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Exhibit for Peace at Livingston Arts Center
Gennesee Valley Council on the Arts, which is dedicated to furthering the causes of peace and justice, is sponsoring a show titled “Exhibit for Peace” at the Livingston Arts Center in Mount Morris. The exhibit will feature area artists' visions for peace. It will run Nov. 29, 2011–Feb. 12, 2012, with an opening reception 5–7 pm. Dec. 1. The show will be in Apartment 1 Gallery, and there is no admission charge. For more information, contact Chris Norton at 585-243-6785.

 

FDR Library Hosts Book Talk and Signing
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is celebrating the 76th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act with a book talk and signing by NNDPA Board Member Chris Breiseth and Stefan Lonce at 2 p.m. Aug. 14, 2011. Breiseth is co-editor of “A Promise to All Generations: Social Security and Frances Perkins,” a collection of essays about the impact of Social Security. Lonce is editor of the “Montauk Sun” and a contributor to the book. He will read his essay as part of the presentation.

The program marks the 76th Anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act and attendees will celebrate the occasion with refreshments, including two cakes decorated as Social Security cards, and free admission to the Roosevelt Library's current special exhibition, “Our Plain Duty: FDR and America's Social Security” following the presentation. A calendar on FDR and his driving will be unveiled that day as well and will be available for sale in the FDR Bookstore.

The event will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home in Hyde Park and is free and open to the public.

 

Hofstra University Commemorates 1935
Hofstra University will commemorate its 75th anniversary with a multidisciplinary retrospective of the arts, sciences and social structure of the world as it was when the university opened. 1935: The Reality and the Promise will feature a mass of lectures, panel discussions, art exhibits, and musical performances April 7-9, 2011, at the university.

NNDPA President Harvey Smith will present a paper titled "The Monkey Block: The Art Culture of the New Deal in the San Francisco Bay Area." NNDPA Vice President Gray Brechin will speak on "Standing in the Ruins of What We Built: New Deal Expansion of Public Education During the Great Depression and Its Contraction Today."

The full schedule of events is available here.

 

Art Show Features Female WPA artists
The Livingston Arts Center is exhibiting the work of women artists commissioned by the Works Progress Administration. Learn more about women who worked as artists during the New Deal, when the art world consisted mostly of men. The show, which is titled “Women of the WPA,” runs March 5–8, 2011, in the New Deal Gallery. The arts center is at 4 Murray Hill Dr., Mt. Morris. For more information, call (585)243-6785 or email mail@gvcaonline.org.

 

 

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