Maryland Institute College

On April 11, 2008, VIRGINIA G. DECKER (nee Gent), beloved wife of the late Alonzo G. Decker, Jr., Mrs. Decker is survived by her sister, Shirley Gent Rhodes, and nieces and nephews. A memorial service will be held at Hunts Memorial United Methodist Church, corner of W. Joppa and Old Court on Friday, April 25 at 1:30 PM. In lieu of flowers memorial gifts may be made to Maryland Institute College of Art, 1300 Mt. Royal Ave., Baltimore, MD 21217 or Washington College, 300 Washington Ave., Chestertown, MD 21620.

It's a typical college scene: three roommates sitting on an old, beige-checkered couch, watching the third season of Grey's Anatomy on DVD and passing around a pint of Ben and Jerry's s'mores ice cream. Hair straighteners and vases of silk flowers are scattered about the room, along with textbooks and the occasional dirty dish. The students at Dulaney Crescent in Towson, however, are an experiment in campus life, part of a Goucher College pilot program that allows young men and women to share apartments.

MANGA TALK WHAT / / Opening lecture for Fifty-Three Stations of the Yokaido Road: A Haunted Journey Down a Classic Ukiyo-e, featuring GeGeGe no Kitaro. There will be a taped interview with manga creator Shigeru Mizuki and live talks with his associates WHEN / / The opening lecture is 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, and the exhibit runs through May 5 WHERE / / Japan Information and Culture Center, 1155 21st St. N.W., Washington WHY / / Because Mizuki is one of the creators of manga, or Japanese comic books, and he has re-created the classic Fifty Three Stations of the Yokaido Road Ukiyo-e series CONTACT / / Reservations required.

Dr. Theodore E. Klitzke, former dean of the faculty and vice president for academic affairs at the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he had also been acting president, died Sunday of complications from a stroke at Manor Care Ruxton. He was 92. Dr. Klitzke was born and raised in Chicago. He attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago from 1934 to 1936 and earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1939.

A meticulously rendered pencil drawing of a 25-foot-tall Baltimore street lamp blown up lifesize and pinned to the gallery wall. A charcoal image of a batting cage whose chain link fencing resembles a sticky spider's web. A graphite drawing of an empty tin pail and a fluid splash of startling blue that flies through the air. These are among the magical images of Artworkers, a terrific exhibition at Villa Julie College that presents four dedicated artist-professionals...

Town hall meeting Residents who want to discuss the impact of the arts on Baltimore are invited to the Mayor's Cultural Town Meeting from 7 to 9 tonight at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Brown Center's Falvey Hall, 301 Mount Royal Ave. Speakers will include Mayor Sheila Dixon; Anne L'Ecuyer, associate vice president of field services for Americans for the Arts; and Zoltan J. Acs, author of Creativity and Industrial Cities: A Case Study of Baltimore....

An architect, artists, educators and a licensed engineer will serve on the panel that will decide whether William Donald Schaefer, former Maryland governor and Baltimore mayor, gets a statue at the Inner Harbor. Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon nominated this month eight people to serve on the Public Art Commission, a panel established in September to review and approve proposals for art on public property and art commissioned as part of municipal building projects. A ninth member will be appointed by City Council President Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake.

There's a snapshot of Jack Wilgus when he was 8 or 9 years old that shows him out taking pictures with his grandfather. He's got this little plastic Kodak Brownie camera in his hands and seems really eager to use it. Today, more than half a century later, Wilgus heads the undergraduate photography department at the Maryland Institute College of Art, one of the top schools of its kind in the country, and he remains as passionate about cameras and picture-making...