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- College of Santa Fe Welcomes More Than 200 Returning Students ... - PR Newswire
- Friday Fish Wrap for September 18-19th. - San Francisco Examiner
- Old place, new faces - Minneapolis Star Tribune
- Photos transform hell on earth at Auschwitz - MetroWest Daily News
| College of Santa Fe Welcomes More Than 200 Returning Students ... - PR Newswire Posted: 18 Sep 2009 07:04 AM PDT SANTA FE, N.M., Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- When the College of Santa Fe (CSF) welcomes students for the fall 2009 semester it will also mark the 150th anniversary of the school's charter. More than 200 students have enrolled for the fall semester, including 70 students for evening and weekend classes and more than 140 traditional students. Enrollment for traditional students remains open until the first day of classes, September 21, 2009. This fall, students are enrolled in the college's well-known programs including those in fine arts, graphic design, theater, moving image arts, photography, creative writing, business and education. Students can earn a bachelor's degree as well as a Master of Arts in Education and an M.B.A. More than 32 CSF faculty members are returning to lead classes in each program, including David Scheinbaum, Steve Fitch, John Weckesser, Brad Wolfley, Hank Rogerson, Linda Swanson, David Grey, Gerry Snyder, Susan York, Carolyn Kastner, Matt Donovan and Mark Behr. "When we talk about the things that make the College of Santa Fe special, we always start by talking about the faculty," said Paula Singer, chief executive officer of the Laureate Higher Education Group. "Our faculty are among the best and the brightest in their fields. But they stand alone when it comes to commitment to their students. We are proud to have them here as we start a new school year." The college also announced that Laurence A. Hinz, senior vice president at Laureate Education, has been named interim president. Dr. Stuart Kirk, who served as president of the college for two years, has been appointed vice president of business and institutional development for Laureate's U.S. campus-based operations. Both positions are effective October 1, 2009. The college also announced that John Allen, faculty member of the CSF film department, has been named vice president for Academic Affairs. "Stuart Kirk worked tirelessly on behalf of the students, alumni, and faculty at the College of Santa Fe," said Ms. Singer. "He was the champion of the traditions, the strengths and the future of the college. Thanks to his dedication, the doors of the college are open today." Mr. Hinz has worked closely with members of the college, local city government officials including Mayor David Coss and City Councilors, and community leaders in Santa Fe, as well as representatives from the office of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and regulators on the plan that saved the college from closing. "Larry's leadership and vision for a vibrant future for the College of Santa Fe, its students, faculty, alumni and community, has been the guiding force behind our efforts to save the college during the past two years," said Ms. Singer. "We are fortunate to have Larry at the helm, leading the college during this important time of rebuilding and growth." In his role as interim president, Mr. Hinz will lead the college's growth into an international Center of Excellence in the teaching of the creative arts, music and film. Mr. Hinz will also be responsible for attracting a national and international student body to the campus, maintaining the college's high academic standards and building strong relationships with members of the local Santa Fe community. Prior to moving into the interim president role at the college, Mr. Hinz held several senior management positions with Laureate Education, including domestic and international higher education management. He managed Laureate's University of Liverpool Online operation in Amsterdam and has led international expansion efforts for Walden University. Mr. Hinz earned his M.B.A. from University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business with a concentration in finance and public policy. He earned his bachelor's degree from Northern Illinois University with a double major in computer science and finance. Mr. Hinz serves on the Board of Directors of New School of Architecture and Design and has been active in raising money for cancer-related causes. ABOUT LAUREATE INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES Laureate International Universities is a global network of 45 accredited campus-based and online universities offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs to more than half a million students around the world. Laureate International Universities' students are part of an international, academic community that spans 20 countries and more than 100 campuses throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Laureate International Universities offers more than 130 career-focused, undergraduate, master's and doctoral degree programs in fields including engineering, education, business, medicine, law, architecture, health sciences, hospitality, culinary arts, and information technology. For more information, visit http://www.laureate.net. SOURCE Laureate Education Website: http://www.laureate.net |
| Friday Fish Wrap for September 18-19th. - San Francisco Examiner Posted: 16 Sep 2009 04:54 PM PDT Friday Fish Wrap: Sept 19-20 There's a wide variety of events at our local museums – from East to West, traditional arts, cartoon arts, photography from the Middle East and avanteguard work at the Berkeley Art Museum. The Art of the Samurai at the Asian will be closing on September 20th. The exhibit "inspired" a parody website with a particular political ax to grind. While nastily clever, the parody website igored the realities of museum funding, much less relationships with donors and a host of related issues in favor of promoting their point of view. The Asian was open minded enough to raise the issue on their blog which inspired a wide variety of responses. Kudos to the Asian for allowing this kind of open, uncensored discussion on their website! What I found most amusing is that a number of the comments decrying the military ethic of the samurai and Japanese militarism in the earler part of the 20th century were made by the same bloggers who were most fascinated by the swords and armor. http://www.asianart.org/blog/index.php/2009/08/27/invitation-to-a-discussion/ Some further thoughtful comments from a museum curator, including one, which I think, is absolutely crucial – "My impression, and please disabuse me if I am incorrect, is that when one is dealing with a single family and a single lender (Hosokawa and the Eisei Bunko) the exhibition narrative can be seriously impinged upon by the priorities of the lender. For one thing, to receive the cooperation of someone as esteemed as Mr. Hosokawa, one may not feel particularly free to bandy about concepts like whacking noses and kidnapping potters." More commentary from a blog that deals with Asian art and politics: "The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has been targeted by an anonymous artistic and political intervention that parodies the current Lords of the Samurai exhibition with a well designed website and a series of pamphlets distributed in San Francisco. …" Many in the museum world will feel that the parody is entirely unfair. The museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to education, and museum staff include many of Asian heritage as well as many respected scholars who have advanced degrees in Asian art history. In addition, some recent exhibitions at the museum have attempted to deal (not always very explicitly) with the history of Orientalism, such as the recent one on photographs of Asia, particularly South Asia. The Sendack show opened at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/11/PKIB19H7KS.DTL&type=art#ixzz0ROBVJ6UF
Berkeley Art Museum "Deborah Grant's paintings are dense—quite literally loaded with obsessive code-like mark-making, collaged and drawn symbolic representations, and flat silhouettes, and with myriad personal, cultural, and art-historical references." And a notice about a movie that I hope plays here about the Barnes collection. By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic TORONTO - One of the unlikeliest stars of the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival, under way this week, has been dead for more than half a century. Albert C. Barnes, the famously eccentric Philadelphian whose eponymous institution in Lower Merion houses a jaw-dropping collection of post-Impressionist art, has been wowing festival-goers thanks to The Art of the Steal - a documentary about the Barnes Foundation and the storm of controversy surrounding its move to a site along Philadelphia's Museum Row. E-mail Nancy Ewart at namastenancy@hotmail.com
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| Old place, new faces - Minneapolis Star Tribune Posted: 16 Sep 2009 04:54 PM PDT "I chose the title 'New Pictures,' because the very definition of what a photograph is now is so different from what it was before Photoshop and new technologies," said Little, who joined the department a year ago this month. "Photography is no longer just linked to things that happened in reality, and the disconnect from the journalistic definition of photography is greater today." This show is the first of a semiannual series that Little is launching under the "New Pictures" title. It will showcase innovative photography by "emerging artists" from around the world. That doesn't necessarily mean young talents -- Furunishi is 43 -- but individuals who are not well known. "The idea is really to bring people to Minneapolis that no one has heard of but who are doing great work," said Little. Before joining the Minneapolis museum he worked at MOMA and the Whitney Museum, where he was director of education. Minneapolis offers more curatorial freedom than does Manhattan, he said. "I love the fact that we can take risks here," he said. "There is a kind of pressure in New York and you can, as a curator, get stuck in a place where you hedge your bets. There's no need to hedge your bets here." In picking artists for the series, he looks at magazines, checks online, goes to art fairs, talks to colleagues and photographers, gets recommendations. "I want to avoid the art world filter" as much as possible, he said. "I want to see everything myself as opposed to having someone tell me what they've seen. You always have to avoid the curatorial herd or the artists' herd, look in out-of-the-way places, and maintain the strength of your viewpoint. That can be challenging because everyone loves consensus, especially funders." The series will have a website that includes video clips of the artists, essays by Little and others and an interactive blog. The museum is also launching a new lecture series named after the late photographer Arnold Newman, whose foundation funded it. It begins with a talk by Paul Graham, an influential British-born photographer known especially for color images documenting the "troubles" in Northern Ireland. (6:30 p.m. Oct. 1, $5). |
| Photos transform hell on earth at Auschwitz - MetroWest Daily News Posted: 13 Sep 2009 09:26 AM PDT With the passage of time, Auschwitz has acquired a solemn and perverse beauty. Seen through photographer Susan May Tell's lens, the barracks where inmates lived and died resemble silent catacombs. Strung from iron posts, strands of rusted barbed wire stretch across the sky like telephone lines. Perfectly symmetrical buildings reveal the Nazi fetish for organization. During an impromptu 1998 visit, Tell silently walked through the grounds of the concentration camp where more than a million people died and "tried to capture the energy that lived in that space." Sixty-five years after the crematoriums were stilled, the award-winning photographer "felt the presence of its ghosts guiding me, guiding my camera." "I walked around without any preconceived plan. I tried to photograph not what I was seeing but what I was feeling," Tell said recently. "I wanted images that were evocative, not literal." By some inexplicable alchemy of time and memory, hell on earth had been transformed into a "spiritual space." Tell reveals that profound change in 14 haunting photographs in her exhibit, "A Requiem: Tribute to the Spiritual Space at Auschwitz," at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester. Subtitled "Photographs by Susan May Tell," it runs through Nov. 1. Tell has a degree in American literature from Syracuse University and a master's degree in counseling from Columbia University. She spent four years as a photojournalist in the Middle East, five years in Paris and 10 years with the New York Post before quitting to focus on her own fine arts photography. Shot in crisp black-and-white, Tell's 6-by-4-foot photos are portals into the lives of untold millions of Jews, Poles, Gypsys and "undesirables" including homosexuals and the developmentally disabled who were sent to Auschwitz as part of Hitler's Final Solution. Chief exhibit installer Fred Tadley has added several subtle touches that contribute to the show's charged atmosphere. By painting black several metal beams which support large photos, he's replicated the thick iron stanchions strung with barbed wire throughout the camp. And curiously, the exposed wood beams framing the gallery's ceiling resemble similar beams in the prison barracks. There are no people to be seen in Tell's photos but these images subtly convey the intertwined lives of Jewish and other prisoners and Nazi guards. One of Tell's most gripping photos depicts a pile of crumbled suitcases, one bearing the name "Hanna Feitsma" of Holland, taken from arriving prisoners. Another photo shows scores of spoons bent double by prisoners so they could be concealed from guards in the palms of their hands. Some photos are heartbreaking because they document prisoners' efforts to preserve their humanity amid unspeakable conditions. And by inference, they invite viewers to speculate on the inhumanity of guards who imposed such deprivation. One of the most poignant photos shows a prisoner's drawing of a lighthouse and beach on the plastered wall of a dingy barracks. While German overseers are only referenced by implication, the back story of one photo suggests their depraved indifference to others' suffering. That photo shows what appears to be a narrow ditch running through the camp. Tell said she met a man who'd been at Auschwitz as a teenager who told her German guards attached bits of bread from makeshift fishing poles and amused themselves by getting starving prisoners to jump for morsels of food. Tell's "Requiem" is one of three new exhibits using striking photographs to explore Jewish themes in September when Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah on Sept. 19 and Yom Kippur on Sept. 28. In her show, "Hand to Hand" in the Atelier Gallery, Zeva Oelbaum is showing lovely photos of the endpapers of Hebrew books. In her photos she manipulates images of books from her family and other Jews and incorporates writings from Russian, German, Polish, Yiddish, Aramaic and other languages. Jessica M. Kaufman is exhibiting evocative images of former Nazi concentration camp grounds in her exhibit "Panopticon." Rather than photographing actual sites, she focuses on what she calls "surrounding and surviving environments" which she mutates chemically to suggest trauma. Shown together, the three shows complement each other in terms of approach, style and content. Griffin Executive Director Paula Tognarelli said she spent "close to a year" bringing these exhibits to the museum to use contemporary photography to explore Jewish history and culture. She said she'd consulted with local Jewish religious and community leaders to ensure the exhibits were respectful. In Catholicism and other religions, a requiem is a Mass celebrated for the repose of the souls of the dead or a musical service, hymn or dirge performed for the same purpose. One of Tell's most powerful images reveals a single white chrysanthemum an unknown person placed on a strand of barbed wire. Like Tell's photos, that simple act provides a fitting requiem. THE ESSENTIALS: The Griffin Museum of Photography, 67 Shore Road, Winchester, is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The museum is closed on Monday. Admission is $5 for adults; $2 for seniors. Members and children under 12 are admitted free. Admission is free on Thursday. An opening reception for the exhibits by Tell, Oelbaum and Kaufman will be held Wednesday, Sept. 16 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information, call 781-729-1158 or visit www.griffinmuseum.org. To learn about Susan May Tell, visit www.susanmaytell.com. To learn about Zeva Oelbaum, visit www.zevaphoto.com. To learn about Jessica Kaufman, visit http:slideluckpotshow.com/profiles/blo gs/interview-with-jessica-m |
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