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Independent filmmaker Charles
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Independent filmmaker Charles Burnett
will be on campus the week of Aug. 30, lecturing,
working with students and faculty, and showing his films
as a visiting artist with the Center for Humanities and
Arts.
Burnett was described by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum as
“the most gifted and important black filmmaker this
country has ever had.” He is the creator of Killer
of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s Wedding
(1983), To Sleep with Anger (1990), America
Becoming (1991), The Glass Shield (1995),
Night John (1996), and Nat Turner: A Troublesome
Property (2003). In 1988 he received a MacArthur
Foundation “genius grant.”
On Aug. 30 his film Killer of Sheep will
be shown in the Student Learning Center. The film was
among the first 50 films selected by the Library
of Congress for a special archive of significant films.
The following afternoon he will give a public lecture
about “The Art and Craft of Independent Film”
in the Student Learning Center. To Sleep with Anger,
starring Danny Glover as an unexpected guest who tests
the strength of a Los Angeles family, will be screened
that evening.
On Sept. 1 he will speak at a Brown Bag Lunch Lecture
in the African-American Cultural Center in Memorial Hall.
His film Night John will be shown that evening
in the Brumby Hall Rotunda.
The following evening The Glass Shield will be
shown in the Student Learning Center. Based on a true
story, the film examines the pressures faced by police
officers who must choose between duty and the code of
silence that protects police officers who break the law.
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Art exhibitions.
The Wise and Powerful Wizard: John
Stockton deMartelly (1903–1979). Through Sept. 5.
Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Wednesday;
and 1–5 p.m. Sunday. 542--4662.
John S. deMartelly is best known for his regionalist prints and
has been compared to Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood and John Steuart
Curry. But his oeuvre ranged far beyond the regionalist style, spanning
nearly every genre of modern art. A talented painter and draftsman,
his images focus on architecture, portraits and landscape settings.
Born in Philadelphia, deMartelly began his formal training in 1921
at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He continued his studies
at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, and pursued
his interest in lithography while studying at the Royal College
of Art in London. When he returned to the United States he began
a teaching career to which he devoted the rest of his life.
The Georgia Museum of Art is involved in a two-year journey of exploration
into regionalism and the American scene. Painters and printmakers
from the early 20th century onward have been exhibited at the museum,
including Eric Bransby and Armin Landeck. Future exhibitions will
highlight the works of Maltby Sykes and the outstanding regionalists
featured in Coming Home: American
Paintings, 1930–1950, from the Schoen Collection, an
exhibition organized by the museum that is currently traveling across
the Southeast and will open at the Georgia Museum of Art in August
of 2005.
Trained in the rigorous academic traditions carried over from the
19th century, these artists defined a modern American aesthetic
based on a love of the grand American landscape, the explosion of
urban architecture in cities like New York and Chicago, and the
horrors of the Depression. They refocused attention on the homeland—from
the rolling prairies of Kansas to the towering skyscrapers of New
York.
A girl strumming her guitar in the moonlight, a farmer sharpening
a scythe, a cat curled up at the feet of a wizened old fiddler—simple,
everyday subjects appealed to these artists. Ordinary men and women
had emerged as American icons, nostalgic glimpses into a disappearing
way of life.
The Georgia Museum of Art is honored to present a retrospective
of deMartelly’s prints, including his famous regionalist lithographs,
complemented by a selection of drawings and paintings.
Augustus Saint-Gaudens: American Sculptor
of the Gilded Age. Through Sept. 26. Georgia Museum
of Art. Open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
and Saturday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Wednesday; and 1–5 p.m.
Sunday. 542-4662.
Often compared to the great artists of the Italian Renaissance,
the American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848–1907) revitalized
sculpture in the United States and raised it to new levels of significance
in the late 19th century, shaping the nation’s understanding
of the art of sculpture. He is important as an artist, as a strong
force in American cultural life, and as a teacher. This exhibition
features 70 of Saint-Gaudens’s works, including decorative
panels for Gilded Age mansions, sculptural sketches for his large
public monuments, relief portraits, medals, and U.S. gold coinage.
Saint-Gaudens created over 100 sculptural portraits, accepted more
than 20 public commissions for major monuments, and created medals
and coins. In response to the need for monuments and memorials after
the Civil War, he created works dedicated to leaders and soldiers.
Some of his most powerful sculptures still stand—Standing
Lincoln in Chicago and monuments to David Farragut and William
Tecumseh Sherman in New York City. This exhibition includes several
sculptures based upon the figures in his great Shaw
Memorial commemorating Robert Gould Shaw and the Massachusetts
54th Regiment, the all-black regiment recruited in the North to
fight for the Union army.
Saint-Gaudens first tried his hand at “painting” a bas-relief
portrait at the suggestion of the painter John LaFarge. Some of
his earliest reliefs were portraits of William Picknell, Dr. Walter
Cary and Charles McKim; he produced more than 20 bas-relief portraits
of artists and friends while in Paris between 1877 and 1880.
Saint-Gaudens created some of the most popular sculptures of the
19th century, including Amor Caritas,
Morgan Tomb Angels, Diana and the Adams
Memorial, all included in this exhibition. He introduced
affordable, accessible sculpture to a wider audience by producing
reductions of some his most popular statues and reliefs, making
it possible for museums as well as individuals to include his work
in their collections.
He also created many commemorative medals, including the World’s
Columbian Exposition Commemorative Presentation Medal of 1893, the
George Washington Inaugural Centennial Medal of 1889 and the Theodore
Roosevelt Special Inaugural Medal in 1905. Theodore Roosevelt asked
him to redesign the U.S. gold coinage, and the coins, completed
after his death, are considered by collectors to be the most beautiful
ever created.
Sculptures by Christie Moody.
Through Sept. 5. Conservatory. Open Tuesday–Saturday,
9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.
Moody, one of the first artists to exhibit in the conservatory when
it opened in 1985, will display stained-glass hanging birds as well
as fused-glass hangings, plates, platters and vessels. Colorful
and creative, her works convey a love of the flora and fauna of
Georgia’s rivers and coast.
Explorations. Through Sept. 17.
Hill Atrium, Georgia Center. Sponsored by Georgia Center for Continuing
Education. 542-9334.
The exhibition is a retrospective featuring a multitude of “artistic
explorations” of various motifs and mediums conducted by artist
Thomas E. Ricks.
Born and raised in San Jose, Calif., Ricks began his artistic career
at the age of 3 with drawings of cucumber-like forms. By the time
he reached middle school he was working with cartoons and fantasy
art. In high school he began exploring watercolor, realistic pencil
drawings, and fine art. After experimenting with various types of
mediums as an art education minor at Brigham Young University, Ricks
returned to his favorite—watercolors.
Ricks’s work is the expression of his fascination with “that
which makes life rich and meaningful.” He believes that “the
creation and appreciation of good art helps expand our souls and
takes us a step closer to the divine.”
Ricks’s art has appeared in two juried art shows: the statewide
Spring Salon at the Springville Utah Art Museum and the 2003 Freedom
Festival Art Show held at Provo, Utah. Explorations
marks his first one-man show.
Exhibit.
Territories: Contemporary European
Landscape Design. Through Sept. 24. Circle Gallery,
G14 Caldwell Hall. Open 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m., weekdays.
Sponsored by College of Environment and Design. 542-8292.
Territories: Contemporary European
Landscape Design is described by the curators as a landscape
abecedary with featured regions. The exhibition is co-curated by
Joseph Disponzio of UGA’s School of Environment and Design,
and Sébastien Marot, editor of the French review Le
Visiteur.
Perhaps nowhere, historically, are cultures of landscape and the
traditions of landscape practice as diverse as in Europe. The projects
exhibited here are evenly distributed among the range of landscape
practice, exhibiting multiplicity and highlighting the generators
of the new landscape of Europe.
Monday, August 30
Multicultural Mixer.
2 p.m. Adinkra Hall (4th floor, Memorial Hall). Sponsored by
Minority Services and Programs. 542-5773.
IBR Seminar.
“Using the SNP Browser for Social Scientists.” Roger
Nilsen, applied genetics. 3 p.m. 106 Barrow Hall. Sponsored
by Institute for Behavioral Research. 542-1806.
Soccer.
vs. Georgia State. 7 p.m. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.
CHA Visiting Artist: Film Screening.
Killer of Sheep. 7 p.m.
150 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by Center for Humanities
and Arts. 542-3966.
Killer of Sheep was Charles
Burnett’s first feature film and is being shown in conjunction
with his visit to campus as a Center for Humanities and Arts visiting
artist. He will give a lecture about filmmaking Aug. 31. This
film was among the first 50 films selected by the Library of
Congress for a special archive of significant films.
Tuesday, August 31
Art Exhibition.
Regal Bodies, Royal Splendor: Reflections
on Velázquez and Philip IV of Spain. Through Nov. 14.
Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Wednesday;
and 1–5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.
A full-length portrait of Philip IV, king of Spain (1621–65)
and of Portugal (1621–40), forms the centerpiece of the exhibition.
Attributed to the famous Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez
(1599–1660), it belongs to a private collection in Atlanta.
The painting highlights the importance of dress, posture and gesture
in 17th-century courtly portraits. Dressed in their finest, kings,
queens and aristocrats posed for paintings that clarified their
social status, prosperity and lineage. Artists like Velázquez
became powerful courtiers as well, playing an important role in
the politics of courtly culture.
Regal Bodies, Royal Splendor
investigates the ways in which monarchs and aristocrats were depicted
by famous painters like Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens and
Anthony Van Dyck. It also examines the relationship between patrons
and the artists they commissioned to paint their pictures. While
painted portraits were expensive commissions and usually accessible
only to family, friends and select political figures, their printed
counterparts were more easily available, dispersing information
about famous personages throughout 17th-century Europe. Van Dyck’s
famous series The iconography
(1632–44) was one such outstanding example of prints that
paid homage to great patrons and artists of the time. Several prints
chosen from the series in the museum’s permanent collections
complement the portrait of Philip IV. In addition, a drawing attributed
to Van Dyck from the Ceseri collection on extended loan to the museum
enables viewers to study the extent to which artists studied courtly
costume in preliminary sketches before they painted grant portraits.
In addition to analyzing the etiquette and costumes of courtly baroque
culture, the exhibition also invites viewers to study the problem
of artistic attribution.
On Oct. 23, the museum will host a daylong scholarly symposium
on the art and architecture of Spain during the reign of Philip
IV.
CHA Visiting Artist Lecture.
“The Art and Craft of Independent Film.” Charles Burnett,
filmmaker. 4 p.m. 171 Student Learning Center. Sponsored
by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.
Burnett will be on campus the week of Aug. 30. He will give
this public lecture and three of his films will be shown (Aug. 30
and 31 and Sept. 2).
Burnett has been described by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum as “the
most gifted and important black filmmaker this country has ever
had.” He is the creator of Killer
of Sheep (1977), My Brother’s
Wedding (1983), To Sleep with
Anger (1990), America Becoming
(1991), The Glass Shield (1995),
Night John (1996), and Nat
Turner: A Troublesome Property (2003). In 1988 he received
a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant.”
CHA Visiting Artist: Film Screening.
To Sleep with Anger. 7 p.m.
171 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by Center for -Humanities
and Arts. 542-3966.
To Sleep with Anger by Charles
Burnett is being shown in conjunction with his visit to campus as
a Center for Humanities and Arts visiting artist. Danny Glover stars
as an unexpected guest who tests the strength of a Los Angeles family.
Documentary screening.
Independent Media in a Time of War
and Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism. $2
($1 students). 7–9:30 p.m. Tate Center Theater. Sponsored
by College of Journalism and Mass Communication. 354-0374.
These two documentaries probe the performance of media organizations
in dealing with the current military operations in Afghanistan and
Iraq. The following evening a panel discussion will consider the
issues raised.
Independent Media in a Time of War (29 minutes) was
produced by Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center. In it, Amy Goodman
(host of the radio show Democracy
Now!) offers many examples of the narrowness of news coverage.
She argues that full information is necessary to fuel an open, public
dialogue about these and other policy decisions.
The second item is the main event of the evening, a screening of
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War
on Journalism (77 minutes).
Connections between Fox owner Rupert Murdoch and the current administration
are not difficult to find. One of many indications of administration
approval of the Fox News channel is a public endorsement by Vice
President Dick Cheney during a recent conference call to Republican
supporters. As reported in the Washington
Post (Mike Allen, “Cheney Praises Fox News Channel,”
April 30, 2004, p. A05), Cheney said, “I end up
spending a lot of time watching Fox News, because they’re
more accurate in my experience, in those events that I’m personally
involved in, than many of the other outlets.” The reporter
noted that “it is unusual for a president or vice president
to single out a commercial enterprise for public praise.”
But such comments indicate much more, according to the documentary.
Former Fox News producers, reporters, bookers and writers talk about
how they were forced to push a “right-wing” point of
view or risk their jobs. The team behind Outfoxed
monitored Fox News 24 hours a day for months to discover
exactly how its shows worked. And a team of volunteers around the
country scrutinized every hour of Fox News programming, noting examples
of bias in its coverage. The result is an intense examination of
Fox News and the truthfulness of the claim in its motto, “Fair
and Balanced.”
Outfoxed was produced by Robert
Greenwald, producer and director of 53 television movies, miniseries
and features. He is the director and executive producer of Uncovered:
The Whole Truth About the Iraq War and the executive producer
of Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential
Election and the soon-to-be-released Unconstitutional.
Wednesday, Sept 1
Workshop.
“Flower Arranging Unit 5: Creative Miniature Designs (1st
series).” $23 (members $20). 9 a.m.–3 p.m.
State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.
Brown Bag Lunch Lecture.
Charles Burnett, filmmaker. 12:20–1:10 p.m. African-American
Cultural Center, Memorial Hall. Sponsored by African-American Cultural
Center. 542-5773.
Lunch-in-Theory.
“Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii: The Consummation of American
Empire.” Hugh Ruppersburg, English. 12:20 p.m. 147 Student
Learning Center. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.
Staff Council Meeting.
2:15 p.m. 350 Student Learning Center. 542-7222.
Volleyball.
vs. College of Charleston. 7 p.m. Ramsey Student Center. 542-7954.
CHA Visiting Artist: Film Screening.
Nightjohn by Charles Burnett,
filmmaker; discussion follows. 7 p.m. Brumby Hall Rotunda.
Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.
Panel discussion.
“Media Performance in Times of War and National Crisis.”
Panel: Heather Gray, Ron Martz, David Hazinsky and Jay Hamilton;
moderator Marci Fierman. 7–8:30 p.m. 101 Student
Learning Center. Sponsored by College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
354-0374.
The discussion will begin with the documentaries screened the previous
day in the Tate Center Theater.
Heather Gray is president of WRFG-89.3 FM (Radio Free Georgia) in
Atlanta. For 13 years she has produced and hosted Just
Peace, a WRFG program that addresses social and economic
justice and human rights issues. She is also a writer. As a journalist
and activist she has been involved in many causes, including the
struggle for sovereignty in the Philippines and the movement to
end apartheid in South Africa. In 1994 she served as an observer
in South Africa’s first democratic elections. For the past
two years Gray has focused on the issue of media consolidation and
its impact on democracy. In 2003 she organized the last FCC hearing
before the FCC’s controversial decision to relax media ownership
rules; the hearing was broadcast live on Pacifica Radio and NPR.
Subsequently, alternative media groups in Atlanta, including WRFG,
have coalesced to educate the public about media consolidation.
Ron Martz is a veteran journalist with more than 30 years’
experience as a writer and editor. He is currently military affairs
correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Over 23 years, Martz has reported from more than 25 countries
on a variety of security issues. Major assignments include the war
in Iraq (2003), the incarceration of Taliban and al-Qaida prisoners
at Guantanamo Bay (2002), the arrival of U.S. troops in Croatia
and Bosnia (1995–96), the Persian Gulf War (1990–91),
the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1988), the drug trade in
Burma, Thailand and South America (1987–88), and the Contra-Sandinista
war in Central America in 1984. His reporting on the war in Iraq
has won several awards, including Journalist of the Year from the
Atlanta Press Club and Writer of the Year from Cox Newspapers. He
is a Marine Corps veteran and co-author of three books on military
history. His fourth book will address the war in Iraq.
David Hazinski is associate professor of telecommunications and
head of broadcast news in the Grady College of Journalism and Mass
Communication. He is also president of Video Communications, Inc.,
a video production and consulting company, and a principal in Intelligent
Media Consultants, LLC. In 2000, Hazinski helped launch Aaj Tak
TV news network in India, which commands 43 percent of the Indian
market. In 2002, he was co-project manager of GEO-TV, a new TV network
in Pakistan which is now the predominant network in that country.
In 2003 he helped start Headlines Today, another Indian news network,
and in 2004 Puls TV, Austria’s first commercial city channel.
Hazinski has covered many major national and international events
over several decades as a working broadcast journalist. For six
years he was an international correspondent for NBC News. For NBC
he reported on conflicts in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti
and Northern Ireland. Hazinski has acted as a consultant for Attorney
General Dick Thornburgh on Justice Department media policy. He is
a Vietnam War and Navy veteran.
Jay Hamilton is assistant professor of advertising in the Grady
College. His research focuses on the history and practice of alternative
media. He has published widely in scholarly journals, and is currently
working on a book on the cultural history of alternative media.
The panel and public discussion will be moderated by Marci Fierman,
student and freelance journalist.
Thursday, Sept 2
Diversity Workshop.
1–4 p.m. Room R, Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
Repeated Sept. 3. Sponsored by Institutional Diversity. RSVP
by Aug. 31 to Shirley Reyes (diverse@uga.edu,
583-8195).
The workshop sessions will be led by Keith Parker, Cheryl Dozier,
Marquette Brown, MaryAnn Akers and Jorge Atiles. After an opening
session, participants will divide into smaller groups to discuss
“Talking about Diversity in a Faculty-Staff Setting”
and “Engaging the Complexity of Our Diversity.”
Slide Show.
“India Unveiled.” 3 p.m. 248 Student Learning
Center. Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 542-0628.
CHA Visiting Artist: Film Screening.
The Glass Shield. 7 p.m.
150 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by Center for Humanities
and Arts. 542-3966.
The Glass Shield by Charles
Burnett is being shown in conjunction with his visit to campus as
a Center for Humanities and Arts visiting artist. Based on a true
story, the film examines the pressures faced by police officers
who must choose between duty and the code of silence that protects
police officers who break the law.
Friday, Sept 3
Diversity Workshop.
8:30–11:30 a.m. Room R, Georgia Center for Continuing
Education. Repeat of Sept. 2 workshop. Sponsored by Institutional
Diversity. RSVP by Aug. 31 to Shirley Reyes (diverse@uga.edu,
583-8195).
The workshop sessions will be led by Keith Parker, Cheryl Dozier,
Marquette Brown, MaryAnn Akers and Jorge Atiles. After an opening
session, participants will divide into smaller groups to discuss
“Talking about Diversity in a Faculty-Staff Setting”
and “Engaging the Complexity of Our Diversity.”
Diversity Recognition Luncheon.
Noon–1 p.m. Georgia Center for Continuing Education.
Sponsored by Institutional Diversity. RSVP by Aug. 31 to Shirley
Reyes (diverse@uga.edu, 583-8195).
The purpose of the luncheon is to recognize one UGA college or unit
and four individuals who have demonstrated exemplary efforts toward
advancing UGA’s mission of diversity and academic excellence.
Award winners will receive plaques. The luncheon speaker is Carolyn
J. Cartwright, senior vice president for corporate diversity at
SunTrust Bank.
Friday Natural History Tours.
4 p.m. Georgia Museum of Natural History. Not suitable for
children younger than 5; tour group size is limited. 542-1663.
First Friday Pep Rally.
5:30–7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. Sponsored by Alumni Association.
http://www.alumni.uga.edu/alumni/invite/firstfriday/firstfriday.html.
The UGA Alumni Association will host First Friday, the third annual
pep rally to fire up the football team and Bulldog fans, the evening
before the first home game against Georgia Southern.
“First Friday is a great start to the football season,”
says head football coach Mark Richt. “It’s a wonderful
way to bring fans together to show their Bulldog spirit and it is
very exciting that the Alumni Association has been successful in
establishing this new tradition.”
Thousands of students, alumni, faculty and fans attended last year’s
rally. More are expected to pack Stegeman Coliseum this year.
The event is free and open to the public. Doors will open at 5 p.m.
The first 1,000 guests will receive First Friday T-shirts. Fans
are encouraged to come early and register for prizes; one prize
offered is a Georgia–Florida hotel and football ticket package
for two. Richt and this year’s entire football team will be
there, along with Athletic Director Damon Evans, Uga VI, Hairy Dawg,
the Georgia cheerleaders, the Derbies, and the flagline, twirlers
and majorettes.
Saturday, Sept 4
Football.
vs. Georgia Southern. 3 p.m. Sanford Stadium. 542-1231.
Monday, Sept 6
Labor Day Holiday.
No classes; UGA offices closed.
Tuesday, Sept 7
Heartsaver CPR Training.
For students, faculty and staff. $25 (two-hour adult CPR class)
or $40 (four-hour adult, child and infant CPR class). 5–9 p.m.
University Health Center. Sponsored by University Health Center.
542-8695.
Coming up
2nd Thursday Concert.
Brahms Times Two. $12 ($7 students), at the box office in the Performing
Arts Center, open 9 a.m.–5 p.m. weekdays. Sept. 9,
8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-4400.
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