WUFT-FM offers Maggie Taylor poster during membership campaign

October 13, 2011

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Public radio station Florida’s 89.1, WUFT-FM is celebrating its 30th broadcast anniversary with an exclusive digital photo collage by acclaimed national and international artist Maggie Taylor. The work, “Golden Afternoon,” will be available during the October 2011 Public Radio Membership Campaign, starting Monday.

The featured work, reproduced as a full-color 24-by-36-inch poster, will be available for a pledge of $100 during the membership campaign running Oct. 17–28. The poster image can be pledged for and viewed online at wuft.org.

The anniversary celebration will continue with a poster signing from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Nov. 21 at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. Posters pledged for during the campaign can picked-up at this event and personalized with a message from the artist by request.

Candi Crimmins, annual giving manager for WUFT, said, “We are honored to feature such an accomplished artist as Maggie Taylor for our 30th anniversary. She provides a valuable resource for the art community in North Central Florida. Taylor represents today’s highest standard of surrealistic photographic image making.”

Maggie Taylor received her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Yale University in 1983 and her master’s degree in photography from the University of Florida in 1987. After more than 10 years as a still life photographer, she began to use the computer to create her images in 1996.

Taylor’s images have been exhibited in one-person exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad and are in numerous public and private collections, including The Art Museum at Princeton University; The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University; the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; and The Museum of Photography in Seoul, Korea. Taylor has won several fellowships, grants, and competitions with her artwork. She lives in Gainesville with her husband, photographer Jerry Uelsmann.