Attend in person at Dale Mabry Campus or online in Teams. This meeting will be hybrid format as we will be joining AMSA members from Brandon and Plant City Campuses. See @hcc_amsa bio for Teams link.
Business Meeting
Meetings will have a speaker and light refreshments
Come early to meeting at 3:00 to participate in Holiday
Samantha Modder: May Your Life Be Easy Gallery114@HC | 1st floor YPAB January 15 – March 12, 2026
Reception Thursday, January 15, 5-8 p.m. In May Your Life Be Easy, Samantha Modder combines allegory and fairytale to explore aspiration, power, and interlocking systems of oppression through larger-than-life, digitally altered ballpoint-pen drawings of Black women. Drawing its title from a blessing once offered to her mother by a Nigerian village elder, the exhibition reflects on the complications of being a person from the imagined Global South pursuing the promises of an equally imagined Global North. Inspired by masquerade and Orisha dancers from the Yoruba tradition, Modder creates lively, kinetic scenes that use an enchanting, storybook aesthetic to dissect privilege and the hard truths of a capitalist reality.
Modder is a Nigerian-Sri Lankan artist born in Lagos and raised in Sri Lanka who currently lives and works in Tampa. She graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, in 2017 with a BA in Studio Art and Engineering, and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, in 2022.
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Ybor City, Performing Arts Building 114: Art Gallery
Al has rapidly evolved from a niche research topic into an essential companion for everyday engineering workflows. Join us as Connor Tumbleson, one of the core members of Tampa Devs, speaks to common real world use cases for Al, from accelerating software development and automating repetitive tasks to improving decision making and enhancing product quality. Connor will break down how developers are integrating Al into their toolchains today and highlight the practical benefits as someone directly in the weeds of daily Al implementations. We l also take a brief look back at the origins and evolution of ChatGPT to understand how we arrived at the current generation of Al assistants. From early language models to today's multimodal & tool enabled systems. We'll examine how Al leverages plugins, APls. and reasoning capabilities to accomplish increasingly complex engineering tasks.
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Dale Mabry, Technology Building 465: Sonography Laboratory
