The Harbinger
October 8, 2007
Renata Hahn, ceramic artist and sculptor, presents convocation
German artist Renata Hahn will discuss her work during a College Convocation on Tuesday, October 9, at 12:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
Hahn is residing at Hiram from October 6 through October 22. She will establish demonstration and teaching studios at the Studio Barn at the College’s James H. Barrow Field Station, two miles east of the campus.
The Ohio Arts Council has awarded $5,000 to Hiram College’s unique Creative Field Studies Program to help fund Hahn’s residency at the College.
During her residency, to which the Hiram Community Trust also has contributed, Hahn will create ceramic art that will become a part of a Creative Field Studies Program exhibition titled The Shore. The exhibition, which will include contributions from artists working in many mediums and disciplines, will be complete in March 2009. It is the third in a series of exhibitions from the CFS Program, which is directed by Martin Huehner, adjunct professor in environmental studies.
The Creative Field Studies Program will also be honored Friday, October 5, during the Northeast Ohio Environmental Awards Ceremony at the Cleveland Museum of National History Murch Auditorium. The program won the higher education 2007 Northeast Ohio Environmental Award sponsored by Dominion and Biodiversity Alliance.
The Hiram College Creative Field Studies Program is one of the few in interdisciplinary environmental art in the country. It encourages local and international artists and students and faculty from disciplines as different as ceramics and music, to creatively represent natural resources and environmental issues.
Some of the other artists who will join Hahn in creating work for The Shore include Huehner (multimedia and ceramics); Hiram Weekend College student Robert Puckett (platinum photography), and Adjunct Professor of Music Alissa Shuster (str
ing quartet composition). Huehner says he expects additional artists from other parts of the United States and overseas to also contribute work.
Hahn, who has served as artist in residence at the Australian National University Institute of Art, has won awards for art at shows in Japan, Croatia, Italy, and the Czech Republic. Her work crosses boundaries, as she creates sculptures, including for gardens; vessels, and works in relief, and does installations, performance art pieces, and pieces that supplement events.
On her website (www.renatehahn.de), Hahn explains her work in this manner: “Power lies in things that cannot be seen. Therefore, the visual display is incomplete. The reality lies in the idea, in the thoughts. This, in turn, only has constancy when it is ubiquitous.”
Lisa's Story: The Other Shoe joins Literature and Medicine Series lineup
The publication of Lisa’s Story: The Other Shoe by Tom Batiuk last week attracted a large crowd to the launch/signing party at Luigi’s in Akron, according to the book’s editors Carol Donley, Herbert L. & Pauline Wentz Andrews Chair in Biomedical Humanities, and Marty Kohn, adjunct associate of the Center for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities.
The collection of Batiuk’s Funky Winkerbean installments that addressed the recurrence of character Lisa Moore’s breast cancer and her death is the twelfth of thirteen titles edited by Donley and Kohn for the Literature and Medicine Series of Kent State University Press. The first three anthologies in the series grew out of the College’s courses in the biomedical humanities program.
Batiuk, who lives in Medina and is a graduate of Kent State University, will be the final speaker during the fall series, Stages: Cancer and the Arts, sponsored by the Center for Literature, Medicine, and Biomedical Humanities. He will discuss his work on November 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Ballroom. The convocation is free and open not only to the campus community but also to the public.
Kohn and Donley, co-founders of the Center, said about 500 people seeking copies of Lisa’s Story were lined up outside Luigi’s waiting to get Batiuk’s autograph. Readers of the strip will note that Luigi’s inspired Montoni’s, Funky’s pizza place.
Other titles in the Literature and Medicine series are: Literature and Aging: An Anthology, edited by Kohn, Donley, and Delese Wear; The Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology, edited by Donley and Sheryl Buckley, a member of the College’s Board of Trustees; What’s Normal? Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders, edited by Donley and Buckley; Recognitions: Doctors and Their Stories, edited by Donley and Kohn; Chekhov’s Doctors: A Collection of Chekhov’s Medical Tales, edited by Jack Coulehan; Tenderly Lift Me: Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered, edited by Jeanne Bryner; The Poetry of Nursing: Poems and Commentaries of Leading Nurse-Poets, edited by Judy Schaefer; Our Human Hearts: A Medical and Cultural Journey, by Albert Howard Carter III; Fourteen Stories: Doctors, Patients, and Other Strangers, by Jay Baruch; Stories of Illness and Healing: Women Write Their Bodies, edited by Sayantani DasGupta and Marsha Hurst; Wider than the Sky: Essays and Meditations on the Healing Power of Emily Dickinson, edited by Cindy MacKenzie and Barbara Dana, and Bodies and Barriers, edited by Angela Belli.
Lisa Dunn speaks about fair trade and entrepreneurship
Lisa Dunn, founder of Revive, a fair trade clothing and accessory store in Cleveland Heights, spoke Wednesday October 3 in Jason Bricker-Thompson’s colloquium. Dunn reviewed her personal history and how she became interested in issues related to fair trade. The lack of a clothing boutique in the Cleveland area selling fair trade merchandise caused her to want to open her own store. Dunn spoke about fair trade and walked the students through the entrepreneurial process that got her to where she is today. Dunn was one of two for-profits that received help from the Case Law Clinic, and she received invaluable help from the Business Advisers of Cleveland. Students in Jason’s class will be implementing their own fair-trade venture later this semester.
To learn more about Lisa Dunn and Revive read a July 5, 2007 Cleveland Plain Dealer article.
Air conditioner in Hinsdale will be fixed soon
Steve Cantrell, director of the physical plant, has reported the replacement parts for the Hinsdale air conditioner arrived on Friday. The needed repairs are expected to take three days. Cantrell said the air conditioner chiller is extremely old and replacement parts were difficult to obtain. Over the next couple of days, the forecasted drop in temperatures should help the building feel more comfortable while the repairs are completed.
Flu Shots offered at Health Center
The Hiram College Health Center is offering flu shots for $20 on October 16 from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. The Health Center is located at 6780 Hinsdale St. Cash or personal check will be accepted, but health insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid cannot be billed for this service.
If you have any questions, the Health Center may be reached questions at 330.569.5418 or via e-mail finchamtr@hiram.edu
Hiram graduates finish Ohio State’s College of Veterinary Medicine
Ohio State’s College of Veterinary Medicine’s Class of 2007 included four Hiram graduates: Jennifer Lynn Fraifogl ’03, Kendra Mikoloski, Alex Mullen ’02 - graduated in top 25% of his class - and Alice Marie Toriello ’03.
Hiram Ghost Walk returns this weekend
On Saturday, October 27, Hiram will take part in Halloween festivities by presenting another Ghost Walk. Participants in Ghost Walk will meet under the Hinsdale Arch at 6 p.m. Trick-or-treaters will be guided on tours to visit various locations throughout Hiram where they will be treated to ghost stories and candy.
Brianna McCartney is managing Ghost Walk and is looking for more volunteers to hand out candy, to escort groups along the Ghost Walk, and to tell ghost stories about historic Hiram. Come learn about the little-girl ghost known to haunt Bowler or the spirits seen in Garfield’s former home on Hinsdale Street.
If you’re at all interested in volunteering, Brianna can be contacted at McCartneyBL@hiram.edu
This week at a glance
Monday, October 8, 2007
New Faculty Orientation - 12 p.m. to 1:10 p.m.
ATP - 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Tuesday, October 9
Convocation - Renate Hahn - 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
CESC - 4:15 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Men's Soccer - College of Wooster - 4:30 p.m.
Women's soccer at Ohio Wesleyan University - 7 p.m.
Wednesday, October 10
Volleyball at Denison University - 7 p.m.
Thursday, October 11
Fall weekend - no classes
Friday, October 12
Cross Country at College of Wooster - TBA
Fall weekend - no classes
Saturday, October 13
Men's soccer at Earlham (IN) College - 2 p.m.
Football at College of Wooster - 1 p.m.
Volleyball at Ohio Wesleyan University - 1 p.m.
Women's Soccer - Kenyon College - 1 p.m.
Terrier Athletics
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