Lake Superior College News Releases

(Duluth, Minn.) — Have you wondered if global warming will affect you and your health? Do you think about how the decisions you make today will affect your health in the future or the health of your grandchildren?

Explore the relationship between ecosystem health and human health, as Lake Superior College (LSC) hosts an Eco-Health Workshop on Saturday, October 27. Speakers from the community will present individual sessions followed by an interactive panel discussion.

Presenters include:
• Dr. Timothy Burke, SMDC, on “Emerging Infectious Diseases”
• Dr. John Pastor, University of Minnesota Duluth, on “Climate Change and Effects on Northern Minnesota That Can Affect Health”

Sponsored by the Lake Superior College Environmental Council, the workshop is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room S2964. It’s free and open to the public. CEU credits will be offered. Coffee and snacks will be provided.

For more information, contact Deanne Roquet, d.roquet@lsc.edu, 725-7780 or Lorrie Fox, l.fox@lsc.edu, 733-5919.

LSC is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. With more than 4,100 students enrolled this fall semester, LSC is Northeastern Minnesota’s largest two-year college. LSC provides a wide range of programs and services, including liberal arts and science courses for transfer, technical programs intended to provide occupational skills, continuing education, and customized training for business and industry. LSC is also the leader in Internet-delivered courses and programs in Minnesota.

Media contact: Janet Blixt, (218) 723-4743, j.blixt@lsc.edu or Gary Kruchowski, (218) 733-7649, g.kruchowski@lsc.edu

For immediate release: July 10, 2007

(Duluth, Minn.) - A first-ever wood fire ceramics conference organized by Lake Superior College will feature demonstrations, lectures, exhibits, and ongoing wood fire pottery making by artists from China, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Participating artists include Brock Allen, Holly Anderson, Dorian Beaulieu, Tonya Borgeson, Dick Cooter, Dan Edmunds, Craig Edwards, Bill Gossman, Sara Haugen, Elaine Henry, Bob Husby, J.D. Jorgenson, James Klueg, Karin Kraemer, Lu Pinchang, Huang Qiang-Hua, Lenore Rukavina, Lou Xiao-Fen, Jacob Zeiher, and Wenzhi Zhang.

As part of an international exchange program at Lake Superior College, twenty artists/teachers and art students from Beijing and Guangzhou art schools will participate and teach at the conference.

Wood fire kiln pottery is an age-old tradition traced back thousands of years in Asia and the Middle East. Because of the variations in kiln temperatures and influences such as wood ash and smoke, the resulting product is highly unpredictable. Surface color and texture vary greatly in wood fire pottery. This volatility makes the process a magical one.

Presenter highlights include Wenzhi Zhang, considered one of the most important contemporary Chinese ceramic artists working today. Zhang has exhibited her work from Paris to New York. Zhang studied at the Guangzhou Fine Art Academy where she now teaches in the ceramics program she started. Her work is held in public institutions, galleries and private collections across the globe, including Lake Superior College, Guangzhou Art College, and the Ministry of the Culture of China. She is currently working on a commissioned sculpture for the new LSC Academic and Student Services building to open this fall.
Professor Lu Pinchang, a high profile Chinese ceramics instructor, will also demonstrate and discuss his work. Lu Pinchang is the head of the sculpture department of the highly respected Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His work has been exhibited throughout China, Hong Kong, and in the United States. He is the subject of a documentary film, “Lu Pinchang and the Course of Contemporary Ceramic Arts in China.” He has guest lectured at many American universities and participated in numerous artist exchanges throughout the world.
Free public events include:

Tuesday, July 17

5-6:30 p.m. Conference opening artists’ exhibit and reception. Lake Superior College Art Building, 2nd floor.

7-9 p.m. Professor Lu Pinchang, Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts, slide lecture. Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth.

Friday, July 20

6-8 p.m. “Midwest Mud Mania III” wood fire pottery and sculpture exhibit and reception, Washington Studio, Duluth. Includes regional artists Stephanie Adams, Phil Ahnen, Tonya Borgeson, Ryan Casey, Mary Coffey, Jim Edelen, Kate Fisher, Ron Gallas, Brandon Lutterman, Chris Rodi and Jacob Zeiher

Sat. July 21

5-7 p.m. Artist Jacob Zeiher, wood fire pottery and sculpture exhibit at the Snoodle Ceramic Studio & Gallery, 7107 Grand Ave., Duluth.

Tuesday, July 24 LSC Community Day

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Open studio community visitation day at Lake Superior College. The public is welcome to visit with potters and watch studio activities, including pit firings and experimental kilns. During the day, a giant pottery piece will be built by all workshop participants to commemorate the wood fire conference. Demonstrations of guest artists producing work at designated locations include potter Bill Gossman from 9 a.m. to noon in the LSC studio, and potter J. D. Jorgenson from 2 to 5 p.m. in the LSC studio.

Wednesday, July 25

7-9 p.m. “Trial by Fire,” new works by Dan Edmunds. Opening exhibit and reception at Red Mug/Duluth Pottery/North End Arts Council, 916 Hammond Avenue, Superior, Wisconsin.

For more information on the conference, including registration, check out www.lsc.edu

(Duluth, Minn.) – Rob West, president and chief executive officer of APEX, (Area Partnership for Economic Expansion), will speak on what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur on Thursday, March 22 from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Lake Superior College in room E2012.  A social hour from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. will be held with refreshments near room E2328.  The event is free and open to the public.

West has served as APEX’s first president since its inception in 2004.  This position culminates a long, entrepreneurial career in marketing, manufacturing and business ownerships which spans more than 30 years.  He has started and sold several large financial and marketing businesses.  Rob has a true passion and gift for entrepreneurial endeavors.

LSC is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.  With more than 4,800 students enrolled this spring semester, LSC is northeastern Minnesota’s largest two-year college.  LSC provides a wide range of programs and services, including liberal arts and science courses for transfer, technical programs intended to provide occupational skills, continuing education, and customized training for business and industry.  LSC is also the leader in Internet-delivered courses and programs in Minnesota.

(Duluth, Minn.) Lake Superior College’s Ceramics Department will host an international wood fire conference and workshop from July 16 - July 26, 2007 in Duluth, Minnesota. Wood fire kiln pottery is an age-old tradition traced back thousands of years in Asia and the Middle East. Because of the variations in kiln temperatures and influences such as wood ash and smoke, the resulting product is highly unpredictable. Surface color and texture vary greatly in wood fire pottery. This volatility makes the process a magical one.

The 10-day conference will feature demonstrations and illustrated lectures by artists from China, Denmark, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

The international artists include Wenzhi Zhang, who is considered one of the most important contemporary Chinese ceramic artists working today. Zhang has exhibited her work from Paris to New York. She has curated and hosted several international ceramics exhibits in China. Zhang studied at the Guangzhou Fine Art Academy where she now teaches in the ceramics program she started. Her work is held in public institutions, galleries and private collections across the globe, including Lake Superior College, Guangzhou Art College, and the Ministry of the Culture of China. She is currently a guest art faculty member at Lake Superior College in Duluth.

Professor Lu Pinchang, a high profile Chinese ceramics instructor, will also demonstrate his work. Lu Pinchang is the head of the sculpture department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. His work has been exhibited throughout China, Hong Kong and in the United States. He is the subject of a documentary film,“Lu Pinchang and the Course of Contemporary Ceramic Arts in China.” He has been a visiting guest lecturer at many American universities and participated in numerous artist exchanges throughout the world.

Contemporary Danish sculptor Bjorn Norgaard will also participate. Norgaard works in a variety of mixed media, ceramics, bronze, photography, and textiles. He served as a professor in sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Art from 1985 to 1994. Starting in 1964, he was a member of the Experimental Art School (Den eksperimenterende Kunstskole) and worked with happenings, actions, objects, strips, movies, exhibitions, pictures, collective actions, magazines, books, demonstrations, posters, gardening, and printing. His work has been shown in galleries throughout Europe and his work is held in major public and private collections.

His portfolio includes a range of commissioned works, including designs for a European stamp series influenced by Danish mythology; a series of twelve tapestries for the Christianborg Palace illustrating the history of Denmark and extensive public art sculptures, installed in a variety of locations, including castles, ferry landings, parks, military barracks and churches.

Midwest ceramic artists will include Sara Haugen, Lenore Lampi Rukavina, Bob and Cheryl Husby, Tonya Borgeson, Broc Allen, and Richard Gruchalla. Tours of local artist studios are included.

The 10-day conference/workshop fee ($795) includes guest artist demonstrations and illustrated lectures, stoneware clay and glaze materials, wheel-throwing, hand-building, glazing, kiln-building, and firing processes.

An eight-week advanced ceramics course is also available for college credit from May 30 - July 26, 2007. Taught by Dorian Beaulieu, this advanced level course will include the July 16 - 26 wood-firing conference and workshop. The course will also incorporate Beaulieu’s techniques and knowledge learned from his trips to China where he recently taught wheel-throwing technique at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. The eight-week advanced ceramics course fee ($595) includes clay and glaze materials, wheel-throwing, hand-building, glazing, and firing.

For more information, contact Dorian Beaulieu, (218) 725-7715, d.beaulieu@lsc.edu or http://blog.lsc.edu/woodfireconference.

(Duluth, Minn.) — Thinking about returning to or starting college for the first time? The Lake Superior College Diversity Committee, the Minnesota Women’s Foundation and the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will host a one-day conference at Lake Superior College on Saturday, March 17, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to offer support and information for women who want to return to college or have never been to college.

Organized to recognize Women in History Month, the conference is designed for the person thinking about going to college for the first time or as a re-entry adult. “Many of our presenters have experienced difficulties in their lives going to college and completing their degrees,” said Nancy Schumacher, LSC conference contact. “Their stories and advice will be inspiring for other women.” Session topics include financing college, navigating paperwork, learning styles and life goals.

The conference will offer resources from area two- and four-year colleges and community organizations, including Lake Superior College, the College of St. Scholastica, the University of Minnesota Duluth, the University of Wisconsin-Superior, Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College, and the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College, to help women learn more about the undergraduate and graduate degree options. Information on traditional classes, online classes, evening and weekend classes, late start options and accelerated programs will be available.

Karen Diver is the featured keynote speaker. Diver is the newly elected chairwoman of the Fond du Lac Reservation. This position serves as the chair of the tribal government and of the reservation’s corporate and economic development boards. The Fond du Lac Reservation is the largest employer in Carlton County with 1600 employees and more than $300 million in assets.

Previously, she served for three years as the Director of Special Projects for the Fond du Lac Reservation and for eleven years as the Executive Director of the YWCA of Duluth. She is the immediate past chair of the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota and a member of the Blandin Foundation Board of Trustees. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Minnesota, Duluth and a master’s degree in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

The conference costs $10, including lunch. Scholarships are available.For more information, contact Nancy Schumacher, (218) 733-5985 or email her at n.schumacher@lsc.edu

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(Duluth, Minn.) – Lake Superior College’s Disability Services will host a presentation on Asperger Syndrome, a form of autism. Peg Ferguson, ISD 709 Autism Specialist, will be the guest speaker.  The event will take place on Wednesday, Feb. 28 from 12:00 noon to 1 p.m. in Room W2648.  Cookies and bars will be provided. The public is invited to attend.

Asperger Syndrome is a pervasive developmental disorder commonly referred to as a form of “high-functioning” autism. Individuals with Asperger Syndrome are considered to have a higher intellectual capacity while suffering from a lower social capacity. More information at: www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html

LSC is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system.  With more than 4,800 students enrolled this spring semester, LSC is northeastern Minnesota’s largest two-year college.  LSC provides a wide range of programs and services, including liberal arts and science courses for transfer, technical programs intended to provide occupational skills, continuing education, and customized training for business and industry.  LSC is also the leader in Internet-delivered courses and programs in Minnesota.

(Duluth, Minn.) – Beginning Feb. 27, Lake Superior College kicks off a new series of presentations on topics of local and global interest. The “Issues and Ideas” series features Lake Superior College faculty making presentations about topics of broad interest from their fields and leading Q&A sessions with the audience. Informal discussions will be held at lunchtime and more formal presentations at 7 p.m. Evening events will take place in the LSC Library, Minnesota Room. Presentations are free and open to the public.

Events:
Tuesday, February 27
“The War in Iraq in Context”
Erik Riker-Coleman, Ph.D., Instructor in History
1:00 p.m. Brown-bag discussion, Room E2156
7:00 p.m. Presentation, Minnesota Room, LSC Library

Thursday, March 22
“Minnesota Birdsongs”
Terry Weins, M.S., Instructor in Biology
12:30 Brown-bag discussion, Room E2156
7:00 p.m. Presentation, Minnesota Room, LSC Library

Thursday, April 19
“Natural Disasters: Are They Getting Worse?”
Matt Whitehill, M.S., Instructor in Geology
12:30 Brown-bag discussion, Room E2156
7:00 p.m. Presentation, Minnesota Room, LSC Library

For more information contact: Deanne Roquet, d.roquet@lsc.edu or Nick Lamon, n.lamon@lsc.edu.

LSC is a member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system. With more than 4,800 students enrolled this spring semester, LSC is northeastern Minnesota’s largest two-year college. LSC provides a wide range of programs and services, including liberal arts and science courses for transfer, technical programs intended to provide occupational skills, continuing education, and customized training for business and industry. LSC is also the leader in Internet-delivered courses and programs in Minnesota.

(Duluth, Minn.) — Lake Superior College’s writers’ series continues with a workshop on Feb. 14 and a reading with author reception on Feb. 15 by Duluth Poet Laureate Barton Sutter. All events are free and open to the public. Pre-registration is required for the workshop. To register, contact Steve Dalager, 218-733-5948 or s.dalager@lsc.edu

Barton Sutter is a Minnesota poet, essayist, and fiction writer who has won numerous awards, including the Minnesota Book Award, in all three genres. He is the recipient of the George Morrison Artist Award, annually given to one person by the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council. Sutter was honored for his longtime contributions to the arts in the Arrowhead region of Minnesota. He was recently named Duluth’s first Poet Laureate by the Lake Superior Writers group.

Sutter is the author of three collections of poetry published by BOA Editions: Cedarhome (1977), The Book of Names (1993) and Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey (2004), as well as Pine Creek Parish Hall (1985), published by Sandhills Press. Sutter’s collection of short stories, My Father’s War (1992), and his collection of essays, Cold Comfort (1999), were both published by the University of Minnesota Press. He has appeared on and written for public radio, adapted his poems for the stage, and performs with his brother, Ross Sutter, as a music and poetry duo.

Sutter teaches English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. In the summer months, he can be found in one of his four canoes. Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, chose one of Sutter’s poems for his national American Life in Poetry project, a syndicated column highlighting great American poetry.

Workshop: The Criss-Cross Effect: Imagery
Feb. 14, 10 - 11:00 a.m., W1650
Poet Bart Sutter will explore the interplay between fact and imagery in writing.

Reading and Reception
Feb. 15, 7:00 p.m., Minnesota Room, Lake Superior College Library