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Article: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE TO HOST SPECIALIST IN PAINTING, PRINTS, THEATER
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 6, 2009
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CARBONDALE, Ill., Nov. 5 -- Southern Illinois University issued the following news release:
The School of Art and Design welcomes triple-threat artist Roger Shimomura to Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Shimomura specializes in painting, prints and theater. He presents a free lecture beginning at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 9, in the University Museum Auditorium and a free performance workshop beginning at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 10, in the Surplus Gallery in the Glove Factory at 432 S. Washington Ave., Carbondale.
Shimomura's work, by his own description, addresses sociopolitical issues faced by Asian Americans. He takes inspiration, he said, from diaries kept by his late grandmother, ...