Exhibition on Display: Jan. 28–March 16, 2025 Tues.–Fri. 9 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. Noon–6 p.m.  Designed to evoke and capture a sense of childhood fantasy, A Colorful Dream tells a simple coming-of-age story in rich symbolic language that takes the viewer on a journey through the entire spectrum of the rainbow. A Colorful Dream is a family-friendly, interactive exhibition by contemporary fine art photographer Adrien Broom. The exhibition features a suite of photographs, some of them large in scale, detailing a young girl's journey as she discovers a series of monochromatic fantasy worlds exploring the rich hues and associations we have with every color in the spectrum. The Huffington Post describes Broom's photography as "deeply rooted in fairy tales and mythology, reinterpreting figures like Aphrodite and stories like Goldilocks and the Three Bears." Over three years in her studio, Broom constructed eight individual sets composed of objects evoking the essence of each respective color. She then photographed a young girl exploring and traveling through each world, passing through small portals that lead her on a journey through a red world, then orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and lastly a rainbow encompassing all the colors. Encountering creatures, characters, and vivid landscapes, Broom's protagonist finds worlds lush, joyful, and even sometimes startling. In looking at the images, it would be easy to mistake the effects as a digital manipulation of the original photograph. In fact, Broom creates each of these worlds by hand, much like a stage production. These images are not put together using photo-editing software, but are the result of hours of crafting tableaux, so what the viewer sees is in fact what was in front of the camera's lens during the shoot. A Program of Exhibits USA with Texas Commission on the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Exhibition on Display: Jan. 31–March 16, 2025 Tues.–Fri. 9 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sat.–Sun. Noon–6 p.m.  Widely recognized as a pioneer of photography in the 20th century, Willoughby was the first outside photographer invited by studios to take photos on film sets. Willoughby's career took off in 1954 when Warner Brothers asked him to photograph Judy Garland during the filming of A Star is Born. Life magazine published a feature with over a dozen of Willoughby's candid photographs of Garland working on set, and a close-up photograph of her appeared on the cover. Willoughby's career took off, and his photographs became instantly recognizable, featuring naturalistic images of actors and directors in intimate moments of vulnerability. The magazine Popular Photography has called Willoughby "… the man who virtually invented the photojournalistic motion picture still." Responding to the many logistical challenges of working on film sets, he was a technological innovator, creating the silent blimp for 35mm still cameras so that he could photograph silently on set, capturing intimate moments of the stars. The exhibition features photographs from the sets of seventeen iconic Hollywood films, including Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, Alfred Hitchcock on the set of Marnie, Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby, and Marilyn Monroe in Let's Make Love. A Program of Exhibits USA with Texas Commission on the Arts and The National Endowment for the Arts.

Presenters:Priya Jain, Associate Professor | Architecture"The 'Fridge': How Colonial Attitudes to Cooking and Cooling Shaped the Mid-Century Indian Kitchen"Martin Peterson, Professor | Philosophy"Aligning Technology with Human Values"Abstracts:JainThis project charts how the refrigerator was introduced as a sign of modernity in the early tomid-twentiethcentury in colonial India. Specifically, it investigates how the Global South was positioned, initially as a contrast in homemaking between the developed and the developing world, and lateras a market of opportunity for the refrigerator. Besides just a box that keeps heat out andperishablefood lastlonger, the advent of the refrigerator radically redefined kitchen and home designin the twentieth century, not to mention its broadersocioculturaland dietary implications on how and whatwe eat. Ample scholarship exists on the advertising,roleand impact of the refrigerator in the West—specificallyin America and Europe. Yet, how the refrigerator was marketed to the Global South, in countries like India,during the colonial eraremainslargely undiscussed. Through archival research inmanufacturingand advertisingliterature, thisprojectinvestigates waysin which colonial attitudes towards heat, health and race were complicit in theconstruction of domesticmodernity in India.PetersonAccording to the General Value Alignment Thesis (GVAT), all technologies should align with the values and norms specified by human users and other stakeholders. Once we recognize that every technology can be aligned with values and norms, there is no need to claim that technological artifacts are inherentlyvalue-laden. Claims about the morality of technologies should instead focus on their value alignment. For example, Robert Moses' low bridges on Long Island were designed to block buses, restricting access for low-income groups and racial minorities who relied on public transportation. While Langdon Winner claims that these bridges "embody … systematic social inequality" (1980: 124), GVAT sees them as morally neutral but poorly aligned with values like racial justice and equity.   Chair: Jyotsna Vaid | Psychological & Brain Sciences/Women's & Gender Studies  Please note that this is not a lecture, and thus, is not suited for class attendance. The Colloquium Series is intended to provide the presenter with a forum to discuss their research and receive feedback from colleagues and peers.

Social Movement Contemporary Dance Theater, Feb. 7 at 6 p.m. at Parker Astin.The company will perform the world-renowned "Sing Sing Sing," choreographed in 1983 by Gus Giordano, known as the godfather of American jazz dance. The company will also present an excerpt from "Black Love: Mr. Soul," a tribute to Sam Cooke, choreographed by Elijah Alhadji Gibson, Social Movement artistic director and Texas A&M Dance Science associate program director. Dance Science majors and apprentices will perform a piece choreographed by Everett Perry-Johnson, instructional assistant professor in Dance Science.

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