January
Recital
Cultural
Artalk
Mira Gerard, art & design department chair, East Tennessee State University
Monday, January 26, 7:30 p.m., Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge
Mira Gerard speaks about her artwork, artistic process and life as an art professor in East Tennessee. The Artalk is in conjunction with the exhibition in The 1912 Gallery from Tuesday, Jan. 13, to Saturday, Feb. 7. The exhibit, Made in Tennessee, is a reciprocation of the recent E&H faculty show at Mira Gerard, Two Way Dream, oil on linen, 2012, The Slocumb Galleries at ETSU, and 48 x 54” features contemporary work in painting, photography, sculpture, ceramics and other media by ETSU professors Don Davis, David Dixon, M. Wayne Dyer, Mira Gerard, Travis Graves, Joshua Greer, Mindy Herrin, Amanda Hood, Vanessa Mayoraz, Patricia Mink, Catherine Murray, Peter Pawlowicz, Kelly Porter, Andrew Ross, Ralph Slatton and Mike Smith.
February Performance
Cashore Marionettes *Tuesday, February 3, 7:30 p.m. Wiley Hall Auditorium
The performance is a series of scenes taken from everyday life and set to beautiful music by composers such as Beethoven, Vivaldi, Strauss and Copland. Through a combination of virtuoso manipulation, humor, pathos, classic music, and poetic insight, the Cashore Marionettes take the audience on a journey that celebrates the richness of life.
Artalk
Un-plain Air
Caleb Weintraub
Tuesday, February 17, 8 p.m. Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge Caleb Weintraub’s paintings, sculptures and digitally produced works are a riot of re-imagining that draw inspiration from art history, literature, pop culture and the news. His exhibition at Emory & Henry concentrates on his digital images where incongruous plants and animals exist side by side. Climates are theoretical. Children reign. Bits and pieces from the past, politics and religion are Caleb Weintraub, Eye for Eye, Echo for stitched together. He dreams up a world that is the Echo, pigment print on sunset velvet result of our civilization, saturated with information, archival paper, 2013, 66 x 117” (detail) exhilarating, disturbing and opaque. Weintraub is an assistant professor at Indiana University, Bloomington. This Artalk is in conjunction with his exhibition in The 1912 Gallery from Tuesday, Feb. 17, to Saturday, March 21.
Lecture
10,000 Saved: Stories of the Kindertransport from Nazi Germany Jessica Hughes
Thursday, February 26, 6 p.m. Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge The Kindertransport (German for children transport) was a rescue mission that took place during the nine months prior to the outbreak of World War II. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the Free City of Danzig and placed them in British foster homes, hostels, schools and farms. Often they were the only members of their families who survived the Holocaust. This lecture is presented in conjunction with and prior to the E&H Theatre Department’s production of Kindertransport by Diane Samuels.
Theatre Performance
Kindertransport, by Diane Samuels *E&H Theatre Department Thursday-Saturday, February 26-28, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 1, 2 p.m. • Studio Theatre
Kindertransport examines the life, during World War II and afterwards, of the British government program to safely move about 10,000 Jewish children out of Germany and Austria during the Holocaust. A lecture on Feb. 26 concerning Kindertransport precedes the theatre production (see above).
March Recital
Matthew Frederick, trumpet Bryan Underwood, piano
Tuesday, March 3, 7:30 p.m. • Memorial Chapel Dr. Frederick’s recital consists of the Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto; A Song from the Heart, by Eric Ewazen; Amazing Grace, arr. Walters; Latin Fantasy, by Allen Vizzutti; and the Tessarini Trumpet Sonata. Frederick is associate professor of trumpet and director of instrumental studies at Emory & Henry College. During his time at Emory & Henry he has built a trumpet ensemble that is a two-time semi-finalist at the National Trumpet Competition and has been selected twice to perform at the International Trumpet Guild Conference. Frederick performs as co-principal trumpet with the Symphony of the Mountains and is an active lecturer on Civil War Brass Bands and serves as a clinician for school music programs.
Detail, screened background: Amanda Hood, Dream Lover, acrylic on panel, 2014, 32 x 40”
EVENTS
Allyss Haecker, vocalist Jeremiah Downes, vocalist Lisa Withers, piano
Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m. • Memorial Chapel
Lectures
Dr. Haecker and Mr. Downes present an evening of vocal music comprised of her classical repertoire and his world of musical theatre, with an occasional meeting of the two worlds through duets. Haecker is the director of choral and vocal studies at Emory & Henry where she directs the Concert Choir and Chamber Choir and teaches voice, conducting, choral methods and music theory. She is a frequent clinician and guest conductor for district, state and regional choral festivals and an active soloist. Downes recently joined the E&H faculty as assistant professor of musical theatre. Equally at home in the worlds of music and theater, he spent more than 15 years as a professional singing actor, appearing on stage in leading roles, world premieres and alongside some of Broadway’s finest, both in New York and regionally. Withers has been teaching piano and performing professionally for more than twenty years. An E&H faculty member since 2002, Withers has performed solo and collaborative recitals and master classes throughout the Southeastern and Midwestern United States. She has performed in several competitions and master classes and in music festivals including the French Piano Institute in Paris.
Surviving the Holocaust
Convocation
Monday, February 16, 7:30 p.m. Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge
Thursday, March 26, 11:15 a.m. • Memorial Chapel
Emory & Henry College
Martin Weiss
Martin Weiss was born in 1929 to Orthodox Jewish parents in Polana, Czechoslovakia. In April 1944, Weiss’ family was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where he was selected for forced labor and his family members were sent to the gas chambers. He was liberated in May 1945 and immigrated to the United States. He speaks about his experiences in the Holocaust for the Holocaust Memorial Museum. This presentation is co-sponsored by the Buechner Institute at King University, Bristol, Tenn.
E&H Annual Reynolds Lectureship Appalachian Chicken and Waffles: An Improbable Tale of Belgian Waffles and Cast Iron Fried Chicken Elizabeth Engelhardt
Thursday, March 19, 7:30 p.m. Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge On the face of it, “Appalachian chicken and waffles” is a nonsensical phrase. However, perhaps it can be a surprisingly useful, illuminating and challenging nonsensical phrase. As scholars, chefs and residents turn to new work about southern mountain foods, the history, culture and development of waffles and fried chicken in Appalachia can be a guidepost for the emerging field of Appalachian food studies. If we do it right, Appalachian food studies can correct the excesses of southern food fetishism; open up fertile ground for a complicated story of race, class, gender, region and food; and tell a heck of a good food story at the same time. Dr. Elizabeth Engelhardt was appointed the John Shelton Reed Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, 2015. Previously, she was a professor of American Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. The Richard Joshua Reynolds Lectureship is the College’s preeminent endowed lectureship in the humanities.
Faith and Culture Today Miroslav Volf
Tuesday, March 31, 4:30 p.m. Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge Miroslav Volf, director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University, has written or edited 15 books including Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation. This book has been cited as one of Christianity Today’s “100 most important religious books of the 20th century.” Volf is actively involved in many top-level initiatives concerning Christian-Muslim relations and is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economics Forum. This presentation is co-sponsored by the Buechner Institute at King University, Bristol, Tenn.
E&H Annual B. G. Raines Education Forum You’ve Got to Reach ’Em to Teach ’Em Adolph Brown
Tuesday, April 7, 6 p.m. Grand Ballroom, Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center, Abingdon, Virginia The 27th Annual B. G. Raines Education Forum consists of afternoon workshops by McGlothlin Award of Teaching Excellence teachers and the Virginia Teacher of the Year, research poster sessions by Emory & Henry teacher preparation students, and a keynote address by Dr. Adolph Brown, founder, president and CEO of The Leadership & Learning Institute. With multiple degrees from the College of William and Mary in psychology and anthropology, a master’s degree in classroom management and differentiated learning, and a doctoral degree in education/community/clinical psychology with an emphasis in group dynamics, Dr. Brown first discovered his passion for people development while working as a middle school educator and later as a diversity and communication consultant. Brown is presently on a writing sabbatical from Hampton University, where he is a tenured full professor, former chair of the department of psychology/education and academic dean of the graduate college.
E&H Annual Leidig Lectureship in Poetry Joseph Bathanti
Founders Day
Founders Day is the annual celebration of the founding of the College in 1836. At this event, citations from the College are presented to local and regional leaders. Alumni Association award winners are also recognized.
Concert
Symphony of the Mountains Chamber Ensemble *Cornelia Laemmli Orth, conductor Sunday, March 29, 3 p.m. • Memorial Chapel
Since 1946 Symphony of the Mountains has been at the center of artistic life in the Mountain Empire. This concert is a unique opportunity to hear a live string sextet perform. This high-quality symphony ensemble performs Bach’s Partita in D minor; Ysaye’s Sonata Op. 27, No. 3 Ballade; and Brahms’s Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36. Symphony of the Mountains is the only fully professional orchestra to serve the region. Their mission of cultural excellence is at the heart of what they do, and that excellence is their commitment.
Artalk
Museums and Other Viewing Machines Jeffrey Abt
Monday, March 30, 7:30 p.m. Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge Jeffrey Abt is a visual artist, professor with extensive scholarly interests, and writer who works in a variety of media from painting and drawing to sculptural installations. His work focuses on museum history and criticism. This presentation and exhibit explore Jeffrey Abt, After the Storm, oil on linen on panel, 2011, 18 x 60" museums as micro-cultures with particular interest in the ways that museums resist viewers, as machines for study and reflection, and as sites of transience. Some of the works are self-contained minigalleries that are designed to receive viewer comments, possess their own travel records and reveal their means of conveyance. This Artalk is in conjunction with the exhibition in The 1912 Gallery from Tuesday, March 31, to Friday, May 1.
April Theatre Performance
The Imaginary Invalid, by Moliere *E&H Theatre Department Directed by Andrew Blasenak
Thursday-Saturday, April 16-18, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 19, 7:30 p.m. • Studio Theatre This modern and musical adaptation of Moliere’s story tells of a wealthy French hypochondriac who endures bizarre treatments by his doctors while his gold-digging wife awaits his death. Adding to the witty, fast-paced dialogue are his two daughters, one a hunchback and the other who has no shortage of suitors. A comedy in three acts.
Concert
Instrumental Spectacular
E&H Music Department Directed by Matthew Frederick
Thursday, April 23, 7:30 p.m. • Memorial Chapel The E&H instrumental ensembles present a program consisting of musical selections from the trumpet ensemble, the brass ensemble, brass quintet, woodwind ensemble and the concert band. The program consists of selections from the Baroque to the 21st century.
Concert
Spring Choir Concert
E&H Music Department Directed by Allyss Haecker Bryan Underwood, organist
Sunday, April 26, 3 p.m. • Memorial Chapel Highlights for this performance are John Rutter’s Gloria with brass choir and organ and other pieces including brass and choir selections by Giovanni Gabrieli.
Tuesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m. Van Dyke Center, Board of Visitors Lounge Professor of creative writing and writer-in-residence for Appalachian State University’s Watauga Global Community, Joseph Bathanti has for many years published poetry, fiction and essays on topics related to family dynamics, race relations and religion. Concertina, one of his many books of poems, was published in 2013 by Mercer University Press. Former Poet Laureate of North Carolina, Bathanti has experience in traditional settings including public schools, libraries, civic clubs and colleges and also in battered women’s and homeless shelters, training schools, daycare centers and nursing homes. He has taught writing workshops in prisons for 35 years and is former chair of the North Carolina Writers’ Network Prison project. This reading is featured as the annual Leidig Lectureship in which a distinguished poet presents a lecture and a reading.
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 or employee.
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, 2015.
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Emory & Henry College proudly announces the opening of the
Woodrow W. McGlothlin Center for the Arts September 2015
Cultural Events at Emory & Henry College This publication describes educational and cultural happenings that the College 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. 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. Arts Center Construction Causes New Access & Parking Patterns Emory & Henry College is delighted that the new McGlothlin Center for the Arts is under construction. Please note these campus changes upon your visit: A fence has been erected that will alter campus traffic and parking patterns. For events held in Memorial Chapel and Wiley Hall, access will remain the same if you enter through the main gate. For Studio Theatre events, use the entrance past The 1912 Gallery in the village of Emory closest to the King Athletic Center. Two lots immediately to your left as you follow the curve around the football field are available. If you need handicap parking, turn right immediately after the railroad tracks and travel to the front of the theatre. For more information: call 276.944.6333 or email arts@ehc.edu
Emory & Henry College, Emory, Virginia I-81, Exit 26 The new center will set the stage for growth in the College’s arts programs and enhance the cultural opportunities for the region.
If you would like to receive the official season announcement and ticketing information, go to: ehc.edu/art-center • 276-944-6333
For more information and to confirm events contact the arts office, 276-944-6333, or 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 office. Visit The 1912 Gallery on Facebook.
www.ehc.edu Cover: Joshua Greer- Interstate 75, near Lenox, Georgia, 2014, 33x40” archival pigment print