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Saturday, February 24, 2018
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Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: free
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Take Two / faculty working collaboratively with colleagues
Feb 15 - March 9
Collaborators:
Center for Undisciplined Research
James Edwards, Michael Swartz
Janet Fairbairn, Ben Butler, Susan Dye
Janet Fairbairn, Juli Parker, Cynthia E. Cummings, and Professor Fairbairn's Professional Design Practice Class
Laura Franz and Stacy Latt Savage
Harvey Goldman and Jing Wang
Ziddi Msangi, Kwabena Boateng, and royal hartigan
Elena Peteva and Anthony Fisher
Through March 9, the CVPA Campus Gallery presents an exhibition of work created by faculty working collaboratively with colleagues either within the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) or with those outside the college. This vibrant work of 8 groups of 'collaborators' offers insight into the creative process; thinking, discussing, inspiring and creating. The results include a newsletter by a student-focused research collective, digital animation, sound, drawing, an artist book, a poster campaign, musical expressions of African tonal language, visual language of motifs on cloth, investigations of the 'line' in abstract and representational work and a
collaborative text-based installation using negative words about woman found in Facebook posts.
The reception is on February 15 from 4-6 pm with the Artist Talk at 5 pm at CVPA Campus Gallery, along with a reception for Mouthfeel, a video exhibition exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia (Upper Gallery).
CVPA Campus Gallery, College of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747
umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon
gallery@umassd.edu
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/255068745031561/
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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Mouthfeel - Video Exhibition
- Location: > See description for location
- Cost: free
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Mouthfeel
Feb 15 - March 9, 2018
Five video artworks exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia.
Mouthfeel is defined as the physical sensations in the mouth created by food or drink. The objective of this exhibition is to stimulate a synaesthetic response in the viewer through the observation of these films. The mouth is used by these artists to trigger the sense of taste and touch by the ingestion of edible and non-edible substances. The videos feature a variety of actions, from the monotonous task of licking through a pane of cast sugar, to ingesting a bouquet of roses.
The five films selected for this exhibition by curator Megan Fizell include performative actions by four female artists and one male/female collaborative work: Elizabeth Willing, Hannah Raisin, Martynka Wawzyniak, Nina Ross, and Hillerbrand+Magsamen. Mouthfeel has previously been viewed at Brenda May Gallery in Sydney, Creative Industries Precinct at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, and Northern Centre for Contemporary Art in Darwin (all in Australia).
PRESS RELEASE URL: https://goo.gl/xKeAfv
For more information about the project, please contact Ellen Mueller, at emueller1@umassd.edu
CVPA Campus Gallery
College of Visual and Performing Arts
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
285 Old Westport Road
North Dartmouth, MA 02747
umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
Gallery Hours: Mon- Thur 10am-4 pm, Fri 10-noon
gallery@umassd.edu
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2188464361380910/
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts, Films
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Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: free
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts
Feb 7 - March 15, 2018
RECEPTION: Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm; Artist Talk 7:30 pm
Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery in Downtown New Bedford, "Diane Samuels: The Whale and Other Texts" is centered around the 8' wide by 47' long artwork Moby-Dick, or The Whale. This mesmerizing large scale piece appears to be floating on the gallery floor and spilling off the wall, reflecting on the ocean nearby, the location for the Melville's famous novel.
Pittsburgh based Diane Samuels who often uses text as a element in her visual vocabulary this time creates waves with her meticulous hand-transcriptions created using all of the 701 pages in the novel. Remnants of archival paper and drawings have been recycled and painted over and, in places, drawn and collaged using images that pertain to the specific text. Each page of the book (also exhibited at the gallery) is hand-written as a horizontal row of the drawing, starting with "Call me Ishmael" at the top of the artwork.
Samuels chose Moby-Dick, or The Whale because of Melville's descriptions of confrontations with "the other" and his archiving and cataloguing of information about whales and the world. In Chapter Three, Ishmael and Queequeg share a room and a bed at the Spouter-Inn. Ishmael describes his terror in meeting Queequeg. Despite cultural, racial, and language differences, the chapter ends with Ishmael's statement, "I turned in, and never slept better in my life."
Accompanying this installation is the compressed sound of the artist reading out loud and hand-transcribing each page, creating a layered "audio block"; a dense sound comprised of words and pages, along with the ambient sounds of the artist's studio. The audio block is the length of the longest page of the book.
Other artworks also surprise visitors with their intricate hand-transcription in microscript. The Arabian Nights traces the stories told by Scheherazade over 10,000 fragments of papers painted in shades of indigo and crimson and edged in gold. The piece is a literal and figurative "magic carpet" whose central panel is bathed in the blood of the book's unfortunate heroines and cloaked in the mysterious glow of night.
Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children," also visually reflects the content of the book, creating a unique composition made from 1001 pieces of paper made in India and joined to form a map of India on August 15, 1947, its date of independence. The "midnight's children" of the book's title are the 1001 children born in the first hour of Indian independence.
The exhibition is open through March 15, 2018, with the reception on Thursday, March 8, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. The artist talk, as well as audio recording will begin at 7:30 pm.
The Whale and Other Text was curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director, born in Slovakia, where she had assisted Diane in her 1998 sound based site-specific installation for the Synagogue - Centre for Contemporary Art in Trnava.
Thanks to Kris Nuzzi and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery for their wonderful collaboration on this exhibition.
University Art Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase St., New Bedford, MA 02740
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
gallery@umassd.edu
Curated by Viera Levitt, UMass Dartmouth Gallery Director
Open daily from 9 am to 6 pm
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/125692344900511/
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Artisanry, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits
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UMass Dartmouth Student Health Survey
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: LiveWell: Office of Health Education, Promotion, & Wellness
- Description: All full-time undergraduate students aged 18-25 will receive an email invitation to participate in the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) sponsored and distributed by the American College Health Association (ACHA). The ACHA-NCHA is a survey designed to assess student health behaviors in order to provide better services and support for UMass Dartmouth students. You may benefit by knowing that you have assisted in providing accurate information regarding health/wellness behaviors on our campus. The information will be used to develop wellness programs and services for UMass Dartmouth. The NCHA-Web is completed online via the Internet. We encourage you to complete the survey in one sitting, which typically takes about 20-30 minutes. All students who submit a survey will be automatically entered in a random drawing for a chance to win one of the following prizes: free on-campus parking for the 2018-2019 academic year (1 winner); $50 Visa gift card (2 winners); $25 Visa gift card (20 winners). Participation is completely voluntary and confidential. To ensure confidentiality, e-mail addresses are destroyed by ACHA before data are compiled and shared with UMass Dartmouth. The raw data file that is shared with your school will not contain any unique identifiers. If you feel that answering specific demographic questions might reveal your identity, you may leave them blank. You may answer only some questions, or you may choose not to participate in the survey at all. Any reports or publications based on this research will use only group data and will not identify you or any individual as being affiliated with this project.
For more information about the ACHA-NCHA, visit: http://www.acha-ncha.org
All questions regarding the survey should be directed to Beth-Anne Guthrie, Assistant Director Health Services, Health Education & Promotion at livewell@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Health Services
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Financial Aid Lab
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 203
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Need help with financial aid? Come to our workshops designed just for you! Common issues the Financial Aid Street Team (FAST) can help solve include filing the 2018-19 FAFSA, Comment Code 399, completing Federal Direct Loan master promissory note and entrance counseling requirements, borrowing histories, and much more! Labs are open to current AND future UMassD students from 4:00-5:00 p.m. every Friday in Liberal Arts Building room 203. Please bring copies of 2016 tax information for us to better assist you. Contact Mr. Joe Novinson for more information at jgentile@umassd.edu.
- Topical Areas: General Public, Students
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Black History Month Show 2018
- Location: Main Auditorium (Angus Bailey Auditorium)
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Umassd students are required to bring a hygienic item as a donation. Non-Umassd guest are $10 wtithout a donation and $5 with a donation.
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: UMass Dartmouth's Annual Black History Month Show presented by Sigma Phi Rho Fraternity, Inc. Mu Chapter and the Black Student Union. The show was originally created by the Black Student Union and Sigma Phi Rho as a way to celebrate and educate our peers on Black Excellence. It is now one of the biggest collaborations on campus.
This year's the theme is "Breaking the Chains of Colonization", which will highlight the many ways colonization still effects us as a generation and as a people. There are many sub-topics that will be highlighted under this theme which include classism, colorism, poverty, immigration policies, war, mass incarceration and so much more. The committee has been working hard to make sure we push the educational component of the show, by carefully choosing the acts that will perform and the host. We have decided to have world-renown poet Porsha O. host the show and DJ Sham! for accompaniment.
This year's ticket prices include an option for donations that will benefit the Women's Center in New Bedford (A Women's Shelter) and Hayden McFadden Elementary School. Examples of donations include any and all hygienic items (feminine products, baby diapers, shampoo, razors, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, etc.) Items will be collected at the door to the Main Auditorium when entering for the show.
For more info contact Moriah Wiggins at mwiggins@umassd.edu
- Link: tinyurl.com/BHMS2018
- Topical Areas: Alumni, Faculty, General Public, Law Alumni, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, University Marketing, Black Studies, Black History 4 Seasons, Campus Services, Corsairs Care, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Leduc Center for Civic Engagement, Student Organizations
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