EVENTS

Food for Thought Lecture SeriesThe UArts MFA Program in ceramics, painting and sculpture presents Jane Marsching in the latest installment of the 14th annual Food for Thought summer lecture series featuring noted visiting artists and critics. Marsching is a digital media artist whose current project, Arctic Listening Post, explores our past, present and future human impact on the Arctic environment through interdisciplinary and collaborative practices, including video installations, virtual landscapes, dynamic websites and data visualizations, all of which foster emerging forms of participation and social engagement. Her most recent exhibitions have been mounted at the North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, N.C.); CEPA Gallery (Buffalo, N.Y.); Photographic Resource Center (Boston); New Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston); and Nexus Foundation (Philadelphia). She has received grants from Creative Capital, LEF Foundation, Artadia and Artists Resource Trust. An assistant professor at Massachusetts College of Art, she received her MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Lectures are free and open to the public. For further information, contact Program Director Carol Moore (215/717-6106 or cmoore@uarts.edu) or Erin Boyle (215/717-6489 or eboyle@uarts.edu).
July 9, noon – 1 p.m.
CBS Auditorium, Hamilton Hall

Philadelphia Sixers Dancers Auditions
Entering their 13th season, the Sixers Dancers are more than just a dance team. Regarded as one of the best technical dance teams in the NBA, they are an extension of the Philadelphia 76ers brand and show off their amazing talents on the court at every Sixers home game. Additionally, the Sixers Dancers greet fans as they enter the arena, assist with various in-game promotions and visit clients around the arena. Not only must the Sixers Dancers be highly skilled in various types of dance, but they must also represent the organization with enthusiasm and pride at the many offsite promotional and charity events. Pre-register at www.sixers.com.
July 8: Registration, 5-6 p.m.; Auditions, 6-9 p.m.
July 9: Call-backs, 5-9 p.m.
Arts Bank

Senior Photo Showing @ Urban Outfitters HQ
Highlights of the UArts Senior Photography Show will be opening at the Navy Yard Headquarters of Urban Outfitters. The building is open to the public, so visit the show during lunch hours during the week, through the end of July. Please RSVP to anna@ajcambridge.com by Wednesday.
July 10, 5.30 – 7.30 p.m.
Building 543, Navy Yard (5000 S. Broad Street)

“This Is Our Youth” by Theatre Revolution
“This Is Our Youth,” a theater production by Kenneth Lonergan involving UArts students, is coming to campus. “A rambunctious and witty play about wayward teenagers and post- adolescents that doesn’t turn youthful travails into plastic wrap … A devastating portrait of rich kids and their amoral, self-abusive, pattern-less lives ... caustic, cruel and compassionate by turns, is the real world,” says Peter Marks of The New York Times. Tickets are $10- $15, with special discounts available for students. For tickets or information call 551/482-8535 or email theatrerevolution@yahoo.com.
July 11-13, 18-20, 8 p.m.
July 12-13, 19-20, 2 p.m.
Black Box Theater, Gershman Hall

Wood Turning Center’s International Turning Exchange Open Studio Day
The UArts community is invited to the Wood Turning Center’s International Turning Exchange Open Studio Day at Anderson Hall’s wood working studio for discussions and demonstrations about the evolving work of the eight exchange residents. Arrive when you want and stay as long as you like. FREE, but RSVP is required for lunch. For additional information or to RSVP for lunch, contact Suzanne Kopko (215/923-8000 or suzanne@woodturningcenter.org).
July 12, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Anderson Hall Woodshop (333 S. Broad St., 4th floor)
 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Rennie Harris Puremovement Illadelph Legends Festival
Join Rennie Harris and the originators and renowned practitioners of the various hip-hop movement styles, including Boogaloo, Locking, Popping, Hip-Hop, House, B-Boy/B-Girl, Afro/Funk and Salsa. Past participating guest artists and teachers have included Don Campbell (creator of locking), Greg “Campbell Lock Jr” Pope, The Electric Boogaloos (creator of Boogaloo), Crazy Legs (B-Boy from NYC’s Rock Steady Crew), Lil’ Lep (B-Boy from New York City Breakers), Alexa “Lex” Chmiel, Julie “Lady Jules” Ulrich, and Lanaya “Tweety” Straker. Two weeks of master classes, lecture demonstrations, open jam sessions, panel discussions, and break-out sessions at Terra Hall July 20-August 2 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. For information or to register, visit www.rhpm.org/illadelph.php or email illadelph@rhpm.org.
 
NEWS & NOTES

An untitled pastel from 1972 by CAD Dean Stephen Tarantal has been accepted into the Yale University Art Gallery.

Diane Pepe, associate professor of art in the Foundation Dept., is showing “Conversations,” a collection of collage drawings and sculptures, at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington through August 10. She is hosting a reception (5-8 p.m.) and gallery talk (6:30 p.m.) on July 17. Pepe creates new mixed-media sculptural works and layered, cut paper collages that investigate the “dichotomy between mankind’s emotional/passionate nature and the ordered/structured elements that we engage to control or reveal these emotions.” Many of Pepe’s early sculptures in the exhibition are influenced by a trip to Kochi, Japan.  Pepe utilizes wood, stone, brass and handmade paper to evoke the complex interplay of contrasts such as joy and strength — that are central to the human experience. In the more recent sculptural works, Pepe has shifted to investigations of these forces in a more universal context that continues to be a driving force in her current creative research.  A large-scale sculptural work in the exhibition, Center, was created with funds from a UArts Faculty Enrichment Grant; the triptych was created in collaboration with Jason O’Brian, a recent graduate from the University. For more information, visit www.thedcca.org/.
 

IN THE GALLERIES
 
Sol Mednick Gallery (Terra Hall, 15th floor)
“Psychometry”
Carol Golemboski
Thru August 8
 
Gallery 1401 (Terra Hall, 14th floor)
“A Room with Good Light”
Mary Ruth Moore
Thru August 8