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Due to the storm, Barnard College closed at 4pm Friday, for non-essential personnel. “Essential personnel" include staff in Facilities, Public Safety and Residence Halls.  

Friday evening and weekend classes are cancelled but events are going forward as planned unless otherwise noted. The Athena Film Festival programs are also scheduled to go forward as planned but please check http://athenafilmfestival.com/ for the latest information. 

The Barnard Library and Archives closed at 4pm Friday and will remain closed on Saturday, Feb. 9.  The Library will resume regular hours on Sunday opening at 10am.  

Please be advised that due to the conditions, certain entrances to campus may be closed.  The main gate at 117th Street & Broadway will remain open.  For further updates on college operations, please check this website, call the College Emergency Information Line 212-854-1002 or check AM radio station 1010WINS. 

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Athena Scholar Gabriella Spitzer ’13 writes about environmental art

January 10, 2012
Athena Scholars Program
environment

On the Natural Resources Defence Council's OnEarth blog, environmental science major and Athena Leadership Scholar Gabriella Spitzer ’13 writes about Storm King Arts Center, a 500-acre sculpture park in the Hudson Highlands. An excerpt:

"In 1960, father and son team Ralph E. Ogden and Peter Stern established Storm King Art Center as a museum dedicated to the Hudson River School paintings. They began to collect sculptures to place around the outside of the building. When the art center purchased thirteen works by David Smith in 1966, they had an aha moment, realizing that placing the art in the landscape enhances the art and the landscape, and ever since then, art has been placed with its immediate surroundings as well as its far off landscape in mind."

Read Spitzer's full article about Storm King and the relationship it fosters between art and the environment. The post was originally written for Barnard's Environmental Leadership, Ethics and Action course.

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