October
Continuing Through Oct. 4
Alter
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar Street entrance)
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Friday, 3 to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.
Philadelphia artist Phillip Adams works from the tradition of larger-than-life realism and murals. Over the span of several days, he created a massive charcoal-and-graphite drawing in the Goodyear Gallery. That drawing is included in this exhibition, along with smaller works on wood panels that accentuate the play between scale and visual truth. Adams' works are included in permanent collections of the Art Bank, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities (Washington, D.C.) and the Lyndon House Arts Center, (Athens, Ga.). His murals are featured throughout Philadelphia as well as internationally; his most recent commission was in Montreal.
Continuing Through Nov. 1
ARBUS FRANK PENN: Masters of Postwar American Photography
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Thirty-six vintage prints by three of America’s leading photographers working in the 1950s and '60s are highlighted in this exhibition, including Diane Arbus’ Child With a Toy Hand Grenade, Irving Penn's Nude No. 92, New York and prints from Robert Frank’s landmark collection The Americans.
Continuing Through Dec. 5
ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers
Waidner Spahr Library (view library hours)
Earth Vision Trust and Dickinson College present photographs by James Balog, recipient of the 2014 Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism, and by the Extreme Ice Survey. Installed by art & art-history students and faculty members, includes 15 color photographs, text panels, a time-lapse video of a glacier melt, interactive resources and a display showcasing the diversity of Balog's work. This event is part of Dickinson’s fall 2014 One College, One Community programming. Learn about related events.
Thursday, Oct. 2, 5 p.m.
Antonio Lombardo, Venus Anadyomene, c. 1515, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
The Birth of the Paragone Between Ancient Texts and Renaissance Sculpture
Room 106, Althouse Hall
Sarah Blake McHam, distinguished professor of art history at Rutgers University, specializes in Italian Renaissance sculpture, concentrating on the impact of ancient Greek and Roman texts on the works of Michelangelo, Donatello and Giambologna. Her recent book, Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance: The Legacy of the “Natural History” (2013), was named Book of the Year by the Times Literary Supplement. This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History.
Oct. 7 - 11
Residency: Amernet String Quartet and Matthew Bengtson
Various locations
Artists-in-Residence Amernet String Quartet and Matthew Bergtson (piano) join the Dickinson community for a series of master classes, workshops, lectures and roundtable discussions.
- Learn more about Amernet String Quartet and the fall 2014 artists-in-residence.
Saturday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m.
Cross Currents: American Modernism
by the Amernet String Quartet with Matthew Bengtson and Blanka Bednarz
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
The Amernet String Quartet joins forces with guest pianist Matthew Bengtson and Associate Professor of Music Blanka Bednarz for an evening of American music. The concert features works by Pulitzer Prize winners Bernard Rands and Elliott Carter, as well as quintets by Vittorio Giannini and Charles Martin Loeffler. It is sponsored in part by the Cecil Andrew and Adeleine Ewing Fund.
- Learn more about Amernet String Quartet and the fall 2014 artists-in-residence.
"Immensely satisfying." –The New York Times
"Shimmering textures and full-bodied redolence."
–The Washington Post
Thursday, Oct. 16, noon
Noonday Concert
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
This concert features students in Dickinson’s performance-studies program.
Oct. 16 to Nov. 8
Reception/Artist's Talk: Oct. 16, 5 p.m.
Paradise/Paradox: Photographs by Tom
Fischer
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar Street entrance)
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Friday, 3 to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 2 to 5 p.m.
Tom Fischer's photographs juxtapose natural and industrial landscapes, mark human passage through geography and explore the ramifications of altering what we often find pristine. Fischer is an NEA fellow and a professor of photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design; his work is held in numerous public and private collections and has been shown in more than 60 exhibitions in galleries and museums in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Wednesday, Oct. 22, 5:15 p.m.
Reveal, Filter, Evolve, Effect:
An Architect’s View of Liberal Thinking
Room 106, Althouse Hall
Sylvia Smith, a 1973 alumna of Dickinson’s art & art-history program, will discuss the ways her liberal-arts education has informed her career as an architect and as partner in FXFowle Architects (New York). Sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History.
Thursday, Oct. 23, 5 p.m.
Public Lecture:
Stephen Perloff,
Photographer, Critic
Weiss Center for the Arts, Room 235
Stephen Perloff is the founder and editor of The Photo Review, a critical journal of international scope publishing, and editor of The Photograph Collector, the leading source of information on the photography art market. He has taught photography and photography history at the university level, and he was awarded two grants from the Council of the Arts for art criticism, the 2000 Sol Mednick Award from the Mid-Atlantic region of the Society for Photographic Education, the Vanguard Award from the Philadelphia Center for the Photographic Image (2007) and the Colin Ford Award (Royal Photographic Society, 2012).
Thursday, Oct. 30, noon
Noonday Concert
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
This concert features students in Dickinson’s performance-studies program.
Thursday, Oct. 30, noon
Lorrie Moore Common Hour Discussion
East College, room 405
The Department of English and the creative-writing program invite students from all disciplines to a discussion of the short fiction of Lorrie Moore, this year's Stellfox Distinguished Writer. Assistant Professor of English Siobhan Phillips will lead a discussion of two short stories, "Foes" and "People Like That Are the Only People Here." Pizza will be served, so your RSVP is required (email Kelly Winters-Fazio by Wed., Oct. 29 by 3 p.m.).
The first 43 students who RSVP and also commit to reading the two stories for discussion may pick up two books by Lorrie Moore—Bark and Birds of America—free of charge. The stories for the common hour appear in these books. Students who RSVP after the free books have run out will receive the two stories electronically.
Note: This event is held in anticipation of Lorrie Moore's residency, to be held in November.
Friday, Oct. 31, 8 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 1, 8 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 4, 8 p.m.
Fiddler on the Roof
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building
Tickets: $7 or $5 for advance purchase with student ID
Fifty years ago, one of the world’s best-loved musicals made its Broadway premiere. Now, Fiddler on the Roof comes to the Mathers stage in a production that combines the energies of Dickinson's music, theatre and dance programs. The story of Tevye, a turn-of-the-century milkman, his five daughters and his Russian village was adapted from classic stories by Sholem Aleichem and enlivened by a remarkable score that includes "Sunrise, Sunset," "Tradition," "Matchmaker" and "Miracle of Miracles.”
“Exuberant, touching, funny and wonderful”
–The Associated Press