Last Chance to See Chinese Facsimile Scrolls

Before you leave for Thanksgiving Break, stop in and see the SSFA's gallery exhibit ''Turning the Tradition: Transforming the Past in Chinese Landscape Painting". This lovely show was put together by students in Dr. Tenckhoff's Chinese Painting capstone seminar. From SU's Freeman-funded holdings, each student selected a full-size facsimile reproduction of a Chinese landscape in the Palace Museum collection. Students researched each piece and wrote all the captions for the show, as well as arranged the attractive layout within the gallery space. The best part is that you get a sense of how large and impressive these scrolls are- an aspect that just never comes through in lecture courses.

Photos courtesy of Stephen Hooker.

The gallery will be open 1-5pm through tomorrow, November 24.

Internship opportunity: New York Arts program

This announcement went out on campus notices today, and flyers are posted around the art history hallways:

New York Arts Program - On Campus Thursday - Nov. 19th
Maria Kruger
Internship Development announces...

New York Arts Program
INFORMATION SESSION
Thursday, November 19th
Noon - 1:00pm
Roy Shilling Room in Commons

INDIVIDUAL APPOINTMENT TIMES
Thursday, November 19th
10:00am - 11:30am & 1:30pm - 4:00pm
To reserve an individual appointment time, please contact Career Services.

If you are interested in talking with the New York Arts Program
representative, SU Alumnus Eric Feldman '08, he will be on campus next
Thursday, November 19th to talk with interested students about
interning in New York City. Eric is an alumnus of the NYAP and is
currently a member of their staff. He interned with Ensemble Studio
Theatre in Fall 2007.

Former SU students have interned with record labels, MTV, NBC Nightly
News, professional artists and sculptors, publishing firms, SNL,
fashion designers, magazines, Marvel Comics, talent agencies, major
advertising firms and many more.

The New York Arts Program is a great opportunity to gain real world
experience in an arts-related field whether you are a Studio Art major
or a Business major. You are able to earn up to 16 upper-level credit
hours during a spring or fall semester by participating in this
program. Several of our SU students have been able return to NYC
after graduation within their chosen career field based on contacts
made through this program.

With a new leadership team, the New York Arts Program (formerly the
GLCA New York Arts Program) has also now partnered with the Ensemble
Studio Theater to offer a Summer Conservatory Program. This new
program is designed for students interested in pursuing acting,
playwriting or directing. It is a six-week program which will allow
participants to study with master professionals in the art of new play
development. The summer conservatory program will feature a
culminating project at the completion of the six weeks.

For more information about signing up to talk with Eric, please
contact Career Services at x1346, or reply by email to
krugerm@southwestern.edu.

San Antonio Field Trip

Dr. Hajovsky's Colonial Latin American art class is taking a field trip to San Antonio this Saturday November 7th, and seats are still available for interested campus members.

The trip will visit two missions, San Jose and Conception.


Particiapants will need to bring their own sack lunch to enjoy on site.





Then, the tour will continue to San Antonio Museum of Art, to see the groundbreaking exhibit The Arts of the Missions of Northern New Spain: 1600-1821.

There will be time also to see some of the museum's other impressive holdings; I particularly like the Asian galleries and the Roman sculpture collection.

As an added bonus, the excellent movie 'The Mission' will be played on the bus. Here's the trailer:


The tour departs from the FAB parking lot- meet at 9am sharp- and should return by 6:30pm. There is no cost to participants except for providing one's own sack lunch. Special thanks goes to the Dean of Fine Arts for securing museum admittance fees.

Seats are still available but are starting to go fast. To sign up, email me at hookerk@southwestern.edu or call x1024, or drop by my office on the third floor of FAB. All I need is you name and a cell phone number.