UpDate - Vol. 16, No. 2
September 12, 1996
Up and Coming

Bus trips planned from southern Del.

     Three bus trips are being planned this fall for residents of
southern Delaware by the Office of Alumni and University
Relations.
     The first, set for Saturday, Sept. 14, is to the Bob
Carpenter Center for the World Teamtennis with Delaware Smash,
featuring Martina Navratilova and the Jensen Brothers.
     The event will include sensational all-pro showdowns. Cost
of this trip is $25. Buses leave Lewes at 4:30 p.m., Milford at 5
p.m. and Dover at 5:30 p.m.
     A second trip is planned for Friday, Oct. 18, to see the
concert at the Carpenter Center with Bobby Rydell and the
Supremes starring Mary Wilson. The trip includes a pre-concert
buffet at the University's Blue & Gold Club. Cost is $32.50 and
includes bus transportation, dinner, gratuity and concert ticket.
     Buses leave Lewes at 4 p.m., Milford at 4:30 p.m. and Dover
at 5 p.m.
      A third trip is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 10, to view the
holiday display at Longwood Gardens. Cost is $35 and includes
bus, entrance ticket and yuletide buffet. Departure times will be
announced.
     For reservations or information on any of the trips, call
855-1620 in Georgetown or 735-8200 in Dover. 
     

Monifa & Jay-Z in 'Icebreaker' party

     Monifa and Jay-Z will be special guests at the Icebreaker
Weekend Party/Concert Explosion, scheduled at 9:30 p.m.,
Saturday, Sept. 14, at the University.
     Sponsored by the UD Cultural Programming Advisory Board, the
event will be held in the multipurpose room of Trabant University
Center.
     Tickets, now on sale through Ticketmaster and at all UD box
offices, are $15 for the general public and $12 for UD students.
Tickets for the general public will be $20 at the door.
     For more information, call the Center for Black Culture at
831-2991. 
     

New faculty will display artworks

     Two new faculty member in the Department of Art will exhibit
their work during September and early October in newly renovated
gallery space in Recitation Hall.
     The gallery space is located on the first floor, just inside
the front door. Two open houses to celebrate renovated space for
the Department of Art are planned later this fall.
     The new faculty members are photographer Karen S. Butler,
who has works on display now through Sept. 22, and illustrator
Robyn M. Phillips, whose works will be on exhibition from Sept.
27-Oct. 13.
     An opening reception for Phillips' works is scheduled from 5
to 6:30 p.m., on Tuesday, Oct. 1.
     Butler is a native of Chicago who received her master of
fine arts degree in painting and printmaking from the Rhode
Island School of Design. She has joined the University as an
assistant professor.
     The two series of photographs in her exhibition were
completed this year. One, entitled "The Hunt," includes six,
large-scale color photographs taken from constructed miniature
dioramas. The figures are situated in precarious and slightly
terrifying settings.
     The second series is a group of large, color photographs of
water, fabricated from dioramas of plastic sheeting that appear
as water. The exhibition features a 20-foot, inflated
"watercraft" made of vinyl swimming floats with port holes.
     Phillips is an illustrator from Hampton, Va., who holds a
bachelor of fine arts degree in illustration and graphic design
from Virginia Commonwealth University and a master's degree in
illustration from Syracuse University.
     She joins the UD faculty as an assistant professor.
     She was an illustrator and graphic design intern at USA
Today and has been an illustrator and graphic designer for
newspapers in Prince George's County, Md., and Newport News, Va.
     Phillips works in many different media, such as pen and ink,
pastel and alkyd colors, as well as with several Macintosh
computer programs. Recently, her predominant medium has been
gouache. Her clients include Syracuse University, Hampton
University and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc.
     Gallery hours are 11 a.m. -5 p.m., Tuesdays through Fridays,
and 1-5 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays. The gallery is closed
Mondays.
     For information, call 831-2244. 


Color printing in  library display

     "Color Printing in the 19th Century" is the title of an
exhibit now on display in the Special Collections Exhibition
Gallery of the University's Morris Library.
     The exhibit documents changes in color printing technology
by displaying some of the finest examples of books illustrated in
color and published from the last quarter of the 18th century
until the beginning of the 20th century.
      An opening reception, open to the public by reservation, is
scheduled at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 1, in the Class of 1941
Lecture Room in the Morris Library. To request an invitation,
call 831-2231.
     The 19th century was the turning point for technical
development in color illustration. Prior to that, books with
color plates were hand-colored by artists using techniques dating
back to the Renaissance.
     A hundred years later, photo-reproductive techniques and the
steam-driven printing press took printing out of the hands of the
artist and introduced processes that would be used until the
computer revolution of today.
     "'Color Printing in the 19th Century' is a particularly
appropriate topic for an exhibition at the University of Delaware
Library," Susan Brynteson, director, said. "One of the library's
great strengths is its collections on the history and technology
of printing and the book arts. The Special Collections Department
houses a wide range of materials documenting the history and
technology of printing, publishing, paper making and all aspects
of the book arts."
     An illustrated catalog of the exhibition is available on
site for $14 or may be purchased by mail by adding $2.50 postage
and handling and contacting the Office of the Director of
Libraries at 831-2231.
     The exhibit, curated by Iris Snyder of the Special
Collections Department, was made possible with support the DuPont
Co. printing and publishing operation in Boothwyn, Pa., and
others.
     The exhibition will be on view through Dec. 18. The Special
Collections Exhibition Gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Mondays through Fridays, and until 8 p.m., Tuesdays. 
     

Student artwork in Clayton Hall

     "New Works," an exhibition by first-year, master of fine
arts graduate students at the University, will be on display from
Friday, Sept. 13, through Sunday, Sept. 29, in the lobby gallery
of Clayton Hall.
     An opening reception will be held from 4:30-6:30 p.m., Sept.
13.
     The exhibition features sculpture by Nobuhiko Akimoto of
Quarryville, Pa., and Kurt Wulfmeyer of Highland Park, N.J.;
paintings by Bruce Black and John McClafferty, both of Newark,
Danica Maier of Wilmington and Greg Rubio of Corpus Christi,
Texas; photography by Jill Berry of Lutherville, Md., and Tasie
Berkeley of Rockville, Md.; printmaking by Walter Smith of
Coppell, Texas; and ceramics by Nathan Falter of Newark.
     Clayton Hall gallery hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Mondays
through Fridays. For more information, call the Department of Art
at 831-2244.