Faculty-Staff Achievements, Jan. 22, 2010
Award
Nancy Walker, administrative assistant, Department of Management and Business, has received a $2,500 grant from the Saratoga County Program for Arts Foundation (SPAF) for a project titled True Colors. Walker will create, record, and distribute six original new songs that will tell the stories of various community residents in Greenfield. The Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts funds SPAF. Click here to read more about Walker's music.
Activities
Catherine Golden, professor of English, gave a talk titled "Only a Penny: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing" Jan. 10 at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C.
David Miller, professor emeritus of art, was juror for the 53 rd National Fall Open Exhibition now showing at the Southern Vermont Arts Center through Feb. 9, 2010.
Gordon Thompson, professor of music, was a guest scholar at the University of Windsor (Canada) Jan. 11. He lectured on the Beatles' first recording, "Love Me Do" and taught a class on music and ritual in rural India.
Publications/Exhibitions
Corey Freeman-Gallant, associate professor of biology, has published three papers exploring the evolutionary ecology of male sexual ornamentation and female mating fidelity in birds. The papers appear in Evolution, Vol. 64, Functional Ecology, Vol. 24, and the Auk, Vol. 126. Conor Taff '05, Douglas Morin '07, and Susan Tsang '09 are co-authors.
Catherine Golden, professor of English, has been invited by the Smithsonian to be a guest blogger for its website. Her blog is titled "My Mailbox is Full with . . . Direct Mail from Victorian England," direct mail being the politically correct word for junk. The blog connects junk mail to the rise of the Penny Post.
Patrick Kelley, visiting assistant professor of art, has an exhibit of photographs in at the Catherine Person Gallery in Seattle through Feb. 20. The two-person exhibit also featured Seattle-area sculptor Jessica Drenk.
He explains that his group of work for the exhibit has strong Skidmore ties; all of the images collected for my panoramic constructions are from Skidmore's Northwoods area, and the production was funded in part by a Faculty Development grant. The exhibit also includes several flipbooks which I have been producing since 1995, some of which were recently featured in a flipbook-focused exhibit at the Biblioth que publique d'information-Centre Pompidou in Paris, France, last November.
In collaboration work with his wife Mary Reid Kelley (whose recent work is featured in Roberta Smith's New York Times article titled "Make Room for Video, Performance and Paint"), Patrick Kelley has contributed set design, videography, editing and sound work to her narrative video performances. She had a one-person show at Fredericks and Freiser Gallery in Chelsea in September, and they are currently working on a commission she received for the upcoming SITE Sante Fe Biennial this Spring.
Linda Simon, professor of English, is the author of an essay titled "Active Tension" that has just been published in 100 Years of Pragmatism: William James's Revolutionary Philosophy, edited by John J. Stuhr (Indiana University Press).
In the News
Paul Arciero, associate professor of exercise science, was featured in a story titled "Doing It with Style" published Jan. 17 in The Saratogian, about his work to educate athletes on nutrition.
Catherine Golden, professor of English, was a guest Jan. 14 on "Roundtable," a program airing on WAMC-FM (and simulcast on Time Warner cablevision) discussing her new book, Posting It: The Victorian Revolution in Letter Writing (2009, University of Florida Press).
Robert Mahoney, professor emeritus of biology, was the cover story in Primetime Cape Cod, December 2009. Mahoney and his wife, Lolly, were featured in a report titled "Christmas Giving," which chronicled their work as volunteers for the Friends of Dennis (Mass.) Senior Citizens.
Mary Zeiss Stange, professor of women's studies and religion, was a source for "Noted feminist theologian, local native dies at 81," in The Daily Gazette Jan. 7, 2010. The story focused on the Mary Daly, a prominent feminist scholar, who died Jan. 3.
Gordon Thompson, professor of music, had several media opportunities while in the Windsor (Canada)-Detroit area earlier in January. On Jan. 10 Mark Pasman interviewed Thompson for an hour live on WCSX-FM's "Motor City Blues Project" about British blues recordings from the 1960s and, the next day, Thompson taped an interview with Bob Steele for broadcast on "The Bridge," the CBC's local drive-time radio show. In addition, CHWI-TV news anchor Jim Crichton interviewed Thompson for possible later broadcast.
