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Art Exhibition: Stanley Lewis: 2010 Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence
Painter Stanley Lewis creates stunningly beautiful works referencing urban landscape and intimate interior environments. The exhibition will feature his detailed paintings as well as works on paper. Lewis received a Guggenheim Award in Painting in 2005 as well as the Andrew Mellon Faculty Enrichment Grant, UICA Faculty Grant, and a Danforth Fellow for study in Art and Architecture. Art critic Lance Esplund praises Lewis: "Through exactitude and spatial harmony, his paintings and drawings not only celebrate the things of this world, they rejoice in the act of looking—and of living." The Frances Niederer Artist-in-Residence program allows Hollins University to bring a nationally recognized artist to campus every year. In residence during the spring semester, the artist teaches and works with students and faculty.

February 11 – April 17, 2010
Wetherill Wilson Gallery
Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, Richard Wetherill Visual Arts Center
Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., Saturday 1 - 5 p.m.

(Image, above left, Stanley Lewis, 12th Street & 4th Avenue, Brooklyn NY, 2006. Oil on canvas, Collection of William Louis-Dreyfus.)

Lecture: Greg Mortenson
Mortenson, whose efforts to promote education and literacy in Afghanistan and Pakistan became the basis of the number one New York Times bestseller Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace…One School at a Time, will speak at Hollins University’s duPont Chapel on Monday, April 26, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. A book signing will follow the lecture.

Three Cups of Tea, which Mortenson co-authored with David Oliver Relin, has sold more than three million copies in 39 countries since its release in 2006 and is required reading for U.S. senior military commanders, U.S. Special Forces deploying to Afghanistan, and Pentagon officers in counter-insurgency training. The book is seen as an essential guide for those who advocate for building relationships as a part of an overall strategic plan for peace.

As of 2009, Mortenson has established or significantly supports 131 schools in rural and often volatile regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan, which provide education to over 58,000 children, including 44,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed before. He is the co-founder of the non-profit Central Asia Institute and the founder of Pennies for Peace, which teaches children the rewards of sharing and working together to bring hope and education opportunities to the children in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

In 2009, Mortenson received Pakistan’s highest civilian award, the Star of Pakistan, for his humanitarian work; was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by several Congressional representatives; and was named one of America’s Best Leaders by U.S. News and World Report. His new book, Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan, was published by Viking in December 2009.

Mortenson’s lecture is sponsored by Hollins University’s Distinguished Speakers Series, which brings to campus leading national and international experts from a variety of fields to enlighten students, faculty, and the community at large. A book signing will follow the lecture. All tickets for this event have been reserved. Questions: 3cupsoftea@hollins.edu.

Monday, April 26, 2010, 7:30 p.m., duPont Chapel


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