Landscape architect prof's design journey goes on display in Caldwell Hall Marguerite Koepke sees her work as a journey, a work in progress. She believes that her design has been informed by the culture and nature of “place,” and no landscape or region has formed a more powerful impression than her native Iowa. Her love of being outdoors and growing up in the Midwest along the Mississippi River formed the early inspirations for her art, design and pursuit of landscape architecture. Extensive travel has continued to imprint her art and career as a teacher and practitioner. Koepke’s exhibition Imprints: investigations in design portrays the artistic journey from sketch to design through a progression of entries beginning with journal drawings and sketches, progressing through media explorations, design doodles and process graphics and ending with completed works. The exhibition is on display through March 31 in the College of Environment and Design. An opening reception will be held March 8 from 4-6 p.m. in Circle Gallery, G14 Caldwell Hall. For the past 22 years Koepke has taught design and planting design at UGA. Before moving to the South, she taught in the landscape architecture program at Kansas State University. Prior to her academic career, she practiced landscape architecture in the private and public sectors including work in Hawaii, Iowa, Missouri, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Wyoming and Colorado. Her broad regional experiences and explorations in a varied range of landscapes and eco-systems has also profoundly informed and influenced her work. Koepke dedicates Imprints to the more than 2,500 students she has interacted with during her 30 years of teaching in the design studio. “My students have supplied a creative venue and the all-important ‘new eyes’ with which to see, explore and experience the landscape and have afforded an endless source of ideas and inspirations,” she says. “This exhibition is an attempt to share a small measure of that inspiration and to convey my love of landscape, passion for drawing and the design process as journey.” —René Shoemaker

Art exhibitions.
Works by Lillian London. Through March 12. Conservatory, State Botanical Garden. 542-6130.

Works from the Permanent Collection. Through March 19. Sponsored by the 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.

From Sideboard to Pulpit: Silver in Georgia. Through March 26. Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Silver, a luxury material, has throughout its history symbolized wealth. The acquisition and display of silver items in Georgia, whether in frontier towns or culturally rich cities, has expressed the desires of Georgians to attain and convey success.

The exhibition features holloware and flatware from the museum’s permanent collection as well as loans from several private and public collections.

Imprints: investigations in design. Through March 31. Opening reception: March 8, 4-6 p.m. Circle Gallery, G14 Caldwell Hall.

Artists of Prominence from the Permanent Collection. Through May 7. Lamar Dodd Gallery. Sponsored by the Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Beginning with the original gift of paintings to the museum by its founder, Alfred Herber Holbrook, the Georgia Museum of Art has housed works of art created by many of the most renowned artists of European and American culture. For this special display during the 10th anniversary celebration, the museum provides an opportunity to see works of art created by artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Joseph Mallord William Turner, James A. McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Pablo Picasso, Georgia O’Keeffe and Andy Warhol, among others.

Feeling the Familiar Pull: Andrew T. Crawford. Through May 21. Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Crawford is an Atlanta-based sculptor who works in metal, wood and found objects. His goal is to match organic form with mechanical objects and to explore the tension between the natural versus the man-made.

He draws his inspiration from day-to-day interaction with everyday objects—from the reality of his workshop—and mixes that with his intense study of the form and function of recognizable tools, instruments and industrial fragments.

This outdoor display of 10 large sculptures by Crawford makes use of the typography of the Performing and Visual Arts Complex during its 10th anniversary.

Ten Years of Acquisitions, 1996-2006. Through June 4. Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

This exhibition includes recently acquired decorative art and works by John Taylor Arms, Francis Hyman Criss, Jasper Francis Cropsey, Pierre Daura, John Stockton de Martelly, Andrée Ruellan, Lucy May Stanton, Will Henry Stevens and Wilmer Wallace, among many others.

Exhibit.
“Power to the People—Rural Electrification in Georgia.” Through Sept. 30. 8 a.m.-5 p.m., weekdays; Saturday, 1-4:45 p.m. Russell Library. Sponsored by the Russell and UGA libraries.

The exhibit presents life in rural Georgia before electricity was widely available. It considers the efforts by state and federal leaders to bring rural electrification to these communities through the Rural Electrification Administration and looks at the role technology plays in shaping society.

Monday, March 6
Lecture.
“Conceptual Thinking and Landscape Form,” Glenn Smith, Morgan State University. 5 p.m. Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the School of Environmental Design. 542-2916.

Heartsaver CPR Training.
$25 (CPR on adults); $40 (CPR on adults, children and infants). 5-9 p.m. University Health Center. 542-8695.

For UGA students, faculty and staff who want to learn life-saving skills and individuals who are required to have documentation of CPR certification. Advance registration required.

Swing Lessons.
Learn Lindy Hop, Balboa and Charleston swing dancing. No partner or experience necessary. $1. 7 p.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom. Sponsored by the UGA Swing Club.

Tuesday, March 7
Holmes-Hunter Lecture.
UGA alumna Deborah Roberts, ABC news. 2 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity.

Visiting Artist/Scholar Lecture.
Simon Lee. Sponsored by the Lamar Dodd School of Art. 5:30 p.m. 101 Student Learning Center. 542-0116.

While at UGA, Lee, a Brooklyn-based artist, is working on a projection piece at the Dodd School entitled ‘Soupe du jour,’ which will span a 40-foot-wide space. His recent exhibitions were at the Birkshire Museum and others.

Baseball.
vs. Wofford. 5:30 p.m. Foley Field.

meeting.
ONE Campaign to Make Poverty History. 7 p.m. 275 Student Learning Center. 614-1910.

Make a difference in the fight against global poverty and HIV/AIDS.

Faculty Recital.
Mark Neumann, viola. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall. Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School of Music. 542-3737.

Wednesday, March 8
Lunch-in-Theory Lecture.
“Weaving Penelope into Fa Mu/Mook Lan: Canon Formation and the Fifth Book of Peace,” Kam Ming Wong, comparative literature. 12:20-1:10 p.m. 153 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.

LongTerm Care Planning Seminar.
1:30-4:30 p.m. Callaway Building, State Botanical Garden. Sponsored by the College of Public Health’s Institute of Gerontology. 425-3222.

Abby Griffis, GeorgiaCares Lifelong Planning Program of Georgia’s Division of Aging Services, will speak about long-term care insurance, reverse mortgages and other private financing options. Thomas Rockenbach, COO of Presbyterian Homes of Georgia, will explain the continuing care retirement community concept .

FORUM.
“Oversight or Overlook? Intelligence in the Modern World,” David M. Barrett, Villanova University. 3 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies. 542-5788.

Seminar.
“Complex Trait Neurogenetics of Serotonin,” David Airey, Vanderbilt University. Sponsored by the Department of Genetics and the Institute for Behavioral Research. 4 p.m. B118 Life Sciences. 542-8000.

Sibley Lecture.
“There Is No Textualist Position: Why a Text Can Only Mean What Its Author Intends,” Stanley Fish, Florida International University. 4:30 p.m. Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom. Sponsored by the School of Law.

Prominent literary theorist and legal scholar Stanley Fish, the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor of Humanities and Law at Florida International University, will deliver the School of Law’s 101st Sibley Lecture, which is open to the public.

Fish is best known for his work regarding interpretative communities, in which he explores how the interpretation of a text by a reader depends on the reader’s acceptance of a common set of foundational assumptions or texts. The title of his Sibley Lecture is “There is No Textualist Position: Why a Text Can Only Mean What Its Author Intends.”

Fish is the author of a dozen books and hundreds of articles in the areas of literature and law, many of which have been published in the country’s most prominent legal journals. He is considered one of the leading scholars on English poet John Milton and often writes about politics at universities, having taken positions justifying campus speech codes and criticizing political statements by university or faculty bodies on matters outside their professional areas of expertise. He is also a regular contributor to publications such as the Chronicle of Higher Education and the New York Times and has appeared on many national television shows.

After earning his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and his master’s and doctorate degrees from Yale University, Fish taught English at the University of California at Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University before becoming an English and law professor at Duke University, where he served from 1986 to 1998. Additionally, from 1993 to 1998, he was the executive director of the Duke University Press. From 1999 to 2004, he served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Fish taught English for one year at Illinois before assuming his current position at Florida International University.

Established in 1964 by the Charles Loridans Foundation of Atlanta, the Sibley Lecture Series honors the late John A. Sibley, a 1911 graduate of UGA’s law school. The series hosts renowned legal academicians known throughout the country for their exceptional scholarship.

Torrance Lecture.
Robert Alan Black, a nationally recognized creativity consultant, and Mark Runco, editor, Creativity Research Journal. Reception follows. RSVP. 5:30 p.m. Masters Hall, Georgia Center for Continuing Education. Sponsored by UGA’s Torrance Center for Creativity and Talent Development. 542-5104.

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 the Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Film.
Wings of Desire (1987, German with English subtitles, 128 minutes). 7 p.m. Foreign Film Series. Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

Directed by Wim Wenders, this movie was later remade into City of Angels in 1998. It won many awards including best director at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

Faculty Recital.
Shakhida Azimkhodjaeva, violin. 8 p.m. Ramsey Concert Hall. Sponsored by the Hugh Hodgson School Music. 542-3737.

Thursday, March 9
Lecture.
“Transatlantic (and French-American) Relations: Time for Thinking Big and Bold,” Guillaume Parmentier, director, French Center on the United States.
3:30 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by the Center for International Trade and Security. 542-2985.

Workshop.
Soy Votive and Tea Light Candle Making. $25 ($22 members). 6 p.m. Visitor Center, classroom A. State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.

Tour.
Selections from the museum’s permanent collection. 2 p.m. Lobby, Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.

2nd Thursday Concert.
“Evolution of the Wind Band.” $15 ($7 students with valid UGA ID). 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by School of Music. 542-4400.

Tickets are available at the box office in the Performing Arts Center, open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays.

Friday, March 10
Lecture.
“African-American Women’s Construction of Knowledge: Beliefs, Barriers and Attitudes Toward Condoms Use,” Kim Parker, doctoral candidate, health promotions and behavior. Friday Speaker Series. 12:20-1:10 p.m. 350 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies. 542-0066.

Men’s Tennis.
vs. South Carolina. 2:30 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

Workshop and Discussion.
“Not Me’s and New Me’s: The Role of Self-Enhancement and Self-Verification in Weight Loss Narratives,” Ellen Granberg, sociology, Clemson University and UGA. 3:30- 5:30 p.m. 114A Baldwin Hall. Sponsored by the Georgia Workshop on Culture, Power and History, the Department of Sociology and the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts.

Saturday, March 11
Softball.
Doubleheader vs. Arkansas. 1 p.m. Women’s Athletic Complex, South Milledge Ave.

Baseball.
vs. Louisville. 7 p.m. Foley Field.

Sunday, March 12
Baseball.
vs. Louisville. 1 p.m. Foley Field.

Softball.
vs. Arkansas. 1 p.m. Women’s Athletic Complex, South Milledge Ave.

Men’s Tennis.
vs. Florida. 2 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

Monday, March 13
Teleconference.
“Are We Safer in the Dark?” 1-2:30 p.m. classroom F, School of Law. Sponsored by the UGA Law Library. 542-5298.

A panel of experts from around the country will kick off a discussion via satellite from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., about open government and secrecy, the impact on communities and what the public can do.

Spring Break.
No classes; UGA offices open. Through March 17.

Tuesday, March 14
Softball.
Doubleheader vs. Kentucky. 4 p.m. Women’s Athletic Complex, South Milledge Ave.

Baseball.
vs. Kennesaw State. 7 p.m. Foley Field.

Wednesday, March 15
Women’s Tennis.
vs. Marshall. 11 a.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

Men’s Tennis.
vs. Georgia Tech. 2:30 p.m. Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

Softball.
vs. Kentucky. 4 p.m. Women’s Athletic Complex, South Milledge Ave.

Baseball.
vs. Western Carolina. 5:30 p.m. Foley Field.

Workshop.
Cooking in the Garden: Season of the Fish. $25 ($22 members). 6:30-7:30 p.m. Café Trumps/ Botanical Garden Visitor Center. Sponsored by the Friends of the Garden. 542-6156.

Thursday, March 16
Swimming and Diving.
Women’s NCAA Championships. Through March 18. Gabrielsen Natatorium, Ramsey Student Center. Call for ticket information. 542-1231.


Friday, March 17
Baseball.
vs. Alabama. 7 p.m. Foley Field.

Saturday, March 18
Baseball.
vs. Alabama. 4 p.m. Foley Field.

Sunday, March 19
Baseball.
vs. Alabama. 1 p.m. Foley Field.

Art Exhibition.
Spirit of the Land: Second Annual Art Benefit for Land Conservation. Through March 25. Conservatory, State Botanical Garden. Sponsored by the State Botanical Garden, the Athens Land Trust and the Oconee River Land Trust. 542-6130.

Monday, March 20
Swing Lessons.
Learn Lindy Hop, Balboa and Charleston swing dancing. No partner or experience necessary. $1. 7 p.m. Gallery, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by the UGA Swing Club.

Film.
Barbie Nation. Discussion led by Blaise Parker follows. In conjunction with Women’s History Month. 7:30 p.m. 148 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by the Institute for Women’s Studies and the UGA Libraries Media Department.

Coming up
Kickoff Event.
March 21. Archway to Excellence Faculty and Staff Campaign. 3-5 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by the Office of Development.

Workshop.
March 22. Cookin’ Up Compost. Free but pre-registration required. 6-7:30 p.m. Visitor Center, classroom A. Sponsored by the State Botanical Garden and Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division. 542-6156.

Join Athens-Clarke County Recycling Division personnel as they share recipes for backyard composting.

University Theatre.
March 23. Polaroid Stories. $10 ($8 students). March 23-25, 8 p.m.; March 29-April 1, 8 p.m.; April 2, 2:30 p.m. Cellar Theatre, Fine Arts Building. Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Film Studies. 542-2838.

Naomi Iizuki’s drastic reworking of Ovid’s Metamorphosis depicts gripping tales of sex and drugs in the lives of teenage runaways.

Robert Osborne’s 2006 Classic Film Festival.
March 23-26. $10 ($8 students) for individual shows or $60 ($45 students) for pass to all films and panel discussions. Classic Center. Sponsored by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. 542-4972 or 542-5038.

Join Robert Osborne, host of Turner Classic Movies, as he presents eight of his favorite classic films: North by Northwest, Ed Wood, The Third Man, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Raiders of the Lost Ark, On the Waterfront, Best in Show and Gone with the Wind.