![]() “Nothing you see on a mobile phone or computer screen can do justice to seeing these prints in person,” Karen Rapp, Director and Curator of Laband Art Gallery said. LMU students can come face to face with a 50-year-career survey of photographer Judy Dater’s masterpieces of portraiture at Laband Art Gallery’s fall exhibition, “Judy Dater: Only Human.” The exhibition was organized by San Francisco’s de Young Museum and celebrates Dater’s artistic evolution and what it means to be “simply and only human.”Ī pioneering figure since the 1970s, Dater’s work is known for its embrace of feminism and elements of natural light and nudity that aim to challenge gender stereotypes and perceptions of the female and male body. “Instead, we pull you in with a story and tell you that you cannot see it, but there is something just behind you and it will follow you home and give everyone in the dorm nightmares tonight.”įall Exhibition Captures Artistry of Photographer Judy Dater “Our monsters and ghosts don’t jump out and yell boo, there are no chainsaws or clowns,” Wetmore said. Seuss” and “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.” If tonight’s chills seem a tad much, a family-friendly version will offer up fun frights tomorrow from 2 to 3:30 p.m., with theatre students bringing to life beloved children’s classics such as “Bunnicula,” “Dr. #Itheater collaborative nine circles freeThe event is free and open to all, though not recommended for children. The scares will run from 8 to 10:30 p.m., and guests can sign up starting at 7:30 p.m. “In other words, we hope you’ll see this and maybe become curious enough to read ‘The Screwfly Solution’ or ‘The House on the Borderland.’”Ī sign-up table for tours will be located on the library’s third floor atrium, with groups descending every 10 minutes. “One of the points of this fun event is to get people to think about horror literature and perhaps even seek out some of the sources in the library,” Wetmore said. Guests will encounter stories that speak to the experience of being in hell and lost souls that have collaborated in their own damnation. Wetmore says students followed Dante’s work and created nine circles of hell, starting in the basement of the library and going all the way up to the top floor, with each story reflecting a circle of hell – the Greedy, the Lustful, the Angry, the Violent, the Heretical, etc. It hit me – we collaborate in our own damnation, and the show began to write itself.” Everyone who is in hell chooses to be there, first by sinning, then by not walking out. I was listening to a lecture on Dante’s “Inferno” and the professor pointed out something I never noticed before – in his description of Hell, Dante implies that the gates of Hell were smashed open and destroyed by Christ on Good Friday, so the doors of hell are wide open, and nobody chooses to walk out. “This year, the special collections exhibition is on collaboration. “The Haunt’s theme is always related to the subject of the Hannon Special Collections exhibition at the time,” Kevin Wetmore, Chair of the Theatre Arts department said. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hyde” and Daniel Defoe’s “Diary of a Plague Year.” This year’s theme, “Inferno,” will scare up stories of damnation, demonology, deadly sins and include nods to Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Hannon Library’s stacks tonight for the sixth annual “Haunting of Hannon,” a campus tradition created through partnership with LMU Theatre Arts students. Trick, treats and other frightful delights return to William H. ![]()
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