A presentation by Hussam AlMukhtar, ’11, Com. major, for the Ignation Scholarship Day about life in Baghdad, Iraq before and after the war in 2003.

The presentation featured pictures, from Baghdad before and after 2003, refugees, and a trip to the US, integrated with music. Pictures that Iraqis lived through, stored in mind, and think about everyday.

The music is played on the Oud instrument (http://www.oud.eclipse.co.uk/) by the world most famous Oud player, Naseer Shamma. In his music, Shamma represents what happened in AlAmeria Shelter in Baghdad in 1991 using 5 themes (Joy, danger and alert, sorrow, funeral, and hope)

The Polish-American Photo Workshop Exhibition opened last Friday, April 17 during the Ignatian Scholarship Day in Alumni Hallway, the corridor that connects Old Main to the Bouwhuis Library. The exhibition is a result of a photography workshop organized by prof. P.J. Moskal (Digital Media Arts Program, Canisius College) and prof. Mariusz Dabrowski (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in Poland). The workshop took place in the north African country of Tunisia in January of 2009. Four Canisius College students attended the workshop along with Academy students from Warsaw.  The exhibition is curated by Ms Magda Sykulska, a doctoral candidate at the Academy, who visited Canisius College and who also gave a presentation in the class of prof. Justine Price about prof. Dabrowski’s photography teaching techniques. This exhibition was recently presented in Poland at the Museum Palace at Wilanow, a former royal residence and one of the most prominent museums in Poland. The exhibition will be on view till Friday, April 24th, 2009.

Click here to view the catalog of the exhibition (4.1 MB pdf format).

Students participating in the exhibition are:

Anna Łuczak (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Christopher Cox (Canisius College)
Dominik Kosik (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)

Dominik Kosik (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)

Jan Stefanski (Canisius College)
John Minieri (Canisius College)
Kristian Charnick (Canisius College)

Krzysztof Ćwiertniewski (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Leszek Margasiński (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Magdalena Grela (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Magdalena Sykulska (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)

Mariusz Dąbrowski (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Matevs Cas (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Natalia Mikolajczuk (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)

Szynon Tomsia (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Wojciech Kstrzewa (Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts)
Curator: Magdalena Sykulska