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EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE This publication describes educational and cultural happenings that the College
Exhibitions and Artalks The 1912 Gallery, Emory Train Depot Spring 2012 Artalks (discussions by the artists of their work and lives as artists) are scheduled at 7:30 pm in the Board of Visitors Lounge, Van Dyke Center. The 1912 Gallery opens for viewing at 6:30 pm before the Artalk and following for a reception with the artist. The 1912 Gallery hours are noon to 5 pm, Tuesday through Saturday (or by appointment) when the school year is in session. For more information, call 276-944-6866 or email mhower@ehc.edu. See inside brochure for full descriptions of the art exhibits.
Exhibit: January 17-February 11 For the Table Jennifer Allen, ceramics Artalk: Monday, January 30, 7:30 pm
Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge
is pleased to share with the public. Make an outing of it while taking in an E&H event. Stroll across campus, renowned for its beauty and history, as the Memorial Chapel Carillon rings in the hour. Visit The 1912 Gallery in the historic train depot. View works in the permanent collection on exhibit in the Van Dyke Center and see the latest student work in Byars Hall.
Oil and Vinegar Cruets, 2010, porcelain, 6”H x 13”W x 6”D
Exhibit: February 22-March 24 (except
March 3-10 for spring break)
The Implication Jacob Lunderby, painter Artalk: Tuesday, February 21, 7:30 pm Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge
Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia I-81, Exit 26
Zone, 2011, inkjet print on mylar, spray paint and gesso on panel, 12” x 10”
For more information and to confirm events contact Office of the Arts Coordinator, 276-944-6846, the Public Relations Office, 276-944-6130, or check the College website. Emory & Henry is a co-sponsor of the Arts Array Series. A complete schedule is available through the Arts Coordinator.
Exhibit: April 4-28 (except April 6-9) Familiar Territory Scott Betz, mixed media Artalk: Tuesday, April 3, 7:30 pm
Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge
www.ehc.edu Skulls, Clouds, Hearts and Machines, 2011, sixteen stills from a 45-minute video capture of collaborative process between father, son and daughter working on Skulls, Clouds, Hearts and Machines, 30” x 22”
Cover: Lisa Withers, Robert Matthews, Robert Bracey, Kelly Bremner, Smoky Mountain Brass, Nick Lantz, Susan Bates, Karen Beres
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January Lecture From Page to Stage: Playwright & Director Collaboration Nick Lantz and Kelly Bremner
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Thursday, January 12, 7:30 pm • Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge Nick Lantz, the playwright, and Kelly Bremner, the director, collaborated on ACROSS A DISTANCE, a play presented in the 2011 fall semester at Emory & Henry. They share insights on the creative process during the five-year development of the play. Nick Lantz is a published poet and author, and teaches creative writing at Franklin and Marshall College. Kelly holds advanced degrees in both music and theatre, and her performance training includes traditional and experimental theatre techniques. At Emory & Henry, she has directed “The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” “The Breasts of Tiresisas,” “The Blind,” “A…My Name Will Always Be Alice,” and “ACROSS A DISTANCE.” This event is partially funded by a grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
Concert Scenes from Childhood: A Piano Recital Lisa Withers
Emory & Henry College
Bremner (top) and Lantz
Lectureships & Forum
Tuesday, January 24, 7:30 pm • Memorial Chapel Dr. Lisa Withers, chair of the Division of Visual and Performing Arts at Emory & Henry, presents a solo recital focused on piano works of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries that evoke childhood memories from an adult’s perspective. The program includes variations on “Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman,” K. 265 (300e) by Mozart, “Kinderscenen” by Robert Schumann, “Eight Memories in Watercolor” by Tan Dun, and Francis Withers Poulenc’s “’L’histoire de Babar: le petit éléphant” for piano and narrator. Dr. Biliana Stoytcheva-Horissian, chair of the E&H Department of Theatre, serves as narrator of the Poulenc.
Artalk For the Table Jennifer Allen, ceramics
Monday, January 30, 7:30 pm • Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge
Staley Lectures Lecture I: Religion Through a Feminist Lens Lecture II: Religious Freedom and Gay and Lesbian Rights Judith Plaskow Sunday & Monday, February 19 & 20, 8:15 pm Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge
In the first lecture, “Religion Through a Feminist Lens,” Dr. Judith Plaskow explores the emergence and development of the feminist study of religion and reflects on the way it is being challenged today. “Religious Freedom and Gay and Lesbian Rights” is a look at the passionate debates about homosexuality going on within every religious denomination and an examination of the significance of religious disagreement and diversity for public discourse. Plaskow teaches at Manhattan College and has authored six books. She co-founded the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and is a past president of the American Academy of Religion.
Jennifer Allen makes thoughtful, useful handcrafted pottery for the domestic landscape. Her work is inspired by post World War II textiles, Arts and Crafts Era designs and Edo period kimono fabrics. Determined to keep “handmade” an essential part of the contemporary home, her ongoing focus is that of beauty, nourishment and celebration through porcelain tableware. Allen currently teaches ceramics at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. The Artalk is in conjunction with the exhibit For the Table in The 1912 Gallery from January 17-February 11, 2012.
Groseclose Lecture in Biology Protein Biochemistry in Biomedical Research Thomas Hollis
February
Reynolds Lecture What’s a Meta For? Robert Denham
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Dance Theatre Performance Vita Alban Elved Dance Karola Lüttringhaus
Wednesday, March 14, 7:30 pm • McGlothlin-Street Hall, Room 102 Dr. Thomas Hollis, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, N.C., will lecture on the determination of protein structures and how those structures provide information for biomedical research towards curing diseases.
Wednesday, March 28, 7:30 pm • Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge
Tuesday, February 7, 7:30 pm • Wiley Auditorium Vita is a solo dance performance by German dancer Karola Lüttringhaus which she describes as a “deeply personal meditation on the complex relations between biological life and technology, both its glorious and tragic modes.” She is the founder, artistic director and choreographer of Alban Elved (Celtic name for the fall equinox, translated “the light of the water”). She studied dance at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C, and has created more than 50 original creative dance works. Advance reservations strongly suggested. Free of charge to E&H faculty, staff and students.
Concert and Poetry Reading An Evening of Music and Poetry Don Saliers and Barbara Clark
Thursday, February 16, 7:30 pm • Memorial Chapel Dr. Don Saliers and the Rev. Barbara Clark perform selections of classical music including Baroque, Romantic and Contemporary. Saliers is the William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship, Emeritus at Candler School of Theology at Emory University. Clark is the pastor of Anderson Street United Methodist Church in Bristol, a former member of the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra and an adjunct faculty member at Cadek Conservatory of Music at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and at Covenant College.
Dr. Robert Denham invites us to move beyond the commonplace notion that metaphor, like myth, is one of the basic building blocks of literature and beyond the popular view that metaphor is an exotic figure of speech that poets use because they think we need to get a little ornamental and decorative bulk into our reading diets. Metaphor, rather, is with us whenever we use language: it shapes our thinking and so is at the very heart of our conceptual systems. Denham is the John P. Fishwick Professor of English Emeritus from Roanoke College. He was the founder of the Iron Mountain Press and is an acclaimed Northrop Frye scholar.
B. G. Raines Education Forum W. James Popham
Tuesday, April 3, 6 pm Grand Hall, Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, Abingdon, Virginia Dr. James Popham, professor emeritus, UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, focuses his presentation on using assessment to inform instructional decision making. His most recent books are Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, 6th Ed. (2011) and Assessment for Education Leaders (2006). In 2002 the National Council of Measurement in Education presented him with its Award of Career Contributions to Educational Measurement. He also was awarded a 2006 Certificate of Recognition by the National Association of Test Directors and was appointed in 2009 to the National Assessment Governing Board by the Secretary of U.S. Department of Education.
Leidig Lectureship in Poetry Martin Espada
Artalk The Implication Jacob Lunderby
Tuesday, February 21, 7:30 pm • Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge Jacob Lunderby thinks of his work as a means to contemplate social forces and possible realities while engaging in the ongoing dialogue between painting and photography. He constructs paintings through layers of images and patterns, forming new relationships that enfold meaning within strategies of repetition, simulation and duration. Lunderby exhibits his work both nationally and internationally and teaches design and drawing at Drexel University, Philadelphia. The Artalk is in conjunction with the exhibit The Implication in The 1912 Gallery from February 22-March 24, 201, except March 3-10 for spring break.
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Theatre Performance “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” E&H Theatre Department
Thursday-Saturday, February 23-25, 7:30 pm • Sunday, February 26, 3 pm Studio Theatre Tennessee William’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is the epitome of great American theatre. This Pulitzer Prize-winner from 1955 is a drama of a rich prominent plantation family dealing with the loss of its patriarch, Big Daddy. As most of the family jockeys for control of the estate, Big Daddy’s son, Brick, struggles to confront the skeletons in his closet. The play is directed by Dr. Kelly Bremner with lighting design and technical direction by Prof. Dan Wheeler. Advance reservations are required. Admission is free to E&H students, staff and faculty.
Wednesday-Thursday, April 11-12, 7:30 pm Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge Martin Espada is the author, editor, or translator of seventeen books, including his most recent collection of poems The Trouble Ball (2011). His 1996 collection, Imagine the Angels of Bread, won the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award, while his 2006 volume, The Republic of Poetry, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The recipient of two NEA Creative Writing Fellowships, he has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
E&H Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Events Many Voices. One Song.
Sunday, January 15, 7:30 pm • Memorial Chapel
March
This musical performance is the kick-off event for the College’s MLK Day Celebration. The performance features the many styles and genres of music that have grown out of different eras of African American history. Musicians include the E&H Concert Choir, Dr. Jerry Jones, Dr. Steve Jennings, and several other musicians from the College and the Emory community.
Concert *Robert Bracey, tenor
The Voices and Dreams of a New Generation Derrick N. Ashong
Karen Beres, piano
Monday, January 16, 10 am • Memorial Chapel
Tuesday, March 13, 7:30 pm • Memorial Chapel
In the keynote address, Derrick Ashong discusses the extraordinary potential of artistry paired with technology and social media to change the world. Ashong is the television host of “The Stream” and the radio host of “The Derrick Ashong Experience.” He was cast in Stephen Spielberg’s 1997 film “Amistad.”
Join us for this art song recital featuring works by Schubert, Schumann, Hahn and Finzi, sung by Dr. Bracey, tenor, coordinator of the voice area, University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Dr. Beres, piano, coordinator of group piano/piano pedagogy, University of North Carolina School of the Arts. As a member of he CanAm Piano Duo, Beres was awarded a silver medal in the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition and a distinguished award in the IBLA Grand Prize Competitions in Ragusa, Sicily. Bracey was awarded first place in the Oratorio Society of New York’s Annual International Solo Competition at Carnegie Hall.
Events noted with this seal are related to the Emory & Henry 175th Anniversary Celebration. To learn more go to www.ehc.edu/175.
Concert *Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet
On Another Note: Breakout Groups Monday, January 16, 11:30 am–12:30 pm, 2–3 pm • Various locations on campus
Mayhem Poets Performance
Monday, January 16, 7:30 pm • Wiley Auditorium
Bracey (top) and Beres
The Mayhem Poets are theater trained, comedically gifted, lyrical virtuosos who seamlessly blend raw elements of hip hop, theatre, improv and stand-up comedy to tell gut-wrenching truths that leave audiences forever changed. This performance of slam poetry promises to reshape our view of poetry and expose our minds to fresh views on issues, both historical and contemporary. The poets have appeared on “The Today Show,” have an award-winning CD, and run an educational operation for aspiring poets.
Tuesday, March 20, 7:30 pm • Memorial Chapel Since its founding in 1993, Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet has entertained audiences around the world in seven countries and three continents. In this recital Smoky Mountain Brass performs works written for them by contemporary composers, as well as some of the monumental works from the brass quintet repertoire.
Smoky Mt. Brass
Convocation Founders Day Charles W. Maynard, (E&H ’77)
Thursday, March 22, 11:15 am • Memorial Chapel Founders Day is Emory & Henry’s annual celebration recognizing the establishment of the College in 1836 and its founders. At this event citations are presented to local and regional leaders, and Distinguished Alumni Awards are made to outstanding alumni. The Rev. Charles Maynard is district superintendent of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist Church from Maryville, Tenn.
Concert E&H Choral and Brass Ensembles China Tour Preview Concert Sunday, March 25, 3 pm • Memorial Chapel
The Emory & Henry choirs and brass ensembles will travel to China immediately following graduation 2012 to give performances in Shanghai, Xi’an and Bejing. In this concert, they share a preview of the classical and pop music that they will perform in this ten-day tour of China. Conductors for the ensembles are Music Department faculty Dr. Matthew Frederick, Dr. Robert Matthews and Prof. Christianne Roll. Advance reservations strongly encouraged.
Concert Robert Matthews and Friends
Saturday, March 31, 7:30 pm • Memorial Chapel Robert Matthews, director of choral and vocal studies at Emory & Henry, presents a vocal recital, joined by pianist Lisa Withers and vocalists Kelly Bremner, Robert Greene and Christianne Roll. The program includes several solo selections, Benjamin Britten’s “Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac,” and Renaissance works for vocal quartet.
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Artalk Familiar Territory Scott Betz
Tuesday, April 3, 7:30 pm • Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge For Scott Betz, the process of placing oneself in unfamiliar territory and repeatedly asking and answering the same question, “How can I best operate in this system?” are constant strategies that he uses in his studio production. During his Artalk, Betz discusses the suite of collaborative video/print works he has recently created that examine his geographic experiences while painting views in 48 states and Canada, living in France for a year and traveling to Morocco. He is currently a professor of art at Winston-Salem State University.The Artalk is in conjunction with the exhibit Familiar Territory in The 1912 Gallery from April 4-28, 2012 (except April 6-9.)
Dramatic Presentation A Portrayal of Bishop Walter Russell Lambuth Rev. Ashley Calhoun Tuesday, April 10, 7:30 pm • Wiley Auditorium
Rev. Ashley Calhoun portrays Walter Russell Lambuth, E&H Class of 1875, who was elected Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South for Brazil and Africa in 1910. Lambuth was born in China to Methodist missionaries and raised by relatives in Tennessee and Mississippi. After graduating from Emory & Henry, he returned to China and worked as the most notable western medical figure in China. Among his accomplishments are the founding of an opium treatment center in Shanghai, opening of the Soochow Hospital, and establishment of what became the Rockefeller Hospital in Beijing. Lambuth University in Jackson, Tenn., was named in his honor. Calhoun is a retired United Methodist pastor who served in the Holston Conference, including a pastorate at Emory United Methodist Church. He currently works with the Methodist Heritage Center at Lake Junaluska, N.C.
Concert *Susan Bates, organist
assisted by Robert Wells, baritone, and the E&H Concert Choir Tuesday, April 17, 7:30 pm • Memorial Chapel This recital is a tapestry of celebratory music, particularly reflecting Easter joy. Solo organ selections for the program includes compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach, “Variations on All Things Bright and Beautiful” by James M. Bates, and Dan Locklair’s “In Mystery and Wonder.” In addition, Susan Bates collaborates with Robert Wells, baritone, and the E&H Concert Choir in a presentation of Ralph Vaughn-Williams’ “Five Mystical Songs.” Bates has been organist for several Moravian Music Festivals, featured in the Eastern Music Festival organ galas. In 1999 she was honored to participate in Mass at the Vatican in Rome. This event is partially funded by the East Tennessee/Southwest Virginia chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Bates
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Theatre Performance “Almost, Maine” E&H Theatre Department
Thursday-Saturday, April 19-21, 7:30 pm • Sunday, April 22, 3 pm Studio Theatre In the town of Almost, Maine, the residents find themselves falling in and out of love in unexpected and hilarious ways under the Northern Lights. Hearts are broken and mended in what the New York Times called “a whimsical approach to the joys and perils of romance. Magical happenings bloom beneath the snowdrifts.” The play is directed by Prof. Christianne Roll with design and technical direction by Prof. Daniel Wheeler. Advance reservations are required. Admission is free to E&H student, staff and faculty.
* Ticket/Reservation Information
While most events in our series are free of charge to all, the events marked with * require an admission charge if the individual is not an E&H student/faculty/staff. Ticket prices: $12 at the door; $10 in advance; $8 for individuals 55 years of age and above or for students from other institutions. Special Savings Available: Four tickets may be purchased in advance at the rate of $32 ($8 each). They may be used together or individually through May 15, 2012. Contact the E&H Arts Box Office: 276.944.6846 or atcoulth@ehc.edu.