Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.
Artwork
Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Digital Public Art Documentary Projects by Liz Canner
Symphony of a City, Bridges, and Hidden Tribe
January 15, 16, and 17
noon – 4 pm, 183 Berry Library
January 8 to 17
Brief clips of Canner’s work will be shown continuously in Berry Main Street
Award-winning media artist and independent filmmaker Liz Canner uses the power of art to inspire positive social change and increased civic engagement. Her Symphony of a City is an innovative look at community building and the housing crisis in Boston; Bridges is a community-based project on native and police relations in Canada; and Hidden Tribereinterprets the colonial and Native American history inscribed on the landscape of Groton, Massachusetts. See January 15 and 17 for talks by the artist.
Hood Museum of Art Exhibition
El Anatsui: GAWU
January 6 – March 4, 2007
This exhibition showcases ten works by El Anatsui, a Ghanaian-born artist now a resident in Nigeria for the past thirty years. Anatsui uses found objects to celebrate Africa’s rich artistic and cultural heritage. His focus on recycled materials also comments upon the continent’s broader concerns, particularly the adverse effects of globalization, consumerism, and waste in Africa today.
Opening Lecture by El Anatsui
Of Clay, Wood, and Metal
Wednesday, January 10
5:30 p.m., Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art
A reception will follow in Kim Gallery.
Hood Museum of Art Installation
January 14 – 26, 2007
A group of works of art with a focus on art and civil rights will be installed in the Hood Museum of Art for the duration of the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration.
