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An informal panel discussion on femininity and feminism with artists Hadley K. Conner and Sarah Curry, and Ren�e M. Sentilles, Assistant Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University, and Nancy Prudic, Assistant Professor of Visual Art at Lake Erie College is scheduled for Wednesday, April 21 from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. at the B.K. Smith Gallery at Lake Erie College in Painesville. The event is free and refreshments will be served. For more information, contact Lyz Bly at lbly@lec.edu or 216.521.8582 or 440.375.7461. Information on the work of Hadley K. Conner and Sarah Curry, and on the exhibition "Construct Femininity: Femininity Construct" is available in the attached press release. Bios - Professor Sentilles and Professor Prudic: Ren�e M. Sentilles is Assistant Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. She is interested in nineteenth and twentieth century American culture, both high and low. The focus of Professor Sentilles' research is on American women's history and nineteenth-century cultural expression. Having lived and traveled all over the United States, she is particularly fascinated by regionalism and relationships between different American cultures. Her book, Performing Menken: Biography of a Nineteenth-century Celebrity, combines these interests as she uses Adah Isaacs Menken, a nineteenth-century Madonna-like character, as a means of viewing Civil War America from a cultural perspective. Her newest project is on the imaginative landscape of nineteenth-century girls. She has taught classes on the American West, African-American history, American Studies, the 1960s, the American history survey, and American women's history. Professor Sentilles received a Ph.D., American Studies in 1997 from the College of William and Mary. Nancy Prudic received her BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art and her MFA from Vermont College. Her work has focused on feminist driven performance, installation, and sculpture. She lives in Cleveland and has exhibited locally, regionally, and nationally. She is presently teaching studio art at Lake Erie College and supervising museum classes at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In the last year she has exhibited in the Lantern Festival at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 48 Hours of Making Art and ShutUp: Censorship, Art, and Literature at B. K. Smith Gallery at Lake Erie College, Allied Art: Artwork by Faculty Members of the Academic Alliance at Weyers-Sampson Gallery at Thiel College, Health and Beauty at the Womancare Center of UPMC, Hermitage, PA, V-Energy Art Show and Sale at the Cleveland Public Theater, and the Cleveland Museum of Art Staff Invitational at the Martin Luther King Jr. Branch of the Cleveland Public Library. She has also just completed working on a collaborative project for the 7th Annual Food For Thought dance incubator with choreographer Lisa DeCato. She is preparing for a solo exhibition in June at Brandt Gallery in Tremont.