In Print Patricia Blomgren ’01 FP received a Jury Commendation for her woodcut Dummerston Fire Pond in the Arches Second Biennial Student Print Exhibition at Boston University.

Blomgren’s print was one of twenty works to receive a citation in a show of 175 prints, and one of twelve works by MHC students selected for the exhibition. Other MHC participants include Melissa Ballard ’02, special student Lee Bouse, Cindy Cheng ’03, Linda Craib FP, Stephanie Majeau ’03, Magdalena Rios Metcalf ’02, Keiko Mori ’03, Sadaf Murad ’04, Stephanie Neesen ’01, Mia Radysh ’02, and Roxane Shafaee-Moghadam ’01. The exhibition, which opened February 18, will run through April 8 at Boston University’s 808 Gallery. It is the second exhibition marking the collaboration between Arches Paper and the Boston Printmakers, and presents the work of student printmakers from eighteen art schools, colleges, and universities from the New England area, in conjunction with the Boston Printmakers North American Biennial.

“This is really a wonderful show and our students are thrilled to be in it,” says MHC’s Nancy Campbell, associate professor of art. “Mount Holyoke has a prominent location [within the exhibition] and we have a large number of works included for such a small program.”

The Boston Printmakers was founded more than fifty years ago by a group of printmaking students and teachers in order to provide wider opportunities for the exhibition of orginal prints and to educate the public in the techniques of printmaking. Arches Paper, a sponsor of the exhibition, has been providing fine printing papers for many years.

Mellon Grant to Support Foreign Language Resource Center Five Colleges, Incorporated has received a grant of $50,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the planning of an expanded mission for the Five College Foreign Language Resource Center, as well as its Self-Instructional Language Program. Professor Elizabeth H. D. Mazzocco, director of the Five College Foreign Language Resource Center, notes that the Five College academic deans are encouraging the campuses “to work together in using technology to meet a wide array of changing needs for language instruction.” She points to the more internationally focused curriculum, which, she says, give students both opportunities and encouragement to study abroad. “Students are going all over the world, to every continent, to places where the spoken languages are not part of the traditional undergraduate curriculum. These students need language training both before they leave and when they return.”
Originally established in the mid-1980s as a center to assist faculties in capitalizing on emerging new technologies for foreign language teaching, under Mazzocco’s leadership the center has gone on to create a Five College program offering guided self-instruction (SILP), coupled with testing and tutoring, in eleven less-commonly taught languages (Czech, Modern Greek, Hindim, Hungarian, Indonesian, Norwegian, Serbo-Croatian, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, and Urdu). Since 1991, SILP has enrolled more than 1,300 students in up to four different instructional levels. In recent years, the center’s team, led by Mazzocco and Amy Wordelman, assistant director and technology coordinator, has developed its own instruction materials for many of these languages, including a multimedia Web site, LangMedia, that is available free worldwide. The new vision for the center includes expanding the program to thirty languages and developing new forms of instruction using interactive networked classrooms.

NEA Award to Musicorda Musicorda, the music festival and preprofessional training program for gifted young musicians based at Mount Holyoke College, has received a $5,000 National Endowment for the Arts award to celebrate its fifteenth season. The grant will be used to support a season of six Friday-evening “Festival Series” concerts in July and August. Each of the six concerts will feature former students who today enjoy great success on the concert stages of the world.
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