Category Archives: Mid-Valley Campus

Library Open House at Your Campus!

April 7, 2010Library Events, Mid-Valley Campus, Movies, NAH Campus, Pecan Campus, Previous Events, Starr County Campus, Technology CampusElizabeth Hollenbeck

Library Week is that time of the year when we stop and appreciate what libraries and librarians have contributed to our schools and communities. And South Texas College will celebrate Library Week with a number of activities at all five of its campuses.

Celebrated nation wide, this year’s theme is “Communities Thrive @ Your Library.” In tough economic times, libraries give free access to books, DVDs, computers, and research assistance. Go by one of your campus libraries to enjoy what they have to offer. Please e-mail Esther Garcia for more details: egarcia10@southtexascollege.edu.

Library Open Houses 2010
Date	Campus Library	Details	Contact Person
4/12	NAHC Open House 10 am – 2 pm	Book Talk on Valley authors* Drafting demonstration Presentation by Rey Anzaldua on Hospital Security Art Gallery Tours Snacks, Drinks, Cake	James Phillips 872-3189
4/13	Starr Campus Open House 11 am – 2 pm	Kayak exhibit Zavotash dancers Talk given by Local Historian Possible trolley ride Door Prizes Food, Snacks, Drinks	Thelma Garza 488- 5820
4/14	MidValley Campus Open House10 am – 2 pm	Information Fair Music Art Gallery Tours Movie showing New Moon Snacks and Drinks	Jessica Cruz 447-6663
4/15	Pecan Campus Open House 11 am – 2 pm	Information Fair Scavenger Hunt Meet Miss RGV Music Movie showing New Moon Snacks, Popcorn, Drinks, Cake	Esther Garcia 872-6485
4/19	Tech Campus Open House 10 am – 2 pm	Folkloric Dancers Paramedic Visit with Ambulence, Stretcher, and Dummy Book Talk on Valley authors* Art Gallery Tours Snacks, Drinks, Cake	James Phillips 872-6120

*Book Talk on Valley authors will be given by librarian James Phillips, and he will discuss authors Americo Paredes, Rolando Hinojosa Smith, Gloria Anzaldua, and T.R. Fehrenbach.

Screening of Iron Jawed Angels at MidValley Campus Library

March 9, 2010Library Events, Mid-Valley Campus, Movies, Previous EventsElizabeth Hollenbeck

To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Mid-Valley STC Library will be showing Iron Jawed Angels, a 2004 film about the women’s suffrage movement during the 1910s. This movie follows activists, Alice Paul (Hilary Swank) and Lucy Burns (Frances O’Connor), as they fought tirelessly for a woman’s right to be counted. Returning to the United States from England, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns learned that their ideas about women and voting were too radical for even the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In response, they created the National Woman’s Party, a group that takes drastic measures to ensure women’s rights. Taking the women’s suffrage movement by storm, Paul and Burns put their freedom on the line as they boldly take action.

In a time when it is easy to take the right to vote for granted, this film reminds us that women once had to fight and suffer to step into the voting booth. One hundred years ago women were denied the privilege of expressing their opinions about our government, but because Alice Paul and Lucy Burns (and a number of other brave women such as Susan B. Anthony) refused to be content with their lives as non-voting citizens, we are all able to be counted equally.

Iron Jawed Angels will be showing Wednesday, March 10, 2010 beginning at 10 am at the STC Mid-Valley Library. It will also be showing Thursday, March 11 at 12:00 pm at the Pecan Campus Library.

Contributed by Jessica Cruz, Library Specialist at the Mid-Valley Campus.

Dreamlands of Pedro Reynoso

July 9, 2009Library Art Gallery, Mid-Valley Campus, NAH Campus, Previous Exhibits, Starr County Campus, Technology Campusgotvos

College puts spotlight on artistry of local, self-taught octogenarian

“Montañas Rojas,” (Red Mountains) an oil on canvas painting by Pedro Reynoso

South Texas College’s Nursing and Allied Health Campus Library Art Gallery is proud to present “Dreamlands of Pedro Reynoso” featuring a collection of acrylic and oil on canvas paintings by self-taught artist, Pedro Reynoso. The exhibit opens Friday, May 8 at STC’s Nursing and Allied Health Campus Library Art Gallery with an Art Talk at 1 p.m. given by Jennifer Cahn, Curator at the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art. An opening reception will immediately follow from 2 to 3:30 p.m. The exhibit runs through July 3, 2009. STC’s Nursing and Allied Health Campus Library Art Gallery is located at 1101 E. Vermont Ave. in McAllen. Admission is free and open to the public.Currently 87 years old, Reynoso took up painting at the age of 65 after his diagnosis with cancer and later Alzheimer’s disease.

“Reynoso relies on his vivid imagination and a fluid, sensitive use of color,” said Cahn. “Most of the scenes in the exhibition are drawn from the artist’s youthful memories of Mexico, from which he creates vibrant landscapes expressing a sophisticated eye and a tender nostalgia for his birthplace.”

“The exhibit is a multi-tasking force helping us all see that creativity is a vital force of self-expression, positive memory experience and also an incentive for capturing a sense of therapy and healing,” said David Freeman, curator and programs coordinator for STC’s Library Art Gallery Program. “Reynoso is a self taught artist yet his vision is incredibly astute and rich in an astonishing parallel with many of the mainstream styles and genres of art of the 20th century. There is evidence of a common intuitive phenomenon within the technique, process and creative effort of Reynoso’s work and our cultural artistic art world of today.

“His work reflects the look of surrealism, impressionism and expressionism even though he knows nothing of these movements,” continued Freeman. “There is a vast wealth of understanding color, texture and form that mirrors and defines his emotional feelings of the day and reflects the landscapes of childhood and his present day experience. He expresses in his work that he is in control and alive, and creating in an almost defiant manner in resistance to challenges that he faces. It is stated that wherever there is creativity there is God; Reynosa lets us see that where there is creativity there is also faith that art can heal.”

South Texas College’s Library Art Gallery Program exhibits regional, national and international artwork, explores new visions and theories of creativity, and introduces innovative artistic expressions to the South Texas region.

The event was organized by the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art.

For more information call 872-3488.