PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 24, No. 21, May 19, 2005

brief notes

Records, CDs and stereo equipment
‘Vintage Vinyl’ sale is May 21
WILL radio’s 13th annual “Vintage Vinyl” sale will be from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 21 at Lincoln Square Village in Urbana.

Thousands of used records, tapes and CDs will be offered for sale, with most LPs selling for only $1. Used stereo equipment, including CD players, turntables and speakers, will be offered at bargain prices.

Sale coordinator Brian Robertson said the sale includes the Beatle’s “Abbey Road” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band” albums, an old Leadbelly 10-inch record, a Woody Guthrie 10-inch record, some Monty Python and Firesign Theater recordings, and some Eartha Kitt 45s. Equipment for sale includes a Bose 901 Series VI direct/reflecting speaker system, a Dual CS-5000 turntable, a Sony receiver, a Sony five-disc CD player, and a Denon five-disc CD player. “We’re still sorting through records and equipment,” said WILL-FM program director Jake Schumacher. “As always, local residents have remembered us during their spring cleaning, so we’ll have many, many collectors’ items.”

All proceeds from the sale benefit public radio stations WILL-AM (580) and WILL-FM (90.9, 101.1 in Champaign-Urbana, 106.5 Danville).

Public invited
Celtic music special to be taped May 22
WILL-TV invites the public to participate, as audience members and story tellers, in the taping of a Celtic music special at 8 p.m. May 22 at Mike & Molly’s, 105 N. Market St., Champaign.

The program features Irish dancers and top Celtic bands from Central Illinois, including Bloomsday from Bloomington; Exorna from Springfield; Lisa Boucher and Friends from Champaign-Urbana; and Spiral Seisiun, with artists from around Central Illinois.

“We’re planning for the taping to be a fun evening for everybody involved,” said WILL-TV producer Tim Hartin. “People can get up and dance, and anyone who wants to can stand up and tell a Celtic story – a clean Celtic story! Some of the stories may be used in the TV program.”

The program will be broadcast in time for St. Patrick’s Day 2006.

Mike & Molly’s will collect a cover charge of $3 at the door.

New I space exhibitions
Photographs, paintings and sculpture on view
Two new exhibitions are on view through June 4 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the UI’s Urbana-Champaign campus.

• “Eve Sonneman: Photographs and Paintings” provides a retrospective look at Sonneman’s body of work, which includes black-and-white photographs from the 1970s, watercolor and oil paintings, as well as her signature “Sonnegrams,” 20 x 24 inch Polaroid prints. Although she expresses herself in a variety of artistic media, Sonneman first earned an international reputation as a photographer. At the UI, where she received a bachelor of fine arts degree, she studied with noted photographer Art Sinsabaugh.
  
  Sonneman’s work has been exhibited in more than 80 solo exhibitions, as well as in the 1997 Documenta exhibition and in the biennales of Paris, Strasbourg, Venice and Australia. Her most recent works are large-scale, abstract circle paintings; the soft-color canvases feature structures based on the double helix, along with patterns drawn from nature.
  
• “Keith Anderson: New Work” includes sculpture and installation work. Anderson, who began living and working in Paris in the late 1980s, is known for what curator Michael Rooks of The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, described as his “idiomatic improvisations with everyday objects.” His constructions, which feature such materials as cotton balls, raisins and matchsticks, typically reference everyday life and cultural experiences of black Americans. The titles of Anderson’s pieces are inspired by works of such authors as William Faulkner, James Baldwin and Langston Hughes.

I space is at 230 W. Superior St., Chicago. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

K through 12
Registration begins for summer art classes
The School of Art and Design will host summer art enrichment classes for students from preschool through high school. All classes for the new “You Are Here” series meet Monday through Thursday for two weeks at the Art and Design Building.

The preschool through kindergarten class, “Discovering a Day in the Life of Me!,” will be held June 13 through June 23. This class encourages students to use their imaginations to record and express their daily routines through a series of mixed media drawings, paintings and sculptures.

From June 27 through July 8 students in first, second and third grades can participate in “Exploring the Places We Go!” This class begins with a walking field trip that allows students to use all their senses and become visual explorers.

Students in grades four through six can enroll in “Navigating My Life Story” from July 11 through 21. Activities for this class include a series of projects that culminate in a life-sized mixed-media work and a communal project that will represent personal windows of self-identity, community and culture.

“Mapping Personal Landscapes in a Global Community” is open to students in seventh through 12th grade and will be July 25 through Aug. 4. This course will encourage reflection and expression about the students’ connections to others, themselves, and the global community through a variety of studio processes and new digital media.

Registration begins May 17 and the fee is $65. Classes for preschool through sixth-grade students will be 90 minutes; students in grades seven through 12 meet for two hours. For questions contact Carole Smith at cssmith2@illinois.edu or 333-1652.
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