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Thursday, October 19, 2006
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In This Issue:
Susquehanna String Band Contradance
Satoru Hoshino Beginning Form -- Spiral Reception Political Science Club meeting
Free money from RHC!
Dedications -- Perlman Hall & Equestrian Center 'Ornament Now' opens at the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery Art opening and talk: 'Land-Tracking-Land'
Chamber Singers & the Susquehanna String Band Women's Money Workshop$- Register Now!
Amazing Women's Restorative Retreat!
Join Alfred Ski and Snowboard Club
Business Office Cashiering/Student Accts limited Business Office Accounts Payable function limited Graduate & Professional School Fair
Math Club talk
Interested in being an RA?
Visiting Artist and Scholar - Buzz Spector Lights, camera, fashion! -- 'Project Runway'
AWE Hardcore Halloween Preview #1 (scroll down) RA? BUS 101 - You can still enroll!
Create bistro-style salads with Ruben Santiago
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Susquehanna String Band Contradance
Event Date: 10/19/2006 Event Time: 8 p.m.
Location: Miller 301
They're Back! The Susquehanna String Band will be in residence with the Music Department on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 19 & 20.
The Band will present the Bergren Forum -- "Skip to my Lou Goes Global" -- on Thursday, st 12:10 p.m. in Nevins Theater (bring a brown bag lunch; coffee and tea will be available), then teach some clogging in Fundamentals of Dance in (Miller 300 from 3:20-4:35 p.m.
The day culminates with a Contra/Square Dance in Room 301 Miller (note change of place) beginning at 8 p.m. The dance is free to students with a goodwill donation being accepted from faculty, staff
and community. Come and kick up your heels!
The Susquehanna String Band is comprised of Rick Bunting, banjo, concertina and vocals; John Kirk, fiddle, guitar, banjo and vocals; and Dan Duggen, award winning hammer dulcimer player. They will demonstrate how musical styles vary between cultures and evolve over time.
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Satoru Hoshino Beginning Form -- Spiral Reception
Event Date: 10/19/2006 Event Time: 4:30-6 p.m.
Location: Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art
Come join us for a public reception with the artist. We are located on the top floor of Binns-Merrill Hall. Refreshments will be served.
And don't forget the slide presentation by Satoru Hoshino on Friday, Oct. 20 at 4:30 p.m. in Binns- Merrill Room 106.
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Political Science Club meeting
Event Date: 10/19/2006 Event Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Olin 309
The Political Science Club will meet again on Thursday, Oct. 19, at 6:30 p.m. Among other items on the agenda is a discussion about the upcoming November elections. Please join us!
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Free money from RHC!
Event Date: 10/19/2006 Event Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Cannon Lounge (10/12), Reimer Lounge (10/19), Barresi Lounge (10/26)
Want free money for your club or residence hall? Come to RHC this Thursday night, make a proposal, and RHC can help you make Alfred a brighter place!
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Dedications -- Perlman Hall & Equestrian Center
On Friday, Oct. 20, the University will host two dedications -- Perlman Hall (formerly Allen Hall) and The Bromeley-Daggett Equestrian Center at The Maris Cuneo Equine Park.
I would like to extend an invitation to all faculty and staff to join me and the Board of Trustees as we dedicate these facilities. The dedication ceremony for the newly renovated Perlman Hall will begin at 12:45 p.m. in front of Perlman Hall. Later that day, The Equestrian Center will be dedicated at 5:30 p.m. at the Center on Lake Road, Alfred. Tours and refreshments will be provided at both sites.
Charles M. Edmondson President
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'Ornament Now' opens at the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery
Event Date: 10/20/06 Event Time: 6-8 p.m.
Location: Fosdick-Nelson Gallery
"Ornament Now," an exhibition of painting and ceramics, opens at the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at Alfred University on Friday, Oct. 20, 2006. The exhibition, curated by Lise Lemeland and Sanam Emami, two faculty from the School of Art and Design, brings together five painters and five ceramicists whose work incorporates aspects of ornament in the contemporary culture. The artists include Nancy Blum, Rebecca Catterall, Glenn Goldberg, Jason Green, Lise Lemeland, Matthew Metz, Charlotte Nicholson, Jeanne Quinn, Dan Sutherland, and Robert Rahway Zakanitch.
"Ornament Now" will be on display until Friday, Dec. 1, 2006. There will be an opening reception on Oct. 20, from 6-8 p.m. The public is welcomed to attend.
The Fosdick-Nelson Gallery is located in Harder Hall in the School of Art and Design; open hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, 1 to 3 p.m. on weekends, and closed University holidays. For more information, contact Sharon McConnell, Director of the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery at 607.871.2149, [email protected].
The exhibition was inspired in part by James Trilling, art historian and author, who visited Alfred University in the fall of 2005 as a Dorothy Perkins Lecturer. In his book entitled "Ornament: A Modern Perspective," he states "Ornament is a specific word for a specific thing, yet it cuts across all the arts.
It is the art we add to art; shapes and patterns worked into an object or building for the pleasure of outline, color or fantasy. Often ornament is so familiar as to work subliminally, a kind of visual background music. Sometimes, unpredictably, it claims our full attention."
Clay and paint are materials that come from the same source, and yet are rarely exhibited together.
This exhibition is an opportunity to emphasize the interplay between the two media. The curators chose artists who are attempting to articulate ideas that have common ground, yet are visually and aesthetically different. The works expand traditional notions of ornament while celebrating and acknowledging the splendor of its rich history.
Zakanitch's paintings of pendants and bracelets have a physicality and immediacy of gesture that broaden our perception of beauty and decoration. Charlotte Nicholson's large paintings are comprised of over one thousand leaves of twenty-four carat gold. The surfaces-- slowly built up from a single repeated miniscule mark-transform into a radiating, atmospheric field of gold.
The ceramic artists play with color, shape and repetition as image and surface, and also system and structure. Jeanne Quinn's Rorschach Curtain is comprised of small rigid forms that appear light and fluid and hangs from the ceiling. The silhouette of the ceramic curtain is reflected in a painted panel on the wall. The piece explores ornament as structure and as a window between the wall and the gallery. Matthew Metz explores ornament and decoration on functional pottery. He writes, "While I resist applying direct narrative and literal definition to my iconography, the patterns and images I choose come from my life and experience. Interest in the natural sciences (evolutionary biology, ethology) and history (archaeology, physical culture) find there way, obliquely, into the work."
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Art opening and talk: 'Land-Tracking-Land'
Event Date: 10/20/2006 Event Time: 7-10 p.m.
Location: Rochester Contemporary (RoCo)
You are invited to the opening of "Land-Tracking-Land," an exhibition curated by Alfred Alumni, Aaron Miller & Monica Duncan, featuring works that examines artists' interpretations of cityscape, landscape and architecture.
The show includes work by School of Art & Design alumni, faculty, and current students.
Link for more information: http://www.rochestercontemporary.org/
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Chamber Singers & the Susquehanna String Band
Event Date: 10/20/2006 Event Time: 8 p.m.
Location: St. Jude's Chapel, Alfred State Campus
Join the AU Chamber Singers and the Susquehanna String Band for the premier of "October Country"
for choir and string band. The new works, composed by Laurence Tallman and commissioned especially for the Chamber Singers, will be featured in a concert of traditional music by the string band, John Kirk -- fiddle, guitar, mandoline, banjo & vocals, Rick Bunting -- banjo, lap dulcimer, concertina & vocals and Dan Duggan -- hammer dulcimer and guitar.
Come and enjoy an evening of new and old tunes that will get your toes tapping and your hands clapping!
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Women's Money Workshop$- Register Now!
The Liberating Power of $ Women's Money Workshop I:
Thursday, Nov. 2, 3-5 p.m. at the WLC in the Commons Building.
A professional financial planner will tell us how to minimize debt, maximize savings, and invest wisely.
Reserve by Friday, Oct. 27 at [email protected] or call 607.871.2971.
Grant Writing
Women's Money Workshop II:
Friday, Nov. 3, 3-5 p.m. at the WLC in the Commons Building.
Learn the powerful skill of grant writing, critical for success in any field. Taught by AU's own Sylvia Bryant, Vice President of University Relations. Reserve by Friday, Oct. 27 at [email protected] or call 607.871.2971.
Also, don't forget a related workshop from the CDC: Grants and Residencies Information Session, Friday, Oct. 20 at 3:30 p.m. - Career Development Center Training Room. Attention: All students! Are you interested in learning more about applying for grants and artist residency programs to help you continue making art? If so, this info session will explain how they work, how to navigate the application process, and how to find them.
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Amazing Women's Restorative Retreat!
Event Date: 10/28/2006 Event Time: 1-5 p.m.
Location: Women's Leadership Center
Learn the restorative power of silence, and techniques to improve self esteem. Roko Sherry Chayat, a master of Zen meditation, will guide this retreat where we learn to nurture ourselves. Highlights Include: Increase Inner Wellness, Decrease Stress, Introduction to Meditation, Develop a Positive Self Image. REGISTER BY OCT. 20! There is no charge for this event.
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Join Alfred Ski and Snowboard Club
If you would like a season pass to Holiday Valley, join the AU Ski and Snowboard Club. There is a variety of passes/packages to choose from. Email Melissa Van Winkle [email protected], Erik Jezek [email protected], or Al Garr [email protected] for information or forms. Deadline is October 20.Also, if you'd like to go to Jay Peak in Vermont for Spring break, email us.
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Business Office Cashiering/Student Accts limited
With the Banner system down for upgrades on Monday, Oct. 23 and Tuesday, Oct. 24, cashiering functions for Business Office in Carnegie Hall, and Student Service Center/Student Accounts in Seidlin Hall, will be limited to handwritten manual receipts on those days. The transactions will not be entered into Banner until Wednesday, Oct. 25. Please bring all cashiering transactions in on Friday, Oct. 20 or wait until Wednesday.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact [email protected] or [email protected]. Thanks for your understanding during this transition.
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Business Office Accounts Payable function limited
With the Banner 7 system down for upgrades on Monday, October 23rd and Tuesday, October 24th.
There will not be another check run until Wednesday, October 25th.
Thanks for your understanding during this transition.
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Graduate & Professional School Fair
Event Date: 10/24/2006 Event Time: Noon-2 p.m.
Location: Powell Campus Center Knight Club GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL FAIR
Tuesday, Oct. 24tfrom Noon to 2 p.m. in the Knight Club.
Over 60 programs covering all majors are registered to attend!
For questions and additional information, please contact Mark McFadden at 871.2164 or by e-mail at [email protected].
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Math Club talk
Event Date: 10/25/2006 Event Time: 12:20-1:10 p.m.
Location: Myers Hall, room 227
The 2006 AU Putnam Team will present "The Rook Tour." Pizza and drinks will be served. All are welcome.
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Interested in being an RA?
BE THE DIFFERENCE
Interested in becoming a Resident Assistant?
Applications are available to be picked up in the Office of Residence Life in Bartlett Hall.
The deadline for applications is Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006 at 4 p.m.
If you have any questions please contact Claire Gonyo in the Office of Residence Life at 871-2186 or by emailing [email protected].
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Visiting Artist and Scholar - Buzz Spector
Event Date: 10/25,26
Event Time: Wednesday 6 p.m., Thursday 4:30 p.m.
Location: Wednesday, Room C Binns; Thursday, Nevins Auditorium
Buzz Spector will be coming to campus Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 25 and 26, to give two lectures and hold studio visits with graduate students.
Spector is an artist and critical writer. His work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory, and perception.
He has exhibited nationally and internationally, in such museums and galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA.
He has contributed numerous critical essays and reviews for publications, including American Craft, Artforum, Art Issues, Dialogue, Exposure, New Art Examiner, and Visions. Spector is professor and chair of the Department of Art at Cornell University.
Lecture: "Genre Art in a Post Generic Age"
Wednesday, Oct. 25, 6 p.m., Room C, Binns-Merrill Artist Lecture: Thursday, Oct. 26, 4:30 p.m., Nevins Auditorium, Powell Campus Center
For more information contact Sharon McConnell at: [email protected] Link for more information: http://[email protected]
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Lights, camera, fashion! -- 'Project Runway'
Lights, camera, fashion! "Project Runway" winner Jay McCarroll will be on campus Friday, Oct. 27 and Saturday, Oct. 28. McCarroll's stay will coincide with a fashion contest sponsored by the University and will also include a public forum in which McCarroll will discuss his career in the fashion industry.
"Project Runway" is a reality television series on the Bravo Network that focuses on fashion design.
On Friday, Oct. 27, McCarroll will serve as one of five judges for the first annual "Alfred Runway"
competition. Teams of three or four Alfred students will be asked to design and construct an outfit for the following-night's dance, Glam Slam. Teams interested in participating are asked to contact Kevin Jacobs, career adviser, at [email protected] or 607.871.2164. Participation is limited 20 groups, so enter quickly. The prize for the winning team has yet to be revealed but may include some exclusive fashion-related gifts.
The Friday program is free, open to the public, and will begin at 9 p.m. at Susan Howell Hall on the Alfred University campus.
Jacobs will host "Career Conversation" with McCarroll as guest on Saturday, Oct. 28, at 2 p.m. in the Powell Campus Center's Nevins Theater. Talk will likely focus on McCarroll's experiences in the fashion industry as well as a question-and-answer session. This event also is free and open to the public.
The annual dance, presented by Spectrum, has a long history of outrageous apparel and this year touts a fairytale theme. The challenge: "Create a clothing design that integrates the outrageousness of Glam Slam, the whimsy of fairy tales, and the uniqueness of Alfred. The final product should be prepared for a long night of dancing at the Glam Slam 'Return to Fairy Land,' as it will be worn by the most envied attendee at the event." Expect to see the newly created fashion designs at the Saturday night Glam Slam, which begins at 9 p.m. in the Powell Campus Center's Knight Club. Organizers anticipate McCarroll will also be present.
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AWE Hardcore Halloween Preview #1 (scroll down)
Event Date: 10/28/2006 Event Time: 8 p.m.
Location: AWE Arena (aka Davis Gym)
Coming Saturday, Oct. 28 at AWE Hardcore Halloween: AWE World Hardcore Wrestling Champion Ricochet vs. Phil Holliday
Ever since Phil Holliday won the number-one contendership to Ricochet's World Hardcore Wrestling Championship last month, much has been made of the many contrasts between the combatants.
Champion Ricochet is a rapper from the ROC who's gained success both in the ring and on the mic.
What the champion lacks in experience he makes up for in his determination to compete.
His opponent Phil Holliday is a proud Texan who has succeeded at every level of the sport and makes sure everyone knows it. He'll eat his ten-gallon hat before he ever listens to Hot 97, that's for sure.
These polar opposites are alike only in their desire to become World Hardcore Champion: a dream that can be achieved by only one. Who will win this battle of rap versus country, of rookie versus veteran, of fan favorite versus rulebreaker? The answer will come on October 28 at AWE Hardcore Halloween.
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RA? BUS 101 - You can still enroll!
BUS 101 - Campus Life and Leadership is a 1 credit B block class. If you're interested in becoming an RA and going through the RA selection process, BUS 101 is a prerequisite for obtaining an RA position.
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Create bistro-style salads with Ruben Santiago
Event Date: 10/30/2006 Event Time: 6.30 pm - 9.00pm
Location: Wellsville Creative Arts Center
Hands-on cooking class with Ruben Santiago, head chef of The Main Street Bistro in Cuba. Class is limited to10 persons; sign up now to ensure a space! We will prepare bistro-style salads with homemade dressings. Cost is $70 per person. To register please visit our Web site at
www.WellsvilleCreativeArtsCenter.com. call us at 585.593.3000, or stop by at 124 North Main Street in Wellsville.
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