2nd Thursday Concert Series presents evening of Duke Ellington’s music In observance of Black History Month, the 2nd Thursday Concert Series will present an evening of Duke Ellington’s music on Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center. Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington was born in Washington, D.C., to a middle-class family. In his teens, he learned to play piano in the East Coast stride style and began working in small combos before starting his first band, the Duke’s Serenaders, in 1917. He moved to New York in 1923, where he began a career that spanned six decades. Ellington and his band, the Washingtonians, established themselves in various New York clubs. In 1927, the Ellington band began a five-year contract as the house band for the Cotton Club in Harlem. Many of Ellington’s pieces are part of the standard jazz repertoire, such as “Satin Doll,” “Take the A Train,” “Ko-Ko,” “Crescendo in Blue” and “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.” Ellington is noted for expanding jazz composition from three-minute dance tunes to longer art pieces with such masterworks as “Black and Tan Fantasy” and “Black, Brown and Beige,” and hybrids of classical music and jazz, such as “The River,” “Harlem Suite” and “Deep South Suite.” Ellington also composed the film score for Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder. Performing the Duke’s music will be faculty members Steve Dancz and Thomas McCutchen, with guest artists Sam Skelton, woodwinds, and Trey Wright, guitar. Skelton and Wright, both active in the Atlanta music scene, are currently teaching jazz studies in the School of Music. Joining them will be the UGA Jazz Band, directed by Dancz, the UGA Salsa Band, directed by McCutchen, and Classic City Jazz, directed by Mitos Andaya. The UGA Jazz Band has performed by invitation at the 1999 Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux, Switzerland, and the Vienne Jazz Festival in Vienne, France. Performing regularly in concert with the UGA Jazz Band, the Salsa Band specializes in traditional salsa music and Latin jazz. In this concert they will perform Ellington’s “Caravan.” Classic City Jazz, UGA’s premier vocal and instrumental jazz combo, will perform great Ellington hits such as the bluesy “Time’s A-Wastin’ ” and the up-beat “Cottontail.” The singers, known for their a cappella prowess, will present the classic “It Don’t Mean A Thing.” —Janice Lamanna

Art exhibitions.
Beauty and the Beast: Animals on Paper. Through March 20. 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.

Beauty and the Beast presents faithful and fanciful renderings of animals in prints, drawings, maps and books. It focuses on a wide spectrum of images of animals with works drawn mainly from the museum’s collections of prints and drawings and is augmented by selected examples of animal bronzes donated by Michael and Mary Erlanger.

Among the artists included in the exhibition are William Blake, Rosa Bonheur, Leonard Baskin and George Stubbs.

Shaping a Collection: Recent Acquisitions in the Decorative Arts. Through March 20. 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.

The museum’s decorative arts collection dates back to 1999, when the museum started the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of Decorative Arts that now numbers approximately 200 objects. The late Henry Green was an early advocate of the decorative arts in Georgia. All of the works in this exhibition have been either museum purchases or donated to the museum by patrons.

The Spirit of the Modern: Drawings and Graphics by Maltby Sykes. Through March 13. 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.

During his long and successful career, which included painting, printmaking, teaching and writing, Maltby Sykes was a tremendous asset to the cultural life of the Southeastern region. As a teacher for over three decades, Sykes influenced and inspired numerous students.

This exhibition includes 52 works, half of which come from the Georgia Museum of Art’s print collection. “Printmaking dominated the artist’s career, and his fluidity with the processes of lithography and intaglio warrant this reconsideration of his place among American modernists of the South,” says Marilyn Laufer, guest curator of the exhibition.

High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime. Through March 20. 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.

The remarkable paintings and drawings of Berman seem at first glance to delineate a self-contained, private realm. His depictions of decadent beauty and ruin open the contemporary art world to realms of fantasy, nostalgia, and theatrical illusion.

This exhibition presents a survey of 24 of Berman’s works, along with 68 additional works by Max Ernst, Clarence John Laughlin and Frida Kahlo and others. The works, which include paintings, photographs and sculptures or maquettes, link multiple generations of American artists. The work of each of these artists amplifies and refines a tone or mood that has been prominent in art history throughout the past century.

Selections from the Eva Underhill Holbrook Memorial Collection of American Art. Through March 20. 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.

This exhibition will feature paintings, dating from 1818 through 1946, from the museum’s permanent collection. Featured artists include George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, Winslow Homer, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maurice Prendergast, John H. Twachtman and James A. McNeill Whistler.

Alfred Heber Holbrook, founder of the Georgia Museum of Art, was a lawyer in Manhattan. Following his wife’s death in May 1940, Holbrook pledged to open an art museum in her memory.

Martin Luther King: A Wood Engraving by Ben Shahn. Through Feb. 27. 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.

Nature Abstracts by Brian Taylor. Through Feb. 13. 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.

Brian Taylor is a Shorter College art professor whose abstract oil paintings reflect his love of nature. “I believe that the true experiences of nature are not only in what we see, but also what we feel about what we see,” he says.

Taylor avoids recognizable shapes and forms, using patterns and colors for expression, but the titles of his works, such as Fall Foliage or In a Living Forest, indicate the source of his inspiration.

Hola Cuba! Images and Impressions. Through Feb. 28. Hill Atrium, Georgia Center. Sponsored by Georgia Center for Continuing Education. 542-9334.

Social Patterns: Paintings by Helen Klebesadel. Through Feb. 28. Tate Student Center Art Gallery. Sponsored by University Union. 542-6396.

Helen Klebesadel, a painter and women’s studies scholar, will exhibit her work, give several public talks, teach classes in art and in women’s studies, and meet with faculty and students as CHA visiting artist Feb. 7–11. 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.

Klebesadel will give several public talks while she is on campus. She will speak to students in Brumby Hall on Feb. 8. Her CHA lecture takes place on Feb. 9. She will also speak during the women’s studies brown-bag lunch on Feb. 11.

Klebesadel received an M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1989 and certification in women’s studies at Wisconsin in 1984. She is director of the Women’s Studies Consortium in the University of Wisconsin system and associate chair and visiting associate professor in the women’s studies program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was associate professor of art at Lawrence University from 1996 to 2000, serving as chair of the department from 1996 to 1998.

Her professional service includes participation as curator at Simpson College, awards juror on the selection committee of the board of directors of the National Women’s Studies Association (2002–05), CitiArts commissioner in Madison (2002–05), and co-founder and director of the Social Transformation through the Arts program in 2000. Klebesadel was a board member of the National Committee of the United States of America to the International Artists Association of UNESCO from 1996 to 1999 and delegation leader to the historic NGO Forum 95 of the fourth United Nations World Conference on Women held in Beijing and Huairo, China.

She has received the Lysistrata Award from Wisconsin Women in the Arts (1991) and the Curator’s Award from the Museum of the National Arts Foundations, New York (1989). She has had numerous exhibitions, throughout the United States and abroad, including 25 solo exhibitions and 27 group exhibitions, as well as seven electronic exhibitions.

Art Exhibition.
Present Progressive: Poetry and Paintings by Elena and Fausto Sarmiento. Through Feb. 28. Circle Gallery, G14 Caldwell Hall. Open 8:30 a.m.–6 p.m., weekdays. Sponsored by College of Environment and Design. 542-8292.

Fausto Sarmiento’s love—for his wife, his children and the Andes Mountains—inspires creative work that defines tropical landscapes and inscapes, in what he calls “soul ecology.” Present Progressive is a collection of black-and-white and colored drawings made more than 25 years ago. The poems were written at the time the drawings were created. Overall, the collection reflects the Andean philosophy of muyupacha, endurance for success.

Fausto O. Sarmiento is director of the Office of International Education and an assistant professor of environmental design. He is involved in global networks dealing with mountain themes. Elena V. Sarmiento is instructor of Spanish in the department of Romance languages. She was recently named as Professor of the Year by the Georgia chapter of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese.

Monday, February 7
Plant Biology Seminar.
“Annual Teaching Seminar.” Randy Phyllis, University of Massachusetts. 4 p.m. 2401 plant sciences building. 542-3732.

Lecture.
“What Children Taught Political Philosophy: Liberalism and Education.” Frances Ferguson, University of Chicago. 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall. Sponsored by department of English. 542-7103.

Ferguson has taught at Johns Hopkins and Berkeley and this past year moved to the University of Chicago. She has published Wordsworth: Language as Counter-Spirit (1977), Solitude and the Sublime (1991) and Pornography, the Theory (2004).

Black History Month Lecture.
Otis Johnson, mayor of Savannah. 6 p.m. 101 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by African-American Cultural Center. 542-8468.

Faculty Recital.
Kenneth Fischer Saxophone Quartet. 8 p.m. Ramsey Hall, Performing Arts Center. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Tuesday, February 8
Black History Month Lecture.
“The Niagara Movement.” Derrick Alridge, education. 12:30–1:30 p.m. Adinkra Hall, Memorial Hall. Sponsored by African-American Cultural Center. 542-8468.

First Aid Class.
$25. Registration required; class size limited. 5–9 p.m. University Health Center. Sponsored by University Health Center. 542-8695.

Visiting Artist Lecture.
Fabian Marcaccio. 5:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum of Art. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art and School of Art. 542-1511.

Marcaccio attended the University of Philosophy de Rosario in Santa Fe, Argentina, and has exhibited his work in galleries since 1988. He has coined the term “paintant”—the words “paint” and “mutant” combined—to describe his stimulating abstract narrative style of painting. Marcaccio uses both traditional and digital tools as media in his paintings, transporting the viewer into an intensively active and engaging plane.

CHA Visiting Artist Lecture.
“Using Art to Find Voice.” Helen Klebesadel, University of Wisconsin. 7 p.m. Brumby Hall. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

French Film Festival Screening.
Les Egarés (Strayed). Directed by André Techiné (2003). $1. 8 p.m. Tate Center Theater. Sponsored by Film Studies Program. neupert@uga.edu.

In 1940, the recently widowed Odile (Emmanuel Béart), a young mother, flees the Nazis in Paris with her two children, 13-year-old Philippe and 7-year-old Cathy. When Germans bomb the road packed with refugees, Odile’s car is destroyed, and the three flee into the woods. There, they encounter Yvan (Gaspard Ulliel), a strange young man whose survival skills prove invaluable. The four stumble into an abandoned country house, which becomes the setting for a makeshift family, or “desert island,” as director Téchiné describes it.

Black History Month Lecture.
“An Evening with Eric Jerome Dickey.” $4 ($2 students). 8 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by University Union. 542-6396.

Dickey, author of Friends and Lovers and The Other Woman, is one of the most popular writers of urban contemporary fiction. A book signing will follow his talk.

Wednesday, February 9
Black History Month Screening.
King Movie, with Paul Winfield as Martin Luther King and Cicely Tyson as his wife Coretta Scott King. 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; movie will play continuously. Adinkra Hall, Memorial Hall. Sponsored by African-American Cultural Center. 542-8468.

Lunch-in-Theory.
“The Production, Representation and Consumption of Venezuela’s Crisis in a Telenovela.” Maria Carolina Acosta- Alzuru, journalism. 12:20 p.m. 147 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

Engineering Seminar.
“Biorefinery: An Integrated System for the Conversion of Biomass to Chemicals, Fuels and Bioproducts.” K.C. Das, agricultural engineering. 12:20 p.m. Driftmier auditorium. 542-0866.

CHA Visiting Artist Lecture.
“The Personal Is Political: Art as Women’s Studies Research.” Helen Klebesadel, University of Wisconsin. 4:30 p.m. 116 visual arts building. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

ArtBeat.
“Stargazing: Art and Astronomy from the Collection.” Lanora Pierce, Georgia Museum of Art, on art, science, and post-modern implications of nocturnal imagery. 5:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Open Studio: Life Drawing.
$3. Live models; no instruction; participants must provide their own supplies; ages 17 and younger must have parental permission. 5:30 p.m. Forio Studio Classroom. Sponsored by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Self-Defense Class.
6–7:30 p.m. Through Feb. 16. 137 Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Safe Campuses Now. 354-1115.

Transgender Panel.
7–9 p.m. 138 Tate Student Center. Sponsored by GLOBES. ahatton@uga.edu.

Johnstone Lecture.
“Pomaria Nurseries: The First Major Nursery in the Lower and Middle South.” James Kibler. 7:30 p.m. Callaway Building. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.

James Kibler, professor of English at UGA, has done considerable research on brothers William and Adam Summer and Pomaria Nurseries, the first major nursery to develop in the lower and middle South.

Pomaria was established in 1840 by William Summer, and provided gardeners a wide range of fruit trees, shrubs, vines, roses and evergreens during the antebellum period and beyond. By 1860, Pomaria offered more than 1,000 varieties of apples, pears, peaches, plums, figs, apricots and grapes along with many ornamentals, including 500 varieties of rose.

William Summer, a preeminent horticulturist and pomologist and the sole proprietor of Pomaria Nurseries, made significant contributions to horticulture and gardening in the South. Adam was also a knowledgeable horticulturist, and many of the trees offered for sale by the nursery were actually grown at Adam’s nearby plantation, Ravenscroft, which was burned by Sherman’s maurauding troops in 1865. Kibler has restored a nearby plantation home, built in 1804 near Newberry, S.C.

Faculty Recital.
William Davis, bassoon. 8 p.m. Ramsey Hall, Performing Arts Center. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Thursday, February 10
Microbiology Seminar.
“Rickettsia prowazekii: A Little Genome Goes a Long Way.” David O. Wood, University of South Alabama. 11 a.m. 404D biological sciences building. 542-1434.

Public Health Seminar.
“Reducing the Risk of Imported Infectious Disease and SARS Surveillance.” Sena Blumensaadt, CDC. 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. 238 pharmacy building. Sponsored by College of Pharmacy. 542-5311.

Women’s Basketball.
vs. South Carolina. 7 p.m. Stegeman Coliseum. 542-1231.

Archaeology Lecture.
“The Palace of Nestor at Pylos.” Jack Davis. 7:30 p.m. 117 visual arts building. Sponsored by classics department. 542-9264.

2nd Thursday Concert.
“An Evening of Jazz: The Duke.” $12 ($7 students). 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-4400. See story above.

Black History Month Screening.
AIDS Warriors, about the fight against AIDS in Angola, and A Place of Hope, about a couple’s efforts to improve Africa’s future by rescuing the current generation of AIDS orphans and shaping them into the leaders of tomorrow. 8 p.m. Main auditorium, Athens–Clarke County Public Library, 2025 Baxter St. Sponsored by Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection. 583-0212.

Friday, February 11
Georgia Graduate Student Interdisciplinary Conference.
Through Feb. 12. Student Learning Center. Register: www.uga.edu/gsa/ggsic.

Black History Month Screening.
The Black Americans of Achievement: W.E.B. Du Bois. 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; movie will play continuously. Adinkra Hall, Memorial Hall. Sponsored by African-American Cultural Center. 542-8468.

Women’s Studies Friday Speaker.
“Remember Feminist Artists: Using Art to Teach Women’s Studies.” Helen Klebesadel, University of Wisconsin– Madison. 12:20 p.m. 350 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by Women’s Studies. 542-2846.

Culture and Institutions Workshop.
“Rescuing Tocqueville: From Social Capital to Civic Customs.” Paul Lichterman, University of Southern California and University of Wisconsin. 3:30 p.m. 114A Baldwin Hall. Sponsored by Georgia Workshop on Culture and Institutions. www.uga.edu/gwci.

Softball.
Georgia Softball Classic: UGA vs. Auburn. 1 p.m. UGA vs. Winthrop 6 p.m. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

Observatory: Public Viewing.
7:30 p.m. UGA observatory, atop physics building. Sponsored by department of physics and astronomy. 542-7827.

The 24-inch telescope is open for public viewing once a month. If the night is clear, those attending will be able to look through the telescope at the stars.

If it’s cloudy, there will be a brief talk on an area of astronomy that is of current interest.
For the most current information about observing or times, call the observatory message line at 542-STAR. Persons with special needs should call 542-2485 in advance to notify organizers.

Concert.
Deutsche Philharmonie. $32–$37 (half-price students). 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Music Series I). 542-4400.

The Deutsche Philharmonie is replacing the Berlin Symphony on the Performing Arts Center’s schedule because the Berlin Symphony was unable to tour as a result of budget cuts from the German government. The program, conductor and soloist are unchanged.

Theodore Kuchar will conduct and pianist Bidini will join the orchestra for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466. The orchestra will also perform Haydn’s Symphony No. 60 and Brahms’s second symphony.

Founded in 1950, the Deutsche Philharmonie has become an indispensable part of concert life in northwestern Germany. The orchestra is popular with renowned conductors and top soloists, and its brilliant playing is well-documented, with more than 200 recordings and countless radio productions.

Italian pianist Fabio Bidini has performed with orchestras around the world, and in 1993 he made his North American debut at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Summer Festival. Bidini has been awarded first prize in 11 of Italy’s most prestigious national piano competitions and has been the recipient of the top prizes in eight international competitions.

A pre-concert lecture will be given by Michael Lanford, a graduate student in the School of Music. The lecture begins 45 minutes prior to the performance and is free and open to the public.

Saturday, February 12
Tree Trail Ramble.
Scott Coleman. 10 a.m. Meet at shelter adjacent to Callaway parking lot. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.

Softball.
Georgia Softball Classic: UGA vs. Jacksonville State. Noon. Playoff follows. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

Workshop.
“Winter Pruning.” Mark Rieger, horticulture. $12 (members $10). 1–3 p.m. Callaway Building. Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.

Sunday, February 13
Men’s Tennis.
vs. Ohio State. 1 p.m. Magill Tennis Complex. 542-1231.

Softball.
Georgia Softball Classic: Championship Game. 2 p.m. Women’s athletic complex. 542-1231.

Winter Evolutionary Biology Symposium.
“Habitat Selection and Space Use in Drosophila.” Judy Stamps, University of California. 7:30 p.m. Ecology auditorium. Sponsored by department of genetics. 542-7001.

Monday, February 14
Black History Month Screening.
Separate But Equal. Starring Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley. 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; movie will play continuously. Adinkra Hall, Memorial Hall. Sponsored by African-American Cultural Center. 542-8468.

Winter Evolutionary Biology Symposium.
“Individual Differences in Habitat Selection Behavior in Drosophila.” Judy Stamps, University of California. 12:20 p.m. C127 life sciences building. Sponsored by department of genetics. 542-7001.

Poetry Reading.
Bin Ramke. 4 p.m. 265 Park Hall. Sponsored by Creative Writing Program. 542-2659.

Coming up
1900+ Concert.
Guest artists: Trio Surplus, oboe, percussion and piano. Feb. 15, 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

University Theatre.
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. $10–$12. 8 p.m. Feb. 16–19; 2:30 p.m. Feb. 20. Seney-Stovall Chapel, Lucy Cobb Institute. Sponsored by drama department. Tickets: 542-2838 (box office open noon–5 p.m. weekdays).

Wind Symphony Concert.
“Atmos!” Feb. 17, 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-3737.

Black History Month Concert.
“On the Road to Glory,” with the Princely Players. $20 (half-price students). Feb. 18, 8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Traditions Series). 542-4400.

Black History Month Concert.
Porgy and Bess. Concert version with live orchestra. $25–$30 (half-price students). Feb. 19, 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Showtime Series). 542-4400.