http://www.hws.edu/news/ Daily Updates from Hobart and William Smith Collegesen-usSun, 22 Nov 2009 05:05:45 GMTSun, 22 Nov 2009 05:05:45 GMThttp://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=12542Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res10823.jpg" alt="" /> With two approaches to the use of the photographic image, artists Mary Goodwin and Robert Rainey critically and creatively re-examine the history of place and art. In a new media exhibit, "Histories," which will open in the Davis Gallery at Houghton House on Friday, Nov. 20, Goodwin and Rainey explore new modes of artistic expression through photographic experimentation. In his series titled "his*sto...http://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=12455Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res10635.jpg" alt="" /> Artist Emily Kenas' exceptional and eye-opening exhibit, "Works on Paper" will be featured in the Davis Gallery beginning at 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 16 in Houghton House. "These works on paper are made from fragments of my drawings and paintings which are never intended to be coherent pictures in and of themselves; rather they are the material from which final pictures take form," explains Kenas. "My...http://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=12336Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res10421.jpg" alt="" /> Get ready for the third annual HWS Guitar Day on Saturday, Sept. 19. This year's exciting line-up includes the student band The Scope and local Finger Lakes band, El Ka Bong as well as guitar legend Gene Bertoncini, and musicians Rick Balestra, Ken Meyer and Greg Wachala. Events will begin at 12 p.m. in the Geneva Room of the Warren Hunting Smith Library with a master class taught by Bertoncini, one...http://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=12340Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res10435.jpg" alt="" /> Ryan Hewson '03 recently helped initiate Red2, a temporary art and architecture exhibit, located in an unused building in Spring Green, Wis. The project was developed to both fulfill a need for studio space by students, faculty and alumni of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and to help stimulate the community. The space has played host to two free shows this summer - "Refuge" which ran ...http://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=12328Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res10409.jpg" alt="" /> The First-Year experience would not be complete without its quintessential Seminar. Without regard for future major or minor choices, seminars were constructed around different faculty interests - from peace movements to ancient warfare, Mozart and rock-and-roll. Each seminar is designed to hone writing, speaking, critical thinking and other academic skills that students will draw upon throughout the...http://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=12309Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res10374.jpg" alt="" /> On Friday, Sept. 11, the HWS art department is sponsoring an opening reception for an exhibit by Susan Daykin in the new Davis Gallery at Houghton House. Daykin has been likened to artist Jackson Pollock, who filled his canvases to bursting. However, unlike Pollock, she captures images and things endlessly produced by our society. Her work has been called arresting and original. A professor of fine a...http://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=12174Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res10104.jpg" alt="" /> This summer, cities all over the world will celebrate the music of one of the most influential and greatest composers of all time, Franz Joseph Haydn, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his passing. Geneva's Haydn festival was made possible by Hobart alum George Abraham '59 and Geneva Concerts. Abraham, a generous supporter of the Colleges' art collection and organizer of summer fundraising conc...http://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=12197Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res10136.jpg" alt="" /> This year, the 62nd Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition will open at the Memorial Art Gallery featuring artwork from HWS Professor of Art Phillia Yi. Rochester's oldest and most prestigious competition showcases artists throughout western and central New York, and will open on Sunday, July 26 and remain open through Sunday, Oct. 4. In April, Yi's work was one of 36 works selected for the showcase from...http://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=12249Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res10242.jpg" alt="" /> "Prolific." "A major force in the art world." "At the forefront of American art." Jasper Johns has been hailed as one of the 20th century's most important American artists. His work appears in the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and in the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. From his early prodigious paintings, including "Flag," perhaps his best k...http://hws.edu/dailyupdate/NewsDetails.aspx?aid=12216Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT<img src="http://hws.edu/dailyUpdate/Resources/Res10180.jpg" alt="" /> Art history major Meggie Schmidt '10 is making abstract art accessible to children and families at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) this summer, working for the Family and Children's Programs Department through PMA's Museum Studies Internship Program. Schmidt's work often takes place in the Summer Family Studio, which offers revolving art projects based on pieces in the museum's collection. The p...