Year of the Arts - Events | Miami University

Note: information is subject to change. For a complete listing of School of Fine Arts performances, exhibits, and programs, visit http://arts.muohio.edu/

Department of Architecture+Interior Design

Over-the-Rhine Atelier Program

March 12 - 30, Cage Gallery
featuring Miami University Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine

The collaborative practice entitled The Atelier manifests an evolving relationship between Miami University Center for Community Engagement, design firm CR architecture + design, (http://www.colerussell.com/) and community-based agencies, dedicated to low and moderate-income occupancy in the Cincinnati Over-the-Rhine community. The Atelier will envision new offices for community housing. The exhibit looks at the re-development of the current space in an historic structure, as well as plans for an adjacent, new structure for the expanding organization, confronting the challenges of inserting new work into a hallowed, historic building fabric.

A Special Year of the Arts Collaboration

5 Vintage Short Films by Peter Sís
Wednesday, March 14, 7:00 pm, Miami University Art Museum

with discussion by Dr. Vitaly Chernetsky, Associate Professor of Russian; Director, Film Studies Program

Recipient of New York Times “Best Illustrator,” Golden Bear Prize, and Caldecott Honor Book awards, Peter Sís began his career by making wildly imaginative films, one of which was banned in his native Czechoslovakia. These rare films are visionary, surrealist, and reflect many influences from dissident resistance against Communism, with artistic influence from Renaissance Italy to Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) and George Dunning (”The Yellow Submarine”).

Sponsored by: Miami University Art Museum; School of Fine Arts; The Havighurst Center for Russian & Post-Soviet Studies; The School of Education, Health & Society; The Department of Teacher Education; Film Studies; and The Department of German, Russian, and East Asian Languages

Save the date: Peter Sís will be presenting the Arbuthnot Lecture at Hall Auditorium at Miami University on April 4, 2012. His talk, “Reading in the Dark,” is free and open to the public. For free tickets and other information, visit our website at http://alturl.com/v2bd9

Sponsored by: The Association for Library Service to Children, a division of The American Library Association Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Miami University's School of Health, Education and Society, Department of Teacher Education, School of Fine Arts, Miami Libraries, Art Museum, Heckert Center for Children's Reading and Writing.

Department of Art

Matt Distel: Work Hard & Think Smart

Contemporary Arts Forum lecture series

Thursday, March 15, 6:00 pm, ART 100

Department of Art

Hiestand Galleries Exhibitions

March 15 – 23

http://arts.muohio.edu/art/facilities/hiestand-galleries

North Gallery

Samantha Skelton, MFA Metals

Recent Works: The basis of my current research is interaction. As a maker and craftsperson, Skelton is inspired by the connection between people and art. By using contrasting elements found in nature, in conjunction with hinges and mechanical elements, I am inviting the viewer to become engaged; to hold and look through these precious objects or to open and reveal something hidden.

Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery

Erica Uzmann, MFA Metals

Know Your Meat: Through research and experimentation, my work focuses on the 'unnatural' aspects of the food industry. This ranges from the unnatural treatment of animals to the growing industrialization of the farming industry. We are so far removed from where we began with agriculture in this country that consuming meat has become a battle of ethics, politics, health and the environment.

A Special Year of the Arts Collaboration

A "Grand Night" in Alexander Dining Hall
Wednesday, March 21
5:00 - 7:00 pm, dinner and performances
7:00 - 9:00 pm, art display in the lower level

Featuring Miami student performers and artists

A Special Year of the Arts Collaboration

http://www.optics.arizona.edu/ssd/art-optics/index.html

Guest Lecture: The Science of Optics; The History of Art with Charles M. Falco, College of Optical Sciences and Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson
Wednesday, March 21, 7:00 pm, Room 100 ART
Reception immediately following the lecture

Recently, renowned artist David Hockney observed that certain drawings and paintings from as early as the Renaissance seemed almost "photographic" in detail. Following an extensive visual investigation of western art over the past 1000 years, Hockney made the revolutionary claim that artists must have used optical aids, although many art historians insisted there was no supporting evidence for such a remarkable assertion. This talk demonstrates a wealth of optical evidence and examines the imaging properties of the "mirror lens" (concave mirror), and some of the implications this work has for the history of science as well as the history of art.

Miami University Art Museum

http://arts.muohio.edu/art-museum/events

Vickie Singer and the Contentious History of Mormon Polygamy
Thursday, March 22
6:00-7:30 pm, Miami University Art Museum

Dr. John Charles Duffy, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Religion, Miami University

This lecture will provide a historical context for Vickie Singer, a photograph by Judy Dater, which is in the art museum collection and currently on display. In 1979, polygamous wife Vickie Singer lost her husband John in a shootout with law enforcement. A decade later, Singer was sent to prison for her involvement in a church bombing that led to a second shootout with authorities. Her story is part of a longer history of conflict, often violent, around the practice of polygamy in Mormonism and its offshoots.

A Special Year of the Arts Collaboration

Women’s Center and Miami University Libraries

Women’s Read-In

Thursday, March 22

11:00 am-2:00 pm, 320 King Library

As part of Women’s History Month, join the 6th Annual Read-In "Recognizing Women And Their Art And Stories" to highlight works of art, poetry, music, sculpture, artistic expression, theatrical presentations and other works relevant to the stories of women. For more information visit or contact Rhonda Jackson, jacksorj@muohio.edu or Jenny Presnell, jenny.presnell@muohio.edu or call 529-1510.

Presented by Miami University Department of Music

Grand Night: The Big Band Era

Friday & Saturday, March 23 & 24

7:30 pm, Hall Auditorium

Tickets: $15 Public, $13 Seniors, $10 Students

Directed by Benjamin Smolder

“Grand Night” returns for its 3rd year, featuring more than 100 of Miami’s finest vocalists and instrumentalists in an evening of song and dance, to showcase hit songs from artists such as Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Frank Sinatra and Cole Porter. This year’s guest artists include Cincy Brass, a nine-piece powerhouse brass band that has delighted audiences all over the country and pianist Dr. Tedrin Lindsay of the opera faculty at the University of Kentucky. Student and faculty performers will be featured as part of the Grand Night Ensemble and Grand Night Orchestra.

Department of Music

Faculty Recital, Robert Thomas, piano and John Bercaw, piano

Sunday, March 25, 3:00 pm

Souers Recital Hall

Free admission

“Classical meets Jazz” in this special event by masters of the piano. This will be the last performance given by Robert Thomas at Miami University after more than 30 years of serving on the music faculty as professor of piano. Dr. Thomas is soon retiring and moving to Montana. Jazz pianist John Bercaw serves on the faculty at Miami Hamilton campus and has performed at many events and venues in the Oxford community and Cincinnati region for over 40 years.

Presented by Miami University Performing Arts Series

I Musici de Montreal

Featuring Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 27
Hall Auditorium
$9 Students/Youth, $17 Seniors, $18 Adults
Sponsored by Gil and Joyce Gordon and the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies
Media Partners: 88.5 WMUB, 91.7 WVXU

The centerpiece of this program features the Mussorgsky classic Pictures at an Exhibition. The production includes the award-winning film of choreographed surreal paintings by Natasha Turovsky. The original paintings by Victor Hartmann that inspired Mussorgsky are lost. Now his music has inspired the art––15 intriguing paintings that have been digitally animated and choreographed to the music and projected above the orchestra.

Department of Art

Hiestand Galleries - http://arts.muohio.edu/art/facilities/hiestand-galleries

North Gallery

Works by Fletcher Benton - http://www.fletcherbenton.com/

March 27 – April 5

Miami alum Fletcher Benton is one of four recipients to be awarded to outstanding alumni who have made significant contributions in their respective fields at the School of Fine Arts “Distinguished Artist Alumni Awards” ceremony to be held at 4 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, in Hall Auditorium. Fletcher Benton is a renowned artist/sculptor whose work can be found in the collections of prominent venues such as Hirshhorn Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and others including the Miami University Art Museum. He was the recipient of the 2008 International Sculpture Center Lifetime Achievement award in Contemporary Sculpture. Benton has had numerous solo exhibitions and completed many major commissions in the United States, Asia and Europe.

Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery

Alicia Obermeyer, MFA Painting

March 28 – April 6

Reception: Thursday, April 5, 4:00

Implausible Dwellings: Visitors are invited into a space transformed by sculptures that may or may not resemble lived-in shelters. It could be interpreted as a display of an implausible, imaginary utopia.

Miami University Art Museum

http://arts.muohio.edu/art-museum/events

Weaving Women into History

Wednesday, March 28

5:30 pm, Art Museum

Jason Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions, Miami University Art Museum

Women were traditionally the primary producers and makers of textiles, garments, quilts, blankets and other fiber arts. This gallery talk will focus on a few of these women and on fiber arts as significant cultural artifacts.

Special Year of the Arts collaboration

François Carbon, visiting artist

"Developing Citizens of the World through the Arts"

Thursday, March 29, 4-6 pm, Art Building, Room 136

Featured speaker: François Carbon, Coordinator of Espace Cultures at University of Luxembourg

Student and staff panel response: Alexandra Troxell and Hope England, graduate students in the Student Affairs and Higher Education Masters Program, and Orterio Villa, First Year Adviser in Collins Hall (Celebrate the Arts Living Learning Community)

Moderator: Judy Rogers, Associate Dean, Education, Health and Society

The purpose of this presentation, panel and dialogue is to explore how engagement in the arts impacts on university students' development of identity. At the University of Luxembourg engagement in the arts as a co-curricular experience is a primary focus for promoting students' development as global citizens with a deepened understanding of diverse others. Francois Carbon is charged with creating "cultural spaces" at the University of Luxembourg that promote students' involvement in the arts and with making meaning of the experience as it relates to students' identity and understanding of diversity.

Monsieur Carbon will present best practices related to his work at the University of Luxembourg. The panel respondents will share their own experiences of engagement in the arts as students and the significant impact it had on their identity development. Following will be a facilitated dialogue among the presenters and the audience to explore potential collaborations among fine arts faculty and student affairs staff for using the arts as a means to develop Miami students as citizens of the world.

François Carbon is a Member of European Cultural Parliament (ECP); Board member of University Network of European Capitals of Culture (UNeECC). Formerly he was a member of Conseil Supérieur de la Musique Luxembourg; Vice-Pesident of the European Council for Student Afffairs; Development assistant at Fondation Raoul Follereau Luxembourg. He received his education at the Conservatoire de Musique Luxembourg; Hochschule für Anthroposophische Pädagogik, Mannheim; and Technische Universität München.

Read more about a conference held last May, a collaboration among Uni Luxembourg, Miami University and Bowling Green University held in Luxembourg City entitled: Living Culture in the University: Developing Citizens of the World. A Transatlantic Dialogue>>

http://transatlanticdialogue.uni.lu/2011/?page_id=12%22

Department of Art

Elisa Morely: Fountains and Floating Worlds: Drawing a Colorful Rest

Contemporary Arts Forum lecture series

Thursday, March 29, 6:00 pm, ART 100

Miami University Art Museum

http://arts.muohio.edu/art-museum/events

Women & Art Film Series: Georgia O’Keeffe (2009)

Thursday, March 29

7:00 pm, Miami University Art Museum

Runtime: 89 minutes

Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in American art. This film, starring Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons, captures O’Keeffe’s development as an artist and her stormy relationship with Alfred Stieglitz. Dr. Pepper Stetler, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, School of Fine Arts, Miami University, will introduce the film and moderate a brief discussion prior to the viewing.

Department of Music

http://arts.muohio.edu/music/news-events/calendar

Miami University Steel Band

Friday, March 30, 8:00 pm, Hall Auditorium

Tickets: $7 Public, $5 Seniors, $5 Students

Department of Music

http://arts.muohio.edu/music/news-events/calendar

Miami University Steel Band

Directed by Chris Tanner

with Special Guest, Gary Gibson and All-Star Pan-Jazz Combo

Saturday, March 31, 8:00 pm, Hall Auditorium

Tickets: $7 Public, $5 Seniors, $5 Students

The MU Steel Band will present a celebration of steel spanning two nights. Joining the group will be acclaimed steel pan artist and composer Gary Gibson from Seattle, Washington. The first event on Friday night (March 30) will feature the full power of Miami's 25-piece steel band, performing original compositions by Gibson and others. On the second evening (March 31), an all-star pan-jazz combo including Gibson and renowned local jazz artists will dazzle the audience. The full MU Steel Band will join the combo at the end of the night for a smokin' conclusion to the weekend!

Department of Music

http://arts.muohio.edu/music/news-events/calendar

Miami University Ohio Chapter of the International Trumpet Guild Meeting

with Special Guest, Stephen Burns and Carl Saunders, guest clinicians

Saturday, March 31, 10:00 am, Farmer School of Business

Kinetics Festival

Sunday, April 1

12-3 pm, Millett Hall

Dust off your monster bike, kit out your catapult, and suit up in your best mechanical sculpture so you can earn your kinetic street cred. Join the main event: The Scramble – a mad mess of people-powered pedaling, Tinker Toy testosterone, and gear-hear swagger. Anything goes – as long as it doesn’t have a motor. Bring your bike; bring the kids, and bring your game face. Just don’t bring any gas-guzzling gizmos, steam engines, or new-fangled nuclear contraptions.

Supported by Oxford Community Arts Center, Happen, Inc. and ArtsWave

Performing Arts Series

Ragamala Dance

Sacred Earth

Sunday, April 1, 7:30 pm, Hall Auditorium

Tickets: $18 Public, $17 Seniors, $9 Students

Experience transcendence. With magical grace, Ragamala dances the ancient temple art form, Bharatanatyam. Performed against a vivid backdrop of painted prayers, Warli paintings, on a stage covered with ephemeral Kolam rice flour drawings, Ragamala's Sacred Earth transforms the stage into a sacred space. The stunning dancers give physical form to the spiritual expression of the Warlis and Kolams, illustrating the ephemeral nature of our existence and celebrating the ongoing, ever-renewing cycle of life.

School of Fine Arts

Distinguished Arts Alumni Awards Ceremony

http://arts.muohio.edu/node/25775

Tuesday, April 3, 4:00 pm, Hall Auditorium

Honoring distinguished alumni from the School of Fine Arts, Fletcher Benton, Bachelor of Fine Arts, '55; Jim Clemes, Bachelor of Environmental Design, '80; Robert Honeysucker, Master of Music, '71; and Klara Zieglerova, Master of Arts in Theatre, '92.

Miami University Art Museum

Gullah Culture and Sweetgrass Basketmaking

Tuesday, April 3, 5:30 – 7:00 pm, Miami University Art Museum

Nakia Wigfall, Artist, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina

Wigfall is a fifth-generation sweetgrass basketmaker living in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. She is an educator of Gullah culture and history and an artist who presents a rich heritage of basketmaking traditions. As the Director of the Sweetgrass Gullah Connection, Wigfall continues to promote and preserve the importance of sweetgrass basketry in the context of African slaves working on the rice, cotton and indigo plantations in the South.

Department of Music

http://arts.muohio.edu/music/news-events/calendar

Miami University Percussion Ensemble

Conducted by William Albin

with Special Guest, Jason Koontz, Assoc. Prof. of Music at Eastern Kentucky University

http://www.music.eku.edu/faculty/koontz/default.html

Tuesday, April 3

8:00 pm

Hall Auditorium

The program will feature three pieces for marimba ensemble and two popular music selections for large percussion ensemble. The world music ensemble will be joined by guest artist Jason Koontz, Miami MM ’98; associate professor of percussion at Eastern Kentucky University, who will direct several selections inspired by both folk and popular music of Brazil. A special feature of the program is music from Bali, with Miami’s collection of more than 30 gamelan instruments, the first time since 2007 that Miami’s entire gamelan collection has been used.

Special Year of the Arts Collaboration

http://www.units.muohio.edu/eap/about/Current_Events/Archives/PeterSis.htm

Peter Sis

Wednesday, April 4

7:00 pm, Hall Auditorium

*Required tickets are free and must be obtained by contacting the Miami University Box Office

"With Sís, everything is multilayered and full of surprises. Getting it all in one read is like seeing the Metropolitan Museum of Art in an afternoon." -The San Diego Tribune

The 2012 May Hill Arbuthnot Honor Lecture presents internationally acclaimed illustrator, author, filmmaker and MacAuthur Fellow Peter Sís.

Welcome to Busytown: A Curator's Take on Design and Life

Lecture by Ellen Lupton

http://elupton.com/

Wednesday, April 4

7:30 pm, Alumni Hall 001

Graphic design has expanded from a specialized, largely invisible profession to a widely deployed tool. Designers have become producers, utilizing their skills as authors, publishers, instigators, and entrepreneurs. Learn about the postmillennial scene of all-access publishing systems and the entrepreneurial spirit of the designer turned producer. Where will you fit in this rapidly changing world?

Ellen Lupton is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City and director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore. An author of numerous books and articles on design, she is a public-minded critic, frequent lecturer, and AIGA Gold Medalist.

Department of Theatre

Our Town

By Thornton Wilder
Directed by Ann Elizabeth Armstrong
13th Annual John D. Yeck Production
Thursday-Saturday, April 5–7

Thursday-Saturday, April 12–14

8:00 pm

Sunday, April 15

2:00 pm

Gates-Abegglen Theatre

Tickets: $9 Public, $8 Seniors, $6 Students

Our Town is one of the most frequently staged American plays asking the question the question, what is truly important in life? The stage manager takes the audience through Grover's Corners two families grow up, marry, live and die. Our Town embraces mundane routine, passionate desire, life changing rituals, and our attempts to grasp the eternal aspects of our existence. Thornton Wilder’s most celebrated play, Our Town opened on Broadway in 1938 to rave reviews. Audiences sensed the universality of the themes presented in the play, which enabled virtually every theatergoer to participate in the action onstage and identify with the characters. Our Town eventually won Wilder his second Pulitzer Prize, and went on to become one of the most performed American plays of the twentieth century.

Department of Music

Miami University Jazz Ensemble

Directed by Jeremy Long

with guest, Dave Pietro, saxophone

http://davepietro.com/

Tuesday, April 10

8:00 pm, Hall Auditorium

$10 Adults, $5 Seniors, Students

Joining the group is special guest Dave Pietro, saxophonist, composer, and music educator. Petro has traveled extensively around the world as a soloist, clinician, bandleader and sideman. His soon-to-be released CD "Chakra Suite" blends aspects of Brazilian, East Indian and American jazz music.

Miami University Art Museum

http://arts.muohio.edu/art-museum/events

The Material Culture of Women

Wednesday, April 11

5:30 pm, Miami University Art Museum

Jason Shaiman, Curator of Exhibitions, Miami University Art Museum

The role of women in the production of material culture throughout the world is the topic for discussion in this gallery talk.

Department of Art

Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis: Time and Labor

Contemporary Arts Forum lecture series

Thursday, April 12

6:00 pm, ART 100

Department of Art

Hiestand Gallery Exhibitions

April 12 – 20

Reception for the Artists: Friday, April 13

4:30 – 6:00 pm

http://arts.muohio.edu/art/facilities/hiestand-galleries

North Gallery

Adewale Adenle, MFA Painting

Pipe Dreams and Realities: My painting and drawings are paradigms of socio-political interactions on constructed and deconstructed platforms, conveying the unevenness of the political terrain and paradigm shift in issues while de-apotheosizing socio-political objects and affiliations.

Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery

Albert Webb, MFA Printmaking

War - Play Contested Territory: My work reveals images that explore subjects inspired by personal fascinations with periods, places, people, and events that stem from an endless examination into human nature as it pertains to conflict. Subjects and themes arise from an internal struggle originating from childhood memories of a glorified concept of war versus my present adult understanding concerning the reality of war.

Department of Music

Miami University Collegiate Chorale

Conducted by Jeremy D. Jones

Saturday, April 14

2:00 pm and 7:00 pm

Kumler Chapel

Tickets: $7 Public, $5 Seniors, $5 Students

Chorale will open the program with"Sacred Music for a Sacred Space," featuring works by Maurice Durufle, Johannes Brahms, and Benjamin Britten, among others. The following set "Love Lost, Love Found" features contrasting choral repertoire including works by Rene Clausen, John Farmer, and Eric Whitacre, among others.

Department of Music

Miami University Trumpet Ensemble

Directed by James Olcott

Monday, April 16

8:00 pm, Souers Recital Hall

Free admission

Miami University Art Museum

http://arts.muohio.edu/art-museum/events

ILLUMInations: Women Artists in the Venice Biennale

Tuesday, April 17

6:00 pm

Dr. Roy Johnston, artist/art historian, and Laura Henderson, Collections Manager/Registrar, Miami University Art Museum

The Venice Biennale in Italy is considered to be the single most important exhibition of contemporary art in the world. In the 54th Biennale in 2011, artists from 89 countries displayed a range of new and innovative work. Exhibitions embraced traditional media, as well as the video and electronic technology shaping current society. Many examples are presented, with a particular emphasis on the work of contemporary women artists.

Performing Arts Series and Campus Activities Council

The Fray

Wednesday, April 18

8:00 pm, Millett Hall

Noted band The Fray comes to Miami University's Millett Hall for a night of great music. The Denver-based quartet (Isaac Slade, Joe King, Dave Welsh, Ben Wysocki) formed in 2002, and has been on the Billboard charts with such hits as Over My Head (Cable Car), and How To Save A Life. Their music has been featured on Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, What About Brian, NCIS, One Tree Hill, and Bones, as well as in HBO's summer promos.

Tickets: $40.00

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Department of Music

Miami University Wind Ensemble

Gary A. Speck, conductor

Wednesday, April 18

8:00 pm, Hall Auditorium

Free admission

Department of Art

Helen Armstrong: Recent Work

Contemporary Arts Forum lecture series

Thursday, April 19

6:00 pm, ART 100

Department of Music

Miami University Men's Glee Club

Conducted by Jeremy D. Jones

Thursday & Friday, April 19 & 20

8:00 pm, Hall Auditorium

Tickets: $7 Public, $5 Seniors, $5 Students

The program will feature selections performed at the 45th Intercollegiate Men's Choruses National Seminar at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia on April 12. This diverse repertoire includes a commissioned work for the Glee Club by Dr. Anthony J. Maglione, featuring cellist Pansy Chang. The Glee Club also will perform a set dedicated to former Glee Club conductor Dr. John C. "Doc" Wabrick (1929-2012) in addition to the group's traditional songs.

Presented by Miami University Performing Arts Series

Béla Fleck and the Flecktones: The Original Line-up

7:30 pm, Friday, April 20
Millett Hall
$20 Students/Youth, $30 Adults, $50 Gold Circle Floor Seats
Sponsored by Baymont Inn & Suites and Kona Bistro
In collaboration with Miami Hamilton and Middletown Artists Series

Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see the extraordinary original line-up of Béla Fleck’s incredible Grammy Award-winning quartet: pianist/ harmonica player Howard Levy, bassist Victor Wooten, percussionist Roy “Futurerman” Wooten and banjoist Fleck. While all manners of genres come into play—from classical and jazz to bluegrass and African music to electric blues and Eastern European folk dances—the result is an impossible to pigeonhole sound all their own, a meeting of musical minds that remains, as ever, utterly indescribable.

Department of Music

Miami University Chamber Singers

Alumni Concert

Conducted by William Bausano

Saturday, April 21

8:00 pm, Hall Auditorium

Department of Music

Miami University Symphony Orchestra

Conducted by Ricardo Averbach

Tuesday, April 24

8:00 pm, Hall Auditorium

Free admission

“A Journey through time and space,” featuring music from various eras, from Baroque to the 20th century, with compositions by Vivaldi, Beethoven, Strauss, Villa-Lobos, Ravel and Bernstein. This concert will showcase the winners of the 2011-12 Concerto Competition, Ray Jacinto and David Locke.

School of Fine Arts

Wynton Marsalis

Tuesday, April 24

4:00 pm, Gates-Abegglen Theatre

Free admission, tickets required

Department of Art

Hiestand Gallery Exhibition

http://arts.muohio.edu/art/facilities/hiestand-galleries

Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery

Brandon Cline, MFA Painting

April 25 – May 4

Artifacts of Disconnection: Cline's work is based on his experiences through the Iraq War and his uneasy transition back into society. These oil paintings on steel index his sympathy, rage, and remorse, inviting the viewer to experience an essence of detachment.

Department of Art

Emily Moorhead: The Art of Research

Contemporary Arts Forum lecture series

Thursday, April 26

6:00 pm, ART 100

Miami University Art Museum

http://arts.muohio.edu/art-museum/events

Women and Art Film Series:

Frida (2002)

Thursday, April 26

7:00 pm

Runtime: 122 minutes

This film provides an intriguing account of the professional and private life of Frida Kahlo, Mexico’s most famous female artist. Dr. Kerry Hegarty, Assistant Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese and affiliate of the film studies program for Miami University will introduce the film.

Department of Music

Miami University Symphony Band

with Special Guest, Talawanda High School Band

Thursday, April 26

7:30 pm, Hall Auditorium

Free admission

The Miami University Symphony Band will perform a joint concert with the Talawanda High School Band, conducted by Mike Marstand. The groups will perform

1. Pastime-A Salute to Baseball

2. Star Wars Trilogy

3. Escapade

4. Simple Song from "Mass"

Department of Art

http://arts.muohio.edu/art/facilities/hiestand-galleries

North Gallery

B.F.A. Graphic Design Exhibition

April 27 - May 4, 2012

Reception: Friday, May 4

4:30 – 6:00 pm

This annual exhibition includes recent works by Senior Graphic Design majors from the Department of Art. Package, identity, web and logo design are included in this exhibition.

Department of Music

Miami University Choraliers

Conducted by William Bausano

Friday, April 27

8:00 pm, Hall Auditorium

Free admission

Miami University Art Museum

Out of the Shadows: The Rise of Women in Art
August 23, 2011 – May 12, 2012

Global Perspectives/Art History at a Glance
Aug 23, 2011 - Dec 10, 2011

Visit our website for additional information about our current and upcoming exhibitions

Read about Art Museum Public Programs, Fall 2011

PAST EVENTS

Presented by the School of Fine Arts

Multi-Media Collage Concert

7:00 pm, Saturday, August 27
Gates-Abegglen Theatre
Free admission

Featuring live performances of 21st century composers, projected graphic design, and dancing. The theme of the program is Dancing Through Space and Time and will take the audience on a journey from the classical era to the present day.

MIAMI UNIVERSITY FAMILY WEEKEND EVENTS

Presented by the School of Fine Arts

Art Center Grand Opening

"Year of the Arts" dedication ceremony with President Hodge
1:00 – 2:00 pm, Friday, September 23, Phillips Hall
Reception and entertainment, free and open to the public

Presented by the Miami University Center for American and World Cultures

Global Rhythms

Directed by Srinivas Krishnan
8:00 pm, Friday & Saturday, Sept. 23-24
Hall Auditorium
$7 Students, $9 Adults (Sept. 23)
$9 Students, $12 Adults (Sept. 24, includes Indian food tasting)

Co-sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the International Visiting Scholar Exchange Fund – Office of International Programs, the Parents Fund, the School of Fine Arts, the Department of Music, Krish and Vicky Joshi Foundation, Gary and Parul Houlahan, Bhairavi Jani, and the Alumni Association

Themed “Glam Up!” Global Rhythms will feature 400 performers over the two-night performance with diverse offerings in world music. A wide range of guest artists will showcase premiere performances in dance, choral, orchestral, percussion, big band jazz, Klezmer, a Capella and more. Advance ticket holders to the Saturday evening performance are invited to enjoy a pre-performance food sampling from India between 6-7:30 pm.

Presented by Miami University Performing Arts Series

Jeff Dunham, Identity Crisis

8:30 pm, Friday, Sept. 23
Millett Hall
All Tickets $40 (Includes box office fee, other fees may apply)
In collaboration with Miami University Concert Board

Jeff Dunham will thrill audiences with his all new show and a brand new addition to his comedic crew of puppets. Join the new guy, Walter the Grumpy Retiree, Achmed the Dead Terrorist, the beer-fueled redneck Bubba J and the manic purple creature Peanut. Dunham continues to pack major venues worldwide so buy your tickets early.

“ The most popular comedian in the United States.” –Time Magazine

Presented by Miami University Department of Theatre

The Glass Menagerie

By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Lewis Magruder
8:00 pm, October 5–8
2:00 pm, October 9
Gates-Abegglen Theatre
$6 Students, $8 Seniors, $9 Adults

Experience the classic that has so captured the imagination and heart of the American public since it’s premiere in 1944. At twenty-one years of age, Tom yearns to break away from family obligations in order to experience life on his own terms. But, with his mother Amanda and his sickly sister Laura depending on him to pay the bills, the choice to leave is fraught with emotional peril.

Presented by Miami University Performing Arts Series

Seventh Annual Ginx Peck Memorial Organ Concert

Heather MacPhail, organist
4:00 pm, Sunday, Oct. 16
Oxford United Methodist Church
14 N. Poplar St.
Free admission

Ginx Peck, beloved late assistant director of the Performing Arts Series, lent her inimitable warmth and wisdom to the Series for 23 years and impeccable organ abilities to the Oxford Methodist Church for even more. Join us in paying tribute to this remarkable woman.

Sep 2 - Oct 14, 2011

2011 Miami University Young Sculptors Competition for the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award

Juror: Dann Nardi, Sculptor, Normal, Illinois
Thursday, September 15, Juror Lecture: 7 p.m. 100 ART;
Friday, September 16, Reception: 5:15-6:30 pm,
Award ceremony: 5:45 pm

This biennial competition recognizes emerging artists throughout the United States, all vying for the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award. Dann Nardi, the 2011 juror has enjoyed national and international success with his large public commissions as well as exhibitions of his elegant sculptural works. This year’s competition focuses on non-representational works by the ten finalists.

Presented by Miami University Performing Arts Series

Menahem Pressler, piano

7:30 pm, Saturday, Oct. 22
Hall Auditorium
$9 Students/Youth, $17 Seniors, $18 Adults Reeder Visiting Artists Fund
Sponsored by Jerome Conley and the Western College Alumnae Association
Media Partner: 90.9 WGUC

With a career that spans over five decades, legendary pianist Menahem Pressler continues to captivate audiences worldwide. Born in Germany in 1923, Pressler fled Nazi Germany in 1939 to Israel. A founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio, Pressler earned a reputation as one of the world’s most revered chamber musicians. The 2011 recipient of the International Classical Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, Pressler has taught at Indiana University for almost 60 years.

“Menahem Pressler’s joyous pianism––technically faultless, stylistically impeccable, emotionally irrepressible––is from another age and is a virtually forgotten sensibility. He is a national treasure.” –Los Angeles Times

Presented by Miami University Department of Theatre

Better Living

By George F. Walker
Directed by Lexi Marsh
8:00 pm, October 26–29
2:00 pm, October 29–30
Studio 88 Theatre
$6 Students, $8 Seniors, $9 Adults

Acclaimed Canadian playwright George F. Walker portrays a blue-collar family living in the East End of Toronto. Their home renovations, séances, and attempts to piece together their fragmented family unit are all turned upside down when their long estranged, survivalist father returns home.

Presented by Miami University Department of Music

**Miami Opera*: The Pirates of Penzance***

By W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Directed by Nick Wuehrmann
Conducted by Ricardo Averbach
Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 10-12
7:30 pm, Hall Auditorium
Advance tickets: $12 Public, $10 Seniors, $8 Students
At the door: $15 Public, $13 Seniors, $10 Students

A rollicking band of pirates, a bevy of giggling maidens, a bunch of blundering policemen, and new horizons are just a few of the key ingredients in this delightful operetta featuring Miami voice students and the Symphony Orchestra.

Presented by Miami University Department of Theatre

As You Like It

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Howard Blanning
8:00 pm, November 16–19
2:00 pm, November 20
Gates-Abegglen Theatre
$6 Students, $8 Seniors, $9 Adults

One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It was written at the height of the playwright’s genius, most likely at the same time as Hamlet. This timeless pastoral comedy is an unconventional love story that follows the trials and tribulations of the characters in their quest to find love.

Presented by Miami University Performing Arts Series

Doktor Kaboom!

3:00 pm, Saturday, Nov. 19
Bogan Elementary, 5200 Hamilton-Richmond Rd., Oxford
$5 Students/Youth, $9 Seniors, $10 Adults
Sponsored by Kona Bistro, Jim & Kathy Squance & Family, and the Talawanda-Miami Partnership

Meet Doktor Kaboom!, a zany, brainy, spiky haired scientist who thinks nothing is more fun than mixing up a cool scientific experiment...then blowing it up! Creatively blending theatre arts with the wonders of scientific exploration, Doktor Kaboom! keeps his crowds “riveted with interest and rolling with laughter.” Join Kaboom! for a sidesplitting journey of increasingly spectacular (and often successful) science experiments designed to involve, excite, educate, and entertain.

Presented by Miami University Department of Music

85th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, NYC

Featuring Miami University Marching Band
9:00 am, Thursday, Nov. 24

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade kicks off the holidays with unparalleled pomp and pageantry. The scale of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is immense: more than 3.5 million people view the parade live along the parade route, and more than 50 million viewers tune in to the television broadcast. Miami University is proud to honor the parade’s only collegiate band participant, the Miami University Marching Band.

Presented by the Miami University Center for American and World Cultures

Annual Ethnomusicology Program

5:00 p.m., Thursday, December 1 (lecture)
Heritage Room (Shriver Center, Oxford campus)
6:30 pm, Thursday, December 1 (dinner featuring the Cuising of Argentina)
1809 Room (Shriver Center, Oxford campus)
Part of the UniDiversity Program
Sponsored by the Center for American and World Cultures, the Department of Music, and the Office of International Programs-Regional Campuses
$5 Students, $10 Adults

The featured guest lecturer is Thomas Garcia, Associate Professor Ethnomusicology and Latin American Studies presenting, “Tango! The National Dance of . . .”

Avner the Eccentric: Exceptions to Gravity

7:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 27
Gates-Abegglen Theatre, Center for Performing Arts
$7 Students/Youth, $13 Seniors, $14 Adults
Cromer/Flory Artist-in-Residence

A master of the art of physical comedy, Avner weaves a spell of poetic simplicity in a show of hilarious predicaments that has audiences eating out of this hand. Best of all, there are no age, gender, or language barriers––Avner makes everyone laugh.

“ I laughed for 2 solid hours. The show only lasted an hour and a half.” ––Joel Siegel ABC-TV

Presented by Miami University Performing Arts Series

L.A. Theatre Works: The Rivalry

Susan Albert Loewenberg, producing director
7:30 pm, Tuesday, Feb. 7
Hall Auditorium
$9 Students/Youth, $19 Seniors, $20 Adults
Cromer/Flory Artist-in-Residence
Sponsored by Kona Bistro and the Western College Alumnae Association
Media Partners: 88.5 WMUB, 91.7 WVXU

Join us as we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation with this stirring play and post-show talk back with the cast. In the 1858 Illinois Senate race, as the country steamrolled towards civil war, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas embarked on a series of debates. Their epic clash of ideas and oratory forged a future President and a nation. A local race quickly became the focus of a divided country, whose future was on the line.
The Rivalry, raises difficult questions of values and rights that remain unresolved at every level of American government and society: race, social and economic inequity, states’ rights and the “proper” role of the federal government.

Presented by Miami University Department of Theatre

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow Is Enuf

By Ntozake Shange
Directed by John Frazier
February 22–25, 8 pm
February 25–26, 2 pm
Studio 88 Theatre
$6 Students, $8 Seniors, $9 Adults

The lives of seven women are rolled into one expressive voice in this unique and triumphant tale. From the agony of self-awareness to overcoming love loss, these women search for self through music, dance, laughter and pain. This highly acclaimed, award–winning play promises to excite, inspire, and transform the spirit.

Fall 2011 Exhibitions

Heistand - North Gallery

Oct 22 - Nov 12

Traci Molloy: Today I Remember

Thursday, October, 27
Reception: 4:30 – 5:30 pm; Lecture: 7 pm, 100 ART

The work of Traci Molloy explores themes of celebrity and infamy in relation to adolescent violence, with an emphasis on youth who have murdered their peer. Molloy examines the role the American media plays in vilifying perpetrators, as well as canonizing individuals killed via school shootings, physical bullying and cyber harassment. Her work also depicts the aftermath of violence and how we as a society process trauma and grief.

Nov 18 – December 2

B.F.A. Capstone Exhibition

Reception: Monday, November 29, 5:30 - 6:30 pm

Department of Art senior studio majors participating in the semester long Capstone course feature their latest visual investigations.

Dec 14, 2011 – Feb 8, 2012

2012 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award

Thursday, January 19, Juror Lecture: 7:00 pm, Art 100
Friday, January 20, Reception: 4:30 - 6:00 pm, Award Ceremony: 5:15 pm

Through the generous gift from William (Miami University Class of 1936) and Dorothy Yeck of Dayton, Ohio, Miami University has a unique opportunity to provide students and the community at large to develop a critical understanding of painting in the 21st century. Each competition’s winner will be given the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award and the painting will become part of Miami University’s permanent collection. This year’s competition focuses on non-representational works.
Irene Hofmann is this year’s juror. Former Director of the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, Hofmann is currently the Director of SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery

Sep 1 - Oct 13, 2011
Shaurya Kumar

The Lost Museum: The Fate of World’s Greatest Lost Treasures

Thursday, September 8, Reception: 4:30 – 6:00 pm
Lecture: 7:00 pm, ART 100

In The Lost Museum, Shaurya Kumar imagines what would happen if artwork, already lost to war and violence was archived only digitally and lost again through degradation of the medium¾ a final loss, for even the lost art has been lost forever. Kumar’s digital prints seek to recreate an archival record of such works as a Buddhist mural destroyed by the Taliban and the tapestry by Joan Miro that was inside the World Trade Center.
This exhibition is funded in part by the Swayzee Artistic Production Fund.

Oct 22 - Nov 12

Steve Budington: Un-Blink

Thursday, November 3
Reception: 4:30 – 6:00 pm; Lecture: 7 pm, ART 10

Steve Budington’s paintings and drawings explore what it is like to be inside a body. This includes cultural extensions of the body¾modes of telecommunication, cosmetic surgery, recreational prostheses such as Gore-Tex and headlamps¾and the major sensory organs¾the genitals, ears, skin, eyes and brain.

Dec 16, 2011- Jan 27, 2012

Bernie Lubell

Reception: Thursday, January 19, 2012, 4:30 – 6:00 pm

Bernie Lubell’s interactive installations and artworks evolve from his studies in psychology and engineering. As participants play with his whimsical wood machines, they become actors in a theater of their own imagining. This exhibition will focus on a group of works onsite for viewer interaction and exploration.

Year of the Arts - Events

March Events | April Events | Past Events

FEATURED TICKETED EVENTS

PERFORMING & VISUAL ARTS AT MIAMI UNIVERSITY (COMPLETE LISTING)

Over-the-Rhine Atelier Program

Matt Distel: Work Hard & Think Smart

Hiestand Galleries Exhibitions

A "Grand Night" in Alexander Dining Hall Wednesday, March 21 5:00 - 7:00 pm, dinner and performances 7:00 - 9:00 pm, art display in the lower level

Guest Lecture: The Science of Optics; The History of Art with Charles M. Falco, College of Optical Sciences and Department of Physics, University of Arizona, TucsonWednesday, March 21, 7:00 pm, Room 100 ARTReception immediately following the lecture

Vickie Singer and the Contentious History of Mormon PolygamyThursday, March 226:00-7:30 pm, Miami University Art Museum

Women’s Center and Miami University Libraries

Presented by Miami University Department of Music

Faculty Recital, Robert Thomas, piano and John Bercaw, piano

Weaving Women into History

"Developing Citizens of the World through the Arts"

Elisa Morely: Fountains and Floating Worlds: Drawing a Colorful Rest

Women & Art Film Series: Georgia O’Keeffe (2009)

Miami University Steel Band

Miami University Steel Band

Miami University Ohio Chapter of the International Trumpet Guild Meeting

PAST EVENTS

MIAMI UNIVERSITY FAMILY WEEKEND EVENTS

The Glass Menagerie

2011 Miami University Young Sculptors Competition for the $10,000 William and Dorothy Yeck Award

Better Living

Miami Opera: The Pirates of Penzance

As You Like It

85th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, NYC

Annual Ethnomusicology Program

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Heistand - North Gallery

Traci Molloy: Today I Remember

B.F.A. Capstone Exhibition

2012 Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award

Robert E. and Martha Hull Lee Gallery

The Lost Museum: The Fate of World’s Greatest Lost Treasures

Steve Budington: Un-Blink

Bernie Lubell

A "Grand Night" in Alexander Dining Hall
Wednesday, March 21
5:00 - 7:00 pm, dinner and performances
7:00 - 9:00 pm, art display in the lower level

Guest Lecture: The Science of Optics; The History of Art with Charles M. Falco, College of Optical Sciences and Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson
Wednesday, March 21, 7:00 pm, Room 100 ART
Reception immediately following the lecture

Vickie Singer and the Contentious History of Mormon Polygamy
Thursday, March 22
6:00-7:30 pm, Miami University Art Museum

**Miami Opera*: The Pirates of Penzance***

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
When the Rainbow Is Enuf