UWF receives $18,867 from Frank Brown Songwriters Festival for Larry Butler Award

The University of West Florida celebrated a $18,867 donation to the Larry Butler Memorial Music Award on Thursday, Jan. 28 at the UWF Center for Fine and Performing Arts. The new funds are a result of ticket sales and donations from the Nashville Songwriter’s Hall of Fame show as part of the Frank Brown International […]

UWF ​grad​uate student creates Blackwater River maritime heritage trail

The Blackwater River is teeming with historical treasures, many of them vestiges of the area’s once booming lumber industries. Take for instance a 4.1-mile stretch that University of West Florida graduate student Ben Wells has exhaustively surveyed. Although only a relatively small sliver of the 58-mile waterway, it is dotted with 13 to 15 different […]

UWF Historic Trust opens “Centennial Faces” exhibit in February

The University of West Florida Historic Trust will host “Centennial Faces” at the T. T. Wentworth Jr. Museum from Feb. 1, 2016 through April 25, 2016. The exhibit – comprised of 49 portraits by late 19th century Tallahassee photographer Alvan S. Harper – provides a fresh perspective on the lives of African-American citizens in Tallahassee […]

UWF Department of Music presents the 10th Annual All-Steinway School Celebration

The UWF Department of Music will present its 10th Annual All-Steinway School Celebration on Saturday, Jan. 30 at 7:30 p.m. The concert will be held in the Music Hall at the Center for Fine & Performing Arts, Building 82, on the Pensacola Campus. Through a generous gift from Helen Wentworth in 2006, the UWF Department […]

Site of first multi-year European settlement in the U.S. identified by University of West Florida archaeology program

The University of West Florida archaeology program recently identified the archaeological site of the Luna settlement – the first multi-year European settlement in the United States – in a developed neighborhood in Pensacola. The artifacts discovered are evidence of the Spanish settlement by Tristán de Luna y Arellano from 1559 to 1561, the earliest multi-year […]

Local author Jeremie Samuel to host book signing and presentation at Voices of Pensacola

Local author Jeremie Samuel will host a book signing and presentation at the Voices of Pensacola presented by Gulf Power on Saturday, Dec. 12 from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Samuel will present on Pensacola’s moorish history and sign his new book, “The Moorish Essence of Pensacola: A Legacy of Exploration and Cultural Exchange from Estevanico to […]

UWF Historic Trust to host presentation on women at work and in the American imagination

The UWF Historic Trust will host “From Rosie the Riveter to ‘I Dream of Jeannie’: Women at Work and in the American Imagination, 1940 to 1970,” a presentation by Dr. Stephanie Cole, on Thursday, Dec. 10 at 6:30 p.m. at Voices of Pensacola presented by Gulf Power. The presentation, preceded by a reception at 6 […]

UWF Historic Trust hosts arts and crafts for children at its Arcadia Mill Archaeological Site

The University of West Florida Historic Trust will host free arts and crafts activities for children at its Arcadia Mill Archaeological Site classroom on the following Saturdays: Nov. 21, Nov. 28, Dec. 12 and Dec. 19. The classroom will be open for children to make crafts from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Scheduled activities include […]

UWF Historic Trust celebrates Victorian Holiday Traditions in Historic Pensacola

The University of West Florida Historic Trust will share Victorian holiday traditions in Historic Pensacola during the holiday season with a special tour of the Lear-Rocheblave House from Nov. 17 through Dec. 19. Visitors will experience the historic home decorated with holiday cheer and learn how families celebrated the holiday season in the late 19th […]

UWF Historic Trust opens “Apron Strings” exhibit Nov. 10

The University of West Florida Historic Trust will host “Apron Strings: Ties to the Past,” from Nov. 10, 2015 through Jan. 8, 2016, at the T.T. Wentworth, Jr. Florida State Museum. The exhibit reevaluates the apron’s varying roles over time in an artistic and cultural manner and chronicles changing attitudes toward women and domestic work […]

UWF Historic Trust to host “Just Above Water: Florida Folk Art” as part of Foo Foo Fest

The University of West Florida Historic Trust will host the traveling exhibit “Just Above Water: Florida Folk Art” as part of Pensacola’s annual Foo Foo Festival. The traveling exhibit, funded by a Foo Foo Festival ACE Fall Arts and Culture Grant, will open Nov. 5, 2015 and close Jan. 25, 2016. The traveling exhibit features […]

Experience UWF Downtown Lecture Series to begin with discussion of historic preservation in Pensacola and St. Augustine

The Experience UWF Downtown Lecture Series is back for another year, and the first date of the 2015-16 series is scheduled for Monday, Nov. 16 when University of Florida professor Roy Hunt presents his lecture, “A Tale of Two Cities: Historic Preservation in Pensacola and St. Augustine.” The free event will start with a reception […]