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U.Va. Programs Will Mark Lewis And Clark Bicentennial Launch December 3, 2002-- Like its founder Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia will be looking to the West with intense interest when classes begin Jan. 15. That week marks the start of the 200th anniversary commemoration of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the great transcontinental journey that changed the face of North America. With Charlottesville and Monticello hosting the national kickoff of the bicentennial, U.Va. will contribute to public education and scholarship about the exploration and development of the West. Among many commemorative events throughout the area, U.Va. will host or sponsor a rich array of West-related exhibits, lectures, classes, Web archives and research projects. “With the tremendous national interest in the expedition, the University has been focusing on the West from numerous perspectives,” said Douglas Seefeldt, director of U.Va.’s multi-year Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Project. Following are highlights of key events and projects at U.Va. For details about local and national programs, see U.Va.’s Lewis and Clark Project Web site at www.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark EXHIBITS “Honoring the Legacy: Native American Art and the 19th-century American West” – U.Va. Art Museum exhibit about Native American art and culture. Tuesday-Sunday 1 to 5 p.m. Jan. 11-March 2. Free admission. “Jefferson's
West: Base Camp for Discovery Exhibit Hall” – "Lewis and Clark: The Maps of Exploration, 1507-1814" - University Library exhibit that highlights the maps used in planning the expedition. Special Collections, Alderman Library, through May 5. Special hours during exposition week: Jan. 14, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Jan. 15-16, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Jan. 17, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Jan. 18, noon to 5 p.m. Free admission. “Many Nations - Many Voices” - Native American project organized by the Circle of Advisers of the National Council of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. Newcomb Hall Student Gallery. Jan. 15-17, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Jan. 18, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. “Natural History Pioneers: The Flora and Fauna of the Lewis and Clark Expedition” –Exhibit at the U.Va. branch of the Virginia Museum of Natural History, 104 Emmet St., will open Jan. 16, with an evening reception from 4 to 6 p.m. Exhibit hours: Monday-Thursday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission. PUBLIC EVENTS Thursday, Jan. 16 "An
Evening with Jefferson and Lewis" "Lewis
and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery" Friday, Jan. 17 “Corps
of Discovery: A Musical Journey” Saturday,
Jan. 18 DIGITIAL HISTORY ARCHIVES AND VIDEO “The Roots of Exploration: Lewis and Clark’s Charlottesville-Albemarle County, Virginia” -— Seefeldt and the Lewis and Clark Project have helped research and create this 10-minute video about Lewis and Clark family properties and houses in Albemarle County, all privately owned today. It is a coproduction with Albemarle County, the city of Charlottesville, the Charlottesville-Albemarle County Convention & Visitors Bureau, and WHTJ-Charlottesville public TV. For details, contact the Visitors Bureau at (434) 293-6789. “Encountering the West: The Changing Vision of Lewis, Clark, and Jefferson” Digital
history project devoted to elucidating the Virginia landscape that
Lewis, Clark and Jefferson knew, and to explaining how their views
of nature and geography were severely challenged by what they encountered
in the West. A collaboration between Alderman Library, the School
of Architecture and the Virginia Center for Digital History, the
innovative Web project will show early cartographic views of the
West, the international geopolitical context of the expedition and
some of the changing ideas about the natural world held by Lewis,
Clark and Jefferson. When completed it will be on the U.Va. Lewis
and Clark Project Web site at www.vcdh.virginia.edu/lewisandclark/ Student-researched digital archives soon to be available on the same U.Va. site. It will include histories of the Lewis and Clark family properties in central Virginia; the creation of the area’s Lewis and Clark statues and other public sites such as York Place (honoring the African-American expeditioner York) on the Downtown Mall; the history of the area’s Monacan Indian tribe; and Jefferson’s knowledge of Native Americans in Virginia. They have been researched as part of a course, “History and Digital Media.” CONVERSATIONS ON JEFFERSON AND LEWIS AND CLARK As part of “Jefferson’s West: a Lewis and Clark Exposition,” a program sponsored by Monticello, leading scholars and other experts from around the country will discuss numerous topics at U.Va. about the expedition and the West. The cost of the Jan. 15-17 program is $225 with registration required. Among the many speakers are University of Tulsa historian James P. Ronda, U.Va. historian Peter Onuf, U.Va. anthropologist Jeffrey Hantman, University of California historian Daniel Botkin, filmmaker Ken Burns and writers Rick Bass and William Least Heat Moon. For information or to register, contact the School of Continuing and Professional Studies at (434) 982-5252 or see Monticello’s Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Web site at http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/ Contact: Bob Brickhouse, (434) 924-6856 |
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