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Greetings from the DeanSubmitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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.
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Wendy Babcox Lights Up Tampa BaySubmitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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. 417
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CVPA Welcomes Marc PowersSubmitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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. 421
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Graduate Student Mike Edelman’s Research is Music to Conference Attendees’ EarsSubmitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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.”
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The Arts and Engineering Dance Submitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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.
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USF Resident Artist SeriesSubmitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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.
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Stuart S. Golding Lecture Series presents Trenton Doyle HancockSubmitted by Jennifer Lenhart
The Stuart S. Golding Visiting Lecturer Series presents Trenton Doyle Hancock on March 30 at 7 pm in FAH 290.
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USF Theatre presents Romeo & JulietSubmitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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.
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Dragon Veins | January 13 – March 11, 2006 Submitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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. 418
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Bob McCormick Receives Music Educator of the Year AwardSubmitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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.
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Neil Bender Exhibits Work in Boston MuseumSubmitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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.
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CVPA Faculty Receive Research GrantsSubmitted by Jennifer Lenhart
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.
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