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Campus Events November-December, 1999 |
November 10 - December 10
Rochester artist's work at Wells explores the qualities of paper
Work
by Rochester-based artist Cinda Kelly will be on display at Wells College from
Wednesday, November 10 through Friday, December 10 in Main
Building's String Room Gallery. The show
is free and open to the public.
Entitled Paper Terrain, the exhibit illustrates Kelly's use of industrial-sized rolls of paper which create forms that explore and exploit the intrinsic qualities of the paper itself. Working with a variety of materials over the past ten years, Kelly's work previous to this exhibition utilized stones found along the shore of Lake Ontario.
According to Kelly, while she was working
with Lake Ontario stones, the children's
game "Rock, Paper, Scissors," came to mind. In the game, paper (weak and
ephemeral) wins over rock (strong and enduring) because of paper's flexibility.
This intriguing metaphor led to an investigation of the
characteristics, strengths, and flexibility of paper - an investigation that
has culminated in the current exhibition.
Cinda Kelly, a native of New York City,
has resided in Rochester for the last
ten years. Her educational background includes a small liberal arts
college - St. John's College in Annapolis,
Maryland, and a big city art school - The School of Visual Arts in New York
City.
She is a recent recipient of an S.O.S. grant from the Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester and has exhibited work at the University of Rochester's Art Library Gallery, Little Theatre Café Gallery, Center at High Falls Gallery, School of the Arts Gallery, and the AIR Gallery in New York City.
String Room Gallery hours are Monday
through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00p.m., Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00
p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Tuesday, November 16
Wells College hosts Michio Kushi - pioneer of the American natural health movement
Michio Kushi, international educator and spokesperson for natural health and world peace, will speak at Wells College on Tuesday, November 16 from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. in Main Building's Chapel. His topic will be women's health. The event is free and open to the public.
Kushi started the first health food store 30 years ago in America. In June 1999, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., announced the Kushi Collection on Macrobiotics and Alternative and Complementary Health Care in helping to change American History.
His humanitarian achievements and dedication to macrobiotics has influenced the world at large. There have been many success stories in the macrobiotic approach to cancer, AIDS, and other degenerative diseases.
He will also be making a number of other appearances in Ithaca at Cornell University on November 15 through 17. For more information, call 607.277.0238.
Thursday, November 18
Visiting writer at Wells will read from verse memoir of life in Upstate New York
William B. Patrick, a versatile author whose work includes acclaimed screenplays and non-fiction, will read his poetry at Wells College on Thursday, November 18 at 8:00 p.m. in Macmillan Hall's Art Exhibit Room. The event is free, and the public is welcome to attend.
His most recent collection of poems, We Didn't Come Here for This, was published by BOA Editions in February 1999. Kirkus Reviews describes his book as "an engaging verse memoir that makes sense of ordinary lives - the poet's family in Troy, New York, during the '50s and early '60s, a time rendered here without bitterness or nostalgia but in all its messy reality."
Patrick is also the author of These Upraised Hands (BOA Editions, 1995) and Roxa: Voices of the Culver Family (BOA Editions, 1989), a novel in prose and poetry, for which he won the 1990 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award for the best work of fiction. He is currently working on Saving Troy, a non-fiction book about a year he spent riding with professional firefighters and paramedics.
October 6 - November 5
Geneva artist brings abstract paintings to Wells College
Hobart
and William Smith Professor of Art Michael Bogin will display his colorful
abstract paintings in the String Room Gallery on the Wells College campus
Wednesday, October 6 through Friday, November 5. An opening reception in
honor of the artist will be held on Wednesday, October 6. The show is free
and open to the public.
Bogin feels his paintings have lives of their own. He refers to them as "difficult customers." "I start off thinking I know what the painting might want," he says. "But the paintings get mouthy. Sometimes they don't like anything, and on those days, I go home early."
This is not a problem for Bogin. He says he likes a pushy painting because without the painting's help he is not able to simply paint. He feels it is that relationship between the creator and the created that enables him to fully imagine and conceive his work. Bogin says neither he nor the painting know where they are going at the onset. He is always amazed at a painting's arrival at an unforeseen destination, one that only Bogin can recognize as the right destination.
Bogin's work has been seen at the Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center in Auburn, the State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca; Union Station Gallery, Chicago; Dartmouth College; Everson Museum, Syracuse; and numerous galleries across upstate New York. He is the recipient of a Saltonstall Foundation Grant.
Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Wednesday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Earlier Articles on Campus Events at Wells College:
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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