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East Asian Painting: Orchid
Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009 - 12:20 PM to 1:20 PM - Ostermayer Laboratory, Room 309

View the "East Asian Painting: Orchid" flyer.

Elaine Bergstrom, a painting instructor, will be giving a hands-on demonstration. This is one in a series of classes that will cover how to paint a simple watercolor or sumi-e. The subject matter to be painted will be orchids, chrysanthemums, Bamboo and Plum Blossom (Four Gentlemen).

Priority to actually paint will be given to those who sign up ahead of time. For those who do not sign up, you may watch and learn.

To sign up, send an email to Nancy Egan (nle10@psu.edu).

The drawing shown above is a plum blossom done with sumi ink by Teaching International faculty member, Dr. Mildred Mickle, Associate Professor of English.

Film: Fantasy (Art:21)
Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - 12:15 PM until 1:00 PM - Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center

View the "Art:21 Fantasy" flyer.

Part of a PBS series on art, this film covers "four artists whose works or personal stories transport viewers to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works that seem at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime, each of these artists pursues a vision first held in the mind’s eye." Art21 - season 5 (2009) — overview

Jeff Koons utilizes symbolically charged images and objects from popular culture to frame his questions about taste and pleasure in modern society. His painstakingly crafted artworks, perfected by a small army of studio assistants in a modern version of a Renaissance atelier, were recently exhibited at a groundbreaking and controversial installation at the Chateau de Versailles. Mary Heilmann filters her inner world through her work, imbuing abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture with references to memories and aesthetic influences ranging from popular music to her own Catholic background to cartoons. Florian Maier-Aichen is a German-born landscape photographer who lives in both Los Angeles and Cologne. His works alternately romantic, cerebral and unearthlyquestion German Romanticism and myths of the American West. Maier-Aichen’s digitally altered finished works contain elements of the original photograph, but veer toward the realm of drawing and fiction rather than more traditional documentation. A young Beijing-based Chinese artist, Cao Fei’s videos, photos, and new media works explore perception, reality and inner lives in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of Second Life.

Featured in this film is a Chinese artist from Beijing, Cao Fei.

Previews are available on YouTube:

Art:21 | "Fantasy" (October 2009) Season 5 Promo

Art:21 | Cao Fei | Season 5 Preview (October 2009)

"This event is part of Art21 Access '09, a celebration of contemporary art and Season 5 of Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century sponsored by Art21. Art21 Access 09 is held at over 300 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces, and community centers and is organized in collaboration with Americans for the Arts' National Arts and Humanities Month. Visit art21.org for more information."

Film: Manufactured Landscape
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 12:20 PM to 1:50 PM - Frable Building, Room 117

View the "Manufactured Landscapes" flyer.

This screening is open to members of the campus community using it as a part of their courses (including extra credit)

MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams. Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris. The film follows him through China, as he shoots the evidence and effects of that country’s massive industrial revolution. With breathtaking sequences, such as the opening tracking shot through an almost endless factory, the filmmakers also extend the narratives of Burtynsky’s photographs, allowing us to meditate on our impact on the planet and witness both the epicenters of industrial endeavor and the dumping grounds of its waste. -Zeitgeistfilms.com

World Food Day Teleconference
Friday, October 16, 2009 - 12 Noon to 3 PM - Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center

The campus will be participating in the 26th Annual World Food Day Teleconference. This year's theme is Global Food Crisis: Opportunities, Responsibilities and Solutions.

According to the World Food Day Web Site, the program “will consider the impact of the financial crisis on those living in poverty, the responsibilities of the rest of the world and the solutions that are emerging.”

Granny Mischief and Her Storied Accomplices: The Tales of Japanese Families in Newspaper Comics
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 12:15 PM - Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center.

View the "Granny Mischief and Her Storied Accomplices" flyer.

Akiko Hashimoto is an associate professor of sociology and Asian studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Hashimoto is now at work on projects on citizenship, cultural identity and national memory in postwar Japan, and heroes and villains of Japanese popular culture.

Her publications include Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan (SUNY Press 2008, with J. Traphagan), The Gift of Generations: Japanese and American Perspectives on Aging and the Social Contract (Cambridge University Press 1996), and Family Support for the Elderly: The International Experience (Oxford University Press 1992).

Dr. Hashimoto was educated at the University of Hamburg, London School of Economics, and Yale University. Before her appointment at the University of Pittsburgh, she was Research Associate at the United Nations University in Tokyo. She is now at work on projects on citizenship, cultural identity and national memory in postwar Japan, and heroes and villains of Japanese popular culture.

Film: Systems (Art:21)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 - 12:15 PM - Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center

Part of a PBS series on art, this film "features artists who realize complex projects through acts of appropriation or accumulation. In some instances, they create projects vast in scope, which almost elude comprehension." Art:21 - season 5 (2009) - overview

Featured in this film is a Korean artist, Kimsooja (www.kimsooja.com).

Previews are available on YouTube:

Art:21 | "Systems" (October 2009) Season 5 Promo

"This event is part of Art21 Access '09, a celebration of contemporary art and Season 5 of Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century sponsored by Art21. Art21 Access 09 is held at over 300 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces, and community centers and is organized in collaboration with Americans for the Arts' National Arts and Humanities Month. Visit art21.org for more information."

East Asian Painting: Chrysanthemum
Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 12:20 PM to 1:20 PM - Ostermayer Laboratory, Room 309

Elaine Bergstrom, a painting instructor, will be giving a hands-on demonstration.

The painting shown here is a chrysanthemum done with purple watercolor by Teaching International faculty member, Dr. Mildred Mickle, Associate Professor of English.

Student Research Conference
Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 12:15 PM - Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center

Join the student presenters as they display their semester projects on East Asia.

Fall Theatre Production
Week of November 30, 2009 - Days/Times TBA - Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center

Dr. Breckenridge's Theater 282 (Production Practicum) class will work with folk tales from China, Japan, and Korea.

Terra Cotta Warriors Exhibit - National Geographic
December 5, 2009 - Washington, DC (field trip)

Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/terracottawarriors/

Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

http://www.asia.si.edu/

Land Issues and Economic Reform in China
March 2010 - 12:15 PM - Location TBA

Gale Summerfield is Director of the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and Associate Professor of Human and Community Development at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since receiving her doctorate in economics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, she has written extensively on gender, development, and globalization addressing economic reforms in China, human security (income, property rights, and health), and migration.

Recent publications include a co-edited special issue of Feminist Economics, “China, Gender, and the WTO,” which was also translated into Chinese and published this June. Recent journal articles include, A Gendered View of Reforming Health Care Access for Farmers in China; Gender, Transnational Migration, and Human Security; and Gender and Rural Reforms in China: A Case Study of Population Control and Land Rights Policies in Northern Liaoning. A current project examines women’s employment in science and technology in China.

J. Clarence Kelly Library Penn State Greater Allegheny

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