Welcome to ForUM, the e-newsletter for University of Montana staff, faculty and administrators. ForUM is published weekly during the academic year except during scheduled academic breaks.
"The President's Update," a video series for UM President Royce Engstrom to communicate with the campus community, is now available on the President's Office website or on the official UM YouTube channel.
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Ceramicist Presents Lecture Nov. 10
Award-winning ceramicist Beth Lo will give the next installment of the Provost's Distinguished Lecture Series at UM on Wednesday, Nov. 10.
Lo, a professor in UM's School of Art, will present "Making a Language: A Slide Show Retrospective of the Artwork of Ceramicist Beth Lo" at 6 p.m. in the University Center Theater.
The lecture will address Lo's artistic influences of family and cultural heritage and the process of creating visual form. The event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
Lo was born in Lafayette, Ind., to parents who had recently emigrated from China. She received a Bachelor of General Studies degree from the University of Michigan in 1971 and then studied ceramics with Rudy Autio at UM. She received a Master of Fine Arts degree at UM in 1974.
When Autio retired in 1985, Lo stepped into his role as professor of ceramics at UM. She has exhibited her work internationally and has received numerous honors, including the United States Artists Hoi Fellowship in 2009, the Marion Vannett Ridgway Award in 2005, a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship in 1994, a Montana Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in 1989 and an American Craft Museum Design Award in 1986.
For more information about the lecture series, visit the Office of the Provost website or call 243-4689.
Office of the Provost
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Exhibition of European Masterpieces at MMAC
Montana residents and visitors will have an unprecedented opportunity to view selected works by some of the most notable artists from the late 18th to the early 20th century at an exhibition opening Friday, Nov. 12, at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture.
The exhibition, "Renoir, Magritte, Gauguin and other Masterpieces from a Private Collection," is largely centered on portraiture and includes works by Alexander Archipenko, Rosa Bonheur, William Bouguereau, Max Ernst, Paul Gauguin, René Magritte, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, George Romney, Théophile van Rysselberghe and John William Waterhouse.
An opening reception will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Nov. 12 at MMAC, which is located in UM's Performing Arts and Radio/Television Center. The exhibition will be on view at the museum through March 12, 2011.
Concurrent with the masterpiece exhibition will be "Three Centuries of European Prints," a display of works on paper drawn from the same period. The works are from MMAC's Permanent Collection and have never before been exhibited. They will be on view in the museum's Paxson Gallery. The Permanent Collection, which has existed since 1894, contains more than 10,000 artworks.
MMAC will provide expanded hours throughout the course of the exhibitions. Gallery hours will be from noon to 3 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday and from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday. For more information, visit the MMAC website or call 243-2019.
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Expert Speaks About Conservation Innovation
Jim Levitt, director of the Program on Conservation Innovation at the Harvard Forest, Harvard University, is the next presenter in a forum series at UM that explores emerging issues in natural resources and environmental policy.
Levitt will present "The American Tradition of Innovation in Conservation Thought and Practice" from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, in the UM Law Building's Castles Center. The forum is free and open to the public.
Levitt will speak about the tradition of American leadership in conservation that began almost 400 years ago. He also will consider how opportunities to achieve large landscape conservation objectives in North America may put us in a position of conservation leadership again in the 21st century.
Levitt, a graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Management, is the editor of three books on conservation policy and practice: "Conservation in the Internet Age: Threats and Opportunities," "From Walden to Wall Street: Frontiers of Conservation Finance" and "Conservation Capital in the Americas." He has three decades of experience as a consultant and adviser to large public, private and nonprofit organizations and has written and lectured extensively in the United States and internationally on conservation innovation in the 21st century.
For more information, call Sarah Bates, senior fellow of the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy, at 406-207-9071 or e-mail sarah@cnrep.org.
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Living Buildings Topic of UM Lecture
Seattle-based architects Chris Hellstern and Stacey Smedley will present "Learn about Designing Living Buildings" on Wednesday, Nov. 3, at UM. The presentation of the University's Sustainability Lecture Series will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. in Gallagher Business Building Room 122. It is free and open to the public. Living Buildings harvest all their waste and energy needs on site and generate no waste once they are built.
The architects will talk about the award-winning design for the Living Building Science Wing of Bertschi School, a Seattle elementary school. In 2009 the Restorative Design Collective, a group of Seattle-area professionals, asked the school to join them in the Living Building Challenge to create what will be the first Living Building in the state of Washington. The purpose of the challenge was to define the highest measure of sustainability possible in the built environment based on the best current thinking.
As part of the collaboration, all design services, from the initial concept phase through construction, will be provided at no cost. Construction has begun, and the building will open in January. More information is on the Bertschi School website. The award-winning design will allow the school to expand on existing components of their science curriculum in areas such as rainwater harvesting and solar energy.
For more information, call UM Professor Vicki Watson at 243-5153 or e-mail vicki.watson@umontana.edu.
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Writing Center Ready to Serve UM Staff
The Writing Center, located in Liberal Arts Building Room 144, offers free one-to-one consultations to all UM staff members as they plan, execute, revise and edit pieces of writing for any professional purpose. Staff can receive feedback on short memos, formal reports, professional presentations and other public or internal documents.
For the greatest benefit, staff should make an appointment well before any deadlines to allow for time to revise. To make an appointment, e-mail Jacob Hansen at jacob.hansen@umontana.edu, Gretchen McCaffrey at gretchen.mccaffrey@umontana.edu or Kelly Webster at kelly.webster@umontana.edu.
More information is available by calling Webster, Writing Center director, at 243-2470.
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