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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 10 2012 10:50 am
Michelle Alexander, a civil rights lawyer and scholar currently in residence at Ohio State University, will deliver Carleton College’s convocation address on Friday, February 10. Alexander is the author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” (New Press, 2010), which will be the subject of her address, focusing on the continued legacy of discrimination against African Americans, particularly through the mass incarceration of black men. Convocation is held from 10:50-11:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel, and it is free and open to the public. A booksigning will follow Alexander’s presentation and copies of “The New Jim Crow” will be available for purchase at the event. Start: Feb 10 2012 7:30 pm
Start: Feb 10 2012 7:30 pm
The sonatas of J.S. Bach and C.F. Abel; Julie Elhard, viola da gamba; Paul Boehnke, harpsichord Start: Feb 10 2012 7:30 pm
Musical theater production directed by Professor of Theater, Karen Peterson Wilson '77 Start: Feb 10 2012 8:00 pm
Carleton College will host a faculty and guest artist concert featuring the Chiarina Piano Quartet on Friday, Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in the Concert Hall. Performers include Mary Budd Horozaniecki (violin), Nancy Nehring (viola), Mark Rudoff (cello), and David Viscoli (piano). The program will feature Ludwig van Beethoven’s Quartet in C Major, Lee Hoiby’s Dark Rosaleen, Rhapsody on an Air by James Joyce, and Johannes Brahms’s Quartet in C minor. This concert is free and open to the public.Mary Budd Horozaniecki is a well-known performer and also teaches at Macalester College and Augsburg College, along with Carleton College. She is frequently invited to present master classes, recitals, and lectures throughout the United States and Canada. Horozaniecki was educated at Indiana University where she studied with Josef Gingold. | ||
