Community Events
Currently on display through September 6, 2008
Erdman Art Gallery Exhibit: First Annual Visual Arts Exhibit of the Mercer County Teen Arts Festival
Weekdays: 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Saturday, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Sunday, 2:30–9:00 p.m.
Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Center of Continuing Education
Free and open to the public
The Erdman Art Gallery presents the First Annual Visual Arts Exhibit of the Mercer County Teen Arts Festival. The exhibit features student artworks selected by guest artists during the May 16 Teen
Arts Festival at Mercer County Community College.
The exhibit includes thirty-one selected works from students who attend Crockett Middle School in Hamilton, Trenton Catholic Academy in Hamilton, Daylight/Twilight High School in Trenton, and John Witherspoon Middle Schhol in Princeton.
“The Visual Arts Exhibit at the Erdman Gallery is another venue through which we can share the considerable artistic talents of our young people in Mercer County,” said Mercer County Executive Brian M. Hughes. “This exhibit is open for a limited time, so I encourage anyone who appreciates art to view this collection.”
For more information about the Teen Arts Festival, call 609.989.6899 or visit www.nj.gov/counties/mercer/commissions/cultural/teen.html.
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August 2, 2008
Hispanic Theological Initiative 2008 Book Award and Lecture: “Ritual and the Construction of Cultural Identity”
7:30 p.m., Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Center of Continuing Education
Free and open to the public
The Hispanic Theological Initiative (HTI) at Princeton Theological Seminary has announced that the Reverend Dr. Raúl Gómez-Ruiz, SDS, director of intellectual formation and professor of systematic
studies at Sacred Heart School of Theology in Hales Corner, Wisconsin, will receive its annual book prize for 2008. The prize, awarded for his book, Mozarabs, Hispanics, and the Cross, will be presented at HTI’s twelfth annual summer workshop.
A public lecture will be given by Gómez-Ruiz in the Cooper Conference Room in the Erdman Center. Respondents to the lecture will be Dr. Peter Casarella, professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, and Dr. Alberto Hernández, assistant professor of the history of Christianity at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.
A reception will follow the lecture. For more information, contact HTI at 609.252.1721.