August 27, 2001

Donald Woodman Opens 'At Home' Lectures At WKU

Bowling Green, Ky. - Donald Woodman, photographer and husband of artist Judy Chicago, opens a series of lectures at Western Kentucky University on Wednesday. The lectures are part of the "At Home: A Kentucky Project with Judy Chicago and Donald Woodman."

Woodman will present "Click, Click, Snap, Snap: 30 Years in the Dark" at 7 p.m. in the Recital Hall of the Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center. It is sponsored by the Women's Studies Program Gail Martin Lecture Series, the Rodes-Helm Lecture Series and the Campus Activities Board.

Woodman, a creative and commercial photographer for more than 25 years, teaches photography at the University of New Mexico, Valencia Campus. He is joining Chicago who will direct the "At Home" project to transform a house near campus into an art installation highlighting the meaning of home in Kentucky. Woodman will be directing participants in creating a photo-ethnography of the "At Home" exhibit and in exploring the subject photographically.

More information on the "At Home" project is available at http://www.wku.edu/Dept/Academic/Graduate/WStudy/athome.html.

Other lectures in the series include:

Sept. 6-Judy Chicago, "Collaborations," 7 p.m., Downing University Center Theatre.

Sept. 11-Stephanie Coontz, "Ozzie and Harriet Don't Live Here Any More: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Times," 8 p.m., Grise Hall Auditorium.

Sept. 20-Panel discussion with Erika Brady, Deborah Logan and Michael Ann Williams, "Re-envisioning Women's Place in the Home," 3 p.m., Faculty House.

Sept. 25-Gender Images Film Series, "The Yellow Wallpaper," 7 p.m., Garrett Conference Center Auditorium.

Oct. 10-Jean Robertson, "Way Can't a Woman Make Art Like a Man? Women Artists and Feminism," 7 p.m., Kentucky Museum.

Oct. 11-John Oakes, "Kentucky Women Artists, 1850-1970," 3 p.m., Kentucky Museum.

Oct. 24-Gender Images Film Series, "Smoke," 7 p.m., Garrett Conference Center Auditorium.

Nov. 7-Michael Kimmel, "School Shootings and Domestic Peace: Cultural Meanings of Masculinity," 8 p.m., Downing University Center Theatre.

Dec. 9-Grand opening reception and tour, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Carroll Knicely Conference Center.

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