Art in the Park

Environmental activist/author visits Elon for public talk - April 22

Annie Leonard, the activist behind the short film/flash animation “The Story of Stuff,” comes to Elon University for an April 22 evening lecture on the costs associated with the nation’s consumer-driven culture. Leonard’s appearance in McKinnon Hall, which is free and open to the public, coincides with Earth Day 2010.

Leonard has spent 10 years traveling the globe fighting environmental threats. She narrates the film with a rapid, often humorous and always engaging story about “all our stuff - where it comes from and where it goes when we throw it away.”

Leonard examines the real costs of extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal, and she isolates the moment in history where she says the trend of consumption mania began. "The Story of Stuff" examines how economic policies of the post-World War II era ushered in notions of “planned obsolescence” and “perceived obsolescence” and how these notions are still driving much of the U.S. and global economies today.

The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. To watch the flash animation, visit Leonard’s web site www.storyofstuff.com.

Zeroes and Ones: Exhibition of Advanced Digital Art Students

Alamance Arts Council April 14–May 20. Reception Thursday April 22, 6:30-8:30.

213 South Main Street
Graham, NC 27253-3301
(336) 226-4495

Art Installations

Newly admitted BFA students, Marlee Belmonte and Mark Capozzola, will be hosting an opening reception for their installation "Discourse" in the Trollinger House (Arts and Letters Community) Friday 4/16 at 4pm-5:30pm. Please come and explore the piece as well as ask questions and enjoy some refreshments. Hope to see you there, and if you cannot make the reception but would still like to see the work, feel free to email Mark at mcapazzola@elon.edu and they can arrange another showing.

Senior Thesis Exhibitions

April 18-May 14

Thesis exhibitions for Elon Art Department graduating seniors.

Receptions on Sunday April 18, 1–3 and Sunday May 2, 1–3.

Arts West Gallery and Isabella Cannon Room in Center for the Arts

An-My Le

Arts West Gallery, March 7 - April 14

Closing reception and discussion (with pizza!): Wednesday, April 14, 12:30 PM, Arts West Foyer

An-My Le, a Vietnamese refugee, examines the complex cultures of warfare through the combined lenses of traditional documentary photography and the drama of Hollywood films. Her work focuses on Vietnam War re-enactments and military training sites to prepare soldiers for service in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lovely aesthetics and dispassionate distance of her photographs seem to belie the sobering nature of battle while complementing the truth of their simulation. This dissonance brings into question the viewer’s assumptions about the depiction and realities of war.

An-My Le currently teaches in the photography program at Bard College. Exhibitions include Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia College, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Cornell University. She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and her work resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.