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Points of Pride 2008
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Professor Emeritus of Music Jack Heller was invited to present a paper about his research on music and speech development at the Eighth International Conference of the Research Alliance in Music Education (RAIME) held recently at the Frost School of Music, University of Miami.
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An essay by Associate Professor Elisabeth Fraser (Art History), "Of books, prints, travel, and expansionism: Reading in the gaps of the orientalist archive," has been accepted for publication in the major international journal Art History. A critical examination of postcolonial theory, Fraser's essay looks at the thriving European publishing industry dealing in illustrated travel accounts of the Islamic Mediterranean. She argues that the multifarious nature of these books - juggling word and image and coordinating the work of a large number of writers, researchers, artists, and printers - provides a radically alternative model for interpreting travel representation in the age of expansion. In peer review Fraser's essay was termed "a fine contribution to book history, art history, and the study of imperialism."
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The USF Percussion Ensemble, directed by USF Professor Robert McCormick, recently gave an invited performance for the Annual Convention of the Florida Music Educators on January 10th in Tampa. Featured on the program was the Flute Concerto with Four Percussionists by USF visiting professor Chihchun Chi-sun Lee. The work was performed by USF flute professor Kim McCormick.
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Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing Elisabeth Condon has been awarded a $5,000 2008 State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, the state's most prestigious studio art award.
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Lisa Lehmberg, a Ph.D. candidate in music education in the School of Music, has recently accepted the appointment of Assistant Professor of Music (tenure-track) at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Beginning in the fall of 2008, Lisa will be responsible for teaching undergraduate courses in general music methods, as well as graduate courses in music education and research. Like USF, the University of Massachusetts is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as Research University: Very High Research Activity.
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Over the past few years the "Did You Know." emails have kept the faculty and staff of the College of Visual and Performing Arts and others aware of the accomplishments of faculty, staff, students and alumni of CVPA. This provides not only a daily dose of the good things going on in the college but also material for the various newsletters that the college produces. Recently, in fact, President Genshaft requested that her office receive the daily "Did You Know." emails.
The "Did You Know." email is generated by CVPA faculty and staff who send noteworthy news regarding faculty, staff, student and alumni activities to the director of each unit. The director passes on the noteworthy "Did You Know." email to the Dean's office where it is formatted and distributed.
CVPA contributes to the arts and culture at USF as well as the local and state communities, the nation and the world. Let's be sure to keep everyone aware of our accomplishments!
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Assistant Professor of Studio Art Gregory Green was recently included in a group exhibition entitled "Broadcast" at The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore. Curated by Irene Hofmann, the exhibition included Chris Burden, Chip Lord, Christian Jankowski, and Nam June Paik.
"Broadcast" explores the ways in which artists have engaged, critiqued, and inserted themselves into official channels of broadcast television and radio. Featuring works in video, sound, photography, and installation, "Broadcast" is the first exhibition of its kind to examine this provocative body of work.
Also, Professor Green was interviewed on the Baltimore National Public Radio show "Maryland Morning" as well as a television interview on CN8 news station's "Our Morning On CN8" in the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C. areas.
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Jeremy Chandler, current MFA student in the School of Art and Art History, has been named Tampa's Photographer Laureate for 2008. Chandler is commissioned by the city to create the next installment in the city's "Big Picture Project." He will receive $25,000 dollars to complete the project and was chosen from a national field of applicants.
Jeremy Chandler also has a solo exhibition at the Atlantic Center of the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida, January 5 29, with funding assistance from CVPA and the USF School of Art and Art History. Jeremy makes photographs that depict the relationship between some of Florida's more isolated coastal and rural communities and their natural environment. His beautifully shot, large scale works are a portrait of the place where culture, identity and nature intersect.
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Kalup Linzy, MFA Studio Art 2003, has received a Creative Capital Foundation Grant, and his video performance artwork is included in the current Whitney Biennial exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Creative Capital supports artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video, and in emerging fields.
The Sunday "New York Times" (January 6) featured several reproductions of Linzy's video stills along with text references in the Arts & Leisure section's first-page article, "Video Art Thinks Big: Thatıs Showbiz" by Holland Carter.
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At its November 2007 meetings, the National Association of Schools of Music voted to continue the USF School of Music in good standing. This action was taken upon review of the School according to accreditation standards in effect at the time of the review.
Congratulations are extended to all the faculty and staff who worked so hard to ensure full accreditation.
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A new refereed research journal, Music Education Research International (MERI), is being published online by the College of Visual and Performing Arts at USF starting Fall 2007. The journal has a review board of 39 internationally recognized music education scholars. Subscription for the first year (two issues) is free. Visit the journal's homepage at http://meri.arts.usf.edu and click "subscribe" to see the inaugural issue, which features articles by Bennett Reimer, John B. Hylton, Margaret S. Barrett, Donald Hodges, Janet L.S. Moore, and Margaret Griffin.
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Yoko Nogami, Adjunct Instructor in the School of Art and Art History and MFA alumna 2006, received a $1000 Artist Enhancement Award from the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs for 2007-08.
The grant will be used toward Ms. Nogami's residency this summer at Vermont Art Studio, where she was selected to participate from a large pool of applicants nationally.
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Bill Brewer (Theatre and Dance faculty) has been selected as the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region IV's Outstanding Teaching Artist of Design.
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A trumpet ensemble from the School of Music performed at the Moffitt Cancer Center Holiday Tree Lighting Celebration on December 4.
Pictured left to right are: Jay Coble, Ed Reid, Nicole Daley, and Wade Weast.
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TheatreUSF's impact in the Tampa area shows up once again. Creative Loafing's "Top 10 Theatre List for 2007" mentions a number of TheatreUSF connections by name, including: The Birthday Party, a "delightful USF BRIT program production," Professor Emerita Nancy Cole and former Professor of Acting Robin Gordon (for directing and choreographing, respectively, of Jane Eyre), and former students Ami Sallee Corley and Caitlin McDonald. More alumni connections exist with a number of the other productions listed, especially the three from Jobsite Theatre (http://www.jobsitetheater.org/index.asp).
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Andrea Satterfield, MA Art History Spring 2007, is a winner of a USF Graduate School's Outstanding Thesis Award for her thesis entitled, "The Assimilation of the Marvelous Other: Reading Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch (1529) as an Ethnographic Document."
The Outstanding Thesis Awards will be presented at the Graduate School's Outstanding Thesis and Dissertation Awards Reception to be held in January.
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Maria P. Colaco, USF dance alumni 2001, and founder and artistic director of the New York City - based MariaColacoDance company, was mentioned in the December 2, 2007 Sunday edition of the New York Times. Maria's company has just become the resident company for Evolution Dance Theater, which opened in Westchester, NY, in September and includes a dance school, a performance venue for professional companies, and ongoing exchanges with dance professionals, students, and the community through classes, open rehearsals, and educational events. "DUKE In December; Not Just A Nutcracker" will be performed by MariaColacoDance in the Evolution Dance's 77-seat theatre in December. Ms. Colaco is excited to be part of building a modern dance community in Westchester and hopes to help create a new cultural institution that will be around for years to come.
Click here to read the New York Times article.
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Assistant Professor of Art Gregory Green's work was discussed and numerous images were included in the anthology
"Ruminations on Violence"
edited by Derek Pardue, published by Waveland Press
ISBN: 978-1-57766-508-3 İ 2008
Violence pervades humanity as experience, public policy, narrative, and mediated commodity. The goal of Ruminations on Violence is to discuss and analyze various contours of violence as it is made manifest around the world. This foundational collection of essays, stories, and poems represent a wide variety of disciplines and perspectives. The unifying theme is that violence is not a thing, but rather a dynamic force occurring among separate, conscious minds that is enhanced by the careful scrutiny of social science.
This multifaceted anthology is both applied and theoretical in its approach, containing cross-cultural case studies and personal testimonies as well as impressionistic essays and theoretical statements on violence as a powerful discourse. The layout is thematic, moving from conventional anthropological and sociological issues of state-sponsored, ethnic, and domestic violence to media studies and popular-culture fields concerning the aesthetics and narration of violence. This uniquely eclectic viewpoint offers the reader interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives that will help them to understand the difficult issues surrounding the complex phenomenon that is violence.
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