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Campus Events April - May, 2000 |
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Visiting Writer Series hosts two poets
Tuesday, April 4 and Tuesday, April 11
The Wells College Visiting Writer Series welcomes two
authors to campus. On Tuesday, April 4, William Trowbridge will read
selections from his poems. Works by Trowbridge include Enter Dark
Stranger and O Paradise, and a new book, Flickers. This reading is sponsored in part by the
New York State Council on the Arts.
On Tuesday, April 11, Leslie Norris will read from his poetry and fiction. Norris has published many collections of poems and stories, and is the author of Norris’s Ark, which the Wells College Press is reprinting. Both readings will be held at 8:00 pm in the Art Exhibit Room on the Wells College campus. Mr. Norris is this year's Virginia Kent Cummins Writers-in-Residence.
For more information about the Visiting Writer Series and readings, please call 315-364-3228.
Wednesday, April 5
Famous pianist performs on Wells Campus
The Wells College Department of Music is pleased to
welcome internationally renowned concert pianist Margaret Baxtresser to
campus. On Wednesday, April 5, Ms. Baxtresser will give an innovative
recital entitled, "Debussy and the Impressionists" at 8:00 pm in the
Alice Barler Recital Hall on the Wells College campus. The event is free
and open to the public.
This special program brings to life the relationship of the music and
the paintings of one of the most exciting periods in the history of the
arts. The recital presents six of the Debussy piano preludes while
slides of works by Monet, Degas, and Renoir are projected above and
behind the piano. The combination of music and paintings in a darkened
auditorium creates an exciting, unique concert-going experience.
Ms. Baxtresser has been widely acclaimed for her interpretation of the
music of the French composer, Claude Debussy. She gave her first solo
recital at the age of 8 and appeared as a soloist with the Detroit
Symphony when she was thirteen. Her career has included solo recitals
and concerto appearances with major orchestras in the United States, as
well as London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Delhi, Bombay, Tokyo, and Sri Lanka.
Ms. Baxtresser is the recipient of the prestigious Naumburg Award, and
is a retired professor of music at Kent State University.
Thursday, April 6, Friday, April 7, Saturday, April 8
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead performed at Wells
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead will be presented by the
Kastalia Honorary Society on April 6, 7, and 8 in Phipps Auditorium. Tom
Stoppard's classic play revisits Shakespeare's Hamlet, as seen through
the eyes of two of its minor players, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Admission is $2 for students, $3 for the Wells community, and $4 for the
general public. The play begins at 8:00 pm each evening. For more
information, please call 315-364-3456.
Friday, April 14 and Saturday, April 15
Carnival Girls, an original one-act play by Wells
College senior Christie Perfetti, will be premiering at the Wells
College Phipps Auditorium Friday and Saturday, April 14 and 15, at 8:00
pm. Admission is free and open to the public.
Carnival Girls is a theatrical production about the fictional lives of young women who have grown up in or who have worked the American carnivals in the 20th century. Multi-genre and non-linear, this production includes original student choreography and music. Carnival Girls is comprised of a company of over 50 Wells women, and promises to be raw, real, and powerful. The show has been dubbed "a different kind of theatre."
For more information about this production, please call 315-364-3232.
Tuesday, April 11 - Wednesday, May 10; reception Tuesday, April 18
The work of photographer Robert Doherty will be on
display April 11 - May 10 in the String Room Gallery on the Wells
College campus. A reception in honor of the artist will be held on
Tuesday, April 18 at 7:00 pm in the gallery. The show, entitled
"Dead-On," is free and open to the public.
Robert Doherty is the Printer-in-Residence at Wells College, in addition to being the publisher for The Clandestine Press and the appraiser/director of the International Archives of Photography. He earned a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, and has served as director, curator, designer, and consultant for a large number of international organizations, including the George Eastman House, the University of Louisville, the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, the Rhode Island School of Design, and Deutsche Gesellshaft fuer Photographie.
The idea for the show "Dead-On" came in the 1950s when Doherty became familiar with the photographic file of the Farm Security Administration housed in the Library of Congress. The geometric qualities of these photographs were unusual in that they were always taken at a direct right angle to the subject. Doherty experimented with this technique over the next two decades. The four components of the show are: Signs, Railroad, Faces, and Buildings.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm; Wednesday nights 7:00 - 9:00 pm; and Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 - 4:00 pm.
Wednesday, April 19
Acclaimed designer/printer will deliver Wells College Book Arts Lecture
Jerry Kelly, a New York City-based book designer and printer, will deliver the Susan Garretson Swartzburg Memorial Lecture at Wells on Wednesday, April 19. The event is free and will be held at 8:00 p.m. in the college's Art Exhibit Room.
Kelly will talk about the life and work of Victor Hammer, an internationally renowned figure in 20th-century graphic arts who achieved some of his greatest work as a faculty member at Wells College (1939-48). Hammer's publications, making his own type, and his drawing and painting, have gained him a position among the leading typographers, printers, and artists of his time.
Currently working independently as a printer and designer, Kelly is also a partner in the Kelly/Winteron Press and a freelance calligrapher. His work varies from fine books and pamphlets to brochures and ephemera. The Grolier Club, The Pierpont Morgan Library, the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Columbia University, and the Library of America are among his many clients.
Kelly received his bachelor of fine arts degree from Queens College and has studied with Hermann Zapf at RIT. Additionally, he has taught at the Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, Queens College, and many other schools and workshops.
Wells has an incomparable resource in the Book Arts Center which consists of the Wells College Press and the Class of 1932 Bindery. The center functions as a learning center, sponsoring classes, exhibitions, lectures, demonstrations, workshops and symposia in the fine arts, literary arts, bookbinding, printing, publishing, and related fields. It is a classroom, laboratory, and a library for information and inspiration and serves as a magnet for all who wish to study the art of the book.
The Wells College Press was founded in 1941 by Victor Hammer, which he operated until his retirement in 1948. In 1991, the college established the Book Arts Center in order to continue the Hammer tradition.
The lecture series is made possible through the Heiland-Garretson Book Arts Lecture Fund, established and sustained through the generosity of Susan Garretson Swartzburg '60.
Thursday, April 27 - Saturday, April 29
Spring Weekend returns to Wells Campus
Warm weather has finally returned to the Finger Lakes and with it comes Wells College’s annual Spring Weekend. Scheduled for April 27 - 29, the weekend features a wide variety of free entertainment events. The public is welcome.
K.K. Champassak ’00 will kick off the weekend at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 27. K.K. will sing original songs accompanied by her acoustic guitar in Barler Hall.
On Friday, April 28 from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Disway, an original five-piece band from Aurora, will perform in the Sommer Student Center. Refreshments will be served. A dance party from 9:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. will cap off the evening.
On Saturday, April 29, an outdoor concert featuring a variety of musical talent will be held on the lawn in front of the Schwartz Student Union. Student organizations will host booths, and games and novelties will be offered including caricature drawings, a gyroscope, and photo buttons. In addition, a booth featuring a raffle and T-shirt sales will raise funds for breast cancer research. Wells professor Bird Stasz will participate in the Avon three-day, 60-mile walk for the fight against breast cancer in June. Funds raised during Spring Weekend will help sponsor Stasz in this endeavor.
Saturday begins at 12:00 noon with Aerin Tedesco, who will treat the
audience to her own unique brand of acoustic sound delivered from her
antique tenor guitar. Following Aerin at 2:00 is cover band Static
Cling. From 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., One People will get the crowd on
its feet with their energetic combination of rock and reggae, followed
by Public Service, a Ska band from Philadelphia from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00
p.m. A fireworks display at dusk will end the outdoor festivities.
At 9:00 p.m., a dance party sponsored by Amnesty and the Spanish Club will be held in the Sommer Center. The fee is $4 for non-Wells students and $3 for Wells students.
For more information on Spring Weekend at Wells College, please call 315-364-3330.
Monday, May 15 - Saturday, May 27
Visual Arts majors present senior show
An eclectic mix of art will be on display in Wells College’s String Room
Gallery from May 15 - 27, 2000. Three visual arts seniors will present
their work; the exhibit is free and open to the public. An opening
reception will be held on Monday, May 15 at 7:00 pm to honor the
students and their work.
Students whose work will be on display are Gretchen Eriksen of Ithaca, NY; Tarah-Zeh Morfei of Scipio Center, NY; and Joellen (Jodi) Riggs of Candor, NY. Each will display art in a different medium.
Eriksen will exhibit approximately 25 abstract portraits of family and friends, past and present. These paintings will be arranged as if in a photo album, providing the viewer with a snapshot of those relationships which make up Eriksen’s life.
The multimedia sculpture of Morfei focuses on the human figure and the release of unpleasant harbored emotions and memories. She works with chicken wire and other materials to create three-dimensional pieces.
"Strength of Pine, Scent of Sage: Scenes from a Kitchen" is the title of Riggs’ part of the show. She will present a life-sized sculpture of a typical working kitchen done in ceramic and wood.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.,
Wednesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday
from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Earlier Articles on Campus Events at Wells College:
November - December, 1999
October, 1999
September, 1999
May, 1999
April, 1999
February -
March, 1999
November, 1998
October, 1998
September,
1998
May - Summer,
1998
April, 1998
March, 1998
February, 1998
November, 1997
October, 1997
September, 1997
April - May,
1997
March, 1997
February, 1997
November - December,
1996
October, 1996
September, 1996
May, 1996
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