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What's New - Spring 2003 |
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What's New - Spring 2003 |
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Art Storage Capability Increased Gallery re-opens with new water-sensing alarms |
Igbo Visions: Art , Literature, and an African Culture's Values |
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Guilford College Art Gallery and Hege Library are co-sponsoring a four-day program of public events titled, Igbo Visions: Art, Literature and an African Culture’s Values. The program, which includes the exhibition, Lyrical Lines: The Works of Obiora Udechukwu and Ada Udechukwu, brings to Greensboro the Udechukwus and novelist T. Obinkaram Echewa from March 18-21, 2003. Events will be held both at Guilford College and the Greensboro Public Library-Guilford College Branch. This is the first in a biennial series of programs planned by the college pairing artists and authors from specific world cultures. A goal of this series is to support the literary dimension of Guilford’s curriculum, which has been reshaped in recent years to reflect the College’s longstanding commitment to international and intercultural education and its Quaker emphasis on ethical issues. The impact of globalization on cultural values and expression of one of Nigeria’s major ethnic communities is a primary focus. Approximately 1,200 Nigerians, including many Igbo, now live in the immediate region. Schedule of Events (All free and open to the public)
This project received support from the North Carolina Humanities Council, a state-based program of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Friends of the Guilford College Library, the Nigerian Association of the Triad, and the Oganiru Cultural Association provided additional financial assistance. Hege Library supports the mission of Guilford College – integrating the strengths of the liberal arts and Quakerism to support personal, intellectual, physical and spiritual growth – by providing effective and convenient access, both locally and worldwide, to the full range of information resources required for the college’s goal of creating a learning community. Through its physical facilities, information technology infrastructure, and human resources, and in collaboration with the Guilford College Art Gallery, the library provides an environment and programming to support life-long patterns of cooperative learning and research. Through collaboration and community involvement, the Greensboro Public Library is dedicated to providing free and equal access to information, sharing knowledge, fostering lifelong learning, inspiring the joys of reading, and meeting the current and future library needs of a diverse community. The Guilford College Branch is located at 619 Dolley Madison Road, in the Quaker Village Shopping Center. |
More Storage Panels Added to Art Storage Room |
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The Gallery remained closed for more than a year and suffered another damaging flood in July 2002. In November, the College installed a new Water Alert system in the ceiling which will sound a local alarm as well as alert the College's security staff in the Bauman building. On January 24, 2003, the gallery re-opened with the exhibition, "Lyrical Lines: the Works of Obiora Udechukwu and Ada Udechukwu." |
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