| Oakwood Collegiate to offer fine arts certificate
Oakwood Collegiate Institute is building on its reputation as a strong arts school by offering a fine arts certificate beginning next September. Students with a minimum of eight credits in any art discipline, which includes drama, music, visual arts and dance, are eligible for the certificate. "We should have done something like this a long time ago," said Roy Greaves, assistant co-ordinator of the arts program at Oakwood. "It (the arts) is a critical aspect of their education." Some Oakwood graduates have gone on to be highly successful in several arts-related fields, including Canadian recording artist Jully Black and record producer Bob Ezrin who most notably worked on Pink Floyd's classic album, The Wall. Both are expected to make an appearance at Oakwood's 100th year anniversary celebrations taking place in late April and early May.
Hea d honored with Distinguished Leadership Award
Al Head, executive director of the Alabama State Council on the Arts, was honored Saturday with Troy University's ninth annual Distinguished Leadership Award.Head, a 1971 Troy University graduate, received the award from Chancellor Jack Hawkins Jr. at the annual Alumni Reunion Dinner held at the Trojan Center Ballroom."I'm very flattered to receive this award," Head said. "There are numerous Troy University graduates that are worthy to be recognized for the tremendous leadership they have shown, and I'm honored to have been selected this year."The honor is particularly rewarding because Troy University is, indeed, at the forefront of higher education in the 21st century and provides leadership in many areas at the local, state, national and international levels."Troy University recognizes alumni each year who are committed to working hard for their alma mater and who go the extra mile in their careers, public service or devotion to Troy University, said Faith Ward, director of alumni affairs.
Weekend
Renowned novelist E.L. Doctorow will give a free public talk, "Notes on the History of Fiction," Thursday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m. at UNC.Doctorow, whose novels include "Ragtime," "Billy Bathgate" and "The March," will speak in the auditorium of Hanes Art Center on South Columbia Street. A book sale and signing will begin at 5:30 p.m., preceding his talk.Doctorow's 2005 novel "The March" is set during Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's Civil War march through Georgia and the Carolinas in 1864-1865. Doctorow won his second National Book Critics' Circle Award for fiction and second PEN/Faulkner Award for the book, which also was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a nominee for the National Book Award.Doctorow has said he began to consider writing a novel about Sherman's march after reading the account of that pivotal event in a book called "The March to the Sea and Beyond," by UNC historian Joseph Glatthaar.
Jackson addresses RPI
President Shirley Ann Jackson conducted the school-wide Spring Town Meeting this Monday, covering a range of topics affecting many aspects of life at the Institute. The students, staff, and faculty of RPI in Troy were joined by their colleagues from the Hartford Campus via Simulcast in attending this meeting, held in DCC 308. Jackson had members of her cabinet as well as her newly appointed chief of staff, Laban Coblentz, on hand to help provide information and answer questions. Jackson began the meeting with coverage of her attendance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland this past January, in which 26 university leaders from around the world agreed that there should be a �focus on capacity building on universities in developing countries� and in sustainable campus development through commitment to reducing energy usage and reducing the carbon footprint.
Whitehaven News
A FATHER and son are exhibiting their art work at Sellafield Visitors' Centre. The exhibition is entitled Begin 2 and it runs from February 25 until March 28. It will display a selection of abstract paintings and drawings by Anthony Pendlebury and his son Nathan. They have exhibited nationally and internationally, but here the artists are exhibiting together for only the second time. The work on show is a mixture of painting, drawing and photography, ranging from large textured abstracts, inspired by nature, to bold graphic abstract photography, with a very urban edge. Anthony is largely self-taught but began to paint in the 1960s whilst studying art in Bolton. He was hugely encouraged and inspired by his father Eric.
City gets solid marks as host of ceramic arts conference
A woman clutching a prettily glazed clay mug gleefully explained to the people around her how she had convinced the potter across the room to part with it. He was carrying a few cups, it seems, in his coat pockets. Upon seeing them, she negotiated, in English tinged with an European accent, an exchange for one of her own designs shelved in her hotel room. This happened at an exhibition reception, but it was the kind of interaction that was taking place throughout Pittsburgh last week as 5,000 national and international members of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) met for its 42nd annual conference. From all reports, the conference was a huge success, for attendees and for hosting communities. NCECA 2008 on-site liaison Josh Green said yesterday that it "exceeded all possible expectations" of council officials gathered here from across the country.
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