| NEWS | 7:22:47 PM, 8/20/2008 |
ID Number = 674
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Look for the New Newsletter Next Fall
Submitted by = Ashleigh Gallant
Body :
Check your inboxes in August for the College of Visual & Performing Arts updated Arts Newsletter! Feel free to contact Ashleigh Gallant with suggestions of what you’d like to see in the newsletter. Would you like more event information? Would like to see more information about our Alumni? Let us know.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 673
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Tampa Connection Visits USF
Submitted by = Ashleigh Gallant
Body :
On March 4 the Tampa Connection, a leadership and service organization that helps emerging business professionals realize the full potential of Tampa Bay, visited CVPA. Members of the organization participate in monthly events. Last month the focus was on the arts. For years this organization took their classes to another arts venue and felt that the experience needed to be more interactive. With the help of CVPA faculty and staff, Tampa Connection was introduced to the arts in a fully interactive way. Lisa Lehmberg, Ph. D candidate in Music Education, taught the visitors how to play the African drums; Theatre and Dance professors Merry Lynn Morris and Kerry Glamsch taught the art of improvisation; and the staff at Graphicstudio showed each how to find their personal creativity. The response from the group members was exceptional.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 672
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Who's That Lady?
Submitted by = Brenda Woodard
Body :
That’s no lady – that’s Picasso’s “Bust of a Woman” ….and she could have been ours, here, at USF. Chicago had a major Picasso sculpture; New York had one, as did a number of major European cities. We could have had a 100’ foot sculpture – the largest in the world by Picasso – but we don’t. Let’s take a short walk down history lane to learn why.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 671
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = CAM gets Andy Warhol Photos
Submitted by = Ashleigh Gallant
Body :
The Contemporary Art Museum, Institute for Research in Art is pleased to announce that it will receive a significant gift of photographs by the internationally renowned pop artist Andy Warhol. The gift comes to USF CAM from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, under the auspices of the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. This unprecedented program honors the 20th anniversary of the Warhol Foundation by making substantial gifts of Warhol’s photographic works to university and college museums and collections across the United States.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 670
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Retiring Faculty
Submitted by = Brenda Woodard
Body :
It is with a touch of sadness that we announce the retirement of three of our Music faculty who have served as anchors in that area for decades and who have provided us with many evenings of delightful and rewarding music experiences. Please read below what are only much abbreviated highlights of their lengthy and illustrious careers.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 669
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Postdoctoral Getty
Submitted by = Ashleigh Gallant
Body : 
Congratulations to Noel Schiller for her achievement in being awarded a Getty Postdoctoral fellowship. Schiller, Assistant Professor of Northern Renaissance and Baroque art history, has been awarded a Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project entitled, "Engaging Laughter: Representing Perception, Sensation, and the Passions in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art." During the next academic year, Schiller will be completing research for several articles as well as working on her book project at a variety on institutions including the National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, Maryland) and the Koninklijk Bibliotheek, The Hague (Netherlands).
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 668
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Faculty Fulbrights
Submitted by = Ashleigh Gallant
Body :
The College of Visual & Performing Arts is proud to announce that three faculty members have been awarded Fulbrights- Michael Foley, Kerry Glamsch, and Michael Timpson.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 667
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Student and Alumni Recognitions
Submitted by = Ashleigh Gallant
Body :
Roe Adams (Theatre Design) received the prestigious Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region IV Barbizon Award in Costume Design for her work on The Rocky Horror Show.
Jeremy Chandler (current MFA student) was named Tampa’s Photographer Laureate for 2008.
Big Guy (untitled), 15x20 Digital ink Jet Print, 2007
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 665
Category = memoriam
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Remembering Micheal Orin Koberstein
Submitted by = Stephen Ringo
Body :
Micheal Koberstein was our college’s webmaster and served in this role for almost six years. During his time here, Micheal worked with the staff and faculty to design and promote our college through our web presence to the greater university and to the world.
Not only was Micheal our webmaster, he was a student in the college and received a bachelor’s degree from the School of Art & Art History in 2002. He was creative with the use of technology and its application to the arts and was at the forefront of technology adaptation to the Internet 2 community around the world. Micheal gave keynote speeches to the Internet 2 consortium and led the way for USF’s major involvement in this new medium by designing and implementing an Internet 2 radio station and DVGuide system for Internet 2 video broadcasts used to this date to catalog current video streams available for viewing.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 664
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Faculty and Staff Awards
Submitted by = Ashleigh Gallant
Body :
The following faculty were recipients of the Provost Summer Grants, which were awarded in recognition of their creative/research activities: Bill Brewer (Theatre & Dance), Denis Calandra (Theatre & Dance), Michael Foley (Theatre & Dance), Elisabeth Fraser (Art & Art History), Victor Fung (Music), Gregory Green (Art & Art History), Svetozar Ivanov (Music), Riccardo Marchi (Art & Art History), Carolyn Stuart (Music), and Richard Zielinski (Music).
Recipients of CVPA Spring 2008 Research Grants were: Neil Bender (Art & Art History), Bill Brewer (Theatre & Dance), Denis Calandra (Theatre & Dance), Patrick Finelli (Theatre and Dance), Elisabeth Fraser (Art & Art History), Kim McCormick (Music), Anat Pollack (Art & Art History), John Robison (Music), and Michael Timpson (Music).
Carol Kerrigan, head of our Student Services and Advising Office, has received an Outstanding Staff Award and will be recognized in university-wide ceremony in Theatre I on May 13, 2:00 p.m.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 661
Category = Greetings
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Greetings from the Dean
Submitted by = Dean Ron Jones
Body :
These are not the best of times. We all know that. There is, therefore, a temptation to make that subject the focus of our spring newsletter. Recognizing that some might say we have our heads in the sand, this newsletter is about the many remarkable things that are and have been happening. For example, trying to ignore (or better yet, escape) the issue of budget cuts, our Director of the School of Music, Wade Weast, focuses his attention on some of the most positive happenings in the School during this academic year. The same can be said for the entire College. Make no mistake about it - budget cuts are real, challenging, and have brought a lot of anxiety to a College usually characterized by a positive and enthusiastic view of what is possible. But an exceptional faculty, increasingly extraordinary students, and our ambitions to be among the very best continue to serve us well and will get us through even these difficult times.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 659
Category = Event
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Continuing Collaboration with Tampa Museum
Submitted by = Brenda Woodard
Body :
For the third spring in a row, CVPA continues its Sunday series with the Tampa Museum of Art at the museum’s interim location on North Howard Avenue. Robert Lawrence was the first speaker this spring. John Robison engaged the audience on April 27 with a lute and vocal recital, and Vincent Ahern will round out the term on May 18 with a presentation on USF’s Public Art program.
Website :
http://www.tampagov.net/dept_tampa_museum_of_art
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 652
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Trisha Brown Awarded an Honorary Doctorate
Submitted by = Brenda Woodard
Body :
Trisha Brown, an icon of contemporary dance, will receive an Honorary Doctorate in Visual & Performing Arts at USF’s commencement ceremonies on May 3. Brown was previously linked to USF as the 2007 recipient of this college’s Distinguished Master Artist Award and through both her work at Graphicstudio and solo exhibition at the USF Contemporary Art Museum. Trisha Brown is perhaps the most widely acclaimed choreographer to emerge from the postmodern era. Her visionary work has bridged the gap between movement and postmodern visual art, and her collaborations with such luminaries in art and music as Robert Rauschenberg, John Cage, and Laurie Anderson are legend. We celebrate her living legacy as an international artist whose impact is unprecedented by bestowing upon her the university’s highest honor
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 645
Category = Director
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = What Budget Cuts?
Submitted by = Wade Weast
Body :
I don't know about you, but I have budget cut fatigue. After months and months of hearing about cuts, cuts, and more cuts, I have grown rather tired of reading, talking, and hearing about them. I suspect many of those reading this are in the same boat. At the risk of sounding like a Pollyanna, this Director's Perspective is offered as a celebration of a rather impressive list of things that have not been cut.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 642
Category = Event
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Moving Thought
Submitted by = Ashleigh Gallant
Body :
Exhibition: April 25 – May 24, 2008
USF Contemporary Art Museum
and USF Library Special Collections
USFCAM Hours: M-F 10am-5pm, Sat 1-4pm
Admission to the Museum is free; parking permit ($4.00) required.
Events are free and open to the public.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 641
Category = Event
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = Cameron Gainer: Impact Sight
Submitted by = Ashleigh Gallant
Body :
April 25 – May 24, 2008
USFCAM Hours: M-F 10am-5pm, Sat 1-4pm
Admission to the Museum is free; parking permit ($4.00) required.
May 4 – May 24, 2008
USF Botanical Gardens and USF Riverfront Park
Reception: Sunday, May 4, 4– 6pm
@ USF Botanical Gardens
Events are free and open to the public.
USFCAM is pleased to present an ambitious exhibition by New York based artist Cameron Gainer as the culmination of his residency at the Institute for Research in Art and the School of Art and Art History. Gainer’s work in photography, video, and sculpture explores the presence and power of photography in contemporary popular culture, particularly how a photograph can catalyze belief and disbelief. The exhibition brings together three large-scale sculptural works, including a new commission on view at CAM, and installations at the USF Botanical Gardens and USF Riverfront Park.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 638
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 5/1/2008 End Date =
Title = A Man for All Seasons - and Costumes
Submitted by = Brenda Woodard
Body :
By anyone’s standards, Bill Brewer is one busy fellow. Anyone regularly attending our theatre and dance performances over the last few years could attest to that as his name appears as costume designer for myriad productions. Audiences have been delighted by so many of his remarkable designs - from The Tempest to Rashomon, from Cuban Bread to Romeo and Juliet. Plus, he stepped into the directing role for this past fall’s wildly successful The Rocky Horror Show. But these are only his front-of-stage activities. What our audiences don’t know are his many involvements behind the scenes. Last year and this have proven to be rich in recognition for the college’s 2006 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching award winner. Early last year, the first-ever stage adaptation of a Carl Hiaasen novel, Lucky You (co-adapted and co-directed by colleague Denis Calandra), was performed at Key West’s Waterfront Playhouse. Brewer worked on the design for the play. Lucky You will open at the Edinburgh Festival in July.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 628
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Outstanding Faculty
Body :
This year ten CVPA faculty members were awarded Provost Summer Research Grants. The prestigious grants are awarded to outstanding USF faculty in order to foster excellence in research and scholarship. We’d like to once again congratulate each and every one of them!
Bill Brewer
Denis Calandra
Elisabeth Condon
Michael Foley
Elisabeth Fraser
Lynne Gackle
Gregory Green
Svetozar Ivanov
Scott Kluksdahl
Richard Zielinski
Here’s an abbreviated look in to the research these outstanding faculty have done, made possible by the grants:
:: Read Entire Article
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 627
Category = Event
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = The 12th Annual Franz Mantini USF Scholarship Concert
Body : 
A fixture on the classical calendar for over a decade at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, the scholarship concert has been a showcase for Franz Mantini’s piano performances and world-class chamber music. For the 12th Annual Scholarship Concert, Mantini welcomes Amy Schwartz Moretti, violin, Che-Yen “Brian” Chen, viola, and David Bjella, cello for this special performance on February 2 at 7 pm at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center.
The program includes Brahms Violin Sonata in A Major, Schumann Piano Quartet, and more.
Website :
www.tbpac.org
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 619
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = College Philanthropy
Body : 
This semester the College was successful in inviting Susan Murray to join us full time as our major gift officer and Director of College Philanthropy. In addition, Karen Frank has accepted the position as the Assistant Director of College Philanthropy.
Susan has been with USF since 2006 and has worked as the Director of Development for the College of Arts and Sciences and as Director of Special Gifts and Campaigns for USF Central Development.
Prior to joining USF, Susan was affiliated with the Institutional Advancement office of Southern Connecticut State University for six years, which included 14 months as Interim Vice President.
Karen has been with USF since 1999. She comes to the College from USF Central Development where she served as the Assistant Director for Gift Planning. Karen worked with internal and external constituencies to raise legacy gifts and assisted donors and their advisors with the technical aspects of planned giving. Prior to joining the Central Development Office, Karen served on the fundraising team at WUSF.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 618
Category = Director
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Talk of the Arts
Submitted by = Wallace Wilson
Body : 
This edition of the newsletter is an excellent opportunity to provide information about a new project in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. As a result of faculty recommendations about 18 months ago, “TALK OF THE ARTS”, an annual lecture and performance series, has been inaugurated this Fall and runs through Spring Semester, 2008.
With College funding, this ambitious guest artists and scholars series seeks to become nationally known for the reputations of its speakers and the interaction of them with our students.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 616
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = CVPA Announces the 2008 Robert Helps International Composition Competition $10,000 Prize Winner
Body : 
The University of South Florida’s School of Music is pleased to present the 2008 Robert Helps International Composition Competition $10,000 prize to composer Jerry Hui. His award-winning composition Of Water and Love, a work for chamber chorale, piano and clarinet-in-A, is based on poems by Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Mr. Hui’s composition will receive its world-premiere performance on February 16 during the Robert Helps Festival.
Website :
http://music.arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 611
Category = Event
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Bacchanalia Exhibition, William and Nancy Oliver Gallery
Body : 
Exhibition: November 26-29 and December 3-7, 11 am - 3:00 pm
Receptions: Friday, November 30, 7 pm - 9 pm and Friday, December 7, 7 pm - 9 pm
Exhibition by various artists from the Edible Aesthetic course in the School of Art and Art History.
Website :
http://wnogallery.arts.usf.edu/default.asp?n=exhibitions
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 609
Category = Event
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Homing Devices Exhibition, USF Contemporary Art Museum
Body : 
Homing Devices
Exhibition: October 26 – December 15, 2007
USFCAM Hours: M-F 10am-5pm, Sat 1-4pm
Admission to the Museum is free; parking permit ($4.00) required.
The exhibition Homing Devices considers the ways contemporary Latin American and Caribbean sculptors connect with the idea of “home” in an environment of increasing globalization, mobility, exile and migration in the Americas. By including works that are accented, but not defined by cultural, geographical or national boundaries, the exhibition considers the vital question of how art and artists preserve their identity within a global landscape.
Website :
www.cam.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 608
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Dean Ron Jones Elected President of ICFAD
Body : 
Dean Ron Jones was recently elected as President-Elect at the annual conference of the International Council of Fine Arts Deans (ICFAD). The President-Elect fulfills the general duties of vice-president for one year prior to assuming the Presidency for a two year term of office. Upon completion of the two year term the President continues to serve in the governance of the organization as immediate Past President.
ICFAD Mission Statement: “The International Council of Fine Arts Deans is an alliance of arts administrators representing institutions of higher education. ICFAD provides leadership in arts education, offers a forum for the exchange of ideas and information, and addresses issues of common concern. Further, ICFAD is committed to fostering the highest standards in the profession, encouraging global understanding and cooperation, providing services to its members, and offering leadership for the arts in society.”
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 607
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Dance Faculty Member Stages Work for Delfos Dance Company
Body : 
Dance faculty member Michael Foley recently had a one-week residency in Mazalatan, Mexico, where he staged a new choreographic work for the Delfos Dance Company.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 606
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Julie Weitz is CVPA's Outstanding Teacher of the Year
Body : 
Early Monday morning, October 8 president Judy Genshaft made a surprise visit to the drawing studio. She wanted to present to Julie Weitz her award as our College’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year in front of Julie’s own students. And, in fact, the students all agreed that Julie was a deserving recipient of this special recognition.
Click here to view a short video of President Judy Genshaft presenting Julie Weitz the College’s Outstanding Teacher of the Year award.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 605
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Trombone Choir Performs for 65,000 People
Body : 
The University of South Florida trombone choir performed the National Anthem before a sell-out crowd of 65,000 people at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game on Sunday, October 14. The trombone choir includes Luis Alvarez, Dave Martin, Robert Griffin, David Wright, Gerard Madrinen, Chris Lundquist, and Tom McNair and is conducted by Prof. Tom Brantley.
In a press conference after the game, head coach Jon Gruden was asked "How big a fan are you of the USF Bulls football team, ranked #2 in the nation?" His response included, "I had the band right in front of me playing the National Anthem, the trombone players, even they’re great, so they got it going on.” The quote ended up in a variety of Florida news media!
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 604
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = School of Music Participates in Global Concert Series
Body : 
The School of Music recently participated with the Philadelphia Orchestra in a pilot program, the Global Concert Series. This live concert by the world renowned Philadelphia Orchestra was broadcast in high definition from Verizon Hall at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia via Internet2. Other institutions who participated in the event include:
New World Symphony
Stony Brook University
University of Arizona
University of Colorado / Atlas Institution
University of Delaware
University of Rochester / Eastman School of Music
Wichita State University
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 603
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Music Faculty Perform in Buffalo
Body : 
New assistant professor of voice, Kyoung Cho and Assistant professor of voice/USF Opera program director, Won Cho presented a duo recital at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Buffalo, New York on October 20, Sunday. This concert was a part of Westminster Church Concert series and the recital featured Sacred Songs in Five languages and Korean Art Songs & Folk Songs.
After the concert, Won Cho was presented with the 2007 Educator of the Year Award by Opera Buffs of Western New York Inc, "For Teaching and Promoting the Operatic Tradition in Western New York" Opera Buffs of Western New York Inc. is an organization whose mission is to be enthusiastic advocates for the furtherance of opera through the media of education, attendance and support of opera and opera-related activities.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 602
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Art Faculty Member Lectures at Princeton
Body : 
Associate Professor of Art Rozalinda Borcila was recently an invited guest lecturer at Princeton University, part of the “/@rt” (Slash Arts) lecture series. Organized by the Princeton Art Museum Visual Arts Program, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Office of Information Technology, the Council for the Humanities, the Visual Arts Program, the Computer Science Department, the Music Department and the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, this lecture series explores interrelations of new media, the arts and humanities. The series invited a total of six visiting speakers for the current academic year, including Rudolf Frieling, Curator of Media Arts at SFMOMA, Argentinian-American artist Fabian Marcaccio and experimental music composer David Bithell.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 601
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Graphicstudio in New York Times
Body : 
USF’s Graphicstudio is mentioned in a November 2 New York Times art review of the International Fine Print Dealers Association Print Fair. Graphicstudio has a booth at the IFPDA, which is at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The Fair selects 89 galleries, publishers and private dealers from around the world to exhibit prints by contemporary and historical artists. Graphicstudio’s publications on display include prints and sculpture multiples by: James Rosenquist, Trisha Brown, Allan McCollum, Christian Marclay, Guillermo Kuitca, Burt Barr, Alex Katz etc.
The review mentions Graphicstudio in the context of Japanese woodblock prints:
Traditional Japanese woodblock prints are one of the fair’s main draws, as a category in themselves and as an influence on Western printmakers. Egenolf Gallery has a snowy view of Mount Haruna and other landscapes by Hiroshige; other fine examples can be found at the Art of Japan and Carolyn Staley. The Japanese aesthetic can be seen in Alex Katz’s prints of Maine landscapes (at Graphicstudio/University of South Florida) and in several domestic scenes by Mary Cassatt (at the Old Print Shop).
Website :
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02prin.html?_r=1&ref=arts&oref=slogin
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 599
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 12/1/2007 End Date =
Title = USF Alum Named UT Technical Director
Body :
Congratulations to Alex Amyot (BA, Design, 2003) has been hired as the new Technical Director of the University of Tampa. You can catch his work on "The Women" (Oct 18-21) and "110 in the Shade" (Nov 15-18) and the Fall Dance Happening (in which dancers perform in various locales on the UT campus including the veranda of Plant Hall, Oct 24-27).
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 598
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 11/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Theatre Alum Named UT Technical Director
Body :
Congratulations to Alex Amyot (BA, Design, 2003) has been hired as the new Technical Director of the University of Tampa. You can catch his work on "The Women" (Oct 18-21) and "110 in the Shade" (Nov 15-18) and the Fall Dance Happening (in which dancers perform in various locales on the UT campus including the veranda of Plant Hall, Oct 24-27).
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 597
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 11/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Theatre Alum Named UT Technical Director
Body :
Congratulations to Alex Amyot (BA, Design, 2003) has been hired as the new Technical Director of the University of Tampa. You can catch his work on "The Women" (Oct 18-21) and "110 in the Shade" (Nov 15-18) and the Fall Dance Happening (in which dancers perform in various locales on the UT campus including the veranda of Plant Hall, Oct 24-27).
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 591
Category = Event
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Elsewhere Symposium and Reception
Body :
Elsewhere Symposium
Friday, August 31, 2007
10am–noon at FAH101
The Symposium will feature presentations by: Artists Patty Chang and Emanuel Licha; Critical Theorist Derek Murray; and David Norr, Curator. Free
Elsewhere Reception
Friday, August 31, 2007
7–9pm at the USF Contemporary Art Museum
Join us to celebrate the exhibition. Free
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 590
Category = Event
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Elsewhere Exhibition
Body :
USF Contemporary Art Museum
August 27 – October 13, 2007
Elsewhere explores the familiar and often tragic theme of the quest. The artists included in this exhibition embark upon quixotic adventures to both real and imagined places - at times edging on the ridiculous, treacherous, and sublime. Pulling from sources as varied as Victorian expeditions, romantic tourism, travel literature, and Hollywood films, the artists in Elsewhere blend documentary styles with found footage, tableaux, and performance into potent mixtures of fact, fantasy, and feeling. To this end, they employ strategies of displacement, re-enactment, and repetition in an effort to erode the temporal boundaries implicit to existing representations of histories, identities, and geographies.
The exhibition combines emerging and historically significant artists, uncovering a succession of previously unimagined relationships between artists who have not been connected before. Elsewhere features ambitious works by a diverse group of international artists including: Olaf Breuning, Patty Chang, Stuart Hawkins, Nancy Holt/Robert Smithson, Joachim Koester, Sarah Anne Johnson, and Emanuel Licha.
Curated by David Norr, Curator of Exhibitions and organized by the USF CAM.
Website :
http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 589
Category = Event
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = CVPA announces its third annual $10,000 Robert Helps Prize
Body :
CVPA announces its third annual $10,000 Robert Helps Prize: a contest, world premiere performance, and composer-in-residency at the University of South Florida Music Recital Hall.
High stakes and tight competition are in the works for the young composers who submit their original compositions for the University of South Florida’s International Competition and Festival for Emerging Composers.
Website :
http://helpsprize.arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 587
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = David Mann to Perform in The Three Musketeers on NSMT Stage
Body : 
Congratulations to Assistant Professor David Mann of the School of Theatre and Dance! He has been cast as Rochefort in The Three Musketeers.
In its East Coast Premiere, one of the greatest adventure stories of all time explodes onto the NSMT (North Shore Musical Theatre) stage! THE THREE MUSKETEERS is a classic tale and now a swashbuckling new musical, with music by George Stiles, award-winning composer of Honk! and Broadway’s Mary Poppins. It will be directed by Matthew Francis, a former USF BRIT Program guest artist. NSMT is proud to partner with the prestigious Chicago Shakespeare Theatre to present the timeless coming-of-age story of young D’Artagnan as he joins forces with Athos, Aramis and Porthos to battle the malicious cardinal and save France. En garde!
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 586
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Merry Lynn Morris: Enabling Dance Through Research
Body : 
Congratulations to USF Dance Professor Merry Lynn Morris! New technology is allowing a disabled Bay area man, Dwayne Scheuneman, to pursue his passion for dancing. The new robotics technology is called the rolling dance chair, and is based on the principles of the Segway. Instead of manually moving the chair, body motion helps move the chair smoothly. “That was the idea," said dance professor Merry Lynn Morris. "We said, 'Can we create something that mirrors the lower body of a dancer?’” The rolling dance chair is still in development, but Scheuneman said it will one day free up his ability on the dance floor and also to do much more.
The rolling dance chair is the product of a collaboration between the USF's College of Engineering and the College of Visual & Performing Arts. To read the whole article and watch the video clip visit http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2007/6/2/256374.html.
The rolling dance chair has also recently been featured on
Channel 10
the St. Pete Times
TBO.com.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 585
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Neil Bender Featured in New American Paintings #70
Body : 
Assistant Professor Neil Bender's work is featured in the current edition of New American Paintings #70, the Southern edition, on newsstands now. The book was curated by Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 584
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Kerry Glamsch Traveled to Tanzania to Teach in the International Theatre & Literacy Project
Body : 
Kerry Glamsch, School of Theatre and Dance, traveled to Tanzania this summer to teach in the International Theatre & Literacy Project. The New York-based ITLP conducts playwriting workshops for children in developing countries. Glamsch is one of 10 theatre artists who will work in pairs with 100 teens during the program, being held June 28-July 12 at schools in various small villages near the city of Arusha in the northeastern corner of Tanzania.
Website :
http://www.itlp.org/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 583
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Tom Brantley has Released a New CD, Obsessed With Treasure
Body : 
School of Music Professor Tom Brantley has released a new CD, titled Obsessed with Treasure, on the Bearclaw Records label. The CD has received praise from John Fleming of the St. Petersburg Times, who wrote: “Tom Brantley, a trombonist par excellence who teaches at the University of South Florida, teams with composer and percussionist David Gluck of the music faculty at SUNY-Purchase in an exhilarating mix of jazz and pop, rock and classical. In 12 superbly engineered tracks, the duo and a host of guest artists range from salsa (Obsessed with Treasure) to bossa nova (Painted Mermaid) to an infectious performance of rhythm and blues icon Johnny Otis' Cold Shot. Why we like it: You could call the Gluck-Brantley style surrealistic (after their Salvador Dali-inspired work Lobster Telephone) or just plain soulful, but whatever their sound is, it has the bracing slap of complete originality.”
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 582
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Lynne Gackle Participateed in the Beijing International Choral Festival
Body :
Lynne Gackle, Assistant Professor of Choral Music Education, was invited to participate in the Beijing International Choral Festival July 8 – 18 in Beijing, China. Dr. Gackle is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Gulf Coast Youth Choirs, Inc. Student members from the Gulf Coast Choirs (Le Petit Choeur and Mannchor) participated in the festival which featured both Chinese choirs and 6 other American choirs. Le Petit Choeur was a featured choir on each of the concerts at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing and at the Zhong Hua Theater in Tianjin. Additionally, Dr. Gackle provided a clinic for the Chinese Choral Directors Association while in Tianjin and was able to complete a major component of a study being conducted by Dr. Gackle and Dr. Victor Fung, Professor of Music Education. The American students performed Chinese choral music for the Chinese choral directors who in turn evaluated their performance. The results of this study will be presented by Dr. Fung at the Asian Pacific Symposium for Music Education Research in Bangkok, Thailand at the end of July.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 581
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = One of Tampa's Best Musicians
Body : 
The Tampa Tribune’s “Friday Extra” section recently featured the School of Music’s Dr. William Wiedrich in a full-page interview entitled “Five Minutes with Bill Wiedrich.” Tribune music critic Kurt Loft described Wiedrich as “one of Tampa’s busiest musicians,” discussing such areas as the vitality of music education, concern for support for the arts, and musical passion.
Website :
http://www.tbo.com/entertainment/fridayextra/MGBHBU6AH3F.html
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 580
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 8/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Former Theatre Student Named Daily Show Correspondent
Body : 
Aasif Mandvi (Aasif Mandviwala), a former USF Theatre student, made his first appearance on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart as a contributor on August 9, 2006 and now is a correspondent for the show.
Aasif is the recipient of the 1999 OBIE award for his critically-acclaimed one-man show "Sakina's Restaurant,” and has New York stage credits including the 2002 Broadway revival of "OKLAHOMA!," "Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom," "Homebody/Kabul," "Suburbia," "Trudy Blue" and "Speak Truth to Power." Film and television credits include the title role in Merchant/Ivory's "The Mystic Masseur," "Music and Lyrics," "Spider-Man 2," "Freedomland," "The Siege," "Analyze This," "ABCD," "American Chai," "The War Within" "Sorry Haters," "Sex and the City," "Sleeper Cell," "The Sopranos," "The Bedford Diaries," "Oz," "CSI," "Law and Order," "Jericho," "ER," Ed and Tanner on "Tanner" directed by Robert Altman. Upcoming features include "Wedding Town," "The Understudy" and "Eavesdrop."
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 574
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Trumpeter Randy Brecker joins the Jazz Surge for Michael Brecker Tribute
Body : 
Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer Randy Brecker will join Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge for the University of South Florida Jazz Masterworks Series, April 21 to 23 at venues in the Tampa Bay area and Orlando.
The Jazz Surge, resident jazz orchestra at the USF Center for Jazz Composition, will perform original arrangements of compositions honoring Randy’s younger brother, Michael Brecker. The celebrated saxophonist and composer passed away Jan. 13, following a long battle with Myelodysplastic Syndrome and leukemia. He appears on the cover of the April issue of Down Beat magazine, and has been widely hailed as one of the most significant musicians of his generation. “Having taken a deep understanding of John Coltrane’s saxophone vocabulary and applied it to music that merged with mainstream culture — particularly jazz fusion and singer-songwriter pop of the 1970s and 80s — Mr. Brecker spread his sound all over the world,” Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times.
Website :
http://CenterForJazzComp.Arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 573
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = TheatreUSF Presents Rashomon
Submitted by = Amanda Clark
Body : 
The play runs April 5-7 and 12-14 at 8 pm and April 15 at 3 pm in Theatre 1 on the USF Tampa Campus.
Yours, mine, and the truth…
Rashomon is a fascinating study into the human psyche – where the same event is retold from four different perspectives, leaving the audience to come to their own conclusions about the truth.
A bandit is brought before the court and the facts are these: A Samurai and his wife were beset by the bandit on a road. He took them into a clearing, bound the Samurai to a tree, had his way with the wife, and from all appearances, ran the Samurai through with his own sword. Can this scene be something more than it seems on first telling? Is the wife a victim or is she culpable? Does the bandit have truer intentions, a sense of honor? What is the Samurai’s role in the events in the clearing, and how does he come to die?
Website :
www.arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 572
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Faculty Forum: UCLA Dean Presents The Arts in a Research University
Body : 
UCLA Dean of the School of the Arts and Architecture, Christopher Waterman will make a visit to the College of Visual & Performing Arts, FAH 101 on March 28 from 12-1 pm, to present The Arts in a Research University. Dean Waterman received his undergraduate degree in composition and electric bass from Berklee College of Music, and his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. As a bassist, he has performed with greats such as Zoot Sims, Larry Coryell, Buddy Emmons, the Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestras, and I.K. Dairo (M.B.E) and His Blue Spots. Dean Waterman has served as an associate professor of music, an adjunct professor of anthropology, head of the Ethnomusicology Division and chair of the African Studies Committee at the University of Washington, before becoming a professor at UCLA in the Department of World Arts and Cultures, and then becoming chair in 1997. Dean Waterman’s talk offers relevant information and insight to anyone working in the arts or arts education and is not to be missed. A casual light lunch will be served after the talk. This event is free to attend and open to the public.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 570
Category = Director
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Upcoming Exhibitions Schedule
Submitted by = Margaret Miller
Body :
April 27 – May 25, 2007
MFA Graduate Exhibition
The USF Contemporary Art Museum will host an exhibition featuring Master’s theses work by MFA Candidates in the School of Art and Art History. This exhibition will give the graduating students an opportunity to have their theses work viewed by the public, as well as University faculty and colleagues, in a professional environment. Artists include: Deon Blackwell, Jaime Carrejo, Shawn Cheatham, Alex Costantino, Leslie Elsasser, Andrea Ferguson, Chelsea Goodwin, Kara Holland, Jeffrey Sapsford, Greg Slimko and Larry Sheffield.
Website :
http://ira.usf.edu/index.html
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 551
Category = Director
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Collaborative and experimental…
Submitted by = Margaret Miller
Body : 
As the Director of the Institute for Research in Art, I have the privilege of providing leadership for the Contemporary Art Museum and Graphicstudio. The Contemporary Art Museum presents a changing program of contemporary exhibitions and is responsible for managing the University’s permanent collection of over 5,000 works of art. Graphicstudio is an experimental workshop engaged in research in the production of prints and by established and emerging artists who work in residence. The Public Art Program directed by Vincent Ahern is a separate program in the Contemporary Art Museum and Vincent is responsible for the Art in State Buildings Program on all the USF campuses which requires that ½ of 1% of the total budget for new State buildings be spent on art. The University of South Florida was recognized in Public Art Issues as having one of the 10 best University Public Art Programs in the United States.
Website :
http://ira.usf.edu/index.html
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 548
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Choral Masterworks from Bach to Britten: Reflections of a Conductor
Body : 
Music professor Dr. Robert Summer adds to his repertoire of accomplishments with his new book, Choral Masterworks from Bach to Britten: Reflections of a Conductor. Available February 2007, Summer’s book guides you through pieces such as Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Pslams, Verdi’s Requiem, and many more. These masterpieces are then examined and analyzed to help performers, students and listeners better understand and appreciate these significant works. Each chapter focuses on an individual work and presents musical analysis, structure, textual symbolism, and identification of traits that endear the work to performers and listeners. Dr. Summer comments on the function and relationship of solos, recitatives, and choruses, offering suggestions and considerations for preparing the works for performance. The textual organization of many works is included in appendixes, and the book concludes with a bibliography and a selected discography. Choral Masterworks from Bach to Britten is appropriate both as a textbook for choral literature classes and as a listening guide for the general music lover.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 547
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Riccardo Marchi Named Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute
Body : 
Assistant Professor of Art History Riccardo Marchi has been named a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Getty Research Institute, where he will be in residence during the 2007-08 academic year, working on his book project Looking at Pure Painting in Berlin: Boccioni, Kandinsky and Delaunay at “Der Sturm’’, 1912-1913. The Getty Research Institute is one of the world’s leading institutions for research in the visual arts, and its residential grants are recognized by the National Research Council, the Top American Research Universities (TARU), and the American Association of Universities. Marchi has also published the Italian edition of Max Dvořak’s 1918 Idealismus und Naturalismus in der gotischen Skulptur und Malerei, accompanied by a critical essay on Dvořák’s project of art history and its relationship to Expressionism. He has also produced several studies in the history of 20th century art history. Marchi has received numerous grants for research abroad from Università Cattolica and from the University of Chicago. Marchi was a Fulbright Fellow to the United States, a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellow, a Stuart Tave Teaching Fellow and a Fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 546
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Elisabeth Fraser Awarded NEH Fellowship
Body : 
Elisabeth Fraser, Associate Professor of Art History, was awarded an NEH Fellowship for 2007-08 to work on her book, Mediterranean Encounters: Travel, Representation and French Expansionism, 1780-1850. This fellowship is the most competitive of those sponsored by the NEH: of 1,398 applications from all humanities disciplines in 2006, only 153 were awarded fellowships. Fraser’s study looks at the relationship between travel images and imperialist politics, and includes a host of artists, print-makers, architects, cartographers, booksellers, antiquarians, archaeologists, diplomats, and writers. Fraser connects travel images to ethnographic studies, travel fiction, the history of the book, European politics, the sociology of tourism, post-colonial theory, and travel history. This is Fraser’s second book project; her first book, Delacroix, Art and Patriomony in Post-Revolutionary France was published in 2004 by Cambridge University Press. Fraser’s research has been previously supported by a summer fellowship from USF’s Humanities Institute, two Summer Provost’s Grants, and a Creative Research Grant from Sponsored Research.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 544
Category = Greetings
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Greetings from the Dean
Submitted by = Ron Jones
Body : 
USF has a set of ambitious goals known to all of us: higher SAT scores for our entering students, increases in federal research grants generated, etc. The arts, we also know, are not central to these types of goals.
What the arts contribute is more fundamental to the heart and spirit of the academy and rarely exists in forms that can be quantified and compared to our counterparts across the United States, much less globally. Our forte is supporting the artistic and scholarly passions of our faculty, providing a real inquiry-based environment for our majors, and sharing with the campus and community a significant series of unique, quality experiences in especially contemporary arts.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 543
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Monday Night Jazz Series Presents Dick Hyman
Body : 
USF Honorary Doctorate recipient and the first Distinguished Master Artist in CVPA comes back to USF to perform in the Monday Night Jazz Series. Save the date for March 26 at 8 pm in FAH 101. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students and seniors. For additional information call the arts box office at 813-974-2323 or visit www.arts.usf.edu.
Website :
www.arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 542
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Sunday Series features the Stuart- Ivanov Duo
Body : 
The College of Visual & Performing Arts features the Stuart- Ivanov Duo presenting “Fate of the Artist” in this installment of the Sunday Series at the Tampa Museum of Art, March 25 at 2 pm. “Fate of the Artist” is a two part multimedia presentation, the first part featuring footage from Jean Cocteau’s film “Blood of a Poet.” Music by Satie, Villoldo, Shchedrin, and Cage, help to bring to life the story of an artists obsessions and the aftermath he creates. The second part is a collaboration of music by repressed Soviet composer Nikolai Roslavet, video footage of Soviet Russia, Soviet animation, and archival recordings of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva reading their poetry; all depicting the fate of many artists in a totalitarian society. The event is free to attend with paid admission to the Tampa Museum of Art. For additional information please call 813- 274-8130.
Website :
http://www.tampagov.net/dept_museum/Education/index.asp#USF_Sundays
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 541
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Indulge in Classical Piano with the Steinway Piano Series
Body : 
Classical enthusiast will enjoy the next installment of the Steinway Piano Series with Min Kwon, performing works by Shubert and Liszt. Be there on March 24 at 4 pm in FAH 101. Tickets from $6 (students and seniors) to $12 (adults).
Website :
http://steinwaypianoseries.arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 540
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Exhibitions, Awards and the 9th Annual Arthouse
Body : 
USF Contemporary Art Museum invites you to the Awards & Opening Reception for the 31st Annual Juried USF Student Art Exhibition & The First National BFA/BA Juried Exhibition Friday, March 23, 2007, 7-9 pm Join us to celebrate the accomplishments of the student artists and recognize the award winners.
Next door, the 9th Annual ARThouse will be happening in the School of Art & Art History in the FAH and FAS buildings from 8-11:30 pm. Festivities include student artwork, art demos, open studios, food, drink, and live music.
Image: "Traveling Through the Dark" 5'x2'x2'
plaster, deer fur, deer head, 2006, Sorine Anderson
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 539
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = First National BFA/BA Exhibition
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
The School of Art and Art History presents USF’s First National BFA/BA Juried Exhibition, March 19-30, USF Tampa campus at the William & Nancy Oliver Gallery and at the Centre Gallery in the Marshall Center.
The First National BFA/BA Juried Exhibition is sponsored and curated by MFA Org., a student organization at USF. The organization sent out a national call to any undergraduate BFA/BA student interested in participating.
“Over 170 students responded to the call,” said Adam Kitzerow, president of MFA Org. “The BFA/BA Juried Exhibition is unique for the Tampa Bay area, and we look forward to it becoming an annual event. It benefits art and art history students here at USF and across the nation.”
Website :
www.art.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 537
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Resident Artist Series
Body : 
Tapping into its distinguished music faculty talent, the College of Visual & Performing Arts has created the Resident Artist Series. Critically acclaimed and accomplished professors perform, in part, to bring attention to the artistic excellence of the School of Music and also as an incentive to attract music students to USF from all over the world.
March 25 at 4 pm in FAH 101- Features Scott Kluksdahl with pianist, Noreen Polera performing music by Richard Wernick, Benjamin C.S. Boyle, Claude Debussy, and Gabriel Faure.
April 22 at 4 pm in FAH 101- "Dancing with the Winds" features USF School of Music faculty and guests including Brian Moorhead, clarinet; Kim McCormick, flute; Amy Collins, oboe; John Kehayas, bassoon; and James Wilson, horn performing music by Victor Babin, Libby Larsen, Noel Scott Stevens, Carlos Surinach, and Camille Saint-Saens.
April 29 at 4 pm in FAH 101- Features the Stuart-Ivanov Duo performing music by Astor Pantaleon Piazzolla, Henry Cowell, and Leos Janacek.
Website :
http://residentartistseries.arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 536
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Alumnus Connects Art and Health
Body : 
Kathy Iwanowski, BA in Studio Art, 1994, has merged her former nursing experience and her visual arts background into projects that connect art and health. Recently, she became an artist-in-residence with Very Special Arts of Florida, working with groups of adults and children with disabilities, youth-at-risk, Arts in Healthcare, and Start with the Arts programs.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 535
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = School of Music is Awarded by the USF Diversity Network
Body : 
The USF Diversity Network named the School of Music to the “Diversity Honor Roll” (recipients of the honor were selected from a list of nominations) for units which were “moving toward excellence in diversity.” The School of Music was one of ten units honored in the USF System and it was announced that the School has hired only women and/or minorities for faculty and/or staff positions for the past three years, demonstrating a real and measurable commitment to diversity.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 534
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Mikel Bisbee- Durlam is awarded Best of Show
Body : 
Mikel Bisbee-Durlam, MFA graduate (2006) from the USF School of Art and Art History, was one of six graduate student artists selected from an applicant pool of more than 900 for an exhibition at the prestigious Cranbrook School of Art's National Exhibition of Graduate Students. At the exhibition, his artwork was selected as "Best of Show."
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 533
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Professor C. Victor Fung is Recognized at his Alma Mater
Body : 
School of Music Professor C. Victor Fung is being recognized as one of 59 alumni of Hong Kong Baptist University with exceptional qualities, strength, values and spirit. These alumni are described as role models, career over-achievers, brave fighters against adversity and great servants of the community.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 532
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 3/1/2007 End Date =
Title = Kalup Donte Linzy is Recognized in Artforum
Body : 
Kalup Donte Linzy, MFA from the School of Art and Art History, continues to garner recognition for his video and performance artworks.
Kalup was selected for the second consecutive year in Artforum's "Best of 2006" reviews of exhibitions and artists of note last year (December 2006 issue). He is also listed in the "Artists' Artists" section of the same issue.
The January 2007 issue features Kalup in "First Take," a two page article by Debra Singer of the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Kitchen, a center for alternative visual and performing arts.
Website :
http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=12218.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 525
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Meet Our New Faculty: fall 2006
Body :
Be sure to welcome the new CVPA faculty members!
Art and Art History
Gregory Green – Assistant Professor
Green is internationally recognized for his challenging work and the numerous controversies it has spawned both in the USA and Europe. Since the mid-1980’s, he has created artworks and performances exploring systems of control and the evolution of individual and collective empowerment He attended undergraduate school at The Art Academy of Cincinnati and graduate school at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Dr. Noel Schiller – Assistant Professor
Dr. Schiller is an expert in the field of Renaissance and Baroque Art. She graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Her scholarly interests include Netherlandish art and theory of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, comic theory and contemporary viewing practices.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 524
Category = Event
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = The Sunday Series Presents Scott Kluksdahl Performing "Lines for Solo Cello"
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
The Sunday Series, in partnership with the Tampa Museum of Art, is in full swing for the fall 2006 semester. Each month, professors and faculty from USF’s College of Visual & Performing Arts will host lectures and performances at the museum, with the ultimate goal of bringing the arts to the Tampa Bay community.
The next in the Series is world-renowned cellist Scott Kluksdahl, performing "Lines for Solo Cello." The program, titled after his first album release of the same name, will feature standard and contemporary works for the unaccompanied cello, in addition to works written specifically for him. Strings magazine identified Scott Kluksdahl as "a simply superb cellist, playing with consummate technical ease, a beautiful sound, total conviction, authority and dedication to music."
The event will be on Sunday, November 19 at 2 p.m. and is free with Tampa Museum of Art admission. For additional information, contact Tampa Museum of Art at (813) 274-8130.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 522
Category = Event
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = DanceUSF Presents Exhale – An Evening of Dance and Voice
Submitted by = Julie Rose
Body : 
USF School of Theatre and Dance launches its 2006 - 2007 dance season with Exhale – An Evening of Dance and Voice. The concert will be presented October 27, 28 and November 2 - 4 at 8 pm and October 29 at 3 pm in Theatre 2, Tampa Campus. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students and seniors and can be purchased through the College of Visual & Performing Arts Box Office by calling 813.974.2323 or visiting the arts box office website.
Website :
http://www.artsmart.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 519
Category = Greetings
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Greetings from Dean Ron Jones
Submitted by = Ron Jones
Body :
Image by Justin Smith
First and most importantly, thank you for your interest in the arts at USF and your willingness to read this newsletter and allow us to share with you some of the highlights of this new academic year.
This edition of our newsletter opens with an image of our Herd of Thunder Marching Band. With USF now in the Big East Athletic Conference, the competition and exposure for USF is heightened. As you probably know, our football team and our Herd of Thunder Marching Band are getting better each year (not withstanding a few bumps along the road for the football team!). We are proud to demonstrate to such large audiences as those at Raymond James Stadium that the arts are an important - even critical - dimension of what builds a tradition of sprit at USF. You may have received a letter from us encouraging you to consider a gift for the Marching Band. If you want to help in the support of special extra costs for having a Marching Band (e.g., uniforms, travel to games on the road, stipends, etc.) but have not received the mailing, let us know. Call 813-974-1756 or visit http://usfweb2.usf.edu/ua/affmb/flash/.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 518
Category = Director
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = School of Theatre and Dance
Submitted by = Marc Powers
Body : 
The semester has begun with a series of challenges to each of the schools which can either be looked at as Sissyphus’s rock or as opportunities for change. I am in the “opportunities” camp. While we are in the process of preparing for program reviews in both theatre and dance and, within a year, accreditation visits in both disciplines as well, we are also addressing the challenge of producing more student credit hours, developing bylaws for the school, identifying our priorities for enhancing our programs, beginning the process of three faculty searches, preparing for five major visiting residencies, and are, as I write this, in varying stages of the rehearsal process for three major productions. In short, it is business as usual for the School of Theatre and Dance.
Website :
http://theatre.arts.usf.edu/theatreanddance/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 516
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Ed Ross - Art and Community
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
In 2003 Ed Ross, School of Art and Art History adjunct faculty member and USF Art Studio graduate, started a largely volunteer organization, Community Stepping Stones, dedicated to providing education, mentoring of children and enriching the quality of life in low income neighborhoods through the Arts and community partnerships.
“A longtime fixture on the local arts scene, Ross has emerged in recent years as an advocate for not just the river that runs through his neighborhood, but also for another often overlooked resource close to home: the children who live nearby, most of whom come from low-income households,” says St. Petersburg Times reporter Sharon Ginn.
Ed Ross, Sulphur Springs resident since 1968, along with Community Stepping Stones volunteers, and community partners are helping the children of Sulphur Springs realize their artistic capabilities and practical business skills.
Not only does the program offer children the opportunity to develop their creative talents, it also simultaneously provides college students with the opportunity to teach an art for course credit. In fact, in less than a year the organization donates over 3,000 hours (equal to $44,000) of volunteer teaching time.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 515
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Renowned Indian Singer Pandit Jasraj Brings World Music to USF
Submitted by = Philip Booth
Body : 
This fall renowned singer Pandit Jasraj introduced the scales, rhythms and cultural and religious contexts of North Indian classical music to University of South Florida students via a unique performance-based class at the School of Music.
Jasraj was the guest artist in residence for Music of India/World, a course which was available for the first time this fall to music majors, non-majors and graduate students through the College of Visual & Performing Arts.
The residency, made possible in part by the office of USF Provost Renu Khator, was an outgrowth of the vocalist’s one-time appearance at USF in November 2005, during a course on Indian culture taught by Patricia Bowes-Jeffers.
“I got a lot of really good feedback from students who heard Jasraj last year,” said Bowes-Jeffers, a music education doctoral student who also is the instructor for the new class. “He’s a masterful teacher, and patient with everybody. He really brought out the best in them.”
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 514
Category = Event
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Jazz Masterworks Series presents: Happy 50th!
Submitted by = Dave Stamps
Body : 
Following on the heels of a debut season that brought such luminary artists as Chick Corea, Slide Hampton, Karrin Allyson, and Gordon Goodwin to Central Florida; the Jazz Masterworks Series returns once again with an adventurous, eclectic, and swinging lineup for 2006/07. Produced in conjunction with the USF Center for Jazz Composition, the series focuses its attention on the jazz composer - performing classic jazz repertoire as well as premiers of cutting-edge literature.
Tickets are available for concerts through the individual venue box offices. Contact series Managing Director, Dave Stamps, for more information about artists/events for the upcoming season at 813-974-4285. For more information on the educational outreach concerts contact the Hillsborough County Arts Council.
The 2006/2007 Jazz Masterworks Series season features:
•“HAPPY 50TH!” Classic Jazz Works of 1956/57 Featuring: Clay Jenkins, Trumpet & Reggie Thomas, Piano Performing: Miles Ahead Suite - as arranged by Gil Evans and recorded by Miles Davis and Cuban Fire Suite – Composed by Johnny Richards and recorded by Stan Kenton. Selections from Duke Ellington’s triumphant Newport Jazz Concert and more!
Monday, Nov. 13 – Tampa Theatre 8 PM
Tuesday, Nov. 14 – Palladium Theater 7:30 PM
Website :
http://centerforjazzcomp.arts.usf.edu/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 511
Category = Event
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Berni Searle: Approach
Submitted by = USF Contemporary Art Museum
Body : 
USF Contemporary Art Museum
October 27–December 16, 2006
Berni Searle: Approach, is a multidimensional program with internationally celebrated South African artist, whose work in performance, photography, film and video installation address racial and gender inequities through the use of her body, personal histories and the construction of personal mythologies. After just over a decade of democracy, contemporary South African artists are examining identity and culture, and the clash of modern technologies with traditional practices and values.
Website :
http://ira.usf.edu/GS/gs_about.html
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 510
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = USFDance Graduate, Jermaine Terry, Joins Ailey II
Submitted by = Sandra Robinson
Body : 
Jermaine Terry, 2005 graduate of the Dance Program in the School of Theatre and Dance, has recently accepted a contract to dance with Ailey II. This company is universally renowned for merging the spirit and energy of the country’s best young talent with the passion and creative vision of today’s most outstanding emerging choreographers.
Immediately upon accepting the position, Jermaine began rehearsals to learn the company’s repertory in preparation for the rigorous touring schedule. The Ailey II season will include works by choreographers, Dwight Rhoden, Robert Battle and the founder, Alvin Ailey.
USFDance trained Jermaine from a beginner student to an exceptional dancer who received his BFA in Performance and graduated cum laude.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 509
Category = Event
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = The School of Art and Art History presents the Oliver Gallery Series
Body : 
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 508
Category = Event
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = TheatreUSF presents a Macy’s production of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl by Errol John
Submitted by = Julie Rose
Body : 
November 9-11 and November 15-19 at 8 pm,
November 12 and 19 at 3 pm,
Theatre 1
It is the mid 1950’s in a poor, tight-knit Trinidad inner-city neighborhood. A huge orange moon balloons above the rusting corrugated iron roofs shedding a glow that softens, to poetic idealization, the aspect of an otherwise harsh environment from which all the occupants are dreaming their escape to a better life….
Muttoo directs a cast of USF students and faculty in a highly acclaimed production that shows us how people deal with relationship problems, struggles against poverty and a willingness to better themselves, themes which are the same no matter what color you are.
Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students and seniors. For additional information or to purchase tickets please visit www.arts.usf.edu or call the arts box office at 813-974-2323.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 506
Category = Event
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = USF Resident Artist Series
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
Tapping into its distinguished music faculty talent, the College of Visual & Performing Arts has created the Resident Artist Series. Critically acclaimed and accomplished professors perform, in part, to bring attention to the artistic excellence of the School of Music and also as an incentive to attract music students to USF from all over the world.
November 5, 2006 at 4 p.m. Tom Brantley, trombone, "Obsessed With Treasure," CD release recital featuring the music of David Gluck. Guests include the USF Brass faculty, percussionist David Gluck, pianist Corey Jane Holt, and the Jazz Surge trombonists.
November 19, 2006 at 4 p.m. John Robison, Baroque oboe and recorder, featuring music by Diomedes Cato, Anthoine Francisque, Petro Paolo Melii, Elias Mertel, Nicholas Vallet, and others.
All Resident Artist Series events take place in FAH 101 on the USF Tampa Campus.
Tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for students and seniors and can be purchased by visiting www.arts.usf.edu or by calling (813) 974-2323.
Website :
http://residentartistseries.arts.usf.edu/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 505
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Theatre Alum on Touring Cast of the Broadway Show "Wicked"
Body : 
Terry Larson graduated cum laude in 2000 with a BA in Dance and then went on to receive her master’s of Physical Therapy from USF in 2004. She is currently the physical therapist for the touring cast of the Broadway show "Wicked." Terry is also working on her doctorate in Physical Therapy with graduation expected in 2007.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 504
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Gregory Green’s Artwork Part of Major Exhibition at Hayward Gallery in London
Body : 
Assistant Professor of Studio Art, Gregory Green’s artwork is included in a major exhibition at the prestigious Hayward Gallery in London that opened September 7 and closes November 19.
The exhibition, a celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Hayward Gallery on London’s South Bank, is titled “How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, Arts Council Collection” and features works by “over 100 artists, ranging from Henry Moore and Francis Bacon to Sarah Lucas and Chris Ofili. Throughout this period, art has registered every significant shift of attitude and change in the economic, political and cultural climate, from the sober humanism of the post-War years, through the exuberance and irreverence of the 60s, to the brazen assertiveness of the 80s and the internationalism and self-consciousness of the present.”
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 502
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Mark Koven Awarded Prestigious Florida Individual Artist Fellowship
Body : 
Mark Koven, visiting assistant professor of Studio Art, has been awarded a prestigious Florida Individual Artist Fellowship by the Florida Arts Council and Secretary of State for the 2006 Fellowship award year.
Selected by experts in the field from submissions throughout the state, Mark makes photographs based on his interactions with individuals throughout Florida. Having taught photography for the USF School of Art and Art History in 2005-2006, Mark is the Interim Coordinator of the Studio Foundation program this year.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 500
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Jack Wilkins Performs and Presents at Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops
Body : 
Professor of Jazz Studies Jack Wilkins performed concerts and presented masterclasses and clinics at the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops in Kentucky and the Jazzwise Summer Workshop in London. Both events drew attendants from around the world. While in the UK, Wilkins also performed in concert at The Bulls Head Tavern, a London jazz tradition which has been presenting world class jazz for over 40 years.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 499
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Elisabeth Fraser "Cultural Exchange and the Making of European Art 1500-1930"
Body : 
Associate Professor of Art History, Dr. Elisabeth Fraser, has been invited to participate in the annual prestigious Rand Lectures at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on October 6 and 7, 2006.
Along with five major scholars, Fraser will address the topic of "Cultural Exchange and the Making of European Art 1500-1930."
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 498
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 11/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Victor Fung "Teaching Musicians to be Teachers"
Body : 
Victor Fung, School of Music, recently returned from the annual conference of the College Music Society held in San Antonio, Texas, September 14-17, 2006. While there, he chaired a plenary panel on "Teaching Musicians to be Teachers," presented "World Musics in the College Curriculum: Searching for Equilibrium," facilitated the "Open Forum for Music Education and Music in General Studies," and presided a session on "Bilingualism, Attention, Preference, and Cultural Identity in Listening to Music." In addition, he is finishing his three-year term as Board Member for the Society and is continuing to serve on its International Initiatives Committee, Community Engagement Committee, and Program Committee.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 495
Category = Greetings
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Greetings From the Dean
Submitted by = Ron Jones
Body : 
Summer at USF is a time to bring the previous year to a close, offer a modest number of courses, and prepare for the forthcoming academic year. This year is pleasantly different because we are adding one more major activity to our summer - planning for the Visual and Performing Arts Teaching Facility (referred to by many as the “new Music Building”). The University, and especially the School of Music faculty, waited a long time, some well over twenty years, so this opportunity for all of us to move from saying “if” to “when” is a great feeling.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 493
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = "La Casa, La Plaza, El Agua: A Confluence of Ideas on Architecture, Art, and Life”
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
Noel Smith, IRA Curator of Latin American Art and Margaret Miller, Director, participated in a panel discussion “House, Plaza, Water” at the Contemporary Art Center (CAC) in Cincinnati on Friday June 16th.
The other panelists included: Curtis Schreier of Ant Farm; Dagoberto Rodriquez and Marco Castillo of Los Carpinteros; and Kim Paice, Assistant Professor of Art History, School of Art, University of Cincinnati. The panel was organized in conjunction with four current exhibitions at CAC: Ant Farm, Los Carpinteros, SIMPARCH, and The HOME House Project. The exhibition of Los Carpinteros was organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum and is currently traveling.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 491
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Graduate Music Student Presents at Symposium
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
School of Music graduate student David Barfield presented a study on performers' physical problems at the 24th Symposium on Medical Problems of Musicians and Dancers held in conjunction with the Aspen Music Festival June 22-26. This study used data collected from Florida Orchestra members. David’s travel was partially funded by a grant from the USF Student Government Association.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 490
Category = Director
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = An exciting time ...
Submitted by = Wade Weast
Body : 
As Director of the School of Music, I have much to be excited about this summer. Plans for the second annual Robert Helps International Composition Competition and Festival are already underway. Our Resident Artist Series is now a well-established collection of recitals that showcase the incredible musicianship of our applied faculty. The Center for Jazz Composition was established and hosted over 150 composers from all over the world at its 2006 Jazz Composers' Symposium. And I’ll never forget that magical evening when we hosted USF’s 2006 Distinguished Master Artist, Chick Corea, for a concert with Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge.
Website :
http://music.arts.usf.edu/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 481
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Fanni Green Inspires
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
New York actor, playwright, USF alumna, and CVPA faculty member Fanni Green has made her mark on Theatre USF. As a director, playwright, and voice and speech coach, she influences students and audiences alike. Guiding emerging careers, sparking the creative spirits, and molding young actors into professionals; Fanni is a true asset to the College of Visual & Performing Arts.
This spring Fanni acted with her students in a scene study class and decided it was once again time for her to be on stage in a Theatre USF production. “The experience reminded me of how much fun and how incredibly difficult it is to offer myself in the classroom and my work on stage as tangible examples of what we as evolving artists explore through our work,” explained Fanni. “The experience made me eager to get on a USF stage again and work with the students as they develop their craft tools.”
Website :
http://theatre.arts.usf.edu/theatreanddance/theatre.htm
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 480
Category = Event
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Vik Muniz: Reflex
Body : 
Vik Muniz, Self Portrait (Front)(Pictures of Magazine)(detail)
Chromogenic print, 92 x 72 inches. Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins & Co., NYC.
July 7 – October 7, 2006
For more than a decade, Brazilian born Vik Muniz has been dazzling audiences worldwide with his photographs of images created from an astonishing variety of materials such as dirt, diamonds, sugar, wire, string, thread, chocolate syrup, peanut butter, dust, ketchup, the circular paper remnants made by hole punches, junk and pigment. The images Muniz creates are often familiar, remembered from the news, history, or the media. After an initial moment of recognition, it quickly becomes clear that these images are not what they first seemed. It’s an approach to art that Muniz calls “the worst possible illusion.”
Website :
http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 479
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = IRA’s Public Art Program among Top Ten in the Nation
Submitted by = Kristin Soderqvist
Body : 
The Institute for Research in Art has gained recognition from Public Art Review magazine in its Spring/Summer edition for having one of the top ten best art-on-campus programs in the nation.
“The USF public art collection stands out because it has been built with artists selected for their significance in contemporary art and their relevance to the collection rather than the standard ‘call for artists’ process that rarely attracts major artists,” stated art critic Lennie Bennett, who was quoted in the article.
Website :
http://www.publicart.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 478
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = CVPA Staff Member Cheryl Harris Joins USF System Budget Council Workgroup
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
Cheryl Harris has been selected to be in the USF System Budget Council Workgroup. The System Budget Council was formed to provide central oversight of all budgetary functions of the University. The Council’s charged with recommending system-wide policies and processes that impact the entire University system. The Council will also be responsible for setting budgetary standards and for providing budget data, variance analysis, and reporting as required.
Cheryl, congratulations on your appointment!
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 477
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = BFA Graduate Opens Solo Exhibition in NYC
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
Jaisen Crockett, B.F.A. graduate in 2004 in photography and digital media, opened his first solo photography exhibition on June 8th at Center Stage in New York City. He is now attending Parsons School of Design where he plans to graduate with his M.F.A. in 2008.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 476
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Theatre Graduate Receives MFA and Faculty Position
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
Paul Denayer (BA-TAD, fall 2002) has received his MFA in Design from Kent State University and will begin teaching and designing at Morehead State University in the fall of 2006.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 475
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Theatre Graduate Performs in NYC
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
Adam Belvo (2004, BA Theatre-Performance) is appearing as Menelaus in the Illyria Theatre production of Andromache at the Tobacco Warehouse in NYC. Later this summer, he will be performing Sebastian in Twelfth Night at Fairfield University in Connecticut as a member of Shakespeare Ventures. As part of Shakespeare Ventures, Adam will be teaching acting to middle and high school students.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 474
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Music Alumni Thomas Hooten's Continued Success
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
Former music student Thomas Hooten recently won yet another principal trumpet position - this time with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Thomas was a trumpet student of Emeritus Professor Don Owen and earned a BM in music performance in 1998. Regarded as one of the most creative and innovative orchestras in North America, the 95-member Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is complemented by the acclaimed Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus and the widely recognized Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra. Serving as the cornerstone for musical performance and training in an area extending far beyond the city’s borders, the ASO reaches nearly half a million people through its various concert series and its diverse initiatives in music education and outreach. The orchestra performs more than 200 concerts each year, with its main subscription series augmented by pops series, family concerts, and a full summer schedule including classical, pops, and free parks concerts. Its educational concerts for young people are consistently sold out and, along with outreach initiatives in schools and community centers, serve more than 50,000 youngsters annually.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 473
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Art Faculty Julie Weitz Summer Exhibition
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
This summer School of Art and Art History faculty member Julie Weitz will have her work featured in a traveling group exhibition, "Adding Insult to Imagery" curated by Dr. Robert Sweeny. This show originates at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where Julie was invited to give a gallery talk and participate in a panel discussion this past January.
The show travels to Central Missouri State University. For more information visit: www.addinginsulttoimagery.net.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 471
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 7/1/2006 End Date =
Title = Center for Jazz Composition Expands Ambitions
Submitted by = Robert Yaniz
Body : 
In the age of modern music, many ingenious works inevitably are cast aside in favor of the latest releases. Unfortunately, the brilliance of countless jazz composers has fallen victim to this transgression. However, the university’s Center for Jazz Composition has made remarkable progress in its mission to preserve the greatest works of international jazz composers and to promote the significant role that jazz plays in worldwide music.
The only research center devoted entirely to jazz composition, the Center has made tremendous advances in the past year in its pursuit of this mission. Besides launching its own website, the Center has begun its latest endeavor, to create a comprehensive score library. In the last year, the Center has collected nearly 3,000 scores by notable jazz composers, such as the legendary Duke Ellington, with the ultimate goal of compiling an extensive record of the most renowned scores in the history of jazz composition.
Website :
http://centerforjazzcomp.arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 451
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = Robert Stackhouse Celebrates USF’s 50th Anniversary
Submitted by = Kristin Soderqvist
Body : 
In the spring of 2005, the Office of University Special Events and Ceremonies began a collaboration with USF Graphicstudio | Institute for Research in Art to commission an original work of art as part of the USF’s 50th anniversary celebration. Margaret Miller, director of the Institute for Research in Art, suggested that Robert Stackhouse be contacted as the artist to create the work.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 449
Category = Greetings
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = Geetings from Dean Ron Jones
Submitted by = Ron Jones
Body : 
This greeting has to begin with a thank you, for not only accepting this eNewsletter, but more importantly, taking the time to read it. We are very grateful for your interest in our College, the arts at USF and in this newsletter. This second edition, like the first and all the issues to follow, puts the spotlight on the incredible arts faculty and the extraordinary arts students here at USF. Together they walk the talk!
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 448
Category = Director
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = Works in the Community: USF Visual Arts
Submitted by = Wallace Wilson
Body :
The past two weeks have been filled with School of Art and Art History faculty, students and alumni exhibiting their artworks in the Tampa area.
The dynamic “Keith Haring: Art and Commerce” exhibition kicked off on Friday night, March 17, with a large and diverse crowd at the Tampa Museum of Art. The new Interim Director of the Museum is Ken Rollins, who earned his BA from USF. TMA and its guest curator, Jade Dellinger, who received his BA in Art History from USF, originated the Haring show. Also on view that same night were two huge murals, one illuminated and one a projected video on the front of the museum, by Jeff Whipple, another graduate of our program at USF. The latter projects were a part of Lights on Tampa, a public art project that has garnered national attention.
Website :
http://art.arts.usf.edu/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 445
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = Dance Faculty Jeanne Travers Educates and Inspires with International Flair
Submitted by = Julie Rose
Body : 
In 2003, professor Jeanne Travers attended a conference in France that included the unveiling of Chantal Bernard’s International Book of Peace, a book featuring a collection of messages of peace and hope written by Nobel Peace Prize recipients, dignitaries, princes, presidents, artists, scholars, religious leaders and poets. Travers was enthused by both messages in the book and Ms. Bernard.
During a research sabbatical leave in 2005, Ms. Travers began choreographing a piece based on seven selections of text from the book. She traveled between Tampa and Paris creating the choreography with dancers in both cities. As the work took shape and continued to develop she added musicians from Algeria, Tunisia, Iran and France and text narrated in English, Arabic and French.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 444
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = Impending Visit to Paris Promises Inspiration
Submitted by = By Robert Yaniz Jr.
Body :
Due to the richness of its culture, Paris has long been a beloved destination for art and art history students. The city’s elegance and distinct style lend itself to adulation and provide inspiration for artists worldwide. In order to present students with the chance to gain valuable firsthand experience in one of the most aesthetically fulfilling cities in the world, the School of Art and Art History is proud to present its 2006 Summer Art Program in Paris, which takes place from May 31-June 30.
Now in its 18th year, this program allows students to journey beyond the classroom, providing an immersive and truly invaluable educational experience. Lou Marcus, who has directed the program since its introduction in 1987, believes that it is a vital part of the students’ education.
Website :
http://usfinparis.arts.usf.edu/paris/gallery.html
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 443
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = MFA Graduate Featured in Lights on Tampa
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
School of Art and Art History MFA graduate, Jeff Whipple is featured in Tampa’s Public Art Program Lights on Tampa. The project opened March 17 and Jeff’s installations Long Time No See, a video projection onto the façade of the Tampa Museum of Art and Illuminations of Ruminations, a 300 foot illuminated hand-painted mural on the museum courtyard, are currently on display every Friday and Saturday night from 7-11 p.m. until April 8.
Website :
www.lightsontampa.org
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 442
Category = Event
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = Spring Choral Concert: "The Best of American Musical Theater"
Submitted by = Dan Petrie
Body :
Ensembles of the USF Choral Program will present an evening of spectacular music in tribute to American Musical Theater. Featured will be the USF Chamber Singers, Bel Canto Women's Chorus, and University Singers directed by Dr. Richard Zielinski and Dr. Lynne Gackle. Selections to include works from West Side Story, Man of La Mancha, Rent, Guys and Dolls, Sound of Music, Wicked, Showboat, and Carousel, among others. The concert will be held on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 8 p.m. in Theatre I on the USF Tampa campus. Tickets are $6 adults / $3 students and seniors, call the CVPA Box Office at 813-974-2323 for reservations. For more info about the USF Choral Program please visit us online at
Website :
http://sing.arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 440
Category = Event
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = The Jazz Masterworks Series and the Distinguished Master Artists Series Present Chick Corea
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
Twelve-time Grammy Award winner Chick Corea will be the recipient of this year’s USF Distinguished Master Artist award, celebrating with three highly-charged appearances with Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge in the season’s final installment of the Jazz Masterworks Series, April 22-24.
Website :
http://dma.arts.usf.edu/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 439
Category = Event
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = Postcolonialism and After: Symposium and Exhibition
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
The Stuart S. Golding Endowment Lecture Series presents presents Postcolonialism and After: A Graduate Art History Symposium and Art Exhibition.
The symposium will take place April 14 at 9 a.m. in the Alumni Center's Traditions Hall and will explore the current trends that have emerged from postcolonialism in both academic scholarship and contemporary artistic practice. At its conception, postcolonialism encompassed both the analysis of colonial discourse and the writings of the ex-colonized. Recently, it has evolved to define writings that resist all manifestations of colonialism and examines the body of culture impacted by imperialism up to the present day. Some even argue that globalization renders postcolonialism obsolete.
The artworks in the exhibition reveal the increasing closeness of peripheral territories and its large effect on postcolonial studies. They show these theoretical concerns and incorporates issues of globalization, transnationalism, or multiculturalism. The exhibition will take place April 14 at 8 p.m. at the Covivant Gallery, 4906 N.Florida Avenue.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 437
Category = Event
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = USF Theatre presents Crumbs from the Table of Joy
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
USF School of Theatre and Dance presents Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage. The performance will be presented April 6 – 8 and April 12 – 15 at 8 pm and April 8 - 9 at 3 pm. Tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students and seniors and can be purchased through the College of Visual & Performing Arts Box Office by calling 813.974.2323 or on-line at the website below.
Website :
http://www.artsmart.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 434
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = Art History Faculty Receives Positive Book Review
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
Associate Professor of Art History, Elisabeth Fraser, has had an important review of her recent book, DELACROIX: ART AND PATRIMONY IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE, published in online C.A.A. Reviews (From the College Art Association, the primary professional academic organization in the U.S).
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 430
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = School of Music Faculty Invited to Conduct at National Convention
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
The School of Music’s William Wiedrich was invited to conduct at the prestigious combined College Band Directors National Association and National Band Association Convention in Nashville on February 23. Wiedrich conducted the Leon High School Band (Tallahassee) in Eric Whitacre’s Cloudburst. Wiedrich and the Tampa Bay Youth Orchestras commissioned and premiered the orchestral version of Cloudburst in 2004.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 429
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = Graphicstudio Curator is Quoted in Chicago Sun-Times
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
Noel Smith, curator of education at Graphicstudio and co-curator of the Los Carpinteros exhibition: Inventing the World, organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum and now on display at the Chicago Cultural Center, is quoted in a review of the exhibition in the February 26, 2006 edition of the Chicago Sun-Times.
“It’s a tough existence, Artists in Cuba have to be local and international at the same time.”
“This is work that everyone can understand on one level or another. The artists take ordinary items and endow them with a different meaning that often has to do with a little linguistic twist.”
Noel Smith traveled to Chicago for the opening of the exhibition and gave a talk on contemporary Cuban art and Los Carpinteros.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 428
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = Alumni Greg Pitts is Cast in Sitcom
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
College of Visual & Performing Arts alumni Greg Pitts, a 1992 Theatre Arts graduate, is in the cast of the new TV sitcom Sons and Daughters. The show premiered on Tuesday, March 7 at 9 p.m. on ABC.
Website :
http://abc.go.com/primetime/sonsdaughters/bios/greg_pitts.html
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 427
Category = Event
Start Date = 4/1/2006 End Date = 5/1/2006
Title = USF Resident Artist Series
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
Tapping into its distinguished music faculty talent, the College of Visual & Performing Arts has created the Resident Artist Series. Critically acclaimed and accomplished professors perform, in part, to bring attention to the artistic excellence of the School of Music and also as an incentive to attract music students to USF from all over the world.
April 9 at 4 p.m.in FAH 101 Svetozar Ivanov, piano will perform music by Igor Stravinsky, Samuel Barber, Rodion Schedrin, John Cage, Eric Satie, Alexandre Scriabin, George Crumb and Robert Helps.
Tickets are $8 for adults and $4 for students and seniors.
Website :
http://ResidentArtistSeries.arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 426
Category = Greetings
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = Greetings from the Dean
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
It is a delight to welcome you to the very first electronic newsletter distributed by the USF College of Visual and Performing Arts. Many of you know that the College published a beautiful traditional newsletter in the 1990s, but severe budget cuts and fiscal shortfalls forced us to discontinue those publications. Once again we look forward to sharing with you the impressive accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and students, but this time it will be presented on-line.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 421
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = CVPA Welcomes Marc Powers
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
This year the School of Theatre and Dance welcomed a new director, Marc Powers.
Marc Powers received his MFA from Pennsylvania State University and his BA from Bucknell University. He began his teaching career with the Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, where he served as a master teacher of acting for twelve years. He has held faculty positions at Winthrop University as Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance for eight years and at the Ohio State University, coordinating the MFA Acting Program while also serving as Director of the Ohio Governor’s School for the Gifted and Talented in the Arts. He comes to USF from the University of Alabama at Birmingham after five years there as the Chair of the Department of Theatre.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 419
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = The Arts and Engineering Dance
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
Over the past five years, CVPA faculty member and theatre and dance advisor Merry Lynn Morris has worked with individuals with disabilities. As she began exploring new possibilities of motion and expression and finding creative ways to interact and communicate through dance, it became clear to her that wheelchairs were often what limited the expressive movement of the disabled.
This realization was the start of a unique interdisciplinary research collaboration between the College of Visual & Performing Arts and the College of Engineering. It also marked the beginning of an effort to develop a performance mobility device and wheelchair enhancement to allow those with disabilities to have greater freedom of motion.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 418
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = Dragon Veins | January 13 – March 11, 2006
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
Dragon Veins surveys a variety of ways in which traditional East Asian art informs contemporary painting. In traditional Chinese art, dragon veins are the invisible threads or connectives which hold a painting together. As an exhibition title, it offers a metaphor for ways the artists idiosyncratically mine East Asian traditions of Chinese landscape painting, Buddhism, ukiyo-e, emaki, bunraku, nihon-ga and kazari, intermixing them with current political events, hip-hop culture, geological maps, modernist abstraction, bodily experience, Dr. Seuss, anime, Post-Impressionism and more. Artists include Frances Barth, David Brody, iona rozeal brown, Emily Cheng, Elisabeth Condon, Chie Fueki, Yun-Fei Ji, Susanne Kühn, Mernet Larsen, Sang Nam Lee, Takashi Murakami, and Zhang Hongtu. The exhibition also includes a new wall painting by David Brody, commissioned by USF CAM. Dragon Veins is organized by the USF Contemporary Art Museum, and curated by Elisabeth Condon and Mernet Larsen.
Website :
http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 417
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = Wendy Babcox Lights Up Tampa Bay
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
British born School of Art and Art History faculty member Wendy Babcox has added numerous strokes to the artistic world. From conducting significant grant funded research to exhibiting her work internationally, this talented CVPA faculty member is now literally leaving her mark on the city of Tampa. Greeting visitors with larger than life video projections of manatees and mermaids, Babcox blurs the line between fantasy and reality with her contribution to Lights on Tampa, which focuses on Florida tourist locations.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 416
Category = Portraits
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = Graduate Student Mike Edelman’s Research is Music to Conference Attendees’ Ears
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
School of Music graduate student Mike Edelman presented original
research at the College Music Society’s Southern Regional Conference
in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Feb. 9, 2006. His paper, “Bach to Bop:
Comparing Baroque Music and Bebop Jazz,” was one of only three
student papers selected to be read at the annual conference. The
Southern Chapter of CMS includes schools in Florida, Georgia,
Alabama, Mississippi, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, and Louisiana. “I’m
thrilled to represent USF at the CMS Southern Conference,” he says.
“It is a terrific honor to be selected, and I’m looking forward to the
professional feedback and contacts I’ll receive. This is also my
first visit to Puerto Rico.”
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 413
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = USF Theatre presents Romeo & Juliet
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
USF’s School of Theatre and Dance presents the British International Theatre (BRIT) Program’s Romeo and Juliet, one of William Shakespeare’s most thrilling and passionate love stories. The play runs February 23 – 25 and February 28 – March 4 at 8 pm and February 25, 26 and March 4, 5 at 3 pm in Theatre 2, Tampa Campus. Tickets can be purchased through the College of Visual & Performing Arts Box Office by calling 813.974.2323 or on-line at http://www.artsmart.usf.edu.
Website :
http://www.artsmart.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 410
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = Stuart S. Golding Lecture Series presents Trenton Doyle Hancock
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
The Stuart S. Golding Visiting Lecturer Series presents Trenton Doyle Hancock on March 30 at 7 pm in FAH 290.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 407
Category = Event
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = USF Resident Artist Series
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body : 
Tapping into its distinguished music faculty talent, the College of Visual & Performing Arts has created the Resident Artist Series. Critically acclaimed and accomplished professors perform, in part, to bring attention to the artistic excellence of the School of Music and also as an incentive to attract music students to USF from all over the world.
March 5, 2006 at 4 p.m.
James Wilson, horn will perform music by Robert Schumann, Klement Slavicky, and Gordon Jacob.
March 26, 2006 at 4 p.m.
Svetozar Ivanov, piano, Scott Kluksdahl, violoncello, Carolyn Stuart, violin and Naomi Niskala, piano will perform music by Charles Ives and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Website :
http://residentartistseries.arts.usf.edu/
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 406
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = CVPA Faculty Receive Research Grants
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
Congratulations to the following CVPA faculty members who have been selected to receive grants from the USF Research Council:
Dr. Victor Fung from the School of Music will receive a Faculty International Travel Grant, Dr. John Robison from the School of Music will receive a Faculty International Travel Grant, Julie Weitz from the School of Art & Art History will receive a Creative Scholarship Grant, and Dr. David Williams from the School of Music will receive a Conference Support Grant.
The grants awarded are intended to enrich research and creative scholarship while enabling faculty to compete for external funding and enhancing the national and international reputation of the University of South Florida.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 405
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = Neil Bender Exhibits Work in Boston Museum
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
Neil Bender, assistant professor in painting, had two recent exhibitions in Boston. The Mills Gallery at the Boston Center for the Arts featured his work, "Pleasure Tower" in the "19th Drawing Show" - from November to January.
Bernard Toale Gallery included Professor Bender's work in the "Boston Drawing Project" exhibition.
Reviews, noting his artwork, included The Boston Phoenix and the South End News.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 404
Category = Didyouknow
Start Date = 3/1/2006 End Date = 3/31/2006
Title = Bob McCormick Receives Music Educator of the Year Award
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
School of Music professor Bob McCormick has been selected to receive the Music Educator of the Year Award, by the Florida Music Educators Association. Under Professor McCormick’s directorship, the USF Percussion Ensemble has produced more published recordings than any other university percussion ensemble.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 391
Category = Greetings
Start Date = 9/1/2005 End Date = 10/1/2005
Title = Testing
Submitted by = MK
Body :
This is the first part of the article.
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 389
Category = Greetings
Start Date = 9/1/2005 End Date = 10/1/2005
Title = Newsletter Sample
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
Here is a sample of the new CVPA newsletter
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 388
Category = Event
Start Date = 9/1/2005 End Date = 10/1/2005
Title = The Jazz Masterworks Series Presents David Baker
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
Monday – Oct. 10
The Center of Jazz Composition’s new Jazz Masterworks Series at USF will star Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer David Baker. Baker is the conductor and artistic director of the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and will lead the USF Jazz Surge in both classic compositions and new, soon to be released favorites; 8 p.m.; $20 for adults, $16 for seniors, $10 for students; USF Theatre I. For tickets call (813) 974-2323 or visit www.arts.usf.edu.
Website :
http://www.arts.usf.edu
Interest = artsusf
ID Number = 387
Category = Faculty
Start Date = 9/1/2005 End Date = 10/1/2005
Title = Gretchen Ward Warren Inspires
Submitted by = Jennifer Lenhart
Body :
Gretchen Ward Warren recently presented the keynote speech, Inspiring and Sustaining Artistry, at the 2005 Annual Seminar for Ballet and Modern Dance Teachers at Canada's National Ballet School in Toronto. The conference was attended by more than 80 professional dance teachers from Canada, the USA, and Europe. Prior to thi