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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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BFA Candidates Exhibition
The Student Union Art Gallery at UMass Amherst proudly presents artwork of BFA Candidates--Liana Gozdowski, Leah Hollrock and Jameson Harper, from April 2nd through April 6th.
An opening reception will take place Tuesday, April 3 from 4-6 pm. Please join us to congratulate the artists. Light refreshments will be served.
Student Union Art Gallery
www.umass.edu/rso/suag
Gallery Hours: Monday through Thursday 10 to 5 and Fridays 10 to 2.
326 Student Union
All events are free and open to the public. Made possible by the UMass Arts Council, the GSS, the SGA, and an ECSA (Engage, Connect, Serve, Achieve) Grant, funded by the CSD the Division of Student Affairs & Campus Life.
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Lecture/Reading
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Biology Seminar
Dr. John Stanton-Geddes is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Plant Biology at the University of Minnesota.
His talk is titled “Genes in Ecology, Ecology in Genes: Species Range Limits and Genomics of a Mutualism.”
Research Summary: Understanding the genetic basis for phenotypic variation and the consequences of this variation is a fundamental goal of evolutionary ecology research. In this seminar, Dr. Stanton-Geddes will discuss two separate projects that address this goal. First, he will present his doctoral research on the evolution of geographic range limits in a native annual legume. Second, he will discuss his current postdoctoral research to characterize the genetic basis of an ecologically and agronomically important mutualism – biotic nitrogen fixation by rhizobia in the roots of legumes. This is one of the first genome projects with whole genome sequence data for over 200 genotypes, greatly improving the resolution of our association mapping. Together, these research projects demonstrate how both organismal and genomic studies can further our understanding of ecology and evolution, and the many paths available to a wandering Amherst grad.
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Nathaniel Deutsch:The Jewish Dark Continent.
Nathaniel Deutsch, Professor of History and Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz will discuss his book, The Jewish Dark Continent: Life and Death in the Russian Pale of Settlement (Harvard University Press), in which he reconstructs aspiring ethnographer An-sky’s fact-finding trip through the Pale of Settlement, animating Russian Jewish life in the early 20th century. At the turn of the 20th century, more than 40 percent of the world’s Jews lived within the Russian empire, almost all in the Pale of Settlement. The Jews of the Pale created a distinctive way of life little known beyond its borders.
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Japanese Art in the Age of Japonisme, 1870-1900
A lecture, "In Search of Images," by Prof. Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago.
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Math for America
Information on career opportunities with Math for America. Math for America (MƒA) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve mathematics education in US public secondary schools by recruiting, training and retaining outstanding mathematics teachers and leaders.
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Music
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Music in the Noon Hour: Debussy.
Music in the Noon Hour: Songs and Arias of Claude Debussy. Karen Smith Emerson, soprano Judith Gordon, piano.
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Music in the Noon Hour
Britten & Schubert.
Free midday recitals by Smith music faculty and friends --- presenting wonderfully varied works from the last four centuries for voice, solo instruments and small ensemble. First and third Tuesdays, February through April.
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Avanti Wind Quintet
Faculty Chamber Music
Christopher Krueger, flute; Fredric T. Cohen, oboe; Michael Sussman, clarinet; Laura Klock, horn & Stephen Walt, bassoon
To include Donald Wheelock: Wind Quintet & Robert Schumann: Canonic Etudes for Pedal Piano, Op. 56
$5/$10
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