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Press Release:
MEDIA
CONTACT
: Lisa
Metcalf
561-297-3022,
lmetcalf@fau.edu
FAU Calendar of Events for the
Week of November 8, 2010
BOCA RATON, FL (November 8, 2010) – Florida Atlantic University will host the following events:
FAU Jupiter Library Gallery Hosts ‘You Were Almost
Extinct Too’ Exhibition by Derek Weisberg
The free exhibition runs through
Friday, December 3, at
FAU’s John D. MacArthur Campus Library Gallery,
5353 Parkside Drive, Jupiter. For more information,
call 561-799-8530 or visit
www.library.fau.edu/npb/npb.htm.
The “You Were Almost Extinct Too” exhibition
by California artist Derek Weisberg features works created with
ceramic, wood and mixed media. The artist used found wood and
objects from the local neighborhoods to give his work a sense
of place in the university community. Weisberg’s
evocative figurative sculptures are detailed, especially in the
faces, which take on more individualistic characteristics. The
exhibition is not only visually interesting, but brings up
tougher issues, such as life and death, and sadness and loss.
Weisberg is the first ceramic sculptor to show his work in the
MacArthur Campus library gallery space. The library’s
hours are Sundays from 12:30 to 11 p.m.; Monday through
Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Fridays from 8:30 a.m. to 6
p.m. and Saturdays from noon to 6 p.m.
FAU’s University Galleries Presents Linda Nochlin
with a Conversation on Art History
This free lecture will take place on
Wednesday, December 1, at
6:30 p.m. in the
Schmidt Gallery on FAU’s Boca Raton campus, 777
Glades Road. For more information, call
56-297-3870.
Linda Nochlin, a Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern
Art, from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, is
one of the most influential art historians and feminist thinkers
of the past 50 years.
-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.
