CPVA Annual Report 2012-13

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2012-2013 Annual Report

Brian Swanson Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Technical Theatre Shannon Vance Lecturer of Dance Chien-Ying Wang Assistant Professor of Dance

Faculty Highlights 2012-2013 Art & Design Jessica Gerlach exhibited design and illustration work as part of the SUU Art and Design Faculty Exhibit. One of her letterpress design pieces was published in the Kolob Canyon Review in the spring of 2013. Professor Gerlach's design project What’s So Important About Water? and MY\\O]ZYXNSXQ O]]Kc aK] Z_LVS]RON SX K PY_\ ZKQO ]Z\OKN SX ^RO LYYU GROUND|WATER: The Art, Design and Science of a Dry River, edited by Ellen McMahon, Ander Monson, Beth Weinstein. Jeff Hanson gave a lecture, What Language Looks Like, and conducted a workshop on typographic poster design as part of a faculty exchange at <OXWSX ?XS`O\]S^c ,OSTSXQ -RSXK 7Kc Susan Harris exhibited her work in the Faculty and Assistants Exhibition of the Sally D. Francisco Gallery at Peter’s Valley Craft Center in Layton, New Jersey, and participated in the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery 2012 Southern Utah Art Invitational Exhibition and Sale which raised funds for the gallery. During the 2012-2013 academic year, Susan began her extensive research as curator for the forthcoming exhibition, Fifty from Six: Contemporary Ceramic Art from Six Rocky Mountain States. The exhibition will be funded by the Friends of the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery. Andrew Marvick presented a paper last year at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign which was subsequently selected for publication in a forthcoming Ashgate UK collection entitled The Symbolist Roots of Modernism. In the spring of 2013 he published an article on the American still-life painter Luigi Lucioni for the journal of The Cincinnati Museum of Art. In the summer of 2013 his new paper, “The Sisters of Atalanta: Distortions of the Classical Ideal in Fin-de-Siècle Art,â€? was selected for presentation at CAA in Chicago in 2014. In May he was invited to join the editorial board of the journal of ALMSD, an internationally recognized scholarly association focusing on Symbolist art, literature and music. Meanwhile he traveled with his colleague Jeff Hanson to Renmin School of Art in Beijing where he gave a lecture on Whistler and China and mounted an exhibition of watercolors under the group title “Day Corrupted and Enriched by Night.â€? 3X ]Z\SXQ RO VK_XMRON K aOL]S^O PY\ RS] \OMOX^ ZKSX^SXQ]$ www.andrewmarvick.jimdo.com. Jeremias Paul’s photographs were exhibited in exhibitions at the Signal Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, and at the Silver Eye Center for photography in

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Students at Everything in Between exhibition curated by Deborah K Snider

Pittsburgh, PA. His images were also published online at Lintroller, Conscientious, and on Latent Image. Jeremias also presented his work at the Society for Photographic Education’s southwest regional conference in Fort Collins, Colorado, and at Southern Utah University’s Festival for Excellence. Deborah K. Snider's art quilts were juried into exhibitions in Colorado, Louisiana, New York, Taiwan, and Utah. She curated an international art [_SV^ ObRSLS^SYX K^ =?? KXN MYVVKLY\K^ON YX KX K\^ [_SV^ aS^R

individuals during Dr. Lynn Vartan's Satellite Salon Concert. She presented talks at Utah Art Education Association and Leadership Engagement Center Conferences. Her artwork was selected for Lark Books’ Art Quilt Portfolio: People and Portraits. She is working on a book called The Collages of Jonathan Talbot with colleagues Dr. Andrew Marvick and Jeff Hanson. As of May 2013, she is President of the Cedar City Arts Council.

Arts Administration Dr. James C. Marchant presented Challenging & Provocative Work in the Higher Education Classroom at the Association Arts Administration Educators Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. He completed the proposal and received approval from the Board of Regents for the Online Master of Arts Administration program.

Center for Shakespeare Studies Don Weingust in 2012 became a member-for-life of, and shared a paper in seminar at, the International Shakespeare Conference (ISC), hosted by the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. The ISC is a biennial, invitation-only gathering of some 230 of the world’s top Shakespeareans. In Nashville in November 2012, Don co-chaired the Shakespearean Performance Research Group (SPRG), which he founded seven years ago, and which is the largest continuing group of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR). Don forged a relationship between the SPRG and the SUU Press publication The Journal of the Wooden O, which is publishing several of the SPRG’s papers and for which Don acted as an associate editor. Don also gave a paper in spring 2013 at the Shakespeare Association of America annual meeting in Toronto. Don has been a Literary Seminar Director in summers 2012 and 2013, co-leading morning seminars in the Grove for the Utah Shakespeare Festival, for which he is also serving as Dramaturg for the 2013 fall production of

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