Posted on Jan 14, 2005

Thursday, Jan. 13, 5 to 7 p.m.
Dyson Hall, the Nott Memorial
Opening reception for “Friends – One Day. One Wrong Turn.”

Thursday, Jan. 13, 7 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Performing arts concert series presents the Korean Traditional Performing Arts
Association, a nine-member ensemble from New
York City performing 
traditional Korean music and dance.

Thursday, Jan. 13, 7 p.m.
Pool, Alumni Gymnasium
Men's and women's swimming vs. Williams

Friday, Jan. 14, 6 p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Women's basketball vs. Rensselaer

Friday, Jan. 14, 7 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Men's hockey vs. Cornell

Friday, Jan. 14, 8 p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Men's basketball vs. Rensselaer

Friday, Jan. 14, through Monday, Jan. 17, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center
Auditorium
Movie: The Forgotten

Saturday, Jan. 15, 2 p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Women's basketball vs. Vassar

Saturday, Jan. 15, 3:30 p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Dedication ceremony

Saturday, Jan. 15, 4 p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center
Men's basketball vs. Vassar

Saturday, Jan. 15, 7 p.m.

Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Men's hockey vs. Colgate

Saturday, Jan. 15, 9 p.m.
Old Chapel
Psychic Fair

Sunday, Jan. 16, 2 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center
Women's hockey vs. Quinnipiac

Monday, Jan. 17, 6 to 7:30 p.m.
Old Chapel
Commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Part of program will focus on King's
legacy and the tsunami relief efforts.

Tuesday, Jan. 18, 6 p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center 
Women's basketball vs. Middlebury

Tuesday, Jan. 18, 8 p.m.
Viniar Athletic Center 
Men's basketball vs. Middlebury

Wednesday, Jan. 19, 4 p.m.
Pool, Alumni Gymnasium
Men's and women's swimming vs. Rensselaer

Thursday, Jan. 20, 5 to 7 p.m.
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial

Opening reception and gallery talk with Walter Hatke, May
I. Baker Professor of Fine Arts. “Walter Hatke: Recent Work” runs through March
13.

Friday, Jan. 21, 7 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center 
Women's hockey vs. St. Lawrence

Friday, Jan. 21, through Monday, Jan. 24, 8 and 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center
Auditorium
Movie: Ladder 49

Saturday, Jan. 22, 2 p.m.
Pool, Alumni Gymnasium
Men's and women's swimming vs. Middlebury

Saturday, Jan. 22, 4 p.m.
Messa Rink at Achilles Center 
Women's hockey vs. St. Lawrence

Posted on Jan 14, 2005

 “Moku Hanga,” the traditional printmaking
technique of Japan, will be
featured in an exhibition by eight woodblock artists living in North America in the College's Burns Arts Atrium Gallery through
Feb. 14.

A
gallery talk is scheduled for Feb.10, at 11 a.m. with April Vollmer, one of the
artists. Other artists are Suezan Aikins, Takuji Hamanaka, Daniel Heyman, Mike
Lyon, Bill Paden, Yasu Shibata, Keji Shinohara.

This
exhibition presents work by contemporary artists outside Japan, accomplished artists who cut
and print their own blocks to make original prints.

The
work of these artists demonstrates the possibilities of hanga woodcut as a
medium for contemporary expression. The exhibit explores a “flexible, non-toxic
printmaking process with a historical and cultural connection to Japan
and to an exciting period in world printmaking.”

Posted on Jan 14, 2005

The opening reception for a show aimed at curbing drunk driving is Thursday, Jan. 13, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Nott Memorial's Dyson Hall.

 “Friends: One Day, One Wrong Turn” chronicles the effects of a November 2000 car crash at Colgate University that claimed the lives of four college students.

The opening will feature remarks by President Roger Hull; Schenectady Police Chief Michael Geraci; Doris Aiken, director of Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID); Denis Foley, exhibit curator; and members of the victims' families.

The show runs Jan. 10 through Feb. 27. For more information, visit http://www.union.edu/N/DS/s.php?s=4956 or call 388-6004.

Posted on Jan 14, 2005

A show of paintings by Walter Hatke, May I. Baker Professor of Fine Arts, in the Nott Memorial's Mandeville Gallery has been extended through May 1.

“Walter Hatke: Recent Work” was to have run through March 13.

Hatke teaches drawing and painting at Union. The exhibition consists of paintings, drawings, and prints completed between 2000 and 2005.

Hatke, who has taught at Union since 1986, earned his bachelor's degree from DePauw University, and his master's and MFA degrees from the University of Iowa. His works have appeared recently in the John Pence Gallery, San Francisco; Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe; and at MB Modern Gallery in New York.

The following poem by Jordan Smith, professor of English, was inspired by Hatke's “Open.” It appears in “A Sketchbook for Walter Hatke” that accompanies the show.

The door to the pew is open, as if a congregant had just
Left a moment ago, slipping quietly outside, as if the sermon
Came a little too close to home, or prayer seemed simpler somewhere
Else, a cigarette sheltered in one hand, out there among the trees,
Where smoke might rise in praise of breath's dispersal into
A fine sky, where someone unexpected might be listening. Still,
The door is open, the emptiness welcoming, and the wood's
Grain is another kind of meaning that has lasted a long time
Despite the rectitude of the white paint, this record of what living
Leaves behind: the fine whorls of the world always, almost
Just gone, and so without end, amen. </I<

Posted on Jan 14, 2005

R. Michaela French, retired director of the Union College
Academy for Lifelong
Learning, thanked colleagues and other friends at her retirement reception on
Dec. 1. She served UCALL for 15 years. “Michaela will
be greatly missed,” a colleague said, “and we wish her a retirement as
fulfilling as her time has been at UCALL.”