2015 - 2016 MCA Guest Artist Series

new paths

2015-2016 GUEST ARTIST SERIES

Welcome Welcome to the Inaugural Season in the Woodrow W. McGlothlin Center for the Arts at Emory & Henry College. As we journey down NEW PATHS, we hope you will join us on what promises to be an exciting adventure. The first season of guest artists is both a nod to our history and a vision for our future. We open with the dynamic Broadway talent Liz Callaway for an evening of unforgettable cabaret. Homecoming will be celebrated in grand style with a showcase of our own talent in both theatres and the art gallery. By late fall we will give you

“ We keep moving forward,

opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps

leading us down NEW PATHS.”

a glimpse of world class piano competitions when we host the Van Cliburn

...Walt Disney

Gold Medalist for 2013, Vadym Kholodenko. We kick off spring with the creative, original talent of PUSH Physical Theatre, showcase the dynamic choreography of Paul Taylor’s Taylor 2 and lift the roof with the diverse musical style of the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass. In our new art gallery, we feature this fall two mixed media group shows, including our Faculty Biennial and the all female exhibition, A Woman in Her Place. In spring, we invite you to see the unique pen and ink work of Ben Sack, the photography of Colleen Fitzgerald, and the sculptures of George Lorio.

It is an exciting time for the arts at Emory & Henry College. As our neighbors, alumni and friends, please join us in carving NEW PATHS in Southwest Virginia.

Lisa Campbell Executive Director

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cover: Taylor 2-Images (photo by Tim Caravaglia); graphic, ©CanStock-talkhagata

Calendar Thursday, September 24, 2015, 7:30 pm Liz Callaway in Concert Artalk: Monday, October 5, 2015, 7:30 pm Exhibit: September 22–November 3, 2015 Biennial 36°46'22"N, 81°49'50"W Friday, October 16, 2015, 7 pm Coming Home Sunday, November 1, 2015, 3 pm Vadym Kholodenko Artalk: Monday, November 9, 2015, 7:30 pm Exhibit: November 10-December 12, 2015 A Woman In Her Place Artalk: Monday, January 25, 2016, 7:30 pm Exhibit: January 12-February 6, 2016 Ben Sack: Atlas of Thought

Artalk: Monday, February 15, 2016, 7:30 pm Exhibit: February 16-March 18, 2016 Colleen Fitzgerald: A Lesser Chaos Friday, February 19, 2016, 7:30 pm PUSH Physical Theatre Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 7:30 pm Taylor 2 Artalk: Wednesday, March 30, 2016, 7:30 pm Exhibit: March 31-April 27, 2016 George Lorio: Concerns Friday, April 1, 2016, 7:30 pm The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass

at a glance Programs are subject to change.

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Thursday, September 24, 2015, 7:30 pm

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Liz Callaway

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Liz Callaway is a Tony nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress, singer and recording artist. She made her Broadway debut in Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along, received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in Baby, and for five years, won acclaim as Grizabella in Cats. Callaway also has established a major career as a concert and recording artist. Recently she had the pleasure of singing Chances Are with singing legend Johnny Mathis in Vancouver. She also co-starred with Jimmy Webb & Paul Williams in their critically acclaimed engagement at Feinstein’s in New York. Liz sang the Academy Award-nominated song “Journey to the Past” in the animated feature Anastasia and also is the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Disney’s Aladdin and the King of Thieves and The Return of Jafar. Join us as she takes the stage for an unforgettable evening of cabaret! $20 / 17% subscription discount / Free to E&H students, faculty and staff (one ticket per student; two tickets per faculty/staff member, must claim in person at the Box Office with E&H ID). photo: Bill Westmoreland

Coming Home Friday, October 16, 2015, 7 pm

The Emory & Henry music faculty are showing off their new home!

They will take the stage for the first time in a delightful evening that showcases their amazing talents in piano, trumpet and voice. Join Mr. Jeremiah Downes, Dr. Lisa Withers, Dr. Matthew Frederick, and Dr. Allyss Haecker in this special celebration for Homecoming weekend!

$20 / 17% subscription discount / Free to E&H students, faculty and staff (one ticket per student; two tickets per faculty/staff member, must claim in person at the Box Office with E&H ID)

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A special celebration showcasing the talents of the E&H music faculty

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Winner of the coveted gold medal at the Fourteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2013, Vadym Kholodenko captured the attention of jury, audience and critics alike for powerful, exhilarating performances that “showed the guts of a true superartist” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Also taking home prizes for best performance of the piano quintet and best performance of the commissioned work, he further demonstrated his artistry with a stunning cadenza in Mozart’s Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467—which he composed himself on the plane from Moscow to the Competition. Since then, Kholodenko has continued to build an international reputation for interpretations that are “impeccable, tasteful and vibrant, and also something more: imaginative” (Cleveland Plain Dealer).

Sunday, November 1, 2015, 3 pm

Vadym Kholodenko Van Cliburn International Piano Competition 2013 Gold Medalist

$20 / 17% subscription discount / Free to E&H students, faculty and staff (one ticket per student; two tickets per faculty/staff member, must claim in person at the Box Office with E&H ID). photo: Ellen Appel-Mike Moreland / The Cliburn

Physical Theatre

Friday February 19, 2016 7:30 pm

Seeing award-winning PUSH Physical Theatre is like watching a live-action movie. This talented group of performers inspires awe with physical illusions and gravity-defying, dance-infused, acrobatic high jinx. It’s cool, it’s athletic, it’s a perfect metaphor-in-motion: the narratives of our lives played out with hope, strength and optimism. Once you’ve experienced the myth and magic of PUSH, you will know the strength of the human soul expressed by the power of the human body. PUSH’s repeated sold-out performances have established them as the masters of physical storytelling. $20 / 17% subscription discount / Free to E&H students, faculty and staff (one ticket per student; two tickets per faculty/staff member, must claim in person at the Box Office with E&H ID).

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PUSH

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016, 7:30 pm

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Taylor 2

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Choreographer Paul Taylor is the last living member of the pantheon that created America’s indigenous art of modern dance. At an age when most artists’ best work is behind them, Taylor continues to win public and critical acclaim for the vibrancy, relevance and power of his creations. As he has since his origins as a dance maker in 1954, he offers cogent observations on life’s complexities while tackling some of society’s thorniest issues. While he may propel his dancers through space for the sheer beauty of it, he more frequently uses them to illuminate such profound issues as war, piety, spirituality, sexuality, morality and mortality. If, as George Balanchine said, there are no mothers-in-law in ballet, there certainly are dysfunctional families, disillusioned idealists, imperfect religious leaders, angels and insects in Taylor’s dances. $20 / 17% subscription discount / Free to E&H students, faculty and staff (one ticket per student; two tickets per faculty/staff member, must claim in person at the Box Office with E&H ID).

Taylor 2-Esplanade. photo: Tom Caravaglia

Friday, April 1, 2016, 7:30 pm

The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass

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$20 / 17% subscription discount / Free to E&H students, faculty and staff (one ticket per student; two tickets per faculty/staff member, must claim in person at the Box Office with E&H ID). photo: Vanlssa Briceno-Scherzer

The Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass is composed of some of America’s top brass musicians dedicated to bringing the joyous experience of great music to a wide range of audiences. A group that always reflects the diverse makeup of men and women in the American culture, RMPBB is dedicated to the notion that music is a gift to be enjoyed by everyone. A veritable “dream team” of virtuoso brass players, associate artists have appeared on the world’s most prominent stages. The group burst onto the music scene with a debut performance in Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center in Verizon Hall, a residency for the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, and a special feature on the National Public Radio show, “All Things Considered.”

Promising an evening from Bach to Earth, Wind & Fire—there will be something for everyone!

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Biennial: 36°46'22"N, 81°49'50"W Artalk: Monday, October 5, 2015 7:30 pm Main Stage Theatre Exhibit: September 22November 3, 2015

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Free and open to the public

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Michael Wright, Highway 11, near Glade Spring, Virginia, 2015, 17 x 40 inches, Archival Pigment Print

Members of the Emory & Henry art faculty are consummate creators of work that is engaging, formally rich and conceptually strong.

This exhibition takes its name from the coordinates of the gallery location and celebrates each artist’s engagement with the concept of place as a source of inspiration.

Charles Goolsby evolves images from specific places, resulting in neo-Romantic fictional scenes of powerful psychological drama in his paintings and prints. Manda Remmen’s sculptures transform specific elements of location, history, collected data, processes, materials and viewer engagement into gallery installations that define specific moments in place. Neil Staples is experimenting with alternative photographic processes to create beautifully subtle images. Dan Van Tassell explores the idea of personal place by creating playful, yet serious, sculpture and installation, which seek to tickle our perceptions and sensibilities through the use of metaphor and semiology. Photographer Michael Wright captures the transitory elements of landscape through ambiguity and speed.

A Woman in Her Place

Artalk: Monday, November 9, 2015 7:30 pm, Main Stage Theatre A Woman in Her Place is a project to highlight the place of women in society. Created around the theme of women’s identity and place, female artists from the United States and Europe were asked to create an artwork using a traditional slip (undergarment) as a unifying symbol for women.

Free and open to the public

Sandra Luckett, Sexy Puddle #1, 2015, 10 x 8 inches, Digital Image Print

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Exhibit: November 10December 12, 2015

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Artalk: Monday, January 25, 2016 7:30 pm, Main Stage Theatre

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Ben Sack: Atlas of Thought

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Fascinated by how individuals come to realize their place in the world­—both metaphorically and physically—Sack’s work explores architecture as a flexible medium capable of expressing the unique space between realism and abstraction where interpretation and our ability to create meaning is in flux. Within this space, Sack, furnished with pen and ink, encapsulates both the infinite and infinitesimal. His work invites the eye to explore drawings of the “big picture,” to gaze into a kaleidoscope of histories and to look further into the elemental world of lines and dots.

Free and open to the public

Score for a Symphony (In Gravity), 2014, 36 x 36 inches, Pen and Ink

Exhibit: January 12-February 6, 2016

Artalk: Monday, February 15, 2016 7:30 pm, Main Stage Theatre

Colleen Fitzgerald: A Lesser Chaos Exhibit: February 16-March 18, 2016

Restore Neurotransmitters, 2012, 30 x 38 inches, Digital C-Print

Free and open to the public

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Fitzgerald is captivated by the element of chance, chaos, and the collapse and failure of systems. The conflation of order and disorder, as well as creation and destruction, are significant recurring themes throughout her work. In the series Treatment, she metaphorically treats unexposed photographic film as if it is itself a body in need of care by combining it directly with various medicines and healing processes. Some of the substances and processes to which the film is subjected include infrared heat therapy, antibiotics, concentrated sodium fluoride, and pain medication.

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Artalk: Wednesday, March 30, 2016 7:30 pm, Main Stage Theatre

George Lorio: Concerns Exhibit: March 31-April 27, 2016

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Free and open to the public

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Burgeoning, 2014, 22 inches x 8 x 10 feet, Found Match Box Cars, Plywood, Liquid Nails and Caulk

Lorio incorporates toys within his sculptures, forming them into a narrative of social concern. His images subtly arouse awareness with visual prods into issues related to class, immigration, gun control, political discourse and ecology. Using a visual language derived from an observation of toys of a modernist persuasion where an essential function is apparent, he recently developed a series of sculptures, that poignantly comment on adult concerns in the guise of ironic constructions of found playthings. Initially viewed as benign implements of childhood entertainment, that seduction moves the adult viewer to consider the metaphoric use of the toy. Lorio sees toys as abstractions of grown-up possessions, professions, or spaces, which are to provide children role models. Employing constructed and found forms, his sculpted and assembled works become poetic allusions incorporating the recognizable attributes of natural manufactured objects.

Fall 2015 Department Events Tickets go on sale Sept. 1, 2015. Keep a look out for our departmental postcard.

To receive mailings about MCA events, go to ehc.edu/mca-visit.

October 9, 10, 16 & 17, 7:30 pm & October 11 & 18, 2 pm, Black Box Theatre The Other Side of the Mountain, by Catherine Bush, directed by Dr. Kelly Bremner Friday, November 6, 7:30 pm, Main Stage Theatre Fall Choral Concert, Dr. Allyss Haecker, conductor November 19, 20 & 21, 7:30 pm & November 22, 2 pm, Main Stage Theatre The Grapes Of Wrath, adapted by Frank Galati from the novel by John Steinbeck, directed by Daniel L. Wheeler Sunday, December 6, 7:30 pm, Memorial Chapel Christmas at Emory, Dr. Matthew Frederick and Dr. Allyss Haecker, conductors

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Seating chart

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This diagram shows the seating structure for the main stage theatre.

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Ticket pricing and packages With three ways to purchase tickets to the 2015-2016 Center for the Arts performances, there is flexibility to fit everyone. Order online at www.ehc.edu/mca, by phone at 276.944.6333, or in person at the McGlothlin Center for the Arts box office.

• A Season Subscription includes all performances

and ensures you will not miss a single exciting event. At only $100, you are getting one show for free and locking in your same seat location. Subscription sales start July 20, 2015.

• A Pick 6 Subscription entitles you to purchase any

combination of the six performances for the price of five.

So bring six people to one show, two people to three shows or any other combination of six to get this great package at only $100.

• Single tickets are available at the low price of $20 each. Beginning Sept. 1, individual tickets will be available for purchase and seating may be limited.

Pricing does not reflect handling fees. Absolutely no refunds; however tickets may be exchanged with a 48-hour lead time.

General information Box Office hours and ticket delivery

theatres will begin promptly

seats are needed, please

be canceled due to weather,

at the scheduled time. Please

call the box office. Assisted

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Tickets may be purchased in

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listening devices are available.

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prior to the performance. Late

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McGlothlin Center for the Arts,

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in person and phone sales are

Latecomers may be seated in

noon-5 p.m., Monday-Friday

the back.

and closed on the weekends.

The box office is open one hour prior to all performances.

ADA special assistance

Closures for holidays The McGlothlin Center for

the Arts will close for major holidays and breaks according to the college schedule. Please

information about closures due to inclement weather.

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The Art Gallery is open noon-5

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near Abingdon with close

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Find us Directions

From I-81 (northbound and southbound): Take exit 26 onto College Drive towards Emory & Henry.

Continue .03-.05 mile to the first entrance into campus on your right. You will see the Woodrow W. McGlothlin Center for the Arts on your left and the parking lot will be on your right directly across the road.

From I-26 (northbound): Take exit 8B onto I-81 North. Continue for about 45 miles, and then follow the directions above for I-81 northbound/southbound.

From I-77 (southbound): Take exit 40 onto I-81 South. Continue for about 41 miles, and then follow the directions above for I-81 northbound/southbound.

For information about ways to support the McGlothlin Center for the Arts, please contact Emory & Henry’s Office of Institutional Advancement at 276-944-6125 or email rking@ehc.edu.

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Look for our postcard with upcoming season information from the Department of Theatre and the Department of Music!

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