THIS WEEK @ UARTS: May 12-18

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Reminders:

·        Documents for students graduating in May 2008 are due to the Office of the Registrar by Friday, May 16.

·        All faculty must submit grades to the Office of the Registrar by noon on Friday, May 16.

·        Student residences close @ noon on Saturday, May 17.

 

Events

Writing Director Candidate Presentations

The University community is invited attend presentations by candidates for the position of Writing program director. A question and answer period follows the presentation. Comments are welcome and can be sent to pstambler@uarts.edu.

R. Sebastian Bennett

May 12, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

202 Terra Hall

Vershawn Young

May 14, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

202 Terra Hall

Mark Clark

May 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
202 Terra Hall

Barry Batorsky

May 19, 12:30-1:30

202 Terra Hall

 

Multimedia Senior Project Presentations

December 2008 graduating seniors Jonathan Davis and Julia Pellicciaro present their senior projects. Davis’CollaborateArts.com serves as a portal for the UArts community and is a way for students who need help on their multi-disciplinary projects and assignments to find other students with the necessary skills. Pellicciaro’s“Telluric Aesthetic” is a participant-generated, interactive data-visualization revealing the symbolic relationships between cultural identity and elements of physical appearance. The goal is to raise audience awareness of the differences and similarities in the way that members of Philadelphia’s cultural subgroups use physical symbols to classify and evaluate others.

Refreshments will be provided.

May 12, 5 p.m.

Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall (8^th floor)

 

Student Choreography Concerts

Check out the student choreography concerts. For more information, contact Marlene Rice-Wittaker (215/717-6110 or mricewittaker@uarts.edu)

May 12-15, 7 p.m.

UArts Dance Theater at the Drake (1512 Spruce St.)

 

Buzz Spector Lecture

UArts Director of MFA Book Arts/Printmaking Program Susan Viguers invites the community to the Arthur P. Williams Lecture and Reception with prominent artist and critical writerBuzz Spector. His work artwork has been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh, Pa.). He makes frequent use of the book in his art, both as subject and object and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory and perception. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships and is at present a professor in the Department of Art at Cornell University. His lecture is entitled “Reflections on Reflections: Looking at Artworks and/as Logotypes.” For additional information, contact Director of Alumni RelationsLaura Armstrong (215/717-6139 or larmstrong@uarts.edu)

Lecture:May 12, 7 p.m.

Hunt Room, Hamilton Hall

Wine and Cheese Reception:8 p.m.

Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Anderson Hall

 

School of Music Drum Sale

Everything must go! Cash or check only.

May 13, 3 p.m.

604 Merriam

 

DUETS: A Cabaret
Come enjoy a FREE night of old and new duets, plus some special surprises! Donations will benefit Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. Musical Theater students Mat Burrow, Brad Greer, Lauren Palmeri and Kate Schwarz, along with special guests The Rickety Stares and Joey Contreras. Musical direction by Ryan Touhey.

May 14, 8 p.m.
Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall (8^th floor)

 

Book Party

May 15, 4-7 pm

Hunt Room, Hamilton Hall

 

Social in the City: Brooklyn

The tradition continues… All alumni invited to attend the spring alumni happy hour at Baracade (http://www.barcadebrooklyn.com/ ) in Brooklyn. The first round is on UArts, after which, guests receive $1 off drinks the rest of the evening. To register, send your name, graduation year and email address to alumni@uarts.edu or call 215-717-6139. Sponsored by the Alumni Council at UArts.

May 15, 7 – 9 p.m.

Baracade (388 Union Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11211)

 

SOTA Stages Paul Robeson

SOTA’s 25th anniversary comes to a memorable and moving conclusion with Philip Hayes Dean’s “Paul Robeson,” a one-man bio-drama that deals with the obstacles and contributions which marked the life of the internationally renowned artist, All-American athlete and political activist. Robeson will be performed by UArts faculty member and award-winning actor Johnnie Hobbs Jr. and directed by the first head of the School of Theater Arts and Philadelphia theater icon Walter Dallas. For tickets, show times and more information, call 215/545-1664 or email SOTAtickets@uarts.edu. Tickets are $16/ga, $8/students. Proceeds will go towards the founding of a “Paul Robeson Scholarship” at UArts.

May 15 – 17, 8 p.m.; May 17 – 18, 2 p.m.

Arts Bank Theater

 

 

Everything, Everyone, Everywhere

Friends of Friends, a group of artists from UArts, is pleased to present “Everything, Everyone, Everywhere,” the first gallery show to raise money to start their own open-platform studio/gallery space. The show will feature prints, paintings, photographs and sculptures by over 20 artists. Please come out to show support for emerging artists and to see great work by talented artists of all mediums. Show runs May 16 – 23. For more information, visit http://friendsoffriends1.blogspot.com/.

Opening Reception: May 16, 5 – 9:30 p.m.

1816 Catherine St.

 

Graphic Design Film/Motion Design Screening

Featured students include Daniel Kwon, Vanessa Rivera, Campbell Hooper, and Jaime Herrera. Subjects of the work range from Subversive Film, 911, Green/Alternative Energy and Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti, respectively. For additional information, contact Jaime Herrera (herreraj@uarts.edu).

May 16, 7 p.m.

Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall (8^th floor)

 

 

The Privilege of Teaching

Sponsored by the Provost’s Office and the Center for Teaching and Learning, this event will feature speakers William Daley, Dr. Donald Chittum, and Walter Dallas, Alec Karros, Marc Dicciani and Johnnie Hobbs. Mark your calendars and continue to watch your inbox for further information on this event. For information, contact the Center for Teaching and Learning (215/717-6330 or teaching-learning@uarts.edu).

May 19, 12:30 – 4 p.m.

Connelly Auditorium, Terra Hall (8^th floor)

 

Industrial Design Senior Show “Aging with Design”

Twenty-one design-focused projects considering the ever-fluctuating relationships between people and objects as they age. Looked at in the contexts of “body,” “home” and “community,” design solutions range from urine-based hydroponics systems and radical three-wheel tilting bicycles to bottle ergonomics and mobility aids. The show will be housed in three refurbished and repurposed shipping containers on the vacant lot at 331 S. Broad St. on the Avenue of the Arts. For more information, visit www.agingwithdesign.com or call 215/717-6250.

May 21 – 30, noon - 3 p.m.;

May 31, noon - 9 p.m.; closed Sundays.

331 S. Broad St.(next to Chambers-Wylie Church@ 315 S. Broad St.)

 

Announcements

 

Book Buy Backs @ The UArts School Store

Earn cash for your old books May 5 – 14 (student ID required).  307 S. 13th Street (between Spruce & Pine Sts.) Mon. – Fri., 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. For information, call 215/875-0373.

 

Pick up your “Gift”

All part-time faculty and UArts staff are invited to reserve a copy of Lewis Hyde’s book:  The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. This author led a discussion on creativity with students from the Crafts Department during the President's Inauguration week festivities. If interested, additional free copies are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Please note that each person is entitled to receive one copy. Stop by the Provost Office (2^nd floor, Hamilton Hall) or contact Sara Olsen (215/717-6388 or solsen@uarts.edu) to reserve a copy.

 

News & Notes

 

MFA Sculpture student JoAnne Schiavone has been awarded one of 15 grants from the Joan Mitchell Foundation. She is the first UArts student to earn such a grant. The Annual MFA Grant Program was created in 1997 to help MFA painters and sculptors in furthering their artistic careers and to aid in the transition from academic to professional studio work upon graduation. Schiavone will receive a grant in the amount of $15,000. To date the Joan Mitchell Foundation has awarded 133 MFA Grants, which are given in recognition of artistic quality to artists chosen from a body of candidates put forth by nominators from the academic art community across the United States. The Joan Mitchell Foundation was established in April 1993 as a not-for-profit corporation following the death of Joan Mitchell in October 1992. The Foundation strives to fulfill the ambitions of Joan Mitchell to aid and assist the needs of contemporary artists and to demonstrate that painting and sculpture are significant cultural necessities.

 

The Villanova Art Gallery is hosting a retrospective of the work ofLibby Newman (Printmaking ‘80) through June 15. 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. www.artgallery.villanova.edu/libbynewmanexhibit/index.htm

 

Next year’s visiting professor Brett Snyder and his partner won a Van Alen fellowship for his project proposal the “Museum of the Phantom City,” an open-source architecture guide to New York. UArts alumna Deborah Tchoudjinof worked on the proposal. He also won a grant New York Foundation for the Arts (www.nyfa.org/) based on overall portfolio and body of work.

Media Arts faculty member Jenny Lynn’s solo exhibition “The Object is Art” is on view at the Katonah Museum of Art in Westchester County, N.Y., through June 29.  http://jennylynn.com/exhibitions/exhibitions_fs.html or http://katonahmuseum.org/exhibitions.php#150

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