Wednesday, 04 Feb 2015
Walk-In Craft: Valentine's Day Twig Arrows
Make a sweet Cupid's arrow for your sweetheart using a twig and some felt. Add a tiny scrolled message to profess your undying love and friendship.
Crochet Class
Make warm winter accessories including a headband or hat and a scarf, then choose a project of your own. See how to incorporate the three standard stitches into project construction and finishing. Also learn how to read crochet patterns for future projects. Bring a size F or G needle. Yarn will be provided.
CEAH Fellowship: The Literary Aftershocks of the New Madrid Earthquakes
Matthew Sivils, CEAH fellow, will discuss the cultural reverberations of the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812, one of the most powerful natural disasters to strike North America in recorded history. He will examine how the fictionalization of such a cataclysm in early American fiction served as an indicator of growing environmental anxiety among Americans as the nation moved away from its agricultural origins.
Sea Glass Jewelry Class
Learn wire wrapping jewelry techniques using faux sea glass as the focus. First, bind glass to a copper cuff. Then, wrap silver wire around a glass gem to make a funky ring. Home-made sea glass will be made in advance of class to save time, but the process will be reviewed for students for those interested in doing it on their own.
Beginning Belly Dance
A Three Pillars Delsarte based approach to Middle Eastern Belly Dance in the style of award winning performer Shiara. This class teaches the basic movements of belly dance with a specific focus and detailed exploration each week. Walk-ins welcome!
Dear White People
Dear White People is a 2014 American critically acclaimed satirical film that follows the story of four African American students and the controversy that breaks out after a popular 'African American' themed party is thrown prestigious and predominately white Ivy League university.
Organists of Iowa
Ahreum Han, guest organist.
Intermediate Belly Dance
Continue your Belly Dance addiction with Shiara with A Three Pillars Delsarte based approach to Middle Eastern Belly Dance in the style of award winning performer Shiara. The focus this semester will be on steps, combinations, layers, personal expression and style. This is an intermediate level class. Walk-ins welcome!
Thursday, 05 Feb 2015
Cyclone Club Luncheon
Cyclone Club luncheons are open to the public. The program, led by John Walters, features a different coach each month. Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Cost of admission includes a catered lunch and door prizes.
Award-Winning Faculty Series: Create, Fund, and Institutionalize Unique Opportunities for Global Learning
Developing global competencies is vital for our undergraduates and ourselves. Award-winning Morrill Professor Gail Nonnecke, Horticulture and Global Resource Systems, and David Acker, Associate Dean of Academic and Global Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences share how they developed and funded global experiences for their students.
Walk-In Craft: Valentine's Day Twig Arrows
Make a sweet Cupid's arrow for your sweetheart using a twig and some felt. Add a tiny scrolled message to profess your undying love and friendship.
Meeting: Professional and Scientific Council
P&S Council meetings are open to the public.
Class: Photoshop Lightroom Software Training
This class lasts for 6 weeks on Thursdays January 29, February 5, February 12, February 19, February 26, & March 5 from 6:00-8:30 p.m. Go in-depth with this photo editing program, as professional photographer Mark Stoltenberg helps you to adjust your images, remove red eye, & more. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced photographer, learn to more easily import, organize, enhance, share your photos, and create unique prints & books.
Walk-In Craft: Glass Bead Necklaces with Demonstration by Rhonda Scott
Watch artist Rhonda Scott demonstrate the process of creating beads from glass rods and a torch. Then, choose a hand-made bead to make into a necklace for you or your Valentine.
Wheel Pottery Class
Students will be guided through all aspects of forming bowls, mugs, vases and more on the pottery wheel. Learn handle-pulling, glazing and finishing techniques. Open to absolute beginners as well as those with experience who would like to improve their technique and abilities.
Lecture: The Underground Girls of Kabul
Jenny Nordberg is an investigative reporter and author of the book The Underground Girls of Kabul. She will discuss the practice of bacha posh - disguising young girls as boys in gender-segregated Afghanistan. World Affairs Series
The Kinsey Report
When a blues band works together as long as The Kinsey Report has, they develop a special kind of musical communication. On stage or in the studio, each member seems to instinctively know where the others are going, and the entire unit responds like a perfectly-tuned Porsche. The Kinsey Report plays scalding contemporary blues with exactly that sort of intuitive teamwork. This will be a seated show.