Kip Fulbeck reception tomorrow

The reception for Kip Fulbeck will be tomorrow evening at 7pm at the FedEx Global Education Center.

You can get complete details and directions on the UNC site here: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2666/107/

A brief bio from his web site:

Kip Fulbeck is an American artist, slam poet and filmmaker. He is the author of Permanence: Tattoo Portraits; Part Asian, 100% Hapa; Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography; and the upcoming Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids, as well as the director of a dozen short films including Banana Split and Lilo & Me.

A challenging and inspirational teacher, Kip is a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is the recipient of the university's Distinguished Teaching Award. He is also an avid surfer, guitar player, motorcycle rider, ocean lifeguard, and pug enthusiast. A complete overachiever despite being only half Chinese, he is also a world-ranked Masters swimmer.

New Work by Elin O'Hara Slavick

Elin O'Hara Slavick, Professor of Art at UNC, is currently showing her new work - Flags for Hiroshima - at Cosign Projects in St. Louis Missouri.

The work deals with the lasting and current effects of atom bomb on contemporary politics and culture.

Slavick writes,

"Flags for Hiroshima is made up of three flags, each one holding an image of a Hiroshima dandelion. Each flag displays a city's name on the back: Hiroshima, Baghdad and St. Louis. Exhibiting these flags at Cosign Gallery in St. Louis, I wish to connect these faraway places to the local, as well as the past to the present (and possibly the future) and to help people make those connections."

Check out the site at http://www.cosignprojects.net/current.html for more pictures and info.

Please read the artist's statement at Counter Punch: http://www.counterpunch.org/ohara09182009.html