Student Artists Contribute to "Faces of the Fallen"

Nearly 100 SSU painting and drawing students have contributed their work anonymously to the current exhibit "Never to Forget: Faces of the Fallen," on display at the Sonoma Valley Museum through Feb. 26. The students of art professors Kurt Kempel and Mark Pearlman developed portraits of soldiers who have recently died in the Iraqi war.

They contributed to an exhibit begun several years ago by Sonoma County artist Chester Arnold that now totals more than 2,000 5-inch x 7-inch portraits in oil, acrylic, watercolor, pencil and silkscreen. For further information, visit http://www.svma.org.

Getting to Know "The Other Martinique," Feb. 23

The 1694 posting of the Dominican priest Jean-Baptiste Labat to the French colony of Martinique occasioned, in the 1720s, a remarkable memoir detailing the missionary’s interactions with the wide variety of individuals inhabiting the island, from white plantation owners to the indigenous population of Caraïbes to Labat’s own African-born slaves. French professor Suzanne Toczyski discusses “Jean-Baptiste Labat’s Cruises in the Caribbean, or, How One Gets to Know the Other in 17th-Century Martinique” in the next program of the semester's Arts and Humanities Forum at noon on Thursday, Feb. 23 in Schulz 3001. For more information, visit http://www.sonoma.edu/a_h/AHForum.htm.

Human-Induced Warming of Oceans
Subject of Feb. 27 Lecture

A physical oceanographer who has found evidence for human-induced ocean warming will describe his work in a free public lecture at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 27 in Schulz 3001. The amount of heat that has gone into the oceans is truly remarkable," says Tim Barnett, a marine physicist of the University of California, San Diego. "When you look at the energy, if we could tap it -- we can't -- but if we could, it would supply the energy needs of the state of California, the seventh biggest economy in the world, for 215,000 years." For more on the lecture, phone 4-2119.