Announcements: Around Campus

Arts Around the Lake
The 25th annual Arts Around the Lake juried fine arts show will be held Oct. 24 from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. around Westhampton Lake. In case of inclement weather, the show will be held in the Robins Center. Please remember that no dogs are allowed at the show.

Approximately 100 Richmond-area artists will display and sell their juried artwork in various media.

Arts Around the Lake is sponsored by the Greater Richmond Alumni Chapter to benefit its scholarship fund. Admission and parking are free. Refreshments will be sold by local vendors.

Visitors to the show also may bid on artwork donated by the artists in a silent auction that will be held from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in Tyler Haynes Commons. In case of inclement weather, the auction will be moved with the show to the Robins Center.

Early American Newspapers digital collection
Through a generous gift by Edwin S. Snead III, the libraries now have access to the digital collection Early American Newspapers. This collection provides access to newspaper articles on history, culture, religion, commerce, education, politics and other topics from the colonial period through the Civil War (1690-1876). The database will eventually include more than one million pages from newspapers.

Early American Newspapers is available under "Online Databases" and through the library catalog on the libraries' Web site at oncampus.richmond.edu/is/library.

University Museums opens new exhibition
On Oct. 26, Marsh Art Gallery will open "New Math: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct."

The exhibition presents a group of more than 40 contemporary artists whose diverse works are constructed from, refer to or illustrate mathematical concepts and principles. "New Math" encompasses better-known forms of mathematical-based art, such as algorithmic art, as well as new digital and rapid prototyping technologies. The sensibilities of mathematical harmony in art and aesthetic beauty in mathematics are combined in this exhibition, which features installation sculpture and computer-generated art as well as more traditional forms of painting, graphic art and sculpture.

Organized by the Tweed Museum of Art at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, the exhibition was curated by Peter Spooner, curator of the Tweed Museum. The exhibition is made possible in part with support by the University's Cultural Affairs Committee, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science and the Department of Art and Art History. An exhibition catalogue, published by the Tweed Museum of Art, is available.

International film series opened strong
The international film series, sponsored by the Office of International Education, experienced its biggest opening to a series and the largest attendances for two films in a row this year. A total of 398 people viewed the opening movie, Osama, while 351 saw I'm Not Scared.

Continuing exhibitions in University Museums
On view at the Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature through July 10, 2005, is "Cheers! Drinking Glasses from the Permanent Collection," with an additional display, "American Goblets from the Permanent Collection," in the Booker Hall of Music lobby, Modlin Center for the Arts.

Also at the Lora Robins Gallery is "Fancy Rockingham Pottery: The Modeller and Ceramics in 19th Century America" through Feb. 27, 2005 and "Exotica: Plant Portraits from Around the World" until Nov. 14.

The Joel and Lila Harnett Print Study Center has on view through Dec. 5 "In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus: Wood Engravings by Fritz Eichenberg."

Marsh Art Gallery has on view until Dec. 12 "New Math: Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct" and until Dec. 5, "From 'The Asphalt Jungle': Prints and Drawings by Dawn Latane." Also on view until Dec. 12 is "Martha MacLeish: Wall Constructions."

Peple slide collection donated to University
Dr. Edward C. Peple, former faculty member and University administrator, recently donated several thousand slides to the Visual Resources Library in the Department of Art and Art History.

A 1932 graduate of the University, Dr. Peple went on to Harvard University where he earned a master's degree in 1934 and a doctorate in 1936. The following year, he returned to Richmond to teach English. His career included terms as dean of the graduate school (1965-74) and assistant provost (1974-78). He was a founder of the Friends of the Library.

Beginning in 1959, international travel became his avocation. He led educational tours and documented the sites through slide photography. Upon his return to Richmond, he used the slides as teaching tools in his classes. Family members recalled that many of the architectural structures he shot during his first trip to England were still ravaged from the destruction of World War II and had not been reconstructed. Today, these images provide students with an important historical record.

Dr. Peple meticulously labeled his slides and cataloged them so that they are almost instantly usable by the University community.

"Because he used the slides so extensively at the University, it is fitting that they will reside here permanently and continue to support University-wide teaching," said Sarah Falls, visual resources librarian.

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