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Greetings from
Dean Peter Alexander
Welcome to the College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) monthly E-Newsletter. We look forward to sending this to you and our thousands of friends, faculty, alumni, students, and families, in other words, the CVPA community, as a way to stay connected with you, and you with us.
Incredible and inspiring things both large and small occur here daily, and we want you to know about them as they happen.
Here is some information from the perspective of the Dean's Office:
- Thank to support from two alumni, CVPA will present a second interdisciplinary art and music lecture on April 3rd featuring famed New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman. more about Kimmelman visit.
- Good progress continues to be made on the refurbishment of the Arts Residence Hall slated to open this fall. Students will be able to elect to live in Arts Hall beginning in February. We will devise some informal/social events for this coming year to help students bond. more about the new arts dorm
- The School of Dance has moved into its impressive, renovated facilities after a challenging fall diaspora. Please plan a visit or, better yet, attend a performance. You will be wowed! more about dance studios
- Associate Dean Lawrence Jenkens is processing the paperwork that will realize agreed-upon progressive changes to all our BA programs.
- Thanks to a partnership with the CVPA Dean's Office, the Guilford County Schools (GCS) received a $1,400,000 grant from the US Department of Education for GCS teacher professional development. Melinda Waegerle, from the School of Dance, will lead the CVPA portion of this partnership.more about GCS partnership
- We are preparing for our next major cross-campus, cross-community interdisciplinary collaboration- The 1960's: Exploring the Limits. This project is quickly taking shape and partners include the Greensboro Symphony, the Greensboro Library, Triad Stage, the Civil Rights Museum, and a plethora of UNCG departments, Schools and Colleges.
I hope you enjoy reading the following articles as well as the highlights from Alumni and Faculty.
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Michael Kimmelman
April 3rd at 6pm
Weatherspoon Art Museum Auditorium
Michael Kimmelman is an
American author, critic,
columnist
and active performing pianist. He is the
architecture critic
for
The New York Times
and has written about public housing, public space, climate change, community development, infrastructure, urban design, landscape design and social responsibility.
His lecture is made possible by gifts from Anna Harwell Celenza '89, and professor at Georgetown University and by the Elizabeth Little Endowment for Lectureships in Creatitvity.
The Kimmelman event is free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
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125th Anniversary Lecture
Colson Whitehead
February 8
Colson Whitehead is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad. His visit is a bonus event, made possible by the Office of the Chancellor, and includes a lecture and student roundtable.
His lecture is
sold out, but there is some overflow seating available. Call 336-272-0160
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Falk Visiting Artist
Sanford Biggers
March 15
Visit the Sanford Biggers Exhibition now through April 8 at the Weatherspoon Art Museum.
The Artist Talk will be on March 15 in the Elliott University Center Auditorium.
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Artist-in-Residence
Lynn Harrell
March 17
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for all University and Concert Lecture Series information and tickets
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New Dance Facilities
Renovations that began in September 2016 have been completed, and Dance has moved back into their home in the Coleman Building. The multiphase project saw the creation of two new dance studios, a lobby expansion, and renovation of the dressing rooms, locker rooms, and theatre.
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2017 Distinguished Alumni
From left: Connie McKoy '89, PhD '98 (Music); Carla Gannis '92 (Art); David Kish MM '02, DMA '03; and Hugh Hysell '88 (Theatre). Doug Risner '88, MFA '90, PhD '01 (Dance) was unable to attend.
The recipients have varying stories of how they came to Greensboro and where they've been since, but they all agreed it was the faculty at UNCG that made an incredible impact on their lives.
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ALUMNI NOTES
Joe Forbes '76 (Theatre) was featured in
Playbill
, in an article about how Broadway's most vibrant backdrops come to be in his Scenic Arts Studio.
Anna Harwell Celenza '89 (Art and Music) is the recipient of the Bridge Award in the category of American writers of non-fiction for her book J
azz Italian Style: From its Origins in New Orleans to
Italy and Sinatra.
Ruth Petersen '91, MA '92 (Music) was elected to the NC Music Educators Association's Executive Board. She was also selected as one of the top 25 semi-finalists nation-wide for the 2017 Music & Arts Music Educator of the Year Award.
Keith Harris MFA '97 (Theatre) has written and produced a feature film, "Shifting Gears", that releases in March.
Rhiannon Giddens '05 (Music) played a UNCG 125th Anniversary/ UCLS Concert in October. The Grammy winner will play Merlefest this spring, and is now working on a new project after being awarded a prestigious
MacArthur Foundation grant.
Ian Passmore '09 (Music) has been named Assistant Conductor of the Omaha Symphony.
Anne-Claire Niver '12 (Music) was a featured artist recently on NPR's The State of Things. She is currently working on her
2nd album.
Emily Caruso Parnell MA '12 (Dance)
is serving as the K-12 Arts Education Consultant for the Rainbow District School Board in Northern Ontario. She sits on the Sharing Dance Working Group of Canada's National Ballet School and the Program Advisory Committee for Dance Education of Physical and Health Education Canada.
Dr. Ann Shoemaker '12 (Music) has just released a new CD of music for Bassoon and Piano on the MSR label entitled: New Standards.
Matthew Reese, '13, DMA candidate and student of Robert Bracey, recently became a two-time District Winner in the
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Gretchen Krupp, 15 (Music), former student of Carla LeFevre, is a four-time District winner, two-time Regional Encouragement Award winner, and a Regional Winner/National Semi-Finalist. She will compete at the Metropolitan Opera in April.
Carmen Neely MFA '16 and Sheena Rose MFA'16 (Art) exhibited at the Przm Art Fair in Miami this year.
read more here
Megan Callahan, '16 (Music), a former student of Carla LeFevre, won the District Encouragement Award in the
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
Deon'te Goodman '16 (Music) . was one of six finalists for the National Musical Theatre Competition sponsored by NATS. He placed third, and received the award for best performance from a new musical.
Julia Caston '17 MFA (Art) has been named an artist in residence at Artspace in Raleigh.
Shelley Mihm '17 (Music), former student of Carla LeFevre, is a two-time District winner in the
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
John Rash '17 (Art) is teaching at the University of Mississippi and gave a lecture at Photo Beijing 2017.
Lyndsey Swann '17 (Music), student of Clara O'Brien, was a District winner this month in the
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions.
David Modler (Art) has been invited back to The Institute for Visual Studies at James Madison University welcomes along with colleague Samuel H. Peck for workshops and the reception of their exhibition titled Draw and Play Here: The tet[R]ad Project, which will be on display at IVS from January 29-March 16.
read more here
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FACULTY NEWS
Dr. Heather Holian's (School of Art) essay, "New and Inherited Aesthetics: Designing for the Toy Story Trilogy One Film at a Time" was published in January 2018 as part of the edited volume, Toy Story: How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature, released by Bloomsbury Press. Edited by animation scholars Noel Brown, Susan Smith and Sam Summers, the text is the inaugural volume of Bloomsbury's series, 'Animation--Key Films.' Dr. Holian has also recently signed a book contract with Disney Editions for her manuscript on Pixar, tentatively titled, 'Art and Filmmaking at Pixar: Collaboration, Inspiration and Collective Imagination,' with an anticipated publication of 2021.
Congratulations to Dr. Elizabeth Perrill (School of Art) on her work with the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh. read more here.
Professor Mariam Stephan's (School of Art) new exhibition opened this month at Greensboro Project Space and will feature readings by Jeff Jones (UNCG Department of History) and Peter Gengler (UNC Department of History).
Professor Duane Cyrus (School of Dance) performed in Washington D.C. (Jan 20-21) and Philadelphia, PA (Jan 26-27) for Cynthia Oliver's "Virago-Man Dem." The work premiered in October at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and features a cast of four performers (including Cyrus) as they navigate questions of black masculinities. read more here
Professor Cyrus (School of Dance)
and Theatre of Movement artists will collaborate with African American and African Diaspora Studies Program to host a workshop on representation and perspectives of Black men. Inspired by Cyrus's creative research for "Hero Complexities." Movement and spoken word improvisation workshop is open to all levels
in the Alexander Room of EUC on Feb. 14.
Dr. Jill Green (School of Dance) received the Outstanding Dance Researcher Award from the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO).
Dr. Ana Paula Höfling (School of Dance) published an essay on the history of the Brazilian combat game known as capoeira, "Capoeiras of Bahia."
read more here
Dr. Kevin Geraldi (School of Music) and Dr. Rebecca MacLeod (School of Music) organized the
8th Annual Southeast Honors String Festival, hosted by the UNCG School of Music. Nearly 120 high school students applied for the Honors Orchestra, from which an ensemble of 55 talented performers were selected, and approximately 30 educators participated. read more here
Lorena Guillén and Alejandro Rutty (School of Music) released their album, "The Other Side of My Heart", stories of immigration told through music and interviews/ read more here.
Professor Andrew Willis (School of Music) will perform and teach on historical keyboards at the University of Alabama t
hroughout the week of February 26 - March 2,
an invited guest of their Music Department's Endowed Chair in Musicology.
Professor James Fisher's (School of Theatre) book, The Historical Dictionary of American Theatre: Beginnings, has won the Library Journal's Best Reference Work Award.
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