ON CAMPUS

ON CAMPUS

ARTS ON CAMPUS

1. Professor David Berry joined as a member of the Gateways Music Festival Orchestra for its historic house debut at Carnegie Hall on April 24. His former Juilliard classmate Jon Batiste was the featured musician. The orchestra is comprised of professional classical musicians of African descent. Berry also served as a member of the festival’s artistic planning committee and performed the night before with the Harlem Chamber Players at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture. (Photo by Macson McGuigan '17)

2. Bonhoeffer: Cell 92, a collaboration of professors Jerry Holsopple and Justin Poole, is currently on tour in Europe. The multimedia production depicts the life of German dissident and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was imprisoned and murdered for his opposition to Hitler and the Nazi regime in World War II. It premiered in the spring on campus and in Harrisonburg, funded by an Arts Council of the Valley grant. (Photo by Jerry Holsopple)

3. A 12’ by 6’ stained glass cross created by visual and communication arts professor Jerry Holsopple arrived at its new home in the auditorium foyer at Eastern Mennonite School during Holy Week. Holsopple created the work in 2009 for use at Mennonite Youth Convention in Columbus, Ohio. Since then, it briefly came out of storage as a prominent feature on the set of the fall 2021 production of U2 Romeo and Juliet. (Contributed photos)

4. Janet Langhart Cohen's play Anne and Emmett was performed to audience acclaim at EMU's 2022 Martin Luther King Day celebration. Produced by Director of Multicultural Services Celeste Thomas and directed by Ezrionna Prioleau '17, MDiv, MA '22, the production featured Board of Trustees member Deanna Reed and several students in acting roles and several alumni on the production crew (see Mileposts, page 28, for details). (Photo by Rachel Holderman '18)

5. Noye, portrayed by Isaac Longacre, takes the branches from Dove Elizabeth Eby in the opera Noye's Fludde. The production earned an “Invited Production” nomination and several individuals were named for acting awards from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. The Benjamin Britten opera, directed by theater professor Justin Poole with music direction by professor James Richardson, was performed in early April in Lehman Auditorium. (Photo by Caleb Schlabach '16)

6. This spring, Sadie Hartzler Library hosted a multi-artist exhibit "Restoring Queer Pasts, Envisioning Queer Futures." The artwork of students, faculty, and staff explores the LGBTQ experience at EMU past and present. It was sponsored by the Office of DEI’s Inclusive Excellence Grants and facilitated by Conner Suddick MA '22. (Photos by Rachel Holderman '18)

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