Weinstein will display mural

CHAPEL HILL -- Emily Weinstein's Second Annual Open Studio will be held Nov. 7-8 and 15-16 at a new location this year and her entire 8x24-foot Bolin Creek Community Mural will be on display.

Emily Weinstein Studio/Gallery is at 501 Landerwood Lane, off Ephesus Church Road.

Weinstein designed the mural for the Bolin Creek Festival. It is to be painted by the general public on Oct. 24, 1 to 5 p.m., in Umstead Park. After the public participation, it will be installed temporarily at Weinstein's gallery and then donated to Orange County to be installed publicly.

The theme of the mural is Bolin Creek and 350.org to make aware and encourage reducing carbon emissions. Helping with the mural are Alice Griffin, Dale Morgan, Girl Scouts, Volunteers for Youth and the general public. The images will stem from the nature photographs of Mary Sonis and Dave Otto.

Weinstein channeled the story of Boo-Ski, the Reincarnated Cat in an altered book class by Luna Ray. It is now published in a series of limited edition prints. Also, at Weinstein's gallery are 30 new paintings.

Students' art part of exhibit

CARRBORO -- The Friends Of The Carrboro Branch Library, The Orange County Arts Commission And The Chapel Hill/Carrboro Public School Foundation will present Global Perspectives: Part Four, Art Inspired By The Arctic And Antarctic, from Oct. 25 through Jan. 19, 2010, at the Carrboro Branch Library, McDougle Schools Media Center, 900 Old Fayetteville Road.

A reception to meet the artists will be from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 25.

Participating artists are McDougle Middle School students, photographer Brooks de Wetter-Smith and painter Nerys Levy.

The McDougle Middle School students' art is the result of three months' work by seventh- and eighth-grade students, who produced sculptures and paintings of Polar fauna and flora. Both de Wetter-Smith and Levy have visited the Arctic and Antarctic. Nerys Levy worked as project leader of the McDougle Middle School Polar art project which is supported by a grant from the Chapel Hill/Carrboro Public Schools Foundation and the Strowd Roses Foundation.

Woman limited during WWII

CHAPEL HILL -- During World War II, women scientists responded to urgent calls for their participation in the war effort. Even though newspapers, magazines, books and films forecasted tremendous growth in scientific and technical jobs for women, the war produced few long-term gains in the percentage of women in the sciences or in their overall professional standing.

In her book "Science on the Home Front," now in publication by the University of Illinois Press, Jordynn Jack, assistant professor of English at UNC, argues that it was the very language of science -- the discourses and genres of scientific communication -- that helped to limit women's progress in science even as it provided opportunities for a small group of prominent female scientists to advance during the war.

The book uses the experiences of individual women -- from physicists Leona Marshall and Katharine Way, who worked on the Manhattan Project, to Lydia J. Roberts, who developed the Recommended Dietary Allowances -- to illuminate the broader limitations of masculine scientific culture and its discourses of expertise, gender neutrality, technical expediency and objectivity.

Artist to show how to paint

CHAPEL HILL -- A painting demonstration by Beverly McIver at Tyndall Galleries in University Mall will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday.

In addition, raffle tickets are being sold for a chance to win McIver's painting "Finding Peace" valued at $9,500, to support The Ethel McIver Art Scholarship at NCCU.

McIver is widely acknowledged as a significant presence in contemporary American art and has charted a new direction as an African American woman artist. Attaining national recognition for her autobiographical painting, she is committed to producing art that consistently examines racial, gender, social and occupational identity.

The Tyndall Galleries have had a longstanding relationship with McIver since 1991.

Call (919) 942-2290 or visit http://www.tyndallgalleries.com for more information. Gallery Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Cellist to give recital on Nov. 1

CHAPEL HILL -- Brent Wissick will perform the cello in a recital of Death in Moscow: Britten's Third Cello Suite, with commentary from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Nov. 1 in Person Recital Hall on the UNC campus.

He will be joined by guest faculty and students. For more information, contact the UNC Department of Music at (919) 962-1039.

Latina teens topic for talk

CHAPEL HILL -- Lucila Vargas will talk about her new book, "Latina Teens, Migration and Popular Culture," from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 2 at the George Watts Hill Alumni Center's Royall Room on the UNC campus.

Tuition is $15; GAA members pay only $5.

Vanderbilt prof to speak at UNC

CHAPEL HILL -- Devin Fergus, assistant professor of history at Vanderbilt University, will discuss his book "Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980." as part of the Southern Historical Collection Book Series in UNC's Wilson Library from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 2.

A reception will be held in the lobby at 5 p.m. and the program will follow in the Pleasants Family Assembly Room at 5:45 p.m. Contact Liza Terll at (919) 962-4207 for more information.

White racism is lecture theme

CHAPEL HILL -- Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at UNC, focuses on the ways in which white racism has divided Indians and African-Americans in a lecture, "Native Americans, African Americans, and Jim Crow," from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 3.

The event will be in the George Watts Hill Alumni Center's Royall Room at UNC. For more information, call Reid Johnson at (919) 962-5665

UNC musicians will perform

CHAPEL HILL -- James Ketch, David McChesney, Andrew McAfee and Michael Kris, with students from the trumpet, horn and low brass studio, will perform from 8 to 10 p.m. Nov. 3 in Hill Hall Auditorium at UNC.

For more information, contact the UNC department of music at (919) 962-1039.