Media Relations
Press Release:
MEDIA CONTACT:
Lisa
Freed
561-297-3022,
lfreed@fau.edu
FAU Calendar of Events for Week
of August 30, 2010
BOCA RATON, FL (August 30, 2010) – Florida Atlantic University will host the following events:
The Jaffe
Center for Book Arts at FAU Libraries Hosts “The Carbon
Alternative: 1980s Book Arts Subculture Copy Art, Mail Art,
Fluxus,” an Exhibition
The free exhibition will take place
now through Monday, October 18 at the Arthur and Mata
Jaffe Center for Book Arts at FAU Libraries, 777
Glades Road
, Boca Raton campus.
Copy art, mail art, fluxus and other movements took off in
the 1980s as artists began using grassroots print technology,
such as xerography, stamp art and video phone. The works in the
exhibition are from the Jaffe collection and from the collection
of Ginny Lloyd, an artist who was in the heart of it all in San
Francisco in the 1980s. Artists developed techniques that
resulted in interesting color separation, captured motion and
flashes of light captured on the page. Mail art, artwork that was
created in one geographic area and sent through the mail to other
artists for completion, and books from the Fluxus movement, a
movement concerned with the flow and happening of art, are also
part of the exhibition. The Carbon Alternative can be viewed
during regular library hours, which can be found at
www.library.fau/geninfo/hours.htm?boca
or by calling 561-297-3770. For more information, contact John
Cutrone at 561-297-0226 or
jcutrone@fau.edu.
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FAU’s Jupiter Campus Library Presents
‘Exploring Gender,’ a Photographic Exhibition by
Jonathan Stein that Explores Gender and Violence
The free exhibition will take place
now through Friday, October 15 at
FAU’s John D. MacArthur Campus Library
Gallery, 5353 Parkside Drive in Jupiter.
Jonathan Stein’s exhibition painfully chronicles a
year of recovery for a hate crime victim through 12-large scale
photographic works titled “Exploring Gender.” His
series of photographs called, “It’s Just
Make-up” and “The Healing Process,” begin
moments after an assault, and illustrate not only the
body’s physical ability to heal and regenerate, but prove
that beyond the surface of one’s skin, lies a greater more
poignant hurt, fear and agony and will exist in a victim for a
lifetime. Hours are Sundays from 1:30 to 10 p.m.; Monday through
Thursday from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 5
p.m., and Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more
information, contact Diane Arrieta at 561-799-8530 or
darrieta@fau.edu, or visit
www.library.fau.edu/npb/npb.htm.
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FAU’s Jupiter Campus Library Presents
‘Introducing Birds are Nice,” a Mixed Media
Exhibition in Cardboard by Artist Birds are Nice
The free exhibition will take place
now through Friday, October 15 at
FAU’s John D. MacArthur Campus Library
Gallery, 5353 Parkside Drive in Jupiter.
Birds are Nice, also known as BAN, is a visual artist from
Miami. The artwork produced by BAN is intended to spark dialogue
about urban life and to spread a smile with characters and
illustrations. The work uses both traditional pencil and digital
drawings, along with sculpture and an occasional video/animation.
Hours are Sundays from 1:30 to 10 p.m.; Monday through Thursday
from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Fridays from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Saturdays from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. For more information,
contact Diane Arrieta at 561-799-8530 or darrieta@fau.edu, or
visit
www.library.fau.edu/npb/npb.htm.
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FAU’s University Galleries Presents an Opening
Reception for “Out of the Book: Selections from the
Arthur and Mata Jaffe Center for Book Arts”
Exhibition
The free event will take place on
Thursday, September 16 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the
Ritter Gallery on
FAU’s Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades
Road.
“Out of the Book” presents a thematic selection
of more than 200 book art works featuring the finest and most
innovative works from more than 6,000 objects held in the Jaffe
Book Arts Center, a special collection in FAU’s Wimberly
Library. There will be tours of the exhibition in both the Ritter
and Schmidt galleries during the reception.
-FAU-
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University serves more than 28,000 undergraduate and graduate students on seven campuses and sites. Building on its rich tradition as a teaching university, with a world-class faculty, FAU hosts 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering & Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. For more information, visit www.fau.edu .
