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Campus Events: March, 1997 |
March 6 - April 4
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Photographs by Lotte Jacobi and etchings by Roi Partridge, part of Wells' permanent art collection, will be on display in Main Building's String Room Gallery on the Wells campus from Thursday, March 6 through Friday, April 4. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
Born in Thorn, Germany, Lotte Jacobi's great-grandfather, grandfather,
and father were photographers. She began her career in her family's
studio in 1927. Until 1935, she specialized in images of German
artists, actors, and musicians. Those who sat for her include
Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Kurt Weill.
Jacobi fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and set up a new studio with her sister in New York City. She continued to do portrait work for such notables as Eleanor Roosevelt, W.H. Auden, Albert Einstein, and Robert Frost. She also photographed street scenes, nature scenes in New Hampshire, and people and landscapes in the Soviet Union, Central Asia and her native Germany. She died in 1990 at age 93.
Jacobi's work was recently donated to Wells College by Robert
Doherty of Ithaca, printer-in- residence in the Wells Book Arts
Center.
Roi Partridge was considered by many to be America's master landscape
etcher during the first half of the century. He was born in 1888
in Seattle, Washington, but spent his early years in Europe. He
learned to etch in Munich and refined his craft in Paris where
he began exhibiting and selling his images of landmarks, portraits,
and symbolist fantasies. Largely self-taught, Partridge studied
the works of Whistler, Meryon, and Klimt.
From the time he returned to the U.S. in 1914 until the publication of his last print in 1954, Partridge was working primarily as an etcher. He served on the faculty of Mills College in Oakland, California, and was the first director of the Mills Art Gallery. He traveled extensively through the Northwest, California, and the Desert Southwest and was particularly fond of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Ranges. Partridge's prints convey his respect for nature in a style that is traditional and linear.
Gallery hours are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday,
7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday, and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday.
Monday, March 10
In celebration of Women's History Month, Seattle Poet Laureate Mona Lake Jones will read from her work on Monday, March 10 at 8:00 p.m. in Macmillan Hall's Art Exhibit Room on the Wells campus. The reading is free and open to the public.
Jones is the author of "A Room Full of Sisters," the poem that inspired the women's conference of the same name in Auburn, New York. She uses her poetry and prose to celebrate living, challenges the reader to take the risk to change, and find ways to celebrate culture. Jones is also the author of The Color of Culture, and recently completed two children's books.
A tireless advocate for women and children, Jones has toured the country speaking about the importance of women's health care, the need for women to network and provide mutual support for each other.
While addressing a women's conference, she once told her audience that women everywhere, regardless of race, ethnicity, or wealth, are similar. "Sometimes you need to be nurtured. Sometimes you need to be celebrated. We have come here to celebrate."
Jones was selected president of the Black Child Development Institute, served on the Seattle Youth Commission and as a Headstart Consultant. She has conducted effective black parenting classes, graduating over 200 parents.
Jones received her doctorate in education from Seattle University and has taught at the elementary, college, and university level. Currently she is the vice president of marketing and publications for Impact Communications. In 1995, she was one of 12 women featured on the National Distinguished Black Women Calendar.
Tuesday, March 11
The Mount Calvary Gospel Choir will perform contemporary gospel hymns on Tuesday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Alice Barler Recital Hall on the Wells campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Established in 1977, the choir sings regularly at the Mount Calvary Church in Geneva, and has performed in concert at the Smith Opera House and the Seneca Army Depot.
"We have a strong musical legacy at Mount Calvary," says choir director Patricia Blue. "Our concerts are an excellent way for us to express that legacy to the larger community."
Henry's VIII, an acappella singing group made up of Wells students will also perform.
Thursday, March 13
Boston-area social activist Melvin H. King will speak at Wells on Thursday, March 13, at 11:00 a.m. in the Art Exhibit Room of Macmillan Hall. The event is free, and the public is welcome to attend.
Born and raised in Boston's South End where he still lives today, King is internationally known as an educator, internationalist, consensus-builder, environmentalist, and advocate for social justice.
He is probably best known as the creator of the Rainbow Coalition. In 1983, during his second run for mayor of Boston, King and his supporters conceived of a network for change that would link ethnic neighborhoods as well as other groups such as gays and lesbians. The idea was so successful that it evolved into a national movement which is still evolving today.
Speaking about the movement against racism in a recent interview in Peacework magazine King said, "We need a campaign that designates all of the behavior that is racist and oppressive as constituting mental health problems...as behaviors that are sick, and - if you will - inhuman, that violate human rights. I think a part of the problem is that we do not label these behaviors in concrete, daily human terms. If you smoke, you get cancer. If you call somebody these names, that is racist; you are ill."
King began his career as a teacher and then became youth program director for United South End Settlements in the 1950s and 60s. He established youth programs linking African-American, Puerto Rican, and white young people and worked to end racism in schools. From 1967-71, he served as executive director of the Urban League of Greater Boston.
From 1971-96, he was a faculty member in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning. He coordinated the Community Fellows Program which has brought hundreds of community leaders of color from across the nation to spend a year of introspection and study at MIT.
He also has had an illustrious career as an elected official, shifting the scope of many public discussions to include concepts of social justice. From 1973-83 he served as representative to the Massachusetts legislature. In 1986, he was a candidate for the U.S. Congress, 8th District.
Thursday, March 27
The Pro Musica Ensemble will perform unusual and neglected works by some of
the world's most famous composers on Thursday, March 27 at 8:00 p.m. in the
Alice Barler Recital Hall on the Wells campus. The event is free and open
to the public.
Composers whose work will be presented include Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, and Rimsky-Korsakov.
In addition to performing with Pro Musica, violinist Susan Mohr also performs with the Binghamton Symphony. Cellist Christopher White performed at the World Cello Congress and at the International Cello Festival as leader of the Cayuga Jazz Ensemble. Mary King has appeared as a piano soloist with several orchestras and also on violin.
Robert King is a former violin teacher at Ithaca College and also served as
concertmaster of the Eastman Little Symphony and the Rochester Chamber
Orchestra. Pianist Nancy Gilbertson has been a member of the Wells faculty
since 1987 and has worked with such distinguished composers as Aaron
Copland and Lorin Holander.
For more information on campus events call Wells College Public Relations at (315) 364-3209
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