Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton This Week at the Lewis Center

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Week of May 19, 2013

Senior All-Star Show

Connections: The Art of Science 2013 Exhibition

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On view through Tuesday, June 4

Senior All-Star Show: Exhibition featuring the best of the best of graduating student work

Senior All-Star Art ShowFrom now until Tuesday, June 4 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street, the Program in Visual Arts is presenting an exhibition of work in a wide range of media by the Class of 2013 graduating seniors in the program. The exhibition, entitled Senior All-Star Show, features recent work by students completed as part of their senior thesis projects. Gallery hours are weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Special additional hours during the University's Reunion Weekend are Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public.


On view during the month of May

Connections: The Art of Science 2013 Exhibition

Photo by Meredith WrightThe Princeton University Art of Science 2013 exhibit is currently on view in the Friend Center Atrium. Entitled Connections, the exhibit explores the interplay between science and art and consists of 43 images of artistic merit created during the course of scientific research. The competition was open to the entire Princeton community, including undergraduates, faculty, research staff, graduate students and alumni. View an online gallery of the exhibition here or read the feature story by NBCnews.com. The prize winners were selected by a distinguished panel of judges including Program in Visual Arts Professor Emeritus Emmet Gowin, Program in Creative Writing Professor Paul Muldoon, Dean of the Faculty David Dobkin, the Princeton Art Museum's Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography Katherine Bussard, and President Shirley M. Tilghman. Art of Science 2013 is sponsored by the David A. Gardner '69 Fund in the Council of the Humanities, the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science; the Lewis Center is one of several co-sponsors. The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Photo by Meredith Wright '13


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Win tickets to the Lewis Center's fall show, William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz

Shakespeare's Much Ado About NothingWe would like to add you to our postal mailing list to potentially send you a preview of the Lewis Center's 2013-2014 season of exciting events, most of them free. Click here to submit your mailing address and be automatically entered in a drawing for two tickets to Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeare's classics directed by innovative theater director and Princeton alum Lileana Blain-Cruz. The show will be presented in early November at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Winners of the free tickets will be notified in early June.

 

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