Lewis & Clark College

Arts & Ideas

Fall 2001

STRIKE! Printmakers As Social Critics

Gallery of Contemporary Art

Wednesday, August 29-Sunday, October 21

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday

11 a.m.- 4 p.m.

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 6, 5-7 p.m.

The qualities associated with printmaking--editions of multiples, inexpensive materials, and the directness of expression--have made printmaking a traditional medium to promote social and political commentary. STRIKE! Printmakers As Social Critics will include both historical and contemporary work exploring the theme of artists as activists, using printmaking as a means to forward a cause or raise popular awareness.

STRIKE! Printmakers As Social Critics will begin with a small group of historical prints including work by Hogarth, Goya, Daumier, Gillray, Posada. Kollwitz and Motherwell. The larger part of the exhibition will consist of contemporary work by David Wojnarowicz, Kiki Smith, Robert Rauschenberg, William Kentridge, Kerry James Marshall, Ida Applebroog, Hannah Wilke, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Peggy Diggs, Juan Sanchez, Dread Scott, Sue Coe, Francois Morelli, Barbara Kruger, and many others.

Michael Allen Harrison, piano
Aaron Meyer '95, violin
Benefit Concerts
Friday, September 21
7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m.
Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Tickets: $5/8/10 Bookstore, Fastixx 503 224-8499 or at the door

All ticket proceeds from the concerts and 20% of all album sales will benefit the American Red Cross for disaster relief in New York City, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania and people in need around the world through Jubilee Network Oregon, Oregonians united in a world-wide movement to cancel the debt of impoverished nations.

Michael Allen Harrison, producer, arranger, concert pianist and owner of his own independent record label, MAH records, has delighted audiences in Portland and around the world with his eclectic style and unique brand of music. Original compositions range from intense movie scores to passionate arrangements for piano, orchestra, ballet, jazz, fusion, New Age, pop, and adult contemporary vocals and instrumentals.

Since his highly acclaimed debut album in 1986, Harrison has gained notoriety with 20 albums selling over 1/2 million copies worldwide.

Most Recently Michael and Aaron Meyer composed and performed a new work entitled "Ocean of Wisdom" for the Dalai Lama during his visit to Portland.

Michael Allen Harrison is by far one of the most recognized, loved and sought after musicians in the Northwest.

Aaron Meyer has soloed with major U.S. orchestras, ballet companies, and several bands, including the Latin-cocktail sensation Pink Martini.

A 1995 Lewis & Clark College graduate in Natural Sciences, Aaron has performed internationally in concert halls around the world, at major sporting events, and at special events. In addition to performing regularly with Michael Harrison, Aaron performs solo and with his band, Walk DON'T WALK. He has released three CDs: Seasons of Peace, Music from Aerobetty, and Near the Edge.

In 1999, Michael Harrison, Aaron Meyer and guitarist Bill Lamb performed for the United Nations and the 1999 World Peace Conference in The Hague, Netherlands. Michael and Aaron performed original compositions for the May, 2001 Portland visit of His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
Friday, October 5, 8 p.m., Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Tickets: $5/$8/$10 at Bookstore/Fastixx 503 224-8499 or at the door

Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, founded in 1991 and led by conductor Misha Rachlevsky, has earned national and international recognition as one of Russia's leading ensembles. This energetic orchestra of eighteen young musicians maintains an active schedule of concerts and festivals in Moscow, tours internationally, and has recorded 14 CDs in its first decade. Recent reviews of the ensemble on tour speak in glowing terms. Following a performance at the Portland Art Museum in March, 2000, the Oregonian wrote: "Chamber Orchestra Kremlin should be invited to return, often." Lewis & Clark College is proud to present these extraordinary young musicians in a performance featuring Greig's Holberg Suite, Op. 40, Bartok's Divertimento, and Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, Op 48.

First William Stafford Symposium

Saturday, October 13, 9 a.m. to Noon

Lewis & Clark College South Campus

Presenters Judith Barrington, Annie Callan and Martha Gies will share discoveries and insights gained from their close reading of William Stafford's writings.

Contact the Northwest Writing Institute, Graduate School of Education (503-768-6160) to request more information or reserve a spot (attendance is free, but limited to 80).

Fourth Annual Environmental Affairs Symposium

Tuesday-Friday, October 16-19

3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Council Chamber, Templeton Student Center

"No question has a simple, unambiguous answer, and it is a Lewis & Clark faculty-student tradition to insist that multiple and opposing viewpoints be considered and discussed thoroughly".

Evan Williams, Professor of Chemistry

The goal of this symposium is to create an interactive forum for some of the crucial environmental issues of our time where the participating students, faculty, and visitors, coming from a variety of perspectives, can mingle, share ideas, and learn from each other. Each session will end with a question-and-answer period..

For further information about the 2001 symposium, please consult the Environmental Studies Department.

Symposium events are free and open to the general public. No advance tickets are necessary.

Clay Jenkinson as Thomas Jefferson
"Jefferson: Man of Many Faces"
Tuesday, October 23
7:30 p.m., Agnes Flanagan Chapel

Considered by many to be the finest exemplar of first-person historical interpretation in the nation, Jenkinson has mastered the life, the vision, and achievement of both Thomas Jefferson and Meriwether Lewis.

A Rhodes and Danforth scholar, Jenkinson has served as on-air consultant for Ken Burn's film on Thomas Jefferson and created the nationally syndicated program, Thomas Jefferson Radio Hour. This year, he will publish his biography on the third president, The Paradox of Thomas Jefferson.

Jenkinson holds degrees in the humanities from the University of Minnesota and Oxford University and is recipient of the highest honor bestowed by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

His presentation of "Jefferson: Man of Many Faces" is sponsored by the Inventing America program.

2001 Chamberlin Lecture
Reverend Bernice A. King
"Disturbing the Comfortable: Creating Social Change that Lasts"
Tuesday, October 30
7:30 p.m., Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Admittance by ticket only: Free tickets available in advance at College Bookstore and Chapel Office

Rev. Bernice King is the youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Rev. King is a graduate of Spelman College, and she earned both a Master of Divinity and a Doctorate of Law Degree from Emory University. She began her speaking career with a speech to the United Nations General Assembly at the age of 17, and her dynamic oratorical style follows in her father's footsteps. Rev. King is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and is an ordained Baptist minister affiliated with the Greater Rising Star Baptist Church in Atlanta. She is a social activist with an accomplished record of organizing coalitions and building community partnerships. Her book Hard Questions, Heart Answers seeks to confront the complacent and ambivalent with the compelling and still unmet aspirations for social justice so eloquently championed by her father.

Rev. King's Chamberlin Lecture will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s visit and convocation address at Lewis & Clark College in the fall, 1961.

Throckmorton Lecture
Dr. David Cannadine
Professor of History, University of London
Wednesday, October 31
3:30 p.m., Council Chamber, Templeton Student Center

David Cannadine, professor of history and director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London, is widely viewed as one of the foremost historians of modern Britain. He is the author of numerous books including The Pleasures of the Past; The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy; History in Our Time, and The Rise and Fall of Class in Britain. He has also written essays for such publications as The London Review of Books, the New York Times Review of Books, the New Republic, The New Yorker, and the Times Literary Supplement.

His lecture will focus on his most recent work, Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire, in which he investigates the ideologies and social attitudes at the heart of the Empire, the most pervasive of which was class--a traditional vision of hierarchy and subordination, derived from the sense the British had of their own society, which they exported to the ends of the earth and back again.

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Abstract Painters: Jim Lutes, Ed Moses and Rana Rochat
Gallery of Contemporary Art
Thursday, November 1-Sunday, December 9
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 1, 5-7 p.m.

By definition, abstract painting is non-representational. But, of course, within the realm of abstract painting, infinite variety exists based on materials and individual expression. Abstract Painters includes the work of three artists in mid-career, Jim Lutes of Chicago, Ed Moses of Los Angeles, and Rana Rochat of Atlanta, each working in a distinctive style.

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Forum: Rebuilding our Families and Communities

Thursday & Friday, November 1-2

Templeton Student Center

8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Thursday, 7 p.m, Agnes Flanagan Chapel

"A Simple Justice: Building Smaller Learning Communities to Know Our Youth"

William Ayers, author of To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, To Become a Teacher: Making a Difference in Children's Livesand co-author of A Simple Justice: The Challenge of Small Schools Tickets: $10 at the door

Friday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Templeton Student Center

Workshop featuring William Ayers and selected professionals from the Portland metropolitan community sharing ideas and insigts about building smaller learning communities to know our youth. Cost $125 (includes Thursday lecture).

For further information people should contact Sheri Hays in the Graduate School of Education at 503 768-7720 or hays@lclark.edu

Pamplin Society Distinguished Visitor

Ernest Gaines, author

Thursday, November 8

7:30pm, Agnes Flanagan Chapel

Ernest Gaines is the 1994 winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for his novel A Lesson Before Dying. Writing about what matters to him most--the Louisiana folk people--Gaines has established himself as one of the most popular and critically acclaimed novelists in America. His stories of rural Louisiana have garnered glowing reviews for their sensitive depictions of blacks struggling for dignity in the face of numerous obstacles. In a career spanning more than thirty-five years, his novels include Catherine Carmier (1964), Of Love and Dust (1967), The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), In My Father's House (1978), A Gathering of Old Men (1983), and A Lesson Before Dying (1993).

He has also authored a collection of short stories, Bloodline (1968). In 1974, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittmanwas adapted for television and won nine Emmy Awards. Other media adaptations include "The Sky Is Gray," a short story originally published in Bloodline,adapted for public television in 1980, and A Gathering of Old Men,adapted for CBS in 1987. Most recently, A Lesson Before Dying has been made into a prize winning film for HBO.

Acoustic Guitar Summit
Terry Robb, Mark Hanson, Doug Smith, Paul Chasman
Saturday, December 8
8 p.m., Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Tickets: 100 only available at $5/$8 at Bookstore to LC community

The virtuoso steel-string guitar quartet Acoustic Guitar Summit is made up of four of the country's best acoustic finger-style guitarists, Terry Robb, Mark Hanson, Doug Smith, Paul Chasman.

Their music has been heard on national television (Martha Stewart Living, Late Night with Conan O'Brian), major films (Twister, Moll Flanders) and National Public Radio (West Coast Live).

Together, AGS performs a wide range of music including blistering originals, tightly interwoven arrangements of classic ballads, gypsy jazz tunes, and stunning versions of folk classics.

Portland Baroque Orchestra
"Handel's Messiah"
Sunday, December16
3 p.m., Agnes Flanagan Chapel
Tickets: 75 only available at $10/$12 at Bookstore to LC community

Since its founding in 1984, the Portland Baroque Orchestra has earned a reputation as one of the finest period instrument ensembles in the country. PBO has attracted musicians and guest conductors from all over the world and has won acclaim from audiences, critics, and musicians alike. In 1993 and again in 1994, PBO was selected to present its annual production of Handel's "Messiah" to a national audience through live broadcasts on National Public Radio, the first such broadcasts of any orchestra in several years. The 2001-02 season marks the seventh season with artistic director Monica Huggett.

This 18th annual Messiah features Richard Egarr, Guest Director; Ann Monoyios, Soprano; Catherine Robbin, Mezzo-Soprano; David Vanderwal, Tenor; Peter Becker, Bass; and the PBO Chorus.

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Upcoming in Spring 2002

Thursday, February 21, 7:30 p.m., Council Chamber
Steinhardt Lecture in Economics
Richard Lipsey, Professor of Economics, Simon Fraser University

Saturday, February 23, 8 p.m., Evans Music Center
The Palatine Trio

Friday, March 1-Sunday, March 3
Family Weekend

Friday, March 1, 7:30pm, Evans Music Center
Pamplin Society Distinguished Visitor
Dr. Ira Byock. Physician & author

Saturday, March 2, Templeton Student Center &
Agnes Flanagan Chapel
International Fair

Saturday, March 2, 7:30pm, Evans Music Center
Rogers Concert

March 11-15, Templeton Student Center
21st Annual Gender Studies Symposium

April 8-11, Templeton Student Center
40th Annual International Affairs Symposium