PENN GALLERY HOP
Friday, May 13
4-6 PM
Begin at the Kroiz Gallery, Architectural Archives
Lower Level of Fisher Fine Arts Library
220 South 34th Street
Join friends and alumni for the third annual Alumni Weekend Gallery Hop! Each
gallery, conveniently located on Penn's campus, will have a Director/Curator to
explain the exhibition on hand. Each gallery will also offer a variety of foods, from
hors d'oeuvres to desserts. Space is limited; register early.
ARTHUR ROSS GALLERY
Textiles of the Burma Hills
Speaker: Dilys Winegrad, Director/Curator
Traditional textiles provide a window into minority
cultures of the "hill tribes" of present-day Myanmar. Woven on back-tension looms, often from homespun cotton, the pieces on display served as clothing
and also as badges of identity and status symbols
of the four ethnic clusters represented from
the collections of David and Barbara Fraser
and Denison University, which has the largest
institutional collection in the United States.
Hours: Friday, 10 AM-5 PM; Saturday and Sunday, Noon-5 PM; Closed Monday.
Phone: 215.898.3617 (general information)
Web: www.upenn.edu/ARG
The Gallery is free and open to the public.
KROIZ GALLERY, ARCHITECTURAL ARCHIVES
PAFA at Penn
Speaker: Julia Moore Converse, Director
Come see exceptional artwork by professional artists trained at two of Philadelphia's illustrious fine arts educational institutions -- the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, which have jointly offered Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees since 1933. PAFA at Penn, a special
exhibition curated by Sean Gannon and Carson Fox, celebrates this unique program and its outstanding graduates with more than 50 works in a range of mediums -- from paintings and prints to sculptures and videos -- by renowned PAFA/Penn artists,
including Elizabeth Osborne, FA'59, Tom McCloskey, Kate Fraser, Ben Volta and Mark Pomilio.
Hours: Friday, 10 AM-5 PM; Saturday,
10 AM-5 PM; Sunday, Noon-4 PM.
Phone: 215.898.8323
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Springtide
Speaker: Johanna Plummer, C'88, Curator of Education
Named for the powerful "Springtide" around the
new moon, this exhibition presents new work by five artists: Louise Bourgeois (b.1911 Paris, France; lives Brooklyn, NY); Troy Brauntuch (b.1954 Jersey City,
NJ; lives Austin, TX), Berlinde De Bruyckere (b.1964, Ghent, Belgium; lives Ghent), Patty Chang (b.1972
San Francisco; lives New York); and Erik Swenson
(b. 1972 Phoenixville, PA; lives Dallas, TX). The
exhibition has no singular theme but coalesces around strong visual connections between the works themselves. These conjure themes of absence, the figure, sensuality and an exquisite sense of longing.
Richard Pettibone/Richard Pettibone:
Self–Portrait with Others
This exhibition will present the full range of the artist's career from the early assemblages and
small-scale "replicas" that first brought him to critical attention in Los Angeles in the late fifties and sixties to his various sculptural installations (based on
his love of both Shaker furniture and Constantine Brancusi) to the recent more complexly layered
work ("making anew" such modern masters as Mondrian and Ezra Pound) that engages him today. Pettibone's early work was astonishingly prescient
of 1980s appropriation art -- a radical move in which pop art's seizure of common objects and media reproductions slid into the even more seditious
act of replicating other artist's art.
Contemporary Art and the Art of Curating
As part of a yearlong seminar and internship
program, ten Penn undergraduates will collaborate
on the production of their own exhibition at ICA. "Contemporary Art and the Art of Curating," an art history seminar, gathers students from various
backgrounds, including Visual Studies, Cinema Studies, and Architecture, in addition to Art History. The class is taught by Professor Karen Beckman
and graduate student in contemporary art, Beck Feibelman, along with ICA's Curator of Education, Johanna Plummer, and ICA's Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow, Sara Reisman. This exhibition will be presented in ICA's project space and on the ramp, a two–level walkway looking out on 36th Street.
PENN FILM FESTIVAL
Saturday, May 14
10-11 AM
The Bridge: Cinema de Lux
Look out Cannes! This mini-festival of films created by Penn faculty and students promises to put the PennDesign animation program on the map. Join Joshua Mosley, Assistant Professor of Animation and Digital Media, at The Bridge on 40th Street for this family-friendly program that is sure to get two thumbs up! Tickets are free, but seats are limited.
Sponsored by PennDesign.
STUDENT PERFORMING ARTS ADVISORY BOARD MEETING
Saturday, May 14
10-11 AM
Houston Hall, Bishop White Room
An advisory board is being created for Student Performing Arts at Penn. Attend an introductory meeting for
general information and discussion of a potential structure and mission statement for the board. RSVP by
April 15 to Director Ty Furman at tyf@pobox.upenn.edu or call 215.898.2312.
PENN PRESENTS A SOULFUL EVENING OF GOSPEL
Saturday, May 14, 2005
6:00pm - Annenberg Center Lobby
UNIVERSITY SQUARE DINNER/LECTURE
A buffet Soul Food dinner provided by Fatou & Fama Restaurant will be followed by a lecture on gospel music by a Penn faculty member.
8:00pm - Zellerbach Theatre
THE HOLMES BROTHERS WITH SPECIAL GUEST SISTER MARIE KNIGHT
"Shout Sister Shout: A Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe"
The Holmes Brothers, whose deeply soulful singing led the Chicago Tribune to hail them as "the undisputed masters of blues-based American roots music," will be joined by gospel superstar Marie Knight for an extraordinary evening of praise music honoring the legendary Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The Music Ministry of Pastor Alyn E. Waller will open the program.
Dinner/Lecture Tickets: $15
Show Tickets: $44, $38, $31, $19
ALUMNI WEEKEND SPECIAL: $35 - Includes the dinner/lecture and orchestra seats for the show (savings of $18 off the full price). Alumni Special available while they last through May 7, 2005
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
3680 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Call 215-898-3900 | PennPresents.org
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM of Archaeology and Anthropology
Treasures from the Royal Tombs of Ur
More than 200 spectacular treasures from the site
of Ur in Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) reveal the
full glory of ancient Sumerian culture (2600–2500 B.C.) at its zenith. Visitors will have a chance to see what art critic and former Metropolitan Museum
of Art Director Thomas Hoving has called "the finest,
most resplendent and magical works of art in all
of America" (artnet.com): the Ram-in-the-Thicket, the Great Lyre with a gold and lapis lazuli bull's head, Lady Puabi's lapis lazuli and carnelian jewelry, an electrum drinking tumbler, and a gold ostrich
egg from this world famous, 4500-year-old Sumerian collection.
Self-Guided Tours
Museum lovers will also enjoy self–guided tours
of the acclaimed collections and exhibits.
Info: Hours: Friday and Saturday, 10-4:30 PM;
Sunday, 1-5 PM;
Phone: 215.898.4000 (general information);
Web: www.museum.upenn.edu. Alumni are admitted free during
Alumni Weekend with an Alumni PennCard.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LIBRARY
Twelve Black Classicists
Van Pelt–Dietrich Library Center, Kamin Gallery, 1st Floor
Illuminated Manuscript from Medieval Persia
Van Pelt–Dietrich Library Center, Annenberg Rare Book
& Manuscript Library, Rosenwald Gallery, 6th Floor
