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EVENTS

UArts Food for Thought Lecture SeriesThe University of the Arts MFA Program in ceramics, painting and sculpture presents the 14th annual “Food for Thought” summer lecture series featuring noted visiting artists and critics. The series runs every Wednesday from June 18 through July 23. The series kicks off with Stacy Levy, who received a BA in sculpture and forestry from Yale University in 1984 and an MFA in 1991 from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. She has received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a Mid -Atlantic Arts Foundation Grant. She was a visiting artist at Pilchuck Glass School (Seattle) 2004 and Haystack Mountain School of Craft (Deer Isle, Maine) in 2006, working with the tides of coastal Maine. Through public commissions, she has detailed microscopic life forms in Seattle, Philadelphia and New Jersey, making works about storm water, hydrodynamics and watersheds at the Philadelphia Waterworks, Morris Arboretum (Philadelphia) and the North Carolina Zoo (Asheboro, N.C.) She is working on a tidal piece on the Hudson River in New York with Matthews Nielson Landscape Architects and developing a wind piece for the University of South Florida in Tampa. Lectures are free and open to the public. For further information, contact Program Director Carol Moore (215/717-6106 or cmoore@uarts.edu) or Erin Boyle (215/717-6489 or eboyle@uarts.edu).
June 18, noon – 1 p.m.
CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall

Strictly Business 2 Taping
The Media Arts Department is working with the ASMP to videotape a series based on its Strictly Business 2 seminar for photographers and invites members of the community to attend the taping for free, instead of for the normal $200. The program provides real-world business information and skills that help photographers thrive in a highly competitive industry. The lectures are based on the ASMP Strictly Business 2 conference that recently toured the country. Visit this link to learn more about the program: www.asmp.org/sb2/details.php. As this is a video shoot, all participants will need to sign a model release and refrain from wearing clothing that is either white, too bright or colorful. The priority is to shoot the video so there will be starts and stops. Questions will be limited to 10 minutes at the end of each speaker segment. If you would like to attend this event, please RSVP to Susan Carr (carr@asmp.org) as soon as possible as space is limited.
June 17 – 18, 8 a.m.
Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall (8th floor)

Wood Turning Center’s International Turning Exchange Open Studio Day
The UArts community is invited to the Wood Turning Center’s International Turning Exchange Open Studio Day at Anderson Hall’s wood working studio for discussions and demonstrations about the evolving work of the eight exchange residents. Arrive when you want and stay as long as you like. FREE, but RSVP is required for lunch. For additional information or to RSVP for lunch, contact Suzanne Kopko (215/923-8000 or suzanne@woodturningcenter.org)
July 12, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
UArts Woodshop, Anderson Hall  (4th floor)

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Performance Opportunity
First Friday Main Line (FFML) is offering performance opportunities to dancers on Friday, August 1 as part of First Friday Main Line. Each month, FFML brings arts and culture events to Ardmore, Bryn Mawr and Haverford. The theme of this August’s First Friday is “dance,” although dancers are encouraged to apply for any of FFML’s monthly events. Performance spaces are low-tech and non-traditional and may be outdoors, in retail stores, car dealerships or salons. Dance performances from any genre are welcome. For more information about FFML, please visit www.firstfridaymainline.com. For additional information, contact Christine Vilardo (cvdt@aol.com or 610/642-4040.)

 

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NEWS & NOTES

Media Arts faculty member Collette Copeland is interviewed in the latest edition of Afterimage Magazine (http://www.colettecopeland.com/images/cocofusco.pdf). She also has videos included in the Kratkofil Film Festival in Bosnia, Bochum Film Festival in Germany and Artsfest Film Festival in Harrisburg.

Media Arts professor David Graham is teaching a landscape photography workshop at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Mass., in late July. For information, visit www.FAWC.org/summer, call 508/487-9960 ext.103 or workshops@fawc.org.\

Toby Zinman, professor of English in the Liberal Arts Division recently published the book Edward Albee, which offers essay on each of Albee’s plays, following the chronology of the Collected Works, volumes 1, 2 and 3. Available in paperback at Amazon.com and barnsandnoble.com.

Life really is good for country music recording artist and UArts alumna Laura Bryna, who recently released her new single “Life is Good” from the debut CD titled “Trying to be Me” (Equity Music Group). A total of 16 major market stations immediately picked up on the new song and placed it into their rotations. Among the markets: Rockville, Md. (WMZQ); Boston (WKLB); Spokane (KDRK); Fresno (KSKS); Salt Lake City (KUBL and KSOP); West Palm Beach (WIRK); Pensacola (WXBM); Harrisburg, Pa. (WRBT); Fort Meyers, Fla. (WWGR); Youngstown, Ohio (WQXK); Dover, N.H. (WOKQ); Amarillo (KIXZ); Baton Rouge (WYPY) and Visalia, Calif. (KJUG). For more information, visit www.laurabryna.com or www.myspace.com/laurabryna

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IN THE GALLERIES

Sol Mednick Gallery (Terra Hall, 15th floor)
“Psychometry”
Carol Golemboski
Thru August 8

Gallery 1401
“A Room with Good Light”
Mary Ruth Moore
Thru August 8

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