Life News (Arts & Humanities)

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Grammy-winning jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater feels a surprising and special kinship with a small-college ensemble from Illinois: the Elmhurst College Jazz Band.

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For the past two years, MICA graphic design students have had a unique opportunity to work with The Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute in the only collaboration in the nation of an art college and medical institution.

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Emerging as one of today's most promising artists, Xiang Gao has performed for world leaders, such as former President George Bush, and the former President of China Xian-nian Li. His musical integrity and his virtuoso technique have gained accolades from reviewers around the world.

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An English actress and a French director among the world's foremost interpreters of the works of Samuel Beckett will be featured at a three-day festival celebrating the Nobel Prize-winning author, scheduled Oct. 9-11, at the University of Delaware in Newark, Del.

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"Land of Ice, Hearts of Fire: Inuit Art and Culture" is the title of an art exhibition set to open Sept. 10, at the University of Delaware, home of a comprehensive collection of rare Canadian Inuit drawings.

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"The University of Delaware is one of only three schools in the country with a graduate photograph conservation program, and our services are in demand," Debra Norris, chairperson of art conservation and a photo conservator, says.

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Peter Beudert travelled to Paris on a Fullbright to research 19th Century scenic design at the Paris Opera and ended up contributing the Bibliotheque Nationale's on line data base. Brian Ebie's undergraduate students in choral conducting have a real and very much alive secondary education student choir to help them practice what the learn. Ebie is in Music Education.

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Ty Jones, honored last month with an Obie Award for his work in the Off-Broadway production of "The Blacks: A Clown Show," is the latest graduate of the University of Delaware's prestigious Professional Theatre Training Program to take New York by storm.

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The University of Delaware and benefactor Paul R. Jones of Atlanta are preparing for a major art exhibition featuring works from the Paul R. Jones Collection, the largest private holding of works by African-American artists in the world, during the 2004-5 academic year.

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Students in a film/video class are gaining firsthand knowledge about the film industry by working with a Hollywood actor and cameraman to make a movie.

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An upcoming documentary by Dana Bingham, a communication arts graduate student at New York Institute of Technology, shows that segregated schools may not be such a bad thing and can actually be quite effective.

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Urban elementary school students "adopt" works of art in a program with a college art museum to learn about museums in society and art in their own lives.

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Keith Striga, an adjunct professor of architecture at New York Institute of Technology, has submitted the winning design for the Nassau County 9/11 Memorial. The memorial features two steel girders recovered from Ground Zero and a plaque with the names of all Nassau County residents lost in the attack.

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Poems written in response to the moral and psychological devastation of 9/11 were a major inspiration for Susan H. Case's recently published poetry chapbook, The Scottish Cafe.

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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has become a prominent test bed to prove how the latest technological advances, such as the super-fast Internet2 (I2), can serve as a platform for new artistic expression.

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French artist Jackie Matisse, creator of kite-like art works, premiered a new art form when her kites flew in Virginia Tech's virtual-reality CAVE(tm). The new artistic technology is being explored and researched at Virginia Tech, and being expanded to include sound for future exhibitions in Europe.

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Williams College Museum of Art will present Three Visions of Rural America: Recently Acquired Works on Paper. Kara Walker's 2003 Negress Notes (Slavery Reparations Act), a series of watercolors and the museum's newest purchase, is featured along with lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton and photographs by Kristin Capp.

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Professional designers interpreting the 21st Century home will be the focus of a groundbreaking exhibition opening. Entitled "transformation," the exhibition reflects the often unorthodox approach that designers bring to iconic pieces for the home, and showcases works that use unexpected and surprising materials, processes, or forms to reinvent the familiar.

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The College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University's Fine Arts Programming has announced its 2003-04 Fine Arts Series.

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Colgate University will host its eighth annual Chenango Valley Writers' Conference from June 15 through June 21.

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The Chenango Summer MusicFest, presented by Colgate University and the village of Hamilton, celebrates the opening of summer with a special blend of chamber music concerts and festivities over four days in June.

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The Spring/Summer Gallery Schedule at the Montserrat College of Art Gallery (Beverly, MA), May 30 - Sep 12.

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Anne Harris, a well known painter who stretches the boundaries of traditional portraiture, will show her work and conduct a three day Master Class at Montserrat College of Art in early June.

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The most comprehensive exhibition of Monhegan art ever mounted anywhere will open at Hamilton College's Emerson Gallery. Covering the entire history of Monhegan Island art, beginning in 1858 and continuing until the present day, the exhibition includes works representative of every major school of art of the last 150 years.

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Sixteen Ball State University students hope their $10 introduction to theater DVD will serve as a spark that helps drive down the cost of college textbooks.

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A Purdue University professor is utilizing video game and motion picture technology to experiment with dance choreography. A dance professor teamed with faculty and staff from the School of Technology to manipulate traditional dance into a multisensory performance. This is a new method of problem solving for me that inspires a world of choreographic possibilities.

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West Virginia University Art Professor Paul Krainak has a number of exhibitions opening in the region featuring paintings from the series "Recuperated Spaces" that he completed while on sabbatical during the spring of 2003.

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Turchin Center for the Visual Arts Opens at Appalachian State University.

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Artist JSG Boggs is creating a permanent 9x20 foot digital painting of a "Boggs bill" at Babson College, visible from College Drive behind floor-to-ceiling windows. Based on the twenty-pound English banknote that commemorates the life of William Shakespeare, the artwork will reflect Babson's commitment to the arts, a valuable component of educating creative business leaders.

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Cancer survivor, mother and artist available to discuss emotional and physical challenges of cancer and the healing power of art.

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Carnegie Mellon University's School of Music announces the Jeanne Baxtresser International Flute Master Class to be held June 21- 29, 2003.

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Among the many programs in the arts that flourish during the summer months are festivals, conferences and workshops in puppetry, an art form that can serve as a window into all the creative arts and is growing in popularity around the country.

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Russian pianist Yakov Kasman, D.M.A., the 1997 silver medal winner at the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, joined the University of Alabama at Birmingham as assistant professor of piano and Artist-in-Residence.

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The discovery of a musical treasure purloined from Berlin by invading Soviets in 1945 will be the focus of an international symposium at Rhodes College in November.

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Sigmar Polke: Recent Paintings and Drawings is a major exhibition of the renowned German artist's work of the last six years. It will be an important opportunity to see a body of recent accomplishments and many of the large scale works will be on public view for the first time.

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The Icelandic/Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is to undertake the fourth in The Unilever Series of commissions for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. Olafur Eliasson has become known for his installations and sculptures featuring natural materials such as light, steam, water, fire, wind and ice.

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The James Joyce Quarterly at The University of Tulsa celebrates 40 years of publication in conjunction with the 2003 North American James Joyce Festival at TU June 16-20. This year's conference theme is "Post Industrial Joyce."

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The H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute is pleased to present the exhibition, Wenda Gu: from middle kingdom to biological millennium, which will be on view at the Artspace from June 7 to July 12.

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Karen McCoy, Chair of the Sculpture Department at the Kansas City Art Institute, has been named Lead Artist for the National Bicentennial Commemoration of the Lewis & Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase.

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Parsons School of Design announces a call for proposals to exhibit in their two New York City galleries. Parsons Exhibitions provides exhibition space, promotion and publicity, to display, study, and interpret how design impacts daily life -- whether that impact is historical, social, cultural, environmental, or technological.

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Entitled "transformation," the exhibition reflects the often unorthodox approach that designers bring to iconic pieces for the home, and showcases works that use unexpected and surprising materials, processes, or forms to reinvent the familiar.

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Smart design ideas and fresh concepts have emerged in a remarkable partnership between DaimlerChrysler Corporation and Parsons School of Design, a division of New School University.

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Sheila C. Johnson, co-founder of BET and philanthropist, awarded Parsons Fashion Design student and Durham, North Carolina native, Karri Lynn Files, a full scholarship for her senior year at the School, an award value of more than $25,000.

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The University of Arkansas Press fall catalog highlights the life of a former governor and the fictional story of an Iraqi peasant family during the Iran-Iraq war among its 12 new titles.

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On 10 June, the Museo del Prado will inaugurate the exhibition Tiziano, featuring the largest group of works by the artist to be shown together since 1935. It will also be the first exhibition devoted to the artist's work in Spain.

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The case of a talented artist whose paintings evolved as her dementia progressed suggests that language skills are not necessary, and may even inhibit, some types of creativity.

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Tate Britain will hold a solo exhibition of the work of the Turner Prize winner Wolfgang Tillmans in June 2003. Born in Germany, but based in London, Tillmans has built up a considerable reputation in the last ten years, working almost exclusively as a photographic artist. This will be his first monographic museum exhibition in the UK and has been conceived especially for Tate Britain.

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Cruel and Tender is the first major photography exhibition at Tate Modern and the first to explore this realist vein in depth. Many iconic images of the twentieth century come from this tradition and are included among the portraits, interiors, landscapes and cityscapes that comprise the exhibition.

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A major exhibition devoted to the work of Bridget Riley will open at Tate Britain in June 2003. Bridget Riley is one of Britain's most respected artists and one of the few contemporary painters with a truly international reputation.

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Under the umbrella of AFI ON SCREEN, AFI will consolidate its programming mandate to present the finest and most diverse film programming possible. AFI ON SCREEN will be the signature standard for all AFI film programs now becoming widely available to the general public.