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March Is Women’s History Month!
The Women and Gender Studies Program Is Celebrating with these 2015 Arts Alive Events:
March 9
Into Blue: Poetry and Piano (A Collaboration)
Margaret Kasper Reed’73 and Gwen Beck
Stephans Lounge, Meier Hall
7pm
March 16
Meet the Artists
Lobby, Gannett-Tripp Library
4:30 pm
Art Alumna Angela Niforatos’10 and the winner of the
2nd Annual Juried Art Show for Elmira College students
- Alexandra Hood'15 - will talk about their work.
March 18
Inappropriate References: A Lecture on Art
Alex Hood’15
Tripp Lecture Hall, Gannett-Tripp Library
10:30 am
Using slides to illustrate her own and other artists’ works, art student
Alex Hood ’15 will discuss how the works of Renoir and O’Keefe
have inspired and influenced her as an artist.
March 18
Elmira College Presidential Lecture Series Speaker:
Klaudia Kovács, Documentary Filmmaker
Moderator: George de Falussy
Gibson Theatre, Emerson Hall
5:00 p.m
Hungarian director Klaudia Kovács presents a
screening and discussion of her multi-award-winning
documentary Torn from the Flag, a 2007 film
about the international decline of communism
and the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The film encompasses the tense
Cold War era and presents the rivalry of the superpowers during
that time.The film has been hailed as the ‘most successful
documentary in Hungarian film history.’
March 20
Odalisque: A Brief History of the Reclining Nude
Chris Longwell
Tripp Lecture Hall, Gannett-Tripp Library
10:30 a.m.
Nude figures have been a staple in the art of the Western world.
This lecture examines the traditions of nudity in art starting with antiquity,
focusing on the reclining nude as a popular subject from the late Renaissance
to mid nineteenth century.
March 30
Poetry Reading
Dr. Mary Jo Mahoney
Tifft Lounge, Campus Center
7:00 p.m.
This event features Mary Jo Mahoney (M.F.A. Sarah Lawrence College, Ph.D. University of Houston),
Heather Bartlett ’04 (B.A. Elmira College, MFA Hunter College) and
Yvonne Murphy (M.A., New York University, Ph.D. University of Houston, Author of Aviaries, Carolina Wren Press, 2011).
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