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Painter and printmaker Constance Pierce, associate professor of visual arts at St. Bonaventure University, is one of 12 artists internationally to be invited to participate in “The Fifth Art on Paper” exhibition now under way at the Museum of Art in Toyota City, Nagoya, Japan. For Pierce, among the artists invited by guest curator Ryozo Morishito, it marks her second appearance in the exhibition in as many years. She participated in “The Fourth Art on Paper” exhibition in 2010. Pierce is exhibiting a new series of allegorical figurative watercolors titled “The Dance: Epiphany and Loss.” The images in this series are meant to bear witness to the joys and sufferings of the human soul. “My intent was to communicate the radiant energy and spirituality expressed by the human form in the epiphany of dance, as well as in the torment of suffering,” said Pierce. “The intense emotions of life’s darkness and light are synthesized and transfigured in the ritual of dance and I wanted my figures to ...

By Kimberly Marcott Weinberg Assistant Director of Communications and Marketing For Dr. Fumio Kobayashi, visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, being away from his home in Japan in the wake of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami is difficult. He is comforted by the knowledge that his family, city and school, Pitt-Bradford’s sister school in Japan, Yokohama College of Commerce, made it through the crisis relatively unscathed. Yokohama, where YCC is located, is part of the Tokyo metropolitan area, a half-hour train ride from the capital. It’s about 200 miles from the areas of Japan that have been dealing with the effects of a 34-foot-high tsunami and problems with nuclear reactors. Friday morning’s quake, however, did hit Yokohama and continues to. Kobayashi said there has been little damage in the city because most buildings were constructed after the destruction of World War II to withstand an earthquake, but aftershocks co...

For continuing coverage of the nuclear crisis in Japan, go to CNN.com . Anderson Cooper reports from Japan:

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200 to 300 bodies have been found in the Japan coastal city where a devastating tsunami hit earlier today, following an 8.9 magnitude earthquake. The tsunami is hitting Hawaii right now. For continuing, up-to-the-minute coverage, go to CNN.com .

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