An African Exhibit at Sullivan Library

From December 2 through February 1, Dominican College is hosting An African Exhibit.

Original artworks and Ugandan wildlife photos on canvas will be displayed in the Sullivan Library of Rosary Hall and will be offered for sale. Proceeds will benefit children in Ugandan primary schools by providing low-cost, high-impact XO computers – designed by MIT for the One Laptop per Child program. XO computers are delivered to children in developing countries by volunteers.

There will be an opening reception for the exhibition on December 2 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the Sullivan Library. Dr. Joanne Clemente, Academic Technology Administrator at Dominican College, who has volunteered in Uganda for the past 3 years, will be present to talk about her travels. She will present on the need for the computers and give a demonstration of how they work. Information about becoming a volunteer on one of these trips will be provided as will information on how to sponsor a professor to travel through the Adopt-a-Prof program, for those community members who would like to volunteer but are unable to.

For more information, please contact Joanne Clemente at 914.260.6237 or joanne.clemente@dc.edu [Text taken from
http://www.dc.edu
].

Art Exhibit @ Sullivan Library

The Dominican College Division of Arts & Sciences, in conjunction with the Vytlacil Campus of the Arts Students League, will be presenting an exhibit titled, “Turning: The nature of spring.” This exhibit will be held in the Sullivan Library on the Dominican campus from March 25 through April 20. Several professional regional artists, associated with the prestigious Art Students League, will present works with a theme of spring and renewal.

Opening Reception

Wine and cheese will be served.

Sunday, March 25

2:00 – 4:00PM

Art Exhibit Dates

March 25 – April 20

Newly arrived titles

AACN essentials of critical care nursing [catalog]

AACN procedure manual for critical care [catalog]

Accounting best practices [catalog]

The act of remembering : toward an understanding of how we recall the past [catalog]

Activity analysis, creativity, and playfulness in pediatric occupational therapy : making play just right [catalog]

Addicted to incarceration : corrections policy and the politics of misinformation in the United States [catalog]

 African American art : the long struggle [catalog]

America’s first river : the history and culture of the Hudson River Valley [catalog]

Student art on display in the library

From September 18 through September 27 in the Sullivan Library, artwork by students in Professor McMenamin’s Fine Art Classes will be on display.

Participating artists include:

Chelsea Aro, Chelsea Aronica, Marisol Alberto, Ricardo Bernard, Patrick Bitts, Beatrice Cadichon, Michael Calzonetti, Angela David, Andrea Hontoria, Kristie Harrell, Lindsay Kuhl, Lridona Kukaj, Caroline Louis-Jean, Cathy Naber, Sony Narro, Michelle Puleo, Colleen Smith, Alexandra Thomas, Carolyn Tomes, Tara Troisi, David Visconti, Modja Whidi.

Restoration of da Vinci’s “Virgin on the Rocks”

Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting “Virgin on the Rocks” has recently undergone an 18 month cleaning, and has been returned to display at London’s National Gallery. The restoration centered around removing a layer of varnish that had been applied in the late 1940s and had today begun to yellow and decay.

While doing the restoration, officials concluded that da Vinci probably painted the entire piece himself, without the help of assistants, and intended for it to stay unfinished. Read more at this CBC News link.

If you are looking for books regarding Leonardo, connect to the catalog and put in his full name. Examples include:

759.5 AQ56L Leonardo da Vinci (Amazon) [color reproductions with commentary]

611 M42L Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical drawings (Amazon)

709.2 ARI4L Leondardo da Vinci: The rhythm of the world

Also, if you enjoy art in general, take a peek at our CAMIO database. This database was covered in more detail with this blog post.

Summer time art

CAMIO: Catalog of Art Images Online includes photographs, sculptures, paintings, drawings, costumes, jewelry, and similar works. Some collections are drawn from the Library of Congress, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is one of the databases that The Sullivan Library subscribes to; Dominican College students and faculty can access it for free.

The work above is an oil on canvas painting entitled “At the Seaside” created by William Merritt Chase and housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.