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Bruce Ackerson and Sally Curcio show Paintings and Bubbles at Hampshire College Art Gallery
Painter Bruce Ackerson and sculptor Sally Curcio will be exhibiting their work at Hampshire College Art Gallery in February. Ackerson and Curcio have more in common than having studios at the Arts & Industry Building in Florence, MA. Their work shares a similar panoptic perspective, whimsically and colorfully capturing entire environments that entice the viewer to enter fantastic worlds.
In Bruce Ackerson’s paintings, the visual and the narrative go hand in hand. The artist uses a consistent format of medium to large-sized square works painted in oils on panel. The paintings are distinguished by their high vantage points and richly textured surfaces. From a birds-eye view, Ackerson presents “scenes which are an imaginative take on popular culture, modern life and the hidden world of the human psyche. His beautiful, agitated brushwork adds to the tension inherent in his unusual depictions, making his work both compelling and highly appealing.” [Marla Rice, Rice/Polak Gallery].
Bruce Ackerson is represented by Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown, and Art 101 in Brooklyn. He received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1999, and his paintings are in collections worldwide.
The artist’s work can be viewed at his website: bruceackerson.net
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Sally Curcio’s body of work, “Bubble” uses materials such as pins, beads, false eyelashes, tennis balls, shuttlecocks, and make-up application pads to create miniature worlds rendered in 12”x12” squares enclosed under acrylic glass bubbles. The tiny worlds not only evoke fantasy, but also a kind of nostalgia for mythical or fairytale lands of childhood.
Sally Curcio’s work is represented by William Baczek Fine Arts gallery in
Western MA, and Fresh Paint Art Advisors, CA. Curcio also has work in the flat files at Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston, MA, and Morton Fine Art in Washington, DC. In 2010 Curcio received the Blanche E. Colman Grant Award, and in 2011 her work was chosen for the DUMBO Arts Festival, Broo
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Evenings at the Mead
Take a break with art, music and food! This Evening at the Mead is presented by the Mead Student Docents with special musical guests.
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Word! 2012: Five College Student Festival of Staged Readings
The works of four students will be read this year:
"Unmuted" by Gillian Cannon, Hampshire College
"LEGS: a gay play" by Sam Congdon, Hampshire College
"Our Father" by Madison Cortez, Amherst College
"Frankie, Baby, You Are So Cute" by Diane Exavier, Smith College (MFA playwriting program)
The scripts were based on themes which reflect issues of race and diversity, using August Wilson’s idea that theater can “raise consciousness.” Each student will receive a $100 prize from Five Colleges’ James Baldwin Fund.
Presented by the Five College Multicultural Theater Committee.
Committee members: Ron Bashford, Amherst College; Djola Branner, Hampshire College; Brooke O’Harra, Mount Holyoke College; Len Berkman, Smith College; Megan Lewis, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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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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Palestine Awareness Week Photo Exhibition
Palestine Awareness Week, or Israeli Apartheid Week, is an annual week of solidarity with the Palestinian people observed on campuses nationwide. Surrounding this event, Smith Student Alliance for Middle East Peace/Smith Students for Justice in Palestine mounts a photo exhibition that illustrates a spectrum of experiences faced by Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Territories. Some of these photos are from a Palestinian perspective, and some of them from the perspective of non-Palestinian allies. Together, they are a collection of images both celebratory and disturbing, curated to raise awareness of Palestinian culture and the struggles it faces in the ongoing fight for self-determination.
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"Selections from Sudden Flowers"
"Selections from Sudden Flowers" will be on display in the Eli Marsh Gallery (105 Fayerweather) from Feb. 27 to March 16, 2012.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Saturdays, noon to 4 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Gottesman studied history, literature, and political science at Duke University and completed his M.A. in Fine Arts at Bard College. His first monograph, "Sudden Flowers: May the
Finest in the World Always Accompany You!," was published by Umbrage Editions in late 2011.
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Exhibition: Eija-Liisa Ahtila: The Annunciation
February 22-May 6, 2012
The University Museum of Contemporary Art is pleased to present The Annunciation, a new work by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, the internationally acclaimed artist from Finland who is a pioneer in the development of multi-media art. Her work explores the potential of the film medium, weaving an intricate web of references between film and theater, painting and poetry, fiction and documentary.
Museum Hours: Beginning February 1, 2012
Tuesday-Friday, 11:00 AM-4:30 PM, Saturday/Sunday 2-5 PM
Closed Mondays and Spring Break, March 17-26
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Smith College Spring Bulb Show
A spectacular array of crocuses, hyacinths, narcissi, irises, lilies, and tulips provide an early glimpse of spring in the Lyman Conservatory. The annual Spring Bulb Show is a long-standing Smith College tradition, dating back over 100 years. Ordinarily blooming at different times, some 5,000 bulbs are coaxed into blooming simultaneously. Bulbs from South Africa add to the exotic flavor of the show. Additional information is online at:http://www.smith.edu/garden/Home/events.html
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Lecture/Reading
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Principles of Investing.
Interested in investing? This is the course for you! Professor Roger Kaufman will introduce the Smith community to the fundamental concepts of investing, including stocks and bonds, portfolio diversification and asset allocation, and much more. Lunch is provided for the first 50 attendees. Sponsored by the Center for Women and Financial Independence. For more information, visit www.smith.edu/wfi.
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Toward Climate Justice: A Panel Discussion
The Five College Public Policy Initiative hosts a panel discussion examining the intersection of human rights, race and the environment.
The panel discussion will go from 4 to 5:30 p.m., followed by a reception in the Gordon Hall Atrium until 6:30 p.m.
Sponsor: UMass Center for Public Policy & Administration (CPPA)
Handicap Accessible
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2012 Neilson Professor Lecture Series
Evelyn Fox Keller is the Smith College 2012 Neilson Professor. She is Professor Emerita of History and Philosophy of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Program in Science, Technology and Society. Her lecture series "Reflections on Contemporary Scientific Problems" will begin on Tuesday, February 14, 2012 with a lecture titled "Rationality and Fear". The second lecture will take place on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 called "Genes, Genomics and the Nature-Nurture Debate". The final lecture is on Tuesday, April 10, 2012 called "Self-Organization and God". All lectures take place in the Neilson Browsing R! oom, Neilson Library, Smith College and begin at 4:30pm. A reception will follow each lecture at 6:00pm.
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The Accidental Slaveowner: Revisiting a Myth of Race & Finding an American Family
Mark Auslander will be discussing his highly acclaimed new published book "The Accidental Slaveowner." Says Jean Comaroff (Univ. of
Chicago): "This stunning book applies anthropological perspectives on myth and kinship to the pervasive legacy of slavery, which still dominates American understandings of race, humanity, freedom.
Auslander's skilled collaboration with the descendants of "Miss Kitty", sometimes called "the person who caused the civil war", brings the unexpected story of her family to light, forging firm links across separations of black and white, slave and master, past and present. In the process, haunting fallacies are exorcised, and nagging paradoxes of blood and betrayal find voice, making possible new lines of debate, and novel pursuits of understanding, even justice."
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Hampshire College Lester Mazor Memorial Lecture: “Everyday Militarization”
Hampshire College presents the inaugural Lester J. Mazor Memorial Lecture on March 13 at 5:30 p.m. in Franklin Patterson Hall’s Main Lecture Hall. The speaker will be Caren Kaplan, a professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis.
Professor Kaplan is a Hampshire College graduate. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has taught at Georgetown University and the University of California, Berkeley, before taking up her current position at UC Davis.
In honor of Professor Mazor, Kaplan’s mentor, she will give a talk entitled “Everyday Militarization.”
The late Lester J. Mazor was a founding faculty member at Hampshire College. For nearly four decades, he taught and mentored Hampshire students interested in law and related fields. He established the Law Program at Hampshire.
This lecture series is made possible by the generous funding of the Lester J. Mazor Endowment at Hampshire College. It is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jennifer Hamilton at jhamilton@hampshire.edu.
Abstract:
In the modern period, we assume that there is a necessary and comfortable gap between civilian and military life that keeps war contained in specific spaces at a distance. Yet this division obscures the blurry middle ground between military and civilian culture, particularly in the arenas of architectural design, techno-culture, digital arts and entertainment, and many fields and disciplines. "Everyday Militarization" poses a series of questions such as: When is wartime and where does it occur? Can wars be said to begin and end or do they disturb our sense of time and continuity? Are the boundaries of battlefields discrete or do they move into other spaces and sites? Professor Kaplan’s talk will focus on the visual culture of wartime to explore examples of continuity and disruption in the space and time of modernity.
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"People of the Book" Discussion Group
Rabbi Justin David will lead a discussion of "As a Driven Leaf," by Milton Steinberg.
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"Thingy World!"
Staged reading with David Budbill, freelance writer, lecturer, children's book author, poet and playwright.
This lecture is part of the Hampshire College Presidential Lecture Series. Hampshire is hosting a series of public talks by innovative thinkers and leaders in diverse fields throughout the spring semester. National experts, including college alumni, will lecture on trends in higher education and topics such as technology, sustainability, the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
Through this Presidential Lecture Series and other events on campus, Hampshire is examining challenges facing the world today and the College’s role in producing innovative thinkers and leaders for the future. These events will also build toward the April 27 inauguration of President Jonathan Lash, which is being built around the theme “Educating for Change: Critical Thinking at a Critical Time.” That day’s events will feature speeches by President Lash and by former U.S. vice president Al Gore.
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Patrick Donnelly Poetry Reading
Of Patrick Donnellys first collection of poetry, The Charge, Gregory Orr remarked: "I hear, throughout these poems, Gospels of passion and compassion." His long-awaited second volume, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, is even more urgent and satisfying. The interspersed translations from the Japanese provide poignant thematic and tonal echoes to the poems that, to quote Jane Hirshfield, "embrace the omnivorous bonfires of transience and desire".
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Philosophy Lecture
Lara Denis '90, from Agnes Scott College, will give the third talk in a year-long lecture series "A Career in Philosophy at Smith" honoring John Connolly, Sophia Smith Professor of Philosophy. Professor Denis' talk is entitled "Better People."
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Special Event
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Student Global AIDS & Pre-Med Association
March 12th is Women and Girl's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and we are holding this discussion to commemorate this day. In keeping with SGAC theme this year on HIV/AIDS around the societies around the world. Our goal for this panel is to acknowledge the unspoken effects and stigma inflicted on families across cultures.
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Information Session: MassChallenge UnTapped at UMass Amherst
Computer Science Building o 150/151
UMass Amherst Campus
140 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01002
Handicap access available
Parking: Lots 31 and 45 are closest to the building, and do not require permits after 5PM.
Free Admission
Online tickets or registration - http://untappedamherst.eventbrite.com/
Contact: Heather Demers, demers@ecs.umass.edu, (413) 577-0231
MassChallenge, the largest-ever startup accelerator and competition, is accepting applications as of March 1. If you're looking for free office space, access to world-class mentorship, education and a collaborative community, come to this information session and learn more. 2011 MassChallenge Alum Brian Mullen, CEO and founder of Therapeutic Systems, will be joining the info session to speak about his experience and answer any questions potential applicants might have about the process.
We welcome anyone from the Five Colleges and the surrounding community who is interested in being a participant, sponsor, mentor, or judge.
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