February 20, 2007 UMBC Presents Pianist Noel Lester in Concert Thursday, March 8, 2007 8 p.m. UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Featuring a Historical Survey of Ragtime Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. The UMBC Department of Music’s PRIME Series presents pianist Noel Lester in concert on Thursday, March 8, 8 p.m., in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Noel Lester has delighted audiences and critics alike for his performances throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and through his recordings and radio broadcasts. He appears regularly as a soloist, chamber pianist, and soloist with orchestra. Noel Lester made his European debut in 1991 at the Ernst Barlach Haus in Hamburg and he has since performed extensively throughout the U.K., Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland, and Poland. He has participated in international festivals at Maastricht and Belfast. In November of 2000, he made his Asian debut with recitals in Sendai and Tokyo. His radio recitals include NPR, the BBC, RTE Dublin, SDR Stuttgart, Radio France, on the nationally-syndicated show, A Note to You, produced by WGBH-Boston, over WQED Pittsburgh, WNYC, and many others. As a recording artist, he may be heard on the Centaur, Elan, Koch International, Museum of Modern Art, RWYA, and Sonora labels. The first half of the pianist’s program will feature classical works by Scarlatti, Haydn and Schubert; the second half will focus on the history of ragtime, from its precursors to works by modern masters: Sonata in F Minor, Longo 187 Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in C Major, Longo 3 Domenico Scarlatti Sonata in F Major, Hob. XVI/23 Joseph Haydn Three Impromptus: Franz Schubert B-flat Major, Op. 142, No. 3 E-flat Major, Op. 90, No. 2 A-flat Minor, Op. 90, No. 4 “The Riches of Rags” Precursors: “Old Folks at Home” Variations (1856) Stephen Foster Pasquinade (1863) Louis Moreau Gottschalk The King of Ragtime: Maple Leaf Rag (1899) Scott Joplin Solace (1909) The Next Wave: The Baltimore Todolo (1908) Eubie Blake Dill Pickles (1906) Charles L. Johnson Novelty Rags: Kitten on the Keys (1921) Zez Confrey Dizzy Fingers (1923) European Imitators: Ragtime (1920) Igor Stravinsky Ragtime (1921) Paul Hindemith Golliwog’s Cakewalk (1908) Claude Debussy Modern Masters: The Graceful Ghost Rag (1971) William Bolcom Spring Beauties (1997) Brian Dykstra Admission Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or by calling MissionTix at 410-752-8950. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash or check only) immediately prior to the concert. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts MissionTix: http://www.missiontix.com Online News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Administration Drive Garage. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Administration Drive Garage. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Administration Drive Garage. • Visitor parking is available in the Administration Drive Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Posted by tmoore February 15, 2007 UMBC Department of Visual Arts Presents Spring 2007 Visiting Artists Vincent Grenier, Filmmaker, March 8 Micki Spiller, Sculptor, April 4 Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. The UMBC Department of Visual Arts presents its Fall 2006 series of Visiting Artist Lectures, featuring Vincent Grenier and Micki Spiller. Vincent Grenier Filmmaker March 8, 7 pm, Fine Arts Building Room 221 Vincent Grenier was born in Quebec City, Canada. He has made experimental films and videos since the early 1970s when he received an MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. Grenier’s films have been shown in the United States, Canada and Europe at showcases such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Anthology Film Archives, the Pacific Film Archives, the Collective for Living Cinema and Cinéma Parallel in Montréal. His films and videos have earned him production grants from the Canada Council and elsewhere. His films and videos include: Tabula Rasa (2004), 2nd prize Media City Festival, Windsor, Canada, Views from the Avant Garde, New York Film Festival and Onion Film & Video Festival; Here (2002), Awarded Gold for best Experimental film, New York Film Expo; Color Study (2000), Rotterdam Film festival, London and Toronto Film Festivals, Lincoln Center, second prize at the Black Maria Film Festival; Material Incidents (2001), Rotterdam Film Festival & New York Video Festival; Feet (1994) 2nd prize at the 1995 Black Maria; Out in the Garden (1991), Best Documentary, 1992 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Best Experimental Documentary, 16th Atlanta Film/Video Festival, shown on WNET and London Film Festival; You (1990), Black Maria Festival; Time’s Wake (1987), prize winner, Black Maria Festival. Seven of Grenier’s films & videos were curated in the Whitney Museum of American Art 1970-2000 American Century Film program. Films by Grenier are in the collections of the Donnell Media Library in NYC, the National Film Archive, Ottawa, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, and AGO, Toronto. Grenier is on the faculty in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University and lives in Ithaca, New York. Micki Spiller Sculptor April 4, 12 noon, Fine Arts Building Room 215 Micki Spiller is an artist whose work examines the curiosities of space. She will speak about a recent project, Lost and Found in the Stacks, exploring the imaginary spaces created in books. In this project, Spiller breaks down barriers between libraries and museums by creating works that can be checked out of the Brooklyn Public Library. From the outside, these works resemble books, however when opened they reveal an elaborate miniature architectural world inspired by particular books. For example, one project replicates period rooms from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as inspired by E.L. Konigsberg’s mystery From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Spiller has exhibited her work at such venues as the Islip Art Museum (East Islip, New York), Indiana University Gallery (Terre Haute, Indiana), Spaces (Cleveland, Ohio), Franklin Furnace Archives (New York City), and at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Spiller has participated in artist residency programs at the Smack Mellon Studios (Brooklyn, New York), The Evergreen House (Baltimore, Maryland), Henry Street Settlement (New York City), the AIM program at the Bronx Museum of Art (Bronx, New York), Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts (Omaha, Nebraska), and at the World Views Studios in the World Trade Center (New York City). She has been the recipient of numerous grants such as the Pollock-Krasner Grant, Art Matters Grant, and New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant. Spiller received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute, and her MFA from Ohio State University in sculpture. Currently, she serves on the faculty at Parsons School of Design and The Pratt Institute. Admission All events are free and open to the public. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Online News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to Visitor Parking. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to Visitor Parking. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to Visitor Parking. • Visitor parking is available in the Administration Drive Garage and the Commons Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Posted by tmoore February 13, 2007 UMBC Department of Theatre presents the “IN 10” Theatre Festival and National Play Competition Five Short Plays Presented Each Evening, Including the Premiere of a New Work by Heather McDonald March 1-4, 2007 UMBC Theatre Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents the IN 10 Theatre Festival and National Play Competition, March 1-4 at the UMBC Theatre. Each evening, theatergoers will enjoy five short plays, including the premiere of a new work by Baltimore area playwright Heather McDonald. Inaugurated in 2006, the annual IN 10 National Play Competition seeks to address the scarcity of strong roles for young women in contemporary American plays. By creating a national competition for 10-minute long plays that feature solid acting opportunities for young actresses, the UMBC Department of Theatre hopes to help commence a new era in contemporary American playwrighting. The national winner is awarded a $1,000 cash prize and performances at the Festival. Additionally, each year the IN 10 Festival and National Play Competition commissions a new work by a noted American playwright. The winner of the 2007 IN 10 Competition is EM Lewis, whose work, The Edge of Ross Island, will be staged along with the work of three other finalists: Ruth McKee's Otherwise Engaged, Ira Gamerman’s A Girl with a Black Eye, and Mark Young’s The Final Movement. The commissioned playwright for 2007 is Maryland resident Heather McDonald, whose play, The Two Marys, will receive its premiere during the Festival. Susan McCully, IN 10’s artistic director and member of the faculty of UMBC’s Department of Theatre, said, “A very concrete intent drives the IN 10 Festival. University theatre departments throughout the United States tend to have more women than men in their programs, but most of the stronger roles in contemporary theatre are for men. Young actresses need to work on plays in which their characters drive the action.” Lynn Watson, chair of UMBC’s Department of Theatre, added, “When we first did IN 10 last season, it was very gratifying to see the effect that producing those plays had on our young female cast. At rehearsal discussions and talk-backs with audiences, we could hear and see the actors' exhilaration at finally occupying the center of the dramatic action, rather than reflecting it or revolving around it, as is all too often the case. In our acting classes, young woman often search in vain to find contemporary scenes where issues that engage them are addressed with complexity and subtlety, if they’re addressed at all. So much of the time, young female characters are two-dimensional and ‘functionary’—the girlfriend, the daughter, the co-worker—serving to advance the story or provide a foil to respond to male concerns. Last year, the young women in IN 10 responded with tremendous pleasure and pride as they took on characters and issues written expressly for them. And we are seeing the same response this year in the cast of IN 10 2007.” About the Playwrights IN 10 Competition Winner: EM Lewis: The Edge of Ross Island EM Lewis’ work has been read and produced around the country. Her new full-length play, HEADS—a hostage drama set against the war in Iraq—was read at Pacific Resident Theatre, and will be included in New York University’s hotINK International Festival of New Plays in January 2007. Infinite Black Suitcase, a large ensemble piece set in rural Oregon, was developed and received a workshop production at Moving Arts in 2005. The play was named a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference in 2006 and a finalist in the Hinton Battle Theatre Lab’s “Diverse Voices” playwriting contest. Lewis is a writer-in-residence at Moving Arts Theatre Company in Los Angeles and a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights. Outside the theatre world, Lewis is co-founder and editor of the online literary journal Sunspinner. She lives in Santa Monica, California and is originally from Oregon. IN 10 Competition Finalists: Ruth McKee: Otherwise Engaged Ruth McKee’s plays include The Nightshade Family, which was a finalist in the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Contest, Alliance Theatre, Atlanta, and was recently read at Playwrights Horizons; Security Check, presented at Six Figures Theatre Company’s Artists of Tomorrow Festival 2006; 500 Words, produced in the 2005 Baldwin New Play Festival at the University of California, San Diego; Cargo, produced in BNPF 2004; Mail Returned, produced at UCSD and in the Six Figures AOT Festival 2004; The Noise Room, developed at HB Playwrights Foundation; Development, produced at Access Theater and Chashama in New York. Originally from Canada by way of Bangladesh and Kenya, Ruth has a BFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU and an MFA in Playwriting from UCSD, San Diego. She currently lives in Los Angeles and teaches playwriting at UCSD and Idyllwild Arts Academy. Ira Gamerman: Girl with a Black Eye Ira Gamerman received his BA in theatre from Towson University. His plays have been performed in Maryland, California, Alaska, and at such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Center. In 2005, he participated in the Kennedy Center’s summer playwriting intensive, where he studied under such nationally/internationally known playwrights as Lee Blessing, Roberto Aguirre Sacassa, and Gary Garrison. Gamerman is the founder of The Playwrights Group of Baltimore, a group dedicated to developing new plays in Baltimore. His first full-length play, No One Told You..., received a Maryland State Arts Council grant for playwriting in 2005. His second full-length play, Split, won first place production and third place play at the 2006 Baltimore Playwrights Festival. Ira was voted “Best Playwright Of Baltimore” by Baltimore’s City Paper in 2006. As a songwriter/guitarist, Ira fronts local indie band, EVEN SO. Mark Young: The Final Movement Mark Young is a Chicago playwright and Resident Playwright at Chicago Dramatists, where many of his plays have been developed. He has twice been a finalist for the Heideman Award at the Actors Theatre of Louisville for his plays Night (2004) and Black And White (2002). In 2002, his play They All Fall Down was a finalist for the Arts & Letters Prize, selected by John Guare. They All Fall Down subsequently appeared at the Source Theatre in Washington D.C., along with his one-act play New Orleans, as part of the 2002 Washington Theatre Festival. Both They All Fall Down and New Orleans received the Source Theatre’s H.D. Lewis New Play Award, as an evening of one acts titled Young Love. He is a graduate of St. John’s College and received his M.A. from the University of Chicago. Commissioned Playwright: Heather McDonald: The Two Marys Heather McDonald was commissioned by Houston Grand Opera and composer Jake Heggie (Dead Man Walking) to write the libretto for an opera based on Graham Greene’s novel The End of the Affair. The opera, also titled The End of the Affair, had its world premiere at Houston Grand Opera in March 2004 directed by Broadway director Leonard Foglia and starring Australian soprano Cheryl Barker and New Zealand baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes. The opera received a second production at Madison Opera, and a third production will be in Seattle at Opera Pacifica fall 2005. Subsequent productions are planned for Pittsburgh, New York and Australia. Heather McDonald’s play An Almost Holy Picture was produced on Broadway starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Michael Mayer. It was nominated for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. The play premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse starring David Morse and was named Best New Play of the Year by the Los Angeles Times. Ms. McDonald received the Kesselring Award for Best New American Play from the National Arts Club. The play has subsequently been produced at Center Stage in Baltimore, Round House Theatre in Washington, D.C., the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre and in numerous other theatres around the country. Holy Picture has been translated into Spanish and produced in Mexico and Spain. Her play When Grace Comes In received joint World Premieres at The La Jolla Playhouse and Seattle Repertory Theatre. The play was a finalist for The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and was developed at The Sundance Theatre Laboratory, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and The New Harmony Project. Ms. McDonald has continued to work on Grace and a new version received a workshop through FirstLook Productions in New York directed by Rebecca Taichman and starring Marcia Gay Harden. The production Ms. McDonald directed of her play Dream of a Common Language for Theatre of the First Amendment was nominated by The Washington Theatre Awards Society for eight Helen Hayes Awards and won four including Outstanding Resident Production. Dream premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and was produced Off-Broadway at The Judith Anderson Theatre. It has had many other productions. Ms. McDonald directed her play Available Light, a play with music, at Signature Theatre, which was supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA support allowed for the commissioning and recording (at the NPR studios) of a full score by composer David Maddox. Available Light premiered at The Actors Theatre of Louisville in the Humana Festival. Other plays include Faulkner’s Bicycle, The Rivers and Ravines (commissioned and produced by Arena Stage), Available Light, and Rain and Darkness: Hitting for the Cycle. They have been produced at many theatres including Yale Repertory Theatre, The Actors Theatre of Louisville – Humana Festival of New Plays, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Stage, the McCarter Theatre, the La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Rivendell Theatre, the Magic Theatre, New Playwrights Theatre and Off Broadway in New York. Recent and new projects include a commission from Signature Theatre for a new play, tentatively titled The Suppressed-Desire Ball, directing Michele Lowe’s play The Smell of the Kill at Round House Theatre, The J. M. Barrie Project, a collaborative piece with the MFA Acting students at Case-Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Playhouse, and a commission to adapt Gerda Lerner’s memoir FIREWEED: A Political Biography for Madison Repertory Theatre. She has three times been awarded NEA Playwriting Fellowships and been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She has been a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and won the First Prize Kesselring Award. She has been the recipient of a TCG Extended Collaboration Grant and a McKnight Fellow, and in 2005 an NEA/TCG Playwriting Residency Award. Her plays are published by the Dramatists Play Service, Samuel French, Inc., American Theatre Magazine, and in several collections. Ms. McDonald has had a long commitment to teaching and as associate professor and playwright-in-residence at George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts - Institute of the Arts for the past fourteen years. She has taught many other workshops around the country in various graduate playwriting programs and is on the faculty of the Kennedy Center Summer Playwriting Intensive. She received her MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Dramatic Writing Program. Performances Thursday, March 1, 4 pm (preview) (free admission to UMBC campus community) Friday, March 2, 8 pm (opening night) Saturday, March 3, 8 pm (with talkback following performance) Sunday, March 4, 4 pm Note: Plays contain adult language and subject matter that may not be appropriate for children. Admission $10 general admission; $5 students and seniors; $3 for the preview. The performance on Thursday, March 1st is free for the UMBC campus community. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or by calling MissionTix at 410-752-8950. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. • Visitor parking is available in the Commons Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Posted by tmoore February 12, 2007 UMBC Theatre Faculty in the News UMBC's Department of Theatre faculty and alumni recently received favorable reviews in the Baltimore Sun, Washington Post and the Washington City Paper. A production directed by Xerxes Mehta, professor of theatre, was reviewed in the Baltimore Sun and Washington Post. The double bill of one-act plays by Harold Pinter--The Collection and The Lover--also included set and costumes by Elena Zlotescu, associate professor of theatre, and Lynn Watson, chair and associate professor of theatre, was dialect consultant. The Pinter plays were produced by Rep Stage, the professional theatre company in residence at Howard County Community College. The new artistic director of Rep Stage is theatre alumnus Michael Stebbins. In addition, Assistant Professor of Theatre Colette Searls' direction of Vigils at Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, DC was favorably reviewed in the Washington Post and Washington City Paper. Posted by elewis February 9, 2007 UMBC Department of Theatre Presents Lecture by Lee Breuer Prize-Winning Writer and Director Friday, March 9, 7 p.m., UMBC Theatre Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents a lecture by writer and director Lee Breuer on Friday, March 9, 7 p.m., at the UMBC Theatre. Lee Breuer was founding artistic director of Mabou Mines theatre company in New York City, which he began in 1970 with colleagues Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalitis, David Warrilow, Frederick Neuman and Bill Raymond. He is a writer, director and lyricist who also works outside the company in film, on Broadway and on a variety of theatrical projects in Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America. Breuer’s most recent work with Mabou Mines is the puppet opera Red Beads, created in collaboration with puppeteer Basil Twist and composer Ushio Torikai. Of the September 2005 New York City premiere, The New York Times said, “...theater as sorcery; it is a crossroads where artistic traditions meet to invent a marvelous common language. It is a fairy tale, a puppet play and a chamber opera...amazing work.” Breuer’s best known work is The Gospel at Colonus, a Pentecostal Gospel rendering of Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus created with composer Bob Telson and starring Morgan Freeman and Clarence Fountain and the Blind Boys of Alabama, which premiered at The Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, and was performed on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater in 1988 for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. The Gospel at Colonus was televised on the PBS series Great Performances. The production received numerous awards, including a Pulitzer Prize nomination (1988), the Obie for Best Musical (1984), and an Emmy Television Award. In 1988 Lee Breuer was awarded the prestigious John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, popularly referred to as the “Genius” grant. He has also been awarded playwriting grants and fellowships from CAPS, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the McKnight Foundation. In April and May 2007, Breuer will direct the Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.) production of Mabou Mines’ Peter & Wendy. Admission Admission is free, but seating is limited. Reservations are strongly recommended by calling 410-455-2476 or visiting www.umbc.edu/arts. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. • Visitor parking is available in the Commons Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore February 2, 2007 UMBC Presents Edgeworks Dance Theater in Concert February 21, 2007 8 p.m., UMBC Theatre Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. UMBC presents Edgeworks Dance Theater in performance on Wednesday, February 21st, at 8:00 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Edgeworks Dance Theater will present the Baltimore premiere of its new work, Project: Cold Case, the hard-hitting critically-acclaimed component of the company's Negro Dance Theater Project, reflective of a continuing exploration of Black masculinity and image, identity, and representation in contemporary America. Commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center through its Local Dance Commissioning Project Program, Cold Case goes beyond the surface to resurrect the past and to present the now, challenging audiences to emerge from their own prejudices and fears and to fearlessly move into the future with a greater sense of understanding and compassion. Cold Case moves from what is considered to be on the edge of society to venture into extreme conditions in the hopes of achieving humility and tolerance. Cold Case moves from the edge to the center, reaching out. Edgeworks Dance Theater is an ensemble of American men, predominantly African-American men, that aims to break down stereotypes through dance utilizing a spectrum of performance, choreographic and teaching styles, reflecting the diversity of experiences and perspectives of both its members and guest artists. “Movement contrast and counterpoint are deployed with confidence and clarity. Simpler motion is rich and resonant...” --George Jackson, Dance View Times “The strongest evidence that dance can communicate what even the most heartfelt words cannot.” --Sarah Kaufman, The Washington Post Admission General admission: $15.00. Students and seniors: $7.00. Box Office: www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 Telephone Box Office: 410-752-8950 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Photos on this release Copyright ©2007 Astrid Riecken. Directions • From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore January 17, 2007 UMBC Presents Spring 2007 Music Concert Season Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2007 season, featuring three series: TNT (Then, Now, Tomorrow: Music for the Adventurous Listener), PRIME (Resounding Traditions) and a Student Concert Series. Returning this year is the bi-annual Music of Japan Today Festival on March 30th, 31st and April 1st. TNT Series (Then, Now, Tomorrow: Music for the Adventurous Listener) Tuesday, February 6 Nota Bena Contemporary Ensemble and the Queens College/Aaron Copland School of Music Percussion Ensemble 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS The Nota Bene Contemporary Ensemble and the Queens College/Aaron Copland School of Music Percussion Ensemble, both under the direction of percussionist Michael Lipsey, will perform Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire de soldat and John Cage's The City Wears a Slouch Hat (1942), with text by Kenneth Patchen. The Nota Bene Contemporary Ensemble is dedicated to the performance of twentieth-century music, including classics of the repertory, new music, and faculty and student works. Based at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queen’s College, the ensemble has performed at New York University’s Black Box Theater, the Open Ears Festival Marathon, worked with violinist Todd Reynolds and improvised with Sylvan Leroux of the Fula Flute Ensemble. Recent performances have featured works by Louis Andreissen and Frederic Rzewski. March 30, 31, and April 1 Music of Japan Today 2007 Festival and Symposium Complete schedule to be announced. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Western art music has existed for a relatively short time in Japan—it is only since the 1950s, countering Japan’s rush to adopt all that is “Western,” that some composers, led by Yuasa, Mayuzumi, Takemitsu and Ichiyanagi, began to move away from stylistic modeling of nineteenth-century European forms and twentieth-century dodecaphony towards a more individualistic approach. Concerned with reflecting philosophical and musical elements from their own culture, they began to discover and develop their “own music.” The music of these artists reflects a new global confluence of multiple cultures—a powerful cross-fertilization of aesthetics and musical characteristics from both East and West. The music is reflective of a variety of aspects of contemporary Japanese and Western societies, while at the same time deeply rooted in a traditional culture that has evolved over many years. In Music of Japan Today 2007, UMBC will host a three-day symposium of performances, lecture-recitals, panel discussions, and paper presentations on topics that concern Japanese music from the widest possible range of disciplines and expertise. Three guest composers of international stature will participate in the symposium: Hiroyuki Itoh, a winner of international composition prizes in Europe and Japan (including the prestigious Akutagawa Award), has been commissioned and performed by major ensembles including the New Japan Philharmonic, the Nieuw Ensemble, and the Arditti Quartet; Hiroyuki Yamamoto, whose works have been performed at Forum ’91 (Montreal), Gaudeamus Music Week ’94 (Holland), and ISCM World Music Days (2000 in Luxembourg and 2001 in Yokohama), has received prizes for his work, including the Japan Music Competition, Toru Takemitsu Composition Award, and Akutagawa Award; and Shirotomo Aizawa, winner of an Ataka Prize, and a composition prize from the National Theater in Japan. He has studied composition in Tokyo, Berlin, and Vienna, and conducting with Seiji Ozawa, among others. Performances during the symposium will include a broad range of works for different genres (solo instrument, chamber music, computer and electronic music, traditional instruments) by Itoh, Yamamoto, and Aizawa, as well as other Japanese composers. They will include premieres of new works by the guest composers. The performers for these concerts will include faculty and students of the UMBC Department of Music, and guest musicians from the Baltimore/Washington DC area and other international new music centers. This symposium is the sixth in a series of events since 1992 to address Japanese and other Asian musics, organized by Kazuko Tanosaki and E. Michael Richards. Sunday, April 22 Franklin Cox, cello 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Cellist Franklin Cox has performed in numerous festivals and new music ensembles, including the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, and SONOR, as well as at the 1980 and 1982 Spoleto Festivals, the 1983 Banff Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Xenakis Festival and Darmstadt Revisited Festival at UCSD, and at the Darmstadt Festival since 1988, where he received a special citation for cello performance in 1990. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Indiana University, a Master of Arts degree in composition from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California, San Diego. His program will include Time and Motion Study II by Brian Ferneyhough and the world premiere of Crutch by Aaron Cassidy. Dr. Cox has studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa, Steven Suber, Fred Fox, Harvey Sollberger, Fred Lerdahl, and Jack Beeson. He received an Alice M. Ditson Scholarship and Dissertation Fellowship at Columbia University, Regent's Fellowship and a Dissertation Research Fellowship for Outstanding Research at UCSD, a full scholarship to the 1990 June in Buffalo Festival, and full scholarships for the 1988 and 1992 Darmstadt Festivals. He was awarded a Stipendium Fellowship at the 1990 Darmstadt Festival, won 2nd prize in the Los Angeles Arts Commission competition in the spring of 1991, and was co-winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (highest award for composition) in the 1992 Darmstadt Festival. Thursday, May 3 New Haven Quartet 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS The New Haven Quartet is comprised of Ayano Kataoka (percussion), Steve Wilson (tenor), James Deitz (percussion), and Josh Quillen (percussion), all graduates of the Yale University School of Music in New Haven. They specialize in interpreting percussion classics by composers such as Toru Takemitsu and Stuart Saunders Smith (professor of music at UMBC) while commissioning new works from young composers such as Mark Dancigers. Their uniquely diverse backgrounds converge to create a group sound like no other. The quartet's program will include: • Raintree by Toru Takemitsu • And Sometimes the Ears/When the Body Betrays by Stuart Saunders Smith • Lion Lying Down by Mark Dancigers • …And Points North by Stuart Saunders Smith • Songs 1-9/Polka in Treblinka by Stuart Saunders Smith Monday, May 14 Allen and Patricia Strange 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Violinist Patricia Strange will present a program of music by composers Allen Strange and Larry Austin, including Strange's Goddess, Heroes: The Boys (Ghost Tracks), Elemental Vamp, SideShow: Six Gothic Images from the Darkside, and Quinault Cathedral, and Austin's Redux. Allen Strange is one of the leading authorities on analogue electronic music; his Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls (1972) is now a classic text. He also wrote Programming and Meta-Programming the Electro-Organism (1974), the operations manual for the Buchla Music Easel and has documented the 200 Series synthesizers made by Buchla. He co-founded two performance groups, Biome (1967-72), in order to make use of the EMS Synthi, and, with Buchla in 1974, the Electronic Weasel Ensemble. He was president of the International Computer Music Association (1993-98) and has appeared as a guest artist-lecturer throughout the world. With his wife, Patricia, they have recently published The Contemporary Violin: Extended Performance Techniques. Strange composes for live electronic instrumental ensembles, for live and taped electronics with voices and acoustic instruments, and for the theatre; most of his works for acoustic instruments require extended performance techniques. He is particularly interested in linear tuning systems, spatial distribution of sound, the isolation of timbre as a musical parameter, and composing for groups of like instruments or voices (consorts). Elements of vaudeville, rock-and-roll, country-and-western music, and the guitar techniques of Les Paul are found in his works. His theatre pieces employ various media including film, video, and lighting effects. Strange lives on Bainbridge Island in the Puget Sound pursuing a full-time career composing and concertizing with his wife. Patricia Strange is an active performer of contemporary violin literature and has concertized throughout the USA, Canada, Mexico and Europe. With her husband, Allen Strange, she co-founded two live electronic music ensembles, BIOME and The Electric Weasel Ensemble. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from California State University Fullerton and a Masters of Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego. Ms. Strange has held positions in the San Diego Symphony, Opera San Jose, San Jose Cleveland Ballet Orchestra, Mid Summer Mozart Orchestra and was principal second violin with the San Jose Symphony. She has also taught violin and viola at San Jose State University. She and her husband, Allen Strange, have published a book entitled The Contemporary Violin; Extended Performance Techniques, available from Scarecrow Press. She currently lives on Bainbridge Island in the Puget Sound and remains active as a performer, teacher and director of the SoundScape Contemporary Chamber Players.   PRIME Series Resounding Traditions Sunday, January 28 Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $10 general admission, $5 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available at the door, cash or check only. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Newberry's Victorian Cornet Band, led by guest conductor and UMBC Director of Bands Jari Villanueva, presents a program entitled Music of the Gilded Age. The music of America's Gilded Age—the post-Civil War and post-Reconstruction years from 1865 to 1901—celebrated the country's unprecedented ecomonic, territorial, industrial and population expansions. The program will feature music by Suppé, Grafulla, Sousa, Pryor, Verdi and others, and will feature solo performances by cornetist Elisa Koehler and trombonist Jared Denhard. Sunday, February 11 Franklin Cox, cello, and Rachel Franklin, piano 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $10 general admission, $5 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Cellist Franklin Cox and pianist Rachel Franklin join forces to present an afternoon of chamber music. Both artists are members of UMBC’s distinguished music faculty. The duo's program will feature both Brahms cello sonatas, No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38, and No. 2 in F major, Op. 99. Franklin Cox has performed in numerous festivals and new music ensembles, including the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, and SONOR, as well as at the 1980 and 1982 Spoleto Festivals, the 1983 Banff Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Xenakis Festival and Darmstadt Revisited Festival at UCSD, and at the Darmstadt Festival since 1988, where he received a special citation for cello performance in 1990. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Indiana University, a Master of Arts degree in composition from Columbia University, and a PhD. in composition at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cox has studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa, Steven Suber, Fred Fox, Harvey Sollberger, Fred Lerdahl, and Jack Beeson. He received an Alice M. Ditson Scholarship and Dissertation Fellowship at Columbia University, Regent's Fellowship and a Dissertation Research Fellowship for Outstanding Research at UCSD, a full scholarship to the 1990 June in Buffalo Festival, and full scholarships for the 1988 and 1992 Darmstadt Festivals. He was awarded a Stipendium Fellowship at the 1990 Darmstadt Festival, won 2nd prize in the Los Angeles Arts Commission competition in the spring of 1991, and was co-winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (highest award for composition) in the 1992 Darmstadt Festival. As a Pro Musicis International Award winner, British pianist Rachel Franklin has given her solo debuts in Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, and Jordan Hall, Boston. The Boston Globe enthused about her “beautiful differentiations of color, touch and texture” and described a performance on her solo debut CD as “not inferior...to the recorded performances by Cortot and Rubinstein.” She has also given European Pro Musicis solo debuts in Paris and Rome. At the Wigmore Hall, London, where she has given several recitals, critics applauded her “stunning individuality,” “exquisite dynamic control,” and “amazing power and solidity of technique.” The Washington Post praised her “cool-headed bravura and panache.” In Dublin The Irish Times said: “Of the many qualities that distinguished Rachel Franklin's recital, it was perhaps the intelligence underpinning her creative interpretations that caused her to stand out from so many other young pianists...” She has been featured on NPR's Performance Today, with whom she has given frequent spoken broadcasts. Her recital broadcasts include BBC Radio 3, WQXR and WNYC in New York and WJHU in Baltimore, and Radio Telefis Eireann in Ireland. Thursday, March 8 Noel Lester, piano 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $10 general admission, $5 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Pianist Noel Lester has delighted audiences and critics alike for his performances throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and through his recordings and radio broadcasts. He appears regularly as a soloist, chamber pianist, and soloist with orchestra. Noel Lester made his European debut in 1991 at the Ernst Barlach Haus in Hamburg and he has since performed extensively throughout the U.K., Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland, and Poland. He has participated in international festivals at Maastricht and Belfast. In November of 2000, he made his Asian debut with recitals in Sendai and Tokyo. His radio recitals include NPR, the BBC, RTE Dublin, SDR Stuttgart, Radio France, on the nationally-syndicated show, “A Note to You,” produced by WGBH-Boston, over WQED Pittsburgh, WNYC, and many others. As a recording artist, he may be heard on the Centaur, Elan, Koch International, Museum of Modern Art, RWYA, and Sonora labels. The program will feature works by Beethoven, Scarlatti, and Brahms, plus a historical survey of ragtime, from its roots to today. Sunday, March 11 UMBC Symphony Orchestra 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission. Public information: 410-455-ARTS The UMBC Symphony Orchestra performs under the direction of Wayne Cameron. The program will feature the winners of the High School Concerto Competition and the Department of Music Concerto Competition performing Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85; Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61; Édouard Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21; and Béla Bartók's Violin Rhapsody No. 1. Sunday, April 15 Tiemann-Belzer Duo 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $10 general admission, $5 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Exploding on the scene with their debut CD Crypto, the Tiemann-Belzer Duo is an unusual jazz ensemble featuring percussionist Scott Tiemann and saxophonist Matt Belzer. By boiling down a more traditional instrumentation to only the melodic and rhythmic placeholders, the group creates a distinctive sound—a disciplined and creative approach to performance. Featuring new compositions by Belzer, who recently joined the UMBC music faculty, this group is a collaborative effort by musicians who have developed that heightened awareness of each other for which jazz musicians strive. Sunday, May 6 UMBC Symphony Orchestra 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission. Public information: 410-455-ARTS The UMBC Symphony Orchestra performs under the direction of Wayne Cameron. The program will feature Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor ("From the New World"), and pianist Rachel Franklin performing the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor, Op. 15. Monday, May 7 UMBC Chamber Players 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission. Public information: 410-455-ARTS The UMBC Chamber Players perform under the direction of E. Michael Richards. The program will feature music of Beethoven, Rorem, Prokofiev, Matsudaira, and others.   Student Recital Series March 2 & 3 The Vocal Arts Ensemble directed by David Smith. 7 pm both evenings, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Thursday, April 26 The UMBC Jazz Ensemble (Big Band) directed by Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Saturday, May 5 The Jubilee Singers directed by Janice Jackson. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Donations accepted. 410-455-ARTS. Tuesday, May 8 The UMBC Percussion Ensemble directed by Tom Goldstein. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Wednesday, May 9 The UMBC New Music Ensemble directed by Stuart Saunders Smith. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Thursday, May 10 The UMBC Wind Ensemble directed by Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Saturday, May 12 The UMBC Camerata directed by David Smith. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Tuesday, May 15 Department of Music Honors Recital. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS.   Additional Information Telephone MissionTix box office: 410-752-8950 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news MissionTix: http://www.missiontix.com/ Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Parking is available after 3:30 p.m. on weekdays and all day during weekends in gated Lots 16/9A for a 50¢ fee, quarters only. From any campus entrance, circle around Hilltop Circle (the road the encircles the campus) to Hilltop Road. Take Hilltop Road toward the center of campus. The Fine Arts Building will now be directly in front of you. Proceed through the stop sign. The road will curve to the right. If Lot 16 is full, you may also pay to park in Lot 9A, which sits on the hill immediately above Lot 16—return to the stop sign and turn left toward Lot 9A, and then to the gate. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Posted by tmoore January 12, 2007 UMBC Presents the Phoenix Dance Company February 7, 8, 9 & 10, 2007 8 p.m., UMBC Theatre Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. UMBC presents the acclaimed Phoenix Dance Company, the professional dance company in residence at UMBC, in concert on February 7, 8, 9 and 10, 2007 at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Renowned for its revolutionary exploration of dance and technology, the Phoenix Dance Company features riveting choreography by Carol Hess and Doug Hamby (hailed as “bold and ambitious” by The Washington Post), and performances by the award-winning Sandra Lacy and other artists. The program will include: A hardcore/punk work by Carol Hess, In Fits and Starts/Scenes from a Personal Space, featuring the chaotic and thrashy music of Baltimore band Lilu Dallas. Square Breath by Doug Hamby, first premiered at Dance Place in Washington, D.C., by Doug Hamby Dance, and now set to a new score by Ferdinand Maisel. Dancers, moving through a wired space, help create the sound score to this strong, powerful and percussive creation. The extraordinary Sandra Lacy in two highly expressive solos, one of her own and one choreographed for her by Ting Yu-Chen. 22 Dean Street by Doug Hamby, a soulful response to the music of Charlie Hayden. …of no small use or advantage, a rich landscape of movement for seven women created through an choreographic process involving a radical interpretation of the graphic symbols of baroque dance scores, by Carol Hess. The premiere of Persona by Carol Hess, a new solo about personal identities, performed by Jenifer Dobbins with a tiny wireless surveillance camera. Admission General admission: $15.00. Students and seniors: $7.00. Box Office: www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 Telephone Box Office: 410-752-8950 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Photos on this release Copyright ©2007 Enoch Chan. Directions • From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore January 8, 2007 Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Presents Two Exhibitions: Photographs of the Athenian Acropolis: The Restoration Project and Celebrating Samuel Beckett at 100 January 29 - March 24, 2007 Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. Opening on January 29th and continuing through March 24th, UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents two exhibitions: Photographs of the Athenian Acropolis: The Restoration Project and Celebrating Samuel Beckett at 100. Significantly damaged by air pollution, earthquakes, wars, erosion and the rusting of iron used in previous restorations, most of the Acropolis monuments have been partially or entirely disassembled and subsequently reconstructed in an effort to preserve their architectural integrity. The Acropolis exhibition, featuring the photography of Socratis Mavrommatis, details these ongoing restorations carried out by the Acropolis Restoration Service since 1975. It was the role of Mavrommatis, chief photographer of the project for more than 25 years, to capture on film the incomparable beauty of the monuments, and, at the same time, the difficulty of working on large pieces of marble of artistic and historical importance. Photographs of the Acropolis have usually been directed at an idealistic rendering and dramatization of the subject, romantically emphasizing the beauty of their abandoned state and damaged condition. The photographs of the restoration work carried out on the monuments, by contrast, show them as they are, as true to reality as possible. The exhibition images, photographically printed in black and white on large panels that also contain descriptive text, are chronologically arranged and depict four key areas of the restoration effort: the rationale for preservation, the preparation for intervention, the main restoration work in process, and images of the monuments themselves. The photographs include large panoramic shots of the buildings, sometimes encased in scaffolding; close-ups of architectural features such as columns, cornices and friezes; documentation of damage by pollution, explosions and other factors; and the disassembly and reconstruction of some of the monuments. Photographs of the Athenian Acropolis: The Restoration Project was produced by the Acropolis Restoration Service of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. The exhibition opened in Athens at the renowned Benaki Museum in 2002, and has traveled to Brussels, Paris, Rome and London. The North American tour is organized by the Thomas J. Walsh Gallery, Fairfield University. The presentation at UMBC is co-organized by Richard Mason, associate professor of Ancient Studies, and the Library Gallery. Public Program On February 14th from 4 to 5 pm, the Gallery will present Katherine A. Schwab, associate professor of art history at Fairfield University, who will speak on The Parthenon East Metopes: Technologies of the 21st Century and New Discoveries. This lecture will be held in the Gallery; admission is free. The Glory of Ruins Concurrently showing with Photographs from the Athenian Acropolis: The Restoration Project is The Glory of Ruins, on display in the nearby Library Rotunda and curated by a group of eight UMBC students taking part in an Ancient Studies/Honors College internship. This exhibition displays nineteenth and twentieth century photographs depicting classical Athens and Attica, all from the Special Collections of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. Celebrating Samuel Beckett at 100 The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery celebrates the centenary of Samuel Beckett, one of the leading writers and dramatists of the twentieth century, with the exhibition Celebrating Samuel Beckett at 100. The Irish-born author, whose stirring texts in French and English were recognized by the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969, is considered by some the best writer of English since Shakespeare and the greatest French playwright since Molière. Curated by Angela Moorjani in association with the Library Gallery, the show will present Beckett’s words and images as filtered through the imaginative work of a number of visual and stage artists. On view will be select photographs, etchings, artists’ books, and rare editions of Beckett’s works. Public Program for Celebrating Samuel Beckett at 100 On Thursday, February 8th, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, a program will feature three of UMBC’s resident Beckett scholars—Xerxes Mehta, Angela Moorjani and Wendy Salkind—in readings, performances and discussions related to the works on display. The program will be held in the Library Gallery, free admission, with a reception to follow. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Objects from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the University community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery sends some exhibits on tour to other institutions nationwide. Admission to the Gallery and its programs is free. Acknowledgements Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour is organized by the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County in collaboration with The Corcoran Gallery of Art and the George Eastman House. The exhibition is made possible by generous support from Ben Shneiderman. Additional support is provided by the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Baltimore County Commission on Arts & Sciences, the Friends of the Library & Gallery, the Libby Kuhn Endowment, the Judaic Studies Program at UMBC, and Epson USA Inc. The presentation of both exhibitions is supported by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support for Photographs from the Athenian Acropolis: The Restoration Project comes from the Friends of the Library & Gallery and the Department of Ancient Studies. Additional support for Celebrating Samuel Beckett at 100 comes from UMBC’s Office of the President, Office of the Provost, the Departments of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Theatre, and English, and the Humanities Forum. The reception is sponsored by the Friends of the Library & Gallery and the Libby Kuhn Endowment. Hours Sunday 1 P.M. – 5 P.M. Monday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Tuesday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Wednesday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Thursday 12 P.M. – 8 P.M. Friday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Saturday 1 P.M. – 5 P.M. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 Web UMBC Arts & Culture Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions UMBC is located approximately 10 minutes from downtown Baltimore and 20 minutes from I-495. • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Walker Avenue Garage or Albin O. Kuhn Library. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Walker Avenue Garage or Albin O. Kuhn Library. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Walker Avenue Garage or Albin O. Kuhn Library. • Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. ### Posted by tmoore December 4, 2006 UMBC Department of Music Presents a New Work by Carlo Alessandro Landini December 12, 2006 UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu The UMBC Department of Music presents an Honors Recital, including the premiere of a new work by Carlo Alessandro Landini (pictured), performed by Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, on Tuesday, December 12th, at 8:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Carlo Alessandro Landini, born in Milan, 1954, was unanimously awarded the Premier Prix of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in 1981. In the same year he received a Fulbright Award, which enabled him to teach at the University of California, San Diego from 1981 to 1983. Since then, he has lived in Italy and now holds the teaching chair in composition at the G. Nicolini Conservatory in Piacenza. He has won numerous competitions (Ennio Porrino, Valentino Bucchi, Città di Mestre, Franco Margola), and is the only composer ever awarded twice (2002 and 2004) the prestigious K. Serocki Prize in Warsaw, Poland. He is also a regular guest composer at the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt. His new work, Coming to Life. Generation, Transition, Interlocking of Phases, was commissioned by Ruckus to commemmorate UMBC's 40th Anniversary. The composer has described the work in the following terms: In thermodynamics, phase transition (also called phase change) is the transformation of a thermodynamic system from one phase to another. The distinguishing characteristic of a phase transition is an abrupt sudden change in one or more physical properties, in particular the heat capacity, with a small change in a thermodynamic variable such as the temperature. Under the Ehrenfest classification, phase transitions are labeled by the lowest derivative of the free energy that is discontinuous at the transition. First-order phase transitions – such as in Landini’s piece – exhibit a discontinuity in the first derivative of the free energy with a thermodynamic variable. The various transitions to be found in Coming to Life are classified as first-order transitions because they involve a discontinuous change in density (which is the first derivative of the free energy with respect to a chemical or physical potential). The first-order phase transitions are those that involve a latent heat (the repression of drives, not unlike that imagined by Freud, involves the idea of a typical “latency of emotions” as the self-containment and transformation of whatever aesthetic form into very few number of basic, even trivial elements and gestures). During such a transition, a system either absorbs or releases a fixed (and typically large) amount of energy. Because energy cannot be instantaneously transferred between the system and its environment, first-order transitions are associated with “mixed-phase regimes” in which some parts of the system have completed the transition and others have not. This phenomenon is familiar to anyone who has boiled a pot of water: the water does not instantly turn into gas, but forms a turbulent mixture of water and water vapor bubbles. In Wagner’s operas and Mahler’s symphonies the transition may require a considerable, never experienced before, amount of time. Mixed-phase systems are difficult to study, because their dynamics are violent and hard to control. However, they can be emulated by the artist. The presence of symmetry-breaking (or non-breaking) is important to the behavior of phase transitions as it is to the behavior of an artwork. It was pointed out by Landau that, given any state of a system, one may unequivocally say whether or not it possesses a given symmetry. Therefore, it cannot be possible to analytically deform a state in one phase into a phase possessing a different symmetry. Landau’s law receives its poignant application in Landini’s Coming to Life, whereas it is impossible for the solid-liquid phase boundary to end in a critical point like the liquid-gas boundary. Typically, like in the realm of physical world, also in Landini’s piece the more symmetrical phase is on the high-temperature side (the “passionate” side of growing layers of sound and increasing dynamics) of a phase transition, and the less symmetrical phase on the low-temperature side (where the form dramatically falls into the realm of entropy and of disintegration). Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Online News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Administration Drive Garage. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Administration Drive Garage. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Administration Drive Garage. • Visitor parking is available in the Administration Drive Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore November 15, 2006 UMBC Department of Theatre Presents "The Faulkner Project: As I Lay Dying," Directed by Robert Allen November 29 - December 9, 2006 UMBC Theatre Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents The Faulkner Project: As I Lay Dying, directed by Robert Allen at the UMBC Theatre from November 29 through December 9. What makes William Faulkner one of the truly visionary American writers of the 20th century? The Department of Theatre at UMBC takes on the world of Faulkner, focusing on his groundbreaking novel As I Lay Dying. More than a straightforward adaptation, The Faulkner Project seeks to unleash the haunted power of his provocative world and compelling characters. The novel As I Lay Dying follows the adventures of the Bundren family as they embark on an extraordinary quest to bury their mother Addie in the town of her birth—her dying wish. This effort subjects the clan to nothing less than fire and flood, as well as tragedy and comedy on a scale comparable to James Joyce’s Ulysses. Written as a series of inner monologues from the perspectives of the different personalities, Faulkner’s text unfolds a macabre story that offers a profound revelation of the human soul. An epic journey lightly disguised as a funeral procession, the work explores the secret nature of character, hope, love, and the struggle of the artist. Directed and conceived by Robert Allen, The Faulkner Project: As I Lay Dying was adapted by Justine Moore and features set design by Tamas Szalczer, costume and makeup design by Melanie Lester, light design by Terry Cobb, sound design by UMBC student Brian Rudell vocal and dialect coaching by Christopher Marino and dramaturgy by UMBC graduate Gedalya Chinn. UMBC Associate Professor Emeritus Larry Lasher provided expertise as a Faulkner scholar. Performances Wednesday, November 29, 8 pm (preview) Thursday, November 30, 8 pm (opening night) Friday, December 1, 8 pm Saturday, December 2, 8 pm Sunday, December 3, 4 pm Thursday, December 7, 4 pm (free for the UMBC campus community) Friday, December 8, 8 pm Saturday, December 9, 8 pm Admission $10 general admission; $5 students and seniors; $3 for the preview. The performance on Thursday, December 7th is free for the UMBC campus community. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or by calling MissionTix at 410-752-8950. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Tickets: 410-752-8950 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Tickets: http://www.missiontix.com/ Online News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. • Visitor parking is available in the Commons Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore November 1, 2006 Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture Exhibition on MPT 11/1 The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture's "Raymond Loewy:Designs for a Consumer Culture" exhibition will be featured on MPT's "ArtWorks This Week" on Wednesday, November 1. Professor David Yager, the Center's executive director, gives a tour of the exhibit and a look into the mind of industrial designer Raymond Loewy. For more information, visit www.mpt.org/artworks/thisweek. For more information on the exhibition and upcoming arts events at UMBC, visit www.umbc.edu/arts. Posted by elewis September 27, 2006 UMBC Department of Visual Arts Presents Fall 2006 Visiting Artists James Duesing, Animation, October 11 SKIF++, Music & Videography, October 16 Billie Grace Lynn, October 26 Hasan Elahi, Video & Internet Art, November 9 Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. The UMBC Department of Visual Arts presents its Fall 2006 series of Visiting Artist Lectures, featuring James Duesing, SKIF++, Billie Grace Lynn and Hasan Elahi. James Duesing Animation October 11, 7 pm, Lecture Hall VII (ITE Building) James Duesing is a computer animator and video artist. His work has been exhibited throughout the world in venues as diverse as the Sundance Film Festival, PBS, SIGGRAPH, the Berlin Video Festival, MTV, the Shanghai Animation Festival, Film Forum, the Seoul Animation Center and some of the finest rec rooms in the USA. His work is held in collections at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Goethe Memorial Museum, Tokyo; the UCLA Film Archive, Los Angeles; and The Israel Museum. His work has received much recognition, including grants from Creative Capital, the National Endowment for the Arts, an American Film Institute Fellowship, an Emmy Award, the Deutscher Videokunstpreis, and a CINE Golden Eagle. He has been Co-Director of the STUDIO of Creative Inquiry, a center for interdisciplinary collaboration in art and science projects. He currently is a professor in electronic and time based art at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art. SKIF++ Music & Videography October 16, 12 noon, Fine Arts Studio A Jeff Carey (laptop SuperCollider) and Robert van Heumen (laptop LiSa) are the electronic backbone of the electroacoustic sextet OfficeR that brings structured improvisation in a very unique way. As SKIF they work with similar structures, ranging from sonic bursts to melodic melancholy, using joysticks and selfmade controllers to keep it all in line (most of the time). SKIF++ is the collaboration of SKIF and Bas van Koolwijk's (laptop Max/MSP/Jitter) processing of the SKIF-sound into video and back again to audio. Playing music in many contexts, as a computer musician, electro-acoustic composer and improviser, Jeff Carey's music ranges many aspects of computer music from non real-time acousmatic composition, electro-acoustic composition, to improvisation and performs in a number of units such as Office-R(6), USA/USB, the acclaimed feedback project 87 Central, and N-Collective related projects. Electronic musician Robert van Heumen is using STEIM's live sampling software LiSa with all kinds of controllers (some have called them sexy). He is active as a member of the electro-acoustic sextet OfficeR, part of the N Collective, and has shared the stage with Michel Waisvisz, Jeff Carey, Oguz Buyukberber, Anne LaBerge, Guy Harries, Daniel Schorno, Roddy Schrock and Nate Wooley. His soundworld is a mixture of environmental sounds, toys, voices, sounds from kitchen appliances, half of the time smashed beyond repair. He is the SampleMan of SKIF++. The video of Bas van Koolwijk can be seen as an aggressive attack on the illusion of video itself. Through a rigorous and formalistic approach, Van Koolwijk exposes the face of the machine which lives behind the often-placating veil of the televised image. Billie Grace Lynn Sculpture & Performance Art October 26, 7 pm, Fine Arts 215 Billie Grace Lynn is a sculptor whose work has been exhibited in group shows at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, Georgia. She has had recent solo and two-person exhibitions at the Lowe Art Museum in Coral Gables, Florida, the Rochester Contemporary in Rochester, New York, and Deluxe Arts in Miami, Florida. Her work is represented in several private and corporate collections, including those of the Rene and Veronica DiRosa Foundation, the Gap/Banana Republic, and the UC San Francisco Health Care Center. She has received awards and grants from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Art Matters, the NEA Artist Project Grant Program, and recently received a Florida Visual Artist Fellowship. Lynn teaches at the University of Miami. Originally from Alexandria, Louisiana, she studied at the Newcomb College of Tulane University (BA, Philosophy and Religious Studies) and the San Francisco Art Institute (MFA, Sculpture). Hasan Elahi Video & Internet Art November 9, 7 pm, Fine Arts 215 Hasan M. Elahi is an interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis on technology and media and their social implications. His research interests include issues of surveillance, simulated time, transport systems, and borders and frontiers. He has had numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally in venues such as PS122 and Exit Art in New York; the Kulturbahnhof in Kassel, Germany; the BBC Big Screen in Manchester, UK; and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has also lectured at the American Association of Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University and the Tate Modern Gallery in London. His work has been supported with significant grants and numerous sponsorships from the Ford Foundation/Philip Morris, Creative Capital Foundation, DuPont Industries, the West Virginia Cultural Center and the Asociación Artetik Berrikuntzara in Donostia-San Sebastián in the Basque Country/Spain among others. Currently, he is an assistant professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Admission All events are free and open to the public. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Online News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to Visitor Parking. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to Visitor Parking. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to Visitor Parking. • Visitor parking is available in the Administration Drive Garage and the Commons Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Posted by tmoore UMBC Department of Theatre presents Problem Child by George F. Walker, directed by Colette Searls October 17-22, 2006 UMBC Theatre Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents Problem Child by George F. Walker, directed by Colette Searls at the UMBC Theatre from October 17 to 22. Denise and R.J. want their baby back. Holed up in a cheap motel, they impatiently await a social worker's verdict while fending off the antics of a drunken innkeeper. With a wink to Jerry Springer, this strangely twisted comedy exposes the human desperation behind class prejudice and questions the reach of social control. George F. Walker is one of Canada's most prolific playwrights, and also one of the most widely produced Canadian dramatists both in Canada and internationally. His screen credits include Due South, The Newsroom and This is Wonderland. In 1997, he published a cycle of six new plays, including Problem Child, all of which take place in the same suburban motel room. The production features set design by Daniel Ettinger, costume design by Celestine Ranney-Howes, light and sound design by Terry Cobb and movement coaching by Wendy Salkind. Performances Tuesday, October 17, 8 pm (preview) Wednesday, October 18, 8 pm (opening night) Thursday, October 19, 4 pm (free for the UMBC campus community) Friday, October 20, 5 pm (special performance for UMBC alumni) Saturday, October 21, 8 pm Sunday, October 22, 4 pm Admission $10 general admission; $5 students and seniors; $3 for the preview. The performance on Thursday, October 19th is free for the UMBC campus community. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or by calling MissionTix at 410-752-8950. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Tickets: 410-752-8950 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Tickets: http://www.missiontix.com/ Online News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. • Visitor parking is available in the Commons Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore September 20, 2006 Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture September 21 – November 25, 2006 Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. UMBC’s Center for Art and Visual Culture (CAVC) presents Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture, opening on Thursday, September 21st and continuing through November 25th. The exhibition surveys the creativity of Raymond Loewy, arguably the most prominent industrial designer of the twentieth century. Loewy (1893–1986) became involved in the emerging world of industrial design in the 1920s after a successful career in commercial illustration. His modern designs soon became ubiquitous in western culture, streamlining and modernizing silverware and fountain pens, supermarkets, department stores, lipsticks and locomotives. Loewy and his teams designed the color scheme and logo for Air Force One, the John F. Kennedy memorial stamp, the Greyhound Scenicruiser, the Avanti car and the interiors for NASA’s Skylab. He designed the well-known icons of Exxon, BP and Lucky Strike cigarettes. Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture showcases his work, placing it in the wider context of the shaping of a modern look for consumer culture. The exhibition brings his work to life through an array of original drawings, models, products, advertisements, photographs, and rare film footage of Loewy at work. The presentation draws heavily on Loewy’s personal archives, a treasure collection of images and information not previously available to researchers or the public. The exhibition is organized by the Hagley Museum and Library of Wilmington, Delaware, and toured by ExhibitsUSA. The exhibition is curated by Hagley Museum staff, including Glenn Porter, Director Emeritus, Lynn Catanese, Head of Manuscripts and Archives, and Jim Hinz, former Library Conservator. Events On Thursday, September 21st from 5 to 7 pm, the CAVC will host an opening reception for Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture. On Monday, October 16th at 6 pm, the CAVC will present a panel discussion, Designs for a Consumer Culture, moderated by Steve Ziger of Ziger/Snead, and featuring Antonio Alcala, creative director at Studio A; Abbott Miller of Pentagram; Tom Strong of Strong/Cohen Associates; and Tucker Viemeister of Studio Red at Rockwell Group. Admission to the panel discussion is free. University of Baltimore, Student Center, Multipurpose Room, 5th Floor. (21 West Mount Royal Avenue at the southeast corner of Maryland and Mount Royal Avenues. On street parking is available in addition to lot parking at 1401 N. Charles Street.) On Saturday, November 18th, 2006, from 10 am to 12 pm at UMBC’s Commons, six to ten area high schools will participate in a High School Design Fair Competition in which students will re-design everyday objects selected by their instructors. Each high school class will visit the Raymond Loewy exhibition to discuss Loewy's strategies and standards for design before beginning their individual projects. Students will be asked to keep in mind Loewy's design goals of simplicity, ease of maintenance and repair, grace and beauty, convenience of use, economy, durability, and expression of the function in form. Three judges will select first, second, and third place prizes as well as the best overall school. Judges include: Megan Hoolahan, Mens Designer, UnderArmor; David Yager, Executive Director, CAVC, and Director of the Center for Convergent Design; and a faculty member from UMBC’s Department of Visual Arts. About the Center for Art and Visual Culture The Center for Art and Visual Culture is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of contemporary art and visual culture, critical theory, art and cultural history, and the relationship between society and the arts. The CAVC serves as a forum for students, faculty, and the general public for the discussion of important aesthetic and social issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital art, video, film, television, design, architecture, advertising, and installation and performance art. Since 1989, the CAVC has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Center has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the CAVC’s Internship Program. The Center produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. Recent publications include Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion and Paul Rand: Modernist Design. These books and catalogues are published and are distributed internationally through Distributed Art Publishers. Since 1992, the Center for Art and Visual Culture has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions that contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the CAVC has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. Recent traveling exhibitions include: • White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art (2003) • Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) • Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) • Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer’s Perspective (1998) • Minimal Politics (1997) • Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Center for Art and Visual Culture also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the CAVC, one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Center for Art and Visual Culture in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Acknowledgements Raymond Loewy: Designs for a Consumer Culture is made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition is organized by ExhibitsUSA, the purpose of which is to create access to an array of arts and humanities exhibitions, nurture the development and understanding of diverse art forms and cultures, and encourage the expanding depth and breadth of cultural life in local communities. ExhibitsUSA is generously supported by the Adair Margo Gallery Inc.; Altria Group Inc.; James H. Clement, Jr.; ConocoPhillips; the Cooper Foundation; Douglas County Bank/Ross and Marianna Beach; DST Systems Inc.; Edward Jones; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; the Helen Jones Foundation; the William T. Kemper Foundation, Commerce Bank, trustee; the Richard P. Kimmel and Laurine Kimmel Charitable Foundation Inc.; Land O' Lakes Inc.; Mrs. Tom Lea; the National Endowment for the Arts; the National Endowment for the Humanities; SBC Missouri; the Society of North American Goldsmiths; Sonic, America’s Drive-In; Sterling Vineyards; the Summerlee Foundation; the Courtney S. Turner Charitable Trust; Valmont Industries; the Woods Charitable Fund; and the state arts agencies of Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas. ExhibitsUSA is a national program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. Hours and Admission Sunday and Monday: Closed Tuesday through Saturday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Center for Art and Visual Culture: 410-455-3188 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Center for Art and Visual Culture: http://www.umbc.edu/cavc Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions UMBC is located approximately 10 minutes from downtown Baltimore and 20 minutes from I-495. • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Administration Drive Garage. • Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore August 31, 2006 UMBC Department of Music Presents Fall 2006 Concert Series The UMBC Department of Music presents its fall 2006 season, featuring woodwind master Roscoe Mitchell, oboist Jacqueline Leclair, the Rome Trio and other noted soloists and ensembles. Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu TNT Series (Then, Now, Tomorrow: Music for the Adventurous Listener)   Sunday, September 17 inHale, flutes, piccolos, alto flutes and bass flutes 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS The inHale duo presents an adventurous afternoon of flutes, piccolos, alto flutes, bass flutes, the human voice and performance art as they explore exciting new music. Flutists Kathleen Gallagher and Lisa Cella have between them premiered more than 200 works while building a new generation of repertoire. Their concert will include: Jane Rigler: Two Seaming Dominik Karski: Glimmer Sean Griffin: Pattycake Ross Edwards: Ecstatic Dances Toru Takemitsu: Masque John Fonville: Mong Songs Harvey Sollberger: Two Pieces for Two Flutes James Erber: Trattenimento da Camera Kathleen Gallagher is one of Australia's most renowned players of the contemporary flute. Her repertoire spans the gamut of the traditional through to the evocative and demanding world of the 21st Century. Ever the eclectic performer, she occasionally abandons her flute for vocal works by Cage, Berberian and Berio and embraces performance theatre through the likes of Globokar and Griffin. As a champion of contemporary music, Lisa Cella (assistant professor of music at UMBC) has performed throughout the United States and abroad. She is Artistic Director of San Diego New Music and a founding member of its resident ensemble NOISE. With NOISE she has performed across the country premiering works of young composers. She is also a member of C2, a flute and cello duo that will tour through the 2006 season.   Monday, October 16 SKIF++ 12 noon to 1 pm, Fine Arts Studio A Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS Jeff Carey (laptop SuperCollider) and Robert van Heumen (laptop LiSa) are the electronic backbone of the electroacoustic sextet OfficeR that brings structured improvisation in a very unique way. As SKIF they work with similar structures, ranging from sonic bursts to melodic melancholy, using joysticks and selfmade controllers to keep it all in line (most of the time). SKIF++ is the collaboration of SKIF and Bas van Koolwijk's (laptop Max/MSP/Jitter) processing of the SKIF-sound into video and back again to audio. Playing music in many contexts, as a computer musician, electro-acoustic composer and improviser, Jeff Carey's music ranges many aspects of computer music from non real-time acousmatic composition, electro-acoustic composition, to improvisation and performs in a number of units such as Office-R(6), USA/USB, the acclaimed feedback project 87 Central, and N-Collective related projects. Electronic musician Robert van Heumen is using STEIM's live sampling software LiSa with all kinds of controllers (some have called them sexy). He is active as a member of the electro-acoustic sextet OfficeR, part of the N Collective, and has shared the stage with Michel Waisvisz, Jeff Carey, Oguz Buyukberber, Anne LaBerge, Guy Harries, Daniel Schorno, Roddy Schrock and Nate Wooley. His soundworld is a mixture of environmental sounds, toys, voices, sounds from kitchen appliances, half of the time smashed beyond repair. He is the SampleMan of SKIF++. The video of Bas van Koolwijk can be seen as an aggressive attack on the illusion of video itself. Through a rigorous and formalistic approach, Van Koolwijk exposes the face of the machine which lives behind the often-placating veil of the televised image.   Friday, October 27 Airi Yoshioka, violin 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Violinist Airi Yoshioka , joined by violist Maria Lambros and percussionist Sylvia Smith, presents a concert of music by Stuart Saunders Smith. Featured works include Minor for solo violin, 3 for 2 for violin and viola, Hearts for solo violin, and A River, Rose for violin and vibraphone. Airi Yoshioka has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Canada as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. Deeply committed to chamber music, she is the founding member of the Damocles Trio and Modigliani Quartet and has performed and recorded with the members of the Emerson, Brentano and Arditti Quartets. The Damocles Trio’s debut disc of complete Piano Trios and Piano Quartet of Joquín Turina has won a four-star rating from the BBC Music Magazine, Le Monde de la Musique and Diapason. Her orchestral credits include performances with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, American Sinfonietta and engagements as concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi and concertmaster of one of the festival orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival. Stuart Saunders Smith’s compositions fall into four areas of creative research: 1) Inventing music of extreme rhythmic and melodic complexity, 2) Making musical mobiles where there is no fixed musical score but rather instrumental parts that freely interact, 3) Composing for spoken texts, 4) Creating trans-media systems for groups of performance artists (dancers, mimes, actors, etc.). Smith’s music is regularly performed throughout North America, Western Europe, and has had notable performances in Asia. His music is recorded on O.O. Discs, Capstone Records, and on European labels in Austria, France, and Germany. He has received the East/West Artist Award, the Maryland State Artists Fellowship, the Pittsburgh Film Forum Grant, the National Endowment for the Arts Composer's Fellowship, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts Master Artist Award. Smith's music is published by Sonic Art Editions. Articles on Stuart Saunders Smith's music have appeared in Percussive Notes Research Edition, Perspectives of New Music, Interface, and Ex Tempore. In 1997 The Music of Stuart of Saunders Smith, by John Welsh, was published by Excelsior Press, NYC, NY.   Friday, November 3 Alejandro Escuer, flute 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Alejandro Escuer is a Mexican flute soloist, composer, professor and concert producer of a wide variety of Latin American and international music projects. In fewer than seven years on the professional scene, Escuer has emerged as a driving force in Mexican music, having directed and produced more than 100 concerts with more than 40 premieres from Japan, the United States, Canada, Portugal, Germany, France and elsewhere. He has received numerous awards, including from the Rockfeller Foundation (1995), the National Interpreters Competition, and the National Award for the Arts. Currently he is a visiting professor at Columbia University.   Saturday, November 11 Roscoe Mitchell, woodwinds 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Roscoe Mitchell, internationally renowned musician, composer, and innovator, began his distinguished career in the spirited 1960s of Chicago, Illinois. His role in the resurrection of long neglected woodwind instruments of extreme register, his innovation as a solo woodwind performer, and his reassertion of the composer into what has traditionally been an improvisational form have placed him at the forefront of contemporary music for four decades. A leader in the field of avant-garde jazz and contemporary music, Mr. Mitchell is a founding member of the world renowned Art Ensemble of Chicago, the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, and the Trio Space. Mr. Mitchell has recorded 87 albums and has written more than 250 compositions. His compositions range from classical to contemporary, from wild and forceful free jazz to ornate chamber music. His instrumental expertise includes the saxophone family, from the sopranino to the bass saxophone; the recorder family, from sopranino to great bass recorder; flute, piccolo, clarinet, and the transverse flute. Also, for over 35 years, he has designed an elaborate percussion instrument called the Percussion Cage, consisting of instruments from America, China, Tibet, Africa, Australia, Switzerland, France, Germany, Italy, and Turkey, as well as many found instruments.   Thursday, November 16 Jacqueline Leclair, oboe 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS The New York Times called this artist “astonishing” and praised her “electrifying agility.” Oboist Jacqueline Leclair, one of the foremost interpreters of new music, has presented solo and chamber music concerts throughout the United States and Europe. The New Yorker has praised Ms. Leclair as “lively” and “wonderful.” Her program will include: Six Metamorphoses for solo oboe by Benjamin Britten Niobe for oboe and electronics by Thea Musgrave The Island of Patymos for solo oboe by Judith Bingham Paysage avec Pyrame et Thisbe for solo English horn by Gilles Silvestrini Hawk for solo oboe by Stuart Saunders Smith Parking Violation for solo oboe with reverb by Marc Mellits Parable for solo English horn by Vincent Persichetti A member of Alarm Will Sound and Sequitur, Jacqueline Leclair frequently can be heard performing with New York City ensembles such as Sospeso, Ensemble 21 and Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Band. She is on the faculty at Montclair State University, Hofstra University and Mannes College. Ms. Leclair has recorded extensively, receiving critical acclaim in particular for her premiere recording of Roger Reynolds's Summer Island. Luciano Berio’s Sequenza VIIa Supplementary Edition by Jacqueline Leclair is published by Universal Edition Vienna, and her recording of the work is on Mode #161/4, Berio: The Complete Sequenzas and Works for Solo Instruments (2006).   Sunday, November 19 E. Michael Richards, clarinet 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS As a recitalist of new music, E. Michael Richards has premiered over 125 works throughout the United States, Japan, Australia, and Western Europe. Trained as a clarinetist at the New England Conservatory (B.Mus.) and Yale School of Music (M.Mus.), Richards earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. He received a 1990 U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, and Japanese Government Cultural Agency) as a solo recitalist for a six-month residency in Japan, an NEH Summer Fellowship to study traditional Japanese music, and a residency grant (Cassis, France) from the Camargo Foundation to complete a book, The Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century. For this performance, Richards will be joined by pianist Kazuko Tanosaki. Their program will include: David Macbride: Lament Akira Nishimura: Madoromi III David Kim-Boyle: Whisps for bass clarinet and computer Hiroyuki Itoh: premiere of a new work Luciano Berio: Sequenza IV for solo piano Richards has performed as concerto soloist with the Syracuse Symphony and Shinsei Japan Philharmonic (Tokyo), in chamber music performances with the Cassatt Quartet, Ying Quartet, SONOR, and the East-West Quartet, and in recital at eight international festivals and more than 20 universities, as well as at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the American Academy in Rome, and the Tokyo American Center. He has also performed as a member of the Tanosaki-Richards Duo (with pianist Kazuko Tanosaki) since 1982. Richards has recorded on the NEUMA, Mode, CRI, Ninewinds, and Opus One labels. He has taught at Smith College; the University of California, San Diego; Bowdoin College; Hamilton College; and the Hochstein Music School in Rochester, New York; and completed short terms with Kazuko Tanosaki as visiting artists in residence at the University of Massachusetts, CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies), at the University of California Berkeley, and San Jose State University.     PRIME Series Resounding Traditions   Sunday, September 24 Tom Lagana Trio 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Throughout his 15 year career, Tom Lagana has played numerous jazz festivals including Long Island Guitar Festival, Oregon Ridge Park, The Mid-Atlantic Wine Festival, Federal Hill Festival, Kaufmann Music Series and The Annapolis Jazz Festival. Lagana has worked with such noteworthy musicians as Charlie Byrd, Craig Handy, Red Rodney, Bob Mintzer, and Marvin Stamm. Lagana recently shared the same bill with internationally renown jazz icon Herbie Hancock and The Dave Weckl Group. Lagana graduated from Boston’s Berklee College of Music in 1992 and began his career as a musician in the Walt Disney Jazz Band. He was chosen to perform for classical composer/guitarist Carlo Domeniconi at the Long Island Guitar Festival in April 2005 and joined the Music faculty at UMBC the same year. In early 2002, Tom Lagana released his first recording, Patuxent. After a sell out performance at the Ram’s Head Tavern National Showcase Mainstage, the CD began to climb the National Jazz Airplay charts, where it stayed for over nine consecutive weeks before peaking at 17th most-requested in the nation.   Thursday, October 12 The Rome Trio 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS The Rome Trio is the official faculty trio of the Benjamin C. Rome School of Music at The Catholic University of America, featuring violinist Jody Gatwood, pianist Marilyn Neeley and cellist Michael Mermagen. Jody Gatwood has received critical acclaim in the U.S. and Europe as soloist with many orchestras, including the Pittsburgh, Houston, and Phoenix symphony orchestras, and with such conductors as Andre Previn and Leonard Slatkin. He has performed on the Kennedy Center’s Fortas Chamber Music Series, at the Library of Congress, Phillips Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, and the National Gallery of Art. As concertmaster of the National Philharmonic (formerly the National Chamber Orchestra), Jody Gatwood has performed numerous solo works, including the world premiere of Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra by Andreas Makris. As guest artist with the Smithsonian Chamber Players, he has recorded for Sony Classical and Deutsche Harmonia Mundi in chamber works by Mendelssohn, Gade, Spohr, Dotzauer, Franchomme, and Servais. Starting in 1984 he performed in and helped to organize numerous “Concerts to End Hunger” to awaken public commitment to the eradication of hunger and malnutrition in the world. Marilyn Neeley, professor of piano and faculty adviser in chamber music and vocal accompanying at Catholic University was prize winner in the Van Cliburn, Leventritt, Michaels, and Geneva International Competitions, with solo appearances with over one hundred symphony orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, the Boston Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Her recording of the complete Beethoven violin and piano sonatas with Robert Gerle received an Emmy award. Cellist Michael Mermagen has enjoyed a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher and has performed chamber music with such artists as Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Lynn Harrell, Robert McDuffie, Susanne Mentzer, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg and The Takács Quartet; collaborated with distinguished conductors, Comissiona, Conlon, Levine, Maazel, Marriner, McGegan, Roberston, Skrowaczewski, Zinman and has given numerous recitals and masterclasses across North America, Europe and Asia. Mr. Mermagen has participated in The Grand Canyon Music Festival, Prince Albert Music Festival in Kauai and the Bay Chamber Concerts. He has been heard on WQXR’s Concerts Plus, WNYC’s Around New York, and his performances are regularly broadcast on NPR’s Performance Today. Mr. Mermagen has collaborated with the San Francisco Ballet and was featured as the cello soloist for the New York premiere of two works by the renowned choreographer Mark Morris. He has also had the pleasure of performing live on A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor.   Sunday, October 15 UMBC Symphony Orchestra 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS The UMBC Symphony Orchestra performs under the direction of Wayne Cameron.   Saturday, October 28 Faculty Chamber Ensemble 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Public information: 410-455-ARTS The Faculty Chamber Ensemble features violinist Airi Yoshioka, flutist Lisa Cella, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, cellist Franklin Cox, pianist Rachel Franklin, guitarist Zane Forshee, and percussionist Tom Goldstein.   Monday, November 20 UMBC Chamber Players 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS The UMBC Chamber Players performs under the direction of E. Michael Richards.   Sunday, December 10 UMBC Symphony Orchestra 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS The UMBC Symphony Orchestra performs under the direction of Wayne Cameron.     Student Recital Series   Thursday, November 30 The UMBC Jazz Ensemble (Big Band) directed by Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Saturday, December 2 The Jubilee Singers (followed in performance immediately by the UMBC Gospel Choir) under the direction of Janice Jackson. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free (donations accepted). 410-455-ARTS. Thursday, December 7 The UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Friday, December 8 The Vocal Arts Ensemble under the direction of David Smith. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Saturday, December 9 The Maryland Camerata under the direction of David Smith. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Tuesday, December 12 The UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Tom Goldstein. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Wednesday, December 13 Department of Music Honors Recital 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS.     Special Event Saturday and Sunday, October 28 and 29 Fifth Annual High School Chamber Music Festival and Concerto Competition The Department of Music presents the Fifth Annual High School Chamber Music Festival and Concerto Competition, in which 25 selected students from the mid-Atlantic region will gather at UMBC for a weekend of performances, coachings and new musical experiences. For information contact Dr. Lisa Cella at 410-455-1405.     Telephone Public information (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Public information: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Administration Drive Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Posted by tmoore August 28, 2006 Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Presents Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour September 11 – December 10, 2006 Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. Opening on September 11th and continuing through December 10th, UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour. Curated by Tom Beck and organized by the Library Gallery in partnership with the Corcoran Museum of Art and the George Eastman House, the project will provide the first real critical examination of imagery by the pioneering photojournalist David Seymour. This project will elevate the significance of work by Seymour, the least well-recognized master among the founders of Magnum Photos, and will better familiarize viewers with the symbolism and artistic roots of his imagery. A major publication on Seymour authored by Beck and published by Phaidon Press, Ltd. will accompany the show. The retrospective is organized chronologically and showcases many of the photojournalistic black and white images for which Seymour is best known. Also exhibited for the first time are fifteen of Seymour’s color images. Last seen in the 1950s as individual images in disparate magazines, a selection of Seymour’s original transparencies were digitized, made into inkjet prints to be shown together in Reflections from the Heart for the first time. No previous exhibition of Seymour's work included his color work. This is the first exhibition of Seymour’s work since the 1996 retrospective organized by the International Center of Photography, New York. When political and economic upheavals in 1930s Europe interrupted David Seymour’s science studies at the Université-Paris Sorbonne, he borrowed a camera and became a photojournalist. Over the next quarter-century, Seymour, who was also known as “Chim,” helped redefine photojournalism by inviting viewers to identify directly with the people he photographed. Ten years after he was killed in 1956 while covering the Suez Crisis in Egypt, Seymour was eulogized by his friend and colleague, photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson: “Chim picked up his camera the way a doctor takes his stethoscope out of his bag, applying his diagnosis to the condition of the heart. His own was vulnerable.” Seymour felt deeply the wounds that plagued the human spirit during the 1930s and 1940s. He sought to show in his photographs that hope could prevail in times of turmoil. Many of his best known images introduced the world to the suffering and resilience of children in the aftermath of war. His humanitarian style established traditions still common in contemporary media. Both as a documentary photographer and as a co-founder of the seminal picture agency Magnum Photos, Seymour’s career inspired subsequent generations of socially concerned photographers and helped change the way people experience distant lives and historic events. Public Program and Reception On Wednesday, September 27th at 4:00 pm, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery will present three 30-minute presentations on the work of David Seymour, followed by a public reception: • Joshua Karlip, Baltimore Hebrew University, Between East and West, Hope and Despair: The Life and Times of David Seymour • Tom Beck, Chief Curator, UMBC, Humanism and Photography: the Imagery of David Seymour • Carole Naggar, poet and photographic historian, For Better and Worse: the Magnum Family About David Seymour Born in Warsaw, Poland, Dawid Szymin grew up surrounded by art, music and literature. After he moved to Paris in 1931, he soon became a photojournalist and adopted the professional moniker “CHIM,” a French phonetic abbreviation of his surname. He began a lifelong career as a photojournalist in 1934 for the left-leaning French magazine, Regards. At that time, Chim plunged into a world undergoing massive redefinition. Mass-appeal magazines proliferated photojournalism with the introduction of faster and cheaper production methods. The magazines also included more photographic illustrations than ever before in part due to the “picture story” concept and the use of the Leica camera. With this revolutionary, miniature camera, innovative photographers were able to capture the less formal, more spontaneous images that became popular during this era. At the start of World War II, Chim became a U.S. citizen and joined the United States Army as a photo-interpreter, taking the name David Robert Seymour to avoid Nazi reprisals against his family in occupied Poland. Seymour was very well educated, fluent in several languages and had deep affinities for different countries and their peoples. In covering many important subjects and historical moments, including the plight of the French working class, organization of the socialist Front Populaire, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, post-war life in Italy and Greece, early evolution of the state of Israel and the Suez Canal crisis, Seymour aimed to inform his audience so that they might better understand the potential of the world. His images were published in leading magazines, such as Life, Paris Match, This Week and Regards from 1933 to 1956, and were noted as rarely posed and achieved without affectation or manipulation. Seymour loved photographing people going about their lives, often under difficult circumstances such as war and its aftermath, and revealing their humanity. His photographs depicting the physically and spiritually maimed children of Europe attracted worldwide attention to the suffering of these forgotten victims of war. He is perhaps best remembered for his body of work referred to as Chim’s Children. UNESCO and UNICEF commissioned this body of work in 1948 dealing with the plight of children in post-war Europe. Many of these moving images were published in magazines around the world and earned Seymour a reputation as the quintessential empathetic photojournalist. In 1947, with Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and others, Chim became a founding member of Magnum Photos, Inc., the pioneering international photojournalist cooperative that continues to set standards in international photojournalism today. The company’s aim was editorial independence: to be first in concept, quality and timing, and to place their stories all over the world through their own offices. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Objects from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the University community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery sends some exhibits on tour to other institutions nationwide. Admission to the Gallery and its programs is free. Acknowledgements Reflections from the Heart: Photographs by David Seymour is organized by the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County in collaboration with The Corcoran Gallery of Art and the George Eastman House. The exhibition is made possible by generous support from Ben Shneiderman. Additional support is provided by the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Baltimore County Commission on Arts & Sciences, the Friends of the Library & Gallery, the Libby Kuhn Endowment, the Judaic Studies Program at UMBC, and Epson USA Inc. Hours Sunday 1 P.M. – 5 P.M. Monday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Tuesday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Wednesday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Thursday 12 P.M. – 8 P.M. Friday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Saturday 1 P.M. – 5 P.M. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 Web UMBC Arts & Culture Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions UMBC is located approximately 10 minutes from downtown Baltimore and 20 minutes from I-495. • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Walker Avenue Garage or Albin O. Kuhn Library. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Walker Avenue Garage or Albin O. Kuhn Library. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Walker Avenue Garage or Albin O. Kuhn Library. • Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. ### Posted by tmoore August 24, 2006 UMBC Presents Searls Puppetry's "OM": A groovy variety show of dancing puppetry September 8-9, 2006, 8 p.m. UMBC Theatre Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. On September 8th and 9th at the UMBC Theatre, Searls Puppetry presents the first showing of OM, a fusion of dance and found object puppetry that will forever change the way people look at their trash. A new collaboration between director Colette Searls and choreographer Doug Hamby, OM is a funky variety show where characters spring from garbage bags, plastic wrap, and recycled paper to unleash their inner groove in vignettes of whimsy. The project, which is suitable for audiences of all ages, is supported in part by a grant from the Jim Henson Foundation. “…delightful and exuberant…the puppeteers give their refuse a broad range of emotions with the tiniest flick of a wrist.” —Elizabeth Lawler, The Village Voice, on Searls Puppetry’s Basura! About the Artists Searls Puppetry specializes in a type of object theatre that brings everyday, disposable materials to life on stage. Director Colette Searls works with a wide range of theatrical material and plays, with a special interest puppetry for adult audiences. She has contributed to a number of productions with puppetry nationally, most recently as puppetographer for the world premiere of The Velvet Sky at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., director/creator of Basura! at the New York International Fringe Festival, puppet master for PCPA Theatrefest’s Fiddler on the Roof, and director for Lunatique Fantastique’s Fixed Boundary, (“Best of the San Francisco Fringe” 2003). She is assistant professor of Theatre at UMBC, where she has created three original puppet plays: Victor Frankenstein, BURIED (National Finalist, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, 2004) and Fanto, A Mysterious Vaudeville. She serves on the board of directors for the Union Internationale de la Marionnette- USA chapter (UNIMA-USA). Doug Hamby is the artistic director of Doug Hamby Dance, a company that specializes in works created in collaboration with dancers, composers, visual and other creative artists. Hamby’s work has been presented in New York City at Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Riverside Dance Festival, New York International Fringe Festival and in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. His work has also been seen at International Fringe Festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland and Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as in Anchorage Alaska by the Alaska Dance Theatre. In New York City, he performed in dance companies directed by Martha Graham, May O’Donnell, Rachel Lampert, Elizabeth Keen, Pearl Lang and Norman Walker. He has received choreography awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, New York State Council for the Arts, Arts Council of Montgomery County, Maryland and the Baltimore Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Arts and Culture. He is an associate professor in Dance at UMBC. He has a MFA from Temple University an has appeared on national television as a giant slice of American Cheese. Admission $8 general, $5 for students and seniors. Tickets will be available at the door beginning at 7 pm, cash or check only. Telephone Public information (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Public information: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. • Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Commons Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore April 10, 2006 UMBC Department of Theatre presents "For a Better World" by Roland Schimmelpfennig, directed by Robert Allen April 26 - May 6, 2006 UMBC Theatre Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file (287 k). The UMBC Department of Theatre presents For a Better World by Roland Schimmelpfennig, translated by Jan Caspers and directed by Robert Allen. The production features set and costume design by Elena Zlotescu, light design by Terry Cobb, and sound design by Brian Rudell. For a Better World (Für Eine Bessere Welt) explores the skewed reality experienced by soldiers—young men and women in uniform—doomed to remain in a state of constant warfare. The military conflict encompasses all modern warfare, the time frame for final victory is never, and the possibility of finding meaning in life outside of combat unthinkable. Beautiful and terrifying, For a Better World redefines what it means to survive a war. Roland Schimmelpfennig has been described as the hottest new playwright of his generation in Germany. His plays have been produced at the Royal Court in London, as well as throughout the rest of Europe and in Canada. This production is a North American premiere. Performances Wednesday, April 26, 8 pm (preview) Thursday, April 27, 8 pm (opening night) Friday, April 28, 8 pm Sunday, April 30, 4 pm Thursday, May 4, 4 pm (free for the UMBC students, faculty and staff) Friday, May 5, 8 pm Saturday, May 6, 8 pm Admission General admission: $10.00 Students and seniors: $5.00 Preview: $3.00 Box Office: www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 Telephone Box Office: 410-752-8950 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photos: Rich Riggins.) Directions From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore March 31, 2006 UMBC Presents Pianist Marilyn Nonken in Concert Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8 p.m. Fine Arts Recital Hall Media contact: Tom Moore tmoore@umbc.edu (410) 455-3370 Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. The UMBC Department of Music’s Contemporary Concert Series presents pianist Marilyn Nonken, whose program will include Milton Babbitt’s Three Compositions for Piano, Allegro Penseroso, Partitions and Post-Partitions; Jason Eckardt’s Echoes’ White Veil; and Salvatore Martirano’s Cocktail Music. Marilyn Nonken has emerged as one of the most gifted young performers of modern piano music, having been described as “splendid” (New York Times), “superb” (Boston Globe), and “fearless” (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel). She has commissioned several major works, including Milton Babbitt’s Allegro Penseroso, Mario Davidovsky’s Quartetto No. 3, Michael Finnissy’s North American Spirituals, Tristan Murail’s Les Travaux et les Jours, and most recently, a major new work from Pascal Dusapin. Her diverse discography features works by composers as varied as Alvin Lucier, David Rakowski, and Charles Wuorinen; a CD of pieces written for her is available from New World Records, and her recording of Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories on Mode and Murail’s piano music on Metier were recently released. Also in her repertoire are works by Barraqué, Cage, Dallapiccola, Dillon, Harvey, Ligeti, Sciarrino, Seeger, and Stockhausen. In the past, she has toured with the complete piano works of Arnold Schoenberg and Pierre Boulez. Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Public information: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Presents Two Exhibitions by John Pfahl: Luminous River and Extreme Horticulture April 2 – May 26, 2006 Media contact: Tom Moore tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may view or download this release as a pdf file. Opening on April 2nd and continuing through May 26th, UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents two exhibitions of work by John Pfahl, a preeminent landscape photographer whose work concentrates on merging idealized landscape images with visual traces of human existence. On April 18th at 4:30 pm, the artist will give a public lecture in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. A reception will follow. Luminous River: Photographs of the Susquehanna pays homage to the Susquehanna River, a waterway that has played a historic role in American transportation. Pfahl has systematically followed and photographed the river from its origins in Otsego Lake to its mouth in the Chesapeake Bay, documenting its picturesque qualities. The images reference early American landscape art and capture a similar stillness, clarity and sensitivity to light and timelessness. Extreme Horticulture includes photographs taken over several years in private and public gardens around the United States. Subjects range from the sublimely beautiful Birch Allee at Stan Hywet Gardens in Akron, Ohio, to the ridiculous Fifty-foot Inchworm, an azalea topiary at Cypress Gardens, Florida. The series continues the artist’s interest in nature and humankind’s effects on nature. Artist’s Statement on the Luminous River Series “I became captivated with the Susquehanna years ago while driving from my home in Buffalo to Washington, D.C. The highway follows the river for about fifty miles between Shamokin Dam and Harrisburg—fifty miles of constantly changing river views. Cutting through five mountain ridges, spotted with wooded islands large and small, and featuring wide glassy surfaces interspersed with riffles and rapids, the Susquehanna appeared to be a condensed catalog of classic river landscapes. The light on that first occasion, and on many subsequent visits, was transcendent. The river seemed to soften the air through which it flowed, conjuring up tones of 19th century American landscape painting. “While the Susquehanna was, indeed, occasionally visited and painted by such Hudson River School artists as Jasper Cropsey and Thomas Doughty, it did not receive a fraction of attention paid to the Hudson itself. Not easily navigable because of rocks and rapids, and not in close proximity to major cities, it clearly proved more of a challenge for artists to explore and paint. It was, arguably, more "picturesque" than the Hudson. In fact, the Susquehanna closely resembled (and still resembles) the fabled River Wye in Wales, where William Gilpin, in the late 18th century, developed the landscape paradigms that so greatly influenced masses of English watercolorists. Nevertheless, the 448-mile long Susquehanna and its 240-mile long West Branch languished largely ignored by the heavy-hitters of 19th century landscape painting. “So here I come, in the early part of the 21st century, with my large view camera and sturdy tripod, to try and rectify the imbalance. My project references early American landscape art, particularly that of painters in the Luminist mode. The timelessness, stillness, clarity, and especially, the sensitivity to light in the paintings of John Frederick Kensett, Fitz Hugh Lane, and Martin Johnson Heade have been a particular source of inspiration. Two early photographers also proved relevant: William H. Rau, with his photographs of Susquehanna and other river scenes taken while he was working for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Seneca Ray Stoddard, Luminist photographer of Lake George and the Adirondacks. Of course, my greatest inspiration was the Susquehanna itself, which I followed systematically from its origin in Otsego Lake to its mouth in the Chesapeake Bay, enticed, always, by what lay waiting around the next bend.” About John Pfahl John Pfahl was born on February 17, 1939, in New York, New York, and raised in New Jersey. He received a BFA from Syracuse University in the School of Art and his MA from Syracuse University in the School of Communications. He has appeared in over 100 group and solo exhibitions, and his work is represented in at least forty-five public and corporate collections, including the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Objects from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the University community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits on tour to other institutions nationwide. Admission to the Gallery and its programs is free. Acknowledgements Luminous River and Extreme Horticulture are organized by Nina Freudenheim, Inc., in Buffalo, New York. Their presentation at UMBC have been supported in part from an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hours of Operation (please note the Gallery is now open on Sundays) Sunday 1 P.M. – 5 P.M. Monday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Tuesday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Wednesday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Thursday 12 P.M. – 8 P.M. Friday 12 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. Saturday 1 P.M. – 5 P.M. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 Web UMBC Arts & Culture Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ Directions UMBC is located approximately 10 minutes from downtown Baltimore and 20 minutes from I-495. • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Walker Avenue Garage or Albin O. Kuhn Library. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Walker Avenue Garage or Albin O. Kuhn Library. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Walker Avenue Garage or Albin O. Kuhn Library. • Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore March 17, 2006 UMBC Presents Art and the Creative Process: Lectures by Michael J. Gelb and Anne Bogart April 6 & 7, 2006 Media contact: Tom Moore tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 The UMBC Department of Theatre and UMBC’s Alex. Brown Center for Entrepreneurship present Innovators in Art and the Creative Process, featuring lectures by Michael J. Gelb and Anne Bogart. Mr. Gelb will speak on Thursday, April 6th at 7 pm in the UMBC Recital Hall; Ms. Bogart will speak on Friday, April 7th at 8 pm in the UMBC Theatre. Michael J. Gelb Michael J. Gelb is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership. He leads seminars for organizations such as BP, Nike, Merck, IBM, Microsoft, DuPont, and KPMG, and brings more than 25 years of experience as a professional speaker, seminar leader and organizational consultant to his diverse, international clientele. He has led executive education programs at George Mason University and the Wharton School, and was recently awarded a Batten Fellowship at the University of Virginia's Darden Business School. Michael J. Gelb's publications include Body Learning: an Introduction to the Alexander Technique and Present Yourself! Captivate Your Audience with Great Presentation Skills. His best selling audio programs include Mind Mapping: How to Liberate Your Natural Genius, Putting Your Creative Genius to Work, and Power Speaking. A retired professional juggler who once performed with the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, Gelb created the Juggling Metaphor Method. He authored More Balls Than Hands: Juggling Your Way to Success by Learning to Love Your Mistakes, which was featured in USA Today. He also originated the concept of synvergent thinking, expressed in his Random House release, Thinking for a Change: Discovering the Power to Create, Communicate, and Lead. The New York Times, The Washington Post and Training Magazine have all featured Gelb's work. He has also appeared on Good Morning America, CNN's Business Unusual and on many radio programs including live interviews with NPR and the BBC World Service. A fourth degree black belt in the Japanese martial art of Aikido, Gelb is co-author with International Grandmaster Raymond Keene, of Samurai Chess: Mastering Strategic Thinking Through the Martial Art of the Mind. A passionate student of the Renaissance and the nature of genius, Gelb ignited the current fascination with all things Da Vinci with his How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps to Genius Every Day, which has been translated into 24 languages and has appeared on The Washington Post, Amazon.com, and The New York Times best-seller lists. Gelb's book, Discover Your Genius: How to Think Like History's Ten Most Revolutionary Minds, was featured in USA Today. Gelb's latest book, Da Vinci Decoded, taps into the seven Da Vincian principles outlined in How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci to show readers how to cultivate spiritual potential. Anne Bogart Anne Bogart has taught at the University of California San Diego, New York University, Williams College, Bennington College, University of Alaska, Playwrights Horizons, Trinity Rep Conservatory, the School for Movement Research, and American Repertory Theater Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. She is an associate professor at Columbia University where she runs the Graduate Directing Program. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2000-01), two Obie Awards, the New York Dance and Performance (Bessie) Award (1984), the Villager Award (1980), and a National Endowment for the Arts Artistic Associate Grant (1986-87). Bogart was the president of Theatre Communications Group from 1991 to 1993 and has served on the National Endowment for the Arts Overview Committee, the Opera Musical Theatre panel, and the Fulbright Committee. She was the featured speaker at the Toga Theatre Festival in Japan, 1988, and participated in the Cultural Olympiad (Atlanta) in 1996. She was the designated Modern Master at the Modern Masters Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and is a recipient of the Kellogg Award from Bard College (2001) and the ATHE Achievement in Professional Theater Award (1999). Bogart is artistic director the Saratoga International Theatre Institute (SITI), which she founded with Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki in 1992. Recent Works with SITI include La Dispute; Score; bobrauschenbergamerica; Room; War of the Worlds; Cabin Pressure; The Radio Play; Alice's Adventures; Culture of Desire; Bob; Going, Going, Gone; Small Lives/Big Dreams; The Medium; Noel Coward's Hay Fever and Private Lives; August Strindberg's Miss Julie; and Charles Mee's Orestes. Other recent productions include Nicholas and Alexandra (Los Angeles Opera), Marina A Captive Spirit (American Opera Projects), and Lilith and Seven Deadly Sins (New York City Opera). Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Tickets: 410-455-2917 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Recital Hall or Theatre. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Recital Hall or Theatre. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Recital Hall or Theatre. • Visitor parking is available in the Commons Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore February 22, 2006 UMBC Presents Gertrude Stein’s Ida; a novel March 15 & 16, 2006 8 pm UMBC Theatre Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (133k). On March 15th and 16th at 8 pm in the UMBC Theatre, Gertrude Stein’s Ida; a novel, will be read, narrated and performed by Wendy Salkind, with a sound score composed by Linda Dusman. This performance of the early section of the novel presents two characters: Ida, and the narrator of Ida’s story. Through dream-like imagery and wit, these characters merge in the telling of Ida’s creation of her dual identity and her struggle with her private and public self. The performance will last approximately 45 minutes and will be followed by an audience talk-back with composer and performer. Wendy Salkind is an actor whose performances of Play and Not I at international festivals established her reputation as a performer of the works of Samuel Beckett. As Associate Artist of the Maryland Stage Company she performed major roles in plays by Shakespeare, Chekov, Genet and Pinter, among others. She previously performed Façade with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and she directed Stein’s play Listen to Me. More recently she performed in two awarding-winning independent films, Cleave and Holy Water. Associate Professor Salkind chairs the Department of Theatre at UMBC, where she teaches acting and the Alexander Technique. Composer and sound artist Linda Dusman’s works have been performed and installed throughout the United States, and in Europe, Asia, and South America. She is the recipient of grants and awards from the Swiss Women’s Music Forum, the American Composers Forum, the International Electroacoustic Music Festival of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the Ucross Foundation, and most recently received an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council in the visual Arts: Media category. Her music is available on the Neuma, Capstone, and Maximalist Music labels. Professor Dusman chairs the Department of Music at UMBC and teaches music theory and composition. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore UMBC Presents Cellist Franklin Cox in Concert Saturday, March 12, 2006 3 pm UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (213k). The Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents cellist Franklin Cox, who will present a concert featuring contemporary music for the cello. His program will feature J. S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009, performed in extended just intonation, a new work by Aaron Cassidy, a new work by David Kim-Boyle and other compositions. Dr. Franklin Cox received B.M. degrees in cello and composition from Indiana University, as well as composition degrees from Columbia University (M.A.), and the University of California, San Diego (Ph.D.), where he also served as adjunct faculty member from 1993 to 1995. He studied cello with Gary Hoffman, Janos Starker, and Peter Wiley, and composition with Steven Suber, Fred Lerdahl, Brian Ferneyhough, and Harvey Sollberger. Dr. Cox has received numerous fellowships, prizes, and commissions from leading institutions and festivals of new music, including fellowships from the Schloss Solitude and the Sacher Stiftung, the Kranichsteiner Prize for both composition and cello performance from the Darmstadt Festival (also serving on the Komponistforum in 1994), and commissions from the 1998 Berliner Biennale and 2001 Hannover Biennale. He has performed with many leading new music groups, including SONOR, the Group for Contemporary Music, Exposé, Surplus, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, and Ensemble Köln. Since 1993, he has presented a solo recital entitled The New Cello, focused on original new works for the cello, more than 90 times throughout Europe and North America. In 2002, he joined the faculty of UMBC as assistant professor of music. He is co-editor of the international book series, New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century. His works are published by Rugginenti Editions and Smith Publications, and his works can be heard on Rusty Classica, Neuma Records, Solitude Edition, and 11 West Records. Admission Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix or by calling MissionTix at 410-752-8950. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash or check only) immediately prior to the concert. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS MissionTix: 410-752-8950 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to UMBC. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Parking is available after 3:30 p.m. on weekdays and all day during weekends in gated Lots 16/9A for a $.50 fee, quarters only. To get to these parking lots, circle around Hilltop Circle (either direction) until you reach Hilltop Road. Take Hilltop Road toward the center of campus. (The Fine Arts Building will now be directly in front of you.) Proceed through the stop sign. The road will curve to the right. You will need to deposit 50¢ (two quarters) to open the gate. If Lot 16 is full, you can also pay to park in Lot 9A, which sits on the hill immediately above Lot 16—just go back to the stop sign and turn left toward Lot 9A, and then to the gate. If both these Lots are full (which would be unusual in the evening), then park in the Commons Garage, Walker Avenue Garage or Lot 10. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore UMBC Presents Pianist Rachel Franklin and Mezzo Soprano Patricia Green in Concert Saturday, March 11, 2006 8 pm UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (120k). The Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents soprano Patricia Green and pianist Rachel Franklin in concert. Their program, Lieder and Life Connections, features the songs of Robert Schumann and his circle and commemorates the 150th anniversary of Schumann’s death. The two performers renew a long-standing collaboration to explore an exquisite selection of songs by Robert Schumann, his wife and muse Clara, and his close friends Johannes Brahms, Felix Mendelssohn and Mendelssohn's gifted sister Fanny Hensel. The music and texts used by these five composers are thoughtfully juxtaposed to reveal hidden subtleties of their complex relationships with each other, and provide insights into the social and historical currents that shaped their work. Mezzo soprano Patricia Green has gained acclaim for her expressive voice, noted for its three-octave ease in diverse repertoire. Her international career includes performances with L’Orchestre de Radio-France, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the Northern Israel Philharmonic, the Theater Chamber Players, Washington Bach Consort, Vancouver New Music, Onafhankelijk Collective, Bethlehem Bach Society, and New Music Concerts (Toronto). Her performances with conductors Pierre Boulez, Leonard Slatkin, Reinbert de Leeuw, Peter Eötvös, Pascal Rophé and Sir David Willcocks have been broadcast internationally on both television and radio. As a performer of new music, she is sought out by international composers. She has recordings on Newport Classics, Albany Records, and Live Unity Productions. Ms. Green received the Artist Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory, winning the George Castelle Prize. She teaches at the University of Western Ontario. As a Pro Musicis International Award winner, British pianist Rachel Franklin gave her solo debuts in Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, and Jordan Hall, Boston. The Boston Globe enthused about her “beautiful differentiations of color, touch and texture” and described a performance on her solo debut CD as “not inferior...to the recorded performances by Cortot and Rubinstein.” She has also given European Pro Musicis solo debuts in Paris and Rome. She is on the faculty of the Department of Music at UMBC. Admission Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix or by calling MissionTix at 410-752-8950. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash or check only) immediately prior to the concert. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS MissionTix: 410-752-8950 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to UMBC. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Parking is available after 3:30 p.m. on weekdays and all day during weekends in gated Lots 16/9A for a $.50 fee, quarters only. To get to these parking lots, circle around Hilltop Circle (either direction) until you reach Hilltop Road. Take Hilltop Road toward the center of campus. (The Fine Arts Building will now be directly in front of you.) Proceed through the stop sign. The road will curve to the right. You will need to deposit 50¢ (two quarters) to open the gate. If Lot 16 is full, you can also pay to park in Lot 9A, which sits on the hill immediately above Lot 16—just go back to the stop sign and turn left toward Lot 9A, and then to the gate. If both these Lots are full (which would be unusual in the evening), then park in the Commons Garage, Walker Avenue Garage or Lot 10. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore UMBC Presents Trombonist Abbie Conant in Concert with Composer William Osborne Saturday, March 4, 2006 8 pm UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (329k). The Department of Music’s Contemporary Concert Series presents Abbie Conant and William Osborne on Saturday, March 4th at 8 pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Conant and Osborne’s performance features their composition Cybeline, a music theater work for performance-artist, glove controller, trombone, video, and quadraphonic surround sound. Schubert Lieder, the Egyptian Goddess Maat, Native American poetry, dismemberment, trombone playing, a cyborg talkshow host, a talking hand, sacred cartoons, a vengeful opera singer, a martyred math geek, Hildegard von Bingen, fighter jets, commercials for synthetic flesh, cyborgian attack dogs, and personality-enhancement chips, Psalms, a country western song, Mother Nature, and a tribute to Joni Mitchell...all integrated into a 45 minute surround sound mini opera with computer-generated accompaniment, video and live electronics. And yes, this is classical music about a cyborg trying to prove she is human by being a talk show host. The concert will also include Music for the End of Time by William Osborne for trombone and quadraphonic tape, an apocalyptic work in six movements based on the Book of Revelation. The electronic music of the surround sound creates a sonic environment in which the trombone is the central figure. It explores all aspects of the trombone, ranging from expressions of "divine wrath," to wild rhythmic unisons with the Four Horsemen, to the gentlest, meditative lyricism. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to UMBC. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Parking is available after 3:30 p.m. on weekdays and all day during weekends in gated Lots 16/9A for a $.50 fee, quarters only. To get to these parking lots, circle around Hilltop Circle (either direction) until you reach Hilltop Road. Take Hilltop Road toward the center of campus. (The Fine Arts Building will now be directly in front of you.) Proceed through the stop sign. The road will curve to the right. You will need to deposit 50¢ (two quarters) to open the gate. If Lot 16 is full, you can also pay to park in Lot 9A, which sits on the hill immediately above Lot 16—just go back to the stop sign and turn left toward Lot 9A, and then to the gate. If both these Lots are full (which would be unusual in the evening), then park in the Commons Garage, Walker Avenue Garage or Lot 10. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore UMBC Presents Keyboardist Lafayette Gilchrist in Concert with Saxophonist John Dierker Thursday, March 2, 2006 8 pm UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (311k). The Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents keyboardist Lafayette Gilchrist joined by tenor saxophonist John Dierker on Thursday, March 2nd in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Lafayette Gilchrist has been playing his own unique brand of jazz-inspired music for more than ten years now and has been an active performer in and around the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area. Born and raised in Washington D.C., this young self-taught musician has released under his own label two hotly regarded CDs, The Art is Life and Asphalt Revolt and now haunts the clubs of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D.C. Recently, Gilchrist has been working with Grammy-award-winning saxophonist/composer/band leader David Murray as a featured performer in his current octet. David Murray, who has graced the covers of both Jazz Times and Down Beat magazines for years, has long been on the cutting edge of creative music and with over 200 albums to his credit, David Murray is bringing Lafayette Gilchrist into a whole new and wider world of creative playing and writing. Gilchrist just made his national recording debut on Hyena Records with his CD The Music According to Lafayette Gilchrist. Admission Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix or by calling MissionTix at 410-752-8950. Tickets will also be available at the door (cash or check only) immediately prior to the concert. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to UMBC. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Parking is available after 3:30 p.m. on weekdays and all day during weekends in gated Lots 16/9A for a $.50 fee, quarters only. To get to these parking lots, circle around Hilltop Circle (either direction) until you reach Hilltop Road. Take Hilltop Road toward the center of campus. (The Fine Arts Building will now be directly in front of you.) Proceed through the stop sign. The road will curve to the right. You will need to deposit 50¢ (two quarters) to open the gate. If Lot 16 is full, you can also pay to park in Lot 9A, which sits on the hill immediately above Lot 16—just go back to the stop sign and turn left toward Lot 9A, and then to the gate. If both these Lots are full (which would be unusual in the evening), then park in the Commons Garage, Walker Avenue Garage or Lot 10. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore UMBC Presents Pianist Joel Sachs in Concert March 1, 2006 8 pm UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (212k). The Department of Music’s Contemporary Concert Series presents pianist Joel Sachs, who has conducted at major European and American festivals, has been music director for experimental operas, and performs extensively as a pianist. At Juilliard he conducts the New Juilliard Ensemble, a chamber orchestra for new music, and directs the annual “Focus!” festival. For ten years he also was Artistic Director of the MoMA Summergarden. Appearances include orchestral concerts throughout Europe and Latin America, and residencies in Brazil, Germany, Israel, Poland, and Russia. Sach’s CD of intercultural music of the Americas with Mexico’s La Camerata de las Americas was released on Dorian. He is heard with CONTINUUM on Nonesuch, CRI, TNC, and Musical Heritage Society, among others. He received Columbia University’s Alice M. Ditson Conductor’s Award for service to American music. A Harvard graduate, he received the Ph.D. at Columbia and is writing a biography of Henry Cowell. His performance will feature music of John Cage, including music for piano, toy piano and prepared piano: Dream (1948), Suite for Toy Piano (1948), In a Landscape (1948), Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48). 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. For more information, call 410-455-MUSC. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media A high resolution imagea for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo: Nan Melville.) Directions From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to UMBC. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Parking is available after 3:30 p.m. on weekdays and all day during weekends in gated Lots 16/9A for a $.50 fee, quarters only. To get to these parking lots, circle around Hilltop Circle (either direction) until you reach Hilltop Road. Take Hilltop Road toward the center of campus. (The Fine Arts Building will now be directly in front of you.) Proceed through the stop sign. The road will curve to the right. You will need to deposit 50¢ (two quarters) to open the gate. If Lot 16 is full, you can also pay to park in Lot 9A, which sits on the hill immediately above Lot 16—just go back to the stop sign and turn left toward Lot 9A, and then to the gate. If both these Lots are full (which would be unusual in the evening), then park in the Commons Garage, Walker Avenue Garage or Lot 10. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore UMBC Theatre presents Victor Frankenstein Colette Searls directs new puppetry adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic March 8 - 12, 2006 UMBC Theatre Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (1.8 Mb). The UMBC Department of Theatre presents Victor Frankenstein, a new puppetry adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel conceived and directed by Colette Searls, with new music by Anna Rubin. The production features set design by Peter Wood, costume design by Celestine Ranney-Howes, light design by Terry Cobb, sound design by Erica Yeager and dramaturgy by Susan McCully. A young scholar makes an astonishing discovery: how to create a new human being out of other people’s dead bodies. Paper sculpture, floating masks, and eerie medical tools bring life to the inanimate in this ghastly tale of human transgression. This production is not recommended for young children. Performances Wednesday, March 8, 8 pm (preview) Thursday, March 9, 4 pm (opening—free for the UMBC campus community (students, faculty, staff)) Friday, March 10, 8 pm Saturday, March 11, 8 pm Sunday, March 12, 4 pm Admission General admission: $10.00 Students and seniors: $5.00 Preview: $3.00 Box Office: www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 Telephone Box Office: 410-752-8950 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photos: Rich Riggins.) Directions From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore January 27, 2006 UMBC presents Keigwin + Company February 15, 2006, 8 p.m. UMBC Theatre Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (1.8 Mb). UMBC presents Keigwin + Company in concert on February 15, 2006 at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Keigwin + Company lives to create provocative, witty and engaging dances. Utilizing a collaborative process, K+C combines physicality with theatricality, samples a variety of mediums, and, ultimately, fuses art with entertainment. Keigwin + Company was established in 2003 with its premiere performance at the New York City’s Joyce Soho and has performed in such venues as Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, Thalia Theater at Symphony Space, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Martha@Mother, Galapagos Art Space, and in the clubs Avalon and Marquee. Nationally, Keigwin + Company has been presented by the American Dance Festival, the Bates Dance Festival, Summerdance Santa Barbara, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/out, the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, and DRA’s Fire Island Dance Festival. Recent commissions include the American Dance Festival, Hofstra University, Moving Arts Projects, California Institute of the Arts, NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, Zenon Dance Company, and Bates College. "The kinetic delight of Keigwin's high-powered dancing is infectious, and he doesn't shy away from the 'e' word: entertainment." —Gus Solomons, Dance Magazine This event is sponsored by the Department of Dance and the InterArts Program. Admission General admission: $15.00. Students and seniors: $7.00. Box Office: www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 Telephone Box Office: 410-752-8950 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photos: Tom Caravaglia.) Directions From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore January 20, 2006 UMBC presents the Phoenix Dance Company February 8, 9, 10 & 11, 2006, 8 p.m. UMBC Theatre Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (6.5 Mb). UMBC presents the Phoenix Dance Company in concert on February 8, 9, 10 and 11, 2006 at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Renowned for its exploration of dance and technology, the Phoenix Dance Company features choreography by Carol Hess and Doug Hamby, and performances by Sandra Lacy and other artists. The program will include: A new hardcore/punk work by Carol Hess featuring the chaotic and thrashy music by Baltimore band Lilu Dallas. Award-winning soloist Sandra Lacy in the highly expressive and provocative Underview by Lisa Race and Dissolve by Jeanine Durning. Floating Above, a sumptuous and thrilling duet with striking imagery and intricate partnering. The mysterious, jarring and dramatic Nacht by Doug Hamby, in which three women explore the confines of a surreal nightmare. A new work by Doug Hamby that explores the hot zone of connection between dancers to the music of Charlie Haden. Admission General admission: $15.00. Students and seniors: $7.00. Box Office: www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 Telephone Box Office: 410-752-8950 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions From I-95 take exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Parking is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore December 15, 2005 Center for Art and Visual Culture presents "What Sound Does a Color Make?" February 2 - March 18, 2006 Media contact: Tom Moore tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (1.2 Mb). Scott Arford Static Room, 2003 Two-channel video installation with sound (excerpt above) Dimensions variable Courtesy the artist Static Room is an abstract audiovisual composition of manipulated static that spatially surrounds the viewer both sonically and visually. The audio track was generated directly by the flickering, strobing image itself—the image and the sound having been created from the same signal, the same set of data. In the words of the artist, “Experiencing it is learning how to see with your ears wide open.” Opening on February 2nd and continuing though March 16th, UMBC’s Center for Art and Visual Culture (CAVC) presents What Sound Does a Color Make?, a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (iCI) that explores the fusion of vision and sound in electronic media. What Sound Does a Color Make? connects the recent boom of digital audiovisual art to its pre-digital roots, presenting ten contemporary works by an internationally diverse group of artists. The exhibition will include a selection of single-channel videos from the 1970s and feature several sensuous new media environments that fascinate both technophiles and general audiences alike, heightening awareness of human perception and cognition. For some people, a stimulus to one of the five senses evokes the sensation of another sense, as when hearing a sound produces the visualization of a color. For contemporary audiovisual artists, the possibilities inspired by this phenomenon, known as synesthesia, have expanded with the advent of recent digital technologies that translate all electronic media, whether sounds or moving images, into the zeros and ones of computer bits. United by similar and overlapping premises, the works in the exhibition are widely divergent in their results. They range from large-scale immersive installations with moving forms that morph to corresponding tonal compositions, to discrete DVD stations inviting viewers to access electronic music pieces in different combinations with videos. One of the recent works, Self-Portrait of Paul (DeMarinis) by Jim Campbell, is a portrait of a colleague who uses sound in his own art. In Campbell’s work, an LED grid is activated by playing a recording of that man’s voice, and the gridded lights resemble pixels that gradually build up an image of the man, with his voice’s high tones representing white and the low tones representing black. Another contemporary work is an interactive installation by D-Fuse, a London-based collective of artists and musicians, which layers different music soundtracks onto dynamic video clips, creating a distinctive audiovisual experience. The earlier works from the 1970s, by such pioneers of video art as Nam June Paik, Steina Vasulka, and Gary Hill, place the current interest in synesthetic media art in a broader historical context, offering a unique perspective on this phenomenon. The exhibition will encourage a high degree of individual engagement and self-reflection, as well as further thought about the ways that visual and aural stimuli are electronically, digitally and perceptually connected. What Sound Does a Color Make? is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (iCI), New York and curated by Kathleen Forde. The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, by grants from The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion; The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; and Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Stuttgart; and by an in-kind donation from Philips Electronics North America. Events On Thursday, February 2nd from 5 to 7 pm, the CAVC will host an opening reception for What Sound Does a Color Make?. On Thursday, February 2nd at 5 pm, Kathleen Forde, curator of the exhibition, will lead a gallery tour. Forde is curator at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. She also curates and writes on a freelance basis, most recently for the Rotterdam Film Festival, VideoZone Tel Aviv, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Duesseldorf and Cologne Kunstverein, and the Transmediale Festival in Berlin, Germany. On Thursday, March 16th at 7 pm, the CAVC hosts a lecture by sound a media artist Stephen Vitiello, location to be announced. In his work, Vitiello is particularly interested in the physical aspect of sound and its potential to define the form and atmosphere of a spatial environment. Recent solo exhibitions include The Project, New York; Galerie Almine Rech, Paris; The Project, Los Angeles. Group exhibitions include the 2002 Whitney Biennial; Ce qui arrive at the Cartier Foundation, Paris, curated by Paul Virilio, Yanomami: Spirit of the Forest, also at the Cartier Foundation. Previous exhibitions include Greater New York at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center presented in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, and a solo exhibition at the Texas Gallery, Houston. In 1999, Stephen Vitiello was awarded a six month WorldViews residency on the 91st floor of the World Trade Center. The residency resulted in a site-specific sound installation which has been broadcast and exhibited internationally. Participating Artists Scott Arford Jim Campbell D-Fuse Granular-Synthesis (Kurt Hentschläger & Ulf Langheinrich) Gary Hill Thom Kubli Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut Robin Rimbaud (a.k.a. Scanner) in collaboration with D-Fuse Fred Szymanski Atau Tanaka Steina and Woody Vasulka Stephen Vitiello About the Center for Art and Visual Culture The Center for Art and Visual Culture is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of contemporary art and visual culture, critical theory, art and cultural history, and the relationship between society and the arts. The CAVC serves as a forum for students, faculty, and the general public for the discussion of important aesthetic and social issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital art, video, film, television, design, architecture, advertising, and installation and performance art. Since 1989, the CAVC has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Center has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the CAVC’s Internship Program. The Center produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. Recent publications include Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion and Paul Rand: Modernist Design. These books and catalogues are published and are distributed internationally through Distributed Art Publishers. Since 1992, the Center for Art and Visual Culture has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions that contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the CAVC has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. Recent traveling exhibitions include: • Blur of the Otherworldly (2005) • White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art (2003) • Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) • Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) • Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer’s Perspective (1998) • Minimal Politics (1997) • Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Center for Art and Visual Culture also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the CAVC, one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Center for Art and Visual Culture in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Hours and Admission Tuesday through Saturday 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Center for Art and Visual Culture: 410-455-3188 Media inquiries: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts What Sound Does a Color Make? website: http://www.ici-exhibitions.org/Exhibitions/WhatSoundDoesColor/WhatSound.htm Center for Art and Visual Culture: http://www.umbc.edu/cavc Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Administration Drive Garage. • Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Images in this release: D-Fuse, D-Tonate, 2003 Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, Beatles Electroniques, 1966-69, courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York Atau Tanaka, Bondage, 2004 Robin Rimbaud (a.k.a Scanner) in collaboration with D-Fuse, Light Turned Down, 2001 Granular-Synthesis, Lux, 2003 Posted by tmoore Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum" January 30 - March 12, 2006 Media contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture tmoore@umbc.edu 410-455-3370 Note: You may download this release as a pdf file (1.2 Mb). UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum, on display from January 30 through March 12, 2006. Photographers and medicine are no strangers. The visual representation of anatomy and pathology as viewed by the camera dates back to the advent of the daguerreotype, and early pathology was used by doctors and scientists to create anatomical atlases as well as document disease and trauma. Photographs also allowed physicians to keep exact visual records of cases long after patients died. The historical bond between photographers and medicine carries forward to the present day with Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum, the culmination of more than a decade of work that includes contemporary photography by Shelby Lee Adams, Max Aguilera-Hellweg, Gwen Akin & Allan Ludwig, Candace diCarlo, Dale Gunnoe, Steven Katzman, Mark Kessell, Scott Lindgren, Olivia Parker, Rosamond Purcell, Richard Ross, Ariel Ruiz i Altaba, Harvey Stein, Arne Svenson, William Wegman and Joel-Peter Witkin. For some of these photographers, the medical manipulation of the body—an act that amounts to the isolation of the part from the whole—becomes a visual metaphor for the human condition. Others experiment with the juxtaposition of real or artificial body parts and the public and private spaces of the Museum itself. Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum presents these works by current photographers alongside powerful images from the Mütter Museum’s renowned historical photography collection. The images in the exhibition extend the boundaries of traditional photographic subject matter, finding beauty not in conventional forms, but in internal marvels and in the enigma of those whose bodies—deformed, broken, and disfigured—have suffered physical abnormality, trauma or destructive disease. The Mütter Museum, one of the last medical museums from the nineteenth century, comprises a sublime anatomical and pathological collection that originated with Dr. Thomas Dent Mütter, a professor of surgery who collected unique specimens and models for teaching purposes. Under the care of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, to which Dr. Mütter offered his collection in 1856, the Mütter Museum has grown and survived where most others did not; today a new audience has emerged to appreciate its collections. Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum offers a rare opportunity for people who have not experienced the medical student’s rite of passage and initiation into the singular mysteries of the profession to encounter powerful, inspiring, and enthralling images of nature’s challenges to human life. The publication Mütter Museum (Blast Books, 2002) by Gretchen Worden, the late director of the Mütter Museum, accompanies the exhibition and will be available for sale. On Tuesday, February 21 at 4:30 pm, the Library Gallery will host a lecture by Mark Alice Durant, professor of photography in the Department of Visual Arts at UMBC, who will discuss the photographers in the show, as well as other photographers whose work illustrates the continued fascination of the contemporary artist with the aesthetics of the human form. A reception will follow the lecture. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Objects from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the University community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits on tour to other institutions nationwide. Admission to the Gallery is free. Acknowledgements Extraordinary Bodies: Photographs from the Mütter Museum is curated by independent curator Laura Lindgren and is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions (CATE), Los Angeles. Its presentation at UMBC has been supported in part from an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Friends of the Library & Gallery. The reception for Extraordinary Bodies is sponsored by the Friends of the Library & Gallery and the Libby Kuhn Endowment. Hours of Operation (please note the Gallery is now open on Sundays) Sunday 1 pm - 5 pm Monday 12 pm - 4:30 pm Tuesday 12 pm - 4:30 pm Wednesday 12 pm - 4:30 pm Thursday 12 pm - 8 pm Friday 12 pm - 4:30 pm Saturday 1 pm - 5 pm Telephone General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ Directions UMBC is located approximately 10 minutes from downtown Baltimore and 20 minutes from I-495. • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Images in this release: Joel-Peter Witkin, Harvest, 1984, silver gelatin print Rosamond Purcell, Human Head Prepared by Batson, 2000, Iris print Olivia Parker, Heart, 1994, Nash digital print William Wegman, Kyphosified, 2000, c-print ### Posted by tmoore November 18, 2005 UMBC Department of Theatre presents The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in the Garden by Federico García Lorca December 1-10, 2005 UMBC Theatre Contact: Tom Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu From December 1st through 10th, the UMBC Department of Theatre presents The Love of Don Perlimplín for Belisa in the Garden by Federico García Lorca, translated by Caridad Svich, directed by Xerxes Mehta with set and costume design by Elena Zlotescu and lighting design by Terry Cobb. A delicious little tragic farce by Spain’s greatest modern playwright, Don Perlimplín rings sly and shocking changes on that comic staple—the rich old man with the sexy young wife. A small masterpiece from Lorca’s surrealist period, when he was collaborating with his friends Buñuel and Dalí, this fantastical parody of the classical Spanish “honor” tragedy plays lighthearted games with color, shape, language, the human form, and “reality” in general. The production includes songs and music. Formally, Perlimplín is a play about an art form reinventing itself, just as, thematically, it is a play about the birth of an artist. Suffering shakes Don Perlimplin out of his fear of chaos into the power of his imagination. Reborn into life, love and eros, ironically through death, the Don, and his creator, in redoubled irony, find their place in the great traditional theme of Spanish literature and art—the truth of desire and the reality of imagined worlds. "My first plays were unpresentable....In these impossible plays lie my real intentions. But to demonstrate a personality and gain the right to respect, I've written other things." —Federico García Lorca, 1936 Showtimes Thursday, December 1st, 8 pm (preview) Friday, December 2nd, 8 pm (opening night) Saturday, December 3rd, 8 pm Sunday, December 4th, 4 pm Thursday, December 8th, 4 pm Friday, December 9th, 8 pm Saturday, December 10th, 8 pm Admission $10 general admission; $5 students and seniors; $3 for the preview. The performance on Thursday, December 8th is free for the UMBC campus community. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or by calling MissionTix at 410-752-8950. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Tickets: 410-752-8950 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Tickets: http://www.missiontix.com/ Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. • Visitor parking is available in the Commons Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res or by email or postal mail. Posted by tmoore October 11, 2005 UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal October 20 - December 17, 2005 Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu From October 20 through December 17, 2005, UMBC’s Center for Art and Visual Culture (CAVC) presents Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal, organized at the CAVC by Mark Alice Durant and Jane D. Marsching. This major traveling exhibition features twenty-eight contemporary artists whose work employs modern communication technologies (photography, film, video, computers, radio, internet, and digital media) to explore culturally inbred questions/ superstitions concerning parallel worlds to our own. From the infamous Cottingham fairy photographs through Victorian spiritualist images to recent grainy images of Sasquatch and sky-borne saucers, photographs have attempted to provide the material of proof of the otherworldly. The earliest photographic images rendered a detailed impression of the subjects materiality, and, through the process of doubling and repeating, seemed to destabilize reality by producing the ghost image, a dematerialization of the three-dimensional world. In response to this strange new technology, some Victorian minds associated photography with the occult, believing the human eye did not see at all, that human perception was blind to the spirit world. Occultists conjectured that the air was charged with floating images and disembodied spirits, and they set out to prove their claims by documenting episodes of visitations. Photography was the perfect tool conscripted in this effort. Today, the amount of attention devoted to paranormal phenomena—UFOs, demonic possession, psychics, ghosts—in the media indicates that photography’s early fascinations have not disappeared. Millennial angst, bewildering leaps of science, wildly improbable technological inventions, and ever-decreasing wilderness as human sprawl grows exponentially, make other worlds once again appear possible, even probable, and definitely alluring. Our escalating desire to prove the existence of another dimension (no matter which one) is linked to photography, with its history of providing us with our proofs. Seduced by the invisible in the face of the mediums relentless and dull dependence upon the physical, photography as a tool of fact (in science), fantasy (in spirit photography), and invention (in the hands of artists) is exploring new frontiers once again. Included in the exhibition are works by Mark Amerika, Zoe Beloff, Diane Bertolo, Jeremy Blake, Corrine May Botz, Susan Collins, Gregory Crewdson, Paul DeMarinis, Spencer Finch, Ken Goldberg, Susan Hiller, Marko Maetamm, Miya Masaoka, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Maria Miranda and Norie Neumark, Mariko Mori, Paul Pfeiffer, Fred Ressler, John Roach, Ted Serios, Leslie Sharpe, Chrysanne Stathacos, Thomson & Craighead, and Suzanne Treister. Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal will be accompanied by a 200 page fully illustrated catalogue with essays on the significance of paranormal and the supernatural in contemporary culture by Lynne Tillman, associate professor and writer-in-residence at the University at Albany, and Marina Warner, novelist and former scholar at the Getty Center for History of Art and Humanities. Mark Alice Durant and Jane D. Marsching, co-curators of the exhibition, will contribute extensive essays on the interplay between science, art, and the occult as it relates to the artworks in the exhibition. The publication will contain over eighty illustrations in color and black and white as well as a checklist for the exhibition, illustrated timeline, and a bibliography. Published by the Center for Art and Visual Culture, as the ninth title of its Issues in Cultural Theory series, Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology, and the Paranormal will be distributed internationally by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP), in New York. Three QuickTime clips about the exhibition are available: John Roach discusses Transmissions from Beyond Miya Masaoka discusses Piece for Plants Co-curator Mark Alice Durant discusses the exhibition Events An Opening Reception will be held on Thursday, October 20th at 5 pm. On October 28th, the exhibition hosts the Paranormal Party. Costumes are optional but encouraged. This event is sponsored by the CAVC, the UMBC Alumni Association, the UMBC Student Events Board and the UMBC Student Government Association. 7 to 10 pm. Admission is free. On November 3rd, the Center for Art and Visual Culture presents a Panel Discussion in conjunction with the exhibition. The panel will be moderated by Mark Alice Durant, curator and professor of Visual Arts at UMBC; and Jane D. Marsching, curator and assistant professor, Studio Foundation and Studio for Interrelated Media, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. Panelists will include Lynne Tillman, novelist, critic, essayist and professor/writer in residence at the University at Albany; artist Diane Bertolo, and Jeffrey Sconce, associate professor in the Screen Cultures Program, Northwestern University. This panel will be a conversation among a small group of scholars, artists and writers whose works have involved the subject of the paranormal. From gods and ghosts to telepathy and Electronic Voice Phenomena, issues such as the otherworldly as metaphor; technology and the shape of imagination; and art as a site for exploration of belief and superstition will be discussed. 6–7:30 pm at UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free. About the Center for Art and Visual Culture The Center for Art and Visual Culture is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of contemporary art and visual culture, critical theory, art and cultural history, and the relationship between society and the arts. The CAVC serves as a forum for students, faculty, and the general public for the discussion of important aesthetic and social issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital art, video, film, television, design, architecture, advertising, and installation and performance art. Since 1989, the CAVC has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Center has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the CAVC’s Internship Program. The Center produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. Recent publications include Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion and Paul Rand: Modernist Design. These books and catalogues are published and are distributed internationally through Distributed Art Publishers in New York. Since 1992, the Center for Art and Visual Culture has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions that contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the CAVC has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. Recent traveling exhibitions include: • White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art (2003) • Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) • Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) • Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer’s Perspective (1998) • Minimal Politics (1997) • Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) • Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia (1995/96) • Notes In Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (1995) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Center for Art and Visual Culture also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the CAVC, one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Center for Art and Visual Culture in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Hours of Operation Sunday: closed Monday: closed Tuesday: 10 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Wednesday: 10 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Thursday: 10 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Friday: 10 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Center for Art and Visual Culture: 410-455-3188 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Center for Art and Visual Culture: http://www.umbc.edu/cavc Blur of the Otherworldly website: http://www.bluroftheotherworldly.com/ Distributed Art Publishers: http://www.artbook.com/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media (including all shown here) are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Images in this release: Susan Hiller: Wild Talents Zoe Beloff: The Ideoplastic Materializations of Eva C Fred Ressler: Shadow Photo Chrysanne Stathacos: The Aura Project Jennifer and Kevin McCoy: Frame Grab from Horror Chase Posted by tmoore August 31, 2005 UMBC Presents Cellist Madeleine Shapiro in Concert Thursday, September 15, 2005, 8 p.m. Fine Arts Recital Hall Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu On September 15th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the Department of Music’s Contemporary Concert Series presents cellist Madeleine Shapiro, whose program, Voices, is a multi-media recital of works for solo cello interwoven with taped statements by the composers. The program will feature both acoustic and electronic works by an international roster of composers, highlighting the lyrical Song of Songs by Karen Tanaka (Japan), which is recorded on Shapiro’s latest CD. She will also play works by Salvatore Sciarrino (Italy), Alberto Ginastera (Argentina), Americans John Cage and Orlando Jacinto Garcia, plus two rip-roaring works for cello and electronics by younger Americans Anthony Cornicello and Craig Walsh. Madeleine Shapiro’s concerts have included numerous premiere performances of recent works for cello, and cello and electronics, many of which were written specially for her by a wide variety of American, European and Asian composers. She is a recipient of two Performance Incentive Awards from the American Composers Forum to assist in the premieres of new works. Recent appearances include a concert of works for cello and electronics at the avant-garde Logos Foundation in Ghent, Belgium and two tours of Italy with performances and masterclasses at the American Academy and the Nuovi Spazi Musicali festival in Rome; the Orsini Castle in Avezzano, and the conservatories of Parma and Castelfranco Veneto. Madeleine Shapiro performs regularly at colleges and performing arts series in the East and Midwest United States. She appeared twice in recital at the Instituto Brazil-Estados Unidos in Rio De Janiero, Brazil and participated in the 3rd and 5th International Cello Encounters, also in Rio de Janiero. She is presently an adjunct professor at the Mannes College of Music, New York City, where she directs the Contemporary Music Ensemble and teaches classes in the performance practice of twentieth century music. As co-director of the New Music Consort, she held the Chair of Johnson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont. Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Public information: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore UMBC Presents the "two" Percussion Ensemble in Concert Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu On September 15th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC Department of Music’s Contemporary Concerts Series presents the “two” percussion group, a duo committed to the advancement of new music through performance, education, and experimentation. two was founded in 1998 by Chris Leonard and Dale Speicher, both founding members of the seminal percussion group trio algetic. The music of two invites listeners to investigate the boundaries of complexity and sonority by exploring the world outside of driving repetitive rhythms and, instead, diving into a world of polytonality and polyrhythmic structures. two actively commissions new music for percussion from forward thinking composers throughout the world. Their program will include All that is Left and Polka in Treblinka by Stuart Saunders Smith, Pairs by Christian Wolff, bicoastal by Roger Zahab, Rhythm Strip by Askell Masson, Verhälthis (ähneln..) by Franklin Cox, and a new work by Tom Baker. Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Public information: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore August 29, 2005 UMBC Department of Dance presents Naturally Modern: Bodily Expeditions and Other Traveling Secrets Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu On September 31 and October 1 at 8 p.m., the UMBC Department of Dance presents Naturally Modern: Bodily Expeditions and Other Traveling Secrets, an evening of solo, duo and trio modern dance works performed by Sandra Lacy with Mary Williford-Shade, James Hansen and Jennifer Keller. The program, which will be presented in the UMBC Dance Lab (Fine Arts Building 317) will include: • The Baltimore premiere of Ophelia’s Reclamation choreographed by James Hansen and performed by Hansen, Lacy and Williford-Shade, featuring complex partnering sequences and organic movement phrases, creating a sense of organic ease and harmony within relationships. • A new work by Ray Eliot Schwartz, performed by Lacy and Williford-Shade. • Henrietta and Alexandra, choreographed by José Bustamante. • Lo and Behold by Michael Foley, performed by Williford-Shade. • Underview by Lisa Race, performed by Lacy. A member of the UMBC dance faculty, Sandra Lacy holds a B.A. in Psychology and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dancing in London. She has performed with the Maryland Ballet, Impetus Dance Company, Path Dance Company and Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane and Company. She also teaches at the Baltimore School for the Arts. She is a recipient of five Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards in solo dance performance. Mary Williford-Shade has been hailed by The Washington Post as “the dancing equivalent of Edvard Munch’s The Scream.” She made her initial mark on the dance scene as a dancer with Mark Taylor & Friends and has also performed with Mark Dendy, Maryland Dance Theater, Dance Alloy of Pittsburgh and with Sandra Lacy. Williford-Shade received her MFA from Ohio State University, is a certified Laban Movement Analyst, and is a nine year member of the dance faculty at Texas Woman's University. Her other teaching credits include Cleveland State University, University of Quebec, Connecticut College, George Washington University, Towson State University, The Klutz Schule in Hamburg, Germany, the American Dance Festival, and the Bates Dance Festival. James Hansen is the founder and artistic director and choreographer for Assemblage Dance Company. He studied at SUNY Purchase, and performed with the Eglevsky Ballet in New York City. He appeared as a featured soloist with Alfonzo Cata of France’s Ballet du Nord. After retiring from ballet, he performed with several downtown New York choreographers, including Sean Curran and Rachel Thorne Germond. Ray Eliot Schwartz is a movement artist and bodyworker who has spent the last 20 years developing a unique synthesis of somatic movement studies and the performing arts. He has co-founded three contemporary dance projects in the Southeastern United States: The Zen Monkey Project, Steve’s House Dance Collection, and THEM. He has been on the faculty of both the American College Dance Festival and the Bates Dance Festival. Admission General admission: $12.00. Students and seniors: $6.00. Box Office: www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 Location Dance Lab (Fine Arts Building Studio 317) Telephone Box Office: 410-752-8950 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. The Dance Lab is Studio 317 (third floor). • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. The Dance Lab is Studio 317 (third floor). • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. The Dance Lab is Studio 317 (third floor). • Metered visitor parking is available in The Commons Garage and the Administration Drive Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore August 27, 2005 UMBC Department of Music Presents Fall 2005 Concerts The UMBC Department of Music presents its fall 2005 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by renowned artists, including four all-percussion events (the “two” percussion group, Michael Lipsey of the Talujon Percussion Quartet, the Proper Glue Duo) , the percussion/voice ensemble “canto battuto” and the percussion/piano artistry of the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo. Also in the lineup is the Federal City Brass Band, always a family favorite. Contact: Thomas Moore Director of Arts & Culture 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu Professional Artist Series September 15 two, percussion ensemble 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS The “two” percussion group, a duo committed to the advancement of new music through performance, education, and experimentation, was founded in 1998 by Chris Leonard and Dale Speicher, both founding members of the seminal percussion group trio algetic. The music of two invites listeners to investigate the boundaries of complexity and sonority by exploring the world outside of driving repetitive rhythms and, instead, diving into a world of polytonality and polyrhythmic structures. two actively commissions new music for percussion from forward thinking composers throughout the world. Their program will include All that is Left and Polka in Treblinka by Stuart Saunders Smith, Pairs by Christian Wolff, bicoastal by Roger Zahab, Rhythm Strip by Askell Masson, Verhälthis (ähneln..) by Franklin Cox, and a new work by Tom Baker. September 28 Madeleine Shapiro, cello 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS Cellist Madeleine Shapiro presents Voices, is a multi-media recital of works for solo cello interwoven with taped statements by the composers. The program will feature both acoustic and electronic works by an international roster of composers, highlighting the lyrical Song of Songs by Karen Tanaka (Japan), which is recorded on Shapiro’s latest CD. She will also play works by Salvatore Sciarrino (Italy), Alberto Ginastera (Argentina), Americans John Cage and Orlando Jacinto Garcia, plus two rip-roaring works for cello and electronics by younger Americans Anthony Cornicello and Craig Walsh. Madeleine Shapiro’s concerts have included numerous premiere performances of recent works for cello, and cello and electronics, many of which were written specially for her by a wide variety of American, European and Asian composers. She is a recipient of two Performance Incentive Awards from the American Composers Forum to assist in the premieres of new works. Recent appearances include a concert of works for cello and electronics at the avant-garde Logos Foundation in Ghent, Belgium and two tours of Italy with performances and masterclasses at the American Academy and the Nuovi Spazi Musicali festival in Rome; the Orsini Castle in Avezzano, and the conservatories of Parma and Castelfranco Veneto. Madeleine Shapiro performs regularly at colleges and performing arts series in the East and Midwest United States. She appeared twice in recital at the Instituto Brazil-Estados Unidos in Rio De Janiero, Brazil and participated in the 3rd and 5th International Cello Encounters, also in Rio de Janiero. She is presently an adjunct professor at the Mannes College of Music, New York City, where she directs the Contemporary Music Ensemble and teaches classes in the performance practice of twentieth century music. As co-director of the New Music Consort, she held the Chair of Johnson Distinguished Visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont. October 6 Michael Lipsey, percussion 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS Percussionist Michael Lipsey's program will include Dominic Donato’s Either/Or, David Cossin’s Nixkin, Arthur Krieger’s Joining Hands, Eric Moe’s Teeth of the Sea, John Cage’s cComposed Improvisation (for one sided drum with or without jangles), and other works. Michael Lipsey has performed with such prestigious ensembles as the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Music From China, S.E.M. Ensemble, Ensemble Sospeso, Philharmonia Virtuosi, Tan Dun, Newband and is a founding member of the Talujon Percussion Quartet. Michael Lipsey has recorded for Sony Classical with the BBC Symphony, CRI Records, Albany Records, Mode Records and Nonesuch Records. He has performed at festivals around the world including the Library of Congress Music Series, LaJolla Chamber Music Society, Berlin American Festival, Mexico City Percussion Festival, Taipei Percussion Festival, Taipei Red Lantern Festival, Okada Festival in Osaka and Tokyo, Moscow, Bang on a Can Marathon, Chautauqua Institute, Sonic Boom Festival and the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival. He has presented master classes at the Juilliard School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Purchase Conservatory of Music, CSU Sacramento, UC Davis, Oregon University at Eugene and the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. He holds a B.M. from Queens College and an M.M. from Manhattan School of Music. Michael Lipsey directs the Percussion and Contemporary Ensembles at Queens College. Mr. Lipsey is very interested in creating new works for hand drums and is working on a project to commission and premiere works in this medium. October 9 SONOS 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert (cash or check only). Public information: 410-455-ARTS. Directed by pianist Rachel Franklin, the unique classical and jazz ensemble SONOS returns to UMBC to present works that blur the edges between classical chamber works and jazz improvisation. Franklin will be joined by international artists David Stambler, saxophone, and Amy Beth Horman, violin. Their program will include Contrasts by Béla Bartók, music by Beethoven, plus contemporary jazz, and classics by George Gershwin. As a Pro Musicis International Award winner, British pianist Rachel Franklin gave her solo debuts in Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, and Jordan Hall, Boston. The Boston Globe enthused about her “beautiful differentiations of color, touch and texture” and described a performance on her solo debut CD as “not inferior...to the recorded performances by Cortot and Rubinstein.” She has also given European Pro Musicis solo debuts in Paris and Rome. She is on the faculty of the Department of Music at UMBC. October 13 The Proper Glue Duo 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS The Proper Glue Duo, an exciting and virtuosic percussion ensemble will perform Integrity by Mark Applebaum, Rrrrrr... by Mauricio Kagel, The Three Strange Angels by Peter Garland, All That Is Left by Stuart Saunders Smith, Piano Phase by Steve Reich, and Credo in US by John Cage. Dedicated to the performance of contemporary repertoire, the Proper Glue Duo has performed alone and in collaboration with other chamber groups in Boston, Buffalo, Ithaca, Toronto, and Rochester, New York. Their percussion roots have also led to the exploration of other musical traditions from around the world, and they continue to present performances and clinics on the Shona mbira. Individually, duo members Melanie and Steve Sehman have performed for composers such as Harrison Birtwistle, Charles Wuorinen, Brian Bevelander, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Steven Mackey, and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, appeared with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and recorded on the Summit and Equilibrium labels. For this concert the duo will be joined by pianist David Plylar. October 21 William Powell, clarinet 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS Clarinetist William Powell has commissioned many new works for clarinet and has premiered over 200 compositions. He has performed at major concert venues throughout the United States, Europe and Asia, including Avery Fischer Concert Hall, Merkin and Carnegie Recital Halls, and Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium at the United Nations in New York; the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; at the North American New Music Festival as soloist with the Buffalo Philharmonic; and at the International Congresses on Women in Music in Los Angeles, New York, Paris and Bremen. He has performed with the Aspen Festival and Chamber Orchestra, the contemporary music ensemble Sonor, the Sierra Wind Quintet, the Naumburg Award-winning Aulos Wind Quintet and, as principal clarinetist with the San Diego chamber Orchestra, the Las Vegas Symphony, and the Reno Philharmonic. Powell has served on the faculties of UC and CSU, San Diego; CSU, Long Beach; and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has recorded for Cambria, CRI, Electra/Asylum and Nonesuch. William Powell received an Artist’s Diploma from the Juilliard School and the M.F.A. from CalArts. In 1993/94 he lived in India on a Senior Research Grant from the J. William Fulbright Commission. Under the auspices of Brhaddhvani Research and Training Centre for Musics of the World, he presented concerts of American music throughout India, collaborated in cross-cultural performances with clarinetists A.K.C. Natarajan and Narasinhalu Wadavatti, and recorded for All India Radio with Indian pianist Handel Manuel. October 28 canto battuto 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS The duo canto battuto features the artistry of percussionists Eva Nievergelt and Christoph Brunner, who have been working together in various projects since 1995. The program will include Märchenerzählung by Rico Gubler, the world premiere of a new work by Erik Oña, Ryoanji by John Cage, und durch. figuren. unter ruhe/punkten by Annette Schmucki and two works by Gary Berger: doppelte wendung and the world premiere of a new piece. canto battuto has collaborated in concerts with Gruppe für Neue Musik Baden and with the Collegium Novum Zurich (Circles by Luciano Berio and Aria by Beat Furrer), presented two music theatre productions with the pianist Regula Stibi and the director Regina Heer (in 1996 and 1999) as well as a musical collage using texts from Swiss author Robert Walser with the ensemble girafe bleue (1999/2000). In 1999 they founded the duo canto battuto in order to work together more constantly and to create their own repertoire for voice and percussion. In the past five years they commissioned more than a dozen duo works and have given concerts on various tours in Switzerland, Germany, France and the UK. More recently they also started working on previously existing repertoire (works by John Cage, Maurice Ohana and others). October 29 Faculty Chamber Ensemble 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert (cash or check only). Public information: 410-455-ARTS. The Department of Music presents the Faculty Chamber Ensemble, featuring violinist Airi Yoshioka, flutist Lisa Cella, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, cellist Franklin Cox, pianist Rachel Franklin, guitarist Troy King and percussionist Tom Goldstein. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. For more information, call 410-455-MUSC. November 2 Mari Kimura, violin 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free Admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS Violinist and composer Mari Kimura picks up the tradition of the virtuoso performer/composer and carries it straight into the future. The New York Times raved her solo performance as “Chilling...gripping...charming...Ms. Kimura is a virtuoso playing at the edge.” Branching out from a mastery of traditional violin repertoire, Ms. Kimura embraces the worlds of extended violin technique and interactive computer music, making them her own. She pushes the boundaries of the instrument, playing both her own works and those that numerous composers have written especially for her. Ms. Kimura has premiered pieces by such composers as Toshi Ichiyanagi, Jean-Claude Risset, and Tania León. Ms. Kimura is widely admired for her revolutionary extended technique “Subharmonics,” and for the solo performances of diverse programs. She has developed an international performing career that has taken her to festivals throughout the world, performing her own works in more than 18 countries. Recent appearances include those at the Spring in Budapest festival, the Musiana Festival in Denmark, Festival Internacional Cervantino in Mexico, International Bartók Festival in Hungary, Other Minds festival in San Francisco, International Symposium of Electronic Art (ISEA) in Helsinki and Rotterdam, and International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in San José, Thessaloniki, Banff and Göteborg, Sweden. Ms. Kimura was a featured soloist at ISCM World Music Days 2002 in Hong Kong, performing with Hong Kong Sinfonietta. In her native Japan, Ms. Kimura was awarded 1995 Kenzo Nakajima Music Prize, a prestigious honor in recognition of her creative activities in the country. She has given the Japanese premiere of major contemporary violin concertos including works by John Adams and Anders Hillborg, as a soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, and continues to perform as a soloist with major orchestras. The renowned Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi has described her as “a violinist on a grand scale... her activity gives us bright hopes for the future in the field.” As a composer, her recent commissions include Violin Concerto for violin and interactive computer system with orchestra (Teatro Juarez in Guanajuato, Mexico, 1999), Kivika for dance (Joyce SOHO in New York, 2000), Arboleda for viola and electronics (Merkin Hall in New York, 2001), and Descarga Interactive (ICMC Commission Award) which was premiered in Göteborg, Sweden in 2002. Her latest work, GuitarBotana is a piece with GuitarBot (LEMUR), commissioned by Harvestworks. Ms. Kimura's works have been supported by grants including Meet the Composer, Jerome Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. November 12 The Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert (cash or check only). Public information: 410-455-ARTS. The Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo, featuring the artistry of pianist Paul Hoffmann and percussionist Tom Goldstein, presents a program that will include five world premieres, including a new work by Linda Dusman; Jazz motetus VI (Cricket Play) by Riccardo Piacentini; You're Not a Composer by Tom Goldstein; Pure emersioni d’onda by Gianvincenzo Cresta; and assemblage, montage…icon, image by Jerry N. Tabor. The program will also include Struck Sound by Robert Morris, Still to J.S.B. by Anneliese Weibel, Islands That Never Were by James Romig, Swing Fantasy by Patrick Hardish, and an improvisation. Over the past dozen years, the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo has appeared in dozens of concerts and new music festivals in the U.S. and in Europe, and recently released their first CD on Capstone Records, Crossfade. As a New York City freelance percussionist for over twenty years, Tom Goldstein performed extensively with groups such as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, as well as chamber groups, Broadway shows and in nightclubs. Especially active in contemporary music, he has premiered dozens of solo and chamber works, many of which were written expressly for him. From 1980-1990 he served as Artistic Director of the new-music group GAGEEGO. He has toured with Steve Reich, played with Pauline Oliveros, and the ensemble Continuum. Mr. Goldstein composed and performed percussion soundtracks for NBC World Series and U.S. Tennis Open documentaries. Mr. Goldstein has published articles in Perspectives of New Music and Percussive Notes. He has recorded on Neuma, Vanguard, Polydor, Opus 1, OO Discs, CD Tech, Capstone and CRI. He is an associate professor of music at UMBC. Paul Hoffmann, pianist and conductor, made his debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus in 1973 while on a Fulbright grant, and has since concertized extensively in the U.S. and abroad. Hoffmann has recorded solo piano and chamber music for Capstone, Orion, CRI, Northeastern, Composers Guild of New Jersey, Contemporary Record Society, OO Discs, Spectrum, and Vienna Modern Masters labels and has made numerous radio broadcasts in the U.S. as well as for Voice of America, Radio Cologne, Radio Frankfurt, and Radio France. He is currently working on recordings for Capstone and NUEMA Records. Most recently he has performed at new music festivals in Italy (“Spaziomusica” in Cagliari and “Musiche in Mostra” in Turin), National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, Goucher College in Baltimore, Merkin Hall in New York City and The 8th International Symposium on Electronic Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He has served on the jury of many piano competitions including the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, and was the first U.S. judge to be invited to the prestigious Concours International de Musique Contemporaine pour Piano in 1983 and 1986. Mr. Hoffmann has degrees from Eastman School of Music, and did further study at the Peabody Conservatory. He attended both the Salzburg “Mozarteum” and the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. His principal teachers have been Leon Fleisher, Cecile Genhart, Dieter Weber, Kurt Neumuller, and Brooks Smith. Mr. Hoffmann is currently Professor of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where he teaches piano, chamber music and directs the contemporary music ensemble, HELIX!, which he founded in 1990. November 13 E. Michael Richards 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert (cash or check only). Public information: 410-455-ARTS. The Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents clarinetist E. Michael Richards with David Kim-Boyle (computer) and Kazuko Tanosaki (piano). The program will include Dialogue l’ombre double by Pierre Boulez, Music for Clarinet and ISPW by Cort Lippe, a new work for bass clarinet and computer by William Kleinsasser, and a new work for bass clarinet and piano by Stephen Blumberg. As a recitalist of new music, E. Michael Richards has premiered over 125 works throughout the United States, Japan, Australia, and Western Europe. Trained as a clarinetist at the New England Conservatory (B.Mus.) and Yale School of Music (M.Mus.), Richards earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. He received a 1990 U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, and Japanese Government Cultural Agency) as a solo recitalist for a six-month residency in Japan, an NEH Summer Fellowship to study traditional Japanese music, and a residency grant (Cassis, France) from the Camargo Foundation to complete a book, The Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century. Richards has performed as concerto soloist with the Syracuse Symphony and Shinsei Japan Philharmonic (Tokyo), in chamber music performances with the Cassatt Quartet, Ying Quartet, SONOR, and the East-West Quartet, and in recital at eight international festivals and more than 20 universities, as well as at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the American Academy in Rome, and the Tokyo American Center. He has also performed as a member of the Tanosaki-Richards Duo (with pianist Kazuko Tanosaki) since 1982. Richards has recorded on the NEUMA, Mode, CRI, Ninewinds, and Opus One labels. He has taught at Smith College; the University of California, San Diego; Bowdoin College; Hamilton College; and the Hochstein Music School in Rochester, New York; and completed short terms with Kazuko Tanosaki as visiting artists in residence at the University of Massachusetts, CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies), at the University of California Berkeley, and San Jose State University.(Photo: Richard Anderson.) November 20 The Federal City Brass Band 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert (cash or check only). Public information: 410-455-ARTS. The Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents the Federal City Brass Band under the direction of Jari Villanueva. The Federal City Brass Band presents music of the 26th North Carolina Regiment Band, one of the most renowned brass bands of the Civil War era. Based in Salem, North Carolina, the band was made up of Moravian musicians who enlisted in 1862 and served until the last week of the war. Their music, from the only known existing set of Confederate band books, has enriched the repertoire of bands since it was re-discovered in the late 1950s. Selections will include Moravian hymns, music heard in prewar America and music from the wartime band books including the 26th Regiment Quickstep, Maryland My Maryland, Cheer Boys Cheer, Tu Che a Dio, Canary Bird Waltz, Trovatore Quickstep and Lorena. The Federal City Brass Band wears reproduction uniforms for the re-created 26th North Carolina Regiment Band meticulously based on the only known photograph of the band during the War, taken in July, 1862, using contemporary descriptions of the band and museum examples of original Confederate uniforms as additional references. Special Event October 29–30 4th Annual High School Chamber Music Festival and Concerto Competition Information: 410-455-3064 The Department of Music presents the 4th Annual High School Chamber Music Festival and Concerto Competition, in which twenty-five selected students from the mid-Atlantic region will gather at UMBC for a weekend of performances, coachings, and new musical experiences. Selected students in flute, clarinet, cello, piano, percussion, voice, violin, and classical guitar will rehearse intensively with their assigned chamber group coached by members of the UMBC faculty on Saturday the 29th and Sunday morning the 30th, in preparation for a Sunday afternoon concert. This concert will be professionally recorded, and a CD will be mailed to participating students. In addition, students will attend a chamber music performance by UMBC faculty, a variety of master classes (on their major instrument), and a class in a related musical area (including composition, early music, gamelan and others). Meals and lodging will be provided on campus, with current UMBC music students serving as hosts. Student Recital Series October 16 UMBC Symphony Orchestra The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wayne Cameron. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. November 19 UMBC Chamber Players The Department of Music presents the UMBC Chamber Players directed by E. Michael Richards. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. November 21 UMBC Jazz Ensemble (Big Band) The Department of Music presents the UMBC Jazz Ensemble (Big Band) directed by Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. December 1 UMBC Wind Ensemble The Department of Music presents the UMBC Wind Ensemble directed by Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. December 2 Vocal Arts Ensemble The Department of Music presents the Vocal Arts Ensemble under the direction of David Smith. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. December 3 Jubilee Singers The Department of Music presents the Jubilee Singers followed by the UMBC Gospel Choir, both directed by Janice Jackson. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. December 4 Collegium Musicum The Department of Music presents the Collegium Musicum directed by Joseph Morin. The Collegium Musicum is a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring and performing vocal and instrumental music from European Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750. 4 pm, St. John’s Episcopal Church, 9120 Frederick Road, Ellicott City. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. December 8 UMBC Percussion Ensemble The Department of Music presents the UMBC Percussion Ensemble directed by Tom Goldstein. The ensemble is adventurous in its programming, with a repertoire that includes graphic-notation pieces, improvisational works, and theater, as well as works by important early percussion composers, such as Alan Hovhaness, John Cage and Carlos Chavez. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. December 10 Maryland Camerata The Department of Music presents the Maryland Camerata directed by David Smith. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. December 11 UMBC Symphony Orchestra The Department of Music presents the UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wayne Cameron. The program will include the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77, performed by Airi Yoshioka. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. December 12 UMBC Guitar Ensemble and Soloists The Department of Music presents the UMBC Guitar Ensemble and Soloists directed by Troy King. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. December 13 Department of Music Honors Recital The Department of Music presents an Honors Recital. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. Additional Information Telephone MissionTix box office: 410-752-8950 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/news MissionTix: http://www.missiontix.com/  Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Parking is available after 3:30 p.m. on weekdays and all day during weekends in gated Lots 16/9A for a 50¢ fee, quarters only. From any campus entrance, circle around Hilltop Circle (the road the encircles the campus) to Hilltop Road. Take Hilltop Road toward the center of campus. The Fine Arts Building will now be directly in front of you. Proceed through the stop sign. The road will curve to the right. If Lot 16 is full, you can also pay to park in Lot 9A, which sits on the hill immediately above Lot 16—return to the stop sign and turn left toward Lot 9A, and then to the gate. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore May 1, 2005 My Place Live Media Event Showcases Unique Collaboration of Urban Youth, College Students, Public Institutions and Artists Contact: Tom Moore 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu On Thursday, May 12th, students from UMBC's Imaging Research Center (IRC) will present a collaboration with middle school children working with Wide Angle Community Media. Their collaboration, entitled My Place, offers participants and viewers an innovative media experience. Throughout spring 2005, UMBC IRC graduate and undergraduate media arts students worked with Cherry Hill Middle School youth who are involved with the Baltimore Speaks Out! partnership. Together they shot video footage in and about Cherry Hill that expresses personal artistic or community significance and explores questions such as: How do we describe a place? What makes Cherry Hill a place? What is your favorite place? Does it have a name? Experimenting with software to manipulate video, sound, written narratives, and drawings, students from Cherry Hill and UMBC worked together to create the content that will be used for the live performance, adding new layers of meaning in the process. One of the project facilitators, Steve Bradley, associate professor of Visual Arts at UMBC, adds that the event is also "a celebration of personal teamwork and accomplishment. Cherry Hill youth have learned valuable technical skills in documenting impressions of their community and they have generously shared their exuberance and insight." Audiences can gather at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Cherry Hill from 5 to 6 pm to see My Place as a live performance. Admission is free. The library is hosting the event as part of their Baltimore Speaks Out! partnership with Wide Angle. Because of limited audience space, the event will be streamed live on the Internet and archived at http://art-radio.net/CH-IRC/. About the Imaging Research Center UMBC's Imaging Research Center (IRC) is dedicated to investigating new technologies and their use for interpreting and presenting content. Since its inception in 1987, artists and researchers across disciplines have collaborated in the IRC's creative environment to develop new strategies and techniques in digital media. State-of-the-art facilities enable research in 3D visualization, immersive technologies, interactivity, installation, animation, high definition video, and sound. In conjunction with UMBC's Department of Visual Arts, the IRC has developed successful academic programs that incorporate undergraduate and graduate students into professional research activities. These students receive valuable experience with contemporary digital art technologies while working as partners with researchers, artists, scholars, and industry specialists to create large-scale, high profile works. About Wide Angle Community Media Wide Angle Community Media provides youth and communities with media education and leadership opportunities so they may represent themselves and tell their own stories. Wide Angle's workshops, collaborations, and public events fulfill our mission to make media make a difference in the Baltimore region. Wide Angle trains 100 youth and community members yearly in media literacy and production, and community-based distribution. Wide Angle also supports the broader youth media field through the administration of the Youth Media Advocacy Coalition (YMAC), which provides media education training, travel, and networking opportunities to youth educators. About Baltimore Speaks Out! Baltimore Speaks Out! is a youth media education program, training youth ages 12 to 14 in media literacy, video production, teambuilding, and presentation skills. Developed as a partnership between Wide Angle Community Media and the Enoch Pratt Free Library, this program has served youth in Baltimore City for more than three years. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24-hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Public information: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC arts news releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Link to live stream: http://art-radio.net/CH-IRC/ Images for Media High resolution images are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore April 22, 2005 UMBC Students Partner with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and Erickson Retirement Communities to Create New Modern Dance Contact: Tom Moore 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu On April 29 and May 1, UMBC students will partner with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and the Charlestown campus of Erickson Retirement Communities to present Written in Stone, Danced on the Body, a modern dance performance event. The sort of dance experience that only Liz Lerman Dance Exchange would conceive and dare, Written in Stone, Danced on the Body melds three cultures into one dance dialogue: seven older women dancers from Kyoto, Japan; residents of Charlestown Retirement Community; and performing arts students from UMBC. The dance, designed to be as thought provoking as it is entertaining, has been choreographed by the Dance Exchange's Margot Greenlee and Martha Wittman and will include recorded narrative/music and a photographic display documenting the performance's process. The performance will be filmed by UMBC's New Media Studio. Written in Stone, Danced on the Body is the culmination of a semester-long collaboration between UMBC, the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and Charlestown. During the spring 2005 semesters, participating UMBC students participated in a special course, Dance in Community, in which they learned about community arts movement, aspects of gerontology, and specific techniques pioneered by the Dance Exchange for bringing movement and dance into the lives of people of all ages. The performances on April 29 will be at 2 pm and 7 pm will be held in the Auditorium of the Charlestown Retirement Community. Admission is free. The performance on May 1st will be at 3 pm, at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24-hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: http://www.danceexchange.org/ Images for Media High resolution images are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore April 5, 2005 UMBC Presents Pianist Marc Ponthus in Concert Contact: Tom Moore 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu The UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concert Series presents pianist Marc Ponthus in a performance of the Second and Third Piano Sonatas by Pierre Boulez on Thursday, April 21st at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The only pianist to have performed the complete solo piano work of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ponthus's solo performances with the BBC in London have been broadcast on numerous occasions. His recording of the complete solo piano works of Xenakis was recently released on Neuma records. Born in Lyon, France, Mr. Ponthus studied with Claudio Arrau and has lectured and given master classes at New England Conservatory, San Francisco Conservatory, the Juilliard School and Columbia University. He is the director of the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance at the Mannes College of Music. The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Ponthus's virtuosity is hair-raising, like beams of electricity shooting from a Frankenstein machine…a kind of priest channeling spirits in an arcane rite, hurling himself at the keyboard…until the whole instrument shook." The Washington Post's Joseph McLellan said, "Ponthus has a technique and a musical sensitivity that simply brush technical obstacles aside." Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information: UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore March 31, 2005 UMBC Theatre presents Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare Contact: Tom Moore 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu The UMBC Department of Theatre presents Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, directed by Colette Searls and Lynn Watson, in which the bard aims his savage wit at chivalry and romance. A gender-bending ensemble exposes the true nature of patriarchy and sexual power-play in this favorite of Shakespeare's comedies. The production features set and costume design by Elena Zlotescu, light and sound design by Terry Cobb, original music composed and performed by John Yurick, dramaturgy by Susan McCully, choreography by Doug Hamby, and movement coaching by Wendy Salkind. Much Ado is Shakespeare's wickedly funny treatise on the fickle, fantastical, often-fierce nature of love. In the old Sicilian town of Messina, four lovers engage in fierce battles of wit and delicious practical jokes. But beneath the games of disguise and foolery lie darker forces of mistrust and fear. While Beatrice and Benedick wrangle turning wordplay to foreplay, Claudio and Hero must overcome treachery and deceit to make their love-match. In a world where appearances can't be trusted, truth finally conquers and Cupid's war is won—but not without leaving its scars on this scathing comedy. Showtimes Thursday, April 14, 8 pm (preview) Friday, April 15, 8 pm (opening night) Saturday, April 16, 8 pm Sunday, April 17, 4 pm Thursday, April 21, 4 pm (free performance) Friday, April 22, 8 pm Saturday, April 23, 8 pm Thursday, April 28, 8 pm Friday, April 29, 8 pm Sunday, May 1, 4 pm (The Theatre will be dark on April 30.) Admission $10 general admission $5 students $3 for the preview The performance on Thursday, April 21st is free for the UMBC campus community. Ticket proceeds benefit the Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. Tickets are available online through MissionTix or by calling MissionTix at 410-752-8950. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door (cash or check only). Telephone MissionTix: 410-752-8950 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre website: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore March 28, 2005 UMBC Presents Ruckus in Concert Contact: Tom Moore 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu The UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC on Tuesday, April 12th, at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The program will include Elliott Carter's Triple Duo, Hymne by Anneliese Wiebel, Sleep, in the Shape of My Body by Mark Osborn, Bones by Stuart Saunders Smith, Magnificat 3: Lament by Linda Dusman and so, between and e,nm by Thomas DeLio. The ensemble features flutist Lisa Cella, cellist Franklin Cox, percussionist Tom Goldstein, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, violinist Airi Yoshioka, pianist Thomas Moore and conductor Brian Stone. Founded in 2000 to promote the performance of contemporary chamber music, Ruckus has performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and at universities throughout the East Coast. Ruckus will present the same program on April 3rd at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and on April 17th at Stanford University, where the ensemble will be in residence for a week. Admission Admission to the concert is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available online through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or by calling 410-752-8950. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door (cash or check only). Telephone Public information: UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo credit: Richard Anderson.) ### Posted by tmoore UMBC Presents the Callithumpian Consort in Concert Contact: Tom Moore 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu The UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concert Series presents the Callithumpian Consort, based at New England Conservatory and directed by Stephen Drury, on Thursday, April 14th, at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The ensemble's program will feature Miss Donnithorne's Maggot, a music-theatre work by Peter Maxwell Davies, and Stanley Kubrick's Mountain Home by Paul Elwood. The Callithumpian Consort was created in the belief that new music should be an exciting adventure shared by performers and listeners alike, and that brand new masterpieces of our day are beautiful, sensuous, challenging, delightful, provocative, and a unique joy. The Consort is flexible in size and makeup, in some cases performing as a full chamber orchestra. Its members pursue parallel solo and orchestral careers as well. Each musician is a soloist, enabling the group to tackle unusual repertoire in non-standard ensembles, or to take part in experimental projects. The Consort's repertoire encompasses a huge stylistic spectrum, from the classics of the last 100 years to works of the avant-garde and experimental jazz and rock. Active commissioning and recording of new works is crucial to the ensemble's mission, and the group has worked with composers John Cage, Lee Hyla, John Zorn, Michael Finnissy, Franco Donatoni, Lukas Foss, Christian Wolff and many others. Its recordings are available on Tzadik and Mode records. Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information: UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore March 24, 2005 Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Presents On Assignment: Photographs by Arthur Leipzig Contact: Tom Moore 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents On Assignment: Photographs by Arthur Leipzig, on display from April 11 through May 31, 2005. Arthur Leipzig, perhaps best known for his photo essays depicting life in New York in the 1940s, has spent a lifetime capturing the human condition through his photographs. On Assignment will be the first major presentation to highlight the broad range of Leipzig’s astute photographic vision. Included are 70 photographs representing his most significant bodies of work either taken on assignment for major publications or for his own “self-assignments”: children, New York, rural labor, winter fishing in the Atlantic, Pablo Casals, South Sudan, Mexico, pediatric hospitals, and Jewish Life. The show is organized by the Library Gallery and curated by Tom Beck and Cynthia Wayne, in collaboration with the photographer. Throughout his career, Arthur Leipzig has viewed photography as an exciting way to both connect with the world and to separate from it. He has remarked: “I have been able to observe the world and myself. Photography has helped me to learn much about both.” At eighty-six, Leipzig’s lifetime of learning is clearly visible in his photographs, a broad selection of which has been gathered into this exhibition. Leipzig, who was born in 1918 and came of age in the Depression, left school at the age of seventeen and took on an assortment of jobs, including truck driver, salesman, office manager, and assembly line worker. While working at a wholesale glass plant, he seriously injured and lost the use of his right hand for fourteen months, an event that propelled Leipzig into photography, beginning with studies at the Photo League and with Sid Grossman. In 1942, Leipzig launched his career as photography assignment editor and staff photographer for PM, a newspaper that, like the Photo League, was people-oriented and “dared to tell the truth.” By 1947, Leipzig also had studied with Paul Strand, the eminent artist-photographer, and left PM to become a freelance photojournalist, a pursuit he continued even after 1963 when he began a 25-year teaching career at C.W. Post College, Long Island University. In recent years, exhibitions and books of Leipzig’s imagery have appeared with increasing frequency. Not only did Leipzig photograph specifically for diverse publications such as Fortune, Look, Parade, and Natural History, but also for “self-assignments,” those that he gave to himself either with or without immediate expectations of publication. In either case, Leipzig’s primary subject always has been people who are famous primarily by virtue of having been photographed in the act of being human. His fascination with people is so pervasive that individuals almost invariably become icons of humanity in general with all beauties and imperfections clearly delineated. Undoubtedly, his diverse experiences with many different kinds of people have taught him well that humanity is an exquisite source of inspiration for images. His photographs are almost entirely visceral responses to a chaotic world to which he has sought to provide order and structure. In 2004, Leipzig was awarded the prestigious Lucie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Fine Art Photography. The spirit behind the annual Lucie award is to salute the achievements of the world’s finest photographers, discover new and emerging talent, and promote the appreciation of photography. Gordon Parks, the 2004 Lucie Awards Lifetime Achievement recipient observed, “[Leipzig’s photography] opens up our feelings to so many things, immeasurable things that have given license to his unbridled eye. His curiosity appears inexhaustible and keeps sprouting.” After its presentation at UMBC, the exhibition will travel to the Columbus Museum of Art, where it will be on view December 17, 2005 – March 11, 2006. A book by the same title is being published by Bulfinch Press. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the University community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery is free. Acknowledgements Funding for On Assignment has been provided in part from an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Friends of the Library & Gallery. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. The images in this release and others are available at 300 dpi on high resolution image website. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by tmoore UMBC Department of Music Presents Guitarist Troy King in Concert Contact: Tom Moore 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu The UMBC Department of Music presents guitarist Troy King in concert on Sunday, April 3rd at 3 pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. His program will feature works by Augustin Barrios, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Manuel Ponce, Jorge Morel, and Radames Gnattali. With a reputation as an inspired, technically refined performer, Troy King is recognized as a guitarist who brings an intense, passionate commitment to his art, and who is able to emotionally connect with audiences. He holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a scholarship student of John Holmquist, and a Master’s Degree from the University of Denver, where he was the teaching assistant to Ricardo Iznaola. Additional instruction includes private study in England with composer/ guitarist Gilbert Biberian, and a long list of masterclasses with many of today’s most notable guitarists. King has performed concerts across the United States and Europe. He has been heard on the BBC and National Public Radio. His varied programs include beloved guitar masterworks as well as important and exciting contemporary offerings, such as Ricardo Iznaola’s Three Little Tales, which he premiered in 1997. Notable festival appearances have included guest artist recitals at the Charlton Kings International Guitar Festival (England), the Portland Guitar Festival (Oregon), and at the Summer Guitar Workshop (New Mexico). After giving what Soundboard Magazine described as “a fiery performance,” King won First Prize at the Portland Guitar Festival International Guitar Competition. Other accomplishments include winning First Prize at the Lamont Chamber Music Competition and being selected as a Finalist in the Manuel Ponce International Guitar Competition in Mexico City. Admission Admission to the concert is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available online through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or by calling 410-752-8950. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door (cash or check only). Admission to the masterclass is free. Telephone Public information: UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore February 22, 2005 UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents the Tour de Clay Contact: Tom Moore 410-455-3370 tmoore@umbc.edu UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents three exhibitions as part of the Baltimore area-wide Tour de Clay, held in conjunction with the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts 2005 Conference. The exhibitions open on March 10th and continue through April 2nd. An opening reception for all three exhibitions will be held on Wednesday, March 16 from 5 to 7 pm at the Center for Art and Visual Culture. The largest of the exhibitions -- and the largest Tour de Clay exhibition in Baltimore -- is the NCECA 2005 Clay National Exhibition, a nationally juried exhibition of emerging and established artists, including Tara Wilson, Stan Welsh, Wendy Walgate, John Utgaard, Virginia Trammell, Matthew Towers, Billie Jean Theide, Leigh Taylor Mickelson, Katherine Taylor, Chris Staley and 72 others. This exhibition will be presented in the Center for Art and Visual Culture's main exhibition space in the Fine Arts Building. Series of Echoes: Anderson Ranch, featuring work by past and present Anderson Ranch resident artists, is curated by Jill Oberman and organized by the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado. Series of Echoes showcases the diversity and individual strengths of the artists in residence, and highlights the emerging and established artists who have left a legacy at the Anderson Ranch while contributing to the field of contemporary ceramics. Artists featured in the exhibition include Doug Casebeer, Brad Miller, Christa Assad, Ruth Borgenicht, Sam Chung, Michael Connelly, Julia Galloway, Sam Harvey, Giselle Hicks, Sinisa Kukec, Jae Won Lee, Alleghany Meadows, Jill Oberman, Rich Parsons, Pelusa Rosenthal, Bradley Walters and Michael Wisner. Series of Echoes will be presented in the Gallery on Upper Main at The Commons. Contemporary Codex: Ceramics and the Book is a traveling invitational exhibition exploring the written word, curated by Holly Hanessian and Janet Williams and organized by the University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University. Participating artists include Lenny Goldberg, Holly Henessian, Barbara Hashimoto, Kimiyo Michima, Nancy Selvin, Richard Shaw, Forrest Snyder and Janet Williams. Ceramics and books share a common history: The earliest book forms, imbued with power and intimacy, were cuneiforms, small terra cotta tablets with orderly symbols easily tucked into a side sleeve and carried around. The book objects or installations in this exhibition stretch the boundaries of both ceramics and the book form, interpreting the book with integrity and a variety of aesthetic viewpoints. Contemporary Codex will be on display on the Second Floor of The Commons in Room 2B24. A full-color catalog with essays from both curators will be available for purchase at the CAVC for $10. About the Center for Art and Visual Culture The Center for Art and Visual Culture is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of contemporary art and visual culture, critical theory, art and cultural history, and the relationship between society and the arts. The CAVC serves as a forum for students, faculty, and the general public for the discussion of important aesthetic and social issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital art, video, film, television, design, architecture, advertising, and installation and performance art. Since 1989, the CAVC has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Center has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the CAVC's Internship Program. Currently the Center produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. Recent publications include Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion and Paul Rand: Modernist Design. These catalogues are published yearly and are distributed internationally through Distributed Art Publishers in New York. Since 1992, the Center for Art and Visual Culture has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions that contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the CAVC has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. These traveling exhibitions include: White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art (2003) Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer's Perspective (1998) Minimal Politics (1997) Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia (1995/96) Notes In Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (1995) Ciphers of Identity (1994) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Center for Art and Visual Culture also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the CAVC, one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Center for Art and Visual Culture in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Upcoming Exhibitions at the Center for Art and Visual Culture April 14 – May 7 The IMDA Thesis Exhibition, an exhibition by graduates of UMBC's MFA program in Imaging and Digital Arts, an interdisciplinary program integrating computer art, video, filmmaking, photography, art theory and criticism. An opening reception will be held on April 14 from 5 to 7 pm. May 18 – June 18 The Senior Exit Exhibition. This exhibition reflects the interdisciplinary orientation and the technological focus of the Department of Visual Arts and provides the opportunity for undergraduate seniors to exhibit within a professional setting prior to exiting the University. An opening reception will be held on May 18 from 5 to 7 pm. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: Closed Tuesday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Wednesday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Thursday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Friday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Saturday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Admission Admission to the CAVC and all events is free. Telephone CAVC offices: 410-455-3188 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web CAVC website: http://www.umbc.edu/cavc UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by tmoore February 13, 2005 UMBC Presents Guitarist Stephen Marchionda in Concert The UMBC Department of Music presents a masterclass and concert by renowned guitarist Stephen Marchionda on Saturday, February 26. The masterclass will be held at 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall, with the concert to follow at 7:30 pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. His program will include the regional premiere of the Tango from Sophie's Choice by Nicholas Maw, as well as Maw's monumental work for solo guitar, Music of Memory, and works by John Dowland and Joaquin Rodrigo. The UMBC Department of Music presents a masterclass and concert by renowned guitarist Stephen Marchionda on Saturday, February 26. The masterclass will be held at 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall, with the concert to follow at 7:30 pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. His program will include the regional premiere of the Tango from Sophie's Choice by Nicholas Maw, as well as Maw's monumental work for solo guitar, Music of Memory, and works by John Dowland and Joaqu�n Rodrigo. Stephen Marchionda has emerged as a unique presence on the international concert scene. His performances are characterized by flair, technical facility and musical individuality. The American Record Guide says, “...he turns in vibrant performances...energetic and vital, with a great sense of momentum and flow...cohesive and highly charged.” He has recently been featured in New York City at Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall (the Aranjuez Series), where Soundboard magazine wrote that “imbued with depth and passion, Marchionda played engagingly and with a sense of drama...deftly played.” He has appeared at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland and San Diego Museums of Art, the Cleveland Institute, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and numerous universities. A strong advocate of contemporary music, Mr. Marchionda is top prize winner at several international competitions, including the Guitar Foundation of America's International Solo, the Segovia International, and the Manuel de Falla. A graduate of Yale University's School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, he was affiliated with the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1991, where he received classes with the celebrated guitarist Julian Bream, who called him a “strong, spirited performer.” Admission Admission to the concert is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available online through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or by calling 410-752-8950. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door (cash or check only). Admission to the masterclass is free. Telephone Public information: UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents the Damocles Trio in Concert The UMBC Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents the Damocles Trio in concert on Thursday, March 3 at 8 pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The Trio’s program will features performances of the Brahms Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87; Joaquín Turina’s Trio No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 76; and Ravel’s Trio in A Minor. The UMBC Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents the Damocles Trio in concert on Thursday, March 3 at 8 pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The Trio’s program will features performances of the Brahms Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87; Joaquín Turina’s Trio No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 76; and Ravel’s Trio in A Minor. The Damocles Trio has performed throughout the United States, appearing numerous times at Alice Tully Hall in New York City, and completed highly successful tours of Switzerland in 1999 and 2001. Commenting on a performance in Interlaken, the Oberländisches Tagblatt wrote, “The members of this international trio were perfectly attuned to each other and interpreted the magnificent work with great expressiveness” and a critic from the Zürichsee Zeitung enthused, “The three artists did justice to the great work of Beethoven with perfect harmony, courtly elegance...subtle coloration, and great virtuosity.” The ensemble was founded in 1996 by pianist Adam Kent, violinist Airi Yoshioka, and cellist Sibylle Johner, all accomplished soloists in their own right. Mr. Kent won top prizes in the American Pianists Association Fellowship, Simone Belsky Music, Thomas Richner Foundation, Juilliard Concerto, and Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin competitions and is also a recipient of the Arthur Rubinstein Prize and the Harold Bauer Award. Ms. Yoshioka was a winner of The Juilliard School’s concerto competition, concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi, concertmaster at the Aspen Music Festival, and concertmaster and soloist with The New Juilliard Ensemble. She is now on the faculty of UMBC. Ms. Johner was a winner of both the Drake and Zurich Conservatory soloist competitions and received the Dienemann, Ernst Göhner, and Eubie Blake Scholarship awards. The three musicians met in the doctoral program at The Juilliard School, where they were awarded a Maxwell and Muriel Gluck Fellowship for the 1998/99 academic year and coached with Felix Galimir, Jerome Lowenthal, and Stephen Clapp. The only piano trio to advance to the finals of the 2002 International Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Damocles Trio has been featured frequently on Robert Sherman’s Young Artists Showcase on WQXR radio. Admission Admission to the concert is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available online through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or by calling 410-752-8950. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door (cash or check only). Admission to the masterclass is free. Telephone Public information: UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo credit: Michael Dames.) ### Posted by dwinds1 February 1, 2005 UMBC Presents the 'two' Percussion Duo in Concert The UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concert Series presents the two percussion group on Thursday, February 24th, 2005. Their program will include All that is Left and Polka in Treblinka by Stuart Saunders Smith, Pairs by Christian Wolff, bicoastal by Roger Zahab, Duo for Marimba and Vibraphone by Gitta Steiner, Verh'lthis ('hneln..) by Franklin Cox, and a new work by Tom Baker. The UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concert Series presents the two percussion group, a duo committed to the advancement of new music through performance, education, and experimentation. two was founded in 1998 by Chris Leonard and Dale Speicher, both founding members of the seminal percussion group trio algetic. The music of two invites listeners to investigate the boundaries of complexity and sonority by exploring the world outside of driving repetitive rhythms and, instead, diving into a world of polytonality and polyrhythmic structures. two actively commissions new music for percussion from forward thinking composers throughout the world. Their program will include All that is Left and Polka in Treblinka by Stuart Saunders Smith, Pairs by Christian Wolff, bicoastal by Roger Zahab, Duo for Marimba and Vibraphone by Gitta Steiner, Verh�lthis (�hneln..) by Franklin Cox, and a new work by Tom Baker Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information: UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo credit: Richard Anderson.) ### Posted by OIT UMBC Presents Cellist Franklin Cox in Concert The UMBC Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents cellist Franklin Cox in concert on Sunday, February 20th at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. His program will include J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor (BWV 1011), the Maryland premiere of a work by Elliott Carter, works by Volker Schmidt and Ignacio Baca-Lobera, and a new work of his own. The UMBC Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents cellist Franklin Cox in concert on Sunday, February 20th at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. His program will include J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor (BWV 1011), the Maryland premiere of a work by Elliott Carter, works by Volker Schmidt and Ignacio Baca-Lobera, and a new work of his own. Franklin Cox has performed in numerous festivals and new music ensembles, including the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, and SONOR, as well as at the 1980 and 1982 Spoleto Festivals, the 1983 Banff Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Xenakis Festival and Darmstadt Revisited Festival at UCSD, and at the Darmstadt Festival since 1988, where he received a special citation for cello performance in 1990. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Indiana University, a Master of Arts degree in composition from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cox studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa, Steven Suber, Fred Fox, Harvey Sollberger, Fred Lerdahl, and Jack Beeson. He received an Alice M. Ditson Scholarship and Dissertation Fellowship at Columbia University, Regent’s Fellowship and a Dissertation Research Fellowship for Outstanding Research at UCSD, a full scholarship to the 1990 June in Buffalo Festival, and full scholarships for the 1988 and 1992 Darmstadt Festivals. He was awarded a Stipendium Fellowship at the 1990 Darmstadt Festival, won 2nd prize in the Los Angeles Arts Commission competition in the spring of 1991, and was co-winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (highest award for composition) in the 1992 Darmstadt Festival. Admission Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available online through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or by calling 410-752-8950. Any remaining tickets will be available at the door (cash or check only). Telephone Public information: UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo credit: Richard Anderson.) ### Posted by OIT January 11, 2005 UMBC Department of Music Presents Spring 2005 Concerts and Events The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2005 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by renowned artists, including classical guitarist Stephen Marchionda, Ruckus (the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC), the Callithumpian Consort (featuring a performance of Miss Donnithorne�s Maggot by Peter Maxwell Davies), the Damocles Trio and other performers. The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2005 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by renowned artists, including classical guitarist Stephen Marchionda, Ruckus (the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC), the Callithumpian Consort (featuring a performance of Miss Donnithorne�s Maggot by Peter Maxwell Davies), the Damocles Trio and other performers. Professional Artist Series February 9 Duo Ego 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS Duo Ego, featuring the unusual ensemble of singer Monica Danielsson and percussionist Per Sj�gren, has, in fewer than four years, established itself as one of the leading contemporary music ensembles in Scandinavia. A number of composers have written for the duo, which will present the world premiere of a new work by Magnus Lindborg at Stockholm New Music in February 2005. Their program will include Forever and Sunsmell by John Cage, Tranquil by P�r Lindgren, Aspects of Humanity by Fredrik �sterling, A day goes by by Karin Rehnqvist, La fra�cheur de la derni�re v�pr�e by Viktor Varela, and Breath by Stuart Saunders Smith. (Photo: Uristin Lidell.) February 20 Franklin Cox, cello 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. Cellist Franklin Cox�s program will include J.S. Bach�s Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat (BWV 1010), works by Wolfram Schurig, Ignacio Baca-Lobera, Nicola Sani and a new work by Franklin Cox. Franklin Cox has performed in numerous festivals and new music ensembles, including the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, and SONOR, as well as at the 1980 and 1982 Spoleto Festivals, the 1983 Banff Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Xenakis Festival and Darmstadt Revisited Festival at UCSD, and at the Darmstadt Festival since 1988, where he received a special citation for cello performance in 1990. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Indiana University, a Master of Arts degree in composition from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cox studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa, Steven Suber, Fred Fox, Harvey Sollberger, Fred Lerdahl, and Jack Beeson. He received an Alice M. Ditson Scholarship and Dissertation Fellowship at Columbia University, Regent�s Fellowship and a Dissertation Research Fellowship for Outstanding Research at UCSD, a full scholarship to the 1990 June in Buffalo Festival, and full scholarships for the 1988 and 1992 Darmstadt Festivals. He was awarded a Stipendium Fellowship at the 1990 Darmstadt Festival, won 2nd prize in the Los Angeles Arts Commission competition in the spring of 1991, and was co-winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (highest award for composition) in the 1992 Darmstadt Festival. (Photo: Richard Anderson.) February 24 two percussion ensemble 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS The �two� percussion group, a duo committed to the advancement of new music through performance, education, and experimentation, was founded in 1998 by Chris Leonard and Dale Speicher, both founding members of the seminal percussion group trio algetic. The music of two invites listeners to investigate the boundaries of complexity and sonority by exploring the world outside of driving repetitive rhythms and, instead, diving into a world of polytonality and polyrhythmic structures. two actively commissions new music for percussion from forward thinking composers throughout the world. Their program will include All that is Left and Polka in Treblinka by Stuart Saunders Smith, Pairs by Christian Wolff, bicoastal by Roger Zahab, Duo for Marimba and Vibraphone by Gitta Steiner, Verh�lthis (�hneln..) by Franklin Cox, and a new work by Tom Baker. February 26 Stephen Marchionda, guitar 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert. (A 3 pm masterclass, Fine Arts Recital Hall, is free.) Public information: 410-455-ARTS. Renowned guitarist Stephen Marchionda renowned guitarist Stephen Marchionda. His program will include the regional premiere of the Tango from Sophie�s Choice by Nicholas Maw, as well as Maw�s monumental work for solo guitar, Music of Memory, and works by John Dowland and Joaqu�n Rodrigo. Stephen Marchionda has emerged as a unique presence on the international concert scene. His performances are characterized by flair, technical facility and musical individuality. The American Record Guide says, �...he turns in vibrant performances...energetic and vital, with a great sense of momentum and flow...cohesive and highly charged.� He has recently been featured in New York City at Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall (the Aranjuez Series), where Soundboard magazine wrote that �imbued with depth and passion, Marchionda played engagingly and with a sense of drama...deftly played.� He has appeared at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland and San Diego Museums of Art, the Cleveland Institute, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and numerous universities. A strong advocate of contemporary music, Mr. Marchionda is top prize winner at several international competitions, including the Guitar Foundation of America�s International Solo, the Segovia International, and the Manuel de Falla. A graduate of Yale University�s School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, he was affiliated with the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1991, where he received classes with the celebrated guitarist Julian Bream, who called him a �strong, spirited performer.� March 3 The Damocles Trio 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. The energetic Damocles Trio will perform the Brahms Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87; Joaqu�n Turina�s Trio No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 76; and Ravel�s Trio in A Minor. The Damocles Trio has performed throughout the United States, appearing numerous times at Alice Tully Hall in New York City, and completed highly successful tours of Switzerland in 1999 and 2001. Commenting on a performance in Interlaken, the Oberl�ndisches Tagblatt wrote, �The members of this international trio were perfectly attuned to each other and interpreted the magnificent work with great expressiveness� and a critic from the Z�richsee Zeitung enthused, �The three artists did justice to the great work of Beethoven with perfect harmony, courtly elegance...subtle coloration, and great virtuosity.� The ensemble was founded in 1996 by pianist Adam Kent, violinist Airi Yoshioka, and cellist Sibylle Johner, all accomplished soloists in their own right. Mr. Kent won top prizes in the American Pianists Association Fellowship, Simone Belsky Music, Thomas Richner Foundation, Juilliard Concerto, and Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin competitions and is also a recipient of the Arthur Rubinstein Prize and the Harold Bauer Award. Ms. Yoshioka was a winner of The Juilliard School�s concerto competition, concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi, concertmaster at the Aspen Music Festival, and concertmaster and soloist with The New Juilliard Ensemble. She is now on the faculty of UMBC. Ms. Johner was a winner of both the Drake and Zurich Conservatory soloist competitions and received the Dienemann, Ernst G�hner, and Eubie Blake Scholarship awards. The three musicians met in the doctoral program at The Juilliard School, where they were awarded a Maxwell and Muriel Gluck Fellowship for the 1998/99 academic year and coached with Felix Galimir, Jerome Lowenthal, and Stephen Clapp. The only piano trio to advance to the finals of the 2002 International Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Damocles Trio has been featured frequently on Robert Sherman�s Young Artists Showcase on WQXR radio. (Photo: Michael Dames.) April 3 Troy King, guitar 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Guitarist Troy King presents a program of works by Augustin Barrios, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Manuel Ponce, Jorge Morel, and Radames Gnattali. With a reputation as an inspired, technically refined performer, Troy King is recognized as a guitarist who brings an intense, passionate commitment to his art, and who is able to emotionally connect with audiences. He holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a scholarship student of John Holmquist, and a Master�s Degree from the University of Denver, where he was the teaching assistant to Ricardo Iznaola. Additional instruction includes private study in England with composer/guitarist Gilbert Biberian, and a long list of masterclasses with many of today�s most notable guitarists. King has performed concerts across the United States and Europe. He has been heard on the BBC and National Public Radio. His varied programs include beloved guitar masterworks as well as important and exciting contemporary offerings, such as Ricardo Iznaola�s Three Little Tales, which he premiered in 1997. Notable festival appearances have included guest artist recitals at the Charlton Kings International Guitar Festival (England), the Portland Guitar Festival (Oregon), and at the Summer Guitar Workshop (New Mexico). After giving what Soundboard Magazine described as �a fiery performance,� King won First Prize at the Portland Guitar Festival International Guitar Competition. Other accomplishments include winning First Prize at the Lamont Chamber Music Competition and being selected as a Finalist in the Manuel Ponce International Guitar Competition in Mexico City. (Photo credit: Tanya Gerodette.) April 12 Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, will perform Elliott Carter�s Triple Duo, James Erber�s The Ray and its Shadow, a new work by Anneliese Wiebel, a work by Mark Osborn, and so, between and e,nm by Thomas DeLio. The ensemble features flutist Lisa Cella, cellist Franklin Cox, percussionist Tom Goldstein, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, pianist Kazuko Tanosaki and violinist Airi Yoshioka. Founded in 2000 to promote the performance of contemporary chamber music, Ruckus has performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and at universities throughout the East Coast. (Photo: Richard Anderson.) April 14 The Callithumpian Consort 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS The Callithumpian Consort hails from New England Conservatory and is directed by noted pianist Stephen Drury. The ensemble�s program will feature Miss Donnithorne�s Maggot, a music-theatre work by Peter Maxwell Davies. The Callithumpian Consort was created in the belief that new music should be an exciting adventure shared by performers and listeners alike, and that brand new masterpieces of our day are beautiful, sensuous, challenging, delightful, provocative, and a unique joy. The Consort is flexible in size and makeup, in some cases performing as a full chamber orchestra. Its members pursue parallel solo and orchestral careers as well. Each musician is a soloist, enabling the group to tackle unusual repertoire in non-standard ensembles, or to take part in experimental projects. The Consort�s repertoire encompasses a huge stylistic spectrum, from the classics of the last 100 years to works of the avant-garde and experimental jazz and rock. Active commissioning and recording of new works is crucial to the ensemble�s mission, and the group has worked with composers John Cage, Lee Hyla, John Zorn, Michael Finnissy, Franco Donatoni, Lukas Foss, Christian Wolff and many others. Its recordings are available on Tzadik and Mode records. April 21 Marc Ponthus, piano 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS Pianist Marc Ponthus presents a performance of the Second and Third Piano Sonatas by Pierre Boulez. The only pianist to have performed the complete solo piano work of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ponthus�s solo performances with the BBC in London have been broadcast on numerous occasions. The New York Times wrote, �Mr. Ponthus�s virtuosity is hair-raising, like beams of electricity shooting from a Frankenstein machine...a kind of priest channeling spirits in an arcane rite, hurling himself at the keyboard...until the whole instrument shook.� The Washington Post�s Joseph McLellan said, �Ponthus has a technique and a musical sensitivity that simply brush technical obstacles aside.� Special Event February 16 Studio 508, the Department of Music�s recording studio and black box performance space, celebrates its re-opening with updated equipment and renovations. The public is invited to an Open House event with surround sound experiences�ranging from the music of Roger Reynolds to The Beatles�and a reception. 5 pm, Studio 508, Fine Arts Building. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Student Recital Series March 6 The UMBC Symphony Orchestra, directed by Wayne Cameron, will feature the winners of the High School Concerto Competition and the Department of Music Concerto Competition in a program that will include Mozart�s Symphony No. 29. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. April 2 The Vocal Arts Ensemble under the direction of David Smith, presenting an Opera Gala that will feature a wonderful evening of scenes from Carmen, La Boh�me, Cos� Fan Tutti, The Marriage of Figaro, Elixir of Love, A Hand of Bridge, and The Gondoliers. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. April 28 The UMBC Jazz Ensemble directed by Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 1 The UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wayne Cameron. The program will feature the London Suite by Eric Coates; the Richard Strauss Oboe Concerto with guest oboist Lori Guess; and a Gloria for choir and orchestra by Antonio Vivaldi. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 5 The UMBC Wind Ensemble directed by Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 6 The UMBC Jazz Combo directed by Rick Hannah. 4 pm, the Commons Cabaret. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 7 The Jubilee Singers directed by Janice Jackson. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 8 The Collegium Musicum directed by Joseph Morin, a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring and performing vocal and instrumental music from European Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750. 4 pm, St. John�s Episcopal Church, 9120 Frederick Road, Ellicott City. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 9 The UMBC Chamber Players directed by E. Michael Richards. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 10 The UMBC Percussion Ensemble directed by Tom Goldstein. The ensemble is adventurous in its programming, with a repertoire that includes graphic-notation pieces, improvisational works, and theatre, as well as works by important early percussion composers such as Alan Hovhaness, John Cage and Carlos Chavez. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 14 The Maryland Camerata directed by David Smith. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 16 The UMBC Classical Guitar Ensemble directed by Troy King. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 17 Department of Music Honors Recital. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Additional Information Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Evening parking is available in Lot 16, adjacent to the Fine Arts Building, for 50�. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by OIT UMBC Presents the Phoenix Dance Company The UMBC Department of Dance presents the Phoenix Dance Company, the professional dance company in residence at UMBC, in its annual concerts from Wednesday, February 9 through Saturday, February 12 at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Renowned for its exploration of dance and technology, the Phoenix Dance Company features choreography by co-artistic directors Carol Hess and Doug Hamby, and performances by Sandra Lacy and other artists. The UMBC Department of Dance presents the Phoenix Dance Company, the professional dance company in residence at UMBC, in its annual concerts from Wednesday, February 9 through Saturday, February 12 at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Tickets are $15 general admission and $7 for students and seniors, available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. Renowned for its exploration of dance and technology, the Phoenix Dance Company features choreography by co-artistic directors Carol Hess and Doug Hamby, and performances by Sandra Lacy and other artists. The venerable company, founded in 1983, has played in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Theatre Project, Ohio State University, Judson Church, Goucher College, McDaniel College, Salisbury University and Temple University. The program will include: Common Axis III, a multimedia work for eight dancers, featuring video by Timothy Nohe and sound performed live by Joe Reinsel; Two premieres by Doug Hamby and Carol Hess; Henrietta and Alexandra by Mexican choreographer Jose Bustamante, an emotionally charged, dramatic and very physical piece performed by Sandra Lacy and guest artist Mary Williford-Shade; Shooting Gallery by Carol Hess, performed by Mandi and Evan Davidson; A Memory (Baltimore premiere) by Doug Hamby, performed by Emily Gibbs; Three Miniatures by Tonya Lockyer, performed by Sandra Lacy; Dancers Cristal Cooper, Evan Davidson, Mandi Davidson, Jenifer Dobbins, Lisa Fecteau, Emily Gibbs, Christina Kennedy, Sandra Lacy, Lindsay Phebus, Alicia Ritgert, Chip Scuderi and Mary Williford-Shade Admission General admission: $15.00 Students and seniors: $7.00 Box Office: http://www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 Telephone UMBC Artsline (24-hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Images for Media High resolution images are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Theatre Parking is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange UMBC presents the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in concert on Friday, February 4, 2005 at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's performance at UMBC offers a sneak peek into a dance company whose moves, grooves and imagery are created from a multitude of voices spanning six decades. UMBC presents the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in concert on Friday, February 4, 2005 at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Tickets are $17 general admission and $7 for students and seniors, available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950. The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's performance at UMBC will feature an evening of joyous and provocative dance—plus an opportunity to see sections of a new work being developed by Martha Wittman. The program will include: • Imprints on a Landscape: a multi-media work including movement, text and visual imagery, Imprints involves the full professional company of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. Through extensive research, and drawing on her family’s background in the coal mining culture of northeastern Pennsylvania, veteran choreographer and Dance Exchange favorite Martha Wittman creates and directs Imprints, which includes the oral histories of elders or still-living family members who recall the mining-industry days. The New York Times described Wittman as “one of those rare and daring performers who seems simply to embody truth.” • Dances at a Cocktail Party: in a spirit more impressionistic than biographical, Dances at a Cocktail Party is Liz Lerman’s work based on the music and spirit of Leonard Bernstein: his connection to composing and teaching, his insistence on the coexistence of both “high” and “low” art and, in his personal life, the zeal to live on a large spectrum. • In Praise of Animals and Their People: a work that celebrates the bond between humans and animals, Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times described Animals as “a wonder.” Founded in 1976, the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange presents a unique brand of dance/theater, breaking boundaries between stage and audience, theater and community, movement and language, tradition and the unexplored. Through explosive dancing, personal stories and intelligent humor, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange stretches the expressive range of contemporary dance. Liz Lerman (Founding Artistic Director) has choreographed works that have been seen throughout the United States and abroad. Combining dance with realistic imagery, her works are defined by the spoken word, drawing from literature, personal experience, philosophy, and political and social commentary. Over the past 26 years she has received recognition for her work with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange and as a solo artist. In 2002, she received a MacArthur �Genius Grant� fellowship for her visionary work. She has received an American Choreographer Award, the American Jewish Congress �Golda� award, the first annual Pola Nirenska Award, the Mayor's Art Award, and was named Washingtonian Magazine's Washingtonian of the Year in 1988. Liz Lerman's work has been commissioned by Lincoln Center, American Dance Festival, Dancing in the Street, BalletMet, and The Kennedy Center. Her choreographic work has received support from AT&T, Meet The Composer, American Festival Project, National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network Creation Fund, and the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. An open rehearsal will be held at 2:30 pm on Thursday, February 3rd in the Theatre. Admission to the open rehearsal is free. Admission General admission: $17.00 Students and seniors: $7.00 Box Office: http://www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 Telephone UMBC Artsline (24-hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Liz Lerman Dance Exchange: http://www.danceexchange.org/ Images for Media High resolution images (those shown here and others) are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Theatre Parking is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Department of Music Presents Spring 2005 Concerts and Events The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2005 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by renowned artists, including classical guitarist Stephen Marchionda, Ruckus (the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC), the Callithumpian Consort (featuring a performance of Miss Donnithorne's Maggot by Peter Maxwell Davies), the Damocles Trio and other performers. The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2005 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by renowned artists, including classical guitarist Stephen Marchionda, Ruckus (the contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC), the Callithumpian Consort (featuring a performance of Miss Donnithorne's Maggot by Peter Maxwell Davies), the Damocles Trio and other performers. Professional Artist Series February 9 Duo Ego 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS Duo Ego, featuring the unusual ensemble of singer Monica Danielsson and percussionist Per Sj�gren, has, in fewer than four years, established itself as one of the leading contemporary music ensembles in Scandinavia. A number of composers have written for the duo, which will present the world premiere of a new work by Magnus Lindborg at Stockholm New Music in February 2005. Their program will include Forever and Sunsmell by John Cage, Tranquil by P�r Lindgren, Aspects of Humanity by Fredrik �sterling, A day goes by by Karin Rehnqvist, La fra�cheur de la derni�re v�pr�e by Viktor Varela, and Breath by Stuart Saunders Smith. (Photo: Uristin Lidell.) February 20 Franklin Cox, cello 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. Cellist Franklin Cox's program will include J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat (BWV 1010), works by Wolfram Schurig, Ignacio Baca-Lobera, Nicola Sani and a new work by Franklin Cox. Franklin Cox has performed in numerous festivals and new music ensembles, including the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, and SONOR, as well as at the 1980 and 1982 Spoleto Festivals, the 1983 Banff Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Xenakis Festival and Darmstadt Revisited Festival at UCSD, and at the Darmstadt Festival since 1988, where he received a special citation for cello performance in 1990. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Indiana University, a Master of Arts degree in composition from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cox studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa, Steven Suber, Fred Fox, Harvey Sollberger, Fred Lerdahl, and Jack Beeson. He received an Alice M. Ditson Scholarship and Dissertation Fellowship at Columbia University, Regent's Fellowship and a Dissertation Research Fellowship for Outstanding Research at UCSD, a full scholarship to the 1990 June in Buffalo Festival, and full scholarships for the 1988 and 1992 Darmstadt Festivals. He was awarded a Stipendium Fellowship at the 1990 Darmstadt Festival, won 2nd prize in the Los Angeles Arts Commission competition in the spring of 1991, and was co-winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (highest award for composition) in the 1992 Darmstadt Festival. (Photo: Richard Anderson.) February 24 two percussion ensemble 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS The �two� percussion group, a duo committed to the advancement of new music through performance, education, and experimentation, was founded in 1998 by Chris Leonard and Dale Speicher, both founding members of the seminal percussion group trio algetic. The music of two invites listeners to investigate the boundaries of complexity and sonority by exploring the world outside of driving repetitive rhythms and, instead, diving into a world of polytonality and polyrhythmic structures. two actively commissions new music for percussion from forward thinking composers throughout the world. Their program will include All that is Left and Polka in Treblinka by Stuart Saunders Smith, Pairs by Christian Wolff, bicoastal by Roger Zahab, Duo for Marimba and Vibraphone by Gitta Steiner, Verh�lthis (�hneln..) by Franklin Cox, and a new work by Tom Baker. February 26 Stephen Marchionda, guitar 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert. (A 3 pm masterclass, Fine Arts Recital Hall, is free.) Public information: 410-455-ARTS. Renowned guitarist Stephen Marchionda renowned guitarist Stephen Marchionda. His program will include the regional premiere of the Tango from Sophie's Choice by Nicholas Maw, as well as Maw's monumental work for solo guitar, Music of Memory, and works by John Dowland and Joaqu�n Rodrigo. Stephen Marchionda has emerged as a unique presence on the international concert scene. His performances are characterized by flair, technical facility and musical individuality. The American Record Guide says, �...he turns in vibrant performances...energetic and vital, with a great sense of momentum and flow...cohesive and highly charged.� He has recently been featured in New York City at Weill Recital Hall/Carnegie Hall (the Aranjuez Series), where Soundboard magazine wrote that �imbued with depth and passion, Marchionda played engagingly and with a sense of drama...deftly played.� He has appeared at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Aspen Music Festival, the Cleveland and San Diego Museums of Art, the Cleveland Institute, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and numerous universities. A strong advocate of contemporary music, Mr. Marchionda is top prize winner at several international competitions, including the Guitar Foundation of America's International Solo, the Segovia International, and the Manuel de Falla. A graduate of Yale University's School of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, he was affiliated with the Royal Academy of Music in London in 1991, where he received classes with the celebrated guitarist Julian Bream, who called him a �strong, spirited performer.� March 3 The Damocles Trio 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. The energetic Damocles Trio will perform the Brahms Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87; Joaqu�n Turina's Trio No. 2 in B Minor, Op. 76; and Ravel's Trio in A Minor. The Damocles Trio has performed throughout the United States, appearing numerous times at Alice Tully Hall in New York City, and completed highly successful tours of Switzerland in 1999 and 2001. Commenting on a performance in Interlaken, the Oberl�ndisches Tagblatt wrote, �The members of this international trio were perfectly attuned to each other and interpreted the magnificent work with great expressiveness� and a critic from the Z�richsee Zeitung enthused, �The three artists did justice to the great work of Beethoven with perfect harmony, courtly elegance...subtle coloration, and great virtuosity.� The ensemble was founded in 1996 by pianist Adam Kent, violinist Airi Yoshioka, and cellist Sibylle Johner, all accomplished soloists in their own right. Mr. Kent won top prizes in the American Pianists Association Fellowship, Simone Belsky Music, Thomas Richner Foundation, Juilliard Concerto, and Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin competitions and is also a recipient of the Arthur Rubinstein Prize and the Harold Bauer Award. Ms. Yoshioka was a winner of The Juilliard School's concerto competition, concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi, concertmaster at the Aspen Music Festival, and concertmaster and soloist with The New Juilliard Ensemble. She is now on the faculty of UMBC. Ms. Johner was a winner of both the Drake and Zurich Conservatory soloist competitions and received the Dienemann, Ernst G�hner, and Eubie Blake Scholarship awards. The three musicians met in the doctoral program at The Juilliard School, where they were awarded a Maxwell and Muriel Gluck Fellowship for the 1998/99 academic year and coached with Felix Galimir, Jerome Lowenthal, and Stephen Clapp. The only piano trio to advance to the finals of the 2002 International Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Damocles Trio has been featured frequently on Robert Sherman's Young Artists Showcase on WQXR radio. (Photo: Michael Dames.) April 3 Troy King, guitar 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Guitarist Troy King presents a program of works by Augustin Barrios, Sylvius Leopold Weiss, Manuel Ponce, Jorge Morel, and Radames Gnattali. With a reputation as an inspired, technically refined performer, Troy King is recognized as a guitarist who brings an intense, passionate commitment to his art, and who is able to emotionally connect with audiences. He holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a scholarship student of John Holmquist, and a Master's Degree from the University of Denver, where he was the teaching assistant to Ricardo Iznaola. Additional instruction includes private study in England with composer/guitarist Gilbert Biberian, and a long list of masterclasses with many of today's most notable guitarists. King has performed concerts across the United States and Europe. He has been heard on the BBC and National Public Radio. His varied programs include beloved guitar masterworks as well as important and exciting contemporary offerings, such as Ricardo Iznaola's Three Little Tales, which he premiered in 1997. Notable festival appearances have included guest artist recitals at the Charlton Kings International Guitar Festival (England), the Portland Guitar Festival (Oregon), and at the Summer Guitar Workshop (New Mexico). After giving what Soundboard Magazine described as �a fiery performance,� King won First Prize at the Portland Guitar Festival International Guitar Competition. Other accomplishments include winning First Prize at the Lamont Chamber Music Competition and being selected as a Finalist in the Manuel Ponce International Guitar Competition in Mexico City. (Photo credit: Tanya Gerodette.) April 12 Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Tickets are available through MissionTix at www.missiontix.com or 410-752-8950 and at the door immediately prior to the concert. Public information: 410-455-ARTS. Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, will perform Elliott Carter's Triple Duo, James Erber's The Ray and its Shadow, a new work by Anneliese Wiebel, a work by Mark Osborn, and so, between and e,nm by Thomas DeLio. The ensemble features flutist Lisa Cella, cellist Franklin Cox, percussionist Tom Goldstein, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, pianist Kazuko Tanosaki and violinist Airi Yoshioka. Founded in 2000 to promote the performance of contemporary chamber music, Ruckus has performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and at universities throughout the East Coast. (Photo: Richard Anderson.) April 14 The Callithumpian Consort 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS The Callithumpian Consort hails from New England Conservatory and is directed by noted pianist Stephen Drury. The ensemble's program will feature Miss Donnithorne's Maggot, a music-theatre work by Peter Maxwell Davies. The Callithumpian Consort was created in the belief that new music should be an exciting adventure shared by performers and listeners alike, and that brand new masterpieces of our day are beautiful, sensuous, challenging, delightful, provocative, and a unique joy. The Consort is flexible in size and makeup, in some cases performing as a full chamber orchestra. Its members pursue parallel solo and orchestral careers as well. Each musician is a soloist, enabling the group to tackle unusual repertoire in non-standard ensembles, or to take part in experimental projects. The Consort's repertoire encompasses a huge stylistic spectrum, from the classics of the last 100 years to works of the avant-garde and experimental jazz and rock. Active commissioning and recording of new works is crucial to the ensemble's mission, and the group has worked with composers John Cage, Lee Hyla, John Zorn, Michael Finnissy, Franco Donatoni, Lukas Foss, Christian Wolff and many others. Its recordings are available on Tzadik and Mode records. April 21 Marc Ponthus, piano 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Public information: 410-455-ARTS Pianist Marc Ponthus presents a performance of the Second and Third Piano Sonatas by Pierre Boulez. The only pianist to have performed the complete solo piano work of Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ponthus's solo performances with the BBC in London have been broadcast on numerous occasions. The New York Times wrote, �Mr. Ponthus's virtuosity is hair-raising, like beams of electricity shooting from a Frankenstein machine...a kind of priest channeling spirits in an arcane rite, hurling himself at the keyboard...until the whole instrument shook.� The Washington Post's Joseph McLellan said, �Ponthus has a technique and a musical sensitivity that simply brush technical obstacles aside.� Special Event February 16 Studio 508, the Department of Music's recording studio and black box performance space, celebrates its re-opening with updated equipment and renovations. The public is invited to an Open House event with surround sound experiences�ranging from the music of Roger Reynolds to The Beatles�and a reception. 5 pm, Studio 508, Fine Arts Building. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Student Recital Series March 6 The UMBC Symphony Orchestra, directed by Wayne Cameron, will feature the winners of the High School Concerto Competition and the Department of Music Concerto Competition in a program that will include Mozart's Symphony No. 29. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. April 2 The Vocal Arts Ensemble under the direction of David Smith, presenting an Opera Gala that will feature a wonderful evening of scenes from Carmen, La Boh�me, Cos� Fan Tutti, The Marriage of Figaro, Elixir of Love, A Hand of Bridge, and The Gondoliers. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. April 28 The UMBC Jazz Ensemble directed by Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 1 The UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wayne Cameron. The program will feature the London Suite by Eric Coates; the Richard Strauss Oboe Concerto with guest oboist Lori Guess; and a Gloria for choir and orchestra by Antonio Vivaldi. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 5 The UMBC Wind Ensemble directed by Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 6 The UMBC Jazz Combo directed by Rick Hannah. 4 pm, the Commons Cabaret. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 7 The Jubilee Singers directed by Janice Jackson. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 8 The Collegium Musicum directed by Joseph Morin, a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring and performing vocal and instrumental music from European Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods, sampling musical repertoires created between 800 and 1750. 4 pm, St. John's Episcopal Church, 9120 Frederick Road, Ellicott City. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 9 The UMBC Chamber Players directed by E. Michael Richards. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 10 The UMBC Percussion Ensemble directed by Tom Goldstein. The ensemble is adventurous in its programming, with a repertoire that includes graphic-notation pieces, improvisational works, and theatre, as well as works by important early percussion composers such as Alan Hovhaness, John Cage and Carlos Chavez. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 14 The Maryland Camerata directed by David Smith. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 16 The UMBC Classical Guitar Ensemble directed by Troy King. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. May 17 Department of Music Honors Recital. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. 410-455-ARTS. Additional Information Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Evening parking is available in Lot 16, adjacent to the Fine Arts Building, for 50�. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 January 7, 2005 UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings and Prints of Charles Ritchie. This exhibition presents recent work by Maryland artist Charles Ritchie. The sketchbooks, drawings, and prints trace Ritchie's creations from journal conceptions as watercolor and pen and ink, through independent sheets in various drawing media, to a range of possibilities as prints. The works span a twenty-year period and reveal the artist’s increasing sophistication in representation. The exhibition will be open from January 31 through March 26, 2005. UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Suburban Journals: The Sketchbooks, Drawings and Prints of Charles Ritchie, on display from January 31 through March 26, 2005. On Thursday, February 3 at 4:30 pm, the Gallery will host an artist’s lecture, Private Astronomies, by Charles Ritchie, followed by a reception. About the Artist Since 1978, contemporary Maryland artist Charles Ritchie (American, born 1954) has filled intimate journals with written notations and watercolor studies exploring subjects drawn primarily from his suburban home. Dating from 1983 to the present, the sketchbooks, drawings, and prints in the exhibition trace Ritchie’s creations from journal conceptions as watercolor and pen and ink studies, through independent sheets in various drawing media, to a range of possibilities as prints. Over fifty works are arranged into three thematic sections: still lifes, landscapes, and self-portraits. In a recent review in the magazine Art on Paper, writer and critic Faye Hirsch observed, “Ritchie’s very ordinary suburban house and yard are becoming, in the hands of this artist, a subject as loaded with expressive potential as the most sublime landscape.” Suburban Journals highlights the process by which the artist translates moments of inspiration into abstracted accumulations of events and experiences from everyday life. For example, the earliest image in the exhibition is a journal study for Rocking Chair in black watercolor from 1983. This was the basis for a drawing of the same year done in watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink. When Rocking Chair was translated into a mezzotint print thirteen years later, the artist eliminated almost all detail to accentuate spare, luminous elements isolated against an inky background. Working primarily in black and white, Ritchie places emphasis on dark and light contrasts. Shadows engulf his compositions, obscuring details and evoking a sense of subtle drama. The artist states, “The pictures begin with the scene but aim to move deeper. Over years of scrutiny, my subjects have accrued greater meaning and mystery for me.” In each of the small-scale works, Ritchie invites the viewer to participate in an intimate scene from his environment, and in this exhibition to understand the process from which it results. Charles Ritchie received his B.F.A. from the University of Georgia, Athens, in 1977, and his M.F.A. from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh in 1980. His awards include the Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2004, 2002, and 1998, the MacDowell Colony Fellowship in 1999, and the Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arts Council of Montgomery County, Maryland. Ritchie’s artwork has been featured in numerous exhibitions, and his work is in many public collections including the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums; and the University of Richmond Museums. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the University community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery is free. Acknowledgements Organized and circulated by the University of Richmond Museums, the exhibition was curated by Richard Waller, Executive Director, University Museums, in collaboration with the artist. It is made possible in part with the generous support of the University’s Cultural Affairs Committee and funds from the Louis S. Booth Arts Fund. Published by the University of Richmond Museums, an illustrated exhibition catalogue with essays by Marjorie Cohn, Peter Turchi, and the artist is available. The presentation of Suburban Journals at UMBC is made possible by the Baltimore County Commission on Arts & Sciences, the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Friends of the Library & Gallery. Funding support for the artist, and for additional work to the exhibition, has been provided by the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, the Franz and Virginia Bader Fund and the Maryland State Arts Council. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. The images in this release and others are available at 300 dpi on high resolution image website. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 November 22, 2004 UMBC Theatre presents Fanshen by David Hare The UMBC Department of Theatre presents Fanshen by David Hare, directed by Xerxes Mehta, from December 2 through 12 at the UMBC Theatre. A fascinating play from one of England’s greatest playwrights, David Hare’s Fanshen throws a brilliant light on the critical years in the late 1940s that gave birth to modern China by focusing on one village’s struggle to survive war, want, oppression and corruption. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents Fanshen by David Hare, directed by Xerxes Mehta, from December 2 through 12 at the UMBC Theatre. A fascinating play from one of England’s greatest playwrights, David Hare’s Fanshen is, in his own words, “a play for Europe, for the West. Besides trying to explain as deftly as possible the aim and operation of land reform in China, to show how it changed souls as well as bodies, the play is much concerned with political leadership, with the relationship in any society between leadership and led.” Brutal, tender, violent, reasoned, and all-absorbing, Fanshen throws a brilliant light on the critical years in the late 1940s that gave birth to modern China by focusing on one village’s struggle to survive war, want, oppression and corruption, until it finally learns how to take control of its own destiny. The production features dramaturgy by Susan McCully, set and costume design by Holly Highfill, light and sound design by Terry Cobb and vocal direction by Lynn Watson. Please note that this production is for mature audiences and contains violence, nudity and explicit language. Showtimes Thursday, December 2, 8 pm (preview) Friday, December 3, 8 pm Saturday, December 4, 8 pm Thursday, December 9, 4 pm (free for the UMBC campus community) Friday, December 10, 8 pm Saturday, December 11, 8 pm Sunday, December 12, 4 pm Admission $10 general admission $5 students $3 for the preview The performance on Thursday, December 9th is free for the UMBC campus community. Ticket proceeds benefit the Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Telephone Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre website: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 October 26, 2004 Test Headline test summary This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. This is the content. Posted by dwinds1 October 25, 2004 UMBC Presents Flutist Lisa Cella in Concert The UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents flutist Lisa Cella in concert on Sunday, November 14th at 3:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are $7 general admission, $3 for senior citizens, free for students and free with a UMBC ID. Lisa Cella's program will include NoaNoa by Kaija Saariaho, Quodlibets II by Donald Martino, Sgothan by James Dillon and Nocturno by Mario Lavista. The UMBC Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents flutist Lisa Cella in concert on Sunday, November 14th at 3:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are $7 general admission, $3 for senior citizens, free for students and free with a UMBC ID. Lisa Cella’s program will include NoaNoa by Kaija Saariaho, Quodlibets II by Donald Martino, Sgothan by James Dillon and Nocturno by Mario Lavista. Artistic Director of San Diego New Music, Ms. Cella received a DMA in contemporary flute performance at the University of California, San Diego while studying with John Fonville. She has performed with SONOR, the faculty ensemble of UCSD, SIRIUS, and in various concert series and festivals in the San Diego area. She is a founding member of NOISE, the resident ensemble of San Diego New Music and runs the music series Noise at the Library at the Athenaeum Library in San Diego, California. She received her Applied Bachelors in Music with a dual concentration in Psychology from Syracuse University under the tutelage of John Oberbrunner. Upon graduation, she received the Civic Morning Musicals award for excellence in performance. She then received a Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Robert Willoughby. While in Baltimore, she was the winner of the 1992 Washington Flute Fair Young Artist Competition and founded the flute and guitar duo, Adesso!, which was a finalist in the Baltimore Chamber Competition. A dedicated performer of contemporary music, Cella was a member of the Baltimore based contemporary ensemble Polaris in 1993. She attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 1993 and was a fellowship member of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival for two summers. She is the founding member of the ensemble Sounding, a contemporary quartet (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion) that had its origins in the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. With Sounding, she has performed at universities such as Bowling Green, Cornell, SUNY Buffalo, Oberlin, and Syracuse. Currently, she is a lecturer in music at UMBC and a founding member of the faculty contemporary music ensemble, Ruckus. Admission Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Music Information: 410-455-MUSC Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo credit: Richard Anderson.) ### Posted by dwinds1 October 15, 2004 UMBC Presents the SONOS Duo in Concert On Sunday, November 7th at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents duo SONOS, featuring the artistry of pianists Rachel Franklin and Corey McVicar. SONOS performances showcase international classical and jazz artists combining their talents to blur the edges between classical chamber works and jazz improvisation, including improvised jazz solos as both commentary and contrast. Witty conversation complements superb performances, as SONOS explores the fascinating links between genres: jazz as chamber music, classical music with jazz, and why they work wonderfully together. On Sunday, November 7th at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents duo SONOS, featuring the artistry of pianists Rachel Franklin and Corey McVicar. Their program will include Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues by Frederic Rzewski; Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op. 56b by Johannes Brahms; the Rondo in C major, Op. 73 by Frederick Chopin; the Variations on a Theme of Paganini by Witold Lutoslawski; and other works, including improvised jazz solos as both commentary and contrast. SONOS performances showcase international classical and jazz artists combining their talents to blur the edges between classical chamber works and jazz improvisation. Witty conversation contrasts superb performances, as SONOS explores the fascinating links between genres: jazz as chamber music, classical music with jazz, and why they work wonderfully together. As a Pro Musicis International Award winner, British pianist Rachel Franklin has given her solo debuts in Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, and Jordan Hall, Boston. The Boston Globe enthused about her �beautiful differentiations of color, touch and texture� and described a performance on her solo debut CD as �not inferior�to the recorded performances by Cortot and Rubinstein.� She has also given European Pro Musicis solo debuts in Paris and Rome. An accomplished jazz pianist, Rachel Franklin has performed with many jazz ensembles and has broadcast solo jazz on BBC Radio 3. Much in demand as a teacher and speaker, she is a member of the faculties at UMBC and the Peabody Conservatory. Corey McVicar is a member of the Peabody Conservatory faculty. He received musical degrees from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and completed post graduate piano studies in Germany and France, working with Ann Schein, Leon Fleisher, Yvonne Lefebure and Murray Perahia. A winner of numerous competition prizes and awards including the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, he has been featured in concerts and broadcasts in Australia, Thailand, Singapore, France and at various cities and venues in the United States including Carnegie Recital Hall. This event is sponsored in part by Jordan Kitts Music. Admission Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo credit: Richard Anderson.) ### Posted by dwinds1 October 5, 2004 UMBC Theatre presents Action by Sam Shepard The UMBC Department of Theatre presents Action, a rarely performed play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and film actor Sam Shepard, directed by Colette Searls. The production runs from October 19th through 24 at the UMBC Theatre. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents Action, a rarely performed play by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and film actor Sam Shepard, directed by Colette Searls. The play runs from October 19th through 24th at the UMBC Theatre. Action takes the audience right into the living room of a post-apocalyptic holiday. Liza, Lupe, Jeep and Shooter are trapped in a cold, isolated cabin after a mysterious �crisis.� Time has passed since the days of mass-media and indoor plumbing and they are struggling to pull off a holiday meal. Limited food, an uncertain future and overwhelming boredom begin to take their toll with disturbing and absurd results. In this hilarious marriage between the realistic and bizarre, Shepard offers a stirring look at the unplugged American mind. Sam Shepard has written 45 plays, 11 of which have won Obie Awards, and has appeared as an actor in 16 films. In 1979 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Buried Child, and in 1984 he earned an Oscar nomination for his performance in The Right Stuff. His screenplay for Paris, Texas won the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, and he wrote and directed the film Far North in 1988. Other plays by Sam Shepard include Simpatico, Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love and A Lie of the Mind. In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 1992 he received the Gold Medal for Drama from the Academy. In 1994 he was inducted into the Theatre Hall of Fame. The production features set and costume design by Elena Zlotescu and lighting and sound design by Terry Cobb. Showtimes Tuesday, October 19 at 8 pm (preview) Wednesday, October 20 at 8 pm Thursday, October 21 at 4 pm Friday, October 22 at 8 pm Saturday, October 23 at 8 pm Sunday, October 24 at 4 pm Admission $10 general admission $5 students $3 for the preview Ticket proceeds benefit the Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Telephone Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre website: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 August 9, 2004 UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents A Thousand Hounds: A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents A Thousand Hounds: A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography, on display from September 20 through December 11, 2004. The exhibition was organized by the Cygnet Foundation and curated by Ray Merritt and Miles Barth. The exhibition celebrates the endearing and enduring partnership between human and dog in more than 150 photographs and one photographic sculpture, which date from 1840 to the current day and have been created by both masters of the medium and lesser-known practitioners. UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents A Thousand Hounds: A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography, on display from September 20 through December 11, 2004. The exhibition was organized by the Cygnet Foundation and curated by Ray Merritt and Miles Barth. Photography has offered a means of documentation and expression for more than 160 years. Focusing on a seemingly obscure subject, curators Raymond Merritt and Miles Barth have unearthed a delightful and varied array of images in which the dog’s presence serves as a central trope in the history of the medium. A Thousand Hounds: A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography is based in part on the Cygnet Foundation’s popular and critically acclaimed book of the same title, which, when it was released by Taschen in 2000, was announced as “a completely original history of photography told through images of canines.” The exhibition celebrates the endearing and enduring partnership between human and dog in more than 150 photographs and one photographic sculpture, which date from 1840 to the current day and have been created by both masters of the medium and lesser-known practitioners. Among the noted artists included from the nineteenth century are Gustav Le Gray, W.A. Mooers and Henry Fox Talbot, and from the twentieth century, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, André Kertész, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Man Ray, Robert Mapplethorpe, Paul Strand, and Weegee. Also prominently featured are works by contemporary artists, including William Wegman, Elliott Erwitt, and Keith Carter, all renowned for their images of dogs, as well as by Larry Clark, Robert Frank, Ralph Gibson, Sally Mann, Vik Muniz, and Sandy Skoglund. The exhibition is serious and scholarly in its considered presentation of the dog’s place in momentous historical and cultural events of the past century and a half, ranging from polar expeditions to the Great Depression to the World Wars. It is also light-hearted and engaging in its celebration of photographers’ longstanding artistic interest in the canine as model, muse, and metaphor. A Thousand Hounds: A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography includes depictions of dogs with children, with women, with old men, with celebrities, and with members of their own species. Presented in two parts, its historical organization illuminates technological innovations, as well as cultural, sociological and aesthetic developments related to the medium, while contemporary work is organized thematically, with individual sections devoted to the notions of pathos, whimsy, elegance, companionship, and inspiration. The earliest images in the exhibition introduce the viewer to the first popular application of the new medium. When photography burst onto the scene in the mid-nineteenth century, the lengthy sittings required for daguerreotypes and paper negatives made pets unlikely sitters for the portraits that were immediately commissioned by the upper and middle classes. The daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards presented here exemplify attempts by anonymous photographers to memorialize all variety of man’s best friend. Moving into the twentieth century, the exhibition covers major movements in the history of photography, pictorialism and modernism. Bill Brandt’s photograph from 1945 captures a dog as a glowing silhouette in the harsh glare of car’s headlights. A section devoted to the subject of war demonstrates how dogs have accompanied soldiers on the front from the earliest photographic depictions of battle. Photographs by Gustav Le Gray and the Mathew Brady Studio document the presence of dogs during the Crimean War and the American Civil War. Numerous other photographs show how these valued companions have transported equipment and supplies, carried messages, searched for the wounded, and galvanized troop morale and civilian support in every war since. From the 1950s into the 1970s, photographers such as Mario Giacomelli, Robert Doisneau, Diane Arbus and Robert Frank developed a personal vision that has become synonymous with a unique photographic voice. The images presented in this exhibition reveal how each of these voices has been compelled to capture the antics of the dog. Elliott Erwitt’s humorous depictions of dogs remind us of their capacity to become companions that never cease to amuse. In the 1980s and 1990s, photographers James Balog, Keith Carter, Michal Rover and Peter Hujar created individualistic portraits of dogs as pets or rare breeds with distinct emotions and personalities, none more memorable than William Wegman’s Weimaraners. By comparison, the inclusion of dogs in real-life or constructed narratives by Tina Barney, Nic Nicosia and Sandy Skoglund reveals the enigmatic qualities that our canine friend bring to our lives, while Robert Mapplethorpe and Scavullo remind us of the inherent elegance of the simplest of poses. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the University community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery is free. Acknowledgements A Thousand Hounds: A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography is organized by The Cygnet Foundation. The local presentation of the exhibition is generously funded by the Maryland State Arts Council and the Friends of the Library & Gallery. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. The images in this release and others are available at 300 dpi on high resolution image website. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents The HOME House Project UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents The HOME House Project, an innovative multi-year initiative organized by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Through a competition and subsequent exhibition addressing the future of affordable housing, SECCA challenged artists and architects to propose new designs for affordable and sustainable single-family housing for low and moderate income-families. UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents The HOME House Project, an innovative multi-year initiative organized by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, North Carolina, from September 30 through November 27, 2004. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 30 from 5 to 7 pm. The exhibition will be enhanced by public programs and outreach. About the Exhibition The Center for Art and Visual Culture presents The HOME House Project, an innovative multi-year initiative organized by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Through a competition and subsequent exhibition addressing the future of affordable housing, SECCA challenged artists and architects to propose new designs for affordable and sustainable single-family housing for low and moderate income-families. These designs were guided by the existing building criteria and price parameters for typical three and four bedroom Habitat for Humanity houses, supplied by Habitat International in Americus, Georgia. Competition participants were required to use the Habitat information as a point of departure. In addition, the design criteria focused on green and sustainable materials, technologies, and methods. Response was overwhelming, with house designs from more than 442 individuals and firms from the United States, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Canada, Russia, and England. The jury consisted of three nationally-known figures who share the multiple designations of critic, architect, educator, author, designer and builder: Michael Sorkin (New York), Ben Nicholson (Chicago) and Steve Badanes (Seattle). The 100 works represented in this exhibition are the award winners plus other selections from the initial group. Presented as framed two dimensional works or in virtual format, they offer a range of design solutions�from the adventurous and visionary to the traditional, and everything in between. The HOME House Project was made possible by grants received from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, and an anonymous gift. The HOME House Project Design Awards were made possible by a generous gift from Bank of America. For its exhibition at UMBC, funding for The HOME House Project is provided by the Neighborhood Design Center, AIABaltimore, the Enterprise Foundation, the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences, and the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Public Programs The HOME House Project exhibition will be enhanced by public programming, including a lecture, a panel discussion, a symposium, a film series, a solar home tour and co-sponsorship of Baltimore Architecture Week: October 2 The Center for Art and Visual Culture will participate in the 14th Annual Tour of Solar Homes, organized by the Potomac Region Solar Energy Association. A bus will depart at 10:00 A.M. from CAVC, UMBC to visit the home of Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Maryland's only 95% renewable energy home, designed to fight global warming through energy conservation and use of solar wind and corn power. Tour tickets are $10 for non-students and $5 for students (cash or check the day of the event). Drinks and snacks will be provided. Information or rspvs: 410-455-1440 or vanderst@umbc.edu by September 30. October 9�16 The Center for Art and Visual Culture partners with American Institute of Architects Baltimore Chapter, the Neighborhood Design Center, the Baltimore Architecture Foundation, and Baltimore Heritage, Inc. to sponsor the first annual Baltimore Architecture Week, a week of lectures related to architecture and planning in the Baltimore/Washington areas. Support for this program has been provided by media sponsors WYPR and urbanite and host sponsor Century Engineering. Public information: AIA Baltimore at 410-625-2585. October 11 The Center for Art and Visual Culture and the Neighborhood Design Center present Michael Pyatok, who is considered the leading designer of low-income housing in the United States. His lecture, �Affordable Housing in the US: Who is Responsible for Good Design?� will review the role of twelve different players who contribute to the circumstances that can improve the chances for quality design (from elected officials to residents, and ten other participants in between, one being the architect). Pyatok is a professor of Architecture at the University of Washington, is Principal of Pyatok Architects, Inc., and is part time tenured professor and Director of the Center for Affordable Housing and the Family at Arizona State University. His work has been featured recently in the national media, including Newsweek and Atlantic Monthly. A practicing architect for some 30 years, Pyatok is known both for his innovative design work and for his efforts to assist in the creation of the community groups that design and build low-income housing projects. 6 � 8 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. $10 general admission (payable by cash or check), free for UMBC students with an ID and free for members of the Neighborhood Design Center. Public information: 410-455-1440. October 14 As part of the HOME House Project Film Series, the Center for Art and Visual Culture and The Commons present The Rural Studio, directed and produced by Chuck Schultz. Fine architecture is usually reserved for wealthy patrons or grand civic spaces. But in 1993, MacArthur Fellow and Auburn University Professor Samuel Mockbee set out to change that. He and Professor D.K. Ruth founded The Rural Studio, which guides students in the design and construction of homes and community spaces in economically depressed Hale County, Alabama. The film captures this innovative program's vision of architecture as a social art form capable of raising the human spirit. This contextual based learning philosophy seeks to transcend race and class and in the process change the lives of both student and client. 6 pm, the Sports Zone at The Commons (UMBC). Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-1440. October 28 In partnership with the Neighborhood Design Center and the UMBC Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, the Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Community Building by Design: Affordable Housing and Neighborhood Revitalization, a panel discussion on affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization in the Baltimore-Washington area. Panel Moderator: Ralph D. Bennett, Jr., School of Architecture, University of Maryland, College Park Panelists: � David Brown, Senior Curator, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, North Carolina � Jelili Ogundele, Director of the Harlem Park Revitalization Corporation � Stephanie Prange Proestel, Housing Initiative Partnership � Dr. John Rennie Short, Professor and Chair, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, UMBC � Thomas J. Vicino, doctoral student, UMBC Department of Public Policy, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education 6 � 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Building Room 306. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-1440. November 4 As part of the HOME House Project Film Series, the Center for Art and Visual Culture and The Commons present Blue Vinyl, which searches for the environmental truth about vinyl. With humor, chutzpah and a piece of vinyl siding firmly in hand, Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Judith Helfand and co-director and award-winning cinematographer Daniel B. Gold set out in search of the truth about polyvinyl chloride (PVC), America's most popular plastic. From Long Island to Louisiana to Italy, they unearth the facts about PVC and its effects on human health and the environment. Back at the starter ranch, Helfand coaxes her terribly patient parents into replacing their vinyl siding on the condition that she can find a healthy, affordable alternative (and it has to look good!). A detective story, an eco-activism doc, and a rollicking comedy, Blue Vinyl puts a human face on the dangers posed by PVC at every stage of its life cycle, from factory to incinerator. Consumer consciousness and the �precautionary principle� have never been this much fun. 6 pm, the Cabaret at The Commons (UMBC). Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-1440. November 11 In partnership with the Neighborhood Design Center, the Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Building Community Through the Arts, a symposium on the role of the arts in community development and cultural activity in neighborhoods. Speakers will include: � Steven Goldsmith, Director of the Rose Fellowship of the Enterprise Foundation, who will address Affordable Housing in the Art Community. � Jennifer Mange, Public Art Coordinator, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts � Nick Francis, Executive Director of Gateway Municipalities Community Development Corporation, who will discuss successes and challenges in developing the Gateway Arts District along Route 1 in Prince George's County. � A representative from Station North, who will speak about recent accomplishments in the Station North Arts District in Baltimore. 6 � 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Building Room 306. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-1440. November 18 As part of the HOME House Project Film Series, the Center for Art and Visual Culture and The Commons present two films: Up Close and Toxic and Ecological Design: Inventing the Future, which examine issues related to environmental hazards related to in door pollution and the evolution of environmentally aware design. Up Close and Toxic discloses the many surprising and not so surprising ways that we are exposed to pollution�hazardous gasses, particulate matter and various chemicals in the very places we feel safest. Ecological Design: Inventing the Future outlines the evolution from a mechanistic model of building and system design to one rooted in natural systems. The film features interviews with R. Buckminster Fuller, Paolo Soleri, Paul MacCready, Peter Calthorpe, Ian McHarg, William McDonough, Jay Baldwin, Hazel Henderson, Jaime Lerner, Armory Lovins, John Todd, Stewart Brand, and Pliny Fisk, all of whom bring the design evolution to life and provide insights in the ideas and concerns that have motivated their work. 6 pm, The Commons Cabaret. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-1440. December 2 As part of the HOME House Project Film Series, the Center for Art and Visual Culture and The Commons present The Next Industrial Revolution, directed by Chris Bedford and Shelley Morhaim, which outlines the work and vision of architect William McDonough and chemist Dr. Michael Braungart, two leaders in a growing movement to transform the relationship between commerce and nature. While some environmental observers predict doomsday scenarios in which a rapidly increasing human population is forced to compete for ever scarcer natural resources, Bill McDonough sees a more exciting and hopeful future. In his vision humanity takes nature itself as our guide reinventing technical enterprises to be as safe and ever-renewing as natural processes. Can't happen? It's already happening...at Nike, at Ford Motor Company, at Oberlin College, at Herman Miller Furniture, and at DesignTex...and it's part of what architect McDonough and his partner, chemist Michael Braungart, call �The Next Industrial Revolution.� Shot in Europe and the United States, the film explores how businesses are transforming themselves to work with nature and enhance profitability. 6 pm, The Commons Cabaret. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-1440. Outreach The HOME House Project exhibition and events at UMBC will be accompanied by a K-12 educational outreach program. Details on the outreach program are available through Ren�e van der Stelt at 410-455-1440 or vanderst@umbc.edu. About the Center for Art and Visual Culture The Center for Art and Visual Culture is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of contemporary art and visual culture, critical theory, art and cultural history, and the relationship between society and the arts. The CAVC serves as a forum for students, faculty, and the general public for the discussion of important aesthetic and social issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital art, video, film, television, design, architecture, advertising, and installation and performance art. Since 1989, the CAVC has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Center has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the CAVC's Internship Program. Currently the Center produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. Recent publications include Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion and Paul Rand: Modernist Design. These catalogues are published yearly and are distributed internationally through Distributed Art Publishers in New York. Since 1992, the Center for Art and Visual Culture has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions that contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the CAVC has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. These traveling exhibitions include: White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art (2003) Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer's Perspective (1998) Minimal Politics (1997) Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia (1995/96) Notes In Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (1995) Ciphers of Identity (1994) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Center for Art and Visual Culture also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the CAVC, one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Center for Art and Visual Culture in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Upcoming Exhibitions at the Center for Art and Visual Culture March 10 � April 2 Tour de Clay, presented as part of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts 2005 Conference, which will present other events in venues throughout Baltimore. An opening reception will be held on March 10 from 5 to 7 pm. April 14 � May 7 The IMDA Thesis Exhibition, an exhibition by graduates of UMBC's MFA program in Imaging and Digital Arts, an interdisciplinary program integrating computer art, video, filmmaking, photography, art theory and criticism. An opening reception will be held on April 14 from 5 to 7 pm. May 18 � June 18 The Senior Exit Exhibition. This exhibition reflects the interdisciplinary orientation and the technological focus of the Department of Visual Arts and provides the opportunity for undergraduate seniors to exhibit within a professional setting prior to exiting the University. An opening reception will be held on May 18 from 5 to 7 pm. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: Closed Tuesday: 10 A.M. � 5:00 P.M. Wednesday: 10 A.M. � 5:00 P.M. Thursday: 10 A.M. � 5:00 P.M. Friday: 10 A.M. � 5:00 P.M. Saturday: 10 A.M. � 5:00 P.M. Admission Admission to the CAVC and all events is free. Telephone CAVC offices: 410-455-3188 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web CAVC website: http://www.umbc.edu/cavc UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 July 7, 2004 UMBC's Fall 2204 Arts Season UMBC has announced its fall 2004 arts season. Visit the online arts calendar at www.umbc.edu/arts for the latest information on exhibitions, lectures and performances. Posted by dwinds1 July 2, 2004 UMBC Department of Music Presents Fall 2004 Season of Concerts and Events The UMBC Department of Music presents its fall 2004 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by world renowned artists, including performances by percussionist Steven Schick, saxophonist John Berndt and Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The department will also sponsor a three day conference, Art-Reach!: Tapping the Power of the Arts, featuring educator Eric Booth and composer Tania Le�n. The UMBC Department of Music presents its fall 2004 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by world renowned artists, including performances by percussionist Steven Schick, saxophonist John Berndt and Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The department will also sponsor a three day conference, Art-Reach!: Tapping the Power of the Arts, featuring educator Eric Booth and composer Tania Le�n. Professional Artist Series September 16 Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Ruckus presents a program of music by composer Stuart Saunders Smith in honor of his 30 years at UMBC. Featured works will include Bones, Further Than Now, In Bingham, Family Portrait: Self, Aussie Blue, Part, Tunnels and the world premiere of Hearts, a solo violin work to be performed by Airi Yoshioka. Founded in 2000 to promote the performance of contemporary chamber music, Ruckus has performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and at universities throughout the East Coast. October 21 John Berndt and Friends 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. John Berndt and Friends will present a program of improvisation featuring Baltimore area musicians. Berndt is a multi-instrumentalist best known as a saxophonist, an instrument on which he has developed a broad and idiosyncratic technical ability. He has dedicated himself almost entirely to freely improvised music since 1990. A student of American master improviser Jack Wright, and also a composer of electronic music, Berndt's saxophones survey terrain reminiscent of John Butcher and John Oswald, with a strong intensity of self-expression that finds inspiration in free jazz. He is a tireless collaborator, including THUS with instrument builder Neil Feather, his larger groups Multiphonic Choir and Second Nature, and the intensive quartet The Short Life of Harry Crosby. An active playing partner of Eugene Chadbourne, Bhob Rainey, and Kaffe Matthews, Berndt is also the founder of the Red Room collective and High Zero Foundation. October 23 The Faculty Chamber Ensemble 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. The Faculty Chamber Ensemble features violinist Airi Yoshioka, flutist Lisa Cella, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, cellist Franklin Cox, pianist Rachel Franklin, guitarist Troy King and percussionist Tom Goldstein. October 28 Steven Schick, percussion 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Steven Schick presents a performance of a new hour-long work by composer John Luther Adams. Steven Schick has commissioned and premiered more than one hundred new works for percussion and has performed these pieces on major concert series such as Lincoln Center's Great Performers and the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Green Umbrella concerts as well as in international festivals, including Warsaw Autumn, the BBC Proms, the Jerusalem Festival, the Holland Festival, the Stockholm International Percussion Event and the Budapest Spring Festival. He has recorded many of those works for SONY Classical, Wergo, Point, CRI and will release a new solo CD with Neuma Records. From 1984 to 1992, Schick taught at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse f�r Neue Musik in Darmstadt, Germany, co-directing the course's seminal percussion program with James Wood. He has been regular guest lecturer at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the Royal College of Music in London. Schick is Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and Lecturer in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music. October 30 The Faculty Chamber Ensemble 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. The Faculty Chamber Ensemble features violinist Airi Yoshioka, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, tenor David Smith, cellist Franklin Cox and pianist Rachel Franklin. Their all-Brahms program will include the Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114; the Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25; and songs. November 5 Triple Helix Piano Trio masterclass 3:30 � 6:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. The Boston-based Triple Helix Piano Trio presents a masterclass. When three internationally known musicians�violinist Bayla Keyes, cellist Rhonda Rider and pianist Lois Shapiro�joined together in 1995 to form Triple Helix, the Boston Globe described the results of their union as �the livest live music in town.� Since then, the ensemble has become recognized as among the best piano trios on the musical landscape today. Artists-in-residence at Wellesley College, the award-winning musicians of the Triple Helix are also on the faculties of several Boston-area universities. The ensemble has also held residencies at Monadnock Music and Skidmore College, where their lecture-recitals have been enthusiastically received in the classroom and concert hall alike. Advocates for new music, Triple Helix has premiered seven works written expressly for the ensemble since its formation in 1995. November 7 SONOS, featuring pianists Rachel Franklin and Corey McVicar 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. SONOS, featuring the artistry of pianists Rachel Franklin and Corey McVicar, classical and jazz artists who combine their talents to blur the edges between classical chamber works and jazz improvisation. Witty commentary complements superb performances, as SONOS explores the fascinating links between genres: jazz as chamber music, classical music with jazz, and why they work wonderfully together. Their program will include Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues by Frederic Rzewski; Variations on a Theme of Joseph Haydn, Op. 56b by Johannes Brahms; the Rondo in C major, Op. 73 by Fryderyk Chopin; the Variations on a Theme of Paganini by Witold Lutoslawski; and other works. As a Pro Musicis International Award winner, British pianist Rachel Franklin has given her solo debuts in Carnegie Recital Hall, New York, and Jordan Hall, Boston. The Boston Globe enthused about her �beautiful differentiations of color, touch and texture� and described a performance on her solo debut CD as �not inferior�to the recorded performances by Cortot and Rubinstein.� She has also given European Pro Musicis solo debuts in Paris and Rome. An accomplished jazz pianist, Rachel Franklin has performed with many jazz ensembles and has broadcast solo jazz on BBC Radio 3. Much in demand as a teacher and speaker, she is a member of the faculties at UMBC and the Peabody Conservatory. Corey McVicar is a member of the Peabody Conservatory faculty. He received musical degrees from Sydney Conservatorium of Music, the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and completed post graduate piano studies in Germany and France, working with Ann Schein, Leon Fleisher, Yvonne Lefebure and Murray Perahia. A winner of numerous competition prizes and awards including the Frinna Awerbuch International Piano Competition, he has been featured in concerts and broadcasts in Australia, Thailand, Singapore, France and at various cities and venues in the United States including Carnegie Recital Hall. This event is sponsored in part by Jordan Kitts Music. November 14 Lisa Cella, flute 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Flutist Lisa Cella's program will include NoaNoa by Kaija Saariaho, Quodlibets II by Donald Martino and Sgothan by James Dillon. Artistic Director of San Diego New Music, Dr. Cella received a DMA in contemporary flute performance at the University of California, San Diego while studying with John Fonville. She has performed with SONOR, the faculty ensemble of UCSD, SIRIUS, and in various concert series and festivals in the San Diego area. She is a founding member of NOISE, the resident ensemble of San Diego New Music and runs the music series Noise at the Library at the Athenaeum Library in San Diego, California. Dr. Cella received her Applied Bachelors in Music with a dual concentration in Psychology from Syracuse University under the tutelage of John Oberbrunner. Upon graduation, she received the Civic Morning Musicals award for excellence in performance. She then received a Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Robert Willoughby. While in Baltimore, she was the winner of the 1992 Washington Flute Fair Young Artist Competition and founded the flute and guitar duo, Adesso!, which was a finalist in the Baltimore Chamber Competition. A dedicated performer of contemporary music, Cella was a member of the Baltimore based contemporary ensemble Polaris in 1993. She attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 1993 and was a fellowship member of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival for two summers. She is the founding member of the ensemble Sounding, a contemporary quartet (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion) that had its origins in the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. With Sounding, she has performed at universities such as Bowling Green, Cornell, SUNY Buffalo, Oberlin, and Syracuse. Currently, she is a lecturer in music at UMBC and a founding member of the faculty contemporary music ensemble, RUCKUS. November 18 Susan Fancher and Mark Engebretson, saxophonists 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. This concert by saxophonists Susan Fancher and Mark Engebretson will include works for solo saxophone ranging from the pulsing minimalism of Steve Reich and the beautiful just intonation of Ben Johnston to Mark Engebretson's powerful Energy Drink and Luciano Berio's legendary Sequenza VIIb. The artists will join forces for Stuart Saunders Smith's unconventional Notebook and the premiere of new music for two saxophones and live electronics by Mark Engebretson. Susan Fancher's career has featured hundreds of concerts internationally as a soloist and as the member of chamber music ensembles. She has worked with a multitude of composers in the creation and interpretation of new music, including Terry Riley, Charles Wuorinen, Philip Glass, Hilary Tann and others. Composer and performer Mark Engebretson's works have been performed in concerts, festivals and venues around the world, including Montreal, Vienna, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Norway, Albania and Azerbaijan. December 16 Mezzo soprano Patricia Green, harpist Sonja Inglefield and flutist Lisa Cella 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-ARTS Patricia Green, Sonja Inglefield and Lisa Cella present an eclectic program that will explore the lyrical and unique combination of flute, voice, and harp, including George Crumb's Federico's Little Songs for Children. Special Events October 1, 2 & 3 The Department of Music and Arts Education in Maryland Schools Alliance (AEMS) present Art-Reach!: Tapping the Power of the Arts, for K-16 teachers, artists, administrators and community leaders. The weekend symposium features Eric Booth, one of the nation's leading thinkers, speakers and program designers in arts learning, award winning author and faculty leader at Juilliard, The Kennedy Center, and the Lincoln Center Institute, and the dynamic multi-ethnic ensemble Son Sonora, directed by Cuban composer Tania Le�n. This two day symposium will explore some of the most powerful arts learning strategies from experiments happening across the country, and will report the latest research. Participants will leave with a personal plan for new approaches to put right into action. Eric Booth has had successful careers as a Broadway actor, a business entrepreneur, and an author (his award-winning fourth book The Everyday Work of Art was a Book of the Month Club selection). He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, Tanglewood, The Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center Institute. He is in great demand as a keynote speaker and arts education consultant, leading events in 20-30 cities a year. He is the Faculty Chair of The Empire State Partnership, the largest arts-in-education experiment in the nation. Tania Le�n, a vital personality in today's music scene, is highly regarded as a composer and conductor, recognized for her accomplishments as an educator and advisor to arts organizations. She has been the subject of profiles on ABC, CBS, CNN, PBS, Univision and independent films.�Ms. Le�n is currently featured on Univision's �Orgullo Hispano� series which celebrates living American Latinos whose contributions in society have been invaluable. Schedule of Art-Reach! events: Friday, October 1, 7 p.m. Interactive Concert with Son Sonora Fine Arts Recital Hall Saturday, October 2, 9:30�3:00 Presentations, hands-on activities and discussions with Eric Booth University Center Ballroom Sunday, October 3, 9:30�2:00 Workshops, breakout sessions and planning for symposium attendees Led by Eric Booth and UMBC faculty $25 registration fee, $35 after September 15th. Information: 410-455-2942. October 23 & 24 A Festival of Chamber Music for high school musicians. Information: 410-455-2942. Student Recital Series October 17 The UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wayne Cameron. The program will feature the Tchaikovsky Concerto for Violin in D Major, Op. 35, with violinist Airi Yoshioka; The Walk to the Paradise Garden by Frederick Delius; and The Sea by Frank Bridge. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. November 22 The UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of E. Michael Richards. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. November 29 The UMBC Wind Ensemble under the direction of Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. December 1 The Flute Studio of Lisa Cella. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. December 2 The UMBC Jazz Ensemble directed by Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. December 4 The Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. December 5 The Maryland Camerata under the direction of David Smith. 3 pm, Charlestown Chapel, Charlestown Retirement Community, Catonsville. Admission is free. December 5 The Collegium Musicum under the direction of Joseph Morin. 4 pm, St. John's Episcopal Church, 9120 Frederick Road, Ellicott City, Maryland. Admission is free. December 9 The UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Tom Goldstein. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. December 11 The UMBC Flute Ensemble under the direction of Lisa Cella. 1 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. December 12 The UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wayne Cameron. The program will feature George Whitefield Chadwick's Euterpe and the Symphony No. 1 in B minor, Op. 4 by Anton Arensky. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. December 13 The UMBC Guitar Ensemble under the direction of Troy King. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. December 14 Departmental Honors Recital. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Additional Information Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Parking is available after 3:30 p.m. on weekdays and all day during weekends in gated Lots 16/9A for a 50� fee, quarters only. From any campus entrance, circle around Hilltop Circle (the road the encircles the campus) to Hilltop Road. Take Hilltop Road toward the center of campus. The Fine Arts Building will now be directly in front of you. Proceed through the stop sign. The road will curve to the right. If Lot 16 is full, you can also pay to park in Lot 9A, which sits on the hill immediately above Lot 16�return to to the stop sign and turn left toward Lot 9A, and then to the gate. If both these Lots are full (which would be unusual in the evening), park in the Commons Garage, Walker Avenue Garage or Lot 10. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 April 4, 2004 Center for the Humanities presents folklorist Gladys-Marie Fry The Center for the Humanities presents Gladys-Marie Fry, professor emerita of folklore and English at the University of Maryland, College Park, who will present the 2004 Daphne Harrison Lecture, entitled From the African Loom to the American Quilt. Professor Fry will speak at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28, 2004, at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. The Center for the Humanities presents Gladys-Marie Fry, professor emerita of folklore and English at the University of Maryland, College Park, who will present the 2004 Daphne Harrison Lecture, entitled From the African Loom to the American Quilt. Professor Fry will speak at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 28, 2004, at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. One of the leading authorities on African-American textiles, Gladys-Marie Fry has been the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her book Stitched from the Soul was the first to place slave-made quilts into historical and cultural context, as it provided insight into the lives and creativity of slave women. She has also curated more than a dozen exhibitions at institutions such as the American Folk Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Center for the Humanities: http://www.umbc.edu/humanities/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Zanana in Concert The InterArts series presents Zanana, a collaborative duo featuring Kristin Norderval (voice) and Monique Buzzarté (trombone) in a program of improvised music blending acoustic sounds, electronics and live processing. Zanana will perform on April 30, 2004, at 8 p.m. in Fine Arts Studio 508, located in the Fine Arts Building. The InterArts series presents Zanana, a collaborative duo featuring Kristin Norderval (voice) and Monique Buzzarté (trombone) in a program of improvised music blending acoustic sounds, electronics and live processing. Zanana will perform on April 30, 2004, at 8 p.m. in Fine Arts Studio 508, located in the Fine Arts Building. Kristin Norderval is a classically trained singer, improviser, and composer who performs an eclectic repertoire that spans the renaissance to the avant-garde. Many works have been written for her, and her collaborations have included work with choreographers, sculptors, filmmakers and installation artists. Since 1997, she has also been recording on-site improvisations in unusual spaces, many of them industrial. Profiled by The New York Times in “Downtown Divas Expand their Horizons” and hailed as one of “new music’s best” by the Village Voice, her performances range from concert and opera to multi-media events. Her work as a soloist has taken her to festivals throughout the world, and her credits include performances with the San Francisco Symphony, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Oslo Sinfonietta, the Philip Glass Ensemble, and numerous new music ensembles in the United States and Europe. She has recorded new works for Mode, Nonesuch, Point, and CRI as well as for Norwegian, German, and Austrian radio, and has performed in opera and music-theater productions for Lincoln Center, BAM, the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco, Santa Fe Opera, Netherlands Dance Theater, and Dance Alloy. Ms. Norderval received 2002 Artist Residencies at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Ms. Norderval is certified to teach the meditative improvisation techniques of Deep Listening. Monique Buzzarté, trombonist, is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with electronics, and in chamber ensembles. Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone Commissions project has been supporting the expansion of the trombone repertoire, with 2002–2004 commissions forthcoming from Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, Anne LeBaron, and Alice Shields. Ms. Buzzarté is currently developing a new interactive performance system for the trombone, supported in part through artist residencies at Create@iEAR Studios in 2003 and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts in 2003. Ms. Buzzarté's recordings include John Cage’s Five3 with the Arditti Quartet (Mode Records) and Dreaming Wide Awake with the New Circle Five (Deep Listening 20). An author, activist, and educator as well as a performer/composer, Ms. Buzzarté has published research on the brass music of women composers and led efforts which led to the admission of women into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Buzzarté is certified to teach the meditative improvisation techniques of Deep Listening. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC InterArts Program: http://www.umbc.edu/las/pages/interarts.html Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Flutist Jane Rigler in Concert On April 28th at 8:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, UMBC's Department of Music will present flutist Jane Rigler, who will perform a program of contemporary works. On April 28th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, UMBC's Department of Music presents flutist Jane Rigler, who will perform a program of contemporary works. With an extensive background in both classical and contemporary music, Jane Rigler has considerable experience as an interpreter of contemporary music. Her repertoire covers some of the most complex and demanding works played today, including works such as Monolith by Vinko Globokar and Cassandra’s Dream Song by Brian Ferneyhough. Between 1989 and 1995 she was a member of several orchestras and contemporary music ensembles in California as well as collaborated with both Madrid-based Ensemble Plural and Grupo Cosmos. In 2000, she was a guest artist with Grupo Cosmos, touring Tokyo and various northern Italian cities and playing works by John Cage and Bruno Maderna. Besides ensemble work, her performing experience encompasses flute and electronics, computer interactive improvisation and interdisciplinary experimental works. Between 1994–1999, Rigler collaborated with composer/multi-instrumentalist Rafael Liñán. Together they have performed in contemporary music festivals in Madrid, Barcelona, Alicante and Granada, in the Horizontal Radio of the European Radio Union, the Paralelo Madrid, and the Punto de Encuentro of the Association of Electroacoustic Music of Spain. In addition, the Rigler-Liñán duo has given more than 250 pedagogical concerts for children in both Madrid and Granada. Their performances throughout Spain have been reviewed as showing “great imagination and profound knowledge” (Enrique Franco, El Pais) as well as having “an intense humanistic content” (Manuel Ferrand, ABC). Rigler has been combining forces with other composers and performers such as Koji Asano, Agustí Fernández, Hannes Giger, Barbara Held, Christoph Irmer, Marisa Manchado, Wade Matthews, Liba Villavecchia, Musicalibre of Madrid and the IBA Olestars of Barcelona, among others. Her book, The Vocalization of the Flute, demonstrates a variety of imaginative ways the voice and flute interact based upon non-western traditions, Western 20th Century works and her own compositions. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents the Federal City Brass Band The UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents the Federal City Brass Band under the direction of Jari Villanueva on Sunday, April 25 at 3:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall.The Federal City Brass Band, based in Baltimore, recreates the sound and appearance of a U.S. Army regimental brass band of the 1860s. The UMBC Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents the Federal City Brass Band under the direction of Jari Villanueva on Sunday, April 25 at 3:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The Federal City Brass Band, based in Baltimore, recreates the sound and appearance of a U.S. Army regimental brass band of the 1860s. With the exception of the reproduction rope-tension drums, all of the instruments used by the Federal City Brass Band are originals dating to the mid-19th century. The sources of the music the band plays include original band journals and sheet music of the Civil War era. Members of the Federal City Brass Band are professional and volunteer musicians, music educators, historians and re-enactors, and collectively represent some of the finest brass and percussion players in the hobby today. The band has performed for events at Gettysburg, Sharpsburg, Baltimore, Fredericksburg, Rockville, and Arlington, for the Library of Congress and the American Bandmasters Association, and at the 2003 National Civil War Band Festival in Campbellsville, Kentucky. The program at UMBC will feature Civil War-era favorites. Admission Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Cellist Franklin Cox in Concert The UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents cellist Franklin Cox. His program will include J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat (BWV 1010), a new work by Erik Ulman, Willow by Stuart Saunders Smith, and a new work of his own. The UMBC Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents cellist Franklin Cox. His program will include J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat (BWV 1010), a new work by Erik Ulman, Willow by Stuart Saunders Smith, and a new work of his own. Franklin Cox has performed in numerous festivals and new music ensembles, including the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, and SONOR, as well as at the 1980 and 1982 Spoleto Festivals, the 1983 Banff Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Xenakis Festival and Darmstadt Revisited Festival at UCSD, and at the Darmstadt Festival since 1988, where he received a special citation for cello performance in 1990. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Indiana University, a Master of Arts degree in composition from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cox has studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa, Steven Suber, Fred Fox, Harvey Sollberger, Fred Lerdahl, and Jack Beeson. He received an Alice M. Ditson Scholarship and Dissertation Fellowship at Columbia University, Regent’s Fellowship and a Dissertation Research Fellowship for Outstanding Research at UCSD, a full scholarship to the 1990 June in Buffalo Festival, and full scholarships for the 1988 and 1992 Darmstadt Festivals. He was awarded a Stipendium Fellowship at the 1990 Darmstadt Festival, won 2nd prize in the Los Angeles Arts Commission competition in the spring of 1991, and was co-winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (highest award for composition) in the 1992 Darmstadt Festival. Admission Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo credit: Richard Anderson.) ### Posted by dwinds1 Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents We Shall Overcome: Photographs from the American Civil Rights Era UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents We Shall Overcome: Photographs from the American Civil Rights Era, on display from April 13 through June 6, 2004. During America's civil rights era, the fight for equal rights took many forms, including boycotts, sit-ins and marches. Photographers contributed to the movement by relaying the struggle to every corner of the nation. We Shall Overcome, comprised of 80 black and white photographs, explores the role of several prominent American photographers in documenting the era from 1954 to 1968. UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents We Shall Overcome: Photographs from the American Civil Rights Era, on display from April 13 through June 6, 2004. During America’s civil rights era, the fight for equal rights took many forms, including boycotts, sit-ins and marches. Photographers contributed to the movement by relaying the struggle to every corner of the nation. We Shall Overcome, comprised of 80 black and white photographs, explores the role of several prominent American photographers in documenting the era from 1954 to 1968. We Shall Overcome was developed by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services (SITES), and curated by Robert Phelan, an art historian, museum curator, and former director of CREED Photos (a database project for civil rights). Following its showing at the Kuhn Library Gallery, the exhibition will continue to tour through 2004. Works in We Shall Overcome are by some of America’s most thoughtful and gifted photographers, including for LIFE magazine photographers Gordon Parks and Charles Moore; Magnum photographers Bob Adelman and Leonard Freed; then-staff photographer for the Nation of Islam, Robert Sengstacke; and Black Star photographers Matt Heron and Bob Fitch. Drawn from the personal collections of the artists, these works bring the viewer into the presence of the people and events of the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. The images reflect both the power and beauty of the photographic medium when used as a tool for social change. The striking photographs in the exhibition are juxtaposed with the words of James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr. and other movement participants. These quotations provide viewers with an opportunity to examine the civil rights movement through the experiences of those directly involved with the struggle. Photographers in We Shall Overcome captured various aspects of the civil rights movement. Leonard Freed’s images represent his perceptions of racial conflict in America at the time of his return to the United States after several years abroad. Bob Adelman’s photographs document voter registration activities in the Deep South. Matt Heron’s pictures consider direct action by the young in the movement. Bob Fitch’s work chronicles grassroots organizing, primarily in association with the efforts of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Charles Moore’s images reveal incidents of extreme violence. Robert Sengstacke’s images of the separatist response of the Nation of Islam sharply contrast with his photographs of other civil rights activists. Gordon Park’s works are drawn from an assignment by LIFE magazine during 1963 when Parks was traveling with Malcolm X. The exhibition ends with a selection of photographs of Martin Luther King taken by each of the photographers. About the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service Each year, the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition Service shares the wealth of Smithsonian collections and research programs with millions of people outside of Washington, D.C. One of the Smithsonian’s four National Programs, SITES makes available a wide range of exhibitions about art, science, and history, which are shown not only in museums but wherever people live, work and play: in libraries, science centers, historical societies, community centers, botanical gardens, schools, and shopping malls. In 2002, SITES celebrated 50 years of connecting Americans to their shared cultural heritage. Exhibitions descriptions and tour schedules are available at their website. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the University community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery is free. Acknowledgements UMBC’s presentation of We Shall Overcome: Photographs from the American Civil Rights Era is supported in part by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, and by the Friends of the Library & Gallery. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Umbrage Editions: http://www.umbragebooks.com/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. The images in this release are available at 300 dpi on high resolution image website. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 April 3, 2004 UMBC Theatre presents Female Transport UMBC Theatre presents Female Transport by Steve Gooch, directed by Christopher Owens, from April 22 through May 7 at the UMBC Theatre. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents Female Transport by Steve Gooch, directed by Christopher Owens. The play runs from April 22nd through May 7th at the UMBC Theatre. It’s 1807 and the petty crimes of a hundred women have resulted in their forced transportation to the British penal colony of Australia. What begins as a riotous group of disparate cellmates transforms during the six month sea journey to a tough, unified matriarchal society—ready to change the wild land they are about to inhabit into a more just place than the England they left behind. As songs of the period punctuate and underscore the action, these women strive to prove themselves more civilized below deck than their male captors above. Female Transport features original music by Ron Barnett, scenic design by William T. Brown, costume design by Karen Murphy, lighting and sound design by Terry Cobb, and vocal and dialect direction by Lynn Watson. (Design credit: Evan Wiegand.) Showtimes Thursday, April 22 at 8 pm (preview) Friday, April 23 at 8 pm (opening night) Sunday, April 25 at 4 pm Thursday, April 29 at 4 pm Friday, April 30 at 8 pm Saturday, May 1 at 8 pm Sunday, May 2 at 4 pm Admission $10 general admission $5 students $3 for the preview The performance on Thursday, March 11th, is free to the UMBC campus community. Ticket proceeds benefit the Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Telephone Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre website: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 March 1, 2004 UMBC Presents the Ruckus Contemporary Music Ensemble in Concert On March 18, 2004, the UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concerts Series presents Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The program will include Elliott Carter's Triple Duo, Vinko Globokar's Correspondences, Anna Rubin's Dreaming Fire, Tasting Rain, a new work by Thomas DeLio, Hiroyuki Itoh's Shadows of Night III, and Milton Babbitt's Composition for Four Instruments. The UMBC Department of Music’s Contemporary Concerts Series presents Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The program will include Elliott Carter’s Triple Duo, Vinko Globokar’s Correspondences, Anna Rubin’s Dreaming Fire, Tasting Rain, a new work by Thomas DeLio, Hiroyuki Itoh’s Shadows of Night III, and Milton Babbitt’s Composition for Four Instruments. The ensemble features flutist Lisa Cella, cellist Franklin Cox, percussionist Tom Goldstein, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, pianist Kazuko Tanosaki and violinist Airi Yoshioka. Founded in 2000 to promote the performance of contemporary chamber music, Ruckus has performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and at universities throughout the East Coast. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Music Information: 410-455-MUSC Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo credit: Richard Anderson.) ### Posted by dwinds1 Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery Presents "Havana: The Revolutionary Moment" UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Havana: The Revolutionary Moment," on display through April 4. The exhibition, featuring the photography of Burt Glinn, is organized by Umbrage Editions. UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Havana: The Revolutionary Moment," on display through April 4. The exhibition, featuring the photography of Burt Glinn, is organized by Umbrage Editions. "Havana: The Revolutionary Moment" presents a unique collection of never-before seen photographs by veteran Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, recording Castro's historic entry into Havana in January 1959. In his memoir, Glinn describes the combination of chutzpah and journalistic prescience that led him to leave a New York party and hop a plane to Havana on New Year's Eve. Although this snap decision made Glinn one of three western photographers (and the only one still living) to accompany Castro during the revolution, the images have been virtually unseen since then. The photographs--of Castro thronged by his fellow Cubans along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women taking up arms in the streets--are full of the revolutionary fervor and idealistic anticipation that characterized this pivotal moment in Cuban history. Studs Turkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War and Working, states, �It is an astonishing experience to simply look at Burt Glinn's on-the-spot photographs of Fidel Castro's 1959 triumphal march into Havana. It is a historic moment captured by a courageous master craftsman. What was touched on in the film Godfather II comes fully alive in this remarkable assemblage.� Burt Glinn first became known for his spectacular color coverage of the South Seas, Japan, Russia, Mexico and California. Collaborating with author Laurens van der Post, he has produced two books: A Portrait of All the Russias and A Portrait of Japan. Glinn was one of the original contributing editors of New York Magazine. He has authored editorial stories for magazines such as Esquire, GEO, Travel and Leisure and Fortune, and published reportage in magazines such as Life and Paris-Match, covering the Sinai War, the U.S. Marine invasion of Lebanon, Castro's takeover in Cuba and the integration of schools in Little Rock. The photography exhibited in "Havana: The Revolutionary Moment" is published in a book of the same title by Umbrage Editions. Support for the publication and exhibition has been provided by Sidney Kimmel, Andrew S. Karsch, the Southeast Museum of Photography and the Fototeca de Havana. Its presentation at UMBC is supported in part by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4:30 p.m., on Thursday until 8 p.m., and Saturday 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call 410-455-2270. Posted by dwinds1 February 20, 2004 UMBC Department of Theatre Presents The Bald Soprano by Eugéne Ionesco From March 9 through 14, the UMBC Department of Theatre presents The Bald Soprano by Eugéne Ionesco, directed by Colette Searls. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents The Bald Soprano by Eugéne Ionesco, directed by Colette Searls with set and costumes by Elena Zlotescu, lighting design by Greggory Schraven and sound design by Greg Lemich. Join us for a night of absurdity at the Smith residence, where guests forget their own names and clocks refuse to tell time. This first of Ionesco’s celebrated absurdist plays wickedly satires the emptiness of life lived by habit. Shoe-tying reveals itself as a bizarre spectacle and showy doorbells ring by themselves as the Smiths and Martins trip through the horrors of disorder and nonsense. Don’t miss UMBC’s unique twist on this classic of the 20th century avant garde.Buried is not recommended for young children. Showtimes Tuesday, March 9 at 8 pm (preview) Wednesday, March 10 at 8 pm (opening night) Thursday, March 11 at 4 pm Friday, March 12 at 8 pm Saturday, March 13 at 8 pm Sunday, March 14 at 4 pm Admission $10 general admission $5 students $3 for the preview The performance on Thursday, March 11th, is free to the UMBC campus community. Ticket proceeds benefit the Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Telephone Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Theatre information: 410-455-2917 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre website: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 February 16, 2004 UMBC's Department of Music Receives Prestigious Award UMBC's Department of Music has been awarded Third Prize in the distinguished Adventurous Programming Awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). The award recognizes UMBC's national contribution as a presenter of contemporary music written since 1980. UMBC’s Department of Music has been awarded Third Prize in the distinguished Adventurous Programming Awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). The award recognizes UMBC’s national contribution as a presenter of contemporary music written since 1980. The ASCAP Adventurous Programming Awards, which were presented at Chamber Music America’s Annual Conference held January 15-18, 2004 in New York City, were conceived seventeen years ago to encourage ensembles, festivals and presenters to program new works. First place in the category for 2003 was awarded to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and second place was awarded to the Cornish Music Series. ASCAP’s Vice President of Concert Music, Frances Richard, who presented the awards, commented: “This is the seventeenth year of ASCAP’s collaboration with Chamber Music America to present Adventurous Programming Awards. These awards are made on behalf of the members of ASCAP, in appreciation for the Ensembles, Presenters and Festivals, which feature performances of the music of our time for audiences throughout the United States. With special emphasis upon works written since 1980, we celebrate the exciting and vibrant Chamber Music tradition through adventurous programming.” Linda Dusman, the chair of UMBC’s Department of Music, stated: “We are honored to have received this award, and especially to be the only university so recognized. UMBC prides itself on being at the cutting edge of research and creative work; in music this translates into our valuing that our students and community have access to and an understanding of the music of their own times.” During the 2002-2003 season, for which the award was presented, the Department of Music’s concert series included performances by the Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo, composer Thomas Lehn, pianist Marc Ponthus, pianist Kazuko Tanosaki, the ensemble NOISE, composer Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, cellist Franklin Cox, the ensemble Interface, flutist Lisa Cella, bassist Michael Cameron, percussionist Jonas Larsson, composer Paul Koonce, and a duo concert by saxophonist Anjan Shah and pianist Rachel Franklin. The Department also sponsored a major festival, Music of Japan Today 2003, which featured performances by Ruckus (the professional chamber music ensemble in residence at UMBC) and others, and events with featured composers Joji Yuasa, Akira Nishimura, Tokuhide Niimi and Toshi Ichiyanagi. The 2002-2003 season featured works by many living composers, including compositions by Makiko Asaoka, Curtis Bahn, J. Fredric Bergström, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Matthew Burtner, Elliott Carter, Frankin Cox, Thomas DeLio, Franco Donatoni, Dominic Dousa, Linda Dusman, Morton Feldman, Mamoru Fujieda, Keiko Fujiie, Hans Werner Henze, Asako Hirabayashi, Colin Holter, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Yukiko Ito, Nagako Konishi, Paul Koonce, György Kurtág, Anne La Berge, Thomas Lehn, Thomas Liljeholm, Erik Lund, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Nicholas Maw, Ronaldo Miranda, Akira Miyoshi, Junko Mori, Robert Muczynski, Isaac Nagao, Shigenobu Nakamura, Conlon Nancarrow, Tokuhide Niimi, Akira Nishimura, Mark Osborn, Fredrik Österling, Takayuki Rai, Kaija Saariaho, Stuart Sankey, Giacinto Scelsi, Stuart Saunders Smith, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Steven Kazuo Takasugi, Toru Takemitsu, Karen Tanaka, Jukka Tiensuu, Yoichi Togawa, Dan Trueman, David Ward-Steinman, Amy Williams, Iannis Xenakis, Joji Yuasa and Akira Yuyama. The UMBC Department of Music’s calendar of upcoming events is available at www.umbc.edu/arts. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Music Information: 410-455-MUSC Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music ### Posted by dwinds1 February 11, 2004 The Arts at UMBC Present Nina Katchadourian On March 3rd, the UMBC Department of Visual Arts and the InterArts series present a lecture by visual artist Nina Katchadourian. The lecture will be presented at 8 pm in Fine Arts Building 306. Admission is free. On March 3rd, the UMBC Department of Visual Arts and the InterArts series present a lecture by visual artist Nina Katchadourian. The lecture will be presented at 8 pm in Fine Arts Building 306. Admission is free. Born in 1968 in Stanford, California, Katchadourian earned a B.A. in Visual Arts and Literature and Society from Brown University in 1989, and an M.A. in Fine Arts in 1993 from the University of California, San Diego. In her work, technology comes into play in ways that are strongly connected to her processes of dissection, restoration, and translation. The technological realm is conventionally thought of as a place where translation happens seamlessly and without residue, but Katchadourian seeks out places that hold the promise of minor breakdowns and potential misunderstandings. Her diverse practice includes photography, sound, video and sculpture. Katchadourian often locates her subject matter in the colloquial; in recent years she has also looked to “nature” as concept, construct and site. Activities which engage technology, in both low tech and hi tech ways, have included mending broken spiderwebs; restoring loose, discarded audio and video tape found on the streets of different cities; creating car alarm systems based on bird sounds; and inventing a talking popcorn machine that uses a Morse Code program to translate the sounds of popping popcorn and turn it into spoken language. Katchadourian has been awarded numerous grants including the Art Matters Grant (1994) and Konstsamfundet Artists Grant, Helsinki, Finland (1998). Katchadourian has shown throughout the United States and internationally, including exhibitions at the San Diego Museum of Art; the San Diego Museum of Natural History; the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; the Akron Museum of Art; Bard College; the Islip Art Museum; the Fabric Workshop and Museum and the University of the Arts Museum in Philadelphia; the Museum of Textiles, Toronto, Canada; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia; the Serpentine Gallery, London, England; the Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma and the Lahden Biennale, in Lahit, Finland; and the Borás Konstmuseum and Norrtälje Konsthall in Sweden. In 2002, Katchadourian was a grant recipient of the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and in 2001 she was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Visual Arts: http://art.umbc.edu/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Composer Christian Wolff in Concert On March 4, the Department of Music's Contemporary Concerts Series presents composer Christian Wolff, who will perform some of his own work for solo piano in celebration of his 70th birthday, including For Prepared Piano (1951) and selections from two new works, Keyboard Miscellany and Incidental Music. The concert will be held at 8 pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. On March 4, the Department of Music’s Contemporary Concerts Series presents composer Christian Wolff, who will perform some of his own work for solo piano in celebration of his 70th birthday, including For Prepared Piano (1951) and selections from two new works, Keyboard Miscellany and Incidental Music. The concert will be held at 8 pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Born in 1934 in Nice, France, Christian Wolff has lived mostly in U.S. since 1941. He studied piano with Grete Sultan and composition with John Cage. Although mostly an autodidact, his early contact with Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown, and later Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski helped form the direction of his work. He received academic training in classics and comparative literature at Harvard University, taught classics at Harvard and, from 1971 until 2000, classics, comparative literature and music at Dartmouth College. Wolff’s compositions include works for piano(s), miscellaneous keyboards, instrumental solos, chamber groups, unspecified groups of players and sound sources, tape, chorus and orchestra. A particular interest in Wolff’s work has been to allow performers flexibility and ranges of freedom at the actual time of a piece’s performance, to devise notations to make this practicable, to foster among both professional and lay players a spirit of liberating interdependence, and to draw material from traditions of popular political music. Wolff’s music has been performed throughout the world, especially in Europe and the United States. A number of pieces have been used by Merce Cunningham and his dance company, and also the dancer Lucinda Childs. His music is published by C.F. Peters in New York, and has been recorded on Columbia-Odyssey, Vox, Time-Mainstream, Wergo, Centaur, Elektrola, EMI, CRI, Opus One, Philo, EMI-TOCI, Collecta, Hat Hut, Mode, Koch International, Time-Scraper and Content. His writings on music have been collected in Cues: Writings & Conversations, published by MusikTexte, Cologne. Christian Wolff has performed as an improviser with Takehisa Kosugi, Steve Lacy, Christian Marclay, Kui Dong and Larry Polansky. He received awards from the American Academy and National Institute for Arts and Letters (1975); DAAD, Berlin (1974); and the Asian Cultural Council Grant (1987); received the John Cage Award for Music (1996); and was made a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin in 1999. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Music Information: 410-455-MUSC Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 January 29, 2004 UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Presents Havana: The Revolutionary Moment UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Havana: The Revolutionary Moment, on display from February 9 through April 4, 2004. The exhibition, featuring the photography of Burt Glinn, is organized by Umbrage Editions, which publishes a companion book with the same title. Havana: The Revolutionary Moment presents a unique collection of never-before seen photographs recording Castro's historic entry into Havana in January 1959. UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Havana: The Revolutionary Moment, on display from February 9 through April 4, 2004. The exhibition, featuring the photography of Burt Glinn, is organized by Umbrage Editions, which publishes a companion book with the same title. Havana: The Revolutionary Moment presents a unique collection of never-before seen photographs by veteran Magnum photographer Burt Glinn, recording Castro’s historic entry into Havana in January 1959. In his memoir, Glinn describes the combination of chutzpah and journalistic prescience that led him to leave a New York party and hop a plane to Havana on New Year’s Eve. Although this snap decision made Glinn one of three western photographers (and the only one still living) to accompany Castro during the revolution, the images have been virtually unseen since then. The photographs—of Castro thronged by his fellow Cubans along the road to Havana, of troops embracing, and of fierce men and women taking up arms in the streets—are full of the revolutionary fervor and idealistic anticipation that characterized this pivotal moment in Cuban history. Studs Turkel, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Good War and Working, states, “It is an astonishing experience to simply look at Burt Glinn’s on-the-spot photographs of Fidel Castro’s 1959 triumphal march into Havana. It is a historic moment captured by a courageous master craftsman. What was touched on in the film Godfather II comes fully alive in this remarkable assemblage.” About Burt Glinn Burt Glinn first became known for his spectacular color coverage of the South Seas, Japan, Russia, Mexico and California. Collaborating with author Laurens van der Post, he has produced two books: A Portrait of All the Russias and A Portrait of Japan. Glinn was one of the original contributing editors of New York Magazine. He has authored editorial stories for magazines such as Esquire, GEO, Travel and Leisure and Fortune, and published reportage in magazines such as Life and Paris-Match, covering the Sinai War, the U.S. Marine invasion of Lebanon, Castro’s takeover in Cuba and the integration of schools in Little Rock. He is a past president of the American Society of Media Photographers, and a member of the Magnum Photographic Cooperative, having served at different times as its president and chairman of the board. He has received many awards, including the Mathew Brady Award as the Magazine Photographer of the Year from the University of Missouri and the Encyclopædia Britannica; and the Award for the Best Book of Photographic Reporting from Abroad from the Overseas Press Club. Glinn has had one-man shows at the Photographers Gallery in London, the Nikon Gallery in New York and three at the Sag Harbor Picture Gallery. Group shows include In Our Time at the International Center of Photography, New York and major cities; and Magnum Cinema, Magnum East, and 1968, at the Newseum, New York City and Washington, D.C. The International Center of Photography exhibited his Castro story in 1996 when they acquired many of the photos for their permanent collection. Born in Pittsburgh in 1925, Glinn lives in New York with his wife Elena Anastasia Prohaska and their nineteen-year-old son, Sam. Publication The photography exhibited in Havana: The Revolutionary Moment is published in a book of the same title by Umbrage Editions. The book, which contains 83 duotone photographs in 128 pages, is available in hardcover with a jacket, ISBN 1-8844167-09-8, and retails for $45.00. Havana: The Revolutionary Moment is distributed by powerHouse Books. About the Publisher, Umbrage Editions Umbrage Editions, based in New York City, is a packager of high-quality visual books, traveling exhibitions, and multimedia projects. Founded in 1991 by Nan Richardson, former editor of Aperture and editor of over 150 books for Random House, Twin Palms, Bulfinch, Abrams, and others, Umbrage Editions works on the creation of content-rich books, exhibitions, websites, theater productions, and CD-ROMs from their conception to development and final production. Umbrage Editions also offers many titles in foreign language editions. In the past, published works have varied in subject matter from pop culture to global human rights, from the closets of drag queens to the runways of fashion, from classic photojournalism to cutting-edge art. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the University community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery is free. Acknowledgements Support for the publication and exhibition of Havana: The Revolutionary Moment has been provided by Sidney Kimmel, Andrew S. Karsch, the Southeast Museum of Photography and the Fototeca de Havana. Its presentation at UMBC is supported in part by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Umbrage Editions: 212-965-0197 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Umbrage Editions: http://www.umbragebooks.com/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. The images in this release are available at 300 dpi on high resolution image website. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 January 28, 2004 UMBC Presents Pianist Stephen Drury in Concert The UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concerts Series and the InterArts program present pianist Stephen Drury in concert on Wednesday, February 18th at 8:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Mr. Drury will present a program of the three piano sonatas by Charles Ives (Sonata No. 1, Sonata No. 2 (�Concord, Mass., 1840�60�), and the Three Page Sonata) the commemorate the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. Admission is free. The UMBC Department of Music’s Contemporary Concerts Series and the InterArts program present pianist Stephen Drury in concert on Wednesday, February 18th at 8:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Mr. Drury will present a program of the three piano sonatas by Charles Ives (Sonata No. 1, Sonata No. 2 (“Concord, Mass., 1840–60”), and the Three Page Sonata) to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death. Stephen Drury was named 1989 Musician of the Year by the Boston Globe and has concertized throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. He has given solo performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., New York’s Symphony Space, and from Arkansas to California to Hong Kong to Paris. A champion of twentieth-century music, Drury’s performances of music—ranging from the piano sonatas of Charles Ives to works by John Cage and György Ligeti—have received the highest critical acclaim. He has appeared at the MusikTriennale Köln in Germany, the Subtropics Festival in Miami, the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, and the North American New Music Festival in Buffalo as well as at Roulette and the Knitting Factory in New York. At Spoleto USA and at the Angelica Festival in Bologna, he performed as both conductor and pianist. He has also conducted the Britten Sinfonia in England, the Santa Cruz New Music Works Ensemble, and the Harvard Group for New Music. In 1992 Stephen Drury directed the world premiere of George Russell’s Time Line for orchestra, chorus, jazz band and soloists. In 1988-1989, he organized a year-long festival of the music of John Cage which led to a request from the composer to perform the solo piano part in Cage’s 1O1, premiered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in April, 1989. Drury has commissioned new works for solo piano from John Cage, John Zorn, Terry Riley, and Chinary Ung with funding provided by Meet The Composer. In 1995, he gave the first performance of John Zorn’s concerto for piano and orchestra, Aporias, with Dennis Russell Davies and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. Later that same season he gave the premiere of Basic Training for solo piano, written for him by Lee Hyla. Drury is artistic director of the Callithumpian Consort, and he created and directs the Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance at New England Conservatory. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Music Information: 410-455-MUSC Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo credit: Lisa Kohler.) ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents the ConText Performers Collective in Concert The UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concerts Series presents the ConText Performers Collective in concert on Thursday, February 9th at 8:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. The ConText Performers Collective, which features Sylvia Smith and Carrie Rose, will perform Robert Erickson's Pacific Sirens, Stuart Saunders Smith's Transitions and Leaps, and works by Will Ogdon and Herbert Brün. The UMBC Department of Music’s Contemporary Concerts Series presents the ConText Performers Collective in concert on Thursday, February 9th at 8:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Please note that the date of this concert has been changed from February 19th. The ConText Performers Collective, which features Sylvia Smith and Carrie Rose, will perform Robert Erickson’s Pacific Sirens, Stuart Saunders Smith’s Transitions and Leaps, and works by Will Ogdon and Herbert Brün. Sylvia Smith is a percussionist, scholar and publisher, and is the artistic director of the UMBC New Music Ensemble. She has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention and has participated in the Interpretations Series at Merkin Hall in New York. In 1998 she founded the ConText Performers Collective, which specializes in music that integrates percussion, spoken text and theatre. She has authored articles on graphic notation and curated many concerts of the music of John Cage. Smith owns and operates Smith Publications, and in 1994 was awarded an honorary doctorate for her work in American music by the University of Akron. Flutist and dancer Carrie Rose earned Master and Bachelor of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Joshua Smith, principal flutist of the Cleveland Orchestra. She toured Russia and Eastern Europe with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra, has performed throughout Switzerland, Germany and England, was awarded a full scholarship to the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland, and was a Fellow in Chamber Music at the Schweitzer Institute of Music in Sandpoint, Idaho, directed by Gunther Schuller. Rose has played with the New World Symphony in Miami, and the Akron and Youngstown Symphonies in Ohio. Honors and awards include first prize at the national level of the Yamaha/Music Teachers National Association Competition, a Presser Foundation Scholarship, and the Amherst Symphony Womens’ Committee Scholarship. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Music Information: 410-455-MUSC Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online at http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 Phoenix Dance Company Performs at UMBC UMBC's Department of Dance presents the Phoenix Dance Company in concert on February 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2004. All performances will be held at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Tickets are $15 general admission and $7 for students and seniors, available through the box office at 410-455-6240. UMBC’s Department of Dance presents the Phoenix Dance Company in concert on February 11, 12, 13 and 14, 2004. All performances will be held at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Tickets are $15 general admission and $7 for students and seniors, available through the box office at 410-455-6240. About the Phoenix Dance Company The venerable Phoenix Dance Company, founded in 1983, has played in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Theatre Project, Ohio State University, Judson Church, Goucher College, McDaniel College, Salisbury University and Temple University. A professional company in residence at UMBC, Phoenix is co-directed by choreographers Carol Hess and Doug Hamby. Operating at the intersection between art and technology, the Phoenix Dance Company has explored radical dance collaborations with UMBC videographers, mechanical engineers, computer programmers and visual artists, recently including Steve Bradley, an intermedia artist who has generated live computer-enhanced video images and a system for generating sounds based on dancers’ movements; Tony Farquhar, a mechanical engineer who developed a spunky six-legged dancing robot (Maurice Tombé); Vin Grabill, an MIT-trained videographer; and composer Linda Dusman. The Phoenix Dance Company was recently featured in the business section of The Baltimore Sun. To read that article, click here. The Program Featured on the program are the following works: Mobile II by Carol Hess, a dance of visual beauty and complexity, featuring six women with an original score by Neal Woodson. An installation of plexiglass screens becomes a projection surface for video images by Vin Grabill and Carol Hess. Throughout the piece, the dancers perform, re-orient and re-combine clusters of movement in open spaces, behind layers of fabric, and amid sheets of plexiglass and changing projections. In a new video piece by Carol Hess, dancer Margaret Terry wanders along a dark hallway with many doors, to find herself dancing in unexpected environments. The choreography moves across multiple settings which include a river, a forest, a field, and a city. Sound design is by Timothy Nohe. Doug Hamby’s Interplay, a beautiful and boldly dynamic dance for four women that brings to life Robert Moran’s energetic music. In this quartet, the dance enlivens and intertwines the rich physical, temporal and spatial connections between the performers. Edgewater Park by Doug Hamby, a sensuous duet for two men combining live video images from the dance with images of carnival rides. Beautiful and intriguing video images of the live dance are simultaneously edited by filmmaker, Nick Prevas and projected onto a movie screen that blocks much of the viewer’s direct access to the dance, with a sound score by artist Timothy Nohe. Part One Parting, a solo choreographed by Jeanine Durning and performed by Sandra Lacy, with original electronic music by composer Chris Peck. Structured like a short story, Part One Parting follows a woman who recalls an event in her life over and over again. In this episodic solo, the dream-like sequences reflect the idea of memory and how we remember and re-experience events. Principal Choreographers and Dancer Choreographer and artistic director Carol Hess received a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from Columbia University. Before coming to Maryland, she danced professionally in New York City, where she performed and taught in hundreds of public schools through the Young Audiences Programs and Residencies in the Schools and the Lincoln Center Touring Program. She has performed with Hannah Kahn and Dancers, the Rondo Dance Theatre, the Janet Soares Company, and as a tap soloist she has appeared on television and in concerts in the United States and Europe. As Artistic Director of the Oregon Dance Theatre, Ms. Hess, in partnership with the Carpenter Foundation, initiated a series of program and workshops in schools, in which nearly fifty schools participated. As associate professor of dance, Ms. Hess has taught at UMBC since 1982 and is currently chair of the Department of Dance, where she also directs Project REACH, an outreach program to Baltimore City and Baltimore County elementary, middle and high schools. Doug Hamby lives and works in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. He has extensive experience as a dancer, chroeographer, and educator. In addition to his work with the Phoenix Dance Company, he is the artistic director of Doug Hamby Dance, a professional dance company in residence at UMBC. Recent collaborators include artist Timothy Nohe, intermedia artist Steve Bradley, video artist Deborah Gorski, and mechanical engineer Tony Farquhar. Hamby has performed with Martha Graham, May O’Donnell, Rachel Lampert, Elizabeth Keen, Pearl Lang, Norman Walker, the Chicago Moving Company, Phoenix Dance Company, and Hamby and Lacy. His works have been featured at Dance Place, Washington, D.C.; Riverside Dance Festival, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, and Celebrate Brooklyn, in New York City; the 1998 New York International Fringe Festival; 1997 Philadelphia Fringe Festival; and 1996 International Fringe Festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland and Vancouver, Canada. He has received choreography awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, and the Baltimore Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art and Culture. He served as a dance advisory panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council for three years. He is an associate professor of dance at UMBC and holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University and a Biology degree from Michigan State University. He has also appeared on national television as a giant slice of American cheese. Principal dancer Sandra Lacy has been the recipient of three Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards in Solo Dance Performance. She holds a B.A. in psychology and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance in London. She has performed with Maryland Ballet, Impetus Dance Company, Path Dance Company, Lacy & Shade, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Ms. Lacy is on the faculty of UMBC and the Baltimore School for the Arts. Admission General admission: $15.00. Students and seniors: $7.00. Box Office: 410-455-6240 Telephone Box Office: 410-455-6240 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Dance website: http://www.umbc.edu/dance Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. • Metered parking for the UMBC Theatre is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Acknowledgements This program is supported in part by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, and by the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences. ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Flutist Lisa Cella in Concert The UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents flutist Lisa Cella in concert on Sunday, February 15th at 3:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are $7 general admission, $3 for senior citizens, free for students and free with a UMBC ID. Lisa Cella's program will include Chronopolis by Franklin Cox, Flutter by Robert Rowe, Landmines by Anna Rubin, the premiere of a new work by Stuart Saunders Smith and other compositions. The UMBC Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents flutist Lisa Cella in concert on Sunday, February 15th at 3:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are $7 general admission, $3 for senior citizens, free for students and free with a UMBC ID. Lisa Cella’s program will include Chronopolis by Franklin Cox, Flutter by Robert Rowe, Landmines by Anna Rubin, the premiere of a new work by Stuart Saunders Smith and other compositions. Artistic Director of San Diego New Music, Ms. Cella received a DMA in contemporary flute performance at the University of California, San Diego while studying with John Fonville. She has performed with SONOR, the faculty ensemble of UCSD, SIRIUS, and in various concert series and festivals in the San Diego area. She is a founding member of NOISE, the resident ensemble of San Diego New Music and runs the music series Noise at the Library at the Athenaeum Library in San Diego, California. She received her Applied Bachelors in Music with a dual concentration in Psychology from Syracuse University under the tutelage of John Oberbrunner. Upon graduation, she received the Civic Morning Musicals award for excellence in performance. She then received a Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Robert Willoughby. While in Baltimore, she was the winner of the 1992 Washington Flute Fair Young Artist Competition and founded the flute and guitar duo, Adesso!, which was a finalist in the Baltimore Chamber Competition. A dedicated performer of contemporary music, Cella was a member of the Baltimore based contemporary ensemble Polaris in 1993. She attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 1993 and was a fellowship member of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival for two summers. She is the founding member of the ensemble Sounding, a contemporary quartet (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion) that had its origins in the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. With Sounding, she has performed at universities such as Bowling Green, Cornell, SUNY Buffalo, Oberlin, and Syracuse. Currently, she is a lecturer in music at UMBC and a founding member of the faculty contemporary music ensemble, Ruckus. Admission Admission is $7 general, $3 for senior citizens, free for all students, and free with a UMBC ID. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Music Information: 410-455-MUSC Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. (Photo credit: Richard Anderson.) ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Clarinetist E. Michael Richards in Concert The UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents clarinetist E. Michael Richards in concert on Sunday, February 22nd at 3:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students and free with a UMBC ID. E. Michael Richards's program will include the Fantasia da Concerto su motivi de La Traviata di G. Verdi by Donato Lovreglio, Altre Tracce by Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, the American premiere of magnificat 2: Still by Linda Dusman, Undercurrents by Eve de Castro-Robinson, and Dal Niente (Interieur III) by Helmut Lachenmann. The UMBC Department of Music’s Faculty Recital Series presents clarinetist E. Michael Richards in concert on Sunday, February 22nd at 3:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students and free with a UMBC ID. E. Michael Richards’s program will include the Fantasia da Concerto su motivi de La Traviata di G. Verdi by Donato Lovreglio, Altre Tracce by Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, the American premiere of magnificat 2: Still by Linda Dusman, Undercurrents by Eve de Castro-Robinson, and Dal Niente (Interieur III) by Helmut Lachenmann. The pieces all connect the clarinet to the human voice, from the arrangement of Verdi arias in a bel canto style (Lovreglio), to short ambiguous (and embedded in a complex structure) quotations of famous works (part of our “cultural memory” such as Bizet’s Carmen, Rossini’s Barber of Seville, etc.) that share a motivic similarity (Ciardi), to an exploration of the passagio among registers of the clarinet that culminates in multiphonics (Jones), to extreme contrast between chalumeau and altissimo registers that includes simultaneous singing and playing (de Castro-Robinson), to the idea of a “musique concrete instrumentale,” in which all of the sounds point away from themselves as a kind of “corporeal” experience. And finally, as Lachenmann said, “The instrument becomes a device: a characteristically manipulated filter for the player’s breath.” Two of the works will be performed by the Tanosaki-Richards Duo, featuring pianist Kazuko Tanosaki. As a recitalist of new music, E. Michael Richards has premiered over 125 works throughout the United States, Japan, Australia, and Western Europe. Trained as a clarinetist at the New England Conservatory (B.Mus.) and Yale School of Music (M.Mus.), Richards earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. He received a 1990 U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, and Japanese Government Cultural Agency) as a solo recitalist for a six-month residency in Japan, an NEH Summer Fellowship to study traditional Japanese music, and a residency grant (Cassis, France) from the Camargo Foundation to complete a book, The Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century. Richards has performed as concerto soloist with the Syracuse Symphony and Shinsei Japan Philharmonic (Tokyo), in chamber music performances with the Cassatt Quartet, Ying Quartet, SONOR, and the East-West Quartet, and in recital at eight international festivals and more than 20 universities, as well as at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the American Academy in Rome, and the Tokyo American Center. He has also performed as a member of the Tanosaki-Richards Duo (with pianist Kazuko Tanosaki) since 1982. Richards has recorded on the NEUMA, Mode, CRI, Ninewinds, and Opus One labels. He has taught at Smith College; the University of California, San Diego; Bowdoin College; Hamilton College; and the Hochstein Music School in Rochester, New York; and completed short terms with Kazuko Tanosaki as visiting artists in residence at the University of Massachusetts, CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies), at the University of California Berkeley, and San José State University. Admission Admission is $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students and free with a UMBC ID. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Music Information: 410-455-MUSC Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media A high resolution image for media is available online at http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail (photo credit: Richard Anderson). ### Posted by dwinds1 January 14, 2004 UMBC Department of Music Presents Spring 2004 Concerts and Events The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2004 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by world renowned artists, including composer Christian Wolff, pianist Stephen Drury, flutist Jane Rigler and the Ruckus ensemble. The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2004 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by world renowned artists, including composer Christian Wolff, pianist Stephen Drury, flutist Jane Rigler and the Ruckus ensemble. Professional Artist Series January 28 Patricia Green, mezzo soprano 12 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Mezzo soprano Patricia Green will perform King Harald's Saga (1979), a short opera for solo voice by Judith Weir. Green will host a vocal masterclass with UMBC students after her performance. Patricia Green has gained acclaim for her expressive voice, noted for its three-octave ease in diverse repertoire. Her international career includes performances with L'Orchestre de Radio-France, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the Northern Israel Philharmonic, the Theater Chamber Players, Washington Bach Consort, Vancouver New Music, Onafhankelijk Collective, Bethlehem Bach Society, and New Music Concerts (Toronto). Her performances with conductors Pierre Boulez, Leonard Slatkin, Reinbert de Leeuw, Peter�E�tv�s, Pascal Roph� and Sir David Willcocks have been broadcast internationally on both television and radio.�As a performer of new music, she is sought out by international composers. She has recordings on Newport Classics, Albany Records, and Live Unity Productions. Ms. Green received the Artist Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory, winning the George Castelle Prize. She teaches at Michigan State University. February 15 Lisa Cella, flute 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Flutist Lisa Cella will perform Chronopolis by Franklin Cox, Flutter by Robert Rowe, Landmines by Anna Rubin, and other works. Artistic Director of San Diego New Music, Ms. Cella received a DMA in contemporary flute performance at the University of California, San Diego while studying with John Fonville. She has performed with SONOR, the faculty ensemble of UCSD, SIRIUS, and in various concert series and festivals in the San Diego area. She is a founding member of NOISE, the resident ensemble of San Diego New Music and runs the music series Noise at the Library at the Athenaeum Library in San Diego, California. She received her Applied Bachelors in Music with a dual concentration in Psychology from Syracuse University under the tutelage of John Oberbrunner. Upon graduation, she received the Civic Morning Musicals award for excellence in performance. She then received a Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Robert Willoughby. While in Baltimore, she was the winner of the 1992 Washington Flute Fair Young Artist Competition and founded the flute and guitar duo, Adesso!, which was a finalist in the Baltimore Chamber Competition. A dedicated performer of contemporary music, Cella was a member of the Baltimore based contemporary ensemble Polaris in 1993. She attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 1993 and was a fellowship member of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival for two summers. She is the founding member of the ensemble Sounding, a contemporary quartet (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion) that had its origins in the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. With Sounding, she has performed at universities such as Bowling Green, Cornell, SUNY Buffalo, Oberlin, and Syracuse. Currently, she is a lecturer in music at UMBC and a founding member of the faculty contemporary music ensemble, RUCKUS. February 18 Stephen Drury, piano 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Pianist Stephen Drury will present a program of the three piano sonatas by Charles Ives (Sonata No. 1, Sonata No. 2 (�Concord, Mass., 1840�60�), and the Three Page Sonata) on the 50th anniversary of the composer's death. Drury was named 1989 Musician of the Year by the Boston Globe and has concertized throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. He has given solo performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., New York's Symphony Space, and from Arkansas to California to Hong Kong to Paris. A champion of twentieth-century music, Drury's performances of music�ranging from the piano sonatas of Charles Ives to works by John Cage and Gy�rgy Ligeti�have received the highest critical acclaim. He has appeared at the MusikTriennale K�ln in Germany, the Subtropics Festival in Miami, the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, and the North American New Music Festival in Buffalo as well as at Roulette and the Knitting Factory in New York. At Spoleto USA and at the Angelica Festival in Bologna, he performed as both conductor and pianist. He has also conducted the Britten Sinfonia in England, the Santa Cruz New Music Works Ensemble, and the Harvard Group for New Music. In 1992 Stephen Drury directed the world premiere of George Russell's Time Line for orchestra, chorus, jazz band and soloists. In 1988-1989, he organized a year-long festival of the music of John Cage which led to a request from the composer to perform the solo piano part in Cage's 1O1, premiered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in April, 1989. Drury has commissioned new works for solo piano from John Cage, John Zorn, Terry Riley, and Chinary Ung with funding provided by Meet The Composer. In 1995, he gave the first performance of John Zorn's concerto for piano and orchestra, Aporias, with Dennis Russell Davies and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. Later that same season he gave the premiere of Basic Training for solo piano, written for him by Lee Hyla. Drury is artistic director of the Callithumpian Consort, and he created and directs the Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance at New England Conservatory. (Co-sponsored by UMBC's InterArts program.) February 19 ConText Performers Collective 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. The ConText Performers Collective, featuring Sylvia Smith and Carrie Rose. Their concert will feature Robert Erickson's Pacific Sirens, Stuart Saunders Smith's Transitions and Leaps, and works by Will Ogdon and Herbert Br�n. Sylvia Smith is a percussionist, scholar and publisher, and is the artistic director of the UMBC New Music Ensemble. She has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention and has participated in the Interpretations Series at Merkin Hall in New York. In 1998 she founded the ConText Performers Collective, which specializes in music that integrates percussion, spoken text and theatre. She has authored articles on graphic notation and curated many concerts of the music of John Cage. Smith owns and operates Smith Publications, and in 1994 was awarded an honorary doctorate for her work in American music by the University of Akron. Flutist and dancer Carrie Rose earned Master and Bachelor of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Joshua Smith, principal flutist of the Cleveland Orchestra. She toured Russia and Eastern Europe with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra, has performed throughout Switzerland, Germany and England, was awarded a full scholarship to the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland, and was a Fellow in Chamber Music at the Schweitzer Institute of Music in Sandpoint, Idaho, directed by Gunther Schuller. Rose has played with the New World Symphony in Miami, and the Akron and Youngstown Symphonies in Ohio. Honors and awards include first prize at the national level of the Yamaha/Music Teachers National Association Competition, a Presser Foundation Scholarship, and the Amherst Symphony Womens' Committee Scholarship. February 22 E. Michael Richards, clarinet 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Clarinetist E. Michael Richards will perform the Fantasia da Concerto su motivi de La Traviata di G. Verdi by Donato Lovreglio, Altre Tracce by Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, the American premiere of magnificat 2: Still by Linda Dusman, Undercurrents by Eve de Castro-Robinson, and Dal Niente (Interieur III) by Helmut Lachenmann. The pieces all connect the clarinet to the human voice, from the arrangement of Verdi arias in a bel canto style (Lovreglio), to short ambiguous (and embedded in a complex structure) quotations of famous works (part of our �cultural memory� such as Bizet's Carmen, Rossini's Barber of Seville, etc.) that share a motivic similarity (Ciardi), to an exploration of the passagio among registers of the clarinet that culminates in multiphonics (Jones), to extreme contrast between chalumeau and altissimo registers that includes simultaneous singing and playing (de Castro-Robinson), to the idea of a �musique concrete instrumentale,� in which all of the sounds point away from themselves as a kind of �corporeal� experience. And finally, as Lachenmann said, �The instrument becomes a device: a characteristically manipulated filter for the player's breath.� Two of the works will be performed by the Tanosaki-Richards Duo, featuring pianist Kazuko Tanosaki. As a recitalist of new music, E. Michael Richards has premiered over 125 works throughout the United States, Japan, Australia, and Western Europe. Trained as a clarinetist at the New England Conservatory (B.Mus.) and Yale School of Music (M.Mus.), Richards earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. He received a 1990 U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, and Japanese Government Cultural Agency) as a solo recitalist for a six-month residency in Japan, an NEH Summer Fellowship to study traditional Japanese music, and a residency grant (Cassis, France) from the Camargo Foundation to complete a book, The Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century. Richards has performed as concerto soloist with the Syracuse Symphony and Shinsei Japan Philharmonic (Tokyo), in chamber music performances with the Cassatt Quartet, Ying Quartet, SONOR, and the East-West Quartet, and in recital at eight international festivals and more than 20 universities, as well as at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the American Academy in Rome, and the Tokyo American Center. He has also performed as a member of the Tanosaki-Richards Duo (with pianist Kazuko Tanosaki) since 1982. Richards has recorded on the NEUMA, Mode, CRI, Ninewinds, and Opus One labels. He has taught at Smith College; the University of California, San Diego; Bowdoin College; Hamilton College; and the Hochstein Music School in Rochester, New York; and completed short terms with Kazuko Tanosaki as visiting artists in residence at the University of Massachusetts, CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies), at the University of California Berkeley, and San Jose State University. March 4 Christian Wolff, composer 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Composer Christian Wolff will perform some of his own work for solo piano in celebration of his 70th birthday, including For Prepared Piano (1951) and selections from two new works, Keyboard Miscellany and Incidental Music. Born in 1934 in Nice, France, Christian Wolff has lived mostly in U.S. since 1941. He studied piano with Grete Sultan and composition with John Cage. Although mostly an autodidact, his early contact with Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown, and later Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski helped form the direction of his work. He received academic training in classics and comparative literature at Harvard University, taught classics at Harvard and, from 1971 until 2000, classics, comparative literature and music at Dartmouth College. Wolff's compositions include works for piano(s), miscellaneous keyboards, instrumental solos, chamber groups, unspecified groups of players and sound sources, tape, chorus and orchestra. A particular interest in Wolff's work has been to allow performers flexibility and ranges of freedom at the actual time of a piece's performance, to devise notations to make this practicable, to foster among both professional and lay players a spirit of liberating interdependence, and to draw material from traditions of popular political music. Wolff's music has been performed throughout the world, especially in Europe and the United States. A number of pieces have been used by Merce Cunningham and his dance company, and also the dancer Lucinda Childs. His music is published by C.F. Peters in New York, and has been recorded on Columbia-Odyssey, Vox, Time-Mainstream, Wergo, Centaur, Elektrola, EMI, CRI, Opus One, Philo, EMI-TOCI, Collecta, Hat Hut, Mode, Koch International, Time-Scraper and Content. His writings on music have been collected in: Cues: Writings & Conversations, published by MusikTexte, Cologne. Christian Wolff has performed as an improviser with Takehisa Kosugi, Steve Lacy, Christian Marclay, Kui Dong and Larry Polansky. He received awards from the American Academy and National Institute for Arts and Letters (1975); DAAD, Berlin (1974); and the Asian Cultural Council Grant (1987); received the John Cage Award for Music (1996); and was made a member of the Akademie der K�nste, Berlin in 1999. March 18 Ruckus 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, will present Elliott Carter's Triple Duo, Vinko Globokar's Correspondences, Anna Rubin's Dreaming Fire, Tasting Rain, a new work by Thomas DeLio, Hiroyuki Itoh's Shadows of Night III, and Milton Babbitt's Composition for Four Instruments. The ensemble features flutist Lisa Cella, cellist Franklin Cox, percussionist Tom Goldstein, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, pianist Kazuko Tanosaki and violinist Airi Yoshioka. Founded in 2000 to promote the performance of contemporary chamber music, Ruckus has performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and at universities throughout the East Coast. April 4 Airi Yoshioka, violin 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Violinist Airi Yoshioka, accompanied by pianist John Novacek, will feature Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96; Robert Schumann's Sonata No. 1 in a minor, Op. 105; Arvo P�rt's Fratres; the world premiere of a work by Alice Shields; and three rags by John Novacek. Airi Yoshioka has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. Deeply committed to chamber music, Ms. Yoshioka was a founding member of Yale University's Wenceslas Ensemble and the Modigliani Quartet. Her orchestral credits include performances with the American Sinfonietta and engagements as concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi and concertmaster of one of the festival orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival. An enthusiastic performer of new music, she was one of the original members and concertmasters of the New Juilliard Ensemble and performed in the school's FOCUS! Festival as well as with the Lower Eastside Ensemble for Contemporary Music. Of a performance with the New Juilliard Ensemble, The New York Times wrote, �Airi Yoshioka played the violin solo touchingly.� April 18 Franklin Cox, cello 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Cellist Franklin Cox will feature J.S. Bach's Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat (BWV 1010), a new work by Erik Ulman, Willow by Stuart Saunders Smith, and a new work by Franklin Cox. Franklin Cox has performed in numerous festivals and new music ensembles, including the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, and SONOR, as well as at the 1980 and 1982 Spoleto Festivals, the 1983 Banff Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Xenakis Festival and Darmstadt Revisited Festival at UCSD, and at the Darmstadt Festival since 1988, where he received a special citation for cello performance in 1990. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Indiana University, a Master of Arts degree in composition from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cox has studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa, Steven Suber, Fred Fox, Harvey Sollberger, Fred Lerdahl, and Jack Beeson. He received an Alice M. Ditson Scholarship and Dissertation Fellowship at Columbia University, Regent's Fellowship and a Dissertation Research Fellowship for Outstanding Research at UCSD, a full scholarship to the 1990 June in Buffalo Festival, and full scholarships for the 1988 and 1992 Darmstadt Festivals. He was awarded a Stipendium Fellowship at the 1990 Darmstadt Festival, won 2nd prize in the Los Angeles Arts Commission competition in the spring of 1991, and was co-winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (highest award for composition) in the 1992 Darmstadt Festival. April 25 Federal City Brass Band 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. The Federal City Brass Band, directed of Jari Villanueva and based in Baltimore, recreates the sound and appearance of a U.S. Army regimental brass band of the 1860s. With the exception of the reproduction rope-tension drums, all of the instruments used by the Federal City Brass Band are originals dating to the mid-19th century. The sources of the music the band plays include original band journals and sheet music of the Civil War era. Members of the Federal City Brass Band are professional and volunteer musicians, music educators, historians and re-enactors, and collectively represent some of the finest brass and percussion players in the hobby today. The band has performed for events at Gettysburg, Sharpsburg, Baltimore, Fredericksburg, Rockville, and Arlington, for the Library of Congress and the American Bandmasters Association, and at the 2003 National Civil War Band Festival in Campbellsville, Kentucky. The program at UMBC will feature Civil War-era favorites. April 28 Jane Rigler, flute 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Flutist Jane Rigler will perform a program of contemporary works. With an extensive background in both classical and contemporary music, Jane Rigler has considerable experience as an interpreter of contemporary music. Her repertoire covers some of the most complex and demanding works played today, including works such as Monolith by Vinko Globokar and Cassandra's Dream Song by Brian Ferneyhough. Between 1989 and 1995 she was a member of several orchestras and contemporary music ensembles in California as well as collaborated with both Madrid-based Ensemble Plural and Grupo Cosmos. In 2000, she was a guest artist with Grupo Cosmos, touring Tokyo and various northern Italian cities and playing works by John Cage and Bruno Maderna. Besides ensemble work, her performing experience encompasses flute and electronics, computer interactive improvisation and interdisciplinary experimental works. Between 1994�1999, Rigler collaborated with composer/multi-intstrumentalist Rafael Li��n. Together they have performed in contemporary music festivals in Madrid, Barcelona, Alicante and Granada, in the Horizontal Radio of the European Radio Union, the Paralelo Madrid, and the Punto de Encuentro of the Association of Electroacoustic Music of Spain. In addition, the Rigler-Li��n duo has given more than 250 pedagogical concerts for children in both Madrid and Granada. Their performances throughout Spain have been reviewed as showing �great imagination and profound knowledge� (Enrique Franco, El Pais) as well as having �an intense humanistic content� (Manuel Ferrand, ABC). Rigler has been combining forces with other composers and performers such as Koji Asano, Agust� Fern�ndez, Hannes Giger, Barbara Held, Christoph Irmer, Marisa Manchado, Wade Matthews, Liba Villavecchia, Musicalibre of Madrid and the IBA Olestars of Barcelona, among others. April 30 Zanana 8 pm, Fine Arts Studio 508 Admission is free. Zanana, a collaborative duo featuring Kristin Norderval (voice) and Monique Buzzart� (trombone), will perform a program of improvised music blending acoustic sounds, electronics and live processing. Kristin Norderval is a classically trained singer, improviser, and composer who performs an eclectic repertoire that spans the renaissance to the avant-garde. Many works have been written for her, and her collaborations have included work with choreographers, sculptors, filmmakers and installation artists. Since 1997, she has also been recording on-site improvisations in unusual spaces, many of them industrial. Profiled by The New York Times in �Downtown Divas Expand their Horizons� and hailed as one of �new music's best� by the Village Voice, her performances range from concert and opera to multi-media events. Her work as a soloist has taken her to festivals throughout the world, and her credits include performances with the San Francisco Symphony, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Oslo Sinfonietta, the Philip Glass Ensemble, and numerous new music ensembles in the United States and Europe. She has recorded new works for Mode, Nonesuch, Point, and CRI as well as for Norwegian, German, and Austrian radio, and has performed in opera and music-theater productions for Lincoln Center, BAM, the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco, Santa Fe Opera, Netherlands Dance Theater, and Dance Alloy. Ms. Norderval received 2002 Artist Residencies at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Ms. Norderval is certified to teach the meditative improvisation techniques of Deep Listening. Monique Buzzart�, trombonist, is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with electronics, and in chamber ensembles. Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone Commissions project has been supporting the expansion of the trombone repertoire, with 2002�2004 commissions forthcoming from Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, Anne LeBaron, and Alice Shields. Ms. Buzzart� is currently developing a new interactive performance system for the trombone, supported in part through artist residencies at Create@iEAR Studios in 2003 and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts in 2003. Ms. Buzzart�'s recordings include John Cage's Five3 with the Arditti Quartet (Mode Records) and Dreaming Wide Awake with the New Circle Five (Deep Listening 20). An author, activist, and educator as well as a performer/composer, Ms. Buzzart� has published research on the brass music of women composers and led efforts which led to the admission of women into the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Buzzart� is certified to teach the meditative improvisation techniques of Deep Listening. (Presented by UMBC's InterArts program.) Student Recital Series February 21 The Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. March 14 The UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wayne Cameron, featuring winners of the High School Concerto Competition, and Ryan Bridgland, winner of the UMBC Department of Music Concerto Competition, performing a Dmitri Shostakovich Cello Concerto. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. April 24 The Maryland Camerata under the direction of David Smith. 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. April 29 The UMBC Jazz Big Band under the direction of Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. May 1 The Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. May 2 An Evening of Opera, featuring selected works by composers such as Verdi, Bizet, Offenbach, Puccini and others, featuring soloists, duets, and the choral ensembles of UMBC. 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. May 3 The UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of E. Michael Richards. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. May 6 The UMBC Concert Band under the direction of Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. May 8 The UMBC Guitar Ensemble under the direction of Troy King. 5 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. May 8 The Collegium Musicum under the direction of Joseph Morin. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. May 9 The UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wayne Cameron. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. May 11 Departmental Honors Recital. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. May 14 The UMBC Jazz Improv Ensemble under the direction of Rick Hannah. 8 pm, The Commons Cabaret. Admission is free. World Music Series February 27 Stone Groove, an Afro-BeatDubJazzFunk group featuring Africana Studies faculty member Stephanie Johnson. 12 � 2 pm, Main Street at The Commons. Admission is free. March 29 The Global Percussion Trio, featuring Department of Music faculty member Barry Dove, featuring African, Brazilian, Japanese and other forms of drumming from around the world. 12 � 2 pm, Main Street at The Commons. Admission is free. April 14 Willbilly, an American roots music ensemble that draws from the folk, blues, country, and rock traditions. The band features John Thomakos on drums, Dave Chappell on guitar, Justin Crown on bass, Mookie Siegel on keyboards, and Department of Music faculty member Billy Kemp on guitar and vocals. 12 � 2 pm, Main Street at The Commons. Admission is free. Additional Information Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. 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Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Department of Music Presents Spring 2004 Concerts and Events The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2004 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by world renowned artists, including the composer Christian Wolff, pianist Stephen Drury, flutist Jane Rigler and the Ruckus ensemble. The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2004 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by world renowned artists, including the composer Christian Wolff, pianist Stephen Drury, flutist Jane Rigler and the Ruckus ensemble. Professional Artist Series January 28 Patricia Green, mezzo soprano 12 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Mezzo soprano Patricia Green will perform King Harald’s Saga (1979), a short opera for solo voice by Judith Weir. Green will host a vocal masterclass with UMBC students after her performance. Patricia Green has gained acclaim for her expressive voice, noted for its three-octave ease in diverse repertoire. Her international career includes performances with L’Orchestre de Radio-France, the Dutch Radio Philharmonic, the National Symphony, the Northern Israel Philharmonic, the Theater Chamber Players, Washington Bach Consort, Vancouver New Music, Onafhankelijk Collective, Bethlehem Bach Society, and New Music Concerts (Toronto). Her performances with conductors Pierre Boulez, Leonard Slatkin, Reinbert de Leeuw, Peter Eötvös, Pascal Rophé and Sir David Willcocks have been broadcast internationally on both television and radio. As a performer of new music, she is sought out by international composers. She has recordings on Newport Classics, Albany Records, and Live Unity Productions. Ms. Green received the Artist Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory, winning the George Castelle Prize. She teaches at Michigan State University. February 15 Lisa Cella, flute 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Flutist Lisa Cella will perform Chronopolis by Franklin Cox, Flutter by Robert Rowe, Landmines by Anna Rubin, and other works. Artistic Director of San Diego New Music, Ms. Cella received a DMA in contemporary flute performance at the University of California, San Diego while studying with John Fonville. She has performed with SONOR, the faculty ensemble of UCSD, SIRIUS, and in various concert series and festivals in the San Diego area. She is a founding member of NOISE, the resident ensemble of San Diego New Music and runs the music series Noise at the Library at the Athenaeum Library in San Diego, California. She received her Applied Bachelors in Music with a dual concentration in Psychology from Syracuse University under the tutelage of John Oberbrunner. Upon graduation, she received the Civic Morning Musicals award for excellence in performance. She then received a Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Robert Willoughby. While in Baltimore, she was the winner of the 1992 Washington Flute Fair Young Artist Competition and founded the flute and guitar duo, Adesso!, which was a finalist in the Baltimore Chamber Competition. A dedicated performer of contemporary music, Cella was a member of the Baltimore based contemporary ensemble Polaris in 1993. She attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 1993 and was a fellowship member of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival for two summers. She is the founding member of the ensemble Sounding, a contemporary quartet (flute, clarinet, piano, percussion) that had its origins in the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble. With Sounding, she has performed at universities such as Bowling Green, Cornell, SUNY Buffalo, Oberlin, and Syracuse. Currently, she is a lecturer in music at UMBC and a founding member of the faculty contemporary music ensemble, RUCKUS. February 18 Stephen Drury, piano 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Pianist Stephen Drury will present a program of the three piano sonatas by Charles Ives (Sonata No. 1, Sonata No. 2 (“Concord, Mass., 1840–60”), and the Three Page Sonata) on the 50th anniversary of the composer’s death. Drury was named 1989 Musician of the Year by the Boston Globe and has concertized throughout the world with a repertoire that stretches from Bach to Liszt to the music of today. He has given solo performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., New York’s Symphony Space, and from Arkansas to California to Hong Kong to Paris. A champion of twentieth-century music, Drury’s performances of music—ranging from the piano sonatas of Charles Ives to works by John Cage and György Ligeti—have received the highest critical acclaim. He has appeared at the MusikTriennale Köln in Germany, the Subtropics Festival in Miami, the Festival of New American Music in Sacramento, and the North American New Music Festival in Buffalo as well as at Roulette and the Knitting Factory in New York. At Spoleto USA and at the Angelica Festival in Bologna, he performed as both conductor and pianist. He has also conducted the Britten Sinfonia in England, the Santa Cruz New Music Works Ensemble, and the Harvard Group for New Music. In 1992 Stephen Drury directed the world premiere of George Russell's Time Line for orchestra, chorus, jazz band and soloists. In 1988-1989, he organized a year-long festival of the music of John Cage which led to a request from the composer to perform the solo piano part in Cage’s 1O1, premiered with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in April, 1989. Drury has commissioned new works for solo piano from John Cage, John Zorn, Terry Riley, and Chinary Ung with funding provided by Meet The Composer. In 1995, he gave the first performance of John Zorn’s concerto for piano and orchestra, Aporias, with Dennis Russell Davies and the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. Later that same season he gave the premiere of Basic Training for solo piano, written for him by Lee Hyla. Drury is artistic director of the Callithumpian Consort, and he created and directs the Summer Institute for Contemporary Piano Performance at New England Conservatory. (Co-sponsored by UMBC’s InterArts program.) February 19 ConText Performers Collective 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. The ConText Performers Collective, featuring Sylvia Smith and Carrie Rose. Their concert will feature Robert Erickson’s Pacific Sirens, Stuart Saunders Smith’s Transitions and Leaps, and works by Will Ogdon and Herbert Brün. Sylvia Smith is a percussionist, scholar and publisher, and is the artistic director of the UMBC New Music Ensemble. She has performed at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention and has participated in the Interpretations Series at Merkin Hall in New York. In 1998 she founded the ConText Performers Collective, which specializes in music that integrates percussion, spoken text and theatre. She has authored articles on graphic notation and curated many concerts of the music of John Cage. Smith owns and operates Smith Publications, and in 1994 was awarded an honorary doctorate for her work in American music by the University of Akron. Flutist and dancer Carrie Rose earned Master and Bachelor of Music degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music as a student of Joshua Smith, principal flutist of the Cleveland Orchestra. She toured Russia and Eastern Europe with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra, has performed throughout Switzerland, Germany and England, was awarded a full scholarship to the National Orchestral Institute at the University of Maryland, and was a Fellow in Chamber Music at the Schweitzer Institute of Music in Sandpoint, Idaho, directed by Gunther Schuller. Rose has played with the New World Symphony in Miami, and the Akron and Youngstown Symphonies in Ohio. Honors and awards include first prize at the national level of the Yamaha/Music Teachers National Association Competition, a Presser Foundation Scholarship, and the Amherst Symphony Womens’ Committee Scholarship. February 22 E. Michael Richards, clarinet 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Clarinetist E. Michael Richards will perform the Fantasia da Concerto su motivi de La Traviata di G. Verdi by Donato Lovreglio, Altre Tracce by Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, the American premiere of magnificat 2: Still by Linda Dusman, Undercurrents by Eve de Castro-Robinson, and Dal Niente (Interieur III) by Helmut Lachenmann. The pieces all connect the clarinet to the human voice, from the arrangement of Verdi arias in a bel canto style (Lovreglio), to short ambiguous (and embedded in a complex structure) quotations of famous works (part of our “cultural memory” such as Bizet’s Carmen, Rossini’s Barber of Seville, etc.) that share a motivic similarity (Ciardi), to an exploration of the passagio among registers of the clarinet that culminates in multiphonics (Jones), to extreme contrast between chalumeau and altissimo registers that includes simultaneous singing and playing (de Castro-Robinson), to the idea of a “musique concrete instrumentale,” in which all of the sounds point away from themselves as a kind of “corporeal” experience. And finally, as Lachenmann said, “The instrument becomes a device: a characteristically manipulated filter for the player’s breath.” Two of the works will be performed by the Tanosaki-Richards Duo, featuring pianist Kazuko Tanosaki. As a recitalist of new music, E. Michael Richards has premiered over 125 works throughout the United States, Japan, Australia, and Western Europe. Trained as a clarinetist at the New England Conservatory (B.Mus.) and Yale School of Music (M.Mus.), Richards earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. He received a 1990 U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, and Japanese Government Cultural Agency) as a solo recitalist for a six-month residency in Japan, an NEH Summer Fellowship to study traditional Japanese music, and a residency grant (Cassis, France) from the Camargo Foundation to complete a book, The Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century. Richards has performed as concerto soloist with the Syracuse Symphony and Shinsei Japan Philharmonic (Tokyo), in chamber music performances with the Cassatt Quartet, Ying Quartet, SONOR, and the East-West Quartet, and in recital at eight international festivals and more than 20 universities, as well as at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the American Academy in Rome, and the Tokyo American Center. He has also performed as a member of the Tanosaki-Richards Duo (with pianist Kazuko Tanosaki) since 1982. Richards has recorded on the NEUMA, Mode, CRI, Ninewinds, and Opus One labels. He has taught at Smith College; the University of California, San Diego; Bowdoin College; Hamilton College; and the Hochstein Music School in Rochester, New York; and completed short terms with Kazuko Tanosaki as visiting artists in residence at the University of Massachusetts, CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies), at the University of California Berkeley, and San Jose State University. March 4 Christian Wolff, composer 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Composer Christian Wolff will perform some of his own work for solo piano in celebration of his 70th birthday, including For Prepared Piano (1951) and selections from two new works, Keyboard Miscellany and Incidental Music. Born in 1934 in Nice, France, Christian Wolff has lived mostly in U.S. since 1941. He studied piano with Grete Sultan and composition with John Cage. Although mostly an autodidact, his early contact with Cage, Morton Feldman, David Tudor and Earle Brown, and later Cornelius Cardew and Frederic Rzewski helped form the direction of his work. He received academic training in classics and comparative literature at Harvard University, taught classics at Harvard and, from 1971 until 2000, classics, comparative literature and music at Dartmouth College. Wolff’s compositions include works for piano(s), miscellaneous keyboards, instrumental solos, chamber groups, unspecified groups of players and sound sources, tape, chorus and orchestra. A particular interest in Wolff’s work has been to allow performers flexibility and ranges of freedom at the actual time of a piece’s performance, to devise notations to make this practicable, to foster among both professional and lay players a spirit of liberating interdependence, and to draw material from traditions of popular political music. Wolff’s music has been performed throughout the world, especially in Europe and the United States. A number of pieces have been used by Merce Cunningham and his dance company, and also the dancer Lucinda Childs. His music is published by C.F. Peters in New York, and has been recorded on Columbia-Odyssey, Vox, Time-Mainstream, Wergo, Centaur, Elektrola, EMI, CRI, Opus One, Philo, EMI-TOCI, Collecta, Hat Hut, Mode, Koch International, Time-Scraper and Content. His writings on music have been collected in: Cues: Writings & Conversations, published by MusikTexte, Cologne. Christian Wolff has performed as an improviser with Takehisa Kosugi, Steve Lacy, Christian Marclay, Kui Dong and Larry Polansky. He received awards from the American Academy and National Institute for Arts and Letters (1975); DAAD, Berlin (1974); and the Asian Cultural Council Grant (1987); received the John Cage Award for Music (1996); and was made a member of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin in 1999. March 18 Ruckus 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. The Department of Music’s Contemporary Concerts Series presents Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The program will include Elliott Carter’s Triple Duo, Vinko Globokar’s Correspondences, Anna Rubin’s Dreaming Fire, Tasting Rain, a new work by Thomas DeLio, Hiroyuki Itoh’s Shadows of Night III, and Milton Babbitt’s Composition for Four Instruments. The ensemble features flutist Lisa Cella, cellist Franklin Cox, percussionist Tom Goldstein, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, pianist Kazuko Tanosaki and violinist Airi Yoshioka. Founded in 2000 to promote the performance of contemporary chamber music, Ruckus has performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, and at universities throughout the East Coast. April 4 Airi Yoshioka, violin 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Violinist Airi Yoshioka, accompanied by pianist John Novacek, will feature Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96; Robert Schumann’s Sonata No. 1 in a minor, Op. 105; Arvo Pärt’s Fratres; the world premiere of a work by Alice Shields; and three rags by John Novacek. Airi Yoshioka has concertized throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and Canada. Deeply committed to chamber music, Ms. Yoshioka was a founding member of Yale University’s Wenceslas Ensemble and the Modigliani Quartet. Her orchestral credits include performances with the American Sinfonietta and engagements as concertmaster and soloist with the Manhattan Virtuosi and concertmaster of one of the festival orchestras at the Aspen Music Festival. An enthusiastic performer of new music, she was one of the original members and concertmasters of the New Juilliard Ensemble and performed in the school’s FOCUS! Festival as well as with the Lower Eastside Ensemble for Contemporary Music. Of a performance with the New Juilliard Ensemble, The New York Times wrote, “Airi Yoshioka played the violin solo touchingly.” April 18 Franklin Cox, cello 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Cellist Franklin Cox will feature J.S. Bach’s Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat (BWV 1010), a new work by Erik Ulman, Willow by Stuart Saunders Smith, and a new work by Franklin Cox. Franklin Cox has performed in numerous festivals and new music ensembles, including the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, and SONOR, as well as at the 1980 and 1982 Spoleto Festivals, the 1983 Banff Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Xenakis Festival and Darmstadt Revisited Festival at UCSD, and at the Darmstadt Festival since 1988, where he received a special citation for cello performance in 1990. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Indiana University, a Master of Arts degree in composition from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in composition at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cox has studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Roger Reynolds, Joji Yuasa, Steven Suber, Fred Fox, Harvey Sollberger, Fred Lerdahl, and Jack Beeson. He received an Alice M. Ditson Scholarship and Dissertation Fellowship at Columbia University, Regent’s Fellowship and a Dissertation Research Fellowship for Outstanding Research at UCSD, a full scholarship to the 1990 June in Buffalo Festival, and full scholarships for the 1988 and 1992 Darmstadt Festivals. He was awarded a Stipendium Fellowship at the 1990 Darmstadt Festival, won 2nd prize in the Los Angeles Arts Commission competition in the spring of 1991, and was co-winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (highest award for composition) in the 1992 Darmstadt Festival. April 25 Federal City Brass Band 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. The Federal City Brass Band, directed of Jari Villanueva and based in Baltimore, recreates the sound and appearance of a U.S. Army regimental brass band of the 1860s. With the exception of the reproduction rope-tension drums, all of the instruments used by the Federal City Brass Band are originals dating to the mid-19th century. The sources of the music the band plays include original band journals and sheet music of the Civil War era. Members of the Federal City Brass Band are professional and volunteer musicians, music educators, historians and re-enactors, and collectively represent some of the finest brass and percussion players in the hobby today. The band has performed for events at Gettysburg, Sharpsburg, Baltimore, Fredericksburg, Rockville, and Arlington, for the Library of Congress and the American Bandmasters Association, and at the 2003 National Civil War Band Festival in Campbellsville, Kentucky. The program at UMBC will feature Civil War-era favorites. April 28 Jane Rigler, flute 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission is free. Flutist Jane Rigler will perform a program of contemporary works. With an extensive background in both classical and contemporary music, Jane Rigler has considerable experience as an interpreter of contemporary music. Her repertoire covers some of the most complex and demanding works played today, including works such as Monolith by Vinko Globokar and Cassandra’s Dream Song by Brian Ferneyhough. Between 1989 and 1995 she was a member of several orchestras and contemporary music ensembles in California as well as collaborated with both Madrid-based Ensemble Plural and Grupo Cosmos. In 2000, she was a guest artist with Grupo Cosmos, touring Tokyo and various northern Italian cities and playing works by John Cage and Bruno Maderna. Besides ensemble work, her performing experience encompasses flute and electronics, computer interactive improvisation and interdisciplinary experimental works. Between 1994–1999, Rigler collaborated with composer/multi-intstrumentalist Rafael Liñán. Together they have performed in contemporary music festivals in Madrid, Barcelona, Alicante and Granada, in the Horizontal Radio of the European Radio Union, the Paralelo Madrid, and the Punto de Encuentro of the Association of Electroacoustic Music of Spain. In addition, the Rigler-Liñán duo has given more than 250 pedagogical concerts for children in both Madrid and Granada. Their performances throughout Spain have been reviewed as showing “great imagination and profound knowledge” (Enrique Franco, El Pais) as well as having “an intense humanistic content” (Manuel Ferrand, ABC). Rigler has been combining forces with other composers and performers such as Koji Asano, Agustí Fernández, Hannes Giger, Barbara Held, Christoph Irmer, Marisa Manchado, Wade Matthews, Liba Villavecchia, Musicalibre of Madrid and the IBA Olestars of Barcelona, among others. April 30 Zanana 8 pm, Fine Arts Studio 508 Admission is free. Zanana, a collaborative duo featuring Kristin Norderval (voice) and Monique Buzzarté (trombone), will perform a program of improvised music blending acoustic sounds, electronics and live processing. Kristin Norderval is a classically trained singer, improviser, and composer who performs an eclectic repertoire that spans the renaissance to the avant-garde. Many works have been written for her, and her collaborations have included work with choreographers, sculptors, filmmakers and installation artists. Since 1997, she has also been recording on-site improvisations in unusual spaces, many of them industrial. Profiled by The New York Times in “Downtown Divas Expand their Horizons” and hailed as one of “new music’s best” by the Village Voice, her performances range from concert and opera to multi-media events. Her work as a soloist has taken her to festivals throughout the world, and her credits include performances with the San Francisco Symphony, the Stuttgart Philharmonic, Oslo Sinfonietta, the Philip Glass Ensemble, and numerous new music ensembles in the United States and Europe. She has recorded new works for Mode, Nonesuch, Point, and CRI as well as for Norwegian, German, and Austrian radio, and has performed in opera and music-theater productions for Lincoln Center, BAM, the Yerba Buena Arts Center in San Francisco, Santa Fe Opera, Netherlands Dance Theater, and Dance Alloy. Ms. Norderval received 2002 Artist Residencies at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Ms. Norderval is certified to teach the meditative improvisation techniques of Deep Listening. Monique Buzzarté, trombonist, is an avid proponent of contemporary music, commissioning and premiering many new works for trombone alone, with electronics, and in chamber ensembles. Since 1983 her New Music from Women: Trombone Commissions project has been supporting the expansion of the trombone repertoire, with 2002–2004 commissions forthcoming from Pauline Oliveros, Annea Lockwood, Anne LeBaron, and Posted by dwinds1 January 13, 2004 UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution, organized by Exit Art and co-curated by Marvin Heiferman and Carol Kismaric, from January 29 through March 13, 2004. Paradise Now scrutinizes and questions the profound shifts in our basic understanding and acceptance of nature’s (formerly) incontrovertible truths regarding genetic engineering. UMBC’s Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution, organized by Exit Art and co-curated by Marvin Heiferman and Carol Kismaric, from January 29 through March 13, 2004. About the Exhibition Paradise Now scrutinizes and questions the profound shifts in our basic understanding and acceptance of nature’s (formerly) incontrovertible truths regarding genetic engineering. Featured in the exhibition are works by Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey, Suzanne Anker, Dennis Ashbaugh, Aziz + Cucher, Brandon Ballengée, Christine Borland, Nancy Burson, Helen Chadwick, Kevin Clarke, Keith Cottingham, Bryan Crockett, Christine Davis, George Gessert, Rebecca Howland, Ronald Jones, davidkremers, Jane Lackey, Julian LaVerdiere, Karl S. Mihail & Tran T. Kim-Trang, Larry Miller, Steve Miller, Frank Moore, Alexis Rockman, Bradley Rubenstein, Nicolas Rule, Christy Rupp, Gary Schneider, Laura Stein, Eva Sutton, Catherine Wagner and Janet Zweig. The co-curators state: We are at a threshold, witnesses to the moment when genetic research is rewriting the definition of life. Biotechnology is altering the food we eat, and the information revealed by the decoding of the human genome will give science, medicine, and business unprecedented power. Increasingly, the news media and popular culture are alerting the public to the heated dialogue that is underway about what our brave new world might become. Daily, the unusual procedures and outrageous predictions that were once the subject of science fiction are announced as realities. Each new announcement triggers hope and controversy and guarantees further debate among humanitarians, profit seekers, legal experts, ethicists, politicians, nations, and the public, all in search of paradise, now. Artists have claimed an important role in this ongoing exploration, creating images that literally give shape to abstract, complex concepts. Stretching the traditions of portraiture and landscape, working with the genetic revolution’s new language and images, they raise questions about the social, ecological, economic, and ethical implications of science’s breakthroughs. The works in Paradise Now investigate urgent issues and concerns triggered by the modification of human cells, nature, and food, and provide viewers with an opportunity to pay closer attention to the dramatic advances in science and to reflect upon the boundaries between science and the human imagination. Some artists make use of new scientific images and information to explore the meaning of identity and the options that can alter our understanding of individuality. They speculate about how the genetic revolution will force us to rethink race, the inevitability of disease and death, and our need to control our bodies, our lives, and our fate. Others consider how we shape nature to meet our desires and demands, manipulating the genetic makeup and enhancing the size and productivity of animals and plants. With the new power of biotechnology come progress, debate, and protest. Will we live longer, healthier, more perfect lives? Will new discoveries and products have unsuspected consequences to the land and to our health? How will each of us face the challenges, choices, and opportunities that the genetic revolution promises? The artists in Paradise Now speculate about these new parameters of life and these expressions of scientific and corporate creativity with a mixture of awe and concern. Events and programming include: Kathy Marmor, associate professor of media arts at the University of Vermont, will present a performance entitled Kitchen Science on Friday, January 30th at 12:30 and 8:30 on Main Street in The Commons. Kitchen Science is a tour de force that makes extracting DNA fun an accessible. Her David Lettermanesque banter whirls together household engineering, social engineering and genetic engineering to make one mighty tasty thought provoking DNA soufflé. Imagining the Invisible, an exhibition of research photographs from UMBC’s Department of Biological Sciences, will be on display from January 29th through March 13th in the Skylight Lounge, The Commons. An opening reception for Imagining the Invisible will be held on February 5th from 2 to 4 pm. Admission to the exhibition is free. An opening reception for Paradise Now will be held on February 5th from 5 to 7 pm at the Center for Art and Visual Culture. A panel discussion, Paradise Now?, will be held on Thursday, February 12th from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. at the CAVC. Moderated by Phyllis Robinson (Department of Biological Sciences), the panel will include Mark Alice Durant (Department of Visual Arts), David M. Eisenmann (Department of Biological Sciences), Stephen J. Freeland (Department of Biological Sciences), Christina Hung (Imaging Research Center) and Jessica J. Pfeifer (Department of Philosophy). About the Center for Art and Visual Culture The Center for Art and Visual Culture is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of contemporary art and visual culture, critical theory, art and cultural history, and the relationship between society and the arts. The CAVC serves as a forum for students, faculty, and the general public for the discussion of important aesthetic and social issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital art, video, film, television, design, architecture, advertising, and installation and performance art. Since 1989, the CAVC has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Center has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the CAVC’s Internship Program. Currently the Center produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. With the printing of Minimal Politics: Performativity and Minimalism in Recent American Art in 1997, the CAVC inaugurated a new series of publications entitled Issues in Cultural Theory. These catalogues are published yearly and are distributed internationally through Distributed Art Publishers in New York. Since 1992, the Center for Art and Visual Culture has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions that contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the CAVC has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. These traveling exhibitions include: White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art (2003) Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer’s Perspective (1998) Minimal Politics (1997) Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia (1995/96) Notes In Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (1995) Ciphers of Identity (1994) Nancy Graves: Recent Works (1993) Environmental Terror (1992) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Center for Art and Visual Culture also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the CAVC, one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Center for Art and Visual Culture in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: Closed Tuesday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Wednesday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Thursday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Friday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Saturday: 10 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. Admission Admission to the CAVC and all events is free. Telephone CAVC offices: 410-455-3188 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web CAVC website: http://www.umbc.edu/cavc UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 January 11, 2004 UMBC presents the Troika Ranch Dance Company UMBC's InterArts series and the Department of Dance present the Troika Ranch dance company on February 3 and 4, 2003, at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. UMBC’s InterArts series and the Department of Dance present the Troika Ranch dance company on February 3 and 4, 2003, at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Renowned for their densely textured choreography, original musical scores and groundbreaking use of interactive digital media and technology, the New York City-based dance theater company Troika Ranch continues to redefine experimental dance theatre. Their program will feature two works: 2001’s Reine Rien and a work-in-progress showing of their newest evening length piece, Surfaces, which is slated to premiere in New York City in May, 2004. Dubbed “interactive performance pioneers” by The New York Times and “multimedia mavericks” by the Village Voice, Troika Ranch uses custom software and interactive sensory devices to allow their dancers’ movements to directly create music and manipulate video imagery as they perform. The company’s previous work, Future of Memory, which played to sold out houses in New York in February 2003, was awarded the first ever Dance Audience Award at the 2003 “Bessie” (a.k.a. Downtown Dance and Performance) Awards. In Surfaces, the company will use onstage cameras and a sophisticated form of “video feedback” to allow the real dancers to perform with their video counterparts. As dancers enter and leave the stage, video “echoes”—delayed by moments or minutes—appear and disappear, creating a swirling fugue between the real and the virtual. In addition, software that analyzes movement in the video frame allows the performers to become “media conductors.” Much as the gestures of an orchestra conductor dictate how the music will be played, the dancers’ movement will control the timing, dynamics, and effects applied to the video and sound. The standard relationship, where dancers perform to music, is inverted—now, the media perform to the dancers. Conceptually, Surfaces begins with the notion that a surface is a point of contact and conflict. Whether the surface of a body, a surface that delineates space, or one that separates one’s public and private parts, the surface ensures that one is either on the inside or the outside. Who we are (and who we become) when we struggle to break through the surface is the idea that drives this work. In Reine Rien, the dancers also directly control their musical and visual accompaniment. Wireless sensors in the performers’ costumes measure the flexion of their joints, transmitting that information to an offstage computer. The performers thus determine the timing, dynamics and looping of sampled sound, and the speed, color content and warping of video imagery. The Village Voice described Reine Rien by saying, “Troika Ranch have created an oxymoron: warm, glowy conceptual art. The movement of the dancers, who are wired to a computer, releases…a beautiful idea—that whole cities of sound are immanent in the air, and human motion makes them visible.” About Troika Ranch and the Artistic Directors Pushing the integration of dance and media to new heights, artistic directors Mark Coniglio (music and interactive media) and Dawn Stoppiello (choreography) founded Troika Ranch in 1994 with the mission to create digital-dance-theater in which the media elements share the same spontaneity as the human performers on stage. Based in New York City, Troika Ranch is a leader in interactive performance. The two words that comprise the company name are indicative of its focus. Troika, Russian for three, represents dance, theater and digital media, the three core elements found in the company’s artwork. Ranch symbolizes the collaboration among its members. Coniglio and Stoppiello encourage all in the company to share ideas, techniques and processes to ensure the most abundant aesthetic harvest. The over-arching goal of this collaboration is to fully integrate the three core elements into what Richard Wagner called the gesamtkunstwerk—the total artwork. Mark Coniglio focuses predominately on interweaving music and media into performance. As a composer, he uses dense rhythmic constructions and sampled sound to invent the unusual percussive instruments that are hallmarks of his compositions. Keyboard Magazine perhaps best described his style: “Coniglio’s music consistently expresses a deep, sustained heaviness and ferocity. Powered by big drum sounds, surging phrases and throbbing rhythms, it attacks the listener with stealth and force.” As an inventor, he creates custom instruments and software specifically for use in performance, to which Tannsi (Finnish dance magazine) exclaimed, “there are magical moments when the organic and the electronic components of the performance exist in perfect harmony.” In addition to his work with Troika Ranch, Coniglio also acts as a consultant for other dance companies. He recently served as technical advisor for a video-intensive work created by Judith Jamison for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Coniglio is one of nine artists selected to receive support during the 2003 inaugural year of a twelve-month dance and technology fellowship at Dance Theater Workshop. Dawn Stoppiello is a choreographer, dancer and media artist. Her choreography reflects her keen interest in visual rhythm, kinetic complexity and nonlinear motion. An examination of the changing state of the human body as it responds to the increasingly technological world that surrounds it is a recurring and underlying theme in her work. Recognized as a creative leader in the field of dance and technology, she was an invited panelist for the Beyond the Divide Symposium as part of Australia’s Adelaide Festival 2002; has taught master classes at numerous universities around the country; has lectured on interactive performance in France, Monaco, Holland, England, Canada and the U.S.; and her article “FleshMotor” was recently included in the book Women in New Media, published by MIT Press/ Leonardo Art Journal. Admission General admission: $15.00 Students and seniors: $7.00 Box Office: 410-455-6240 Telephone Box Office: 410-455-6240 UMBC Artsline (24-hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Dance website: http://www.umbc.edu/dance Troika Ranch website: http://www.troikaranch.org/ Images for Media High resolution images (those shown here and others) are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Photos #1 and #2 in this press release are ©2003 Richard Termine. Photos #3 and #4 are by Piro Patton. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Theatre Parking is available in The Commons Garage. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 October 28, 2003 UMBC Presents the So Percussion Group in Concert On Thursday, November 9th at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concert Series presents the So Percussion Group. On Thursday, November 13th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concert Series presents the So Percussion Group. Their concert will feature Shifty by Dennis DeSantis, Each Moment an Ending by Stuart Saunders Smith, Third Construction by John Cage, and The So-called Laws of Nature by David Lang. So Percussion (Douglas Perkins, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Lawson White) is a captivating young group that can always be counted on to astound. Founded in New Haven in 1999, the group has recently been featured at the Bang on a Can Marathon, the BAM Next Wave Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Miller Theater, the Roundtop Festival, and has been heard on WNYC’s New Sounds and Soundcheck. So has also worked closely with student musicians and composers, resulting in residencies at The University of Texas at Austin, Williams College, King’s College, and performances with the Harvard Group for New Music and Columbia Composers. With a breadth extending to both established and emerging composers, So Percussion Group has embarked on an ambitious commissioning project that has led to several other world premieres, including works by composers Kathryn Alexander, Dennis DeSantis, David Lang, and Ken Ueno. Admission Admission is free. Telephone General Music information: 410-455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Pamela Z in Concert On Monday, November 17th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC InterArts program presents Pamela Z in concert. On Monday, November 17th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC InterArts Program presents Pamela Z, a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology. She creates solo works combining operatic bel canto and experimental extended vocal techniques with found percussion objects, spoken word, “MAX MSP” on a PowerBook, and sampled concrête sounds triggered with a MIDI controller called The BodySynth™ which allows her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. Her performances range in scale from small concerts in galleries to large-scale multi-media works in proscenium halls and flexible black-box venues. Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals, including Bang On A Can at Lincoln Center in New York, the Interlink Festival in Japan, Other Minds in San Francisco, and Pina Bausch Tanztheater’s 25 Jahre Fest in Wuppertal, Germany. She has composed, recorded and performed original scores for choreographers and for film and video artists, and has done vocal work for other composers (including Charles Amirkhanian and Henry Brant). Her large-scale, multi-media performance works, Parts of Speech and Gaijin, have been presented at Theater Artaud in San Francisco, and her audio works have been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum in Cologne. Ms. Z has composed commissioned works for new music chamber ensembles the Bang On A Can Allstars, the California E.A.R. Unit, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Since 1986 she has been producing “Z Programs,” an ongoing series of interdisciplinary events in which her own work has been featured along with that of other artists doing experimental work in various genres. She is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble sensorChip (with Miya Masaoka and Donald Swearingen) and the interdisciplinary performance ensemble The Qube Chix. She has done several concerts and experimental theater pieces with Zakros New Music Theatre (including their John Cage festivals), and has performed with The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, the ASCAP Music Award, and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Images on this page Top: ©2002 Lori Eanes Bottom: ©2001 Marion Gray ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC's Department of Music Presents the Tabla Duo in Concert On Sunday, November 9th at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents Tabla, featuring Larry Williams on French horn and Bryan Young on bassoon, in a program of multimedia works. On Sunday, November 9th at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents Tabla, featuring Larry Williams on French horn and Bryan Young on bassoon, in a program of multimedia works. The Washington Post writes that Bryan Young is a bassoonist who “makes his music dance with lightness and grace, as well as with a sparkle uncommon for his instrument.” The Maine Sunday Telegram raves that Larry Williams is “a phenomenally good horn player, with the brilliance for solo work.” These acclaimed artists have joined forces to create Tabla, a new and exciting duo whose innovative performances shatter the traditional barriers between classical, jazz, contemporary and world music. Williams and Young combine digital video and sound, costume, and lighting with virtuosic live performance to create a stunning concert experience. Tabla’s concert will stimulate your imagination, feed your spirit and make you laugh out loud as they take you on a journey through some of the world’s greatest and most entertaining music. Admission $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Telephone General Music information: 410-455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Department of Theatre Presents Buried: an Original Puppet Performance From November 19th through December 7th, 2003, the UMBC Department of Theatre presents Buried, an original puppet performance about the casualties of war. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents Buried, an original puppet performance about the casualties of war. Looking at war through the eyes of its victims, Buried uses puppetry to imagine what happens to the suspended thoughts and intentions of those who don't survive. Artfully mixing actors with animated objects and humanoid puppets, Buried takes us into a world where spirits enter objects, long-scattered bones rejoin and abandoned possessions reach out to the living. Conceived and directed by Colette Searls, Buried features commissioned puppets by artist Don Becker, with set design by Greggory Schraven, sound design by Terry Cobb, lighting design by Damon Meledones, costume design by Claire Cantwell, and vocal direction by Lynn Watson. Buried is not recommended for young children. Showtimes Wednesday, November 19th at 8 pm (preview) Thursday, November 20th at 4 pm Friday, November 21st at 8 pm (opening night) Saturday, November 22nd at 8 pm Sunday, November 23rd at 4 pm Thursday, December 4th at 4 pm Friday, December 5th at 8 pm Saturday, December 6th at 8 pm Sunday, December 7th at 4 pm Admission $10 general admission $5 students $3 for the preview The performance on Thursday, November 20th, is free to the UMBC campus community. Ticket proceeds benefit the Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Telephone Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Theatre information: 410-455-2917 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre website: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 August 21, 2003 UMBC Department of Music Presents Fall 2003 Concerts and Events The UMBC Department of Music presents its fall 2003 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by world renowned artists, including the So Percussion Group, Pamela Z, and the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo. The UMBC Department of Music presents its fall 2003 season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music concerts by world renowned artists, including the So Percussion Group, Pamela Z, and the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo. Professional Artist Series September 13 Sonic Circuits, presented in cooperation with the American Composers Forum Washington, D.C. Chapter, a concert of new and experimental electroacoustic music from area composers. The American Composers Forum’s Sonic Circuits: International Festival of Electronic Music and Art provides exposure for composers and performers working in electronic media. Arguably the largest festival of its kind, Sonic Circuits consists of a curated pool of works that forms the basis of events occurring across the U.S. and abroad. Sonic Circuits is committed to supporting the best electronic art, without regard for “style” or “genre.” 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. September 25 Saxophonist Matthew Burtner. His program, entitled Disembodied Forms: Music for Metasaxophone, Virtual Strings, and Singing Bowls, will include S-Trance-S (2001), the United States premiere of (dis)Appearances (2003), and S-Morphe-S (2002) by Matthew Burtner; Questions and Fissures (1999) by Christopher Burns; and Grito de Corazon (2001) by Judith Shatin. Matthew Burtner spent his early childhood in a small village on the Arctic Ocean, the mountains outside of Anchorage, and on fishing boats on Alaska’s southwest coast. His earliest acoustic memories include the sound of the Arctic wind, and of storms on the ocean. As a sound artist his work is guided by an interest in natural acoustic processes, and music as the sonic activation of imagination through environment. Composed for a variety of instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed media, his music explores ecoacoustic processes, and extended polymetric and noise-based musical systems. Currently Burtner is an Assistant Professor of composition and computer music at the University of Virginia where he is also Associate Director of the VCCM Computer Music Center. He studied composition, computer music, saxophone and philosophy at St. Johns College, Tulane University (B.F.A. summa cum laude), Iannis Xenakis’ UPIC/CEMAMu, the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (M.M.), and Stanford University/CCRMA (D.M.A.). He has been composer-in-residence at the Banff Centre, Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and the IUA/Phonos Institute in Barcelona. An active saxophonist, he developed the Metasaxophone, a project exploring the integration of the saxophone and electronics through sensor technology and imbedded systems research. Burtner has received numerous prizes and grants for his work including first prize in the 2000 Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition. His music, commissioned by performers such as the Spectri Sonori Ensemble, MiN Ensemble, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, the Peabody Trio, Trio Ascolto, Haleh Abghari, Noise Ensemble and others, has been performed throughout North America and Europe, as well as in Japan, Australia, China, Korea, Uruguay and Brazil at festivals such as ICMC, ISCM, Gaudeamus, SEAMUS, Darmstadt, Bourges, ILIOS, KEAMS, Autunnale, GEMS, Musica Nova, ICMF, Spectri Sonori, Sala Hal and others. His commercial CD releases include Incantations on the German DACO label, Portals of Distortion on Innova Recordis, and Arctic Contrasts on the Norwegian Eurudice label. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. October 2 & 3 A screening of the film Forbidden Planet and a lecture on its electronic sound score by Stephan Prock. This 1956 film featured the first full-length electronic sound score, created by Louis and Bebe Barron, two early pioneers in electroacoustic music. The screening will be held at 8 pm on 2nd at the Commons Grill; the lecture will be at 1 pm on the 3rd in Fine Arts Building Room 011. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. October 16 The Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo, featuring the artistry of pianist Paul Hoffmann and percussionist Tom Goldstein. Their program will include the premiere of Crystal: A Cycle of Names and Memories by Elliott Schwartz, the world premiere of James Romig’s Islands that Never Were, Robert Morris’ Struck Sound, Anneliese Weibel’s Still for J.S.B., and Fluxus artist Dick Higgins’ Haydn in the Forest, Sparks, and Touch #1 for Piano. Over the past dozen years, the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo has appeared in dozens of concerts and new music festivals in the U.S. and in Europe, and recently released their first CD on Capstone Records, Crossfade. As a New York City freelance percussionist for over twenty years, Tom Goldstein performed extensively with groups such as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, as well as chamber groups, Broadway shows and in nightclubs. Especially active in contemporary music, he has premiered dozens of solo and chamber works, many of which were written expressly for him. From 1980-1990 he served as Artistic Director of the new-music group GAGEEGO. He has toured with Steve Reich, played with Pauline Oliveros, and the ensemble Continuum. Mr. Goldstein composed and performed percussion soundtracks for NBC World Series and U.S. Tennis Open documentaries. Mr. Goldstein has published articles in Perspectives of New Music and Percussive Notes. He has recorded on Neuma, Vanguard, Polydor, Opus 1, OO Discs, CD Tech, Capstone and CRI. Paul Hoffmann, pianist and conductor, made his debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus in 1973 while on a Fulbright grant, and has since concertized extensively in the U.S. and abroad. Hoffmann has recorded solo piano and chamber music for Capstone, Orion, CRI, Northeastern, Composers Guild of New Jersey, Contemporary Record Society, OO Discs, Spectrum, and Vienna Modern Masters labels and has made numerous radio broadcasts in the U.S. as well as for Voice of America, Radio Cologne, Radio Frankfurt, and Radio France. He is currently working on recordings for Capstone and NUEMA Records. Most recently he has performed at new music festivals in Italy (“Spaziomusica” in Cagliari and “Musiche in Mostra” in Turin), National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, Goucher College in Baltimore, Merkin Hall in New York City and The 8th International Symposium on Electronic Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. He has served on the jury of many piano competitions including the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, and was the first U.S. judge to be invited to the prestigious Concours International de Musique Contemporaine pour Piano in 1983 and 1986. Mr. Hoffmann has degrees from Eastman School of Music, and did further study at the Peabody Conservatory. He attended both the Salzburg “Mozarteum” and the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. His principal teachers have been Leon Fleisher, Cecile Genhart, Dieter Weber, Kurt Neumuller, and Brooks Smith. Mr. Hoffmann is currently Professor of Music at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where he teaches piano, chamber music and directs the contemporary music ensemble, HELIX!, which he founded in 1990. 8:30 pm, immediately following a concert in the same location by Fluxus artists Alison Knowles and Larry Miller, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. October 25 The UMBC Faculty Chamber Ensemble, featuring clarinetist E. Michael Richards, flutist Lisa Cella, violinist Airi Yoshioka, cellist Franklin Cox, oboist Erin Gittelsohn, guitarist Troy King and pianist Rachel Franklin. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. November 6 Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC, at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Part of the BMA’s free First Thursdays program, the performances will enhance the BMA’s Work Ethic exhibition. The Ruckus ensemble, which includes flutist Lisa Cella, cellist Franklin Cox, percussionist Tom Goldstein, clarinetist E. Michael Richards, and violinist Airi Yoshioka, will be joined by guest artists. A family event at 6:30 will feature works by Fluxus composers and will include audience participation opportunities. A concert at 8:00 will include Variations II by John Cage and other works. The Baltimore Museum of Art is located at 1 Art Museum Drive in Baltimore. For more information about First Thursdays and the Work Ethic exhibition, the public may call the BMA at 410-396-6314. Public information for Ruckus: 410-455-MUSC. November 9 Tabla, featuring Larry Williams on French horn and Bryan Young on bassoon, in a program of multimedia works. The Washington Post has called Bryan Young a bassoonist who “makes his music dance with lightness and grace, as well as with a sparkle uncommon for his instrument.” The Maine Sunday Telegram has described Larry Williams as “a phenomenally good horn player, with the brilliance for solo work.” These acclaimed artists have joined forces to create Tabla, a new and exciting duo whose innovative performances shatter the traditional barriers between classical, jazz, contemporary and world music. Williams and Young combine digital video and sound, costume, and lighting with virtuosic live performance to create a stunning concert experience. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. November 13 The So Percussion Group. Their concert will feature Shifty by Dennis DeSantis, Each Moment an Ending by Stuart Saunders Smith, Third Construction by John Cage, and The So-called Laws of Nature by David Lang. So Percussion (Douglas Perkins, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Lawson White) is a captivating young group that can always be counted on to astound. Founded in New Haven in 1999, the group has recently been featured at the Bang on a Can Marathon, the BAM Next Wave Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, Miller Theater, the Roundtop Festival, and has been heard on WNYC’s New Sounds and Soundcheck. So has also worked closely with student musicians and composers, resulting in residencies at The University of Texas at Austin, Williams College, King’s College, and performances with the Harvard Group for New Music and Columbia Composers. With a breadth extending to both established and emerging composers, So Percussion Group has embarked on an ambitious commissioning project that has led to several other world premieres, including works by composers Kathryn Alexander, Dennis DeSantis, David Lang, and Ken Ueno. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. November 16 Pianist Kazuko Tanosaki, who will present a program of music by Berio, Beethoven and Takemitsu. Born in Japan and and educated at the Kunitachi College of Music, Kazuko Tanosaki received an MA in piano under full scholarship from the University of California, San Diego, and completed a DMA in piano performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music. She studied piano with Kazuko Abe, Cecil Lytle, Jean-Charles François, Frederick Marvin, and Rebecca Penneys. Ms. Tanosaki was a first prize winner in the 1982 La Jolla Orchestra Young Artist Competition (San Diego), and a finalist in the 1982 Ventura Young Artists Competition. Ms. Tanosaki has presented solo recitals throughout Japan, Europe, and the United States, including performances at the 1989 Piano Panorama of Twentieth Century Music in Rotterdam, Holland, the 1989 International Electronic Music Plus Festival (Oberlin College), the 1990 Kobe International Festival of Contemporary Music (Japan), the Tokyo American Center, and recitals at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the Civic Center in San Diego, California, and Lemoyne College in Syracuse, New York. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with a UMBC ID. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. November 17 Pamela Z, a San Francisco-based composer/performer and audio artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, and sampling technology. She creates solo works combining operatic bel canto and experimental extended vocal techniques with found percussion objects, spoken word, “MAX MSP” on a PowerBook, and sampled concrête sounds triggered with a MIDI controller called The BodySynth™ which allows her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. Her performances range in scale from small concerts in galleries to large-scale multi-media works in proscenium halls and flexible black-box venues. Pamela Z has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. She has performed in numerous festivals, including Bang On A Can at Lincoln Center in New York, the Interlink Festival in Japan, Other Minds in San Francisco, and Pina Bausch Tanztheater’s 25 Jahre Fest in Wuppertal, Germany. She has composed, recorded and performed original scores for choreographers and for film and video artists, and has done vocal work for other composers (including Charles Amirkhanian and Henry Brant). Her large-scale, multi-media performance works, Parts of Speech and Gaijin, have been presented at Theater Artaud in San Francisco, and her audio works have been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum in Cologne. Ms. Z has composed commissioned works for new music chamber ensembles the Bang On A Can Allstars, the California E.A.R. Unit, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Since 1986 she has been producing “Z Programs,” an ongoing series of interdisciplinary events in which her own work has been featured along with that of other artists doing experimental work in various genres. She is a member of the electroacoustic ensemble sensorChip (with Miya Masaoka and Donald Swearingen) and the interdisciplinary performance ensemble The Qube Chix. She has done several concerts and experimental theater pieces with Zakros New Music Theatre (including their John Cage festivals), and has performed with The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts, the ASCAP Music Award, and the NEA and Japan/US Friendship Commission Fellowship. She holds a music degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 4 Composer and trombonist James Staley, whose concert will feature trombone improvisations. Staley studied composition with Morgan Powell, Ben Johnston and Salvatore Martirano. For the past twenty years he has specialized in improvisation, attempting to work “at the edge of understanding.” 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC.   Student Recital Series October 19 The UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Wayne Cameron. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. November 15 The UMBC Concert Choir under the direction of David Smith. 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. November 20 The UMBC Jazz Big Band under the direction of Jari Villanueva. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. November 24 The UMBC Chamber Players under the direction of E. Michael Richards. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 5 The UMBC Saxophone Quartet under the direction of Anjan Shah. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 6 The UMBC Guitar Ensemble under the direction of Troy King. 5 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 6 The Jubilee Singers under the direction of Janice Jackson. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 7 The Maryland Camerata under the direction of David Smith. 7:30 pm, Charlestown Chapel, Charlestown Retirement Community Catonsville. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 9 Departmental Honors Recital. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 11 The UMBC Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Tom Goldstein. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 12 The UMBC Jazz Improv Ensemble under the direction of Rick Hannah. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 13 The Collegium Musicum under the direction of Joseph Morin. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 14 The UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Wayne Cameron. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. December 14 The Maryland Camerata under the direction of David Smith. 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC.   Additional Information Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Music information: 410-455-2942 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions • From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. • Evening parking is available in Lot 16, adjacent to the Fine Arts Building, for 50¢. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. • Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 August 8, 2003 Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Presents Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection, on display from September 8 through December 13, 2003. The Dick Higgins Collection, acquired by UMBC in 1999, features works by leading Fluxus artists, including Joseph Beuys, Alison Knowles, Seiichi Niikuni, Jackson Mac Low, Wolf Vostell, Ben Patterson, Al Hansen, George Brecht, Mieko Shiomi and Dick Higgins. The exhibition is curated by Lisa Moren, assistant professor of visual arts at UMBC. UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection, on display from September 8 through December 13, 2003. The Dick Higgins Collection, acquired by UMBC in 1999, features works by leading Fluxus artists, including Joseph Beuys, Alison Knowles, Seiichi Niikuni, Jackson Mac Low, Wolf Vostell, Ben Patterson, Al Hansen, George Brecht, Mieko Shiomi and Dick Higgins. The exhibition is curated by Lisa Moren, assistant professor of visual arts at UMBC. Dick Higgins (1938–1998) was an influential visual artist, composer, poet and art theorist. Because his work transgressed many art forms, he coined the now-popular term intermedia, stating, “I find I never feel quite complete unless I’m doing all the arts—visual, musical and literary…that’s why I developed the term intermedia, to cover my works that fall conceptually between these.” As a young artist in New York in the late 1950s, Higgins studied with composer John Cage and Henry Cowell. By 1961, he co-founded Fluxus, a seminal experimental art movement that held that change is the only constant. Immediately interdisciplinary and international, Fluxus blurred the boundaries of music, theatre, poetry, and visual art, and engaged artists, musicians, and poets from Japan, Korea, Europe, Brazil, New York and California. By 1964 Higgins founded Something Else Press, a publishing house, in part to help disseminate the work of Fluxus artists and writings about their work. Something Else Press published editions of work by John Cage, Emmett Williams, Allan Kaprow, Claes Oldenberg, Gertrude Stein, Marshall McLuhan, Merce Cunningham, Dick Higgins and many other influential artists. By 1987, he authored the first scholarly work on pattern poetry through SUNY Press. After Higgins’s death in 1998, his wife, Fluxus artist Alison Knowles, and daughters Hannah Higgins and Jessica Higgins contributed much of Higgins’s remarkable collection to UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Special Collections. Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection is the first opportunity for the public to view this remarkable material, which includes visual and audio art, over a dozen limited edition boxes and hand printed folios (objects, printed matter, silkscreens, hand letter press prints including concrete poems), books, book jackets, pamphlets, newsletters, audio recordings, catalogs, journals, and other items. Publication A scholarly illustrated catalog accompanies the exhibition, and includes essays by Ina Blom, Ken Friedman, Hannah Higgins and others. Events on October 16th The exhibition of Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection will be enhanced by public programming. On October 16th from 4 to 6 p.m., a symposium will feature Hannah Higgins (University of Illinois at Chicago and daughter of Dick Higgins), Chris Thompson (Maine College of Art), Owen Smith (University of Maine), and co-moderators Kathy O’Dell (UMBC) and Lisa Moren (UMBC). A reception will follow from 6 to 7 p.m. At 7:30 p.m., Fluxus artists Alison Knowles and Larry Miller will present a performance with UMBC students in UMBC’s Fine Arts Recital Hall. Their concert will be immediately followed at 8:30 by a concert by the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo, which will include performances of three works by Dick Higgins (Sparks, Haydn in the Forest and Touch #1 for Piano). All events are free. (For more information on the Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo concert, see here.) Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the University community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery is free. Acknowledgements Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection has received major funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The programs of the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery are supported in part by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts, and by the Friends of the Library & Gallery. At UMBC, support has been provided by the Department of Visual Arts, the Dean of Arts & Sciences, and the Humanities Forum. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. The images in this release are available at 300 dpi on high resolution image website. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue Garage and in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. ### Posted by dwinds1 July 14, 2003 Center for Art and Visual Culture presents White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, organized by curator Maurice Berger, from October 9, 2003 through January 10, 2004. The exhibition features works by Max Becher & Andrea Robbins, Nayland Blake, Nancy Burson, Wendy Ewald, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Barbara Kruger, Nikki S. Lee, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman and Gary Simmons. UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, organized by curator Maurice Berger, from October 9, 2003 through January 10, 2004. The exhibition features works by Max Becher & Andrea Robbins, Nayland Blake, Nancy Burson, Wendy Ewald, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Barbara Kruger, Nikki S. Lee, Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman and Gary Simmons. An opening reception will be held on October 9th from 5 to 7 pm. About the Exhibition White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art is the first exhibition of art that explores race and racism from the perspective of white people. Over the past twenty years, the cultural and scholarly discourse around race has expanded to include the study of whiteness and white privilege. This inquiry represents a radical shift in the way we think and talk about race in the United States. Since the advent of the modern civil rights movement, people of color have usually been responsible for leading the debate and discussion about race and racism�a discourse that has traditionally centered on the issue of African-American, Latino, Asian-American, and American-Indian victimization. While people of color are forced to evaluate the status of their race in relation to the prejudice they experience every day, most white people, even the most liberal, are usually oblivious to the psychological and political weight of their own color. It is precisely this unwillingness to mark whiteness, to assign it meaning, that has freed most white people from the responsibility of understanding their complicity in the social and cultural economy of racism. The study of whiteness asks all Americans�and especially white people�to take stock of the political, psychological, economic, and cultural implications of white skin, white entitlement, and white privilege. A number of visual artists�some white, some of color�have taken their lead from progressive writers and scholars who have used the concept of �whiteness� to denote the racial counterpart of �blackness.� To these artists, whiteness is something that must be marked, represented, and explored. To them, whiteness is not just a color. It is also a ubiquitous and unexamined state of mind and body�a powerful norm that had been so constant and persistent in society that white people have never needed to acknowledge or name it. White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art gives voice to twelve contemporary artists who explicitly address the issue of whiteness: Max Becher and Andrea Robbin's German Indian series (1997-98)�photographs of German men, women, and children who regularly attend carnivals dressed up as Native Americans�examines white people's fascination with and appropriation of racial otherness. Nayland Blake's Invisible Man (1994) challenges the socially and culturally prescribed boundaries of race, questioning both the purity and meaning of whiteness itself. Nancy Burson's Untitled (Guys Who Look Like Jesus) (2000-01), the culmination of a national search for people who believe they look like Christ, depicts eight men of varying ages and races. The series challenges one of Christianity's (and whiteness') most generative and foundational myths: that of Aryan purity as a metaphor of godliness and the triumph over evil. Wendy Ewald's White Girl's Alphabet�Andover, Massachusetts (2002), a project created in collaboration with teenage subjects, represents a poignant, humanistic exploration of the vulnerabilities and ambivalence that underwrite both whiteness and femininity. William Kentridge's Drawings for Projection Series: Johannesburg�2nd Greatest City after Paris; Monument; Mine; Sobriety, Obesity, and Growing Old (1981�91) are a series of short films based on charcoal drawings that play on the medium's innate black-and-white aesthetic to explore the complex, and often fragile realities of white power and black subservience in apartheid-era South Africa. Barbara Kruger, in a work specifically commissioned for the exhibition, will create a billboard series in a number of neighborhoods in Baltimore City. In Nikki S. Lee's The Yuppie Series (1998), the Korean-born artist infiltrates and documents the world of mostly white, economically privileged Wall Street professionals, meticulously adopting her colleagues' code of dress, behavior, and living habits. The series represents both a meticulous documentation of white privilege, clannishness, and exclusivity as well as Lee's own alienation in the face of white racism and indifference. Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley's Heidi (1992), an hour-long video, represents a disquieting journey into the dysfunctional behavior and emotional brutality that they myth of the pristine and wholesome white middle-class family attempts to conceal. Cindy Sherman, in a series of early photographs, each depicting the artist masquerading as a bus passenger, depicts a range of racial and class �types� that include some of the earliest attempts by a visual artist to see whiteness as both a racial category and a stereotype (Bus Riders, 1976-2000). In another series, Untitled (2000), Sherman fixes her lens on white women, cycling through a range of characterological (and often stereotypical) types, from the erstwhile female executive to the WASP matron. Gary Simmons' Big Still (2001), a monumental, white-washed moonshine still, is a monument to the world of white poverty�the hillbillies and �white trash� of depression-era America�that has been erased from a mainstream history defined by white patriarchy and white power. Catalog White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art will be accompanied by a 100 page catalog edited by Maurice Berger, the first book devoted to the subject of whiteness, race, and art. The catalog, to be published by the CAVC and distributed by Distributed Art Publishers (DAP), will contain essays on whiteness in the culture at large by David R. Roediger, Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the social and legal implications of whiteness by Patricia J. Williams, Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law, as well as an extensive curatorial essay by Maurice Berger. The curatorial essay will include an introductory text on whiteness and art, as well as a text for each artist in the exhibition. The catalog will contain 50 illustrations, a checklist and bibliography. About the Curator, Maurice Berger Maurice Berger is a Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of the New School for Social Research in New York and Curator of the Center for Art and Visual Culture at UMBC. He received his undergraduate degree summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Hunter College. He later served as a Junior Fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His articles have appeared in many journals and newspapers, including Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, October, Wired, and The Los Angeles Times. He is the author of the critically acclaimed White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999)�which was named as a finalist for the 2000 Horace Mann Bond Book Award of Harvard University and is being adapted as a television documentary for PBS (2002)�and six other books: Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism, and the 1960s (Harper & Row, 1989), How Art Becomes History (HarperCollins, 1992), Modern Art and Society (HarperCollins, 1994), Constructing Masculinity (Routledge, 1995), The Crisis of Criticism (The New Press, 1998), and Postmodernism: A Virtual Discussion (Georgia O'Keeffe Research Center/CAVC, 2002) About the Center for Art and Visual Culture The Center for Art and Visual Culture is a non-profit organization dedicated to the study of contemporary art and visual culture, critical theory, art and cultural history, and the relationship between society and the arts. The CAVC serves as a forum for students, faculty, and the general public for the discussion of important aesthetic and social issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, digital art, video, film, television, design, architecture, advertising, and installation and performance art. Since 1989, the CAVC has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Center has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the CAVC's Internship Program. Currently the Center produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. With the printing of Minimal Politics: Performativity and Minimalism in Recent American Art in 1997, the CAVC inaugurated a new series of publications entitled Issues in Cultural Theory. These catalogues are published yearly and are distributed internationally through Distributed Art Publishers in New York. Since 1992, the Center for Art and Visual Culture has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions that contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the CAVC has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. These traveling exhibitions include: Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer's Perspective (1998) Minimal Politics (1997) Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia (1995/96) Notes In Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (1995) Ciphers of Identity (1994) Nancy Graves: Recent Works (1993) Environmental Terror (1992) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Center for Art and Visual Culture also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the CAVC, one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Center for Art and Visual Culture in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: Closed Tuesday: 10 A.M. � 5:00 P.M. Wednesday: 10 A.M. � 5:00 P.M. Thursday: 10 A.M. � 5:00 P.M. Friday: 10 A.M. � 5:00 P.M. Saturday: 10 A.M. � 5:00 P.M. Telephone CAVC offices: 410-455-3188 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web CAVC website: http://www.umbc.edu/cavc UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Visual Arts: http://art.umbc.edu/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Photo Credits Cindy Sherman, Untitled (#405) (2000), color photograph, edition of six, 44" x 33". Courtesy the Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, and Metro Pictures, New York. Gary Simmons, Big Still (2001), painted foam, fiberglass, wood, metal. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York. Nancy Burson, Untitled, from the Guys Who Look Like Jesus series (2000/01), digital photographs outputted as Iris prints on vellum. ### Posted by dwinds1 June 30, 2003 Doug Hamby Dance Performs at Dance Place Doug Hamby Dance, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, presents its annual concerts at Dance Place in Washington, D.C. on July 19th and 20th. Choreographer Doug Hamby is known for his provocative collaborations with visual artists, designers and composers. The program will feature the premiere of Edgewater Park, a sensuous duet for two men with live video and recorded images of carnivals, edited by filmmaker Nick Prevas and with a sound score by artist Timothy Nohe; the premiere of Vial, in which a women is engulfed in memory and sound, with a video and sound score by Timothy Nohe; the Washington premiere of Short'nin Bread Variations, in which a hungry 3-year-old boy makes old mischief in the kitchen with the help of a fairy and dancing bakers; and Opus 98, a dance of airborne feats of passion inspired by World Cup Soccer, with live percussion by Tom Goldstein. The company includes dancers Julie Peoples-Clark, Lorna Cox, Allyson Gebken, Emily Gibbs, Doug Hamby, Aaron Jackson, Ali Linthicum, Jessica McElvaney, Chip Scuderi and Margaret Terry. The Washington Post has said, "Hamby is an ambitious artist willing to take risks." Doug Hamby Dance, a professional dance company in residence at UMBC, presents its annual concerts at Dance Place in Washington, D.C., on July 19th (8 pm) and 20th (7 pm). Choreographer Doug Hamby is known for his provocative artistic and technological collaborations with visual artists, designers, composers and engineers. His company has become known as the Washington/Baltimore region’s leading explorers of technology in modern dance. The Village Voice has said, “Hamby proved that the fusion of dance and technology only needed time to mature.” The Washington Post stated, “Hamby is a bold and embitious artist willing to take risks.” The Company includes dancers Julie Peoples-Clark, Lorna Cox, Allyson Gebken, Emily Gibbs, Doug Hamby, Aaron Jackson, Ali Linthicum, Jessica McElvaney, Chip Scuderi and Margaret Terry. The Program The program includes: The premiere of Edgewater Park, a sensuous duet for two men with live video and recorded images of carnivals, edited by filmmaker Nick Prevas, and with a sound score by artist Timothy Nohe; The premiere of Vial, in which a woman is engulfed in memory and sound, with a video and sound score by Timothy Nohe; The Washington premiere of Short’nin Bread Variations, in which a hungry 3-year-old boy makes old mischief in the kitchen with the help of a fairy and dancing bakers; Opus 98, a dance of airborne feats of passion inspired by World Cup Soccer, with live percussion by Tom Goldstein. About Doug Hamby Doug Hamby lives and works in the Baltimore-Washington DC area. He has extensive experience as a dancer, choreographer, and educator. He is the artistic director of Doug Hamby Dance, a professional dance company in residence at UMBC. The company features works that spring from collaboration with dancers, composers, and other creative people. Recent collaborators include artist Timothy Nohe, intermedia artist Steve Bradley, video artist Deborah Gorski, and mechanical engineer Tony Farquhar. Hamby has directed the Douglas Hamby Dance Company in New York City and performed with Martha Graham, May O'Donnell, Rachel Lampert, Elizabeth Keen, Pearl Lang, Norman Walker, the Chicago Moving Company, Phoenix Dance Company, and Hamby and Lacy. Featured performances of his company include annual summer seasons at Dance Place, Washington, D.C., Riverside Dance Festival, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, and Celebrate Brooklyn, in New York City; the 1998 New York International Fringe Festival, 1997 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and 1995 International Fringe Festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland and Vancouver, Canada. He has received choreography awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, and the Baltimore Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture. He has served as a dance advisory panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council for three years. He is an associate professor of dance at UMBC and has an MFA in Dance from Temple University and a Biology degree from Michigan State University. He is a recipient of a 2003 Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. He has also appeared on national television as a giant slice of American cheese. Admission General admission: $18.00. Dance Place members, students, seniors and artists: $14.00. Children and teens (17 and under): $6.00. Tickets are available through the Dance Place Box Office at 202-269-1600 or online. Telephone Dance Place Box Office: 202-269-1600 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Doug Hamby Dance: www.umbc.edu/dhd Dance Place: www.danceplace.org The Arts at UMBC: www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Dance: www.umbc.edu/dance Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions Dance Place is located at 3225 8th Street, N.E., in Washington, D.C., near the Brookland/CUA Metro station. ### Posted by dwinds1 April 9, 2003 Department of Theatre presents Dancing at Lughnasa The Department of Theatre presents Brian Friel's award winning play Dancing at Lughnasa, featuring guest artist Michael Gabel. Dancing at Lughnasa was described by Time magazine as "The most elegant and rueful memory play since The Glass Menagerie" when it opened on Broadway in 1992. That year it won the Tony Award, Outer Circle Critics Award and the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Play. Originated by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, it is the story of five unmarried sisters, eking out an existence in Ireland of 1936, where their only link to the outside world is a radio, the modern marvel of their life. It is a play of romance and hope, told through the eyes of the one illegitimate son as he remembers life when he was a boy of seven. The New York Times said, "This play does exactly what theater was born to do, carrying both its characters and audience aloft on those waves of music and ecstatic release that, in defiance of all language and logic, let us dance and dream just before night must fall." The production runs from April 24th through May 4th at the UMBC Theatre. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents Brian Friel's Tony Award winning play Dancing at Lughnasa from April 24 to May 4 in the UMBC Theatre. Friel's tale of being raised by five sisters in Ireland in 1936 was developed first by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, then moved to London for an extended run on the West End and after that to Broadway where it won the Outer Circle Critics Award, the Drama Desk Award, and the Tony Award in 1991 for Best Play. Dancing at Lughnasa is a memory play, the events of a certain summer when Michael, the illegitimate son of an extended family, was seven. Michael leads us through this bittersweet time, both commenting on the action and reliving scenes with his mother and her sisters. New York critics commented on its tie to Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie, another memory play where the son leads us through the events, but felt it was "a unique and wondrous experience" in its own right. Director Christopher Owens feels "The essential and uplifting experience of the play is its celebration of things ending. Lughnasa is the harvest festival, the time when all the crops are in, summer is done with its warmth and blooms, and we're about to feel the chill of winter. The son is also ending his innocence about a number of things and his family is about to break up but what Friel (and the son) asks us to do is to celebrate this ending--to sing, to dance, to dream even though we know the reality is changing. It's a very Irish way of thinking as well, the wake being a good example, where we find great joy at the completion of the journey." UMBC's production features Guest Artist Michael Gabel, a professional actor from Washington, D.C. in the role of Father Jack, the eldest brother of this family who has just returned to Ireland from an extended mission in East Africa. Mr. Gabel's work has been seen at the Kennedy Center (where he was in the original cast of the long-running Sheer Madness), as well as at Ford's Theatre, The Folger Theatre Group, Shakespeare Theatre, Olney Theatre, and Roundhouse Theatre. Mr. Gabel teaches for the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory and will be guest lecturing on Film Acting during his time at UMBC. Michael Gabel appears courtesy of Actors' Equity Association. The production is directed by Christopher Owens, whose previous productions for UMBC have included Blue Window and Baby With The Bathwater. It includes scenic and costume design by Elena Zlotescu, lighting and sound design by Terry Cobb, and vocal coaching by Lynn Watson. Irish Step Dance choreography is by New York choreographer Dawn Lester, who has done two other productions of the play. "It is exciting for our students to have the opportunity to work with a couple of very talented guest artists." Owens commented. "I'd seen Michael Gabel's work in a few shows in D.C. some years ago and was very happy he was available and interested when we got ready to have auditions here for Father Jack at the end of January. I've worked with Dawn on two other professional productions and know that she'll bring a lot to the dance that's at the heart of this play." Owens concluded. Dancing at Lughnasa is recommended for the entire family. Showtimes Thursday, April 24th at 8 pm (preview) Friday, April 25th at 8 pm (opening night) Sunday, April 27th at 4 pm Thursday, May 1st at 4 pm Friday, May 2nd at 8 pm Saturday, May 3rd at 8 pm Sunday, May 4th at 4 pm Note: on Saturday, April 26th, the theatre will be dark. Admission $10 general admission $8 UMBC faculty and staff $5 students $3 for the preview The performance on May 1st is free to the UMBC campus community. Ticket proceeds benefit the Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Telephone Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Theatre information: 410-455-2917 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre website: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 Humanities Forum Presents Art Historian David Driskell UMBC's Center for the Humanities and the Department of Visual Arts present one of the world's leading authorities on African American art, David Driskell, who will offer a lecture entitled Black Visual Theorists: A Spiritual Rendering, at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23rd, in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. A professor emeritus of art at the University of Maryland, College Park, David Driskell is a noted artist, educator, philanthropist, collector, and art historian. He has organized groundbreaking exhibitions and has written extensively and lectured around the world. UMBC's Center for the Humanities and the Department of Visual Arts present one of the world's leading authorities on African American art, David Driskell, who will offer a lecture entitled Black Visual Theorists: A Spiritual Rendering, at 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 23rd, in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. A professor emeritus of art at the University of Maryland, College Park, David Driskell is a noted artist, educator, philanthropist, collector, and art historian. He has organized groundbreaking exhibitions and has written extensively and lectured around the world. David Driskell's lecture on April 23rd is this year's Daphne Harrison Lecture and is part of UMBC's Humanities Forum, a program of events that illustrate the richness of contemporary work in philosophy, history, culture, language, literature, and the arts. About David Driskell David C. Driskell was born in 1931 in Eatonton, Georgia. Educated at Howard University, he received his MFA in 1961 from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and currently holds the title of Distinguished University Professor of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park. Trained as a painter and art historian, Driskell works principally in collage and mixed media. He is represented by the D.C. Moore Gallery in New York City, Midtown Payson Gallery in Jupiter Island, Florida, the Sherry Washington Gallery in Detroit, Michigan and Bomani Gallery in San Francisco. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has also exhibited internationally in South Africa, Poland and Brazil. His work has been reviewed in many publications, including Art News, The New Art Examiner, Art in America, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Detroit Free Press, and The New York Times. He has been the recipient of several foundation fellowships among which are the Harmon Foundation, three Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships, and the Danforth Foundation. Highly regarded as an artist and a scholar, Driskell is cited as one of the world's leading authorities on the subject of African American art. He is also the recipient of nine honorary doctoral degrees in art and has contributed significantly to scholarships in the history of art on the role of Black artists in America. He has authored five exhibition books on the subject of African American art, co-authored four others, and published more than 40 catalogues from exhibitions he has curated. His articles and essays on African American art have appeared in major publications throughout the world. He was the recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award in Art from Howard University in 1981 and from The Catholic University of America in 1996. In October 1997, Driskell was awarded the President's Medal, the highest honor the University of Maryland, College Park bestows on a member of the faculty. About the Humanities Forum For more than a decade, the Humanities Forum has offered UMBC and the community a program of events that illustrate the richness of contemporary work in philosophy, history, culture, language, literature, and the arts. The speakers and performers that the Forum brings to campus provide students with the opportunity to discover new approaches to knowledge and offer intellectual stimulation to the faculty and the region. Forum events are often the occasion for the UMBC community to meet and speak with thinkers who have had enormous impact on current thinking. The Forum is particularly interested in demonstrating the links that bring the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences together. Telephone Center for the Humanities: 410-455-6798 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Center for the Humanities website: http://www.umbc.edu/humanities/ Images Images for this event are available here: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 toexit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs tothe Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mileto the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue andHilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B.Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O.Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in the Walker Avenue garage, near the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Visitor parking regulations are enforced onall University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadwaysrequire a parking permit unless otherwise marked. An online campus map is available: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/. ### Posted by dwinds1 March 7, 2003 UMBC Presents Music of Japan Today Festival The UMBC Department of Music presents Music of Japan Today, the largest festival and symposium on contemporary Japanese concert music in the United States, from April 2 through April 6, 2003. Featured composers include Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Tokuhide Niimi, and Akira Nishimura; performers include Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The UMBC Department of Music presents Music of Japan Today, the largest festival and symposium on contemporary Japanese concert music in the United States, from April 2 through April 6, 2003. Featured composers include Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Tokuhide Niimi, and Akira Nishimura; performers include Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The Music of Japan Today Festival UMBC will host a five-day festival of performances, lecture-recitals, panel discussions, and paper presentations on topics that concern Japanese music from the widest possible range of disciplines and expertise. Four guest composers of international stature will participate in the festival: Toshi Ichiyanagi, who worked with John Cage in the early 1960s in New York, and has ever since introduced Japan to experimental music; Joji Yuasa, who was a member of the jikken kobo in the 1950s and a Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego from 1981-94; Akira Nishimura, who has received numerous international awards and commissions for his music that is influenced by historic Japanese music and elements from other Asian cultures; and Tokuhide Niimi, who has received international recognition for works that span musical genres from ballet, to choral, to orchestral and chamber music, to music for traditional Japanese instruments. Performances during the festival will include a broad range of works for different genres (solo instrument, chamber music, choral, traditional instruments) by Yuasa, Ichiyanagi, Nishimura, and Niimi, as well as the winner of a composition competition. They will include the premiere of a new work by Nishimura. The performers for these concerts will include Ruckus (the contemporary music ensemble at UMBC), faculty and students of the UMBC Department of Music, and guest musicians from the Baltimore/ Washington, D.C. area and other international new music centers. This festival is the fifth in a series of events since 1992 to address Japanese and other Asian musics. Previously held at Hamilton College, the previous events include Asian Music in America: A Confluence of Two Worlds, and Music of Japan Today: Tradition and Innovation I (1992), II (1994), and III (1997). Music of Japan Today is presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, with additional support from All Nippon Airways (ANA), the Asian Cultural Council, the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, and the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. About the Contemporary Concert Music of Japan Western art music has existed for a relatively short time in Japan. It is only since the 1950s, countering Japan's rush to adopt all that is "Western," that some composers, led by Joji Yuasa (b. 1929), Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929-97), Toru Takemitsu (1930-96), and Toshi Ichiyanagi (b. 1933), began to move away from stylistic modeling of nineteenth-century European forms and twentieth-century dodecaphony towards a more individualistic approach. Concerned with reflecting philosophical and musical elements from their own culture, they began to discover and develop their own music. The music of these artists reflects a new global confluence of multiple culturesa powerful cross-fertilization of aesthetics and musical characteristics from both East and West. The music is reflective of a variety of aspects of contemporary Japanese and Western societies, while at the same time deeply rooted in a traditional culture that has evolved over many years. Major Public Events Admission as noted Public information: 410-455-ARTS or www.umbc.edu/arts Wednesday, April 2 8 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Akira Nishimura: Madoromi III for clarinet and piano (2003) Joji Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic II for solo piano (1986) Joji Yuasa: A Winter Day: Homage to Basho for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, and piano (1981) Thursday, April 3 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. Free admission National Cherry Blossom Festival, Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. Concert: program to be announced Friday, April 4 7:30 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission: $10 general, $5 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Joji Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic II for piano solo (1986) Tokuhide Niimi: Ohju for solo cello (1987) Akira Nishimura: Madoromi III for clarinet and piano (2003) (world premiere) Tokuhide Niimi: The Soul Bird for flute and piano (1996) Akira Nishimura: From Organums for violin, flute, clarinet, vibraphone and piano (1989): Hemiola, Melismas Saturday, April 5 8 p.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission: $10 general, $5 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Toshi Ichiyanagi: Cloud Atlas X for piano solo (1999) Tokuhide Niimi: Lux Originis for violin, clarinet, cello, and piano (2002) (American premiere) Akira Nishimura: Duologue for Timpani and Piano (1996) Joji Yuasa: Terms of Temporal Detailing for solo bass flute (1989) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Cosmic Harmony for cello and piano (1995) Joji Yuasa: A Winter Day: Homage to Basho for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, and piano (1981) Sunday, April 6 4 p.m., Free Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Admission: free, but reservations through Ticketmaster are required. Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Joji Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic II for solo piano (1986) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Cosmic Harmony for cello and piano (1995) Joji Yuasa: Terms of Temporal Detailing for solo bass flute (1989) Tokuhide Niimi: Lux Originis for violin, clarinet, cello and piano (2002) Akira Nishimura: Madoromi III for clarinet and piano (2003) Tokuhide Niimi: The Soul Bird for flute and piano (1996) Akira Nishimura: Duologue for Timpani and Piano (1996) Other Festival Events Admission to all events is free unless otherwise noted. Friday, April 4 9 a.m., UMBC ECS Building Lecture by Toshi Ichiyanagi (via satellite) 9:40 a.m., UMBC ECS Building Lecture/Recital and Masterclass with Toshi Ichiyanagi Marimba Music of Japanese Composers Greg Giannascoli, marimba (Rutgers University) with Chiu-Tze Lin, piano Toshi Ichiyanagi: Paginini Personal (1982) Toshi Ichiyanagi: The Source (1989) Tokuhide Niimi: For Marimba I (1975) 10:30 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Music of Toru Takemitsu Lecture by Ieda Bispo, Joetsu University, Nigata, Japan: A Japanese Garden? Western Confluences in Toru Takemitsus In an Autumn Garden for Gagaku Lecture/Recital: The Cosmic Metaphor of Toru Takemitsus Rain Tree Sketches Tomoko Isshiki piano - University of Houston, Houston, Texas Toru Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch (1982) Toru Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch II (1992) Lecture by Hideaki Onishi, University of Washington, Seattle: Dream, Japanese Garden and Toru Takemitsu: Large-Scale Structure of Dream-Window through Set-Class Analysis 1:00 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Room 011 Lecture/Recital by Calvert Johnson, harpsichordist (Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia): Harpsichord Music by Japanese Composers Makiko Asaoka: Four Pieces for Harpsichord (1994) Isaac Nagao: Ancient Cities (1986) Karen Tanaka: Jardin des Herbes (1989) Asako Hirabayashi: Sonatina for Harpsichord (2002) (world premiere) 1:30 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Room 011 Composer Masterclasses Joji Yuasa with Reiko Manabe, flute (University of California, San Diego) Joji Yuasa: Domain (1978) Tokuhide Niimi with Greg Giannascoli, marimba (Rutgers University) Tokuhide Niimi: For Marimba I (1975) Akira Nishimura with Akiko Fukuda, piano (University of Kansas) Akira Nishimura: Tritrope (1978) 3:10 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Studio 508 Performance by Gene Coleman, artistic director of the Transonic festival at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Germany: Pachinko/Zen A Non-Lecture on Japan 3:40 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Studio 508 Lecture by Kristian Twombly, Department of Music, UMBC: Oppositional Dialectics in Joji Yuasas The Sea Darkens 4:20 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Studio 508 Concert Joji Yuasa: Icon (1967) Takayuki Rai: Pain for Two Computers (1983) Joji Yuasa: The Sea Darkens (1987) Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants (1997) Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Iridescent Uncertainty (1999) Yukiko Ito: two-sides for tape (2002) Joji Yuasa: Eye on Genesis I for UPIC (1991) Saturday, April 5 9:00 a.m., UMBC ECS Building and UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall The Music of Toshi Ichiyanagi Lecture by Luciana Galliano, Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia, Italy: Ichiyanagi as Japanese Composer, and Fluxus Lecture/Recital by Yoojin Oh, piano (Manhattan School of Music) with violinist Olivier Fluchaire: The Piano/Violin Duo Works of Toshi Ichiyanagi Toshi Ichiyanagi: Interrelation (1998) Lecture by Robert Haskins, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York: Cage, Ichiyanagi, Fluxus, Japan: Responses and Resonances Lecture/Recital by Akiko Fukuda, piano, University of Kansas: A Search for Identity: Postmodern Trends in Japanese Piano Music Since 1985 Takashi Yoshimatsu: Pleiades Dances (1986-2001) Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants: The Seventh Collection (1997) Akira Nishimura: Tritrope (1978) 11:10 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Lecture by Peter Burt, The Open University, Vienna, Austria: Overtones of Progress, Undertones of Reaction: Toshiro Mayuzumi and the Nirvana Symphony 11:40 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Presentations of Recent and Forthcoming books on contemporary Japanese music, including Yougaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century (2002, Scarecrow Press) by Luciana Galliano, Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia, Italy; and Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (forthcoming 2003, Wesleyan University Press) by Yayoi Uno Everett, Emory University, Atlanta 1:05 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts 011 Lecture by David Pacun, Ithaca College, New York: Stylistic Counterpoint in the Early Music of Yamada Koscak 1:35 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts 011 Lectures of Guest Composers Joji Yuasa Tokuhide Niimi Akira Nishimura 4:00 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission: $10 general, $5 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Tickets available at the door. Concert by the UMBC Chamber Players, Ossia (the new music ensemble of the Eastman School of Music, the Maryland Camerata, and Ryan Bridlgand) Colin Holter: Variations: Go Rin No Sho (2003) (premiere) Joji Yuasa: Calling Together (1971) Akira Miyoshi: Reve Colorie for 2 clarinets (1991) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Music for Electric Metronomes (1968) Joji Yuasa: Observations on Weather Forecasts (1983) Tokuhide Niimi: Madrigal II (1981) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Music For Piano No. 7 (1961) Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea for alto flute and guitar (1981) Joji Yuasa: Territory (1977) Joji Yuasa: Mutterings (1988) Sunday, April 6 9:00 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts 011 Crossovers of Japanese Popular and Art Music Lecture by Fuyuko Fukunaka, New York University: Globalism, Fetishization, and the "Politics" of Japanese Rap Lecture by Michael Peluse, Wesleyan University: Tsugaru Shamisen's Latest Boom: Folk Revival or Pop Sensation? Lecture by Yumi Hara Cawkwell, City University, London, England: Childminder of Takeda 10:40 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Lecture/Recital by Margaret Lucia, piano (Shippensburg University): Recent Piano Works by Japanese Women Composers Junko Mori: Imagery (1987) Nagako Konishi: Fantasy (1995-96) Keiko Fujiie: Pas de Deux II, Op. 14 (1989) 11:10 a.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall Jiutamai Dance and Piano, featuring Chie Sato Rodin, piano; Junko Tano, choreographer and dancerTraditional Japanese Dance "Black Hair" Shigenobu Nakamura: White for solo piano (1983) Yoichi Togawa: Hi No Chi (The Land of Sorrow) (1991) 11:50 a.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall Panel Discussion Joji Yuasa, Tokuhide Niimi, Akira Nishimura, Kazuko Tanosaki, E. Michael Richards About the Composers Three Japanese guest composers (Joji Yuasa, Akira Nishimura and Tokuhide Niimi) will be in residence at Music of Japan Today; a fourth (Toshi Ichiyanagi) will participate via satellite. Toshi Ichiyanagi Born in 1933 in Kobe, Japan, Toshi Ichiyanagi studied composition with Kishio Hirao and John Cage, piano with Chieko Hara, Barnhard Weiser and Beveridge Webster. After attending the Juilliard School of Music and the New School for Social Research in New York between 1954-60, he returned to Japan in 1961, and introduced many new musical concepts, including Cages idea of indeterminacy, exerting a strong influence on the stream of Japanese contemporary music. As one of the leading composers in Japan, Ichiyanagi has composed in most genres of music: operas, orchestral, chamber and instrumental works. Among his major works are his violin concerto Circulating Scenery (1983), Piano Concerto No. 2 Winter Portrait (1987) and opera Momo (1995), based on a novel by Michael Ende. While composing these large-scale pieces, he is also known for his compositions using Japanese traditional instruments such as sho and gagaku ensemble. Many of them have been performed throughout the world, especially by Tokyo International Music Ensemble, where he serves as Artistic Director. Ichiyanagi won the Elizabeth A. Coolidge Prize (1954) and the Serge Koussevitzky Prize (1956) during his studies in New York. He was also a member of Fluxus. Since his return to Japan, he has received numerous awards including the prestigious Nakajima Kenzo Award (1984), the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Government (1985) and Grand Prix of the Kyoto Music Award (1989). In 1990, he was awarded the Otaka Prize for the fourth time, for his unique symphony Berlin Renshi. His recent works include Coexistence for ondes martenot and orchestra (1996), Symphony No. 5 Time Perspective (1997), Coexistence for orchestra (1997) and Mirage for shakuhachi and piano (1998). Joji Yuasa Born in 1929 in Koriyama, Japan, Yuasa is a self-taught composer. While a premedical student at Keio University in Tokyo, Yuasa made the acquaintance of composer Toru Takemitsu and musicologist Kuniharu Akiyama. He joined them in forming the Jikken-kobo (Experimental Workshop) in 1952, and devoted himself to music. Since then, Yuasa has been actively engaged in a wide range of musical composition, including orchestral, choral and chamber music, music for theatre, and intermedia, electronic and computer music. Yuasa has won numerous commissions for his works from such institutions as the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Saarland Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Canada Council, Suntory Music Foundation, IRCAM and the National Endowment for the Arts. Yuasa has received a number of scholarships at home and abroad, including a Japan Society Fellowship (1968-69), Composer in Residence at the Center for Music Experiment UCSD (1976), Berlin Artist Program by DAAD (1976-77), the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music in Sydney (1980), the University of Toronto (1981) and IRCAM in Paris (1987). As a guest composer and lecturer, Yuasa has contributed to the Festival of the Arts of This Century in Hawaii (1970), New Music Concerts in Toronto (1980), Asian Composers League in Hong Kong (1981), concert tour for Contemporary Music Network by British Arts Council (1981), Asia Pacific Festival in New Zealand (1984), Composers Workshop in Amsterdam (1984), Darmstadt Summer Course for Contemporary Music (1988), Lerchenborg Music Tage (1986, 1988), and Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo (1990). From 1981 through 1994, Yuasa was actively engaged in music research and education at the University of California, San Diego, where he is professor emeritus. He has been a guest professor at Tokyo College of Music since 1981 and a professor for the postgraduate course of the College of Arts at Nihon University since 1993. Akira Nishimura Born 8 September, 1953, Osaka, Japan, Nishimura studied composition and music theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music from 1973 to 1980. While at the university, he also studied Asiatic traditional music, religion, esthetics, cosmology, and the heterophonic concept, all of which has had a lasting influence on his music to the present day. He was awarded the Grand Prix for Composition at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels, the Luigi Dallapiccola Composition Award (Milan), three Otaka Prizes, and four other national prizes in Japan. He has been the Composer in Residence of the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. In recent years, Nishimura has been commissioned by many overseas music festivals and organizations such as the ULTIMA Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo; Octobre en Normandie, Rouen; Arditti String Quartet; Kronos String Quartet; ELISION ensemble; and the Hanover Society of Contemporary Music. His new works have been performed at WIEN MODERN, Vienna; Warsaw Autumn, Warsaw; MUSICA, Strasbourg; and the Brisbane Festival of Music, Brisbane. Nishimura is a Professor at the Tokyo College of Music, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Japan Federation of Composers. Tokuhide Niimi Born in 1947, Niimi is a graduate of the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, winner of the Grand Prix at the Geneva International Composition Competition for Opera and Ballet, a Special Prize for Performing Arts from the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs, and commissions from NHK, the National Theater, Suntory, Min-On, the City of Kyoto, and Salford College (U.K.). His orchestral works have been performed in Japan by the NHK Symphony Orchestra and others, and overseas by the Suisse Romande, Netherlands Radio, BBC Scottish, Radio France, Berlin, and Nurenberg. Niimi is currently a lecturer at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Japan Federation of Composers. Telephone General Music information: 410-455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Music of Japan Today website: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~emrich/mfj2003.html UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents 100 Years of Camera Work Camera Work, the great quarterly journal dedicated to photography, criticism, and modernist art, is the central focus of the exhibition 100 Years of Camera Work, on display in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from March 31st through May 31st, 2003. Camera Work, the great quarterly journal dedicated to photography, criticism, and modernist art, is the central focus of the exhibition 100 Years of Camera Work, on display in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from March 31st through May 31st, 2003. Published between 1903 and 1917 by Alfred Stieglitz, the journal was one of the stellar achievements of 20th century American culture. It contributed greatly to establishing photography as a high art. 100 Years of Camera Work celebrates the impact that the journal had by exhibiting UMBC's entire holding in a very rare public display of an exceedingly rare publication. In recognition of the powerful influence that Camera Work had upon the development of Modernism in photography, 20th century art photographs made following 1917 have been selected from UMBC's Photography Collections to complement the exhibition of Camera Work. The pages of Camera Work feature significant photography by such outstanding artists as Gertrude Käsebier, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, George Seeley, Eva Watson-Schütze, and Alvin Langdon Coburn. Other modernist artists whose work appears in the journal include Pablo Picasso, Auguste Rodin, and Francis Picabia. Among the famous writers who are published there include Charles H. Caffin, George Bernard Shaw, Sadakichi Hartman, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, and Mabel Dodge Luhan. Modernist photographers who came to the medium after the Photo-Secession and the publication of Camera Work owe a great debt to Stieglitz and his groundbreaking journal. Camera Work opened a discourse about photography unlike any previous one. Articles with titles such as "On Art and Originality Again," "Of Verities and Illusions," and "Some Reflections of the Functions and Limitations of Art Criticism--Especially in Relation to Modern Art" helped established the modernist aesthetic consideration of photography. Among the works to be included in the exhibition are many by modernists such as Ralph Gibson, Jaromir Stephany, David Plowden, Minor White, Judy Dater, Olivia Parker, Barbara Crane, Barbara Young, and Lotte Jacobi. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of theprincipal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the SpecialCollections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over theworld, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for theUniversity community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitionsare occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of itsexhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery isfree. The programs of the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery are supported in part by an Arts Program Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone General Gallery information: 410-455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/gallery/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. The images in this release are available at 300 dpi on the above website. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 toexit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs tothe Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mileto the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue andHilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B.Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O.Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near theAdministration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced onall University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadwaysrequire a parking permit unless otherwise marked. ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Music of Japan Today 2003 Festival The UMBC Department of Music presents Music of Japan Today 2003, the largest festival and symposium on contemporary Japanese concert music in the United States, from April 2 through April 6, 2003. Featured composers include Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Tokuhide Niimi, and Akira Nishimura; performers include Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The UMBC Department of Music presents Music of Japan Today 2003, the largest festival and symposium on contemporary Japanese concert music in the United States, from April 2 through April 6, 2003. Featured composers include Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Tokuhide Niimi, and Akira Nishimura; performers include Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The Music of Japan Today 2003 Festival UMBC will host a five-day festival of performances, lecture-recitals, panel discussions, and paper presentations on topics that concern Japanese music from the widest possible range of disciplines and expertise. Four guest composers of international stature will participate in the festival: Toshi Ichiyanagi, who worked with John Cage in the early 1960s in New York, and has ever since introduced Japan to experimental music; Joji Yuasa, who was a member of the jikken kobo in the 1950s and a Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego from 1981-94; Akira Nishimura, who has received numerous international awards and commissions for his music that is influenced by historic Japanese music and elements from other Asian cultures; and Tokuhide Niimi, who has received international recognition for works that span musical genres from ballet, to choral, to orchestral and chamber music, to music for traditional Japanese instruments. Performances during the festival will include a broad range of works for different genres (solo instrument, chamber music, choral, traditional instruments) by Yuasa, Ichiyanagi, Nishimura, and Niimi, including the premiere of a new work by Nishimura. The performers for these concerts will include Ruckus (the contemporary music ensemble at UMBC), faculty and students of the UMBC Department of Music, and guest musicians from the Baltimore/ Washington, D.C. area and other international new music centers. This festival is the fifth in a series of events since 1992 to address Japanese and other Asian musics. Previously held at Hamilton College, the previous events include Asian Music in America: A Confluence of Two Worlds, and Music of Japan Today: Tradition and Innovation I (1992), II (1994), and III (1997). Music of Japan Today 2003 is presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, with additional support from All Nippon Airways (ANA), the Asian Cultural Council, the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, and the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. About the Contemporary Concert Music of Japan Western art music has existed for a relatively short time in Japan. It is only since the 1950s, countering Japan's rush to adopt all that is "Western," that some composers, led by Joji Yuasa (b. 1929), Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929-97), Toru Takemitsu (1930-96), and Toshi Ichiyanagi (b. 1933), began to move away from stylistic modeling of nineteenth-century European forms and twentieth-century dodecaphony towards a more individualistic approach. Concerned with reflecting philosophical and musical elements from their own culture, they began to discover and develop their own music. The music of these artists reflects a new global confluence of multiple culturesa powerful cross-fertilization of aesthetics and musical characteristics from both East and West. The music is reflective of a variety of aspects of contemporary Japanese and Western societies, while at the same time deeply rooted in a traditional culture that has evolved over many years. Major Public Events Admission as noted Public information: 410-455-ARTS or www.umbc.edu/arts Wednesday, April 2 8 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Akira Nishimura: Madoromi III for clarinet and piano (2003) Joji Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic II for solo piano (1986) Joji Yuasa: A Winter Day: Homage to Basho for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, and piano (1981) Thursday, April 3 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. Free admission National Cherry Blossom Festival, Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. Concert: program to be announced Friday, April 4 7:30 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission: $10 general, $5 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Joji Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic II for piano solo (1986) Tokuhide Niimi: Ohju for solo cello (1987) Akira Nishimura: Madoromi III for clarinet and piano (2003) (world premiere) Tokuhide Niimi: The Soul Bird for flute and piano (1996) Akira Nishimura: From Organums for violin, flute, clarinet, vibraphone and piano (1989): Hemiola, Melismas Saturday, April 5 8 p.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission: $10 general, $5 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Toshi Ichiyanagi: Cloud Atlas X for piano solo (1999) Tokuhide Niimi: Lux Originis for violin, clarinet, cello, and piano (2002) (American premiere) Akira Nishimura: Duologue for Timpani and Piano (1996) Joji Yuasa: Terms of Temporal Detailing for solo bass flute (1989) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Cosmic Harmony for cello and piano (1995) Joji Yuasa: A Winter Day: Homage to Basho for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, and piano (1981) Sunday, April 6 4 p.m., Free Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Admission: free, but reservations through Ticketmaster are required. Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Joji Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic II for solo piano (1986) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Cosmic Harmony for cello and piano (1995) Joji Yuasa: Terms of Temporal Detailing for solo bass flute (1989) Tokuhide Niimi: Lux Originis for violin, clarinet, cello and piano (2002) Akira Nishimura: Madoromi III for clarinet and piano (2003) Tokuhide Niimi: The Soul Bird for flute and piano (1996) Akira Nishimura: Duologue for Timpani and Piano (1996) Other Festival Events Admission to all events is free unless otherwise noted. Friday, April 4 9 a.m., UMBC ECS Building Lecture by Toshi Ichiyanagi (via satellite) 9:40 a.m., UMBC ECS Building Lecture/Recital and Masterclass with Toshi Ichiyanagi Marimba Music of Japanese Composers Greg Giannascoli, marimba (Rutgers University) with Chiu-Tze Lin, piano Toshi Ichiyanagi: Paginini Personal (1982) Toshi Ichiyanagi: The Source (1989) Tokuhide Niimi: For Marimba I (1975) 10:30 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Music of Toru Takemitsu Lecture by Ieda Bispo, Joetsu University, Nigata, Japan: A Japanese Garden? Western Confluences in Toru Takemitsus In an Autumn Garden for Gagaku Lecture/Recital: The Cosmic Metaphor of Toru Takemitsus Rain Tree Sketches Tomoko Isshiki piano - University of Houston, Houston, Texas Toru Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch (1982) Toru Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch II (1992) Lecture by Hideaki Onishi, University of Washington, Seattle: Dream, Japanese Garden and Toru Takemitsu: Large-Scale Structure of Dream-Window through Set-Class Analysis 1:00 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Room 011 Lecture/Recital by Calvert Johnson, harpsichordist (Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia): Harpsichord Music by Japanese Composers Makiko Asaoka: Four Pieces for Harpsichord (1994) Isaac Nagao: Ancient Cities (1986) Karen Tanaka: Jardin des Herbes (1989) Asako Hirabayashi: Sonatina for Harpsichord (2002) (world premiere) 1:30 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Room 011 Composer Masterclasses Joji Yuasa with Reiko Manabe, flute (University of California, San Diego) Joji Yuasa: Domain (1978) Tokuhide Niimi with Greg Giannascoli, marimba (Rutgers University) Tokuhide Niimi: For Marimba I (1975) Akira Nishimura with Akiko Fukuda, piano (University of Kansas) Akira Nishimura: Tritrope (1978) 3:10 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Studio 508 Performance by Gene Coleman, artistic director of the Transonic festival at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Germany: Pachinko/Zen A Non-Lecture on Japan 3:40 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Studio 508 Lecture by Kristian Twombly, Department of Music, UMBC: Oppositional Dialectics in Joji Yuasas The Sea Darkens 4:20 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Studio 508 Concert Joji Yuasa: Icon (1967) Takayuki Rai: Pain for Two Computers (1983) Joji Yuasa: The Sea Darkens (1987) Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants (1997) Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Iridescent Uncertainty (1999) Yukiko Ito: two-sides for tape (2002) Joji Yuasa: Eye on Genesis I for UPIC (1991) Saturday, April 5 9:00 a.m., UMBC ECS Building and UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall The Music of Toshi Ichiyanagi Lecture by Luciana Galliano, Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia, Italy: Ichiyanagi as Japanese Composer, and Fluxus Lecture/Recital by Yoojin Oh, piano (Manhattan School of Music) with violinist Olivier Fluchaire: The Piano/Violin Duo Works of Toshi Ichiyanagi Toshi Ichiyanagi: Interrelation (1998) Lecture by Robert Haskins, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York: Cage, Ichiyanagi, Fluxus, Japan: Responses and Resonances Lecture/Recital by Akiko Fukuda, piano, University of Kansas: A Search for Identity: Postmodern Trends in Japanese Piano Music Since 1985 Takashi Yoshimatsu: Pleiades Dances (1986-2001) Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants: The Seventh Collection (1997) Akira Nishimura: Tritrope (1978) 11:10 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Lecture by Peter Burt, The Open University, Vienna, Austria: Overtones of Progress, Undertones of Reaction: Toshiro Mayuzumi and the Nirvana Symphony 11:40 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Presentations of Recent and Forthcoming books on contemporary Japanese music, including Yougaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century (2002, Scarecrow Press) by Luciana Galliano, Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia, Italy; and Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (forthcoming 2003, Wesleyan University Press) by Yayoi Uno Everett, Emory University, Atlanta 1:05 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts 011 Lecture by David Pacun, Ithaca College, New York: Stylistic Counterpoint in the Early Music of Yamada Koscak 1:35 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts 011 Lectures of Guest Composers Joji Yuasa Tokuhide Niimi Akira Nishimura 4:00 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission: $10 general, $5 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Tickets available at the door. Concert by the UMBC Chamber Players, Ossia (the new music ensemble of the Eastman School of Music, the Maryland Camerata, and Ryan Bridlgand) Colin Holter: Variations: Go Rin No Sho (2003) (premiere) Joji Yuasa: Calling Together (1971) Akira Miyoshi: Reve Colorie for 2 clarinets (1991) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Music for Electric Metronomes (1968) Joji Yuasa: Observations on Weather Forecasts (1983) Tokuhide Niimi: Madrigal II (1981) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Music For Piano No. 7 (1961) Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea for alto flute and guitar (1981) Joji Yuasa: Territory (1977) Joji Yuasa: Mutterings (1988) Sunday, April 6 9:00 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts 011 Crossovers of Japanese Popular and Art Music Lecture by Fuyuko Fukunaka, New York University: Globalism, Fetishization, and the "Politics" of Japanese Rap Lecture by Michael Peluse, Wesleyan University: Tsugaru Shamisen's Latest Boom: Folk Revival or Pop Sensation? Lecture by Yumi Hara Cawkwell, City University, London, England: Childminder of Takeda 10:40 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Lecture/Recital by Margaret Lucia, piano (Shippensburg University): Recent Piano Works by Japanese Women Composers Junko Mori: Imagery (1987) Nagako Konishi: Fantasy (1995-96) Keiko Fujiie: Pas de Deux II, Op. 14 (1989) 11:10 a.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall Jiutamai Dance and Piano, featuring Chie Sato Rodin, piano; Junko Tano, choreographer and dancerTraditional Japanese Dance "Black Hair" Shigenobu Nakamura: White for solo piano (1983) Yoichi Togawa: Hi No Chi (The Land of Sorrow) (1991) 11:50 a.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall Panel Discussion Joji Yuasa, Tokuhide Niimi, Akira Nishimura, Kazuko Tanosaki, E. Michael Richards About the Composers Three Japanese guest composers (Joji Yuasa, Akira Nishimura and Tokuhide Niimi) will be in residence at Music of Japan Today; a fourth (Toshi Ichiyanagi) will participate via satellite. Toshi Ichiyanagi Born in 1933 in Kobe, Japan, Toshi Ichiyanagi studied composition with Kishio Hirao and John Cage, piano with Chieko Hara, Barnhard Weiser and Beveridge Webster. After attending the Juilliard School of Music and the New School for Social Research in New York between 1954-60, he returned to Japan in 1961, and introduced many new musical concepts, including Cages idea of indeterminacy, exerting a strong influence on the stream of Japanese contemporary music. As one of the leading composers in Japan, Ichiyanagi has composed in most genres of music: operas, orchestral, chamber and instrumental works. Among his major works are his violin concerto Circulating Scenery (1983), Piano Concerto No. 2 Winter Portrait (1987) and opera Momo (1995), based on a novel by Michael Ende. While composing these large-scale pieces, he is also known for his compositions using Japanese traditional instruments such as sho and gagaku ensemble. Many of them have been performed throughout the world, especially by Tokyo International Music Ensemble, where he serves as Artistic Director. Ichiyanagi won the Elizabeth A. Coolidge Prize (1954) and the Serge Koussevitzky Prize (1956) during his studies in New York. He was also a member of Fluxus. Since his return to Japan, he has received numerous awards including the prestigious Nakajima Kenzo Award (1984), the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Government (1985) and Grand Prix of the Kyoto Music Award (1989). In 1990, he was awarded the Otaka Prize for the fourth time, for his unique symphony Berlin Renshi. His recent works include Coexistence for ondes martenot and orchestra (1996), Symphony No. 5 Time Perspective (1997), Coexistence for orchestra (1997) and Mirage for shakuhachi and piano (1998). Joji Yuasa Born in 1929 in Koriyama, Japan, Yuasa is a self-taught composer. While a premedical student at Keio University in Tokyo, Yuasa made the acquaintance of composer Toru Takemitsu and musicologist Kuniharu Akiyama. He joined them in forming the Jikken-kobo (Experimental Workshop) in 1952, and devoted himself to music. Since then, Yuasa has been actively engaged in a wide range of musical composition, including orchestral, choral and chamber music, music for theatre, and intermedia, electronic and computer music. Yuasa has won numerous commissions for his works from such institutions as the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Saarland Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Canada Council, Suntory Music Foundation, IRCAM and the National Endowment for the Arts. Yuasa has received a number of scholarships at home and abroad, including a Japan Society Fellowship (1968-69), Composer in Residence at the Center for Music Experiment UCSD (1976), Berlin Artist Program by DAAD (1976-77), the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music in Sydney (1980), the University of Toronto (1981) and IRCAM in Paris (1987). As a guest composer and lecturer, Yuasa has contributed to the Festival of the Arts of This Century in Hawaii (1970), New Music Concerts in Toronto (1980), Asian Composers League in Hong Kong (1981), concert tour for Contemporary Music Network by British Arts Council (1981), Asia Pacific Festival in New Zealand (1984), Composers Workshop in Amsterdam (1984), Darmstadt Summer Course for Contemporary Music (1988), Lerchenborg Music Tage (1986, 1988), and Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo (1990). From 1981 through 1994, Yuasa was actively engaged in music research and education at the University of California, San Diego, where he is professor emeritus. He has been a guest professor at Tokyo College of Music since 1981 and a professor for the postgraduate course of the College of Arts at Nihon University since 1993. Akira Nishimura Born 8 September, 1953, Osaka, Japan, Nishimura studied composition and music theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music from 1973 to 1980. While at the university, he also studied Asiatic traditional music, religion, esthetics, cosmology, and the heterophonic concept, all of which has had a lasting influence on his music to the present day. He was awarded the Grand Prix for Composition at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels, the Luigi Dallapiccola Composition Award (Milan), three Otaka Prizes, and four other national prizes in Japan. He has been the Composer in Residence of the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. In recent years, Nishimura has been commissioned by many overseas music festivals and organizations such as the ULTIMA Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo; Octobre en Normandie, Rouen; Arditti String Quartet; Kronos String Quartet; ELISION ensemble; and the Hanover Society of Contemporary Music. His new works have been performed at WIEN MODERN, Vienna; Warsaw Autumn, Warsaw; MUSICA, Strasbourg; and the Brisbane Festival of Music, Brisbane. Nishimura is a Professor at the Tokyo College of Music, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Japan Federation of Composers. Tokuhide Niimi Born in 1947, Niimi is a graduate of the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, winner of the Grand Prix at the Geneva International Composition Competition for Opera and Ballet, a Special Prize for Performing Arts from the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs, and commissions from NHK, the National Theater, Suntory, Min-On, the City of Kyoto, and Salford College (U.K.). His orchestral works have been performed in Japan by the NHK Symphony Orchestra and others, and overseas by the Suisse Romande, Netherlands Radio, BBC Scottish, Radio France, Berlin, and Nurenberg. Niimi is currently a lecturer at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Japan Federation of Composers. Telephone General Music information: 410-455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Music of Japan Today 2003 website: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~emrich/mfj2003.html UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Music of Japan Today Festival The UMBC Department of Music presents Music of Japan Today, the largest festival and symposium on contemporary Japanese concert music in the United States, from April 2 through April 6, 2003. Featured composers include Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Tokuhide Niimi, and Akira Nishimura; performers include Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The UMBC Department of Music presents Music of Japan Today, the largest festival and symposium on contemporary Japanese concert music in the United States, from April 2 through April 6, 2003. Featured composers include Joji Yuasa, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Tokuhide Niimi, and Akira Nishimura; performers include Ruckus, the professional contemporary music ensemble in residence at UMBC. The Music of Japan Today Festival UMBC will host a five-day festival of performances, lecture-recitals, panel discussions, and paper presentations on topics that concern Japanese music from the widest possible range of disciplines and expertise. Four guest composers of international stature will participate in the festival: Toshi Ichiyanagi, who worked with John Cage in the early 1960s in New York, and has ever since introduced Japan to experimental music; Joji Yuasa, who was a member of the jikken kobo in the 1950s and a Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego from 1981-94; Akira Nishimura, who has received numerous international awards and commissions for his music that is influenced by historic Japanese music and elements from other Asian cultures; and Tokuhide Niimi, who has received international recognition for works that span musical genres from ballet, to choral, to orchestral and chamber music, to music for traditional Japanese instruments. Performances during the festival will include a broad range of works for different genres (solo instrument, chamber music, choral, traditional instruments) by Yuasa, Ichiyanagi, Nishimura, and Niimi, as well as the winner of a composition competition. They will include the premiere of a new work by Nishimura. The performers for these concerts will include Ruckus (the contemporary music ensemble at UMBC), faculty and students of the UMBC Department of Music, and guest musicians from the Baltimore/ Washington, D.C. area and other international new music centers. This festival is the fifth in a series of events since 1992 to address Japanese and other Asian musics. Previously held at Hamilton College, the previous events include Asian Music in America: A Confluence of Two Worlds, and Music of Japan Today: Tradition and Innovation I (1992), II (1994), and III (1997). Music of Japan Today is presented in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan, with additional support from All Nippon Airways (ANA), the Asian Cultural Council, the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Cherry Blossom Festival, and the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. About the Contemporary Concert Music of Japan Western art music has existed for a relatively short time in Japan. It is only since the 1950s, countering Japan's rush to adopt all that is "Western," that some composers, led by Joji Yuasa (b. 1929), Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929-97), Toru Takemitsu (1930-96), and Toshi Ichiyanagi (b. 1933), began to move away from stylistic modeling of nineteenth-century European forms and twentieth-century dodecaphony towards a more individualistic approach. Concerned with reflecting philosophical and musical elements from their own culture, they began to discover and develop their own music. The music of these artists reflects a new global confluence of multiple culturesa powerful cross-fertilization of aesthetics and musical characteristics from both East and West. The music is reflective of a variety of aspects of contemporary Japanese and Western societies, while at the same time deeply rooted in a traditional culture that has evolved over many years. Major Public Events Admission as noted Public information: 410-455-ARTS or www.umbc.edu/arts Wednesday, April 2 8 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Free admission Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Akira Nishimura: Madoromi III for clarinet and piano (2003) Joji Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic II for solo piano (1986) Joji Yuasa: A Winter Day: Homage to Basho for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, and piano (1981) Thursday, April 3 12 p.m. - 2 p.m. Free admission National Cherry Blossom Festival, Jefferson Memorial, Washington, D.C. Concert: program to be announced Friday, April 4 7:30 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission: $10 general, $5 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Joji Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic II for piano solo (1986) Tokuhide Niimi: Ohju for solo cello (1987) Akira Nishimura: Madoromi III for clarinet and piano (2003) (world premiere) Tokuhide Niimi: The Soul Bird for flute and piano (1996) Akira Nishimura: From Organums for violin, flute, clarinet, vibraphone and piano (1989): Hemiola, Melismas Saturday, April 5 8 p.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission: $10 general, $5 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Toshi Ichiyanagi: Cloud Atlas X for piano solo (1999) Tokuhide Niimi: Lux Originis for violin, clarinet, cello, and piano (2002) (American premiere) Akira Nishimura: Duologue for Timpani and Piano (1996) Joji Yuasa: Terms of Temporal Detailing for solo bass flute (1989) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Cosmic Harmony for cello and piano (1995) Joji Yuasa: A Winter Day: Homage to Basho for flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, and piano (1981) Sunday, April 6 4 p.m., Free Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Admission: free, but reservations through Ticketmaster are required. Concert by the Ruckus ensemble Joji Yuasa: Cosmos Haptic II for solo piano (1986) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Cosmic Harmony for cello and piano (1995) Joji Yuasa: Terms of Temporal Detailing for solo bass flute (1989) Tokuhide Niimi: Lux Originis for violin, clarinet, cello and piano (2002) Akira Nishimura: Madoromi III for clarinet and piano (2003) Tokuhide Niimi: The Soul Bird for flute and piano (1996) Akira Nishimura: Duologue for Timpani and Piano (1996) Other Festival Events Admission to all events is free unless otherwise noted. Friday, April 4 9 a.m., UMBC ECS Building Lecture by Toshi Ichiyanagi (via satellite) 9:40 a.m., UMBC ECS Building Lecture/Recital and Masterclass with Toshi Ichiyanagi Marimba Music of Japanese Composers Greg Giannascoli, marimba (Rutgers University) with Chiu-Tze Lin, piano Toshi Ichiyanagi: Paginini Personal (1982) Toshi Ichiyanagi: The Source (1989) Tokuhide Niimi: For Marimba I (1975) 10:30 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Music of Toru Takemitsu Lecture by Ieda Bispo, Joetsu University, Nigata, Japan: A Japanese Garden? Western Confluences in Toru Takemitsus In an Autumn Garden for Gagaku Lecture/Recital: The Cosmic Metaphor of Toru Takemitsus Rain Tree Sketches Tomoko Isshiki piano - University of Houston, Houston, Texas Toru Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch (1982) Toru Takemitsu: Rain Tree Sketch II (1992) Lecture by Hideaki Onishi, University of Washington, Seattle: Dream, Japanese Garden and Toru Takemitsu: Large-Scale Structure of Dream-Window through Set-Class Analysis 1:00 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Room 011 Lecture/Recital by Calvert Johnson, harpsichordist (Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia): Harpsichord Music by Japanese Composers Makiko Asaoka: Four Pieces for Harpsichord (1994) Isaac Nagao: Ancient Cities (1986) Karen Tanaka: Jardin des Herbes (1989) Asako Hirabayashi: Sonatina for Harpsichord (2002) (world premiere) 1:30 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Room 011 Composer Masterclasses Joji Yuasa with Reiko Manabe, flute (University of California, San Diego) Joji Yuasa: Domain (1978) Tokuhide Niimi with Greg Giannascoli, marimba (Rutgers University) Tokuhide Niimi: For Marimba I (1975) Akira Nishimura with Akiko Fukuda, piano (University of Kansas) Akira Nishimura: Tritrope (1978) 3:10 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Studio 508 Performance by Gene Coleman, artistic director of the Transonic festival at the House of World Cultures in Berlin, Germany: Pachinko/Zen A Non-Lecture on Japan 3:40 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Studio 508 Lecture by Kristian Twombly, Department of Music, UMBC: Oppositional Dialectics in Joji Yuasas The Sea Darkens 4:20 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Studio 508 Concert Joji Yuasa: Icon (1967) Takayuki Rai: Pain for Two Computers (1983) Joji Yuasa: The Sea Darkens (1987) Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants (1997) Steven Kazuo Takasugi: Iridescent Uncertainty (1999) Yukiko Ito: two-sides for tape (2002) Joji Yuasa: Eye on Genesis I for UPIC (1991) Saturday, April 5 9:00 a.m., UMBC ECS Building and UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall The Music of Toshi Ichiyanagi Lecture by Luciana Galliano, Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia, Italy: Ichiyanagi as Japanese Composer, and Fluxus Lecture/Recital by Yoojin Oh, piano (Manhattan School of Music) with violinist Olivier Fluchaire: The Piano/Violin Duo Works of Toshi Ichiyanagi Toshi Ichiyanagi: Interrelation (1998) Lecture by Robert Haskins, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York: Cage, Ichiyanagi, Fluxus, Japan: Responses and Resonances Lecture/Recital by Akiko Fukuda, piano, University of Kansas: A Search for Identity: Postmodern Trends in Japanese Piano Music Since 1985 Takashi Yoshimatsu: Pleiades Dances (1986-2001) Mamoru Fujieda: Patterns of Plants: The Seventh Collection (1997) Akira Nishimura: Tritrope (1978) 11:10 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Lecture by Peter Burt, The Open University, Vienna, Austria: Overtones of Progress, Undertones of Reaction: Toshiro Mayuzumi and the Nirvana Symphony 11:40 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Presentations of Recent and Forthcoming books on contemporary Japanese music, including Yougaku: Japanese Music in the Twentieth Century (2002, Scarecrow Press) by Luciana Galliano, Universita Ca Foscari di Venezia, Italy; and Locating East Asia in Western Art Music (forthcoming 2003, Wesleyan University Press) by Yayoi Uno Everett, Emory University, Atlanta 1:05 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts 011 Lecture by David Pacun, Ithaca College, New York: Stylistic Counterpoint in the Early Music of Yamada Koscak 1:35 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts 011 Lectures of Guest Composers Joji Yuasa Tokuhide Niimi Akira Nishimura 4:00 p.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Admission: $10 general, $5 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Tickets available at the door. Concert by the UMBC Chamber Players, Ossia (the new music ensemble of the Eastman School of Music, the Maryland Camerata, and Ryan Bridlgand) Colin Holter: Variations: Go Rin No Sho (2003) (premiere) Joji Yuasa: Calling Together (1971) Akira Miyoshi: Reve Colorie for 2 clarinets (1991) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Music for Electric Metronomes (1968) Joji Yuasa: Observations on Weather Forecasts (1983) Tokuhide Niimi: Madrigal II (1981) Toshi Ichiyanagi: Music For Piano No. 7 (1961) Toru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea for alto flute and guitar (1981) Joji Yuasa: Territory (1977) Joji Yuasa: Mutterings (1988) Sunday, April 6 9:00 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts 011 Crossovers of Japanese Popular and Art Music Lecture by Fuyuko Fukunaka, New York University: Globalism, Fetishization, and the "Politics" of Japanese Rap Lecture by Michael Peluse, Wesleyan University: Tsugaru Shamisen's Latest Boom: Folk Revival or Pop Sensation? Lecture by Yumi Hara Cawkwell, City University, London, England: Childminder of Takeda 10:40 a.m., UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall Lecture/Recital by Margaret Lucia, piano (Shippensburg University): Recent Piano Works by Japanese Women Composers Junko Mori: Imagery (1987) Nagako Konishi: Fantasy (1995-96) Keiko Fujiie: Pas de Deux II, Op. 14 (1989) 11:10 a.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall Jiutamai Dance and Piano, featuring Chie Sato Rodin, piano; Junko Tano, choreographer and dancerTraditional Japanese Dance "Black Hair" Shigenobu Nakamura: White for solo piano (1983) Yoichi Togawa: Hi No Chi (The Land of Sorrow) (1991) 11:50 a.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall Panel Discussion Joji Yuasa, Tokuhide Niimi, Akira Nishimura, Kazuko Tanosaki, E. Michael Richards About the Composers Three Japanese guest composers (Joji Yuasa, Akira Nishimura and Tokuhide Niimi) will be in residence at Music of Japan Today; a fourth (Toshi Ichiyanagi) will participate via satellite. Toshi Ichiyanagi Born in 1933 in Kobe, Japan, Toshi Ichiyanagi studied composition with Kishio Hirao and John Cage, piano with Chieko Hara, Barnhard Weiser and Beveridge Webster. After attending the Juilliard School of Music and the New School for Social Research in New York between 1954-60, he returned to Japan in 1961, and introduced many new musical concepts, including Cages idea of indeterminacy, exerting a strong influence on the stream of Japanese contemporary music. As one of the leading composers in Japan, Ichiyanagi has composed in most genres of music: operas, orchestral, chamber and instrumental works. Among his major works are his violin concerto Circulating Scenery (1983), Piano Concerto No. 2 Winter Portrait (1987) and opera Momo (1995), based on a novel by Michael Ende. While composing these large-scale pieces, he is also known for his compositions using Japanese traditional instruments such as sho and gagaku ensemble. Many of them have been performed throughout the world, especially by Tokyo International Music Ensemble, where he serves as Artistic Director. Ichiyanagi won the Elizabeth A. Coolidge Prize (1954) and the Serge Koussevitzky Prize (1956) during his studies in New York. He was also a member of Fluxus. Since his return to Japan, he has received numerous awards including the prestigious Nakajima Kenzo Award (1984), the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Government (1985) and Grand Prix of the Kyoto Music Award (1989). In 1990, he was awarded the Otaka Prize for the fourth time, for his unique symphony Berlin Renshi. His recent works include Coexistence for ondes martenot and orchestra (1996), Symphony No. 5 Time Perspective (1997), Coexistence for orchestra (1997) and Mirage for shakuhachi and piano (1998). Joji Yuasa Born in 1929 in Koriyama, Japan, Yuasa is a self-taught composer. While a premedical student at Keio University in Tokyo, Yuasa made the acquaintance of composer Toru Takemitsu and musicologist Kuniharu Akiyama. He joined them in forming the Jikken-kobo (Experimental Workshop) in 1952, and devoted himself to music. Since then, Yuasa has been actively engaged in a wide range of musical composition, including orchestral, choral and chamber music, music for theatre, and intermedia, electronic and computer music. Yuasa has won numerous commissions for his works from such institutions as the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, Saarland Radio Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Canada Council, Suntory Music Foundation, IRCAM and the National Endowment for the Arts. Yuasa has received a number of scholarships at home and abroad, including a Japan Society Fellowship (1968-69), Composer in Residence at the Center for Music Experiment UCSD (1976), Berlin Artist Program by DAAD (1976-77), the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music in Sydney (1980), the University of Toronto (1981) and IRCAM in Paris (1987). As a guest composer and lecturer, Yuasa has contributed to the Festival of the Arts of This Century in Hawaii (1970), New Music Concerts in Toronto (1980), Asian Composers League in Hong Kong (1981), concert tour for Contemporary Music Network by British Arts Council (1981), Asia Pacific Festival in New Zealand (1984), Composers Workshop in Amsterdam (1984), Darmstadt Summer Course for Contemporary Music (1988), Lerchenborg Music Tage (1986, 1988), and Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo (1990). From 1981 through 1994, Yuasa was actively engaged in music research and education at the University of California, San Diego, where he is professor emeritus. He has been a guest professor at Tokyo College of Music since 1981 and a professor for the postgraduate course of the College of Arts at Nihon University since 1993. Akira Nishimura Born 8 September, 1953, Osaka, Japan, Nishimura studied composition and music theory on a graduate course at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music from 1973 to 1980. While at the university, he also studied Asiatic traditional music, religion, esthetics, cosmology, and the heterophonic concept, all of which has had a lasting influence on his music to the present day. He was awarded the Grand Prix for Composition at the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels, the Luigi Dallapiccola Composition Award (Milan), three Otaka Prizes, and four other national prizes in Japan. He has been the Composer in Residence of the Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa and the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra. In recent years, Nishimura has been commissioned by many overseas music festivals and organizations such as the ULTIMA Contemporary Music Festival, Oslo; Octobre en Normandie, Rouen; Arditti String Quartet; Kronos String Quartet; ELISION ensemble; and the Hanover Society of Contemporary Music. His new works have been performed at WIEN MODERN, Vienna; Warsaw Autumn, Warsaw; MUSICA, Strasbourg; and the Brisbane Festival of Music, Brisbane. Nishimura is a Professor at the Tokyo College of Music, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Japan Federation of Composers. Tokuhide Niimi Born in 1947, Niimi is a graduate of the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and Music, winner of the Grand Prix at the Geneva International Composition Competition for Opera and Ballet, a Special Prize for Performing Arts from the Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs, and commissions from NHK, the National Theater, Suntory, Min-On, the City of Kyoto, and Salford College (U.K.). His orchestral works have been performed in Japan by the NHK Symphony Orchestra and others, and overseas by the Suisse Romande, Netherlands Radio, BBC Scottish, Radio France, Berlin, and Nurenberg. Niimi is currently a lecturer at the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Japan Federation of Composers. Telephone General Music information: 410-455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web Music of Japan Today website: http://userpages.umbc.edu/~emrich/mfj2003.html UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 March 3, 2003 UMBC Department of Music Presents Percussionist Jonas Larsson in Concert The Department of Music's Contemporary Concerts series presents percussionist Jonas Larsson in a program of contemporary music. Recognized as one of Sweden's most important percussionists, Larsson studied at G�teborg University and is the founder and director of the contemporary music ensemble Gageego!. He tours widely in Europe and the United States as a soloist. Thursday, March 20, 8 p.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall. On Thursday, March 20th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents percussionst Jonas Larsson in a program of contemporary music. Recognized as one of Sweden's most important percussionists, Larssonstudied at Göteborg University and is the founder and director of thecontemporary music ensemble Gageego!.He tours widely in Europe and the United States as a soloist. The Program Jonas Larsson's program will include: Prism (1994) by Thomas Liljeholm Dad's time had come (2001) by Stuart Saunders Smith Slideshow (2002) by Frederik Österlin Vibraphone Music (No. 1) (2001) by J. Fredric Bergström Di-remption (1992) by Franklin Cox Admission Admission is free. Telephone General Music information: 410-455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. The image file for this event: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/music/spring03/larsson/larsson.jpg (1.0 Mb jpg file). ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Department of Theatre Presents Fanto: A Mysterious Vaudeville The Department of Theatre presents Fanto: A Mysterious Vaudeville, featuring newborn puppets and misled clowns. March 11-16 in the UMBC Theatre. A curious variety show starring inanimate objects (from dancing tubes to lusty packing tape), Fanto uses theatrical illusion in ten original acts ranging from the spooky to the surreal. The Department of Theatre presents Fanto: A Mysterious Vaudeville, featuring newborn puppets and misled clowns. A curious variety show starring inanimate objects (from dancing tubes to lusty packing tape), Fanto uses theatrical illusion in ten original acts ranging from the spooky to the surreal. Conceived by faculty director Colette Searls, Fanto features commissioned puppets by artist Don Becker, with lighting design by Ryan Griffin, sound design by Terry Cobb and original music by Kristian Twombly. Click here towatch a brief video clip on Fanto (RealVideo format). About the Director A new member of the UMBC faculty, Colette Searls most recently worked in California, where her directing credits include Maria Irene Fornés' musical Promenade, and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the University of California, Irvine. She has directed several original mixed media puppet plays, including Weight of the Head, which appeared at New York's HERE Theater's 2000 Puppet Parlor. Ms. Searls spent several years running an artist-in-residence program for incarcerated and at-risk youth, which received the Bravo TV Network's national Arts for Change award in 1997. Performance credits include a principal role in Claire Braz-Valentine's Women Behind the Walls, co-created with incarcerated women, and performed inside Soledad state prison. More recently, she toured with the California Commedia Troupe to Spain where she performed and assisted with mask training at Madrid's La Sala Mirador Theater. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Ms. Searls received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her M.F.A. in Directing from UC Irvine. Showtimes: Tuesday, March 11, 8 pm (preview) Wednesday, March 12, 8 pm (opening night) Thursday, March 13, 4 pm (a free showing for the UMBC campus community, reservations recommended) Friday, March 14, 8 pm Saturday, March 15, 8 pm Sunday, March 16, 4 pm Note: Fanto is not suitable for infants and toddlers. Admission $5 general admission, $3 for the preview. Ticket proceeds benefit the Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Telephone Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Theatre information: 410-455-2917 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre website: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 February 25, 2003 Bassist Michael Cameron to Perform at UMBC On Thursday, March 6th at 8 p.m., the UMBC Department of Music's Contemporary Concerts Series presents bassist Michael Cameron. Free admission, Fine Arts Recital Hall. The UMBC Department of Music'sContemporary Concerts Series presents contrabassist Michael Cameron, who will present a concert of contemporary classical music. The Program Michael Cameron's program will include excepts from the Bach Suite BWV 1010, Giacinto Scelsi's Maknongan, Stuart Saunders Smith's Light, A Dew, Nicholas Maw's The Old King's Lament, Erik Lund's descent, debris, debrief, Stuart Sankey's Haiku, Jelly Roll Morton's Buddy Bolden's Blues, and Hans Werner Henze's Serenade. About the Artist Michael Cameron has premiered dozens of solo and chamber works for bass by such composers as Ben Johnston, Violeta Dinescu, Yehuda Yannay, Herbert Brün, Allan Segall, Erik Lund, and many others, and he has also performed many American premieres of works by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (later broadcast nationwide on NPR's "Performance Today"), Sofia Gubaidulina, and Luciano Berio. He has also worked with composers George Perle and Helmut Lachenmann in adapting their solo cello works for the double bass. Cameron is the author of several articles for The Double Bassist and American String Teacher, has contributed a chapter to the Syllabus of Recommended Chamber Music for Bassists (published by the Yehudi Menuhin School in London), and he is chair of the string division of the University of Illinois School of Music. Cameron was a featured guest artist and lecturer at the 1990, 1995, and 1997 International Society of Bassists conventions, as well as at the Cincinnati Summer Bass School and several Midwest international band and orchestra clinics. Admission Admission is free Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 Flutist Lisa Cella to Perform at UMBC On Sunday, March 2nd, the Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents flutist Lisa Cella with pianist Sandra Brown. The program will include music by Sergei Prokofiev, Kaija Saariaho, Anne LaBerge, Paul Koonce and Pierre Boulez. 3 p.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. The Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents flutist Lisa Cella with pianist Sandra Brown. The Program The program will include Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata in D Major, Op. 94, for flute and piano; Kaija Saariaho's NoaNoa for flute and electronics; Anne LaBerge's Rollin' for solo amplified flute; Paul Koonce's Escape Tone for solo flute; and Pierre Boulez's Sonatine for flute and piano. About the Artist Lisa Cella holds a DMA in contemporary flute performance from the University of California, San Diego. She has performed with SONOR, the faculty ensemble of UCSD, SIRIUS, and in various concert series and festivals in the San Diego area. She is the executive director of San Diego New Music as well as a founding member of NOISE, the resident ensemble of San Diego New Music. A dedicated performer of contemporary music, she was a member of the Baltimore-based contemporary ensemble Polaris in 1993 and receive her Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Peabody Conservatory. Admission General admission: $7.00. Students and seniors: $3.00. Admission is free to holders of a current UMBC ID. Telephone General Music information: 410-455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Lisa Cella page: http://www.umbc.edu/music/site/faculty/cella.html Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media No images are available for this event. ### Posted by dwinds1 Writer Linda Weintraub to Lead Creative Process Workshop at UMBC On March 5th, UMBC's InterArts Program presents writer, curator and educator Linda Weintraub, who will conduct a mind-bending hands-on workshop on exploring the creative process. Admission is free. 8 p.m., University Center Ballroom. UMBC's InterArts Program presents writer, curator and educator LindaWeintraub, who will conduct a mind-bending hands-on workshop onexploring the creative process. Linda Weintraub served as Henry R. LuceProfessor of Emerging Arts at Oberlin College from 2000-2003. Weintraub isalso a Contributor to the international art journal Tema Celeste and the author ofIn The Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Artists (2003),Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art's Meaning in ContemporarySociety (1995, Insights Press). The exhibition Is It Art? wasmounted in conjunction with the book and toured nationally from 1995 and1997. From 1982 to 1993, Weintraub served as the first director of theEdith C. Blum Art Institute located on the Bard College campus where sheoriginated fifty exhibitions and published over twenty catalogues. She iscurator and co-author of Lo and Behold: Visionary Art in thePost-Modern Era, Process and Product: The Making of EightContemporary Masterworks, Landmarks: New Site Proposals by TwentyPioneers of Environmental Art, Art What Thou Eat: Images of Food inAmerican Art, and The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line.Since leaving Bard College, Weintraub co-curated an internationallytouring exhibition entitled Animal. Anima. Animus with MarkettaSepalla and The Art of Body Crafting. Prior to her appointment atBard College, Ms. Weintraub was the Director of the Muhlenberg College artgallery. She has taught both contemporary art history and studio art andholds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University. Admission Admission is free. Telephone General InterArts information: 410-455-3190 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the University Center. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the University Center. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the University Center. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media No images are available for this event. ### Posted by dwinds1 February 5, 2003 Phoenix Dance Company Performs at UMBC Carol Hess and Doug Hamby will premiere new work at Phoenix Dance Company's concert at UMBC February 12 through 15. Carol Hess and Doug Hamby will premiere new work at Phoenix Dance Company's concert at UMBC February 12 through 15. Hess' new work involves the intricate manipulation of sounds, as movements by dancers Mandi Brown, Evan Davidson and Pamela Stevens interact with a "wired" setpiece to create layers of random sounds that include rings, buzzes and beeps from telephones and cell phones. Underlying these sounds is a score by UMBC music department chair Linda Dusman entitled Sorry, Your Call Did Not Go Through, a mixture of voice messages from telephone answering machines. Onstage will be an array of speakers, enabling the voice messages to come from various locations in space. Interplay by Doug Hamby is a quartet which enlivens and intertwines the rich physical, temporal and spatial connections between the performers. The program also includes Hess' Private Property (1995), a "duet" for dancer and cameraperson to music by UMBC music professor Stuart Saunders Smith. The dancer's movements are captured by the camera, then manipulated and projected onto a large screen onstage. The piece, performed by Pamela Stevens and Nick Prevas, alludes to issues of privacy and surveillance. Bonds, an excerpt from Four Gestures (2002) by Hess, features three dancers who explore different interactions through inventive partnering. The dancers themselves (Mandi Brown, Evan Davidson, Eileen Mitchell) capture the piece on camera, using a variety of hand-held camera techniques. The images of the live performance are mixed (live) with an unusual combination of images of Ground Zero and nature, with a music score by Dusman. Artist-in-Residence Jeanine Dunning contributes Part One Parting, a solo performed by Sandra Lacy, with original electronic music by composer Chris Peck. Structured like a short story, Part One Parting follows a woman who recalls an event in her life over and over again. In this episodic solo, the dream-like sequences reflect the ideaof memory and how we remember and re-experience events. A professional company in residence at UMBC, Phoenix is co-directed by Hess and Hamby. Operating at the intersection between art and technology, the Phoenix Dance Company has explored radical dance collaborations with UMBC videographers, mechanical engineers, computer programmers and visual artists. Founded in 1983, Phoenix Dance Company has played in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Theatre Project, Ohio State University, Judson Church, Goucher College, McDaniel College, Salisbury University and Temple University. All performances will be held at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Admission is $15 general and $7 students/seniors. For more information and reservations call (410) 455-6240. Posted by dwinds1 February 4, 2003 Interface Ensemble to Perform at UMBC On Wednesday, February 26th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, InterArts and the Department of Music's Contemporary Concerts Series present interface, an electronic performance ensemble consisting of composer Curtis Bahn and Dan Trueman, and dancer Tomie Hahn. They will present an evening of electronic music and multi-media performance. On Wednesday, February 26th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, InterArts and the Department ofMusic's Contemporary Concerts Series present interface,an electronic performance ensemble consisting of composers Curtis Bahn and Dan Trueman, and dancerTomie Hahn. They will presentan evening of electronic music and multi-media performance featuring Pikapika, an interactive dance performance by Bahn and Hahn, and BoSSA Nova,a new iteration of Trueman's award winning bowed sphericalspeaker. Bahn is a professor of interactive music performance and directorof the iEAR studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;Trueman is professor of music composition at Princeton University; and Hahn isassistant professor of music at Tufts University. About interface The interactive computer music improvisation duo interface creates sonic textures ranging from delicate imperceptible noise to a high energy wall of sound. They have extended, surrounded, and obscured their electric stringed instruments with a variety of technologies, creating an organic, gesturally powerful computer music. Curtis Bahn plays the SBass, a 5-string "vertical bass" (like an acoustic bass with no body) fitted with electrical pickups, motion, touch and pressure sensors which allow him to "drive" his computer during performance. Dan Trueman plays a 6-string electric violin and an electric bow of his own design; the RBow is a normal violin bow covered with motion and pressure sensors that send performance information to Trueman's computer performance system. Their instruments are dynamic, changing constantly from performance to performance and within performances. Recently, they have begun to integrate spherical speaker arrays, which radiate sound in all directions, into their performance set-up. Interface has a commitment to free-improvisation and electronic music composition. They create real-time sonic environments in performance which combine pre-composed electronic sounds with real-time digital signal processing, synthesis, algorithmic composition, and sampling. Interface is often joined by dancer Tomie Hahn (as in this event) performing interactive dance/electronic music compositions Streams and Pikapika done in collaboration with Curtis Bahn. Hahn received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Wesleyan University in 1997. She began studying nihon buyo (Japanese traditional dance) in Tokyo at the age of four and received her natori (professional stage title) Samie Tachibana in 1989. Hahn also teaches and performs the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). Her current research spans a variety of topics from nihon buyo, Monster Truck rallies, issues of identity and creative expression of multiracial individuals, and gestural controllers as an interactive performance media. Hahn performs regularly, including traditional Japanese dance, contemporary performance art, and shakuhachi. Other collaborators with interface include Perry Cook on "DigitalDoo," Monica Mugan Wacom Tablet Performer, Nick Fortunato, Erin Seymour, Luke DuBois and Mark McNamara. Interface has performed throughout the Northeast and abroad, recently appearing at Engine 27, Tonic, the New York Interactive Music Festival at the Kitchen sponsored by Columbia University, the International Computer Music Festival in Thessaloniki, Greece, and the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the U.S. festival (SEAMUS). They have given lectures and concerts at major academic institutions including Princeton, Peabody, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the MIT Media Lab, and the Computer Music Center of Columbia University and presented their novel approaches to sonic display and gestural musical control at ICMC, CHI2001 and the ASA national conference. Admission Admission is free Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Department of Dance website: http://www.umbc.edu/dance interface website: http://www.arts.rpi.edu/crb/interface/interface.htm Clip of Pikapika (15 Mb): http://www.arts.rpi.edu/crb/interface/examplemedia/pikapika_med.mov Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 February 3, 2003 UMBC's InterArts Program Presents Theatre Artist Ping Chong On February 19th at 8 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, UMBC's InterArts Program presents Ping Chong, one of America's most renowned contemporary theatre artists, who will present a slide-show lecture on his work. UMBC's InterArts Program presents PingChong, one of America's most renowned contemporary theatreartists, who will present a slide-show lecture on his work. Ping Chong wasborn in 1946 and raised in the Chinatown section of New York City. Hestudied film-making and graphic design at the School of Visual Arts andthe Pratt Institute. Ping Chong began his theatrical career as a member ofMeredith Monk's The HouseFoundation. He collaborated with her on several major works includingThe TravelogueSeries and The Games, forwhich they shared the Outstanding Achievement in Music Theatre Award in1986. In 1972, Ping Chong gathered a group of artists at Meredith Monk'sloft in New York City to create Lazarus, hisfirst independent theatre work. Since then, he has created over fiftymajor works for the stage, including Humboldt'sCurrent (Obie Award, 1977), A.M./A.M. - TheArticulated Man (Villager Award, 1982), Nosferatu(Maharam Design Award, 1985), Angels ofSwedenborg (1985), Kind Ness (USAPlaywrights' Award, 1988), Brightness,which garnered two 1990 Bessie Awards, Deshima, Chinoiserieand AfterSorrow. In 1998 he created Kwaidan, hisfirst full-length puppetry work, in collaboration with Jon Ludwig andMitsuru Ishii. His work has been performed at such major New York venuesas The Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, The Joyce Theatre,La MaMa E.T.C., St. Clement's Theatre and The Central Park Summerstage, aswell as at major museums, theatres and festivals in North America, Europeand Asia. In recent years he has expanded the range of his explorations toinclude video and visual arts installations. Admission Admission is free. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Department of Music Presents Cellist Franklin Cox A cellist of international renown, Franklin Cox will present music of J.S. Bach, Elliott Carter, Mark Osborn, Thomas DeLio, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf and the performer. Saturday, March 1st, 2003, 8 p.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall. On Saturday, March 1st at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, the UMBC Department of Music's Faculty Recital Series presents cellist Franklin Cox in a program of contemporary and Baroque music. Biography Franklin Cox has performed in numerous festivals and new music ensembles, including the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, the Group for Contemporary Music, and SONOR, as well as at the 1980 and 1982 Spoleto Festivals, the 1983 Banff Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Xenakis Festival and Darmstadt RevisitedFestival at UCSD, and at the DarmstadtFestival since 1988, where he received a special citation for celloperformance in 1990. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in compositionfrom Indiana University, a Master ofArts degree in composition from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. incomposition at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cox hasstudied with BrianFerneyhough, RogerReynolds, JojiYuasa, StevenSuber, Fred Fox, HarveySollberger, FredLerdahl, and JackBeeson. He received an Alice M. Ditson Scholarship and DissertationFellowship at Columbia University,Regent's Fellowship and a Dissertation Research Fellowship for OutstandingResearch at UCSD, a full scholarship to the 1990 June in BuffaloFestival, and full scholarships for the 1988 and 1992 Darmstadt Festivals.He was awarded a Stipendium Fellowship at the 1990 Darmstadt Festival, won2nd prize in the Los Angeles Arts Commission competition in the spring of1991, and was co-winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (highest awardfor composition) in the 1992 Darmstadt Festival. Franklin Cox is presently co-editor of a book series, New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, published by Wolke Verlag, focusing on current issues in contemporary music. He is also the American representative in yearly international colloquium, The Fundamental Principles of Present-Day Composition, at Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. The Program Franklin Cox's program, dedicated to the memory of composer Mark Osborn, will include: Figment (1994) by Elliott Carter Transparent Wave V by Thomas DeLio Vice (1999) for cello and tape by Mark Osborn Shift (1992-94), for five cellists (version for solo cello and four taped celli) by Franklin Cox Recoil (1994) by Franklin Cox The Courier's Tragedy (world premiere) by Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf Cello Suite in D Minor by J. S. Bach. Special Note The composer Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, whose work The Courier's Tragedy will be premiered, will be in attendance. He will present a special lecture on his work on March 14 at 1 pm at the Department of Music, Fine Arts Building. Admission to his lecture is free. A native of Mannheim, Mahnkopf teaches at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and has served on the faculty of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He is co-editor and founder of the Gesellschaft für Musik & Ästehtik. A winner of the Gaudeamus Prize, he is the author of numerous works for chamber ensemble and soloists. Admission General admission: $7.00. Students and seniors: $3.00. Admission is free to holders of a current UMBC ID. Telephone General Music information: 410-455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Franklin Cox page: http://www.umbc.edu/music/site/faculty/cox.html Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. The image file for this event: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/music/eg/cox.jpg (617 Kb jpg file). ### Posted by dwinds1 January 24, 2003 Phoenix Dance Company Performs at UMBC UMBC's Department of Dance presents the Phoenix Dance Company in concert on February 12, 13, 14, and 15, 2003. All performances will be held at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. The venerable Phoenix Dance Company, founded in 1983, has played in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Theatre Project, Ohio State University, Judson Church, Goucher College, Western Maryland College, Salisbury University and Temple University. A professional company in residence at UMBC, Phoenix is co-directed by choreographers Carol Hess and Doug Hamby. UMBC's Department of Dance presents the Phoenix Dance Company in concert on February 12, 13, 14, and 15, 2003. All performances will be held at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. About the Phoenix Dance Company The venerable Phoenix Dance Company, founded in 1983, has played in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Theatre Project, Ohio State University, Judson Church, Goucher College, Western Maryland College, Salisbury University and Temple University. A professional company in residence at UMBC, Phoenix is co-directed by choreographers Carol Hess and Doug Hamby. Operating at the intersection between art and technology, the Phoenix Dance Company has explored radical dance collaborations with UMBC videographers, mechanical engineers, computer programmers and visual artists, recently including Steve Bradley, an intermedia artist who has generated live computer-enhanced video images and a system for generating sounds based on dancers' movements; Tony Farquhar, a mechanical engineer who developed a spunky six-legged dancing robot (Maurice Tombé); Vin Grabill, an MIT-trained videographer; and composer Linda Dusman. The Program Featured on the program are the following works: Private Property (1995) by Carol Hess, a "duet" for dancer and cameraperson to music by Stuart Saunders Smith. The dancer's movements are captured by the camera, then manipulated and projected onto a large screen onstage. The piece, performed by Pamela Stevens and Nick Prevas, alludes to issues of privacy and surveillance. Bonds, an excerpt from Four Gestures by Carol Hess, which premiered in 2002. In this section, three dancers explore different interactions through inventive partnering. The dancers themselves (Mandi Brown, Evan Davidson, Eileen Mitchell) capture the piece on camera, using a variety of hand-held camera techniques. The images of the live performance are mixed (live) with an unusual combination of images of Ground Zero and nature. The music score is by composer Linda Dusman. A new work by Carol Hess for three dancers (Mandi Brown, Evan Davidson, Pamela Stevens) that involves intricate manipulation of sounds, as the dancers' movements interact with a "wired" setpiece to create layers of random sounds that include rings, buzzes and beeps from telephones and cellphones. Underlying these sounds is a score by Linda Dusman entitled Sorry, Your Call Did Not Go Through, a mixture of voice messages from telephone answering machines. Onstage will be an array of speakers, enabling the voice messages to come from various locations in space. The premiere of a new work by Doug Hamby entitled Interplay. In this quartet, the dance enlivens and intertwines the rich physical, temporal and spatial connections between the performers. Part One Parting, a solo choreographed by Jeanine Durning and performed by Sandra Lacy, with original electronic music by composer Chris Peck. Structured like a short story, Part One Parting follows a woman who recalls an event in her life over and over again. In this episodic solo, the dream-like sequences reflect the idea of memory and how we remember and re-experience events. Principal Choreographers and Dancer Choreographer and artistic director Carol Hess received a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from Columbia University. Before coming to Maryland, she danced professionally in New York City, where she performed and taught in hundreds of public schools through the Young Audiences Programs and Residencies in the Schools and the Lincoln Center Touring Program. She has performed with Hannah Kahn and Dancers, the Rondo Dance Theatre, the Janet Soares Company, and as a tap soloist she has appeared on television and in concerts in the United States and Europe. As Artistic Director of the Oregon Dance Theatre, Ms. Hess, in partnership with the Carpenter Foundation, initiated a series of program and workshops in schools, in which nearly fifty schools participated. As associate professor of dance, Ms. Hess has taught at UMBC since 1982 and is currently chair of the Department of Dance, where she also directs Project REACH, an outreach program to Baltimore City and Baltimore County elementary, middle and high schools. Doug Hamby lives and works in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. He has extensive experience as a dancer, chroeographer, and educator. In addition to his work with the Phoenix Dance Company, he is the artistic director of Doug Hamby Dance, a professional dance company in residence at UMBC. Recent collaborators include artist Timothy Nohe, intermedia artist Steve Bradley, video artist Deborah Gorski, and mechanical engineer Tony Farquhar. Hamby has performed with Martha Graham, May O'Donnell, Rachel Lampert, Elizabeth Keen, Pearl Lang, Norman Walker, the Chicago Moving Company, Phoenix Dance Company, and Hamby and Lacy. His works have been featured at Dance Place, Washington, D.C.; Riverside Dance Festival, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, and Celebrate Brooklyn, in New York City; the 1998 New York International Fringe Festival; 1997 Philadelphia Fringe Festival; and 1996 International Fringe Festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland and Vancouver, Canada. He has received choreography awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, and the Baltimore Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture. He served as a dance advisory panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council for three years. He is an associate professor of dance at UMBC and holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University and a Biology degree from Michigan State University. He has also appeared on national television as a giant slice of American cheese. Principal dancer Sandra Lacy has been the recipient of three Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards in Solo Dance Performance. She holds a B.A. in psychology and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance in London. She has performed with Maryland Ballet, Impetus Dance Company, Path Dance Company, Lacy & Shade, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Ms. Lacy is on the faculty of UMBC and the Baltimore School for the Arts. Admission General admission: $15.00. Students and seniors: $7.00. Box Office: 410-455-6240 Telephone Box Office: 410-455-6240 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Dance website: http://www.umbc.edu/dance Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Department of Music Presents Its Spring 2003 Concert Season The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2003 concert season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music performances by world renowned artists. Among the major events is Music of Japan Today 2003, the largest festival and symposium of contemporary Japanese music in the United States. The UMBC Department of Music presents its spring 2003 concert season, featuring an array of contemporary classical music performances by world renowned artists. Among the major events is Music of Japan Today 2003, the largest festival and symposium of contemporary Japanese music in the United States. Professional Artists Series February 14 The Department of Music presentscomposer Claus-SteffenMahnkopf, who will lecture on his works. A native of Mannheim,Mahnkopf teaches at the Staatlichen Hochschule für Musik Freiburg andhas served on the faculty of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. He isco-editor and founder of the Gesellschaft für Musik &Ästehtik. A winner of the Gaudeamus Prize, he is the author ofnumerous works for chamber ensemble and soloists. A new work, TheCourier's Tragedy, will be premiered at UMBC on February 16th byFranklin Cox. 1 pm, location to be announced. Free admission. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. February 16 The Department of Music's FacultyRecital Series presents cellist Franklin Cox. His program will includeTransparent Wave V by Thomas DeLio;Vice for cello and tape by MarkOsborn; Shift, for five cellists (version for solo cello andfour taped celli) by Franklin Cox; the world premiere of The Courier'sTragedy by Claus-SteffenMahnkopf; and Time and Motion Study II for cello and liveelectronics by BrianFerneyhough. Franklin Cox has performed in numerous festivals and newmusic ensembles, including the Indiana University New Music Ensemble, theGroup for Contemporary Music,and SONOR,as well as at the 1980 and 1982 Spoleto Festivals, the 1983 Banff SummerChamber Music Festival, the Xenakis Festival and Darmstadt RevisitedFestival at UCSD, and at the DarmstadtFestival since 1988, where he received a special citation for celloperformance in 1990. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in compositionfrom Indiana University, a Master ofArts degree in composition from Columbia University, and a PhD. incomposition at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Cox hasstudied with BrianFerneyhough, RogerReynolds, JojiYuasa, StevenSuber, Fred Fox, HarveySollberger, FredLerdahl, and JackBeeson. He received an Alice M. Ditson Scholarship and DissertationFellowship at Columbia University,Regent's Fellowship and a Dissertation Research Fellowship for OutstandingResearch at UCSD, a full scholarship to the 1990 June in BuffaloFestival, and full scholarships for the 1988 and 1992 Darmstadt Festivals.He was awarded a Stipendium Fellowship at the 1990 Darmstadt Festival, won2nd prize in the Los Angeles Arts Commission competition in the spring of1991, and was co-winner of the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (highest awardfor composition) in the 1992 Darmstadt Festival. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with aUMBC ID. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. February 26 InterArts and the Department ofMusic's Contemporary Concerts Series present interface, an electronic performance ensembleconsisting of composer CurtisBahn and DanTrueman, and dancer TomieHahn. They will present an evening of electronic music and multi-mediaperformance featuring Pikapika,an interactive dance performance by Bahn and Hahn, and BoSSA Nova,a new iteration of Trueman's award winning bowed sphericalspeaker. Bahn and Trueman create sonic textures ranging from delicateimperceptible noise to a high energy wall of sound. They have extended,surrounded, and obscured their electric stringed instruments with avariety of technologies, creating an organic, gesturally powerful computermusic. Bahn is a professor of interactive music performance and directorof the iEAR studios at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;Trueman is professor of music composition at Princeton University; and Hahn isprofessor of performance ethnology at Rensselaer. (To view a 15MB clip ofPikapika, click here.) Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. March 2 The Department of Music's FacultyRecital Series presents flutist Lisa Cella with pianist Sandra Brown. Theprogram will include SergeiProkofiev's Sonata in D Major, Op. 94, for flute and piano; Kaija Saariaho's NoaNoa forflute and electronics; AnneLaBerge's Rollin' for solo amplified flute; Paul Koonce'sEscape Tone for solo flute; and PierreBoulez's Sonatine for flute and piano. Lisa Cella holds a DMA incontemporary flute performance from the University of California, San Diego. Shehas performed with SONOR,the faculty ensemble of UCSD, SIRIUS, and in various concert series andfestivals in the San Diego area. She is the executive director of SanDiego New Music as well as a founding member of NOISE, the residentensemble of San Diego New Music. A dedicated performer of contemporarymusic, she was a member of the Baltimore-based contemporary ensemblePolaris in 1993 and receive her Master of Music degree and a GraduatePerformance Diploma from the PeabodyConservatory. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with aUMBC ID. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. March 6 The Department of Music'sContemporary Concerts Series presents bassist Michael Cameron. Cameron has premiered dozensof solo and chamber works for bass by such composers as BenJohnston, VioletaDinescu, YehudaYannay, Herbert Brün,Allan Segall, ErikLund, and many others, and he has also performed many Americanpremieres of works by Sir Peter MaxwellDavies (later broadcast nationwide on NPR's "PerformanceToday"), SofiaGubaidulina, and LucianoBerio. He has also worked with composers GeorgePerle and HelmutLachenmann in adapting their solo cello works for the double bass.Cameron is the author of several articles for The Double Bassist and American StringTeacher, has contributed a chapter to the Syllabus of RecommendedChamber Music for Bassists (published by the Yehudi Menuhin School inLondon), and he is chair of the string division of the University of Illinois School ofMusic. Cameron was a featured guest artist and lecturer at the 1990,1995, and 1997 InternationalSociety of Bassists conventions, as well as at the Cincinnati SummerBass School and several Midwest international band and orchestra clinics. Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. March 20 The Department of Music'sContemporary Concerts series presents percussionist Jonas Larsson in a program featuringPrism (1994) by ThomasLiljeholm, Dad's time had come (2001) by Stuart SaundersSmith, Slideshow (2002) by Fredrik Österlin, VibraphoneMusic (No. 1) (2002) by J. Fredric Bergström, andDi-remption (1992) by Franklin Cox.Recognized as one of Sweden's most important percussionists, Larssonstudied at Göteborg University and is the founder and director of thecontemporary music ensemble Gageego!.He tours widely in Europe and the United States as a soloist. Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. April 2 The Department of Music presentsRuckus, the professional new musicensemble in residence at UMBC. Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. April 4 - 6 Music of Japan Today 2003 Festival and Symposium The Department of Music'sContemporary Concerts series presents Music of Japan Today 2003. This weekendfestival and symposium will bring prominent Japanese composers ToshiIchiyanagi, Joji Yuasa,AkiraNishimura, and TokuhideNiimi to the Baltimore-Washington area. Festival activities include acompetition for performers of contemporary Japanese music, a symposium forscholars, and performances by Ruckus,the faculty contemporary ensemble in residence at UMBC (Lisa Cella,flute; E.Michael Richards, clarinet; TomGoldstein, percussion; and Franklin Cox,cello); joined by guest artists). Major events include: April 4 An electronic/computer music concert featuring Patterns of Plant (1997) by Mamoru Fujieda, Iridescent Uncertainty (1999) by Steven Kazuo Takasugi, two major works (to be announced) by Joji Yuasa, Funakakushi by Toshi Ichiyanagi, and other works. 4 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. April 4 Ruckus, the professional music ensemble in residence at UMBC, in concert. The program will include Cosmos Haptic II (1989) by Joji Yuasa, The Soul Bird (1996) and Ohju (1987) by Tokuhide Niimi, Perspective (1986) by Toshi Ichiyanagi, and a new work (2003) and Organums (1989) by Akira Nishimura. 7:30 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. April 5 A student concert featuring Calling Together (1971), Questions (1978) and Mutterings (1989) by Joji Yuasa; Sapporo (1963), Music for Electric Metronomes (1968) and Stanzas (1961) by Toshi Ichiyanagi; and Melos II (1999) by Tokuhide Niimi. 4 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. April 5 Ruckus, the professional music ensemble in residence at UMBC, in concert. The program will include Cloud Atlas X (1999) and Cosmic Harmony (1995) by Toshi Ichiyanagi, Duologue for Timpani and Piano (1996) by Akira Nishimura, Terms of Temporal Detailing (1989) and A Winter Day: Homage to Basho (1981) by Joji Yuasa, and Kazane (1989) by Tokuhide Niimi. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. April 6 Ruckus, the professional music ensemble in residence at UMBC, in concert. Program to be announced. 4 pm, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Admission to all events to be announced. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. April 9 InterArts and the Department ofMusic's Contemporary Concerts series present composer PaulKoonce. An internationally recognized composer and softwaredeveloper, Koonce has a reputation for creating short but memorable piecesthat open ears and excite audiences. Koonce will play recent compositions,discuss the ideas behind them, and conclude with a demonstration andperformance of his most recent work with data gloves, virtual instruments,and new performance media. His remarks will focus on the challenge ofworking in a medium in which the performer is often absent. Koonce hasreceived grants and honors from the Guggenheim Foundation, McKnightFoundation, ASCAP, Bourges Institute International Competition ofElectroacoustic Music,1st International Electroacoustic Music Competitionof Sao Paulo, Prix Ars Electronica, Luigi Russolo InternationalCompetition for Composers of Electronic Music, and commissions from theInternational Computer Music Association Commission and the National FluteAssociation Young Artists Competition. Koonce's music has been performedat International Computer Music Conferences (Beijing, Ann Arbor, SanJosé, Delphi, and Thessaloniki), Synthese '99 (Bourges), Santa FeInternational Festival of Electro-Acoustic Music, University of Illinois,BEAST Murmurs Festival of Electroacoustic Music (Birmingham, UK), 5thInternational Acousmatic Festival (Brussels, Belgium), Walker Art Center(Minneapolis, Minnesota), SEAMUS Conference (Dartmouth University;Birmingham, Alabama; Ithaca, NY; and Kansas City), Sonic Circuits IIIFestival of Electronic Music, College Music Society, Darmstadt Festivalfor New Music. He is author of PVC, a phase-vocoder based, signalprocessing software package (UNIX). Koonce is currently on the faculty ofPrinceton University. Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Studio 508. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. May 4 The Department of Music's FacultyRecital Series presents alto saxophonist Anjan Shah and pianist Rachel Franklin. Their program will include theSonata, Op. 29 by RobertMuczynski; Caprice en forme de valse by Paul Bonneau;Prelude, Cadence et Finale by Alfred Desenclos; Fantasia byRonaldo Miranda;Ludington Woods by DominicDousa; and Divertimento by AkiraYuyama. Anjan Shah is an alto saxophonist who has appeared throughoutthe United States, Canada, and Europe as both a soloist and clinician withthe United States Army Field Band, Washington, D.C. Having earned aBachelor's Degree in Applied Saxophone from Michigan State University anda Master of Music Degree in Saxophone Performance from the University ofIllinois, Mr. Shah currently teaches saxophone at the Baltimore School forthe Arts, Goucher College (Baltimore, MD) and the University of Maryland(Baltimore County). He is a contributing writer for InstrumentalMagazine and frequently conducts master classes throughout themid-Atlantic region. Mr. Shah has performed regularly with the BaltimoreSymphony Orchestra in its SuperPops concert series under the direction ofMarvin Hamlisch. Additionally, Mr. Shah has worked with such musicalluminaries as Natalie Cole, Maureen McGovern, Sandy Duncan, Peter Nero,Jack Jones and the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. As a Pro Musicis InternationalAward winner, British pianist Rachel Franklin has given her solo debuts inCarnegie Recital Hall, New York, and Jordan Hall, Boston. The BostonGlobe enthused about her "beautiful differentiations of color,touch and texture" and described a performance on her solo debut CDas "not inferior...to the recorded performances by Cortot andRubinstein." She has also given European Pro Musicis solo debuts inParis and Rome. She has been featured on NPR's Performance Today, with whom she hasgiven frequent spoken broadcasts. She gives courses and lectures for manyorganizations including the Smithsonian Associates Program, the BaltimoreSymphony Orchestra, the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra and the LevineSchool. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 seniors, free for students, free with aUMBC ID. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. May 7 InterArts presents the SlantPerformance Group. Described as "Bizarre yetdelightful" by The New York Times, this male trio develops andpresents unique works of theatre. Their initial work, Big Dicks, AsianMen was premiered in 1995 to critical acclaim at New York's La MamaE.T.C. Since then, Slant has performed at venues such as Painted Bride,the Belgrade Experimental Theater Festival, Theater Artaud, and at overfour dozen colleges and universities across the United States. Theirperformance at UMBC will feature A Slanted Musical Kaleidoscope, a60-minute set of audience favorite excerpts from their repertory,including satirical scenes from the live theatrical show Big Dicks,Asian Men, their hit pop romantic song I'm in Love With ConnieChung, operatic puppetry between an all-star cast of dueling liquorbottles, the Accent Elimination theme song, and much morewackiness, comedy and parody. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. Student Recital Series February 7 The Department of Music presentsthe Jubilee Singers directed by JaniceJackson. In celebration of Black History Month, the ensemble'sperformance will present the history of Spirituals. 12 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. February 21 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC Jazz Ensemble directed by LafayetteGilchrist in an improv session. 1 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. March 8 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC Gospel Choir under the directionof JaniceJackson. Admission to be announced. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. March 16 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC Symphony Orchestra under thedirection of WayneCameron. The program features the Symphony No. 3 by Amy Beach, and UMBC student concerto competition winners Ann Lentz, flute, and Daniel Macintyre, clarinet. Free admission. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. April 7 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC Jazz Ensemble in an improvsession under the direction of LafayetteGilchrist. Free admission. 1 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. April 24 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC Jazz Ensemble in an big bandsession under the direction of LafayetteGilchrist. Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. April 30 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC Concert Choir under the directionof AyaUeda. Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. May 2 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC Saxophone Quartet. Free admission. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. May 3 The Department of Music presentsthe Jubilee Singers under the direction ofJaniceJackson. Free admission. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. May 5 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC Chamber Players. Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. For more information, call 410-455-MUSC. May 8 The Department of Music presentsthe Maryland Camerata under the directionof AyaUeda. Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. May 11 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC Symphony under the direction ofWayneCameron. Free admission. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. May 12 The Department of Music presentsthe Percussion/African Drumming Ensembleunder the direction of Barry Dove. Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. May 14 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC New Music Emsemble. Free admission. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. Additional Information Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Music information: 410-455-2942 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Evening parking is available in Lot 16, adjacent to the Fine Arts Building, for 50�. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 January 21, 2003 "Nayland Blake: Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002" at the Center for Art and Visual Culture A retrospective of work by Nayland Blake, whose work addresses issues of race and sexuality, opens at UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture with a public lecture by Blake (3:30 p.m.) and reception (5 p.m.) on February 7. "Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002," runs through March 22, 2003. A retrospective of work by Nayland Blake, whose work addresses issues of race and sexuality, opens at UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture with a public lecture by Blake (3:30 p.m.) and reception (5 p.m.) on February 7. Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002, runs through March 22, 2003. The exhibition will combine works from the past thirteen years of Blake's performance-based installations and includes several large-scale environments, objects and videos. Historically researched and often literary-inspired, Blake explores complicated and subtly mixed concepts such as identity, race, relationships, and representation. Some of his work incorporates playful and subversive images linked to childhood. David Deitcher writes in the exhibition catalogue, "[for almost twenty years] Nayland Blake's sculptural installations and performances have revealed a wide range of interests, from popular culture to vanguard subversion; from Camp to the queer body in the age of AIDS; from Sadean and psychoanalytic texts to the toxic legacy of American racism. Like so many American artists whose work has emerged during the 1990s, Blake's projects have often dealt with identity, which they envision as a compound process rather than a fait accompli." Blake, a native of New York City, received his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1984. He has had solo shows at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, San Francisco Artspace, and other venues. "Nayland Blake: Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002" was organized by the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Center for Art and Visual Culture (formerly the Fine Arts Gallery) is located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building. CAVC hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-3188. Click here for a schedule of upcoming visual arts events. Posted by dwinds1 January 17, 2003 Choreographer Jeanine Durning in Concert UMBC's InterArts and the Department of Dance present choreographer and dancer Jeanine Durning in a concert of modern dance on February 5, 2003, at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Durning and her company will present her newest work, half URGE, for five dancers to an original sound score by New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) winner Douglas Henderson. UMBC's InterArts and the Department of Dance present choreographer and dancer Jeanine Durning in a concert of modern dance on February 5, 2003, at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. "One follows Durning trustingly into mysterious worlds without hesitation." --Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times The Program Durning and her company will present her newest work, half URGE, for five dancers to an original sound score by New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) winner Douglas Henderson. The dance was inspired by a dream in which Durning was abandoned in an unnamed, desolate city that was crumbling and collapsing. She began by writing a series of narrative passages based on typical anxiety dreams -- for example: flying that turns into falling, swimming that turns into drowning, climbing stairs that suddenly collapse, being abandoned or losing one's way. The writings all referred to structures or constructs that are created to provide a sense of comfort and freedom, a sense of safety and stability that are then shifted against the initial desire. Allowing both the unconscious and conscious realms, the inner and outer worlds to seep into the process of choreographing, Durning created her work for five dancers from these writings. In half URGE, Durning explores the human dynamic of desire and the attempts to fulfill those desires through relationships and interactions. Durning's interest in the effect that eventual instabilities in our structures of safety (whether psycho-emotional or tangible structures) have on our behavioral choices, on our relationships and the fulfillment of our desires dictated that the work be created using a less controlled choreographic structure. Improvisation was used to develop movement based around simple word ideas such as collapse or incomplete. Then, Durning allowed time for the dancers to investigate the words through movement, physical interaction and behavior. Through this process, she created a dance that amplifies our desire to control that which is inevitably beyond control. half URGE will be performed by Jean Vitrano, Steffany George, Andrea Johnston, Molly Poerstel and Durning. Costumes are designed by Naoko Nagata. About Jeanine Durning Jeanine Durning has been choreographing and performing solo and group work since the early 1990s, and was dubbed by Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times as "a choreographer to watch for." Durning's choreography has been presented in New York at Dance Theater Workshop, at St. Mark's Church, Movement Research at Judson Church, Central Park SummerStage, among other venues, and as part of the Jacob's Pillow Inside/Out series. Her choreography has been recognized with commissions from the Jerome Foundation through Dance Theater Workshop's Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning program and Danspace Project's Commissioning Initiative. She was one of four choreographers invited this past summer to The Yard to begin a new project entitled Houdini is Free. Durning is dedicated to her ongoing research of movement, which has included over the years, but is not limited to, ballet, Release Technique, Alexander Technique, Pilates, Yoga and Contact Improvisation. She is interested in drawing from and bringing together those movement methodologies, as well as invited modalities in her work as a dancer/performer and in her work as a choreographer. Through her work, it is Durning's artistic mission to offer a multi-layered experience to the viewer in which boundaries of literal and linear interpretation are extended. As a performer, Durning was featured in the short film The Black Boots, written and directed by independent filmmaker Bridgit Murnane. Durning has had the pleasure of working with a number of choreographers whose work and processes have influenced her own, including Lance Gries, Roseanne Spradlin, Zvi Gotheiner, Wendy Perron, Dan Wagoner and David Dorfman (with whom she has participated in the collaborative process since 1993). Durning has taught dance nationally to dancers and non-dancers alike, of many age ranges, and is often a guest teacher at Movement Research and Dance Space in New York. She is currently Artist-in-Residence at UMBC. Originally from Cornwall, New York, Durning began her dance studies, as a teenager, in tap and jazz at the local dance studio. She attended the Boston Conservatory for two years before continuing her studies at New York University's Tisch School for the Arts, where she received her BFA. Admission General admission: $15.00. Students and seniors: $7.00. Box Office: 410-455-6240 Telephone Box Office: 410-455-6240 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Dance website: http://www.umbc.edu/dance This release as a pdf file: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/releases/03spring/durning.pdf Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Massin in Continuo: A Dictionary On view at UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from January 30 through March 9, 2003, Massin in Continuo: A Dictionary is the first United States exhibition of the French graphic design artist Robert Massin (known simply as Massin). While Massin is relatively famous in France, his originality and influence in graphic design is not as well known in the United States. Massin in Continuo: A Dictionary will give American audiences the opportunity to explore his innovative work within the context of the developing graphic design industry in France. On view at UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from January 30 through March 9, Massin in Continuo: A Dictionary is the first United States exhibition of the French graphic design artist Robert Massin (known simply as Massin). The exhibition was first shown at the Cooper Union Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography. About the Exhibition Massin in Continuo: A Dictionary explores the work of self-taught French designer Massin and his groundbreaking career. The exhibition is curated by Laetitia Wolff, founder of the New York-based marketing/design firm futureflair and Editor-in-Chief of Graphis magazine. While Massin is relatively famous in France, his originality and influence in graphic design is not as well known in the United States. Massin in Continuo: A Dictionary will give American audiences the opportunity to explore his innovative work within the context of the developing graphic design industry in France. A model of creativity, Massin transcended many long-established boundaries in the field of graphic design and works within multiple disciplines with elegance, humor and diversity. His career has been groundbreaking, spanning editorial graphics, poster and logo design, art direction, typography, photography, publishing, design education, and writing. Long before the idiosyncratic, broken type of Pentagram, Massin dared to play with letters, manipulating the alphabet, cutting titles, experimenting with forms, signs and fonts, and creating surprising three-dimensional limited-edition covers. He also created a popular series of creative book bindings. Collaborating with playwright Eugene Ionesco and writer Raymond Queneau, Massin explored the realm of kinetic typography, making their texts come alive in what he calls "expressive typography." Massin has worked for Gallimard, publishing empire of the French literary intelligentsia, for over forty years. In Gallimard's 1964 edition of La Cantatrice chauve (The Bald Soprano) by Ionesco, Massin combined the pictorial directness of a comic book with the expressive letter forms of Futurist poetry to create a design masterpiece of "visualized literature." futureflair has produced a poster designed by Mirko Illic, sponsored by Scheufelen Paper and Arti Grafiche, which functions as a catalog. It documents the life and work of Massin with a chronology and interpretative texts. futureflair has directed a documentary film presented within the exhibit. Interviews of Massin show him at home, in his studio at work, and discussing his career with various renowned Parisian publishers. The exhibition is sponsored in part by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York; and Les Editions Gallimard, Paris. Its presentation at UMBC is supported in part by an Arts Program Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts; and the Friends of the Library & Gallery. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of theprincipal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the SpecialCollections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over theworld, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for theUniversity community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitionsare occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of itsexhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery isfree. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone General Gallery information: (410) 455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/reference/gallery.php3 This press release as a pdf document (5.2 Mb): http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/releases/03spring/massin.pdf Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. The images in this release (and others) are available at 300 dpi on the abovewebsite. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 toexit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs tothe Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mileto the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue andHilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B.Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O.Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near theAdministration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced onall University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadwaysrequire a parking permit unless otherwise marked. ### Posted by dwinds1 Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Nayland Blake: Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002 UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Nayland Blake: Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002 from February 7 through March 22, 2003. Including several large-scale environments, objects, and videos, this exhibition will combine works from the past thirteen years of Blake's performance-based installations. The artist will give a public lecture on his work on Thursday, February 6 at 3:30 p.m.; the opening reception will follow at 5 p.m. UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Nayland Blake: Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002 from February 7 through March 22, 2003. The artist will give a public lecture on his work on Thursday, February 6 at 3:30 p.m.; the opening reception will follow at 5 p.m. Nayland Blake, a native of New York City, received his MFA at the California Institute of the Arts in 1984. He has had solo shows at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, San Francisco Artspace, and other venues. Blake's work addresses issues of race and sexuality through playful and subversive images often linked to childhood. Including several large-scale environments, objects, and videos, this exhibition will combine works from the past thirteen years of Blake's performance-based installations. Historically researched and often literary-inspired, Blake explores complicated and subtly mixed concepts such as identity, race, relationships, and representation. David Deitcher writes in the exhibitions catalogue, "[for almost twenty years] Nayland Blake's sculptural installations and performances have revealed a wide range of interests, from popular culture to vanguard subversion; from Camp to the queer body in the age of AIDS; from Sadean and psychoanalytic texts to the toxic legacy of American racism. Like so many American artists whose work has emerged during the 1990s, Blake's projects have often dealt with identity, which they envision as a compound process rather than a fait accompli." Nayland Blake: Some Kind of Love: Performance Video 1989-2002 was organized by the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, and curated by Ian Berry in collaboration with the artist. About the Center for Art and Visual Culture The Center for Art and Visual Culture (formerly known as the Fine Arts Gallery) is a non-profit gallery space dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art. The CAVC serves as a unique center for students, faculty, and the general public in the visualization and discussion of important philosophical and aesthetic issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, imaging and digital arts, video, film, installation and performance. Since 1989, the CAVC has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Center has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the CAVC's Internship Program. Currently the Center produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. With the printing of Minimal Politics: Performativity and Minimalism in Recent American Art in 1997, the CAVC inaugurated a new series of publications entitled Issues in Cultural Theory. These catalogues are published yearly and are distributed internationally through Distributed Art Publishers in New York. Since 1992, the Center for Art and Visual Culture has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions that contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the CAVC has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. These traveling exhibitions include: Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer's Perspective (1998) Minimal Politics (1997) Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia (1995/96) Notes In Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (1995) Ciphers of Identity (1994) Nancy Graves: Recent Works (1993) Environmental Terror (1992) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Center for Art and Visual Culture also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the CAVC, one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Center for Art and Visual Culture in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Hours of Operation Sunday: closed Monday: closed Tuesday 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Wednesday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Thursday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Friday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Saturday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Telephone CAVC offices: (410) 455-3188 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art CAVC website: http://www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery This release as a pdf document: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/releases/03spring/blake.pdf (3.5 Mb) Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Photo Credits Top: Transport #5 (function) 1990 Two Sony monitors on trolleys Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Middle: Gorge 1998 Video transferred to DVD with sound, monitor 60 minutes Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York Bottom: Starting Over Suit 2000 Cloth with 140 pounds of beans, steel armature Courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York ### Posted by dwinds1 November 19, 2002 "Adultery" is on Display at the UMBC Theatre The Department of Theatre's latest production, "An Evening of Adultery," features two one-act comedies written by Bernard Shaw and is under the direction of Colette Searls. "An Evening of Adultery" is coming to UMBC. Granted, none of the participants are actually married to their onstage spouse, but in the world that George Bernard Shaw created, that is irrelevant. The Department of Theatre latest production "An Evening of Adultery" features two one-act comedies written by the famed British playwright and is under the direction of Colette Searls. Both comedies look at adultery and the ramifications that it brings, but in a completely opposite manner. The first part of the production is Overruled. "This is more realistic and contains elements of farce and drawing-room British comedy," Searls says, adding, "It makes fun of British morality and British culture." When the adultery slaps each couple in the face, they sit down and have a nice chat about the situation. Enter jealousy and possessiveness and welcome to the second half of the evening -- Passion, Poison and Petrifaction, which introduces emotion and a hint of melodrama into the mix. "This is a volcanic theatrical explosion of passion," asserts Searls. Searls is a recent graduate of UC-Irvine's M F.A. Drama program, with an emphasis on directing. This is her first production at UMBC and the enthusiasm she exudes is obvious to all. Commenting on the reasons behind her choice of the Shaw plays, Searls says, "I chose these plays because the department and I determined that Shaw's language is extremely challenging and it requires very hard work." Searls is also impressed with the level of commitment and talent in the theatre department. "I'm very pleased to find the actors are up to the challenge," she states. An Evening of Adultery runs November 21-23 and December 6 and 7 at 8 p.m., and November 24 and December 5 and 8 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for UMBC faculty and staff, and $5 for students. All performances will be in the UMBC Theatre and all ticket proceeds benefit the UMBC Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. For more information go to www.umbc.edu/arts or call the Box Office at (410) 455-2476. - Jennifer Leigh Gibson Posted by dwinds1 "Adultery" is on Display at the UMBC Theatre The Department of Theatre's latest production, "An Evening of Adultery," features two one-act comedies written by George Bernard Shaw and is under the direction of Colette Searls. "An Evening of Adultery" is coming to UMBC. Granted, none of the participants are actually married to their onstage spouse, but in the world that George Bernard Shaw created, that is irrelevant. The Department of Theatre's latest production, "An Evening of Adultery," features two one-act comedies written by the famed British playwright and is under the direction of Colette Searls. Both comedies look at adultery and the ramifications that it brings, but in a completely opposite manner. The first play is Overruled. "This is more realistic and contains elements of farce and drawing-room British comedy," Searls says, adding, "It makes fun of British morality and British culture." When the adultery slaps each couple in the face, they sit down and have a nice chat about the situation. Enter jealousy and possessiveness and welcome to the second half of the evening -- Passion, Poison and Petrifaction, which introduces emotion and a hint of melodrama into the mix. "This is a volcanic theatrical explosion of passion," adds Searls. Searls is a recent graduate of UC-Irvine's M F.A. Drama program, with an emphasis on directing. This is her first production at UMBC and the enthusiasm she exudes is obvious to all. Commenting on the reasons behind her choice of the Shaw plays, Searls says, "I chose these plays because the department and I determined that Shaw's language is extremely challenging and it requires very hard work." Searls is also impressed with the level of commitment and talent in the theatre department. "I'm very pleased to find the actors are up to the challenge," she states. An Evening of Adultery runs on Nov. 21-23 and Dec. 6 and 7 at 8 p.m., and Nov. 24 and Dec. 5 and 8 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $ 10 for general admission, $8 for UMBC faculty and staff, and $5 for students. All performances will be in the UMBC Theatre and all ticket proceeds benefit the UMBC Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. For more information go to www.umbc.edu/arts or call the Box Office at (410) 455-2476. - Jennifer Leigh Gibson Posted by dwinds1 November 18, 2002 Artist Statement: Roz Croog But the body is also directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs. (Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish 1977. pp. 25-26). Lorton Prison is about to be demolished. Throughout the past year, prisoners from this District of Columbia Correctional Facility in Northern Virginia have been transferred to the Midwest. During several recent photographic visits to the Prison, I became intrigued with graffiti written in the Medium Security Adjustment Unit. Hopelessness in the form of anger, rage, and despair was evident in drawings and writings left behind in the darkened cells. The messages spoke to me of isolation, rejection, and invisibility. Perhaps the silent walls of their cells were the only witnesses to this anguish. My installation, located within the second and third floor corridors of the Fine Arts Building, consists of two parts: 1. Images of graffiti representing the embodiment of former inmates, and 2. Images of a prison cell block devoid of inmates. The Lorton property, acquired by the D.C. Government between 1910 and 1953, has been sold to a private developer and will now be commercialized. The buildings and bodies of the prison and prisoners at Lorton, Virginia, could not compete productively with a proposed 18-hole golf course, townhouses, and other economically-profitable industrial development. The prisoners have become more isolated from their families remaining in the Lorton area, and with less likelihood of their families visiting them, there is even less chance of their functioning effectively outside of a correctional institution. The moment someone went to prison a mechanism came into operation that stripped him of his civil status, and when he came out he could do nothing except become a criminal once again. (Michel Foucault, "Prison Talk," Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972 - 1977. pp. 41-42.) Further, as Foucault states in Discipline and Punish, the body is effective in a political system only if it is productive and subjective. And he proposes to write a history of the prison, "with all the political investments of the body that it gathers together in its closed architecture." (p. 31). Here, in the Fine Arts Building at UMBC, within the structure of a state institution which may also be described as politically motivated, where its progress, funding, construction, enrollment, program development is determined by "its very materiality as an instrument and vector of power" and knowledge, I find it appropriate to install my representation of the Medium Security Adjustment Unit corridor. The now empty prison building is like a palimpsest: it contains a record of all the bodies that have passed through it. Posted by dwinds1 November 7, 2002 UMBC Department of Theatre Presents An Evening of Adultery, Two One-Act Plays by George Bernard Shaw: Overruled and Passion, Poison & Petrifaction The Department of Theatre presents An Evening of Adultery, two one-act plays by George Bernard Shaw: Overruled and Passion, Poison & Petrifaction, on the ironies of infidelity, directed by Colette Searls. The UMBC Department of Theatre presents An Evening of Adultery, two one-act plays by George Bernard Shaw: Overruled and Passion, Poison & Petrifaction, on the ironies of infidelity. Both plays are directed by Colette Searls. Bored by countless treatments of adultery on the European stage, Bernard Shaw offered Overruled as his own "demonstration." What might happen if two married couples, caught red-handed, try to duke it out in a proper honest chat? From the opposite site of the Shavian brain, we present Passion, Poison & Petrifaction as its wayward companion. A parody of tragic melodrama, this "tomfoolery" unleashes the romance of love and vengeance with no such civilized restraint. The production features the work of Elena Zlotescu as costume & scenic designer, Terry Cobb as lighting and sound designer, Lynn Watson as vocal and dialect coach, and Greggory Schraven and technical director. Showtimes Thursday, November 21st at 8 pm (preview) Friday, November 22nd at 8 pm (opening night) Saturday, November 23rd at 8 pm Sunday, November 24th at 4 pm Thursday, December 5th at 4 pm (a free showing for the UMBC campus community) Friday, December 6th at 8 pm Saturday, December 7th at 8 pm Sunday, December 8th at 4 pm Admission $10 general admission, $8 UMBC faculty and staff, $5 students, and $3 for the preview. Ticket proceeds benefit the Department of Theatre Scholarship Fund. Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Telephone Theatre Box Office: 410-455-2476 Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Theatre information: 410-455-2917 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre website: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre This release as a pdf file: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/releases/02fall/shaw.pdf Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 Author Ellen Handler Spitz Will Read From and Speak About Her Book Inside Picture Books In honor of Children's Book Week, the UMBC Bookstore features a reading of Inside Picture Books by the author, Ellen Handler Spitz, professor in the Honors College and the Department of Visual Arts, on Saturday, November 23rd, at 11 a.m. in the UMBC Bookstore. A discussion and question-and-answer session will follow the presentation. In honor of Children's Book Week, the UMBC Bookstore features a reading of Inside Picture Books by the author, Ellen Handler Spitz, professor in the Honors College and the Department of Visual Arts, on Saturday, November 23rd, at 11 a.m. in the UMBC Bookstore. A discussion and question-and-answer session will follow the presentation. Mention a name from a beloved childhood picture book--Madeline, Corduroy, Peter Rabbit, Max and his "wild things"--and most adults can recollect a bright image, fragments of a story, the timbre of a certain reading voice, the sensation of being held, and best of all being together with someone and enveloped in fantasy. Why do picture book images shown to us as young children linger in our minds? How do picture books shape our lives early on and even later into adulthood? This book takes up such questions. It explores the profound impact of the experience of reading to children. Ellen Handler Spitz reveals how classic picture books transmit psychological wisdom, convey moral lessons, shape tastes, and implant subtle prejudices. Each chapter of the book discusses well-known children's books--Goodnight Moon, Babar, Little Black Sambo, to name a few--that deal with a theme of importance to young children. These include bedtime, separation, loss, and death; curiosity, disobedience, and punishment; and identity and self-acceptance. Focusing on the relationship between a child and an adult reader, Spitz explains the notion of "conversational reading" and emphasizes the mutual benefits of dialogue and intimacy. This book not only gives parents, grandparents, teachers, therapists, and scholars a new understanding of the meaning of picture books, it also empowers adults to interpret and choose future cultural experiences for their children. Autographed copies of the book will be available. During this event and for the day, all children's books will be on sale at 25% off. "There is something fine and rare in Ms. Spitz's book, with its interpretations of picture books ranging from Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon to Marjorie Flack's Story About Ping....Ms. Spitz speaks to her readers not as an academic but as a practiced read-aloud, knowing the relationship between storyteller and listener." --Edward Rothstein, The New York Times About Ellen Handler Spitz Ellen Handler Spitz is a Professor in UMBC's Honors College as well as in the Department of Visual Arts. She was educated at Barnard College and at Harvard and Columbia Universities; in addition, she studied at the Art Students League in New York, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and at SUNY, Purchase, under Antonio Frasconi. She has held year-long fellowships at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University (formerly, the Bunting Institute), and at the Center for Advanced Study, Stanford University. She has taught and/or lectured in England, France, Italy, Israel, the Netherlands, Austria, Spain, Russia, Canada, and the People's Republic of China. She is the author of Art and Psyche (Yale, 1985), Image and Insight (Columbia, 1991), Museums of the Mind (Yale, 1994), and Inside Picture Books (Yale, 1999). With several colleagues, she co-edited Freud and Forbidden Knowledge (1994) and Bertolucci's Last Emperor (1998), and she has published numerous articles, chapters, and reviews. At UMBC, she teaches interdisciplinary seminars that involve philosophy, psychology, literature, and the performing arts as well as visual culture. Telephone UMBC Bookstore: 410-455-BOOK (2665) Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Bookstore: http://bookstore.umbc.edu/ UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Inside Picture Books page at Yale University Press: http://www.yale.edu/yup/books/076029.htm Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Commons. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Commons. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Commons. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Posted by dwinds1 November 4, 2002 Center for Art and Visual Culture presents the Faculty Biennial UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents the Visual Arts Faculty Biennial from November 15 through December 21. In this Sixth Biennial, members of UMBC's Department of Visual Arts exhibit their current research in interactive media, photography, installations, graphic design, new genre, painting, video and film. Exhibitors include Diyan Achjadi, Guenet Abraham, Dan Bailey, Melanie Berry, Lee Boot, Steve Bradley, Lynn Cazabon, Irene Chan, Mark Alice Durant, Symmes Gardner, Vin Grabill, Hollie Lavenstein, Lisa Moren, Tim Nohe, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, Chris Peregoy, Alan Price, Peggy Re, Ann Rosenthal, Teri Rueb, Amie Siegel, Jaromir Stephany, Mark Street, John Sturgeon, Calla Thompson, William-John Tudor, Ren�e van der Stelt, and David Yager. UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents the Visual Arts Faculty Biennial from November 15 through December 21. In this Sixth Biennial, members of UMBC's Department of Visual Arts exhibit their current research in interactive media, photography, installations, graphic design, new genre, painting, video and film. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, November 14, from 5 to 7 pm. Exhibitors include Diyan Achjadi, Guenet Abraham, Dan Bailey, Melanie Berry, Lee Boot, Steve Bradley, Lynn Cazabon, Irene Chan, Mark Alice Durant, Symmes Gardner, Vin Grabill, Hollie Lavenstein, Lisa Moren, Tim Nohe, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, Chris Peregoy, Alan Price, Peggy Re, Ann Rosenthal, Teri Rueb, Amie Siegel, Jaromir Stephany, Mark Street, John Sturgeon, Calla Thompson, William-John Tudor, Renée van der Stelt, and David Yager. The work of four artists (Mark Street, Lynn Cazabon, Diyan Achjadi and Teri Rueb) is profiled in this release. Two panel discussions will complement the exhibition. On Thursday, November 14th from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m., panelists Lynn Cazabon, Guenet Abraham, Diyan Achjadi, Mark Street, Vin Grabill and Timothy Nohe will discuss Practice and Content: Technology and the Arts. On Monday, December 9th from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m., Linda Dusman, Carol Hess, Alan Kriezenbeck, Anna Rubin and John Sturgeon will discuss Artmaking in Stressful Times: Influences of 9/11. Mark Street's work ranges from abstract hand-manipulated material to work that recontextualizes found footage, to films that involve written texts. Each film attempts to investigate new terrain, and he avoids being confined by a specific look or mood. Among his works in the Biennial is Guiding Fictions (35mm, 5 minutes, color/sound, 2002), which premiered at the New York Film Festival in October, 2002. He states, "Images shot on walks in the forest with an old, twisted 35mm camera. The film trudged through the camera, on a last mission. I buried the film in the front yard. Let the dirt on the film kiss the dirt in the ground. Maryland humidity wore it down to its wisps. Much later, sound recorded in Brooklyn. Teenage skateboarders smoking cigarettes and jumping off the steps at my local subway entrance. A Russian festival in the park, much singing and speechmaking, all incomprehensible to me. The schism between the country and city, so clear at last." Lynn Cazabon will exhibit excerpts from STORY OF M, consisting of 140 direct digital photographs. She states, "STORY OF M presents the photographic documentation of artifacts from a lifetime of a single person, outlining a skeletal story of their owner for the viewer to 'write'. The piece began two years ago when I acquired a large collection of films, videos (primarily pornographic in nature), and miscellaneous objects spanning a time period of approximately thirty years of their owner's life (referred to as M in the piece). While sorting through this collection, I came to realize that I was getting to know (looking at) this person I had never met through the material objects he kept and used over a period of time. My own fascination with this discovery was mirrored on the other side of these objects: by the knowledge of M's once insistent gaze upon them. The pornographic content of the collection underlined the voyeuristic nature of M's gaze, primarily upon images of women's bodies, and at the same time made me realize the voyeuristic nature of my own enterprise. M was a producer of images as well--the piece includes three short self-portrait films. These films position the viewer in place of the camera, implicating them in this circuit of gazes. The documentation of these objects also gives a short history of technological obsolescence, spanning a period of time from the mid-sixties to the mid-nineties. This time period contains the artifacts of the pre-digital age: super-8 and 8mm film, VHS video, eight-track and cassette tapes, and VHS-C video technologies. The images document a history of an individual as inscribed in what he consumed as well as in the changing technological standards for representation made available to him by the companies that create them." Teri Rueb will exhibit The Choreography of Everyday Movement, which envisions as a topographical mapping the culturally inscribed nature of our everyday travels. Rueb says, "Using global positioning satellite receivers (GPS), the project seeks to render visible our movement through the built environment of the city, revealing socio-political and poetic patterns of traffic flow through the urban body. In these drawings we see images as often as we detect the variations of a traveler's movement through the city over time. The GPS, designed for precise measurement and navigation, is subverted and re-cast as a kind of giant pencil or tool for making chance compositions. The Choreography of Everyday Movement reduces the representation of movement and physical presence to the most basic visual abstraction in an attempt to privilege the poetic over the indexical. "The project takes process and performance as the subject of the work. Artist, studio assistant and traveler are all equal performers in this process-based work which explores the performance of our everyday lives. Process and performance are articulated as live and archived elements in the exhibition. As a live element, a participant is tracked by GPS as she moves about the city. The trail of the participant's movement is transposed into visual terms as a dynamic drawing generated in real-time over the Internet and presented as a projection in the installation space. "As an archived element, the drawings are recorded and presented for viewing in a three-dimensional format. Recorded journeys are prepared as vector-based drawings in Adobe Illustrator which are then printed on transparency film. Each printed journey is registered against prior journeys, and sandwiched between stacked 1/2" plates of glass. The stacks of glass grow taller over time with the addition of subsequent drawings, thus creating an expanding 'z-axis' through which the viewer can observe changes in the traveler's movement over time. Artist and studio assistant maintain the installation throughout the period of the exhibition by monitoring and recording each live Internet performance, translating drawings from performances into acetate prints, and integrating the prints into the glass stacks. "The piece uses GPS receivers interfaced with laptop computers. Geographical data from the GPS units is passed wirelessly via cellular modem to a Java applet running on a server on the Internet. The Java applet translates geographical data into a drawing that is generated in real-time as the performers move about the city. Java applet and wireless integration were realized by In Choi, UMBC, 2002." Diyan Achjadi will exhibit a digital fabric print, See Girl Run. She states, "Watching the news unfold in today's 24-hour television, the safety of home is punctured by images of violence occurring elsewhere, domestic comforts disjointed by the spectacle of other's pain. Recently my work has focused on the representation and use of militaristic attributes in the media, popular culture, and toys. Images from the news are taken, redrawn, and sometimes embroidered, in an attempt to negotiate the instantaneous delivery of information against the distance of place, the screen that simultaneously separates us from events while transporting to the epicenter. The labor of re-inscribing reconfigures the distant image, inserting the physical presence of a body." The Center for Art and Visual Culture The Center for Art and Visual Culture (formerly known as the Fine Arts Gallery) is a non-profit gallery space dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art. The CAVC serves as a unique center for students, faculty, and the general public in the visualization and discussion of important philosophical and aesthetic issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, imaging and digital arts, video, film, installation and performance. Since 1989, the CAVC has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Center has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the CAVC's Internship Program. Currently the Center produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. With the printing of Minimal Politics: Performativity and Minimalism in Recent American Art in 1997, the CAVC inaugurated a new series of publications entitled Issues in Cultural Theory. These catalogues are published yearly and are distributed internationally through Distributed Publishers in New York. Since 1992, the Center for Art and Visual Culture has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions that contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the CAVC has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. These traveling exhibitions include: Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer's Perspective (1998) Minimal Politics (1997) Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia (1995/96) Notes In Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (1995) Ciphers of Identity (1994) Nancy Graves: Recent Works (1993) Environmental Terror (1992) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Center for Art and Visual Culture also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the CAVC, one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Center for Art and Visual Culture in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Hours of Operation Sunday: CLOSED Monday: CLOSED Tuesday 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Wednesday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Thursday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Friday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Saturday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Telephone CAVC offices: (410) 455-3188 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art CAVC website: http://www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery This release as a pdf document (2.1Mb): http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/releases/02fall/biennial.pdf Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 October 28, 2002 The UMBC Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents ®TMark representatives Ray Thomas and Frank Guerrero The UMBC Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents ®TMark representatives Ray Thomas and Frank Guerrero, on Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 1 p.m. in Fine Arts Building Room 215. The UMBC Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents ®TMark representatives Ray Thomas and Frank Guerrero, on Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 1 p.m. in Fine Arts Building Room 215. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series presents ®TMark representatives Ray Thomas and Frank Guerrero. ®TMark is an Internet based market system that supports the informative alteration of corporate products. ®TMark derives its name from "registered trademark" and is pronounced "art mark." Since its inception in the early 1990s, ®TMark has been responsible for funding many high-profile anti-corporate actions through its "mutual funds." It has been called the "MacArthur Foundation for aesthetic anarchy" by the Village Voice. They have swapped the voiceboxes of talking Barbie and GI Joe dolls at toy stores throughout the United States, backed Illegal Art in the production of "Deconstructing Beck," a remix of Beck Hansen's music, instigated actions such as "Phone in Sick Day," and supported the satirical websites GWBush.com, Voteauction.com and gatt.org. ®TMark has also emerged as an effective defender of artists against corporate interests on the Web, most notably in defense of the artists group etoy from Internet toy giant eToys. This event will be netcast live at http://concretestream.umbc.edu. Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Visual Arts information: 410-455-2150 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Visual Arts website: http://art.umbc.edu/ ��ark website: http://www.rtmark.com/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Images for ®TMark are available on their website: http://www.rtmark.com/ads.html ### Posted by dwinds1 The UMBC Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents �TMark representatives Ray Thomas and Frank Guerrero The UMBC Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents ®TMark representatives Ray Thomas and Frank Guerrero, on Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 1 p.m. in Fine Arts Building Room 215. The UMBC Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents ®TMark representatives Ray Thomas and Frank Guerrero, on Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 1 p.m. in Fine Arts Building Room 215. Note: This release is also available as a downloadable pdf file (3.3 Mb). The Visiting Artists Lecture Series presents ®TMark representatives Ray Thomas and Frank Guerrero. ®TMark is an Internet based market system that supports the informative alteration of corporate products. ®TMark derives its name from "registered trademark" and is pronounced "art mark." Since its inception in the early 1990s, ®TMark has been responsible for funding many high-profile anti-corporate actions through its "mutual funds." It has been called the "MacArthur Foundation for aesthetic anarchy" by the Village Voice. They have swapped the voiceboxes of talking Barbie and GI Joe dolls at toy stores throughout the United States, backed Illegal Art in the production of "Deconstructing Beck," a remix of Beck Hansen's music, instigated actions such as "Phone in Sick Day," and supported the satirical websites GWBush.com, Voteauction.com and gatt.org. ®TMark has also emerged as an effective defender of artists against corporate interests on the Web, most notably in defense of the artists group etoy from Internet toy giant eToys. This event will be netcast live at http://concretestream.umbc.edu. Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General Department of Visual Arts information: 410-455-2150 Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Visual Arts website: http://art.umbc.edu/ ��ark website: http://www.rtmark.com/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Images for ®TMark are available on their website: http://www.rtmark.com/ads.html ### Posted by dwinds1 October 7, 2002 Federal City Brass Band to Perform at UMBC The UMBC Department of Music presents the Federal City Brass Band, directed by Jari Villanueva, on Friday, October 25, 2002, at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The band performs on authentic Civil War era instruments. The UMBC Department of Music presents the Federal City Brass Band, directed by Jari Villanueva, on Friday, October 25, 2002, at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The Federal City Brass Band made its debut at the 140th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. Featuring original Civil War era instruments, many drawn from the Mark Elrod Collection, the ensemble is uniformed as a Union regimental band. Emulating the many brass bands that entertained during the Civil War, the Federal City Brass Band performs arrangements from both contemporary band scores and piano music. Jari Villanueva, director A musician and historian, Jari Villanueva has sounded "Taps" at Arlington National Cemetery more than 1,600 times over seventeen years as a member of the United States Air Force Band. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and Kent State University, he was the curator of the Taps Exhibit at Arlington and is the author of Twenty Four Notes That Tap Deep Emotions, the history of the bugle call "Taps." He has arranged volumes of Civil War music for brass quintet, and published articles on the history of bugle calls and brass bands of the Civil War. An active Civil War reenactor, he has sounded bugle calls for Co. D, 3rd U.S. Infantry and has served as Chief Bugler for Vincent's Brigade. He has also served as assistant music producer and bugler for the movie Gods and Generals. Mark Elrod, collector and performer An internationally known musicologist, historian and collector of antique brass instruments, Mark Elrod retired from the U. S. Army in 1998 with over twenty-eight years of combined service with the U.S. Army and Marine Corps, as a combat artilleryman and helicopter door gunner in Vietnam, as a musician (bugler) with the Army's principal ceremonial unit, the 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry ("The Old Guard") at Fort Myer, Virginia, and as a musician with the prestigious United States Marine Band. He holds a B.S. degree in industrial arts from Salem College in Salem, West Virginia. Elrod is the author of A Pictorial History of Civil War Era Musical Instruments and Military Bands, the definitive reference work on American Civil War era band instruments, bands and music. While attending the Catholic University School of Music, he co-founded the Heritage Americana Band, a performance ensemble dedicated to the performance of Civil War era wind band music on original period instruments. He was recently contracted as a music consultant to a new movie based on the Civil War novel Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. Admission Admission is free. Telephone Public information: (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS General Department of Music information: (410) 455-2942 Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Image on this release (2Mb): http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/music/fall02/federalcityband.jpg Photo credit: Robert Szabo ### Posted by dwinds1 August 28, 2002 Bugallo-Williams Piano Duo to perform at UMBC On Thursday, September 19th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, theDepartment of Music's Contemporary Concerts series presents theBugallo-Williams Piano Duo. The Duo's program will include music by Conlon Nancarrow, Morton Feldman, Amy Williams, Gy�rgy Kurt�g, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Jukka Tiensuu, and Mauricio Kagel. On Thursday, September 19th at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall, theDepartment of Music's Contemporary Concerts series presents theBugallo-Williams Piano Duo. Argentinean pianist Helena Bugallo and Americancomposer-pianist Amy Williams perform throughout this country and abroad.Hailed as "one of the world's pre-eminent ensembles devoted to waving thebanner for contemporary piano duo literature" (The Buffalo News), theBugallo-Williams Piano Duo has been committed to presenting concerts ofcontemporary music since 1995. They have been featured performers at theNumus Festival (Denmark), the Teatro San Mart�n (Buenos Aires), the June inBuffalo Festival, the North American New Music Festival (Buffalo), JordanHall (Boston), the Stefan Wolpe Festival (Evanston), Society for New Music(Syracuse), ThreeTwo Festival, Goethe-Institut New York, and the OGNATFestival (Sweden), among others. The Duo's program will include transcriptions of Conlon Nancarrow's StudiesNos. 3c, 9, 14, 19, and 26 (1948-60); Morton Feldman's Piano Four Hands(1958); Amy Williams's Abstracted Art (2001-02); excerpts fromGy�rgy Kurt�g's Jatekok (1970); arranged excerpts from KarlheinzStockhausen's Tierkreis (1975); Jukka Tiensuu's ...Kahdenkesken (1983); andMauricio Kagel's Der Eid des Hippokrates (1984). Their vast repertoire encompasses substantial late twentieth-century worksby major American and European figures, including Cage, Feldman, Reich,Wolpe, Stravinsky, Kurt�g, Ligeti, Kagel, and Sciarrino. They have premiereddozens of works by younger composers, many of whom have written especiallyfor the Duo. During the summers of 2000 and 2001, they wereartists-in-residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany,where they were also featured performers at the Musik aus Solitude Festival.Their upcoming debut CD will be released on the Wergo label, produced by theS�dwestrundfunk (German Radio); it will feature the complete music for solopiano and piano duet by Conlon Nancarrow, including new transcriptions often of his remarkable Studies for Player Piano. Upcoming engagements includerecitals at New York City's Merkin Hall and the Americas House (as part ofthe Stefan Wolpe centennial celebration), as well as performances inEngland, Uruguay, Canada, Mexico, and throughout the Northeastern UnitedStates. Admission is free. Public information: 410-455-MUSC. Additional Information Images for Media High resolution images (including those on this release) for media areavailable online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): 410-455-ARTS General music information: 410-455-MUSC Media inquiries only: 410-455-3370 Web UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile tothe entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue andHilltop Road. Follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near theAdministration Building. Meters are in effect until 7:30 p.m. Visitorparking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. HilltopCircle and all campus roadways require a parking permit, unless otherwisemarked, until 3 p.m. on weekdays. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 August 12, 2002 Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Maria Elena González: Selected Works 1996 - 2002 UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Maria Elena González: Selected Works 1996 - 2002. This exhibition, curated by Renée van der Stelt, features recent sculptures and drawings by emerging artist Maria Elena González, a Cuban-American artist from New York City. The exhibition will also introduce her public sculpture called Magic Carpet/Home, which will be installed in City Springs Park, near five Baltimore public housing projects, in the spring of 2003. An educational outreach program will accompany the exhibition and public sculpture. Maria Elena González has been investigating the possibilities of formal sculpture for over a decade. Her work accesses elements of sculpture while reworking what these elements represent, complicating our interaction with form to evaluate identity, emotion, history and the nature of metaphor. On Thursday, September 12, the artist will speak from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in the Center's Gallery. The opening reception will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. UMBC's Center for Art and Visual Culture presents Maria Elena González: Selected Works 1996 - 2002. This exhibition, curated by Renée van der Stelt, features recent sculptures and drawings by emerging artist Maria Elena González, a Cuban-American artist from New York City. The exhibition will also introduce her public sculpture called Magic Carpet/Home, which will be installed in City Springs Park, near five Baltimore public housing projects, in the spring of 2003. An educational outreach program will accompany the exhibition and public sculpture. Maria Elena González has been investigating the possibilities of formal sculpture for over a decade. Her work accesses elements of sculpture while reworking what these elements represent, complicating our interaction with form to evaluate identity, emotion, history and the nature of metaphor. On Thursday, September 12, the artist will speak from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in the Center's Gallery. The opening reception will be held from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. About the Artist Maria Elena González is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. Her drawings, sculptures and installations combine a minimalist aesthetic with a highly personal content, employing powerful metaphors along the way. The events of her life are seen through unpredictable subjects such as cakes, champagne glasses, baseballs, and flying carpets. Her work focuses on the body and self with the intention of moving between public and private space. She is committed to changing the standard way of looking at art, by eliminating the distance between object and viewer. González incorporates tactile materials, encouraging viewers to do what is often forbidden: touch the art. Her work contains rich and beautiful surfaces such as wood, rubber, lead, tile, feathers, and smoke. The work of Maria Elena González embraces the traditions of contemporary art, but renews the language of sculpture and expands ideas of community. Like the Minimalists, by whom she was influenced and to whose legacy she responds, she is not a figurative artist; her objects and references are stripped down to essential materials and form. But she rejects the coldness, distance, and emphasis of formal issues of Mimimalism. She aims to humanize the formal rigor of her predecessors through tactility, texture, personal metaphors, humor and implied narrative. The exhibition was organized to emphasize the idea of a studio visit, and thereby to show the connections between Ms. González's works, to emphasize that the process of creating can be as interesting and as important as the work itself. The drawings, sketches and plans show the development of ideas before and after a sculpture is completed. The sculptures and video documentations of three previous installations show the range of production, and versatility demanded of a contemporary sculptor. A recent focus of Maria Elena González's work is the Magic Carpet/Home projects. After consultation with the Baltimore City Department of Parks and Recreation, as well as neighborhood organizations and residents, González will install a Magic Carpet/Home sculpture in Baltimore's City Springs Park in spring 2003. Each Magic Carpet/Home replicates the floor plan for a typical neighborhood apartment, printed on the soft black rubber that is used to surface playgrounds. An undulating structure is built to float the "carpet" above the ground. The dimensions of each piece are determined by the square footage of the apartment references. After consulting with Baltimore City's Department of Public Housing, the artist selected a 766 square foot one-bedroom apartment from Douglas Homes as her architectural floor plan for Magic Carpet/Home. An intensive educational outreach program for four K-12 schools near City Spring Park will commence in September 2002 and will culminate with the Magic Carpet/Home installation in the spring of 2003. A 36-page brochure, containing an interview with the artist and an essay by Mark Alice Durant, associate professor of visual arts, will be available at the Gallery. González is the recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation grant, the Anonymous Was a Woman grant, and fellowships from Artists' Space and Art Matters. Upcoming exhibitions of her work this year include UN Real Estates, DiversWorks, Houston, Texas, a traveling show of new works; and Mnemonic Architecture at the Bronx Museum of Art, New York City. She has had one-person exhibitions and projects with the Public Art Fund in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn; The Project, New York; Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; New York Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn; and Art in General, New York. Her group exhibitions include Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York; White Columns, New York; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Cuban Museum for Art and Culture, Miami, Florida; PS1, Long Island City, New York; and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York. The Center for Art and Visual Culture The Center for Art and Visual Culture (formerly known as the Fine Arts Gallery) is a non-profit gallery space dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art. The CAVC serves as a unique center for students, faculty, and the general public in the visualization and discussion of important philosophical and aesthetic issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, imaging and digital arts, video, film, installation and performance. Since 1989, the CAVC has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Center has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the CAVC's Internship Program. Currently the Center produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. With the printing of Minimal Politics: Performativity and Minimalism in Recent American Art in 1997, the CAVC inaugurated a new series of publications entitled Issues in Cultural Theory. These catalogues are published yearly and are distributed internationally through Distributed Publishers in New York. Since 1992, the Center for Art and Visual Culture has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions that contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the CAVC has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. These traveling exhibitions include: Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer's Perspective (1998) Minimal Politics (1997) Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia (1995/96) Notes In Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (1995) Ciphers of Identity (1994) Nancy Graves: Recent Works (1993) Environmental Terror (1992) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Center for Art and Visual Culture also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the CAVC, one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Center for Art and Visual Culture in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Hours of Operation Sunday: CLOSED Monday: CLOSED Tuesday 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Wednesday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Thursday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Friday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Saturday: 10 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. Telephone CAVC offices: (410) 455-3188 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art CAVC website: http://www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 August 2, 2002 Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter Opening on September 9th and continuing through December 7th, UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter. Organized by the Library Gallery with guest curator Margaret Re, assistant professor of visual arts at UMBC, the exhibition will examine the significant contributions of Matthew Carter to the field of visual communications. Mr. Carter is one of the pre-eminent type designers of the 20th century and a historian of printing. His career has encompassed the typographical revolution which evolved from working with the Ensched� printing house, where he learned how to cut metal type, to Carter & Cone, one of the first independent digital typefoundries. Typefaces to his credit include ITC Galliard, ranked as one of the most significant design contributions of the twentieth-century and Verdana, likely to be ranked as one of the most significant design contributions of the twenty-first century. Opening on September 9th and continuing through December 7th, UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter. Organized by the Library Gallery with guest curator Margaret Re, assistant professor of visual arts at UMBC, the exhibition will examine the significant contributions of Matthew Carter to the field of visual communications. Mr. Carter is one of the pre-eminent type designers of the 20th century and a historian of printing. His career has encompassed the typographical revolution which evolved from working with the Ensched� printing house, where he learned how to cut metal type, to Carter & Cone, one of the first independent digital typefoundries. Typefaces to his credit include ITC Galliard, ranked as one of the most significant design contributions of the twentieth-century and Verdana, likely to be ranked as one of the most significant design contributions of the twenty-first century. Exhibition Support Typographically Speaking has received major funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional support has been provided by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences, AIGA Baltimore, the Friends of the Library & Gallery, and Carol Twombly. At UMBC, support has been provided the Department of Visual Arts, the Graduate School, Special Sessions Policy Committee, and the Humanities Forum. About the Exhibition Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter celebrates the art and form of typography through the achievements of Matthew Carter, a type designer with more than 40 years experience, ranging from hand-cut punches to computer fonts. During his expansive career, Carter has pioneered all aspects of typography in its evolution, continuously pushing the creative and technological envelope as it relates to typography and visual communications. Carter's work bridges a knowledge of technology that extends past historical and technological divisions, ensuring that the very real human needs for readability, legibility, and expression are met. A major artist with whom most people are unknowingly familiar even as they encounter his work daily, Carter has made typefaces for journalistic purposes that daily grace the pages of popular magazines and respected newspapers. His typefaces for on-screen viewing regularly lend readability, legibility, and efficiency to screen-based communications. He has received major commissions to design proprietary typefaces, whose use are restricted to one organization, for major news media corporations, software companies, and cultural institutions. The exhibition will present a selection of original typefaces designed by Mr. Carter and will also include the work of selected graphic designers demonstrating how pervasive Carter's influence is in the field of visual communication. The show will be accompanied by an illustrated catalog. The exhibition has been designed to serve as both an introduction to Carter's work and to the breadth and range of his typefaces, as well as a visual document of how his typographic innovations have influenced the state of visual communications. The core of the exhibition presents the work of Matthew Carter with type panels selected from Carter's own archive. Twenty-eight panels document the wide range of Carter's typefaces, some well-known and familiar, such as Bell Centennial, ITC Galliard, ITC Charter, Mantinia, and Miller, and others less so, such as Airport, National Geographic Caption, Elephant, and Olympian. Carter's final product is the words used to make thought visible across time and space. Essentially, Carter makes a tool which others, such as graphic designers, use to give form to a message, realizing that form given to a text influences the reader's comprehension of the content. Desktop publishing has put the capability to develop the design or presentation of a text in a finished manner within the reach of most. Non-designers are grappling with the relationship between form and content as we ask ourselves if a typeface is situationally appropriate as we compose documents such as business memos, school papers, and personal letters "trying on" different typefaces much as we try on different clothes for a specific occasion. Public Program On September 26 at 3 pm, Matthew Carter will lead a gallery tour of the exhibition, and a panel discussion will address typography as an industrial object, focusing on the relationship between type design as a form of industrial design and visual communication. Panel participants include Matthew Carter; Margaret Re; Johanna Drucker, the Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia; and Steve Heller, design educator, author, and art director for The New York Times Book Review. Publication The accompanying publication comprises two books: one functions as a catalog to the exhibition, offering insight into Carter's career and typefaces, as well as documenting the works included in the exhibition as originally present at UMBC. Contributing essayists are Johanna Drucker, author of the Alphabetical Labyrinth: The Letters in History and Imagination; Margaret Re; and James Mosley, visiting professor at the department of Typography and Graphic Communication, University of Reading, who recently retired as the librarian of the St. Bride Printing Library in London. The second book, nicely pocketed in the first, is a specimen book, designed and with an introduction by Carter, which documents all of his typefaces and shows those typefaces that can be made in PostScript and TrueType formats. About Matthew Carter Matthew Carter is a principal of Carter & Cone Type, Inc., an independent digital typefoundry in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is internationally known as a type designer with over fifty typeface families to his credit, including Bell Centennial (designed to accommodate the format of telephone directories), Miller News (a newspaper text type), Walker (proprietary to the Walker Arts Center), and Verdana and Georgia (designed for the internet and commissioned by Microsoft). Scholarly publications include "Galliard: A Revival of Types of Robert Granjon," in Visible Language, "Communicating Graphically," in Journal of the Royal Society of Arts; and "Typography and Current Technologies," in Design Quarterly. Articles about his work have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Eye, Graphis, and I.D. Magazine, and books such as Graphic Design in America: A Visual Language History and Twentieth Century Type Designers. Carter chairs the type designers' committee of Association Typographique Internationale. He has been a juror of the triennial Morisawa International Type Design Competition, and has also juried the Presidential Design Awards, and competitions organized by the Type Directors Club and the Society of Publication Designers. He has held a faculty appointment as a senior critic at Yale University since 1977. Awards he has received include the Frederic W. Goudy Award for outstanding contributions to the printing industry (1986), the Middleton Award from the American Center for Design (1995), the AIGA Gold Medal (1995), the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design (1996), and the Type Directors Club medal (1997). Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of theprincipal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the SpecialCollections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over theworld, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for theUniversity community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitionsare occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of itsexhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery isfree. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone General Gallery information: (410) 455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/reference/gallery.php3 This press release as a pdf document (3.5 Mb): http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/releases/02fall/carter.pdf Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. All the images in this release are available at 300 dpi on the abovewebsite. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 toexit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs tothe Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mileto the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue andHilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B.Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O.Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near theAdministration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced onall University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadwaysrequire a parking permit unless otherwise marked. ### Posted by dwinds1 June 5, 2002 Maryland Stage Company produces and presents Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream The Maryland Stage Company, the professional theatre company in residence at UMBC, produces and presents Shakespeare's comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream in The Pearlstone Theater at Center Stage. The production opens on June 20th and closes on July 7th, with previews on June 18th and 19th. The Maryland Stage Company, the professional theatre company in residence at UMBC, produces and presents William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream June 20 through July 7 in The Pearlstone Theater at Center Stage. (Previews will be held on June 18 and 19.) The production is directed by MSC artistic director Xerxes Mehta. The cast includes MSC associate artist Wendy Salkind and Helen Hayes Award nominee Bill Largess, with a dynamic band of professional actors from New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. Sets and costumes are by designer Elena Zlotescu, lighting and sound by Colin K. Bills and William-John Tudor, voice and speech coaching by Lynn Watson, and dance movement by Ken Skrzesz. About the Maryland Stage Company Founded in 1987 by its Artistic Director, Xerxes Mehta, the Maryland Stage Company is the professional theatre in residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The MSC has received consistent national and international acclaim for its innovative and challenging productions, and continues to act as a magnet for performers, designers, choreographers, composers and musicians from throughout the Eastern Seaboard. The MSC's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream marks the MSC's return to Center Stage, where it performed during the summers of 1997 (Tartuffe), 1998 (The Seagull) and 1999 (Six Degrees of Separation). Of the Maryland Stage Company's performance of a trio of Beckett plays in Berlin in 2000, Peter Laudenbach of the Berliner Tagesspiegel said, "Anyone who missed these performances and who loves theatre should consider jetting to Baltimore, Maryland, to see these astounding theatre artists on their home turf." Showtimes Previews: Tuesday and Wednesday, June 18 & 19, 8 pm Opening Night Gala, Thursday, June 20, 8 pm Friday, June 21, 8 pm Saturday, June 22, 8 pm Sunday, June 23, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Wednesday, June 26, 8 pm Thursday, June 27, 8 pm Friday, June 28, 8 pm Saturday, June 29, 8 pm Sunday, June 30, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Tuesday, July 2, 8 pm Wednesday, July 3, 8 pm Friday, July 5, 8 pm Saturday, July 6, 8 pm Sunday, July 7, 2 pm and 7:30 pm Admission Opening Night Gala: $50 (includes post-show champagne and dessert reception) Regular admission: $20 Preview performances: $18 Groups of 10 or more: $18 Senior Citizens: $18 College Students: $10 All Maryland high school students may attend for free, one ticket per student, as long as seats are available. Service charges may apply. Tickets are available through the box office at (410) 637-3618 or online at www.tickets.com. About Xerxes Mehta, director Xerxes Mehta is the founder and artistic director of the Maryland Stage Company. Educated at Cornell University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, he is widely known as a director of Beckett. He directed the MSC in a trio of plays (Not I, That Time, Ohio Impromptu) presented at the international Beckett in Berlin 2000 festival. His MSC production of Not I, That Time and Ohio Impromptu was seen at the International Samuel Beckett Festival in Strasbourg, France 1996. In 1981, he staged the world premiere of Richard Wilbur's translation of Racine's Andromache, and in 1986, the American premiere of Louise Page's Beauty and the Beast. In 1997, he inaugurated the MSC's summer seasons at Center Stage with Moli�re's Tartuffe, following it up with Chekhov's The Sea Gull in 1998 and John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation in 1999. His productions have five times been voted "Best of the Year" in the Baltimore-Washington area. He teaches and directs at UMBC. Telephone Box office: (410) 637-3618 Group sales: (410) 455-3529 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3529 (Kate Revelle) Web Maryland Stage Company website: http://www.marylandstagecompany.org/ Tickets.com (to purchase tickets): http://www.tickets.com/ UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Directions to Center Stage Center Stage is located at 700 North Calvert Street in Baltimore City, at the corner of Monument and Calvert Streets. Both street and garage parking are available near the theatre. Security is posted outside the theatre before, during, and after performances. ### Posted by dwinds1 April 2, 2002 UMBC Department of Theatre presents North Shore Fish The UMBC Department of Theatre presents North Shore Fish by Israel Horovitz, directed by Vincent Lancisi. This Pulitzer Prize nominated play depicts a painfully real and funny slice of life in a failing frozen fish processing plant in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where the characters fight to save the only jobs they know. The production runs April 26 to May 4, 2002. UMBC's Department of Theatre presents North Shore Fish by Israel Horovitz. Performances open on April 26th and run through May 4th. The production is directed by Vincent Lancisi, with set and costume design by Elena Zlotescu, lighting and sound design by Terry Cobb, and vocal and dialect coaching by Lynn Watson. Showtimes April 26 & 27 and May 3 & 4 at 8 pm April 28 and May 2 at 4 pm Preview on April 25 at 8 pm About the Play Rich, raunchy, red blood flows through the veins of North Shore Fish, a painfully real and funny slice of life in a failing frozen fish processing plant in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where the characters fight to save the only jobs they know. In this Pulitzer Prize nominated play, the once prosperous North Shore Fish plant has been reduced to processing frozen blocks of fish for TV dinners. Managing the plant is a sexual predator who thinks his employees should cater to his desires in exchange for their jobs. In 1987, Horovitz said to Joe Brown at The Washington Post, "Some years ago I started a cycle of plays that really had as a purpose no more or less than just trying to get down what life was like in our time in our little spot on the planet Earth. And it used to be that the fisherman [in Gloucester] came up the shore, sold his fish, there was a processing plant, they cut the fish, froze it, packaged it and sold it. Now the fish business is run by guys in suits and ties in Boston and L.A. and Washington who broker these big blocks of fish, they never see them. Anyway, the fish people, who used to have this kind of heroic view of themselves, still do this kind of terrible work because it keeps them in the fish business." The author's own adaptation was made into a feature film in 1996 starring Mercedes Ruehl, Peter Riegert, Tony Danza and Carroll Baker. About the Playwright Israel Horovitz has written fifty plays over the course of his career. He is best known for The Indian Wants the Bronx, which introduced Al Pacino; Line, which introduced Richard Dreyfus; It's Called The Sugar Plum; Rats; and Morning. Horovitz is Artistic Director and Producer at The Gloucester Stage, and also Founder and Artistic Director of the New York Playwrights Lab. In addition to his work for the stage, Horovitz has written several screenplays, including The Deuce (The Gloucester Waterfront), Payofski's Discovery, The Pan, Astor Hair, The Quiet Room, The Strong Man, and Letters to Iris. Mr. Horovitz is a winner of 2 OBIE Awards, an Emmy, the Prix du Plaisir de Théâtre (Paris), Prix du Jury (Cannes Film Festival), the New York Drama Desk Award, the Los Angeles Critics Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Eliott Norton Prize. Vincent Lancisi, director Guest director Vincent Lancisi is the artistic director of Everyman Theatre, which he founded in November of 1990 with the debut production of The Runner Stumbles. He has directed plays in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Boston for over fifteen years, including The Crucible, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Amadeus, Oleanna, and Buried Child. Mr. Lancisi has taught directing at Towson University and The Catholic University of America. He is a founding board member of the Baltimore Theatre Alliance, and has been a theatre panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council. Admission General admission: $10.00. UMBC faculty and staff: $8.00. Students and seniors: $5.00. Preview: $3.00. Telephone and web Box office: (410) 455-2476 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre Images for Media High resolution images for media will be available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/or by email or postal mail. Photo credits: Damon Meledones Directions --From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. --From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn right and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. --From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Garage 1, near the Theatre Building, and Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Meters are in effect until 7:30 p.m. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit, unless otherwise marked, until 3 p.m. on weekdays. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Posted by dwinds1 Pianist Shannon Wettstein to perform at UMBC On Wednesday, April 17th, pianist Shannon Wettstein will perform in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Her program includes music by Linda Dusman, Andrew May, Franco Donatoni and Robert Schumann. $7 general admission, $3 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. The UMBC Department of Music's Faculty & Guest Artist Series presents pianist Shannon Wettstein in concert on Wednesday, April 17, at 8 pm in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are $7 general admission, $3 students and seniors, and free with a current UMBC ID. The general public can call 410-455-ARTS for more information. About the Program The program will include LindaDusman's Suite Sweet Errata (1998), Andrew May'sShimmer (2002), Franco Donatoni'sRima (1983), and RobertSchumann's Davidbündlertänze (1834-1836). About the Pianist Dr. Wettstein hasappeared as soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States. Afounding member of the Calliope flute and piano duo and Boston's Auros Group for New Music, she haspremiered new works and collaborated with composers such as BrianFerneyhough, ChinaryUng, Roger Reynolds, GuntherSchuller, Lee Hyla, JukkaTiensuu and John Heiss. She has performed at New York's Lincoln Center for the PerformingArts and the New School for Social Research, Boston's Isabella StewartGardner Museum and Jordan Hall, the New Zealand Embassy in WashingtonD.C., the Japan America Theater in Los Angeles and the Aspen MusicFestival in Colorado, Yellow Barn Chamber Music Festival of Vermont, andthe Sandpoint Music Festival in Sandpoint, Idaho. Recent performancesinclude recitals in California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland,Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi and Rhode Island. As a guest artistand faculty member of NewEngland Conservatory's Summer Institutefor Contemporary Piano Performance, Dr. Wettstein gave the first U.S.performance of IannisXenakis' Komboi for amplified harpsichord and percussion, whichshe will record in 2002. Dedicated to bringing new music to young pianistsand new audiences, Dr. Wettstein is the director of the Junior Institutefor Contemporary Piano Performance at New England Conservatory. Admission $7 general admission, $3 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Tickets are available at the door. Sorry, we do not accept credit cards. Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/or by email or postal mail. Department of Music: (410) 455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 Web UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions --From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. --From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile tothe entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue andHilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B.Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near theAdministration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on allUniversity calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require aparking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Posted by dwinds1 April 1, 2002 UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery exhibits Jake in Transition from Female to Male: Photographs by Clarissa Sligh UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Jake in Transition from Female to Male, photographs by Clarissa Sligh, from April 3rd to May 18, 2002. The exhibition documents the process that Sligh's subject, Deb (now Jake),went through to become "the sexual human being that he wanted tobecome." For the exhibition, the artist chose 51 images of Jake takenover three years as he transitioned from female to male. On view at UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from April 3 through May 18, Jake in Transition fromFemale to Male features photographs by Clarissa Sligh. About the Exhibition Clarissa Sligh's work, Jake in Transition fromFemale to Male, documents the process that her subject, Deb (now Jake),went through to become "the sexual human being that he wanted tobecome." For the exhibition, the artist chose 51 images of Jake takenover three years as he transitioned from female to male. The exhibitionemploys straight black and white portraits as well as images withsuperimposed informational text. With this series, which explores issues of identity, masculinity andfeminimity, the role of the photographer and black feminism, Slighassumes a new position in her always provocative and socially consciouswork. At times, Sligh questioned why she would want to work withsomeone who, in the end, would represent a male chauvinist ideologythat was in direct opposition to her own beliefs. However, she feltthat these issues were familiar to her because she had "always livedand worked with people who are racist and/or sexist." Additionally, Sligh grew up in the Southeast, where the concept ofchanging identity was familiar to her: while growing, up, she heardstories of slaves escaping to become "free men" and light skinnedblacks "passing" as white. In Jake, she saw a kindred spirit who wantedto follow a similar path, to be "free" from homophobic attitudes. The process was not easy for either subject or photographer. Jakeexperienced great physical and emotional discomfort due to all thevarious hormones and surgeries, but by 1999 the two had become friendsand found mutual admiration and respect. Sligh realized that she andthe camera became an integral part of Jake's transition by creating aspace that helped him through the process These photos not only serveas "visual evidence of the body's transformation," but also theyexemplify Clarissa Sligh's abilities as photographer and storyteller.Sligh's sensitive collage style invites us to look more closely at theimages, thereby inviting the viewer to think about the underlying classand societal values that led Jake to change his identity. Artist's Statement I met Jake in a small town in North Texas. At thattime her name was Deb. She asked me to photograph her sex change fromfemale to male. Although the act had its own value and meaning, I feltit was not my issue. It was not related to my work and I was wary ofthe ethical and political violence inherent in "speaking for others." As a black woman from the south, the concept of changing one's identitywas not new to me. I grew up hearing stories about how slaves hadescaped to become "free men," and how light skin blacks "passed" forwhite. While the history of "passing," its assumption of fraudulentlytrespassing, and the question of authenticity seemed to parallel Jake'scircumstances, I did not think she would relate it to herself as awhite middle class person from Indiana. She wanted to be the kind ofman who embraced patriarchal and misogynistic values. That she modeled herself on a male chauvinist paradigm was repugnant tome. Yet there was a part of me that understood Jake's desire to be aman. I remembered wanting to be a boy at least until the age of 14.Weight training was also something we had in common. While I felt thatJake would defend the status quo, which privileged males, I reluctantlydecided to support her desire to record the sex change in order to makeit easier for others to understand. At that time, very littleinformation was available. We began working together in early 1997. Thinking of the project as oneof documenting evidence, I was not prepared for the complexity orintensity of the act. In an attempt to understand the strong emotionalwhich it elicited from others and the touchy mood swings that Jakebegan to exhibit, I researched the process, kept a journal, andinterviewed Jake and some of her friends. I also began to photographand videotape my own body as part of keeping track of myself. AlthoughJake's physical appearance was still androgynous, he legally became amale by mid-1997. As photographer, I was there to shoot the movie. Jake wrote the script.He was the director and the actor. The relationship of me as voyeur andJake as performer was awkward for both of us, but we pushed ourselvesto continue the work. That I witnessed Jake's process and switched froma position of "objective neutrality" to one of supporting him is stillhard to believe. I had to confront and overcome the taboos to which"nice colored girls," who are usually from very conservativeupbringings, conform. By the end of 1997 we had a fairly close relationship. My working withthe camera had carved out a safe space in which he could reflect on histransitional process. Although it was a challenge for me to make thephotographs, I grew to respect Jake's passionate, intense commitment tohimself. By the end of 1998, Jake's physical appearance, attitudes, and behaviorwere that of a stereotypical male. Yet having gone through the processof making himself what he had always wanted to be had matured himtremendously. By 1999, I could see too that I had changed. Thephotographs and texts, which I continued to create, were as much aboutmy process as it was his. Only then did it become clear that theproject was also a visual journey and journey about me. The exhibition, organized by the VisualStudies Workshop in Rochester, New York, has been funded in part by agrant from the New York State Arts Councilon the Arts. The project is the result of Clarissa Sligh's residencyat the Visual Studies Workshop, which was supported by a Chase ManhattanArts and Cultural Grant. The Kuhn Gallery's presentation of Jake in Transition from Female toMale is supported in part by UMBC; the Friends of the Library &Gallery; and the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by theState of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of theprincipal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the SpecialCollections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over theworld, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for theUniversity community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitionsare occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of itsexhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery isfree. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone General Gallery information: (410) 455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 Web UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/reference/gallery.php3 Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. All the images in this release are available at 300 dpi on the abovewebsite. Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 toexit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs tothe Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mileto the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue andHilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B.Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O.Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near theAdministration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced onall University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadwaysrequire a parking permit unless otherwise marked. ### Posted by dwinds1 March 1, 2002 Meredith Monk to perform at UMBC The Arts at UMBC present MeredithMonk. A composer, singer, choreographer and creator of new opera,musical theatre works, films and installations, Monk is a pioneer in whatis now called "extended vocal technique" and"interdisciplinary performance." Wednesday, April 3rd, 8 p.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall. On April 3rd, the Arts at UMBC present MeredithMonk. A composer, singer, choreographer and creator of new opera,musical theatre works, films and installations, Monk is a pioneer in whatis now called "extended vocal technique" and"interdisciplinary performance." She creates works that thriveat the intersection of music and movement, image and object, light andsound, in an effort to discover and weave together new modes ofperception. Her ground-breaking exploration of the voice as an instrument,as an eloquent language in and of itself, expands the boundaries ofmusical composition, creating landscapes of sound that unearth feelings,energies, and memories for which we have no words. During a career thatspans more than 35 years she has been acclaimed by audiences and criticsas a major creative force in the performing arts. Since graduating from SarahLawrence College in 1964, Monk has received numerous awards throughouther career, including the prestigious MacArthur "Genius" Award in1995, two Guggenheim Fellowships, aBrandeis Creative Arts Award, three Obies (including an award forSustained Achievement), two Villager Awards, a Bessie for SustainedCreative Achievement, the 1986 National Music Theatre Award, sixteen ASCAP Awards for Musical Composition andthe 1992 Dance Magazine Award.She holds honorary Doctor of Arts degrees from Bard College, the University of the Arts,the Juilliard School, The San Francisco Art Institute andthe Boston Conservatory.Her recordings DolmenMusic (ECM New Series) and Our Lady of Late: The VanguardTapes (Wergo) were honored with the Germans Critics Prize for BestRecords of 1981 and 1986. Her music has been heard in numerous films,including La Nouvelle Vague by Jean-Luc Godard and The BigLebowski by Joel and Ethan Coen. A new publishing relationship with Boosey & Hawkes will make MeredithMonk's music available to a wider public for the first time. In 1968 Ms. Monk founded The House, a company dedicated to aninterdisciplinary approach to performance. In 1978 she formed MeredithMonk and Vocal Ensemble to expand her musical textures and forms. She hasmade more than a dozen recordings, mostof which are on the ECM New Series label. Her music has been performed bynumerous soloists and groups including The Chorus of the San Francisco Symphony, Musica Sacra, The Pacific Mozart Ensemble, Double Edge,and Bang On A CanAll-Stars, among others. Monk is a pioneer in site-specific performance, creating works such asJuice: A Theater Cantata In 3 Installments (1969) and most recentlyAmerican Archeology #1: Roosevelt Island (1994). She is also anaccomplished filmmaker who has made a series of award-winning filmsincluding Ellis Island (1981) and her first feature, Book OfDays (1988), which was aired on PBS,shown at the New YorkFilm Festival, and selected for the Whitney Museum's Biennial. Aretrospective art exhibition, Meredith Monk: Archeology of anArtist, opened at the New York Public Libraryfor the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in 1996. Other recent artexhibits are comprised of a major installation, Art Performs Lifeat the Walker Art Center, a show,Shrines, at the Frederieke Taylor/TZ'Art Gallery and inclusion inthe Whitney Museum's Century of American Art. A monograph, MeredithMonk, edited by Deborah Jowitt, was released by Johns Hopkins Press in 1997. In October 1999 Monk performed A Vocal Offering for His Holiness, theDalai Lama as part of the World Festival ofSacred Music in Los Angeles. In July 2000 her music was honored by athree concert retrospective entitled Voice Travel as part of the LincolnCenter Festival. Earlier this year Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemblecompleted a tour of Magic Frequencies, a science-fiction chamberopera in Eastern Europe. Her latest music theater work, mercy, acollaboration with visual artist AnnHamilton, premiered at the American Dance Festivalin July 2001. Future projects include a series of pieces with electroniccomposer DavidBehrman and Monk's first orchestral piece commissioned by Michael Tilson Thomasfor the New World Symphony. Admission $15 general admission, $7 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Tickets are available at the door. Sorry, no credit cards. Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/or by email or postal mail. Telephone and web General Music information: (410) 455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions --From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. --From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile tothe entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue andHilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B.Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near theAdministration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on allUniversity calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require aparking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Posted by dwinds1 February 22, 2002 UMBC Presents Trombonist Abbie Conant The Department of Music presents trombonist Abbie Conant in concert. One of the world's leading trombonists, Conant will perform a program entitled The Wired Goddess and Her Trombone. March 4, p.m., Fine Arts Studio 508. The UMBC Department of Music's Free in508 series presents trombonist Abbie Conant.She will present a concert entitled The Wired Goddess and HerTrombone, featuring Music for the End of Time by William Osborne,The Elderberry Goddess by Elizabeth Hoffman, Hysteriaby Cindy Cox,Time Bomb by Chris Brown,Sauger by Anne LeBaron,Landmine by AnnaRubin, and Hum 2 by Maggi Payne. Inrecent years, Abbie Conant has performed as a soloist in over 100 Europeanand American cities. The International Trombone Association Journalhas featured Abbie Conant in a cover article and described her as "inthe first rank of world class trombonists." She has recorded a highlyacclaimed CD of trombone and organ music and performs internationally as aconcerto soloist, recitalist, improviser and performance artist. In 1992the Baden-Würtemburg State Ministry for Education, in recognition ofher international reputation as a trombonist, named her Professor ofTrombone at the StaatlicheHochschule für Musik in Trossingen, Germany, the first womanprofessor of trombone in Germany. In 1996, the 4,200 members of the International Trombone Associationvoted her as their President elect. In August of 1998 she was the firstwoman to serve as adjudicator for the International Trombone Competitionin Geneva, Switzerland. She has composed a series of music theater worksconcerning the Holocaust which have been performed in Germany to largeaudiences with critical success. For her most recent project, entitledThe Wired Goddess and Her Trombone, she is working with composersto create works for computer and trombone based on the theme of thegoddess. To date twenty-eight works have been written or are in progress,of which she has already premiered thirteen. Abbie Conant received degreesfrom Temple University and the Juilliard School, and also studied atYale University. She received a Meisterdiploma from the Staatliche Hochschulefür Musik in Cologne, Germany. From 1979 to 1980 she was solotrombonist of the Royal Opera of Turin, Italy, and from 1980 to 1993 shewas solo trombonist of the Munich Philharmonic. Admission Admission is free. Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone and web General Music information: (410) 455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions --From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Trombonist Abbie Conant The Department of Music presents trombonist Abbie Conant in concert. One of the world's leading trombonists, Conant will perform a program entitled The Wired Goddess and Her Trombone. March 4, p.m., Fine Arts Studio 508. The UMBC Department of Music's Free in508 series presents trombonist Abbie Conant.She will present a concert entitled The Wired Goddess and HerTrombone, featuring Music for the End of Time by William Osborne,The Elderberry Goddess by Elizabeth Hoffman, Hysteriaby Cindy Cox,Time Bomb by Chris Brown,Sauger by Anne LeBaron,Landmine by AnnaRubin, and Hum 2 by Maggi Payne. Inrecent years, Abbie Conant has performed as a soloist in over 100 Europeanand American cities. The International Trombone Association Journalhas featured Abbie Conant in a cover article and described her as "inthe first rank of world class trombonists." She has recorded a highlyacclaimed CD of trombone and organ music and performs internationally as aconcerto soloist, recitalist, improviser and performance artist. In 1992the Baden-Würtemburg State Ministry for Education, in recognition ofher international reputation as a trombonist, named her Professor ofTrombone at the StaatlicheHochschule für Musik in Trossingen, Germany, the first womanprofessor of trombone in Germany. In 1996, the 4,200 members of the International Trombone Associationvoted her as their President elect. In August of 1998 she was the firstwoman to serve as adjudicator for the International Trombone Competitionin Geneva, Switzerland. She has composed a series of music theater worksconcerning the Holocaust which have been performed in Germany to largeaudiences with critical success. For her most recent project, entitledThe Wired Goddess and Her Trombone, she is working with composersto create works for computer and trombone based on the theme of thegoddess. To date twenty-eight works have been written or are in progress,of which she has already premiered thirteen. Abbie Conant received degreesfrom Temple University and the Juilliard School, and also studied atYale University. She received a Meisterdiploma from the Staatliche Hochschulefür Musik in Cologne, Germany. From 1979 to 1980 she was solotrombonist of the Royal Opera of Turin, Italy, and from 1980 to 1993 shewas solo trombonist of the Munich Philharmonic. Admission Admission is free. Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone and web General Music information: (410) 455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions --From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Posted by dwinds1 UMBC presents the Percussion Group Cincinnati The UMBC Department of Music presents the Percussion Group Cincinnati in a program of contemporary music. Renowned for its work with composers and its international appearances, the Percussion Group Cincinnati has performed recently at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and in Poland, Taiwan and Portugal. March 6, 2002, 8 p.m., Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general, $3 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. The Department of Music's Faculty& Guest Artist Series presents the Percussion Group Cincinnati (AllenOtte, James Culley and Russell Burge). Their program includes LiftOff (1966) by Russell Peck,Mbira Music, Book One (1996) by Alonzo Alexander, Drama(1995) by GuoWenjing, Dressur (1976) by Mauricio Kagel, aswell as Chilean songs in the group's own arrangements. The PercussionGroup Cincinnati is the ensemble-in-residence at the University of CincinnatiCollege-Conservatory of Music and is represented by Stanton Management. The PercussionGroup Cincinnati's relationship with many composers over the years hasbrought about a large body of new and often experimental music writtenfor, dedicated to, or first performed by the ensemble. Recent appearancesin their schedule of national and international tours have included Merkin Concert Hall, Alice TullyHall, Lincoln Center (aspart of the New YorkPhilharmonic's "Horizons" series), the Kennedy Center, the TaipeiInternational Percussion Convention, the summer festivals at Ravinia,Blossom, Bydgoszcz, Poland, and Espinho, Portugal, as well as communityconcerts, children's programs (a winter '95 residency at the J. MichaelKohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, served over a thousandsecondary school children), and concerto appearances with major symphonyorchestras throughout North America. The Group has recorded for numerousindependent labels, and for radio stations throughout Europe. Admission Admission is $7 general admission, $3 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone and web General Music information: (410) 455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions --From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents Trombonist Abbie Conant The Department of Music presents trombonist Abbie Conant in concert. One of the world's leading trombonists, Conant will perform a program entitled The Wired Goddess and Her Trombone. March 4, p.m., Fine Arts Studio 508. The UMBC Department of Music's Free in508 series presents trombonist Abbie Conant.She will present a concert entitled The Wired Goddess and HerTrombone, featuring Music for the End of Time by William Osborne,The Elderberry Goddess by Elizabeth Hoffman, Hysteriaby Cindy Cox,Time Bomb by Chris Brown,Sauger by Anne LeBaron,Landmine by AnnaRubin, and Hum 2 by Maggi Payne. Inrecent years, Abbie Conant has performed as a soloist in over 100 Europeanand American cities. The International Trombone Association Journalhas featured Abbie Conant in a cover article and described her as "inthe first rank of world class trombonists." She has recorded a highlyacclaimed CD of trombone and organ music and performs internationally as aconcerto soloist, recitalist, improviser and performance artist. In 1992the Baden-Würtemburg State Ministry for Education, in recognition ofher international reputation as a trombonist, named her Professor ofTrombone at the StaatlicheHochschule für Musik in Trossingen, Germany, the first womanprofessor of trombone in Germany. In 1996, the 4,200 members of the International Trombone Associationvoted her as their President elect. In August of 1998 she was the firstwoman to serve as adjudicator for the International Trombone Competitionin Geneva, Switzerland. She has composed a series of music theater worksconcerning the Holocaust which have been performed in Germany to largeaudiences with critical success. For her most recent project, entitledThe Wired Goddess and Her Trombone, she is working with composersto create works for computer and trombone based on the theme of thegoddess. To date twenty-eight works have been written or are in progress,of which she has already premiered thirteen. Abbie Conant received degreesfrom Temple University and the Juilliard School, and also studied atYale University. She received a Meisterdiploma from the Staatliche Hochschulefür Musik in Cologne, Germany. From 1979 to 1980 she was solotrombonist of the Royal Opera of Turin, Italy, and from 1980 to 1993 shewas solo trombonist of the Munich Philharmonic. Admission Admission is free. Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone and web General Music information: (410) 455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions --From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Posted by dwinds1 February 20, 2002 Poet Mario Susko to Read at UMBC UMBC's Department of English and the Humanities Forum present poet Mario Susko, who will read from his poetry on Thursday, February 28 at 4:00 p.m. in the University Center, room 310. This event is free and open to the public. UMBC's Department of English and the Humanities Forum present poet Mario Susko, who will read from his poetry on Thursday, February 28 at 4:00 p.m. in the University Center, room 310. This event is free and open to the public. For further information, contact the Department of English at 410.455.52384. A three-time Fulbright scholar, Susko has published fifty-nine books, nineteen of which are volumes of poems. He has also edited and translated several anthologies and is the recipient of several awards. Enigmatic and intense, Susko brings to his poetry an awareness honed in the conflict in Bosnia. Stranded in a bombed-out apartment building for three months, Susko emerged not angry or embittered, but determined to share his insights into man's inhumanity. A renowned translator of American authors into his native language, Susko, a graduate of NYU, now lives in Long Island and teaches at Nassau Community College. This event is also sponsored by Maryland State Poetry & Literary Society. Posted by dwinds1 January 7, 2002 UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Exhibits Riding 1st Class on the Titanic!: Photographs by Nathan Lyons On view at UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from January 28 through March 16, Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! features photographs by Nathan Lyons. The exhibition presents 200 black and white photographs that reveal Lyons' unique view of America and its social landscape. On February 20 at 4 p.m. in the Kuhn Gallery, Nathan Lyons will present a public lecture on his work. On view at UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery from January 28 through March 16, Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! features photographs by Nathan Lyons. The exhibition presents 200 black and white photographs that reveal Lyons' unique view of America and its social landscape. On February 20 at 4 p.m. in the Kuhn Gallery, Nathan Lyons will present a public lecture on his work. A reception will follow. Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! was organized and circulated by the Addison Gallery of American Art, on the campus of the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. About the Artist Influential artist, teacher, and director and founder of the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York, Nathan Lyons has exerted a profound effect on the field of photography for more than forty years. He began to photograph in the late 1950s using a view camera to create images that emphasized the medium's expressive rather than documentary potential. In 1962, he switched to a 35mm camera, and along with other photographers of his generation such as Lee Friedlander and Garry Winogrand, looked to contemporary culture for inspiration. About the Exhibition In 1974, Lyons compiled an extended body of images in a landmark book, Notations in Passing, published by MIT Press. This series of 96 photographs is organized into extended sequences that explore the variety of visual relationships and meanings made possible by pictures unaccompanied by text. Picking up where Notations in Passing left off, Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! is a companion publication to the exhibition and highlights work from 1974 to the present. The book is distributed by MIT Press and includes a preface by Adam D. Weinberg, director of the Addison Gallery of American Art, and an essay by Leroy Searle, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. The title of this exhibition, Riding 1st Class on the Titanic!, derives from a particular photograph in the sequence in which "Riding 1st Class on the Titanic" is spray painted onto a wall. For the artist, the Titanic is a metaphor for the ultimate paradox of contemporary life. The ship's fate forces us to reconcile our faith in the power of the manmade with the reality that even the most seemingly invincible is subject to complete and utter vulnerability. It is this ambiguity and contradiction that weaves through much of Lyons' work. Reflecting his predilection for photos that include words and interest in found language, Lyons' images offer layered interpretations that challenge our cultural assumptions and beliefs, yet never cease to delight the eye. The passage of time is an important factor in the development of Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! While it records a series of cultural artifacts in real time, the sequential structure establishes a contextual display that encourages a reading and an expansion of visual language. A second strategy is the development of a number of thematic levels within the sequence that form a counterpoint to what might seem to be the linear structure of the work. Text and image are dominant factors that are used with a structure that is designed to intentionally relinquish their traditional illustrative functions -- not to explain each other, but to expand the potential meaning of each. The concern for found language, that public utterance that often embraces a particular expression of anxiety -- spoken, shouted, or whispered to us without knowing its source -- guides but does not control the sequence. The project investigates the relevance of value systems that we have embraced, only to discover that their elusive meanings do more to challenge our belief systems than reinforce them. What we may read into or out of the orchestration of these images, on successive readings, will condition the viewer's ongoing reengagement with them, seeing more at each encounter. The Kuhn Gallery's presentation of Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! is supported in part by UMBC; the Friends of the Library & Gallery and the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery serves as one of the principal art galleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the Special Collections Department, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, are displayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the university community and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionally presented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits throughout the state and nation. Admission to the Gallery is free. Hours of Operation Sunday: CLOSED Monday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Tuesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Wednesday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Thursday: 12 p.m. - 8 p.m. Friday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone and web General Gallery information: (410) 455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/reference/gallery.php3 Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. All images for Nathan Lyons: Riding First Class on the Titanic! copyright � Addison Gallery of Art/Nathan Lyons. #�#�# Posted by dwinds1 Phoenix Dance Company performs at UMBC UMBC's Department of Dance presents the Phoenix Dance Company in concert on February 13, 14, 15 and 16, 2002. All performances will be held at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. The program includes a major new work by choreographer Carol Hess. This half-evening interdisciplinary piece is a collaboration between Hess and members of the Streaming Umbrella Group, which includes video and sound artist Steve Bradley, composer Linda Dusman, percussionist Tom Goldstein, videographer Vin Grabill, and artist John Sturgeon. Ticket prices are $15 general and $7 students and seniors. Box office: (410) 455-6240. UMBC's Department of Dance presents the Phoenix Dance Company in concert on February 13, 14, 15 and 16, 2002. All performances will be held at 8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. About the Phoenix Dance Company The venerable Phoenix Dance Company, founded in 1983, has played in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Theatre Project, Ohio State University, Judson Church, Goucher College, Western Maryland College, Salisbury University and Temple University. A professional company in residence at UMBC, Phoenix is co-directed by choreographers Carol Hess and Doug Hamby. Operating at the intersection between art and technology, the Phoenix Dance Company has explored radical dance collaborations with UMBC videographers, mechanical engineers, computer programmers and visual artists, recently including Steve Bradley, an intermedia artist who has generated live computer-enhanced video images and a system for generating sounds based on dancers' movements; Tony Farquhar, a mechanical engineer who developed a spunky six-legged dancing robot (Maurice Tomb�); Vin Grabill, an MIT-trained videographer; and composer Linda Dusman. The Program The Phoenix program features the premiere of a major new work choreographed by Carol Hess. This half-evening interdisciplinary piece is a collaboration between Hess and members of the Streaming Umbrella Group, which includes video and sound artist Steve Bradley, composer Linda Dusman, percussionist Tom Goldstein, videographer Vin Grabill, and artist John Sturgeon. The Streaming Umbrella Group is a collective of experimental artists working together to create a unique multimedia event incorporating dance, video and sound, to be presented both as a live performance and as a streaming event on Internet 2. Choreographer/dancer Cathy Paine will present an improvised solo. Of her work in improvisation, Paine said, "The solos I create are event-specific. Each work is informed by the nature of the venue, the size, responsiveness and familiarity of the audience, recent events in the world or my life, and my desire for people to understand what I do. Humor is also -- and has always been -- a large part of my work. I speak to the audience as I dance, and although my text is not planned, my range of topics is." Dancers Sandra Lacy and Mary Williford-Shade will present a duet by choreographer Tonya Lockyer and two solos choreographed by Gabriel Masson and Sean Curran. Principal Members of the Company Choreographer and artistic director Carol Hess received a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.A. from Columbia University. Before coming to Maryland, she danced professionally in New York City, where she performed and taught in hundreds of public schools through the Young Audiences Programs and Residencies in the Schools and the Lincoln Center Touring Program. She has performed with Hannah Kahn and Dancers, the Rondo Dance Theatre, the Janet Soares Company, and as a tap soloist she has appeared on television and in concerts in the United States and Europe. As Artistic Director of the Oregon Dance Theatre, Ms. Hess, in partnership with the Carpenter Foundation, initiated a series of program and workshops in schools, in which nearly fifty schools participated. As associate professor of dance, Ms. Hess has taught at UMBC since 1982 and is currently chair of the Department of Dance, where she also directs Project REACH, an outreach program to Baltimore City and Baltimore County elementary, middle and high schools. Doug Hamby lives and works in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. He has extensive experience as a dancer, chroeographer, and educator. In addition to his work with the Phoenix Dance Company, he is the artistic director of Doug Hamby Dance, a professional dance company in residence at UMBC. Recent collaborators include artist Timothy Nohe, intermedia artist Steve Bradley, video artist Deborah Gorski, and mechanical engineer Tony Farquhar. Hamby has performed with Martha Graham, May O'Donnell, Rachel Lampert, Elizabeth Keen, Pearl Lang, Norman Walker, the Chicago Moving Company, Phoenix Dance Company, and Hamby and Lacy. His works have been featured at Dance Place, Washington, D.C.; Riverside Dance Festival, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, and Celebrate Brooklyn, in New York City; the 1998 New York International Fringe Festival; 1997 Philadelphia Fringe Festival; and 1996 International Fringe Festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland and Vancouver, Canada. He has received choreography awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, and the Baltimore Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture. He served as a dance advisory panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council for three years. He is an associate professor of dance at UMBC and holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University and a Biology degree from Michigan State University. He has also appeared on national television as a giant slice of American cheese. Cathy Paine is a choreographer, dancer, vocalist, composer and performance improviser. Since 1974 she has created, performed and taught her work in the United States, England, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong. She holds an M.A. in Dance from UCLA, and is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner. She currently teaches Feldenkrais, creative process, and contact improvisation in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Principal dancer Sandra Lacy has been the recipient of three Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards in Solo Dance Performance. She holds a B.A. in psychology and is an Associate of the Royal Academy of Dance in London. She has performed with Maryland Ballet, Impetus Dance Company, Path Dance Company, Lacy & Shade, and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Ms. Lacy is on the faculty of UMBC and the Baltimore School for the Arts. Guest artist Mary Williford-Shade has been commissioning solos and duets for more than a dozen years from such artists as Susan Marshall, Bebe Miller and Marta Renzi. During that time she has worked with Mark Taylor, both in his New York company (Mark Taylor & Friends), and his current Pittsburgh company (Dance Alloy). In addition, she has performed internationally with companies such as Mark Dendy & Dancers, Daniel West Dancers, Maryland Dance Theatre and Toe Jam & Fresh Jelly. She is on the faculty of Texas Woman's University. Principal dancer Julie Peoples graduated cum laude from UMBC with a B.A. in Dance. Peoples has performed with the Pittsburg Dance Theatre, the Pittsburgh Ballet, Phoenix Dance Company, Doug Hamby Dance, and Baltimore Voiceworks. Her choreography has been showcased at the American College Dance Festival. She is a regional manager for D.A.R.E. America and is manager of Project REACH, an outreach program to Baltimore City and Baltimore County elementary, middle and high schools. Admission General admission: $15.00. Students and seniors: $7.00. Telephone and web Box Office: (410) 455-6240 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Dance website: http://www.umbc.edu/dance Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email. #�#�# Posted by dwinds1 Cornfield Dance performs at UMBC On February 6, UMBC's Department of Dance presents Cornfield Dance, a modern dance company under the direction of choreographer Ellen Cornfield. 8 p.m., UMBC Theatre. Tickets are $15 general admission and $7 students and seniors. Box office: (410) 455-6240. UMBC's Department of Dance presents Cornfield Dance, a modern dance company under the direction of choreographer Ellen Cornfield. About Cornfield Dance Cornfield Dance, a company of six dancers from New York City, was established in 1989 to bring the joy and excitement of dance to diverse audiences. Ms. Cornfield's choreographic style merges the abstraction of geometric structures with the richness of emotional nuance. The company's repertory encompasses a full range of kinesthetic energy from the calm centered space of Cornfield's solo .consciousness through the explosive power of the company work Primal Steps. Cornfield Dance has received commissions from Montclair State University (2000), the 92nd Street Y New Works in Dance Fund (1999) in New York City, Fete de la Musique (1998) in New York City, the Danspace Project (1997 & 1990) in New York City, the Buskers Fare (1996) in New York City, Russell Sage College (1992-96 and 2000) in New York, and the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival (1991). The company has received funding from numerous sources, including the Asian Cultural Council, the Pentacle Help Desk, the Mary Flager Cary Charitable Trust, the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust, and the American Express Company. In 1997, Cornfield Dance completed a two and half week international tour to Japan, with performances and classes in Tokyo and Okayama. In the United States, the company was presented by the Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, New York City, and by the Jacob's Pillow Festival Inside/Outside series in Lee, Massachusetts. In 1998, the company performed in the outdoor festival Fete de la Musique, in front of the World Trade Center Towers, afterwards traveling to Poland to participate in the VI International Dance Festival, with performances in Krakow and Bytom. After Poland, the company performed at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Cornfield Dance was featured in March 1999 as part of the New Performance Series at Playhouse 91, produced by the 92nd Street Y. The company completed a high end digital video project of the new dance that fall, taping outdoors in New York City and environs and in a studio in Connecticut. In 2000, Ms. Cornfield performed in New York City, participated in July in the Festival in Poland, performing a duet and solo program in Bytom and Krakow, and traveled again to Japan in August to teach and perform. Ms. Cornfield and one dancer completed a residency in September in upstate New York, sponsored by the Ensemble Studio Theater of New York City. In 2001, the company performed at Long Island University, and Symphony Space, New York City. Cornfield Dance has been invited to perform in Russia at the Open Look Festival, St. Petersburg, and again in Japan. The Program The program includes two large works: Foreshadowed Seeing (with dancers Jeffrey Bauer and Ellen Cornfield, music by Iannis Xenakis, costumes by Karen Young, set by Aaron Booher), and Velcro Road (with the full company, music by Nathanial Drake, costumes by Karen Young, set by Cristina Ottolini). The duet Foreshadowed Seeing tracks the emergence of a relationship between two people, using broad sweeping movement, geometric shapes, and shadows on the back wall to create a foundation on top of which the images of now and the future are projected. The dance becomes a formalized ritual within which their emotional connections can resonate. The duet premiered at the VII International Dance Festival and Conference in Bytom, Poland, in summer 2000, and was performed in Tokyo, Japan in August 2001. The dance, approximately eighteen minutes in length and costumed by Karen Young, is performed with a simple set of maroon colored grasses by artist Aaron Booher. Ms. Cornfield's choreography is grounded in movement, and the drama inherent in its underlying rhythms and timings, regardless of a narrative or story. She is also interested in the "stories" of our lives, and the unending currents that travel between and amongst us. Velcro Road, approximately thirty minutes in length, will be an investigation of this dual territory -- pure movement and narrative line. The piece will travel from the serious to the humorous, exploring through its dance language images of physical attachment and de-attachments -- a pulling away, both emotionally and physically -- followed by subsequent new attachments, revealing a landscape of emotional color. The dance will be episodic in nature, portraying our different human interactions and relationships, and our ever changing lives. At the same time, the dance will portray the strength of our connections and commonalities, linked by our human passions, plights and ploys. The lighting will be designed by award winning Carol Mullins, with an "electronic set" projected on the back wall by computer graphic artist Cristina Ottolini. Together these two artists will illuminate the piece, framing the dancers with shifting light, color, and electronic images. About Ellen Cornfield, director and choreographer Ellen Cornfield has been a dance artist for over 30 years, beginning with her training at the University of California at Berkeley in Graham technique, through her years in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1974-82), to the development of her own choreographic vision and the creation of her own company, Cornfield Dance, in 1989. She has traveled throughout Europe, the United States and Japan teaching and performing her work. In addition to her long association with the Merce Cunningham technique, Cornfield's training includes Cecchetti ballet with Margaret Craske, resistive band training with Martha Yoshida, and breathing technique with massage therapist Joan Witkowski. Cornfield's tradition lies in the abstract modern dance world. She is interested in movement, and the drama inherent in its underlying rhythms and timings, regardless of a narrative or story. She is also interested in the "stories" of our lives, the unending currents that travel between and amongst us. Her choreographic investigations outline the dynamics of these human interactions through dance, formalizing our energy waves, our collisions and collusions, so that we more fully recognize ourselves, and ourselves in others. Cornfield has taught and performed in Japan, England, the Netherlands, Germany, France and Poland, as well as in the United States. She continues to teach at the Cunningham studio in New York City. Her teaching residencies in universities have included the North Carolina School of the Arts, the Harvard Summer Dance Center, SUNY Purchase, Ohio State University and the University of California at Berkeley, where her passion and pursuit of modern dance began. Admission General admission: $15.00. Students and seniors: $7.00. Telephone and web Box Office: (410) 455-6240 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Dance website: http://www.umbc.edu/dance Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Theatre. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email. #�#�# Posted by dwinds1 Fine Arts Gallery exhibits Casting Shadows: Photographs by Edward West UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents Casting Shadows: Photographs by Edward West, organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the artist. Casting Shadows is a remarkable body of work depicting the daily lives of black South Africans shortly after the end of apartheid. As the exhibition's title suggests, shadow is used within the images as a metaphor for the shifting visibility of the black population during this period of political and cultural change. The exhibition will be on view from February 8 through March 16, 2002. An opening reception will be held on February 7 from 5 to 7 p.m.; a Gallery Talk with Edward West will be held on February 28th from 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents Casting Shadows: Photographs by Edward West, organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the artist. The exhibition will be on view from February 8 through March 16, 2002. An opening reception will be held on February 7 from 5 to 7 p.m.; a Gallery Talk with Edward West will be held on February 28th from 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. More than twenty-five years ago, photographer Edward West attended a play, Sizwe Bansi Is Dead, by South African playwright Athol Fugard. Set in a photographer's studio, the play examined the harsh realities faced by black South Africans under the system of apartheid. It galvanized West's interest in the country and its people, an interest that was made manifest when, following the dismantling of that repressive regime, West traveled to South Africa. There he created Casting Shadows, a remarkable body of work depicting the daily lives of black South Africans during this period of societal transformation. A person of mixed race himself, West photographed in the country's communities of color-townships, squatter camps and other locations. As the exhibition's title suggests, shadow is used within the images as a metaphor for the shifting visibility of the black population during this period of political and cultural change. Shot with high-speed film and digitally printed on drawing paper, the images have a rich pointillist texture and the depth of ink on paper. Formally, they blend the authenticity of full-frame street photography with a reductivist aesthetic. In their narrative, they reveal the subtle power of everyday activities to illuminate a moment in the culture's transformation. Within the shallow stage of the picture plane, the viewer enters a space in which people, place, and shadow each play a seminal role. The shadow is itself an animate and sometimes mythic presence with the power to both define and obscure. The metaphor of the shadow extends well into the country's history. "For example," West explains, "Soweto is nicknamed the Shadow City, referring pejoratively to its exclusively black population, while reinforcing the concept that blacks are seen as shadows of the white minority." West's interest in South Africa is multifaceted and his participation with the communities he photographed helped him gain the confidence of the inhabitants, bringing greater authenticity to his portrayals. West taught photography classes in the townships and urban areas, and he continues to work to improve the lives of the people in those locations. "I came to South Africa, acknowledging that I was an outsider," West remarked. "Without a respectful commitment to the people in the community, my presence would rightly be seen as an intrusion into lives already scarred by governmental policy. In contrast to those who came to the country and saw the polarities of black and white, I saw a country rich in variation. And so my choice to photograph in color is in recognition of a South Africa that is multi-hued, multi-faceted." West's interest in portraying the rich polyglot nature of South African society is also captured in the titles of the works, which utilize four of the country's eleven official languages. About Edward West Edward West, an associate professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, has had his work shown, collected, and published internationally by such institutions as the Art Institute of Chicago, Polaroid Corporation, the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, WIDE Gallery, the Cincinnati Art Museum and the San Francisco Art Institute. His recent exhibitions include shows at the Smithsonian Institution and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. About the Fine Arts Gallery The Fine Arts Gallery is a non-profit gallery space dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art. The Fine Arts Gallery serves as a unique center for students, faculty, and the general public in the visualization and discussion of important philosophical and aesthetic issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, imaging and digital arts, video, film, installation and performance. Since 1989, the Fine Arts Gallery has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Fine Arts Gallery has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the Fine Arts Gallery's Internship Program. Currently the Fine Arts Gallery produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. With the printing of Minimal Politics: Performativity and Minimalism in Recent American Art in 1997, the Fine Arts Gallery inaugurated a new series of publications entitled Issues in Cultural Theory. These catalogues are published yearly and are distributed internationally through Distributed Publishers in New York. Since 1992, the Fine Arts Gallery has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions which contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the Fine Arts Gallery has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. These traveling exhibitions include: Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations (2001) Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer's Perspective (1998) Minimal Politics (1997) Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia (1995/96) Notes In Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (1995) Ciphers of Identity (1994) Nancy Graves: Recent Works (1993) Environmental Terror (1992) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Fine Arts Gallery also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, Views from Baltimore to Washington, which focuses on contemporary forms and media by regional artists, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the Fine Arts Gallery one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Fine Arts Gallery in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Admission to the Gallery is free. Hours of Operation Sunday: closed Monday: closed Tuesday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Wednesday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Thursday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Telephone and web General Gallery information: (410) 455-3188 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Fine Arts Gallery website: http://www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. UMBC appreciates the contribution of Carole McNamara, Assistant Director for Collections and Exhibitions at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, who wrote the essay that appears at the beginning of this press release. #�#�# Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Presents January and February 2002 Arts Events UMBC will present a variety of art exhibitions, music and dance performances in January and February 2002. MODERN DANCE February 6 The Department ofDance and the Progressions Series present Cornfield Dance, asix member company under the direction of Ellen Cornfield. Established in1989, Cornfield Dance has performed throughout the United States,including appearances at LincolnCenter, Jacob's Pillow, thePhiladelphia Museum of Art andnumerous universities. The company has performed in Japan and Poland andrecently performed at the Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia.Before founding Cornfield Dance in 1989, Ellen Cornfield performed foreight years with the Merce CunninghamDance Company. The company's program includesForeshadowed Seeing and Velcro Road. 8 pm, UMBC Theatre. $15 general admission, $7 students and seniors. Box office: 410-455-6240. A separate press release is available. February 13, 14, 15 & 16 The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company inresidence at UMBC, presents its annual concerts. The venerable company,founded in 1983, has played in venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Baltimore Museum of Art, Ohio State University and Judson Church. The program features thepremiere of a major new work chroeographed by Carol Hess. Thishalf-evening interdisciplinary piece is a collaboration between Hess andmembers of the Streaming Umbrella Group, which includes video and soundartist SteveBradley, composer LindaDusman, percussionist TomGoldstein, videographer Vin Grabill, and artist John Sturgeon.Chroeographer/dancer Cathy Painewill present an improvised solo, and dancers Sandra Lacy and MaryWilliford-Shade will present a duet by chroeographer Tonya Lockyer and twosolos choreographed by Gabriel Masson and Sean Curran. UMBC Theatre, 8 pm each evening. $15 general admission, $7 students and seniors. Box office: 410-455-6240. A separate press release is available. ART GALLERY EXHIBITIONS (Please note that there are two art galleries at UMBC: the Fine Arts Gallery and the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery.) January 28 - March 9 The Albin O. KuhnLibrary Gallery presents Nathan Lyons: Riding 1st Class on theTitanic!. The exhibition is composed of 200 sequenced imagesproduced by the world renowned photographer and represents a continuationof an earlier project, Notations in Passing, which was published in1974 and incorporated a sequence of images that began in 1962. Thisproject, organized and circulated by the Addison Gallery of AmericanArt, continues from 1974 to the present, encompassing work that hasbeen generated by Lyons over the past 36 years. On February 20 at 4p.m., the artist will give a lecture on the exhibition; a reception willfollow. The presentation of Riding 1st Class on the Titanic!has been supported in part from the Friends of the Library & Galleryand by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agencyfunded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4:30 pm, on Thursday until 8 pm, and Saturday 1 - 5 pm. Admission is free. Information: 410-455-2270. A separate press release is available. February 8 - March 16 The Fine ArtsGallery presents Casting Shadows, Images from a New SouthAfrica: Photographs by Edward West. This traveling exhibitionorganized by the artist and the University of Michigan Museum ofArt brings together an important body of work depicting the dailylives of black South Africans during the period of apartheid and itsdismantling. West photographed the country's communities ofcolor-townships, squatter camps, and other locations. As the exhibition'stitle suggests, shadow is used within the images as a metaphor for theshifting visibility of the black population during this period ofpolitical and cultural change. An opening reception will be held onThursday, February 7th, from 5 to 7 p.m. The Fine Arts Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission is free. Information: 410-455-3188. A separate press release is available. CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERTS February 14 The Department of Music's Faculty& Guest Artist Series presents pianist PaulHoffmann in concert. His program will feature music by Stuart SaundersSmith, including Pinetop, Aussie Blue, Brenda,Self and Notebook. Hoffmann made his debut at the ViennaKonzerthaus in 1973 while on a Fulbright grant, and has since concertizedextensively in the U.S. and abroad. He has recorded solo piano and chambermusic for Capstone, Orion,CRI, Northeastern,Composers Guild of New Jersey, Contemporary Record Society, O.O. Discs, Spectrum, and Vienna ModernMasters labels and has made numerous radio broadcasts in the U.S. as wellas for Voice of America, Radio Cologne, Radio Frankfurt, and Radio France. He is currentlyworking on recordings for Capstone and Neuma Records. Most recently he hasperformed at new music festivals in Italy ("Spaziomusica" inCagliari and "Musiche in Mostra" in Turin), National Sun Yat-senUniversity in Taiwan, GoucherCollege in Baltimore, Merkin Hall in New York City and The 8thInternational Symposium on Electronic Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art inChicago. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Information: 410-455-2942. A separate press release will be available. February 18 The Department of Music's Free in508 series presents composer James Dashow, who will curatean evening of new electronic music by Italian composers.8 pm, Fine Arts Studio 508. Admission is free. Information: 410-455-2942. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 Web (these sites contain extensive hyperlinks for added information) UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building, Theatre or Library. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Follow signs to the Fine Arts Building, Theatre or Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building, Theatre or Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building, and in Garage 1, near the Theatre. Meters are in effect until 7:30 p.m. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit, unless otherwise marked, until 3 p.m. on weekdays. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ #�#�# Posted by dwinds1 December 7, 2001 Q&A with New Theatre Faculty Christopher Owens Director Christopher Owens discusses The Good Woman of Setzuan Christopher Owens is the newest faculty member in the Department of Theatre. He has worked as a director in regional theatre for 20 years, staging over 100 professional productions and heading three Equity theatre companies. He has served as a visiting assistant professor at Indiana University and Dickinson College and a guest lecturer at Wheaton College. In summer 2001, he staged An Exception Should Be Made (a new play about William Saroyan), which played on the "Fringe" at the Edinburgh Festival.The Good Woman of Setzuan is now playing in the UMBC Theatre through December 9. For reservations and information, call (410) 455-2476.Bertolt Brecht was one of the great playwrights of the 20th century. Tell us about his work, and why it resonates with today's audiences.CO: The question is, will it resonate with today's audiences? Brecht was a very political writer. His whole idea of theatre was to get the audience to think and act on those thoughts rather than be swept away by emotion and empathy for the characters. As a story, Brecht was not looking for the Greek ideal of catharsis, that theatre would have a sort of purging effect, and that everyone would go out of the theatre feeling in some way better, even having seen a tragedy.Brecht, on the other hand, wanted to rouse you, to excite you, to incite you. So his theatre, which constantly strove to remind you that it was theatre � that it was storytelling � utilized placards telling you what this next scene is about or musical breaks in it � music that was not intended, like the American musical theatre, to further the plot or develop the character. Brecht wanted it to be jarring. He wanted it to stop the action and stop you getting too sucked into the world of the characters, and to remember the message, and a message that was often very political. His politics were essentially Marxist, and his plays all espoused basically a communist ideal of the world, trying to create a more equitable, classless society. Doing Brecht today, you have to eventually deal with the fact that that ideal, that communist economic system, has collapsed in the majority of the world. Places for whom Brecht was often the champion in the Soviet Cold War era now are changed to at least some variation on the capitalist economic system. Even the China from which he drew his inspiration for The Good Woman of Setzuan is finding some mesh of capitalism and their old system. So consequently, that becomes the challenge of doing Brecht here.Now, Brecht does still write good stories that suck you in, stories that make you care about the characters, even if those characters break out once in a while to talk directly to the audience and remind you of some message within the play. So, I think that those stories still resonate, that though the Marxist ideal may not be the obvious answer anymore, class struggle and economic disparities exist in huge measure throughout the world. And the questions that The Good Woman of Setzuan particularly tries to address are: What are we going to do about this? How are we going to help our fellow man and prosper at the same time? They're still relevant questions.Why did you choose this particular play, The Good Woman of Setzuan?CO: A couple of reasons. One, the faculty wanted a piece that utilized a lot of our students. This show's got 36 characters. It happens that I do it with 22 actors, but that's still utilizing a large amount of our department. In the show there's one character who has to disguise herself as a male counterpart in order to survive in the society. Brecht suggests doing the male role with a mask. Immediately it struck me that the situation would actually be more credible if you used masks for all the characters. Mask training was a part of my world when I was a younger actor. I studied with Pierre LeFevre, one of the best known mask teachers in the world when I was at Juilliard, and I loved it. It was a very freeing experience. And I've used it throughout my career, sometimes not even in performance but simply as a rehearsal technique. It allows 36 characters to be done by a smaller number of actors and it fits nicely into some of the disciplines of the Chinese theatre as the traditional Chinese theatre is performed in extreme make-up that simulates a mask-like form.Tell us something about the play.CO: Well, as I said, it's an examination of a conflict between ethical and economic systems. That sounds very dry but it's not meant to be at all. The gods � whatever the gods may be in this occasion � descend down to this location. We start in pre-World War II China, looking for somebody who's good here. It's hard to find somebody who's good. The poverty of the situation has now forced people into things that are not what we would consider completely ethical. The only person who will take the gods in is this one prostitute in Setzuan. They reward her for that. Besides having sort of achieved their particular mission, they decide to give her money. They make it clear that it's for the rent that she gave them overnight and not for sexual favors but, at the same time, this allows her to buy a business and join the capitalist system. Other people then here of her fortune, and like with lottery winners, come out of the woodwork to ask her for shelter, food, money and everything else. She is truly the good woman of Setzuan in a lot of ways, wanting to be generous. However, this begins to destroy her and her business. There's only so much you can give away and still continue to run things.So these dilemmas that she's faced with turn her into a hard-nosed businessman, learning to say no and learning not to be charitable. All of these things go against her better nature. Her solution to that is to create a whole new character for herself and she invents a cousin of hers, a male cousin to take her place and run things, get the business back together, and gain enough money so that than the good person can come back and be charitable once again. So this dichotomy of how do you help your fellow man and prosper within this capitalist world is a struggle that creates the disguise and a mystery as one person disappears and the other one comes in, because obviously her female character and her male character can't be together at the same time. She (the character) is a good enough actor to mostly pull this off, so that plot element also engages our attention. It's a great challenge for the actress playing that particular role, to create that other male character that can credibly fool the rest of Setzuan during the time when he takes over and whips the business back into shape.We're talking about Brecht wanting theatre to be about theatre, and now we have an actor acting as an actor in the play.CO: Exactly. So that the character has to play a character. That switching back and forth is difficult, not always successful, and eventually leads to one personality taking over another one, and that too is an interesting element for the audience to watch.With most works of art, an understanding of the times or circumstances in which the work was created can enhance our appreciation or understanding of it. Is there anything that would be helpful to know about The Good Woman of Setzuan or Brecht's circumstances when he wrote it?CO: Well, he started writing it early in the '30s, and eventually it got done in 1938. Now, during that time period was his fleeing the rise of Nazi Germany. He found his way eventually to the United States. The impetus for the play actually was a visit in 1935 to see Chinese theatre. He borrowed what worked for him. A lot of it he loved, because the Chinese theatre is anything but realistic. It relies a lot on traditions and symbolism, an understanding of certain conventions by the audience, and transparent theatricality. He wrote about how much the Chinese actor was always aware of the impression that he was creating on the audience, rather than the Stanislavski ideal of being so immersed in the character that you're unaware of the audience.Many people may not realize that the students who will appear on stage have to go through an audition process to gain roles in the play. What are the auditions like?CO: Well, for me it's particularly interesting, because I'm coming in here knowing nothing of any student's previous work. I was very much a blank slate. All the students in the department did a day of prepared monologue pieces for me. Because the show is musical, I'd also asked them for sixteen bars of a song, which was terrifying for some people and okay for others! It was really just like a professional audition process, which was good for them to do, and good for me to evaluate.But they're behind masks. That must present certain opportunities but also certain challenges to the actors.CO: Well, part of the audition process was in mask as well. A very limited number of students have had training in that discipline, but there's a lot that I could tell by putting a neutral mask on them. I gave them short, purely physical scenes of action to play with each other and looked for who could release themselves into that. Who could find a way to do things in a clear and yet simple physical manner? The masks that we have allow speaking � they're over the forehead and cheekbone, but it still limits a lot of expression of the actors, so you have to act in a very different way��because so much of communication, culturally, is through our eyes. So the actors would have to learn, I assume, to communicate through physical gesture.CO: Yes! It's a whole new technique. So, as we began the rehearsal process for this show, I did a week of classwork before we began actually rehearsing the play, trying to get people to understand how they were going to have to work on it. You're right, you don't have the capacity for the same kind of facial expressions, which generally the actor takes to mean, �Oh, I have to do much more to communicate.� The reality is that you've got to do less. You've just got to do one big thing instead of four little things. The toughest part in mask work is increasing the size of your bodily communication while distilling and getting rid of those extraneous movements that muddy what you're trying to do. In most of acting, one of the worst things to do is to watch yourself act. Mask work is one of the occasions where you use a mirror to try to understand what you're doing.It's almost counter-intuitive, but very simple.CO: Yes. It's great. I think it's a great technique for the actors, and it's great for Brecht here too. It's broadly theatrical, yet at the same time it's very disciplined. Posted by dwinds1 November 5, 2001 UMBC Presents December Arts Events Baltimore, MD (October 15, 2001) - UMBC will present a variety of art exhibitions, music, dance and theatre performances in December 2001. Baltimore, MD (October 15, 2001) - UMBC will present a variety of art exhibitions, music, dance and theatre performances in December 2001. ART GALLERY EXHIBITIONS (N.B.: there are two art galleries at UMBC:the Fine Arts Gallery and the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery.) Continuing through January 12 The UMBC Fine Arts Gallery presents Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000. Over the past fifteen years, artist Fred Wilson has produced the most sustained and cogent inquiry into the complex relationship between the art object and the museum. His mock museum installations explore the question of how the museum consciously or unconsciously perpetuates racist beliefs or behavior. Objects and Installations is the first retrospective to examine Wilson's artistic and theoretical research as well as the influence of his work on the community at large. The exhibition is curated by Maurice Berger. The Fine Arts Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission is free. Information: 410-455-3188. A separate press release is available. Continuing through December 8 The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Light2: Images from the Photography Collections. The Albin O. Kuhn Library's Photography Collections are one of the largest academic collections in the world, with holdings of approximately 1.8 million images. This exhibition celebrates this rich collection by featuring approximately 80 works acquired over the last decade, but rarely exhibited. Among the photographers represented are Diane Arbus, Gary Auerbach, LewisBaltz, RichardBenson, Marilyn Bridges, Wolf von dem Bussche, RichardBuswell, HenriCartier-Bresson, Kristin Capp, Clarence Carvel, Gary Carwood, Chim (David Seymour), Larry Clark, Barbara Crane, Cary BethCryor, John Patrick Dugdale, HaroldEdgerton, ElliottErwitt, JanFaul, EricFischl, RolandFreeman, Sally Gall, Ralph Gibson, RichardGordon, JohnGutman, Robert Heineken, Allen Janus, Richard Jaquish, BarbaraKasten, Stephen Marc, MaryEllen Mark, Jill Mathis, JoelMeyerowitz, Duane Michals,GillesPeress, David Plowdon, JackRadcliffe, GailRebhan, Leland Rice, David Seltzer, CindySherman, Raymond R. "Pete" Starr, Jr., Jaromir Stephany,Barbara Traub, JerryN. Uelsmann, Barbara Young, Frank Van Riper, BruceWeber, GaryWinogrand, MinorWhite and DavidWojnarowicz. The Gallery is open Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4:30 pm, on Thursday until 8 pm, and Saturday 1 - 5 pm. Admission is free. Information: 410-455-2270. A separate press release is available. THEATRE November 30 - December 9 The Department of Theatrepresents a Main Stage Production of Bertolt Brecht'sThe Good Woman of Setzuan, directed by Christopher Owens,with set and costume design by Elena Zlotescu, lighting and sound designby Terry Cobb, musicaldirection by Ron Barnett, and vocal coaching by Lynn Watson. When the godsdescend to find if there is one good person living in pre-WWII China,their mission seems doomed to failure until a generous prostitute offersthem shelter. However, the resulting gift from the gods that allows her tochange her ways provides more dilemmas than solutions. An eclectic andvolatile mix of Chinese opera, masked drama, political agit-prop, andWestern cabaret by UMBC's newest member of the Department of Theatre,The Good Woman of Setzuan asks the audience to answer the timelessquestion "can ethics and economics ever mix?" Showtimes: December 1, 7 & 8 at 8 pm December 2, 6 & 9 at 4 pm All performances are in the UMBC Theatre. Post performance discussions on December 2 & 8 $10 general admission, $8 UMBC faculty/staff and $5 students/seniors. Box office: 410-455-2476. A separate press release is available. MODERN DANCE December 6 - 8 The Department ofDance presents the Fall Dance Showcase, featuring work byvisiting artist Adrienne Clancy.The program also includes works by Shannon Zimmerman, Ali Linthicum andMargaret Terry. On Friday and Saturday, the program features a performanceby the African Dance Class. 8 pm each evening, UMBC Fine Arts Studio 317. $10 general admission, $5 students/seniors. Box office: 410-455-6240. Photo: Tim Ford MUSIC CONCERTS December 1 The Department of Music presentsthe Jubilee Singers under the direction of JaniceJackson. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Free admission. Information: 410-455-2942. December 2 The Department of Music presents the Maryland Camerata, a choral group under the baton of Aya Ueda, in a concert entitled Glory of the Renaissance. The program includes English and Italian madrigals by Morley, Weelkes, Monteverdi and others, and seasonal motets, including O magnum mysterium by Victoria, Hodie Christus natus est by Sweelinck, and Jubilate Deo by Giovanni Gabrieli. The Camerata will also sing Song for Athene by John Tavener as a memorial dedication to the victims of terrorism and innocent lives sacrificed in the current war. 3 pm, Charlestown Chapel, Charlestown Retirement Community, Catonsville. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall, UMBC. Free admission. Information: 410-455-2942. December 5 The Department of Music presentsthe New MusicEnsemble. The program will include CorneliusCardew's Treatise, LouHarrison's May Rain, Morton Feldman'sTwo Pianos, KarlheinzStockhausen's Tierkreis (version for flute and saxophone), Stuart SaundersSmith's Tunnels, and BenJohnston's Ponder Nothing. Free admission. Information: 410-455-2942. December 6 The Department of Music presentsthe PercussionEnsemble directed by TomGoldstein. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Free admission. Information: 410-455-2942. December 9 The Department of Music presentsthe UMBC Symphony Orchestra under the baton of WayneCameron. 3 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Free admission. Information: 410-455-2942. December 9 The Department of Music presentsthe CollegiumMusicum, directed by Joseph Morin. The program features French and English Medieval songs celebrating the New Year and the Virgin Mary, German Renaissance instrumental music by Hausmann and Franc, works for organ by Sweelinck and J.S. Bach, and Baroque cantatas and arias by Monteclair, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Handel and Campra. 4 pm, St. John's Episcopal Church, Frederick Road, Ellicott City. Free admission. Information: 410-455-2942. December 12 The Department of Music presentsthe Concert Choir under the baton of Aya Ueda. The Concert Choir will perform a concert of African music, including three freedom songs from South Africa; Missa Luba, a Latin mass set by a Kenyan composer; and folksongs and songs related to Christmas, such as Nyathi onyuol and the popular Bethelehemu. The UMBC African Drumming Ensemble will share a portion of the concert. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. Free admission. Information: 410-455-2942. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Telephone and web UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts [contains extensive links] UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Directions --From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building, Theatre or Library. --From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Follow signs to the Fine Arts Building, Theatre or Library. --From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building, Theatre or Library. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building, and in Garage 1, near the Theatre. Meters are in effect until 7:30 p.m. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit, unless otherwise marked, until 3 p.m. on weekdays.Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Department of Theatre presents The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht Baltimore, MD (October 22, 2001) -- UMBC's Department of Theatre presents The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht. Performances open on November 30th and run through December 9th. The production is directed by Christopher Owens, with set and costume design by Elena Zlotescu, lighting and sound design by Terry Cobb, music direction by Ron Barnett, and vocal coaching by Lynn Watson. Performances open on November 30 and run through December 9. Tickets are $5.00 to $10.00. Box office: (410) 455-2476. Baltimore, MD (October 22, 2001) -- UMBC's Department of Theatre presents The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht. Performances open on November 30th and run through December 9th. The production is directed by Christopher Owens, with set and costume design by Elena Zlotescu, lighting and sound design by Terry Cobb, music direction by Ron Barnett, and vocal coaching by Lynn Watson. About the Play When the gods descend to search for a "good person" living in pre-World War II China, they have great difficulty finding one person obeying their Book of Rules in these troubled times. Nonetheless, a prostitute gives them shelter and they reward her goodness with enough money to change her ways. Unfortunately, the shop she purchases with their help results in more problems than solutions. Director Christopher Owens calls Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan a "culture clash." "Brecht used this setting to highlight how Western capitalism was at odds with Eastern ethics -- that you cannot help your fellow man and serve the almighty dollar at the same time." Owens commented. "His answer was the Marxist ideal and the communist economic system, but the challenge of producing Brecht today is dealing with the failure of that model, the fact that most of those economic and political systems have collapsed." Owens, along with scenic and costume designer Elena Zlotescu, have expanded the space and time constraints of Brecht's script not only to include elements of pre-WWII China, but also to suggest that this culture clash is not just representative of that place and time period. "The successful cultures and economic systems today are those that find a synthesis, a way to combine their older religious and ethical traditions with the global economy. China, after decades of struggle, is now an interesting model of this transition, where people do not find it unusual to see an ancient temple next to a McDonald's," he remarked. As the play unfolds, some characters adopt a more western appearance and various modern properties (cell phones, etc.) suggesting that we have moved further forward in time as well. The scenic elements also suggest that we could be in Setzuan but could also be in some other less developed part of the world. "Obviously, the greatest clash of cultures at the moment exists in the Middle East, where encroaching Western elements are met with great resistance by the existing society. Without changing Brecht's text, we wanted our scenic elements to allow the audience to envision the same sort of situation taking place there," Owens explained. The Good Woman of Setzuan is performed in mask, a particular area of interest for Owens, who trained with one of the world's foremost mask teachers, Pierre LeFevre, while at the Juilliard School. "The years I spent with Pierre were invaluable, utilizing both neutral and character/commedia mask work in a variety of performance settings. I have since used mask work as both a rehearsal technique in many classic plays and in performance if the show is particularly suited to that discipline. In this play, Brecht suggests the use of mask for one character, but Elena and I both thought it made more sense for the entire cast to use mask. This allows us to accomplish 36 characters with 22 actors, and also helps with a style of performance that incorporates a variety of techniques of the Chinese theatre. Like Brecht, we borrow from the traditional Chinese theatre what is most useful to us, and adapt it to the particular needs of this story." New York and regional theatre composer/musical director Ron Barnett was commissioned to write an original score for this production. His score tracks the musical progress of the script from its Oriental roots at the beginning to a clearly Western musical sound by the end. Christopher Owens, director Christopher Owens is the newest member of the faculty of UMBC's Department of Theatre, having spent 18 years as head of three different professional regional theatres and the last two years as a visiting assistant professor at Indiana University and Dickinson College. He has staged over 100 professional theatre productions, including the regional premiere of David Mamet's Oleanna, a Seattle production of Brecht's Threepenny Opera and a broad array of material from Shakespeare to Peter Shaffer. As a writer, he developed two adaptations from Dickens: A Christmas Carol and A Dickens Christmas Collation (both of which have had multiple professional productions), and the book and lyrics for the original musical Steem with composer Ron Barnett. In summer 2001, he staged and served as artistic advisor for An Exception Should Be Made, a new play about William Saroyan that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and will lead off the Saroyan Festival in California in March 2002. Showtimes November 30, December 1, 7 & 8 at 8 pm December 2, 6 & 9 at 4 pm Preview: November 29, 8 pm All performances in the UMBC Theatre. Post performances discussions on December 2 & 8 Admission General admission: $10.00. UMBC faculty and staff: $8.00. Students and seniors: $5.00. Preview: $3.00. Telephone and web Box office: (410) 455-2476 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC Arts News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Theatre: http://www.umbc.edu/theatre Images for Media High resolution images for media will be available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/or by email or postal mail. Directions --From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. --From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn right and follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. --From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the UMBC Theatre. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Garage 1, near the Theatre Building, and Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Meters are in effect until 7:30 p.m. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit, unless otherwise marked, until 3 p.m. on weekdays. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ ### Posted by dwinds1 October 25, 2001 Fine Arts Gallery presents Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000 Baltimore, MD (September 1, 2001) -- UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000, the first mid-career survey of the artwork by the internationally recognized artist, curated by Maurice Berger, curator of the Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition, which consists of more than 100 objects, some reconfigured to re-create sections of Wilson's original installations, will be on view from October 11, 2001 through January 12, 2002. An opening reception will be held on October 11 from 5 to 7 p.m. The gallery is open Tuesday - Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call 410-455-3188. Baltimore, MD (September 1, 2001) -- UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000, the first mid-career survey of the artwork by the internationally recognized artist, curated by Maurice Berger, curator of the Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition, which consists of more than 100 objects, some reconfigured to re-create sections of Wilson's original installations, will be on view from October 11, 2001 through January 12, 2002. An opening reception will be held on October 11 from 5 to 7 p.m. On November 8 at 7:30 p.m., Fred Wilson will present a public lecture in Lecture Hall V, located in UMBC's Engineering/Computer Science Building. Following the Fine Arts Gallery viewing, Objects and Installations will travel to the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (October 26, 2002 - January 7, 2003); the Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California (January 22, 2003 - March 30, 2003); the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas (May 3, 2003 - July 27, 2003); the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (Fall 2003); the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California (December 5, 2003 - February 8, 2004); the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York (April 28, 2004 - July 4, 2004); and other locations to be determined. Over the past fifteen years, Fred Wilson has produced the most sustained and cogent inquiry into the complex relationship between the art object and the museum. His oeuvre, consisting of mock museum installations into which the artist places provocative and beautifully rendered objects, explore the question of how the museum consciously or unconsciously perpetuates racist beliefs or behavior. If social justice is Wilson's ultimate subject, the museum itself becomes his medium -- from the use of meticulously fabricated objects to the careful selection of wall colors, lighting, display cases and even wall labels. Wilson's incisive aesthetic and social inquiry focuses not only on the social implications of the content within the anthropological, historical or artistic medium but also on the powerful, historically encoded belief systems inherent to the art of museum display. Sometimes the artist reconfigures and supplements the collection of an actual museum -- as in his extraordinary installation, Mining the Museum, commissioned by the Maryland Historical Society in 1992. In that show, Wilson juxtaposed objects from the society's permanent collection with fabricated objects and wall labels. The resulting juxtapositions spoke to a complex history of museological omission, manipulation and oversight: in Cabinet Making, for example, Wilson poignantly counters a series of elegantly crafted American late nineteenth century wooden chairs with a rarely exhibited wooden slave post. In the end, Wilson's aesthetic commentaries reach across a wide museological and art historical expanse -- from Egyptian and classical Greek and Roman sculpture to African-American memorabilia, the primativist painting of Picasso and the uniforms worn by the often black guards charged with the task of keeping America museums safe and secure. Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000 will be accompanied by a major catalog and will feature essays by exhibition curator Maurice Berger and Jennifer Gonzalez, professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The catalog will be fully illustrated in black-and-white and color, and will also contain an interview with Wilson, complete catalog raisionn� of his installations, a selected bibliography, list of exhibitions and checklist. A major outreach initiative will accompany the exhibition. Programming components include a symposium on the cultural politics of the museum; a talk by Wilson; and a school outreach program, designed for primary and secondary students, in partnership with area museums. Organized by the Fine Arts Gallery, this school outreach program involves college interns from throughout the university who will participate with museum staff and school teachers in developing curriculum studies, guided tours and corresponding workshop activities in area schools. The Curator Maurice Berger is a senior fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of the New School for Social Research and curator of the Fine Arts Gallery, UMBC. He has taught and lectured at such institutions as Hunter College, Yale University, the DIA Center for the Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He has served as curator or has written catalog essays for such institutions as the Guggenheim Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Grey Art Gallery and Jewish Museum. His articles have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers, including The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, the Village Voice, October and Afterimage. He is the author of three books: Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism, and the 1960s (Harper and Row, 1989), How Art Becomes History (HarperCollins, 1992); and White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999). White Lies was named a finalist for the Horace Mann Bond Award given by Harvard University for the best book of African American interest, and is currently being made into a documentary by PBS. Berger was editor of Modern Art and Society: A Social and Multicultural Reader (HarperCollins, 1994) and The Crisis of Criticism (The New Press, 1998), and co-editor of Constructing Masculinity (Routledge, 1995). Exhibition Support Generous support for this exhibition and publication is provided from UMBC, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the Elizabeth Graham Firestone Foundation, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Gallery Information The Fine Arts Gallery is a non-profit gallery space dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art. The Fine Arts Gallery serves as a unique center for students, faculty, and the general public in the visualization and discussion of important philosophical and aesthetic issues of the day. Disciplines represented include painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, imaging and digital arts, video, film, installation and performance. Since 1989, the Fine Arts Gallery has incorporated a number of public programs into its exhibition programming schedule to further impact the communities it serves. Symposia, lecture series, conferences, film series, visiting artist series, and residencies have all been fundamental in an effort to create an ongoing dialogue about contemporary art and culture. The Fine Arts Gallery has also initiated a number of projects with Baltimore and surrounding schools systems to integrate the contemporary artist and their concerns into the classroom. These projects take place on-site at both middle schools and high schools and are team taught by the instructors at these schools, professional artists, and students from the Fine Arts Gallery's Internship Program. Currently the Fine Arts Gallery produces one to two exhibition catalogues each year. Each document is fully illustrated and contains critical essays on the given subject by a variety of distinguished professionals in the field. With the printing of Minimal Politics: Performativity and Minimalism in Recent American Art in 1997, the Fine Arts Gallery inaugurated a new series of publications entitled Issues in Cultural Theory. These catalogues are published yearly and are distributed internationally through Distributed Publishers in New York. Since 1992, the Fine Arts Gallery has actively pursued the organization of exhibitions which contain the aesthetic, theoretical, and educational potential to reach both a national and international audience. Over the years, the Fine Arts Gallery has traveled these exhibition projects to a broad spectrum of museums, professional non-profit galleries, and universities national and internationally. These traveling exhibitions include: Adrian Piper: A Retrospective (1999) Bruno Monguzzi: A Designer's Perspective (1998) Minimal Politics (1997) Kate Millet, Sculpture: The First 38 Years (1997) Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia (1995/96) Notes In Time: Leon Golub and Nancy Spero (1995) Ciphers of Identity (1994) Nancy Graves: Recent Works (1993) Environmental Terror (1992) Beyond the scope of these traveling exhibitions, the Fine Arts Gallery also undertakes an exhibition schedule that includes a Faculty Biennial, Views from Baltimore to Washington, which focuses on contemporary forms and media by regional artists, and projects such as the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership. As part of the educational mission of the Fine Arts Gallery one graduate thesis exhibition and one undergraduate senior exhibition are scheduled on a yearly basis. This multi-faceted focus for presenting exhibitions, projects and scholarly research publications focused on contemporary art and cultural issues positions the Fine Arts Gallery in a unique position within the mid-Atlantic region. Admission to the Gallery is free. Hours of Operation Sunday: closed Monday: closed Tuesday through Saturday: 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. The Gallery will be closed November 22 - 25, 2001, and December 22, 2001 - January 2, 2002. Telephone and web General Gallery information: (410) 455-3188 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Fine Arts Gallery website: http://www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 October 22, 2001 UMBC Department of Music presents E. Michael Richards, clarinetist, in concert Baltimore, MD (October 22, 2001) -- UMBC's Department of Music presents clarinetist E. Michael Richards in a program of contemporary music, entitled The Clarinet of the 21st Century. He will be joined by guest artist pianist Kazuko Tanosaki. The program will include music by Drake Mabry, Akira Nishimura, Masao Honma, Isang Yun, and P. Q. Phan. 8 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. $7.00 general admission, $3.00 students and seniors, free with UMBC ID. Information: (410) 455-2942. Baltimore, MD (October 22, 2001) -- UMBC's Department of Music presents clarinetist E. Michael Richards in a program of contemporary music, entitled The Clarinet of the 21st Century. He will be joined by guest artist pianist Kazuko Tanosaki. The Program The program will include Street Cries (1983) for solo microtonal clarinet by Drake Mabry (b. 1951), Aquatic Aura (1997) by Akira Nishimura (b. 1953), Junction III (1990) by Masao Honma (b. 1930), Monolog (1983) by Isang Yun (1917-1998), and My Language (1997) by P. Q. Phan (b. 1962). Biography As a recitalist of new music, E. Michael Richards has premiered over 125 works throughout the United States, Japan, Australia, and Western Europe. Trained as a clarinetist at the New England Conservatory (B.Mus.) and Yale School of Music (M.Mus.), Richards earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego. He received a 1990 U.S./Japan Creative Artist Fellowship (sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, and Japanese Government Cultural Agency) as a solo recitalist for a six-month residency in Japan, an NEH Summer Fellowship to study traditional Japanese music, and a residency grant (Cassis, France) from the Camargo Foundation to complete a book, The Clarinet of the Twenty-First Century. Richards has performed as concerto soloist with the Syracuse Symphony and Shinsei Japan Philharmonic (Tokyo), in chamber music performances with the Cassatt Quartet, Ying Quartet, SONOR, and the East-West Quartet, and in recital at eight international festivals and more than 20 universities, as well as at Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the American Academy in Rome, and the Tokyo American Center. He has also performed as a member of the Tanosaki-Richards Duo (with pianist Kazuko Tanosaki) since 1982. Richards has recorded on the NEUMA, Mode, CRI, Ninewinds, and Opus One labels. He has taught at Smith College; the University of California, San Diego; Bowdoin College; Hamilton College; and the Hochstein Music School in Rochester, New York; and completed short terms with Kazuko Tanosaki as visiting artists in residence at the University of Massachusetts, CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies), at the University of California Berkeley, and San Jose State University. Richards and Tanosaki have also organized three international symposia on contemporary Japanese music, and one on contemporary Asian-American music. He joins UMBC this year as a member of the music faculty. Kazuko Tanosaki, pianist Born in Japan and educated at the Kunitachi College of Music, Kazuko Tanosaki received an M.A. in piano under full scholarship from the University of California, San Diego. She studied piano with Kazuko Abe, Cecil Lytle, Jean-Charles François, Frederick Marvin, and Natalya Antonova. Ms. Tanosaki was a first prize winner in the 1982 La Jolla Orchestra Young Artist Competition (San Diego). She has served as a lecturer in music (piano) at Hamilton College, and working toward a D.M.A. in piano performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music. Ms. Tanosaki has presented solo recitals throughout Japan, Europe, and the United States, including performances at the 1989 Piano Panorama of Twentieth Century Music in Rotterdam, Holland, the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, the Civic Center in San Diego, California, and Lemoyne College in Syracuse, New York. She recently performed Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto with Peter Rubhardt and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, and as a guest artist with I Musici de Montréal. Admission General admission: $7.00. Students and seniors: $3.00. Admission is free to holders of a current UMBC ID. Telephone and web General Music information: (410) 455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts Calendar: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art Department of Music: http://www.umbc.edu/music E. Michael Richards: http://www.umbc.edu/music/site/faculty/richards.html Directions --From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile to the entrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. --From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. Take Route 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near the Administration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on all University calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require a parking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media E. Michael Richards image: www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/richards.jpg High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. Posted by dwinds1 October 19, 2001 UMBC is good asdf sdfad Posted by dwinds1 October 17, 2001 Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives to Deliver UMBC Graduate Commencement Keynote Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Robert E. Kahn, will deliver the keynote address at UMBC's graduate commencement ceremony. More than 200 master's and doctoral degrees will be awarded at the ceremony, to be held in the Retriever Activities Center, at 10 a.m. on May 23. Baltimore, Md. - Chairman, CEO and President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), Robert E. Kahn, will deliver the keynote address at UMBC's graduate commencement ceremony. More than 200 master's and doctoral degrees will be awarded at the ceremony, to be held in the Retriever Activities Center, at 10 a.m. on May 23.Kahn founded CNRI in 1986 after a thirteen-year term at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). CNRI was created as a not-for-profit organization to provide leadership and funding for research and development of the National Information Infrastructure.After receiving a B.E.E. from the City College of New York in 1960, Kahn earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University in 1962 and 1964 respectively. In 1972 he moved to DARPA and subsequently became Director of DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO).Kahn conceived the idea of open-architecture networking and is a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols and was responsible for originating DARPA's Internet Program which he led for the first three years. Kahn coined the term "National Information Infrastructure" (NII) in the mid 1980s, which later became more widely known as the Information Super Highway.Kahn is the 1997 recipient of the White House National Medal of Technology, a two-time winner of the Secretary of Defense Civilian Service Award, and the 2001 Charles Stark Draper Prize from the National Academy of Engineering.For more information on commencement, please visit the UMBC commencement web site at www.umbc.edu/commencement, or call the commencement hotline at 410-455-3100. Posted by dwinds1 October 12, 2001 Music Duo Ancuza Aprodu - Thierry Miroglio to perform at UMBC Baltimore, MD (October 1, 2001) - UMBC's Department of Music presents theDuoAncuza Aprodu - Thierry Miroglio, featuring the artistry ofpercussionist ThierryMiroglio and pianist Ancuza Aprodu. Their program features music byFestinger, Platz, Lema�tre, Miroglio, Tanguy and Ohana. 8 p.m., FineArts Recital Hall. $7 general admission, $3 students/seniors, free withUMBC ID. Baltimore, MD (October 1, 2001) - UMBC's Department of Music presents theDuoAncuza Aprodu - Thierry Miroglio, featuring the artistry ofpercussionist ThierryMiroglio and pianist Ancuza Aprodu. The Program The program will feature the world premiere of Richard Festinger'sConstructionen Metal et Bois for piano and percussion, Robert HPPlatz's up (Piano Piece 4) for solo piano, Dominique Lema�tre'sAl Uzza for piano and percussion, the United States premiere ofFrancis Miroglio's Pulsars 2 for vibraphone and piano, EricTanguy's Towards for solo percussion, and MauriceOhana's Etude d'Interpretation XII: Imitation-Dialogues forpianoand percussion. Thierry Miroglio, percussionst Percussionist Thierry Miroglio commands a repertoire of more than 150worksand has performed in more than 25 countries. He studied with Jean-Pierre Drouetand Sylvio Gualda, under whom he obtained a First Prize at the NationalConservatory of Versailles. He continued his studies at the Sorbonne withIannis Xenakis and at theNationalConservatory of Boulogne-Billancourt. He is now a professor at theConservatory Darius Milhaud in Paris and has worked at studios such as IRCAM, GRM and Grame. A specialist in new music, Miroglio has collaborated with composers John Cage, Andr�Boucourechliev, Jean-Claude Risset,Luciano Berio, MauriceOhana, YoshihisaTa�ra, Kaija Saariaho, Edison Denisov, Aldo Brizzi, AndrewAger, FrancoDonatoni, Jean-BaptisteBarri�re, SuzanneGiraud, MarcoStroppa, AlessandroMelchiorre, G�rard Grisey, KlausHinrich Stahmer, BrianFerneyhough, BetsyJolas, ManfredStahnke and Hughes Dufourt,andhas premiered many of their pieces, some of which are dedicated to him. Thierry Miroglio has recorded as a soloist for several labels and recentlypremiered the last work by Xenakis for solo percussion and ensemble. Ancuza Aprodu, pianist A native of Romania, French pianist Ancuza Aprodu studied piano withSmaranda Murgan in Bucharest before settling in Italy, where she studiedwith the pianist Roberto Bollea and the composer Enrico Correggia. Shereceived a diploma from the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory inTurin, Italy and distinguished herself in several internationalcompetitions. Since 1993, she has developed an international solo career in Europe andAmerica, performing a large repertory ranging from Baroque to contemporarymusic throughout Europe, South America and Asia. With an emphasis on newworks, she has premiered works by Gy�rgy Ligeti, Franco Donatoni,BetsyJolas, DieterAcker,OctavioL�pez, MauriceOhana, Jean-ClaudeRisset, Klaus Ager, MarlosNobre,DominiqueLema�tre,AlessandroSolbiati, DanielTeruggi, and Hiroshi Nakamura. Also active as a chamber musician, shewas a member of the Ensemble Europeo Antidogma. Ancuza Aprodu is presentlyorganizing a contemporary piano collection for Editions Jobert in Paris. Admission General admission: $7.00 Students and seniors: $3.00 Admission is free to holders of a current UMBC ID. Telephone and web General Music information: (410) 455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Directions -From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. -From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile totheentrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue andHilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. -From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near theAdministration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on allUniversity calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require aparking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Light2: Images from the Photography Collections Baltimore, MD (September 1, 2001) -- UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallerypresents Light2: Images from the Photography Collections. The exhibition will be on view from September 10, 2001 through December 8, 2001. Baltimore, MD (September 1, 2001) -- UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallerypresents Light2: Images from the Photography Collections. The exhibition will be on view from September 10, 2001 through December 8, 2001. The Albin O. Kuhn Library's Photography Collections are one of the largestacademic collections in the world, with holdings of approximately 1.8million images. Established in the early 1970s, the PhotographyCollections began with the acquisition of socially and aesthetically important images, such as 5,000 images Lewis Hine made for the National Child LaborCommittee and major works by Ansel Adams, Minor White, Diane Arbus, and many others. The Collections continue to acquire many images each year, and Light2 provides the public a first look at many images acquired since the 1980s, including approximately 80 works by Diane Arbus, Gary Auerbach, Lewis Baltz, Richard Benson, Marilyn Bridges, Wolf von dem Bussche, Richard Buswell, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Kristin Capp, Clarence Carvel, Gary Carwood, Chim (David Seymour), Larry Clark, Barbara Crane, Cary Beth Cryor, John Patrick Dugdale, Harold Edgerton, Elliott Erwitt, Jan Faul, Eric Fischl, Roland Freeman, Sally Gall, Ralph Gibson, Richard Gordon, John Gutman, Robert Heineken, Allen Janus, Richard Jaquish, Barbara Kasten, Stephen Marc, Mary Ellen Mark, Jill Mathis, Joel Meyerowitz, Duane Michals, Gilles Peress, David Plowdon, Jack Radcliffe, Gail Rebhan, Leland Rice, David Seltzer, Cindy Sherman, Raymond R. "Pete" Starr, Jr., Jaromir Stephany, Barbara Traub, Jerry N. Uelsmann, Barbara Young, Frank Van Riper, Bruce Weber, Gary Winogrand, Minor White and David Wojnarowicz. Three of the most prominent photographers represented in Light2 are Minor White, Chim and Gilles Peress. White, one of the great masters of photography, sought metaphorical meaning in everyday reality through his images. He persuasively urged that mystical qualities could be revealed through photographs, and said that photographs could show "things for what they are" and "for what else they are." White is represented in Light2 by the portfolio Fourth Sequence (1950). Chim (David Seymour) was a pioneer of photojournalism and a keen observerof human nature who photographed political upheaval, wars, and some of theimportant people of his time. He made images that are eloquent testimonyto the strength and vulnerability of humanity, all the while revealing thathis own heart was vulnerable to emotional response. He was a co-founder in1947 with Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson of Magnum, the exclusiveinternational picture agency that is still run today by photographersrather than editors or art directors. Chim is represented in Light2 by three prints: Greek Earthquake, Zante; Toscanini at the Piano; and Greece, May 2, 1947. Gilles Peress is a photojournalist who has made a career in the world'smost troubled places such as Bosnia, Iran, and Rwanda. His striking images cryout for peace. He is a member of Magnum in the style of its founders.Peress is represented in Light2 by four prints: Massacre Site, Nyarubuye, Rwanda; On the Loyalist Shankill Road, Belfast; Sick, Abandoned Rwandan Hutu Children; and Bosnian Muslim Refugees from Banja Luca. On Wednesday, October 10th at 4 p.m., the Gallery will present a lecture by Andy Grundberg. An independent writer and curator for 25 years, Grundberg has focused on elucidating photography's crucial roles in art and visual culture. From 1981 to 1991 he was a photography critic for The New York Times, which allowed him to cover the rapid acceptance of photography within the art world. From 1991 to 1997 he was associated with The Friends of Photography in San Francisco, serving for five of those years as itsdirector. There he developed exhibitions focused on new developments inphotography, education programs directed at youth and underservedcommunities, and a new publication, see, which was distributed by MITPress. Currently he is organizing an exhibition for The Nature Conservancy,called In Response to Place, which begins a nationwide tour with an opening at Corcoran Gallery of Art on September 15th. In addition to The New York Times, Grundberg's writings have appeared inArtforum, Art in America, American Photo and Art Press, as well as inMetropolitan Home, Modern Maturity and British Vogue. A collection of hisessays on photography, Crisis of the Real, was published by Aperture in1990(expanded, second edition, 1999). His other books include AlexeyBrodovitch,a monograph on the graphic designer and his work; Mike and Doug Starn, asurvey of the artists' collaborative photo works; and a how-to manual, Grundberg's Goof Proof Photography Guide. In 2000 he received an Infinity Award for his writings on photography from the International Center ofPhotography, New York. Among the many traveling exhibitions he hasorganized are Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946 (1987), Content and Discontent (1994), Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures (1996), and Ansel Adams: A Legacy (1997). Grundberg has taught the history of photography and photography criticism and theory at Dartmouth College, the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, the School of Visual Arts in New York, and the University of Hartford. He makes his home in Washington, D.C. Mr. Grundberg's talk will be immediately followed by a reception at 5 P.M. Light2: Images from the Photography Collections was organized by Cynthia Wayne, Curator of Exhibitions for the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery; and Tom Beck, Chief Curator, Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. Light2: Images from the Photography Collections is supported in part byUMBC; the Friends of the Library & Gallery; the Maryland State ArtsCouncil,an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment fortheArts; and the Baltimore County Commission on Arts and Sciences. Gallery Information The Albin O. Kuhn Gallery at UMBC serves as one of the principal artgalleries in the Baltimore region. Items from the Special CollectionsDepartment, as well as art and artifacts from all over the world, aredisplayed in challenging and informative exhibitions for the Universitycommunity and the public. Moreover, traveling exhibitions are occasionallypresented, and the Gallery also sends some of its exhibits throughout thestate and nation. Admission to the Gallery is free. Hours of Operation Sunday: Closed Monday - Saturday: 12 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday: 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. The Gallery will be closed November 22 � 25, 2001. Telephone and web General Gallery information: (410) 455-2270 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Gallery website: http://aok.lib.umbc.edu/reference/gallery.php3 Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. KuhnLibrary. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile totheentrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road.Turn left and follow signs to the Albin O. Kuhn Library. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Albin O. KuhnLibrary. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near theAdministration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on allUniversity calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require aparking permit unless otherwise marked. See also this campus map. Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online:http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 Hoffmann/Goldstein Duo to perform at UMBC Baltimore, MD (October 1, 2001) - UMBC's Department of Music presents theHoffmann/Goldstein Duo, featuring the artistry of percussionist TomGoldstein and pianist PaulHoffmann.Over the past eight years, the Duo has appeared in dozens of concerts andnew-music festivals in the U.S. and in Europe. The Duo continuallypremieresworks, many of which are written expressly for them, and recently releasedtheir first CD, Crossfade, onCapstone Records. Tickets are$7.00 general, $3 students/seniors, free with UMBC ID. Information: (410)455-2942. Baltimore, MD (October 1, 2001) - UMBC's Department of Music presents theHoffmann/Goldstein Duo, featuring the artistry of percussionist TomGoldstein and pianist PaulHoffmann.Over the past eight years, the Duo has appeared in dozens of concerts andnew-music festivals in the U.S. and in Europe. The Duo continuallypremieresworks, many of which are written expressly for them, and recently releasedtheir first CD, Crossfade, onCapstone Records. The Program The evening's program will feature C.I.R.C.A. (2000) by AnnelieseWeibel (b. 1956), that is poetry as ... (1993) by MalcolmGoldstein(b. 1936), Noel from the Vingt Regards sur l'EnfantJ�sus (1944) by OlivierMessiaen(1908-1992), Simultaneous Broken Symmetries (1990) by Jarrad Powell(b.1948), Read Your Assoff (1990) by Tom Pierson, Links No. 6 (SongInteriors) (1989) by Stuart SaundersSmith (b. 1948), and Double Play (1999) by AndreaClearfield (b. 1960). Paul Hoffmann, pianist Paul Hoffmann made his debut at the Vienna Konzerthaus in 1973 while on aFulbright grant, and has since concertized extensively in the U.S. andabroad. He is founder and director of the HELIX! NewMusic Ensemble of RutgersUniversity which is in its tenth season of concerts. Hoffmann hasrecorded solo piano and chamber music for Capstone, Orion, CRI, Northeastern,ComposersGuild of New Jersey, Contemporary Record Society, O.O. Discs, Spectrum, and Vienna ModernMasters labels and has made numerous radio broadcasts in the U.S. as wellasfor Voice of America, Radio Cologne, Radio Frankfurt, and Radio France. He is currentlyworkingon recordings for Capstone and Neuma Records. Most recently he has performed at new music festivals in Italy("Spaziomusica" in Cagliari and "Musiche in Mostra" inTurin), National SunYat-senUniversity in Taiwan, GoucherCollege in Baltimore, Merkin Hall in New York City and The 8thInternational Symposium on Electronic Art at the Museum of Contemporary Art inChicago.He has served on the jury of many piano competitions including the NewJersey Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, and was the first U.S.judgeto be invited to the prestigious Concours International de MusiqueContemporaine pour Piano in 1983 and 1986. Mr. Hoffmann has degrees from Eastman School of Music, anddid further study at the PeabodyConservatory. He attended both the Universit�t Mozarteum Salzburg andtheHochschule f�r Musik in Vienna. His principal teachers have been LeonFleisher, Cecile Genhart, Dieter Weber, Kurt Neumuller, and Brooks Smith.Mr. Hoffmann is currently Professor of Music at Mason Gross School of theArts, Rutgers University, where heteaches piano, chamber music and directs the contemporary music ensemble,HELIX!,which he founded in 1990. Tom Goldstein, percussionist As a New York City freelance percussionist for over twenty years, Mr.Goldstein performed extensively with groups such as the Orchestra of St.Luke's and the BrooklynPhilharmonic, as well as chamber groups, Broadway shows and innightclubs. Especially active in contemporary music, he has premiereddozens of solo and chamber works, many of which were written expressly for him.From 1980 to 1990 he served as Artistic Director of the new-music groupGAGEEGO. He has toured with Steve Reich, played withPauline Oliveros, and theensemble Continuum. Mr. Goldstein composed and performed percussionsoundtracks for NBC World Series and U.S. Tennis Open documentaries. Mr.Goldstein has published articles in Perspectives of NewMusicand Percussive Notes. He has recorded on Neuma, Vanguard, Polydor, Opus 1,O.O. Discs, CD Tech, Capstone and CRI. Mr. Goldsteinis an assistant professor of music at UMBC. Admission General admission: $7.00 Students and seniors: $3.00 Admission is free to holders of a current UMBC ID. Telephone and web General Music information: (410) 455-2942 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts UMBC News Releases: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/oci/index.phtml?r=Art UMBC Department of Music website: http://www.umbc.edu/music Paul Hoffmann website: http://musicweb.rutgers.edu/info/fac-bio/hoffmann/ Tom Goldstein website: http://www.umbc.edu/music/site/faculty/goldstein.html Directions -From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. -From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile totheentrance of UMBC at the roundabout intersection of Wilkens Avenue andHilltop Road. Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. -From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. Daytime metered visitor parking is available in Lot 10, near theAdministration Building. Visitor parking regulations are enforced on allUniversity calendar days. Hilltop Circle and all campus roadways require aparking permit unless otherwise marked. Online campus map: http://www.umbc.edu/aboutumbc/campusmap/ Images for Media High resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 October 10, 2001 UMBC President Hrabowski Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) President Freeman A. Hrabowski III has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hrabowski is one of 209 newly elected to The Academy this year, a class including former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, Dartmouth College President James Wright, filmmaker Woody Allen, and composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Baltimore, Md. � University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Hrabowski is one of 209 newly elected to The Academy this year, a class including former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, filmmaker Woody Allen, and composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, and John Hancock, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences honors intellectual achievement, leadership and creativity, and conducts programs and studies in response to the needs and problems of society. Approximately 3,600 Fellows, including 50 Pulitzer Prize winners and 150 Nobel Laureates, have been elected to the Academy since its founding. �It is truly an honor and a privilege to be chosen as a Fellow,� said Hrabowski. �I look forward to collaborating with other Fellows on the many initiatives put forth by the Academy.� Current Academy areas of study include[:] Educational Effects of Diversity in Higher Education; Science and Technology in the University of the 21st Century; and the Relationship Between the Sciences and the Humanities. Hrabowski has served as President of UMBC since May of 1992. His research and publications focus on science and math education, with special emphasis on minority participation and performance. Born in Birmingham, Ala., Hrabowski graduated at 19 from Hampton Institute with highest honors in mathematics, and he received his M.A. (mathematics) and Ph.D. (higher education administration/statistics) at 24 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He serves as a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and universities and school systems nationally, and he sits on numerous corporate and civic boards. Dr. Hrabowski is co-author of the book, Beating the Odds (Oxford University Press, 1998), focusing on parenting and high-achieving African American males in science, and Overcoming the Odds, on successful young black women in science (to be published by Oxford University Press in early 2002). Hrabowski will be inducted, along with the other new Fellows, at an induction ceremony to be held at the Academy's headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. On October 13, 2001. # # #NOTE TO EDITORS: A high-resolution (300 Dpi) photo of Hrabowski is available online. To download, click on the above thumbnail of Hrabowski. Posted by dwinds1 September 24, 2001 Clancy Works modern dance company to perform at UMBC Baltimore, MD (September 1, 2001) -- UMBC's Department of Dance presentsClancy Works, a modern dance company, in performance on October 5 and 6 at8:00 P.M. The concerts will be held in the UMBC Fine Arts Studio 317. Tickets for the concerts are $10 general admission, $5 students and seniors. Box office: (410) 455-6240. Baltimore, MD (September 1, 2001) -- UMBC's Department of Dance presentsClancy Works, a modern dance company, in performance on October 5 and 6 at 8:00 P.M. The concerts will be held in the UMBC Fine Arts Studio 317. Adrienne Clancy, the artistic director of Clancy Works, describes theprogram, Making the Mystical Modern, as "a choreographic journey ofdefying gravity by walking and running on walls, gliding on enchanted carpets, and transforming mermaids into live, tangible beings." Ten talented performers from Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and New York will come together to create the intricately woven, thought provoking choreographic works to be presented in this performance event. The evening's concert will showcasechoreographic highlights of Ms. Clancy's recent work performed to livemusic composed by David Tyndale. Clancy has choreographed and performed nationally and internationally forover 13 years, and has had considerable choreographic recognition thispast season. In the fall of 2000 she was awarded the Arts and HumanitiesCouncil of Montgomery County Individual Artist Fellowship for Choreography/SoloPerformance; in December, 2000, she was honored by the University of NewMexico's College of Fine Arts as the recipient of their first AccomplishedGraduate Award; in January, 2001 she received an Individual Artist Awardfor Choreography from the Maryland State Arts Council, and she was recently nominated for two categories of the Metro D.C. Dance Awards (Emerging Choreographer and Emerging Performer). Prior to founding Clancy Works, Adrienne Clancy was a member of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, where she was the Company Rehearsal Director and a Community Arts Project Director. She also has been a member of the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company, and hasperformed as a guest artist for Maida Withers' Aurora Project, Doug Hamby Dance, Bill EvansDance, Victoria Marks, and Cathy Paine and Mixed Media. Clancy haspresented her work nationally in Washington, D.C., California, New Mexico,Pennsylvania, and Virginia, and internationally in Poland, Japan, Israel,and Mexico. For fall 2001, Clancy has joined the Department of Dance atUMBC as a guest artist. The program will include: Obstacles and Opportunities, a physical theater dance piece that engagesthe audience viscerally and emotionally, as well as visually. The dancersliterally partner with a wall which metaphorically comments on theobstacles with which one contends in any given relationship. From an orgasmic thrust to a resounding support system to the obstacles that come between thedancers, the Wall functions as a two dimensional inanimate being thatcomes alive in this work, and continues to change, evolve, and emote in relationto the dancers who physically interact with the it by walking (noharnesses, just strong partnering), and running (literally). Obstacles andOpportunities is a development of Climbing Mountains, a 14-minute 1999 Clancy Work that received strong reviews in Gdansk, Poland, Richmond,Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Mermaids and Tails of Truth, a performance work that engages the audience in an event that asks questions about the issues of identity with aheightened awareness paid to concerns of visibility and invisibility, perception and passing. This work brings the mystical to the mundane by drawing on aseries of mermaid images. At the onset, the opening image of bare-backedundulating mermaids and mermen propels the audience to question their immediate perceptions. Over arching questions such as: "What is it that you are seeing or believing when you gaze at someone?" and "How much of what you see is connected to your own personal history?" are poignantly asked through the power of the images. Cloaked in a mythic ambiance, this work is designed not only to mesmerize, but also to generate laughter, thought, and questions about self-identity and meta-perception. Tickets and Reservations Tickets for the concerts are $10 general admission, $5 students andseniors. Box office: (410) 455-6240. Workshop on October 6 Adrienne Clancy will host a Clancy Works Partnering/Choreographic Workshopon October 6, 2001 from 1 � 2:30 P.M. in Fine Arts Studio 317. Theworkshopis open to the public and is open to all ages and all levels of movementexperience. A $10 donation is requested; reservations are required. Boxoffice: (410) 455-6240. Telephone and web Dance Box Office: (410) 455-6240 UMBC Artsline (24 hour recorded message): (410) 455-ARTS Media inquiries only: (410) 455-3370 UMBC Arts website: http://www.umbc.edu/arts Clancy Works website: http://www.clancyworks.org/ Directions From Baltimore and points north, proceed south on I-95 to exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. From I-695, take Exit 12C (Wilkens Avenue) and continue one-half mile totheentrance of UMBC at the intersection of Wilkens Avenue and Hilltop Road.Turn left and follow signs to the Fine Arts Building. From Washington and points south, proceed north on I-95 to Exit 47B. TakeRoute 166 toward Catonsville and then follow signs to the Fine ArtsBuilding. Images for MediaHigh resolution images for media are available online: http://www.umbc.edu/newsevents/arts/hi-res/ or by email or postal mail. ### Posted by dwinds1 June 19, 2001 DOUG HAMBY DANCE TO PERFORM AT DANCE PLACE IN WASHINGTON, DC Doug Hamby Dance, the Baltimore-Washington region's leading explorers of technology in modern dance, will perform at Dance Place in Washington, D.C. Showtimes are at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, July 13 and 14, and 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 15. Tickets are $15 general and $12 members, students, seniors and artists. Dance Place (www.danceplace.org) is located at 3225 8th Street, NE. For more information, call (202) 269-1600 or visit www.umbc.edu/dhd. Doug Hamby Dance, the Baltimore-Washington region's leading explorers of technology in modern dance, will perform at Dance Place in Washington, D.C. Showtimes are at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, July 13 and 14, and 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 15. Tickets are $15 general and $12 members, students, seniors and artists. Dance Place (www.danceplace.org) is located at 3225 8th Street, NE. For more information, call (202) 269-1600 or visit www.umbc.edu/dhd. Doug Hamby Dance, in residence at UMBC, has garnered national attention for its collaborations with visual artists, musicians and robotics engineers. This season, the company will present two premieres. In Ocular-Meninx, three dancers interact with Steve Bradley's sensual video and sound, incorporating live insects and costumes by Elena Zlotescu. Haiku is a dance ceremony in an architectural landscape. The program also features Echoes, a display of primal physicality with a score by computer artist Tim Nohe, and Six Short Pieces, with music by composer William Grant Still. Company dancers include Brian Bagley, Dave Clark, Julie Peoples-Clark, Jen Herling, Emily Giza, Jennica Lee, Sarah Seely, Pamela Stevens and Margaret Velez. Of the company's work, the Washington Post has said, "Hamby is a bold and ambitious artist willing to take risks," and the Village Voice stated, "Hamby proved that the fusion of dance and technology only needed time to mature." Artistic Director Doug Hamby has extensive experience as a dancer, choreographer, and educator. He is associate professor of dance at UMBC. Hamby has directed the Douglas Hamby Dance Company in New York City and performed with Martha Graham, May O'Donnell, Rachel Lampert, Elizabeth Keen, Pearl Lang, Norman Walker, the Chicago Moving Company, Phoenix Dance Company, and Hamby and Lacy. His company has performed annual summer seasons at Dance Place, Washington DC, Riverside Dance Festival, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, and Celebrate Brooklyn, in New York City; the1998 New York International Fringe Festival, 1997 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and 1995 International Fringe Festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland and Vancouver, Canada. He has received choreography awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, and the Baltimore Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture. He has served as a dance advisory panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council for three years. Hamby has an MFA in Dance from Temple University and a Biology degree from Michigan State University. He has also appeared on national television as a giant slice of American cheese.# # # Posted by dwinds1 June 12, 2001 UMBC FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS FIRST MID-CAREER SURVEY BY FRED WILSON: OBJECTS AND INSTALLATIONS, 1979-2000 UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000," the first mid-career survey of the artwork by the internationally recognized artist, curated by Maurice Berger, curator of the Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition, which consists of more than 100 objects, some reconfigured to re-create sections of Wilson's original installations, will be on view from October 11, 2001 through January 12, 2002. An opening reception will be held on October 11 from 5 to 7 p.m.. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-3188 or visit www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery. UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000," the first mid-career survey of the artwork by the internationally recognized artist, curated by Maurice Berger, curator of the Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition, which consists of more than 100 objects, some reconfigured to re-create sections of Wilson's original installations, will be on view from October 11, 2001 through January 12, 2002. An opening reception will be held on October 11 from 5 to 7 p.m.. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-3188 or visit www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery. Following the Fine Arts Gallery viewing, "Objects and Installations" will travel to the Sara Campbell Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, Texas; the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California; and the Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley. Over the past fifteen years, Fred Wilson has produced the most sustained and cogent inquiry into the complex relationship between the art object and the museum. His oeuvre, consisting of mock museum installations into which the artist places provocative and beautifully rendered objects, explore the question of how the museum consciously or unconsciously perpetuates racist beliefs or behavior. If social justice is Wilson's ultimate subject, the museum itself becomes his medium - from the use of meticulously fabricated objects to the careful selection of wall colors, lighting, display cases and even wall labels. Wilson's incisive aesthetic and social inquiry focuses not only on the social implications of the content within the anthropological, historical or artistic medium but also on the powerful, historically encoded belief systems inherent to the art of museum display. Sometimes the artist reconfigures and supplements the collection of an actual museum - as in his extraordinary installation, "Mining the Museum," commissioned by the Maryland Historical Society in 1992. In that show, Wilson juxtaposed objects from the society's permanent collection with fabricated objects and wall labels. The resulting juxtapositions spoke to a complex history of museological omission, manipulation and oversight: in Cabinet Making, for example, Wilson poignantly counters a series of elegantly crafted American late 19th-century wooden chairs with a rarely exhibited wooden slave post. In the end, Wilson's aesthetic commentaries reach across a wide museological and art historical expanse - from Egyptian and classical Greek and Roman sculpture to African-American memorabilia, the primativist painting of Picasso and the uniforms worn by the often black guards charged with the task of keeping America museums safe and secure. "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1985-2000" will be accompanied by a major catalog and will feature essays by exhibition curator Maurice Berger and Jennifer Gonzalez, professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The catalog will be fully illustrated in black-and-white and color, and will also contain an interview with Wilson, complete catalog raisionn� of his installations, a selected bibliography, list of exhibitions and checklist. A major outreach initiative will accompany the exhibition. Programming components include a symposium on the cultural politics of the museum; a talk by Wilson; and a school outreach program, geared to primary and secondary students. in partnership with area museums. Organized by the Fine Arts Gallery, this school outreach program involves college interns drawn throughout the university who will participate with museum staff and school teachers in developing curriculum studies, guided tours and corresponding workshop activities in area schools. Maurice Berger is a senior fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of the New School for Social Research and curator of the Fine Arts Gallery, UMBC. He has taught and lectured at such institutions as Hunter College, Yale University, the DIA Center for the Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He has served as curator or has written catalog essays for such institutions as the Guggenheim Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Grey Art Gallery and Jewish Museum. His articles have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers, including the New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, the Village Voice, October and Afterimage. He is the author of three books: Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism, and the 1960s (Harper and Row, 1989), How Art Becomes History (HarperCollins, 1992); and White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999). White Lies was named a finalist for the Horace Mann Bond Award given by Harvard University for the best book of African American interest, and is currently being made into a documentary by PBS. Berger was editor of Modern Art and Society: A Social and Multicultural Reader (HarperCollins, 1994) and The Crisis of Criticism (The New Press, 1998), and co-editor of Constructing Masculinity (Routledge, 1995). Posted by dwinds1 June 4, 2001 UMBC ALBIN O. KUHN LIBRARY GALLERY EXTENDS PATAPSCO: PORTRAIT OF A VALLEY, PHOTOGRAPHS BY PEGGY FOX UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery has extended "Patapsco: Portrait of a Valley, Photographs by Peggy Fox," an exhibition featuring 70 of Peggy Fox's photographic portraits of the elders of the historic Patapsco Valley and surrounding landscapes, accompanied by excerpts from Alison Kahn's oral histories. The exhibition will be on view through June 30. On Thursday, June 28 at 7 p.m., the Gallery presents a performance, "Inside the Memory Box: Stories of the Patapsco Valley," featuring archival images of UMBC, personal reminiscences, a staged reading of a script and a production of a one-act play by The Patapsco Players. UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery has extended "Patapsco: Portrait of a Valley, Photographs by Peggy Fox," an exhibition featuring 70 of Peggy Fox's photographic portraits of the elders of the historic Patapsco Valley and surrounding landscapes, accompanied by excerpts from Alison Kahn's oral histories. The exhibition will be on view through June 30. The original exhibition, organized by Sally Voris for the Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc., included 55 photographs commissioned by the Friends. The presentation at UMBC includes 15 new prints produced by Fox especially for this venue, to further document the environment which defines and characterizes the Patapsco Valley. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, noon to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday, noon to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-2270. A three-year collaborative effort begun in 1997, this collection of images and interviews is the product of a project that documents the changing cultural life of the Patapsco Valley. Through the vivid images by Fox and the poignant text by Kahn, the exhibition captures the faces and memories of some 60 senior residents of Ellicott City, Oella, Relay and Elkridge. The oral history and photographic project received major funding from the Maryland Historical Trust, and was coordinated by the Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc. (formerly the Patapsco Heritage Greenway Committee). On Thursday, June 28 at 7 p.m., the Gallery and The Friends present the performance, "Inside the Memory Box: Stories of the Patapsco Valley," featuring archival images of UMBC, personal reminiscences, a staged reading of a script and a production of a one-act play by The Patapsco Players. The variety of forms demonstrates ways to bring a documentary project to life dramatically--just as the exhibit demonstrates how photographer and folklorist work together to create the documentary products. A public reception will follow.This event is free and open to the public. Posted by dwinds1 May 9, 2001 UMBC FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS IMAGING AND DIGITAL ARTS EXHIBITION UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents its annual Imaging and Digital Arts Exhibition, featuring work by emerging artists who are candidates for the MFA in UMBC's Imaging and Digital Arts program. The free exhibition of work by Michael Baker, Meg Flynn and Eileen Ragsdale is on view April 26 through May 12. An opening reception will be held on April 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. A visiting critics talk by Adam Lerner, associate curator at The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, will be held at 4 p.m. on May 9 and is also free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-3188 or visit www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery. UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents its annual Imaging and Digital Arts Exhibition, featuring work by emerging artists who are candidates for the MFA in UMBC's Imaging and Digital Arts program. The free exhibition of work by Michael Baker, Meg Flynn and Eileen Ragsdale is on view April 26 through May 12. An opening reception will be held on April 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. A visiting critics talk by Adam Lerner, associate curator at The Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, will be held at 4 p.m. on May 9 and is also free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-3188 or visit www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery. The IMDA program at UMBC integrates computer art, video, filmmaking, photography, art theory and criticism. A limited number of applicants are accepted each year in this highly competitive program. Students develop both technical and intellectual flexibility, approaching current and emerging technologies with a foundation in critical thinking and are guided in considering technology as a cultural construct capable of being altered, enhanced, created or challenged by artists. The Imaging Research Center, an internationally recognized experimental computer visualization and animation research facility, is integral to the program. Posted by dwinds1 THE UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE UMBC CONCERT CHOIR, MARYLAND CAMERATA AND UMBC SYMPHONY The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert of choral and orchestral works, performed by the UMBC Concert Choir, the Maryland Camerata and the UMBC Symphony Orchestra. In honor of Mother's Day, all mothers will be admitted free of charge. The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert of choral and orchestral works, performed by the UMBC Concert Choir, the Maryland Camerata and the UMBC Symphony Orchestra, and conducted by Wayne Cameron and Aya Ueda. The event will be held at 3 p.m. on May 13 in the University Center Ballroom. The program includes Beethoven's Leonora Overture Nr. 3, Brahms' Five Unaccompanied Songs, op. 104 and Song of the Fates, op. 89. Admission is $7 general and $3 students/seniors/staff. In honor of Mother's Day, all mothers will be admitted free of charge. For more information call (410) 455-2942. Posted by dwinds1 April 30, 2001 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE UMBC NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert by UMBC's New Music Ensemble. The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert by UMBC's New Music Ensemble, under the direction of founder Stuart Saunders Smith and artistic director Sylvia Smith. The event will be held at 8 p.m. on May 9 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors. For more information and reservations call (410) 455-2942. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE UMBC PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert by the UMBC Percussion Ensemble. The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert by the UMBC Percussion Ensemble, directed by Tom Goldstein. The event will be held at 8 p.m. on May 10 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are $7 general and $3 students and seniors. For more information and reservations call (410) 455-2942. Posted by dwinds1 THE UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE UMBC GUITAR ENSEMBLE The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert by the UMBC Guitar Ensemble. The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert by the UMBC Guitar Ensemble. The event will be held at 8 p.m. on May 16 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Tickets are $7 general, $3 students and seniors. For more information call (410) 455-2942. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS SENIOR EXIT EXHIBITION The UMBC Fine Arts Gallery presents the Senior Exit Exhibition, featuring work by graduating seniors in UMBC's Department of Visual Arts. The UMBC Fine Arts Gallery presents the Senior Exit Exhibition, featuring work by graduating seniors in UMBC's Department of Visual Arts. This exhibition reflects the interdisciplinary orientation and the technological focus of the visual arts department and provides graduating seniors an opportunity to exhibit within a professional setting prior to leaving the university. The exhibition opens on May 22 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. and continues through June 16. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-3188. Posted by dwinds1 April 19, 2001 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS SAX-A-MANIA The UMBC Department of Music presents Sax-a-mania, an all-day saxophone clinic for middle and high school musicians on May 12. Tickets for Sax-a-Mania, which include free admission to two public concerts (see third paragraph), are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Advance reservation for the clinic is encouraged as seating is limited. For more information on Sax-a-Mania and the concerts call (410) 455-2942 or visit www.umbc.edu/music/saxamania. The UMBC Department of Music presents Sax-a-mania, an all-day saxophone clinic for middle and high school musicians on May 12. Tickets for Sax-a-Mania, which include free admission to two public concerts (see third paragraph), are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. Advance reservation for the clinic is encouraged as seating is limited. For more information on Sax-a-Mania and the concerts call (410) 455-2942 or visit www.umbc.edu/music/saxamania. The one-day hands-on workshop will feature world-class saxophonists offering instruction on tone development, technique, articulation, repertoire, jazz improvisation, ensemble performance and reed development. Instructors will include internationally renowned saxophonists Don Braden, Dale Underwood, and the Capitol Quartet, featuring Anjan Shah, Ken Foerch, David Stambler and David Lewis. In conjunction with Sax-a-mania, the music department will present two concerts, open to the public. At 11 a.m. on May 12, Ken Foerch, David Lewis, David Stambler, Dale Underwood and others will present a concert of classical music for saxophone ($7 general admission, $3 students and seniors). Then at 7:30 p.m. on May 12, Don Braden, the Capitol Quartet and the Rick Hannah Trio will present a jazz concert ($10 general admission, $3 students and seniors). Both concerts will be held in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Sax-a-mania was organized by UMBC music faculty Anjan Shah, a member of the Capitol Quartet, one of the Mid-Atlantic region's most popular ensembles. Shah is excited about the clinicians participating in the event. "With over 160 years of collective saxophone experience, the instruction offered is of the highest caliber, from individuals who have distinguished careers in the music and saxophone worlds, including one Grammy nomination, international critical acclaim and numerous recordings. This event promises to be an educational and exciting event for all who participate." Posted by dwinds1 April 18, 2001 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE RICK HANNAH TRIO The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert of classic jazz by the Rick Hannah Trio. The UMBC Department of Music presents a concert of classic jazz by the Rick Hannah Trio at 8 p.m. on May 8 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general and $3 students/seniors. For more information call (410) 455-2942. Posted by dwinds1 April 10, 2001 UMBC PRESENTS SPRING DANCE SHOWCASE The UMBC Department of Dance presents a Spring Dance Showcase at 8 p.m. on May 10 through 12 and at 2 p.m. on May 13. Proceeds from this concert will benefit the UMBC Dance Department Scholarship Fund. The UMBC Department of Dance presents a Spring Dance Showcase at 8 p.m. on May 10 through 12 and at 2 p.m. on May 13. All performances will be held in the UMBC Theatre. Tickets are $8 general and $5 students/seniors. Proceeds from this concert will benefit the UMBC Dance Department Scholarship Fund. For more information and reservations call (410) 455-6240. The program features: � A new work by the Workshop class, directed by Doug Hamby � A new jazz work by Karen Katrinic � Work by students Jessica McElvaney, Shannon Zimmerman, Theresa Marshall, Jenafer Herling, Jennica Lee and Jessica Amato � FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY: performances by the African Dance Class, choreographed by Aina Delphine Sneed Posted by dwinds1 UMBC THEATRE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS MACBETH UMBC's Department of Theatre presents a Main Stage Production of Macbeth. For his final production at UMBC, Sam McCready will direct Shakespeare's classic tale of witchcraft and murder. Showtimes are 8 p.m. on April 25, 27, 28 and May 3, 4, 5 and 4 p.m. on April 26, 29 and May 2. Post-performance discussions will be held on April 28 and 29 and on May 2 and 4. Tickets are $10 general, $8 UMBC faculty/staff and $5 students/seniors. Performances on April 26 and May 2 are free to UMBC students, faculty and staff. EARLY BOOKING IS ADVISED. SOME PERFORMANCES HAVE ALREADY SOLD OUT! FOR MORE INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS CALL THE BOX OFFICE AT (410) 455-2476. UMBC's Department of Theatre presents a Main Stage Production of Macbeth. For his final production at UMBC, Sam McCready will direct Shakespeare's classic tale of witchcraft and murder. Showtimes are 8 p.m. on April 25, 27, 28 and May 3, 4, 5 and 4 p.m. on April 26, 29 and May 2. Post-performance discussions will be held on April 28 and 29 and on May 2 and 4. Tickets are $10 general, $8 UMBC faculty/staff and $5 students/seniors. EARLY BOOKING IS ADVISED. SOME PERFORMANCES HAVE ALREADY SOLD OUT! FOR MORE INFORMATION AND RESERVATIONS CALL THE BOX OFFICE AT (410) 455-2476. This production of Shakespeare's great tragedy will explore the seductive and destructive power of evil in a contemporary world. Vivid expressionistic techniques combined with modern technology will chart the precipitious descent of Macbeth, an archetypal noble hero, into a deep, emotional chasm from which he is unable to escape. Set and costume design are by Elena Zlotescu; lighting and sound design are by Terry Cobb; and original music is by Richard McCready. McCready came to UMBC in 1984, a year after he emigrated to the United States and made his American debut as writer, director and actor in A Fantastic Voyage with W.B. Yeats at the White Barn Theatre in Westport. Since then he has directed off-Broadway and in summer stock. Formerly Head of Drama at Stranmillis, a constituent college of Queen's University, Belfast, he was at the same time a leading actor with the BBC and artistic director of the Lyric Theatre, Northern Ireland's most important professional theatre. President Freeman Hrabowski says, "Whether on the stage or in a meeting, Sam's passion and commitment to excellence are very clear. His strong voice and keen intellect have allowed him to have a significant and positive influence on the UMBC campus and beyond. He is a symbol of the best at UMBC." Wendy Salkind, chair of the Department of Theatre, adds, "Sam McCready is extraordinary in his unlimited source of creative energy. He has always been devoted to the growth of our students as they learn about this art, and he takes genuine delight in their discoveries. He has made a tremendous contribution to this department and remains an inspiration to our students." One student who was moved by McCready's passion for theatre is Carl Fruendel, Theatre '86, now assistant professor of theatre and speech at the Community College of Baltimore County-Essex. Fruendel, who appeared in many of McCready's productions, recalls, "Sam inspired us all to make a difference, even when it demanded courage. We discovered the dangerous and wonderful ability to touch the world with creativity. Every role I played pushed me to new heights of understanding and emotion. I found myself leaping for goals because of his belief in me." But UMBC isn't the only place that has recognized McCready's talent. Three of his UMBC productions: The Importance of Being Oscar, Spring's Awakening, and The Diary of a Scoundrel were selected to perform at the American College Theater Festival's national showcase at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. From 1984 through 1994, McCready was director of the summer touring program Shakespeare on Wheels, and his direction was recognized by the Maryland Association for Higher Education and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Higher Education. He has also received "Best Director" accolades from numerous publications, including Baltimore Magazine, Baltimore Sun, City Paper, Catonsville Times, and the Belfast Telegraph. McCready is also principal actor with the Maryland Stage Company, UMBC's professional resident theatre company. Just last September, he received rave reviews from the German press for his performances with the Company at the Beckett in Berlin 2000: International Theatre Festival. He continues to maintain a busy directing schedule in the professional theatre in Ireland. During the past three years, he has lectured and directed at the prestigious Yeats Summer International School in Sligo, Ireland, where he also performed his Songs of Wandering Aengus, a dramatic performance about the life and work of W.B. Yeats he created and continues to perform with his wife Joan and their son Richard. In addition, he has written a bio-bibliography of the New York play producer Lucille Lortel, the Queen of off-Broadway (1993), and A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia (1997), both published by Greenwood Press. He is currently working on a history of the theatre in Northern Ireland since 1968 and will continue to perform and direct. Robert Burchard, professor emeritus of biological sciences and a well known advocate for the arts at UMBC, no doubt speaks for the campus when he says, "Sam's genius for the multiple dimensions of stagecraft will be missed in the cultural life of the UMBC community." Posted by dwinds1 April 5, 2001 UMBC'S DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE UMBC CONCERT BAND UMBC's Department of Music presents the UMBC Concert Band on May 2. UMBC's Department of Music presents the UMBC Concert Band, under the direction of Wayne Cameron, at 7:30 p.m. on May 2 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general and $3 students/seniors. For more information call (410) 455-2942. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE UMBC GOSPEL CHOIR IN CONCERT UMBC's Department of Music presents a concert by the UMBC Gospel Choir on May 5. UMBC's Department of Music presents a concert by the UMBC Gospel Choir, directed by Janice Jackson, at 7 p.m. on May 5 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general, $3 students/seniors. For more information call (410) 455-2942. Posted by dwinds1 March 29, 2001 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS ITS OPERA WORKSHOP UMBC's Department of Music presents scenes from famous operas, performed by the Opera Workshop and directed by Aya Ueda. UMBC's Department of Music presents scenes from famous operas, performed by the Opera Workshop and directed by Aya Ueda. The program includes scenes from Mozart's Magic Flute, Pasatieri's Signor Deluso and Floyd's Susannah. Performances will be held at 7 p.m. and at 8 p.m., with two different casts, on April 20 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The audience is welcome to attend both performances. Admission is $7 general, $3 students/seniors. For more information call (410) 455-2942. Posted by dwinds1 March 28, 2001 UMBC STUDENTS PRESENT FIRST WEEKEND ARTS FESTIVAL, ARTBEAT In order to promote the work of talented UMBC artists, UMBC's Society of Recording Technology Students have organized ArtBEAT, a festival presenting visual art, music, dance, theater, film & video, and performance art by UMBC students and local artists. ArtBEAT will be held on Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1 in and around the Fine Arts Building and the University Center. In addition to free performances and exhibits on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, ARtGAZm, a Saturday evening dance party/fundraiser, will feature a variety of djs, including Supa DJ Dmitry of the 90's musical group, Dee-Lite. For more information call (410) 868-6963. PLEASE NOTE: ELEANOR LEWIS IS A MEDIA CONTACT ONLY. CALL (410) 868-6963 FOR EVENT INFORMATION. In order to promote the work of talented UMBC artists, UMBC's Society of Recording Technology Students have organized ArtBEAT, a festival presenting visual art, music, dance, theater, film & video, and performance art by UMBC students and local artists. ArtBEAT will be held on Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1 in and around the Fine Arts Building and the University Center. For more information call (410) 868-6963. PLEASE NOTE: ELEANOR LEWIS IS A MEDIA CONTACT ONLY. CALL THE NUMBER LISTED FOR EVENT INFORMATION. In addition to free performances and exhibits on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, ARtGAZm, a Saturday evening dance party/fundraiser, will feature a variety of djs, including Supa DJ Dmitry of the 90's musical group, Dee-Lite. Tickets are $15; $12 with student ID. A portion of the proceeds from the dance party will go to the Children's Theater Group (CTG), a non-profit organization that teaches disadvantaged youth the art of acting and helps them produce shows. HIGHLIGHTS: SATURDAY � Noon - The UMBC Gospel Choir will kick off ArtBEAT in the Fine Arts Recital Hall � 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.: Children's Theater Group performances in Fine Arts 011 � 2-4 p.m. - The BIRDS, (Baltimore International Rhythm & Drumming Society) will sponsor an open drum jam outside the Fine Arts Building � 3-7 p.m. - "Clash of the Styles," a multi-genre battle of the bands in the UC Ballroom � 6-8 p.m. - Vagina Monologues performance � 8 p.m.-2 a.m. - Dance Party in the University Center with Supa DJ Dmitry (headliner), DJ Willie, Kidd Linus, & Tryptonite; Down Tempo soundsystems- John Ask, Dan G. & Chris Brooks; DJ Decibel, and Muhammadon the Mixmaster SUNDAY � 12 -5:30 p.m. - live music and spoken word performances in the Fine Arts Recital Hall and Ampitheatre Posted by dwinds1 March 25, 2001 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS CELLIST FRANK COX UMBC's Department of Music presents an evening of high density new music for solo cello by Frank Cox at 8 p.m. on April 8 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. UMBC's Department of Music presents an evening of high density new music for solo cello by Frank Cox at 8 p.m. on April 8 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general, $3 students/seniors. For more information call (410) 455-2942. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC STUDENTS PRESENT FIRST WEEKEND ARTS FESTIVAL, ARTBEAT In order to promote the work of talented UMBC artists, UMBC's Society of Recording Technology Students have organized ArtBEAT, a festival presenting visual art, music, dance, theater, film & video, and performance art by UMBC students and local artists. ArtBEAT will be held on Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1 in and around the Fine Arts Building and the University Center. In addition to free performances and exhibits on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, ARtGAZm, a Saturday evening dance party/fundraiser, will feature a variety of djs, including Supa DJ Dmitry of the 90's musical group, Dee-Lite. For more information call (410) 868-6963. PLEASE NOTE: ELEANOR LEWIS IS A MEDIA CONTACT ONLY. CALL (410) 868-6963 FOR EVENT INFORMATION. In order to promote the work of talented UMBC artists, UMBC's Society of Recording Technology Students have organized ArtBEAT, a festival presenting visual art, music, dance, theater, film & video, and performance art by UMBC students and local artists. ArtBEAT will be held on Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1 in and around the Fine Arts Building and the University Center. For more information call (410) 868-6963. PLEASE NOTE: ELEANOR LEWIS IS A MEDIA CONTACT ONLY. CALL THE NUMBER LISTED FOR EVENT INFORMATION. In addition to free performances and exhibits on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, ARtGAZm, a Saturday evening dance party/fundraiser, will feature a variety of djs, including Supa DJ Dmitry of the 90's musical group, Dee-Lite. Tickets are $15; $12 with student ID. A portion of the proceeds from the dance party will go to the Children's Theater Group (CTG), a non-profit organization that teaches disadvantaged youth the art of acting and helps them produce shows. HIGHLIGHTS: SATURDAY � Noon - The UMBC Gospel Choir will kick off ArtBEAT in the Fine Arts Recital Hall � 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m.: Children's Theater Group performances in Fine Arts 011 � 2-4 p.m. - The BIRDS, (Baltimore International Rhythm & Drumming Society) will sponsor an open drum jam outside the Fine Arts Building � 3-7 p.m. - "Clash of the Styles," a multi-genre battle of the bands in the UC Ballroom � 6-8 p.m. - Vagina Monologues performance � 8 p.m.-2 a.m. - Dance Party in the University Center with Supa DJ Dmitry (headliner), DJ Willie, Kidd Linus, & Tryptonite; Down Tempo soundsystems- John Ask, Dan G. & Chris Brooks; DJ Decibel, and Muhammadon the Mixmaster SUNDAY � 12 -5:30 p.m. - live music and spoken word performances in the Fine Arts Recital Hall and Ampitheatre Posted by dwinds1 March 23, 2001 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS DOUBLE IMAGE UMBC's Department of Music presents Double Image, a concert of new Austrian music by Berndt Turner, percussion, and Gisele Beer, flute, at 8 p.m. on April 4 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general, $3 students/seniors. For information and reservations please call (410) 455-2942. UMBC's Department of Music presents Double Image, a concert of new Austrian music by Berndt Turner, percussion, and Gisele Beer, flute, at 8 p.m. on April 4 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general, $3 students/seniors. For information and reservations please call (410) 455-2942. Berndt Turner graduated with a diploma from the Kartner Landeoskonservatorium, Klagenfurt. During his studies he was intensely involved with jazz. A two-year scholarship from the Carinthian provincal government enabled him to complete a postgraduate course at the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam, where he obtained a distinction. Thurner has worked with composers such as Vinko Globokar, John Cage, Robert HP Platz, Dieter Schnebel, Nader Mashayeki, Hans Zender, Wolfgang and Christian Muthspiel. He also teaches at the Inernational Summer Course Viktring, Klagenfurt. Turner is an experienced soloist and a member of Ensemble Wien 2001 as well as the 21st Century Music, Janus Ensemble, music on line, Ensemble symphoid and the Ensemble 20 Jahrhundert. He performs regularly at international percussion festivals such as Wien Modern, Holland Festival, Ignm Weltmusiktage, both with Double Image as well as with other ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Asko Ensemble, Ensemble Kreativ and others. He is also engaged with music-theatre ensembles and initiates performancs that explore the cross-over combination of numerous musical idioms. Gisela Mashayekhi-Beer began her studies in 1983 at the Mozartium in Salzburg. In 1985 she went to Vienna to continue her studies with Wolfgang Schulz and completed her artist's diploma with high honors in 1987. During her studies, she was principal flautist in the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. In 1988 she became principal flautist in the "Nieder�sterreichisches Tonk�nsterorchester" in Vienna and in 1991 became teaching assistant to Schulz at the Musikhochschule in Vienna. In 1989, she and composer Nader Mashayekhi founded the Ensemble Wien 2001. Since 1994 she has taught flute at the Bruckner Conservatory in Linz, Upper Austria, and has given summer courses and workshops in Austria, Japan and Slovakia. She performed in the Austrian premier of Penderecki's Concerto for Flute at the Wien Modern Festival, among other international festivals. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC CONCERT BY EMMANUEL S�JOURN� HAS BEEN CANCELLED The UMBC Department of Music's concert by Emmanuel S�journ�, Europe's premier vibraphonist, has been canceled due to an injury. The concert was scheduled for at 8 p.m. on March 28 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The event will be rescheduled next season. The UMBC Department of Music concert by Emmanuel Sejourne, Europe's premier vibraphonist, has been canceled due to an injury. The concert was originally scheduled for March 28 and will be rescheduled for next season. Posted by dwinds1 March 22, 2001 UMBC'S FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS JOSEPH BEUYS TREE PARTNERSHIP DEDICATION CEREMONY On April 10 from 1 to 3 p.m., UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents a dedication ceremony for the university's Joseph Beuys' Tree Partnership site, where 30 trees have been planted along the grove behind the Retriever Activities Center. The UMBC community and the general public are invited to attend this free event in celebration of the conclusion of Phase I of the Joseph Beuys' Tree Partnership. For more information call (410) 455-3188. On April 10 from 1 to 3 p.m., UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents a dedication ceremony for the university's Joseph Beuys' Tree Partnership site, where 30 trees have been planted along the grove behind the Retriever Activities Center. The UMBC community and the general public are invited to attend this free event in celebration of the conclusion of Phase I of the Joseph Beuys' Tree Partnership. For more information call (410) 455-3188. UMBC has partnered with 21 Baltimore organizations to produce the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership, a far-reaching visionary program inspired by artist Joseph Beuys' 7000 Oaks project, where 7000 trees were planted in Kassel, Germany from 1982 to 1987. Funded by the TKF Foundation (www.tkffdn.org) in Annapolis, Maryland, the tree plantings, which began last fall, took place at Carroll Park, Patterson Park, Wyman Park Dell and UMBC. Over 500 people of all ages and backgrounds have helped to plant 240 trees. The April 10 event at UMBC will begin with a parade from the Fine Arts Gallery's outside entrance to the Beuys site. The parade will feature Thundersmith Industries, Inc., a puppet theatre company, as well as students from the 21st Century Threshold Project, a Baltimore after-school program, and Highlandtown Middle School, who have been involved in the partnership's plantings in Baltimore City. The celebration will include a ceremonial dig for the final tree, and remarks by Freeman Hrabowski, President of UMBC; Tom and Kitty Stoner, Co-founders of the TKF Foundation; and David Yager, Director of UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery. Also, on view from April 9 through 16 in the Visual Arts Department's Hallway Gallery (Fine Arts Building, 1st Floor), will be an exhibition featuring projects from the Joseph Beuys Educational Outreach portion of the partnership. Originally conceived as part of the well-known international art exhibition, "Documenta 7," Beuys' work on the 7000 Oaks project led him to coin the term social sculpture, which describes the process of communication and collaboration between artists and citizens to create environmental artworks beneficial to the community. Beuys felt that these community-based art structures or projects might change the way people relate to the world in which they live and work. The project provided Beuys the opportunity to express his social concerns to improve the ecosystem, to develop positive economic and political voices in urban settings and to improve human life in general. Posted by dwinds1 March 19, 2001 test test test Posted by dwinds1 March 14, 2001 UMBC MUSIC DEPARTMENT ESTABLISHES MUSIC PERFORMANCE FELLOWSHIPS UMBC's Department of Music has established a Music Performance Fellowship program, to begin in the 2001-2002 academic year. The fellowships will enable talented students to pursue their interest in music, regardless of their major. Each fellow will receive a scholarship to cover the cost of private lessons, for which students will receive academic credit. UMBC's Department of Music has established a Music Performance Fellowship program, to begin in the 2001-2002 academic year. The fellowships will enable talented students to pursue their interest in music, regardless of their major. Each fellow will receive a scholarship to cover the cost of private lessons, for which students will receive academic credit. Many UMBC students have strong backgrounds in music, with years of training, but are majoring in other disciplines. By supporting both further training and performance, the fellowships will encourage students not only to continue to improve their skills but to develop a life-long appreciation of and commitment to the arts. For many students musical outlets are as essential as athletic outlets are for others; they offer a break from the regimen of the traditional classroom while providing intellectual, physical, and spiritual stimulation in a social context. Through performance the fellows will enrich campus life. UMBC Music Performance Fellows will form the core of a new ensemble, the UMBC Chamber Players, directed by Wayne Cameron and coached by other talented performers from UMBC's faculty. Outreach performances in area elementary and middle schools and other institutions, such as the Charlestown Retirement Center, will also provide these students an opportunity to serve the community and foster civic values. Linda Dusman, chair of UMBC's Department of Music, says, "Academic talent and musical talent often go hand-in-had. So we are excited to offer an opportunity for musically talented students throughout the university to meet one another through the UMBC Chamber Players as Music Performance Fellows. Their love of music will not only enrich their lives, but the life of the UMBC campus and the surrounding community." The UMBC Chamber Players will perform a wide range of chamber music from the vast historical repertoire, including such pieces as Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat, the Beethoven Octet, Schubert's Shepherd on the Rock, and Copland's Appalachian Spring. A pilot ensemble, modeled on the UMBC Music Performance Fellowship program, has been formed for the spring 2001 semester. The group includes a Meyerhoff Scholar majoring in biochemistry (violin), a pre-med student (cello), and a transfer student from Russia, majoring in music (piano). The ensemble has begun rehearsal and is planning its first recital this spring. For more information, call the Department of Music at (410) 455-2942. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS FREE CONFERENCE ON JOSEPH BEUYS PARTNERSHIP AND GREENING INITIATIVES UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents "An Idea Takes Root/Get Your Stone in Motion," a symposium on the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership and greening initiatives in Baltimore. The free, day-long conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 4 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. For more information call (410) 455-3188. UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents "An Idea Takes Root/Get Your Stone in Motion," a symposium on the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership and greening initiatives in Baltimore. The free, day-long conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on April 4 (schedule below) at the Baltimore Museum of Art Auditorium. For more information call (410) 455-3188. UMBC has partnered with 21 Baltimore organizations to produce the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership, a far-reaching visionary program inspired by artist Joseph Beuys' 7000 Oaks project, where 7000 trees were planted in Kassel, Germany from 1982 to 1987. Funded by the TKF Foundation (www.tkffdn.org) in Annapolis, Maryland, the tree plantings, which began last fall, took place at Carroll Park, Patterson Park, Wyman Park Dell and UMBC. Over 500 people of all ages and backgrounds have participated in the events. Originally conceived as part of the well-known international art exhibition, "Documenta 7," Beuys' work on the 7000 Oaks project led him to coin the term social sculpture, which describes the process of communication and collaboration between artists and citizens to create environmental artworks beneficial to the community. Beuys felt that these community-based art structures or projects might change the way people relate to the world in which they live and work. The project provided Beuys the opportunity to express his social concerns to improve the ecosystem, to develop positive economic and political voices in urban settings and to improve human life in general. CONFERENCE SCHEDULE JOSEPH BEUYS IN AMERICA: 9 AM - 12 NOON Welcome Helen Molesworth, Curator of Contemporary Art, BMA David Yager, Director, UMBC Fine Arts Gallery Discussion moderated by George Ciscle, Curator-in-Residence, Maryland Institute, College of Art David Levi Strauss, Freelance Writer and Critic, New York Ronald Feldman, Director, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York Todd Bockley, Independent Curator, Center for Social Sculpture, Minneapolis GREENING INITIATIVES AND THE ARTS IN BALTIMORE: 1 - 4 PM Marvin Billups, Jr., Director, Department of Recreation and Parks, Baltimore City Michael Beer, Co-founder and Co-director, Jones Falls Watershed Association Panel Discussion Cinder Hypki, Friends of Patterson Park, Baltimore City Beth Strommen, Environmental Planner, Baltimore City Michael Beer, Co-founder and Co-director, Jones Falls Watershed Association Bryant Smith, Urban Arts Institute, Baltimore City Fran Spero, Department of Recreation and Parks, Baltimore City Gary Letteron, Washington Village Pigtown Neighborhood Planning Council Amanda Cunningham, Parks and People, Baltimore City# # # Posted by dwinds1 March 8, 2001 UMBC ALBIN O. KUHN LIBRARY GALLERY PRESENTS PATAPSCO: PORTRAIT OF A VALLEY, PHOTOGRAPHS BY PEGGY FOX UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Patapsco: Portrait of a Valley, Photographs by Peggy Fox," an exhibition featuring 70 of Peggy Fox's photographic portraits of the elders of the historic Patapsco Valley and surrounding landscapes, accompanied by excerpts from Alison Kahn's oral histories. The original exhibition, organized by Sally Voris for the Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc., included 55 photographs commissioned by the Friends. The presentation at UMBC will include 15 new prints produced by Fox especially for this venue, to further document the environment which defines and characterizes the Patapsco Valley. UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Patapsco: Portrait of a Valley, Photographs by Peggy Fox," an exhibition featuring 70 of Peggy Fox's photographic portraits of the elders of the historic Patapsco Valley and surrounding landscapes, accompanied by excerpts from Alison Kahn's oral histories. The original exhibition, organized by Sally Voris for the Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc., included 55 photographs commissioned by the Friends. The presentation at UMBC will include 15 new prints produced by Fox especially for this venue, to further document the environment which defines and characterizes the Patapsco Valley. The exhibition runs March 26 through May 23. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, noon to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday, noon to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-2270. A free symposium on the collaborative Patapsco project will be held on April 11 at 4 p.m. in the Library Gallery. Speakers include Edward Orser, chair of American Studies; Sally Voris, Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc.; Elaine Eff, director, Cultural Conservation Program, Maryland Historical Trust; Peggy Fox; and Alison Kahn. A public reception will follow. On April 21 at 1:30 p.m. in the Library Gallery, UMBC will host "Voices from the Patapsco Valley," developed by Voris. The free event will include direct first person accounts by community members, an ensemble of community voices and a re-enactment of some of the more dramatic stories from the oral histories. A three-year collaborative effort begun in 1997, this collection of images and interviews is the product of a project that documents the changing cultural life of the Patapsco Valley. Through the vivid images by Fox and the poignant text by Kahn, the exhibition captures the faces and memories of some 60 senior residents of Ellicott City, Oella, Relay and Elkridge. The oral history and photographic project received major funding from the Maryland Historical Trust, and was coordinated by the Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc. (formerly the Patapsco Heritage Greenway Committee). Off the interstate corridor that links Baltimore and Washington, D.C. lies a quiet valley carved by the Patapsco River and its branches and straddling Baltimore and Howard Counties. At this junction of coastal plain and piedmont, fertile flats give way to rolling hills and rocky outcrops. Water power and transportation crossings led to the use of the valley as the site for mill towns - producing iron, flour and textiles - which marked the birth of industry in Maryland. Beyond the villages lie rural tracts that hint at the earlier importance of agriculture in the region, as well as secluded residential settlements that represent an early stage of the suburban impulse. Today, highways, strip malls and extensive housing development eclipse these reminders of a very different era from the valley's past. But to know its ways and stories, you must talk to the elders whose lives spanned the better part of the last century and whose memories archive the unrecorded details and textures of the past. Their numbers are dwindling and as they go, more and more of the valley lore is lost. This project represents a timely effort to document the changing cultural life of the Patapsco Valley, the roots of which reside in its mills, farms, family businesses, historic communities and rural traditions. Fox's "environmental photographs" place her subjects in their own setting - whether a living room, a workplace, a garden or a shop, while Kahn's interviews provide the words and stories to further define these particular personalities for the viewer. The result is a powerful combination of words and images, which evocatively document the human texture of this region's life and legacy. Fox says, "The collaboration is�a balance of independence and cooperation and communication. We share an empathetic approach to field work and an intuitive sympathy to people and place." Accompanying the exhibition at UMBC will be an illustrated catalog, featuring interviews with Fox and Kahn, in which they discuss the relationship between the photographer and historian/folklorist in the development of this documentary project. The exhibition "Patapsco: Portrait of a Valley" has received major funding support from the Elkridge Furnace Inn, its title sponsor, as well as from the Howard County Arts Council; The Framer's Vise; and FCNB Bank. Its presentation at UMBC has been funded in part by the American Studies Department and the Special Sessions Policy Committee. Generous support has also come from the Friends of the Library and Gallery and from an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. "Voices from the Patapsco Valley" (the April 21 event) is also sponsored by the Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc. and UMBC's Department of American Studies and was developed with funding from the Maryland Celebrates 2000 Commission. Posted by dwinds1 March 2, 2001 UMBC HUMANITIES FORUM AND FRIENDS OF THE ALBIN O. KUHN LIBRARY & GALLERY PRESENT A FREE READING BY MATHEMATICS PROFESSOR/NOVELIST MANIL SURI UMBC's Humanities Forum and the Friends of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery present UMBC mathematics professor Manil Suri, who will read from and discuss The Death of Vishnu, his critically acclaimed first novel. The free event, "Balancing Mythology with Mathematics: A Reading from The Death of Vishnu," will be held at 4 p.m. on April 4 in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery; a reception will follow. For more information call (410) 455-6798. A campus map is available at www.umbc.edu. UMBC's Humanities Forum and the Friends of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery present UMBC mathematics professor Manil Suri, who will read from and discuss The Death of Vishnu, his critically acclaimed first novel. The free event, "Balancing Mythology with Mathematics: A Reading from The Death of Vishnu," will be held at 4 p.m. on April 4 in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery; a reception will follow. For more information call (410) 455-6798. A campus map is available at www.umbc.edu. Suri's novel was published by W.W. Norton & Company in January 2001 to positive reviews. Library Journal called it a "radiant first novel," Booklist called it a "tenderly comic, wryly metaphysical, and hugely entertaining tale," and Publishers Weekly concluded that "by turns charming and funny, searing and poignant, dramatic and farcical, this fluid novel is an irresistible blend of realism, mysticism and religious metaphor, a parable of the universal conditions of human life." The Washington Post compared reading the novel to eating a mango, calling it "ambrosial" and "sweet scented." The Baltimore Sun praised Suri as "a fiction writer of great imagination and beauty." Suri is currently on a national book tour, after having completed a series of readings in India. A brief summary of The Death of Vishnu (along with more information on Suri, his novel and his work) appears on www.manilsuri.com: "Vishnu is dying. He lies on the landing of the staircase where he lives while his neighbors, the Pathaks and the Asranis, argue over who will pay for an ambulance. Spiraling up through the floors of the apartment building, we are pulled into the dramas of the residents' lives: Mr. Jalal's obsessive search for higher meaning; Vinod Taneja's longing for the wife he has lost; the comic elopement of Kavita Asrani, who imagines herself the heroine of a Hindi movie. Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India, and Vishnu's ascent of the staircase parallels the soul's progress through the various stages of existence. As Vishnu closes in on the riddle of his own mortality, we wonder whether he might not be the god Vishnu, guardian not only of the fate of the building and its occupants, but of the entire universe. A seriously engaged scholar in his discipline, Suri has taught at UMBC since 1983. Suri's fiction was largely unknown, even to UMBC faculty, until the publication of an excerpt from The Death of Vishnu, entitled "The Seven Circles," appeared in the February 14, 2000 issue of the New Yorker. This was followed by an April 9, 2000 piece in the New York Times for its "My Suburb" series. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC MUSIC DEPARTMENT PRESENTS A CONCERT BY MALCOLM GOLDSTEIN AND TOM GOLDSTEIN The UMBC Music Department presents "Goldstein and Goldstein,"a concert by Malcolm Goldstein, renowned pioneer of free improvisation, and Tom Goldstein, UMBC music faculty, at 8 p.m. on March 27 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general and $3 students/seniors. For more information, call (410) 455-2942. The UMBC Music Department presents "Goldstein and Goldstein," a concert by Malcolm Goldstein, renowned pioneer of free improvisation, and Tom Goldstein, UMBC music faculty, at 8 p.m. on March 27 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general and $3 students/seniors. For more information, call (410) 455-2942. The program features that is poetry as for violin and percussion by Malcolm Goldstein; For 1, 2 or 3 People by Christian Wolff; wind chases the sun (for Leonard Peltier) for violin and voice solo by Malcolm Goldstein; Radio Play Music for two musicians by Malcolm Goldstein; Pendulums for solo percussion by Jo Kondo; Variations II by John Cage; and a duo improvisation. Malcolm Goldstein (no relation to Tom), as composer/violinist, has been active in the presentation of new music and dance since the early 1960s, in New York City, as co-founder/co-director of the Tone Roads Ensemble and as participant in the Judson Dance Theater, the New York Festival of the Avant Garde and the Experimental Intermedia Foundation. Since then he has toured exclusively throughout North America and Europe, presenting solo violin concerts and appearing as soloist with various new music and dance ensembles. He has received awards and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, The Artists Foundation Fellowship in Music Composition, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Award, Prix Acustica International, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, and the Canada Council on the Arts and Tranquien'Art. He has recorded on the Eremite, O.O Discs and Musicworks labels, among many others. Tom Goldstein is head of the percussion program at UMBC. As a New York City freelance percussionist for over twenty years, he has performed extensively with groups such as the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Brooklyn Philharmonic, as well as chamber groups, Broadway shows and in nightclubs. Especially active in contemporary music, he has premiered dozens of solo and chamber works, many of which were written expressly for him. From 1980-1990 he served as artistic director of the new music group, GAGEEGO. He has toured with Steve Reich, played with Pauline Oliveros and the ensemble Continuum. Goldstein composed and performed percussion soundtracks for the NBC World Series and U.S. Tennis Open documentaries. He currently performs and records with the Hoffman/Goldstein Duo, which recently completed a tour of Italy. He has recorded on Vanguard, Polydor, Opus I, O.O. Discs, CD Tech, Capstone and CRI. Posted by dwinds1 February 5, 2001 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS THE UMBC SYMPHONY The UMBC Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Wayne Cameron, will perform on March 11 at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general and $3 students and seniors. For more information call (410) 455-2942. The UMBC Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Wayne Cameron, will perform on March 11 at 3 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general and $3 students and seniors. For more information call (410) 455-2942. The program includes Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral and Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner, The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas and Symphony No. 41 in C Major by Mozart. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC PRESENTS TALUJON UMBC's Music Department presents Talujon Percussion Quartet, one of America's leading percussion groups, on February 28 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general and $3 students/seniors. Because this concert is part of UMBC's Progressions Series, seating is very limited. For more information call (410) 455-2942. UMBC's Music Department presents Talujon Percussion Quartet, one of America's leading percussion groups, on February 28 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general and $3 students/seniors. Because this concert is part of UMBC's Progressions Series, seating is very limited. For more information call (410) 455-2942. Talujon is on the cutting edge of music for percussion ensemble, credited with a continuous stream of commissions from composers, including Julia Wolfe, Ushio Torikai, Pulitzer-prize winner Wayne Peterson, Ralph Shapey and Louis Karchin. Rounding out its repertoire are 20th-century classics by Steve Reich, John Cage and Iannis Xenakis. For more information on the quartet visit www.pipeline.com/~talujon. Posted by dwinds1 February 2, 2001 UMBC PRESENTS FIRST SWEETHEART SWING HONORING COUPLES WHO MET ON CAMPUS On Saturday, February 10, UMBC presents its first Sweetheart Swing, held in honor of couples who met at UMBC. The event is open to the entire campus. This unique event, complete with a swing dance exhibition and lessons, will be held from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. Tickets for the Sweetheart Swing are $25 per person. For more information, call (410) 455-ALUM. Years after they met at UMBC, Morris Fogle '83 told Diane Crump-Fogle '87 M.A. that he had asked her out on a dare, after noticing her on campus and hoping to meet her. Diane, now associate director of UMBC's Career Development and Placement Center, says, "Little did we know that our lives would be changed forever." There are probably many similar stories among the 430 known alumni, as well as others who met and fell in love at UMBC. On Saturday, February 10, UMBC presents its first Sweetheart Swing, held in honor of couples who met at UMBC, although it is open to the entire campus. This unique event, complete with a swing dance exhibition and lessons, will be held from 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. Tickets for the Sweetheart Swing are $25 per person. For more information, call (410) 455-ALUM. Samantha Davis, director of alumni relations, says that her office knows of about 430 alumni couples who met at UMBC, and seven of those couples currently serve on the Alumni Board. The first-time event was suggested by alumnus Bill Glover '90, who met his wife, Cathy Klein-Glover '90, at UMBC. Hosts for the evening include Bob and Mimi (Haw) Dietrich, who are not only part of UMBC's first graduating class in 1970, but probably one of the first couples who met on campus and got married (they tied the knot after graduating). Since then, they have been very active as UMBC alumni, and Bob is laboratory facilities manager for the Department of Biological Sciences. "Many people have a special place in their hearts for UMBC because they met here," says Mimi. In addition to the Dietrichs and Glovers, organizers and hosts for the evening are Diana Fertsch '82 and Steve Andre '77, Patti (Hicks) LeConte '90 and Brian LeConte '89, Pam (Yachera) Offutt '82 and Jay Offutt '82, Lisa (Dates) Price '87 and Dwayne Price '87, and Jill (Timmons) Royston '94 and Zack Royston '97, '99. This special Valentine's celebration will also include a buffet dinner, cash bar, dj and dancing, and door prizes. Posted by dwinds1 January 29, 2001 UMBC MUSIC DEPARTMENT PRESENTS A CONCERT BY WILLIAM FEASLEY UMBC's Department of Music presents a concert of late 20th-century works for guitar by faculty member William Feasley. The program includes compositions by George Rochberg, UMBC music faculty Stuart Saunders Smith, Robert Beaser, Lou Harrison, Ralph Towner, Peter Madlem and William Bolcom. The concert will be held on February 23 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general and $3 students/seniors. For more information call (410) 455-2942. UMBC's Department of Music presents a concert of late 20th-century works for guitar by faculty member William Feasley. The concert will be held on February 23 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $7 general and $3 students/seniors. For more information call (410) 455-2942. The program includes compositions by by George Rochberg, UMBC music faculty Stuart Saunders Smith, Robert Beaser, Lou Harrison, Ralph Towner, Peter Madlem and William Bolcom. Feasley received an M.M. and Artist Diploma in Guitar Performance from Peabody Conservatory. He has been a member of the Faculty of UMBC Department of Music since 1991. His past teachers include Andres Segovia, Aaron Sherer and Manuel Barrueco. Feasley was the first guitarist to be awarded the Peabody Conservatory's coveted Artist Diploma, and has since been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards: a gold medal in the 1987 Panhellenic Guitar competition in Athens, the 1990 and 1995 Baltimore Chamber Music Award and a 1996 Governor's Citation for Outstanding Achievements in the Arts in Maryland. Selected to play for Andre Segovia at the master's historic last class at the University of Southern California in 1986, he was later featured on the CBS special "Eulogy of Segovia." Since making his debut in 1980 with the San Francisco Ballet, performing Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez for Lou Christenson's ballet, Don Juan, Feasley has maintained an active international touring schedule. He has appeared in the Ohrid Spoleto Festival in Macedonia and venues such as St. Martin in the Fields in London, the National Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection, the Washington National Cathedral and Yale University. He has toured with the Russian Chamber Orchestra, Musica Viva (Alexander Rudin, Conductor), performed live on ABC International Radio in Australia, and with New York's Bachanalia Ensemble under the direction of Nina Beilina and Washington's 20th Century Consort. Recent tours have included Spain, the Caribbean, Greece, Yugoslavia, New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom and Iceland. He has released two critically acclaimed discs for the Sononra label: Simplicity with his partner in the D'Amore Duo, oboist Vladimir Lande, and American Sketches--musical Americana with rags, Gershwin and COplandesque landscapes. Another unusual program is Echoes of Goya--a multimedia presentation on the life of the famous painter and his impact on several generations of composers. Feasley is also on the faculty of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C. Posted by dwinds1 January 27, 2001 UMBC THEATRE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS CABARET AS OF MARCH 7, CABARET IS SOLD OUT. Those interested may put their names on a waiting list at the Box Office (in the lobby of the Theatre bldg.) one hour before showtime of each performance. NO WAITING LIST REQUESTS WILL BE TAKEN BY PHONE OR EMAIL. The waiting list is first come, first served and there are no guarantees that those on the list will be seated. UMBC's Department of Theatre presents a Studio Theatre production of Cabaret, directed by guest artist Robin Midgley. After a free 8 p.m. preview on March 8, performances will be held at 8 p.m. on March 9, 10, 13 and 14, and at 4 p.m. on March 11 and 15. Admission is $5. The March 15 show is free to UMBC faculty, staff and students. All performances take place in the UMBC Theatre. AS OF MARCH 7, CABARET IS SOLD OUT. Those interested may put their names on a waiting list at the Box Office (in the lobby of the Theatre bldg.) one hour before showtime of each performance. NO WAITING LIST REQUESTS WILL BE TAKEN BY PHONE. The waiting list is first come, first served and there are no guarantees that those on the list will be seated. For information only, call the Box Office at (410) 455-2476. Eleanor Lewis is a contact for media only; please call the Box Office if you need assistance. UMBC's Department of Theatre presents a Studio Theatre production of Cabaret, directed by guest artist Robin Midgley. After a free 8 p.m. preview on March 8, performances will be held at 8 p.m. on March 9, 10, 13 and 14, and at 4 p.m. on March 11 and 15. Admission is $5. The March 15 show is free to UMBC faculty, staff and students. All performances take place in the UMBC Theatre. Choreography is by Ken Skrzesz and musical direction is by Doug Yetter. Set design is by Greggory Schraven, lighting design is by Terry Cobb and costume design is by Norah Shaw. Voice and speech coaching by Lynn Watson. Robin Midgley went straight from Cambridge University, where he was the first undergraduate to direct the annual Marlowe Society production, to the BBC in London as a radio drama producer and then to television as a director of plays, films and series. During this time he began his career as a West End director, and also directed for the RSC, the Royal Court and the Mermaid Theatre. He became artistic director of the Phoenix and then the new Haymarket Theatre in Leichester, directing over 80 productions there, may of which toured nationally, and transferred to the West End. He spent six years as head of television drama for the BBC at Pebble Mill, before returning to his West End and international theatre career, directing classics, new plays, musicals and opera. In 1992 he became artistic director of Belfast's Lyric Theatre, and was nominated four times as best director by the Belfast Telegraph Awards, TMA, Belfast Arts Awards and the Irish Times Awards. Most recently Midgley has been directing productions at drama colleges, sharng his experience and enthusiasm for theatre and television experience with students. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC VISUAL ARTS DEPARTMENT PRESENTS VISITNG ARTIST SERIES FOR SPRING 2001 UMBC's Department of Visual Arts presents its Visiting Artist Series for Spring 2001. All events are free and open to the public; times and venues vary. For more information, call (410) 455-2150. UMBC's Department of Visual Arts presents its Visiting Artist Series for Spring 2001. All events are free and open to the public; times and venues vary. For more information, call (410) 455-2150. STEVE MURAKISHI MONDAY, MARCH 5 1-2 PM, FINE ARTS 216 Steve Murakishi's work has been widely exhibited: "Murder as Phenomena" at San Francisco Cameraworks, "The Cult of Aesthetic" at Wesleyan University, "Mo Colors, Mo Better" at Florida State Gallery and Museum. His work is in collections at the Detroit Institute of Arts, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Franklin Furnace and many others. He has received numerous awards and grants including a 1989 National Endowment for the Arts grant. He has since published "The Teasing of Empowerment: Big Hair and Tromp L'oeil," and for the New Art Examiner "Morphability in America." Murakishi has worked consciously with multiple medias and hyper layered installations for over 10 years. Using Duchampian references that morph issues of race, violence and consumerism, he combines sculpture, photography, film and the language of advertising with sensitivity and humor. He has been artist-in-residence and chair of the Printmaking Department of Cranbrook Academy of Art since 1981, and a guest lecturer at many institutions including UCLA, CalArts, Kansas City Art Institute and the Art Institute of Chicago. ALAN BERLINER WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 8-10 PM, FINE ARTS 306 Alan Berliner has completed over 14 films in the last 25 years and has also worked extensively on installations using video imagery. His recent film work addresses issues of family and history, using unexpected sound/image juxtapositions to reveal searingly powerful insights on how identitites are tempered and shaped by our sense of the past. His films have been shown at the New York Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art and the Jerusalem Film Festival. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1993 and has received a New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Grant seven times. His installation work has been shown at the Tribeca 148 Gallery and the International Center for Photography, both in New York City, and at the Miami Art Museum. KEITH PIPER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11 8-9 PM, LECTURE HALL ONE Born in 1960, Keith Piper first exhibited in 1981 as a member of the BLK Art Group, an association of black British art students. The group sought to explore issues relevant to aspects of black political struggle through contemporary art practice. Piper's work developed around an exploration of multi-media elements such as tape/slide, sound and video within an installation based practice. He would go on to embrace the use of computers as a means of collaging images and sounds and constructing video installation. This has recently included the development of interactive installation work, CD-Rom and Web site construction. He is currently working on a major project entitled "Relocating the Remains," commissioned by The Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA). JARRYD LOWDER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 8-9 PM, LECTURE HALL ONE Jarryd Lower creates performative works that share characteristics of performance art, electronic art, musical performance and sound design and other disciplines. His previous works have been performed in the U.S., Japan, Spain and Austria. He resides in New York, where he does freelance media development and teaches courses in video and audio at the School of Visual Arts. Posted by dwinds1 January 26, 2001 UMBC PRESENTS PHOENIX DANCE COMPANY IN CONCERT Phoenix Dance Company, the professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, will present a concert at 8 p.m. February 14 through 17 in the UMBC Theatre. Tickets are $10 general, $7 students and seniors. For information and reservations, call (410) 455-6240. Phoenix Dance Company, the professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, will present a concert at 8 p.m. February 14 through 17 in the UMBC Theatre. Tickets are $10 general, $7 students and seniors. For information and reservations, call (410) 455-6240. The concert features two world premieres. During a duet by Carol Hess which examines differences in perspective, a man and a woman wear wireless surveillance cameras which project their movements on a screen behind them. New York choreographer Gabriel Masson's first work for Phoenix is Inevitable, "an emotional trajectory of acceptance" which he created for Sandra Lacy. Hess will also present The Collected, a solo about interior emotional states based on the novel by John Fowles and performed by Eileen Mitchell. Doug Hamby contributes three works for the concert. He describes Echoes, with a sound score created in collaboration with UMBC visual arts faculty Timothy Nohe, as a "series of hieroglyphics." Construction #2, performed by Julie Peoples, is "a movement duel between a dancer and Cage's percussion score." Six Short Pieces reminds Hamby of "the sun passing through time" and is set to a wide range of music - from spiritual, honky tonk, jazz and opera - by composer William Grant Still. The program also includes Dissolve, by New York choreographer/dancer Jeanine Durning, an examination of different states of being, performed by Sandra Lacy to music by Henryk Gorecki. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC DANCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS TROIKA RANCH UMBC's Dance Department presents two lecture/demonstrations by Troika Ranch, an innovative dance company that combines dance, music, theater and interactive digital media. The events will be held on February 7 at 1 p.m. and8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Because the 8 p.m. show is presented in conjunction with UMBC's Progressions class, seating is very limited. The company will also give a master class for intermediate and advanced dancers on February 8 at 10 a.m. Space is limited. For more information call (410) 455-6240. UMBC's Dance Department presents two lecture/demonstrations by Troika Ranch, an innovative dance company that combines dance, music, theater and interactive digital media. The events will be held on February 7 at 1 p.m. and8 p.m. in the UMBC Theatre. Because the 8 p.m. show is presented in conjunction with UMBC's Progressions class, seating is very limited. The company will also give a master class for intermediate and advanced dancers on February 8 at 10 a.m. Space is limited. For more information call (410) 455-6240. Since forming Troika Ranch in 1993, Artistic Co-Directors Mark Coniglio and Dawn Stoppiello have been creating dynamic live performances that combine dance, music, theater and interactive digital media. Through fierce choreography, dense musical scores and an evocative use of media and theater, they explore how we can maintain our most human attributes (our emotions, our bodies, our passion) in a time of accelerating change and growing physical disconnection. The uneasy relationship between the organic and the electronic is key to this exploration, and appears on stage as they link the movements of the dancers to interactively controlled video, sound or light. It is Coniglio and Stoppiello's hope that by bringing these elements together into a unified expressive whole that they will leave their audiences both delighted and challenged. Posted by dwinds1 January 12, 2001 DOUG HAMBY DANCE TO PERFORM AT DANCE PLACE IN WASHINGTON, DC Doug Hamby Dance, the Baltimore-Washington region's leading explorers of technology in modern dance, will perform at Dance Place in Washington, D.C. Showtimes are at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, July 13 and 14, and 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 15. Tickets are $15 general and $12 members, students, seniors and artists. Dance Place (www.danceplace.org) is located at 3225 8th Street NE. For more information, call (202) 269-1600 or visit www.umbc.edu/dhd. Doug Hamby Dance, the Baltimore-Washington region's leading explorers of technology in modern dance, will perform at Dance Place in Washington, D.C. Showtimes are at 8 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, July 13 and 14, and 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 15. Tickets are $15 general and $12 members, students, seniors and artists. Dance Place (www.danceplace.org) is located at 3225 8th Street NE. For more information, call (202) 269-1600 or visit www.umbc.edu/dhd. Doug Hamby Dance, in residence at UMBC, has garnered national attention for its collaborations with visual artists, musicians and robotics engineers. This season, the company will present two premieres. In Ocular-Meninx, three dancers interact with Steve Bradley's sensual video and sound, incorporating live insects and costumes by Elena Zlotescu. Haiku is a dance ceremony in an architectural landscape. The program also features Echoes, a display of primal physicality with a score by computer artist Tim Nohe, and Six Short Pieces, with music by composer William Grant Still. Company dancers include Brian Bagley, Dave Clark, Julie Peoples-Clark, Jen Herling, Emily Giza, Jennica Lee, Sarah Seely, Pamela Stevens and Margaret Velez. Of the company's work, the Washington Post has said, "Hamby is a bold and ambitious artist willing to take risks," and the Village Voice stated, "Hamby proved that the fusion of dance and technology only needed time to mature." Artistic Director Doug Hamby has extensive experience as a dancer, choreographer, and educator. He is associate professor of dance at UMBC. Hamby has directed the Douglas Hamby Dance Company in New York City and performed with Martha Graham, May O'Donnell, Rachel Lampert, Elizabeth Keen, Pearl Lang, Norman Walker, the Chicago Moving Company, Phoenix Dance Company, and Hamby and Lacy. His company has performed annual summer seasons at Dance Place, Washington DC, Riverside Dance Festival, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, and Celebrate Brooklyn, in New York City; the1998 New York International Fringe Festival, 1997 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and 1995 International Fringe Festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland and Vancouver, Canada. He has received choreography awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, New York State Council on the Arts, Arts Council of Montgomery County, Maryland, and the Baltimore Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture. He has served as a dance advisory panelist for the Maryland State Arts Council for three years. Hamby has an MFA in Dance from Temple University and a Biology degree from Michigan State University. He has also appeared on national television as a giant slice of American cheese. Posted by dwinds1 January 9, 2001 UMBC PRESENTS HUMANITIES FORUM AND ESPACES SERIES FOR SPRING 2001 UMBC's Humanities Forum and Espaces Series are free and open to the public. HUMANITIES FORUM The Humanities Forum is a free series presented each fall and spring semester by UMBC's Center for the Humanities. All events will be held in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery at 4 p.m. unless otherwise noted. For more information call (410) 455-6798. February 7 "Student Research in the Humanities," a panel discussion by UMBC students and faculty members. Four UMBC students will talk about what it means to do research in the humanities: the inspiration to go further, the obstacles to be overcome and the satisfaction that the process of discovery provides. February 28 Maryse Cond�, Guadeloupean writer and professor of French at Columbia University, will discuss her life and work in the lecture "A Caribbean Writer: The Journey Home." One of the French Caribbean's most exciting and respected writers, she is the author of 11 previous works of fiction and nonfiction. Her novels, set in a world of colliding cultural patterns, explore myth and disillusionment in the evolution of Caribbean identity. Her latest novel is Desirada (Soho Press). The event is presented in conjunction with UMBC's Espaces Series (see below). March 14 Arturo Madrid, Norine R. and Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, will discuss "Diversity and its Discontents: A Re-examination." Founding president of the nation's first institute for policy studies on Latino issues, Madrid is also a pioneer in scholarship on Chicano literacy and cultural expression. He is especially interested in exploring Americans' ambiguous feelings toward "diversity." March 28: This event has been moved to 5 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom Amitai Etzioni, university professor, George Washington University and founder of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, will discuss "Privacy: A Communitarian Perspective." Etzioni is the founder of the communitarian movement. He believes that the exclusive pursuit of private interest is a danger to the network of social environments on which human beings depend and is,ultimately, destructive to democratic self-government. The Humanities Forum is a co-sponsor of this Social Sciences Forum event. For more information on the Social Sciences Forum, visit www.umbc.edu/socforum or call (410) 455-2160. April 4 UMBC mathematics professor Manil Suri will read from and discuss his critically acclaimed first novel, The Death of Vishnu (W.W. Norton) in a talk entitled "Balencing Mythology with Mathematics: a Reading from The Death of Vishnu. Suri, whose research in mathematics is now about to be supplemented with a remarkable first novel, will take time from his international book tour to talk about the balance he finds between his two disciplines. This event is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery. April 18 Renee Stout, painter, sculptor and multi-media artist, will present the Daphne D. Harrison Lecture for Spring 2001. Among the creative stimuli that lie behind Stout's art are the ritual objects of Africa and the empowering and healing agents of different spiritual systems. Her work is rich in both its physical texture and in its implications for human society. April 25 Joe Tatarewicz, UMBC associate professor of history, will discuss "2001 A Space Odyssey: a Century of Vision and Reality." Using a variety of literatures - engineering, science, science fiction, film, etc. - Tatarewicz's illustrated lecture will examine the role that space flight has had in imaginationa and reality, and how each has influenced the other. The lecture is one in a series of events celebrating UMBC's new Certificate in the Human Context of Science and Technology, an interdisciplinary program which will begin in Fall 2001. ESPACES SERIES The biennial Espaces Series is a free series that examines the cultures of the French-speaking world, presented by UMBC's Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics. This year's events explore the French Caribbean. All events are free and are held in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery at 4 p.m. unless otherwise noted. For more information call (410) 455-2109. February 28 Maryse Cond�, Guadeloupean writer, will discuss her life and work in the lecture "A Caribbean Writer: The Journey Home." (in conjunction with UMBC's Humanities Forum Series - see above) March 6 Historian Fritz Daguillard will speak on "The Recognition of Haiti by the United States: from Toussaint Louverture to Frederick Douglass." March 13 Nina Clara Schnall of the University of California, Santa Cruz will discuss "Vodou and Evangelization in Haiti." April 19 (location to be announced) Mark Reid of the University of Florida, Gainesville will lecture on "The Representation of French Caribbean Immigrants in Contemporary French Cinema." Posted by dwinds1 January 8, 2001 UMBC ALBIN O. KUHN LIBRARY GALLERY PRESENTS ALICE BURR, PHOTOGRAPHER: A CALIFORNIA PICTORIALIST REDISCOVERED UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Alice Burr, Photographer: A California Pictorialist Rediscovered," a look at the photographic works of an accomplished member of the amateur and professional movements in photography that flourished in early twentieth-century California. The free exhibition is on view January 29 through March 12. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, noon to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday, noon to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-2270. UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Alice Burr, Photographer: A California Pictorialist Rediscovered," a look at the photographic works of an accomplished member of the amateur and professional movements in photography that flourished in early twentieth-century California. The free exhibition is on view January 29 through March 12. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, noon to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday, noon to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-2270. Since the period in which Alice Burr (1883-1968) actively exhibited her work, ending before the Second World War, her photographs have been known only to her family and a handful of curators and friends. Recently, an effort has been made to collect the works which remain from her career, record and study them, and offer them for public view. As part of this effort, the exhibition has been organized by independent curator and writer Thomas Weston Fels, a specialist in American photography and culture, in conjunction with the family of Alice Burr. The prints on view encompass the strongest known works of Burr's career. The exhibition and accompanying catalog provide an introduction to, and a record of, an early woman photographer of considerable interest and merit. The exhibition includes approximately 50 prints dating from about 1910 to 1925. Burr explored a number of techniques, including silver and pigment prints, autochrome and other media. Her use of autochrome is exceptional. While Burr's photography freqently focused on familiar people and places in the Bay Area, she traveled extensively. The exhibition includes views of Europe, India and North Africa. At the turn of the twentieth century, and for several decades before and after, artists interested in photography were concerned to advance and protect its status as an art. This dedication to artistic values gave rise to the era of Pictorialism, a movement reflecting in photography the traditional, handcrafted values seen in other media - such as painting and the decorative arts - in the Arts and Crafts movement which was contemporaneous with it. While Pictorialism flourished throughout Europe and America, it was particularly strong in areas large enough for artists to develop the clubs, salons and publications which offered support for their work, such as California and New York. Independent, and oriented toward the artistic development that later led her to painting, printmaking and film, Burr worked as a Pictorialist photographer for only a relatively brief time. For Burr, who studied with Clarence White during the 1915-16 session of the Clarence H. White School of Photography, these values can be seen directly in the work she produced. Images such as Above the City's Smoke and Dune's Edge illustrate the elegant, craftsman-like printing of the time in platinum and silver. In a Patio reveals the complexity of visual values achievable through mastery of the bromoil process so often used by Burr and others of the time. Prints such as Along the Marina and Waterfront Scene show how the rough maritime life depicted by her contemporary Jack London could be transformed through photography to the imagery of visual art. The Pier and Tree Silhouette exemplify the use of the delicate papers and Whisterlian images which reflect the influence of Japan and its European and American advocates in the fine arts. Burr's many portraits emphasize not only the visual values of her ear, akin to those of Gertrude Kasebier and Mary Cassat, but the usefulness of photography in documenting - and occasionally idealizing - family life, as well as providing a means, through professional portrait work, of supporting the art to which she was devoted. The exhibition is supported in part by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Posted by dwinds1 January 7, 2001 UMBC'S FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS FRED WILSON, OBJECTS AND INSTALLATIONS, 1979-2000 UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000," the first mid-career survey of the artwork by the internationally recognized artist, curated by Maurice Berger, curator of the Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition, which consists of more than 100 objects, some reconfigured to re-create sections of Wilson's original installations, will be on view from October 11, 2001 through January 12, 2002. An opening reception will be held on October 11 from 5 to 7 p.m.. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-3188 or visit www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery. UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000," the first mid-career survey of the artwork by the internationally recognized artist, curated by Maurice Berger, curator of the Fine Arts Gallery. The exhibition, which consists of more than 100 objects, some reconfigured to re-create sections of Wilson's original installations, will be on view from October 11, 2001 through January 12, 2002. An opening reception will be held on October 11 from 5 to 7 p.m.. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-3188 or visit www.umbc.edu/fineartsgallery. Following the Fine Arts Gallery viewing, "Objects and Installations" will travel to the Sara Campbell Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, Texas; the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California; and the Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley. Over the past fifteen years, Fred Wilson has produced the most sustained and cogent inquiry into the complex relationship between the art object and the museum. His oeuvre, consisting of mock museum installations into which the artist places provocative and beautifully rendered objects, explore the question of how the museum consciously or unconsciously perpetuates racist beliefs or behavior. If social justice is Wilson's ultimate subject, the museum itself becomes his medium - from the use of meticulously fabricated objects to the careful selection of wall colors, lighting, display cases and even wall labels. Wilson's incisive aesthetic and social inquiry focuses not only on the social implications of the content within the anthropological, historical or artistic medium but also on the powerful, historically encoded belief systems inherent to the art of museum display. Sometimes the artist reconfigures and supplements the collection of an actual museum - as in his extraordinary installation, "Mining the Museum," commissioned by the Maryland Historical Society in 1992. In that show, Wilson juxtaposed objects from the society's permanent collection with fabricated objects and wall labels. The resulting juxtapositions spoke to a complex history of museological omission, manipulation and oversight: in Cabinet Making, for example, Wilson poignantly counters a series of elegantly crafted American late 19th-century wooden chairs with a rarely exhibited wooden slave post. In the end, Wilson's aesthetic commentaries reach across a wide museological and art historical expanse - from Egyptian and classical Greek and Roman sculpture to African-American memorabilia, the primativist painting of Picasso and the uniforms worn by the often black guards charged with the task of keeping America museums safe and secure. "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1985-2000" will be accompanied by a major catalog and will feature essays by exhibition curator Maurice Berger and Jennifer Gonzalez, professor of art history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The catalog will be fully illustrated in black-and-white and color, and will also contain an interview with Wilson, complete catalog raisionn� of his installations, a selected bibliography, list of exhibitions and checklist. A major outreach initiative will accompany the exhibition. Programming components include a symposium on the cultural politics of the museum; a talk by Wilson; and a school outreach program, geared to primary and secondary students. in partnership with area museums. Organized by the Fine Arts Gallery, this school outreach program involves college interns drawn throughout the university who will participate with museum staff and school teachers in developing curriculum studies, guided tours and corresponding workshop activities in area schools. Maurice Berger is a senior fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of the New School for Social Research and curator of the Fine Arts Gallery, UMBC. He has taught and lectured at such institutions as Hunter College, Yale University, the DIA Center for the Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He has served as curator or has written catalog essays for such institutions as the Guggenheim Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Whitney Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Grey Art Gallery and Jewish Museum. His articles have appeared in numerous journals and newspapers, including the New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, the Village Voice, October and Afterimage. He is the author of three books: Labyrinths: Robert Morris, Minimalism, and the 1960s (Harper and Row, 1989), How Art Becomes History (HarperCollins, 1992); and White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999). White Lies was named a finalist for the Horace Mann Bond Award given by Harvard University for the best book of African American interest, and is currently being made into a documentary by PBS. Berger was editor of Modern Art and Society: A Social and Multicultural Reader (HarperCollins, 1994) and The Crisis of Criticism (The New Press, 1998), and co-editor of Constructing Masculinity (Routledge, 1995). Posted by dwinds1 January 1, 2001 UMBC UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery has extended "Patapsco: Portrait of a Valley, Photographs by Peggy Fox," an exhibition featuring 70 of Peggy Fox's photographic portraits of the elders of the historic Patapsco Valley and surrounding landscapes, accompanied by excerpts from Alison Kahn's oral histories. The exhibition will continue to be on view through June 30. The original exhibition, organized by Sally Voris for the Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc., included 55 photographs commissioned by the Friends. The presentation at UMBC includes 15 new prints produced by Fox especially for this venue, to further document the environment which defines and characterizes the Patapsco Valley. UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery has extended "Patapsco: Portrait of a Valley, Photographs by Peggy Fox," an exhibition featuring 70 of Peggy Fox's photographic portraits of the elders of the historic Patapsco Valley and surrounding landscapes, accompanied by excerpts from Alison Kahn's oral histories. The exhibition will continue to be on view through June 30. The original exhibition, organized by Sally Voris for the Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc., included 55 photographs commissioned by the Friends. The presentation at UMBC includes 15 new prints produced by Fox especially for this venue, to further document the environment which defines and characterizes the Patapsco Valley. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, noon to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday, noon to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call (410) 455-2270. On Thursday, June 28 at 7 p.m., the Gallery and The Friends present the performance, "Inside the Memory Box: Stories of the Patapsco Valley," featuring archival images of UMBC, personal reminiscences, a staged reading of a script and a production of a one-act play by The Patapsco Players. The variety of forms demonstrates ways to bring a documentary project to life dramatically--just as the exhibit demonstrates how photographer and folklorist work together to create the documentary products. A public reception will follow. A three-year collaborative effort begun in 1997, this collection of images and interviews is the product of a project that documents the changing cultural life of the Patapsco Valley. Through the vivid images by Fox and the poignant text by Kahn, the exhibition captures the faces and memories of some 60 senior residents of Ellicott City, Oella, Relay and Elkridge. The oral history and photographic project received major funding from the Maryland Historical Trust, and was coordinated by the Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc. (formerly the Patapsco Heritage Greenway Committee). Off the interstate corridor that links Baltimore and Washington, D.C. lies a quiet valley carved by the Patapsco River and its branches and straddling Baltimore and Howard Counties. At this junction of coastal plain and piedmont, fertile flats give way to rolling hills and rocky outcrops. Water power and transportation crossings led to the use of the valley as the site for mill towns - producing iron, flour and textiles - which marked the birth of industry in Maryland. Beyond the villages lie rural tracts that hint at the earlier importance of agriculture in the region, as well as secluded residential settlements that represent an early stage of the suburban impulse. Today, highways, strip malls and extensive housing development eclipse these reminders of a very different era from the valley's past. But to know its ways and stories, you must talk to the elders whose lives spanned the better part of the last century and whose memories archive the unrecorded details and textures of the past. Their numbers are dwindling and as they go, more and more of the valley lore is lost. This project represents a timely effort to document the changing cultural life of the Patapsco Valley, the roots of which reside in its mills, farms, family businesses, historic communities and rural traditions. Fox's "environmental photographs" place her subjects in their own setting - whether a living room, a workplace, a garden or a shop, while Kahn's interviews provide the words and stories to further define these particular personalities for the viewer. The result is a powerful combination of words and images, which evocatively document the human texture of this region's life and legacy. Fox says, "The collaboration is�a balance of independence and cooperation and communication. We share an empathetic approach to field work and an intuitive sympathy to people and place." Accompanying the exhibition at UMBC will be an illustrated catalog, featuring interviews with Fox and Kahn, in which they discuss the relationship between the photographer and historian/folklorist in the development of this documentary project. The exhibition "Patapsco: Portrait of a Valley" has received major funding support from the Elkridge Furnace Inn, its title sponsor, as well as from the Howard County Arts Council; The Framer's Vise; and FCNB Bank. Its presentation at UMBC has been funded in part by the American Studies Department and the Special Sessions Policy Committee. Generous support has also come from the Friends of the Library and Gallery and from an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. "Voices from the Patapsco Valley" (the April 21 event) is also sponsored by the Friends of the Patapsco Valley & Heritage Greenway, Inc. and UMBC's Department of American Studies and was developed with funding from the Maryland Celebrates 2000 Commission. Posted by dwinds1 Q & A with Fine Arts Gallery Staff on "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations," now on view Maurice Berger and Symmes Gardner discuss the Fred Wilson exhibition. Insights recently spoke with Curator Maurice Berger and Director of Programs Symmes Gardner about the Fine Arts Gallery's current exhibition. NOTE: Fred Wilson will present a free lecture on Thursday, November 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall V, Engineering/Computer Science Building. For more information call (410) 455-3188. 1. Can you provide an introduction to Fred Wilson's work? MB: Wilson's work comes out of that aspect of contemporary art that explores and questions the institutions that define and evaluate art. In other words, Wilson's work is self-reflexive to the art world itself, examining the belief systems and biases of the museum and the art gallery. Over the past decade, Wilson has created installations that reconfigure the permanent collections of museums to reveal the inherent prejudices of museum collecting and patronage. Ironically, he does not pick the museums that are his subject; they choose him. After a lengthy period of residency and study in these institutions, Wilson creates "mock" installations, into which he places provocative and beautifully rendered objects. These installations explore the question of how the museum consciously or unconsciously perpetuates racist beliefs and behavior. If social justice is Wilson's ultimate subject, the museum itself becomes his medium, from the use of meticulously fabricated objects to the careful selection of wall colors, lighting, display cases and even wall labels. Sometimes the artist reconfigures and supplements the collection of an actual museum, as in his extraordinary installation, "Mining The Museum," commissioned by the Maryland Historical Society in 1992. Other times he creates gallery installations that imitate the look and sensibility of the museum. In the end, Wilson's aesthetic commentaries reach across a wide conceptual expanse, from Egyptian and classical sculpture to African-American memorabilia, primitive painting, and the uniforms worn by the often black guards charged with the task of keeping American museums safe and secure. For the exhibition, "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979-2000" I have selected more than 100 objects, each configured to re-create sections of Wilson's original installations. Additionally, the gallery will soon install an interactive CD that will allow visitors to make a virtual "visit" to any of Wilson's earlier installations. 2. Maurice, describe one or two of your favorite installations in the show. This question is always difficult, especially when I've organized a retrospective. It's Wilson's overall brilliance that led me to curate this exhibition in the first place. To select one work is a little bit like selecting a favorite child. I must confess, however, that one piece has always had a great effect on me-Cabinet Making: 1820-1960, a work that was originally part of Wilson's 1992 installation, "Mining The Museum." The work is simple, even elegant in design--an arc of four Victorian easy chairs grouped around a nineteenth-century wooden whipping post, like seats in atheater facing a lone actor. The contrast between the chairs and the post could not be more stark: rich, ornamental detail versus unforgiving austerity, the promise of plush comfort versus the threat of pain and suffering, an air of upper-class gentility versus the suggestion of lower-class violation. Taken together, these objects appear to be in conversation with each other, counterpoising signifiers of privilege and oppression that rarely, if ever, share the same page in historical narratives or the same space in museums. Like all of Wilson's objects and installations, Cabinet Making animates history in ways that give it new meaning and relevance. As I write in my curatorial essay for the catalog of the retrospective: "Gazing into [Cabinet Making] provocative rearrangement of artifacts of the past, we are invited to imagine the absent bodies who might have occupied these chairs and post: the disobedient African slaves and petty criminals receiving their "rightful" punishment, the elegantly attired Victorian ladies and gentlemen who, like the museums that collect and exhibit their objects of "high" culture, tend to avoid discussion of such abject souls. Rather than providing definitive answers, Cabinet Making poses difficult, even unanswerable questions: Who were the mostly unknown people, African slaves as well as convicts of all colors, who suffered the indignities of a whipping post that remained in use in Maryland until the late 1930s? To what extent were the wealthy people who owned these chairs implicated in the culture of oppression and retribution represented by the post? These questions, in turn, lead to more self-conscious ones: Why do history museums celebrate the triumphs and ingenuity of white, upper-class people but often ignore the stories of their intolerance? Why are these institutions more likely to display elegant furniture than instruments of torture, even though the latter may reveal deeper truths about the society at large?" When I first encountered the piece in 1992, I was actually moved to tears. The work possesses an immediacy and poignance that is rare in contemporary art. It made me think just as powerfully as it made me cry. That's saying a lot for a work of art in an age as cynical as ours. 3. Given the events of September 11 and the current war on terrorism, does Wilson's work take on an even more important meaning? MB: Wilson's work is both humanistic and profoundly moving. Over and over again, his installations allegorize the sense of absence and loss that permeates the modern museum-the loss of African-American artifacts and history due to the neglect of curators who have most often devalued or ignored the work of people of color, the absence of the black body and mind in exhibitions that proudly proclaim the "spirit" of America but believe that only whiteness matters. Wilson's work reminds us of the power of art to delve deeply into the human psyche and soul and of its potential to challenge cultural norms and even to help us heal. A number of writers have recently remarked that is our nation's artists who will play one of the most important roles in leading us out of the sorrow and anxiety created by the events of September 11. It is socially oriented artists like Fred Wilson-and their uncompromising view of reality and imperative to correct wrongs and engender healing-who will lead the way. I invite the UMBC community to spend time with Wilson's powerful work and to be edified and moved by the experience. 4. Describe the educational component of the show. SG: The Fine Arts Gallery is fortunate to draw upon the experience and energy of one of its graduate assistants in the design and organization of its educational outreach initiative for "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979 - 2000." Imaging and digital arts student Bea Bufrahi, who also worked as an undergraduate intern in the gallery and for the Contemporary Museum, has brought together a rich and diverse offering of educational experiences which focus on museums and their recent collaborations with living artists. Students from Middle River High School, City College, Catonsville High School andMcDonogh School will have the opportunity to dialogue with museum educators from the Walters Art Museum, the Contemporary Museum and the Maryland Historical Society, and explore how museums are rethinking their collections and how the public interprets them. Special attention will be paid to the Fred Wilson's historic 1993 collaboration with the Contemporary Museum and the Maryland Historical Society in creating the exhibition "Mining the Museum" presented at the Maryland Historical Society. Students will also be given access to the current collaboration project between the Walters Art Museum and the Contemporary Museum whichfeatures the artist Dennis Adams, who is re-interpreting the Walters Art Museum's permanent collection through the re-fabrication and re-installation of sculptural artifacts and site specific performance. Multi-site visits to all three institutions will be accompanied by guided tours of the Fred Wilson exhibition at UMBC as well as intensive workshops held at all four schools which allow students to engage in group critiques of their museum and gallery experiences and ultimately create their own artworks which actively address the issues of presentation and interpretation. The Fine Arts Gallery will host a student exhibition of works created from this initiative in the Department of Visual Art's Hallway Gallery during the month of December. The opening reception for this event will take place on Wednesday,December 5 from 1 to 4:30 p.m. 5. Why did the gallery feel it was important to present this retrospective? SG: Since 1993, the Fine Arts Gallery has organized and presented exhibition projects which have focused specifically on the issues of race and gender. Exhibitions such as "Ciphers of Identity" (1993), "Notes in Time" (1995), "Kate Millett, Sculptor: The First 38 Years" (1996), "Minimal Politics" (1997) and "Adrian Piper" (1999) have explored the cultural impulses underlying these issues. "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979 - 2000" continues in this tradition by examining the artwork and installations of this influential artist who challenges the culture of the museum as well as society's identification with it. Maurice Berger is a senior fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of the New School University in New York and curator of the Fine Arts Gallery at UMBC. He is the author of six books, including the critically acclaimed White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1999), which was named as a finalist for the 2000 Horace Mann Bond Book Award of Harvard University and is being adapted as a television documentary for PBS. His essays have appeared in many journals and newspapers, including Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, The Village Voice, October, Wired and The Los Angeles Times. He has taught and lectured at such institutions as Hunter College, Yale University, Maryland Institute College of Art, DIA Center for the Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Independent Study Program (ISP) of the Whitney Museum and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. He has served as curator or catalog essayist for many institutions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Grey Art Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Santa Monica Museum of Art and The Jewish Museum, New York. Symmes Gardner is director of programs for the Fine Arts Gallery. Since the gallery's inception in 1989, he has been responsible for the organization and presentation of over sixty exhibition projects including "Ciphers of Identity," "Notes in Time: Nancy Spero and Leon Golub," "Kate Millett, Sculptor: The First Thirty Eight Years," "Minimal Politics," "Adrian Piper: A Retrospective," and currently "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations, 1979 - 2000." Under his direction the gallery has organized eight traveling exhibition projects which have been presented in 25 museums and contemporary art spaces throughout the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Before coming to UMBC, he worked in the Exhibitions Departments on the National Gallery of Art and Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Posted by dwinds1 December 20, 2000 ad ad asdf Posted by dwinds1 December 19, 2000 UMBC FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS PAINTING ZERO DEGREE UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents Painting Zero Degree, a major exhibition that explores the revolution in painting that occurred some thirty years ago with the work of Robert Ryman, John McCracken, and others, and its reinterpretation by an international group of contemporary artists.The exhibition, organized by Independent Curators International and curated by Carlos Basualdo, is on view January 22 through March 10 and comprises 35 works by 14 international artists from both generations; five artists have created new works specially for the exhibition. The opening reception will be held on February 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. Basualdo, chief curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, will present a public lecture in the Fine Arts Gallery on March 8 at 3 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information please call the Gallery at (410) 455-3188. UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents Painting Zero Degree, a major exhibition that explores the revolution in painting that occurred some thirty years ago with the work of Robert Ryman, John McCracken, and others, and its reinterpretation by an international group of contemporary artists.The exhibition, organized by Independent Curators International and curated by Carlos Basualdo, is on view January 22 through March 10 and comprises 35 works by 14 international artists from both generations; five artists have created new works specially for the exhibition. The opening reception will be held on February 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. Basualdo, chief curator of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University, will present a public lecture in the Fine Arts Gallery on March 8 at 3 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information call the Gallery at (410) 455-3188. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, a number of artists in the United States and Europe began to disregard traditional notions of what constitutes a painting, such as individual expression or illusionistic space, and focused their work instead on one or two of the most basic elements of their craft, such as color or brushstroke. Ironically, this exploration of the essential elements of painting, which may be thought of as a pursuit of painting's "zero degree," yields highly diverse work. The American painter Robert Ryman, for example, has produced a rich and complex body of work by focusing primarily on the brushstroke and on variations in the canvas' support, avoiding considerations of composition and color. Ryman's contemporary, French artist Daniel Buren, takes this reductive strategy in the opposite direction, moving away from the discrete canvas and applying bands of color to walls, flags, and other surfaces outside those of traditional painting. Like the work of Buren, much of the art in Painting Zero Degree extends beyond paint on canvas to include such untraditional materials as furniture, carpet, clothing, and video. Much of it also questions long-held beliefs about art, such as the relationship of art to architecture and design and the belief in an artwork as an entity unto itself, unrelated to its surroundings. Painting Zero Degree includes older as well as recent works by four members of the first generation of artists: Buren, Ryman, John McCracken and Niele Toroni. Two paintings by Ryman, Distributor and Region, illuminate the variety and sheer beauty that his reductivist strategy can render. Buren has contributed one of his rare floor pieces, To Your Feet (Aux pieds), turning a portion of the gallery floor into one of the artist's trademarked "striped" environments. By moving his stripes of color off the traditional canvas and into the wider environment, Buren raises fascinating issues about the institutional context of art, and highlights the ways in which an artwork changes according to the context in which it is presented. Swiss artist Niele Toroni, who is based in France, creates imprints with a two-inch paintbrush and repeats them at regular intervals on a variety of surfaces. In Round Trip (Orange), the imprints are placed on four canvases, resting on easels positioned at ninety-degree angles to each other, forming a square. The strict regularity of the intervals at which the "brushstroke" is repeated precludes any compositional effects, creating, rather, what looks like rectangular sections arbitrarily cut out of wallpaper. Thus, Toroni has removed the painter's brush from its traditional associations with subjective expression.McCracken, who is represented by three works, focuses on color and form and their relationship to each other. He creates three-dimensional pieces in which one color covers the entire form, unifying the two elements into a single object and avoiding composition and visual incident. The result is work that borders on design, yet is not utilitarian. Among the younger generation of artists, several pursue the relationship of color to support. In Colors/II, for example, one of the works contributed by Swiss artist Adrian Schiess, the artist has actually severed color from material. Schiess's video "paintings" are large-scale projections of colors that are programmed to subtly mutate over the course of an hour, making the color of the work impossible to name. Italian artist Rudolf Stingel, who resides in Los Angeles and New York, explores color through the medium of industrial carpet, which he orders in his chosen color and then has installed on the floor and walls of the exhibition space by professional carpet installers. In his untitled piece in the exhibition, orange carpet covers the floor and one entire wall of the room in which it is installed. While the intense color, which saturates its environment, is in the tradition of Color Field painting, Stingel has humorously undermined the "pure" painterly quality of that movement by using factory-made, wall-to-wall carpeting, an icon of popular American culture. German artist Karin Sander's work is also quite humorous. For one of her works in the exhibition, Brushstroke, Red, Sander built up many layers of acrylic paint and let them dry. The result is a rubbery, red "brushstroke"-or an amusing parody of a brushstroke-which is affixed directly to the wall, as if it were putty. The instructions according to which the work, measuring just over 3 x 1 inches, is to be installed do not specify precisely where it is to be put, saying only that it should be placed "rather high," leaving the decision about placement to individual museums or galleries. Sander's beautiful "brushstrokes" are made as multiples, further undermining the idea of the brushstroke as a vehicle of individual expression, as well as of the artwork as a unique object, separable from the context in which it was made and in which it is viewed. Argentine artist Pablo Siquier, who has three untitled paintings in the exhibition, works in the traditional medium of acrylic on canvas. Siquier's patterns of digitally-designed black lines on white canvas resemble maps or architectural diagrams. They do not, however, refer to anything outside themselves; while appearing to be "useful," they are strictly non-utilitarian. Another Argentine artist, Gladys Nistor, who resides in France, also creates work that refers to design but in fact has no "real-life" application. Nistor applies shapes cut out of black felt directly to the wall, using architectural features such as doors as the measurement for the outer edge of each piece. The reference to architectural elements, combined with the shapes of the individual pieces of felt, creates an illusion of depth, not only eliciting the expectation that the work is a plan for something "real," but also raising the issue of the traditional role of painting as a window into reality. Works such as Nistor's untitled pieces in the exhibition are installed by staff at each site, based on drawings contributed by the artist. The other artists included in the exhibition are Fabio Kacero (Argentina), Clay Ketter (U.S./Sweden), Peter Kogler (Austria), Felipe Mujica (Chile), and Sophie Smallhorn (Great Britain). Painting Zero Degree has been on view at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; the Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Massachusetts; Fred Jones, Jr., Museum of Art, Norman, Oklahoma and will be on view at the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art this spring; additional venues will be announced.The exhibition was made possible, in part, by a generous grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., with additional support from the Austrian Cultural Institute, in New York, and the ICIoIndependents. It is accompanied by an illustrated catalog. Carlos Basualdo is a critic, curator, poet, and art historian. He has curated a number of international exhibitions at museums including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami, the Museum of Modern Art in S�o Paulo, and the Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reine Sof�a, in Madrid. He is the international project coordinator for Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York. For twenty-five years, the non-profit Independent Curators International (ICI) has sought to enhance the understanding and appreciation of contemporary art. ICI makes this art accessible to the broadest possible public, providing diverse audiences around the globe-many of them not regularly exposed to contemporary art-with innovative, challenging exhibitions. Collaborating with a wide range of distinguished curators to offer exhibitions and catalogs that introduce and document works in all mediums, by both emerging and established artists from around the world, ICI is a leader in its field. The catalogs it produces enhance the impact of the exhibitions by putting the art on view in historical, socio-political, or cultural contexts. Since its founding, ICI exhibitions have been seen by over 5 million people. Posted by dwinds1 November 16, 2000 UMBC NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE CELEBRATES ITS 25TH ANNIVERSARY The UMBC New Music Ensemble will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a free concert on December 6 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The program will feature three works by Herbert Br�n, best known as the father of electronic/computer music, who died on November 6, 2000. One of the concert's world premieres will be Moody Moments, which Brun wrote for Sylvia Smith, artistic director of the Ensemble. Also on the program are Per Contra: Serenata: bassa and Five Pieces for Piano by Herbert Br�n; The Xylophone Poems and Light a Dew (world premiere) by Stuart Saunders Smith; For 1, 2 or 3 People by Christian Wolff; The Children's Hour and At the River by Charles Ives; Progression by Ben Johnston; Toccata for Piano by Robert Erickson; Not Far Apart (world premiere) by UMBC student Zachary Fischer; and Pacific Sirens by UMBC student Robert Erickson. The UMBC New Music Ensemble will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a free concert on December 6 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. For more information, call (410) 455-MUSC. The program will feature three works by Herbert Br�n, best known as the father of electronic/computer music, who died on November 6, 2000. One of the concert's world premieres will be Moody Moments, which Brun wrote for Sylvia Smith, artistic director of the Ensemble. Also on the program are Per Contra: Serenata: bassa and Five Pieces for Piano by Herbert Br�n; The Xylophone Poems and Light a Dew (world premiere) by Stuart Saunders Smith; For 1, 2 or 3 People by Christian Wolff; The Children's Hour and At the River by Charles Ives; Progression by Ben Johnston; Toccata for Piano by Robert Erickson; Not Far Apart (world premiere) by UMBC student Zachary Fischer; and Pacific Sirens by UMBC student Robert Erickson. The New Music Ensemble not only provides undergraduate students with an unparalleled experience in performing new music, but does so under the direction of Stuart Saunders Smith, an internationally known composer. At least 250 musicians have benefited from this opportunity since 1975, when Stuart Smith first created a new music group comprised of students and faculty. The next year, the ensemble evolved into a for-credit course for students and has been offered at UMBC ever since. The current lineup includes eight students. Stuart Smith credits the uniqueness of the Ensemble's program with its staying power. "We have focused on literature that is rarely done on an undergraduate level - the horizons of music, from 'older' music of Charles Ives, to recent John Cage. Other schools focus on history, which is useful, but not complete. When our students go on to graduate school and take a seminar in 20th-century music, they not only know of the compositions being discussed, but can often perform them as well," says Smith, who adds that performing a piece is often the key to truly understanding it. "Most people don't realize how rare it is for undergraduates to play new music," says Sylvia Smith. She adds that students are attracted to the Ensemble because she and Stuart try to mix a variety of styles and experiences. There's always a piece performed by the entire group, but students also get the chance to perform as a soloist and as part of a duo or trio. They learn to read graphic or other new methods of notation, and gain exposure to incorporating electronics, or playing against a tape. "This is the only place students can get this variety of performing experience," she explains. Music department chair Linda Dusman says the Ensemble is making an important contribution to new music history. "UMBC has a great heritage in its history of the promotion of contemporary compositions. Stuart Smith's founding of the New Music Ensemble provides UMBC with a legacy of support for contemporary work of which it can be very proud." Posted by dwinds1 UMBC DANCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS FALL DANCE SHOWCASE The UMBC Dance Department presents the Fall 2000 Dance Showcase from December 7 through 9 at 8 p.m. in Fine Arts Studio 317. The program, choreographed and performed by UMBC dance students, also includes work by visiting artist David Appel and dance instructor Sandra Lacy. Friday's program will include performances by the African Dance class. Tickets are $8 general and $5 students/seniors; all proceeds benefit the UMBC Dance Department Scholarship Fund. For more information, call (410) 455-6240. The UMBC Dance Department presents the Fall 2000 Dance Showcase from December 7 through 9 at 8 p.m. in Fine Arts Studio 317. Tickets are $8 general and $5 students/seniors; all proceeds benefit the UMBC Dance Department Scholarship Fund. For more information, call (410) 455-6240. The program, choreographed and performed by UMBC dance students, also includes work by visiting artist David Appel and dance instructor Sandra Lacy. Friday's program will include performances by the African Dance class. The consistently standing-room-only events are an integral part of students' dance training, a perfect example of the importance the University places on real-world experience. Dance professor Douglas Hamby, who has organized the showcases for over four years, explains, "To be successful, our students have to find their niche as a dancer and choreographer, and this concert gives them the chance to develop those abilities and learn about themselves and each other. They have to learn to be ready for anything." Posted by dwinds1 November 11, 2000 this something everythihng Posted by dwinds1 October 13, 2000 UMBC FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS STILL (AND ALL): EILEEN COWIN, WORK 1971-1998 UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents "Still (and all): Eileen Cowin, Work 1971-1998," from November 16 through December 31. The gallery is the first East Coast venue for this retrospective of 60 photographic works and two video installations by Eileen Cowin, curated by Sue Spaid, curator of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cinncinatti, Ohio. Cowin and Spaid will present a gallery talk at the Fine Arts Gallery at 3 p.m.on November 16; an opening reception will follow from 5 to7 p.m. UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents "Still (and all): Eileen Cowin, Work 1971-1998," from November 16 through December 31. The gallery is the first East Coast venue for this retrospective of 60 photographic works and two video installations by Eileen Cowin, curated by Sue Spaid, curator of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cinncinatti, Ohio. Cowin and Spaid will present a gallery talk at the Fine Arts Gallery at 3 p.m.on November 16; an opening reception will follow from 5 to7 p.m. Eileen Cowin's art continues the wide-ranging traditions of narrative photography that stretch from 19th- century moralizing montages to the reportage photo-essays and fictional photographs of the 1960s. Her work is different from her predecessors by a distinctive contemporary psychological and cinematic sensibility. In Cowin's photographs and video installations she recognizes the viewer's tendancy to turn associated images into narratives. The works that she creates, however, are poetic rather than representational. In the accompanying exhibition catalog, curator Sue Spaid notes, " 'Still (and all)' denotes a literal translation of some static and self-evident component (expressible) engulfed by a dynamic and inscrutible everything else (inexpressible). Paradoxically, still and all means 'nonetheless' or 'even with everything considered,' which actually contributes more skepticism regarding photography's veracity�. From the onset, Cowin has explored emotions, yet her images still espouse the difficulty of clearly articulating either an emotion's cause or its interpretation. If a still offers evidence, then the 'still' segment of Cowin's exhibition title connotes Roland Barthes' notion of the classic text, which has 'nothing more to say than what it says.' Thus, one can attribute the 'and all"'portion of her title to everything the photograph shows but does not specifically express." Cowin has often remarked, "I have been involved in the study of relationships." An identical twin, she entered into an unusual long-term relationship at birth. Many other kinds of relationships occur in her work, including word/image, family/lovers, cause/effect, duration/activity, surveillance/voyeurism, stimulus/response, victim/persecutor, observer/observed, reality/fiction, subject/object and director/cast member. In his catalog essay, Mark Alice Durant explains that "Cowin offers us an experiential art that is esoteric and accessible, simple and monumental. Cowin blurs the boundary between the still and moving image. She shows us the strange grace of gestures that float free of an anchoring liturgy; she describes unnamed rituals that occupy dark corners, and suddenly and temporarily she freezes them within the elegant frame of her camara. Cowin's images capture encounters in the shadows; her characters populate the edges of darkness, a limbo between the chaos of hell and the heaven of eternal illumination. Caught at this threshold we discover the ambiguity that is fundamental to our human experience." "Still (and all)" was previously presented at the Armory Center for the Arts and the Southeast Museum of Photography and will also travel to the Contemporary Arts Center. The exhibition and publication are made possible by the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Pasadena Arts Alliance and Peggy Phelps. The publication is distributed by Ram Publications and Distribution, Santa Monica, California. The Fine Arts Gallery is a non-profit space dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art, and serves as a unique center for the university community and the general public in the visualization and discussion of important philosophical and aesthetic issues of the day. The gallery is partnering with 21 organizations in Baltimore City and beyond to produce the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership (Phase I tree plantings on October 28 and November 11), a far-reaching visionary program inspired by artist Joseph Beuys' 7000 Oaks project, where 7000 trees were planted in Kassel, Germany from 1982 to 1987. The next exhibition is "Painting Zero Degree," (January 22-March 10, 2001) featuring abstract minimalist work by such artists as Daniel Buren, John McCracken and Robert Ryman. Posted by dwinds1 September 19, 2000 UMBC'S FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS JOSEPH BEUYS TREE PARTNERSHIP UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery is partnering with 21 organizations to produce the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership, a far-reaching visionary program inspired by artist Joseph Beuys' 7000 Oaks project, where 7000 trees were planted in Kassel, Germany from 1982 to 1987. On Saturday, October 28 and Saturday, November 11, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 100 trees will be planted and a stone will be placed at Carroll Park and Patterson Park, respectively. A dedication ceremony/celebration will follow each planting. Other tree plantings at Wyman Park Dell (12 trees and one or more stones) in Baltimore City and at UMBC (30 trees and stones) will take place in spring 2001, along with a panel discussion and all-day conference on "Social Sculpture, Beuys and Greening Initiatives in Baltimore." All of the plantings are open to the public; call (410) 455-3188 for information on participation. UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery is partnering with 21 organizations to produce the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership, a far-reaching visionary program inspired by artist Joseph Beuys' 7000 Oaks project, where 7000 trees were planted in Kassel, Germany from 1982 to 1987. On Saturday, October 28 and Saturday, November 11, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., 100 trees will be planted and a stone will be placed at Carroll Park and Patterson Park, respectively. A dedication ceremony/celebration will follow each planting. Other tree plantings at Wyman Park Dell (12 trees and one or more stones) in Baltimore City and at UMBC (30 trees and stones) will take place in spring 2001, along with a panel discussion and all-day conference on "Social Sculpture, Beuys and Greening Initiatives in Baltimore." All of the plantings are open to the public; call (410) 455-3188 for information on participation. In anticipation of the fall plantings, the gallery and its partners are working together to engage the communities that border Carroll and Patterson Parks to participate in the plantings. UMBC students will also work with community schools on special educational programming to help students discover the importance of art and the environment. Artist/curator Todd Bockley at the Center for Social Sculpture (Minneapolis, MN) will act as consultant to the project and will participate in the educational programming and plantings. The center honors Beuys, who gave voice to the idea that thought has shape: just as individual thought has an individual shape, our collective thought has a collective shape. UMBC's partners are the Arundel Corporation, Baltimore Museum of Art, Banner Neighborhoods Youth Employment Project, Butchers Hill Community Association, Carroll Park Foundation, Center for Social Sculpture (Minneapolis), Charles Village Civic Association, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, City of Baltimore Department of Parks and Recreation, Constellation Energy Group, Enterprise Foundation, Fells Point Creative Alliance, Friends of Maryland Olmstead Park Association, Friends of Patterson Park, Friends of Wyman Park Dell, Goethe Insitute (Washington, DC), Hands on Baltimore, Maryland Fund for the Environment of the Baltimore Community Foundation, Millenium Green, Parks and People Foundation, 21st Century Threshold Project and the Washington Village Pigtown Planning Council.As with any project of this kind, long-term health of the trees is an important concern. Phase I also includes a professional two-year maintenance plan to ensure their survival. After the completion of Phase I in the spring of 2001, Phase II envisions the recruitment of Baltimore organizations for partnership in this ongoing project. If funding is secured for future phases, 1,000-7,000 trees will be planted, mirroring the artistic gesture as it exists in Kassel. Originally conceived as part of the well-known international art exhibition, Documenta 7, Beuys' work on the project led him to coin the term, social sculpture, which describes the process of communication and collaboration between artists and citizens to create environmental artworks beneficial to the community. Beuys felt that these community-based art structures or projects might change the way people relate to the world in which they live and work. The project provided Beuys the opportunity to express his social concerns to improve the ecosystem, to develop positive economic and political voices in urban settings and to improve human life in general. To fully realize the potential of 7000 Oaks, Beuys invited people around the world to plant trees in their own living environments and hoped especially that U.S. cities would follow his lead to begin to restore landscapes he felt were destroyed by deforestation. Since the completion of 7000 Oaks, several other social sculpture tree projects have been generated at the Walker Art Center, Dia Center for the Arts, Joslyn Museum, Tweed Museum, Benedicta Arts Center, and individual projects in Oslo and Sydney. Beuys was born in Klave, Germany. From 1941-45, he served as a pilot and radio operator in World War II. He had often told how his plane crash in the snow and subsequent rescue by a peasant who wrapped him in fat and felt to save his life awakened his keen sense of the fragility of life. After the war, he studied at the State Academy of Art in Dusseldorf as a sculptor. In 1953, he had his first one-person exhibition in Kranenburg. He taught at the Dusseldorf Art Academy from 1961 until 1972 when he was dismissed due to political controversy. The dismissal was later deemed unlawful. From the early 1970s onward, he exhibited widely throughout Europe and the U.S., and represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 1976. He died in 1986 in Dusseldorf, where he had lived for most of his life. Funding for Phase I of the Joseph Beuys Tree Partnership comes from the TKF Foundation in Annapolis, MD (www.tkffdn.org). The foundation's mission is to create urban greenspace, sponsor public art and champion urban agriculture with the goals of nurturing the human spirit and fostering a sense of community. Additional UMBC support comes from the Offices of the President, Provost, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Institutional Advancement, as well as the Department of Visual Arts, Physical Plant, Environment and Stewardship Committee and the Shriver Center. UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery is a non-profit space dedicated to the exhibition of contemporary art. The gallery serves as a unique center for the university community and the general public in the visualization and discussion of important philosophical and aesthetic issues of the day. Posted by dwinds1 September 5, 2000 UMBC'S ALBIN O. KUHN LIBRARY GALLERY PRESENTS POWER AND PAPER: MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE, MODERNITY AND THE DOCUMENTARY MODE UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Power and Paper: Margaret-Bourke White, Modernity and the Documentary Mode," from Monday, September 11 through Saturday, December 9. The exhibition of 82 photographs by the groundbreaking photojournalist, war correspondent, industrial and architectural photographer was organized by the Boston University Art Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday 12 noon to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call 410.455.2270. UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents "Power and Paper: Margaret-Bourke White, Modernity and the Documentary Mode," from Monday, September 11 through Saturday, December 9. The exhibition of 82 photographs by the groundbreaking photojournalist, war correspondent, industrial and architectural photographer was organized by the Boston University Art Gallery. Curator John R. Stromberg will present a lecture on Thursday, September 28 at 4 p.m. in the Gallery. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 12 noon to 4:30 p.m.; Thursday 12 noon to 8 p.m.; and Saturday, 1 to 5 p.m. For more information call 410.455.2270. Bourke-White's photograph of Fort Peck Dam appeared on the cover of Life's first issue; she was one of the first Fortune and Life photographers. "Power and Paper" focuses on a project which Bourke-White started as an assignment for Fortune, and then later for Life, covering International Paper's operation in Canada. The project turned into the most complete summation of Bourke-White's photographic powers in the 1930s when she received a commission from the International Paper Company to provide the photographs for Newsprint: A Book of Pictures Illustrating the Operations in the Manufacture of Paper on Which to Print the World's News. Cynthia Wayne, curator of exhibitions for the Kuhn Library Gallery, says, "We are very fortunate to be able to host this fascinating exhibition of Margaret Bourke-White's photographs, especially as such a large display of her work is rarely seen in this region. The vintage photographs included in the show attest to Bourke-White's skillful ability to capture with her camera the aesthetic beauty and elegance of industrial objects, and also allow the viewer a rich opportunity to become better familiar with the signature photographic style which made Bourke-White famous." Tom Beck, chief curator for the gallery, adds, "Margaret Bourke-White is one of the most respected and courageous photographers in the history of the medium, and was a pioneer among women photographers. She was an internationally renowned photojournalist who tirelessly and fearlessly took her camera where others dared not venture. She has served as a role model especially for the generations of women who have followed in her footsteps." The exhibition title has a dual meaning. On one level, it refers directly to the subject of the photographs themselves; they are pictures of paper manufacture and power production at the International Paper and Power Company. But in a less direct way all photography is paper with power; it is the result of adding the perennially mysterious power of an image to a sheet of paper. The subtitle refers to Bourke-White's self-described transformation in the 1930s. She began the decade primarily interested in the amalgam of business, technology and modernist aesthetics that fall under the rubric of modernity. She joined in the growing chorus of machine-age enthusiasts who believed profoundly in technology's promise for a better future. Bourke-White's photography developed through a Darwinian process of elimination whereby only the strong, effective photographs survived the criteria of her various editors to make it to publication. She seldom created work for the calm of a gallery wall, but rather designed her images to withstand the visual cacophony of a magazine. She arranged her subjects in the most compelling compositions possible, always striving for dramatic impact. The photographs in this exhibition demonstrate her continued use of dynamic, persuasive images even as her interest shifted from subjects mechanical in nature to those of human nature, and they illustrate the breadth of photographic practice she could bring to a single, if monumental, commission. In May 1930 - the very month Bourke-White's first set of International Paper and Power photographs ran in Fortune - a Detroit newspaper featured her credo as part of an article they published about her: "I believe�that any great art which might be developed in this industrial age will come from industrial subjects, which are so powerful and sincere and close to the heart of life. It seems to me that huge machinery, steel girders, locomotives, etc., are so extremely beautiful because they were never meant to be beautiful�.They are powerful because the industrial age which has created them is powerful and art, to be of any importance as a reflection of these times, must hold the germ of that power." International Paper and Power Company, one of the largest paper producers in the world, commissioned Bourke-White to photograph their newsprint manufacturing operations in Canada in 1937. The company made a variety of papers in the United States but processed most of their newsprint (paper for printing newspapers) in Canada, where most of the world's newsprint was produced. Probably in preparation for their fortieth anniversary the following year, the parent company planned a 72-page, hard-bound promotional book to be published under the title Newsprint: A Book of Pictures Illustrating the Operations in the Manufacture of Paper on Which to Print the World's News. The book reaffirmed International Paper and Power's commitment to their newsprint operations at a time when their Canadian output levels reached an all-time high. Bourke-White had experience working on corporate publications, but nothing on the scale of this new book. Even her own books, hailed for their profuse reproductions, did not match Newsprint in terms of how many of her pictures were included. She heartily accepted International Paper's offer to work on a book that would rely heavily on approximately 80 of her photographs to cover the story. Bourke-White made hundreds of prints from which the company could make selections for their book, and she used every mode of imagemaking then in her repertoire, including industrial, documentary, advertising, portraiture and aerial photography. The work she completed for this commission acts as an encyclopedia of her photographic endeavors. She also showed every state of newsprint production and the people involved in that production. As she worked, she seems to have gone beyond the commission's mandate. The scope of her interest expanded to capture the totality of the newsprint industry - not just the direct manufacture as was typical for a corporate commission, but the greater social ramifications of the mills' presence in people's lives. The Kuhn Library's Special Collections houses more than 1.5 million photographs, as well as extensive holdings of books, apparatus and ephemera covering the entire history of photography from 1839 to the present. "UMBC is proud to hold seven rare publications of Bourke-White's work, and an important gravure portfolio of her images," says Beck. This presentation of "Power and Paper" at UMBC has been generously supported by the Friends of the Library and Gallery, and by a program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. Posted by dwinds1 May 12, 2000 UMBC HOSTS THE 10TH ANNUAL VIRGINIA WOOLF CONFERENCE: UMBC is proud to host the 10th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, a four day excursion into the influence of Woolf's work on contemporary art and in the humanities, featuring scholarly panels, performances, readings, and art exhibitions. Baltimore, MD -- UMBC is proud to host the 10th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, a four day excursion into the influence of Woolf's work on contemporary art and in the humanities, featuring scholarly panels, performances, readings, and art exhibitions. Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds, organized by Dr. Jessica Berman, assistant professor of English, is a component of the larger conference and a cultural examination of the work and influence of one of the most famous literary figures of the last century. Featured guests include writer Michael Cunningham, winner of both the PEN/Faulkner Award and Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Hours which uses Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway to address contemporary social issues. Also featured will be an exhibition of paintings by Australian artist Suzanne Bellamy from her series "Shapes of the Brain: A Geography of the Senses," a staged reading of Woolf's The Waves, and a performance of original music by composer Joyce Zymeck. These cultural events are free and open to the public. Many panels throughout the conference will include scholars such as the feminist writer Susan Gubar and the award-winning author Susan Stanford Friedman. Other featured speakers include: Jeanette McVicker, Janet Winston and Sonita Sarker on "Woolf and the City;" and Vara Nevrow and Jane Lilienfeld on "Woolf and the Unlikely Other." Satyajit Ray's film Charulata will be the subject of a panel on Bloomsbury and post-colonialism, and will be screened to registered participants. Virginia Woolf Out of Bounds was made possible in part with funds from the Maryland Humanities Council, through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. While select cultural events are open and free to the public, the main conference requires a fee and registration. For more information or to register for this event, please visit www.umbc.edu/woolf or call (410) 455-2336. Posted by dwinds1 May 11, 2000 NOBEL LAUREATE CECH TO DELIVER UMBC COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will deliver the keynote address at UMBC thirty-third commencement exercises. More than 1,000 bachelor's degrees will be awarded at the Baltimore Arena at 1 p.m. on May 25, 2000. Baltimore, Md. - Nobel laureate Thomas R. Cech, president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will deliver the keynote address at UMBC's thirty-third commencement exercises. More than 1,000 bachelor's degrees will be awarded at the Baltimore Arena at 1 p.m. on May 25, 2000. More than 200 master's and 35 Ph.D. degrees will be awarded at the graduate commencement ceremony, to be held at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 24 in UMBC's Retriever Activities Center. Cech received the 1989 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his ground-breaking research on RNA (ribonucleic acid) and currently serves as distinguished professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he has mentored several UMBC Meyerhoff scholars. Established in 1953, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute supports biomedical research through collaborative research agreements with more than 300 faculty investigators based at university campuses across the nation. UMBC is the only public university in Maryland to host a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Dr. Michael Summers, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, conducts top-level research on the protein structure of the HIV virus. Dr. Robert W. Deutsch, chairman and CEO of Columbia, Md. based RWD Technologies, will be awarded an honorary doctor of science degree. Remarks will also be made by Class of 2000 valedictorian Steven P. Rowe, a biochemistry and molecular biology major from Rockville, Md. Rowe will attend the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in the fall to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. degree with an emphasis in medicinal chemistry. Click here for a commencement story tipsheet. ### Posted by dwinds1 SPRING 2000 COMMENCEMENT STORY TIPS Former Bosnian Refugee on His Way to MIT With a Full Scholarship; High-Paying Local Jobs Plentiful for Talented UMBC Seniors; 30 Taiwanese Air Force Officers Graduating from UMBC. Former Bosnian Refugee on His Way to MIT With a Full Scholarship In the spring of 1994, Ivan Skopovi's family left Bosnia as refugees on their way to America. Skopovi, unfamiliar with the English language and the American educational system, enrolled at Annapolis (Md.) Senior High School and began to prepare for college. He took intensive English as a Second Language (ESOL) classes and studied with a passion. Skopovi, who had honed his interest in engineering while in Bosnia, was admitted to UMBC to begin his baccalaureate work and continue intensive courses in English. In his sophomore year, he earned UMBC's prestigious Danaher scholarship, the highest award given to a student in mechanical engineering, and now he is headed to the top-rated engineering program in the nation at MIT with a full scholarship. High-Paying Local Jobs Plentiful for Talented UMBC Seniors Gone are the times when college seniors would lie awake at night worrying about where, or if, they will work after graduation. Thanks to a booming economy and the lowest unemployment rate ever in Maryland (3% in March), UMBC seniors are turning down job offers -- some for better jobs and some for graduate school. Computer engineering major Michael Madison was offered nearly $250,000 by a top consulting firm but turned it down for a full fellowship at Stanford University to study computer engineering. "My guess is that I'll get a top-notch education in the engineering arena and meet the some of best business students in the world -- the possibilities for collaboration are endless," says Madison. "If I didn't believe that, I'd be a consultant right now." UMBC produces more information technology bachelor's degrees than any other research university in the nation, aside from Johns Hopkins. 30 Taiwanese Air Force Officers Graduating from UMBC Thirty high-ranking Taiwanese Air Force officers will set foot on the UMBC campus for the first time on May 24 -- to receive their diplomas. The group, ranking from major to general, has been taking courses in Taiwan for the past year and a half in pursuit of their Masters of Science in Engineering Management. Courses in the program, a joint effort between UMBC and the University of Baltimore, lasted seven weeks and were held at either the Taiwanese Air Force Academy at Kang Shun, or a training center in Taipei. The courses and tests were all in English, and were identical to similar programs offered in the U.S. "These students performed their military duties full-time during the day and attended class for three hours at night," says program director and UMBC visiting professor of computer science Issa Khozeime, P.E. "We are proud to have brought this program to UMBC and the State of Maryland," continues Khozeime, "these are the future leaders of Taiwan." Posted by dwinds1 April 3, 2000 UMBC PRESENTS THE FIFTH ANNUAL MINDFEST UMBC presents MINDFEST on Saturday April 15, the fifth annual open house for the Baltimore and Washington community. MINDFEST promises fun and adventure for the entire family with dozens of events from storytelling to musical performances, special presentations, tours and more. Visitors are invited to join students, faculty, and members of the community in a celebration of the power of ideas and information. Baltimore, MD - UMBC presents MINDFEST on Saturday April 15, the fifth annual open house for the Baltimore and Washington community. MINDFEST promises fun and adventure for the entire family with dozens of events from storytelling to musical performances, special presentations, tours and more. Visitors are invited to join students, faculty, and members of the community in a celebration of the power of ideas and information. Highlights include Chessfest, with a match between the UMBC Chess Team and the University of Texas at Dallas; Diplomat for a Day where participants can act in simulations of diplomatic debate with the UMBC Model United Nations team; a chance to observe a rare peregrine falcon up close; the Kuhn Gallery Curator's Tour which will take visitors through the experimental exhibition "Framing the Exhibition: Multiple Constructions;" activities for children, like face-painting and hands-on science; and readings of poetry and short fiction by local authors such as Rafael Alvarez of the Baltimore Sun. Visitors can learn about ecology, poetry, social behavior, observations of earth from space, popular culture, the Web, performance, animation, eco-systems and more! Plus visitors will have a chance to explore the leading cutting-edge research labs across campus on personal tours of facilities open to the public. Presentations will be peppered throughout the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, UMBC's center of discovery. Guest speakers and professors will address a myriad of issues like the possibilities of computer and human interactivity; advanced techniques for the conservation of species; how to build a web site; and why the French Revolution still matters today. MINDFEST is a free event open to the public. Free public parking is available and the event is wheelchair accessible. For more information, or to request a brochure detailing the events please contact 410/455-2065 or visit www.umbc.edu/mindfest. # # # Posted by dwinds1 March 31, 2000 UMBC'S DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE PRESENTS FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA'S YERMA UMBC's Department of Theatre is proud to present Yerma, April 26 through May 7, 2000 in the UMBC Theatre. Written by Federico Garc�a Lorca, Spain's foremost twentieth century dramatist and poet, Yerma explores the theme of childlessness in a marriage and the tragedy that can emerge when societal expectations are fixed and inflexible. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY. Baltimore, MD - UMBC's Department of Theatre is proud to present Yerma, April 26 through May 7, 2000 in the UMBC Theatre. Written by Federico Garc�a Lorca, Spain's foremost twentieth century dramatist and poet, Yerma explores the theme of childlessness in a marriage and the tragedy that can emerge when societal expectations are fixed and inflexible. Yerma, which premiered in Madrid in 1935, centers around the marriage of the title character and her husband Juan, who struggle with their relationship in the context of a repressive society. Though this work is rarely performed in the United States, it is generally considered to be Lorca's most beautiful work, "perhaps the most beautiful in all Spanish drama" according to critic Denis A. Klein. The all-student production is structured like a collage of dreams linked with erotic love songs. Directed by Sam McCready, the work evokes surrealistic landscapes and haunting relationships between characters and their ideals. The form gives an opportunity for highly imaginative scenic designs by Elena Zlotescu and lighting by Terry Cobb. Richard McCready has written original music for the songs, which are sung in Spanish. 8 p.m. performances are scheduled for April 26, 28, 29, May 3-6, with 4 p.m. performances on April 27, 30, and May 7. Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for faculty/staff and $5 for seniors and students with ids. All proceeds from this production go to benefit the UMBC Theatre Scholarship Fund. For more information, or to make reservations, please call the Theatre box office at (410) 455-2476. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY. # # # Posted by dwinds1 March 30, 2000 TOP WOMEN EXECUTIVES ADDRESS IT BUSINESS AND SUCCESS AT UMBC In a rare opportunity to hear some of the top women executives in the country address issues surrounding IT business and success, UMBC's Center for Women & Information Technology is hosting "High Power, High Tech: Women IT Execs Talk Business" on Thursday, April 13 at 4 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. Members of the panel have either founded or managed IT businesses in areas ranging from investment to technology training. Baltimore, MD -- In a rare opportunity to hear some of the top women executives in the country address issues surrounding IT business and success, UMBC's Center for Women & Information Technology is hosting "High Power, High Tech: Women IT Execs Talk Business" on Thursday, April 13 at 4 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. This event is free and open to the public. Members of the panel have either founded or managed IT businesses in areas ranging from investment to technology training. CWIT has invited these women executives to share their experiences as high power women in IT businesses and discuss such questions as: How have their careers been shaped by their gender? What advice do they have for women considering careers in IT? How do they view the future of IT business and the impact women might have? Participants include Jane Brown, Executive Director and Vice President of the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, who will act as moderator; Jeanne Allert, CEO of e.ssociation; Michelle Benvenga, Vice President of T. Rowe Price Investment Technologies; Patricia Bransford, founder, National Urban Technology Center and former senior marketing executive at IBM; and Pamela Piper, President and CEO of Modern Technology Systems, Inc. The Center for Women & Information Technology hosts an annual Speakers Series that addresses issues concerned with women and IT. For more information about this and other CWIT initiatives, please contact the Center at (410) 455-2822. # # # Posted by dwinds1 March 22, 2000 THE ALBIN O. KUHN LIBRARY GALLERY PRESENTS FRAMING THE EXHIBITION: MULTIPLE CONSTRUCTIONS Bringing post-modern cultural presentation theory into practice, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Framing the Exhibition: Multiple Constructions, an ambitious experimental exhibition that will underscore the otherwise silent machinations of museum practice. Coordinated by the Kuhn Gallery's Curator of Exhibitions Cynthia Wayne and UMBC Associate Professor of American studies Dr. Leslie Prosterman, this exhibition will underscore usually transparent exhibition assumptions and strategies. Baltimore, MD -- Bringing post-modern cultural presentation theory into practice, the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery presents Framing the Exhibition: Multiple Constructions, an ambitious experimental exhibition that will underscore the otherwise silent machinations of museum practice. Coordinated by the Kuhn Gallery's Curator of Exhibitions Cynthia Wayne, UMBC Associate Professor of American studies Dr. Leslie Prosterman, with consultation of Chief Curator Tom Beck, this exhibition will underscore usually transparent exhibition assumptions and strategies. Framing the Exhibition will incorporate approximately 37 prints from 1928 through 1997 drawn from the Library's Special Collections. Photographers whose works will be shown include Berenice Abbott, Marilyn Bridges, Cary Beth Cryor, Imogen Cunningham, Walker Evans, Lotte Jacobi, Mary Ellen Mark, David Plowden, and James Van Der Zee, among others. While the arrangement of the images will in itself convey three different narrative themes, the real interest of the exhibition will be the innovative use of each photograph to examine the nature and assumptions of classical museum exhibition styles. Since interpretation shifts with context, each incorporated image will be available for interpretation in an art historical style, a historical and cultural style, and a photojournalistic or media-related style. All of the images will be positioned under the following headings: Modernism and Documentation in 20th Century Photography; Work & Leisure of the Last Century; and Faces and Places of the 20th Century. The exhibition is an experiment in critical inquiry into museum presentations and their relationship to the construction of social, cultural, political and financial value. After a preview tour at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 5, an accompanying Symposium will be held in the Library Gallery from 4 - 6 p.m. and will feature co-curator Leslie Prosterman, Associate Professor, UMBC's department of American studies; Allan Wallach, Professor of American studies, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia; Steven C. Newsome, Director of the Anacostia Museum and the Smithsonian's Center for African American History & Culture, Washington, D.C.; and Preminda Jacob, Assistant Professor of art history and theory, UMBC's department of visual arts. A reception will follow the symposium. An illustrated catalogue will be available for sale to the public during the run of the exhibition. Framing the Exhibition is supported in part by the Chesapeake Chapter of the American Studies Association, the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts & Sciences, the Friends of the Library & Gallery, and by an operations program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. At UMBC support has been provided by the Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean of Arts & Sciences, Office of Institutional Advancement, the Humanities Center, the Special Sessions Policy Committee and the Departments of Ancient Studies, American Studies, History, and Visual Arts. The Kuhn Library Gallery is located on the first floor of the Kuhn Library located on UMBC's campus and is open Monday - Friday, Noon - 4:30 p.m., Thursday until 8 p.m., Saturday 1 - 5 p.m. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, please call (410) 455-2270 or visit www.umbc.edu/arts. # # # Posted by dwinds1 March 15, 2000 MULTI-ETHNIC JOB FAIR BRINGS LOCAL EMPLOYERS TO UMBC Area businesses and organizations interested in diversifying their workforces will participate in this year's Multi-Ethnic Job Fair, sponsored by the UMBC Career Development and Placement Center. Open to all undergraduate and graduate students as well as members of the community, the Job Fair will be held in the University Center Ballroom on Wednesday, April 5, from noon until 3:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Baltimore, MD -- Area businesses and organizations interested in diversifying their workforces will participate in this year's Multi-Ethnic Job Fair, sponsored by the UMBC Career Development and Placement Center. Open to all undergraduate and graduate students as well as members of the community, the Job Fair will be held in the University Center Ballroom and is free and open to the public. Featured employers will represent a wide spectrum of organizations, government agencies and companies. Representatives from the U.S. Border Patrol, the U.S. Department of Immigration and Naturalization, the Johns Hopkins University, the Coca Cola Company, the Vanguard Group and other organizations will be present. Attendees should dress professionally and bring resumes. A full list of participating employers will be available from the Career Development and Placement Center after March 28. Space is still available for employers who would like to participate. For more information, please call (410) 455-2216. # # # Posted by dwinds1 February 18, 2000 UMBC'S DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE PRESENTS ONE FLEA SPARE BY NAOMI WALLACE UMBC's Department of Theatre presents One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace, directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Alan Kreizenbeck. Set in 1665 London at the height of the Great Plague, this play relates four quarantined people's struggle for physical and emotional survival. The 4 p.m. performance on Tuesday, March 14 is free for UMBC faculty, staff and students. Baltimore, MD - UMBC's Department of Theatre presents One Flea Spare by Naomi Wallace, directed by Associate Professor of Theatre Alan Kreizenbeck. Set in 1665 London at the height of the Great Plague, this play relates four quarantined people's struggle for physical and emotional survival. Brought together against their will, these characters of disparate backgrounds discover the many meanings of desire and love. At once comedic and tragic, this play is a rare work that uses the allegory of the Black Death to comment on contemporary issues of class, gender, culture and politics. American-born Wallace is the author of numerous plays including Slaughter City (1995) which will be produced in May as a student production at UMBC, In the Heart of America (1995) and Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (1998). Her work has won numerous awards including a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, an Obie Award and the Mobil Prize. Wallace has recently been commissioned to write by the Royal Shakespeare Company of London and the Public Theater in New York. In 1999 she was honored as a MacArthur Fellow for her work in modern theatre. One Flea Spare will be performed by an all-student cast in the UMBC Theatre. Preview on Thursday, March 9 at 8 p.m. Performances on March 10, 11, 15 & 16 at 8 p.m. Performances on March 12 and 14 at 4 p.m. Tickets are $6 general admission. The 4 p.m. performance on March 14 is free for UMBC faculty, staff and students. For more information or to make reservations, please call the box office at (410) 455-2476. # # # Posted by dwinds1 February 16, 2000 NATIONALLY RENOWNED POETS PARTICIPATE IN UMBC'S POETRY SYMPOSIUM Baltimore, MD -- Eight nationally-recognized poets will read selections of their work and speak about the role of poetry in contemporary America when the Center for the Humanities presents a day-long Poetry Symposium in the University Center Ballroom. The symposium is free and open to the public. Baltimore, MD -- Eight nationally-recognized poets will read selections of their work and speak about the role of poetry in contemporary America when the Center for the Humanities presents a day-long Poetry Symposium in the University Center Ballroom. The symposium is free and open to the public. Does contemporary poetry have any real influence on the society in which we live? What is the role and future of poetry in popular culture? How and why is poetic form important to the poetic act? These questions will be addressed and debated by the audience and the following invited speakers: � Linda Pastan. Pastan served as Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1991 to 1994. She has won numerous national awards and has published 13 books of poetry including The Five Stages of Grief and Aspects of Eve. � Michael Harper. The Kapstein Professor of English at Brown University, Harper was the first Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. He has written numerous books of poetry including Dear John, Dear Coltrane: Poems and History Is Your Own Heartbeat: Poems. He is the editor of the definitive Vintage Anthology of African American Poetry. � Ray Gonzalez. Gonzalez served as poetry editor of The Bloomsbury Review for 15 years, is the author of three books of poetry and the editor of 16 anthologies. His memoir of growing up in the Southwest is entitled Memory Fever: A Journey Beyond El Paso Del Norte. � Leo Connellan. The author of 14 books of poetry, Connellan is also currently Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut, as well as the poet-in-residence for the Connecticut State University System. � Forrest Gander. Gander is the editor of Mouth to Mouth, a bilingual anthology of contemporary Mexican poets and is the author of four books including Science & Steepleflower. � Derrick Gilbert. A poet and spoken-word artist, Gilbert is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Under his pseudonym of D-Knowledge, he has recorded a spoken word album with producer Quincy Jones. � Terence Winch. Among Winch\\'s publishing credits are both poems and short stories including Irish Musicians/American Friends and The Great Indoors. Poet Michael Fallon, professor of English at UMBC, will also act as moderator of the day\\'s two key sessions: \\"The Contemporary Poets Audience\\" (1:00-2:30 p.m.) and \\"The Role of Form in Contemporary Poetry\\" (3:15-4:45 p.m.). The poets will read selections from their works at 7 p.m. For more information or to learn more about the Center for the Humanities, please call (410) 455-6798. # # # Posted by dwinds1 February 11, 2000 MEDIA ADVISORY All are invited to take on chess team captain and International Master-elect Eugene Perelshteyn in a simultaneous chess match. Perelshteyen will play up to 50 opponents at once Saturday, February 19 on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. WHAT Chess Champion will Play up to 50 Opponents Simultaneously   WHEN Saturday, February 19 12-12:30 p.m. Registration 1-4 p.m. Matches WHERE Albin O. Kuhn Library 7th Floor Directions and campus map available here. DETAILS The UMBC Chess Team isn't satisfied with winning their third Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Championship in four years -- they need another challenge. All are invited to take on chess team captain and International Master-elect Eugene Perelshteyn in a simultaneous chess match. Perelshteyen will play up to 50 opponents at once Saturday, February 19 on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Entry fee is $10 for adults, $5 for those under 20 years old and $2 for those under 12 years old. Posted by dwinds1 MEDIA ADVISORY All are invited to take on chess team captain and International Master-elect Eugene Perelshteyn in a simultaneous chess match. Perelshteyen will play up to 50 opponents at once Saturday, February 19 on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. WHAT Chess Champion will Play up to 50 Opponents Simultaneously WHEN Saturday, February 19 12-12:30 p.m. Registration 1-4 p.m. Matches WHERE Albin O. Kuhn Library 7th Floor Directions and campus map available here. DETAILS The UMBC Chess Team isn't satisfied with winning their third Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Championship in four years -- they need another challenge. All are invited to take on chess team captain and International Master-elect Eugene Perelshteyn in a simultaneous chess match. Perelshteyen will play up to 50 opponents at once Saturday, February 19 on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Entry fee is $10 for adults, $5 for those under 20 years old and $2 for those under 12 years old. Posted by dwinds1 MEDIA ADVISORY All are invited to take on chess team captain and International Master-elect Eugene Perelshteyn in a simultaneous chess match. Perelshteyen will play up to 50 opponents at once Saturday, February 19 on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. WHAT Chess Champion will Play up to 50 Opponents Simultaneously WHEN Saturday, February 19 12-12:30 p.m. Registration 1-4 p.m. Matches WHERE Albin O. Kuhn Library 7th Floor Directions and campus map available here. DETAILS The UMBC Chess Team isn't satisfied with winning their third Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Championship in four years -- they need another challenge. All are invited to take on chess team captain and International Master-elect Eugene Perelshteyn in a simultaneous chess match. Perelshteyen will play up to 50 opponents at once Saturday, February 19 on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Entry fee is $10 for adults, $5 for those under 20 years old and $2 for those under 12 years old. Posted by dwinds1 CHESS CHAMPION WILL PLAY UP TO 50 OPPONENTS SIMULTANEOUSLY All are invited to take on chess team captain and International Master-elect Eugene Perelshteyn in a simultaneous chess match. Perelshteyen will play up to 50 opponents at once Saturday, February 19 on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. WHAT Chess Champion will Play up to 50 Opponents Simultaneously � WHEN Saturday, February 19 12-12:30 p.m. Registration 1-4 p.m. Matches � WHERE Albin O. Kuhn Library 7th Floor Directions and campus map available here. � DETAILS The UMBC Chess Team isn't satisfied with winning their third Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Championship in four years -- they need another challenge. All are invited to take on chess team captain and International Master-elect Eugene Perelshteyn in a simultaneous chess match. Perelshteyen will play up to 50 opponents at once Saturday, February 19 on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Entry fee is $10 for adults, $5 for those under 20 years old and $2 for those under 12 years old. Posted by dwinds1 MEDIA ADVISORY All are invited to take on chess team captain and International Master-elect Eugene Perelshteyn in a simultaneous chess match. Perelshteyen will play up to 50 opponents at once Saturday, February 19 on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. WHAT Chess Champion will Play up to 50 Opponents Simultaneously   WHEN Saturday, February 19 12-12:30 p.m. Registration 1-4 p.m. Matches WHERE Albin O. Kuhn Library 7th Floor Directions and campus map available here. DETAILS The UMBC Chess Team isn't satisfied with winning their third Pan-Am Intercollegiate Chess Championship in four years -- they need another challenge. All are invited to take on chess team captain and International Master-elect Eugene Perelshteyn in a simultaneous chess match. Perelshteyen will play up to 50 opponents at once Saturday, February 19 on the 7th floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library. Entry fee is $10 for adults, $5 for those under 20 years old and $2 for those under 12 years old. Posted by dwinds1 February 8, 2000 COLLECTION OF PAINTED PHOTOGRAPHS DONATED TO UMBC's ALBIN O. KUHN LIBRARY UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery is proud to announce that Stanley B. Burns, M.D. has donated a major collection of nineteenth century painted photographs in decorative frames to the Library's Special Collections. Both albumen prints and tintypes are included, the earliest of which is from the 1850s and the most recent from the 1890s. A selection of images from the donation is currently on exhibition in the Library Gallery through March 11, 2000. Baltimore, MD - UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery is proud to announce that Stanley B. Burns, M.D. has donated a major collection of nineteenth century painted photographs in decorative frames to the Library's Special Collections. Both albumen prints and tintypes are included, the earliest of which is from the 1850s and the most recent from the 1890s. Dr. Burns makes prints of his collection available to the public through the Burns Archive in New York City. His sizeable collection has been the source of eleven photographically illustrated books which Dr. Burns has authored or co-authored, including one on painted photographs which won the New York Photographic Historical Society award for best photographic history book of 1995. Painted photographs in decorative frames were Dr. Burns' first collecting interest in photography, and he wanted the major portion of those images preserved in the UMBC Special Collections. The Collections now have one of the most important holdings of painted photographs in the country owing not only to this most recent donation, but also to donations by others made on the recommendation of Dr. Burns. The donation has been made in honor of Dr. Burns' wife, Sara Cleary-Burns, a fellow collector and enthusiast who helped him assemble the collection. Located on the ground floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, the Special Collections Department is open 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, during the academic year or by appointment. For more information or to make an appointment, please call (410) 455-2353. # # # Posted by dwinds1 January 24, 2000 UMBC'S DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL ARTS AND BALTIMORE'S CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM PRESENT VIDEO ART 2000: A SYMPOSIUM This collaboratively organized symposium will bring together internationally recognized video artists, curators and critics for a wide ranging program of presentations, panel discussions and screenings of the four winning videos in Video Art 2000's open competition. Baltimore, MD - UMBC's Department of Visual Art and Baltimore's Contemporary Museum present Video Art 2000, a day long symposium intended to increase understanding, interest and appreciation of video art. The event will take place on UMBC's campus in room 306 of the Fine Arts Building. The symposium features presentations by internationally recognized artists, curators and critics. Combining presentations and panel discussions with video screenings, participants will address the development of video from an analog to a digital format. Hosted by Vin Grabill, UMBC's Interim Chair of the Department of Visual Arts and Gary Sangster, Director of the Contemporary, the program is scheduled to include the following panel discussions: � Revisiting History: Video and Analog Panel discussion featuring William Judson, Curator of Film and Video at the Carnegie Museum of Art; Joan Jonas, artist; and Martha Rosler, artist and Professor of Art Photography, Video and Criticism at Rutgers University. � Exploring New Directions: Video and Digital Panel discussion featuring Don Ritter, Professor of Art History and Associate Professor of Computer Graphics and Interactive Media at Pratt Institute; Philip Mallory Jones, artist and Professor of Art at Arizona State University; Peter D'Agostino, artist and Professor of Film and Media Arts at Temple University; and Lisa Moren, artist and Professor of Visual Arts at UMBC. Both of these discussions will be led by Frazer Ward, artist and Assistant Professor of Art History at the Maryland Institute, College of Art. Following a reception, the four winning videos in the Video Art 2000 competition will be screened. Entrants were asked to submit works that commented on the history and progression of video as art. The winning videos will be installed at the Contemporary Museum from March 6 through June 6, 2000 in the Holliday Street Window Galleries in the Baltimore Street Parking Garage as a component in this survey of contemporary video art. Registration is required for this symposium. Pre-registration (Before February 1): $40 general admission, $25 UMBC students and Contemporary Museum members. Registration (after February 1): $50 general admission; $35 UMBC students and Contemporary Museum members. To register, please call the Contemporary Museum at (410) 783-5720, ext. 102. For more information or directions to UMBC, please call 410-455-2065. Visit the UMBC homepage at http://www.umbc.edu/ for all press releases and calendar information. Posted by dwinds1 THE V-DAY 2000 COLLEGE INITIATIVE COMES TO UMBC WITH A REPEAT PERFORMANCE OF EVE ENSLER'S PLAY, THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES V-Day is an international campaign to end sexual violence against women and to proclaim Valentine's Day as the day to celebrate women and demand the end of abuse. Sponsored by UMBC's Theatre Council of Majors, V-Day will be celebrated at UMBC with a repeat performance of Eve Ensler's play, The Vagina Monologues. All proceeds will benefit a local women's charity organization. Baltimore, MD - Since 1997, performances of Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues have brought attention to issues of violence against women to international audiences. In a concerted effort to stop the violence and abuse of women, February 14th has been designated V-Day, an initiative Ensler began "to raise awareness and funds to support grass roots and international organizations engaged in ending violence against women and girls and offer shelter to those who have been violated." UMBC's Theatre Council of Majors will join numerous college campuses and organizations world-wide by presenting a repeat performance of Ensler's play on Monday, February 14th. The Vagina Monologues enjoyed a highly successful run at UMBC in November, 1999; the original cast from that production will reunite to celebrate V-Day. Lauded as "a funny, heartbreaking work" by critic Susan Thomsen, The Vagina Monologues asks its audience to listen to honest, moving and often hilarious stories from a broad spectrum of women. From interviews with over 200 women of all ages and from all social-economic classes, Ensler created a play using personal narratives infused with universal resonance. Accessible to all audience members, the work gives hope to those who have been victims of violence and hatred and realizes the inherent need within us all to celebrate our uniqueness and humanity without humiliation. Proceeds from this UMBC production will benefit the Baltimore based House of Ruth shelter. Tickets are $5 for students, $10 general admission. For information, please call the UMBC Theatre box office at (410) 455-2476. For general information about the play, V-Day and other upcoming national performances, please visit http://www.feminist.com/vday/html/about/index.htm. # # # Posted by dwinds1 THE ALBIN O.KUHN LIBRARY GALLERY PRESENTS GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: THE ARTIST'S LANDSCAPE -- PHOTOGRAPHS BY TODD WEBB In an intimate and brilliant view of one artists' life seen through the eyes of another, this exhibition draws on Todd Webb's thirty year photographic record of O'Keeffe's life and the Southwest landscapes, rooms, and artifacts that filled her most famous compositions. Baltimore, MD - UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery is proud to host the exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape -- Photographs By Todd Webb. In an intimate and brilliant view of one artists' life seen through the eyes of another, this exhibition draws on Todd Webb's thirty year photographic record of O'Keeffe's life and the Southwest landscapes, rooms, and artifacts that filled her most famous compositions. The earliest of these photographs dates from 1955 and the most recent from 1981. The exhibition, organized and circulated by the Los Angeles based organization Curatorial Assistance and curated by Jack Woody, has traveled since its inception in 1989 to over 20 international sites. It rests for a limited engagement at the Kuhn Library Gallery from January 31 through March 11. In 1946, after studying photography in Detroit under Ansel Adams, Webb met and became friends with Arthur Stieglitz and O'Keeffe in New York. It was Stieglitz who said that Webb's work "has a tenderness without sentimentality;" an admirable trait which earned him many one person shows both in the States and Europe after the Second World War. From 1955 until 1969, Webb worked for the United Nations while continuing to function as an independent freelance photographer. He earned a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography consecutively in 1955 and 1956, and was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship in 1979. Today, Webb lives and continues to work in Maine. Throughout his career, many publications and exhibitions have highlighted Webb's intense yet sensitive compositions. In addition to this 30 year portfolio of O'Keeffe's environment, Webb has documented New York City and Parisian architecture; early Western trails and the landscape of the frontier; and Texas public buildings of the nineteenth century. As he composed elegant yet accessible photographs of place, Webb also focused his lens on the people and human aspects of locales, drawing his unsentimental attention to the people who inhabited his world. His photographs of the everyday people in Harlem, New York, were included in the 1968 exhibition "Harlem On My Mind," shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and more recently, the 1984 exhibition "Subjektive Fotografie: Images of the 50s" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Publications that focus on Webb's work include Gold Strikes and Gold Towns (1961); 19th Century Texas Homes (1966); and Photographs of New York and Paris, 1946-1960 (1985). The catalogue Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist and Her Landscape which accompanies this exhibition is available for reference in the Library's Special Collections. As an artist, Webb acknowledges the accountable uses of photography, conceding that "a photograph can often be used to illustrate a statement. But," he admits, "a photograph can be a statement without any explanatory treatise. Creative photography does not have anything to do with location, projects or causes as such, yet it can involve any one of them�a creative photograph is one seen through the photographer." This exhibition was made possible at UMBC in part by an arts program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts. The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery is open Monday Friday, 12 - 4:30 p.m., Thursday until 8 p.m., and Saturday 1 - 5 p.m. For more information, please call (410) 455-2270. Posted by dwinds1 January 18, 2000 PHOENIX DANCE COMPANY PERFORMANCES AT UMBC THEATER The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates the dawning of a new millenium with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, and Jeanine Durning. Baltimore - The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates the dawning of a new millenium with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, and Jeanine Durning. This year's program features a premiere of a dance and video collaboration between Hess and visual arts professor Vin Grabill, as well as the premiere of a new work choreographed by Doug Hamby. Also performed will be "Dissolve," a solo piece choreographed by New York-based artist Jeanine Dunning. This highly reflective, yet very kinetic, emotional work was choreographed specifically for UMBC professor Sandra Lacey. It is based on movement of ideas of transformation: solid to liquid, physical to emotional, with shifts of emotional overlay. It explores the emergence of the self in the delicate balance between appearance and disappearance and how we choose to reveal ourselves to others. Other works include "Point of Departure" choreographed by Hess, which integrates video images with live dance, and "Calamus," a dance, video and sound collaboration between Hamby, visual arts professor Steve Bradley (sound) and Imaging and Digital Art graduate student Deborah Gorski (video). After a performance at DC-based Dance Place this summer, an enthusiastic review of this piece by the Washington Post said that "...the concept worked brilliantly." Admission to all performances is $10 general and $6 for students and seniors. For information and reservations, please call the Department of Dance Box Office at (410) 455-6240. Public parking is available. For more information or directions to UMBC, please call 410-455-6240. Posted by dwinds1 PHOENIX DANCE COMPANY PERFORMANCES FEBRUARY 16 THROUGH 19 AT THE UMBC THEATRE The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates a new year with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby and Jeanine Durning. Baltimore, MD - The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates a new year with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby and Jeanine Durning. This year's program features a premiere of a dance and video collaboration between Hess and visual arts professor Vin Grabill, as well as the premiere of a new work choreographed by Hamby. Also performed will be Dissolve a solo piece choreographed by New York-based artist Jeanine Dunning. This highly reflective, yet very kinetic, emotional work was choreographed specifically for UMBC professor Sandra Lacey. It is based on movement of ideas of transformation: solid to liquid, physical to emotional, with shifts of emotional overlay. It explores the emergence of the self in the delicate balance between appearance and disappearance and how we choose to reveal ourselves to others. Other works include Point of Departure choreographed by Hess, which integrates video images with live dance, and Calamus a dance, video and sound collaboration between Hamby, visual arts professor Steve Bradley (sound) and Imaging and Digital Art graduate student Deborah Gorski (video). After a performance at DC-based Dance Place this summer, an enthusiastic review of this piece by the Washington Post said that "...the concept worked brilliantly." Admission to all performances is $10 general and $6 for students and seniors. For information and reservations, please call the Department of Dance Box Office at (410) 455-6240. Public parking is available. For more information or directions to UMBC, please call (410) 455-6240. Posted by dwinds1 PHOENIX DANCE COMPANY PERFORMS FEBRUARY 16, 17, 18 & 19 AT 8 P.M. IN THE UMBC THEATRE The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates the dawning of a new millenium with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, and Jeanine Durning. The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates the dawning of a new millenium with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, and Jeanine Durning. This year\\'s program features a premiere of a dance and video collaboration between Hess and visual arts professor Vin Grabill, as well as the premiere of a new work choreographed by Doug Hamby. Also performed will be Dissolve, a solo piece choreographed by New York-based artist Jeanine Dunning. This highly reflective, yet very kinetic, emotional work was choreographed specifically for UMBC professor Sandra Lacey. It is based on movement of ideas of transformation: solid to liquid, physical to emotional, with shifts of emotional overlay. It explores the emergence of the self in the delicate balance between appearance and disappearance and how we choose to reveal ourselves to others. Other works include Point of Departure choreographed by Hess, which integrates video images with live dance, and Calamus, a dance, video and sound collaboration between Hamby, visual arts professor Steve Bradley (sound) and Imaging and Digital Art graduate student Deborah Gorski (video). After a performance at DC-based Dance Place this summer, an enthusiastic review of this piece by the Washington Post said that \\"...the concept worked brilliantly.\\" Admission to all performances is $10 general and $6 for students and seniors. For information and reservations, please call the Department of Dance Box Office at (410) 455-6240. Public parking is available. For more information or directions to UMBC, please call (410) 455-6240 or (410) 455-2065. Posted by dwinds1 November 21, 1999 UMBC'S SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ACQUIRES THE DICK HIGGINS COLLECTION OF FLUXUS ART UMBC's Special Collections, housed in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, will acquire the Dick Higgins Collection of Fluxus art through the generosity of Higgins' widow, Alison Knowles. Baltimore, MD - UMBC's Special Collections, housed in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, will acquire the Dick Higgins Collection of Fluxus art through the generosity of Higgins' widow, Alison Knowles. Approximately 75 works of art will be acquired including 5 limited edition Flux boxes with contributions from Jackson MacLow, Joseph Beuys, Carolee Schneeman, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, and Ay-O; 8 limited edition hand printed portfolios; editions and unique graphics, including drawings, collages, posters, hand written letters and cards; 2 dozen offset artists books, catalogues, and journals, including work by Nam June Paik, Emmet Williams, John Cage, Alison Knowles, and others; and 7 limited edition collected journals by Allan Kaprow, Fred Truck, and others. This collection will be available for research and study in the Spring of 2000. The Special Collections Department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery makes available for appreciation and study a number of the great artistic and documentary treasures of western culture. Rare books, photographs, artifacts, and manuscripts are made accessible in the original, with trained professionals ready to assist in the use and interpretation of these research materials. Located on the ground floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, the Special Collections Department is open 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, during the academic year or by appointment. For more information or to make an appointment, please call 410-455-2353. # # # Posted by dwinds1 UMBC'S SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ACQUIRES THE DICK HIGGINS COLLECTION OF FLUXUS ART UMBC's Special Collections, housed in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, will acquire the Dick Higgins Collection of Fluxus art through the generosity of Higgins' widow, Alison Knowles. Baltimore, MD - UMBC's Special Collections, housed in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, will acquire the Dick Higgins Collection of Fluxus art through the generosity of Higgins' widow, Alison Knowles. Approximately 75 works of art will be acquired including 5 limited edition Flux boxes with contributions from Jackson MacLow, Joseph Beuys, Carolee Schneeman, Dick Higgins, Ben Vautier, and Ay-O; 8 limited edition hand printed portfolios; editions and unique graphics, including drawings, collages, posters, hand written letters and cards; 2 dozen offset artists books, catalogues, and journals, including work by Nam June Paik, Emmet Williams, John Cage, Alison Knowles, and others; and 7 limited edition collected journals by Allan Kaprow, Fred Truck, and others. This collection will be available for research and study in the Spring of 2000. The Special Collections Department of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery makes available for appreciation and study a number of the great artistic and documentary treasures of western culture. Rare books, photographs, artifacts, and manuscripts are made accessible in the original, with trained professionals ready to assist in the use and interpretation of these research materials. Located on the ground floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery, the Special Collections Department is open 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, during the academic year or by appointment. For more information or to make an appointment, please call 410-455-2353. # # # Posted by dwinds1 October 24, 1999 alsd k fja l ds alsd k fja l ds kfjal sdkfjals dkfj ald kf j al dkj alsdj aldskj aldj lad jljdla kdjal djlal adjaldjlj l kjlsdakldaj l jlakjla dj asdfasdlf a;dk a;dl ka;dl ka; k;la k;la kiadu iu lkjl ld ladj ljd ;ladj Posted by dwinds1 October 12, 1999 PRESIDENT OF THE FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION ELEANOR SMEAL TO LECTURE ON BREAKING BARRIERS AND MOVING FORWARD: FEMINISTS WORLD WIDE PUSHING FOR EQUALITY UMBC's Women's Center is proud to announce a lecture by the President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, Eleanor Smeal, on November 30 at 7 p.m. in the Engineering and Computer Science Building, Lecture Hall V. Baltimore - UMBC's Women's Center is proud to announce a lecture by the President of the Feminist Majority Foundation, Eleanor Smeal, entitled Breaking Barriers and Moving Forward: Feminists Worldwide Pushing for Equality, November 30 at 7 p.m. in the Engineering and Computer Science Building, Lecture Hall V. One of the architects of the modern drive for women's equality, Smeal is known as a political analyst, strategist, and grassroots organizer. Trained as a political scientist, she was the first to identify the "gender gap" - the difference in the way men and women vote - and popularized its usage in election and polling analyses to enhance women's voting clout. Smeal is the author of How and Why Women Will Elect the Next President (1984) which predicted that women's votes would be decisive in presidential politics. Smeal served as President of the National Organization for Women from 1977-1982 and 1985-1987, when she became President of the Feminist Majority Foundation (FMF). The FMF is dedicated to women's equality, reproductive health, and non-violence. In all spheres, FMF utilizes research and action to empower women economically, socially, and politically. It is engaged in several ongoing projects and campaigns, including the National Clinic Access Project, the Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid, and the CHOICES Campus Campaign, initiated in 1997 to train the next generation of leaders in fair and equal treatment. This lecture is sponsored in part by the President's Committee on Women, the College of Engineering, the Departments of Education, History, Political Science, Women's Studies, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, College Democrats, and the council of political science majors. There is no charge for admission to this event and ample free parking is available for visitors in lots 9 and 16. For more information about this event, please call the Women's Center at 410-455-2714. Posted by dwinds1 October 11, 1999 UMBC DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE PRESENTS CLOUD 9 BY CARYL CHURCHILL One of the funniest and most original plays to come out of contemporary Britain, Cloud 9 is an epic comedy about "sexual politics, family life, class struggle, homophobia, orgasm, woman-hating, the British Empire, and the irrepressible strangeness of the human heart." The UMBC Department of Theatre proudly presents its Mainstage Production, Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill. The award-winning Cloud 9 was the first major international success for one of the contemporary theatre's most important and original playwrights. The play was developed by Churchill with and for the English theatre collaborative, Joint Stock, in 1979, and was seen at the Royal Court Theatre in London in 1980, and in New York in 1981. One of the funniest and most original plays to come out of contemporary Britain, Cloud 9 is an epic comedy about "sexual politics, family life, class struggle, homophobia, orgasm, woman-hating, the British Empire, and the irrepressible strangeness of the human heart" [critic Judith Thurman]. The first act is set in colonial Africa in 1880. The second is set a hundred years later in contemporary London, although the same characters appear, miraculously only 25 years older. Through this device - and others, such as women playing men, men playing women, adults playing children, and dolls playing people - Churchill lays bare the links between past and present, between colonial oppression and sexual repression, and between a nation's political mythologies and the most intimate lives of its citizens. Directed by Xerxes Mehta, Cloud 9 features songs directed by Charles Beitzell, lighting by Terry Cobb, sound by Sam Wylie, and for costumes and sets, designs by guest professionals from Washington D.C. and New York, respectively. Bill Pucilowsky's costumes wittily span the century past, while Evan Alexander's sets ring changes on Magritte's great surrealist fantasy, The Threshold of Liberty. Cloud 9 will be performed in the UMBC Theatre with previews on November 29 & 30 at 8 p.m. and performances December 1, 3-4, 9-11 at 8 p.m. and December 2 &12 at 4 p.m. All seating is general and tickets are $10 general; $8 UMBC faculty/staff/seniors; $5 students. The matinee on December 2 is free for UMBC faculty, staff and students. Reservations are suggested and may be made by calling the Theatre Box Office at 410-455-2476. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES. Posted by dwinds1 October 2, 1999 THE ISLAMIC PATH TO DEMOCRACY Lecture by Dr. Louis J. Cantori According to American foreign policy and according to American political science there is only one path to democracy. This path assumes that individualism and pluralism are intrinsic to the concept. Dr. Cantori will explain how Islam, as the religion of 1 billion people worldwide, begins with the assumption of the importance of the community and of consensus in society and yet insists that it too can join the democratic world. Baltimore MD - On Sunday, November 7 at 2 p.m., UMBC Political Science professor Dr. Louis J. Cantori will present a free public lecture on "The Islamic Path to Democracy." "According to American foreign policy and according to American political science there is only one path to democracy. This path assumes that individualism and pluralism are intrinsic to the concept. Islam, on the other hand, as the religion of 1 billion people worldwide, begins with the assumption of the importance of the community and of consensus in society and yet insists that it too can join the democratic world." Dr. Cantori will explore the theoretical and theological bases of Islamic democracy, linking his study to the current peace process in the Middle East. Dr. Cantori is a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy and a member of the Advisory Committee of the School of Islamic and Social Science, Leesburg, VA. He is a founding member of the Circle of Tradition and Progress (Halaqa al-Asala wa al-Taqaddum), Washington, DC and London, UK and a former student in the Faculty of Theology, al-Azhar University. Posted by dwinds1 September 22, 1999 CONTEMPORARY DOCUMENTS PRESENTED BY THE ALBIN O. KUHN LIBRARY GALLERY UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery is proud to present Contemporary Documents, an exhibition exploring the state of documentary photography today through the work of four image makers: Kristin Capp of New York City and Jack Radcliffe, Jana Kopelentova Rehak, and Frank Rehak of Baltimore. Baltimore, MD -- UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery is proud to present Contemporary Documents, an exhibition exploring the state of documentary photography today through the work of four image makers: Kristin Capp of New York City and Jack Radcliffe, Jana Kopelentova Rehak, and Frank Rehak of Baltimore. Using black and white photography, the tradition of social documentation is explored by these artists in diverse ways. Kristin Capp's recent images of Hutterite colonies in eastern Washington State and Canada depict close-knit communities of individuals seemingly lifted from another era. Similarly, Jack Radcliffe's series "Beppi, Steven and family" offers the complex relation to time we experience only with still photography. Taken over a period of six years, Radcliffe's images of one young family reveal subtle shifts in their dynamic through simple everyday interaction. In contrast, Jana Kopelentova Rehak physically removes her subjects from their surroundings, allowing individual's expressions, dress and poses to tell complex stories. Portraits of Czech refugees from Chernobyl and residence of Hampden, Baltimore could never be mistaken one for the other. Conversely, the different worlds of Baltimore and Prague inspire Frank Rehak to find the aesthetic similarities between disparate worlds through design, tone, and light. This exhibition is organized by Chief Curator Tom Beck and Curator Cynthia Wayne of the Library Gallery. An accompanying illustrated catalog with artists' biographies and checklist will be available on site (publication design by Professor Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo). A public program is scheduled for Thursday, September 30th at 4 p.m. with the four artists involved in the exhibition. A reception will follow the presentations at 5 p.m. Contemporary Documents is supported in part by a program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council and by the Friends of the Library and Gallery. G allery programs are free and open to the public. The Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery is located on the first floor of the Library, 1000 Hilltop Circle, and is open Monday through Friday 12 to 4:30 p.m., Thursday until 8 p.m., and Saturday 1 -5 p.m. For further information, please call (410) 455-2270. Posted by dwinds1 September 7, 1999 UMBC Assistant Professor Preminda Jacob Honored with Getty Grant Program Postdoctural Fellowship Dr. Preminda Jacob of UMBC's Visual Arts Department has been awarded a prestigious J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities for 1999-2000. Fifteen scholars who received their doctorates within the past six years were each awarded a stipend of $35,000 for one years research. The awards have been accepted by scholars in eight countries and will be used to conduct research worldwide. Baltimore, MD -- Dr. Preminda Jacob of UMBC's Visual Arts Department has been awarded a prestigious J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities for 1999-2000. Fifteen scholars who received their doctorates within the past six years were each awarded a stipend of $35,000 for one years research. The awards have been accepted by scholars in eight countries and will be used to conduct research worldwide. Dr. Jacob, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994, will expand on the research conducted for her dissertation. She will examine the "aural dimensions of public images in the spaces of the city of Chennai" in South India, a region that offers complex evidence of a culture heavily influenced by politics, the film industry, and mythology. Dr. Jacob's manuscript Celluloid Deities: The Nexus of Visual Art, Media and Politics in South India will be accompanied by a CD-ROM to be produced in collaboration with UMBC's Imaging Research Center and assistant professor of visual arts Colin Ives. Both Ives and Dr. Jacob will visit South India in December 1999 to gather images and complete field work to be used in the examination of culture in Chennai and Mumbai. The purpose of the Getty Fellowships is to release scholars from academic and administrative responsibilities at a critical point early in their careers when much is expected of them professionally. Dr. Jacob will be in residence at UMBC for the academic year, and will resume teaching in the fall of 2000. # # # Posted by dwinds1 August 19, 1999 UMBC ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PREMINDA JACOB HONORED WITH GETTY GRANT PROGRAM POSTDOCTURAL FELLOWSHIP Baltimore, MD -- Dr. Preminda Jacob of UMBC's Visual Arts Department has been awarded a prestigious J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities for 1999-2000. Fifteen scholars who received their doctorates within the past six years were each awarded a stipend of $35,000 for one year's research. The awards have been accepted by scholars in eight countries and will be used to conduct research worldwide. Baltimore, MD -- Dr. Preminda Jacob of UMBC's Visual Arts Department has been awarded a prestigious J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities for 1999-2000. Fifteen scholars who received their doctorates within the past six years were each awarded a stipend of $35,000 for one years research. The awards have been accepted by scholars in eight countries and will be used to conduct research worldwide. Dr. Jacob, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994, will expand on the research conducted for her dissertation. She will examine the "aural dimensions of public images in the spaces of the city of Chennai" in South India, a region that offers complex evidence of a culture heavily influenced by politics, the film industry, and mythology. Dr. Jacob\\'s manuscript Celluloid Deities: The Nexus of Visual Art, Media and Politics in South India will be accompanied by a CD-ROM to be produced in collaboration with UMBC's Imaging Research Center and assistant professor of visual arts Colin Ives. Both Ives and Dr. Jacob will visit South India in December 1999 to gather images and complete field work to be used in the examination of culture in Chennai and Mumbai. The purpose of the Getty Fellowships is to release scholars from academic and administrative responsibilities at a critical point early in their careers when much is expected of them professionally. Dr. Jacob will be in residence at UMBC for the academic year, and will resume teaching in the fall of 2000. # # # Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Assistant Professor Preminda Jacob Honored with Getty Grant Program Postdoctural Fellowship Dr. Preminda Jacob of UMBC's Visual Arts Department has been awarded a prestigious J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities for 1999-2000. Fifteen scholars who received their doctorates within the past six years were each awarded a stipend of $35,000 for one years research. The awards have been accepted by scholars in eight countries and will be used to conduct research worldwide. Baltimore, MD -- Dr. Preminda Jacob of UMBC's Visual Arts Department has been awarded a prestigious J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities for 1999-2000. Fifteen scholars who received their doctorates within the past six years were each awarded a stipend of $35,000 for one years research. The awards have been accepted by scholars in eight countries and will be used to conduct research worldwide. Dr. Jacob, who earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1994, will expand on the research conducted for her dissertation. She will examine the "aural dimensions of public images in the spaces of the city of Chennai" in South India, a region that offers complex evidence of a culture heavily influenced by politics, the film industry, and mythology. Dr. Jacob's manuscript Celluloid Deities: The Nexus of Visual Art, Media and Politics in South India will be accompanied by a CD-ROM to be produced in collaboration with UMBC's Imaging Research Center and assistant professor of visual arts Colin Ives. Both Ives and Dr. Jacob will visit South India in December 1999 to gather images and complete field work to be used in the examination of culture in Chennai and Mumbai. The purpose of the Getty Fellowships is to release scholars from academic and administrative responsibilities at a critical point early in their careers when much is expected of them professionally. Dr. Jacob will be in residence at UMBC for the academic year, and will resume teaching in the fall of 2000. # # # Posted by dwinds1 August 15, 1999 UMBC PROFESSOR OF THEATRE XERXES MEHTA ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL SAMUEL BECKETT SOCIETY Xerxes Mehta, Professor of Theatre and Artistic Director of the Maryland Stage Company, the professional theatre company in residence at UMBC, has been elected president of The International Samuel Beckett Society. Baltimore, MD -- Xerxes Mehta, Professor of Theatre and Artistic Director of the Maryland Stage Company, the professional theatre company in residence at UMBC, has been elected president of The International Samuel Beckett Society. An international organization of scholars, directors, actors, writers and performers, The Samuel Beckett Society meets annually during the Modern Languages Association's meeting and produces The Beckett Circle, the biannual newsletter of the circle. Actively maintaining Beckett's legacy through his plays and writings, the Society is organizing a symposium this coming year entitled Beckett in Berlin 2000. Mehta was instrumental in the organization and development of the event, by "envisioning the stirring potential of this time and place for a reassessment of Beckett in performance." During the week long event, The Beckett Theatre Festival will begin on September 20, 2000 and is scheduled to include the talents of The Maryland Stage Company as well as other internationally acclaimed theatre companies and performers. In addition to performances, there will be numerous events such as lectures, round table discussions and tours of Beckett's museum haunts including the Gem�ldegalerie at the Kultureforum and the Caspar David Friedrichs at Charlottenberg. Posted by dwinds1 August 14, 1999 DR. WILLIAM R. FERRIS, CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES, PRESENTS A LECTURE "THE HUMANITIES IN THE DIGITAL AGE" Speaking to this semester's Humanities Forum theme of "Context, Interpretation, and Pleasure," Dr. William R. Ferris, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will present a lecture (sponsored by the Humanities Forum) in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery on November 10th at 4 p.m. Baltimore, MD -- Speaking to this semester's Humanities Forum theme of "Context, Interpretation, and Pleasure," Dr. William R. Ferris, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, will present a lecture (sponsored by the Humanities Forum) in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery on November 10 at 4 p.m. The topic of his presentation will be "Humanities in the Digital Age." Chosen by President Clinton to head the Endowment in 1997, Dr. Ferris founded the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi in 1977. Today that Center is involved with strengthening the University's instructional program in the humanities by promoting scholarship on every aspect of Southern culture and encouraging public understanding of the South through publications, media productions, lectures, performances, and exhibitions. Currently Dr. Ferris actively tours the country speaking to audiences about the Endowment, its programs, and mission. He was most recently received by the Federation of State Humanities Councils during their Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado (October 2, 1999) and served as the key speaker during the National History Day Welcome Ceremony at the University of Maryland, College Park (June 13, 1999). A full itinerary of his speeches as well as their content can be found at the National Endowment for the Humanities website at http://www.neh.fed.us/html/chairman.html. This will be the third lecture in the UMBC Humanities Forum Fall 1999 series. Other speakers have included Dr. Kathy O'Dell, Department of Visual Arts Associate Professor of Art History and Theory; State Underwater Archaeologist for the Maryland Historical Trust, Susan Langley; Robertson Professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia, Johanna Drucker; and Professor of Law at the University of Iowa, Dr. James Freedman. For more information about the Humanities Forum lecture series, or to receive a brochure, please call (410) 455-6798. Posted by dwinds1 August 13, 1999 UMBC'S FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS ADRIAN PIPER: A RETROSPECTIVE, 1965 - 2000 The UMBC Fine Arts Gallery is proud to announce the upcoming exhibition Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, 1965 - 2000, an overview of this important Twentieth Century artist's work. A Professor of Philosophy at Wellsley College, Adrian Piper's principle publications are in metaethics and Kant's metaphysics for which she has received numerous awards, including support from the Getty Instutite and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Approximately 50 examples of Piper's conceptual art work, gathered in the one location for the first time, will allow visitors an unprecedented opportunity to experience her examination of race, class, and gender in this society for over the last thirty five years. Baltimore, MD - The UMBC Fine Arts Gallery is proud to announce the upcoming exhibition Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, 1965 - 2000, an overview of this important Twentieth Century artist's work. A Professor of Philosophy at Wellsley College, Adrian Piper's principle publications are in metaethics and Kant's metaphysics for which she has received numerous awards, including support from the Getty Instutite and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Approximately 50 examples of Piper's conceptual art work, gathered in the one location for the first time, will allow visitors an unprecedented opportunity to experience her examination of race, class, and gender in this society for over the last thirty five years. Curated by Maurice Berger, Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Adjunct Curator of the Fine Arts Gallery, and author of the recent publication White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999), this exhibition is funded in part by the Peter Norton Family Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the Maryland State Arts Council. "Adrian Piper's installations, performances, drawings and videos stand alone in their ability to challenge and expand our attitudes about race and gender. From forays into the cool stylistic and intellectual sensibilities of minimalism and conceptualism in the mid-1960s to the political reinterpretation of these idioms in her work of the past two decades, Piper, one of the country's most distinguished philosophers and one of a handful of tenured African-American women philosophy professors, is responsible for a remarkable body of work in a broad range of media. The images and conceptual experiences that make up any given work or installation by Adrian Piper ask the viewer to look beyond his or her confusion, ambivalence, or discomfort. Piper's oeuvre eases the viewer into multiple, humanistic, and searching levels of self-inquiry. It affords significant insight, glimmers of light, and wisdom that might help the viewer find his or her way out of racist and sexist attitudes. This retrospective centers on the most ignored aspect of Piper's aesthetic innovations: the relationship between the form and styles of art on one hand and the work's political and emotional messages on the other. Over the past thirty-five years Piper has used artistic media in radical and inventive ways. Centering on the photographic image and temporal experience, Piper's art melds the visual devices of photo-conceptualism with the body-oriented, sculptural concerns of minimalist sculpture and performance. This exhibition demonstrates through diverse examples that a groundbreaking connection exists between form and content in Piper's work - a connection that allows her moving social commentary on racism and sexism to be more deeply felt by the spectator. It is Piper's stylistic innovations that make her social commentary, and her open invitation to the viewer to self-inquire into explosive matters of race and sexuality, so effective, persuasive, and provocative. The exhibition follows the complex stylistic development of the artist's oeuvre through more than fifty objects, videos, and installations. Included will be Piper's earliest "pre-conceptual" paintings, themselves a veritable lexicon of painterly styles in the twentieth-century, from minimalist and painterly abstraction to psychedelic fantasy and expressionist realism; the "minimalist/ conceptualist" experiments and projects of the late 1960s - works based on photographic images that document the relationship of the eye and body to the phenomenological spaces of the world around us; the performances of the late 1960s and early 1970s - pivotal works in Piper's oeuvre - that blend the phenomenological interests of the earlier work with overt social concerns, such as the widespread racism in America and the perilous place of women's bodies and political existence in a sexist world; the photo-conceptualist videos and large-scale photo series and installations of the mid-1970s; the major installations, drawings, and manipulated-photo pieces of the 1980s; and finally, the artist's more recent attempts to merge her earlier performative and photo-conceptualist styles and forms with more personal statements about friendship, mortality, and spirituality. The exhibition will also explore the formidable social content of Piper's work - her edgy and provocative examination of the viewer's personal, and most often unspoken, attitudes about race and gender. While the artist is keenly aware that it is much easier to look at "art" than face the reality of one's own bigotry, she refuses either to reaffirm art's removal from the social sphere or to justify the reluctance of most people to even discuss this nation's most vexing problems." (Excerpted from the curator's precis.) The exhibition will be accompanied by a major catalogue on Piper's art and theory, the third volume in the Fine Art Gallery's series Issues in Cultural Theory, designed by UMBC Associate Professor of Visual Art, Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo. The two-hundred-page book will contain essays by exhibition curator Maurice Berger (on the relationship between form and content in Piper's oeuvre), and critics Kobena Mercer (on Piper's formidable influence on several generations of American artists), Jean Fisher (on Piper's social content), and Laura Cottingham (on Piper's video and performance work). The catalogue will be fully illustrated in black-and-white and color and will contain an interview with the artist, chronology of her career, bibliography, and checklist. A symposium on the cultural politics of race and gender will take place on UMBC's campus in November. Scheduled speakers will include Robert Storr, Artist, Critic, and Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (November 9 at 7 p.m.); Judith Wilson, Professor of Africana Studies and Art History at the University of California, Irvine (November 11 at 7 p.m.); and critic Thelma Golden (October 26, time to be announced). Lecture locations are forthcoming. In addition to the symposium, the exhibition will be accompanied by a major education initiative. The education component will include an on-going program - held within the exhibition itself - geared toward primary and secondary students. Conducted by MacArthur Fellow Wendy Ewald, these programs will include workshops on race for teachers as well as for students grades five through twelve. A national tour is also currently being organized for the exhibition. Traveling venues will have the option of including a supplemental exhibition of the complete performance and video work of the artist. The supplementary exhibition will be available through another institution by a collateral agreement for a modest additional fee. The Fine Arts Gallery is located on the UMBC campus just minutes from downtown Baltimore. For more information about the exhibition and the Fine Arts Gallery programs or publications, please contact Symmes Gardner, Director of Programs, at (410) 455-3188, or Joanna Raczynska, Program Assistant, at (410) 455-2065. Posted by dwinds1 UMBC Department of Theatre presents THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES by Eve Ensler UMBC's Theatre Department presents The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, directed by Rebecca Brown. Lauded as "a funny, heartbreaking work" by critic Susan Thomsen, this production asks its audience to listen to honest, moving and often hilarious stories from a broad spectrum of women. From interviews with over 200 women of all ages and from all social-economic classes, Ensler created a play using personal narratives infused with universal resonance. Accessible to all audience members, the work gives hope to those who have been victims of violence and hatred and realizes the inherent need within us all to celebrate our uniqueness and humanity without humiliation. Baltimore, MD - UMBC's Theatre Department presents The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, directed by Rebecca Brown. Lauded as "a funny, heartbreaking work" by critic Susan Thomsen, this production asks its audience to listen to honest, moving and often hilarious stories from a broad spectrum of women. From interviews with over 200 women of all ages and from all social-economic classes, Ensler created a play using personal narratives infused with universal resonance. Accessible to all audience members, the work gives hope to those who have been victims of violence and hatred and realizes the inherent need within us all to celebrate our uniqueness and humanity without humiliation. Published in 1997, The Vagina Monologues won an Obie Award that year and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. It had a hit run off-Broadway and has been touring throughout the country and internationally, including performances in Jerusalem, Zagreb, and London. Sold out performances in New York and Los Angeles have included the talents of celebrities such as Kate Winslet, Angelica Houston, Winona Ryder, and Gillian Anderson. Since its publication, The Vagina Monologues has been performed primarily on or around February 14th (also known as V-Day), bringing attention to issues of violence against women across campuses and communities internationally. Breaking with the traditional date for the performance, the UMBC production will nevertheless benefit the Baltimore based House of Ruth shelter by asking for cash donations during the run of the show. A Spring UMBC performance is currently being organized to celebrate V-Day 2000. Tickets are $6 general admission. Cash donations will be accepted to benefit the House of Ruth during the run of the performance. For information and reservations, please call the UMBC Theatre box office at (410) 455-2476. For general information about the play and upcoming national performances, please visit www.vaginamonologues.com. 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WHAT� Recreation Center Ribbon Cutting and Basketball Season Kickoff WHEN Friday, October 15, 1999 Open House: 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Midnight Madness: 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. WHERE� Retriever Activities Center Directions available here DETAILS UMBC officially opens the doors to the new 50,000 square foot Recreation Center, complete with weight and aerobics rooms, multi-purpose room, classrooms and office space.� � Schedule of Activities Open House 1 to 1:30 p.m. Ribbon cutting ceremony� 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Reception 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tours of the new Recreation Center� 2 to 5 p.m. Activities & equipment demonstrations���������������������������� 5 to 6 p.m. 400 person aerobics class Midnight Madness 9:00 to 11:30 p.m. Basketball tournaments and live bands 11:30 to 12 a.m. Shoot-off with Vice Provost Charles �Tot� Woolston and introduction of basketball teams. 12 to 12:45 a.m. 3-point shoot-out and slam dunk contest 12:45 a.m. $10,000 �Beat the Buzzer� contest Posted by dwinds1 May 18, 1999 UMBC'S FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS "ADRIAN PIPER: A RETROSPECTIVE, 1965 - 2000" The Fine Arts Gallery is proud to announce the upcoming exhibition Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, 1965 - 2000, curated by Maurice Berger, Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Adjunct Curator of the Fine Arts Gallery, and author of the recent publication White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999). Baltimore, MD - The Fine Arts Gallery is proud to announce the upcoming exhibition Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, 1965 - 2000, curated by Maurice Berger, Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Adjunct Curator of the Fine Arts Gallery, and author of the recent publication White Lies: Race and the Myths of Whiteness (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999). Adrian Piper's installations, performances, drawings and videos stand alone in their ability to challenge and expand our attitudes about race and gender. From forays into the cool stylistic and intellectual sensibilities of minimalism and conceptualism in the mid-1960s to the political reinterpretation of these idioms in her work of the past two decades, Piper, one of the country's most distinguished philosophers and one of a handful of tenured African-American women philosophy professors, is responsible for a remarkable body of work in a broad range of media. The images and conceptual experiences that make up any given work or installation by Adrian Piper ask the viewer to look beyond his or her confusion, ambivalence, or discomfort. Piper's oeuvre eases the viewer into multiple, humanistic, and searching levels of self-inquiry. It affords significant insight, glimmers of light, and wisdom that might help the viewer find his or her way out of racist and sexist attitudes. This retrospective centers on the most ignored aspect of Piper's aesthetic innovations: the relationship between the form and styles of art on one hand and the work's political and emotional messages on the other. Over the past thirty-five years Piper has used artistic media in radical and inventive ways. Centering on the photographic image and temporal experience, Piper's art melds the visual devices of photo-conceptualism with the body-oriented, sculptural concerns of minimalist sculpture and performance. This exhibition demonstrates through diverse examples that a groundbreaking connection exists between form and content in Piper's work - a connection that allows her moving social commentary on racism and sexism to be more deeply felt by the spectator. It is Piper's stylistic innovations that make her social commentary, and her open invitation to the viewer to self-inquire into explosive matters of race and sexuality, so effective, persuasive, and provocative. The exhibition follows the complex stylistic development of the artist's oeuvre through more than fifty objects, videos, and installations. Included will be Piper's earliest "pre-conceptual" paintings, themselves a veritable lexicon of painterly styles in the twentieth-century, from minimalist and painterly abstraction to psychedelic fantasy and expressionist realism; the "minimalist/ conceptualist" experiments and projects of the late 1960s - works based on photographic images that document the relationship of the eye and body to the phenomenological spaces of the world around us; the performances of the late 1960s and early 1970s - pivotal works in Piper's oeuvre - that blend the phenomenological interests of the earlier work with overt social concerns, such as the widespread racism in America and the perilous place of women's bodies and political existence in a sexist world; the photo-conceptualist videos and large-scale photo series and installations of the mid-1970s; the major installations, drawings, and manipulated-photo pieces of the 1980s; and finally, the artist's more recent attempts to merge her earlier performative and photo-conceptualist styles and forms with more personal statements about friendship, mortality, and spirituality. The exhibition will also explore the formidable social content of Piper's work - her edgy and provocative examination of the viewer's personal, and most often unspoken, attitudes about race and gender. While the artist is keenly aware that it is much easier to look at "art" than face the reality of one's own bigotry, she refuses either to reaffirm art's removal from the social sphere or to justify the reluctance of most people to even discuss this nation's most vexing problems. (The above excerpted from the curator's precis.) The exhibition will be accompanied by a major catalogue on Piper's art and theory, the third volume in the Fine Art Gallery's series Issues in Cultural Theory. The two-hundred-page book will contain essays by exhibition curator Maurice Berger (on the relationship between form and content in Piper's oeuvre), Kobena Mercer (on Piper's formidable influence on several generations of American artists), Jean Fisher (on Piper's social content), and Laura Cottingham (on Piper's video and performance work). The catalogue will be fully illustrated in black-and-white and color and will contain an interview with the artist, chronology of her career, bibliography, and checklist. A national tour is currently being organized for the exhibition. During the installation at the Fine Arts Gallery of UMBC, the show will be accompanied by a major education initiative. In addition to a symposium on the cultural politics of race and gender, the education component will include an address by Adrian Piper as well as an on-going program - held within the exhibition itself - geared toward primary and secondary students. Conducted by MacArthur Fellow Wendy Ewald, these programs will include workshops on race for teachers as well as for students grades five through twelve. For more information about the exhibition and the Fine Arts Gallery programs or publications, please contact Symmes Gardner, Director of Programs, at (410) 455-3188, or Joanna Raczynska, Program Assistant, at (410) 455-2065. # # # Posted by dwinds1 May 1, 1999 UMBC ALBIN O. KUHN LIBRARY PRESENTS "COLOR BEFORE COLOR" The advent of the photographic portrait satisfied a cultural desire for immortality. To further the goal, hand coloring of the images transformed the bland monochrome of the untouched likeness into documents seemingly true to life. This exhibition of 50 framed works from the collection of Stanley and Sara Burns ranges from the daguerreotype to the modern silver print. It recalls the practice of developing artifacts that lie somewhere between a photographic reality and the realm of the imagination. The advent of the photographic portrait satisfied a cultural desire for immortality. To further the goal, hand coloring of the images transformed the bland monochrome of the untouched likeness into documents seemingly true to life. This exhibition of 50 framed works from the collection of Stanley and Sara Burns ranges from the daguerreotype to the modern silver print. It recalls the practice of developing artifacts that lie somewhere between a photographic reality and the realm of the imagination. Documenting the popular demand for photographs in color, this exhibition also illustrates the cultural development of an accessible portraiture that harbored an illusion or statement somewhat akin to that of painting. In 1992, a more modest exhibition of hand-painted portraits from the same collection entitled Forgotten Marriage: The Painted Tintype and the Decorative Frame: A Lost Chapter in American Portraiture, 1860-1910 fostered an illustrated publication of the same title (Burns Press) which is currently available for purchase in the Gallery. This presentation of Color Before Color is supported in part by a program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. Located on the first floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library, the Gallery is open Monday through Friday, noon - 4:30 p.m., on Thursdays until 8 p.m., and on Saturdays from 1-5 p.m. Admission is free and public parking is available. For more information about the Gallery, please call 410-455-2270 or visit the UMBC homepage at http://www.umbc.edu. Posted by dwinds1 April 14, 1999 YAHOO! NAMES UMBC ONE OF "AMERICA'S 100 MOST WIRED COLLEGES" Yahoo! Internet Life magazine has named the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) as one of "America's 100 Most Wired Colleges," in its annual survey and detailed guide to Internet and Web use in higher education. Baltimore - Yahoo! Internet Life magazine has named the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) as one of "America's 100 Most Wired Colleges," in its annual survey and detailed guide to Internet and Web use in higher education. UMBC was ranked 76th and was one of only two Maryland universities to be recognized. Loyola College in Maryland was ranked 53rd. Two other regional schools also made the list: George Mason University (80) and the University of Virginia (48). Yahoo! Internet Life gave UMBC an overall survey rating of 70.27 out of 100 possible points. The magazine pointed out that according to the National Science Foundation, UMBC produces more Information Technology bachelor degree graduates than any other research university in the nation. More information on UMBC's IT degree production is available online . The Yahoo! rankings are available online at www.wiredcolleges.com. Posted by dwinds1 April 7, 1999 UMBC WINS DISTINTUISHED DELEGATION HONORS AT NATIONAL MODEL UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE Students from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's (UMBC) Model UN team received Distinguished Delegation honors for their representation of Angola at the National Model United Nations Conference, held in New York from March 30 to Ap ril 3. BALTIMORE - Students from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's (UMBC) Model UN team received Distinguished Delegation honors for their representation of Angola at the National Model United Nations Conference, held in New York from March 30 to Ap ril 3. Thirty students from UMBC, fifteen representing Angola and fifteen representing Congo, traveled to New York City to participate in the conference. Opening ceremonies, with comments by Secretary General Kofi Annan, were held in the UN building and the conf erence itself was held both at the UN building and the Grand Hyatt hotel. UMBC students Jennifer Searfoss and Elaine Elgamil acted as head delegates, representing Angola and Congo, respectively. More than 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world - including Georgetown, West Point, the University of Bonn and the United Federation of Armed Forces (Germany) - attended the 1999 Model UN Conference. Model UN is one of several organizations that make up the UMBC Intellectual Sports Council. Posted by dwinds1 April 2, 1999 CUBAN POET NANCY MOREJ�N TO SPEAK AT UMBC Cuban poet Nancy Morej�n will captivate Baltimore audiences through an exploration of Afro-Cuban heritage when she presents "Cuba: The Profound Africanity of its Arts and Letters" at UMBC on Wednesday, April 21 at 4 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. The trilingual poet's work has been translated into several languages and anthologized in many collections, bringing her international acclaim. The presentation is free and open to the public. BALTIMORE -Cuban poet Nancy Morej�n will captivate Baltimore audiences through an exploration of Afro-Cuban heritage when she presents "Cuba: The Profound Africanity of its Arts and Letters" at UMBC on Wednesday, April 21 at 4 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. The trilingual poet's work has been translated into several languages and anthologized in many collections, bringing her international acclaim. The presentation is free and open to the public. Morej�n, who has published twelve collections of poetry, three monographs, a dramatic work and four critical studies of Cuban history and literature, is best known in the United States for her bilingual anthology, The Island Sleeps like a Wing (Black Scholar Press). She has won numerous awards, including the Cuban National Award in Criticism, and last fall was inducted into the Royal Academy of Cuban Language. UMBC's Department of Africana Studies is the principal sponsor of Morej�n's visit to the United States which also includes lectures at Princeton University, George Washington University and Brooklyn Public Library. The tour coincides with the publication of Singular Like a Bird: The Art of Nancy Morej�n (Howard University Press) edited by Miriam DeCosta-Willis, UMBC professor of Africana studies. The collection includes essays by noted Canadian, African and North American scholars, as well as Cuban playwright Gerardo Fulleda Le�n, critic Trinidad P�rez Vald�s and singer Marta Vald�s. Morej�n's lecture at UMBC is presented by the Department of Africana Studies and the Humanities Forum, a free annual public series that brings nationally and internationally known scholars to discuss contemporary issues in the humanities. For more information, please call 410-455-2158. Nancy Morej�n   # # # Posted by dwinds1 April 1, 1999 UMBC LEADS ALL RESEARCH UNIVERSITIES IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BACHELOR'S DEGREE PRODUCTION According to National Department of Education data, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) leads all other research universities in production of bachelor's degrees in Information Technology. Baltimore - According to National Department of Education data, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) leads all other research universities in production of bachelor's degrees in Information Technology. In 1996, the most recent year for which data is available, UMBC produced 257 bachelor's degrees in computer science from an undergraduate enrollment of 8,475. The University of Texas at Austin was a distant second in its class with 169 degrees awarded from an undergraduate enrollment of 35,789. The 10,000-student university, located in Baltimore, MD, was beaten out in IT bachelor degree production by only one private, for-profit business school - Strayer College. UMBC also led in the combined production of information technology bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees for women with 115. For 1996, UMBC nudged out Johns Hopkins University by a margin of 15 total computer science degrees. The total IT degrees awarded to women for other noted universities included New York University (92) and Syracuse (68). The data is derived from the most recent degree totals reported in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System survey (IPEDS) which is administered by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). The survey combines Computer Science and Information Systems degrees into a single category referred to as Computer Science. The data was first observed by UMBC Computer Science and Electrical Engineering professor Tim Finin through his participation in a study on the shortage of information technology workers sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The data can be generated online through the NSF's WebCASPAR database. Posted by dwinds1 March 26, 1999 MINDFEST On April 17th UMBC presents MindFest, the University's fourth annual open house for the Baltimore/Washington community. Visitors are invited to join students, faculty, and members of the community in a celebration of the power of ideas and information. Baltimore, MD - On April 17th UMBC presents MindFest, the University's fourth annual open house for the Baltimore/Washington community. Visitors are invited to join students, faculty, and members of the community in a celebration of the power of ideas and information. MindFest promises fun and adventure for the entire family with dozens of events from storytelling to musical performances, special presentations and more. Highlights include Chessfest, which includes a match between the UMBC Chess Team and Princeton; Diplomat for a Day where participants can act in simulations of diplomatic debate with the UMBC Model United Nations team; the Kuhn Gallery Curator's Tour which will take visitors through the exhibition "Color Before Color: 100 Years of Painted Photographs in Their Original Frames;" and a performance by Maurice the Dancing Robot, a machine built in collaboration between the UMBC Dance and Engineering departments. Presentations will be peppered throughout the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, UMBC's center of intellectual discovery. Guest speakers and professors will address a myriad of issues like "truth" in documentary photography, successful women in the sciences, and the Alexander Technique. They'll design web sites and reveal a universe full of ideas from the harnessing of satellites to the history of Oella, Cowdensville and surrounding areas in our own back yard. Other events will include the historic inclusion of a 1999 time capsule in the foundation of UMBC's latest academic building, the Physics Building, scheduled to open in the Fall of 1999. Visitors can learn about ecology, photography, rowing, volunteerism, dance, design, the Web, laughter, performance, animation, floods, and more! MindFest is a FREE event open to the public. Free public parking is available and the event is wheelchair accessible. For more information please contact 410/455-2902 or visit www.umbc.edu/mindfest # # # Posted by dwinds1 March 12, 1999 UMBC TECHNOLOGY CENTER COMPANY DOES HIGH-TECH GOOD DEED Cybergroup, Inc., an Internet consulting and web development company at the UMBC Technology Center, has developed the Dreamsurfer Network, a high-tech good deed connecting teenagers with chronic illnesses through a collaborative effort with the Grant-A-Wish Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Cystic Fibrosis Center and the USF&G Foundation. Baltimore, MD- Cybergroup, Inc., an Internet consulting and web development company at the UMBC Technology Center, has developed the Dreamsurfer Network, a high-tech good deed connecting teenagers with chronic illnesses through a collaborative effort with the Grant-A-Wish Foundation, the Johns Hopkins Cystic Fibrosis Center and the USF&G Foundation. The Dreamsurfer Network is an expansion of a password-protected World Wide Web site created in September 1997. The site, Hopkins Teen Central, connects teenage patients at the Cystic Fibrosis Center with their peers and the hospital staff. Teens with cystic fibrosis interact online and participate in problem solving, mutual support, fun and friendship from home. Hospital staff provide patients with peer support, education and illness counseling. Hopkins provides Web TV systems for patients who don't have Internet access at home, and teenagers are enthusiastic about keeping in touch via cyberspace. Hopkins Child Life Specialist Russ Ravert, a longtime advocate of using technology to meet patients' needs, worked with Hopkins social work, pediatrics and information systems staff to establish Teen Central. The site flourished, but as it grew, the demand of managing and updating using conventional HTML grew overwhelming. Through a contact at Grant-A-Wish, Cybergroup President Greg Bean stepped in to improve Teen Central and expand the concept to other children's hospitals across the nation. Bean volunteered many hours to build a basic framework automating time-consuming HTML with user-friendly forms and templates for site maintenance and interaction. Bean's model will soon spread to two other children's hospitals that have agreed to join the project by creating Dreamsurfer sites of their own: the cystic fibrosis unit at Cook-Fort Worth Medical Center in Texas and the oncology group at City of Hope Hospital in Duarte, California. Despite the time demands on himself and a staff of three in the competitive world of Internet startups, Bean saw Dreamsurfer as both an interesting technical challenge and a chance to give something back. "People say that startup companies should put volunteer or pro bono work on the back burner for a few years until they get more established," said Bean, "but I felt that this was a very worthy cause." "One of the most common suggestions from the teens is that the site needs to change more often," said Ravert. "If it changes, they'll come back. The new version Greg did is much easier for us to manage and update, and gives the teens more options as well." The Grant-A-Wish Foundation also saw Dreamsurfer as a good cause, providing financial support to pilot four new Dreamsurfer groups in 1999, two for cystic fibrosis patients and two for cancer patients. "Dreamsurfer will link support groups together from throughout the United States and the world in an encouraging, confidential, and counselor-supervised setting," said Brian Morrison, Executive Director of Grant-A-Wish. Future plans for Dreamsurfer include creating a "virtual camp" site allowing patients from sites across the country to interact. The camp's goal is to provide a central location for teens nationwide to participate in activities, just like a traditional camp. The Dreamsurfer partnership is currently seeking corporate or individual sponsors, especially Internet service providers with surplus server space, to donate to the project. If you'd like to help out, contact Cybergroup at 410-455-5680. Posted by dwinds1 March 11, 1999 ALCHEMY OF DESIRE/ DEAD MAN'S BLUES by CARIDAD SVICH The University of Maryland Baltimore County's Theatre Department is proud to present a Baltimore premiere of Los Angeles-based playwright Caridad Svich's Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues. The University of Maryland Baltimore County's Theatre Department is proud to present a Baltimore premiere of Los Angeles-based playwright Caridad Svich's Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues. Svich is one of America's most distinctive new voices in playwriting. Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man's Blues transforms everyday American speech into poetry to reveal the story of Simone, a young woman whose new husband has been killed in an unnamed war. As Simone, immersed in grief, struggles to reconnect with her lost husband, the community of women around her attempt to retrieve her back to the world of the living. Steeped in ritual and magic from the everyday to the extraordinary, Alchemy ponders the responsibilities of the living to the dead and of the living to one another. Caridad Svich (playwright) is the 1997-98 NEA/Theatre Communications Group Playwright in Residence at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. Alchemy was originally produced at the Cincinnati Playhouse and has subsequently been seen in theaters in New York, Minneapolis, Seattle, London and Canada. Earlier this year, Svich was invited to be in residence at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland and led playwriting master classes at Paine's Plough Theatre in London. She is an affiliated artist with the Women's Project and New Georges in New York. Among her awards, Svich counts the California Arts Council Fellowship, a Theatre Communications Group/Pew Observer-ship, a Latino Theatre Initiative Fellowship, and the Rosenthal New Play Prize. Her play Gleaning/Rebusca is featured in the collection Shattering the Myth published by Arte Publico Press, and she is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology of Latino/a plays and performance texts Out of the Fringe published by the Theatre Communications Group. Director: Rebecca Brown, UMBC Theatre Department Sets: Evan Alexander, New York City Costumes: Elena Zlotescu, UMBC Theatre Department Lighting/sound: Terry Cobb, UMBC Theatre Department CAST: Simone: Michelle Pinkham Selah: Kate Volpe Miranda: Brook Schumann Tirasol: Jen Bryson Caroline: Robyn Miller Jamie: Kyle Riley For further information and ticket purchases, please call 410/ 455-2476. Visit the UMBC homepage at http://www.umbc.edu for all press releases and calendar information. # # # Posted by dwinds1 UMBC's HUMANITIES FORUM PRESENTS DR. STEPHEN JAY GOULD UMBC's Humanities Forum lecture series is proud to host best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould on the evening of Monday, April 12, 1999 in the University Center Ballroom. UMBC's Humanities Forum lecture series is proud to host best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould on the evening of Monday, April 12, 1999 in the University Center Ballroom. Recent debate over the significance of the end of our century will be the focus of Dr. Gould's lecture entitled Questioning the Millennium. Drawing on details from his latest book of the same name, Dr. Gould will ask and answer three major questions that define the approaching calendrical event. First, what exactly is the concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted? Second, how did the name for a future thousand year reign of Christ on earth get transferred to the passage of time of a secular period of a thousand years in current human history? And, when does the millennium begin: January 1, 2000 or January 1, 2001? Serving as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Dr. Gould is also the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and a Professor of Geology at Harvard University. He serves as Curator for Invertebrate Paleontology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and is also the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. Dr. Gould is a best-selling author whose most recent works are Questioning the Millennium, Full House and Dinosaur in a Haystack. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and New York City. For more information about this and other Humanities Forum lectures, please contact UMBC's Center for the Humanities at 410/455-6798 or visit www.umbc.edu. # # # Posted by dwinds1 March 1, 1999 LT. GOVERNOR KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND TO KICK OFF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AT UMBC Kathleen Kennedy Townsend will launch UMBC's Women's History Month with remarks on Wednesday, March 3. The event will be held at 1 p.m. on the 7th floor of the A.O. Kuhn Library. During the same kick-off event, Leah Gilmore, deputy director of Maryland's American Civil Liberties Union, will be delivering an address on "Women's Rights as Civil Rights: Moving into the New Millennium." BALTIMORE --- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend will launch UMBC's Women's History Month with remarks on Wednesday, March 3. The event will be held at 1 p.m. on the 7th floor of the A.O. Kuhn Library. During the same kick-off event, Leah Gilmore, deputy director of Maryland's American Civil Liberties Union, will be delivering an address on "Women's Rights as Civil Rights: Moving into the New Millennium." The campus will observe Women's History Month with lectures, displays and symposia throughout March. "Women's History Month is a time to strengthen the sense of campus community," says Mary Rivkin, director of the Women's Center and associate professor of education. "This is a time to reflect on the challenges women have faced and continue to struggle with, but also to celebrate their achievements." "Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is a woman achieving her potential - well-educated, flourishing in a career bright with promise, raising four children with her professor-husband, and radiating an optimistic, forward-looking spirit," she says. " She is a great person to launch Women's History Month at UMBC." Women's History Month activities include: a lecture on "Rachel Carson: Voice for Nature," by biographer Linda Lear, a research professor of history at George Washington University; "What is National Women's History Month, Anyway?," a presentation on the history and purpose surrounding National Women's History Month; an International Women's Day Celebration; and "Careers That Make a Difference: Agency and Women's Activism in Baltimore's Communities," a Women's Professional Network panel discussion; among others. For a list of March events see the UMBC Calendar. Posted by dwinds1 LT. GOVERNOR KATHLEEN KENNEDY TOWNSEND TO KICK OFF WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AT UMBC Kathleen Kennedy Townsend will launch UMBC's Women's History Month with remarks on Wednesday, March 3. The event will be held at 1 p.m. on the 7th floor of the A.O. Kuhn Library. During the same kick-off event, Leah Gilmore, deputy director of Maryland's American Civil Liberties Union, will be delivering an address on "Women's Rights as Civil Rights: Moving into the New Millennium." BALTIMORE --- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend will launch UMBC's Women's History Month with remarks on Wednesday, March 3. The event will be held at 1 p.m. on the 7th floor of the A.O. Kuhn Library. During the same kick-off event, Leah Gilmore, deputy director of Maryland's American Civil Liberties Union, will be delivering an address on "Women's Rights as Civil Rights: Moving into the New Millennium." The campus will observe Women's History Month with lectures, displays and symposia throughout March. "Women's History Month is a time to strengthen the sense of campus community," says Mary Rivkin, director of the Women's Center and associate professor of education. "This is a time to reflect on the challenges women have faced and continue to struggle with, but also to celebrate their achievements." "Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is a woman achieving her potential - well-educated, flourishing in a career bright with promise, raising four children with her professor-husband, and radiating an optimistic, forward-looking spirit," she says. " She is a great person to launch Women's History Month at UMBC." Women's History Month activities include: a lecture on "Rachel Carson: Voice for Nature," by biographer Linda Lear, a research professor of history at George Washington University; "What is National Women's History Month, Anyway?," a presentation on the history and purpose surrounding National Women's History Month; an International Women's Day Celebration; and "Careers That Make a Difference: Agency and Women's Activism in Baltimore's Communities," a Women's Professional Network panel discussion; among others. # # # Posted by dwinds1 February 1, 1999 CANADIAN CINEMA SPRING 1999 FILM SERIES The UMBC Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics presents a film series on Canadian Cinema, in conjunction with a course on the subject taught by Professor Renate Fischetti. BALTIMORE, MD - The UMBC Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics presents a film series on Canadian Cinema, in conjunction with a course on the subject taught by Professor Renate Fischetti. February 1 Mon Oncle Antoine, Claude Jutra, 1971. The coming-of-age story a Canadian boy in a small town. 110 minutes, color, in French with English subtitles. 8 Les Bons Debarras, Francis Mankiewicz, 1979. A film about a complicated mother/daughter relationship. 120 minutes, color, in French with English subtitles. 15 The Decline of the American Empire, Denys Arcand, 1986. A witty and elegant discussion of sex and politics. 100 minutes, color, in French with English subtitles. 22 Jesus of Montreal, Denys Arcand, 1988. A passion play set in modern day Montreal. 118 minutes, color, in French with English subtitles. March 1 Love and Human Remains, Denys Arcand, 1993. A dark comedy on love in the Nineties. 100 minutes, color, in English. 8 Leolo, Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992. A comedy about growing up in Montreal. 107 minutes, color, in French with English subtitles. 15 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Ted Kotcheff, 1974. A coming-of-age film set in the Forties.121 minutes, color, in English. 29 Video Drome, David Cronenberg, 1983. Science fiction. 88minutes, color, in English. April 5 Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg, 1988. A psychological horror about the relationship between identical twins. 115 minutes, color, in English. 12 Naked Lunch, David Cronenberg, 1991. An adaptation of the famed Burroughs novel. 117 minutes, color, in English. 19 I've Heard the Mermaids Singing, Patricia Rozema, 1987. A film about the adventures of Polly, a temp in the art world of Toronto. 81 minutes, color, in English. 26 Speaking Parts, Atom Egoyan, 1989. A film about acting, the media, and relationships. 93 minutes, color, in English. May 3 The Adjuster, Atom Egoyan, 1991. An examination of power, the family, and pornography. 97 minutes, color, in English. 10 The Sweet Hereafter, Atom Egoyan, 1997. A challenging film on loss, set in a small Canadian town. 110 minutes, color, in English. All screenings are FREE and begin at 4:30 p.m. in Lecture Hall IV in the Academic IV Building, UMBC. Public parking is available and the building is wheelchair accessible. For more information and directions, please call (410) 455-2109. # # # Posted by dwinds1 January 21, 1999 PHOENIX DANCE COMPANY PERFORMANCES AT UMBC THEATER The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates the dawning of a new millenium with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, and Jeanine Durning. Baltimore, MD - The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional modern dance company in residence at UMBC, celebrates the dawning of a new millenium with inspirational and provocative work by nationally recognized choreographers Carol Hess, Doug Hamby, and Jeanine Durning. This year's program features a premiere of a dance and video collaboration between Hess and visual arts professor Vin Grabill, as well as the premiere of a new work choreographed by Hamby. Also performed will be "Dissolve," a solo piece choreographed by New York-based artist Jeanine Dunning. This highly reflective, yet very kinetic, emotional work was choreographed specifically for UMBC professor Sandra Lacey. It is based on movement of ideas of transformation: solid to liquid, physical to emotional, with shifts of emotional overlay. It explores the emergence of the self in the delicate balance between appearance and disappearance and how we choose to reveal ourselves to others. Other works include "Point of Departure" choreographed by Hess, which integrates video images with live dance, and "Calamus," a dance, video and sound collaboration between Hamby, visual arts professor Steve Bradley (sound) and Imaging and Digital Art graduate student Deborah Gorski (video). After a performance at DC-based Dance Place this summer, an enthusiastic review of this piece by the Washington Post said that "...the concept worked brilliantly." Admission to all performances is $10 general and $6 for students and seniors. For information and reservations, please call the Department of Dance Box Office at (410) 455-6240. Public parking is available. For more information please call 410-455-6240. Directions available here Posted by dwinds1 January 20, 1999 UMBC ALBIN O. KUHN LIBRARY GALLERY PRESENTS EYE OF THE STORM: PHOTOGRAPHS BY MILDRED GROSSMAN The life and work of Mildred Grossman (1916-1988), a labor photographer who was dismissed from her public school teaching position during a McCarthy era purge, is brought to public attention for the first time in a major exhibition at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Grossman's photographs of labor unions, civil rights marches, and the American working class capture moments from the turbulent 1950s and 1960s, and document the people and the events that shaped post-World War II America. The life and work of Mildred Grossman (1916-1988), a labor photographer who was dismissed from her public school teaching position during a McCarthy era purge, is brought to public attention for the first time in a major exhibition at the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Grossman's photographs of labor unions, civil rights marches, and the American working class capture moments from the turbulent 1950s and 1960s, and document the people and the events that shaped post-World War II America. Co-curated by Tom Beck, chief curator, and Cynthia Wayne, curator of exhibitions at the Kuhn Library Gallery, the exhibition is the first to examine Grossman's work in the context of the artistic, social and political climate of the 50s and 60s and to identify her contributions to American documentary photography of the period. Drawn from UMBC's expansive archive of Mildred Grossman photographs (holding over 50,000 images and negatives), this exhibition is a magnificent opportunity to reflect upon the important role social photography has played and continues to play in shaping the understanding of history. Mildred Grossman's life and work exist at the intersection of four of the defining socio-political developments of post-WWII America. As a victim of McCarthyism, she stands as a representative of those who triumphed in the face of persecution. As a woman devoted to family and career, she stands as a representative of those whose excellence of achievement does not correspond with the dearth of recognition from their accomplishments, and as a window on efforts to enjoy public and private lives prior to the women's movements of the 1960s. As a portrait artist, with pictures of the poor and working classes in the U.S. and around the world, she brings to life the individuals of international capitalism. As a union activist, she stands as a window on the world of progressive unionism at the moment when unions enjoyed more support and strength than at any other time in American history. Symposium* Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery Wednesday, March 10, 4 - 6:30 p.m. with reception to follow, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. A discussion about the life and work of the artist and her influence and importance to documentary photography in light of her associations with the Photo League and labor photography will be held between five distinguished speakers: Mr. Paul Becker, former active member of the New York City Teachers Union; Dr. Steven I. Jackson, adjunct professor of public policy at Cornell University; Dr. Naomi Rosenblum, art historian and author of History of Women in Photography; Dr. Walter Rosenblum, photographer and former president of the New York Photo League; and Dr. Nick Salvatore, professor of American history at Cornell University. *Sign language interpreter provided with advance request. Please confirm by March 1, 1999. Eye of the Storm is supported in part by the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts & Sciences, the Friends of the Library and Gallery, the Communications Workers of America Higher Education, the Maryland Humanities Council, through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an operations program grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. At UMBC, support has been provided by the Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Africana Studies, American Studies, History department, Humanities Forum, Special Sessions Policy Committee, Women's Studies Program, and the Women's Center. An illustrated catalogue of the exhibition complete with interpretative essays will be available for purchase. The Library Gallery is located in the Albin O. Kuhn Library and is open Monday through Friday, noon - 4:30 pm, on Thursdays to 8 p.m., and Saturdays, 1 - 5 p.m. Admission is free. Public parking is available. The Library Gallery will be closed for Spring Break, March 19 - 24, 1999. For more information, please call 410-455-2270 or visit the UMBC homepage at http://www.umbc.edu for all press releases and calendar information. # # # Posted by dwinds1 UMBC'S FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS THE FIFTH VISUAL ARTS FACULTY BIENNIAL In this Fifth Biennial, members of the UMBC Visual Arts faculty exhibit their current research in film, video, painting, photography, graphic design, computer animation and installation. In this Fifth Biennial, members of the UMBC Visual Arts faculty exhibit their current research in film, video, painting, photography, graphic design, computer animation and installation. Much of the work is multi-media and computer generated or manipulated, reflecting the interdisciplinary imaging and digital orientation of the department. As a whole, the exhibition illustrates the results of the department's emphasis on research and playful exploration. While the works stem from several artistic disciplines, they are profoundly communicative, often experimental and challenging but always innovative. Faculty member Satre Stuelke displays photographs of sets and objects he constructs from a variety of materials including wood, Sculpey, and occasionally high-voltage arcs. "The images usually balance on the line between truth and fiction, and for the last couple of years, the subject matter of my work is household appliances in technicoloresque, yet noir, settings - a sort of vacuum fatale." Assistant professor Mark Street will be screening Parts I and II of his experimental documentary film trilogy. Sweep and The Domestic Universe explore parenting from the inside out by investigating the iconoclastic father figure through sound and image. Installations will include work by visiting artist Lisa Moren, whose installation a conversation: Hansel + Gretel is a non-linear piece rooted in the popular story. "By using a fairy tale, I was also able to develop three voices: the adult, the adolescent and the child. Each of these voices would address issues of memory, role models of youth, and their effects on adult communication." Exhibitors also include professors David Yager, Jerry Stephany, Alan Rutberg, Mia Semingson (photography); Dan Bailey, Vin Grabill, and Jill Johnston with Alan Price (film/video); Symmes Gardner (painting); Steve Bradley, Irene Chan, Fanky Chak, Calvin Custen, Colin Ives, Tim Nohe, Teri Rueb, and Bill Seaman (multi-media). An open reception for the exhibition will be held on Thursday, February 4, from 5 - 7 p.m. The Fine Arts Gallery is located on the first floor of the Fine Arts Building and is open Tuesday -Saturday, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Admission is free and public parking is available. For more information or directions to the Fine Arts Gallery, please call 410-455-3188 or visit the UMBC homepage for all press releases and calendar information. # # # Posted by dwinds1 October 13, 1998 ELLICOTT CITY AND OELLA HERITAGES HIGHLIGHTED IN UMBC EXHIBIT "Mill Town Heritage on the Patapsco: Ellicott City and Oella," on display in UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Rotunda until Dec. 15, highlights the oral histories of these two communities. The exhibit runs daily and is free and open to the public. BALTIMORE - "Mill Town Heritage on the Patapsco: Ellicott City and Oella," on display in UMBC's Albin O. Kuhn Library Rotunda until Dec. 15, highlights the oral histories of these two communities. The exhibit runs daily and is free and open to the public. The display consists of historic photos which illustrate principal themes from interviews with town residents. Professional interviewer Ali Kahn conducted 28 interviews, under the auspices of the Patapsco Heritage-Greenway Committee, by asking participants to share their memories in public "narrative stage" events in Oella last April and in Ellicott City in September. Included in the exhibit are images of town bands, school photos, old swimming holes, favorite local stores and community outings, as well as outhouses and communal water pumps. Under the direction of Edward Orser, UMBC professor of American studies, UMBC students reviewed Kahn's interviews to select representative quotations, then searched for photos from area sources to accompany them. They also conducted original research on the two communities using the 1920 federal manuscript census. Student researchers were Laura Keller, Lisa Denisio, Christy Smith and Donna Neutze. Zahra Safavian, a UMBC alumna, designed the exhibit. Both the oral history interviews and the exhibit received major funding from the Maryland Historic Trust. Other contributors included the Catonsville Historical Society and the UMBC Department of American Studies. The Patapsco Heritage Committee works to preserve and enhance the historic, recreational and environmental heritage of the Patapsco River Valley. The committee next plans to conduct interviews with residents of the Elkridge and Relay areas of the river valley. For more information, call the UMBC Department of American Studies, 410.455.6276, or the Patapsco Heritage Greenway Committee, 410.465.1700. # # # Posted by dwinds1 October 5, 1998 UMBC'S 15th ANNUAL INDIAN MUSIC AND DANCE COMPETITION UMBC's 15th Annual Indian Music and Dance Competition will be held Friday, Nov. 20 - Sunday, Nov. 22 in UMBC's Fine Arts Recital Hall. The competition, which celebrates the traditions of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, features performers from across the United States. The event kicks off with a Friday evening concert by Ustad Vilayat Khan, one of the world's most distinguished sitar players, giving his only Baltimore/Washington area performance. BALTIMORE - UMBC's 15th Annual Indian Music and Dance Competition will be held Friday, Nov. 20 - Sunday, Nov. 22 in UMBC's Fine Arts Recital Hall. The competition, which celebrates the traditions of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, features performers from across the United States. The event kicks off with a Friday evening concert by Ustad Vilayat Khan, one of the world's most distinguished sitar players, giving his only Baltimore/Washington area performance. Ustad Vilayat Khan occupies a pre-eminent place in the world of classical instrumental music. Recognized internationally as one of India's greatest musicians, there are few to equal him in his mastery over the sitar. He revolutionized sitar performance through his introduction of the gayaki ang, or vocal style. His distinctive vocal approach is the most imitated in the world. Khan has performed for many distinguished audiences, including the queen of England and the king of Afghanistan. The New York Times calls him "an amazing virtuoso," The Statesman of India calls him "a god," and Le Monde (Paris) has described his work as "phenomenal." The Friday evening concert begins at 8 p.m. in UMBC's Fine Arts Recital Hall. Seating is limited, reservations are suggested. For more information and tickets to the Indian Music and Dance Festival call 410-455-0124 or email aimrec1@home.com. # # # Posted by dwinds1 September 30, 1998 UMBC'S HUMANITIES FORUM PRESENTS A LECTURE BY DR. STEPHEN JAY GOULD NOTICE: Gould has cancelled tonight's lecture due to illness. More information will be posted when available. For immediate assistance, please call the UMBC Humanities Forum, 410.455.6798. NOTICE: Gould has cancelled tonight's lecture due to illness. More information will be posted when available. For immediate assistance, please call the UMBC Humanities Forum, 410.455.6798. BALTIMORE--UMBC's Humanities Forum lecture series presents best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould who will discuss one of today's most pressing subjects: the significance of the millennium. The lecture which centers around Gould's new book, Questioning the Millennium, will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 14 in UMBC's University Center Ballroom. A popular interpreter of science and its complex social consequences, Gould is one of the few distinguished intellectuals whose lectures draw pop-star size audiences. Gould is especially interested in mathematical problems of growth and form applied to the evolution of lineages. For his Humanities Forum lecture, Gould will ask and answer three major questions that define the approaching calendrical event. First, what exactly is the concept of a millennium and how has its meaning shifted? Second, how did the name for a future thousand-year reign of Christ on earth get transferred to the passage of time of a secular period of a thousand years in current human history. And when does the millennium begin: January 1, 2000 or January 1, 2001? Serving as president-elect of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Gould is also the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and a professor of geology at Harvard and is curator for invertebrate paleontology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He also serves as the Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. His most recent books are Full House and Dinosaur in a Haystack. He lives in Cambridge, Mass. and New York City. For more information about the Humanities Forum call UMBC's Center for the Humanities at 410.455.6798. # # # Posted by dwinds1 August 30, 1998 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION CHAIR SHIRLEY JACKSON TO SPEAK AT UMBC Shirley Jackson, chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will present the 20th annual W.E.B. DuBois lecture on Monday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. Her talk, "Expanding Our Universe: New Models of Success for the Minority Community," is sponsored by the department of Africana studies and will be preceded by a UMBC Gospel Choir performance at 7 p.m. The concert and lecture are free and open to the public. BALTIMORE - Shirley Jackson, chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will present the 20th annual W.E.B. DuBois lecture on Monday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. Her talk, "Expanding Our Universe: New Models of Success for the Minority Community," is sponsored by the department of Africana studies and will be preceded by a UMBC Gospel Choir performance at 7 p.m. The concert and lecture are free and open to the public. The first woman and African-American to serve as NRC chair,Jackson was appointed by President Clinton in 1995 as the principal executive officer and official spokesperson for the NRC, an agency responsible for licensing and regulating nuclear facilities and materials in the United States. Jackson has worked to uphold the commission's charge to protect the environment and public health, safety, defense and security in the use of nuclear materials. Prior to her appointment at the NRC, Jackson, a theoretical physicist, was a professor at Rutgers University, a research scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and a consultant for such companies as AT&T Bell Laboratories. In 1973 she became the first African-American woman to earn a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1996 was awarded MIT's Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award. Her numerous other awards include the McDonalds Corporation's Black History Maker of Today award and the New Jersey Governor's Award in Science (the state's highest award to a citizen). Jackson has published more than 40 scholarly articles and given hundreds of presentations across the United States. Jackson is the first scientist to participate in the W.E.B. DuBois lecture series that began in 1978. The lecture is part of UMBC's Humanities Forum, a free annual public series that brings nationally and internationally known scholars to discuss contemporary issues in the humanities. For more information on Jackson's lecture, please call the department of Africana studies at 410.455.2158. # # # Posted by dwinds1 August 26, 1998 STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS NANCY S. GRASMICK TO SPEAK AT WORKSHOP FOR PARENTS Guidelines and standards for school performance in Maryland are changing. To help parents of school-aged children understand these new guidelines and how they promote academic success, a program featuring Nancy S. Grasmick, state superintendent of schools, will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. on Monday, September 14 in the University Center Ballroom at UMBC. In addition to a presentation by Grasmick, the evening will include a discussion panel and interactive displays that will allow parents to take sample test questions and learn about programs being implemented in their children's schools. Baltimore - Guidelines and standards for school performance in Maryland are changing. To help parents of school-aged children understand these new guidelines and how they promote academic success, a program featuring Nancy S. Grasmick, state superintendent of schools, will be held from 6-8:30 p.m. on Monday, September 14 in the University Center Ballroom at UMBC. In addition to a presentation by Grasmick, the evening will include a discussion panel and interactive displays that will allow parents to take sample test questions and learn about programs being implemented in their children's schools. The program at UMBC will focus on questions relating to the Maryland School Performance Program (MSPP), an initiative established by the State Department of Education under the leadership of Grasmick. MSPP targets school improvement and accountability and is designed to help public school children prepare for the changes of a 21st century workplace. Included in MSPP guidelines is the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program (MSPAP), a test given to third, fifth and eighth graders in the state's public school system. Grasmick will include MSPAP in her discussion and education representatives and experts will be available to explain and demonstrate MSPAP tasks to parents. Grasmick was appointed superintendent in September 1991 and throughout her appointment has worked toward quality schooling for all children based on high standards and accountability. Grasmick will be available after her presentation to answer questions from parents. The program is hosted by the UMBC Alumni Association, the UMBC department of education and the UMBC Academic Outreach Program, in conjunction with the Maryland State Department of Education. For more information on the program, please call 410-455-6353; for directions to UMBC, please call 410-455-1000 or visit . # # # Posted by dwinds1 August 20, 1998 UMBC PROFESSOR BRINGS NEW LIFE TO OLD ENGLISH Shawna Hemphill, a senior majoring in English at UMBC, admits that when signing up for English 490: The History of the English Language, the course description sounded a "little dry." Several weeks into the class, however, she has found herself pleasantly surprised. "It's certainly not what I expected," says Hemphill. BALTIMORE - Shawna Hemphill, a senior majoring in English at UMBC, admits that when signing up for English 490: The History of the English Language, the course description sounded a "little dry." Several weeks into the class, however, she has found herself pleasantly surprised. "It's certainly not what I expected," says Hemphill. The reason for that is class instructor Soon Ai (Vicki) Low. Originally from Singapore, Low's areas of expertise include medieval literature, Old English linguistics and the history of the English language with special attention to English as a world language. "We're learning so much about a language that we've just taken for granted," says Hemphill. "I have a passion for language," admits Low, an assistant professor who joined the English department this semester. Standing before her classroom on a recent Monday morning, Low reads identical passages in both Old English and Middle English in a flawless and melodious voice. When she is finished, she instructs her students to compare the two passages, looking for similarities. But as the class begins to discuss their findings, Low can't help but offer tidbits of information or "asides," as she refers to them - the origin of the word "nickname" or that the word "wif" in Old English meant "woman" and not wife. "She brings a personality to material that otherwise wouldn't have one," says Hemphill. "I want to offer them a more historical awareness of how the language they speak every day developed," says Low of her students. "I love telling people what I found out in class that day," says Hemphill. "For example, did you know that die was not an Old English word? There were words like swelter and starve, but no die. Then when the Vikings invaded and settled the word die was adopted from the Norse. It's amazing. Our language is a combination of so many other languages - French, Scandinavian and Latin." "She's a dynamic and engaging teacher," says James McKusick, chair of the Department of English, of Low. "Her classes are already showing record enrollment. "According to McKusick, Low's class on the History of the English Language has doubled from less than 10 to more than 20 students. "Probably due to word of mouth about her strong teaching abilities," he says. Low grew up in a bilingual household and in a country where four languages are officially recognized, with English being the "first among equals." "It was the one least identified with any of the ethnic groups and is the dominant working language," she says. Low's family spoke a mixture of Chinese and English. "We would begin a sentence in Chinese and end it in English," she says. She admits to being torn at times - wanting to embrace English, but not lose her own cultural identity. "I feel that I embody the sorts of language issues relating to post-colonial situations," she says. She was fascinated by the structure of language early on. And when she went to school at Oxford University for her undergraduate education she took a course in the history of English. "I was hooked," she says. After graduating with honors in 1990, she went on to receive her master's and her Ph.D. degrees at the University of Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies. While there, she was also a research assistant working on "The Dictionary of Old English." Her research interests include exploring anthropological approaches to medieval language and literature; the expressions of emotions in earlier literature; and sociolinguistics in multicultural settings. Low can speak and/or read in a number of languages - German, French, Latin, Old and Middle English, Old Norse, Mandarin Chinese and Teochew, a language from Southern China, as well as English. With English she remains fascinated by its constant change. "It's still evolving very quickly," she says. "Slang has always existed, but what is interesting now is the effort to institutionalize what used to be regarded as sub-standard varieties of English, such as Ebonics. Gender issues have also made a difference in the way that people use words like chairperson. These political movements are really effecting a change in the language." And it is a language being spoken more and more frequently around the globe, a combination, she says, of the British colonial past and the rise of the United States as a world power. "I think the spread of English worldwide is a very amazing phenomenon," she says. "English is becoming the world's common language. This is taking place to an extent never seen before in history. Not even with Latin." # # # Posted by dwinds1 August 17, 1998 NEWSWEEK CALLS UMBC A "POWERHOUSE IN BALTIMORE" UMBC is prominently featured in the current issue of "How to get Into College," published jointly by Newsweek magazine and KAPLAN Educational Centers. Baltimore, MD--UMBC is prominently featured in the current issue of "How to get Into College," published jointly by Newsweek magazine and KAPLAN Educational Centers. The university is described as a "powerhouse in Baltimore offering a topnotch, rigorous education to scholars who don't want to pay for an Ivy." The only Maryland school featured in the article, "Five Schools With A Mission," UMBC was profiled along with Cooper Union, California Institute of Technology, Evergreen State College and Northeastern University (p.22). The same feature story also appears in the Newsweek/Kaplan "How to Get Into American Universities" guide distributed abroad. Both publications went on sale at newsstands and in bookstores on Monday, August 10, and will be displayed until November 30, 1998. They can also be ordered on KAPLAN's web site, or by calling 800.KAP.ITEM. The September 1998 issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine also lists UMBC as one of 100 "State Universities to Cheer About" (p.80). The article focused on high-caliber education at public universities that offer great values. Posted by dwinds1 July 13, 1998 DOUG HAMBY DANCE PRESENTS ITS ECLECTIC STYLE AT DANCE PLACE IN WASHINGTON D.C. Saturday, July 25 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, July 26 at 7 p.m. Doug Hamby Dance a professional dance company in residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, presents an evening of collaboration at Dance Place in Washington D.C. on Saturday, July 25 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, July 26 at 7 p.m. Hamby, hailed by The Washington Post as "a bold and ambitious artist willing to take risks," draws inspiration from World Cup Soccer, robotics, Picasso, and T.S. Eliot to create an evening of dance that features not only humans but also a robot. BALTIMORE -- Doug Hamby Dance a professional dance company in residence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, presents an evening of collaboration at Dance Place in Washington D.C. on Saturday, July 25 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, July 26 at 7 p.m. Hamby, hailed by The Washington Post as "a bold and ambitious artist willing to take risks," draws inspiration from World Cup Soccer, robotics, Picasso, and T.S. Eliot to create an evening of dance that features not only humans but also a robot. Speaking from the heart and mind, Hamby's concert of new and previously performed work pushes the limits of kinetic creativity. Letting Go, a solo performed by one of Hamby's seasoned dancers, Jean Denney, is about coming to terms with loss and saying good-bye for the last time in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Opus 98, a premiere, displays air-born feats of strength, passion and partnering inspired by World Cup Soccer, accompanied by a live percussion score. Maurice Tomb, another premiere, is performed solely by a 6-legged robot, named Maurice Tomb, constructed in collaboration with Dr. Tony Farquhar and Todd McCleaf of UMBC's Mechanical Engineering Department. The choreography challenges the essence of the robot's design and structure to create a robotic dancer with character and wit. The program also includes: Walk to Heaven (1997), in which a cadre of post-modern Coppelias and Harlequins come alive in a lovely, airy, quirky fantasy inspired by Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques. Juncture (1992), in which a woman explores the sudden and mysterious emptiness of her mind, as in a line by T.S. Eliot, "In the halt between stations, the mental emptiness deepens." Quintet (1991), born in chaos and ending in serenity, in which five dancers visualize the sensual ebb and flow of Washington composer Scott Pinder's music.Dancers: Sunhwa Chung, Adrienne Clancy, Dave Clark, Jean Denney, Steven Kellert, Julie Peoples, Sarah Seely and Renata Zilionis. Tickets are available by calling 202-269-1600. # # # Posted by dwinds1 July 9, 1998 UMBC PRESIDENT FREEMAN HRABOWSKI TO RECEIVE GBC TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL'S THIRD ANNUAL BETA AWARD Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has been named the recipient of the GBC Technology Council's Third Annual BETA Award. BALTIMORE, MD (7/9/98) --- Freeman A. Hrabowski, III, President of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), has been named the recipient of the GBC Technology Council's Third Annual BETA Award. The prestigious BETA Award -- which recognizes "Baltimore's Extraordinary Technology Advocate" -- will be presented to Dr. Hrabowski at TechNite '98, the premier celebration of technology growth in Greater Baltimore and throughout Maryland. Past recipients of the BETA have included United States Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD) and Baltimore-based venture capitalist Charles W. Newhall, III. "Under Dr. Hrabowski's extraordinary vision and leadership, UMBC has emerged as a national model of excellence in higher education, and a vital center for research and development in Maryland," says Jane Shaab, Executive Director of the GBC Technology Council. According to Ms. Shaab, UMBC now produces nearly 40 percent of Maryland's graduates in computer science and information systems, and has become a major "feeder" school for such large regional employers as AT&T, Becton Dickinson, Lockheed Martin, and the National Security Agency. Under Dr. Hrabowski's leadership, UMBC received the first U.S. Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring for its nationally acclaimed Meyerhoff Scholarship Program, created to address the shortage of African-American males in the sciences and engineering. Today, the program provides full support for high-achieving students who combine interest in pursuing Ph.D.s in the sciences, mathematics, computer science, and engineering with interest in the advancement of minorities in these fields. UMBC's state-of-the-art Technology Center and new Research Park, meanwhile, "provide the region with an outstanding system of facilities to support high technology business development," Ms. Shaab explains. The Technology Center is now home to 21 emerging technology companies, employing more than 200 workers, while the 41-acre Research Park will house up to 350,000 square feet of free-standing and multi-tenant facilities for research and development. "Dr. Hrabowski also has played an instrumental role in introducing technology to areas outside of science and engineering," Ms. Shaab continues. She notes that UMBC's Imaging Research Center has gained national recognition for its award-winning animation productions, while Department of Geography and Environmental System's cartography and spatial analysis laboratories provide students with advance training in remote sensing and geographic information systems. Dr. Hrabowski joined UMBC as Vice Provost in 1987, and has served as its President since 1992. He has served on numerous professional, corporate, and community boards, and is currently a consultant to the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Academy of Sciences. He recently co-authored the book Beating the Odds , which focuses on the strategies used by parents who have raised high-achieving African-American males in science. TechNite '98 will be held on Monday, September 28, 4:30 - 10:00 p.m., at the Baltimore Convention Center, 1 W. Pratt Street in Downtown Baltimore. More than 1,500 corporate, university, government, and scientific leaders are expected to attend the Ninth Annual TechNite program. TechNite marks the official kick-off for Tech Month '98. Running from September 28 through October 31, Tech Month includes dozens of programs, seminars and expos designed to raise public awareness of the technological advances being made in Greater Baltimore and throughout the State of Maryland. Posted by dwinds1 June 15, 1998 MARYLAND STAGE COMPANY PREPARES FOR A SECOND SUMMER AT BALTIMORE'S CENTER STAGE WITH CHEKJOV'S THE SEAGULL The Maryland Stage Company , the resident professional theatre company of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, returns to Baltimore's Center Stage this summer to present Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull. The play opens Wednesday, July 8, and runs every day except Mondays through July 26. BALTIMORE - The Maryland Stage Company , the resident professional theatre company of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, returns to Baltimore's Center Stage this summer to present Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull. The play opens Wednesday, July 8, and runs every day except Mondays through July 26. The Sea Gull is a brilliant and bittersweet portrait of life on a Russian country estate a hundred years ago. Offering profound insights into human nature, the play is about love, art and the creative process, and the evolution through time of hopes, ideals, and dreams. By turns funny and sad, cool and passionate, The Sea Gull was Chekhov's first great play, and remains, on the hundredth anniversary of its first performance by the Moscow Art Theatre, one of the most beloved and deeply moving dramas in the dramatic repertoire. With The Sea Gull's performance by the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898, Chekhov began a collaboration that was to revolutionize Russian theatre and have a profound impact on theatre throughout the world in the century that followed. The Maryland Stage Company's centennial production is directed by Xerxes Mehta, artistic director and founder, and features some of the most powerful professional actors in the Baltimore-Washington region, including Wendy Salkind, Sam McCready, Peggy Yates, Kyle Prue, John Lescault and 1997 Helen Hayes Award Nominee, Bill Largess. The Maryland Stage Company's award-winning associate artists Elena Zlotescu and Terry Cobb bring their vivid, eye-catching styles to the play design. According to Mehta "The play is set around a lake, which is populated by seagulls and has a magical presence. The lake surrounds and infuses the plays action." The Sea Gull is offered in the much praised English translation by the distinguished British playwright Pam Gems, a version commissioned and first performed by the Royal National Theatre, London, in 1994. The performance, generously supported by a $50,000 grant from The Abell Foundation, marks the second year that the Maryland Stage Company will produce a work in Center Stage's Pearlstone Theater. The Company's performance of Moli�re's Tartuffe at Center Stage was thought by the Baltimore/Washington Theatre Review to be "bulging with bold strokes of the kind of toothsome inventiveness that has given the Maryland Stage Company so much critical acclaim since its inception," and Rosette Lamont of Theatre Journal said, "Mehta's metatheatrical production of Tartuffe proved to be the most thought-provoking and visually opulent interpretation of the play I have ever seen in the United States." Once again, as a contribution to the city's cultural vitality, the Maryland Stage Company invites all Maryland high school students to attend The Sea Gull throughout its run free of charge. In addition on July 9, 10, 11, & 12, teachers (elementary through university), artists of all kinds -- including actors, writers, dancers, visual artists, photographers, film-makers and musicians -- and UMBC alumni will be admitted for half price. Tickets are available through ProTix by calling 410-481-6500 or 800-955-5566, at all Waxie Maxie's stores in the Washington and Baltimore area and at all Record & Tape Traders in the Baltimore area. # # # Posted by dwinds1 April 10, 1998 WORK OF UMBC DANCE AND ART STUDENTS SHOWCASED IN UPCOMING EVENTS Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; April 22, 23, 24 Spring Dance Showcase All shows at 8 p.m.; Fine Arts Studio 317; $7 general, $5 students/seniors For more information call 410-455-6240 or 410-455-2942; or visit Arts. Thursday, April 16 - Saturday, May 2 Imaging and Digital Arts Thesis Exhibition: Group II Wednesday, Thursday, Friday; April 22, 23, 24 Spring Dance Showcase All shows at 8 p.m.; Fine Arts Studio 317; $7 general, $5 students/seniors For more information call 410-455-6240 or 410-455-2942; or visit Arts. The outstanding dance and choreographic talents of UMBC senior dance majors will be on display at the annual Spring Dance Showcase. New works by Melanie Enslow, Dawn Ryan, Mary Ellen Stone and Adrienne McGuire will be featured along with the premiere of Opus 98 by Doug Hamby, associate professor of dance, with percussion accompaniment by Tom Goldstein, associate professor of music. A musical comedy dance work by Karen Katrinic will complete the program. On Wednesday night only, the African Dance Class will take the stage under the direction of Delphine Sneed, associate professor of Africana Studies. All proceeds from the performances will benefit the UMBC Dance Department Scholarship Fund Thursday, April 16 - Saturday, May 2 Imaging and Digital Arts Thesis Exhibition: Group II Fine Arts Gallery; Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Free For more information call 410-455-3188. Graduates of UMBC's master of fine arts program in imaging and digital arts will present their projects at this annual exhibit. The interdisciplinary program, unique to the region, coordinates computer art, video, filmmaking, photography, art theory and criticism. This exhibition includes work by Will Brooks, Tracy Bunnell, Kathy Marmor and Bill Tudor. # # # Posted by dwinds1 April 9, 1998 UMBC BRINGS OPERA TO THE COMMUNITY Hidden identities, unrequited love, chilling mystery and ghosts from the past all take the stage at the UMBC Opera performances Thursday-Saturday, April 23-25. Under the direction of Phillip Collister, the UMBC Opera presents short, fully-staged works, including a comedy, a thriller and several famous opera scenes, all designed to bring nationally known operatic pieces to adults, students and children in the community. Performances begin at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall; tickets are $9 general admission; $7 students and seniors; free for high school students with ID. BALTIMORE - Hidden identities, unrequited love, chilling mystery and ghosts from the past all take the stage at the UMBC Opera performances Thursday-Saturday, April 23-25. Under the direction of Phillip Collister, the UMBC Opera presents short, fully-staged works, including a comedy, a thriller and several famous opera scenes, all designed to bring nationally known operatic pieces to adults, students and children in the community. Performances begin at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall; tickets are $9 general admission; $7 students and seniors; free for high school students with ID. The Face on the Barroom Floor (presented by arrangement with G. Schirmer) Music by Henry Mollicone; Libretto by John S. Bowman This mini-opera opens in Central City, Colorado as Isabelle, a young opera singer and her beau, Larry, meet at the Teller House Bar for a drink before an upcoming rehearsal. The two are struck both by the Old West atmosphere of the tavern, and by the face of a beautiful woman painted on the old, wooden floor. When Isabelle looks up, she is shocked to see that a former lover, Tom, is the bartender, but says nothing about her history with this man to her current flame. When Larry asks Tom about the significance of the face on the floor, the three characters are transported back to the late nineteenth century and to the Old West boom town Central City once was. Past love, passion and untimely death spin from the past into the present as the tale of the Face on the Barroom Floor unfolds. The Old Maid and the Thief (presented by arrangement with Theodore Presser & Co.) Music and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti This piece takes a turn from the first opera's chilling tone with a more comedic twist. The action begins on a rainy afternoon when a beggar stops at the house of Miss Todd (The Old Maid) who is having tea with a guest and her young housemaid. The three women are immediately intrigued by the handsome pauper and agree to give him food and a place to stay. Miss Todd and her young servant are soon enraptured with the man, and Miss Todd concocts a story to pass him off as a cousin staying with her during an illness. The Old Maid soon learns that a convict has recently escaped from prison and she immediately assumes the handsome beggar is the felon. Rather than admit to society friends that she fabricated the identity of her houseguest, she wraps herself in a flurry of lies and cover-ups and is finally reduced to stealing from church coffers and robbing a liquor store to acquiesce to the beggar's growing demands. This comedic circle of love, hidden identities and deception comes to a close as the beggar's true persona is revealed. Selected Opera Scenes In addition to the two mini-operas, selected scenes by master opera composers will also be performed. Scenes from Mozart's The Magic Flute and the Marriage of Figaro will be on the program, as well as scenes from Kurt Weill's Street Scene and Masseutt's Manon. For more information, please call 410-455-2942 or visit Arts # # # Posted by dwinds1 April 7, 1998 GARY VIKAN, DIRECTOR OF THE WALTERS ART GALLERY, TO SPEAK AT UMBC The director of the Walters Art Gallery, Gary Vikan, will speak at UMBC on "Accessing the Sacred in the Art of the Middle Ages," at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 16 in the Faculty/Staff Dining Hall. Vikan is the UMBC Honors College Visiting Scholar for spring 1998 and his lecture is free and open to the public. BALTIMORE - The director of the Walters Art Gallery, Gary Vikan, will speak at UMBC on "Accessing the Sacred in the Art of the Middle Ages," at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 16 in the Faculty/Staff Dining Hall. Vikan is the UMBC Honors College Visiting Scholar for spring 1998 and his lecture is free and open to the public. Vikan, one of the world's leading scholars, has curated some of the most significant exhibitions at the Walters, including Silver Treasure from Early Byzantium; Holy Image, Holy Space: Icons and Frescoes from Greece; Gates of Mystery: The Art of Holy Russia and African Zion: The Sacred Art of Ethiopia. Vikan has participated in conferences around the world and he lectures extensively on a wide range of topics. He was named director of the Walters in 1994 after serving as assistant director for curatorial affairs and curator of medieval art at the gallery for nine years. Before coming to the Walters, Vikan was senior associate for Byzantine art studies at Dumbarton Oaks, a 19th-century mansion in Washington, D.C. that houses a large collection of pre-Columbian Byzantine art. He is adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and he teaches in the JHU School of Continuing Studies. Vikan received his B.A. from Carleton College and his Ph.D. from Princeton. Vikan's visit is presented by the UMBC Humanities Forum, a free annual public series that brings nationally and internationally known scholars to discuss contemporary issues in the humanities. The Honors College, UMBC Summer and Winter Programs and the UMBC Special Sessions Policy Committee are sponsors for the event. For more information please call 410-455-3720. # # # Posted by dwinds1 March 19, 1998 DAY LONG SYMPOSIUM AT UMBC CELEBRATES A celebration of "The Creative Act" will bring together nationally and locally known speakers, including the founder of the American Visionary Arts Museum and the executive director of the Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives in San Francisco, to celebrate creative expression. The symposium includes two roundtable discussions centered on how artists approach the creation of art from both individual and collaborative perspectives. Roundtables begin at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Friday, April 10 in the University Center Ballroom. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; this event is free and open to the public. Baltimore - A celebration of "The Creative Act" will bring together nationally and locally known speakers, including the founder of the American Visionary Arts Museum and the executive director of the Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives in San Francisco, to celebrate creative expression. The symposium includes two roundtable discussions centered on how artists approach the creation of art from both individual and collaborative perspectives. Roundtables begin at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Friday, April 10 in the University Center Ballroom. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m.; this event is free and open to the public. Roundtable I: 9 a.m. Moderated by Miriam Decosta-Willis, UMBC Professor of Africana Studies. A writer as well as a teacher, Decosta-Willis' newest book on the Cuban poet Nancy Morejon will be published in May. * Jewelle Gomez, executive director of the Poetry Center & American Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University . Gomez, a novelist, poet and literary critic won two Lambda Literary Awards for fiction and science fiction for her novel The Gilda Stories. She speaks throughout the country on lesbian feminism, African-American women in literature, and African-Americans and the media. * Jennifer Tipton, lighting designer. A celebrated and sought-after lighting designer, Tipton has more than two decades of interdisciplinary experience working with dance, drama, opera and visionary creations. She has received two Tonys and two Bessies, and has designed for the New York City Ballet, the New York Shakespeare Festival and numerous artists. * Wendy Salkind, UMBC associate professor and chair of theatre. Salkind is lead actress with UMBC's resident professional theatre company, The Maryland Stage Company. She recently performed with the Company at the International Beckett Festival in Strasbourg, France and with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra in Shakespeare & Sitwall. * Elizabeth Walton, UMBC associate professor of dance. Walton was the chairperson of UMBC's dance Department from 1972 to 1997. She was a leading dancer for seven years with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, performing on stage and television in the United States, Europe, and South America. She has been a guest teacher throughout the United States, England and Germany. Roundtable II: 1 p.m. Moderated by Kathy O'Dell, UMBC assistant professor of visual arts. O'Dell recently curated the first retrospective of work by sculptor/writer Kate Millett in UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery. Her book, Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970s will be published in May. Rebecca Hoffberger, president and founder, American Visionary Arts Museum * . Hoffberger's Baltimore museum is the only venue in the United States dedicated to the work of visionary artists. She says, "AVAM opened its doors of perception to create a place where the best of self-taught, intuitive contributions of all kinds will be duly recognized, explored and then championed in a clear, strong voice." * Petah Coyne, installation artist. Coyne has received numerous fellowships and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a NEA Sculpture Fellowship for her sculptural installations. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and others. * Renee Stout, installation artist. Stout focuses on traditional African ritual objects which she recreates with small textured charms, feathers, nails and other objects. Her work has been featured at the National Museum of American Art, the National Museum of African Art and the Museum for African Art. * Stanley Cowell, composer/pianist. An acclaimed composer and musician, Cowell has performed with such jazz luminaries as Max Roach, Abbey Lincoln, Miles Davis, Stan Getz and Sonny Rollins. He performs with orchestras nationwide and has recorded extensively. # # # Posted by dwinds1 March 4, 1998 MULTIDISCIPLINARY FACULTY PANEL WILL DISCUSS UMBC's Humanities Forum presents an interdisciplinary panel of faculty members who will address "The Creative Act" at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18 in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. This event is free and open to the public. BALTIMORE - UMBC's Humanities Forum presents an interdisciplinary panel of faculty members who will address "The Creative Act" at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18 in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. This event is free and open to the public. This is the second event in a three part series on "The Creative Act" and will be moderated by UMBC Provost Jo Ann Argersinger. The panel will feature short presentations by faculty experts, including Shlomo Carmi, dean of engineering and computer science, "Creativity in the Real World and Academia;" Patricia Scully, coordinator of early childhood education, "Creativity and Children;" Dorothy Beckett, associate professor of chemistry, "Creativity and Science;" and Thomas Seidman, professor of mathematics, "The Art of Mathematics." The Humanities Forum is a free annual public series that brings nationally and internationally known scholars to discuss contemporary issues in the humanities. For more information, please call 410-455-6798. # # # Posted by dwinds1 February 18, 1998 UMBC PRESIDENT FEATURED IN SPIKE LEE'S 4 LITTLE GIRLS UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III will be featured in Director Spike Lee's Civil Rights documentary film, 4 Little Girls, to be broadcast nationally by the Home Box Office cable network on Monday, February 23, 1998, at 9 p.m. (est). Baltimore, MD--UMBC President Freeman A. Hrabowski, III will be featured in Director Spike Lee's Civil Rights documentary film, 4 Little Girls, to be broadcast nationally by the Home Box Office cable network on Monday, February 23, 1998, at 9 p.m. (est). Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Hrabowski was a ninth-grade classmate of Cynthia Wesley when she, Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins and Carole Robertson were killed in a bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sunday, September 15, 1963. "It showed us that no place was safe and nobody was safe," said Hrabowski in a July 17, 1997, Baltimore Sun article. "Imagine four girls in a church. How scared I was!" Recently nominated for a "Best Documentary" award by the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 4 Little Girls looks at a seminal event in the history of the civil-rights movement through archival film footage, home photographs, and interviews with numerous local and national figures whose lives were affected, directly or indirectly, by the tragedy. The film paints individual portraits of the victims as told in anecdotes by family members and childhood friends. "Lee was able to balance the pain and the hope that were there at the same time," Hrabowski said of the filming in the Sun article, "UMBC Chief Recalls '63 Bombing." # # # Posted by dwinds1 February 2, 1998 UMBC's HUMANITIES FORUM EXAMINES UMBC's Humanities Forum presents a multi-disciplinary panel of faculty members who will meet to discuss The Creative Act on Wednesday, February 18 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. BALTIMORE - UMBC's Humanities Forum presents a multi-disciplinary panel of faculty members who will meet to discuss The Creative Act on Wednesday, February 18 from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Moderated by Rick Welch, dean of arts and sciences, the panel includes four faculty members who will present short talks about their various fields of expertise: Angela Moorjani, professor and chair of modern languages and linguistics, "Fetishism and Creativity," Ray Starr professor of psychology, "How Many Creative Acts Make a Play," Joel Sinsky, professor of physics, "Innovative Thinking in Large Technical Organizations" and Stuart Smith, professor of music, "Putting on Blue." The Humanities Forum is a free annual public series that brings nationally and internationally known scholars to discuss contemporary issues in the humanities. Three of this spring's events are dedicated to discussions of The Creative Act. For more information please call 410.455.6798. # # # Posted by dwinds1 January 30, 1998 UMBC'S ACCLAIMED PHOENIX DANCE COMPANY PERFORMS The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional group in residence at UMBC, will present a program highlighting the human experience through a variety of art forms at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, February 11, 12, 13 and 14. The group will perform in UMBC's Fine Arts Studio 317; admission is $10 general and $6 for students and seniors. BALTIMORE - The Phoenix Dance Company, a professional group in residence at UMBC, will present a program highlighting the human experience through a variety of art forms at 8 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, February 11, 12, 13 and 14. The group will perform in UMBC's Fine Arts Studio 317; admission is $10 general and $6 for students and seniors. Hailed as a bold, ambitious artist� by the Washington Post, Doug Hamby brings his experimental choreographic style to this performance in Walk to Heaven, a score written by Nino Rota for filmmaker Federico Fellini. Hamby also collaborates with intermedia artist Steve Bradley in the premiere of an untitled work which juxtaposes dance, video and music. The piece explores Chaos Theory in its use of video to create an environment for thematically unrelated dance. Three dancers adorned in white costumes symbolic of video screens create the impression that they are only semi-human among the multimedia images which surround them. Other works on the night's program include the premiere of Carol Hess' Shooting Gallery which explores a male-female relationship using dance and video images. The Baltimore premiere of Two by Eartha by Irene Hultman features Sandra Lacy with music performed by Eartha Kitt. For more information on this performance please call 410.455.6240 or visit Arts . # # # Posted by dwinds1 November 15, 1997 UMBC AUTHOR WINS MARRARO PRIZE James S. Grubb, professor of history at UMBC, was awarded the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies for his recent book, Provincial Families of the Italian Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto. The annual prize, given to an American author for literature on Italian history, is considered the leading award in the field. Grubb will be recognized at the American Historical Society Annual Meeting in Seattle next month. BALTIMORE - James S. Grubb, professor of history at UMBC, was awarded the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies for his recent book, Provincial Families of the Italian Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto. The annual prize, given to an American author for literature on Italian history, is considered the leading award in the field. Grubb will be recognized at the American Historical Society Annual Meeting in Seattle next month. Unlike other works about the Renaissance, which often focus on elite or low social classes, Grubb examines the daily routines and customs of common society. Based on memoirs and other records of thirteen merchant families from the Veneto cities of Verona and Vicenza, Provincial Families of the Renaissance delves into the attitudes and experiences of families of modest means and local ambitions. Grubb's glimpses into marriage, death, spirituality and ideology offer a new perspective on life in the 15th century. # # # Posted by dwinds1 October 27, 1997 UMBC's DEPARTMENT OF AFRICANA STUDIES CELEBRATES 25th ANNIVERSARY UMBC's department of Africana Studies celebrates its 25th anniversary on Friday, November 14, with a re-dedication reception at 5:30 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library followed by a lecture by Paula J. Giddings at 7:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. The celebration is free and open to alumni and friends of UMBC. BALTIMORE - UMBC's department of Africana Studies celebrates its 25th anniversary on Friday, November 14, with a re-dedication reception at 5:30 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library followed by a lecture by Paula J. Giddings at 7:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. The celebration is free and open to alumni and friends of UMBC. Founded in 1972, the department of Africana Studies will take this opportunity to re-dedicate itself to the study of all Africans, not just those in America. Edward Young, UMBC alum and member of the re-dedication planning committee, says "As we look at blacks, Africans, we see that we are not only in America, but everywhere. In renaming the program we take all of our physical locations and make a common connection to history."� Young hopes the event will act as a catalyst to greater alumni involvement in mentoring and internship programs which will benefit students and community members. The evening will conclude with the 19th Annual W.E.B. Du Bois lecture featuring Paula J. Giddings, research professor in Women's, African and African-American Studies at Duke University, who will speak on Grounds for Insurgency: The Mind of Ida B. Wells,� reflecting upon her recent research and upcoming biography of the anti-lynching crusader. Giddings is the author of two books on the social and political history of African-American women. When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America has been called a landmark study destined to become a prime sourcebook� (Publisher's Weekly) and the best interpretation of Black women and race and sex we have� (Women's Review of Books). The book has been translated into Japanese and Dutch and is widely used in college courses throughout the country. The Washington Post called In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement a fitting sequel to Giddings acclaimed first book.� The Los Angeles Times noted that it succeeds as a detailed study of an organization that has touched the lives of some of the most prominent Black women in America.� As a journalist, Giddings has written extensively on international and national issues and served as Paris Bureau Chief for Encore American & Worldwide News, covering Europe and Africa. She has also been a book editor for Howard University Press, conceptualizing and acquiring important texts on African-American history and literature. The 1997 W.E.B. Du Bois lecture is part of UMBC's Humanities Forum, a free annual public series that brings nationally and internationally known scholars to discuss contemporary issues in the humanities. For more information on the 25th anniversary celebration and lecture, please call the department of Africana Studies on 410.455.2158. # # # NOTE: UMBC news releases are available at Posted by dwinds1 October 20, 1997 UMBC CONCERT CHOIR TO PERFORM The UMBC Concert Choir, directed by Phillip Collister, will present "Gloria in Excelsis Deo!" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, December 7 at Our Lady of Angels Chapel at Charlestown Retirement Community (710 Maiden Choice Lane). The concert will be repeated at 8 p.m. Monday, December 8 in the UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall. Both concerts are open to the public, admission is $5 general, $3 for seniors and free for UMBC students. BALTIMORE - The UMBC Concert Choir, directed by Phillip Collister, will present "Gloria in Excelsis Deo!" at 3 p.m. on Sunday, December 7 at Our Lady of Angels Chapel at Charlestown Retirement Community (710 Maiden Choice Lane). The concert will be repeated at 8 p.m. Monday, December 8 in the UMBC Fine Arts Recital Hall. Both concerts are open to the public, admission is $5 general, $3 for seniors and free for UMBC students. The program includes holiday choral music for multiple choirs, brass and organ. Featured works include Daniel Pinkham's Christmas Cantata, Dominich Argento's Gloria, Michael Praetorius' In Dulci Jubilo and an arrangement of Christmas carols by Robert Shaw titled, The Many Moods of Christmas. Also on the program are works for brass by Giovanni Gabrieli and an organ work by Oliver Messien. Special guest artists include organist Kaori Hongo and The Bay Street Brass Works, a professional brass quintet based in Baltimore. Phillip Collister is assistant professor of choral/vocal studies at UMBC. Now in his third year as a visiting professor, Dr. Collister also directs the UMBC Opera and teaches private voice. In addition to his duties at UMBC, he is music director at Roland Park Presbyterian Church and has performed with The Washington Bach Consort, The Washington Bach Sinfonia, the Smithsonian Chamber Orchestra and Maryland Chorus. He will make his debut with the Cathedral Choral Society next May. UMBC MUSIC DEPARTMENT PRESENTS CONCERT BAND PERFORMANCE Featuring the Nutcracker Suite 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, December 10; Fine Arts Recital Hall BALTIMORE - The UMBC Concert Band, under the direction of Wayne Cameron, will present a free perfomance featuring Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 10 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. This concert is free and open to the public. In addition to the Nutcracker Suite, the ensemble will play Rossini's William Tell Overature, Samuel Barber's Knoxville, Summer of 1915 and Gustav Holst's Suite No. 1 in E flat. For more information on either concert, please call 410.455.MUSC or visit Arts Calendar # # # Posted by dwinds1 October 18, 1997 UMBC PRESENTS A CHRISTMAS MADRIGAL EVENT An Elizabethan Concert and Reception Ring in the holiday season with UMBC's Maryland Camerata who will present a night of madrigal fun complete with music, costumes and Elizabethan fare at 8 p.m. on Saturday, December 13 and 8 p.m. on Sunday, December 14 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $10 for seniors and UMBC students, $12 general admission and $15 at the door. BALTIMORE - Ring in the holiday season with UMBC's Maryland Camerata who will present a night of madrigal fun complete with music, costumes and Elizabethan fare at 8 p.m. on Saturday, December 13 and 8 p.m. on Sunday, December 14 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. Admission is $10 for seniors and UMBC students, $12 general admission and $15 at the door. The performance will be a Christmas concert presentation of a traditional madrigal dinner featuring Christmas carols, Elizabethan costumes, English madrigals and plenty of holiday fun. The Maryland Camerata, directed by Toby Twining, will perform a variety of carols and English madrigals -- songs with lyrical content and freely imitative style that were popular in the courts of English nobles. Following the concert all are invited to dine on the snacks of medieval lords and ladies at an Elizabethan reception. The event is sponsored by the University Center and the Department of Music. For ticket information call 410.455.6300, for general information please call 410.455.2942 or visit Arts. # # # Posted by dwinds1 October 13, 1997 POPULAR CULTURE EXPERT PETER ROLLINS TO SPEAK AT UMBC Peter Rollins brings his unique perspective and eclectic cultural opinion to UMBC when he speaks about World War I in the American Mind� at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3 in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. This event, co-sponsored by the English department and the Humanities Forum, is free and open to the public. BALTIMORE - Peter Rollins brings his unique perspective and eclectic cultural opinion to UMBC when he speaks about World War I in the American Mind� at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3 in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. This event, co-sponsored by the English department and the Humanities Forum, is free and open to the public. Known for his expertise on various aspects of American culture, Rollins often speaks about the impact of Hollywood and the film industry on perceptions of war, history and literature. In his discussion at UMBC, he will focus on the creation of World War I perceptions and their role in American society. A Regents professor of English and American film studies at Oklahoma State University , Rollins currently serves as the director of development for the National Popular Culture Association/ American Culture Association and is founder and co-moderator of the group's online discussion forum. His film titles include Television's Vietnam: The Impact of Media (1986), a PBS film narrated by Charlton Heston which was described by former President Ronald Reagan as something all Americans should see.� Rollins has served as editor for several publications and his articles have been recorded for National Public Radio and appeared in journals such as the Journal of American Culture and the Phi Kappa Phi Journal. UMBC's Humanities Forum is a free annual public series that brings nationally and internationally known scholars to discuss contemporary issues in the humanities. For more information on the Rollins lecture, please call 410.455.6798. # # # Posted by dwinds1 October 12, 1997 UMBC'S END OF THE EDGE SERIES PRESENTS THE NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE The UMBC New Music Ensemble directed by Tom Goldstein will play at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3 in Fine Arts Studio 508. The concert, part of UMBC's End of the Edge series, is free and open to the public. BALTIMORE - The UMBC New Music Ensemble directed by Tom Goldstein will play at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, December 3 in Fine Arts Studio 508. The concert, part of UMBC's End of the Edge series, is free and open to the public. Featuring a number of contemporary works, the concert will showcase both instrumental and vocal compositions. For selections from John Cage's Song Books, a series of solos for voice, the ensemble will be joined by Baltimore Voiceworks. Other works to be played include Edges by Christian Wolff, De La Tierra by Sergio Cervetti, Virgil Thomson's Invention for Guitar and James Tenney's Monody, a clarinet solo featuring Laura Hanyok. The concert will also present the premiere of The Borrowed Money by UMBC student Wil Redman. For more information please call 410.455.MUSC or visit Arts. # # # Posted by dwinds1 October 10, 1997 UMBC STUDY EXAMINES RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORCHESTRAS AND THEIR HOST CITIES A new report, "Symphony Orchestras and Local Governments," from the Maryland Institute of Policy Analysis and Research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, explores the nature of symphony orchestras' interaction with local government at a crucial juncture in federal arts funding. Baltimore, MD -- A new report, "Symphony Orchestras and Local Governments," from the Maryland Institute of Policy Analysis and Research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, explores the nature of symphony orchestras' interaction with local government at a crucial juncture in federal arts funding. "The reduction of NEA funding offers an opportunity to lead state and local governments in thinking about new ways to support orchestras and other arts organizations," states Arthur T. Johnson, author of the study and professor of political science at UMBC. The report examines orchestra financial data and survey responses from managing directors of 55 of the approximately 100 American orchestras with operating budgets of at least $1 million. Symphony orchestras in cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Memphis and Shreveport responded to questions regarding public funding as a percentage of total revenues, concert hall conditions and renovation plans, community outreach efforts, and local government and its effects on orchestra activities. (See the attached page for a complete list of orchestras responding to the survey.) According to Johnson's study, public funding represents approximately 6 percent of the responding orchestras' revenues. Without this funding, 30 of 34 orchestras in the sample operating at a surplus in 1996 would have incurred a deficit. Close to 70 percent of the respondents received financial support from their city governments and nearly one third (31 percent) received more funding from their local governments than state and federal resources. Community outreach activities were required by 75 percent of the cities and counties funding the orchestras in the study. In addition, 58 percent of the sample identified special activities to improve race relations, the sense of community or civic identity. Sixty-nine percent took part in activities in support of local charities. More than half of the respondents (54 percent) expect to increase their emphasis on outreach in the future. The study provides an understanding of how orchestras operate and offers recommendations to assist local officials in developing public policy for their community's cultural institutions, especially symphony orchestras. "Symphony orchestras are essentially small businesses that can be positive contributors to the local economy, bringing regional and national attention to a city and serving as an important focal point in many peoples' lives," explains Johnson. For more information or to obtain a copy of the report, contact Arthur Johnson at the Maryland Institute of Policy Analysis and Research by telephone at 410.455.2195 or by email to ajohnson@umbc.edu. # # # Posted by dwinds1 October 5, 1997 UMBC PRESENTS 14TH ANNUAL INDIAN MUSIC AND DANCE FESTIVAL Musicians from across the country will share the classical and folk traditions of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh at the 14th Annual Indian Music and Dance Festival to be held in UMBC's Fine Arts Recital Hall on Friday, November 21 through Sunday, November 23. Tickets for a Friday evening dinner and concert are $15, or $10 for the concert only. Admission to the dance competition on Saturday and Sunday is $5 each day and $7 for both days. All events are open to the public. BALTIMORE - Musicians from across the country will share the classical and folk traditions of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh at the 14th Annual Indian Music and Dance Festival to be held in UMBC's Fine Arts Recital Hall on Friday, November 21 through Sunday, November 23. Tickets for a Friday evening dinner and concert are $15, or $10 for the concert only. Admission to the dance competition on Saturday and Sunday is $5 each day and $7 for both days. All events are open to the public. The festival, sponsored by UMBC's Department of Music and the Academy of Indian Music and Fine Arts in Catonsville, is the only event of its kind on the East Coast. The festival is part of an effort to promote appreciation for the artistic traditions of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Music performances and dance competitions regularly draw participants from across the nation, including the thousands of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi nationals who live in the region. Over 100 performers of all ages will be dressed in colorful native costumes to compete in the categories of classical, devotional and film songs; classical and folk dance; sitar and tabla (Indian drums). In addition, a variety of Indian food will be for sale. The competition will kick off with a 6:30 p.m. dinner and a 7:30 p.m. concert on Friday, November 21. The concert features classical vocalist Sunil Mungee and sitar player Hidayat Khan with a tabla duet by Enayet Hussain and Patrick. For more information or to reserve dinner tickets, call 410.747.3950 COMPETITION SCHEDULE (approximate and may be subject to change) 9:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday, November 22 10 a.m.-12:15 p.m.: Bhajan (devotional odes to Hindu gods and goddesses) / Shabad (devotional odes to the Sikh god) 12:15-12:45: Classical vocal 12:45-2:35 p.m.: Bharatnatyam (classical dance) 2:35-4:35 p.m.: Sitar 4:35-7:15 p.m.: Tabla (Indian Drums) 7:15-end: Classical vocals 9 a.m.-6:35 p.m. Sunday, November 23 9:30-11 a.m.: Bhajan (religious vocals) 11 a.m.-12:45 p.m.: Film songs 12:45-2:15 p.m. Nazrul Geeti (classical songs based on Bengali poetry) / Rabindra Sangeet (based on Bengali poetry of Nobel Laureate Rabindra Nath Tagore) 2:15-5:05 p.m.: Ghazal (songs based on romantic Urdu poetry from Mughal history) 5:05-6:35 p.m.: Folk dance 6:35-end: Awards ceremony # # # Posted by dwinds1 September 26, 1997 UMBC PRESENTS MINDFEST A CELEBRATION OF THE POWER OF IDEAS AND INFORMATION Probe the corners of your mind, turn your every move into music, let your children delve into science adventures and learn the ropes from a world chess champion at UMBC's third annual MindFest, a celebration of the power of ideas and information, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18 at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. BALTIMORE - Probe the corners of your mind, turn your every move into music, let your children delve into science adventures and learn the ropes from a world chess champion at UMBC's third annual MindFest, a celebration of the power of ideas and information, from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18 at the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery. The Baltimore-Washington community is invited to this daylong festival to challenge and explore the outstanding resources, faculty and students of UMBC. Not just another Saturday in the library, MindFest draws thousands of people to the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery for recitals, seminars, children's programs and exhibitions of the latest interactive technology to provoke minds of all ages. It's happening at MindFest, don't let it happen without you. Festivities include trips on the Information Superhighway and shows of the latest interactive software, including The Very Nervous System, that creates live sound as people move through space. Members of UMBC's critically acclaimed Doug Hamby Dance will give it a whirl as they blend improvisational dance with system dynamics. Also featured is a screening of Nasty Girl, a film examining Nazi persecution, followed with a lecture by the film's real life heroine, Anna Rosmus. Children can navigate through Adventures in Science, an interactive exhibit exploring the wonders of science and be captivated by storybook fun, theater makeup, costumes and more. Parents are offered seminars on how to read to their children and can consult Education Department members for an individual analysis of their preschooler's reading skills. The popular Chessfest welcomes International Grandmaster Alexander Shavalov for amateur and intermediate chess instruction (10-11 a.m.; free play 11 a.m.-2 p.m.). Quiz Bowl trivia matches every fifteen minutes will set minds in motion; all are invited to match wits with the UMBC chess team. The Mechanical Engineering Department's Mini-Baja will steer you through the construction and a demonstration of their all-terrain vehicle and Mission to Planet Earth will launch a display of Internet imagery showing how scientists harness satellites and aircraft to study the Chesapeake Bay. MindFest is co-sponsored by the a (Baltimore Sun) and (WJZ-TV13). For more information please call 410-455-2902 . # # # Posted by dwinds1 UMBC PRESENTS SCREENING OF Nasty Girl WITH LECTURE BY FILM'S REAL -LIFE HEROINE The critically acclaimed film, Nasty Girl, which examines anti-Semitism and Nazi persecution will be screened at UMBC's MindFest at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18. Author Anna Rosmus, whose life work serves as the basis of the film, will speak about her experiences as part of the screening. MindFest events are free and open to the public. BALTIMORE - The critically acclaimed film, Nasty Girl, which examines anti-Semitism and Nazi persecution will be screened at UMBC's MindFest at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 18. Author Anna Rosmus, whose life work serves as the basis of the film, will speak about her experiences as part of the screening. MindFest events are free and open to the public. Rosmus, from Passau, Germany, uncovered her hometown's hidden Nazi past while writing an essay for a contest as a teenager. For thirteen years she has dedicated her life to uncovering and documenting the anti-Semitism and Nazi history of her hometown in Bavaria. Rosmus has researched, located and published the stories and artwork of Jews who were exiled from Passau and she works tirelessly against the neo-Nazi movement and the extreme right in Germany. Her latest book, Wintergreen: Suppressed Murders , documents the atrocities in her hometown at the end of the war including the slaying of 2,000 Soviet prisoners, the murder of slave laborers' infants and the efforts to change memorials to victims so that Nazi horrors would be forgotten. Rosmus has endured verbal abuse, death threats and lawsuits in response to her dedication to the memories of those who faced Nazi persecution. She has published several other books and was the subject of a 60 Minutes interview which aired last January. The screening and lecture, co-sponsored by the UMBC German Club and the Student Events Board, are part of MindFest, an annual celebration of the power of ideas and information. UMBC invites the Baltimore-Washington community to the daylong festival to challenge and explore its outstanding resources, faculty and students. For more information about MindFest or the screening please call 410-455-2902 . # # # Posted by dwinds1 September 4, 1997 THE UMBC HUMANITIES FORUM PRESENTS G. RICKEY WELCH UMBC DEAN OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The UMBC Humanities Forum presents a free lecture by Dr. G. Rickey Welch, UMBC Dean of Arts and Sciences, on "Artscience in the New Millennium: Observer-Created Reality and Scientific Theory." The free lecture will be held at 4 pm on Wednesday, September 24 in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Baltimore, MD--The UMBC Humanities Forum presents a free lecture by Dr. G. Rickey Welch, UMBC Dean of Arts and Sciences, on "Artscience in the New Millennium: Observer-Created Reality and Scientific Theory." The free lecture will be held at 4 pm on Wednesday, September 24 in the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Welch will discuss the differences and commonalities between the sciences and the arts in perspectives on nature, as well as the role of the human participant in shaping world views. He will examine the current philosophical thought on unified world views as we approach the millennium. A theoretical biophysicist, Welch was recently elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the former dean of graduate studies and professor of biological sciences at the University of New Orleans, where he won many university- and statewide administrator of the year awards. The UMBC Humanities Forum is a free annual public lecture series which invites nationally- and internationally-acclaimed speakers, including UMBC faculty, to discuss a variety of issues in the humanities. Lectures are presented by the Humanities Forum, a program of UMBC's Center for the Humanities, as well as academic departments. For more information on this and other Humanities Forum lectures please call the UMBC Center for the Humanities at (410) 455-6798. # # # Posted by dwinds1 UMBC HUMANITIES FORUM FALL 1997 SERIES Fall 1997 Series Schedule of UMBC Humanities Forum October 7: Shelly Haley, ancient studies scholar. 4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery "Against All Odds: Black Women Classicists in the 19th Century" Haley will discuss "Against All Odds: Black Women Classicists in the 19th-Century Colleges." She studies gender and race in the ancient Greek and Roman world and teaches at Hamilton College in New York. Her lecture is also presented as part of UMBC Ancient Studies Week. October 9: Ellen Reeder, curator of ancient art, The Walters Art Gallery. 7 pm, location to be announced. Reeder organized Pandora: Women in Classical Greece at The Walters and wrote a book based on the popular exhibition. Her lecture is also presented as part of UMBC Ancient Studies Week. October 15: Oliver Sacks, neurologist and novelist. 7 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall. "An Anthropologist on Mars" Sack's book, Awakenings, was hailed as "a masterpiece" and became the subject of the film by the same name. The book chronicles his experience with survivors of the epidemic of sleeping sickness that swept the world from 1916-27. He is also known for his phenomenally successful The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. In 1989 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on the neurological disorder Tourette's Syndrome. October 20: Lee Gass, zoologist. 1 pm, Lecture Hall V, Engineering/Computer Science Bldg. "Patterns in Nature, Art and Perception: Toward the Transcendence of Discipline in Science, Art and Education" Gass is an associate professor in the Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia and his main area of research is the hummingbird. His lecture is presented in conjunction with the UMBC Department of Biological Sciences. October 21: Yvonne Rainer, filmmaker. 4 pm, Fine Arts Recital Hall "Out of a Corner of the 60s" Rainer's work has been shown extensively in the U.S. and abroad and she has received numerous awards and fellowships. She was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, the beginning of a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern dance in the following decades. Rainer is also the Visual Arts Department's Visiting Artist for the Fall 1997 semester. October 22: Elizabeth Minnich, feminist philosopher and educator. 4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. "Figuring Out Diversity: Reconfiguring Reality" Minnich, a professor at the Union Institute Graduate School, wrote the award-winning book, Transforming Knowledge (Temple University Press, 1990). This lecture is also presented in conjunction with the Women's Studies Program. October 30: Judith Hemschemeyer, poet. 7 pm, Lecture Hall V, Engineering and Computer Science Building. "Anna Akhmatova: A Poet and Her Country" Hemschemeyer is known for her translations of the more than 700 poems of Anna Akhmatova (Zephyr Press, 1989). She won the Associated Writing Program's book prize in 1986 for her own collection of poetry, The Ride Home. Hemschemeyer is an assistant professor at the University of Central Florida. She is the Honors College Visiting Scholar for the Fall 1997 semester. November 5: Iain McCalman, historian. 4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. "Controlling the Riots: Dickens, Romanticism and Revolution" McCalman will discuss "Controlling the Riots: Dickens, Romanticism and Revolution." He is a professor and director of the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University. Also presented as the History Department's Webb Lecture for Fall 1997. November 14: Paula Giddings, historian. 7:30 pm, University Center Ballroom. A well-known journalist and author, Giddings has written three books exploring Black women's social and political roles throughout history and is former Paris bureau chief for Encore American and Worldwide News. She is research professor in women's studies at Duke University. Giddings is also the African-American Studies Department's W.E.B. DuBois Scholar for the Fall 1997 semester. December 3: Peter Rollins, popular culture expert. 4 pm, Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. "New Media and Popular Culture" Rollins is editor-in-chief of Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies, a pioneering film journal focusing on the relationship between media and history. He is Regents Professor of English and American/Film Studies at Oklahoma State University. His lecture is sponsored by the English Department. The Humanities Forum will continue in the Spring of 1998 with a series on "The Creative Act." # # # Posted by dwinds1 August 27, 1997 UMBC'S FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS MINIMAL POLITICS: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper, Yvonne Rainer UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents Minimal Politics, an exploration of the complex relationship between visual form and ideology in the work of five major American artists: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper and Yvonne Rainer. It is organized by Maurice Berger, Consulting Curator for the Fine Arts Gallery and Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of the New School for Social Research in New York. Baltimore, MD--UMBC's Fine Arts Gallery presents Minimal Politics, an exploration of the complex relationship between visual form and ideology in the work of five major American artists: Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, Robert Morris, Adrian Piper and Yvonne Rainer. It is organized by Maurice Berger, Consulting Curator for the Fine Arts Gallery and Senior Fellow at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics of the New School for Social Research in New York. The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, September 25, 1997 through Saturday, January 17, 1998. A reception will be held from 5-7 pm on Thursday, October 23. Yvonne Rainer will present a free public lecture on "Out of a Corner of the 60s" at 4 pm on Tuesday, October 21 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. A free Rainer film retrospective will also be held at UMBC (see attached schedule). MURDER and murder, Rainer's most recent film, will be screened at 7:30 pm on Thursday, December 4 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Minimal Politics traces the evolution of the artistic style and conceptual thinking of the artists over the last thirty years--as their work has evolved from a more minimal, formal aesthetic to embrace a variety of overtly ideological points of view. In some cases earlier and later work will be juxtaposed for contrast, in others, work will be shown that clearly blends the conceits of minimal form with political content. The exhibition asks a number of significant historical, conceptual and aesthetic questions: What aspects of the earlier minimal/conceptual sensibility would engender a political response in the later careers of these artists? What aspects of the earlier sensibility had to be rejected in their later work in order to transcend the formalist sensibility of the earlier work? Were some of the political issues explored already inherent in their earlier work? And finally, what are the implications of these relationships to contemporary art and culture as a whole? Hans Haacke's dynamic and politically-incisive sculptures and installations (e.g. Global Marketing (1986) will be juxtaposed with earlier, less content-driven work, such as his condensation boxes of the mid-1960s. Mary Kelly has, over the past 25 years, transformed the formal and intellectual foundations of minimal art (a movement she also examined as a writer) into a complex discourse on feminism and masculinity, patriarchy and the political economy of sexuality. Her minimalist experiments in the late 1960s and 1970s involved works and installations that confronted the viewer's phenomenological and perceptual awareness and sense of place. Kelly's representation at UMBC will include sections of Post-Partum Document (1973), Post-Partum Document Prototype (1974) and Potestas (1989). Robert Morris will be represented by early minimalist plinths (Untitled [Four Mirrored Cubes], 1965) from the mid-1960s, ideologically-oriented drawing, etchings and war memorials from the 1970s (In the Realm of the Carceral, 1978) as well as his more recent work on the visual and rhetorical power of Nazism. Adrian Piper's early minimalist-conceptualist work (Hypotheses Series, 1968-70) will be juxtaposed with her large-scale installations that blend a stark minimalist style with overt and challenging statements and soundtracks about racism (White Cube/Black Cube, 1992). Yvonne Rainer will be represented by 25 performance stills (by the late Peter Moore, some annotated by Rainer herself), a film loop of her early and influential dance, Trio A and 30 dance notation drawings from her early and pioneering work as a minimalist choreographer at the Judson Dance Theater in the mid-1960s. These works will be juxtaposed with a loop of excerpts of recent film clips, selected by Rainer, as well as a major festival of her groundbreaking political films, including Film About a Woman Who (1974), The Man Who Envied Women (1985) and Privilege (1990). Maurice Berger also serves as series editor for the Fine Arts Gallery's new journal series, Issues in Cultural Theory, which will accompany their exhibitions. The first issue will be dedicated to Minimal Politics. Fine Arts Gallery hours are 10 am-5 pm, Tuesdays through Saturdays. For more information call (410) 455-3188. # # # Posted by dwinds1 August 22, 1997 VOICES OF KOREA ENSEMBLE TO PERFORM AT UMBC The unique musical tradition of Korean song and dance will be on display as The Voices of Korea ensemble brings a piece of the Orient to UMBC. The ensemble will demonstrate various styles of Korean musical expression at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, November 11 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall; admission is free. BALTIMORE - The unique musical tradition of Korean song and dance will be on display as The Voices of Korea ensemble brings a piece of the Orient to UMBC. The ensemble will demonstrate various styles of Korean musical expression at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, November 11 in the Fine Arts Recital Hall; admission is free. Traditional Korean vocal music can be divided into the three general categories of religious, court and folk. The Voices of Korea will perform both court music, which emphasizes universal realities over personal expression, and folk music, such as pansori and minyo, which celebrates human feelings, seasons and events. In contrast to the sublime nature of court music, folk songs are lively and dramatic, representing the aspirations and frustrations of common people. One pansori folk song featured in the performance, "Simchungga," is a solo dramatic opera form unique to Korea. A singer accompanied by one drummer performs multiple roles in a delicate interplay between vocalist and musician. This narrative epic is the most famous and highly developed folk form with complex vocal techniques and rhythms. The vocalists included in the program have been designated by the Korean government to become future National Living Treasures. As well as regular performances in Korea, they have toured throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. The musicians are from the Korean Traditional Culture Institute in Seoul. For additional information please call 410-455-MUSC or visit Arts Calendar # # # Posted by dwinds1 August 14, 1997 BALTIMORE VOICE(AND BODY)WORKS PRESENTS REQUIEM AT UMBC Flowing movements and music that revels in the expressiveness of the human voice will be on display at UMBC when Baltimore Voice(And Body)Works, a professional troup-in-residence at UMBC, presents Requiem. The evening length piece, conducted by UMBC artist-in-residence Toby Twining, will be performed at 8 p.m. on Saturday, November 1 and Sunday, November 2; admission is $8 general and $5 for students and seniors. BALTIMORE - Flowing movements and music that revels in the expressiveness of the human voice will be on display at UMBC when Baltimore Voice(And Body)Works, a professional troup-in-residence at UMBC, presents Requiem. The evening length piece, conducted by UMBC artist-in-residence Toby Twining, will be performed at 8 p.m. on Saturday, November 1 and Sunday, November 2; admission is $8 general and $5 for students and seniors. Requiem, a Catholic funeral mass written by Twining, is a cross-cultural blend of vocal technique, instrumentation and dance. The piece focuses on the ritual of burial and concludes with a discovery of peace through dance. Twelve dancers and six singers will be accompanied by an ensemble of vibraphones, percussion, brass and synthesizer. Choreography by artist-in-residence Darla Stanley combines the fluidity of release technique with more consciously driven movement. Dancers, adorned in rich jewel-tone colors, develop their movements through athletic partnering and improvisations focusing on heightened sensory perception. Twining is known for his ability to blend vocal techniques from different cultures. He weaves the sounds of Mongolian overtone singing, African drumming, Tibetan >vocal fry= and yodeling in traditional metered scores. In Requiem, Twining uses custom-made vibraphones with overtone singing and extended vocal technique in a non-traditional arrangement. Of his music Twining says, AThe possibilities for vocal sound are infinite...musical experience is not all cognitive; its sensual too. If you can=t groove with it, something is probably lacking." As an artist-in-residence, Twining brings a wealth of professional experience to UMBC. He studied piano at the University of Houston and composition at the University of Illinois. In 1989 he founded Mouth Music which debuted in Seoul, Korea, and three years later established Toby Twining Music, which made its European debut at De IJsbreker in Amsterdam. Darla Stanley=s choreography is influenced by sensory movements and release technique -- a post-modern style emphasizing the fluid movement of bones, not muscles. She has a degree in dance from Virginia Commonwealth University and has performed with a number of dance troups including ZeroMoving Dance Co. (Karen Bamonte Danceworks) and Melanie Stewart Dance. Stanley has choreographed performances in the eastern United States, Europe and South Africa. For additional information please call 410-455-MUSC or visit Arts # # # Posted by dwinds1 October 19, 1996 UMBC is good asdf sdfad Posted by dwinds1