KCC seeking items for archive
By Nicole Finkbeiner
Kellogg Community College's new Library Archives is seeking information and/or items from (Battle Creek Community College) and KCC alumni from 1956-1995 to increase the amount of information and items in the archives.
"We're looking for photos of all kinds, scrapbooks, memorabilia, play programs, pretty much anything to expand our archives and preserve the history of the College," said KCC Archives Adjunct Librarian, Lauren Arnsman. "We're looking for donations, but if people want to keep the items, we would still the like opportunity to borrow and scan/photograph them if they are willing."
The Library is also looking for alumni who would be willing to spend some time at KCC looking through the archives and assisting the college by identifying people, events, time periods, etc. in photos. "Sometimes, on the photos that don't have information on the back, we can figure out who is in them from other photos, but we really need alumni to come in and help us with identification. For example, we have one photo that just has 'potential sports team' written on the back, but we don't' know who anyone is, when it was taken, or what the caption means."
To offer items for donation or scanning or to volunteer to review the archives, please contact Lauren Arnsman at (269) 9655-3931 extension 2339 or at arnsmanl@kellogg.edu.
~Nicole Finkbeiner is the KCC Director of Public Information and Marketing
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Many Faces gallery exhibit
By Nicole Finkbeiner
The Eleanor R. & Robert A. DeVries Gallery at KCC will feature 'Many Faces: Paintings, Prints, and Drawings' by Jeffrey Evergreen November 28 through December 21, 2011. The gallery, located in the Davidson Visual Performing Arts Center on KCC's main campus, is free and open to the public. Gallery hours at public Monday - Friday from 8 am to 5 pm and Saturdays by appointment.
Jeffrey Evergreen is an artist, designer, and teacher. His drawings, prints, and paintings utilize a wide range of traditional and new media techniques to explore the ways in which we see and experience the world today. He presently teaches drawing and printmaking courses at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts' Kirk Newman Art School where he is Head of the Printmaking Department.
"It is very easy to assume that we could identify ourselves in a large crowd, but truly, how easy would that be? By what criteria would you recognize yourself? What telltale signs might you search for? You may realize that this vocabulary is shared by everyone, and things aren't necessarily what they appear—the cues are all relative, highly nuanced, and vary as much as people seem to. Perhaps our only hope then is to use our intuition to see without eyes, drawing slowly closer to ourselves through a deeper understanding of one another," said Evergreen about the exhibit.
For more information, please contact KCC's Arts & Communication Department at (269) 965-4126 or visit www.kellogg.edu/artscomm.
~Nicole Finkbeiner is the KCC Director of Public Information and Marketing
"Voiceless" an aluminum plate lithograph by Jeffery Evergreen
"The Debate" made with oil and collage on canvas
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