New Haitian Ensemble Shares Bill With Hop’s World Music Group

Posted On Sunday, February 17, 2013 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , , ,   
New Haitian Ensemble Shares Bill With Hop’s World Music Group Dartmouth’s World Music Percussion Ensemble will be joined by a new touring ensemble from Haiti for its winter concert, “Carnival Time—Hot, Hot, Hot!” on Friday, February 22, at 8 p.m., in the Hopkins Center’s Spaulding Auditorium. The concert features music of the season of Carnival, in which the Christian season of ...

Sculptor Sabrina Yegela ’13 Explores Art And Identity

Posted On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , ,   
Explores Art And Identity This story was originally published in the Dartmouth College Fund’s Fall 2012 issue of “GREEN at Dartmouth.” Sabrina Yegela ’13, came to Dartmouth from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, excited to study studio art and economics. She talks to GREEN at Dartmouth about how she uses sculpture to help her explore issues ...

U-M Arts And Culture: Race, Emancipation And African-American Folk Gardens

Posted On Monday, January 14, 2013 By . Under MICHIGAN  Tags: , , , , ,   
University of Michigan ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan website "Montage" highlights the latest news and features about the arts, culture, creative endeavors, collaborative projects and upcoming events. This week's top features include: Understanding Race: Few subjects provoke as strong a visceral response as the topic of race. One-hundred-and-fifty years after the United States was ...

Patterson Hood Opens Alys Stephens Center’s 2013 Season Jan. 12

Posted On Thursday, December 13, 2012 By . Under ALABAMA  Tags: , , , ,   
Patterson Hood opens Alys Stephens Center’s 2013 season Alabama’s own alternative-country rocker Patterson Hood will make his debut at UAB’s Alys Stephens Performing Arts Center (ASC) on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. The ASC welcomes the Drive-By Truckers co-founder, a native of Muscle Shoals, for an introspective show spotlighting his third solo recording, “Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance,” which ...

Dartmouth Puts Visual Arts Front and Center (Valley News)

Posted On Tuesday, October 9, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , ,   
The Valley News reports that early reviews of the new Black Family Visual Arts Center and neighboring Maffei Arts Plaza are “beyond favorable.” The latest additions to Dartmouth’s Arts District are making visual art “a more universal topic of conversation,” the newspaper says. The Visual Arts Center houses all studio arts at Dartmouth under one ...

Igniting Imagination

Posted On Saturday, October 6, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
Actor and comedian Aisha Tyler ’92 hosts a multimedia show, “Igniting Imagination—A Salute to the Hop’s 50 Years!,” of inspirational music, theater, and dance by distinguished guests, Dartmouth student artists, faculty, and alumni on October 12 as part of the Hopkins Center for the Arts’ 50th anniversary celebration. The show ...

After Renovations, Dartmouth Can See Orozco’s Mural in a New Light

Posted On Friday, October 5, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   
The Orozco Room in Baker-Berry Library, which houses one of Dartmouth’s greatest treasures, José Clemente Orozco’s major mural cycle The Epic of American Civilization, has reopened after undergoing a three-and-a-half month renovation. A new lighting system has been installed that dramatically improves the display of the fresco masterpiece, and the ground-level ...

Video: Black Family Visual Arts Center at Dartmouth

Posted On Wednesday, October 3, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
The dedication of the Black Family Visual Arts Center and installation of Ellsworth Kelly’s Dartmouth Panels are celebrated in a video featuring lead donors Leon Black ’73, Greg Maffei ’82, Charlie Nearburg ’72, Thayer ’74, and the Stern family—Michael ’59, Tuck ’60 and Marjorie and their children, Betsy ’84, Mark ’85, and ...

Life-Size Puppets Perform ‘Woyzeck’ At Dartmouth (VPR)

Posted On Friday, September 21, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , ,   
  SEPTEMBER 20, 2012 The Tony Award-winning Handspring Puppet Company from Cape Town, South Africa, has spent the past week in residence at Dartmouth, giving workshops and lectures. The company’s co-directors, Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, are on campus asMontgomery Fellows. On September 21 and 22, the puppet company will perform Woyzeck on the Highveld at the Hopkins ...

Student Success and Innovation

Posted On Thursday, September 20, 2012 By . Under FLORIDA  Tags: , , , , , , ,   
In her Fall Address, President Genshaft said USF will continue its laser focus on student success initiatives, innovation and research. TAMPA, Fla. (Sept. 19, 2012) – University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft Wednesday affirmed USF’s commitment to global research, public-private partnerships and its primary, strategic initiative to ensure success for ...

Celebrated Cellist Yo-Yo Ma Launches the Hopkins Center’s 50th Anniversary Season

Posted On Saturday, September 15, 2012 By . Under NEW HAMPSHIRE  Tags: , , , , , , ,   
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012 Dartmouth’s Year of the Arts and the Hopkins Center’s 50th Anniversary season kicked off in style this week, as renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma delivered a stirring performance in a sold-out Spaulding Auditorium. Ma, who performed unaccompanied, featured music by Johann Sebastian Bach, but also included pieces by Ahmed Adnan Saygun, George Crumb, and ...