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Exhibitions
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Exhibit: A Lovely Horse
22 equine portraits in graphite, pastel, watercolor, and ink, by Erica Damon ’11, at the Science and Engineering Library, in Lederle Lowrise, Floor 2, through January 13, 2013. More info: http://bit.ly/exhibit_horse
For full listing of hours visit: http://www.library.umass.edu/hours.html.
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Exhibit: Pride and Passion: The African-American Baseball Experience
Runs from October 12 through-December 7, 2012.
Exhibit examines the challenges faced by African-American baseball players as they sought equal opportunities in their sport beginning in the post-Civil War era. Several free programs in connection with the exhibition, including an opening reception on 10/25 at 4pm, more info: http://bit.ly/pridepassion.
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Exhibition of work by Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
Exhibition runs October 4 - December 2, 2012
The UMCA is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of work by Céleste
Boursier-Mougenot, the internationally acclaimed French artist whose
innovative work merges the realms of the musical and the visual.
Although exhibiting his work for more than twenty years in a
contemporary visual art context, Boursier-Mougenot’s work is also
understood as that of a musician and composer. Using various
unexpected objects from which he extracts a musical potential,
Boursier-Mougenot creates situations where sonic events take on visual
form, or conversely where visual information is expressed
acoustically. Calling on ideas about technological production,
language, chance operations, and systems of translation,
Boursier-Mougenot’s work merges multi-sensory phenomena with a
cerebral investigation of the mechanisms of sight and sound in his
given situations.
Image information:
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot
virus, 2006
video loop for 4:3 projection on white wall, 22 minutes, silent
variable dimensions
Edition 4 of 5, 2 APs
CBM-34.4
Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 5-7:30pm
Critic and theorist of art and music, Christoph Cox, along with
Multi-media artist Joshua Selman, will conduct an informal
conversation with the artist during the opening reception.
Museum Hours
Open
Tuesday-Friday: 11am to 4:30pm
Saturday & Sunday: 2pm to 5pm
Closed
Mondays
Academic Breaks
State Holidays
Handicap Accessible
Free and Open to the Public
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Annual Fall Chrysantheumum Show
Majestic plants in full bloom, splatters of colors and a wave of beckoning blossoms are trademark images of Smith College’s annual chrysanthemum show, on view this year from Saturday, November 3, through Sunday, November 18.
To kick off this year’s show, Arthur Haines, a renowned research botanist with the New England Wild Flower Society, will give a free public lecture at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, in the Carroll Room, Campus Center. He’ll discuss his book, “Flora Novae Angliae,” the first updated manual on the native and naturalized plants of New England in decades. Following the talk will be a reception, book-signing and preview of the chrysanthemum show in the illuminated Lyman Conservatory.
Read the full press release http://www.smith.edu/newsoffice/releases/NewsOffice12-052.html
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A Room of Our Own: An Exhibition Celebrating 50 Years in the Mortimer Rare Book Room
In the fall of 1962 the Smith College rare book department moved to spacious and well-appointed quarters in the northwest corner of Neilson Library. The room was named in honor of Ruth Mortimer in 1994. This exhibition celebrates fifty years in our current location. On display are books, manuscripts, and photographs documenting the state of rare books at Smith before 1962; plans for the new addition; the four curators; and items from our collections. For more information: mrbr@smith.edu or 413-585-2906 or http://www.smith.edu/libraries/info/news/mrbr-50-years. See http://www.smith.edu/libraries/hours for library open hours.
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Frameworks VIII
A showcase of student work from the Smith College Museum of Art’s frame conservation apprenticeship program, including two historically accurate frames created for William Merritt Chase’s “Woman in Black” (ca. 1890) and Juan Gris’ “Still Life: Bottle of Rum” (ca. 1914).
For admission, open hours and other information, see:
http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/Visit/Planning-a-Visit
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Drawn to Excellence: Renaissance to Romantic Drawings from a Private Collection
More than 80 works on view from the distinguished collection of a Smith alumna that chart the use of drawing by selected artists from the Renaissance through the Romantic period. For more information about this exhibition, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/On-View/Upcoming/Drawn-to-Excellence3/Overview
For admission, open hours and other Museum information, see:
http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum/Visit/Planning-a-Visit
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Film/Video
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"The Minister's War Film" Screening
Film screening of the documentary, "The Minister's War" sponsored by the Office of Religious Life and the Northampton Unitarian Universalist Church with a talk back featuring director, Artemis joukowsky III. It is the story of a Unitarian minster and his wife who went to Czechoslovakia and helped to save Jewish refugees. Here is more details for publicity purposes. In December, 1941, the United States declared war on Germany. Yet a full two years earlier, a Unitarian minister declared war on Nazi Germany from his pulpit! The documentary, The Minister's War, tells the story of Unitarian minister, Waitstill Sharp and his wife Martha who, just days prior to the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, left their young children in Wellesley, Massachusetts to help save thousands being persecuted in Eastern Europe. Martha and Waitstill are two of only three Americans who have been named Righteous Among the Nations by the Yad Vashem in Israel for their work in saving the lives of so many Jews during the early years of Hitler's ascension to power. Both the director, Artemis Joukowsky III, the grandson of the Sharps, and their great granddaughter, Emma Blaxter, associate producer of the film, will be available to answer questions after the showing (the film runs about 75 minutes). This local showing of the film is sponsored by the Social Justice Committee of the Unitarian Sociey of Northampton & Florence (USNF), as well as by the Smith College Office of Religious and Spiritual Life. All are welcome. It will take place on the Smith College campus in the Seelye building in Room 106. This building is close to Forbes Library (a good place to park).
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