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Pro bono to be topic of conference
National and local experts on providing legal services to those unable to afford high lawyer bills will convene in Buffalo this month for a three-day pro bono conference sponsored by the UB Law School, the Department of Sociology in the College of Arts and Sciences and local judicial organizations.
The conference, which will begin at 5 p.m. April 24 in the Main-Seneca Building, 327 Main St., will investigate new developments and research in pro bono legal help, explore the relationship between pro bono ideals and pro bono in practice, and examine the opportunities and limitations of pro bono in expanding access to justice.
Entitled “Private Lawyers and the Public Interest: The Evolving Role of Pro Bono in the Legal Profession,” the conference will feature two keynote addresses.
Deborah Rhode, a law professor at Stanford University and one of the nation’s leading scholars in the fields of legal ethics and professional responsibility, will speak at 6 p.m. April 24. Rhode is the author of numerous books, including “pro bono in Principle and Practice: Public Service and the Professions” (2005) and “Access to Justice” (2004). She will explore ways to make the best use of private lawyers’ pro bono efforts in collaboration with public interest organizations.
The conference will continue on April 25 in the UB Law School with five panel presentations by scholars from across the country, and a second keynote address to be given at 1 p.m. by Karen Mathis. Mathis is immediate past-president of the American Bar Association—the third woman to serve as president—and a partner with McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney and Carpenter LLP in Denver. Her presentation, “A Second Season of Service,” will explore ways in which senior attorneys can contribute their expertise pro bono.
The conference will conclude on April 26 with a morning training session on matrimonial law for local practitioners. The session is designed to train attorneys with little or no experience in matrimonial law on how to handle a divorce case efficiently from the first meeting with the client to the signing of the final divorce papers.
Free and open to the public, the conference is organized by Robert Granfield, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology; Lynn Mather, professor and director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy in the UB Law School; Anthony Szczgiel, UB law professor; Robert Elardo, managing attorney with the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Bar Association of Erie County; and Amanda Warner, Eighth Judicial District pro bono coordinator with the Volunteer Lawyers Project.
CLE credits are available for attorneys and will be offered for both days. Saturday’s training is free in exchange for a commitment to handle a pro bono divorce case within one year. Click here for a full program and registration details.
The conference is part of UB 2020’s commitment to civic engagement and public policy.
WBFO to hold wine tasting
WBFO-FM 88.7, UB’s National Public Radio affiliate, will hold its second annual wine tasting from 6:30-8:30 p.m. May 9 in the Jacobs Executive Development Center, 672 Delaware Ave., Buffalo.
Carl Kasell, veteran NPR broadcaster and co-host of the popular “Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me” weekly quiz show, will appear at the event, which is sponsored by Towne BMW.
Guests will sample wines from Cayuga Wine Trail Inc., Merritt Winery, Warm Lake Estate, Freedom Run, Quincy Cellars and Chateau Buffalo Wine Shop. Campus Dining and Shops will provide the food, which will include hot hors d’oeuvres, cheese, fruit and desserts.
Tickets are $30 for WBFO members and $45 for nonmembers. Click here for more information. All proceeds will benefit WBFO.
UB kicks off bicycling season today
UB will kick off the spring bicycling season today with an event designed to encourage this healthy and environmentally friendly transportation alternative.
“Last year was UB’s first official bike-friendly fall, as we rolled out the Bicycling at UB initiative,” says Maria Wallace, director of parking and transportation services. “This year, we hope to expand the bicycling community by registering more bikes and reminding the campus about Buffalo Blue Bicycle, bike racks on UB Stampede buses and other services that make biking fun and safe.”
Information on the Buffalo Blue Bicycle program, health and wellness programs and UB Green, as well as bicycle registration, workshops and free bike tune-ups, will be available from 10:30 a.m. to noon at Lee Loop in front of the Student Union on the North Campus.
The event is free and open to the entire UB community.
Bicycling at UB is supported by Parking and Transportation Services, University Facilities and UB Green.
UB Green is asking members of the university community to join thousands of Western New Yorkers who will be carpooling, biking, walking and taking public transportation on Earth Day on Tuesday in an effort to create positive environmental change in the community as part of the Buffalo Niagara Earth Day Initiative.
Faculty, staff and students are urged to take a pledge to “go green” on Earth Day and take alternative forms of transportation. The pledge can be accessed at the link. UB Green will calculate and publish the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that were not emitted that day as a result of the UB community’s efforts.
Those with questions about the Buffalo Niagara Earth Day Initiative can contact UB Green at 829-3535 or ubgreen@facilities.buffalo. edu. Click here for additional details.
Collage exhibitions set for Anderson Gallery
Two exhibitions by local artist, curator and collector Gerald Mead will open in the UB Anderson Gallery with a public reception from 7-9 p.m. April 25 in the gallery on Martha Jackson Place near Englewood and Kenmore avenues in Buffalo.
“Continuum: The MacKrell Collage Archive Project by Gerald Mead” focuses on the collection and organization of print material. For more than 50 years, the late Western New York artist Marie MacKrell assembled and categorized more than 4,000 items of print ephemera. The exhibition consists of a highly structured presentation, authentication, classification and documentation of MacKrell’s idiosyncratic collage archive and a site-specific installation that illustrates the depth and range of the voluminous material it contains.
Mead, who teaches in the Art Program in the UB Department of Visual Studies, also will guest curate “A Collage Survey: Collected Works.”
Organized as a companion exhibition for “Continuum,” it surveys various techniques and approaches that artists working in this media have used from the 1960s to the present—the period from which the MacKrell Collage Archive was assembled. These works, many of which combine paper and printed imagery with other media, such as paint, range from the highly detailed compositions by the late UB art professor Seymour Drumlevitch to the vibrant gestural forms of Charles Clough, a UB alumnus and a founder of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Also included in the exhibition are works by John Hultberg, Romare Bearden, Nancy Belfer, Larry Bell, Lois Lane and Andrew Topolski.
Mead, an award winning collage-assemblage artist and former longtime curator at the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, also will present several education programs in conjunction with the exhibitions.
“An Insider’s View of ‘The MacKrell Collage Archive Project by Gerald Mead,’” a “tour” of the project and lecture by Mead, will take place at 7 p.m. May 1 in the Anderson Gallery. It will be free and open to the public.
On May 17, Mead will lead a hands-on workshop on collage, providing instruction on a number of collage techniques and guiding participants in creating their own artwork. Entitled “The Art of Collage,” the workshop will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The fee for the workshop, which is offered to adults aged 18 and older, is $15.
The final education program, “Collage History and Techniques for Teachers: Educators Workshop,” will be held from 6-9 p.m. May 21. The fee is $10.
Space is limited; workshops will be filled on a first-come-first-served basis. To preregister, contact Ginny Lohr at 829-3754 or ginny@andersongallery.org.
The UB Anderson Gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
‘(In)visible Cities’ to open today
“(In)visible Cities,” an exhibition of architectural projects by five students from the School of Architecture and Planning, will open with a public reception from 5-7 p.m. today in the second-floor gallery of the UB Art Gallery in the Center for the Arts, North Campus.
The exhibition, being held in conjunction with the Celebration of Academic Excellence, will feature short presentations by the student architects. It is free and open to the public.
“Italo Calvino’s novel, ‘The Invisible Cities,’ was a vehicle to generate diverse readings of contemporary cities and ideas about the multifaceted aspects of future cities,” explains Shadi Nazarian, clinical associate professor of architecture and the students’ instructor. “We began examining present-day urban conditions that result in new forms of interconnected public spaces and systems, generated by people in their everyday use of networked media and other activities, as well as in the realms of public art, architecture and urban form. Each project develops strategies and unique ways in which structures and infrastructures of the urban fabric may interweave.”
“(In)visible Cities” features the work of graduate students Steven Beasor, Gabriella Dangelo, Kirk Miller and Charles O'Geen, and undergraduate student Jackie Lin.
It will be on view through May 17.
In addition, a reception for Nazarian, who has an exhibition, “Introversions,” on display in the Lightwell Gallery in the UB Art Gallery, will be held from 5-7 p.m. today in the gallery.
The UB Art Gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, with extended hours until 7 p.m. on Thursday.