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                                                       Southeastern Louisiana University
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    Date: 1/8/01
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SLU TO HOST FACULTY ART, PHOTOGRAPHS OF CARMELITE NUNS
     HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University will open new year and its spring
2001 semester with exhibits by faculty artists and a guest photographer in Clark Hall Gallery and
Sims Memorial Library.
     Clark Hall Gallery will host the annual SLU Faculty Exhibition, which will feature works
by 15 Southeastern visual arts professors. The exhibit will be on display January 23-February 23,
and will open with a reception from 4-6 p.m., on January 23, said Don Marshall, director of
Clark Hall Gallery.
     Artists represented in the exhibit include Department Head Roy Blackwood, Doug
Easterly, Gary Keown, and Denise Tullier-Holly of Hammond; Rancy Boyd-Snee, Ronald
Kennedy, Timothy Van Beke, Blaine Whisenhunt and Susan Wingard of Baton Rouge; Kim
Finley-Stansbury of Albany; Stephen Gibson of Ponchatoula; Gail Hood and Robert Labranche
of Covington; Lynda Katz of Independence, and Barbara Tardo of Folsom.
     Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., weekdays.
     On Wednesday, January 24, "Beyond the Stained-Glass Window to the Unspotted
Mirror," a collection of photographs of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Little Rock, Ark., by
photographer Jim Young, will open in Sims Memorial Library. The exhibits opens with a gallery
walk-through at 4 p.m. and a reception from 4-6 p.m. The exhibit will also be open through
February 23.                             
     Young is a free-lance photographer from Santa Fe, N.M., who exhibits widely throughout
the United States and abroad and whose work is held in many private and institutional
collections. His photographs explore the spiritual realm of both secular and religious activities
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and have included locales such as Mexico, Israel, Greece and the United Sates.
     The photographs in "From the Stained Glass Window to the Unspotted Mirror" illustrate
the life of a group that is ordinarily hidden from view. They depict the private world of secluded
nuns, focusing on the women "as the humans they are rather than the religious icons people often
make them out to be," Young said. 
     For additional information about the exhibits, call Marshall at 504-549-5080.
                             -SLU-
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