On a life-size wooden table are an artist’s working tools, while nearby is a man standing next to a chair. This sounds like a description of a typical artist’s studio, however, the room is not real, it is an installation; and the man, who is gazing at a large painting of an upside-down artist and his chaotic studio, is a sculpture self portrait made out of polyester resin. This dramatic contrast in reality versus perception is the purpose behind Memoria, the new Exhibit by Spanish artist Quintana Martelo, which will be presented at the QCC Art Gallery, from November 21 through February 12, 2010.... »Not long after the fall of the Soviet Union, Rosemarie Reed produced a radio show on Mikhail Gorbachev which caught the notice of an executive at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. “He told me if I secured the rights to turn the show into a film, CPB would fund it,” recalls Reed, an adjunct lecturer in BMCC’s English and Developmental Skills departments.... »Lehman College alumnus Steven M. Ackerman, professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts Boston, will deliver the keynote address at the 30th Annual Arthur Sweeny, Jr. Memorial Lecture. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will be held on Friday, December 4, at 5 p.m. in Room 306 of the Music Building.... »On November 6, 2009, President Félix V. Matos Rodríguez and Nydia Edgecombe, Director of Alumni Relations, joined dozens of Hostos alumni, former professors, and their friends and families at the first Hostos Community College Alumni Reunion in Puerto Rico. This event was held at El Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe in Old San Juan.... »Growing up in the south, Anthony Heyward revered his grandfather as “the definition of masculinity and character” — a perception that would be reinforced by a tense exchange between the man and a local bank manager. Heyward (BMCC ’09) was a teenager at the time, but the incident stayed with him. He wrote about it in a memoir entitled Granddaddy, which has been selected for publication in the 2009 edition of Nota Bene, Phi Theta Kappa’s literary honors anthology. Founded in 1918, PTK is the international honor society of two-year colleges.... »John Jay College’s Office of Community Outreach, in conjunction with the Veterans Club and Homeland Security Club, recently concluded a month-long Treats for Troops campaign as a way of bringing relief to military personnel serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.... »Mia Rivera’s name isn’t a household word—not yet, anyway. But it may only be a matter of time.
A Video Arts and Technology (VAT) major, Rivera is on track to graduate next spring, but she has already gained significant professional experience in the broadcast industry.... »Hunter Distinguished Lecturer Colum McCann has won the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction for his best-selling novel, “Let the Great World Spin.” The National Book Awards, announced Wednesday night (November 18) in New York City, are considered the top American prize for literature.... »To the Brooklyn College delegation gathered in Green-Wood Cemetery on Friday, November 6, the glorious view of Brooklyn stretching down to the harbor dimmed in comparison to the lives revealed by the surrounding graves. The tour of the historic grounds was organized by the Brooklyn College Task Force on City-Based and Sustainability Education to highlight community-engaged learning, which uses local sites and resources to amplify students' learning.... »A new mosaic, created by volunteers from the High School of American Studies over the summer at the Lehman College Art Gallery, has been installed above the entrance to the high school.... » |
