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Monday, October 24, 2016
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4:00 PM
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Retiring to Not From
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Stoico/FIRST FED Charitable Foundation Grand Reading Room
- Cost: free
- Contact: Carney Library Associates
- Description: Professor John H. Twomey will discuss his book Retiring to Not From, From Massachusetts Professor to Maine Farmer. The former language professor at UMass Dartmouth will speak about his new life and love after leaving teaching. A Q&A, book signing and light reception will follow the event.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Students
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John Havens Thornton: Vertical / Horizontal / Diagonal
- Location: Star Store, New Bedford
, Purchase Street, New Bedford
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Reception: Thursday, AHA! Night, October 13, 5-8 pm
Abstract geometric paintings by New Bedford artist John Havens Thornton (b. 1933). Thornton has exhibited since the early 1960s, notably at the ICA, Boston (1967), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1970), the Whitney Museum of American Art (1967), the Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (1979), the De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (1987), and the New Bedford Art Museum, MA (2004).
University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus, 715 Purchase Street, New Bedford, MA 02740
Contact: Viera Levitt, Gallery Director
508.999.8555
gallery@umassd.edu
www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
www.facebook.com/UMassDartmouthGalleries
The gallery is open daily from 9 am - 6 pm
Closed on major holidays. All events are free and open to the public.
- Link: http://www.umassd.edu/cvpa/galleries
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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2:00 PM
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SPA TEA TIME: Service Centers/Core Facilities
- Location: (neutral) Library, Rm 240
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: TEA TIME discussion regarding Service Centers/Core Facilities
Lead Presenter: Theresa M. Hamelin, UMass Lowell
Sponsored by Sponsored Projects Administration
- Topical Areas: Research, Sponsored Projects Administration
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12:00 PM
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1:00 PM
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Speaking in Code: Teaching and Research in Digital Humanities
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library, Room 314
- Contact: Office of Faculty Development
- Description: The OFD in partnership with Library Services presents: "Speaking in Code: Teaching and Research in Digital Humanities", Monday Oct. 24th and 12 noon in LIB 314.
The main speaker is Brian Croxall, PhD, Brown University. Dr. Corxall is the Digital Humanities Librarian at Brown University, where he designs, implements, and manages digital research projects. Prior to this position, he worked at Emory University as Digital Humanities Strategist and Lecturer of English. In this dual appointment he managed the creation of The Battle of Atlanta app and Belfast Group Poetry|Networks, as well as taught classes on digital humanities, media studies, and American literature. He holds a PhD in English and taught previously at Clemson University. In addition, he is co-editing a book on steampunk, forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press; is a cluster editor at #Alt-Academy; serves on the Executive Councils of the Modern Language Association and the Association for Computers and the Humanities; and is a writer for the group blog ProfHacker.
After the presentation few of our own UMass, D. faculty will share examples of digital humanities projects. Lunch will be provided.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Bill Plympton Animator; Crowned King of Indie Animation: Drawings from Cheatin'
- Location: CVPA: College of Visual and Performing Arts
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: FREE
- Contact: University Art Gallery
- Description: Opening Reception: CVPA Campus Gallery, Sept 29 at 4-6 pm.
Artist Talk to follow at Claire T. Carney Library Grand Reading Room: 6-7:30 pm
(RSVP required on Eventbrite.com - under "Bill Plympton Talk at UMass Dartmouth").
Link: www.eventbrite.com/e/bill-plympton-talk-at-umass-dartmouth-tickets-27607014323
Gallery will remain open until 9 pm for the reception.
UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) proudly presents Bill Plympton
Animator; Crowned King of Indie Animation: Drawings from Cheatin'. This exhibition is a showcase of original drawings and production art of animator, cartoonist, and filmmaker Bill Plympton. Nearly 100 original graphite drawings from the artist's recent film Cheatin' will be on display along with other essential production materials and related media to reveal a "behind the scenes" look at Plympton's artistic process. Accompanying the art will be a continuous screening of the feature film Cheatin' in its entirety in the gallery. Video tutorials, produced by the artist himself, further the educational experience of "handmade" animation. This special exhibition curated for UMass Dartmouth can be seen at the CVPA Campus Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Main Campus) from September 29 through November 2, 2016.
Bill Plympton, who has been called The King of Indie Animation, is the first person to independently hand-draw an entire animated feature film. He has created over 40 animated short films and seven animated features. Plympton received Oscar nominations for various animated shorts along with winning the Cannes Palme d'Or and the Canal+ Award for short films at Cannes Critics' Week. Bill Plympton will speak about his work and provide insight into the wild world of cartooning and independent animation. While the event is free and open to the public, reservations for the talk are required and can be made through this link:
www.eventbrite.com/e/bill-plympton-talk-at-umass-dartmouth-tickets-27607014323
Excerpts from Artist's Statement
"Why is it that animation is stereotyped as being only aimed at children and created by computer graphics? Why can't adults see stories for themselves, created in the fantastically free style of a hand-drawn animator? The look of this film is very special to me. When I started my career as an illustrator, I developed a style that I loved, watercolor with a pen and ink crosshatch overlay. But because of the limits of technology, I was never able to recreate my favorite style in animation. However, with the new digital technology available now, I've been able to exactly replicate that beautiful watercolor look."
Biography
Bill Plympton moved to New York City in 1968 and began his career creating cartoons for publications such as The New York Times, Playboy, National Lampoon, and Screw. In 1987, he was nominated for an Oscar for his animated short Your Face. In 2005, Plympton received another Oscar nomination, this time for his short Guard Dog. Push Comes to Shove won the prestigious Cannes 1991 Palme d'Or; and in 2001, another short film, Eat, won the Grand Prize for Short Films in Cannes Critics' Week. After producing many shorts that appeared on MTV, Spike, and Mike's, he turned his talent to feature films. Since 1991, he has made ten feature films. Seven of them, The Tune, Mondo Plympton, I Married a Strange Person, Mutant Aliens, Hair High, Idiots and Angels, and Cheatin', are all animated features. Bill Plympton has also collaborated with Madonna, Kanye West, Terry Gilliam, and "Weird Al" Yankovic in a number of music videos, animated films, and book projects. In 2006, Plympton received the Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award from The Annie Awards.
This event made possible through the generous support of Allan and Priscilla Ditchfield.
Personnel: Prof. Jean-FranÒ«ois Allaux (Illustration): Producer
Prof. James Edwards (Illustration): Curator
Prof. Michael Swartz (Digital Media): Co-Curator, Graphic Design
Viera Levitt: Gallery Director
Contacts: James Edwards, Curator: jedwards@umassd.edu, Viera Levitt, Gallery Director: vlevitt@umassd.edu
- Link: jedwards@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Visual Design, Exhibits, Visual Arts
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Vote Early On Campus
- Location: Woodland Commons
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: If you live in Dartmouth, you don't need to wait in long lines on November 8 to vote - you can vote right here on campus two weeks earlier!
On Monday, October 24 from 6-8pm and Tuesday, October 25 from 11am-4pm in Woodland Commons, you can vote early. The Town of Dartmouth will set up their voting booths here on campus for your convenience!
If you have not "registered" to vote yet, please go to www.umassd.turbovote.org by October 19 - it is VERY simple and fast. In a minute, you will be ready to vote on October 24 or 25.
Questions may be directed to:
Dr. David Milstone
Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
dmilstone@umassd.edu
Kevin Delaney
UMass Dartmouth Student Trustee
kdelaney@umassd.edu
- Topical Areas: Students, University Community, Faculty, Staff and Administrators
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