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Steve Prince to lecture on “The Art of Social Justice” March 1

Steve PrinceArtist, educator, and New Orleans native Steve Prince (M.F.A. Michigan State University) will share his art and discuss issues confronting New Orleans and our nation in the continuing recovery from scars left by Hurricane Katrina.  Situating his talk within New Orleans’ unique funerary traditions of the Dirge and the Second Line, Prince will discuss ways to find healing and restoration within African American cultural practices.  Participants will embark on an American historical journey using the visual arts to grapple with deep moral and ethical dilemmas circulating around race, sex, power, and spirituality.

Represented by Eyekons Gallery (Grand Rapids, Michigan) and Stone Metal Press (San Antonio, Texas), Prince has shown his art internationally in various solo, group, and juried exhibitions, including the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia; the National Gallery of the Bahamas; the Museum of Cultural Arts Center in Santa Catarina, Brazil; the Grand Rapids Museum of Art; the Portsmouth Courthouse Museum; Hampton University Museum; the Museum of African American Culture in New Orleans; Xavier University of Louisiana Gallery; Charles H. Taylor Art Center in Hampton; and the Peninsula Fine Arts Center.

Prince’s lecture is sponsored generously by The Office of the President, Department of English, Africana/Black Studies Program, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Department of History, GOLD Leadership Education, Office of Residence Life, Director of Galleries, and Campus Auxiliary Services

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Author Jeffrey Cramer to speak on Thoreau

Jeffrey S. Cramer, Curator of Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, Concord, Massachusetts, will deliver a lecture titled “Living Deliberately: Thinking Like Thoreau Today,” in the SUNY Geneseo College Union Hunt Room, February 23, at 4 p.m. Refreshments will be served following the talk, which is free and open to the public.

Jeffrey S. CramerJeff Cramer is the editor of Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition (Yale University Press, 2004) and The Quotable Thoreau (Princeton University Press, 2011). The latter won the Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in Humanities in 2011.  His other works include I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau (Yale University Press, 2007) and The Maine Woods: A Fully Annotated Edition (Yale University Press, 2009). He has two forthcoming books: The Portable Thoreau (Viking Penguin, 2012) and The Literary Way: Selected Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: A Fully Annotated Edition (Yale University Press, 2013). More information about Jeff is available on his website.

The Thoreau Institute and the Thoreau Society are partners with the SUNY Geneseo English department and Milne Library in Digital Thoreau, a project to publish an annotated digital text of Walden that represents the progress of Thoreau’s manuscript through its seven draft versions, and that incorporates materials from the Walter Harding Collection and other collections curated by the institute.