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Read the new issue of IU Home Pages, the IU faculty and staff newsletter, online now.
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Guest Artists present "Images of Processes"
Now- Oct. 23, Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts Gallery, 1720 Ruskin St., South Bend -- Two African American guest artists will bring their works to the IU South Bend campus for an exhibition titled "Images of Processes." The show will feature sculptures by Albert LaVergne and paintings by James C. Palmore. LaVergne and Palmore, both prominent artists in the southwest Michigan region, are explorers who are constantly searching for ways to remind themselves of their connectedness to social and political interactions.
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Groups come together to plan Bloomington Multicultural Expo 2009
After years of pouring their efforts into three separate, sometimes-competing events, three of Bloomington's cultural organizations have joined forces to present "2009 Bloomington Multicultural Expo," featuring the Soul Food Festival, Festival Latino and the Moon Festival. This effort evolved into the creation of "festival villages" with a fourth village added to focus on the celebration of cultures around the world.
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Indiana University's Department of Theatre and Drama kicks off its 2009-2010 theater season with Willy Russell's cult musical Blood Brothers, the powerful story of an unlikely friendship beset by the struggles of adolescence, the inevitable rift of the class divide in 1960's England and the cruelty of fate. The play will be presented in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre under the direction of Murray McGibbon.
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An Indiana University South Bend professor's work will be featured in two prestigious juried exhibitions this year and is featured among the more than 1,200 artists competing online for a $250,000 prize. Dora Natella, associate professor of Fine Arts at IU South Bend, will have her bronze relief titled "Gaia" included in the 113th Annual Open Exhibition of the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club this month.
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Around the world, ballet companies from the Kirov to the Royal Ballet are planning performances that will honor the 100th anniversary of the first performance by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes. Joining the celebration, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music's Ballet Theater will present its fall ballet program, Diaghilev Tribute. The evening features the work of two choreographers from the Diaghilev era, George Balanchine and Bronislava Nijinska, and new choreography from Michael Vernon, chair of the Jacobs Department of Ballet.
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Indiana University faculty member and two-time Grammy Award winner Sylvia McNair is used to winning recognition for her singing, but her latest honor is something a little different. "Mickey's Corner," a television series hosted by her friend Michael S. "Mickey" Maurer, won a regional 2009 Emmy Award for a program that featured McNair talking about her life and performing music.
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Cardboard boats shaped, among other things, like a toilet, log and high-heeled shoe, and skippered by beavers, The Beatles, Hawaiian dancers and other costumed captains raced across the IU Outdoor Pool in Bloomington recently to raise money for student scholarships as part of the 9th Annual Cardboard Boat Regatta and 2nd Annual Dean's Challenge.
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Indiana University's School of Fine Arts (SoFA) Gallery will present "William Itter: A Retrospective, Paintings and Drawings 1969-2009," in conjunction with "Form and Surface: African Ceramics, Baskets and Textiles from the William Itter Collection" at the IU Art Museum. The SoFA exhibition runs Oct. 16-Nov. 20 and will display works by Itter, an IU professor emeritus who joined the faculty in 1969 and retired in 2006. Here, Itter describes his creative process and inspirations with Live at IU.
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In the Sept. 17 issue of Live at IU, we featured stories on Whitney Thomas, a former IU basketball player who returned this fall as a graduate student and a turn on IU's volleyball team. Also highlighted were stores about Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert's visit to IUPUI; Clint Needham, a Jacobs School of Music student composer who was honored with a 2009 ASCAP Foundation Award; a group of colorful sculptures from IU's permanent collection that are on loan to the Children's Museum of Phoenix; the new members of the Jacobs School's Kuttner Quartet; a former director of IU's Marching Hundred who will soon turn 100; and the IU Department of Theatre and Drama's presentation of Driving Miss Daisy at the Brown County Playhouse.
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Current graduate students serve as Emissaries for Graduate Student Diversity by sharing their experiences at Indiana University. Emissaries blog about life in Bloomington and are available to answer prospective students' questions personally via e-mail. Meet the 2009-2010 Emissaries.
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