75th Anniversary Weekend April 13-15, 2012
Weekend Events Listed By School
School of Art
Friday April 13, 2012
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10 a.m.‒4 p.m.: Ohio University Art Gallery, Seigfred Hall
ON VIEW: Graduate Thesis Exhibition: Anna Tararova (MFA Printmaking), Ben Briggs (MFA Painting)
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10 a.m.‒4 p.m.: Trisolini Gallery, Baker University Center
ON VIEW: Graduate Thesis Exhibition: Courtney Kessel (MFA Sculpture)
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10 a.m.‒5 p.m. Kennedy Museum of Art, Lin Hall, The Ridges
ON VIEW: Ohio University School of Art Faculty Exhibition
This biennial exhibition of original works by Ohio University School of Art faculty (teaching, Emeriti and retired) presents artwork from a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, ceramics, prints, photography, graphic design, drawing, and new media such as video and installation art.
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10 a.m.‒5 p.m.: Kennedy Museum of Art, Lin Hall, The Ridges
ON VIEW: Women Artists in the Kennedy Museum of Art Collection - Part I
This three-part exhibition highlights paintings, prints, and three-dimensional work made by women artists in the 20th century. Part I explores the work of women artists who began their career prior to the feminist movement in art in the 1970s. The work included in Part I is for the most part abstract and in the form of paintings, drawings and prints. This exhibition will place these artists within the larger art world context in which they worked, exploring the relationship between gender, art making, and abstraction.
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4‒6 p.m.: Open Graduate Studios at the Ridges
Saturday April 14, 2012
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10 a.m.‒4 p.m.: Ohio University Art Gallery, Seigfred Hall
ON VIEW: Graduate Thesis Exhibition: Anna Tararova (MFA Printmaking), Ben Briggs (MFA Painting)
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10 a.m.‒4 p.m.: Trisolini Gallery, Baker University Center
ON VIEW: Graduate Thesis Exhibition: Courtney Kessel (MFA Sculpture)
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10 a.m.‒5 p.m. Kennedy Museum of Art, Lin Hall, The Ridges
ON VIEW: Ohio University School of Art Faculty Exhibition
This biennial exhibition of original works by Ohio University School of Art faculty (teaching, Emeriti and retired) presents artwork from a wide range of mediums including painting, sculpture, ceramics, prints, photography, graphic design, drawing, and new media such as video and installation art.
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10 a.m.‒5 p.m.: Kennedy Museum of Art, Lin Hall, The Ridges
ON VIEW: Women Artists in the Kennedy Museum of Art Collection - Part I
This three-part exhibition highlights paintings, prints, and three-dimensional work made by women artists in the 20th century. Part I explores the work of women artists who began their career prior to the feminist movement in art in the 1970s. The work included in Part I is for the most part abstract and in the form of paintings, drawings and prints. This exhibition will place these artists within the larger art world context in which they worked, exploring the relationship between gender, art making, and abstraction.
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Noon‒1 p.m.: Mitchell Auditorium, Seigfred Hall ‒Aethelred Eldridge Lecture
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1‒4 p.m.: Seigfred Hall ‒Studio Receptions (Ceramics, Printmaking, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Graphic Design, Interior Architecture, Art History)
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4‒6 p.m.: Trisolini Gallery, Baker University Center
Artist performance and reception - Courtney Kessel: Performing Visibility
Graduate Sculpture and Expanded Practice Thesis Exhibition
Through sculpture, performance, video, and sound, Courtney Kessel’s work strives to make visible the quiet, understated, and often unseen love and labor of motherhood. Her work transcends the local binary of public/ private and extends into the repositioning of the ongoing, non-narrative, excessive dialogic flow that occurs within the domestic space.
School of Dance
Friday April 13, 2012
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Noon‒3 p.m.: Open house and building tours of the renovated Putnam Hall led by current students.
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3‒4 p.m.: “Workshop Event”: A showing of choreography by current students followed by a Q&A session for students and alums. Putnam 134, Shirley Wimmer Dance Theater.
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4‒5:30 p.m.: Open rehearsal of Gladys Bailin's choreography "Newspapers". This open rehearsal welcomes alum participation in cameo appearances as performers in a special section of the dance. Putnam Hall 134.
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6‒10 p.m.: Open rehearsals: works by students throughout Putnam Hall
Saturday, April 14 2012
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10:30‒11 a.m.: Coffee Meet & Greet, Putnam Lobby
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11 a.m.‒Noon: Open Yoga/Stretch Class, Putnam 139
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Noon.: Light lunch hosted by students and faculty in Putnam Hall, 134.
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1:30 p.m.: Honoring Faculty: a "speaking and light performance tribute" to Gladys Bailin and the 3M’s—Mickie Geller, Madeleine Scott, Marina Walchli—and remembering those who are no longer with us: Patricia Brooks, Shirley Wimmer
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Interdisciplinary Arts
Friday April 13, 2012
- 2‒3:30 p.m.: Alumni Gathering with Emeriti Faculty and Current Faculty, Lindley Hall 110
Saturday, April 14 2012
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Graduate Student Conference:
The topic is on “Interdisciplinarity” held in the MultiCultural Center (Baker University Center) and the Ridges Auditorium.
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Domains/Leakage a Sound Installation
Artists: InterArts graduate students—Dan Dennis, Adel Wang, Brian Harnetty with support from Nathan Berger and the Aesthetics Technology Lab. This piece is a site-specific, long-duration sound art piece to be installed in the interior courtyard of Lindley Hall.
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Film
Friday April 13, 2012
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All Day: Athens International Film + Video Festival
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1‒4 p.m.: Open house in Lindley Hall
Current students will be showing work at AVID stations & cameras will be set up for alumni and former professors to contribute to an oral/video history of the School of Film.
Saturday, April 14 2012
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All Day: Athens International Film + Video Festival
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1‒4 p.m.: Film Tributes, Athena Cinema
A program of films and tributes to School of Film faculty:
Ruth Bradley, John Butler, Rajko Grlic, George Semsel, David Thomas, and Jack Wright.
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Music
Friday April 13, 2012
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10 a.m.‒5 p.m.: Glidden Hall Lobby –School of Music photo display
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2‒5 p.m.: Glidden Hall, Music-Dance Library –an exhibition by alumni, emeriti and current faculty, and students including books, scores, recordings [with listening stations], research projects, journals, and so forth
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2‒5 p.m.: presentations or workshops by alumni and emeriti faculty, visits to classes and ensemble rehearsals
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3‒5 p.m.: Open Rehearsal of “Dreams Interrupted” composed by Distinguished Professor, Dr. Mark Phillips, by the OU Orchestra, Steven Huang, conductor, and the Alumni String Quartet (Marcia Henry Liebenow, Francoise Mouton, David Holland & Karen Becker).
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9 p.m.: Open Rehearsal of the Marching 110 with Gene Thrailkill, Distinguished Alumnus and Founding Director
Saturday, April 14 2012
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10 a.m.‒5 p.m.: Glidden Hall Lobby –School of Music photo display
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10 a.m.‒5 p.m.: Glidden Hall, Music-Dance Library –an exhibition by alumni, emeriti and current faculty, and students including books, scores, recordings [with listening stations], research projects, journals, and so forth
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10 a.m.‒Noon: Glidden Hall Lobby –“What I Knew Then/What I Know Now” and other presentations by emeriti and alumni, including Tala Jarjour, Gene Thrailkill, the Alumni String Quartet, and others.
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Noon‒1 p.m.: Lunch on your own. A chance to spend time together informally!
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1‒2:45 p.m.: Gathering of alumni/faculty for Music Education, Music Therapy, Performance/Academic Studies & Graduate Studies (Location TBD).
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3‒4:15 p.m.: Glidden Hall, Recital Hall –Convocation to honor alumni, emeriti and long-serving faculty, with performances by OhioBrass, Richard Syracuse, Ernie Bastin, Guy Remonko and the Alumni String Quartet.
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Theater
Friday April 13, 2012
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All Day: Kantner Hall -Alumni Gallery. Work submitted by Alumni will constitute this gallery coordinated by Professor Michael Lincoln.
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All Day: Kantner Hall -Production History. Slideshows and installations that include past productions: posters, production photos, programs and misc. ephemera
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All Day: Kantner Hall -“In Tribute.” An illustrative installation honoring all of those professors who are no longer with us, who have inspired our students: Elizabeth Evans Baker, Ursula Belden, Virginia Hahne, Esiaba Irobi, Robin Lacey, Claude Kantner, Alvin Kaufman, Jack F Spell and Seabury Quinn, Jr.
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12:10‒2:30 p.m.: Lunch Bag Seminar
The School of Theater’s traditional Friday Meeting will be extended, as alumni will give a panel discussion of the individual path that took them from Kantner Hall to where they are today. Facilitated by Maureen Wagner.
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2:30‒5 p.m.: Classroom workshops and open shops/studios
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8‒9:30 p.m.: Reading of String Fever by Jackie Reingold in the Forum Theater
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9:30‒11 p.m.: Rehearsal, Downtime & Gathering
Rehearsal for Madness pieces throughout Kantner Hall. Alumni and current students have an opportunity to socialize.
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11 p.m. – ?: Madness
Friday Playwrights Madness: featuring work written by alumni and performed by both current students and alumni. Coordinated by professors Charles Smith and Erik Ramsey.
Saturday, April 14 2012
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All Day: Kantner Hall -Alumni Gallery. Work submitted by Alumni will constitute this gallery coordinated by Professor Michael Lincoln.
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All Day: Kantner Hall -Production History. Slideshows and installations that include past productions: posters, production photos, programs and misc. ephemera
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All Day: Kantner Hall -“In Tribute.” An illustrative installation honoring all of those professors who are no longer with us, who have inspired our students: Elizabeth Evans Baker, Ursula Belden, Virginia Hahne, Esiaba Irobi, Robin Lacey, Claude Kantner, Alvin Kaufman, Jack F Spell and Seabury Quinn, Jr.
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2‒4 p.m.: A Toast to Our Teachers
A casual gathering onstage of the Forum Theater, recognizing the contribution of those who have inspired the lives of students throughout their many years of teaching in the School of Theater, highlights to include: Lonny Fraze, Holly Cole, Bob St. Lawrence, Alan Rust and honoring emeriti faculty George Sherman, Denny Dalen and Bob Winters.
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