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February 7, 2003
Front-Page
News
Her "Monet
Blues" Perhaps it is the perfect balance for a day
job filled with grammatical details and publishing deadlines.
Bonita Sennott, copy editor and project manager in MHC's Office
of Communications, is a painter——an artist whose work
"emanates a sense of serenity found, a spiritual oneness,
not with nature but with time." That's the assessment of
an Art New England (February/March 2003) review of Sennott's recent
one-person show at the Center for the Arts Northampton. The review
goes on to describe the artist's "Monet blues and greens,"
her "contemplative" rendering of the landscape, and
her "sensuous" application of paint. Many of the small-scale,
mixed media drawings in Sennott's seventh solo exhibition depict
familiar valley scenes—including Not Dark Yet (Leverett
Pond) and a series of views of the Quabbin Reservoir. But these
known places take on new import when seen through a veil of horizontal
and vertical lines and bands of colored pencil, ink, and white
gouache. Sennott, who has an M.F.A. from the University of Chicago,
has recently joined the Kingston Gallery, Boston. She will participate
in the annual Kingston Gallery members' show in September 2003
and will mount a solo exhibition at Kingston in 2004. For more
information on Sennott's artwork, visit http://users.crocker.com/~bsennott/Art/Home.html.
Dean's Day The appointment of Lee Bowie,
professor of philosophy, as dean of the College and vice president
for student affairs was covered in the January 30 edition of the
Daily Hampshire Gazette. "I think the chance to do something
that would make a larger difference for the college appealed to
me," Bowie told staff writer Cheryl B. Wilson about his
decision to serve as dean. "I spent three years founding
the Speaking, Arguing, and Writing Program and the Weissman Center
for Leadership. I enjoy the opportunity for making things happen."
Wilson also spoke with Karen Remmler, associate professor of German
studies and codirector of the Weissman Center, about Bowie's
appointment: "I think he is a great choice given that he
is a philosopher and that his own research and teaching provides
him with knowledge about how questions that are pertinent and
compelling for the liberal arts can be answered. He brings with
him many years of experience in thinking about curricular issues
and a strong commitment and passion for the academic mission of
the college," she said. Bowie will assume the duties from
Acting Dean of the College and Dean of Students Rochelle Calhoun
July
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