Emmy for CHOP documentary
A longtime member of the Princeton area documentary film community won an Emmy award last month for her role as producer and director of a three-part PBS documentary titled “Twice Born — Stories From the Special Delivery Unit,” filmed over a 15-month period at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).
Monica Lange’s first job after graduating from the University of Rochester in the 1970s was with Visual Education, a company that used documentary techniques to create film strips for schools. The company started on Nassau Street, moved to 14 Washington Road in Princeton Junction, and was acquired by McGraw-Hill in 2001. Lange later worked with longtime Princeton area filmmaker Tom Spain and with West Windsor-based Telequest.
Staying in the area to raise her family, Lange continued her career, directing and writing documentaries and reality mini-series such as “Unlocking Autism,” an hour-long production on the search for the causes of the disability; “Autism X6,” which follows a family with six children on the spectrum; and a mini-series on the first Hispanic sextuplets in the U.S. She has worked also on projects for Bill Moyers and the FDR Museum and Presidential Library. She co-produced WNET’s “The Happiness of Still Life: Scenes from the Austrian Biedermeier.
“Twice Born” documents the lives of several families with unborn children facing the medical challenges of prenatal surgery. Lange and her crew had access to CHOP’s fetal surgeons and their patients for 14 months.
In the Galleries
Princeton University Art Museum. Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday to 10 p.m., Sunday 1 to 5 p.m.
‘Remember me’: Shakespeare and His Legacy, on view October 1 through December 31. Though exhibits at the university’s Firestone Library are on hiatus while the building undergoes significant renovations, its Department of Rare Books & Special Collections found a way to mark the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. In collaboration with the art museum, “Remember Me” uses works from the collections of the library, the museum, and a private collection to show how “ Shakespeare’s literary and theatrical achievement has been memorialized in the visual arts,” museum materials say.
Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives, on view October 22 through January 22, 2017. Works from five celebrated artists illuminate the role of narrative in South Asian art. According to museum materials, “they provide a glimpse into the varied ways in which contemporary South Asian artists draw on the past while grounding their work unambiguously in the realities of the twenty-first century.”
Hun School of Princeton, Wilf Family Global Commons, 176 Edgerstoune Road. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and by appointment.
Sustainable? Cultures, Environments and Wildlife at Risk, on view through November 10. Massachusetts-based world photographers Dan Mead and Sally Eagle exhibit 23 photos of people, wildlife, and exotic locations around the world from their 40 years of travels.
In a statement posted on the artists’ website, www.meadeaglephotos.com, they write: “‘Sustainable?’ is an exhibit exploring some of the issues we should be considering as shareholders of the planet. As the absolute number of human beings continues to grow exponentially, and the demand for resources required to sustain those growing numbers also increases, we are becoming acutely aware of the price we may have to pay for that growth. This exhibit is not intended to pass judgment of the choices we will make, but it will, hopefully, encourage a dialogue about how we might best help ourselves while helping the Earth at the same time.”
A lecture by the artists takes place Friday, October 21, at 4 p.m.
Stuart Country Day School, Considine Gallery, 1200 Stuart Road. Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. www.stuartschool.org
Faculty artworks, on view October 16 through November 22. Deborah Land, Phyllis E. Wright, and Andrew Wilkinson exhibit new works. Land (www.deborahland.com), a photographer, displays abstract works created by manipulating film and negatives. Wright (www.phylliswrightart.com) is a student of abstract expressionism whose paintings explore color harmonies. Andrew Wilkinson (www.arwilkinson.com) combines his training in fine art and media communications to create art from everyday objects.
An opening reception takes place Sunday, October 16, from 2 to 4 p.m. A gallery talk with the artist follows on Tuesday, October 18, from 1 to 2 p.m.
Small World Coffee, 14 Witherspoon Street.
Why Are We Here? on view October 5 through November 1.
Of his exhibit, New Jersey-based artist Kevin Patrick Kelly writes: “Why are we here? … or … Why are we here to drink a cup of coffee? (that, at least, is obvious … Small World Coffee!!! … Of course!). But rather, why are we here at this place and time in the course of human history? . . . “To be certain: We are simply passing through time and space … but in this moment that we have been given, we are called to something better than the dull grind, the self-obsessed promotion, the endless noise, senseless gossip, and negativity that filters so frequently through the air.”
Ed Belbruno, 44 Park Place. Saturday, October 8, 1 to 8 p.m. Wine and discussion with the artist, 3 to 4 p.m. www.edbelbruno.com
Mathematician and abstract expressionist Ed Belbruno hosts an art show in his home-based gallery. His current collection is titled “Drip Series.”
An image from the ‘Sustainable?’ exhibit at the Hun School.,
