Public Programs and Events for Fall 2013
OCTOBER
Wednesday, October 2 through Friday, October 4, 2-4pm, Dorsky Museum Seminar Room
Artist-in-Residence, Kesang Lamdark
Visitors are invited to meet Kesang Lamdark in the museum as part of the artist's week-long campus residency. Lamdark was born in Dharamsala in 1963, grew up in Switzerland, and received an MA in visual art at Columbia University, NY. Inspired by an early experience with acupuncture, Lamdark perforates the bottoms of beer cans to create a range of images. Viewers peer through the mouth of the empty cans to view the subtle yet powerful imagery.
Saturday, October 5, 2 pm
Artist Talk
Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art — Kesang Lamdark
Introduced by Kristine Harris, Director, Asian Studies Program at SUNY New Paltz
Sunday, October 6, 2–3 pm
First Sunday Free Gallery Tour with Guest Educator Beth Thomas
Tuesday, October 8, 7 pm
Music in the Museum
Electronic Music
Professor Bob Lukomski will be presenting new works for multichannel electronics by students and faculty.
$8 general admission, $6 faculty/staff, senior, $3 student
**Saturday & Sunday, October 12 & 13
Closed for fall break
Tuesday, October 22, 7 pm
Music in the Museum
Jazz and Classical Singers
The Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, directed by Edward Lundergan, and the students of the Vocal Jazz program, directed by Teri Roiger, present a varied program of vocal and choral music.
$8, general admission, $6 faculty/staff, senior, $3 student
Saturday, October 26, 2 pm
Artist Gallery Talk
Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art – Rabkar Wangchuk
Sunday, October 27, Multipurpose Room, Student Union Building, 10–4:30 pm
Sand Mandala Workshop with Rabkar Wangchuk
Rabkar Wangchuk, former monk and artist trained in tangka painting as well as other forms of traditional Tibetan Buddhist art, served as lead visual artist for nine years at the Tibetan Institute for Performing Arts (TIPA) in his birthplace of Dharamsala. He was trained under the revered teacher late Venerable Ngawang Norbu from Tibet. Over twenty years, he mastered and pursued perfection in woodcarving, butter sculpture and consecration of color-particle Mandela for which he was awarded in appreciation certificate from the Gyudmed Tantric University.
Pre-register at museumrsvp@newpaltz.edu by October 18.
Ages 12 and up; $10 materials fee for workshop participants. Observers welcome throughout the day.
NOVEMBER
Saturday, November 2, 1-4 pm, Dorsky Museum and Lecture Center 102
Symposium
"Anonymous: A Symposium on Tibetan Identity and Culture"
At 1 pm, exhibition curator, Rachel Weingeist, opens the symposium with a gallery tour of Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art at The Dorsky.
At 2 pm, the symposium moves to LC 102 for presentations by Tibetan historian, Elliot Sperling (Professor of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University), Kurt Behrendt (curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art), and a panel discussion with curator Rachel Weingeist, and artist Tenzing Rigdol, moderated by Jonathan Schwartz (director, Asian Studies Program, SUNY New Paltz).
Sunday, November 3, 2–3 pm
First Sunday Free Gallery Tour with Guest Educator Beth Thomas
Monday, November 4, 7:30 pm
Distinguished Speaker, Robert A. F. Thurman (LC 100)
Presented in conjunction with The Dorsky exhibition, Anonymous: Contemporary Tibetan Art
Robert A. F. Thurman is the Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies in the Department of Religion at Columbia University, President of the Tibet House U.S., a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Tibetan civilization, and President of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, a non-profit affiliated with the Center for Buddhist Studies at Columbia University and dedicated to the publication of translations of important texts from the Tibetan Tengyur.
For more information and tickets, please visit: http://www.newpaltz.edu/speakerseries/
Wednesday, November 6, 7 pm, Rosendale Theater, Rosendale, NY
Film Screening
"Tibet in Song" by Ngawang Choephel
Director and musicologist Ngawang Choephel presents his film, "Tibet in Song." Winner of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Prize, among many other awards, the film weaves a story of beauty, pain, brutality and resilience, introducing Tibet to the world in a way never before seen on film. The beauty of traditional Tibetan folk music is showcased through a variety of working songs, songs about family and the beauty of the land. These rarely seen performances are deftly juxtaposed against startling footage of the early days of the Chinese invasion and a concise explanation of the factors leading to the Dalai Lama's flight into exile in 1959. Ngawang Choephel sets the stage for a unique exploration of the Chinese impact on Tibetans inside Tibet.
$5 suggested donation.
Wednesday—Sunday, November 27 through December 1
Closed for Thanksgiving
DECEMBER
Friday, December 6, 5-7 pm
Opening Reception
BFA/MFA I Thesis Exhbition
Friday, December 13, 5-7 pm
Opening Reception
BFA/MFA II Thesis Exhibition
All events take place in the museum unless otherwise noted.
