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A generous gift from an anonymous donor has added three twentieth-century prints to UNC’s Ackland Art Museum’s collection: Pablo Picasso’s "Boy Watching over a Sleeping Woman by Candlelight" and "The Grasshopper" and Henri Matisse’s "Nadia in Profile."

These prints use the techniques of etching and aquatint, processes in which acid eats away grooves (etching) or thousands of tiny pits (aquatint) in certain parts of the surface of a metal plate. When the plate is printed, the grooves or pits are filled with ink; the etched grooves print black lines and the aquatint produces tonal patches that can range from pale gray to deep black.

Although better known to the general public as painters, both Picasso and Matisse periodically turned away from painting to work in other media like sculpture, drawing or printmaking.

All three prints will be on view in the Ackland Art Museum through March 2005.

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Carolina Blood Drive’s holiday
edition is Thursday (Dec. 16)

The holiday edition of the Carolina Blood Drive will be held on Thursday (Dec. 16) from 7:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. in Woollen Gym.

Appointments are encouraged, but walk-ins will also be accepted. Online appointments can be made at http://www.unc.givesblood.org or by phone at 96-BLOOD (962-5663), ext. 384, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. daily through Wednesday (Dec. 15). Donors will be given a free American Red Cross T-shirt.

With a goal of 275 units, this drive will occur during a critical time of the year when blood collections are typically low due to holiday travel.

The option of collecting double red cells from qualifying donors will also be offered. This website offers additional information: http://www.sph.unc.edu/blood/.

Parking is available for donors along Stadium Drive and the Ehringhaus Field House Lot.

Individuals interested in volunteering can contact Anne Webb, School of Nursing, at anne_webb@unc.edu

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Ackland contact: Maria Gloeggler, 919-843-3675
News Services contact: Russell Campbell, (919) 962-2091