Women’s
studies scholar visits UGA
Helen Klebesadel, a painter and women’s studies scholar,
will exhibit her work, give public talks, teach classes in art
and in women’s studies and meet with faculty and students
as a Center for Humanities and Arts Visiting Artist, Feb. 7-11,
at UGA.
Klebesadel uses rich, complex watercolors, layered with references
to art history, myth, literary and social theories, cultural
icons, folklore, and personal experience to explore questions
of individual identity and cultural expectation. An accomplished
artist and articulate explicator, she is recognized by both
students and colleagues as an outstanding teacher.
Her exhibition, Social Patterns:
Paintings by Helen Klebesadel, will be on display Feb.
7-25 at the Tate Student Center. Her public talks will include
a conversation, titled “Using Art to Find Voice,”
with students in the Brumby Hall Rotunda on Feb. 8 at 7 p.m.;
the CHA Lecture “The Personal Is Political: Art as Women’s
Studies Research,” takes place Feb. 9 at 4:30 p.m. in
116 visual arts building; and the Women’s Studies Brown
Bag Lunch, “Remember Feminist Artists: Using Art to Teach
Women’s Studies,” which will be held in room 250
of the Student Learning Center on Feb. 11 at 12:10 p.m. The
talks, approximately one hour in length, are free and open to
the public.
Klebesadel received an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
in 1989 and a certification in women’s studies from UW-M
in 1984. She is director of the Women’s Studies Consortium
in the University of Wisconsin System and has just finished
a three-year term as associate chair and visiting associate
professor in the Women’s Studies Program at UW-M.
Documentary wins Eastman Kodak award
A film documentary directed and shot by Jim Virga, photojournalism
lecturer in UGA’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass
Communication, has won the Eastman Kodak Best Documentary Award
from the Indo-American Arts Council.
Dancing on Mother Earth
provides a behind-the-scenes look at Grammy-nominated Native
American singer/songwriter Joanne Shenandoah as she leads a
battle for traditional tribal government and her family’s
claim to tribal land.
Shenandoah, a leading preserver of Iroquois culture, lives with
her husband on Oneida Indian Nation ancestral lands in central
New York. There she composes and records music, writes children’s
books and participates in the regional politics of Native Americans.
Virga and the film’s producer, Tula Goenka, received a
$750 award for the winning documentary. The Indo-American Arts
Council is a not-for-profit organization with a mission to build
an awareness of Indian artists and artistic disciplines in North
America.
Ph.D. student wins Osborn Scholarship
Early childhood education doctoral student Boyoung Park was
awarded the D. Keith Osborn Scholarship in recognition of her
academic achievement. Park, a native of Seoul, Korea, was awarded
the $500 scholarship by the elementary education program.
A pioneer in early childhood education, Osborn was a professor
of education and child development for 26 years at UGA’s
College of Education. From 1980 to 1993, he was also graduate
coordinator for the department of elementary education. Before
coming to UGA, he was one of the first male teachers of young
children. He was a faculty member and division chair at the
Merrill Palmer Institute from 1952 to 1968. Osborn received
numerous teaching awards at UGA, including the 1987 Josiah Meigs
Award, the university’s highest teaching honor. In 1988,
he was named Georgia Professor of the Year by the Council for
Advancement and Support of Education. |
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