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There are lots of great theatre productions this week, including Noises Off!, Falsettos, Rent and more. As well a concert offering from the Bay Atlantic Symphony, and a dance performance from Rowan University’s Faculty Spotlight Series. There are so many great things to do in South Jersey this week to support the arts, you’ll have a tough time deciding what to do!

Plays/Theatre

Bridge Players Theatre Company presents their Annual Dessert Theatre Comedy, Noises Off! by Michael Frayn, directed by Megan Knowlton. Performances will be held Jan. 29, 30; Feb. 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 21, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm. Bridge Players Theatre Company performances are held at the Broad Street UMC in Burlington City. For more information, please go to bridgeplayerstheatre.com or call 856-303-7620.

Burlington County Footlighters present Falsettos. In his search for love and understanding, Marvin follows his heart - and leaves his wife for another man. Along the way, he struggles with his growing son, his new relationship and his ex-wife’s marriage to his psychiatrist. Marvin attempts to find his truth, all while planning his son's bar mitzvah and watching AIDS begin its insidious spread. Finn’s Tony Award-winning musical is at turns tender and hysterically funny. Ultimately Falsettos is about a unique family that illuminates the ideas of love, loss, friendship and commitment in a new way. Performances will be held Jan. 29, 30, Feb. 5, 6 at 8pm; Jan. 31 at 2pm. Burlington County Footlighters performances are held at The Playhouse, 900 Pomona Road at Wood Park, in Cinnaminson. For more information, please call 856-829-7144 or go to bcfootlighters.com.

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Sketch Club Players present One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. A charming rogue contrives to serve a short sentence in a mental institution rather in prison. While there, he clashes with the head nurse. Quickly, he takes over and accomplishes what the medical profession has been unable to do; he makes a presumed deaf and dumb Indian talk. He leads others out of introversion, stages a revolt, and arranges a rollicking midnight party. Performances will be held Jan. 28, 29, 30, at 8pm; Jan. 31, at 2pm. Sketch Club Players performances are held at 433 Glover Street in Woodbury. Please call 856-848-8089 or go to sketchclubplayers.org for more information.

The Road Company Theatre Group are proud to be the first community theater group in this area to present Rent, a Tony award winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera “La Bohème.” It follows a year in the lives of seven friends living in the disappearing Bohemian lifestyle in New York's East Village. AIDS and both its physical and emotional complication pervade the lives of Roger, Mimi, Tom, and Angel; Maureen deals with her chronic infidelity through performance art; her partner, Joanne, wonders if their relationship is worth the trouble; Benjamin has sold out his Bohemian ideals in exchange for a hefty income and is on the outs with his former friends; and Mark, an aspiring filmmaker, feels like an outsider to life in general, always behind the camera recording the events but never playing a part. You will love the music in this blockbuster hit. Don’t miss it! Performances will be held Jan. 29, 30, 31; Feb. 5 & 6. Friday and Saturday shows begin at 8pm; Sunday matinees are at 2pm. The Road Company Theatre Group's productions are held at the Grand Theatre, 405 South Main Street in Williamstown. For more information, call 856-728-2120 or go to ritztheatreco.org .

The Ritz Theatre Company presents A Chorus Line. Performances will be held Fridays and Saturdays (8pm), Jan. 29, 30; Feb. 5, 6, 12, 13; Sunday Matinees (2pm), Jan. 31, Feb. 7; and Wednesdays (7:30pm), Jan. 27, Feb. 10. The Ritz Theatre is located at 915 White Horse Pike in Haddon Township. For more information, go to ritztheatreco.org or call 856-858-5230.

The Broadway Theatre of Pitman presents Singin' in the Rain. Experience all the glitz and glamour of Hollywood's golden age. It's 1927, and Don Lockwood and Lina LaMont are the toast of Tinseltown until "talkies" come on the scene. Of course, you remember Gene Kelly splashing through the famous MGM film. But have you seen it live? Join us as our season makes a big splash with this spectacular and romantic musical comedy featuring such classic songs as Good Mornin', Make 'Em Laugh, and of course, the title song. There will be wonderful singin' and dancin' and, yes, it will really rain on stage! Performances will be held Fridays and Saturdays (8pm), Jan. 29, 30; Feb. 5 and 6; Sunday (2pm), Jan. 31. The Broadway Theatre of Pitman is located at 43 S. Broadway in Pitman. For more information, call 856-384-8381 or go to pitmanbroadwaytheatre.com

Music/Dance

Bay Atlantic Symphony continues its performance series as ensemble-in-residence at Rowan University with Rediscovering America on Friday, Jan. 29 at 8pm in the university’s Tohill Theatre. Under the baton of musical director Jed Gaylin, the concert explores the classical music of America’s heritage. To start the evening, the BAS Brass Quintet joins the Bay-Atlantic Chamber Players in performing works by Eubie Blake, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, Leonard Bernstein and John Phillip Sousa, among others. The program concludes with Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring ballet in a world premiere staging choreographed by Joshua Bisset of the Shua Group. Bisset shares a new interpretation of the work, on top of the more abstract conception in Copland’s original version.Tickets for all BAS concerts are $25. Admission for Rowan students is free with valid ID. Tohill Theatre is located in Bunce Hall on the campus of Rowan University, Route 322 in Glassboro. For reservations or additional information about BAS concerts at Rowan, call the box office at 856-256-4545, email arts@rowan.edu, or go to rowan.edu/fpa.

Melanie Stewart, along with fellow choreographer Will Bond, brings dance to Rowan University’s Faculty Spotlight Series with I’ll Crane For You on Monday, Feb. 1 at 5pm in Tohill Theatre, on the university’s Glassboro campus. Stewart and Bond perform their adaptations of choreographer Deborah Hay’s solo work (I’ll Crane For You), created as part of Hay’s 2008 Solo Performance Commissioning Project in which artists developed work based on the same solo dance. In her take on the piece, Stewart exposes the subtle and often fragile relationship between audience and performer. Bond’s performance is described as being like a creature that seems part human and then again not, but always filled with humanity. Tohill Theatre is located in Bunce Hall on the campus of Rowan University, Route 322 in Glassboro. Presented by the College of Fine & Performing Arts, all Faculty Spotlight Series events are free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For directions or additional information, call the box office at 856-256-4545, email arts@rowan.edu or go to rowan.edu/fpa.

Since 1974, Albert Music Hall is the place to go for live country, bluegrass, & old time music concerts. Concerts are held every Saturday night, from 7:30 - 11:30pm. This venue is handicap accessible, air conditioned and smoke free. Refreshments & gifts are available. Doors open at 6:30pm. Adult admission is $5.
Albert Music Hall is located at 131 Rt. 532 in Waretown. For more information, call 609-971-1593 or go to alberthall.org.

Art Exhibits

Rowan University's High Street Gallery welcomes the photographic exhibit A Serious Man 80% More Skin to its space in downtown Glassboro through February 6. An opening reception will be held beginning at 7 pm on Tuesday, January 26. Rowan student artists Alexis Novak, Jessie Henderson, Chris Schoonover and Brenda Kele present a collection of their photographic works. “A Serious Man 80% More Skin contains pictures of people that may seem strange or a little bit abnormal,” Novak says. "Our photos make the viewer think about what they are looking at."
High Street Gallery is a student-run and operated gallery space dedicated to assisting Rowan University's student artists in gaining valuable experience in exhibiting their work. The gallery is located at 11 East High Street, Glassboro, NJ, and is open Wednesday through Friday between the hours of 3:30 and 7:30pm, and Saturday from 12 to 4:30pm. For additional information or to make a private appointment beyond the hours of operation, contact gallery director Claire Cossaboon at 609-805-2958.

Perkins Center for the Arts Collingswood gallery presents River and Roots, through Feb. 27. Closing Reception will be held Saturday, Feb. 13, 6- 9pm. River and Roots is an Independent Project of Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia's international festival celebrating print in contemporary art. RIVER is the Delaware, encompassing the reach of a group of artists from Pennsylvania and New Jersey; Bobbie Diamond Adams, Fran Crum, Lisa Marie Hamilton, Raymond Hamilton and Rona Cordish Satten. ROOTS are the artists’ affiliations and subject matter, expressed literally and abstractly in each artist’s body of work. The work expresses an internalization and response to the social and political environment and is a reminder of the connection to the planet and each other. This exhibition was organized as part of the Philagrafika 2010: Independent Projects. For information on Philagrafika 2010, and the more than 75 other independently curated projects taking place throughout the city, please visit the web site www.philagrafika2010.org. Philagrafika, the organizing body of Philagrafika 2010, is a nonprofit arts organization in Philadelphia that provides leadership for large-scale, collaborative initiatives with broad public exposure. Perkins Center for the Arts Collingswood is located at 30 Irvin Ave in Collingswood. Gallery hours are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 10am to 2pm. For more information, call 856-235-6488 ext 202 or email pcarroll@perkinscenter.org.

Stockton Art Gallery will celebrate Black History Month. The Visual Arts faculty and the School of Arts and Humanities at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey will sponsor a photography exhibition and artist lecture to commemorate the contributions of African American soldiers during the Civil War. The exhibition and lecture will feature photographer William Earl Williams. The photography exhibition, Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War, will run through Feb. 19. Artist William E. Williams will present his slide lecture “The African American Soldiers and the Civil War Experience: Photographs Celebrating Unsung Heroes and Places” on Wednesday, Feb. 3, from 2:30 to 3:30pm in AS102 lecture hall. Following the lecture, a special meet the artist reception will be held in the Art Gallery from 4 to 5pm. More than 60 silver gelatin photographs, taken by William E. Williams, with accompanying extended gallery notes will be on display at Stockton’s Art Gallery for a month. The images will showcase prominent sites where African American troops contributed to the final Union victory. In 1986, William E. Williams began visiting Civil War memorial sites as research for one of his projects. Unexpectedly, Williams discovered a serious lack of coverage recognizing the involvement of over 180,000 African American soldiers during the Civil War. One project quickly led to another. After his extensive research, Williams was driven to document a pictorial history of the sites where the soldiers had been during the course of the war.
The Stockton Art Gallery is located in the H-wing in Room H113 at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in Pomona. Admission is free. Operating hours are Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 11.30am – 4pm; Tuesday, 11.30am – 8pm; Saturday, Noon – 4pm. For more information, call 609-652-4214 or go to stockton.edu/artgallery.

The Stedman Gallery at the Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts is hosting Beneath the Surface; Poster Exhibition from Iran. Open to the public for the first time in New Jersey, the exhibit will hang through Feb. 27. Some 39 posters, ranging from a clean air campaign to a film directed by a woman to classical music concerts, will be displayed. According to exhibit curator Nahid Tootoonchi, an assistant professor of art at Towson University, “Beneath the Surface” aims to showcase the talent emerging in Iranian graphic design and how these artists borrow from Iran’s heritage to communicate with a contemporary world. Featured artists include Reza Abedini, a pioneer in modern Farsi typography, Ghoban Shiva, whose pieces call on traditional Iranian tile work, and Narges Safaei, a young female designer whose posters address her generation’s role in making a difference.
The Stedman Gallery is part of Rutgers-Camden Center of the Arts, and is open Monday through Saturday, 10am to 4pm, and until 8pm on Thursdays. It is located in the Fine Arts Complex on Third Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus. For more information go to rcca.camden.rutgers.edu. Admission is free.

Rowan University Art Gallery explores the artist’s view of their own creative expression in CROSSROADS: Determining the Authentic Visual Voice, an exhibition inspired by individual artists reflecting on the meaning of that very concept in their work. “CROSSROADS” will be on display through Mar. 12. An artist’s reception and gallery talk will be held Jan. 28, from 5 – 7pm. Presented in collaboration with The Philadelphia Sculptors, the exhibit features the work of artists Maria Anasazi, Tom Bendtsen, Catherine Martens Betz, Brent Crothers, Ted Prescott and Warren Holzman. “The artists selected have been challenged and inspired by the inherent meaning of functional objects and their potential as an artistic medium when manipulated by the artist,” notes Mary Salvante, exhibit curator and gallery director at Rowan. “The ‘authenticity’ of the work is determined by the choices and decisions made by the artist when presenting the object in a new context. Viewers will be engaged visually and conceptually by the formal characteristics of the work, which in turn are supported by the artist’s intent.” Bendtsen, a member of the Rowan art department faculty, points out that “when I think about the ‘authentic visual voice,’ I think about the many ways we create voice, language, how we say or show. I wonder about what authenticity is? Does it require being genuine, honest, true or unique?” Admission to the exhibit and reception is free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 10am to 5pm; Saturday, 12 to 5pm. For more information, call 856-256-4521 or go to rowan.edu/fpa/artgallery. Rowan University Art Gallery is located on the lower level of Westby Hall on the university campus, Route 322 in Glassboro.

Gallery 50 presents Artists in the Making, a college student show, through Jan. 29.
Gallery 50, Inc is a non-profit, volunteer-run art gallery located at 50 East Commerce Street in Bridgeton. Regular Gallery 50 hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11am-4pm. For more information, call Gallery 50 at 856-575-0090 or go to www.gallery50.org.

African American Heritage Museum of Southern New Jersey presents The Great Kings of Africa, through Apr. 31. The Museum will also present drawings of noted African American figures by Richmond Garrick and the paintings of fine artists Dressler Smith and Todd Johnson. The handcrafted dolls of artisan Belinda Starr Manning will share a gallery with Michael Roche’s original drawings from the childrens book, Zimba the Turtle, written by Joyce Wright-McAdoo. The author of the popular children’s book will read selected excerpts at a reception for the January-April exhibits on Saturday, Feb. 20th, from 1-4pm. Light refreshments will be served.
The Museum is housed in the Martin Luther King Center at 661 Jackson Road in Newtonville, New Jersey and is open Tuesday through Friday from 10am – 3pm and Saturdays by appointment only. Directions are available at aahmsnj.org. Admission is free, however donations are accepted with appreciation.

The recently expanded Creative Genius Art Gallery and Studio is full of incredible artwork and busy with workshops for everyone! Creative Genius also welcomes photographers Linda Hollinger, Jack Mroz, Denise Bush and Lisa Dealy to the Creative Genius artist list...Just a few of their new additions for spring at Creative Genius.... Stop by and see what they have going on!
Creative Genius is located at 32 B North Main Street in Medford. Hours are as follows: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 10am-9pm; Friday and Saturday, 10am-6pm; Sunday, 11am-4pm; Closed Monday. For more information, call 609-714-1131 or check them out on the web at creativegeniusonline.com.

Throughout January Home Fine Art presents their 100 for $100 5th annual show and sale.
Home Fine Art is a cooperative gallery in Mount Holly, located at 2 Church St. (& White Street) in the Mill Race Village. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Friday, 11am-6pm; Saturday, 10am-6pm; Sunday, 11am-4pm; closed Mondays and Tuesdays. For more information, call 609-261-8634 or go to homefineart.org.

The Noyes Museum is hosting a number of unique and exciting exhibitions.
2009 New Jersey Arts Annual: Crafts will be on display through Feb. 28. The Noyes is proud to present skilled artists living and working in New Jersey. Hand-crafted pieces in metal work, wood turning, textiles, ceramics, and materials/techniques that challenge the boundaries of traditional craft are included in this unique show. Internationally renowned sculptor, Neil Tetkowski, Professor of Art, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Kean University and Skeffington Thomas, Associate Dean, College of Fine and Performing Arts, Rowan University selected the works of 18 prominent artists for this statewide exhibition. Artists include Lynne M. Berman, Jappie King Black, Katia Bulbenko, Liesl Carlson, Jennifer Crupi, Erin Endicott, Glen Guarino, Beverly Hertler, Jan Huling, Edward Koenig, Donna L. Lish, Deb Mell, Joanie San Chirico, Jacqueline Sandro, Diane Savona, Linda Shusterman, Alan Willoughby, Elise Winters
Realism Unbound: Contemporary Representational Art in New Jersey will hang through Feb. 14. Realistic, yet not completely true to life, this exhibition pushes the boundaries of representational painting. Renowned artists from the garden state present images of the real world in interior spaces as well as pure plein air landscape. The concept is further explored when the spaces begin to move, take alternate shapes and become transparent. The common link between these exhibitors is artist Lois Dodd. Dodd is one of the most widely respected painters in America. Her long career involves a steady presence in New Jersey. She set the path as a mentor and inspiration to the entire group. It has now also reflected the mentorship of Mel Leipzig. As a community of artists, not simply the individual, they grow together. Their work shows implications of the impact and influence of each other. The artist’s personal journey or identity is absolutely evident; still there is a common foundation. New Jersey is another major factor in the inspiration of the group. They have spent many hours painting together in Northern Jersey. Artists include Rita Baragona, Robert Birmelin, Paul Carrellas, Lois Dodd, Jeff Epstein, Daniel Finaldi, Leslie Hertzog, Lynn Kotula, Barbara Kulicke, Arthur Kvarnstrom, Mel Leipzig, Terri McNichol, Harry I. Naar, Deborah Nelson, Elizabeth O’Reilly, Linda Pochesci, Kyle M. Stevenson, St. Clair Sullivan
Weird New Jersey Photography Exhibition runs through Feb. 28. This exhibit reveals a side of New Jersey that is extraordinarily weird, in the most fantastic sense of the word. The 70 pieces of artwork have been chosen from 350 submissions by amateur and professional photographers alike. The skilled cast of 4 jurors include Weird NJ travel guide and magazine publishers, Mark Sceurman and Mark Moran, who make use of their outstanding ability to present the places you won't find on state funded maps or located on any tourist attraction pamphlets. Dorrie Papademetriou, Noyes Exhibitions Manager, and Michael Cagno, Executive Director have added their expertise to help produce an exhibition that features all the right qualities. If you are looking for eerie, strange, historic, crazy, unbelievable, tacky, or forbidden – it’s all here in one show. Join us in exploring the findings of 45 talented local artists, exposing the mysterious ways of the Garden State. Artists include Kim Angelo, John Arehart, Gina Bellando, Jason Bonifazi, Nancy Broker Fritz, Phillip Buehler, Tracey Consolo, Jonathan Davis, Laura de la Llave, Jared DiMartine, D D'Mintoro, Arman Dowgiert, Rob English, Dustin Farnum, Tony Fischer, David Franck, Jona Frank, Lauren Rae Freedman, Ralph Gioseffi, Tommy Graef, Janet Greco, Timothy Johns, Susan Kane, Lisa Kaplowitz, Emily Lash, Dennis Loughlin, Aaron Maffei, Vincent Marchese, Richard Montemurro, William Neumann, Ben Panter, Jennifer Rose, Debra Rosenblum, Genevieve Rossi, Joe Ryan, Debra Seltzer, Steve Sennert, Olga Sergyeyeva, Patrick Smith, Rusty Tagliareni, Ryan Thomas, Mike Turner, Andrew Wallace, Christopher Weed, Sophia Wescott
The Noyes Museum of Art is located on Lily Lake Road in Galloway Township’s Oceanville section. The Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10am to 4:30pm, and on Sunday from noon to 5pm. Regular admission is $3 for adults, $2 for seniors and students, and children under 12 are free. For more information, call 609-652-8848, or visit their website at noyesmuseum.org.

Grounds For Sculpture is featuring a few new additions to their outdoor collection, through April. In Dialogue with Steel, an exhibition of Albert Paley's work, one might find it hard to believe that he began his artistic career as a jeweler. Paley was one of the major goldsmiths of the studio art movement in America. Today, he is best known for his monumental sculpture. Yet looking closely at these elaborate, impressive, and often site-specific installations, one sees the continuum of Paley's creativity; challenging metal of all types is his foundation. The fluidity of molten metal is evident in the ribbons and decorative patterns so prevalent and identifiable in his designs. Yet the hardness of steel is also apparent in the starkness of many of his larger abstract works, softened simply by the prominence of bright color and its ability to evoke strong emotions. In Reflections on Tradition, Jacobo de la Serna's micaceous pots are exquisite dichotomies. While some expand the boundaries of this delicate clay in execution and concept, they remain fragile and delicate. His masterful technical ability enhances traditional style and contemporary innovative designs. The work is sensitive and sensual, refined and magical and it reveals the insightful artistry of the man himself.
As well, outdoors, in the 35-acre sculpture park, enjoy works by Itzik Benshalom, Curt Brill, Christopher Cairns, Béla Fuko, Lila Katzen, Tom Otterness, and Meryl Taradash. Please check out their full events calendar, here.
Grounds For Sculpture is located at 18 Fairgrounds Road in Hamilton, NJ. The exhibits are open to the public Tuesday-Sunday year round. Hours are 10am until 6pm, November through March; and 10am until 8pm April through October. Closed Mondays except Labor Day and Memorial Day. Closed Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Day. For more information, visit their website at groundsforsculpture.org, or call 609-586-0616.

LOOKING AHEAD

Celebrating a milestone year, the 40th Annual Rowan Jazz Festival concludes with a gala concert event, “A Tribute to Duke Ellington,” on Friday, Feb. 12, at 8pm in the university’s Tohill Theatre. Festival director and acclaimed jazz artist Denis DiBlasio welcomes noted trumpet player Frank Green and trombonist Jim McFalls, along with other guests, for this anniversary show. They join Rowan’s own Lab Band and Jazz Band as well as faculty performers. Hosted by the Maynard Ferguson Institute of Jazz Studies at Rowan, the concert caps a three-day festival (February 10-12) that focuses on providing a non-competitive, educational environment. This year, 28 schools from throughout the region will take part in adjudication sessions, workshops and performances aimed at teaching, as well as spotlighting high school and middle school jazz musicians. The daily schedule – from 9am to 5pm in Wilson Hall – gives each participating ensemble an opportunity to perform in front of clinicians, guests and other schools. Members of the Rowan jazz faculty and guest artists work with each band and provide valuable feedback. A clinic in the middle of each day can include anything from addressing specific topics to students performing for each other. These daily events are free and open to the public. Tickets for the concert are $15 each, and free for Rowan students with valid ID. Purchase tickets online at www.rowan.tix.com or call the box office at 856-256-4545. Admission to the daytime events is free. For more information on the festival and the daily schedule, contact Denis DiBlasio at 856-256-4500, ext. 3528. Tohill Theatre is located in Bunce Hall on the campus of Rowan University, Route 322 in Glassboro.

In celebration of Black History Month, the Burlington County Freeholders will present two performances by The Expressions Chorale on Saturday, Feb. 13 at Old St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Burlington City. Admission is free to both the 2pm and 5pm performances. Due to limited seating, advance reservations are required. The Expressions Chorale was formed in 1980 as a male choir and today consists of men and women from communities and church affiliations in Burlington and Camden counties. The “Black History through Music” program led by Doris Johnson of Willingboro will focus on music, which has played a dominant role in black history and served as a beacon of hope in times of sorrow and triumph. The program is being held in St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, the oldest continuously active Episcopal parish in the state and the Mother Parish of the Diocese of New Jersey, on a date that has significance on the Episcopal calendar; Feb. 13 commemorates Absalom Jones, who was born a house slave in 1746, married another slave and purchased his freedom in 1784. Jones helped oversee the Free African Society, the first organized Afro American society, in 1787, and its church was admitted as St. Thomas African Episcopal Church in 1794. Known as “the Black Bishop of the Episcopal Church,” Jones is remembered for his persistent faith in God and in the church as God’s instrument. Old St. Mary’s Episcopal Church is located on the corner of Broad and Woods streets. Persons in need of special accommodations are requested to give two weeks advance notification. For more information or reservations, call Cultural Affairs and Tourism at 609-265-5068.

Medford Arts Center (MAC) will be holding their Juried Photography Exhibition Feb. 26 through Apr. 11.
The MAC is located at 18 North Main Street in Medford Village. Hours are Fridays and Saturdays 11am-6pm, and Sundays 1-5pm. For more information, call 609-654-6033 or go to artsinmedford.org.

Regional scholars will gather at Rutgers–Camden to present their works-in-progress during the 2009-10 Lees History Seminar Series. This annual lecture series, which is free and open to the public, allows a sneak peek into emerging research, with topics ranging from the United States machine tools industry to the origins of emergency contraception. The series will take place at 4:30pm on select Fridays in the faculty lounge on the third floor of Armitage Hall. The building is located on Fifth Street, between Cooper Street and the Benjamin Franklin Bridge on the Rutgers–Camden Campus. Scheduled seminars include the following:
Feb. 19: Janet Lindman, an associate professor of history at Rowan University, will present “Women's Friendships in Early America.” Andrew Shankman, an associate professor of history at Rutgers–Camden, will serve as commentator.
March 26: Heather Munro Prescott, a professor of history at Central Connecticut State University, will discuss “Courageous Volunteers: The Origins of Emergency Contraception in the United States during the 1960s.” Cindy Connolly, an associate professor of nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, will serve as commentator.
April 23: Lorrin Thomas, an assistant professor of history at Rutgers–Camden, will discuss “The Seventies, Donde Estan? Tracing an Era across the Americas." Tom Sugrue, the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, will serve as commentator.
For more information, go to camden.rutgers.edu/dept-pages/history/seminars.html. Directions to Rutgers–Camden are online at camden.rutgers.edu.

Poetry writing is the art of expressing emotion through creative selection, emphasis, and arrangement of words. However, writers must master the revision process before they are able to seamlessly illustrate ideas to an audience of readers. The Visual Arts and Literature faculty, The Stockton Text Center, the School of Arts and Humanities, and the Office of the Provost at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, with additional support provided by Ravenswood Winery, will be sponsoring a poetry exhibition Poems: A Retrospective from March 1 through March 30, (closed 3/13-21) in the Stockton College Art Gallery. The exhibit will explore the revision process and feature Stockton Distinguished Professor Emeritus Stephen Dunn’s manuscripts, as well as an opening poetry reading made by the author, himself. On Wednesday, March 3, at 5 pm, there will be a special meet and greet reception in the Stockton Art Gallery, and at 6pm, in the Alton Auditorium/A-wing, there will be a poetry reading by Stephen Dunn. The closing poetry readings will be a tribute to Professor Dunn from two of his former students and who have become Stockton professors, Peter Murphy and Emari DiGiorgio, on Tuesday, March 23 at 5 pm in Alton Auditorium. The display is a manuscript exhibit on the poet's revision process. The poems that have been selected for display are as follows: “Burying the Cat,” “After Ecstasy,” “At the Smithville Methodist Church,” “Making Yourself Into a Work of Art,” “Nuptial,” “Full Circle,” and “Colloquy.” An essay Stephen Dunn wrote on New Jersey will be part of the exhibit as well. The viewer should expect to see a visually stimulating presentation as the revision process is displayed and explained using technology as a helpful tool. Stephen Dunn has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for “Different Hours” in 2001, the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and Fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and many others. Special thanks go to Hofstra University’s Special Collection for opening their collection of Stephen Dunn’s manuscripts for research and display. Students Nick Leonetti, Chrisitan Ochse, and Desiree Wallen researched the collection of manuscripts under the supervision of Professor Lisa Honaker. Wall graphics were designed by Professor Michael McGarvey and illustration major Asuka Nakamura. All events are free and open to the public. The Art Gallery is open Monday-Friday 11:30am– 4pm with late hours on Tuesday until 8, and Saturday 12-4. The Richard Stockton College is located on Jim Leeds Road, Pomona, NJ 08240. For directions and a campus map please go to www.stockton.edu and look under Community & Visitors.

Rowan University Art Gallery will present Artist / Educator, Mar. 22 – Apr. 17, with an opening reception Thursday, Apr. 1, from 5 - 7pm. This exhibition highlights the groundbreaking work created by some of the most influential young artists in ceramics today who also happen to be educators at universities and colleges thought out New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Baltimore, Delaware and New York. Each artist's ideas are individual and unique to their generation and the current climate of ceramics. These artists are striving to make their mark, while advancing the field of ceramics through their work and through their influence as educators. participating artists include Michael Connelly, Matthew Courtney, Chad D. Curtis, Abby Donovan, David East, Heather Mae Erickson, Joseph Gower, Ryan Greenheck, Del Harrow, Douglas Herren, Ryan Kelly, Sumi Maeshima, Andrea Marquis, Eric Miller, Peter Morgan, Adelaide Paul, Neil Patterson, Hope Rovelto, Theresa Saulin, Kala Stein, John Williams, Jennifer Woodin The show’s Curator is Heather Mae Erickson.
Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 10am to 5pm; Saturday, 12 to 5pm. For more information, call 856-256-4521 or go to rowan.edu/fpa/artgallery. Rowan University Art Gallery is located on the lower level of Westby Hall on the university campus, Route 322 in Glassboro.

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