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. 547

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. 570

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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.”

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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 540

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). 541

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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. 542

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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. 543

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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. 572

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? 573

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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. 574

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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. 533

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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." 534

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. 535

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. 536

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