Antioch College presents the Exhibition ‘Sidney Chafetz: A Life in Print’

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – January 27, 2011 – The Morgan Fellows of Antioch College are pleased to present Sidney Chafetz: A Life in Print, a retrospective of the work of the octogenarian, Columbus-based artist and printmaker, from January 29 to April 29 in the Herndon Gallery, South Hall, One Morgan Place.

Organized by the Columbus Museum of Art, this comprehensive exhibition features fifty of Chafetz's lithographs, woodcuts, and drawings from the 1940s through the twenty-first century, highlighting his witty and deeply humane sensibility and the major areas of his interest: politics, cultural icons, and the academy.

Some of Chafetz's pieces commemorate eminent writers and thinkers (Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, Sigmund Freud), others satirize the foibles and empty platitudes of politicians and administrators. The chilling but informative Perpetrators series delineates the ordinary Nazi bureaucrats who executed the Third Reich's diabolic program. As energetic as ever, Chafetz's recent series, Legacy, takes aim at egregious abuses of political power in twenty-first century America.

Following his service in World War II, Chafetz earned his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. He went on to study at L'Ecole Americaine des Beaux-Arts in Fountainbleau and L'Academie Julien in Paris, then received further training as a pupil of Ferdinand Leger and, a few years later, of the printmaker Stanley W. Hayter. From 1948 to 1982 Chafetz served on the faculty of the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.

Chafetz has exhibited his prints nationally and internationally since 1947, and has held more than one hundred one-man shows in galleries and museums all over the world. His work appears in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the British Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, The Florida Holocaust Museum, and the University of Minnesota Center for Genocide Studies, among many others. His innumerable awards and fellowships include two Fulbrights, a Ford Foundation Enrichment Grant, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and the Ohio Arts Council Governor's Award. Artist, master-teacher, social critic, and humanitarian, Sidney Chafetz has been recognized as a national and an Ohio treasure.

For exhibition information, contact Anne Bohlen at abohlen@antiochcollege.org or 937-286-8455.

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Gariot P. Louima ?
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Antioch College presents the Exhibition ‘Sidney Chafetz: A Life in Print’

YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio – January 27, 2011 – The Morgan Fellows of Antioch College are pleased to present Sidney Chafetz: A Life in Print, a retrospective of the work of the octogenarian, Columbus-based artist and printmaker, from January 29 to April 29 in the Herndon Gallery, South Hall, One Morgan Place.

Organized by the Columbus Museum of Art, this comprehensive exhibition features fifty of Chafetz's lithographs, woodcuts, and drawings from the 1940s through the twenty-first century, highlighting his witty and deeply humane sensibility and the major areas of his interest: politics, cultural icons, and the academy.

Some of Chafetz's pieces commemorate eminent writers and thinkers (Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, Sigmund Freud), others satirize the foibles and empty platitudes of politicians and administrators. The chilling but informative Perpetrators series delineates the ordinary Nazi bureaucrats who executed the Third Reich's diabolic program. As energetic as ever, Chafetz's recent series, Legacy, takes aim at egregious abuses of political power in twenty-first century America.

Following his service in World War II, Chafetz earned his BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design. He went on to study at L'Ecole Americaine des Beaux-Arts in Fountainbleau and L'Academie Julien in Paris, then received further training as a pupil of Ferdinand Leger and, a few years later, of the printmaker Stanley W. Hayter. From 1948 to 1982 Chafetz served on the faculty of the Department of Art at The Ohio State University.

Chafetz has exhibited his prints nationally and internationally since 1947, and has held more than one hundred one-man shows in galleries and museums all over the world. His work appears in permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art, the Library of Congress, the British Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Cincinnati Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, The Florida Holocaust Museum, and the University of Minnesota Center for Genocide Studies, among many others. His innumerable awards and fellowships include two Fulbrights, a Ford Foundation Enrichment Grant, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and the Ohio Arts Council Governor's Award. Artist, master-teacher, social critic, and humanitarian, Sidney Chafetz has been recognized as a national and an Ohio treasure.

For exhibition information, contact Anne Bohlen at abohlen@antiochcollege.org or 937-286-8455.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

Daniel Bell, Noted Sociologist and Advisor to the Antioch Review, Dies

Daniel Bell, a noted sociologist, professor, and essayist, has died. Bell was on the Board of Advisors for the Antioch Review, and published some of his most acclaimed essays in the magazine.

“Daniel was not only an important contributor, he was an important advisor for the Antioch Review,” says Robert S. Fogarty, the magazine’s editor. “His advice and support helped sustain us and assured the Antioch Review’s commitment to excellence.”

Bell published five essays in the Antioch Review: “Crime as an American Way of Life” (1953), “Socialism: The Dream and the Reality” (1952), “Japanese Notebook” (1958), "Ethics and Evil: Frameworks for Twenty-First Century Culture" (2005), and most recently “The Reconstruction of Liberal Education: A Foundational Syllabus” (2011).

The New York Times said of him: “Mr. Bell’s output was prodigious and his range enormous. His major lines of inquiry included the failures of socialism in America, the exhaustion of modern culture and the transformation of capitalism from an industrial-based system to one built on consumerism.”

Two of Mr. Bell’s books, The End of Ideology (1960) and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1978), were ranked among the 100 most influential books since World War II by The Times Literary Supplement in London.

Bell earned his B.S.S. from C.C.N.Y. in 1939 and his doctorate from Columbia University in 1960. From 1948-1958, he served as the labor editor for Fortune magazine, and from 1959-1969, he was a professor of sociology at Columbia. Bell then accepted a professorship at Harvard, where he became the Henry Ford II Professor of Sociology in 1980. He retired in 1990.

Bell’s works include Work and Its Discontent (1956), The Reforming of Education: The Columbia College Experience in Its National Setting (1966), Marxian Socialism in the United States (1967), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), and The Winding Passage: Essays and Sociological Journeys, 1960-1980 (1991). He edited The New American Right (1955, revised edition published in 1963 as The Radical Right), Towards the Year 2000: Work in Progress (1967), and Confrontation: The Student Rebellion and the Universities (1969, editor and contributor with Irving Kristol). Bell has also served on the editorial board of American Scholar, edited Daedalus, and co-edited Public Interest.

About the Antioch Review

Founded in 1941, the Antioch Review is one of the oldest, continuously publishing literary magazines in America. It publishes fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging as well as established authors. Authors published in it pages are consistently included in Best American anthologies and Pushcart prizes.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

Daniel Bell, Noted Sociologist and Advisor to the Antioch Review, Dies

Daniel Bell, a noted sociologist, professor, and essayist, has died. Bell was on the Board of Advisors for the Antioch Review, and published some of his most acclaimed essays in the magazine.

“Daniel was not only an important contributor, he was an important advisor for the Antioch Review,” says Robert S. Fogarty, the magazine’s editor. “His advice and support helped sustain us and assured the Antioch Review’s commitment to excellence.”

Bell published five essays in the Antioch Review: “Crime as an American Way of Life” (1953), “Socialism: The Dream and the Reality” (1952), “Japanese Notebook” (1958), "Ethics and Evil: Frameworks for Twenty-First Century Culture" (2005), and most recently “The Reconstruction of Liberal Education: A Foundational Syllabus” (2011).

The New York Times said of him: “Mr. Bell’s output was prodigious and his range enormous. His major lines of inquiry included the failures of socialism in America, the exhaustion of modern culture and the transformation of capitalism from an industrial-based system to one built on consumerism.”

Two of Mr. Bell’s books, The End of Ideology (1960) and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1978), were ranked among the 100 most influential books since World War II by The Times Literary Supplement in London.

Bell earned his B.S.S. from C.C.N.Y. in 1939 and his doctorate from Columbia University in 1960. From 1948-1958, he served as the labor editor for Fortune magazine, and from 1959-1969, he was a professor of sociology at Columbia. Bell then accepted a professorship at Harvard, where he became the Henry Ford II Professor of Sociology in 1980. He retired in 1990.

Bell’s works include Work and Its Discontent (1956), The Reforming of Education: The Columbia College Experience in Its National Setting (1966), Marxian Socialism in the United States (1967), The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), and The Winding Passage: Essays and Sociological Journeys, 1960-1980 (1991). He edited The New American Right (1955, revised edition published in 1963 as The Radical Right), Towards the Year 2000: Work in Progress (1967), and Confrontation: The Student Rebellion and the Universities (1969, editor and contributor with Irving Kristol). Bell has also served on the editorial board of American Scholar, edited Daedalus, and co-edited Public Interest.

About the Antioch Review

Founded in 1941, the Antioch Review is one of the oldest, continuously publishing literary magazines in America. It publishes fiction, essays, and poetry from both emerging as well as established authors. Authors published in it pages are consistently included in Best American anthologies and Pushcart prizes.

MEDIA CONTACT:
Gariot P. Louima ?
Director of Communications
Office: 937-319-6131
Mobile: 937-581-8201
glouima@antiochcollege.org

Antioch adds new leaders

Ron Napal is the new interim director of advancement for Antioch College.

Ron Napal is the new interim director of advancement for Antioch College.

Along with incoming president Mark Roosevelt, who began his tenure January 1, Antioch College recently announced three other new leaders at the revived college.

Ron Napal, a 1966 Antioch College graduate with a long history of fundraising and public relations experience, last week began his position as interim director of advancement. He will continue in this position until June, as the college seeks a permanent leader of the advancement office. In an interview this week, Napal said he is not a candidate for the permanent position.

Retired last year after 20 years with United Cerebral Palsy of New York City, Napal came back to work because “I’m committed to the success of the newly independent Antioch,” he said.

Napal feels commited to his alma mater, he said, because “Antioch transformed my life,” when he was a young man. “It trained me to be an entrepreneur before I knew the word, trained me to be flexible, a problem solver.”

After graduation, Napal went on to found his first business, an arts management firm, at the age of 27. After that, he founded a second company, a niche marketing and public relations firm. Later Napal went on to serve as vice-president and chief development officer for the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America, where in four years he oversaw growth in revenues from $17.5 million to $34 million annually, followed by his work with the United Cerebral Palsy organization, where he served in a variety of positions, including chief development officer, director for corporate development and special advisor to the CEO and board of directors.

In his new position as interim director of advancement at Antioch College, Napal will oversee a staff of 10 employees who are engaged in fundraising and alumni relations. His specific goal is to assure that the general fundraising campaign, with a goal of $2.2 million, is concluded successfully by the end of the fiscal year in June, along with working on the ongoing capital campaign goal of raising $50 million in five years. So far, the college has raised $22 million, he said.

Born and raised in New York City, Napal will continue his residency there, but plans to be on campus three days a week when not on fundraising trips.

His lifelong work in nonprofits was also informed by his Antioch College experience, Napal said, stating that, “I take Horace Mann’s mandate very seriously.”

Raised in a traditional middle-class home, Napal retained the values he was raised with when he came to Antioch but his experience here “opened up another world to me, gave me a broader social palette.”

New board members

The college also announced last week that David Goodman and Gregory Avis will join the college’s pro tem board. The new members will join other board members at a meeting on campus this weekend, Jan. 21–23. Open sessions of the board will begin at 1:30 on Saturday, Jan. 22, in Herndon Gallery.

“David Goodman and Greg Avis will bring to the work of rebuilding Antioch College their skills, their experience and their wisdom,” according to Board Vice-chair Francis Horowitz in a press statement last week. “We are fortunate to have their commitment to our common purposes.”

Goodman, a 1969 graduate of the college, was a lead negotiator, along with alumnus Eric Bates, of the college alumni’s first attempt to gain independence from Antioch University. During the two years after the university announced in June 2007 that the college would close the following year, alumni mounted several intensive efforts to save the college. Those efforts were successful in September 2009, when the college became independent from Antioch University after more than 20 years in the university system, and became once again a free-standing liberal arts school.

Goodman is a principal of North Arrows LLC, which specializes in power and energy investments. He is also a founding partner and principal of e-Solar Properties LLC. In 1980 he founded United American Energy Corporation, and led it up to its sale in 2003. He is also president of the Andrew Goodman Foundation for Human Dignity and Civil Rights, a nonprofit that honors his brother Andrew, who, with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, was murdered in 1964 while pursuing voter registraton for African Americans in Mississippi.

After graduating from Antioch, Goodman received an MBA from Stanford University. He has written and lectured on civil rights, alternative fuels and green building and general business matters in his areas of expertise.

Avis is the first member of the college’s governing board who is not a graduate of the college. He co-founded Summit Partners in 1984, and has worked as a director of many public and private companies, including Digital Link Corporation, IMPAC Medical Systems, Integrated Systems RightNow Technologies and TGV Software. He holds a bachelors in political economy from Williams College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is currently chair of the Williams College Board of Trustees.

Engage in designing the future for Yellow Springs schools

Tonight at Antioch University Midwest, the Yellow Springs school district will launch “The Future of Education” lecture series aimed at stirring the community toward reinventing the village’s public school model. The series begins with a presentation by The Knowledgeworks Foundation, an innovator in 21st century learning models. Knowledgeworks will present cutting-edge learning models and novel and successful programs to recruit, retain, compensate and evaluate top-notch teachers. The group will also present radical models of school financing. The session is based on Knowledgeworks’ research, and will include time for questions and discussions.

The Future of Education series is a collaborative effort of the Yellow Springs school district and the Antioch College Morgan Fellows to stimulate the creation of the district’s 10-year strategic plan, known as the Class of 2020 Initiative. Other events in the series include:

Saturday, Feb. 12, 3–5 p.m. Herndon Gallery South Hall: Presentation by Antioch College alumna Deborah Meier and Shadia Alvarez. Meier is a MacArthur Genius Award winner who had written six books on progressive education during her 40-year teaching tenure. Alvarez is an assistant principal at the Collegiate Institute for Math and Science in the Bronx, where she plans to start a new high school in 2013.

Saturday, March 5, 3–5 p.m. Herndon Gallery: Presentation by Antioch College President Mark Roosevelt, former Massachussetts state representative and superintendent of Pittsburgh schools. He is partly responsible for the Pittsburgh Promise and the 1993 Education Reform Act.

Saturday, March 12, Herndon Gallery: Presentation by Adam Howard, associate professor of education at Colby College and author of Educating Elites: Class Privilege and Educational Advantage and Learning Privilege: Lessons of Power and Identity in Affluent Schooling.