Upcoming Events
West Hartford, CT-
The West Hartford Art League will be holding its fifth annual regional exhibit, CT+6, this spring from April 22 - June 3. This prestigious exhibit highlights the work of contemporary artists in the region and will be on display in the Art Leagues two galleries. The juror for this years exhibit is Susan Cross, a curator at MASS MoCA. Susan has worked with a range of emerging and established contemporary artists in her career. Prior to MASS MoCA, she was a curator at the Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum.
The CT+6 Best of Show winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize plus a one person exhibit during the 2012 -2013 gallery season. Second place is a $750 cash prize. Numerous other awards and prizes will be awarded.
A full prospectus detailing entry rules and deadlines can be downloaded at www.westhartfordart.org.
Past jurors for CT+6 include Dina Deitz, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Patrica Hickson of the Wadsworth Atheneum, painter Linden Frederick and Nancy Gladwell from the Lyme Academy College of Art.
The West Hartford Art League showcases the work of local and regional emerging, mid-career and professional artists. Founded in 1934, The Art League is committed is "educating and inspiring" artists and the public through exhibits in its two West Hartford galleries, year-round classes and community outreach events.
For more information, please call the West Hartford Art League at (860) 231-8019.
New Bolton Center Announces
New Schedule of Free Lecture Topics
First Tuesdays provide an opportunity to expand knowledge of equine illness, behaviors and approaches for healthy horse care. New Bolton Center has released its First Tuesday Lecture Series schedule through February 2013. The First Tuesdays Lecture Series offers an open lecture, at no charge, the first Tuesday of each month at University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) New Bolton Center. This popular series of one-hour lectures begins its third year this spring, covering a wide range of veterinary subjects of relevance to the horse owner and caregiver. All are presented by New Bolton Center clinicians with expertise in the subject. Each presentation is followed by a lively question and answer session.
Says Rose Nolen-Walston, DVM, organizer of the series, “We want New Bolton Center to be a resource for the local equine community, and this program is one way to be that resource. The First Tuesday Lecture series has allowed New Bolton Center clinicians and researchers to share our knowledge, including the newest advances. The growing popularity of the talks has confirmed our belief that the horse-loving community is eager for this type of information. We always welcome input on topics that will be of interest.”
The schedule for the next several months has just been announced:
March 6, 2012 - Suzanne Stewart, DVM Suspensory ligament disease in the performance horse
April 3, 2012 - Louise Southwood, DVM, PhD It's 10 p.m. and my horse isn't right: When is it an emergency?
May 1, 2012 - Samantha Hart, DVM, DACVS, DACVECC Equine emergencies: First aid and emergency stabilization
June 5, 2012 - Chelsey Miller, DVM Moon Blindness: The shades of grey of equine recurrent uveitis (There will be no lecture in July or August.)
September 4, 2012 - Dean Richardson, DVM, DACVS New techniques in equine fracture repair
October 2, 2012 - Eric Parente, DVM, DACVS Airway Surgery: Is it any easier now for your horse to breathe?
November 6, 2012 - Joy Tomlinson, DVM Headshaking syndrome in horses
December 4, 2012 - Jonathon Palmer, VMD, DACVIM The critically ill foal
January 8, 2013 - Santiago Garcia, MVZ Easy keepers - Metabolic disease in horses
February 5, 2013 - Mary Utter, DVM, DACVO Eye cancer in horses - What it looks like and what you can do about it
This schedule is subject to change. Please check the website, http://www.vet.upenn.edu/FirstTuesdays, for the most current information. Suggestions for future First Tuesday lecture topics can be sent to sallysil@vet.upenn.edu. Lectures are free, though seating is limited. To reserve a space, e-mail vetpr@vet.upenn.edu.
About the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine is one of the world’s premier veterinary schools. Founded in 1884, the school was built on the concept of Many Species, One MedicineTM.
Penn Vet researchers currently have the most National Institutes of Health grants of all vet schools in the country, attesting to the School’s strong basic and clinical research programs in infectious diseases, immunology, neuroscience, cancer, stem cell biology and more. For more information about the research at Penn Vet, visit www.vet.upenn.edu/Research.
The School’s Matthew J. Ryan Veterinary Hospital, located on Penn’s campus in Philadelphia, PA, houses classrooms, laboratories, medical care and one of the nation’s busiest urban veterinary emergency rooms. In addition, the school successfully integrates scholarship and scientific discovery with all aspects of veterinary medical education
Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine is the only institution in the state of Pennsylvania graduating veterinarians. The large-animal facility, New Bolton Center, in Kennett Square, PA, encompasses hospital facilities for the care of horses and food animals as well as diagnostic laboratories serving the agriculture industry.
For more information about Penn Vet or its hospitals, visit www.vet.upenn.edu.