Extra! People 9/1/11

Quilting class

will be part

of Lincoln stop

The Colfax Branch of Whitman County Library will present a three part quilting class based on the book, Underground Railroad Sampler by Eleanor Burns. The free classes will begin Wednesday, Sept. 7, and continue Sept. 14 and Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. in the Colfax library as part of a month long celebration of the Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation exhibit. Participants are invited to attend one, two or all three quilting classes. Sewing experience is preferred but not required.

Bev Pearce and Nancy Hill will lead the class and supply lists are available at the Colfax library or the Quilted Moose in Colfax. If you need a list mailed to you, call the library.

The Forever Free exhibit is organized by the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, in cooperation with the American Library Association.

This traveling exhibition is made possible through major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, created by Congress and charged with planning the national celebration of Lincoln’s 200th birthday.

ON CAMPUS

ART

Bill Bowler, professor emeritus of the Department of Architecture, will revisit ideas from a 1989 exhibit and show recent photographic works from Aug. 19 to Sept. 26 in the first of a series of exhibits to mark the 25th anniversary of the University of Idaho Pritchett Gallery. Bowler is the designer of the gallery. Hours are 10 to 8 Tuesday through Saturday and 10 to 6 on Sundays.

The Fine Arts Faculty exhibition will be Aug. 26 - Sept. 24 at the WSU Museum of Art. Faculty exhibitors include Ann Christenson, Avantika Bawa, Carol Ivory, Chris Watts, Dennis DeHart, Douglas Gast, Gene Rosa, Harrison Higgs, Io Palmer, Kevin Haas, Maria DePrano, Marianne Kinkel, Michael Holloman, Michelle Forsyth, Nik Meisel, Pamela Lee, Reza Safavi, Tamara Helm and Tim Doebler. Gallery hours are 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Monday–Saturday, open until 7 p.m. Thursday and closed Sunday. For more information please contact the museum at 509-335-1910 or visit the website at http://museum.wsu.edu.

OTHER

A Washington State University star party will be Saturday, Sept. 3, at the Jewett Observatory with food and music by “The Unusual Suspects” 7 to 9 p.m. Telescope viewing will begin at 9 p.m. A $5 donation for the food is suggested. The observatory is located on a hilltop on the east side of campus, approximately at the intersection of Grimes Way and Olympia Avenue.