Celebrate the opening of the Winter 2023 exhibitions – including the Studio Art Faculty Exhibition! Reception with refreshments
Friday, Jan. 13, 4:30 – 6:30 pm, Wriston Art Galleries
Winter 2023 Exhibitions:
– Louise Bourgeois: What Is the Shape of This Problem?
– Fortnight: Celebrating Black History and Women’s History Months
– Suzanne Duchamp: The Last Decade
– Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
More about the 2022-23 exhibitions here.
Participate in interdisciplinary conversations with LU faculty and handle Ancient and Medieval coins from the Ottilia M. Buerger ’38 Coin Collection.
Wednesday, Nov. 2, 3:30-5 pm – Wriston 227 Print Study Room
Free and open to the public! FB event here.
Still deciding on a major, minor, or interdisciplinary area? If so, make sure to mark your calendar for the Meet the Majors Fair on Thursday, October 27 (4:30-6:30 p.m.) in Somerset, Warch Campus Center. Here you’ll be able to connect with faculty advisors from a wide variety of programs + learn about opportunities to other explore your interests. You’ll also be able to chat with fellow Lawrentians about their campus research experiences as part of the Summer Research Poster Symposium that will be taking place at the same time.
The Latin American and Spanish Film Festival returns to Lawrence Oct. 13-16 after a two-year absence. It comes during Hispanic Heritage Month.
Rosa Tapia, professor of Spanish, shares details of the film festival:
-The film festival is an independent event that is organized by professors Rosa Tapia and Cecilia Herrera. Admission is free and the films are in Spanish language with English subtitles.
– LULASFF was born in 2012, so this is its tenth anniversary. To celebrate this milestone, we are bringing special guest Dr. Javier Guerrero from Princeton University, a leading scholar in Latin American and Film Studies. Dr. Guerrero will give a talk about famous Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar (Oct 14, 4:30 pm) before the screening of his latest film, Parallel Mothers. Dr. Guerrero is the author of many important books about Latin American cinema and literature, and he was the 2017 winner of the Latin American Studies Association’s Sylvia Molloy Award. Before coming to the United States, he was the President of the Venezuelan Cinemateca Nacional, a position in which he curated over twenty-five international film series and festivals. Dr. Guerrero was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Lawrence University in 2011-2012 and he was one of the original organizers of LULASFF, so this is a very special homecoming and anniversary for all of us.
-The five films featured this year represent different Spanish-speaking countries: Argentina, México, Spain, Costa Rica, and Peru. The movies have won numerous international awards and almost all are from 2021. And here’s another cool Lawrence connection: Lawrence alumna and member of the Board of Trustees Francesca Romero-Siekman was part of the production team for the highly acclaimed Mexican film Prayers For The Stolen (Oct 13, 8 pm). This film won awards in Cannes, San Sebastian, Los Angeles, and other major film competitions.
Below is the lineup for this year’s LULASFF (you can find additional information by clicking on the film titles in the event’s web page, https://go.lawrence.edu/lasf) :
Warch Campus Center Cinema, Lawrence University, 711 E. Boldt Way, Appleton, WI
Free admission. All films are rated “R” (Restricted) or “NR” (Not rated for US audiences). Viewer discretion is advised.
Thursday, October 13
5:00 PM THE WEASELS’ TALE / El cuento de las comadrejas (Argentina, 2019)
8:00 PM PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN / Noche de fuego (Mexico, 2021)
Friday, October 14
4:30 PM “Almodóvar: A Critical Take.” Javier Guerrero (Princeton University)
5:30 PM PARALLEL MOTHERS / Madres paralelas (Spain, 2021)
Saturday, October 15
5:00 PM CLARA SOLA ( Costa Rica, 2021)
8:00 PM THE GOOD BOSS / El buen patrón (Spain, 2021)
Sunday, October 16
2:00 PM A WORLD FOR JULIUS / Un mundo para Julius (Peru, 2021)
SPONSORS:
Siekman Foundation
Helen Barr Rudin Fund
Department of Spanish
Film Studies
CONTACT
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Applications for 2023-24 off-campus programs are now open! And, to help you learn about your options, we’ve invited representatives for over 30 programs to visit campus next week. They will be visiting classes, tabling outside the Commons, hosting information sessions, and more!
Look for notices and posters around campus with information or for a complete schedule go to our OCP SharePoint Fair Week Schedule page.
If you have any questions, please email OffCampusPrograms@lawrence.edu.
Discover opportunities to build your skills, delve deeper into specialty topics, and even travel internationally with D-Term. Offered between fall and winter terms during the first two weeks of December, you can take brief, intensive courses that are not offered during the academic year. There’s an array of fascinating options this year. Learn more about D-Term and D-Term registration opportunities: https://www.lawrence.edu/academics/academic-experience/december-term )
Current offerings include:
If you are preparing to move buildings or change offices, please let the Wriston Art Galleries staff know if you are taking any artwork from the LU collection to your new space. It helps us keep track of artworks for inventory and insurance.
If you do not want to move the artwork in your current office, we are happy to come and pick it up – same if you arrive in your new space and there are things you don’t want on the walls. If you aren’t sure if something is part of the collection, we can come check it out, too. Just please don’t stash it in a closet.
Send a note to: wriston-gallery@lawrence.edu and Beth Zinsli or Madison Pierson will be in touch.
Thank you for helping us avoid artworks going missing (like this painting!) and keeping the art collection available for future Lawrentians.
Bart De Stasio, Singleton Professor of Biological Sciences and professor of biology, will deliver a talk this Friday in Sturgeon Bay. Warmer, Wetter, and Wilder will address anticipated effects of climate change on Door County and Green Bay, Lake Michigan.
It’s set for 7 p.m. June 24 at Crossroads at Big Creek, 2041 Michigan St., Sturgeon Bay. It’s hosted by Climate Change Coalition of Door County. For more information, visit climatechangedoorcounty.com.
The Rabbit Gallery is back after a two-year absence.
The week-long pop-up art gallery organized, curated, and run by Lawrence University students returned to downtown Appleton this week for the first time since 2019. It was on hold the past two years because of pandemic protocols.
The gallery, featuring artwork from more than 20 Lawrence students and three community artists opened Wednesday in a space inside City Center Plaza, 100 W. College Ave. It will remain open through Monday, June 6. Times are 3 to 8 p.m. June 3, noon to 7 p.m. June 4, 2 to 6 p.m. June 5, and 2 to 8 p.m. June 6.
The Rabbit Gallery is part of an entrepreneurship practicum led by Gary Vaughan, coordinator of Lawrence’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program and lecturer of economics. It gives students an opportunity to plan, coordinate, and execute a gallery on their own.
The gallery features photography, poetry, paintings, and sculpture.
Sophomore Izzy Allison, curator for the gallery and a member of the marketing team, said students in the entrepreneurship program divided into teams early in Spring Term to begin preparations for the pop-up gallery.
“In the first few weeks of Spring Term, we meet, discuss finding a location, figure out the teams: who is doing marketing, who is on financial, who is finding the space, who is doing curation,” she said. “Once we get a space, we get everything set up and send out a call for art.”
Allison, an art history major from Denver, played a lead role in choosing the art and hanging it.
“This has definitely been great for me as I want to end up going into museums,” she said. “This has been a great way to learn about curatorship and how to run a gallery basically without any help. The students involved are doing everything.”
The art on display is for sale.
The gallery includes a fund-raising aspect for KidsGive, a nonprofit program run by Lawrence students and alumni as part of the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program. Its mission is to support education in Sierra Leone and promote education in the United States about African and Sierra Leonean life and culture.
Now is your chance to tell us about your undergraduate experience! We are asking all graduating students to complete a survey about your learning and development in college and the plans you have for after graduation. This valuable feedback will be used for improving learning experiences for current and future students. Check your email inbox today at 3 PM for a message from the Office of the Provost to access your unique survey link. Students who complete this survey by May 27 at 11:59 PM CST are eligible to be entered into a random drawing to win a $50 Amazon gift card (five winners).
