Paper/Print/Bind now through Jan. 28
Artist’s bookmaking workshop: call 530.898.4476 for information.

Eric Richter earned two BS degrees at Cal Poly, Pomona, one in horticulture in 1981 and the other in landscape architecture in 1991. He moved to Chico from “the vast urban sprawl of Los Angeles” and is fascinated by the landscape, bugs, bones, fungus, and plants he finds hiking and doing field work throughout the area as a utility forester and project manager with Western ECI. “Wunderkammer,” he writes, “is exploring a personal fascination with nature: the native and exotic, the strange and familiar.” Richter’s paintings are inspired by European cabinets of curiosities, collections of the bizarre and beautiful gathered from around the world for study, classification, and entertainment. He asks his viewers to “imagine dark musty rooms filled with preserved creatures, art, and other precious possessions.”

The Humanities Center Gallery is located in Trinity Hall on the CSU Chico campus. A reception for Wunderkammer: Natural Curiosities will be held Thursday, February 7, 5pm - 7pm. For information, call 898-4642.

Jan. 17 - Feb. 28
Michelle Davis Books
Humanities Center Gallery, Trinity Hall, M-F 8-5 (closed Jan. 21)

Feb. 7
Reception 5-7pm (artist’s talk at 6)*

Department of Art associate faculty Michelle Davis photographs books in used bookstores. She then creates sculptural wall pieces that objectify book lust. Davis graduated in 1985 from CSU, Chico, with a split emphasis in studio art and art history and spent the next fifteen years working in the gallery business, both in profit and nonprofit venues. She was a founding member of Chico’s 1078 Gallery in 1982. Her work at a photography gallery in Los Angeles stimulated her interest in becoming a photographer, which led to her earning an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. Davis has since relocated to Chico where she continues to work in several different photographic media. Her pieces have been shown in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Chico.

John Milbauer returns to Chico with Chilean pianist Paulina Zamora for an afternoon of Russian duo-piano masterpieces. The concert will include Arensky’s delightful works for two pianos, Rachmaninoff’s “Second Suite,” and a kaleidoscopic arangement of Stravinsky’s “Petrouchka.”

Purchase tickets at the University Box Office, 898-6333

More information is available online.

Presenter: Nancy Noonan

To accommodate as many staff as possible, this workshop will be held on two separate dates/times.

Register for this workshop online.

For Foundation or A.S. staff employees who are unable to register via the EHS system, please e-mail Lori Fuentes or call 898-6905.

The Peking Acrobats defy gravity with amazing displays of contortion, flexibility and control. They push the envelope of human possibility with astonishing juggling dexterity and incredible balancing feats, showcasing tremendous skill and ability. Accompanied by live musicians skillfully playing traditional Chinese instruments, the Peking Acrobats provide exuberant entertainment with all the excitement and festive pageantry of a Chinese Carnival.

$28 Premium | $23 Adult | $21 Senior | $17 Student/Child

More information is available online.

Presenter: Nancy Noonan

To accommodate as many staff as possible, this workshop will be held on two separate dates/times.

Register for this workshop online.

For Foundation or A.S. staff employees who are unable to register via the EHS system, please e-mail Lori Fuentes or call 898-6905.

Celebrate your beginning as a new student at CSU, Chico and become connected to your campus, your major department, new students, faculty, and staff.

For more information visit the web site or call (530) 898-5712.

What has 360 fingers, the ability to navigate 1,320 black and white keys, and make wonderful music? It is 36 children pianists who simultaneously play 15 digital pianos at the Butte County Branch of the Music Teachers’ Association of California 9th annual Monster Concert. This unique event is a fundraising event to support the School of the Arts’ Piano Program.

Advance Tickets: $12 Evening, $12 Matinee

More information is available online.

With hauntingly beautiful vocals, the classically trained members of Anonymous 4 embark on a journey into Americana, along with Darol Anger on fiddle and mandolin and Scott Nygaard on guitar. This performance will feature lyric folk songs and religious ballads, spiritual and gospel hymns, and folk blues from their two previous albums American Angels and Gloryland. Highlights will include haunting versions of “Poor Wayfaring Stranger,” a wildly different setting of “Shall We Gather at the River,” and Anonymous 4’s arrangements of gospel favorites “Just Over in the Gloryland” and “Green Pastures.”

$23 Premium | $18 Adult | $16 Senior | $14 Student/Child

More information is available online.

Display Jan. 28 through March 2
Laxson: 7th Janet Turner National Print Competition Exhibition
Ayres Hall: National Print Competition Purchases 1995-2006
For more information: 530.898.4476.

KCHO’s (91.7 FM) I-5 Live call-in program will feature topics from CSU, Chico’s Museum of Anthropology exhibition titled From Cave Art to Email: Language and Meaning in Human Cultures. Guests to the program include museum curator Adrienne Scott, CSU linguists Sara Trechter and Frank Li, as well as anthropology graduate student of Museum Studies, Alli Bouwman.

What impact does globalization have on the world’s 6,000 plus languages? It is predicted that over half of the world’s languages will vanish in the next 100 years. The loss of any language is the loss of human thought for all of humanity. Trechter and Li will recount their work with languages on the verge of extinction and the process of preservation and revitalization that many indigenous communities are doing.

In conjunction with the Janet Turner Print Museum, the University Art Gallery presents an exhibition of 25 prints in a variety of media by artists from throughout the United States. The prints were selected by guest juror Karin Breuer, Acting Curator, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, San Francisco.

Two hundred and thirty-eight artists responded to a national call. Reviewing over 700 submissions, Ms. Breuer made a final selection of 73 prints. Prints on view include linocuts, lithographs, woodblock and screenprints, etchings and monoprints. In addition to the University Art Gallery site, work will be on view at the Chico Museum and the Turner’s location at Laxson Auditorium.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Thursday, February 7:
Champaign reception, 5 - 7 PM, at the Chico Museum, 400 W 1st Street

More information: 530-898-5864, or visit the University Art Gallery on line.

In conjunction with the Janet Turner Print Museum, this exhibition presents outstanding prints from across the nation through February 28 in the University Art Gallery and the JTPM Gallery.

Edvard Munch (1974, Norway) 174-220 min. Directed by Peter Watkins for television. Introduced by Laird Easton, Department of History and Humanities Center Board.

Following a rough chronology from 1884 to 1894, when Norwegian artist Edvard Munch began expressionism and established himself as northern Europe’s most maligned and controversial artist, the film also flashes back to the death from consumption of his mother, when he was five, his sister’s death, and his near death at 13 from pulmonary disease. The film finds enduring significance in Munch’s brief affair with “Mrs. Heiberg” and his participation in the café society of anarchist Hans Jaeger in Christiania and later in Berlin with Strindberg. Through it all comes Munch’s melancholy and his desire to render on canvas, cardboard, paper, stone, and wood his innermost feelings. With Peter Watkins, Eli Ryg, Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Knut Khristiansen.

Long considered one of the “sick men” of Europe, Spain has undergone a remarkable political, economic, and social renaissance since the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. Today, Spain has a thriving democracy and a booming economy. Once a socially conservative Catholic society, Spain is now overwhelmingly secular, and its current government is one of Europe’s most socially progressive. Spaniards are now being encouraged to grapple with the legacy of their divisive civil war. Still others have gone further, wondering aloud if Spain’s monarchy has outlived its usefulness. This ferment helps make Spain one of Europe’s most alluring vacation destinations.

The eight performers of Leahy all have two things in common: they all have the last name Leahy, and they are all musical dynamos. And, they are back at Laxson due to popular demand. From Celtic to country to classical and pop, these eight siblings are a whirlwind of fiddle-driven music, dance, percussion, keyboards, and vocals that leave audiences breathless. Their music combines the influence of their Irish and Scottish roots, and their storytelling provides a glimpse into their Nova Scotia family roots.

$25 Premium | $20 Adult | $18 Senior | $16 Student/Child

More information is available online.

Turner National Print Competition Exhibition, now through March 2.

A free, live, interactive web cast called The 2% SOLUTION. Join Stanford University climate scientist, Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins and green jobs pioneer Van Jones and youth climate leaders, for a discussion of global warming solutions. Audiences can weigh in with cell phone voting. For more information visit EARC in BMU 301, e-mail earc@csuchico.edu, or call (530) 898-5676.

CSU, Chico is partnering with Butte Community College to host a fantastic Focus the Nation event. Teach-in sessions will be held at both campuses all day January 31, 2008. At CSU, Chico, during the day, non-partisan, focus-based discussions on global warming will take place in the BMU. All events are free and all students, campus staff, faculty, and community members are invited. For more information visit www.focusthenation.org or contact Jillian Buckholz at (530) 898-4335.

CSU, Chico and Butte College will host a Green Democracy Town Hall discussion with local political officials in the CSU, Chico BMU Auditorium. The goal of this meeting is for the officials to leave the meeting with an itemized list of the public’s concerns as they are related to global climate change. All events are free and all students, campus staff, faculty, and community members are invited. For more information visit the web site or contact Jillian Buckholz at (530) 898-4335.

Thomas Kren Book Theme Lecture “Treasures of Medieval Manuscript Illumination at the J. Paul Getty Museum”

Thomas Kren has a BA (1972) from Oberlin College and an MA and PhD (1978) from Yale University in the History of Art. He has been curator of the Department of Manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles since the founding of the department in 1984. The Getty has one of the finest holdings of European manuscript illumination in the United States.

Call Troy Jollimore, director of the Humanities Center, for more information: 898-4506.

*The Humanities Center’s theme for this year—“The Book”—is being underwritten by a generous grant from New Urban Builders, which enables the center to bring a wide range of outside speakers to campus as well as to host a number of community events.