Cornell Council for the Arts

Exhibit / Artist-in-Residence
Economics Art Gallery 404 Uris

Year-long exhibition of watercolor + pencil illustrations, and mixed-media installation pieces by illustrator Heather Layton. Installation illustrates the process of art production and experimentation.

LETTERS TO A NEW GENERATION is the first installation by a resident artist in the Economics Department. begins with blank walls and is a participatory performance– Layton will complete a painting and hang hundreds of small pockets made from international fabrics. Her painting will become part of the new permanent collection and remain on display in the department.  10.1–10.7 / Artist-in-Residence: Monday-Friday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
AND THEIR ALLOCATION features: Anthony Graves, Thomas Gokey, Amanda Hamilton, Michelle Illuminato, Nate Larson, Ed Marion, Lena Masur, Prantik Mazumder, Danielle Mericle, Peter Sheesley, Whitney Stansell, Stephanie Owens, and Jeff Wetzig. 10.1–12.4 / Gallery Hours: 9:30am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday (and by appointment)

Project conceived by Kaushik Basu, Don Opatrny Chair, Economics Department, and curated by artist Karen Brummund as an experiment in bridging creative art + scientific research within the same space.

Image: Beautiful Burden by Heather Layton, watercolor and tea on paper

H.F. Johnson Museum of Art

Video installations by Omer Fast.  Fast relates two very distinct industries - mortuary services and fashion photography - by emphasizing their involvement in the construction of images.  Looking Pretty for God overlays footage from a fictional photo shoot with actual interviews with funeral directors.

http://www.museum.cornell.edu

9am - 12pm Tjaden Hall Printmaking Studio

Monotype Workshop with printmaker James Stroud, proprietor of Center Street Studios in Boston. Stroud's work will be on display as he conducts a half-day workshop in Tjaden Hall. His current projects involve highly charged oversize monotypes by the German artist Marcus Linnenbrinker forging a new language in working a print. A traveling exhibit is currently on view in Boston of works from his studio.

James Stroud Studio

Bronx Museum of the Arts, NYC

Installation of wind turbine towers, scaled as sculptural models, as part of a competition organized by The Design Trust for Public Space and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. Taking their inspiration from New York’s official City Seal, which features the sails of Dutch windmills,the Philadelphia-based design firm Austin+Mergold, LLC, (Jason Austin, Adjunct Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University, and Aleksandr Mergold, Visiting Faculty at Cornell University) propose a series of open-structure towers supporting wind turbines all along the Grand Concourse. These structures, which also support elevated cafes, gardens, and observation decks, would be a new kind of civic monument—a series of Eiffel Towers for the 21st century, which would become signature landmarks for the Bronx, but also serve as a vital part of the urban infrastructure.

New York Times / Grand Concourse and Beyond 100

12PM, 374 Rockefeller Hall
Filmscreening: AMARTYA SEN (Footsteps) with visiting artist Suman Ghosh (Ph.D '02), screenwriter and film director. This film includes interviews with Sen and internationally-known economists including Kaushik Basu, professor / chair of economics, Cornell, and C. Marks, professor of International Studies, Cornell.

Ghosh is a professor of economics at Florida Atlantic University, and screenwriter and film director in India.  His most recent film, DWANDO, will be presented at Cornell Cinema on November 6, 7PM.

Ghosh produced his first film, an award-winning documentary AMARTYA SEN: A LIFE REEXAMINED, following receiving his PhD in economics from Cornell in 2002.  He also wrote and directed feature films PODOKKHEP, that won the best regional feature film award in Bengali. 

Suman Ghosh

7PM Cornell Cinema, Willard Straight Theatre
Filmscreening: DWANDO (Conflict), with visiting artist Suman Ghosh (Ph.D '02), screenwriter and film director.

Ghosh is a professor of economics at Florida Atlantic University, and screenwriter and film director in India.  He produced his first film, an award-winning documentary AMARTYA SEN: A LIFE REEXAMINED, following receiving his PhD in economics from Cornell in 2002.  He also wrote and directed feature films PODOKKHEP, that won the best regional feature film award in Bengali.  AMARTYA SEN will be shown at 12PM, on November 5, in 374 Rockefeller Hall.

TRAILER for the film Dwando

8PM Barnes Hall

Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players (CCCP) presents the Israeli Chamber Project (ICP) in collaboration with Cornell graduate composers.  ICP and CCCP will perform newly commissioned  work by Cornell graduate composer Amit Gilutz.

Fall 2009 Issue of Kitsch Magazine / Distributed on campus in various locations

Student publication focusing on printing investigative feature pieces on subject matter related to Cornell, the Ithaca area, college, pop culture, and more. The magazine dedicates space to writers of fiction and poetry as well as artists and photographers to present their work.

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