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Charles Addams Film Series - THIS WEEK- Panther Panchali

Charles Addams Film Series

6pm Wednesday Nights and Noon on Fridays in the gallery lounge

This week - Panther Panchali will be screened.

Pather Panchali English: Song of the Little Road) is a 1955 Bengali drama film directed by Satyajit Ray and produced by the Government of the Indian state of West Bengal. Based on Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's 1929 Bengali novel of the same name, the film was the directorial debut of Ray. The first film of The Apu Trilogy, it depicts the childhood of the protagonist Apu in the countryside of Bengal in the 1920s.

Though the film had a shoestring budget of Rs. 150,000 (US$3000),[2] featured mostly amateur actors, and was made by an inexperienced crew, Pather Panchali was a critical and popular success. Influenced by Italian neorealism, Satyajit Ray developed his own style of lyrical realism in this film. The first film from independent India to attract major international critical attention, Pather Panchali won "Best Human Document" at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival, establishing Satyajit Ray as a major international filmmaker. Pather Panchali is today considered one of the greatest films ever made.

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Faculty member Nancy Novack project on PBS, starting this Tuesday

Faculty member in the film/video department, Nancy Novack, will air her most recent project, a sweeping program that traces the history of Africans in America from the 1500s to the present day, on Tuesday, October 22nd on PBS. Nancy was the Editor of Episodes One and Two, and the Supervising Editor of the entire series. Here is a summary about the series, and a link to the website:

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. recounts the full trajectory of African-American history in his groundbreaking new six-part series The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. premiering Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 8-9 p.m. ET on PBS and airing six consecutive Tuesdays through November 26, 2013 (check local listings). Written and presented by Professor Gates, the six-hour series explores the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed — forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds. Commencing with the origins of slavery in Africa, the series moves through five centuries of remarkable historic events right up to the present — when America is led by a black president, yet remains a nation deeply divided by race.

Professor Gates travels throughout the United States, taking viewers on an engaging journey through African-American history. He visits key historical sites, partakes in lively debates with some of America’s top historians and interviews living eyewitnesses — including school integration pioneers Ruby Bridges and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, former Black Panther Kathleen Neal Cleaver, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and many more.

“The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience,” says Gates, Alphonse Fletcher University professor at Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. “Since my senior year in high school, when I watched Bill Cosby narrate a documentary about black history, I’ve longed to share those stories in great detail to the broadest audience possible, young and old, black and white, scholars and the general public. I believe that my colleagues and I have achieved this goal through The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.”

The series will take viewers across five hundred years and two continents to shed new light on the experience of being an African American. By highlighting the tragedies, triumphs and contradictions of the black experience, the series will reveal to viewers that the African-American community, which abolitionist Martin R. Delany famously described as “a nation within a nation,” has never been a uniform entity, and that its members have been actively debating their differences from their first days in this country.

Throughout the course of the series, viewers will see that the road to freedom for black people in America was not linear, but more like the course of a river, full of loops and eddies, slowing, and occasionally reversing the current of progress.

Below are brief overviews of each episode in this six-part series.

Episode One: The Black Atlantic (1500 – 1800)Tuesday, October 22, 8-9 p.m.

The Black Atlantic explores the truly global experiences that created the African-American people. Beginning a full century before the first documented “20-and-odd” slaves who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, the episode portrays the earliest Africans, both slave and free, who arrived on these shores. But the transatlantic slave trade would soon become a vast empire connecting three continents. Through stories of individuals caught in its web, like a 10-year-old girl named Priscilla who was transported from Sierra Leone to South Carolina in the mid-18th century, we trace the emergence of plantation slavery in the American South. The late 18th century saw a global explosion of freedom movements, and The Black Atlantic examines what that Era of Revolutions — American, French and Haitian — would mean for African Americans and for slavery in America.

Episode Two: The Age of Slavery (1800 – 1860)Tuesday, October 29, 8-9 p.m.

The Age of Slavery illustrates how black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. For free black people in places like Philadelphia, these years were a time of tremendous opportunity. But for most African Americans, this era represented a new nadir. King Cotton fueled the rapid expansion of slavery into new territories, and a Second Middle Passage forcibly relocated African Americans from the Upper South into the Deep South. Yet as slavery intensified, so did resistance. From individual acts to mass rebellions, African Americans demonstrated their determination to undermine and ultimately eradicate slavery in every state in the nation. Courageous individuals, such as Harriet Tubman, Richard Allen and Frederick Douglass, played a crucial role in forcing the issue of slavery to the forefront of national politics, helping to create the momentum that would eventually bring the country to war.

Episode Three: Into the Fire (1861 – 1896)Tuesday, November 5, 8-9 p.m.

Into the Fire examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African-American history: the Civil War and the end of slavery, and Reconstruction’s thrilling but tragically brief “moment in the sun.” From the beginning, African Americans were agents of their own liberation — forcing the Union to confront the issue of slavery by fleeing the plantations, and taking up arms to serve with honor in the United States Colored Troops. After Emancipation, African Americans sought to realize the promise of freedom — rebuilding families shattered by slavery; demanding economic, political and civil rights; even winning elected office. Just a few years later, however, an intransigent South mounted a swift and vicious campaign of terror to restore white supremacy and roll back African-American rights. Yet the achievements of Reconstruction would remain very much alive in the collective memory of the African-American community.

Episode Four: Making a Way Out of No Way (1897 – 1940)Tuesday, November 12, 8-9 p.m.

Making a Way Out of No Way portrays the Jim Crow era, when African Americans struggled to build their own worlds within the harsh, narrow confines of segregation. At the turn of the 20th century, a steady stream of African Americans left the South, fleeing the threat of racial violence, and searching for better opportunities in the North and the West. Leaders like Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey organized, offering vastly different strategies to further black empowerment and equality. Yet successful black institutions and individuals were always at risk. At the same time, the ascendance of black arts and culture showed that a community with a strong identity and sense of pride was taking hold in spite of Jim Crow. “The Harlem Renaissance” would not only redefine how America saw African Americans, but how African Americans saw themselves.

Episode Five: Rise! (1940 – 1968)Tuesday, November 19, 8-9 p.m.

Rise! examines the long road to civil rights, when the deep contradictions in American society finally became unsustainable. Beginning in World War II, African Americans who helped fight fascism abroad came home to face the same old racial violence. But this time, mass media — from print to radio and TV — broadcast that injustice to the world, planting seeds of resistance. And the success of black entrepreneurs and entertainers fueled African-American hopes and dreams. In December 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, heralding the dawn of a new movement of quiet resistance, with the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as its public face. Before long, masses of African Americans practiced this nonviolent approach at great personal risk to integrate public schools, lunch counters and more. As the civil rights movement scored one historic victory after another, non-violence was still all too often met with violence — until finally, enough was enough. By 1968, Dr. King, the apostle of non-violence, would be assassinated, unleashing a new call for “Black Power” across the country.

Episode Six: It’s Nation Time (1968 – 2013)Tuesday, November 26, 8-9 p.m.

After 1968, African Americans set out to build a bright new future on the foundation of the civil rights movement’s victories, but a growing class disparity threatened to split the black community in two. As hundreds of African Americans won political office across the country and the black middle class made unprecedented progress, larger economic and political forces isolated the black urban poor in the inner cities, vulnerable to new social ills and an epidemic of incarceration. Yet African Americans of all backgrounds came together to support Illinois’ Senator Barack Obama in his historic campaign for the presidency of the United States. When he won in 2008, many hoped that America had finally transcended race and racism. By the time of his second victory, it was clear that many issues, including true racial equality, remain to be resolved. Now we ask: How will African Americans help redefine the United States in the years to come?

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/

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Mural Arts, muraLAB, and Sarah Schultz - Discussion October 23rd

October 23, 2013 6 - 7:30 p.m. Asian Arts Initiative 1219 Vine Street

Join muraLAB and Sarah Schultz, Curator of Public Practice from the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, for a discussion about the shifting relations between creativity, cultural experience, public space and civic life.

Schultz was a leader of the Walker’s Open Field, an experimental approach to activating public space that was staged for three summers on a four-acre lawn next to its main gallery building.

Open Field invited the public to share their own creative interests, by staging or participating in creative activities in the space – with minimal mediation, modest support and a simple set of ground rules. At the same time, the Walker organized a series of curated residencies by artists, mostly collectives, whose work pointedly addressed participation in the public sphere.

The project challenged idea that creativity is an individual pursuit that belongs primarily to artists and that operates outside the realm of everyday life. It resisted the notion that museums are the primary authors of cultural experience.

The conversation will explore the implications of this experiment, and the notion of the commons as a philosophical and programmatic framework to imagine a new kind of public gathering space.

Philly Photo Day 2013

On Friday, October 18th, PPAC and the entire city will celebrate Philly Photo Day 2013, a FREE city wide event! Everyone in the city is invited to take a photograph anywhere in Philadelphia and submit it to be included in a vast exhibition, featuring thousands of images to create an immense portrait of Philadelphia. Every photograph submitted will be printed and displayed in the exhibition from November 14th – December 28th.

You can submit a picture from Friday, October 18th – Wednesday, October 23rd.

FOLLOW THESE 9 EASY STEPS TO BE A PART OF PHILLY PHOTO DAY

Take a picture on October 18th, 2013, anywhere in Philadelphia

Select your favorite one

Respond to confirmation email (check your inbox or spam)

Click on Submit to Philly Photo Day

Click on Upload A Photo

Fill out all fields & upload picture

Click on Save

YOU ARE DONE! Thank you for submitting to Philly Photo Day!

See you at the opening reception for the exhibition on Thursday, November 14th from 6:30 – 9:00 pm!

As a part of the exhibition, PPAC will produce as many as 60 works of public art! Teaching artists will collaborate with community center participants to design up to 20 of the city’s first digitally produced photo murals in conjunction the city’s Mural Arts Program. An additional 40 images will be selected and placed on billboards for the month of December, one of them could be yours!

Support for this event is generously provided by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of its Knight Arts Challenge and by PNC Arts Alive!

The Billboard and Mural portion of Philly Photo Day is made possible in partnership with Mural Arts and Clear Channel.

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The Charles Addams Film Series, Starting October 16th in Addams Hall

The Fine Arts Department is hosting a film series this fall in the Charles Addams Gallery Salon. Beginning next Wednesday, October 16th a new film will be screened every Wednesday at 6PM with a second screening on Friday at 12PM in the Charles Addams Gallery. The film series is open to all students and faculty.

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Fine Art Preceptorials! Fall and Spring semesters

Ever wonder what it is like to be a fine arts student? Check out the department during one of the Fine Art Preceptorials - short 1 or 2 day workshops taught by the amazing fine art faculty. No cost, no grades, just sign up and come!

For more information on preceptorials at penn see:

http://preceptorials.org/

FALL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN. IT CLOSES ON 16TH SEPTEMBER. Check back for Spring Preceptorials.

Fall Schedule, 2013:

PREC 614.001 Toy Camera Photography (Holga Photography) Description: This B/W Photography Preceptorial utilizes a popular toy camera – the Holga. The first session overs basic camera operations, a slide show highlighting contemporary photography followed by a shooting field trip somewhere in Center City. Cameras will be supplied. The second session includes film processing followed by an introduction to the darkroom which will allow students to experience analog photographic practice. Each student will leave with film, contact sheets and several enlargements. Here is a Holga fickr site to get a sense of the visual effects the toy camera brings to an image:http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixeljugger/8552114108/in/pool-86881528@N00/ Preceptorial Leader: Professor Karen Rodewald, Fine Arts Department Preceptorial Organizer: Tianyu Guan Date and Time: TBD

PREC 706.001, 002, Mad Potter's Wheel Description: Interested in playing with clay? Join us as we go through the basics of pottery and learn about the art of throwing vases, bowls, and cups! This preceptorial will teach you how to craft a beautiful bowl from scratch. Professors from the Department of Fine Arts will guide us through the steps of clay wheel throwing from preparing the clay to shaping. Come discover the artist within you or just have fun with the spinning clay! Preceptorial Leader: Ms. Sumi Maeshima, Mr. Ryan Greenheck & Mr. Matthew Courtney, Department of Fine Arts Preceptorial Organizer: Lingxi Qu Date and Time: TBD

PREC 901.001 Urban Art: Mural in Philadelphia Description: Philadelphia is often referred to as the mural capital of the world. In this preceptorial, we will explore what exactly this means and the impact it has on the city. This will be achieved through the infusion of background information on murals with hands-on application. First, we will discuss some details as to what goes into a mural and why they're so popular with particular focus on the city of Philadelphia. Then we will embark on a tour of murals around Philadelphia to learn more about the stories behind the unique murals in the city! Preceptorial Leader: Professora Shira Walinsky, Fine Arts Department Preceptorial Organizer: Jenny Bae Date and Time: TBD

PREC 903.001 The Crossings of Photography and Fashion Description: This preceptorial is designed for students who are interested in learning how contemporary fashion photographsare produced. The class will explore the history of the fashion photography and modern constructs that define the importance of branding, marketing, advertising and the relationship of fashion photography in contemporary art and culture today. This preceptorial also includes a field trip to Staley-Wise gallery in New York, which was established in 1981 and opened with an exhibition of Horst photographs and continues to show the work of masters of fashion photography. Preceptorial Leader: Professor Tony Ward Preceptorial Organizer: Nuo Xu Date and Time: TBD If you have any questions about this preceptorial, please contact the preceptorial organizer listed and not the professor. Thank you. PREC 904.001 Exploring Art in NYC Description: This preceptorial offers you the chance to tour the galleries of the Chelsea district in New York City. We will spend approximately four hours together visiting several exhibitions in the districts most critically acclaimed art spaces. Throughout the day, we will review and discuss the works that we see together. Preceptorial Leader: Jamie Diamond, Professor in Fine Arts Department Preceptorial Organizer: Tianyu Guan Date and Time: TBD Fall preceptorials are numbered from PREC 600s to 900s.. While a preceptorial might appear on PennInTouch to be meeting weekly, students will be informed of the specific date of the preceptorial after registration, at which time they will be able to confirm enrollment or cancel their registration. Most preceptorials will only meet once.

Registration and Enrollment: More students can register on Penn InTouch than the number of spaces available. Enrollment will be determined by lottery, and all students registered for a preceptorial through Penn InTouch will be informed of their enrollment in the preceptorial or placement on the waitlist by the preceptorial organizer.

Dates and Times: We are making every effort to confirm the dates and times. However, it is not always possible to do so before the Course Selection Period ends because many of the professors' schedules are still pending. Thank you for your understanding.

Graduate Students: Preceptorials are intended for undergraduates, and registration on Penn InTouch is restricted to undergraduates. If you are a graduate student who would like to register, please e-mail the preceptorial organizer, and you will be enrolled if space remains after all undergraduate registrations have been processed.

For registration, the course ID for preceptorials is PREC followed by the preceptorial number.

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