Calendar of Events

Events scheduled for Monday, July 6 (after 5 p.m.) through Monday, July 27 (before 5 p.m.).

ART

July 8, Preschool Family Workshop. Looking for a summer activity you can share with your preschooler? Lines, Lines, Lines: Drawing and Collage is a program for children ages 2-5, accompanied by an adult. Admission is $6. Meet at the Admission Desk, Memorial Art Gallery, 10:15 a.m.

July 26, Sunday Funday Creativity Festival. Pack a picnic and bring the family to MAG's mid-summer festival featuring make-it and take-it art activities, performing arts workshops, roving performers, live drumming from many musical traditions, and a parade. Admission is $1, Memorial Art Gallery grounds, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

July 26, Curators Comment. Candace Adelson will speak on Ancient Artifacts, New Perspectives. Meet in Ancient World Gallery, 3 p.m.

Summer Smorgasbord Lectures

Held in the Memorial Art Gallery Auditorium and $9 with Gallery admission.

July 7, Marlene Hamann Whitmore speaks about The Art and Whimsy of Alexander Calder. 7:30 p.m.

July 8, Repeat of July 7. 10:15 a.m.

July 14, Susan Dodge Peters speaks about The Visible Expression: Spirituality in Art. 7:30 p.m.

July 15, Repeat of July 14. 10:15 a.m.

July 21, Delores Jackson Radney speaks about Your Heritage Unknown: The African American Artist. 7:30 p.m.

July 22, Repeat of July 21. See above for details. 10:15 a.m.

Summer Institute for Art Scholars Lectures

All lectures are free and will be held at 8:15 p.m. in the Gowen Room of Wilson Commons on the River Campus.

July 7, World Spectators. Kaja Silverman

July 9, Patterns in the Shadows. Michael Ann Holly

July 14, Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Culture. Janet Wolff

July 16, The Victory of Culture: Mediation and the Limits of Cultural Theory. Lawrence Grossberg

July 21, Todd Haynes and Queer Cinema. Norman Bryson

July 23, Getting the Warhol We Deserve. Douglas Crimp

ONGOING EXHIBITS AND TOURS

At Rush Rhees Library- Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m. - noon, 1 - 5 p.m.

Through November, Frederick Exley and Jonathan Yardley: A Novelist and his Biographer. An exhibition showcasing items from Exley's Smith Corona manual typewriter and family photographs to letters from writers John Cheever, William Styron, and Larry McMurtry. Combined with them are works by Yardley, who researched his 1997 biography of Exley, Misfit: The Strange Life of Frederick Exley, at Rush Rhees Library.

At Memorial Art Gallery­473-7720

Tour of the Collection--Free with Gallery admission. Admission Desk. July 7, 14, 21, 7:30 p.m.

Exhibition Tour of Chihuly Seaforms and Vitreographs--Free with Gallery admission. Admission Desk. 2 p.m.

Through 1998, Form and Glaze: Fulper Pottery from the Donald S. Hall Collection. Fulper ware, a prized American art pottery from the early 20th century, is highlighted in this collection of more than 50 objects collected over 20 years by Donald Hall, former director of Strasenburgh Planetarium.

Through September 20, Vitreographs: Prints from Glass Plates. Pioneering glass artist Harvey Littleton has invited other artists to experiment with vitreography, an innovative printmaking process that uses sand-blasted glass plates. The exhibition includes 49 vitreographs by many artists.

Through September 13, Art Glass by Modern Masters from Rochester Collections. Works in this show include pieces by five artists featured in last year's White House Collection of American Crafts: Dale Chihuly, Harvey Littleton, John Littleton, John Kuhn, and Kate Vogel. A six-foot glass feather by Stephen Dean Edwards, and a fragile "bubble vessel" by Stephen Rolfe Powell will be displayed along with works by other area artists.

Through September 6, A is for Architecture. An exhibition of 20 delicate watercolor drawings of house plans from the collection of the Rochester Historical Society.

Through August 23, Chaim Gross: Song of Songs Portfolio. An exhibition of lithographs, some inspired by the Biblical love songs attributed to King Solomon.

Through July 26, Rochester Art Club Juried Exhibition. An exhibition showcasing the works of the country's second oldest art club.

Hartnett Gallery­x5-4188

MUSIC

Eastman School of Music

All performances will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall.

July 17, Marian McPartland, jazz piano.

July 23, Eastman Summer Piano Festival. Rebecca Penneys, piano.

July 24, Eastman Summer Piano Festival. Piano Festival Competition Finals.

Eastman-Rochester Summer Sings: Open Choral Music Reading Sessions

All concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. Suggested donation: $5.

July 7, William Weinert, conductor. Music of Bruckner.

July 14, William Weinert, conductor. Music of Haydn.

July 21, William Weinert, conductor. Music of Bach.

Community Education Division Summer Concert Series

All concerts will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall.

July 6, Bob Sneider, jazz guitar.

July 8, Mitzie Collins, world folk music.

July 13, Gary Palmer, piano.

July 15, Gene Bertoncini, jazz guitar.

July 20, Chamber music performed by Gary Fisher, Alla Kuznetsov and others.

July 22, Sophia Gibbs Kim, flute.

RELIGION

River Campus Interfaith Chapel

Roman Catholic Mass

July 12, 19, 26, 10 a.m.

Medical Center Interfaith Chapel

Roman Catholic Mass

July 8, 10, 13, 15, 17, 20, 22, 24, 27, 12:30 p.m.; July 12, 19, 26, 11:15 a.m.

Interdenominational Protestant Worship

July 12, 19, 26, 10:15 a.m.

AND MORE

July 13-17, Forum 98. What has advocacy for women accomplished since the first Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, and what remains yet to be done? Several prominent speakers will address these questions during the 150th anniversary of the Women's Rights Convention. Co-sponsored by the University and Hobart and William Smith Colleges. To receive more information and to register, call x5-8799.

ACTIVITIES PROGRAM

Discounts for activities are available to all University staff and faculty through the Employee Activities Program. All tickets are available at the Hospital Cashier's Office and the River Campus Parking Office. The Eastman School, MAG, and Bursar's Office carry theater tickets only. Discount cards/brochures are available at the River Campus Parking Office and the Conference and Events Office, Room 33A, Administration Building. For further information, check the Employee Activities Program newsletter or call x5-7942.