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Sunday, October 11, 2015
7:10 PM - 8:10 PM	Catholic Mass Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Cost: 0 Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Catholic Mass is celebrated on campus at 7:00 pm on Sundays in the Blue and Gold Welcome Center. Link: www.umassdcatholics.com Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
« 10/8 - 10/29 »	A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall). Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form. Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile. Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans. Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and CÃ³digo. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
Monday, October 12, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM	457/SMART Plan Rep on Campus Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Get information on your SMART plan investment options with a confidential one-to-one appointment with a Retirement Plan Counselor. To arrange an appointment contact Vito DeSimone on: 401.439.3715. or email vito.desimone@empower-retirement.com Location: CCB 306 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Columbus Day Holiday - no classes Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Columbus Day, no classes today. Link: http://www1.umassd.edu/calendar/academic_calendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
« 10/8 - 10/29 »	A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall). Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form. Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile. Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans. Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and CÃ³digo. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Types and Formats of Data, Contextual Details & OpenRefine Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 128 Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The Claire T. Carney Library is pleased to offer the Data Management Workshop Series for the fall semester, co-taught by librarians Zac Painter, Dawn Gross, and Liz Winiarz. The course will cover essential topics in data management and provide hands-on experience with some tools for working with your research data. The course is free and is open to all faculty, staff, and students of UMassD. A course outline is listed below; all courses will take place in LIB-128 from 3:00pm-4:00pm on Tuesdays in October. October 06: Overview of Data Management & the DMPTool October 13: Types and Formats of Data, Contextual Details & OpenRefine October 20: Data Storage and Security, Repositories and Archiving & Git/GitHub October 27: Legal and Ethical Issues, Data Sharing & the Open Movement (Open Data, Open Source, Open Access, Open Educational Resources) Further course information will be provided on the wiki, http://dataworkshop.umassd.wikispaces.net/Welcome You do not have to attend each course in the sequence, but you are requested to bring your own laptop for each session as we will be demonstrating the applications in a hands-on fashion, which requires installing the software ahead of time. If you need assistance installing the software, please either come a few minutes early to a session or contact one of the instructors before to get help. If you wish to attend please register through the calendar of events. Please contact Zac Painter (zpainter@umassd.edu, x8886) with questions. Link: http://dataworkshop.umassd.wikispaces.net/Welcome Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/30 - 10/14 »	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Sigma Theta Tau International, Inc. Honor Society of Nursing Location: Claire T. Carney Library , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: College of Nursing Description: Presents an evening focusing on elderly care in our hospitals and community Featuring Louise Sullivan, PhD, ANP-BC Thriving: Explicating for Elder Residents in Long-Term Care Followed by a panel discussion on The state of elderly care in Massachusetts Moderated by Paula Walsh, MSN, RN, GNP, UMASS Dartmouth with Peg Pfeiffer, MSN, RN, CS - Administrative Director, Geriatric Psychiatry Program, St. Anneâ€™s Hospital Grace Dotson, RN, MS, CMAC â€“ Direct Care Coordinator, Southcoast Hospitals Group Wednesday, October 21, 2015 6:00-8:00 pm At the Claire T. Carney Library, UMASS Dartmouth Room 207 (second floor) (Park in lot 13) It is anticipated this program will be eligible for one (1) Continuing Education Contact Hour through MassBORN Please RSVP by email to MSchuler@umassd.edu or at 774-263-0918 by Oct 14. Registration Fee: Students $5.00; Members $10.00; Non-members $15.00 Please pay by cash, check, or credit card at the door Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, College of Nursing
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Catholic Mass - Law School Location: > See description for location Cost: 0 Contact: Catholic Campus Ministry Description: Mass is celebrated at the UMass Law School on Tuesdays at 12:00 noon in Room 116. Link: www.umassdcatholics.com Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Religious & Spiritual, Center for Religious and Spiritual Life
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Internship Info Session Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Want to do an internship? for credit? not for credit? paid? unpaid? Come to this session to learn how to get started. Preregister on CareerLink via the UMD portal or call the Career Development Center for more information at 508.999.8658. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Career Development Center
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Follow Monday's class schedule Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Follow Monday's schedule. Link: http://www1.umassd.edu/calendar/academic_calendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM	Flu Clinic Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Flu vaccinations will be offered in the Commuter Cafeteria to all students, faculty and staff. The $30 fee is covered by most health insurances. Bring your insurance card. Sponsored by Student Health Services. Topical Areas: University Community
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Internship Info Session Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Want to do an internship? for credit? not for credit? paid? unpaid? Come to this session to learn how to get started. Preregister on CareerLink via the UMD portal or call the Career Development Center for more information at 508.999.8658. Topical Areas: Faculty, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, Career Development Center
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
« 10/8 - 10/29 »	A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall). Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form. Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile. Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans. Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and CÃ³digo. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Introduction to Filemaker Pro Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 226 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: This workshop provides an introduction to Filemaker Pro. Participants create a database, define fields, and create basic layouts, including labels. Filemaker’s data entry, find and sort features are covered in detail. Importing and exporting data, and creation of value lists are also introduced. No previous Filemaker Pro experience is needed. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today! Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
« 9/30 - 9:00 AM	CANCELLED: Blending Learning: Finding the Mix Location: Online Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This online workshop focuses on blended learning strategies and developing faculty abilities to successfully integrate online components of a course with face-to-face components Faculty are invited to engage in a 10 day asynchronous workshop designed to introduce blended learning techniques and facilitate faculty planning of a blended course. The workshop includes a focus on assessment to help faculty not only assess student learning outcomes, but also to assess how well the “blend” works to facilitate student learning. Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Blended+Learning Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Procard/Reallocation Training Location: CCB 115 Contact: Purchasing Description: Description: How do you get a procard? What is reallocation? Can I buy this using my procard? Learn the policies and procedures of the university procurement card program and the importance of proper reallocations and statement reconciliation. Please contact Nadine Rodriguez with any questions at nadine.rodriguez@umassd.edu Link: http://www.umassd.edu/admin_finance/departments/administrativeservices/purchasing/procurementcardprogram/ Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Finance, topic: Human Resources
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM	Workshop: Predatory Publishers: How to Spot Them! Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: Come to join our librarian Elizabeth Winiarz for a discussion about open access publishing and how to identify and avoid predatory publishers. We will also examine some of the new open access publishing models in all subject fields. Lunch will be served; if you wish to attend, please register through the Events calendar on UMD website. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM	VALIC Financial Advisor on Campus Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Multiple 45 minute appointments are available and provided on a first come first serve basis. Comprehensive financial planning services are complimentary and open to Valic and Non-VaIic clients. Additional appointments are available; please email kenneth.knopf@valic.com directly or by phone at 617-852-6233 for details. Appointments will be held in CCB room 306. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM	Safe Zone Training Location: > See description for location Cost: Free Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality Description: Safe Zone Training is designed to increase awareness, knowledge, and support of LGBTQ people and issues. The training was also established to build a visible support network of LGBTQ Allies at UMass Dartmouth and to improve campus climate for LGBTQ individuals. During the course of this training attendees will participate in activities and be provided with material involving homophobia, transphobia, heterosexism, and cissexism and will learn skills on how to actively support those who identify as LGBTQ regardless of societal oppression. At the end of the training participants will be provided with a sticker to display that they have completed the training and that their office is an LGBTQ Safe Zone on campus. Safe Zone Training is open to Students, Staff, and Faculty. Participants must register prior to the training and will then be given the location of the training. To register email Kendra Tomase at k.tomase@umassd.edu or call the Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality at 508.910.6567 Location to be determined Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM	Faculty/Staff Mindfulness Meditation Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: Weekly meeting for faculty and staff to practice mindfulness meditation. Contact: Aminda O'Hare 508.999.8761 aohare@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM	MetLife Representative on Campus Location: > See description for location Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: A MetLife representative will be located outside of the University Club Campus Center to discuss discounted auto and home insurance options. These plan payments are available through a direct payroll deduction for UMD employees. For more information, please contact Rafael Guimaraes at rguimaraes@metlife.com or 508-823-1234 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Seminar - Dr. Sergey Savinov- UMass Amherst Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 206 Cost: FREE Contact: Chemistry & Biochemistry Department Description: TITLE: Using Synthetic and Biosynthetic Collections of Small Molecules to Discover Unique Modulators of Protein Function CONTACT PERSON: Dr. Sivappa Rasapalli, VIOL 216, X-8276, srasapalli@umassd.edu Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Medical Lab Science
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM	Faculty Writing Group Location: OFD Lounge, Library 220 Contact: Office of Faculty Development Description: The Office of Faculty Development’s Writing Group for Faculty provides UMass Dartmouth faculty with a structured yet flexible forum for discussing and stimulating their ongoing writing projects. The group will meet in the OFD lounge. Join us and get help with all aspects of your manuscript preparation from proof reading, to publication strategy input, to networking and collaboration with other colleagues both at UMassD. and other institutions that share your research passions. Lunch will be provided. Regular participation throughout the academic year is encouraged, but drop-ins are welcome. This workshop series will be facilitated by Nikolay Anguelov, Assistant Professor, Public Policy. Please contact Nikolay Anguelov at nanguelov@umassd.edu with any questions. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
« 10/8 - 10/29 »	A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall). Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form. Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile. Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans. Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and CÃ³digo. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
Thursday, October 15, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM	New Employee Orientation Location: Foster Administration Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: Human Resources Description: On a monthly basis Human Resources partners with Campus Services and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion to facilitate the University's New Employee Orientation session. This orientation is a mandatory session for newly hired benefited employees. It includes a review of key policies and procedures as well as campus resources that employees need to be aware of. Topics include: - Human Resource policies and procedures - Employee Perks - Diversity, Equity & Inclusion/EEO roles and responsibilities - Campus Services offerings This session is an important element of the on-boarding process - your attendance is required. Location: Foster 333 - BOT Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Human Resources
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM	HIV Testing - Free + Confidential Location: Frederick Douglass Unity House Cost: Free! Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness Description: Improved HIV testing technology can detect new infections within two weeks of an exposure. This test requires a blood draw, which is performed by trained counselors from our partner, Seven Hills. You receive your results in about a week. The same blood sample can also be tested for Hepatitis C and syphilis. Testing is first-come, first-served. No appointments. Link: http://www.umassd.edu/livewell/whatwedo/hivtesting/ Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Health Services, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Livewell
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Peace Corps Information Session Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314 Contact: Career Development Center Description: Learn about full-time international service opportunities in over 60 countries and the education and career benefits available to those who serve. Guest Speaker: Kathryn Fidler, Regional Recruiter, RPCV Philippines, 2002-2004 Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Career Development Center
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM	Write a Winning Personal Statement Location: MacLean Campus Center, Blue & Gold Welcome Center Contact: Career Development Center Description: Learn how to get started on a personal statement that will not only capture the attention of an admissions committee (in a good way!) but also make a compelling case for your candidacy. Attendees will receive one entry into a drawing for a free test prep course from Kaplan. We thank Kaplan for their support of our graduate school programming. Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Career Development Center
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM	An Evening with Kate Betts Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room Cost: free Contact: Boivin Center for French Language & Culture Description: The Boivin Center for French Language and Culture proudly presents its first program of the fall season, An Evening with Kate Betts. Ms. Betts is the former editor of Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. She will speak about her memoir, My Paris Dream: An Education in Style, Slang, and Seduction in the Great City on the Seine. A Q&A session, book signing, and light reception will follow the lecture. Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, University Community
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM	Opening Doors for Creative Student Submissions Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: This hands-on workshop explores wikis and blogs and their use as instructional tools for collaborative content creation. Wikis can be used for generated content, such as student group projects, website, research projects, writing assignments, project development, and peer review. Workshop participants will create and configure a wiki utilizing the UMassD Wiki farm hosted by Wikispaces. Then discover how blogs can be used to journal, sharing of information, and even online course sites. Participants will create and configure a UMassD blog, learn how to post and add comments, add templates, images and media. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM	Introduction to Photoshop, Part 1 Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free! Contact: > See Description for contact information Description: The first workshop in the three part series covers the basics of Adobe Photoshop, and is intended for users with little or no Photoshop experience. Topics covered include an introduction to color theory, working with the document window, the toolbox, and panels. Also covered are the use of the painting tools, the history brush, and different methods of color selection. Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799, or email RLegault@umassd.edu. Seating is limited, so please register today! Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	Resumania @ the STAR Center Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: Stop by the CAS-STAR Center have your resume reviewed by a Career Development Counselor. All students should have a resume reviewed if you are thinking about an internship, graduate school and of course looking for employment after graduation. Staff will be here 2-4 assisting students on a walk-in basis. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Access & Success, Writing and Reading Center
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
« 10/8 - 10/29 »	A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall). Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form. Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile. Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans. Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and CÃ³digo. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
Friday, October 16, 2015
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM	Recording with Techsmith Relay Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 225 , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Contact: CITS Instructional Development Description: Techsmith Relay is a software based lecture capture and personal recording solution. Relay can record PowerPoint presentations or any other content displayed on your computer screen, in addition to audio narration and web cam video. You can record anywhere, anytime regardless of internet connectivity or location. After recording, the video is automatically processed by the Relay server and uploaded to a cloud based storage provider. This workshop will walk through the process of installing Relay, recording and linking to the video from myCourses. Please bring your own laptop if you would like to participate in this Workshop. Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, topic: Faculty Development
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM	MASTER OF SCIENCE PROJECT DEFENSE BY SACHIN PATEL Location: Liberal Arts Building , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: FREE Contact: Computer and Information Science Department Description: Topic: Capturing Provenance in Interactive Web Visualization Abstract With the increasing number of interactive visualization on Web, it becomes possible for the users to create new views of data and generate insight from them. However, such views are often transient, lost when the user moves to a new web page. This project creates a JavaScript library for capturing provenance the steps involved in generating a result for these visualizations. It automatically tracks the user interactions in visualizations created using dc.js (https://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/). In data visualization, D3 is one of the most popular libraries, and allow the designers to generate visualization on the web without any plugins. D3 provides a high degree of customization and allows the developer to manipulate the coordinate system, draw individual shapes, and respond to user command, but it is not high level charting library. DC.js builds on D3 and provides predefined chart types and leverages CrossFilter to link interactions across charts using filters. This project creates a new JavaScript library that works with dc.js to capture provenance, record thumbnails, and return to previous states. All this data is saved into an XML file for storing provenance and displayed to the user in a list. In the list view, users can see thumbnails of past views and, details for each record, and the order they were generated. In addition, users can choose to return to a past version and further explore the visualizations. ADVISOR: Dr. David Koop DATE & TIME: Friday, Oct 16th, 2015 at 3:00 PM LOCATION: LARTS-117 COMMITTEE MEMBERS: Dr. Firas Khatib and Dr. Haiping Xu Topical Areas: General Public, Computer and Information Science
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM	ECE Seminar* Speaker: Dr. Edward Ackerman, Vice President, Research and Development for Photonic Systems, Inc. Location: Science & Engineering Building, Lester W. Cory Conference Room: Room 213A Cost: Free Contact: ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering Department Description: Topic: PHOTONIC BEAMSTEERING Location: Lester W. Cory Conference Room Science & Engineering Building (Group II), Room 213A Abstract: The impressively low attenuation per unit length and low dispersion incurred by light propagating in optical waveguides has long made photonic beamsteering techniques attractive to the designers of electronically steered phased array antennas that need to operate across a broad range of microwave frequencies. Broadband steering of the beam transmitted or received by a phased array antenna requires control of the relative delays experienced by signals in the multiple paths between the individual antenna elements and the point where the one signal is split among those multiple paths (in the case of a transmitting array) or is combined from those multiple paths (in the case of a receiving array). Conveying the microwave signals on optical carriers in optical waveguides results in delays that are essentially constant across broad frequency bands (due to low dispersion) and performance that is essentially independent of the beam direction (due to nearly length-independent attenuation). This talk will review many specific approaches to photonic beamsteering that have been pursued in the past 30 years. The approaches are organized into three categories: 1. approaches that employ time delay units (TDUs); 2. lenses and lens-like approaches, and; 3. approaches in which the delays in the various signal paths depend on the wavelength of the optical carrier. For each of these three categories of approaches, the talk will describe one or more implementation examples. The review of approaches will conclude with a comparison of their advantages and limitations. Biography: Edward Ackerman received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Lafayette College in 1987 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Drexel University in 1994. From 1989 through 1994 he was employed as a microwave photonics engineer at the GE Electronics Laboratory in Syracuse, New York. From 1995 to July 1999 he was a member of the Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Since 1999 he has been Vice President of Research and Development for Photonic Systems, Inc. Dr. Ackerman has authored or co-authored more than 100 technical papers and book chapters on the subject of analog photonic subsystem performance modeling and optimization, and he holds eight US patents in this area. In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the IEEE for these contributions to the field. The Seminars is open to the public free of charge. *For further information, please contact Dr. Honggang Wang at 508.999.8469, or via email at hwang1@umassd.edu. Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, Electrical and Computer Engineering
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM	Mid-Semester Location: UMass Dartmouth , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: N/A Contact: Registrar's Office Description: Today marks mid-semester. Link: http://www1.umassd.edu/calendar/academic_calendar/ Topical Areas: Academic Calendar
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
« 10/8 - 10/29 »	A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall). Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form. Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile. Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans. Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and CÃ³digo. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
Saturday, October 17, 2015
« 9/18 - 11/15 »	Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Exhibition "Counterpoints: Colors, Layers, Lines" at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in New Bedford presents three very different, yet highly compatible women artists. While each of them uses strong, intense colors and the layering of various elements and lines, each artist's work is best described by one of the three words in the exhibition title. However, the almost psychedelic interpretation of colors in Friese's landscapes, the inclusion of photography or other unusual materials in Mandle's critical narratives and the underlying geometry and references to female imagery in Thorton's flowers all share an affinity towards abstraction while inspiring visitors to look closer to discover their inner logic. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts
5:00 PM - 10/18 »	Mu Chapter of Sigma Phi Rho Fraternity Inc. 14th Annual Aids Benefit Show Location: Main Auditorium (Angus Bailey Auditorium) , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: online: tinyurl.com/rhocares Contact: Sigma Phi Rho Description: Get your tickets ASAP!!! HOTTEST SHOW OF THE YEAR!!! Tickets now available online: tinyurl.com/rhocares Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/478362418990168/ Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Student Organizations
« 9/10 - 11/12 »	Formidable: Site Specific Installation by Kat Knutsen Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission. Contact: University Art Gallery Description: College of Visual & Performing Arts (CVPA) presents a new site-specific installation by recent MFA graduate Kat Knutsen, entitled "Formidable" through November 12, 2015. After receiving her MFA in painting at UMass Dartmouth in 2014, Kat Knutsen (born 1984) began an artist residency at CVPA's Star Store Campus focusing on combining fiber arts and painting in her animations. Her work has since evolved towards installations that combine fiber art, painting, sculpture and music. As she says, "I keep an open mind with the materials I work with and explore the relationships between them. At the moment, my work is a conversation between the two-dimensional, three-dimensional and sound. 'Formidable' is a culmination of my experiences since I arrived in New Bedford in 2012. For me, the object of the jellyfish symbolizes the need to quickly adapt in the changing art world. The challenge of creating a dialogue between the textile objects, painting and music in this site-specific installation parallels my journey in building a career as a young artist today." Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
« 9/24 - 10/22 »	HERE + elsewhere: Sabbatical Exhibition Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts , 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: The Sabbatical Exhibition, entitled "HERE + elsewhere" at the CVPA Campus Gallery presents four UMass Dartmouth faculty and the results of their investigations into their creative process in art and music from September 24 through October 22, 2015. The reception with Artist Talks and music will be on Thursday, October 1st from 4 to 6 pm. Thomas Spencer Ladd, Yoon Soo Lee, Bryan McFarlane & royal hartigan went in depth to explore their personal artistic inspirations 'here and elsewhere'. Thomas Spencer Ladd teaches photography and acts as a Chair of UMass Dartmouth Design Department. His sabbatical advanced his ongoing photographic documentation the people, agriculture and landscape of Ozogoche, Ecuador. Ozogoche is a remote high alpine community formed around a complex of lagoons within the Ecuadorian Andes province of Chimborazo. Yoon Soo Lee teaches graphic design. She presents a talk entitled, Gender and Race; A Story Telling Project. Yoon Soo Lee's sabbatical work was the study of this topic in the minds of children. In her talk, she will share her process of learning and the evolution of gender and race. Bryan McFarlane is a UMass Dartmouth professor of painting and drawing. His recent oil paintings are inspired by microbes in the exploration and expression of immensity and 'minuteness': as they constitute microscopic communities of the human body or cloud formations deeply influenced by his travels and work in China, and concurrently, close work with MIT Oceanographers and 'Design Team' of scientists, artists, composers/musicians and writers researching at EMMAS, BROAD Institute and TERC, funded through the National Science Foundation. A collaboration of disciplines of extremes, fundamental to our physical and spiritual lives, is a recurrent theme in McFarlane's metaphoric and artistic expression. royal hartigan teaches world music at UMass Dartmouth. His sabbatical as a Fulbright scholar included teaching at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumase, doing research on the music and dance of the Asante people, and work on a book on the musical expressions of Asante Adinkra visual designs. His research also included a tour with his blood drum spirit ensemble across Ghana in January 2015 to do a series of video recordings in 14 villages, focusing on the culture and spirituality of the people, to be edited for release as a DVD. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Concerts, Exhibits, Films, Literature, Poetry, Theater, Visual Arts, Fine Arts, Music
« 10/6 - 11/4 »	Advising Tools: COIN Advising Report and Tracking Sheets Location: Liberal Arts Building 114 Contact: Student Transition and Achievement Resources Center Description: All College of Arts and Sciences majors are invited to the STAR Center to meet with a STAR Center advisor to go over COIN Advising Report. Its important to know all of your requirements so know what you will need to do to graduate. This will be great information to help you structure a plan for next semester when you go to meet with your major advisor. Topical Areas: Students, Undergraduate, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Resource Center, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Fredrick Douglass Unity House, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Writing and Reading Center
« 10/8 - 10/29 »	A Journey Through the Thread / Viaje Al Hilo Location: Star Store, New Bedford , Purchase Street, New Bedford Cost: Free admission Contact: University Art Gallery Description: An exhibition of contemporary designed handmade Mexican rugs Traveling exhibition presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston. Viaje Al Hilo is a traveling exhibition, presented in collaboration with the Consulate General of Mexico in Boston, at UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus (Crapo Gallery & Lecture Hall). Designed by young Mexican textile designer Marisol Centeno for her Bi Yuu brand, these rugs tell many stories, weaving together the traditional and the contemporary, expressing the inspiration and emotion through a careful combination of color, texture and form. Bi Yuu works with extraordinary artisans from Teotitlan del Valle, designing and implementing a collaborative working method. Additionally, the company contributes to the artisan's local economy, utilizing local working methods and raw material from the area with the long and proud Oaxacan textile. Marisol Centeno (Mexico City, 1985) studied textile design at the Universidad Iberoamericana. Her work blends artisan craft and principles of contemporary design. In 2012, she founded Bi Yuu, a brand specializing in rugs and woven goods with a strong ethic of social responsibility and an aesthetic vision that combines quality with cutting edge design. Currently, Bi Yuu offers six collections and collaborates with 20 artisans. Marisol participated in the Social Design Roundtable as well as the Second Conference of Collaborative Design Practices, organized by Ana Elena Mallet at CaSa in Oaxaca. She has exhibited widely at venues including: Zona Maco Contemporary Art Fair, the Rufino Tamayo Museum, CENART, and the Franz Mayer Museum in Mexico City. In 2013, she was recognized as the "Best Designer" in the "Hand Made" category by the magazine CASAVIVA. Her work has been published in Folio, Wallpaper, Elle Decor, Architectural Digest and CÃ³digo. She is a current member of Comex's new Trend Forecast ColorLife 16. Link: https://www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, Art Education, Art History, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Fine Arts, Music, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts

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