Greenhttp://craft.fsu.edu/bench/bench.html, located in the center of the campus of Florida State University
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Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
Master Craftsman Program http://craft.fsu.edu/. The program is part of the university's curriculum. The program was the first of its kind in the United States http://mailer.fsu.edu/~jkoslow/studentprojects/pubhisfall06website/. It entails faculty, staff, and students that create, design, and fabricate sculptures, statues, and other art forms which are placed permanently on the campus of Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
.
The program started in 2000, under the direction of Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
President Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte. The Studio’s Director is Robert Bischoff, who began the program in order to 'give back' to the students, in an effort to bring creativity and entrepreneurship together to facilitate sustainable artistic enterprise and education.
The program was responsible for designing and constructing 50 stone benches for the Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota, Florida
Sarasota is a city located in Sarasota County on the southwestern coast of the U.S. state of Florida. It is south of the Tampa Bay Area and north of Fort Myers...
. The Studio also is responsible for designing and fabricating similar artistic stone benches http://craft.fsu.edu/bench/bench.html across the campus of Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
.
Commemorative benches memorialize historically worthy faculty, alumni and friends of Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
of Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee, Florida
Tallahassee is the capital of the U.S. state of Florida. It is the county seat and only incorporated municipality in Leon County, and is the 128th largest city in the United States. Tallahassee became the capital of Florida, then the Florida Territory, in 1824. In 2010, the population recorded by...
. Pulitzer Prize
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...
winning novelist Michael Shaara
Michael Shaara
Michael Shaara was an American writer of science fiction, sports fiction, and historical fiction. He was born to Italian immigrant parents in Jersey City, New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University in 1951, and served as a sergeant in the 82nd Airborne division...
is memorialized as a past faculty member by a commemorative bench http://craft.fsu.edu/bench/bench.html. Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...
winner Paul Dirac
Paul Dirac
Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, OM, FRS was an English theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the early development of both quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics...
, founder of the field of quantum physics, also is memorialized as a past faculty member. Dirac’s commemorative bench sits in Landis Greenhttp://craft.fsu.edu/bench/bench.html, located in the center of the campus of Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...
.