Introduction to Photoshop Elements
Tim Hensel and Christine Hayes of the University Library are offering a training session to faculty and staff on "Introduction to Photoshop Elements” from 1-4 p.m. Wed., March 21 in Schulz 1125. This workshop covers the basics of Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0 as a tool for editing images and making images that are ready for the web or print. To sign up for the training, please visit the website.
Ned Kahn Explains the Math and Physics in His Art
Sonoma County environmental artist Ned Kahn lectures and has a free series of exhibits on March 21 and April 30. Kahn focuses on bringing the invisible to life through his sculpture and paintings. He employs various aspects of nature in his works, such as fog, fire, tornadoes, wind, and steam and his work is often on display at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
Kahn discusses his techniques, influences, inspirations, and discusses how he incorporates fluid dynamics, optics, acoustics, and other features of physics in his paintings and sculptures as part of the Visiting Artists lecture series from noon-1 p.m. on Wed., March 21 in in Art 108. Following the exhibition, he discusses the mathematical and kinetic properties of his work as part of the Math Colloquium from 4-5 p.m. on Wed., March 21 in Darwin 103.
Viewers can walk through a tunnel illuminated by intricate patterns of colored light from diffraction gratings in the ceiling. The light patterns change with the time of day and with the seasons. Completed in 2004, Prism Tunnel can be found at the Children’s Garden, Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino.
On Monday, April 30, Kahn presents a series of videos and describes his recent work in visualizing turbulence on the scale of buildings as well as the scientific and physical properties of his art at the What Physicists Do lecture series in Darwin 103 from 4-5 p.m.
Learn to Be Bilingual
"Learning to Be Bilingual: The Use of Student Ethnographic Journals in the Spanish Class” is presented by Robert Train from the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures on Thurs., March 22 at noon in Stevenson 3082. Train will describe an ongoing teacher research project on the use of digitally-submitted ethnographic journals by Sonoma State students studying Spanish at the lower-division level to explore identities and ideologies surrounding Spanish, its use and learning in California. Train believes the project may offer an avenue toward redefining an "educated person" as someone who also has expertise in negotiating the multiple global and local identities and ideologies that are part of being bilingual or multilingual.