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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 This exhibition focuses on the rich artistic and cultural exchange that has taken place between Japan and the US since WWII. Tracing the remarkable career of Yoshida Hodaka, the exhibition explores issues of cultural identity and globalization for Japanese and Japanese Americans.
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 The gallery is closed summers, holidays and college breaks. Julie Fakler creates vibrant domestic animal paintings using acrylic on hardboard; Philip Taylor paints improvisationally with acrylic on canvas; John Wells applies paint and other materials in layers to create abstract works. Start: Feb 23 2012 11:30 am
Public seminar: The Art and Materials Science of the Motorcycle Start: Feb 23 2012 6:30 pm
From the Ann Arbor Film Festival 24 award-winning short narrative, animated, and experimental found footage films and videos will be shown across two programs. The first begins at 6:30 and the second, after a brief intermission, at 8 p.m. Start: Feb 23 2012 7:00 pm
End: Feb 23 2012 8:30 pm
Cost: FREE Presenter: Greg Muth Biochar and Mountain Microorganisms can replenish soils stressed by decades of agricultural use. These techniques have been shown to improve water retention, nutrient retention, and resistance to disease. Widely accepted culturally in Central and South American countries, the science behind biochar and Mountain Microorganisms use remains an open question. Greg, a St Olaf biochemistry associate professor, will share observations from his sabbatical studying sustainable agricultural practices in Costa Rica.
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Start: Feb 23 2012 7:00 pm
P.J. Gibson Playwright and Poet will discuss her book Destiny's Daughters: 9 Voices of P.J. Gibson Start: Feb 23 2012 7:00 pm
Dr. Charles Falco, a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, will present a public lecture, "The Science of Optics; The History of Art," examining evidence that master painters in the 15th century used optical instruments as aids to creating realistic scenes on canvas. Start: Feb 23 2012 7:30 pm
Protests, a recall election, and their team didn't make the Superbowl... From Wisconsin, America's most tumultuous state, a Pulitzer-nominated political cartoonist tells it like it is. Start: Feb 23 2012 8:00 pm
Derek Penslar, a professor of Jewish history at the University of Toronto, will present the Carleton College Forkosh Family Lecture in Judaic Studies at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23 in the Severance Great Hall. The title of the talk is “Jews into Israelis: Zionism as a Revolutionary Project.” The talk is free and open to the public.
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