Royal Purple

Issue date: 11/14/07 Section: WEB EXTRAS

Media Credit: Mike Rybicki Michael Flanagan, director of the Crossman Gallery and co-chair of the Scholarship and Creative Achievement Exhibition, displays one of the exhibition's submitted pieces.

On Nov. 20th, UW-Whitewater staff and faculty will be acknowledged in the Crossman Gallery for their academic and creative achievements over the past year.

"The exhibit gives faculty and staff a chance to see what other people are doing," Sharon Knight, co-chair of the recognition reception, said. Knight has been on the committee for the past six years and is excited to see the achievements of her colleagues displayed.

This year the event is sponsored by the Crossman Gallery, the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Photos and Graphics, and the University Library. The exhibit will feature a range of pieces. In the past, this large and eclectic array of achievements has included everything from contemporary ceramics displayed in Taiwan, to mathematical solutions published in scientific bulletins, to book reviews featured in library journals.

"It's a great networking opportunity and helps to show off all the wonderful talent on our campus, from the business school, to the sciences, to the creative side of things," Michael Flanagan, director of the Crossman Gallery and co-chair of the exhibit, said.

Flanagan has featured his photography in the past, and this year he has a unique piece to contribute.

"I have a funky Bauhaus Doll, [which is] a Barbie head on a metal cigar box, with mismatched dolls legs and attitude," Flanagan said. "I made [that] in a workshop and also an accordion fold book."

Assistant professor Robert Benjamin has been participating in the exhibit for years. Last year he presented several of his achievements; among them were several works published in scholarly journals. This year Benjamin will also be featuring several of his accomplishments, particularly four papers about his and his colleague's findings while mapping the Galaxy in infrared and using a Spitzer space telescope from NASA.

"It's an amazingly diverse range of interesting activities," Benjamin said.

Interim Provost and music professor John Heyer will be featuring his interest and expertise in baroque music history, and French sacred music dating back to the time of King Louis XIZ.

"The article in this exhibition discusses a rare mass setting by Jean Gilles that I found in a library in Belgium," Heyer said. "It is unusual because very few French composers at the time composed masses for voices and instruments."

The piece was missing for roughly 250 years, and Heyer holds high hopes that someday UW-Whitewater will perform it.

A recognition reception will be held on Nov. 21 in the Crossman Gallery at 10:30 a.m. It will take place until about noon, and it will acknowledge the faculty and staff for their creative and scholarly achievements featured in the exhibit. The ceremony is open to anyone, and refreshments will be provided. For more information about the exhibit, contact Sharon Knight at knights@mail.uww.edu.

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