Infinite Images: at the Mandeville, through May 6, 2007
The Mandeville Gallery at Union College will be having a final closing reception and Gallery talk for the “Infinite Images: Technologies of Printmaking and Beyond” exhibit Thursday, May 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. Assistant Professor of Visual Arts David Ogawa will lead the talk and closing reception. Refreshments will also be provided.
The closing reception and gallery talk is free and open to the public.
Ogawa was co-curator of the exhibit along with Rachel Seligman, director of the Mandeville Gallery and curator of the permanent collection at Union. Stephanie Berlind ’09 was also integral to establishing this exhibit which displays some of Union’s greatest treasures.
Berlind, for whom the exhibit has become a sophomore research project, will also present a gallery talk on Friday, May 4 at 3:30 p.m.
The “Infinite Images” collection has been on display in the Nott Memorial since February 22 and includes prints and photographs from the Permanent Collections and Special Collections of Schaffer Library. The exhibit will end at the close of business on Sunday, May 6.
The $4 million transformation of North Colonnade into the Taylor Music Center was celebrated Saturday evening with a musical ceremony and dinner.
James W. Taylor '66, at left, and John E. Taylor '74 cut the ceremonial ribbon in the Fred L. Emerson Auditorium at the Taylor Music Center. The brothers donated $1.4 million to support the renovation project.
The festivities began shortly after 5 p.m. in the Fred L. Emerson Auditorium, a 100-seat hall that anchors the new center. Brothers James W. Taylor ’66 and John E. Taylor ’74 donated $1.4 million for the renovation and the Fred L. Emerson Foundation made a $500,000 grant. A plaque noting those donors and others including the Male and Pedowitz families now hangs in the building.
President Stephen C. Ainlay spoke briefly during an hour-long ceremony that included performances from the College’s Jazz Ensemble, Choir and Orchestra.
College Relations hosted a champagne reception and dinner for donors, College officials, faculty and students.
The College's Jazz Ensemble practices in the Fred L. Emerson Auditorium.
Students and faculty began classes on Jan. 3 in the Taylor Music Center.
Emerson Auditorium is equipped with teaching space and state-of-the-art recording technology. Music Department Chair Tim Olsen has been teaching in Emerson Auditorium and led a jazz performance there on Monday, April 30, that included jazz trumpeter and composer Chris Rogers.
Surrounding the performance hall are practice rooms, high-tech classrooms and faculty offices.
"It’s a beautiful, functional building,'' said Hilary Tann, the John Howard Payne Professor of Music and former department chair. "But it has a little extra. It has grace. It has elegance. It has the latest technology, whether it be the music stands or the Steinway B or the music tech studio. We are beyond fine. We really are.”
The practice rooms and offices house 13 new pianos purchased by the College to replace the old pianos and electronic keyboards. Made by Steinway and Sons and valued at more than $200,000, the pianos will give the College a prestigious ranking as an All-Steinway School.
The Taylors own the Gloversville, N.Y.-based Taylor Made Group, a leader in the boating industry, manufacturing windshields and supplying after-market products.
“We’re both interested in supporting music and the arts at Union and feel that’s a fitting place for our gift,” said John Taylor, who majored in computer science and also studied psychology. His son Bryan is a member of the Class of 2008.
The North Colonnade, located in the campus’ historic Ramée section, was constructed in 1815, made into a physics laboratory in 1852 and renovated again in 1977, according to a plaque on the corner of the building.
Acclaimed American novelist Walter Mosley, most widely recognized for his crime fiction, comes to campus Wednesday, May 9, as part of the new, parent-sponsored Minerva Dessert and Discussion series.
Mosley had to postpone his scheduled appearance at the College last month after he became ill.
Mosley will give a lecture, “Bearing Witness,” at 7 p.m. in the Nott Memorial. A discussion and book signing will follow at 8. The talk is free and open to the public.
Mosley is a featured writer on campus. The Sorum Book Club is reading “The Man in My Basement,” a novel about race, power and identity that Mosley has described as “a meeting between evil and innocence,” while the English Department is focusing on Mosley’s new book, “This Year You Will Write Your Novel.”
Mosley, who is black and Jewish, is the award-winning author of the best-selling mysteries featuring Easy Rawlins, a black private investigator and World War II veteran living in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. He also has written non-mystery fiction, afrofuturist science fiction and non-fiction politics.
The new Minerva discussion series is designed to encourage creative thinking related to events of the day. Future guests will cover topics ranging from arts and athletics to physics, engineering and classical civilizations.
Michael Pinsky, professor of Literature and Popular Culture at University of South Florida, will speak on “Great Big Beautiful Tomorrows: A Century of Theme Park Utopias,” Thursday, May 10, 7 p.m., in F.W. Olin Center 115. A reception will follow in the Olin Rotunda.
Pinsky is the first of four guest lecturers this term sponsored by the Michael S. Rapaport ’59 Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative. A two-day symposium is also slated. For more information, visit http://ethics.union.edu/.
Thursday, May 17, is the deadline for proposals for the Internal Education Foundation in two categories. Proposals for student-initiated research projects must have the written approval of a faculty advisor. Submit them to Mary K. Carroll, director of Undergraduate Research (Science & Engineering, S-100). Application forms are available there, or on the Web at http://www.union.edu/Academics/AcademicAffairs. Direct all questions to Carroll at carrollm@union.edu.
Those with educationally innovative proposals should submit them to David Hayes, interim dean of Arts & Sciences (S&E, S-100) on forms available there or at http://www.union.edu/Academics/AcademicAffairs. Direct questions to Hayes at hayesd@union.edu.
FRF, HDF proposals
The Research and Grants Committee is soliciting proposals for faculty research and scholarship proposals, also by May 17. Applications and guidelines are available in the Office of Dean of Arts and Sciences (S&E, S-100) or at http://www.union.edu/Academics/AcademicAffairs. Questions about the Faculty Research Fund and the Humanities Development Fund go to Dean Hayes. All research that includes work with human subjects must have preliminary approval from the Human Subjects Research Committee.
