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New Orleans photojournalist to present “40 days 40 nights"
New Orleans photojournalist to present “40 days 40 nights”, a lecture on the city and its people pre- and post-Hurricane Katrina, March 20 at The University of Akron.
Image by Donn Young.
Akron, Ohio, March 6, 2006 – For the past 25 years, New Orleans photojournalist Donn Young has chronicled life in his culturally rich city. Nothing could have prepared him for the calamity that devastated so much of the Gulf Coast last August. Deemed an essential employee by the State of Louisiana, Young got back to work three days after the storm, despite the fact that he had personally lost his home and his photography studio, which was located in the Lakeview neighborhood. Since September, he has worked 12-hour days or longer to document a city brought to its knees, and the subsequent attempts to start the monumental rebuilding process.
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PATRICK LICHTY, New Media Artist
MYERS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
LECTURE: "Confessions of a Culture Hacker: Probes, Pranks, and Investigations"
FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 2006 - 6pm
Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based conceptual artist, writer, and curator for over 15 years, and graduate of The University of Akron. Lichty’s work includes video, digital media, print and installations that deal with political and social issues of contemporary media and technological culture. Currently, he is best known as the computer animator for the activist art group, The Yes Men, and as Editor-in-Chief for Intelligent Agent, a New Media arts journal published in cooperation with Christiane Paul, Adjunct Digital Arts Curator for the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC.
Lichty’s work has been exhibited worldwide at such venues such as Ars Electronica and the International Symposium of Electronic Arts as well as the Whitney, Torino, Melbourne, and Maribor Biennales. Lichty was born and raised in the Akron/Canton area, and his 2000 Smithsonian work, “SPRAWL: The American Landscape in Transition” spotlights the encroachment of urban sprawl in northeast Ohio.
SCHOLARSHIP DISPLAY WEEK
MARCH 20 - MARCH 24, 2006
INTERSECTIONS: RICHMOND BURTON, LYDIA DONA, JULIA FISH, JOE FYFE, JAMES HYDE, FABIAN MARCACCIO & STEVE RODEN
APRIL 3 - APRIL 27, 2006
Opening Reception, April 6, 6pm - 8pm
Curated by Matthew Kolodziej
Akron, Ohio, Mar. 15, 2006 – Bringing the work of seven contemporary artists together, the exhibition, “Intersections”, opens at the Myers School of Art’s Emily Davis Gallery on April 3, 2006, and continues through April 27 in Folk Hall on the campus of The University of Akron (150 E. Exchange St.). Artists Fabian Marcaccio, Richmond Burton, Lydia Dona, Julia Fish, Joe Fyfe, James Hyde, and Steve Roden will each have several works displayed in the show. In discussing the exhibition, curator Matthew Kolodziej, Assistant Professor of Art at UA, explains that “An intersection is a place where encounters happen and choices are made. In the hands of these seven accomplished artists - time, space, and materials are crafted to orient and mislead. The painters all use materials and subjects that suggest familiar and intimate experiences, only to question the permanence and strength of what we seem to understand.”
For more information, contact 330-972-5951, email dwatt@uakron.edu, or visit
www.uakron.edu/art/intersections.
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SENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGN PORTFOLIO EXHIBITION
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