EXHIBITIONS OPEN AT BRYN MAWR, HAVERFORD

This weekend will see the opening of three exhibitions of special interest:

• Picturing Women, an exhibition of historical and contemporary representations of women curated by Susan Shifrin Ph.D. '98, will open with a performance by Spiral Q Puppet Theater on Friday, Jan. 23, from 5:30 p.m.  to  7:30 p.m. in the lobby of Canaday Library. The Picturing Women project is an ambitious, cross-media program involving exhibitions at three Philadelphia-area institutions, an extensive outreach program, lectures and an international symposium. For more information, see www.picturingwomen.org/ .
  
  
• Voith & Mactavish Architects: A Retrospective (1988-2003) will open at Haverford's Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery on Friday, Jan. 23. The exhibition includes examples of the varied portfolio of the Philadelphia architectural firm co-founded by Daniela Holt Voith '76, who was among the first group of students to graduate with a major in the Growth and Structure of Cities Program. Holt now teaches architectural design in the Cities Program. An opening reception will be held Friday, Jan. 30, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, where visitors can obtain a catalog published collaboratively by Haverford and Bryn Mawr that includes articles by Growth and Structure of Cities program founder Barbara Miller Lane (co-authored with art historian David Cast) and architect and historian Steven Harby. Voith will give a talk associated with the exhibition next Wednesday, Jan.28, from 12:30 p.m. to  1:45 p.m. in Thomas 224, as part of the Center for Visual Culture's weekly colloquium series.
  
  
• The Growth and Structure of Cities Program is sponsoring “Cities in Cartography and Art,” a brief exhibition of maps and prints from Japan and Europe, in the Canaday Library Gallery (B level). The exhibition opens Thursday, Jan. 22, and continues through Friday, Jan. 30.

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