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Read the Sept. 12 online edition of IU Home Pages. Look for the special 32-page print edition of Home Pages on Oct. 10.
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Lecture on 'Freak Parade' scheduled at Herron School
Sept. 18, 6:30 p.m., Herron School of Art and Design Basile Auditorium, Indianapolis -- Thomas Woodruff's "Freak Parade" is an ambitious and dazzling parade of images that celebrate beauty in aberrance. These beautifully rendered works on paper began in late 2000 as a reaction against the global standardization of culture. A master of hybridizing vocabularies from the past and present, Woodruff references sideshow banners, Pompeian wall frescoes, Baroque religious paintings, theatrical posters and Victorian penmanship charts to create a new yet oddly familiar world. Woodruff will speak about his work, followed by a reception.
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IU Opera Theater launches 60th anniversary season with 19th-century love story "La Traviata"
Indiana University's Opera Theater kicks off its fall season, the first production in the 60th anniversary season and the 400th overall production, with Giuseppe Verdi's widely loved -- and once scandalous -- cross-class romance La Traviata. The opera is staged by noted director Tito Capobianco, a well-known, colorful figure who spent years working with Luciano Pavarotti and was general manager and artistic director of the prestigious Pittsburgh Opera.
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Kurt Kress started his freshman year at Indiana University in the 1980s with the vague notion he'd like to be a lawyer one day. It didn't take him long to realize prelaw was the wrong career path. "After the first year I was like 'no way!' I don't really like the word 'library,'" he jokes. The word "designer" is another story. Now a top hat designer (though not a designer of top hats) with Riviera Trading on Madison Avenue, Kress designs for trendsetting companies such as Nine West and can count past positions with Esprit, French Connection (in wholesale sales) and Liz Claiborne (eight years as the sole hat designer).
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From the time he could walk, Rod Clemmons took every opportunity to toddle over to the nearest piano bench and start pounding away. He could just make out the difference between the black and white keys -- Clemmons was born legally blind. He was also talented enough that his mother started taking him to piano lessons at the University of Arkansas when he was four years old. He attended college at Indiana University, where Clemmons was accepted to the prestigious piano program at IU's Jacobs School of Music.
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The studio behind IU Southeast Professor Debra Clem's Louisville house features dozens of her oil paintings displayed on the studio's white walls. In the center of the room is an easel holding a 7-by-3 foot canvas. Beside it, a table with more than 20 silver tubes rest in a pile, crinkled and dotted with teal, red and orange specks. More than a dozen dollops of paint -- varying shades of teals, blues, reds and oranges -- are smeared on the edge of the table near an aluminum can filled with water and paint brushes. "A lot of people think oil paint is hard, but it's really forgiving," Clem says. "It doesn't dry as fast so you can keep changing the painting." Before you reach for a paint brush, read Clem's tips for the novice painter.
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Can't get the people into the gallery? A new show from the School of Fine Arts (SoFA) gallery at IU brings the gallery to the people, with a side of corn dogs. "HUB Phase I: A Collaboration of Art and Space" opened Sept. 5 and showcases sculptures created by three MFA students from IU's Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts as well the work of Rob Off, associate director of the SoFA Gallery. Through Sept. 27, the structures can be viewed in the SoFA Gallery. The artists will then reconfigure their work from the expansive gallery space for HUB Phase II (Oct. 3-4), to fit snugly inside four Penske moving trucks.
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Maura Stanton has won awards ranging from the 1975 Yale Younger Poets Award to the 2003 Michigan Literary Award and been granted two NEA fellowships. She has published six books of poems, three short story collections (including The Country I Come From, which is about growing up in the Midwest), and one novel (Molly Companion). Her work has appeared in publications that include The New Yorker, The Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, and The Chicago Review. In her latest book of poetry, Immortal Sofa (published by the University of Illinois Press), Stanton finds connections between the everyday and the literary.
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Like most people who multitask on the job, Sherry Houze is a woman who wears many different hats at work, but her hats all say the same thing: chef. Actually, some of them shout it. "A couple of my hats are gigantic white chef's hats," says Houze, grinning from under a white baseball cap with a checkered bill and the word "chef" scripted in pink across the front. "I enjoy wearing the more unique ones to big events." As executive chef at the Indiana University Memorial Union, Houze has plenty of opportunities to wear each and every one of her hats.
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In the August 2008 issue of Live at IU, we featured Mini University stories about Andy Hollinden's History of the Blues class, Malcolm Mobutu Smith's Graffiti Art class and Michael Schwartzkopf's Choral Conducting class; a story about Maureen McGovern's performance at IU; the play The Boys Next Door, at Brown County Playhouse; the world premeire of ¡Únicamente la Verdad!, a "videopera" that closes the IU Summer Music Festival; an IUPUI professor's book about an African American racing pioneer; IU's new online sheet music collection and a new book about Rachel Carson.
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