Ground Zero 360,” an internationally acclaimed exhibition conveying the chaos, courage and emotion of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on New Yok City’s World Trade Center, is one of three new exhibitions opening at St. 博纳旺蒂尔 大学的Regina一. Quick Center for the 艺术 in September.

 

The other new exhibitions include “Hand and Spirit,” a collection of contemporary Southwestern artwork bequeathed to the Quick Center by the late David Van Buren, 一个全球网赌十大网站毕业, and a companion exhibition of Southwest art titled “艺术与手工”,” which is curated by Gary Keem, a 1969 St. 博纳旺蒂尔毕业.

 

All three exhibitions open to the public in Quick Center galleries on Monday, Sept. 11.

 

Ground Zero 360” honors the victims of 9/11 and the valor of New York City police officers, firefighters and rescue workers who rushed to the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the terrorist attack. 这次展览 features artwork created by artists from around the world to commemorate the day.

 

这次展览 is the brainchild of Nicola McClean, a photojournalist who was working in New York City on 9/11, 还有她的丈夫, 保罗·麦考马克, a retired inspector with the New York Police Department. McCormack, a native of Donegal, 爱尔兰, was among the many police officers who responded to the World Trade Center, 虽然McClean, 都柏林人, 爱尔兰, took thousands of photographs of the devastation in and around Ground Zero.

 

“Our exhibition includes more than 40 original pieces of artwork created by professional artists from all over the world,伊芙琳·彭曼指出, interim executive director and senior curator at the Quick Center. “It is this stunning artwork that defines this exhibition and takes it well beyond the factual events of 9/11 at Ground Zero.”

 

Exhibition visitors will be able to touch fragments of a twisted steel I-beam and broken granite from the World Trade Center. Also featured are small steel crosses that ironworkers created onsite at Ground Zero, as well as an American flag that flew over 这个网站. Personal effects of two victims of 9/11, police officer Moira Smith and firefighter Kevin O’Rourke, which were graciously donated by their loved ones, 还会展出吗. 

 

Ground Zero 360 is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to preserving the memory of all victims of Sept. 11, 2001.

 

这次展览 opens Sept. 11 in the Quick Center’s Paul W. Beltz Gallery on the second floor and runs through Oct. 29.

 

The “Hand and Spirit” exhibition brings to life the culture of the American Southwest. It features a collection of modern kachinas, 27 paintings and drawings, as well as more than 60 pieces of pottery created by artists whose families have been creating traditional pottery for hundreds of years.

 

The collection was bequeathed to the Quick Center by the late David Van Buren, a 1969 St. 博纳旺蒂尔毕业 and longtime criminal justice professor at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville. Van Buren fell in love with the American Southwest while serving as a visiting scholar at Northern Arizona University, researching peacemaking and the tribal courts of the Navajo Nation.

 

“The Van Buren collection adds a new dimension to the University Art Collection,” Penman said. “It will eventually be integrated into our contemporary galleries so that it can be acknowledged as the exceptional art that it is.”

 

这次展览 opens Sept. 11 in the Winifred Shortell Kenney Gallery on the Quick Center’s second floor and continues through the fall semester.

 

“艺术与手工”,” a companion to the Van Buren collection exhibition, features contemporary Southwest pottery as well as paintings by Raymond L. Knaub, Don Brackett and the late Buffalo-based painter and sculptor Joseph Orffeo. 这次展览 is curated by Gary Keem, a 1969 St. 博纳旺蒂尔毕业.

 

这次展览 opens Sept. 11 in the first-floor Front Gallery and runs through Dec. 15.

 

Regina一. Quick Center for the 艺术 at St. 博纳旺蒂尔大学 is presently observing summer hours, which are 中午至下午4点.m. 星期一至星期五. 从8月星期一开始. 28, the hours will be noon to 5 p.m.星期一至星期五. 周末时间, 中午至下午4点.m. Saturday and Sunday, begin Sept. 16.

 

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