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Green Man: Morris Arboretum

 

Green Man in field

 

 

Performances at the Morris Arboretum

 

Simple Gifts
Tucker's Tales Puppet Theatre will perform "Peter Rabit Tales" Simple Gifts, an instrumental folk group, plays everything from Irish jigs and down-home American reels to Balkan dance music and Gypsy melodies.

 

 

Exhibits

History Through Deaf Eyes: Arthur Ross Gallery
Through July 28

 

Portrait of David Seixas

Portrait of David Seixas, founder of
The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf
by John Carlin, photo courtesy of
The Pennsylvania School for the Deaf

 

 

 

 

 

Concerts in the Garden: Morris Arboretum

 

Pete Moses Ken Ulansey
Local artist Pete Moss will perform for kids of all ages. Jazz in the Garden--Performance by local jazz artist Ken Ulansey.

 

 

Folio 2003: Group Exhibition of Artists from GSFA: Burrison Gallery
Through June 6

 

Folio is a project where 40 artists--graduate students, artist-in-residences and faculty of GSFA-come together to create an edition of 42 portfolios of original, edition prints. Prints span traditional hand printing and digitally output prints.

 

 

ICA: Spring Exhibits 2003
Through July 27

 

Blossom,
Polly Apfelbaum, 2000
velvet and dye

 


Untitled
Nadine Robinson, 2002

 

 

Trees in Exhibition: Morris Arboretum
Through August 18

 

Cedars of Lebanon,
Marcy Abhau
Creeping Spruce,
Marcy Abhau

 

 

Touching the Mekong: A Southeast Asia Sojourn:
UPM

Through September 28

 

Bathing the Buddha,
Bagan, Maynmar.
Photo: Andrea Baldeck
Young Monks at Maing Thauk Monastery,
Shan State, Myanmar.
Photo: Andrea Baldeck

 

 

Without Ground: ICA
Through July 27

 

Kimowan McLain's Without Ground creates a narrative of Native American diaspora. Using manipulated photo images transferred directly to the wall, Without Ground marches like film imagery in a line of figures stretching the length of the ICA's Ramp Corridor.

 

 

A Plantsman in Asia: 1979-2000: Morris Arboretum
Through September

 

Exhibit provides an in-depth photographic view of the Asian people and their unique, close connection with plants.

 

 

Mammoth Scale: The Anatomical Sculptures of
William Rush: Wistar Institute

Through October

William Rush, model of the sphenoid bone, 1808.
Photo by Candace diCarlo.

 

 

Worlds Intertwined:
Etruscans, Greeks, and Romans: UPM

Ongoing

Loculus Cover (burial niche) funerary relief of man and servants, limestone,2nd century A.D., Palmyra, Syria.
The sculpted covers that seal the loculi in Palmyra's Valley of the Dead, provides considerable information about Palmyrene burial customs, religion and local life.
This cover depicts a youth reclining with a vase in his left hand. Two males in smaller scale, perhaps slaves, stand by, holding amphora and a cup.

Antefix with Satyr head, terra cotta, 4th century B.C., Cerveteri, Italy.
One of a set of antefixes with backdrops in the shape of shells,
from a large temple in the countryside of Caere. They were used along the edge of roofs. The satyrs have red flesh that shows they are males.

Seated God (Dionysus) with a Lion, marble, Roman Imperial period with restorations in Italy in the early 17th century or before, Rome, Italy. UPM purchased this statue from a dealer in 1911 and it can be dated back to 1622.


  Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 34, May 27, 2003

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