Artsview Fall 2017

A publication of the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Salem State University

FALL 2017

GUEST ARTIST

Charlie Hunter October 12, 7:30 pm Advance ticket purchase: salemstatetickets.com or 978.542.6365

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GUEST ARTIST Charlie Hunter Trio With a career spanning 16 years and almost 20 albums, Charlie Hunter consistently ups his game as an innovative writer and bandleader. He has worked with the likes of Norah Jones, Mos Def, John Mayer, D’Angelo, and countless others. He is widely considered the authority on the seven and eight-string guitar, and continues to stun audiences with his ability to simultaneously bust out tasty bass parts, melodic leads and swinging rhythms.

Hunter has previously recorded for the venerable Blue Note label, Concord, Ropeadope, GroundUP, and others. His recent independent venture is steered by his motivation to release music that most inspires him. Critics have touted his genius technique, but it’s his profound artistic sensibility that propels his original music.

Hunter’s signature style of writing and performing has secured his place as one of today’s great guitarists.

Charlie Hunter

Thursday, October 12, 7:30 pm Tickets: $30 general / $25 seniors and non-SSU students / Under 18 admitted free Salem State students free with ID Advance ticket purchase: salemstatetickets.com or 978.542.6365

FACULTY CONCERTS A Harpsichord Extravaganza with Beverly Soll and Friends Join us for an evening of music for one and two harpsichords, enhanced by voices, viola and cello. The concert will begin with keyboard music of London (1575-1750), followed by a continental tour of Europe during the first quarter of the 18th century, and concluding with music from the harpsichord revival of the 20th century. The program includes dances, songs and arias from early operas, movements from sonatas and concerti, and modern pieces by Soll’s teacher, Soulima Stravinsky, and Massachusetts’ composer Alan Hovhaness. Guests on the program are cellist/violist David Cabral, harpsichordist Andrew Soll and Salem State student sopranos Stephanie Lento and Sarah Kessel.

Monday, September 11, 7:30 pm

The Pharos Saxophone Quartet Based in Boston, The Pharos Quartet is a stirring musical collaborative formed by four New England saxophonists: Jennifer Bill, Emily Cox, Zach Schwartz, and Salem State music faculty Amy McGlothlin. Pharos brings the sound of the saxophone quartet to a new apex. From landmark compositions of centuries past, to the most recent works of this new century, their concerts are stimulating, entertaining and unpredictable.

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STUDENT ENSEMBLE CONCERTS University Chamber Orchestra Thursday, November 30

University Band Monday, December 4

Jazz Band Wednesday, December 6

Women’s Chorale and World Music Ensemble Thursday, December 7

University Chorus and Chamber Singers Monday, December 11

Instrumental Chamber Ensembles Tuesday, December 12 Faculty and Student Ensemble concerts are FREE. Donations at the door are welcome to support music scholarships.

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Grisha Goryachev – Flamenco Guitarist Award-winning guitarist Grisha Goryachev presents an evening of flamenco compositions by modern and traditional maestros.

A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Goryachev is renowned for his extraordinary musical sensitivity and technical virtuosity.

Monday, February 26, 2018, 7:30 pm

Gamelan Concert Join us for an evening of traditional Javanese music presented by the ensemble Ngudi Roras.

Monday, April 2, 2018, 7:30 pm

TICKETS: $20 general / $15 seniors and non-SSU students / Under 18 admitted free Salem State students free with ID Advance ticket purchase: salemstatetickets.com or 978.542.6365.

All concerts take place in the Recital Hall located on Central Campus, 71 Loring Avenue Parking is located directly across the street. salemstate.edu/arts

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William (Bill) Evans Tap Master Class World-renowned choreographer William (Bill) Evans is our fall 2017 dance artist-in-residence. He will work with Salem State dance students throughout the semester, developing original work to be presented at the Salem Dance Ensemble concert in December. This master class*, which is open to the public, begins Mr. Evans’ residency.

A Guggenheim fellow and director of the acclaimed Bill Evans Dance Company, Evans is professor emeritus at the College at Brockport, SUNY and distinguished professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico. Since moving to southern New England in 2014, he has taught at Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts. He maintains an active career as a freelance choreographer, solo performer and master teacher with more than 200 of his choreographic works performed around the globe.

Thursday, September 14 Dance Studio (third floor), O’Keefe Complex 4:30-6:30 pm *Participation limited to experienced tap dancers.

Observers welcome.

William (Bill) Evans

Concert: Salem State Dance Faculty and Guests Dance faculty Meghan McLyman, James Morrow and Betsy Miller present and perform their original choreography. The faculty is joined on the stage by the Caitlin Corbett Dance Company under the direction of retired dance faculty Caitlin Corbett, and the 2017 CCPA Lifetime Achievement Honoree in Dance Peter DiMuro and his company Public Displays of Motion.

Saturday, September 16, 7:30 pm Salem Night at the Sophia — Salem residents admitted free with ID

All dance events take place in the Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts unless otherwise indicated.

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Salem Dance Ensemble presents The Other Side of The Crowd “Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels.

The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes.

The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward.

And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”

— Rob Siltanen for Apple* The dance program and world-renowned guest choreographer William (Bill) Evans present a concert of original work that celebrates the rule breakers and everyone who is part of the other side of the crowd.

Saturday, December 16, 7:30 pm Sunday, December 17, 2 pm

Salem Dance Ensemble

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Wondertwins: To Hip-Hop, with Love We are thrilled to welcome the award-winning duo of Billy and Bobby McLain, the Wondertwins, to the Sophia stage. This production is made up of three separate pieces: “Broadway to Hip-Hop,” “Sounds of Movement” and “L.OV.E.” With an eclectic soundtrack of music ranging from legendary rappers Busta Rhymes and KRS One, to the classic voice of Sammy Davis Jr., as well as poetry from Maya Angelou, “To Hip-Hop, with Love” offers a kaleidoscopic view of African-American entertainment traditions. Includes a post-performance discussion.

Former Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre executive director Judith Jamison has praised the Wondertwins as “absolutely beautiful, strong, powerful and electric…”

Saturday, January 27, 2018 7:30 pm

Billy and Bobby McLain

TICKETS: $20 general / $15 seniors and non-SSU students / Under 18 admitted free Salem State students free with ID Advance ticket purchase: salemstatetickets.com or 978.542.6365. salemstate.edu/arts

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The Cripple of Inishmaan

by Martin McDonagh Directed by Bill Cunningham “McDonagh…is at root an Irish realist in the tradition of Synge, O’Casey, Friel and Billy Roche. He is also a born storyteller with a precocious sense of dramatic structure.”

—London Times.

The Cripple of Inishmaan is an outrageously dark comedy set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland in 1934.

As word is spread by Johnnypateen—a man who mistakes gossip for news—that a Hollywood movie is going to be filmed on the neighboring island of Inishmore, young Cripple Billy wants desperately to be in the film. Cripple Billy is determined to cross the sea, audition for the director, and, hopefully, be whisked away to America. As word of his plan spreads throughout the rumor obsessed island, the inhabitants of Inishmaan quickly resent Cripple Billy’s audacity of hope.

In this wonderfully unpredictable play, playwright Martin McDonagh gives us a world in which people are comically mean-spirited and resentful of anyone who hopes for a life that makes their lives look small by comparison.

With a set designed by Amber Primm, lights designed by professor Michael Harvey, and costumes designed by professor Jane Hillier-Walkowiak, our production of The Cripple of Inishmaan promises to take you to an island you may not live on, but one that reflects a world you might just recognize.

This production contains adult language and subject matter and is intended for mature audiences.

October 19-21, 7:30 pm and October 22, 2 pm October 26-28 7:30 pm and October 29, 2 pm Pre-show conversation: The Hurt, the Healing and the Hiding behind Irish Humor Thursday, October 26, 6:30 pm

Special Event: The House of Macbeth October 28, 10 pm–midnight Callan Studio Theatre An interactive and immersive theatre event hosted by Hecate, the goddess of witchcraft, and Shakespeare’s weird sisters.

Come and be enthralled, enchanted and of course a little unnerved in the house of Lady M and her Lord Macbeth.

Admission is free. Reservations encouraged. Not suitable for children under 12.

All theatre events take place in the Sophia Gordon Center for Creative and Performing Arts unless otherwise indicated.

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Macbeth

by William Shakespeare Adapted and directed by Kate Amory “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” proclaim the witches in Macbeth, Shakespeare’s classic tale of greed-soaked ambition. Set in a stark Scottish landscape, this adaptation displays the witches in a refreshingly original light, as witnessing the ambition and desperation of Macbeth, and the cunning and ruthlessness of Lady Macbeth. The witches are portrayed as agents of human beings, not their instigators, and so they and the audience get drawn into the humans’ conspiratorial plottings. Supernatural and unnatural forces come to the aid of Macbeth and his wife. Our protagonists are not so much seduced by the witches’ words as they are compelled by their own greedy ambitions and primitive fears to make inhuman choices in their quest for power.

Macbeth is also the story of an age—an age that included anxiety about witchcraft and the demonization of women as witches, as weavers of catastrophe. This adaptation incorporates parts of The Witch, by Shakespeare’s contemporary, Thomas Middleton, and is directed by professor Kate Amory, creator of D.arc Water and Ghosts of Troy. Professor Michael Harvey (scenic and lighting design), Ryan Blaney ’17 (sound design) and new theatre faculty professor Jerry Johnson (costume design) complete the creative team.

This production contains adult language and subject matter and is intended for mature audiences.

November 30–December 2, 7:30 pm and December 3, 2 pm December 7-9, 7:30 pm and December 10, 2 pm Pre-show conversation: Macbeth: Ambition, Assassination and Guilt Thursday, December 7, 6:30 pm

COMING IN SPRING 2018 – TICKETS ON SALE NOW! Enter Laughing by Joseph Stein

A Free Man of Color by John Guare

Directed by David Allen George

Directed by Peter Sampieri

February 22–March 4, 2018

April 19-29, 2018

Denying his parent’s wishes for a druggist in the family, stage-struck David Kolowitz leaves their dreams and his devoted girlfriend Wanda behind and is soon enlisted (and paying for) a slot as the “leading man” in a third-rate theatrical company.

His baptism of fire is a hilarious first performance where everything that can go wrong, does.

New Orleans in 1801 is a Dionysian world of beautiful women, good-looking men, flowing wine, and pleasure for the taking. At its center is Jacques Cornet, who commands the men, seduces the women and cuts a wide swath through the city and the province.

But, with the Louisiana Purchase, American rule will come to New Orleans. Class, racial and political lines are about to be redrawn, challenging the world of Jacque Cornet and all that he represents.

TICKETS: $20 general / $15 seniors and non-SSU students / Under 18 admitted free Salem State students free with ID Advance ticket purchase: salemstatetickets.com or 978.542.6365. salemstate.edu/arts

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JON SARKIN ARTIST

Jon Sarkin, Fish City Rug Collection

Jon Sarkin is a self-taught contemporary American artist.

The neurological effects of a stroke in 1989 led him to be a wildly prolific artist. This condition, known as “sudden artistic output,” profoundly affected his perception of the world, and this change is reflected in his art. His work is influenced by popular culture, comics, literature, and music. Sarkin creates elaborate drawings and paintings filled with words and images.

He has been featured in many publications and documentaries, including GQ, The New Yorker, The New York Times, ArtNews, Primetime Live, the Discovery Channel and the BBC. He has exhibited widely in locations, including New York, London, Los Angeles and Boston. His biography, Shadows Bright As Glass, was written in 2011 by Pulitzer-prize winning author Amy Ellis Nutt.

Jon Sarkin received the Salem State University Art + Design 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, to honor his remarkable commitment to art and creativity. His exhibition in the Winfisky Gallery will be unlike any exhibition that has been presented in the gallery’s long history. On September 20, he will be performing his unique blend of poetry, performance art and scientific mumbo jumbo with videographer Emile Doucette. He will return to our campus in spring 2018, for a residency and workshops with our art + design students.

EXHIBITION: September 6-28 Gallery Talk: Wednesday, September 13, 12:30-1:30 pm Reception: Wednesday, September 13, 2-4 pm Performance: Wednesday, September 20, 2-3:30 pm MLK Jr. Room, Ellison Campus Center

Jon Sarkin

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Soundings East

Volume 39 Spring 2017

ART + DESIGN FACULTY SHOWCASE Self Portraiture: A Self-Portrait Reveals More Than Just the Likeness of Its Sitter In an existential grasp for self-assurance, the “selfie” provides proof that we are alive and well in the world. Our students utilize social media as a blank canvas to create a self-identity through an accretion of images and text that form a portrait of who they are, either real or imagined.

This year, for our Art + Design Faculty Showcase, the faculty have created a wide array of artworks that allude to their personal identities.

This annual event features the work of faculty from within Salem State University’s nationally accredited art + design department. Works by both full-time and adjunct studio faculty in printmaking, painting, design, sculpture, photography, and various other media are exhibited.

Image by Ken Reker

EXHIBITION: October 5–November 2 Reception: Wednesday, October 18, 6-8 pm Gallery Discussions: Every Wednesday during the exhibition, 12:30-1:30 pm

KAITY MARTIN ’17 / PUBLIC ART: PLANTING A SEED OF CIVILITY Honors in Art “After the death of a classmate, in the realization and sense of self that followed, I decided to propose an idea for a memorial to him. From there, three other projects developed to create a body of work over the next year, during an honor’s study with art + design professor Ken Reker. This honors project has been a great privilege. I never imagined that I could accomplish this and, at the same time, could have so much fun and absorb so many skills along the way. I’m extremely grateful, and I owe this opportunity to Alex, the one who made me realize that if I wanted something bad enough, I had to make it happen, no excuses.

Along with the memorial bench for Alex Jacobowitz that I initially proposed, I ultimately decided upon three designs for three projects. A bus shelter that mimics the body of two figures, offering shelter, support and safety for those who wish to utilize it, a recycling can monster that offers a playful yet impactful message about the importance of being responsible for our garbage and finally a testimonial piece as a female within today’s culture and how I am left feeling vulnerable. I have been inspired, and would like to continue to inspire, through the medium of life I work hardest at, my creative thinking.” — Kaity Martin ’17

Kaity Martin, Bus Shelter

ART + DESIGN HOLIDAY EXHIBITION and SALE Personalize your digs!!

Why settle for a mass-produced poster or tchotchke (nick-nack), when you can own an ORIGINAL artwork (made by someone you may know)!! Please stop in and view the amazing work (all reasonably priced to take home) of Art + Design students and faculty.

EXHIBITION: November 9-29 December 4-14, 10 am-2 pm Reception: Wednesday, November 15, 2-4 pm salemstate.edu/arts

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Justin Torres Co-sponsored by Diversity and Multicultural Affairs “A voice whose uniqueness, power and resonance are evident from the very first page…” — Washington Post Justin Torres’ first novel We the Animals, a national best seller, has been translated into fifteen languages and is currently being adapted into a feature film. Written in magical language with unforgettable images, We the Animals, is a stunning exploration of the viscerally charged landscape of growing up and how deeply we are formed by our earliest bonds.

Torres has published short fiction in The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Tin House, The Washington Post, Glimmer Train, Flaunt, and other publications, as well as non-fiction pieces in publications like The Guardian and The Advocate. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and a Cullman Center Fellow at The New York Public Library. The National Book Foundation named him one of 2012’s 5 Under 35. He has been the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Rolón Fellowship in Literature from United States Artists, and the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award.

Tuesday, September 19, 7:30 pm Recital Hall Central Campus

Justin Torres

Soundings East Release Party Celebrate the release of Soundings East, Vol. 39. This issue marks the last edited by graduated SSU students, Robby Auld, MP Carver, and Amanda Mark. It features the work of Claire Keyes Award winner, Faith Shearin and has a special section of poetry by alumni of the Salem Poetry Seminar, curated by Joey Gould and Salem State alumnus Shari Caplan.

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Wednesday, September 27, 7 pm Sophia Gordon Center

Annual Undergraduate Reading What are Salem State students writing in their creative and professional writing courses? Come find out at this annual reading that spotlights the work of SSU student writers. Readers will include editors from Salem State’s national literary magazine, Soundings East and its e-zine, Red Skies. Included will be new Soundings East nonfiction editor, Tom Laaser, whose essay, “You Laugh,” was recently published in As You Were: The Military Review.

Thursday, October 12, 1:45 pm Martin Luther King Jr. Room Ellison Campus Center

All creative writing events are free and open to the public.

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Travels — Kirun Kapur and Mark Vanhoenacker

Writing the Past — Rachel Hall and Cindy Veach

“…a first collection which is so assured and lyrically compelling that it reads nothing like a debut volume.”

— Neil Astley of Ploughshares

Co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and SSU Hillel

Kirun Kapur’s first book, Visiting Indira Gandhi’s Palmist (Elixir Press, 2015), was awarded the Antivenom Poetry Award and the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry. These intense, beautiful poems ricochet from Partition-era India to Biblical pastorals, from American bars to the battlefield of the Bhagavad-Gita.

Kapur has lived and worked in North America and South Asia. Her Kirun Kapur first job as a writer was for India’s groundbreaking feminist magazine Manushi and from there her travels took her through Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Poetry International, FIELD, The Beloit Poetry Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Massachusetts Review, The Christian Science Monitor and many other journals and news outlets. In 2015, NBC News named her to their list of Asian-American Poets to Watch.

She is the poetry editor for The Drum Literary Magazine.

“The mind of a scientist and the heart of a poet.”

— Sarah Larson, The New Yorker Mark Vanhoenacker is a pilot and a writer. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times and Slate, he has also written for Wired, the Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Independent. His first book, Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot (2015), is a poetic exploration of the human experience of flight.

“This beautiful book deftly weaves together the tales of neighbors, lovers, spouses, and children to add something remarkable to the ever-expanding shelf of Holocaust narratives…” — Lilith Rachel Hall’s collection of linked stories, Heirlooms, was awarded the BkMk Press 2015 G.S. Sharat Chandra prize. Set in France during World War II and in the U.S. and Israel in the decades following, Heirlooms explores assumptions about love, duty, memory, and truth. Hall’s work has appeared in Bellingham Review, Crab Orchard Rachel Hall Review, Gettysburg Review, Lilith, and New Letters, among others. She has received awards and honors from publications such as Lilith, Glimmer Train, and New Letters and from the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Ragdale and the Ox-Bow School of the Arts. She holds an MFA from Indiana University and is Professor of English at the State University of New York-Geneseo.

“The poems in this collection are heartbreaking works of wonder...“ — Karen Skolfield, author of Frost in the Low Areas Cindy Veach is the author of Gloved Against Blood (CavanKerry Press, November 2017). Her poetry has appeared in Agni, Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review, North American Review and elsewhere.

She was a finalist for the Grolier Prize and the Ann Stanford Prize and the recipient of an honorable mention in the Crab Creek Review Poetry Contest.

Cindy Veach

Half-meditation, half-travelogue Mark Vanhoenacker Skyfaring reminds the reader that flight and its associated journeys is a miracle of physics filled with the capacity to amaze. His second book, How to Land a Plane, will be published in fall 2017. Vanhoenacker is a Senior First Officer for British Airways, flying Boeing 747s.

Gloved Against Blood explores the fraught relationships of four generations of women against a backdrop of the textile mills of 19th century Lowell, Massachusetts. This collection speaks to family, lost love, infidelities, abandonment

Monday, November 6, 7:30 pm Veterans Hall Ellison Campus Center

Thursday, November 16, 7:30 pm Martin Luther King Jr. Room Ellison Campus Center

and the close work, women’s work of mending what is torn and making it like new despite the forces of inherited histories.

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The Cripple of Inishmaan

Faculty Dance Concert with Caitlin Corbett Dance Company and Public Displays of Motion

October 19-29

September 16

Macbeth

November 30 – December 10

Charlie Hunter Trio

Salem Dance Ensemble with guest artist Bill Evans

October 12

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Wondertwins: To Hip-Hop, with Love

January 27

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Enter Laughing

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February 22 – March 4 Grisha Goryachev, Flamenco Guitarist

February 26 Gamelan Concert with Ngudi Roras Ensemble

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A Free Man of Color

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