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Elected to Fulbright Association Board of Directors

The North Carolina Chapter of the Fulbright Association recently held elections for President and Board of Directors. Dr. John Antoine Labadie (Art) was elected as a member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Labadie was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at both National Chengchi University and the Taipei National University of the Arts during the 2005-2006 academic year.

The newly elected leaders of the North Carolina Chapter of the Fulbright Association will be installed on 18 September at a ceremony and chapter meeting at The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation on the campus of North Carolina State University. The North Carolina chapter of the Fulbright Association is statewide. The President and Board members are responsible for the governance of the chapter, the planning of events, and representing the chapter at national and international Fulbright events.

The Fulbright Association is located in Washington DC. As noted on the Association website, "The Fulbright Association has 47 chapters throughout the United States. Chapters are organized locally by Fulbright Association members to provide opportunities, through volunteer service, for continued involvement with the Fulbright program and with other alumni and visiting Fulbright students, teachers, and scholars currently in the U.S. chapters receive funds and support from the national office to conduct a variety of educational and cultural programs serving alumni, visiting Fulbrighters, and the local community." http://www.fulbrightalumni.org

 

Art & Social Conscience: HOLOCAUST

May 2 - October 19, 2008
Brown Wing

This exhibition, the first in the museum's "Art and Social Conscience"series, features works by art faculty members from 11 of the 16 branches of the University of North Carolina system. Artists were asked to address the Holocaust and its larger context of mankind's inhumanity to man, and many responded with new work created for the exhibition.

Those represented from UNCP are Dr. Tulla Lightfoot, Margie Labadie, Janette Hopper, Dr. John Antoine Labadie, Carla Rokes, Dustin Hinson, & Gina Gibson.

 

 

Ralph Steeds in Shows

Professor Emertius Ralph Steeds has recently been in the following shows:

Southeastern juried print exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile Alabama. Print-- The Golem War, color lithograph, stamp and relief, 22x30in.

Pacific States National Biennial, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Campus Center Gallery, Hilo, Hawaii. Print-- The Golem War, Color Lithograph, stamp and relief, 22x30in.

Prints for Peace, Invitational. international exhibition. Guadalupe Victorica Taller Arte Desarrollo Humano. Casa Hogar el Refugio, Monterry Mexico. Julian Nava IMNRC Carpinteyro Gallery, Mexico. Print-- Dogs of War, Lithograph and relief Print, 10x10in.

Sculpture News

Recent UNCP graduate Stephanie Alicea's fabricated steel sculpture entitled Blade of Grass was accepted into Bristol Virginia/Tennessee's Art in Public Places Exhibition (AIPP). Each work in this show was judged by art historian/critic Paul Ha, and will be on display in the city for a full year. Each work in this exhibition also receives a stipend of $1,000 which comes from donation from business and art collectors. Stephanie's work had the distinction of being sponsored by the Maya Lin foundation. For those who do not know Maya Lin's work as a sculptor/ maker of monuments/ artist, she is the artist who designed the Vietnam War Memorial. Stephanie is currently back home in New York painting what is, I believe, her first mural. The link to AIPP's web site.

Adam Walls was able to enter his work in AIPP as well, along with North Charleston's River Front Park Sculpture Exhibition, Charlottesville Virginia's Art in Place exhibition, Cary North Carolina's yearly sculpture competition. He is waiting to hear back from the Craven Art's Center's annual indoor/outdoor sculptural competition in New Bern, NC. It's been a very successful and rewarding summer. The link to AIPP's web site.

 

Janette Hopper Exhibit Opening

August 8 - September 28, 2008
Location: Dunn Center for the Performing Arts

Meet landscape artist Janette Hopper Friday evening, August 8, at the free opening reception for an exhibition of her landscape paintings in the Mims Gallery of the Dunn Center. This exhibit of oil paintings runs through September 28 and is titled "The Lush Landscape-Poetic Spaces." Works on display are also for sale. Hopper works from nature, painting on location and in the studio. Her career spans 30 years and includes an impressive international exhibition record with work in major museum collections.View her paintings and also listen to the smooth piano stylings of Rocky Mount jazz pianist William McLaughlin.

 

Ralph Steeds' Farewell
Art Department bids farewell to Ralph Steeds with exhibition

 

Updated: Thursday, August 28, 2008

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