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Gallo presents on women in art for Chautauqua Speaks

August 22, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

If the love of art could be brewed and bottled, it would be named “Mimi Gallo” after the real Mimi Gallo, a Chautauquan and gifted teacher.

Gallo can communicate enthusiasm, knowledge and love of art and its importance to life and understanding history. Simultaneously, she can motivate students to learn more.

The classroom setting doesn’t matter, whether during Special Studies classes or the 9:15 a.m. Thursday morning Chautauqua Speaks program “Wild Woman Artists.” It is the excitement, the intellectual electricity and sense of discovery which Gallo’s program is certain to engender which matters.

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“Untitled,” 1996. Super sculpey. 5½ x 8½ x 3”

The balance in the paradox: Glantzman explores the undefinable

August 2, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

At the center of each piece of art is a paradox, a tension between two opposing forces that simultaneously negate and define each other.

“Yin-yang is a good way to describe it,” said Judy Glantzman, a painter teaching at the School of Art this week. “One thing is a negative space for the other. There’s a perpetual back-and-forth, and in that, there’s a space for meaning.”

Glantzman is speaking at 7 p.m. tonight in the Hultquist Center, giving a talk she has never before given.

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Chautauqua scene in watercolor by artist Rita Argen Auerbach. Submitted photo.

Artist Auerbach honors late husband with lecture sponsorship

July 30, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

According to artist and Chautauquan Rita Argen Auerbach, people learn about civilizations through their music and their art.

What, then, will future people say about the civilization of Chautauqua?

There will certainly be no shortage of material to analyze, as artists such as Auerbach always seem to find inspiration on the grounds.

Today, Sherry Turkle’s 10:45 a.m. lecture is sponsored by Auerbach.

“When my husband passed away, I decided to invest in his philosophy of education — an educator himself — by responding to the opportunity to support a lectureship series,” Auerbach said. “I feel this is a token for him and a dedication to him, a tribute to his lifelong appreciation of knowledge.”

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Writers-in-residence to lead writing connections with culture, silver screen

July 21, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Week Five writers-in-residence Jim Daniels and Kashmira Sheth will offer writers at all levels insight on making connections among different cultures and art forms.

Sheth, who grew up in Mumbai, will talk about India’s struggles during her week at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center. She said India and Pakistan, the focus of Week Five’s morning and afternoon lectures, hold many similarities.

For Daniels’ weeklong workshop, “Writing and Art: Shared Inspiration,” he will lead participants to the art galleries on the grounds to see what inspires writing.

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Leslie Mathis poses next to her work titled “Monuments,” part of the “55th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art” at Strohl Art Center. Photo by Michelle Kanaar.

‘Monuments’ brings energy and animation to 55th Annual

July 16, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Though some of her co-workers may not know it, Chautauqua’s digital communications manager is moonlighting — as an artist.

If they didn’t know, they now do, thanks to Leslie Mathis’ painting “Monuments,” featured in the “55th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” which closed Thursday.

Mathis grew up just a few miles away from Chautauqua in Cassadaga, N.Y., and worked at the Athenaeum Hotel during college, when she studied illustration at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She moved back a year and a half ago from Virginia and is eager to settle down somewhere, to send her 4-year-old son, Sam, to preschool and to start getting back into the arts community.

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Bob Rosenthal helps Ericha Doubles use her right hand to shape clay. The hand was partially disabled after Ericha suffered a stroke. Photo by Eric Shea.

Chautauqua’s unexpected gifts

July 16, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

Ericha Doubles walks slowly into the room. She is tall and graceful. Her flaxen hair is swept back from a smooth, unfurrowed forehead. Her smile is dazzling, filling the room with light. An understated athleticism shows in her posture. Her sense of humor sparkles in her blue eyes. There is a hint of the ineffable charm of Grace Kelly.

Ericha is right-handed, so she offers that hand to a visitor. Her gesture is halting, and the eye is drawn to her hand, clenched in a stiff, half-open posture. Ericha says hello, the word somehow coming out sideways.

Ericha is 41 years old. Diagnosed as mentally challenged at the age of 3, she has nonetheless participated, undeterred, in athletics for most of her life. She has swum in the Special Olympics competing in three strokes, run track, played tennis and ridden bikes.

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Israelievitch master class encompasses fine art, life, violin

July 6, 2012 by The Chautauquan Daily 0 Comments

“When I talk to students, I always find metaphors to compare musical things to life,” said Jacques Israelievitch, renowned violinist and chamber musician.

From 2 to 4:30 p.m. today in McKnight Hall, Israelievitch will be teaching a violin master class. The 64-year-old strings chair at the School of Music has been teaching since he was 16. He is the youngest graduate at Le Mans Conservatory in France, having finished the program at age 11.

“If you can read words, you can read music,” Israelievitch said. “You’re such a sponge at that age. You can learn things by osmosis.”

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