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Thursday, April 14, 2016
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Obsolescence in Architecture: A Lecture by Dr. Daniel Abramson of Tufts University
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: NA
- Contact: Art History Department
- Description: Where does the idea come from that architecture can become obsolete, suddenly lose its value and utility, and so become expendable in a short period of time?
This presentation traces the origins of the idea of architectural obsolescence to early-twentieth-century American financial district demolitions, tax policies, and decaying cities. In mid-century, architects and others worldwide responded to obsolescence positively by embracing ephemerality and short-life buildings, but also, alternately, by revaluing the obsolete and reinstating permanence.
The idea of obsolescence thus gave way in the 1970s to sustainability, today's dominant paradigm for conceptualizing and managing change in the built environment, conserving rather than expending existing resources.
The event will take place at the Grand Reading Room.
- Link: https://www.facebook.com/arthistoryumassdcvpa/photos/a.199037763617581.1073741829.197968553724502/506803662840988/?type=3&theater
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, University Community, Faculty Development, Undergraduate Research, Lectures and Seminars, College of Engineering, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Creating Forms with Adobe Acrobat
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This workshop provides an introduction to Adobe Acrobat. Acrobat is used to create, edit and manage Portable Document Format (PDF) files. PDF files can be set up as interactive forms for distribution and data collection. Participants learn to work with Acrobat’s toolbars, navigate, edit and annotate PDF documents, manage bookmarks, and set document security via passwords. Also covered are Acrobat’s form features, from form creation through distribution and compiling responses. No previous Acrobat experience is required.
This workshop will take place in the Library, Room 225.
Seating is limited, so sign up today!
Contact Rich Legault for more information
RLegault@umassd.edu
508-999-8799
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff, audience: Students
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2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: April 2-May 14, 2016
2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 2, 3-5 pm
Artists Talk: Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm
The UMass Dartmouth 2016 MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This large-scale exhibition at the Star Store Campus in historic Downtown New Bedford consists of a wide variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, digital and moving images, software application design, as well as intricately made jewelry that utilizes both text and unusual contemporary materials. The range of themes is equally diverse; explorations of personal and cultural identity, feelings of loss, intimacy, memories and dreams as well as examinations of formal and conceptual space.
The 2016 exhibition includes the creative efforts of 18 UMass Dartmouth MFA degree candidates in the visual arts: Alec H. Andersen, Amy Araujo, Calvin Arterberry, Kendra Conn, Kelly Lynn Daniels, Yinan Dong, Meaghan Gates, Marcia Goodwin, Kyungsun "Ariel" Lee, John A. Middleton, Mark Phelan, Sara Allen Prigodich, Cuong Abel Sy, Brett Sylvia, Andrew Tedesco, William M. Vanaria, Lillian E. Webster, and Will Wolf.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April April 2, from 3 to 5 pm and the exhibition is open to public through May 14, 2016. Artists Talk is scheduled on Thursday, AHA! Night, April 14 at 7 pm.
Selections from this exhibition will be shown this summer at the Bromfield Gallery in Boston from June 1 to June 26, with an opening reception on Friday, June 3, 6:00 - 8:30 pm.
Gallery exhibitions are open daily in New Bedford from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm and until 9:00 pm during AHA! Nights (every second Thursday each month-April 14 and May 12). All events are free and open to the public.
University Art Gallery
UMass Dartmouth
715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
umassd.edu/universityartgallery
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Fine Arts, Visual Arts
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Expressive Arts Therapy Workshop for Survivors of Sexual Violence
- Location: MacLean Campus Center, Reflection Room, Room 233
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Contact: Center for Women, Gender & Sexuality
- Description: Featuring Maria Curran - Ph. D., LPCS
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Center for Women, Gender, and Sexuality
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Game Night in the Library Living Room
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library Living Room
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: Need a study break? Come to the Library's Living Room for our Game Night which features a selection of popular board games. Great way to unplug and spend time with friends.
Questions? Please contact kmofford@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Students
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Early-Stage Equity Financing
- Location: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
, 151 Martine Street, Fall River, MA
- Cost: Students, Faculty, Members - free; Non-members - $20
- Contact: CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
- Description: Capital is the lifeblood of an early stage company. Without sufficient capital, a company founder may never be able to develop even the most promising and innovative product or service and bring it to market. A shortage of capital is a key reason for the failure of many early stage companies. While some company founders may be able to "bootstrap" a company and others may have access to grants, sooner or later, a company is likely to need capital from angel investors, professional investors or strategic partners.
Our panel will include executives from two Massachusetts-based early stage companies that have recently completed successful capital-raising transactions and an angel investor. Join us to get their perspectives on the capital-raising process, identifying potential investors, anticipating investor concerns, negotiating transaction terms and getting to funding.
- Link: http://sneef.org/event-2169284
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Law, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, CIE: Center for Innovation & Entrepeneurship
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WRC Creative Writing Workshop
- Location: Liberal Arts Building 220
- Contact: Writing and Reading Center
- Description: Want to hook your audience with original ideas and voice? Use of metaphor and simile can enhance your academic and creative writing by helping your audience understand your unique point of view. Come learn about how to eliminate clichés and add interest and insight to your writing! How would you characterize anger, regret, and fear? Come find out!
- Topical Areas: University Community, Writing and Reading Center
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Dystopian Fiction Book Club April meeting
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: The Dystopian Fiction Book Club will be meeting in April to discuss The Man in the High Castle , Philip K. Dick's novel that asks, what if the United States lost World War II?
By popular demand, we'll meet twice to accommodate as many interested readers as possible.
Our meeting dates for April are:
Thursday, April 14, 12pm-1pm
Friday, April 15, 2pm-3pm
Both meetings will be held in the Carney Library, Room 240.
From the publisher site:
"America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutal buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumored to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies...."
Copies of The Man in the High Castle will shortly be available at the library's circulation desk.
All are welcome to join us for our final discussions of the year. Enjoy your reading!
Questions?
Contact Hilary Kraus ( hkraus@umassd.edu / 508-999-8681 )
- Topical Areas: Faculty, Staff and Administrators, Students, Claire T. Carney Library, English, Sociology, Anthropology, Crime and Justice Studies, Literature
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Kekeli Concert at the AHA Night
- Location: > See description for location
- Contact: Music Department
- Description: Concert will be held at the AHA night downtown New Bedford, MA
Kekeli group will march in the parade at 5:50PM
Concert will be at 6PM at the Zeiterion
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts
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Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for both online and blended teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for both methodologies. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop strategies in online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing and building the course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to tools that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and retention.
- Link: http://instructionaldev.umassd.wikispaces.net/Online+Teaching+Guide
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Black History 4 Seasons: Unity Fest presents UMOJA
- Location: Campus Center
- Contact: Unity House
- Description: Unity Fest presents UMOJA, a festival celebrating diverse cultures and ethnicities.
Join us for a celebration of culture, education, and social festivities to bring people together and strengthen the UMassD community.
Enjoy food and refreshments, cultural music and dancing, a photo booth, giveaways, and more.
The Marketplace will join the celebration with a menu of diverse cultural foods.
Sponsored by UMassD Dining Services, SAIL, Campus Services, Housing & Residence Life & the Frederick Douglass Unity House.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/blackhistory/
- Topical Areas: General Public, University Community
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Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
- Location: University Art Gallery
- Cost: Free Admission
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880-1940)
Date: April 12-April 30, 2016
Location: CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 10 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm
We might think that Linda Nochlin's famous 1988 question--Why have there been no great women artists?--is no longer applicable today. Thousands and thousands of girl students attended art academies right after the Civil War to meet growing industrial and cultural demand for illustrators, engravers, printmakers, miniaturists and portrait painters, but only Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keefe are part of the art historical canon.
Modernist critics and historians have often dismissed women's representational art because they privilege formalist invention over pictorial illusionism. Because of their focus on the individual fine artist, artistic style and elite patronage, such critics and historians have often ignored the importance of commercial illustration, printmaking, and traditional craft.
UMass Dartmouth's Art History Department and its upperclassmen address this premise in its exhibition, "Women Artists: Transforming the Community (Providence to Provincetown 1880 - 1940)," which runs from April 12 to April 30.
The exhibition is a collaborative project whereby students work in teams and apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world experience.
This is the 5th year that art history professors Dr. Anna Dempsey and Allison J. Cywin have directed a group of upperclassmen to execute a professional museum-quality exhibition and publication.
This student-run exhibition explores the definition of modernity and focuses on feminine artistic communities that extend from Providence to Provincetown. The women artists represented in the exhibition are Blanche Lazzell, Lucy L'Engle, Agnes Weinrich, Ethel Mars, Maud Squire, Grace Albee, Eliza D. Gardiner, Jessie Willcox Smith, Frances Gifford, Sarah Eddy, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Mabel Woodward, Alice Barbara Stephens, Blanche Ames Ames and Allen Sisters, among others.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the arts community, including Julie Heller Gallery of Provincetown, Bert Gallery of Providence, Portsmouth Free Public Library, Smith College's Sophia Smith Archive, University of Massachusetts Amherst Archive and Special Collection, Providence Art Club, Providence Athenaeum, New Bedford Whaling Museum, and private collectors.
The exhibition, free and open to the public, is held at the College of Visual & Performing Arts, Campus Art Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road (adjacent to parking lot 9) in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
The opening reception is Wednesday, April 20 from 5 pm to 7 pm with the Gallery Talk at 5 pm.
For more information, please contact
Anna Dempsey at adempsey@umassd.edu
or
Allison J. Cywin acywin@umassd.edu
You can also call the gallery at 508-999-8550
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Lectures and Seminars, Conferences & Events
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