Juried Photography Exhibit Opens at Wells College 

The Wells College Art Department announces the opening of its latest exhibit. Simply entitled “Photography - A Juried Competition,” the show will be on display in the String Room Gallery from April 9 through May 8, 2003. The exhibit is free and the public is cordially invited to view the show. An opening reception with refreshments provides an opportunity for artists, photography buffs, and the general public to meet with several of the artists on Wednesday, April 9 from 7:00-9:00 pm in the Gallery.

This exhibit represents the 14th annual juried photo show, on loan from the State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, New York. Each year, more than 50 photographers’ work is chosen for the show. The subject matter covers a broad spectrum and the level of work ranges from amateur to professional. The exhibit is judged by Nicolai Klimaszewksi, chairman of the photography department at Tompkins-Cortland Community College in Dryden, NY. He was named one of the “Top 100 Photographers” by the Ernst Haas International Photography Competition in 1997, and has won other top awards in various exhibitions throughout the Finger Lakes region.

During the opening reception, Robert Doherty will speak briefly about photography and its roots. Doherty is the former director of the Eastman House of Photography in Rochester, New York, and is presently the printer-in-residence at the Wells College Book Arts Center.

The String Room Gallery is located in Main Building on the Aurora campus. Hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. For more information about the photography show and art at Wells College, please contact art professor William Roberts at 315/364-3237.
 

March, 2003

Award Winning Ensemble Performs Early Music on Electric Instruments at Wells College 

The Wells College Music Department is pleased to welcome discontinuo to the Aurora campus. The ensemble will perform at 7:30 pm on Friday night, April 4 in Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall. The concert is free and the public is cordially invited to this special performance. 

discontinuo, an award-winning electric Baroque ensemble, is the result of collaboration between three early music performers who began experimenting with the possibilities of playing 17th and 18th century music on 20th century electric instruments. The trio discovered an apparently endless range of sonic variation that seemed to lend itself perfectly to the kaleidoscope of colors the group uses to bring out the inherent drama and expressiveness of the music.

The group began rehearsing much like today's traditional rock-n-roll garage-bands, and many of the trio's impromptu jam sessions led to highly unique interpretations of pieces that are standard repertoire for many early music groups. However, discontinuo has taken the term “interpretation” a step further by taking some of the raw and gritty effects of current popular styles, and fusing them with music that originally was intended for a more courtly and elegant era two centuries ago.

The band's demo CD was recently featured on Angela Mariani's nationally syndicated early music public radio broadcast Harmonia on a program entitled, "New Music, Early Music" [program #00-42]. Samples of the recording may be found by clicking the "listen" link from discontinuo's home page (http://php.indiana.edu/~mpietran/discontinuo).

discontinuo is Martin Davids on electric violin, G. Victor Penniman on viola da gamba, and keyboardist David G. Yearsley. Davids received his B.M. from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and a Masters degree from the University of Michigan in violin performance. He also earned a Performer Diploma from the Early Music Institute at Indiana University. Davids has performed, among others, with The Toronto Consort, the Rochester Early Music Festival, Publick Musick, La Belle Danse, and Brandywine Baroque, and is a founding member of discontinuo. He currently resides in Chicago.

Violist da gamba, guitarist, award-winning music director and co-founder of discontinuo, G. Victor Penniman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from Marylhurst University near Portland, Oregon, and a Masters of Music in historical musicology from Florida State University. He is currently completing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Operation of Early Music Programs, with minors in music history and conducting, at the Indiana University School of Music’s Early Music Institute. He was music director for the Tygre's Heart Shakespeare Company in Portland Oregon, and has performed with The Oregon Renaissance Band, the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, the Waverly Baroque Ensemble, the Tallahassee Bach Parley, and countless other individual projects and performances. He has also studied Indian classical music in the Hindustani tradition. Victor is currently a visiting instructor of music at Wells College.

David Yearsley was educated at Harvard and Stanford, where he received his Ph.D. in music history. Since winning first prize at the 1994 Bruges Early Music Festival, Yearsley has enjoyed an active recital career throughout the United States and Europe as an organist, harpsichordist, and clavichordist.  His scholarly work has appeared in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Music & Letters, Early Music, and the Journal of 17th Century Music.  His book, Bach and the Meanings of Counterpoint, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.  His latest recording, The Great Contest: Bach, Scarlatti, Handel, is available on the Loft label. A member of discontinuo and the synthesizer trio, Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Company, Yearsley teaches at Cornell University.

For more information about discontinuo and the concert, please contact Victor Penniman at 315/364-3346. 

March, 2003

Lettering Artist Presents Slide Lecture at Wells College

The Wells College Book Arts Center is pleased to announce that Suzanne Moore will present this spring's Susan Garretson Swartzburg '60 Memorial Book Arts Lecture at Wells College. The lecture, entitled "Everything Begins with A: Alphabets, Architecture, and the Art of the Book," will be given at 8:00 pm on Monday, March 31 in the Art Exhibit Room of Macmillan Hall on the Aurora campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Ms. Moore’s slide lecture will focus on selections from her 20-year career as a designer, painter, lettering artist and collaborative bookmaker. The Book Arts Center will host a reception in Morgan Hall immediately after the lecture so that guests may see a display of Ms. Moore’s work and speak with her informally. 

Suzanne Moore is a lettering artist and designer who combines contemporary vision with traditional scribal techniques, painting and drawing in manuscript books, limited edition books, and broadsides. Subjects of Suzanne’s painting and drawings include Sequoyah and the Cherokee writing system, the history and spirituality of gardening, and non-Latin alphabets. Ms. Moore has taught lettering and arts-related subjects throughout the United States and in Europe, Hong Kong and Japan. Her work is exhibited widely, and her manuscript books have been acquired for major private and public collections in the United States and Europe, including the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; The Library of Congress; the James S. Copley Library, La Jolla, California; and the special collections of Harvard University, Wellesley and Smith Colleges.

Suzanne currently art directs the lettering design and font design group at American Greetings in Cleveland, Ohio, and she is one of seven artists (and one of only two Americans) illuminating with gold leaf the St. John’s Bible, a manuscript Bible commissioned by the Benedictine St. John’s Abbey, in Collegeville, Minnesota. This monumental work is overseen by Donald Jackson at his scriptorium in Wales, UK.

The lecture series is made possible through the Heiland-Garretson Book Arts Lecture Fund, established by Susan Garretson Swartzburg '60 and sustained through the generosity of her family.

For more information about this event, please contact the Wells Book Arts Center by phone at 315/364-3420 or by email at bookartscenter@wells.edu, or visit us on the Internet at
http://aurora.wells.edu/~wbac/bookarts/index.html.

March, 2003

Wells College Hosts Lesléa Newman, Writer
Author focuses on the transgender experience and butch/femme relationships

Wells College welcomes author Lesléa Newman to campus on Tuesday, April 1. Newman’s appearance is sponsored by the Wells College English, Psychology, and Women’s Studies departments, as well as by the Visiting Writers Series and LBQTA, among others. Her lecture, entitled “Girls Will Be Boys!” is scheduled for 12:00 noon in the Art Exhibit Room in Macmillan Hall. The event is free and the public is invited to attend. 

Ms. Newman is the author of over 40 volumes, including Heather Has Two Mommies and Out of the Closet and Nothing to Wear. The themes for several of her books are based on lesbian identity, Jewish identity, and the intersection and conflicts between these two identities. Ms. Newman also explores issues surrounding AIDS, eating disorders, sexual abuse, and butch/femme relationships. Ms. Newman is a popular guest lecturer, and has spoken at numerous colleges and universities including Harvard University, Smith College, and the University of Judaism. She also attended in 1984 a series of Women's Writing Workshops taught by Kathryn Machan Aal in Aurora.

For more information about Lesléa Newman’s lecture on the Wells College campus, please contact Professor Victoria Muñoz at 315-364-3248. There is also information at Ms. Newman’s website at www.lesleanewman.com.  To arrange an interview or photo session with Ms. Newman, please contact Gwen Webber-McLeod, director of communications, at 315-364-3260. 

March, 2003

President Ryerson Honored with National Award

Girls Incorporated of Central New York has named President Lisa Marsh Ryerson as the recipient of their national Expanding Your Horizons award. The award will be presented on March 26 at the annual Spirit of American Women dinner. This event builds on the strength, wisdom, and resources of the honorees and supporters, ensuring that girls are not alone in their quest to become strong, smart, and bold. 

President Ryerson was selected for her national leadership of the Women’s College Coalition Board of Directors as well as her commitment to gender equity in education and society, teachings about women in leadership, and commitment to carving out a new and exciting future for the students at Wells. 

President Ryerson will appear as a guest on the Syracuse-based television show "Women's Voices" on March 11 to discuss her selection as the national Girls Inc. honoree and the Spirit of American Women dinner.  She will focus on the importance of positive female role models for girls. 

An outstanding list of nationally recognized women have also received the national Girls Inc. award: former First Lady Barbara Bush; former Secretary of Health and Human Services, Donna Shalala; and former White House Bureau Chief for UPI Helen Thomas.

March, 2003

Digital Image Art Exhibit Opens at Wells College 

The Wells College Art Department is pleased to welcome Rochester artist Ronald Broida to the Aurora campus. Broida’s large digital images will be on display in the String Room Gallery from March 5 - April 4, 2003. The exhibit is free and the public is cordially invited to view the show. An opening reception with refreshments provides an opportunity to meet the artist on Wednesday, March 5 from 7:00-9:00 pm in the Gallery.

A 1973 graduate of RIT’s School of Art and Design, Ron Broida worked in traditional media until his transition to the digital medium 18 years ago. Photography, both digital and film, continues to be an important component as well. Broida’s work is represented in several private collections and in the permanent collection of the Rochester Institute of Technology. His most recent exhibition was in March 2002 at the Center at High Falls Fine Art Gallery in Rochester.

String Room Gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Wednesday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. For more information about Broida and the show, please contact art professor William Roberts at 315/364-3237.

March, 2003

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