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Exhibitions
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Picturing Enlightenment: Thangka in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
This special exhibition marks the completion of an extensive project to conserve the Mead Art Museum’s collection of thangka (pronounced “tan-kah”)—scroll paintings of Buddhist figures. So fragile that they have remained largely inaccessible to scholars and museum visitors for nearly six decades, Amherst College’s eighteen thangka, primarily from Tibet, have been gently cleaned, stabilized, and repaired by conservators at Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts, under the leadership of Camille Myers Breeze. A generous grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and additional support from the Amherst College Department of Religion underwrote the conservation treatment. The Louis and Nettie Horch Foundation provided further support for the conservation of one thangka.
For more information, visit www.amherst.edu/museums/mead/programs/2011exhib/picturingenlightenment.
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Photo Exhibition: The Gesture in Light: Illuminated
Exhibit: The Gesture in Light: Illuminated by Theresa Antonellis runs from Monday Jan. 9 through Sunday May 11.
A reception will be held Thursday, February 2, from 4-6pm.
The exhibit consists of a related series of framed prints featuring photo-enhanced light photography by Theresa Antonellis.
Info: 577-0785, mcharney@library.umass.edu
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Charles Dickens at 200
An exhibition of books by Charles Dickens from the Mortimer Rare Book Room, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Dickens birth in February 2012. The exhibition is in the Book Arts Gallery (Neilson, 3rd floor). See http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/ for library open hours, direction and other general information.
The exhibition runs from January 15 through April 15, 2012
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Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley
Exhibition is on view from January 15 through April 15, 2012.
"Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley" features decorated paste papers by 19 bookbinders, most of whom live and work in the vicinity of Northampton. The exhibition marks the publication of "Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley" in late fall 2011, and also showcases bookbindings which incorporate paste papers. All items on display are from the Mortimer Rare Book Room.
The exhibition is in the Neilson Library, 3rd floor. See http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/ for library open hours, direction and other general information.
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Exhibition- David Teeple: Dialogue with a Collection Thinking Water: Poetry, Systems and Politics
Exhibition runs February 1st--March 16, 2012.
February 1st, 5-7 PM Opening Reception and In Conversation, with David Teeple
This exhibition features work by David Teeple alongside works he has chosen from the museum's works-on-paper collection, which features over 2600 contemporary prints, drawings, and photographs. Teeple's work will reference rivers, aquifers, and the hydrologic cycle, in context to systems of economy, society, nature and science.
This event is sponsored by the Farrell Family Foundation, Artist Organized Art, Pygmalion Elements & Sculpture, and Pivot Media. It is free and open to the public.
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Sculpture Exhibition by Christopher M. Lavery: One Truth & One Story
Exhibition runs February 6th through February 23rd.
One Truth & One Story is an installation of site sensitive sculpture. Ordinary materials are transformed into the extraordinary through unexpected applications and juxtaposition. Professor Lavery's method of responding to the site and to the culture, in which the work is constructed and installed, brings a uniquely philosophical, imaginative and whimsical vision to the Student Union Art Gallery and to the greater UMass campus.
Professor Lavery's artwork has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and resides in prestigious permanent private and public collections. The Denver International Airport hosts Cloudscape which was recognized by the Public Art Network as one of the top sculptures installed in 2010. His work has won awards and has been reviewed by numerous art critics, and may be previewed here: http://www.christopherlavery.com.
Gallery open Mondays through Thursdays, 10 am. to 5 pm & Fridays, 10 am. to 3 pm.
Made possible by the UMass Arts Council, the GSS, the SGA, and an ECSA (Engage, Connect, Serve, Achieve) Grant, which is funded by the CSD and the Division of Student Affairs & Campus Life.
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Shaping Plants: Fruits, Shoots, and Roots Collaborations With Nature by Dan Ladd
Artist Dan Ladd has long been fascinated with the adaptability of plants. His work grafting trees into whimsical structures and molding gourds and roots into sculptures reflects both a fascination with and respect for the plants. In his words, "The reciprocity in working with nature, influencing the direction and future of growth, is unique. There is definite give and take and reaction and response." He hopes that, through his work, others will be able to share his wonder and excitement at this way in which we can interact with our natural surroundings. Information is online at: http://www.smith.edu/garden/Home/events.html
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Lecture/Reading
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Biology Seminar: “Immunogenetic Adaptation to a Frog-Killing Fungus”
Dr. Anna Savage ‘04 is currently a molecular evolution postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian. Dr. Savage’s research investigates the role of host immunogenetics in contributing to dynamics of the emerging amphibian disease chytridiomycosis. She studies a Sonoran Desert endemic frog, Lithobates yavapaiensis, that shows both intraspecific and intrapopulation variation in susceptibility to chytridiomycosis. Using field surveys and laboratory experiments, she has found that allelic variation at a Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class II gene significantly contributes to chytridiomycosis susceptibility within and among populations. Her results highlight the importance of maintaining genetic variability for the conservation of amphibian biodiversity in the face of a global disease epidemic.
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"Bewitching Acts: Colonial Spanish American Women's Cures, Potions, and Spells"
Stacey Schlau, Professor of Spanish and Women's and Gender Studies at West Chester University, will speak. This lecture will be given in English and is sponsored by the Amherst College Department of Spanish. The event is free and open to the public.
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Lecture by Keller Kimbrough, Professor of Japanese.
"Wondrous Brutal Fictions: Theater and Publishing in Seventeenth Century Japan" A lecture by Professor Keller Kimbrough of the University of Colorado, Boulder on staged and published renditions of the Sekkyo and ko-joruri puppet plays Sansho Dayu and others, as well as the history of the early-to-mid seventeenth-century puppet theater. Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Endowed Lecture Fund Committe and Smith College Museum of Art.
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