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Western Carolinian Volume 68 Number 05

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  • CAMPUS NEWS FEATURE ATGET" "REPHOTOGRAPHING OPENS OCT. 20 | BELK GALLERY Western Carolina University's department of art will unveil on Monday, Oct. 20, the exhibition "Christopher Rauschenberg: Rephotographing Atget," a show most recently on exhibit at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio. The exhibition will continue in the gallery of Western's Belk Building through Nov. 20. As part of the monthlong exhibition, Cathy Griffin, photographer and WCU professor of art, will present a gallery talk at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22. Christopher Rauschenberg, a noted American photographer from Portland, Ore., has had 55 solo shows in Europe, South America and the United States. In 1989, he began his ongoing project - the rephotographing of sites captured on film by acclaimed French photographer Eugene Atget. From 1888 until his death in 1927, Atget created approximately 6,000 photographs documenting the city of Paris, said Martin DeWitt, art museum director at Western Rauschenberg made three trips to Paris in the late 1990s, photographing 500 of the scenes that Atget photographed. UNC-TV TO BROADCAST WCU'S "In Central Paris, most of the scenes that Atget photographed are still there, and still posing. You can see the effects of acid rain, you can see graffiti, and most of all you can see the magical streets of Paris are now thickly covered with parked cars," Rauschenberg says. "However, among all the other Parises that co-exist so thickly in one amazing city, Atget's Paris is still definitely and hauntingly there." Louis Zona, director of the Butler Institute of American Art, said that Rauschenberg's photographs "provide not only insight into past genius, but also established Rauschenberg as a significant presence in American photography today." The exhibition and gallery talk are open to the public free of charge. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, except during university holidays. For more information, call Martin DeWitt at (828) 227-3591. Coulter Recital Hall, October 22 FRED CHAPPELL Author to Discuss "Family Stories" Award-winning author Fred Chappell Will discuss "The Importance of Family Stories" and his book "Brighten the Corner Where You Are" at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Oct, 22, in the recital hall of Coulter Building at Western Carolina University. The topic of the program should be of special interest to the people of the Western North Carolina region, said Bil Stahl, Western's university librarian. "It's important to capture our family stories so that we understand our culture, traditions and roots," he said. The event, co-sponsored by Friends of Hunter Library and Western's Division of Continuing Education and Summer School, is a part of "Together We Read," a community reading project that encourages WNC residents to read and discuss annual book selections with other members of their communities. DELBERT McCLlNTON CONCERT - OCT. 21 If you missed all the "great music in the cool Smokies" provided by Western Carolina University in June at the second annual CulloWHEE! ArtsFest, or if you just want to relive some of the festival's highlights, the folks at UNC-TV are on the case. Crews from the statewide public television network were on hand on June 20 to capture the performance by legendary blues musician Delbert McClinton, and UNC-TV will be broadcasting the crowd-pleasing concert Tuesday, Oct. 21 € '"Delbert McClinton from Cullowhee" will air on the 11-channel UNC-TV network at 10 p.m. More than 5,500 people enjoyed the two-day CulloWHEE! ArtsFest, with performances by McClinton, folk queen Nanci Griffith; singer-songwriter Edwin McCain; and alternative rock 'n' roll band Collective Soul The broadcast comes as Western is revamping the CulloWHEE! ArtsFest for 2004, Next year's festival is expected to grow from a two-day event into a series of cultural arts activities ranging from dance and symphony orchestra performances to concerts by nationally known musical entertainers and readings by acclaimed authors. The event, co-sponsored by Friends of Hunter Library and Western's Division of Continuing Education and Summer School, is a part of "Together We Read," a community reading project that encourages WNC residents to read and discuss annual book selections with other members of their communities. Chappell, professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is author of numerous novels, volumes of poetry, and books of essays and short stories. His work has received widespread critical recognition, including the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Ingersoll Foundations T.S. Eliot Award for Creative Writing, and the World Fantasy Award. In 1998, Gov. Jim Hunt named Chappell North Carolina's Poet Laureate, a title he held until December 2002. "Brighten the Corner Where You Are" focuses on a day in the life ofa rural Appalachian teacher. It is the second novel in a quartet that also includes G I Am One of You Forever," "Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You$ and "Look Back All the Green Valley." The Oct. 22 program is open to the public free of charge. For more information, call Hunter Library at (828) 227-7307.
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