Full Many a Glorious Morning Have I Seen...
154 Sonnets of Shakespeare, Ten Years of Calligraphy by Ruth Pettis ’78
January 27 – March 15, Cobb Gallery
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 27, 3 – 5 pm
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, January 30, 3:15 pm
*CPS Event: Wednesday, Feb. 27, 1-3pm
Alumni Weekend Reception: Friday, March 8, 6 – 7 pm (Please note new hours)

A world premier of the full project of William Shakespeare's 154 sonnets by accomplished calligrapher and Eckerd alumna Ruth Pettis '78. Ruth was a freshman when she was first introduced to Western calligraphy by Professor Margaret "Peg" Rigg. Influences encountered during her junior year fall semester in London were pivotal to her calligraphic development.

Senior Thesis Presentations: Residential Visual & Interdisciplinary Arts
Feb. 10 – May 10, Elliott Gallery
Opening Reception times will vary.
Gallery Talks: Each Wednesday at 3:15 pm

February 10 - 15, Kevin Pless: installation
February 17 - 22, Conor Pickett: ceramic installation
February 24 - March 1, Chris Owens: installation
March 3 - 8, Lucy Cosgrove: painting
March 10 - 15, Bristol Best: video, drawing and painting
March 17 - 22, Spring Break: Gallery Closed
March 24 - 29, Matt Walker: video and poetry installation
March 31 - April 5, Catherine Curtis: mixed media / Ashley Allen: dream illustration
April 7 - 12, Lindsey Coldren: photography / Jessica Eckbold: illustration
April 14 - 19, Rachel Reid: a curated invitational exhibition of self-portraiture
 April 21 - 26, Katie Doyle: video installation
May 5 - 10, Lilah Greenberg: photography / Laura Kimball: video installation

A Journey of Creativity: Parish Kohanim, Photographer
March 4, 7:30 pm, Miller Auditorium

Parish Kohanim, an “Explorer of Light,” has been intimately involved with photography for over 25 years. Parish, who is a renowned commercial photographer, is now devoting his efforts towards his first love, fine art photography. Advertising agencies, design firms, and Fortune 500 companies have been his primary clients, some of which include IBM, AT&T, Coca-Cola, DeBeers Diamonds, Hanes, Fossil, and Kimberly Clark. His work has repeatedly appeared on pages of such publications as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Forbes, TIME and Newsweek. The recipient of many awards, Parish is recognized for his photographs with international as well as local acclaim. His work has been featured in prestigious photography, advertising, and design publications. He has received numerous Gold Addys, a Clio, and most recently, the 2003 One Show Design Award.

Herb Snitzer: A Life in Photography
March 18 – April 5, Cobb Gallery
Gallery Talk: Monday, April 1, 2 pm
*CPS Event: Tuesday, Mar. 26, 1-3pm
Closing Reception: Friday, April 5, 6 – 8 pm

Featuring documentary photographs from a career that began in 1955, Herb Snitzer's work has been frequently published in magazines such as LOOK, LIFE, and The Saturday Evening Post, and in newspapers such as The London Sunday Times and The New York Times. He is also represented in the collections of a number of museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Tampa Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg.

Museum Lab Class Exhibition: Organized by Students of Marshall Rousseau
April 14 – May 3, Cobb Gallery
Reception and Gallery Talk: TBA

The Sophomore Show: Visual Arts Portfolio Qualifying Exhibition
April 28 – May 3, Elliott Gallery
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 28, 3 – 5 pm
Gallery Talk: Wednesday, May 1, 3:15 pm

The Eckerd Review: Works Published in the 2013 Eckerd Review
May 6 – 10, Cobb Gallery
Reception and Reading: Wednesday, May 8, 5 pm

PEL Thesis Exhibition: Michael della Penna
May 12 – 18, Cobb Gallery
Opening Reception: Sunday, May 12, 3 – 5 pm

Elliott Gallery and Cobb Gallery Hours
Monday – Friday, 10:30 am – 4:30 pm

Short Story Fiction Reading: An Evening with Amina Gautier
Wednesday, February 20, 7 pm, President’s Dining Room

A writer, scholar, and professor, Dr. Amina Lolita Gautier is the winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for her short story collection "At-Risk." She is the second African American writer to win this award in its thirty year history. Gautier's critical work focuses on such nineteenth century American authors as Charles W. Chesnutt, Eleanor Eldridge, Benjamin Franklin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Walt Whitman. She is currently Assistant Professor of English at DePaul University, where she offers courses in creative writing and African American literature.

Poetry Reading: An Evening with Jennifer Key
Tuesday, April 9, 7 pm, President’s Dining Room

Jennifer Key teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where she currently serves as editor of UNCP’s literary journal Pembroke Magazine. She was the 2006-07 Diane Middlebrook Fellow at the University of Wisconsin and was educated at the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. Her work has won the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Juried Reading, The Southwest Review’s McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction and Shenandoah’s Graybeal-Gowen Prize for Virginia Writers. Her poetry and fiction have also appeared in The Antioch Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Callaloo and elsewhere. Her chapbook, The Manifest Destiny of Desire, was published by The Comstock Review in 2008. Her second chapbook of poetry, “Ghosts to Whom We Call,” was published by Astounding Beauty Ruffian Press after winning its annual poetry award and $10,000. Key is the winner of the 2012 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry.

Piano Recital: Kaplan Piano Duo
Sunday, February 10, 3 pm, Roberts Music Center 104

The Kaplan Piano Duo, comprised of sisters Nanette Kaplan Solomon and Iris Kaplan Rosenthal, will perform piano duo works by Mozart, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, modern pieces by Leonard Bernstein and Peter Schickele, and the world premieres of Stephen Barr's "When men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits" (2012) and "Motions for piano duet (2012) by Judy Bruce.

Dr. Nanette Kaplan Solomon is a renowned educator, soloist and chamber musician and scholar. She has been a Professor of Piano and Music History at Slippery Rock University since 1977. Iris Kaplan Rosenthal is a chamber musician, soloist and teacher residing on Long Island.

Eckerd Community Band Concert
Monday, May 6, 7:30 pm, Fox Hall

Featuring a varied program of music for wind band presented by Eckerd students, community volunteers and New Horizons Band members. Directed by David Irwin, Coordinator of Instrumental Music at Eckerd College.

Eckerd String Orchestra Concert
Thursday, May 9, 7:30 pm, Roberts Music Center 104

Eckerd student performers will be joined by faculty and professionals from the community to present a variety of chamber orchestra music, including a Handel concerto for organ and strings. Featuring soloist Thomas Hall on the Flentrop chamber organ. Directed by David Irwin, Coordinator of Instrumental Music at Eckerd College.

Annual Mother’s Day Spring Concert
Sunday, May 12, 3 pm, Wireman Chapel
Presented by the Eckerd Concert Choir

The Eckerd College Choral Ensembles and Eckerd Ringers will present a concert of varied works for chorus, orchestra and handbells. Featuring the music of Handel, a medley from "The Lion King" and original works for bells. Directed by Marion Smith, Professor of Music.

Funny Bones —The Comedy of Charlie Chaplin
Wednesday, February 6, 7:30 pm, Bininger Theatre
Presented by Carrollwood Cultural Center
$10 public, $5 Eckerd community, $1 Eckerd students with ID. Pay at the door, no reservations.

"Funny Bones" is a unique hybrid of entertainment and education where Dan Kamin deconstructs the work of the comic genius with film clips, live demonstrations of physical comedy, and audience participation. The centerpiece of the evening will be a classic Chaplin short with live musical accompaniment by well-known silent film accompanist Peter Tavalin. Kamin created the physical comedy sequences for "Chaplin" and "Benny and Joon" and trained Robert Downey, Jr. and Johnny Depp for their acclaimed starring performances in those popular films.

Dan Kamin's appearance is being presented by Carrollwood Cultural Center where he will be performing "Comedy in Motion: A Cheap Evening of Expensive Theatre with Dan Kamin" on Feb. 9 and repeating. "Funny Bones" will be performed at Sarasota's Glenridge Performing Arts Center on Feb. 10. Visit  www.carrollwoodcenter.org for more information.

Fuddy Meers
April 11 – 14 and 18 – 21, Bininger Theatre
Thurs.– Sat., 8 pm; Sun., 2 pm
Presented by Eckerd College Theatre
$10 public, $5 Eckerd community, $1 Eckerd students with ID. Pay at the door, no reservations.

Claire has a rare form of amnesia that erases her memory when she falls asleep. Each day she wakes up a blank slate. Fuddy Meers is a hilarious, poignant, brutal little comedy tracing Claire’s quest to regain her memory in an unsettling world full of mad fun and genuine danger. Fuddy Meers is by David Lindsay-Abaire; directed by Cynthia Totten, Professor of Theatre at Eckerd College.

No Exit
May 2 – 5, Bininger Studio Theatre
Thurs. – Sat., 8 pm; Sun., 2 pm
Presented by Eckerd College Senior Theatre Company
Admission is free.

Ever wonder just how much time you can spend with your best friend? What about a stranger? Entrapped in a fluorescent room, three strangers challenge one another’s sanity while contemplating their precious lives. No Exit is by Jean-Paul Sarte and adapted by Paul Bowles.