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This exhibit includes work by the art apprentices, who graduated in 2011 and were awarded apprenticeships to work on their portfolios for a year.
Flaten Gallery Hours Monday: 10 am - 5 pm Tuesday: 10 am - 5 pm Wednesday: 10 am - 5 pm Thursday: 10 am - 8 pm Friday: 10 am - 5 pm Saturday: 2 pm - 5 pm Sunday: 2 pm - 5 pm
In the Members’ Room, Joyce Francis exhibits her ink and watercolor paintings. These works on paper are made using the Zentangle technique, a meditative art form that uses repeating patterns. The Northfield Arts Guild Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 10am – 5pm and Saturday 10am – 3pm. Carleton College’s Weitz Center for Creativity is the setting for two new art exhibits opening in January 2012 in the College’s Perlman Teaching Museum. In the Kaemmer Family Gallery, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption” presents large but intricate color images based on statistics to visually dramatize aspects of contemporary American culture. In the adjoining Braucher Gallery, “A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art” reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by 17 contemporary women artists exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media. Both exhibits will be on display Friday, January 13 through Sunday, March 11, 2012. Gallery admission is free and open to the public.
Arts Guild Member Fred Gustafson shows a series of large-scale plates influenced by traditional Chinese painting styles, including landscape scenes and bamboo motifs. The Allina gallery is located near the lab waiting area of the clinic at 1440 Jefferson Road. Hours are 7am – 8pm Monday through Thursday, 7am –7pm Fridays, and 9am – 3pm Saturdays. William Parry, a London-based photojournalist and auther who contributes regularly to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA), is launching his new book, "Against the Wall: The Art of Resistance in Palestine," with a U.S. book tour. His stunning book of photos captures the graffiti and street art that has transformed Israel's apartheid wall in the occupied West Bank in to a living canvas of resistance and solidarity. Featuring the work of International street artists including Banksy, Ron English Swoon, Faile and Blu, as well as Palestinian artists and international grassroots activists, these photos express outrage, compassion, solidarity, peaceful resistance and touching humor. On Thursday 23rd February, at 7:00 pm., in Tomson Hall, Room 280, on the campus of St. Olaf College, William Parry will show slides of his photos and tell the stories behind them Start: Feb 9 2012 4:30 pm
Professor Myron Orfield, Executive Director of the Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota, will present “Segregation in Schools and Housing in the Twin Cities” on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 4:30 p.m. in the Carleton College Gould Library Athenaeum. This event is free and open to the public.
Orfield is also a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., and an affiliate faculty member at the U of M’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Orfield teaches and writes in the fields of civil rights, state and local government, state and local finance, land use, questions of regional governance, and the legislative process.
Start: Feb 9 2012 7:00 pm
End: Feb 9 2012 8:00 pm
Cost: FREE Presenter: Katie Milbrett
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Start: Feb 9 2012 7:00 pm
Frank Ackerman, senior research fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University, will speak on how economists put a dollar value on intangible risks and rewards in "Turning Nature Into a Number: The Promise and Perils of the Economics of the Environment" Thursday, February 9, at 7 p.m. in St. Olaf's Buntrock Commons, Viking Theatre. Start: Feb 9 2012 7:00 pm
The five St. Olaf Art Apprentices will talk about their work exhibited in the Flaten Museum. Start: Feb 9 2012 8:00 pm
Dan Ariely, psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller “Predictably Irrational,” will speak at Carleton College on Thursday, Feb. 9. Entitled “Free Beer: The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, How We Lie To Everyone—Especially Ourselves,” Ariely’s presentation will take place in Olin Hall, Room 141, and is free and open to the public. Copies of Ariely’s popular books will be available for purchase at the event, and in advance at the Carleton Bookstore, at a 15% discount.
Start: Feb 9 2012 8:15 pm
From the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater,The Whitewater Piano Trio will preform. Performers: Leanne League, violin Benjamin Whitcomb, cello Myung Hee Chung, piano | ||
