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Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts // 2011

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Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts // 2011

Aspire is published annually by the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts, Indiana University South Bend, for our alumni, students, friends, faculty, and staff.

Dean Marvin V. Curtis, Ed.D. EDITOR Michele Morgan-Dufour Copy Editor Kathy Borlik

// Mission Statement The IUSB Arts Foundation supports the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at IU South Bend by sponsoring or providing funds for special events and community outreach programs, with particular emphasis on educating, entertaining, and involving young people.

// IUSB Arts Foundation, Inc. David Kibbe, president June Edwards, vice president Joe Mancini, treasurer Beth North, secretary Linda Bancroft Cheryl Barker Pam Beam Durleen Braasch Sondra J. Byrnes Marvin V. Curtis, ex-officio Robert W. Demaree Jr.* Frederick B. Ettl Robert Frank Judy Ferrara Leslie Gitlin

Kitty Gunty Chris Kelly Alice A. Martin* Sharon McLeod Cyndi Miller Sara Miller Carmi Murphy* Ned North Fred Nwanganga Ernestine M. Raclin* Randolph Rampola Valerie Sabo Stephanie Schurz Peggy Soderberg Janet Thompson*

*Emeritus Member

The Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts would like to thank the IUSB Arts Foundation for their long standing service and support to the school. Their efforts make it possible for us to present special events including the 20th Anniversary Celebration, Toradze Piano Institute and Showcase of the Arts, among many other projects.

If you are interested in working with the Arts Foundation on future projects please contact the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts office at 574.520.4314 for more information.

FRONT COVER Morris Performing Arts Center photograph by Peter Ringenberg

designER Tiffany Goehring Photography Michael Banks Writers Juliet Barrett Tabetha Coburn-McDonald Anthony Cotto Sara Curtis Jessie Emmons Carolynn Hine-Johnson Alec Hosterman Rebecca Hovan Stacie Jensen Alan Larkin Matthew Leech Tami Martinez Kathleen McAllister Brigid McAuliffe Jane Wang Marianne Weesner Alexandra Wheaton Jennifer Wimble Jillian Woodrick

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letter from the dean

Marvin V. Curtis Wow! What a year – the return of Shakespeare, Jorge Muniz’s world premiere of Requiem for the Innocent, Alexander Toradze’s Emmy award, Adolphus Hailstork’s Done Made My Vow, the indigenous contemporary dance ensemble Dancing Earth, the 14-foot red sculpture in front of the library, opera in Chicago, choirs in Plymouth and North Carolina, and a host of visiting artists and lecturers from around the country.

Let’s add to the list the largest graduating class in history with the largest number of students receiving degrees with distinction, high distinction, and highest distinction. Let’s also mention that 144 students made the dean’s list in the spring of 2010 and 156 made it in the fall of 2010.

It was a year that increased our visibility through billboards, radio spots, newspaper articles, and television underwriting.

The year ended with our second National Endowment for the Arts grant in three years, two music students accepted for study the New Paltz Piano Festival in New York, and three vocalists accepted for study at the prestigious Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera program in Odrezo, Italy.

You hold in your hands the third issue of Aspire. It was started to bring to life the three things I spoke about when I became dean of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts in August of 2008: Vision, Visibility, and Leadership. Three years later we are working our way to making good on all three pledges.

Within these pages you will see our vision to create a vibrant artistic school, built on academics, talent, and artistic excellence. Read about our students and faculty and their many accomplishments. You will be as impressed, as I am, with their perseverance. From their hard work, many of our

theatre students obtained internships for the summer at theaters in New York, Indiana, and Michigan. Others spent the summer studying photography in Florence, while several received graduate assistantships to further their education.

Our pride swelled when one our graduates, Jason Cytaki, completed his M.F.A. and accepted a full-time assistant professorship at the University of Oklahoma.

Our visibility is in your hands. Aspire is just one of the many instruments that we now use to let everyone know who we are. There are weekly e-mails and monthly e-blasts.

Our faculty presented papers at conferences, served on academic and learning society committees around the country, and exhibited in a variety of galleries and performance spaces. We updated our surroundings with a $100,000 facelift of the Upstage Theater and are making plans to renovate the Recital Hall.

More than 18,000 people attended our programs in theatre, visual arts, communication, new media, and music this past year. We have become a leader for arts programming while serving on arts organizational boards throughout the city.

Our visibility has led to an increase in enrollment because of new concentrations in our music degrees and increased offerings in dance, communication studies, new media, and soon art education.

The future is bright. We will host the Indiana Governor’s Arts Awards festivities, open the theater season with a production of A Raisin in the Sun, and close the year with the operetta H.M.S. Pinafore. Our music program is preparing for an accreditation visit by the National Association of School of Music in February of 2012. We aspire to educate and serve our community and invite you to come and see what we do.

Join us for another fabulous year!

Florence at Night, photographs by Susan Moore // faculty

inside // Communication Studies

// New Media

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Rock the House with Glee

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Images of Equality

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How Twitter Changed the Way I Teach

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The Art of Work

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Comics and Graphic Novels: More than Meets the Eye

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Telling Memories of Cardamom

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Interview with Judi Lykowski

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IUSB Forum

// Music 14

Composers Flourish at IU South Bend

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Flute Festival is for All Ages

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Requiem for the Innocent

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IU South Bend Music Ensembles

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Toradze Documentary Wins Emmy Awards

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Gospel Choir Performs in North Carolina

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Arts students Aid Japan Relief

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Done Made My Vow

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Interview with Luis Vargas

// Theatre & Dance 4

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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Amahl and the Night Visitors Travels to Chicago

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Animal Farm

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The Leaps and Bounds of Dance

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Wind in the Willows

// Visual Arts 16

Curating a Museum Exhibit

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“Look!” Scholarship Art Sale

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Printmaking Conferences

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Art therapy with Jennifer Kukla

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Art Appreciation: An Alumni Appraisal

// School of the Arts Dean’s Welcome 24

Upstage Theater Renovations Complete

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Recital Hall Renovation

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Celebrating Excellence

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Governor’s Arts Awards

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20th Anniversary Celebration Kicks off in Style

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New Talent

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“Crescendo” Closes 20th Anniversary Season

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News

A Midsummer Night’s

Dream

By Juliet Barrett

The IUSB Theatre Company brought Shakespeare to a campus stage for the first time since 1999 with the spring production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Directed by Randy Colborn, the centuries old classic was reinvented as a traditional Bollywood production, flavored with Middle Eastern costumes and music.

Audiences were transported to a time of wealth and luxury as actors danced across the stage in traditional turbans and saris. The elaborate, labor intensive costumes featured rich material and vibrant colors, complemented by the actors’ unusual makeup and body paint.

There were many components of the show that originally daunted actors as they entered into the production, including news of the extensive body painting intended for the fairies, plans for a raked stage, and the anticipation of seeing costume designer Sass Hanson’s elaborate Indian costumes come to fruition.

But what many of the students underestimated was the challenge in exploring the traditional language of Shakespeare. “Studying the text over and over again gave me confidence in my understanding of the language and 4

consequently helped me with letting go of my insecurities when trying to delve into Helena’s character,” said freshman Kaylee Ross. “Once I understood what I was saying, it became natural.”

Text coach Scot Shepley helped the actors develop confidence with the language. He attended many rehearsals and worked with the actors outside of rehearsals. Students took advantage of “his extensive knowledge of the text” and appreciated him “pointing out moments that he knew were intended to be emphasized,” said sophomore Jeremy Weyer.

Shakespearean language often utilizes iambic pentameter; A Midsummer Nights Dream was no exception. To express the intended rhythm of his words, Shakespeare also heavily utilized punctuation. It is because of this intentional use of syllables that many people say that Shakespeare wrote for the actor. Senior Stacie Jensen agreed that “Shakespeare’s characters say their thoughts, so in a way, the language helps you to understand what your character is going through, mentally and emotionally.”

The production was a fantastic opportunity for growth; many students came out of the show proud of their

accomplishments and stronger because of the challenges they conquered in using the language to explore their characters.

Beyond the challenges of Shakespeare’s language, actors were also given physical challenges to overcome as they worked with extensive makeup and conquered the difficult task of working on a slanted surface -- as was tradition in the old English style of Shakespearean stages. Though many of the actors anticipated a much steeper incline, the raked stage actually worked to the benefit of the characters.

The angle of the stage allowed the actors to achieve a closer level of intimacy with the audience and show off the lovely detailing of the costumes.

Rich silks and jingling bells added a sense of foreign luxury as actors swept across the stage. The fairies’ costumes were especially labor intensive because each actor was painted head to toe in an individual shade of blue body paint. This, combined with the fact that all the women wore jingling ankle bracelets as well as other forms of jewelry traditional to the Indian culture, created an atmosphere of pure royalty.

“My dress was special,” said actress Amanda Benham. “I had a lovely long train to work with, but I used a mockup, practice skirt from the very beginning of rehearsals so that I could get a good feel of how I had to move with it.” Even down to the smallest detail, actors prepared the best that they could in order to accommodate the beautiful movement intended for each costume.

Not only did the costumes translate beautifully on stage, but the chemistry of the cast contributed to a spectacular performance by all. Sophomore Marlon Burnley captured the essence of the production best. “It was a pretty great cast and we all worked well together. I’d definitely like to do more Shakespeare in the future,” Burnley said. “Whether it’s participating behind stage, as an audience member, or on stage, I think it’s important for everyone to experience Shakespeare in some way.”

Juliet Barrett is double majoring in public relations and theatre studies. She had roles in each of the main stage productions at IU South Bend during the 2010-11 season.

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Rock the House with Glee: Craft, Community

…and a bit of Friendly Competition!

By Tami K. Martinez

The last day of class is usually accompanied by anticipation—and angst—especially when a final examination is on the docket. In addition to their final; however, the spring 2011 Public Relations Research and Methodology students had an extra measure of anticipation as they waited expectantly for the results of their semesterlong project and in-class competition.

During the semester, the class was divided into four competitive teams. These teams were assigned the task of creating a unique plan to enlist local high school students to raise $12,500 for Habitat for Humanity of St. Joseph County’s annual “Rock the House Student Build” project.

According to Jim Williams, executive director for Habitat, “The South Bend Community Foundation of St. Joseph County pledged a matching grant of $12,500 for the ‘Rock the House Student Build.’ The objective for the public relations class was to develop a fundraising event that would enable students to raise at least $12,500 in order to qualify for the matching grant.”

One of the teams’ final assignments was to pitch their proposals to Williams, and present him with a comprehensive binder that included everything from the timeline of the proposed event(s) down to a detailed budget.

“The students really surprised me; and, I was impressed with the work of all four groups,” said Williams. “What was intended to be an academic assignment turned into something inspiring.”

Alec Hosterman, senior lecturer and area coordinator for communication studies, is the mastermind behind this service learning project. Through this hands-on, semesterlong, community-focused assignment, students learn about the craft of public relations and what it takes to research, develop and present their ideas to a client.

Student comments underscore Hosterman’s learning objectives. Public relations major Alex Nichols stated that the project helped him build a set of skills that he can use in any occupation, “(No matter where I work) I see myself using PR because PR is the face of any company.”

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Kelcie Banks added that the project “taught us how to work with a non-profit organization.”

The four event proposals for Habitat’s “Rock the House Student Build” included: a Lock-In event; a Volleyball Tournament; “Pennies for Plywood” (change collection fundraising and competition between area high schools for annual trophy rights); and, “Rock the House with Glee” (a three-phase program that includes a Pep Rally, a Dollar Donation Week; and a Silent Auction that culminates in a Glee competition).

According to Williams, making the final decision proved to be difficult since all four proposals were viable. “It was very hard to pick just one project because I know how much students put into their work.”

Ultimately, though, Williams selected the “Rock the House with Glee” project for several reasons: 1) it had the capacity to raise more money than the initial goal of $12,500; 2) it had the clear ability to capture the age group that they were after through its association with the popular television program Glee; 3) the musical format of the project provides synergy with musical groups in the local high schools; and 4) they saw this project as something that would be repeatable. “We’re going to try it this year, see how it goes; and build on it for the next year.”

The “Rock the House with Glee” winning team members included public relations majors, Lisa Birk, Danielle Fisher, Alex Nichols, Maria Stanley, and team leader Jordan Wagner. Wagner, who graduated in May, has a summer internship with Habitat. Part of his focus will be implementing the “Rock the House with Glee” project.

For Williams, “It was a very enjoyable experience and I look forward to continuing to stay in touch with the students and implementing their projects.”

Tami Martinez is a lecturer in communication studies at the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts

fallEvents Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts

september Music Faculty Recital

4 pm Sunday, September 18 // CA Meet our talented music faculty through their solo and small ensemble performances as we begin the school year.

Toradze Piano Studio

7:30 pm Friday, November 18 // CA This multi-national touring ensemble, and students of Martin Endowed Professor in Piano Alexander Toradze, will present some of the finest piano performances you will experience in South Bend.

Euclid Quartet

4 pm Sunday, November 20 // CA Witness for yourself what the Washington Post has said about the quartet, “An elegant mix of passion, IUSB Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun ferocity and feathery delicacy.”

8 pm Oct 13-15 4 pm Oct 15 // 2 pm Oct 16 // CA Featuring Guest Director Walter Allen Bennett Jr. whose credits include writer for The Cosby Show, producer for In the House and executive producer for IUSB Theatre: The Steve Harvey Show.

October

December

IUSB Forum

7:30 pm Wednesday, October 19 // RH Join us for an in depth discussion by a guest presenter speaking about their field of research as it relates to current events.

November Studies in Dance: A Lecture Demonstration

7:30 pm Friday, November 4 // CA Experience all the variety that our dance program has to offer in one evening.

IUSB Jazz Ensemble

7:30 pm Wednesday, November 9 // CA Presenting big band music and jazz combo performances under the direction of Darrel Tidaback.

It’s a Wonderful Life, The Radio Play

8 pm Dec 1-3 // 4 pm Dec 3 // 2 pm Dec 4 // UP Adapted from the Frank Capra film, be transported to a 1940’s radio studio for this classic tale, and be treated to the tricks of the radio trade.

Speech Night Finals

7 pm Monday, December 5 // RH Featuring the best students in S121, Public Speaking at IU South Bend in a tradition that began in 1982.

“Teddy Bear Concert”

7:30 pm Friday, December 9 // CA The South Bend Symphonic Choir, IU South Bend Chorale, Chamber Choir, and Gospel Choir perform for the benefit of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Indiana – Michiana, Inc.

Scholarship Art Sale

Thursday, November 11-13 // EL Purchase artwork by IU South Bend students, faculty, and alumni while supporting scholarships and programs for IU South Bend Visual Arts students.

CA = Campus Auditorium, EL = East Lounge, RH = Recital Hall, UP = Upstage

Tickets $3-$12, free to students and children // Tickets and schedule call 574.520.4203 or visit arts.iusb.edu

How Twitter Changed the Way I Teach

By Alec R. Hosterman

In the fall of 2008 I taught a 400-level seminar course that focused on the communication tactics employed in political campaigns. Singlehandedly that course changed the way I approached using technology in the classroom. Actually, it wasn’t so much the course per se, as an assignment using Twitter that became the foundation for the course.

Who Uses Twitter?

For you to understand how the social networking tool Twitter became part of the class in the first place, I need to first discuss what it is and who uses it. With that established, I’ll come back and discuss and it changed the way I approached teaching.

Literalists take the site’s charge literally: they tweet what they are actually doing or thinking at any given moment.

A commercial for a major cell phone provider pokes fun at literalists. The parents of two teen siblings are sitting on their front porch, tweeting “sitting on the front porch” to their followers. Predictably, their children are rolling their eyes in embarrassment from their parent’s lack of Twitter protocol.

Think of Literalists as taking a snapshot of their surroundings or activities and sharing it with followers.

Social Media and Twitter Recently, phrases like “social media” and “social networking” have been all the rage among media aficionados.

Sites such as Facebook and Twitter gained popularity as the popular ways of connecting and communicating. Face-toface was out. Digital was in. Modes of communicating were changing – but they always do with every new technological device. Rock gave way to papyrus to paper to typewriters to word processors and finally to computers.

The popular social media website Twitter is categorized as a micro blogging web application that allows users to connect to one another through tweets. Tweets are short 140 character messages that are sent publicly to individuals (commonly called followers), or privately via direct messages (much like e-mail). Think of a tweet as a note that is posted onto a large public bulletin board for passersby to read.

Tweeters (those who send tweets) answer a simple question: “What’s happening?” Some people post exactly what they’re doing while some just listen in on interesting narratives.

Others, though, engage in conversations they find compelling or valuable. It is this latter group that intrigued me. I began asking my own simple question: “What kinds of users are on Twitter?”

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Since I was a prolific Twitter user – some may label me “addicted” – I began to see patterns in tweets from my feed. Three different users emerged, what I refer to as the Literalists, Networkers, and the Facilitators.

Networkers act as digital gatekeepers. These users are typified by the RT phenomenon. RT, or re-tweet, identifies a tweet that is not an original thought from that user, rather they are simply passing along someone else’s tweet. RTs are akin to e-mail forwards. Re-tweeting is usually an indicator of that person’s desire to share the wealth, so to speak. It is the hope that the tweet will be seen by someone who can use it to their advantage, solve a problem, or fill an information void of sorts. Networkers are also about strengthening bonds and creating new relationships where ones did not exist prior.

Facilitators are different than the other two in that they use Twitter as a tool to communicate directly between tweeters, as opposed to sending out random thoughts to anyone listening or passing on information from another party. Facilitators use Twitter as a means to both enrich and augment their traditional face-to-face communications; they ask and answer questions, provide links, argue, offer commentary, follow up on statements, begin and add to conversations, and the like. For them, Twitter becomes an immersive tool that enables immediacy among vast virtual networks of individuals and groups.

Teaching with Twitter In that 2008 seminar, I assigned the class to blog and use Twitter. Most students were unfamiliar with these devices so I led them through tutorials and helped them set up their accounts. I told them to use Twitter over the course of the semester to share information they might find useful for members of the class. In other words, I wanted them to be Networkers. This was an experiment on my part, and they knew it. I hadn’t used Twitter as a teaching tool before so I thought this would be a perfect time given our rather strident in-class discussions of the presidential election between then-candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain and the local battle between House of Representatives incumbent Joe Donnelly and challenger Jacquie Walorski. For me, this was the perfect storm.

At first, students were cautious tweeting only bits and pieces. However, once class discussions became more involved, so did our Twitter conversations. Students began exchanging links to articles and videos on YouTube. Twitter became a conduit for learning and thinking outside of the traditional classroom.

This trend only became more apparent when my students began holding “Twitter parties” during televised political debates. They conversed with one another and me as candidates exchanged facts or rebuttals. As they debated,

so did we. It was a remarkable experience to see this simple media outlet become an integral component to our class.

And students saw this too, noting how much different it would have been if we didn’t have our Twitter discussions.

That class showed me how important Networkers and Facilitators could be to the learning process. Twitter was much more than a Literalist perspective. It was a digital frontier I could capitalize on in future classes. And I have.

So there it is. Twitter changed the way I approach teaching.

But through this, my students showed me cyberculture is more than just pointless games, status updates, and text messages. It can be harnessed for knowledge creation and transmission: communication in its truest form. For as noted scholar Marshall McLuhan famously once said: “the medium is the message.” So very true.

Alec R. Hosterman is senior lecturer and the area coordinator of communication studies. He teaches courses in visual communication, deception, new media, and graphic novels. Hosterman’s Twitter handle is @alechosterman.

Amahl & the Night Visitors cast travels to Chicago

By Marianne Weesner

The IU South Bend cast and crew of Amahl and the Night Visitors traveled to Chicago in December 2010 to perform the opera for adults with disabilities at the Ada S. McKinley Community Services, Inc. Amahl and the Night Visitors is one of the most popular American operas by Gian Carlo Menotti. It is a timeless story of the power of faith and the meaning of love. The one-act opera tells the story of Amahl, a poor crippled boy, who lives with his mother in a village somewhere on the road to Bethlehem. When the Three Kings, following the star in the East, seek shelter for the night, the lives of Amahl and his mother are changed forever.

The opera was directed by Lecturer in Voice Alicia Purcell, and choreographed by Assistant Professor in Dance Carolyn Hine-Johnson. Assistant Professor Tim Hanson served as technical director, and Assistant Professor Inseung Park was the set designer.

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Thom Maxwell, the center director, said, “It is a short opera, so it kept their attention and they experienced something they may not have been able to without IU South Bend.”

The center typically serves 120 people. The center helps “all individuals accomplish the goals they have.”

Student Kasey Clear commented, “It is a good opportunity to introduce the audience to something they have not seen before and see how they will respond to it.”

The performers and crew enjoyed the experience as much as the audience members. Tia Patrick, a student, said “It is a privilege to take something from IU to bring it here.”

Stacie Jensen felt very humbled by the experience. Jensen said, “Knowing what you want to do has an impact on them and makes them smile” is something that she enjoys about doing these outreach programs for members of the community. “It is exciting to bring something new to an audience of people who have not had a chance to see or experience something like an opera,” said Antwon Williams, who played one of the kings.

The cast and crew received hugs and thanks from the audience. Several audience members commented on how much they enjoyed the costumes and along with performance as a whole.

Director of Community Outreach Michele Morgan-Dufour said, “This is the second year Amahl and the Night Visitors has been taken on the road and we’ve received an enormous amount of positive feedback. Our visit to Ada S. McKinley Community Services and a performance for the students at Washington High School were terrific experiences for the audiences and our students. The spirit of the holidays really was alive and well in all of us!”

Marianne Weesner graduated in 2011 with a B.A. in Mass Communications. She was an Aspire intern and served as the associate editor of our monthly e-newsletter.

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animal

Farm

By Alexandra Wheaton

Acting is never easy, but when the IUSB Theatre Company took to the stage with a musical version of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, the work was particularly difficult. Wearing masks and movement restricting hooves, the actors’ had to work with limited facial expressions and hand gestures to convey their characters’ emotions. Rising to meet those challenges, they brought their message, “Four legs good, two legs bad,” to life.

George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as an allegory of the Russian Revolution. The animals rebel against the farmer who abuses them and begin to build their own society with hopes of a utopia. As the story unfolds the animals take on political characteristics leading the audience to recognize traits of Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin, along with the larger governments of Europe and the United States. The play reflects political corruption and the dehumanization of the ordinary person.

Director Randy Colborn notes, “It was Orwell’s dedication to the truth that I find so compelling. I also marvel at what I find to be Orwell’s hopefulness for humanity. He remained optimistic about our immense potential despite our equally immense ability to get distracted and fall short. His varied life experiences could have drummed that out of him. Yet, he retained an unusual objectivity while deeply immersing himself in all he thought and all he did.”

Portraying animals planning to take over the farm run by their abusive owner, the majority of the actors were not only on legs made out of PVC pipe throughout the entire show, but sweating under layers upon layers of thick costumes.

“Tim Burton’s movie 9 was a big part of my inspiration; also the artwork of Ralph Steadman,” said makeup and costume designer Sallie Hanson. “We used found, recycled and reused objects for the costumes.” The costumes were made out of everyday items like boots or combs.

Hanson also incorporated pieces from the Education & Arts Building, that is being remodeled, as part of the costumes.

Commenting on the makeup Hanson says, “It’s kind of a dark sort of surreal show. I wanted the makeup to reflect that.” The show was dark indeed.

The makeup was very interesting; however, most of the actors were also wearing masks. “It is hard because you lose the ability to act with facial expressions,” says Stacie Jensen of her experience.

Tia Patrick played the role of the farm cat. “It was easy for me to be a cat, because I love cats. The itchy mask was well worth it.”

Some actors did not get to wear masks, but a backpack apparatus with a giant animal head attached to it. “They were uncomfortable, but we all dealt with them the best we could,” says Megan Jerrils who played one of the cows.

When asked how she prepared to play a cow she replied with, “I just looked up YouTube videos. Watched how they walked, ate, and behaved all together.”

The Animal Farm performances supported the 2010-11 campus theme, “The Meaning of Work.” The cast was handed the Communist Manifesto to read during the first few rehearsals. The show suited the theme since the animals had to build and rebuild a windmill to make work easier for them on the farm. The animals quickly learned what the meaning of work is, as did the actors.

Theatre major Alexandra Wheaton was one of the actors in Animal Farm.

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flourish composers

at IU South Bend

By Anthony Cotto The last few years have seen a lot of interesting advances in the composition program here at IU South Bend. As a composition student myself, I have gotten to witness these changes unfolding. This semester, three students will be graduating with degrees in composition.

Of all the things to be thankful for as a student here, I think the teachers take the cake. As many already know, our music program’s director, Jorge Muñiz, has received a great deal of attention due to his recent South Bend Symphony Orchestra premiere of Requiem for the Innocent; Dean Marvin Curtis’ choral composition, “The City on the Hill,” was premiered at President Clinton’s 1993 Inauguration. What you may not know is that there are two other accomplished composers here on campus. They are Assistant Professor John Mayrose and adjunct Assistant Professor Marjorie Rusche, and, like many other teachers around IU South Bend, they are both active professionals in their field.

Most recently, Rusche returned from premieres of her works in Denmark and England, where her piano solo Eclipse and Tone Poems for bassoon and piano were featured in the London New Music for Winds Festival.

“I’m particularly proud of Eclipse,” She said about this work, which was originally funded by the Raclin School of the Arts, and which she hopes to turn into a piano concerto in the future. “It’s a very dramatic, highly evocative work, and it had a great premiere last spring when Ketevan Badridze performed it here.”

Mayrose also had a very successful composition in his award-winning piece Liber Abaci.

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“It’s based on fractals and the Fibonacci sequence … For the past 10 years, I have always wanted to write a piece that, once I had an algorithm set, I press go, I plug it in, and the piece just ‘spits out’ so that I can explain every pitch.”

Despite their successes, neither of these two composers had that career in mind when they started college. Rusche wrote her first song while working on a political science major and Mayrose was a guitar performance major.

One of the most challenging problems for young composers is to find a voice or style that defines one’s compositions. These professors have both done that in their own works, and they have both taken unique paths.

While Rusche considers herself a “contemporary classical composer,” Mayrose is fond of minimalism techniques, and incorporating “rhythms and textures derived from Indie Rock.”

They both gave advice that, while very helpful as a composer, I feel is applicable to most disciplines.

Rusche: “When you are student, try many different methods, risk and experiment, even though you might not be sure of what you’re doing at first.”

Mayrose: “As a composer, every piece is not going to be a great masterpiece. Sometimes you have to make a mistake to get better.”

Anthony Cotto is a class of 2011 graduate with a B.A. in Composition. He hopes to write commercial jingles when he grows up.

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Curating a

Museum

Exhibit

By Jennifer Wimble // photography by Lucas Eggers

At the beginning of the 2010 fall semester Associate Professor Micheline Nilsen told students in her “Curating an Exhibit” class that by the end of the course they would know a great deal about 19th century landscape photography. Many of the students, who had never taken an art class, were skeptical. However, just as she predicted, they can now examine an early landscape photograph and identify the photographer’s influences, techniques, and style. Furthermore, they are now experienced in curating a museum exhibition.

Nilsen carefully guided the class while they reviewed potential photographs for the exhibit, taking into consideration the photographs’ physical features, historical themes, and conditions or standards. After much debate, the students and Nilsen decided that the exhibit would show the transition of professional photographers from the portrait studios to open-air landscapes, a move often paired with government documentation. The topic decided on was 19th Century Landscape Photographers of the Americas: Artists, Journeymen, or Entrepreneurs?

This ambitious course was an original experiment brainstormed by Nilsen, who combined the topic of 19th century landscape photography with the nuts-and-bolts of curating a museum exhibit. Graduate liberal studies and undergraduate art majors participated in the course.

Each student wrote an article about one of the photographs for a Wolfson Press catalogue, published in February 2011.

By examining each photograph in relation to past artistic movements and research, the students concentrated on whether the government, tourist, and corporate utilitarian landscape photographers of the 19th century were primarily artists or documentarians. The students also wrote shorter catalog entries and labels for the exhibit, as well as press releases.

After an intensive introduction into the history of landscape art and the basics of designing a museum exhibit, students visited and reviewed two photography exhibits displayed at the Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame.

Next, they heard experts in the field of 19th century photography at a two-day symposium, “Documenting History, Charting Progress, Exploring the World: 19th Century Photographs of Architecture” arranged by Nilsen and sponsored jointly by Indiana University South Bend and the University of Notre Dame. The symposium included discussions on diverse topics such as the early history of the photogravure in working-class Scotland and “The Barricades of 1871: A Challenge to the Architecture of Paris?” as presented by leading experts in the field of early photography.

After months of preparation, the exhibit opened at the Snite Museum of Art in February, 2011. The photographs themselves are part of the permanent collection of the Snite Museum and include some of the most prominent photographers of the late 19th century, such as Eadweard Muybridge, Frank Jay Haynes, George Barnard, Timothy O’Sullivan, and William Henry Jackson.

“Curating an Exhibit,” created by Nilsen, was an incredible journey for art and liberal studies students alike.

Jennifer Wimble is a graduate student in Liberal Studies.

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comics & Graphic Novels More than Meets The Eye

by Alec R. Hosterman Comic books are big business. And they should be; they’re everywhere in the cultural milieu. We see comic books at the local booksellers and in the hands of kids wishing they could be the superheroes they see on the page: boys dream of being Batman or Superman, while girls typically dream of being Wonder Woman or Elektra.

These dreams have taken on a life beyond the page, manifesting in highly popular computer gaming systems and on the silver screen (with the Marvel franchise regularly dominating ticket sales). Comics are our culture.

But there is more to the comic book than just superheroes. Comics are important, complex visual artifacts that both reflect and refract the era in which they were created.

Since the birth of the Golden Age of Comics in the late 1930s, publishers have capitalized on the themes that are prevalent in other mediums: drama, western, horror, science fiction, action, and comedy. But the superhero seemed to prevail in the 1950s, even after criticism by psychologist Frederic Wertham of the comic book for its violent imagery. But comics survived. They always do.

During the Modern Age of Comics in the 1980s, a highly popular form of the medium emerged: the graphic novel. The early graphic novels were serials packaged in book form. Two works in particular

were popular among consumers: Batman, the Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. Both of these seminal works deconstructed the prototypical superhero genre, showing the fallibility of the heroic and villainous characters. With this, publishers saw the genre as being more than just entertainment for kids. Rather, they saw its potential as an expressive visual form with the means to communicate issues relevant to many different cultures.

Like many forms of media, scholars saw comics’ potential as an expressive medium of communication, one that bridged image with text, a contemporary experiment in semiotic analysis. Semiotics – the study and science of signs (objects that stand for something else) – is part of understanding our visual culture.

Movement, speech, expression, thought, and other communicative actions have to be interpreted by the reader. And all of these are manifested in visual form.

Much like a telephone conversation one has with their best friend, the artist and writer encode a message and the reader decodes it. As Dr. Matthew J. Smith, Associate Professor of Communication at Wittenberg University and co-author of The Power of Comics, notes: Comics combine words and pictures, but the synthesis results in a sharing of meaning that is more than the sum of its parts. Take, for instance, the results of The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation

by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon. These storytellers were able to take a rather daunting phone book-sized government report and make its substance accessible to a wider audience than might have ever picked up the government’s original report. The power of the imagery combined with the details of the story make for an incredibly reader-friendly text.

Capitalizing on this unique medium, colleges and universities like IU South Bend are creating curricula and teaching individual courses in comics studies.

Topics include understanding the superhero, comics and American culture, manga, alternative comics, underground comix, writing comic books, and the relationship of comics to film.

As a professor in communication studies, I have had the chance to teach several seminar-based comics courses. In them, I challenge the ways students see comics and help them understand how they can communicate meaning in visual form. And rather than focus on just the prototypical comic book, I have students read graphic novels like Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy (about the author’s struggle to find her own sexual identity alongside understanding the complex relationship she had with her father); Cancer Vixen (a funny and poignant memoir chronicling the author’s battle with breast cancer); and Shooting War (a satire of contemporary journalism, war, and politics).

Each semester I have students tell me how they now see comics as a valuable form of visual communication.

Apart from my courses, other professors are using graphic novels to teach a variety of subjects, from social movements to world events. For instance, artist Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood illustrates her early years growing up and taking part in the Cultural Revolution in 1970s Iran. Another iconic piece is Art Spiegelman’s Maus, A Survivor’s Tale. The book is a heartfelt and critically acclaimed graphic novel that recounts the struggles of Art’s father’s life living through the Holocaust. Spiegelman uses visual metaphors throughout the tale, depicting Jews as mice that are pursued by Germans as cats. A powerful and moving story, Maus is more than just biography – it’s living history.

Finally, J.P. Stassen’s Deogratias: A Tale of Rwanda is a somber and eye-opening look at the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Stassen weaves together an account of the massacre using the both Tutsi and Hutu characters and the way the events of that fateful time impacted the world.

So there you have it. A brief but hopefully eye-opening argument that shows comics are not just for kids or

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middle-aged collectors like Comic Book Guy on The Simpsons. Yes, there are comic books published for those who like superheroes or Archie’s adventures at the Malt Shop. But if you look beyond that, you will begin to see complex narratives that bring you closer to people and events of our culture.

After all, we live in a visual culture. Why not use the visual to tell its story?

Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies Alec R. Hosterman is finishing writing his dissertation on the role of hyperreality in graphic novels.

Recommended Reading Interested in reading graphic novels but don’t know where to start? Here are a few suggestions that are for sale at your local bookseller, comic book shop, or favorite on-line retailer.

08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail recounts the history-making 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama, John McCain and Hillary Clinton A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge explores how people coped in New Orleans post-Katrina Epileptic tells the story of author David B.’s struggle understanding his brother’s epilepsy Still I Rise: A Graphic History of African Americans tells the story of African Americans in the United States from 1619 through to the election of Barack Obama If biographies pique your interest, then these graphic memoires are perfect for you: Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphic Biography Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss and What I Learned Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow

LOOK! scholarship art sale gets a fresh new start

By Kathleen McAllister and Tabetha Coburn-McDonald Long a staple of the fall events calendar, the 2010 Scholarship Art Sale debuted with a fresh name, a new location, and a smart young management team. Members of the Art History Club and the Visual Arts League joined forces to sponsor the sale with the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.

“This was the first time that students have taken full responsibility for planning and organizing the sale, and they did a fabulous job!” said Michele Morgan-Dufour, director of community outreach. While student groups have cosponsored the sale in the past, the 2010 committee took ownership of the project and filled the role of professional gallery staff. “The students learned a lot about the business aspects of an artist’s career by making the sale their own,” added Morgan-Dufour.

Tabetha Coburn-McDonald, Kathleen McAllister, and Dean Kizer headed the committee, organizing every aspect of the sale with guidance from Morgan-Dufour. The group began by renaming the sale LOOK! to emphasize the opportunity for the community to explore and purchase art created by the students, faculty, and alumni of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.

Holding a successful art sale took hard work and diligence by the students. The committee began recruiting IU South Bend artists to participate in the sale. Then they rounded up student volunteers to promote the event, install artwork, and work shifts during the sale.

Since the School of the Arts gallery is closed while the Education & Arts Building is renovated, the sale was held at the newly-remodeled East Lounge in Northside Hall.

Gallery director Randall Clark guided the students through the installation process. The space was challenging since it does not have as much wall space as the gallery; however, the students made creative use of the wide windowsills to help compensate.

The students learned how to price their work and talk to patrons with professionalism, which provided insight into their future as artists outside of college.

“The art sale represents an amazing opportunity for students such as I to not only gain a primary knowledge of show preparation but also the opportunity to sell art for the first time,” said student Becca Schafer. “Working the art sale was an unexpected pleasure and I found great appreciation for the experience of hanging work, preparing each piece for individual sale, and interacting with artists and art consumers.”

“I think it is important to be involved in student shows like the scholarship sale,” said Christy Hatfield. “It gives us a chance to get our work out to the general public and figure out what kind of pricing is fair and accepted by buyers. I just think it is really good exposure.”

Like a professional gallery or sale, LOOK! retained a commission on every piece sold. A portion of the commission earned was used to provide scholarships for three students, Coburn-McDonald, Katie Swiental, and Bradley Davenport. The remaining commission amount helped the Visual Arts League and Art History Club fund field trips for students to attend art museums and participate in events.

“Participating in the scholarship art show was a great experience, for learning tricks of the trade and just in general. I have participated twice and sold work both times,” said senior Danielle Wilborn. “The second time I put in a lot more time and effort, and definitely got a lot back in return. Not only is it a way to get your work seen and sold, it’s a great way to connect to and interact with future buyers and even fellow students.”

“I always love to be a part of the art events happening at IUSB and this was such a great opportunity for me, other students and faculty to show their support for IUSB and the excellent art program that we are a so privileged to be a part of here in our town,” Swiental said.

Printmaking conferences

By Alan Larkin // photography by Erin Bluhm Thanks in part to grants secured from the Charmichael Fund, this year two small groups of students attended the October 2010 Mid America Print Council Conference held at the University of Minnesota and the March 2011 Southern Graphics Council Conference at Washington University in St. Louis.

processes was that not only did they offer some pretty cool ways of making art but there were many ways to use them with the newest art technologies. In fact, the printmaking studio is considered by many of South Bend’s elite art cognoscenti to be the place where all media come to meet.

The printmaking students, being a hardy band of rugged individualists, have discovered the aesthetic allure of the old fashioned print processes, ones whose names your average college student doesn’t have on the tip of his tongue. While things may have been different when, let’s say, the dean and I were still going to school, these days if you asked someone to come upstairs and look at your etchings they would probably give you a blank stare or else call 911.

The symposia themselves are essentially large printmaking studios surrounded by lots of prints. Here you find old letterpress hacks sharing triple espresso macchiatos with graduate school mezzotinters talking about the merits of Japanese washi versus paper made with unbleached abaca. You might also find among the pizza eaters on the late night gallery crawls an artist who makes art using only a computer and an Epson printer talking to someone who does all of their work with a wooden gouge and a spoon. And some of these people are taking it to the bank.

Printmaking, while definitely not a rocket science, appears at first to be a rarified skill. It often involves the mediation of interesting looking machines that are made up of steel and weigh a lot. While most people are used to making their art strokes using a brush, a camera or even a mouse, printmakers have learned to make their art on such old timey surfaces as copper plates and lithographic stones. So at first blush there would appear to be no relevance to the modern age. You can’t Twitter on a Vandercook proof press.

The discovery that students made this year in attending conferences devoted entirely to various esoteric print

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We were surprised in Minneapolis, for instance, to encounter a group of successful graphic designers executing their designs using powerful Macintosh computers and printing them by hand with silkscreens.

In St. Louis we met another set of these strange entrepreneurs who executed all of their computer designed posters on hand-carved woodblocks. Their studio, gallery and place of business had its walls lined with stacks of printed blocks.

Students attending the Minneapolis event were clearly delighted to discover processes more highly suited to their own ideas about image making than the usual straight ahead techniques that you see on the street. Student Rebecca Schafer became so fascinated with the lithographic reduction technique of Northern Illinois University’s Michael Barnes that she came home and tried it for herself. We caught sight of her later in the day practicing the use of the electric engraver in the product fair booths.

Erin Bluhm purchased some special inks used to make exquisite wash patterns that could be photographically exposed into silkscreens. Later she produced a series of elegant color prints using them. She is also very excited about the possibility of making large scale silkscreen prints handcolored with oil-tinted cold wax medium, a process demonstrated in St. Louis by Dennis O’Neal from the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

We spent an afternoon watching a demonstration of photopolymer plate printing on an old fashioned letter press in the giant type studio at Washington University, but also wandered in and out of several fascinating papermaking demonstrations.

People who investigate the print arts realize that the skills they already know are easily translated into printed media. Drawer-painters can make etchings and lithographs. Photographers and media wizards can directly transfer their images into silkscreens or relief prints. We learned that scale, color, and photographic realism are all possible, as are the most delicate renderings.

At the end of the experience, exhausted, armed with new information and filled with brand new ideas, everyone piled into their cars and headed for home.

Associate Professor of Fine Arts Alan Larkin teaches printmaking and drawing.

Upstage renovations completed

By Marianne Weesner

IU South Bend’s Upstage Theater was in dire need of remodeling. The carpet installed in 1982 was stained and torn. The curtains were ripped and dry rotted. The Upstage looked more like a construction site than a place where students rehearsed and had class.

Tim Hanson, area coordinator and assistant professor of theatre, saw a need to remodel the space. “We wanted it to be a place the faculty and students could be proud of,” Hanson said.

Funding to renovate the Upstage and Northside’s Recital Hall began with a matching grant from the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, a generous gift from Ernestine M. Raclin, and contributions from IU South Bend.

“Before the renovation there was no sound system for the room,” Hanson said. This meant whenever the room was used they had to piece together a system from old equipment.

The lighting was a hindrance, because “before we had a large cable that ran through a hole in the wall from the main auditorium and used circuits from there. We couldn’t use the two systems at the same time,” Hanson said.

Now for the first time, the Upstage had its own power source and lighting system so performances can take place concurrently on the main stage and in the black box theater.

In remodeling the upstage the most practical thing to do was to make it into a black box theater. A black box theater “does not have to have anything but the basics of what a theater absolutely needs, which is a place for the audience and a place for the action,” explained Hanson.

The renovated theater has a new control room with dedicated lighting and sound equipment, making the facility perfect not just for performances, but also as a classroom for lighting and sound classes.

The interior is all black, “so black boxes lose their old identity and become a neutral space,” Hanson said. It has often been considered a place where theatre in its simplest form can take place.

New risers and audience seating arrived during the spring semester, so student began sitting on stable seating for the first time in years. New black curtains were installed along the windows and walls, and a handicapped ramp was installed.

Work began during the summer of 2010 with students contributing their labor. Students wanted a space they could be proud of and wanted to be a part of making that dream a reality.

After the old carpet was removed theatre student Marlon Brunley spent a good part of his summer painting the ceiling, walls, and fixtures black.

During the beginning of the fall semester, one of the biggest jobs involved theatre students and faculty. Four thousand pounds of sprung dance floor arrived in several crates.

The students gathered around Hanson and in a single day the new floor, which can be used for dance, was installed.

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The floor was painted black and the new black box theatre began to take shape.

The remodeling of the Upstage Theater made it a versatile space for performance and teaching. The theater will be host to plays, dance recitals, and small concerts. The black box theater adaptability is appealing to all, because it allows for a variety of staging styles. With this adaptability Hanson hopes, “dance recitals and classes will be able to be hosted in this newly remodeled space.”

“I really am proud of the space and all the work that went into making it what it is now, which is a place where many students will learn to grow as actors and actresses,” said theatre student Allie Wheaton.

Recital Hall Renovation Plans Progress

By Marvin Curtis A $150,000 matching grant from The Community Foundation of St. Joseph County was the catalyst for a planned renovation of Northside’s Recital Hall as well as the recently completed renovation of the Upstage Theater.

Since the grant was awarded in June 2010, more than $138,000 has been raised. Contributions have come from Ernestine M. Raclin, Wells Fargo Wealth Management, and the recent “Crescendo” event sponsored by the IUSB Arts Foundation. The campus provided an additional $36,000 for new seating in Recital Hall. The projected cost of the renovation is $1.2 million.

During the past year architects, faculty, and administrators developed plans for a renovated Recital Hall. The room, which was originally built as a lecture hall in the 1970s, has multi-colored seating for 281.

Today, the once comfortable seats are stained and torn.

The steps of the hall are steep and lack handrails. The hall’s acoustics are poor, the stage is wide but shallow, and there is little room backstage. The oddly located ticket booth and a nondescript lobby make finding the hall difficult.

Working with IU Architect Jerry Stuff, Jackie Hilderbrandt, president of MPA Architects, and her team of sound and lighting designers, met with music faculty and students to discuss improving the facility. In the spring, a design was presented to the music faculty and the IU South Bend administration.

The new facility will have 250 new seats with the stage extended an additional 12 feet, taking the place of the first three rows of seats. This will provide for wing space for the first time. There will be a new backstage green room, lighting and sound system, and new wall and floor finishes to provide for better acoustics.

The seats will be reconfigured to stadium seating with aisles on the side with handrails, and a special open seating area on the side of the hall that can be used for antiphonal musical creations or special seating. Included in the plans is a new box office and lobby which make it easy to identify the hall as a performance space.

A fundraising campaign will be underway during the 2011-12 academic year. It is hoped that construction can begin during 2012.

art Therapy

By Marianne Weesner

Visual arts major Jennifer Kukla takes her passion for art outside the studio and off campus as a volunteer art teacher at South Bend’s Center for Juvenile Justice.

Through her outreach service she hopes to have a positive effect on the boys she instructs.

worksheets, drawn cartoon characters, and made collages expressing their interests. Kukla says, “I try to use holidays to do crafts, so last year we painted pumpkins, made a collage of things the boys were thankful for, and decorated Christmas cards.”

This isn’t the first time Kukla has been a volunteer for the correctional system. She began her journey in 2008 when she used her marketing skills to help a half-way house for women. After serving on the half-way house’s board of directors for a year, the director mentioned that they needed volunteer art teachers at the Center for Juvenile Justice. It wasn’t long before Kukla began teaching a weekly class at the center.

Volunteering at the center was not only beneficial to the boys at the center, but it also allowed Kukla to teach art, something she is passionate about. “I hope that the boys will realize that art is a great way to express themselves, and it is a healthy form of self-expression,” says Kukla.

“I would much rather an angry teen scribble on a piece of paper for an hour in class than use that aggression to get into a fight.”

“At first, the boys are just glad to have an excuse to get off of their unit,” says Kukla. “They are not all that interested in doing art, but after a few weeks of being in the class, many of the boys really begin to enjoy the projects.”

Kukla wants to boys to know that, “they have potential and their lives matter.” The boys she instructs at the center periodically change as residents are released or transferred. During the time she has with them she hopes that her instruction will help the boys realize, “they have made mistakes, but they can recover from them and move on to better their lives.”

Kukla does a variety of projects with the boys including drawing, coloring, and collage. She brings in objects, such as a bowl of plastic fruit for the boys to draw from direct observation. They have done optical illusion 26

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Celebrating

excellence

By Michele Morgan-Dufour // photography by Alec Hosterman There were two important dates for students of the Ernestine M. Rachlin School of the Arts - the commencement on May 10 and the Excellence Award Presentation on April 27. Each event featured the brightest and the best of the school, and a few grand friends of the school.

All of IU South Bend’s graduates gathered at the University of Notre Dame’s Joyce Center on May 10 for Commencement. From the arts, 86 students received their degree or special diploma.

IU President Michael McRobbie delivered the commencement address and greeted each graduate.

Coordinator of Student Services Tamea Rector and assistant Trisha Miller were on hand to help arts students and faculty with their regalia. New Media Professor Michael Lasater led the arts graduates into commencement where they received their diplomas.

Afterwards the new graduates enjoyed cake and celebrated with faculty, family, and friends. Each graduate received a portfolio from the school in recognition of their achievement.

The school’s annual Arts Excellence Awards recognized more than one third of students majoring in the arts.

Dean Marvin Curtis presented certificates to more than 200 students who attained the Dean’s List by earning a 3.0 grade point average for at least one semester during the academic year. Scholarships in music, visual arts,

communication studies, and theatre were awarded to 64 students.

The most prestigious awards of the evening, the Arts Excellence Awards, recognize students chosen by the faculty for their superior scholarship, performance, or exhibition. Arts Excellence Awards were presented to: W. Jordan Wagner, mass communication; Marianne Weesner, mass communication; Emily Rockhill, speech communication; Krystal Vivian, writing; Tabetha Coburn-McDonald, art history; Leah Dominy, music, undergraduate; Deborah Mayer, music, graduate; Bethany Hudak, new media; Randal Slisz, new media; Iryna Gillis, design; Michael Banks, theatre; Brady King, theatre; Krista Kuskye, studio practice in photography; Michael Bubelenyi, studio practice in drawing/painting; Connor McDonald, studio practice in sculpture, and Gretchen Siebert, studio practice in sculpture.

Each discipline honored the contributions of alumni, individuals, and organizations to the students and faculty of the school. Honorees were: Judi Lykowski, communication studies and new media; South Bend Symphony Orchestra, music; Warren Pepperdine, theatre and dance, and Jason Cytacki, visual arts.

Curtis presented the Dean’s Special Awards to Yuri Obata, the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County, June H. Edwards, Lexus of Mishawaka, William O’Donnell, Ernestine M. Raclin, and Lee Streby.

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Governor’s ArtsAwards In January Gov. Mitch Daniels and the Indiana Arts Commission (IAC) awarded the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at IU South Bend the honor of hosting the 2011 Governor’s Arts Awards. Two South Bend residents will be honored at the event.

The biennial awards program honors individuals, organizations, partnerships, businesses, and communities that have made significant contributions to the arts in and beyond the confines of Indiana. The awards recognize excellence in artistic achievement, philanthropy, arts education, and leadership in the arts, and at the same time build statewide awareness of the important role the arts play in Indiana. Until 2005, the event was held in Indianapolis.

In 2007 IU Bloomington was the host site, followed in 2009 by the City of Muncie.

“IU South Bend is proud to host the 2011 Governor’s Arts Awards,” said IU South Bend Chancellor Una Mae Reck.

“The Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts is a jewel on our campus. We look forward to sharing our facilities and talent on the statewide stage this event provides.”

Dean Marvin V. Curtis in partnership with Rob DeCleene and Carolyne Wallace, both of the South Bend/Mishawaka Convention and Visitors Bureau, presented the proposal at an IAC meeting in December 2010.

Shortly afterwards, Daniels made the announcement, “We are happy to present the 2011 Governor’s Arts Awards program in South Bend. It has been a pleasure to share the excitement of Indiana’s highest honor in the arts with communities around our great state.”

“We are very excited by the prospects of working with South Bend and Indiana University South Bend in presenting the State of Indiana’s highest honor in the arts,” said IAC executive director Lewis C. Ricci. “The committee members were very impressed by their presentation. We are confident the 2011 Governor’s Arts Awards will be a great success.

Nominations for the award were solicited from around the state in the areas of artists, organizations, individuals, and businesses. Curtis was asked to be a member of the 30

selection panel and after the votes were tabulated and discussed, the awardees are: June Edwards –South Bend Patron of the Arts.

Mark Fauser – professional screenwriter, actor, director, and playwright; he worked on the television show, Evening Shade.

Sylvia McNair -- two time Grammy winner singing opera, cabaret, oratorio, and music theatre.

Susan McDonald –Distinguished Professor of music and Artistic Director of the World Harp Congress.

The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis – The fivelevel museum serves more than one million people a year and is widely recognized as leader in the museum field.

Alexander Toradze – The Martin Endowed Professor of Piano at IU South Bend.

The award ceremony will take place this fall on the IU South Bend Campus bringing visitors to South Bend for this prestigious event. “The 2011 Governor’s Arts Awards will be a great town and gown opportunity for South Bend to showcase our status as the regional arts destination for northern Indiana,” said Rob DeCleene, executive director of the South Bend/Mishawaka Convention and Visitors Bureau.

The dinner will be held in the Student Activities center with music provided by IU South Bend music ensembles.

Assistant Professors in Theatre Tim Hanson and Inseung Park will design the setting for the evening. Following the dinner, everyone will walk over the Campus Auditorium for the formal program, including a performance by The Euclid String Quartet.

“It will be a privilege to host this illustrious event while showing off our community and the wonderful assets of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at IU South Bend,” Curtis. “The spotlight promises to shine brightly on South Bend that evening.”

June H. Edwards

Alexander Toradze

June H. Edwards has served and supported numerous arts and cultural events since 1956 from the South Bend Symphony League to the South Bend Museum of Art. She has been the president of the league three times and is currently the corresponding secretary.

Alexander Toradze is both a performer and a teacher. Today the piano studio is as a symbol of excellence that rivals that of important national education centers such as Julliard.

Her love for chamber music led to her establishing the South Bend Symphony Chamber Music series that bears her name. She also supports the South Bend Chamber Singers in their chamber series.

Edwards funded an art wing at the South Bend Museum of Art that bears her name, the largest donation in the museum’s history.

She served as president of Indiana Opera North and was a member of the Indiana Orchestra Consortium. She received the Mayor’s Art Award in 1995 and is vice president of the IUSB Arts Foundation Board.

She sees art not as one dimensional but multifaceted through her work with museums, symphonies, educational projects, chamber music – all artistic ventures. Her gifts have made a profound impact on this community by opening doors for both the general public and the artists.

As a performer, he has brought pride to IU South Bend, Indiana and the U.S. by performing with the greatest orchestras in this country and around the world.

The members of the multi-national and critically acclaimed Toradze Piano Studio have developed into a touring ensemble. His graduates now have positions at coveted institutions, such as the New England Conservatory.

Toradze graduated from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow. In 1983, he moved to the United States. In 1991, he was appointed as the Martin Endowed Professor in Piano at IU South Bend.

He inspires his piano students and IU South Bend faculty with his ethical and professional standards, his generosity and devotion to the students. His piano studio is more than just a group of students; it is a family.

Alexander Toradze represents one of the most important living figures of piano performance in the grant Romantic tradition.

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20th Anniversary Celebration

Kicks off in Style

By Moira Dyczko A concert, a reception, and a special program honoring friends kicked off the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts 20th anniversary season.

The Toradze Piano Studio, Martin Endowed Professor in Piano Alexander Toradze and the Euclid Quartet opened the 20th anniversary season with an unforgettable concert on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010.

During the concert our emeritus members of the IUSB Arts Foundation, Inc. were honored for their service to the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts. Those members are Robert W. Demaree Jr., first faculty member in the music program who served us for more than four decades, and in that time he headed the program in a variety of titles; Alice A. Martin, a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Board and a great supporter of Alexander Toradze and the Toradze Piano Studio through various gifts, including the Rex and Alice A. Martin Fellowship in Piano; and Janet Thompson, a long time supporter of the arts here at IU South Bend and throughout the community.

The Euclid Quartet and Alexander Toradze brought the concert to a close with the third movement of Brahms’ Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34, No. 1. This complex and energetic movement allowed the musicians to show-off their flare and ability for a crowd-pleasing finish.

Following the concert the IUSB Arts Foundation hosted a reception in the courtyard of Northside Hall that was unrivaled in style and elegance. The courtyard had never been used in such a way, and the event was arguably the 32

most beautiful reception held on campus. Members of the Arts Foundation events committee worked hard to turn this typical college courtyard into a beautiful garden setting for a wonderful reception.

Members of the Euclid Quartet commented that the reception was of similar scale to events they’ve attended in New York City. Violinist Jacob Murphy said, “In music, detail is everything. The Arts Foundation reception kicked off our exciting 20th anniversary year with elegance and style to match similar events in New York City. We are fortunate to have the foundation’s tireless support.”

Chris Kelly chaired the committee that included Judy Ferrara, Leslie Gitlin, Valerie Sabo, and Stephanie Schurz. The committee’s creative talents were put to use in handmade floral centerpieces that boosted innovative lighting features, a spread that included hand-dipped strawberries in chocolate prepared by the committee, along with a fine selection of fruits and cheeses. All this was complimented with a selection of fine wines and champagne. The ambience featured the gurgling water fountain, spotlights focused on the surrounding landscaping, as well as several sculptures by Dora Natella and music provided by pianist Marian Emery. The committee truly outdid themselves and the attendees had a wonderful time at the event.

Moira Dyczko is the production coordinator for the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.

equality, poster by Iryna Gillis // student

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Images of

Equality

By Jane Wang

Who gets to define what is beautiful? We each do. That’s what people were reminded of in Bethany Hudak’s animated video, It’s a Weave; Get Over It. Hudak’s video was one of several pieces featured in “Equality and Inclusion,” a spring 2010 juried exhibition of student art at the Civil Rights Heritage Center. “Equality and Inclusion” was a project conceived of by Visiting Assistant Professor of New Media Brigid McAuliffe and Assistant Professor of Sociology Kevin James (who also directs the Civil Rights Heritage Center) as a way to celebrate the center’s opening at the Natatorium and utilize art to bridge and build community.

The halls of the Natatorium echo with a history of exclusion.

Built in 1922 as a public swimming pool in South Bend, the Natatorium initially forbade blacks from entering.

It later granted segregated admission only after black residents won a lawsuit on the basis that their tax dollars supported the institution. Today, as the new home of the Civil Rights Heritage Center, the Natatorium has been reclaimed in the spirit of determination, acceptance, and community healing.

While the exhibit aimed to showcase the history of the Natatorium, “Students were encouraged to think broadly, expressing an array of ideas centered on fundamental human rights,” said McAuliffe. “The resulting work extends beyond the classroom, bringing together diverse communities and illustrating art’s power to communicate and build bridges.” A selection committee comprised of McAuliffe, James, and professors Michael Lassiter, Karen Ackoff, and Barbara Mociulski of the Raclin School of the Arts chose from more than 20 compelling student works of art to display.

Erin Brandeberry’s piece Different, Not Bad communicates the uniqueness of autism spectrum disorders like Asperger’s syndrome, while emphasizing that different is no less equal.

“I am interested in finding ways to use design to help others with special needs,” says the artist, who has Asperger’s herself.

A piece by Iryna Gillis deconstructed the simple act of a handshake. Her poster displays a series of handshakes in different colors, with each hand outlined in the color of the hand that precedes it. “A handshake is something close and intimate, so to shake someone’s hand symbolizes mutual respect, equality, and friendship,” said Gillis.

Bethany Hudak’s It’s a Weave; Get Over It was one of the few videos in the exhibit. Hudak was inspired by a piece from the 2010 Michiana Monologues about hair, choice, and beauty. “This is a story that really spoke to me as a woman, because as women we often feel a lot of pressure to be what others think we should be,” said Hudak. “This project is a message to women that we are each beautiful, no matter what.” Hudak recorded the author performing her piece and created a text animation to match.

Other motifs expressed in the exhibition included racism, marriage equality, community and belonging, and the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy.

Jane Wang works at IU South Bend’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences.

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flute festival is for

All Ages

By Rebecca Hovan

More than 50 flutists of all ages gathered on March 5 in Northside Hall at IU South Bend for the 2011 IUSB Flute Festival, hosted by the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.

Those in attendance included students, teachers, professional flutists, and flute enthusiasts from South Bend and surrounding areas. The schedule included workshop sessions led by four nationally recognized flutists, an afternoon recital, and displays of flutes, music, CDs, and other flute products for attendees to browse throughout the day by exhibitors Conn-Selmer, Inc., the Woodwind and Brasswind, Blocki Flute Method, LLC, and Hovan Enterprises.

The event kicked off with a masterclass session with Kathy Blocki, award-winning author of the Blocki Flute Method and beginning flute specialist, who taught a first lesson to a young student who had never played the flute before. Festival attendees observed as Blocki demonstrated successful techniques for teaching beginning flute players.

Stacey Graham Steele, assistant professor of music (flute) at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, directed a roomful of flutists in a flute choir reading session. All flutists were invited to play along, and participants tried out some of the lesser-known instruments in the flute family including alto flute, bass flute, and piccolo. Instruments were provided by festival sponsor Conn-Selmer, Inc. Rebecca Hovan, flute instructor at IU South Bend and coauthor of the award-winning Blocki Flute Method, presented a session on teaching rhythm, especially to those who are 36

rhythmically challenged. Hovan’s presentation examined the causes for rhythmic confusion and provided teachers and students with practical, systematic exercises and processes for achieving rhythmic success.

Sherry Kujala, Chicago-based flutist, presented two minipresentations. Kujala began by sharing her system for practicing scales and articulation patterns designed to exercise the brain as well as the fingers and tongue. This discussion led to her second topic, working with living composers and performing their pieces, which often requires extraordinary technical skill.

The day concluded with the “Flute Extravaganza!” that featured the four clinicians performing solo and ensemble works, accompanied by Jennifer Muniz.

The concert, and the festival, culminated in the gathering of approximately 40 flutists to create a mass flute choir. The group, conducted by Stacey Graham Steele, performed several selections rehearsed in the morning flute choir session.

The IU South Bend Flute Festival was made possible through the generous support of our sponsors: the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts, the Brannen-Cooper Fund, Conn-Selmer, Inc., and the Woodwind and Brasswind.

Associate faculty member Rebecca Hovan teaches flute.

She recently released her first CD, A Silver Christmas.

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The Leaps & Bounds of

Dance

By Carolynn Hine-Johnson

Dance at IU South Bend is growing by leaps and bounds.

The new dance minor and the popularity of dance classes to fulfill general education requirements mean there are a lot of students moving to the beat at the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.

In the late 1960s there was one dance class, ballet, at IU South Bend; a little later a jazz class was added. In 2001 a Middle Eastern dance class emerged and a Spanish flamenco class began in 2005. Since then, social dance, modern dance and Latin dance have been established. With the expansion of dance classes offered, the School of the Arts has created more sections for the majority of these classes, because they are so appealing to students.

Students are looking for ways to exercise, relieve stress and have fun. IU South Bend student Sarah Ward comments, “I hardly ever miss a ballet class because it helps me to relax. I notice that I don’t have that 4:00 p.m. slump when I dance.”

Not only is a dance class a great way to renew energy for busy students, but all technique classes earn credit in Health and Wellness, fulfilling a general education requirement.

In January of 2010, the School of the Arts began offering its dance minor. Brienne Steinke, who is graduating with a dance minor this year, loves the dance classes. “The dance minor got me back in shape,” said Steinke. “[The array of dance classes] introduced me to many different dance styles that I wouldn’t, otherwise, be able to take. It also introduced me to professional performers like Dalia and Dancing Earth.”

The School of the Arts offers workshops taught by renowned artists such as Dalia Carella, who gave a workshop on her preparation for the role of Ruth St. Denis, and dance company Dancing Earth gave a workshop and performance.

If you are interested in enrolling in a class, dance is part of the theatre & dance area at the School of the Arts. Our knowledgeable and nurturing faculty have all performed professionally and enjoy sharing their expertise with students.

Assistant Professor of Dance Carolynn Hine-Johnson, Ed.D., is happy to talk with you about the dance program. You can reach her at chinejoh@iusb.edu or (574) 520-4654.

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Requiem for the

Innocent

premieres with South Bend Symphony Orchestra

By Jillian Woodrick // photography by Peter Ringenberg

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On October 2, 2010, a baritone, five different choruses, a world-renowned maestro, and an orchestra had one thing in common: Jorge Muñiz. The world premiere of Muñiz’s composition, Requiem for the Innocent, opened the 78th season of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra at the Morris Performing Arts Center in South Bend.

With the combined efforts of Soloist Ivan Griffin, the South Bend Symphonic Choir, South Bend Chamber Singers, Shout for Joy Children’s Choir, IU South Bend Chorale, and University of Notre Dame Glee Club, the work was divided into seven movements and lasted one hour.

Taking a year and a half to complete, the 36-year-old assistant professor of music at IU South Bend has had the Requiem for the Innocent in his mind for over a decade.

And though the composition is a commission for the South Bend Symphony, it is a piece Muñiz needed to write.

“It has been in my mind for many years, brewing and growing,” he says. “It wasn’t until I came here to IU South Bend that I found the support and opportunity to see it happening, but the idea has been in my mind for about thirteen years.”

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Muñiz has wanted to write a piece that would be a prayer for all of the innocent victims that died in terrorist attacks throughout the world. This idea came to him in 1997 when a councilman in Spain was kidnapped and then murdered by terrorists of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna). This single event put his entire country in commotion and inspired Muñiz to take a closer look at the issues surrounding terrorism.

Though Muñiz agrees that independence is important, he does not see it as an excuse to defend the motives behind such attacks.

“It’s despicable that somebody will justify the death of another person for any political reason,” he says. “I wrote this piece to bring up what we all share in common, through all of these faiths, which is the respect for life above anything. I tried to strip all of these political issues out, so we can actually think for a moment, from many different religious perspectives, and have a prayer together.”

Not only did he feel the need to unite a world of people through one piece of work, he also needed to write Requiem for the Innocent in a different way than other similar compositions.

“If it has a religious connotation, or is a religious piece, it focuses too much on the tragedy of the event and not enough on the participants. Not only the victims, many of which are gone from this world, but also the people left behind. The families. Us. Society,” says Muñiz. “So I felt there was something I could say about it, different from what I’ve seen in other pieces.”

Muñiz has been an assistant professor of music in composition and theory at IU South Bend since 2006, and uses his expertise as an artist to help fulfill the dreams of his students. Talent and hard work are important components of any successful composer. But something more critical is needed to complete this equation: Passion.

Muñiz describes this attribute as the single most important aspect of his career. Without it, he has doubts that he would be a composer at all.

“It comes down to whether you have that drive inside of you,” he says. “You don’t do this for a job. You do this because you need to do it. I could probably last a month without composing, but that’s about it. I have this need inside me that is only satisfied when I’m writing.”

As a teacher, Muñiz hopes to transmit his passion to his students, knowing that it is important for them to feel his energy. He also expects to draw inspiration for his teaching duties through others who have inspired him in the past.

“I will always remember Leonardo Balada, a professor of composition at Carnegie Mellon, for being a model of integrity and generosity to the students,” he says. “And Richard Danielpour was an inspiration to me during my doctoral years at the Manhattan School of Music because he helped me to find a balance, and centered me as a composer.”

“There are people who help you grow as a composer or musician, and people who help you grow as a person,” says Muñiz. “My biggest hope is that I can do both for my students.”

Jullian Woodrick is a mass communication major at the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.

IU South Bend

ensembles Chamber Choir

IU South Bend Gospel Choir

The Chamber Choir is a small ensemble of 10 to 14 auditioned voices. Our newest choral ensemble was formed in the fall of 2010 by director Michael S. Wade to challenge graduate students and advanced undergraduates.

The IU South Bend Gospel Choir was formed in 2008 and is conducted by CreAnne Mwale. The choir premiered in fall 2009 and has performed every fall and spring semester since then.

The Chamber Choir debuted on the stage of the Campus Auditorium in December 2010 for the “Teddy Bear Concert” and appeared in the spring choral concert. They joined the IU South Bend Chorale as guest performers for the Plymouth Indiana First United Methodist Church 150th anniversary concert series. The group specializes in music from the renaissance, baroque and contemporary periods.

Membership in this ensemble is gained through audition or invitation of the director. The Chamber Choir is available for performances as part of the community outreach program of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.

The choir performs traditional, inspirational and contemporary gospel music. The choir, which has 25 members, welcomes IU South Bend students and students from other area college campuses.

Director Michael S. Wade was inducted into the Crown Point High School Faculty Hall of Fame in April. He is among eight inductees in this, the second year of the CPHS Hall of Fame recognition program.

The ensemble has had the pleasure of performing off campus at various events. Performances at the St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church and Epworth Methodist Church helped raised funds for a spring break tour to Greenville, N.C., in March 2011. Along with these performances the ensemble has been invited to sing at weddings and other community affairs.

Debuted at the “Teddy Bear Concert” in December 2010.

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Performed at “Lift Every Voice” and the Martin Luther King Day Celebration Concert.

The ensemble had the honor of opening for the “Lift Every Voice: Celebrating the African American Spirit” concert in the campus auditorium this year with Dean Marvin Curtis. They also performed at the Martin Luther King Day Celebration Concert and at His Place Worship Center in Elkhart, Indiana in May 2011.

IU South Bend Chorale

Performed with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra at the world premiere of Requiem for the Innocent.

The IU South Bend Chorale is a mixed chorus offered as an elective to all students enrolled at IU South Bend regardless of their main emphasis of study. This is the major choral ensemble in the music area. The course has just been approved to count as a General Education credit in the Health and Wellness category.

The chorale frequently presents extended works in collaboration with other choirs and instrumental ensembles.

At IU South Bend, they have sung Gustav Holsts’ Christmas Day, Handel’s Messiah, Part I; and the Robert Ray’s Gospel Mass. They also perform with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra, most recently for the world premiere of Requiem for the Innocent, by Music Area Coordinator and Assistant Professor Jorge Muñiz. The October 2010 concert opened the symphony’s season at the Morris Performing Arts Center.

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“Broadway Rocks” and the annual Martin Luther King Day concert held on campus. The chorale performs annually at the campus “Teddy Bear Concert” in December and the choral spring concert. This year they also were guest performers on the Plymouth, Indiana First United Methodist Church 150th anniversary concert series.

IUSB Jazz Ensemble & Jazz Combo Jazz musicians write their own arrangements.

The IUSB Jazz Ensemble is a big band with members drawn from the IU South Bend student body, area jazz musicians, and local music educators. Entrance to this ensemble is by audition or invitation and is open to all members of the IU South Bend community regardless of major. This ensemble performs classic big band compositions from the swing era as well as modern jazz and contemporary pieces. Members are also encouraged to submit new arrangements and compositions for the ensemble to perform.

During the 2010-2011 academic year the Jazz Ensemble gave two concerts in which the music of such great composers as Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Count Basie and Pat Metheny was presented.

Audiences were also treated to three brand new arrangements by ensemble members: Charlie Chaplin’s, Smile and Duke Ellington’s, East St. Louis Toodle-oo, both by trumpeter Dennis Gamble and If I Were a Bell, a new vocal chart by director Darrel Tidaback. The group also took their talents on the road, heading to Valparaiso University to perform for VU’s annual Jazz Festival in April.

The IUSB Jazz Combo is a small, student-only jazz ensemble with 4-8 participants. This group is open to all members of the IU South Bend student body by audition or invitation. The combo is self-directed with oversight and assistance by the director, Darrel Tidaback. The members practice the art of improvisation while learning tunes and developing their own arrangements. This past academic year the Jazz Combo participated in the school’s two jazz concerts, performed for various campus functions and presented lunchtime concerts at the Grille. In June the Jazz Combo performed at the LaSalle Grill for “Crescendo.”

Tidaback directs both the Jazz Ensemble and the Jazz Combo. Tidaback has been a music faculty member since 2002. He has 20 years of experience as a university teacher and more than 36 years of experience as a professional musician.

IUSB Philharmonic

Accompanied the winner of the IU South Bend Concerto Competition, Misun Moon.

Jameson Cooper has been conducting the IUSB Philharmonic since 2007. The ensemble, which performs in the Campus Auditorium, is comprised of music majors and minors, students from other areas, and from time to time, some community members. The IUSB Philharmonic is usually joined for performances by members of the music faculty and music professionals from around Michiana.

The repertoire has ranged from baroque to contemporary and they have been fortunate to work with several faculty members as soloists.

During the spring semester the philharmonic accompanied the winner of the IUSB Concerto Competition, Misun Moon, in a performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto. The ensemble has played music written by IU South Bend faculty and students. The philharmonic also played for IUSB Theatre Company’s production of Amahl and the Night Visitors.

Cooper says, “My goal in the philharmonic is to train the students’ ensemble skills while exposing them to a wide range of standard repertoire and new music.”

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IU South Bend Wind Ensemble

Performed at the IU South Bend Commencement.

The IU South Bend Wind Ensemble performs both masterworks of the wind repertoire and new works from the renaissance to the present, including pieces loved by audiences everywhere. The Wind Ensemble’s repertoire ranges from the large military band works of Gustav Holst to the small chamber wind pieces of Mozart.

The IU South Bend Wind Ensemble musicians are IU South Bend students, community members, educators, and area musicians. An important part of the Wind Ensemble’s mission is to encourage music education and strengthen ties within our community. We are particularly proud of our community partnership with the public schools by encouraging high level high school musicians to participate by playing in this ensemble. This group performs one concert per semester as well as at IU South Bend Commencement.

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New Music Ensemble

Devoted to fostering 20th-Century and New Music.

The New Music Ensemble performs several times annually.

Each concert is devoted to a specific topic, this year’s first concert was “Transatlantic Piano,” with works for piano from both sides of the Atlantic (Cage and Satie, among others). The second concert in April 2011 was “Poetry and Minimalism,” featuring works by minimalist composers (Reich and Rzewski) and poetry from different countries.

The ensemble involves a variable number of faculty and student performers, and premieres work by students and faculty from both IU South Bend and Spain, as part of the “Music Across the Atlantic” festival.

The New Music Ensemble promotes new music while creating new audiences. It provides student performers participating in the ensemble with the practice and tools to perform the most current music, while serving as a platform for IU South Bend composition students to experiment and create new compositions.

Flute Ensemble

Performed at the Northern Indiana Mayor’s Association Holiday Dinner.

The Flute Ensemble has performed at many events including; Art Beat, the Northern Indiana Mayor’s Association Holiday Dinner, the Chancellor’s Award Reception, and the South Bend Rotary Luncheon to name a few. The group performs in a shared concert with the guitar ensemble every semester as well as mini-concerts during their tours of local schools.

In December 2010, the ensemble played Christmas carols and other holiday favorites at the South Bend Chocolate Cafe, University Park Mall, Milton Adult Day Services, and pre-concert music in the lobby for the “Teddy Bear Concert” at IU South Bend.

The ensemble is open to all flutists in the IU South Bend community--students, faculty and staff--and is not restricted to music majors. Music styles range from classical favorites, to traditional folk tunes, and popular tunes as well as original compositions for flute ensemble by living composers. The ensemble is directed by Rebecca Hovan.

Guitar Ensemble

Performed joint recitals with the Flute Ensemble.

The Guitar Ensemble, led by Matthias Stegmann, performed joint recitals with the Flute Ensemble in November 2010 and April 2011. Guitar ensemble members Anthony Cotto, Rex Gard, Ethan Kampa and Matthew Mitchell performed classical guitar music such as “Selected Dances” from Terpsicore by Michael Praetorius for four guitars, Georg Phillip Telemann’s Concerto for 4 Guitars in D Major, Pieter van der Staak’s “Emilio” and Johann Gottlieb Scheidler’s Sonata in D Major. The guitar ensemble is open to all IU South Bend guitarists.

Stegmann was born in West Germany where he earned his bachelor’s degree at the Conservatory of Music in Cologne. After immigrating to the United States he earned an M.M. in classical guitar performance from the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati.

Toradze Documentary

Wins Emmy Awards

By Marianne Weesner The Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts and WNIT Center for Public Media presented a public screening of the Emmy Award winning documentary Kicking the Notes the Toradze Way. The screening, which was held in the Campus Auditorium of Northside Hall, included a brief presentation honoring those who worked on that project.

The WNIT documentary, featuring the life of Alexander Toradze, won two regional Emmy awards last fall. The Midwest region ceremony was hosted by actress Kim Cole in Chicago on November 6, 2010. Emmy recipients include WNIT, Linda Schaller, producer; Angel Hernandez Jr., executive producer; and Alexander Toradze, co-producer for Outstanding Achievement for Entertainment Programming. Tim Schaller also earned an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for Editing (non-news).

Toradze’s Emmy Award was displayed at a reception in the East Lounge prior to the screening.

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The story of “Lexo,” as Toradze is known to friends and colleagues, begins in Tbilisi, Georgia, in the former Soviet Union. Listening to the Jazz Hour on the forbidden broadcast of Voice of America was a source of early inspiration to this child prodigy. Six years after winning the silver medal at the Van Cliburn competition, Toradze defected to the United States, resulting in the disappearance of his composer father and the end of his mother’s movie career. Today his powerful, exuberant “kick the notes” style inspires classical concertgoers in ways few performers can match. Toradze brings the same passion to the elite students under his tutelage.

The documentary provided viewers with an opportunity to share in the private lives of the performers, witness the progress of their careers, and enjoy their incredible music.

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Gospel Choir Travels to

North Carolina

By Marvin Curtis An invitation from Holy Trinity United Holy Church, Greenville, N.C., initiated the first out of state tour by any student ensemble of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts. The Gospel Choir was invited to give a Saturday evening concert, and to sing at the Sunday morning service for the church’s 90th Annual Family and Friends Day. The IU South Bend Gospel Choir, led by CreAnne Mwale and accompanied by David Brock, began in 2008. Within a year of steady growth, the 20 member choir presented a concert before 200 people and word spread about this new group on campus. From there they were performing at the South Bend Symphony Orchestra’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. concert and taking part in the Black History Month concert.

In 2010-11, the choir had 25 members and choir robes were purchased for their first concert in October 2010.

The trip to Greenville cost $10,000 for travel and housing.

The amount was divided evenly among the members ($350) and donations were solicited. In addition the choir had two fund raising concerts. Rev. Matthew Cowden, rector of St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church opened the doors of his church for the first concert. The South Bend Tribune’s Intermission section featured the concert.

Every pew of the church was filled for the performance.

After the concert, the collection plates were passed for a free will offering and more than $800 was donated. A second concert at Epworth Memorial United Methodist Church for the church’s 100th anniversary brought a standing ovation and more donations. The ensemble was on their way.

After proposals were submitted, the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts and the IU South Bend Student Government Association each supported the trip with $1,500.

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With transportation and hotels secured, the group departed at midnight, March 17, for a 13-hour bus ride to North Carolina. Student Services representative Deborah Robinson accompanied the choir.

After the arduous trip, the participants were treated to North Carolina weather in the 80s and southern hospitality.

The IU South Bend Gospel Choir delivered a glorious Saturday evening concert to an enthusiastic crowd. By Sunday, word had spread about the choir and extra chairs were set up in the aisles of the church for the service.

Bishop Ralph E. Love Sr., pastor of Holy Trinity United Holy Church, praised the choir and the church presented them with a check for almost $900.

“I was so blessed and honored to tour with the IUSB Gospel Choir in Greenville, N.C. I am very proud to be a member of a choir who represented with a great sound and spirit,” said choir member Gwen Norwood.

“I was delighted to share such a wonderful experience with an extraordinary group of students,” Robinson said. “Their behavior and performance were superb. The IU South Bend Gospel Choir members are truly ambassadors for the university.”

Another 13-hour ride home and the choir returned home to perform for the Japan Relief Concert.

Following the trip, more engagements have been scheduled including another trip in spring 2012 and an invitation to perform at IU South Bend’s inaugural Opening Convocation in August 2011.

Arts students aid

Japan relief

By Marianne Weesner IU South Bend students acted swiftly to lend a helping hand to survivors of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami with two fundraising events, “A Concert for Japan,” and collecting donations prior to the IUSB Forum in late March.

Music students Kaori Okada and Risa Okina both have family in Japan and were the primary organizers of “A Concert for Japan.” They enlisted the help of fellow music students and the IU South Bend Japanese Club to put the concert together in less than two weeks. Music students from the vocal program, Euclid Quartet String Studio, Toradze Piano Studio, and Gospel Ensemble all participated in making the concert a success. Okina, who sang at the concert said, “We put “Amazing Grace” at the end of concert, because we wanted to perform this piece together.”

The communication studies area of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts, along with the staff of IU South Bend’s student newspaper, The Preface, collected donations for Japan Relief before Mara Einstein’s presentation at the IUSB Forum in March.

Einstein is the author of Compassion, Inc.: Charity and the Corporate Marketing of Misfortune. Sam Hunsberger, Hannah Troyer, Krystal Vivian and Jeff Tatay from The Preface staff organized the event. Professor Yuri Obata, who invited Einstein to speak, said “They did a great job in such a short notice.”

“I’m glad that the Preface took the initiative to take donations for Japan at Dr. Einstein’s lecture,” shared Krystal Vivian of The Preface. “We definitely feel like this is an issue that hits close to home, as many students and professors have friends and family members in Japan. I’m happy to help because I know it was going to an important cause, and all of the donations went straight to the Red Cross,” Obata added, “I hope that we can carry on this kind of awareness in order to serve the public interest in the globalized world. Things happen on the other side of the globe, and it affects us and it matters to us.”

Interview with Judi Lykowski

By Jessie Emmons At 7:45 a.m. students begin to enter the control room of Riley High School. They take their seats, and with a few quick announcements they begin their work on their weekly broadcast. As the students create their stories for the broadcast their instructor Judi Lykowski makes her way through the room answering questions and guiding her students.

few other students.” The show launch was postponed for several years, so the job did not last long.

“I didn’t know I wanted to be a TV news reporter until my sophomore year of college when I was attending Holy Cross College,” she explains. Lykowski was a late discoverer of the communication arts, but it has brought her many great experiences and led her to her extremely rewarding career in teaching.

“I believe I used my resources wisely while attending IUSB. I got out of it what I put into the experience and I believe I was truly prepared to enter the working field of TV news,” explains Lykowski about her education experience.

After graduation from IU South Bend she got a job as a weather anchor and weekday reporter for WLIO, a NBC affiliate, out of Lima, Ohio. From there she worked at a number of broadcast stations in the Midwest, including the NBC affiliate of Traverse City, Mich., and the ABC affiliates of both Grand Rapids and Battle Creek, Mich.

Eventually she moved back to the Michiana area where she worked for WNDU.

After completing a two year program at Holy Cross College, Lykowski came to IU South Bend where she earned a B.A. in mass communication in 1998. While she was attending school at IU South Bend, she got her first job at WSBT. “I was taking a 400 level class taught by Dr. Michael Lasater at WSBT. Ed Ernest, a WSBT reporter, was one of our guest speakers. Ed and Dr. Lasater spoke after class and it was at that time that Ed asked Dr. Lasater if he had any students who would be interested in doing part-time production work for the new Saturday morning newscast WSBT was planning on launching. Dr. Lasater recommended me along with a

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Lykowski was hired at FOX 28 shortly after her experience at WSBT. She worked on the teleprompter and graphics, eventually becoming the Monday through Friday show editor before graduating in 1998.

“Reporting for WNDU was the most rewarding because I was telling stories that benefited the community I grew up in,” said Lykowski, “I thought at first possibly I might run into conflicts of interest coming back home to report on air in the South Bend television market.” She soon learned this wasn’t the case, and the community embraced her quickly.

She moved from reporting to education after WNDU-TV was sold to Gray Communications, Inc. and underwent major staffing changes. Although she had job offers in TV markets across the country, she wanted to remain in South Bend. She joined the South Bend Community School Corp., as a public relations specialist but moved to teaching a short time later after completing her Occupational Teachers License.

Lykowski teaches the television broadcasting in the telecommunication program at Riley High School. “[What] I find rewarding is when my students ‘get it’… and when the students pay attention enough to actually be able to comprehend that language and work as a team to produce a show by using the terminology in a hands on way.” The program is available to juniors and seniors of the South Bend Community School Corp. The program is run by students, creating an atmosphere for full engagement while providing a well-rounded and rewarding education, which is the best part for Lykowski.

When she left WNDU, her news director commented on her final review that she had accumulated the most contacts in the newsroom, and she attributed this “to the hundreds of contacts that trusted me because I was homegrown and used ethical journalism when putting my stories together 56

each night.” She continues to use these contacts, especially for her students.

“I tell my students to think of my contacts as their contacts,” she explains, “If they, for instance, would like to shoot a Notre Dame game, I’ll call my contacts and try my best to make the opportunity possible for them.” She even uses her contacts to help get her students job experience.

If her students would like to work with a professional in the field, Lykowski will use her contacts to help make that a reality for them. She believes her students get more than jobs and broadcasting experience through her professional contacts, they also get a lesson in networking.

She has taken her love of teaching a step further as an adjunct professor of mass communication at IU South Bend during the summer sessions.

As for the future of her career in broadcasting, “I take one day at a time and live life by that motto. I have no idea what the future holds and believe no one does, beside the man above. So I am comfortable doing my best each day in the field I am currently in and letting my life unfold.”

Jessie Emmons is a mass communications major at IU South Bend.

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Top // South Bend Symphonic Choir, the Ebony Chorale and orchestra and featured soloists

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Bottom // Adolphus Hailstork with Lynn Coleman, assistant to Mayor Stephen Luecke

Done Made My Vow…

a celebration of the African American spirit

By Marvin V. Curtis The annual “Lift Every Voice: Celebrating the African American Spirit concert brought to our campus the African American composer Adolphus Hailstork, Eminent Scholar and Composer in Residence at Old Dominion University, for a performance of his work Done Made My Vow: a Celebration. This 45-minute work was written in 1986 for the 50th anniversary of Norfolk State University. The work for orchestra, choir, narrator, and three soloists, uses the text “My name is Toil, My father is Strength, My Mother’s Achievement, My Goal is Pride” as a motif while exploring the struggle by African Americans since slavery.

This composition required additional forces besides the South Bend Symphonic Choir. Orville Lawton and his choir, The Ebony Chorale of the Palm Beaches, were invited and accepted. The concert would make statement by performing this work tracing the history of African American freedom with an African American choir and a predominately white choir.

A symposium on African American music was planned to celebrate this occasion. Hailstork would talk about the creation of the work and his role as a black composer.

Lawton would talk about the creation of the spiritual and I would continue with the development of gospel music. The Ebony Chorale would serve as the demonstration choir.

Done Made My Vow: a Celebration required dynamic forces.

Local artist David Buggs was selected as narrator, and soprano Brenda Wimberly, choral director at Grambling University, accepted. Internationally known tenor Roderick George, associate professor of voice at Montevallo University was selected, and the role of the child soprano fell to Michael Ferlic who had recently performed the role of Amahl in our productions of Amahl and the Night Visitors.

As each choir rehearsed in their respective venues funds were raised through donors and grants with the aid of Lee Streby, Erika Zynda, Anne McGraw, and Dina Harris. By the first of February over $15,000 was raised to produce the concert. The orchestra was hired, soloists were in place, and we anticipated the arrival of Hailstork, Lawton, and The Ebony Chorale.

Everyone arrived on February 24 to a snowy South Bend. For many members of the Ebony Chorale, it was their first time seeing and experiencing snow. The next day we gathered for the symposium. In an almost packed auditorium, students, faculty, and community members listened intently as the three of us talked about our different topics. Hailstork gave the history behind his work and talked about the role of the black composer and his journey. Lawton, along with his choir, demonstrated the spiritual genre and gave the listeners a better understanding. I completed the trio with a talk about the creation of gospel music and we were treated to piano renditions of “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” by Lawton and Gwen Scruggs, to the delight of the audience.

The concert proved to be a triumph. Done Made My Vow: a Celebration ends with the narration, “Walk with the wise, and be wise.” It was a fitting ending to this special evening.

Our campus was graced with a composer of stature whose composition is a true masterpiece. Both choirs had made friends and IU South Bend had made history. Hailstork received the Key to the City from the Office of South Bend Mayor Stephen Luecke.

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Interview with Luis

Vargas

Euclid Quartet violist Luis Enrique Vargas began his musical training at age 14 in his native Venezuela. Under ordinary circumstances such a late start might have kept him from a career in music; however, Venezuela’s famed El Sistema music education program is anything but ordinary.

What is El Sistema, and how is it different from classical music training programs?

El Sistema is the world famous Venezuelan youth orchestra program begun in 1975 which today encompasses 125 youth orchestras and 250,000 children. The organization’s full name is Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, in English the National Network of Youth and Children’s Orchestras of Venezuela.

El Sistema was founded on the belief that a passion for music, combined with the discipline and dedication required to excel as a musician, transcends to all aspects of young musicians’ lives and, in turn, has the power to change human relationships for the better. El Sistema students learn discipline, dedication, and how to work together as a team to achieve their goals. How is El Sistema different? For one thing it’s a non-exclusive freefor-all system with many instruments being donated to those who can’t afford to buy one. It is also an ongoing project that provides local academies in which the most advanced members teach the younger students.

You joined El Sistema after a year of viola lessons. What was that experience like?

When I joined El Sistema I was asked to play in the children’s orchestra, but I was 15 and felt too old for them. I asked to try out for the youth orchestra which was more advanced, but I was really a beginner so that proved very challenging. The instructors asked me to first attend a seminar. These seminars, one of the great features of ­El Sistema, were usually a few days long and included hours of rehearsing as a group and in sectionals led by advanced students. When I showed up for the first time to a seminar I realized that the music was too hard for me since I had been playing viola for only a year. I remember entering the room and everyone staring at me until I sat in the back of the viola section. On the stand in front of me was Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” from Messiah and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1, the real thing not an arrangement for kids. It was during the first viola sectional that I got hooked with the group. It was sort of a cooperative environment where everyone had the same goals. By the end of the seminar I was more able to play the music.

Did you feel you had to catch up with the other kids in that orchestra?

I certainly did, but I faced a few challenges that kept me on my toes. For instance, two years after I joined the youth orchestra my teacher encouraged me to audition

for a substitute chair in the Lara Symphony Orchestra, the most advanced orchestra in my state to perform in Caracas. The featured conductor for this concert was Mehli Mehta, father of the worldfamous conductor Zubin Mehta, the former artistic director of New York Philharmonic. I eventually won the audition and performed challenging repertoire including Franz Schubert’s ninth and very last symphony called “The Great.” Then a year later I joined the orchestra again for their first international tour to Brazil playing incredibly difficult pieces such as Stravinski’s The Rite of Spring, Shostakovich’s fifth and Tchaikovsky’s fourth symphonies.

How important is intensive early music training?

Intensive music programs provide an inside look at what can be achieved with discipline and dedication in a very short time. It is important that those provide the students with something to look forward to at the end of the program, like a concert for instance. This keeps the students’ minds and energy centered towards achieving the same. The focus and dedication required to prepare for a difficult performance push the students to rapidly improve their skills.

When did you develop a passion for chamber music?

That came many years later when I was a student at the Music Conservatory Simón Bolivar in Caracas. At that time I was a member of the Cuarteto America which was starting to make a name for itself with some decently paid concerts at fairly prestigious venues in Venezuela. My interest in making a career in music as a part of string quartet was definitely increasing.

We were selected to do a few international chamber music festivals

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which helped us meet people who eventually became mentors.

What brought you to the United States?

My first visit was in 1995 when the Cuarteto America attended the Round Top Chamber Music Festival near Houston, Texas. Two years later we were invited to Canada to study a chamber music program with the Penderecki Quartet, and while we were in Canada we applied to several schools in the United States for a master’s degree program. We were accepted into three schools and chose Miami University of Ohio.

When I finished my master’s it became clear to me that I wanted to be in a string quartet, so I went on my own for further study with the members of the legendary Vermeer Quartet while pursuing a performer’s certificate at Northern Illinois University (NIU).

How did you become a member of the Euclid Quartet?

In 2001 I was finishing up the performer’s certificate from NIU when I was invited to audition for the Euclid Quartet. The quartet members were finishing their studies at Kent State University in Ohio and had auditioned for a residency job in Sioux City, Iowa. They were offered the job, but their violist was injured and had to stop playing. I was offered the position with the Euclid Quartet and, consequently, the residency job in Sioux City. After six years in Iowa we came to IU South Bend in the fall of 2007.

The Euclid Quartet has met with a lot of success. What is the quartet working on now?

We are currently working towards recording the second disc of our Bartok Project, aimed to record all six of his string quartets. The first

disc, with quartet numbers 2, 4 and 6 was released in the spring of 2010.

We are recorded the second disc in July 2011; it includes the remaining quartets, numbers 1, 3 and 5.

What advice do you have for young music students and their parents?

Believe that discipline can change lives, starting with their own and propagating to other people’s lives. This could be applied to literally anything, but in music it is particularly important. If young musicians do not try hard enough, they quickly lose steam and quit.

Talented students usually get away with not working hard enough in their early stages. If only they realized how much they could have accomplished if they worked harder. When the time comes to choose a college, many of those students will find themselves totally unprepared for the challenges ahead of them. Those that do make it as professional musicians find the career incredibly rewarding because they can touch people’s lives, but it is, on the other hand, highly competitive and challenging.

Is there anything further you would like to add?

I can’t thank the people we work for enough: Dean Marvin Curtis, our fellow faculty members, ViceChancellor Alfred Guillaume, and Chancellor Una Mae Reck. They have been incredible supporters of the quartet and believe in us. We keep this university in our hearts and strive to represent it at the highest level. I also want to thank our loyal audience members, followers, and fans, and encourage everyone to look for the Euclid Quartet on Facebook!

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Work

By Brigid McAuliffe

In Digital Storytelling: Aesthetics, Narratives and New Media, students collect personal and local stories as launching points for new media artworks. These recorded narratives fuel creative representations using video and animation. My students recently created artworks based on 2010-11’s campus theme, “The Meaning of Work.”

Erica Weidler illuminates the fulfillment that Tony finds in his work. She highlights his statement, “When I make a customer happy, my heart is happy.” To do this Weidler created an animation that could reflect the pointillism of Georges Seurat and the Rotoscope techniques of contemporary films such as A Scanner Darkly.

We started the unit by studying the work of Studs Terkel, an oral historian who dedicated much of his career to interviewing working Americans to understand the meaning of labor in everyday life. The students set out on a similar quest, and the results are an impressive array of interesting documentations of the lives of hardworking residents of Michiana.

Bethany Hudak and Danl DuRall took a philosophical, poetic approach toward the meaning of work. Both students interviewed a friend on their perspective of work and asked broad questions such as, “Where does work come from?

What does our need to work reflect about us?”

I recently had an old but treasured pair of boots fixed by Tony Sergio, a local cobbler and immigrant from Southern Italy who has been fixing shoes for more than 40 years in South Bend. It was such a pleasure talking with Tony about his life that I was disappointed to leave without hearing his entire life history. I left that day determined to engage my students with the Terkel-esque task of capturing Tony’s story and other accounts of the meaning of work in Michiana.

We used Tony’s small shoe-shop to record some of his amazing biographical tales. We also collected photos and video of Tony at work. Based on this footage, Robb Ressler created a piece that focuses on the hardships and triumphs that Tony has faced throughout his career.

The students accompanied the recorded dialogue with abstract imagery serving more as metaphors than literal connections. Hudak animates bits of paper with frantic writing that appears to go nowhere but in a circle. DuRall juxtaposes calm and restless imagery, a frame of dust catching sunlight as it’s falling followed by a fish swimming in endless circles.

Stories of the meaning of work are all around us—as artists we honor them by paying attention, by listening, and then by using art to represent them in fresh, engaging forms.

Visiting Assistant Professor Brigid McAuliffe taught new media during the 2010-11 academic year.

new talent

This fall the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts welcomes three new faculty members.

Kimberly McInerney Lecturer in Communications

Eric Souther Assistant Professor of New Media

As a child I was a straight A student, except for one discipline – conduct. Not a single one of my teachers could get me to stop talking. In eighth grade I was voted most likely to host a talk show. It seems fitting that I now teach public speaking for the communication studies department.

I grew up in Ethel, a small town of 100 people located in northeast Missouri. From an early age I knew I wanted to be an artist. When I was 17 I bought my first computer, an eMac. I was fascinated by the computer’s creative potential. I hold a B.F.A. in New Media and a M.F.A. in Electronic Integrated Arts.

After several jobs in the public relations field and completing my master’s degree at the University of Notre Dame, I feel a sense of coming home by joining the faculty. I graduated from the Raclin School of the Arts with a B.A., having majored in mass communication concentrating in public relations with a minor in speech.

As an artist, I am interested in unseen signals, language, digital life, and the complexities of data. I create interactive systems that manipulate audio and video in real-time. I love to collaborate across many disciplines.

I continue to use my public relations background teaching the Introduction to Public Relations course in the fall and my gift of gab (I have kissed the Blarney Stone, that may have something to do with it) teaching the art of public speaking.

Ken Douglas Assistant Professor of Music I am originally from California, where I taught music for several years before pursuing my graduate degrees.

My time as a public school music teacher is what led me to develop my professional identity as music educator. I earned my master’s degree from Michigan State University and my Ph.D from University of North Carolina, Greensboro. I have performed and presented my research nationally and internationally. My research interests include lifelong learning, teacher training, motivation, and improvisation.

Outside the classroom, I enjoy traveling, cooking, golfing, and of course, making music.

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In my free time I enjoy playing basketball, working outdoors, traveling with my wife Laura, and watching movies.

Top // Kimberly McInerney

Bottom Left // Ken Douglas

Bottom Right // Eric Souther

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Art Appreciation:

An Alumni Appraisal

By Mathew Leach “There is no place like it in the Midwest,” claims Stacy Jordan, assistant curator for the Midwest Museum of American Art, located in Elkhart. The museum has been an essential part of her life since 2007 when she obtained an internship there while finishing her B.F.A. at Indiana University South Bend. “I knew that I wanted to be involved with art since I was little,” she recalls. Jordan also praises Associate Professor Andrea Rusnock for helping to develop an internship at the museum that allowed her to meet graduation requirements and led into her future career.

The road to being in a position to enjoy art on the job has been a long one for Jordan. “I went straight into college from high school and I knew what I wanted to do,” Jordan reminisces. She began her post-secondary education at University of Miami, Ohio, but transferred to Indiana University Bloomington. This led her to a job working in an animation studio creating cel work. “It was cutting edge at the time I had the job,” says Jordan as she explains her duties of painting and coloring palettes.

“Although, life catches up to you when you not looking,” according to Jordan, as she withdrew from school to take care of family matters back home after two years of classes. “I was down, but not out. I knew I’d go back to school as soon as I could,” she claims. Eventually, she would return to school.

She decided to stay within IU, but this time she attended the Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI. While there, she met her fiancé, Matthew. “It’s because of him that I transferred to IUSB,” Jordan declares, “He had a family business up (in South Bend) and I went with him.” As she began her studies at IU South Bend to finish her education in art history, they were married. When her degree program was coming to an end, Jordan, like most other graduates, began to look for jobs. “Jobs are hard to come by, but I got lucky,” Jordan claims. “I had a great advisor and professors to help me,” referring to her one-of-a-kind internship at the Midwest Museum of American Art. Enjoying art as person on the outside looking in is one thing, but being a curator who mingles with art on a daily basis is another. The road of any curator is one of passion and Jordan’s passion for art goes beyond that of most artists.

“She was, and is, a great person to work with,” says Brian Byrn, head curator for the museum and an IU alumnus.

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ethic and dedication to the museum were so great that she was offered a job after her graduation. Having been the assistant curator for a little over two years, Jordan’s spirit and enthusiasm for art and the work she does has grown even more. “I love coming to work,” she claims. And while there are still opportunities for students to intern at the museum, “They can’t have my job because there is only one,” brags Jordan with laugh and a smile.

Jordan is responsible for being a guide on tours of the museum and performing research on the art in the museum.

“I don’t think of it as work because I enjoy it,” declares Jordan with a smile. “I even go to schools in the area to give presentations on some of the works we have in the museum.” She also updates the museum’s website www.midwestmuseum.us and performs remodeling work when necessary at the museum.

Art has its place in the world, but it has a much larger place in Jordan. “I have the chance to educate everyone who comes to the museum or the listens to one of my presentations,” she asserts. “I think it’s my duty to pass along art to the next generation.” While the museum provides tours primarily to elementary students every week, many high school and area college students visit her workplace too. Although the museum itself is limited in size and funding, a majority of the artwork is rare and precious to Jordan. “Most of our works are donated,” she explains.

“We may not be as big as the museums of Chicago or even those in South Bend, but we have art they don’t.”

As most of the art in the museum’s 193 piece collection doesn’t change, when a new traveling exhibit comes in, Jordan cannot contain herself. “When we have a new exhibit,” she says, “I just want to learn all I can about it, from the inspiration for the work to a history of the artist.”

Being knowledgeable about new works is important as a tour guide, but Jordan believes that in order to talk to people about art you have to understand part of it too. “There is a connection between the artist and their work, and I get the job of explaining that to the visitors,” states Jordan.

Although she holds a preference for sculptures, she has a hard time telling you what her favorite piece in the museum is because, “Nobody ever asks me that.”

Mathew Leach received a B.A. in mass communications in December 2010.

Telling Memories of

Cardamom

By Marianne Weesner Reji Kinn was found as a baby in a cardamom spice field in India. When she was 3 years old, an American family adopted her from an orphanage in Kerela. Reji grew up in a small town in Wisconsin, where she was the only person of color.

Brigid McAuliffe, visiting assistant professor of new media, and Bryce Merrill, professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at IU South Bend, told Kinn’s compelling story in the video ethnography Telling Memories of Cardamom. They presented the ethnography at the International Symposium for Symbolic Interaction in Pisa, Italy, the summer of 2010.

McAuliffe described Kinn’s story as an “interesting and compelling story of finding one’s identity through this cultural narrative.” She says Kinn, “was more than just a racial outsider: she often felt like a stranger to herself.”

The video ethnography conveys the struggle Kinn faces in finding her true identity while also wondering what her parents were like. It also “… aims to convey the beauty and struggle of difference and the tension inherent in living between multiple cultures and identities,” remarked McAuliffe. The tension from the differences Kinn faces in 68

her life makes it a continuous search to find a place where she feels like she belongs.

Qualitative research plays a role in many disciplines because “it helps us dig through the layers of all the things that are involved in an issue,” Merrill said. Ethnographies have been a popular form of understanding an individual’s culture. Visual digital storytelling as a means to show one’s culture is relatively new. Sociology and new media faculty have worked together to create this dynamic illustration of one woman’s story of finding her niche, self-identity, and how she makes sense of the world around her.

The video helps visualize the struggles faced by Kinn, but also shows others who have dealt with this struggle that they are not alone. McAuliffe examines the intercultural aspect of communication while using new media to help convey the tension between the various cultures.

Excerpts from the video ethnography Telling Memories of Cardamom can be viewed at brigidmcauliffe.com.

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IUSB Forum Welcomes Speakers to Campus

IUSB Forum, a project of Communication Studies, brings guest speakers to campus to discuss various issues, ideas, and topics concerning today’s society.

These speakers help keep faculty, students, and community members better informed. This year four speakers visited campus as part of the 20th anniversary celebration.

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Fall Forum with Karen McDevitt and Angela Windfield Technology drives the business world and education must keep pace. Teachers in the classroom should embrace technology.

Speaking on the topic The Future of Communication Studies: How Will Teachers Meet the Demands of the 21st Century Learner?

Karen McDevitt and Angela Windfield from Wayne State University outlined the skills today’s employers demand and how teachers can embrace technology in the classroom to help today’s students.

“What’s being communicated?” was a question posed by McDevitt and Windfield to the audience. Technologies like Netbooks, cell phones, and iPods have blurred the lines between our private and personal lives. None of us received a technology etiquette course. While technology is a powerful thing but it can come at a significant cost. Ask Brett Favre and Tiger Woods.

At the close of the forum McDevitt and Windfield answered questions and continued the discussion with the audience.

Students and the public gave interesting insights on their own experiences with technology and asked thought provoking questions. Kevin Gillen, a professor at IU South Bend, inquired what would happen if one day we did not have electricity.

The audience was pensive as they considered the everyday communication technologies they would no longer have.

Spring Forum with Mark Andrejevic

Spring Forum with Mara Einstein

From Facebook to smartphones, we now have improved access to information. But is this a good thing? University of Iowa’s Associate Professor of Communication Studies Mark Andrejevic presented Infoglut!, an IUSB Forum in March 2011. He is the author of Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched and iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era

Recently, more and more companies are promoting their products through cause-related marketing practice, suggesting that a portion of our spending will be donated to make the world a better place.

According to Andrejevic, people living in today’s state of overload trust the news less and are more skeptical.

Andrejevic said that in an era of information glut, there is a crisis in sorting through it all. “The danger is that people will just pick the stories they want to believe,” rather than developing the skills to use the new resources.

The paradox is that more access to news and information doesn’t automatically yield a more informed populace. “We need to develop new skills for sorting through the competing stories available to us -- we live in a new information landscape and we need to learn how to navigate it,” said Andrejevic.

On March 24, 2011, Mara Einstein presented a lecture on cause-related marketing. Einstein is currently an associate professor in Media Studies at Queens College of City University of New York (CUNY). Her third book, In Compassion, Inc.: Charity and the Corporate Marketing of Misfortune, is due later this year. But by now, we know that our money did not go to save wild animals because we did not log in to the company’s website to back the cause.

She suggested that there are companies which are truly honest and charitable. But if overall marketing techniques are becoming more and more skillful, consumers need to more critical. Her goal was to bring us awareness that purchasing to make a difference may be deceiving, and our good intentions should not be wasted just because the corporations act wilier than our willingness to know better.

The evening with Einstein showed us how our individual decisions to be critical greatly matter through her extensive and in-depth research.

Crescendo Closes

20th Anniversary Season

By Moira A. Dyczko The Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts 20th anniversary season concluded on a high note on Saturday, June 11, with “Crescendo,” a joint anniversary celebration with the LaSalle Grill, at the LaSalle Grill. “Crescendo” featured a distinctive atmosphere on each of the restaurant’s three floors through the performing, visual and culinary arts.

“The talent was breathtaking, the food and wine delicious and everyone had a marvelous time! Very impressive,” said Carmi Murphy, a former IUSB Arts Foundation board member, congratulating the school on a magnificent evening.

Guests were encouraged to indulge their senses with opera selections from Deborah Mayer’s vocal students, fine Italian cuisine, and artwork by our talented faculty. The presentation on the first floor also showcased piano and flute performances, and a piece by the Euclid Quartet.

The second floor featured a more intimate atmosphere with French cuisine, a champagne bar, and artwork by faculty and students. Performances on this floor ranged from flute and guitar, to theatrical scenes, to mock debate, to a six-piece flute 72

choir. As guests moved to the third floor they encountered jazz and dance presentations by faculty and students, Cajun cuisine, and hurricanes to quench their thirst. As the night played on, the audience was invited to join the fun on the dance floor and learn some new dance steps.

Guests of “Crescendo” raved about the event, and enjoyed experiencing the variety in the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts’ programming. More than one guest commented that there was not enough time to see it all.

“Crescendo” was the culmination of school’s 20th anniversary season and a fundraiser to support an ArtsEverywhere matching grant from the Community Foundation of St. Joseph County. With income directed toward the renovation of Northside’s Recital Hall, “Crescendo” raised more than $43,000. Barbara Warner supported the event with a major underwriting gift and additional underwriters for “Crescendo” included Baker and Daniels, Crowe Horwath LLP, Randy and Kim Ferlic, Carol and Craig Kapson, and Shirley and Lucky Reznik.

IUSB Arts Foundation board members Judy Ferrara and Leslie Gitlin co-chaired the planning committee for “Crescendo.” Serving on the committee were Chris Kelly, David Kibbe, Valerie Sabo and Stephanie Schurz.

The committee did a wonderful job realizing their vision of making art the focus, and showcasing the talent of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts. In fact, they did such a tremendous job that the IUSB Arts Foundation is considering presenting “Crescendo” again. Though it was initially intended to be a one-time event, you may just be able to indulge your senses in a future presentation of “Crescendo.”

Visual Artists Karen Ackoff Jane Cera Laura Cutler Anthony Droege Tuck Langland Alan Larkin Brenda Leeka

Josh Miller Barbara Mociulski Ron Monsma Susan L. Moore Dora Natella Danielle Wilborn Harold Zisla

Performing Artists Stephanie Berry, soprano Dance Presentation including Flamenco, Latin, Middle Eastern, modern, swing, and tap dance Debate Team, mock debate based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream Paivi Ekroth, piano Marian Emery, jazz piano and vocals Euclid Quartet Faculty Jazz Combo Flute Ensemble Rebecca Hovan, flute with Christine Larson Seitz, piano Rebecca Hovan, flute and Matthias Stegmann, guitar Vakhtang Kodanashvili, piano Composition by Marjorie M. Rusche Student Jazz Combo Theatre and Dance Company at IU South Bend, scene from A Midsummer Night’s Dream Vocal Studio of Deborah Mayer Dimitri Zhgenti, piano

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Willows the wind in the

By Stacie Jensen

Letters from young fans and critics fill the lobby walls outside the Upstage Theatre where theatre students often congregate before class. “I think your play was amazing.”

“The play rocked.” “Your play was fantastic!” All of these letters refer to the 48th annual IUSB Children’s Theatre Production, The Wind in the Willows adapted for the stage by Moses Goldberg and based on the novel by Kenneth Grahame.

Last year, the IUSB Theatre faculty announced that the 2011 children’s theatre production would be student directed. Shortly after the announcement, some friends began encouraging me to apply, and eventually I found myself sitting in the director chair.

Directing a show is not as easy as it might sound. Directing a show that thousands of area schoolchildren in grades kindergarten through six are coming to watch is even harder. Believe me when I say that children are the world’s biggest critics!

The annual children’s show is a theatre scholarship fundraiser and an ongoing outreach project. Ticket sales fund scholarships for IU South Bend theatre students as well as scholarships for underprivileged schoolchildren to see the show for free. For many of these students, this is their first opportunity to see a play. We were particularly fortunate in 2011 to receive grant support for children’s theatre from PNC Foundation, Frick Limited Liability, and South Gateway Association.

IU South Bend theatre students look forward to participating in the children’s theatre presentation as much as the children who see the shows. “I thought it was very entertaining. It told a great story about friendship. You can take [the audience] on an adventure,” said assistant stage manager and theatre major Corey Gregory. This was Gregory’s first children’s show, but he said he looks forward to participating in many more.

Freshman Tabatha Bidwell, who played a weasel in the show, thought the show was a lot of fun. “It was well worth having to get up early in the morning. I like doing the children’s show, because it is great hearing the kids laughing. I think the children’s show is a wonderful outreach program. I love the kids.”

“The children’s show is always my favorite because I have a good connection with kids,” said sophomore Marlon Burnley who played Toad. “It was a tough experience figuring out the character for the show, because kids are really hard to entertain and keep their attention. It is good to give students their first experience with a play. All kids should be exposed to arts in some way.”

Burnley visited Olive Elementary School in New Carlisle to talk with third grade students about how to put on a theatrical production before they came to see the play. “It was really cool to be able to talk to the kids before being in costume and letting the kids see the backstage aspect of theatre. It was nice to answer their questions.”

Each teacher was sent a study guide to help incorporate the show into classroom curriculum. The worksheets and activities taught each student about the process of putting on a show, and all the jobs a play entails in addition to acting.

Pulling together the resources an entire department has to offer for the benefit of area schoolchildren is not an easy task. My job as the director was to oversee everyone’s work, make sure the bases were being covered and the show was moving in a unified direction, and make sure everyone was having fun and noticing the beauty in the work we were doing. I would do it again in a heartbeat.

Stacie Jensen is a senior B.F.A. theatre performance major.

She is a regular on the Dean’s List and a Broadway Theatre League Scholarship recipient.

schoolNews Jazz Studies music concentration added A new concentration in Jazz Studies for the Bachelor of Arts in Music will be offered starting in fall 2011. The concentration offers a balance of classical training with a strong emphasis on jazz music, including applied jazz instrument lessons, jazz ensemble, and courses such as jazz improvisation, jazz class piano, jazz arranging, and history of jazz.

Sculptor Austin I. Collins installed Temple, XX on campus (opposite page, bottom left) Rev. Austin I. Collins, C.S.C, spoke in February as a special guest of the 20th Anniversary season. The talk, titled “Public Sculpture and Personal Practice,” focused on Collins’ artistic process and experiences. Collins is a professor of sculpture in the Department of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Notre Dame. He is well known for his large scale steel sculptures and has them on display throughout the country.

In addition to the talk, Collins installed one of his outdoor sculptures, Temple, XX, on campus for a two year loan. The 19-foot welded steel piece was placed on the mall in front of the Schurz Library.

National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) accreditation visit scheduled for February The NASM accreditation visit for the music program is scheduled for February 19-21, 2012.

In November 2010 the music area entertained Jon Piersol, retired music professor from Florida State University, who conducted a consultant site visit to help the school prepare for national accreditation.

Teddy Bear Concert dedicated to educator Mary Jo Kaser (opposite page, top) In partnership with the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Michiana, the choirs of IU South Bend presented the annual “Teddy Bear Concert” during the holiday season. Patrons brought teddy bears for admission and these bears are given to parents to hold while their child is in intensive care. This year’s concert was a performance of Messiah by Handel. The ensemble included the choir from Washington High School and was dedicated to the memory of Mary Jo Kaser, fine arts curriculum facilitator for the South Bend Community School Corp., who died in September 2010. Her family was present for this special concert.

Communication students visit, Ogilvy & Mather During spring break a group of 15 students and Alec Hosterman, senior lecturer in communication studies, went on a tour of Ogilvy & Mather in Chicago. The trip was organized by Aspire intern Marianne Weesner, BA’11. Ogilvy & Mather is an 76

international advertising and public relations firm with 450 offices worldwide. IU South Bend students learned about the variety of jobs and the corporate culture at Ogilvy & Mather. Lucia Gerdes of Ogilvy PR Worldwide explained what an internship at Ogilvy & Mather entails and answered student questions.

NEA and Rachmaninoff Foundation Awards launch Toradze classical radio project The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts a $10,000 grant to support the production of a classical music radio series, “Russian Piano: Exploring Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky, with Alexander Toradze and Friends.” This is the second NEA grant received by the school in three years. In addition the NEA grant, the project also received a pledge of $10,000 from the Serge Rachmaninoff Foundation and a generous $30,000 gift from The Martin Foundation, Inc. Dean Marvin V. Curtis says, “This is an exciting project, one that will bring prestige to the Toradze Piano Studio and Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.”

Painter Maria Tomasula visited IU South Bend (opposite page, bottom right) Tomasula, the Michael P. Grace Professor of Art at the University of Notre Dame, spoke with visual arts students in November. She presented a lecture to all visual arts students, followed by a painting demonstration for upper level painting students. Tomasula’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, ARTnews, and the Chicago Tribune. Tomasula was a 20th anniversary speaker.

Speech Night Competitions celebrate public speaking Speech Night competitions at the end of the fall and spring semesters featured the best S121 Public Speaking students. Students from each public speaking class compete in preliminary rounds. Six speakers are selected to compete for first place in the final. The fall Speech Night finalists were Shannon Dunfee, Jacob Hughes, Mackenzie Jarvis, Krista Kox, Stacey Nickel, and Rachel Trautman.

Spring finalists were Katherine Hoffman, Stephanie Bates, Brittany Whitford, Ashley Fair, Alyssa Nyers, and Janice Pietrzak. Kevin Gillen directs this end of the semester tradition for the S121 Public Speaking courses.

Walter Allen Bennett Jr. to guest direct A Raisin in the Sun Walter Allen Bennett, writer on the Emmy Award winning The Cosby Show and executive producer of The Steve Harvey Show, will be the guest director for IU South Bend’s October 2011 production of A Raisin in the Sun. The play,

Top // Teddy Bear Concert

Bottom Left // Austin I. Collins

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written by Lorraine Hansberry, portrays the 1950s story of an African American family’s experiences on Chicago’s South Side as they are about to receive a $10,000 insurance check. Bennett holds a M.F.A. in playwriting from Yale University’s School of Drama, and an M.F.A. in acting from UCLA. He is a professor in the Graduate School of Film and Television at Loyola Marymount University, where he teaches Directing and Scene Analysis. Most recently, he has collaborated with R&B artist Alicia Keys on a television pilot for the Nickelodeon Network.

Theatre Students attend USITT (opposite page, bottom) In March, theatre students and faculty traveled to Charlotte, N.C., for the United States Institute for Theatre Technology (USITT) 51st Annual Conference and Stage Expo. At the conference they attended master classes on theatre and design subjects such as costuming, lighting, scenery, props, and make-up. Students also enjoyed the Stage Expo where they met with industry professionals and vendors to learn about all the newest equipment and techniques available.

An area devoted to graduate degree programs gave students the opportunity to talk with professors and students from graduate programs offered around the county. Networking is vital to a successful career in theatre and USITT provided a superb opportunity to develop personal relationships with industry professionals.

Dancing Earth Creations performs Of Bodies of Elements (opposite page, top) The Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts was excited to present Dancing Earth Creations in their performance Of Bodies of Elements in October 2010. This full length new work designated for national touring was the first event in the school’s 20th Anniversary guest artist series.

Dancing Earth Creations is an indigenous inter-tribal contemporary dance ensemble led by Rulan Tangen. Tangen was recently named “One of the Top 25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine. The ensemble performance represented 28 Indian Tribes.

Of Bodies of Elements was developed with the support of prestigious National Dance Project grant, the first such grant to be awarded to an indigenous contemporary dance ensemble.

Of Bodies of Elements is the culmination of 10 years work by Tangen in collaboration with Dancing Earth Creations and with contributions by choreographer Raoul Trujillo.

There is a sense of discourse and imbalance that comes into play during the piece that recognizes the challenge that Native American people face as they struggle to maintain a connection to their tribal identities.

Prior to the performance, the School of the Arts hosted a reception for members of area tribes and others interested in Native American dance.

Debate and Forensics Team marks busy year New coach Sara Curtis reports the team had a whirlwind of activity

this past year. “We attended and competed in six debate tournaments, increased student membership, and said goodbye to senior Jake Jones,” said Curtis. Members of the 2010-11 debate and forensics team were Cory Gilmartin, Luis Hernandez, Josh Law, and Randal Birch. Individual events team members were Marlon Burnley and Jerry Sailor.

The team’s season highlights included earning a first place gavel at the Hiram College Debate, competing in individual debate for the first time with great success at Bowling Green State University, and scoring a few personal bests for the team throughout the season.

The team is expanding to include mock trial and individual events team members. They recruited students from all departments for the debate, forensics and the mock trial teams. Their goal is to have one student from each college on campus, which will provide an academically diverse group of students for future tournaments. Curtis plans to expand the range of competitive forums the team attends in 2011-12. With the mock trial and individual events they are expecting a lively and busy tournament schedule.

Photographer Barbara DeGenevieve discussed sexual imagery as art DeGenevieve, a 20th anniversary speaker, presented the lecture “Exploitation, Political (in)Correctness and Ethical Dilemmas” in March 2011. Degenevieve, professor and chair of the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is an interdisciplinary artist who works in photography, video, writing and performance. DeGenevieve’s work is project-based and inspired by the collision of ethics, critical theory, and the politics of sexuality.

Following the lecture, one IU South Bend student commented that she was reminded to “think outside the box” in terms of subject matter and communication.

Tamarind Master Printer Joe Segura led lithography workshop Segura, head of Joe Segura Publications, formerly professor of printmaking at Arizona State University and now head of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies new printmaking facility, led an October workshop on aluminum plate lithography for visual arts students. Segura was a 20th anniversary guest speaker.

Kevin Rudynski presented polymer relief printmaking workshop Rudynski, a graduate of IU South Bend, holds an M.F.A. in printmaking from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign and is chairman of the Art Department at Anderson University. He led a workshop in photopolymer relief printmaking for visual arts students. He talked about ways for artists to develop imagery by hand and on the computer, produce dense films for exposing photopolymer plates, use the Anderson Vreeland plate-making machine, and print plates on the Vandercook proof press. Rudynski was a 20th anniversary guest speaker.

alumni, student, faculty

NEWS ALUMNI NEWS Lindsay Alison, BFA’09, is working on an M.A. at the University of St. Francis.

Christopher Beck, BA’09, teaches freshman English at Big Sandy High School, Dallardsville, Texas.

Brandon Briggs, BFA ’07, received a Master of Fine Arts in two-dimensional studies at Bowling Green State University where he also taught Painting I. Briggs won the “Best of Show” award at the Elkhart Juried Regional, Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart.

Amy Conroy, BA’09, is a marketing associate with the Troyer Group in Mishawaka.

Jason Cytacki, BFA ’08, graduated in May 2011 with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of Notre Dame where he also received the “Outstanding Graduate Student Teacher Award for Excellence in Teaching” presented by the Kaneb Center. He will be starting a tenure track teaching position in August at the University of Oklahoma as an assistant professor of painting.

Becca Ewing, BFA’10, is studying for an M.F.A. at Savannah College of Art. Tiffany Goehring, BFA’04, was promoted to the position of manager of publications in communications and marketing at IU South Bend.

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Paul Guillaume, BFA’10, is studying for an M.F.A. at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass.

Teresa Hayes-Santos, BA’08, curated an exhibit for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. She also curated an inaugural exhibition for the Grand Opening of La Plaza de Cultura y Artes in Los Angeles, Calif.

The exhibit focuses on life in East Los Angeles, as seen through the camera lens of scholar Gilberto Cárdenas.

Hayes-Santos will begin graduate studies in art administration this fall at Goucher College of Baltimore, Md. Joseph Jackmovich, BA’10, is completing the M.A. in journalism program at IU Bloomington.

Michele Johnson, BFA ’10, worked half-time during the 201011 academic year as the costume shop manager at the University of Michigan, Flint. She is the full-time costume shop manager for the 201112 academic year. Michele reports that Michigan’s costume area faculty were very pleased with the skills that she learned in the costume studio here at IU South Bend.

Natalie King, BA’10, is a project coordinator for Digital Hill Multimedia in Goshen.

Vakhtang Kodanashvili, MM’04, a member of the Toradze Piano Studio, performed with the Post-Classical

Ensemble in Washington, D.C. at the Clarice Smith Center in their “Russian Gershwin Evening.” He was soloist in the Gershwin Piano Concerto in F. In a review in the Washington Post, the critic commented, “Vakhtang Kodanashvili took a jazzier and more extroverted approach to the Piano Concerto in F, a too rarely heard wonder from 1926. Kodanashvili’s lean, exuberant playing contrasted nicely with Zagor’s more lush approach, and -- backed by razorsharp playing from the ensemble, led by music director Angel GilOrdóñez -- resulted in a terrifically exciting account.”

Angela Leed, BFA’06, received an M.F.A. from Bowling Green State University in 2008. She taught at Ringling College of Art and Design in 2011. She has also instructed students at IU South Bend and Bethel College in foundational and figurative drawing as well as Adobe Creative Suites, allowing her to explain both traditional and contemporary techniques. Her 2011 traveling solo exhibition, “Manufactured Community,” was funded by an Indian Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant. Leed was granted the distinguished Marilyn Singleton Leadership Award by the Medici Circle in 2008.

Paul McCormick, BFA’09, was awarded an M.A. from the University of St. Francis in May 2011. He will begin the M.F.A. program at Purdue in the fall.

KATRINA SMITH, BFA’07, was hired fulltime in May as a graphic designer in the Office of Communications and Marketing, IU South Bend.

Student News Michael Banks, BA’11, was accepted to the theatre M.F.A. program at Purdue University.

Emily Barker, who studies theatre and dance, participated in a 10day modern dance workshop at the American Dance Festival in New York during the holiday break. “I went not knowing what to expect,” Barker said.

“It was very intense.” The classes for intermediate and advanced modern dancers were held in the Alvin Ailey dance studios and at Julliard, and concentrated on José Limon and Martha Graham technique. Classes in technique, repertory, and choreography all featured live music: piano, drums or xylophones.

Dorea Britton, Min Ah Lee and Lucas Miner were chosen to participate in the Ezio Pinza Council for American Singers of Opera (EPCASO) program in Odrezo, Italy during the summer of 2011. EPCASO typically admits only 12 to 16 singers each year. Their teacher is soprano and alumnus of the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts Deborah Mayer, MM’11. Students have the opportunity to study voice with Claudia Pinza (Enzio Pinza’s daughter), legendary Italian soprano Maria Chiara, famed La Scala coach Enza Ferrara, and Italian conductor Maurizio Arena.

Omar Cherry, MM’11, has been accepted to the doctoral program at Ball State University with a primary area of study in theory/composition.

Anthony Cotto presented his paper “String Quartets of Penderecki: Analyzing Form, Harmony, and a Return to Tradition,” on April 8, 2011, at the Undergraduate Research Conference. The paper was accepted

for publication in the Undergraduate Research Journal.

Student Writing Awards contest. Her poem is titled “The Boxer.”

Katie Cozzie interned at Round 2, a collectible company in South Bend.

The company commented at how well prepared she was.

Ketevan Kartvelishvili, AD’11, competed at the William C. Byrd Young Artist Competition. Kartvelishvili was awarded first place, including a cash prize and a solo performance with the Flint Symphony Orchestra on January 28, 2012.

Leah Dominy and Misun Moon, MM’11, received awards at the 2011 Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Collegiate Scholarship Competition.

Moon received the first place award in Graduate Piano, and Dominy was awarded first place in Undergraduate Piano. Dominy also won second prize at the Jefferson Symphony international Young Artist Competition in Golden Colorado.

Cory Gilmartin, a member of the IU South Bend Debate and Forensics Team, has been elected Student Government Association President for 2011-12.

Stephanie Goff received wonderful reviews of her intern work at ArtAvailability.

Christine Hatfield received excellent feedback from CPAmerica for her work as an intern.

Jan Heeren (contralto) and Michelle Torres (soprano) were featured performers in a concert sponsored by the Edison Lakes Sunrise Rotary Club to raise funds for Rotary’s worldwide “Polio Plus” program.

Assistant Professor of Music Jorge Muñiz directed and accompanied at the organ for the concert featuring Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in South Bend.

The Rotary Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation work to raise awareness and secure the funding to provide vaccinations to all children and adults in countries in the world where polio is still present.

Samantha Hunsberger, BA’11, won second prize in the poetry division of the English Department’s annual

Matt Kronewitter interned at the South Bend Tribune and received an excellent review.

Josh Miller, BFA’11, sold one of the works from his B.F.A. show. His work was also exhibited in Fort Wayne Museum of Art’s “Artist Members’ Exhibition.”

Risa Okina and Dimitri Zhgenti were accepted to the New Paltz Piano Summer Institute/Festival in New York.

Pianists such as Vladimir Feltsman and Alexander Korsantia, MM’00, among others, are on the faculty.

Andrew Swisher and Jillian Westplate, both majoring in theatre, were featured in the May 2011 issue of Inside Granger for their work making costumes and masks in the IU South Bend costume shop.

W. Jordan Wagner, BA’11 was accepted to the M.A. program in Communication Studies at Texas State University in San Marcos. He will also be a graduate teaching assistant for a basic communication course.

Faculty & Staff News Karen Ackoff, professor of new media, had the article “Ink Wash Technique” published in the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Journal (Volume 42, No. 8, 2010).

Ketevan Badridze, lecturer in music, and Martin Endowed Professor in Piano Alexander Toradze, along with the Toradze Piano Studio received glowing reviews on their fall 2010 concert tour of Europe.

Jane Cera, assistant professor of art education, presented her research “Teacher Leadership in Art Education Preparation” at the National Art Education Association annual conference in Seattle, Wash. Cera gave a presentation titled “Culture Jamming: Using Visual Culture and Technology as Resistance” at the Diverse Student Leadership Conference at Saint Mary’s College.

Randy Colborn, BA’82, associate dean and associate professor of theatre, acted as a casting assistant for Oxford Scientific Films, an Emmy-award-winning producer of contemporary factual, natural history, science and history films. Oxford produces the show Fatal Attractions on Animal Planet and asked Randy for his assistance. “I screened potential talent before they were sent forward for consideration,” said Colborn. “Oxford asked that I meet their casting criteria for the project: they provided me with information about, and pictures of, the real personages involved in the stories.

My job was to provide them with talent that met the appearance, ages, size/ weight, and sex of the personages and that they were strong actors,” Colborn continued. The stories will be filmed in Indiana. Fatal Attractions centers on the attraction humans have to exotic and dangerous creatures, with often fatal results.

Dean Marvin Curtis received a $5,000 grant from the Harvey & Doris Klockow Foundation, managed

by Wells Fargo Bank, to support the concert, “Lift Every Voice: Celebrating the African American Spirit” in February 2011. The concert was also supported by a $2,000 grant from Memorial Hospital of South Bend. In addition, Curtis received a $5,000 grant from the South Bend/Mishawaka Convention and Visitors Bureau to support the Governor’s Art Awards in September. Curtis was elected to Board of Directors of the South Bend Symphony Orchestra Association and the Morris Performing Arts Center. He 82

was named vice president of the South Bend Youth Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors. He also presented the lecture “Leadership” at Trine University.

The Euclid Quartet was filmed as part of a television commercial for the “Rush Hour” concert series in Chicago. The spots aired on Comcast Cable in Chicago and online. As featured in the “What Works” series on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams in 2008, “Rush Hour” offers a burst of culture specifically designed for busy, contemporary lifestyles. Its unique format offers a complete social and cultural experience that is free and welcoming to all. Quartet members are Jameson Cooper, Jacob Murphy, Luis Vargas, and cellist Si-Yan Li. Linda Freel, adjunct instructor of fine arts, won the Scott & Kristin Mereness Purchase Prize in the Elkhart Juried Regional; Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana. Associate Professor Dora Natella also had work in the exhibition.

Kevin M. Gillen, BA’02, senior lecturer in communication studies, taught a seminar for the Advance College Project (ACP) attended by high school teachers from all over northern and central Indiana. The seminar employs critical analysis and constructive exercises to prepare the teachers to represent Indiana University as they teach S121 Public Speaking for college credit. Gillen is the faculty liaison for the ACP. Gillen has been accepted to the Master of Public Affairs program at IU South Bend where he will study educational leadership.

Alec Hosterman, senior lecturer and area coordinator for communication studies, had the article “Superimposing Reality on Digital Spaces: A Search for Understanding, Explanation, and Questions” published in the journal Analysis and Metaphysics (Volume 9; 2010).

Hosterman’s photographs of tornado

damaged Joplin, Mo., were featured on WSBT-TV. Rebecca Hovan, adjunct music faculty, was a panelist for a round table discussion and also presented a workshop at the National Flute Association Convention in Anaheim, Calif., in August 2010. She also presented clinics at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago, Ill. in December; the Indiana Music Educators Association Convention, Fort Wayne, in January; and the Flute Festival Mid-South at Tennessee State University in March.

Hovan performed a Valentine’s concert as part of the Encore Performing Arts Series in Plymouth, Ind. and also appeared as flute soloist with the Maple City Chamber Orchestra in February. She performed at the national conference of the National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors held at Florida State University in February and on the afternoon “Master’s Recital” at the Flute Festival Mid-South.

Debra Inglefield, adjunct faculty in music, performed a French horn recital for the Matinee Musicale of Elkhart, accompanied by Anthony Damase, Bernhard Heiden, and Jan Koetsier.

Samantha Joyce, assistant professor of mass communication, has signed a contract with Lexington Books to write about the representation of race on Brazilian television. The book is also a comparison between U.S. and Brazilian representations of race. The working title is: Brazilian Black and White TV: Telenovelas and the Legacy of the Myth of Racial Democracy.

Alan Larkin, associate professor of fine arts, had three paintings and four etchings included in an exhibition at the Eye on Art Gallery in Carmel, Ind. Michael Lasater, professor of new media, exhibited two pieces of work at Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas, Nev. His work was also included in an exhibition at the Orange County

Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Ana, Calif. Both were national juried exhibitions.

Deborah Mayer, MM’11, vocal instructor, recently made her debut with the Toledo Symphony, singing in a Wagner Gala for the Toledo Opera titled “Romance of the Ring.”

Mayer sang “Brünnhilde’s Awakening Scene” from the last act of Richard Wagner’s opera Siegfried, as well as Brünnhilde’s “Immolation Scene” from Götterdämmerung. The concert was recorded for future broadcast on National Public Radio.

John Mayrose, assistant professor of music, has been chosen as an ASCAPLUS Award recipient by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. His selection was based on the high number of performances of composition during the past year. Mayrose and pianist Michael Mizrahi have been selected for funding from the American Composers Forum’s Encore Program! The grant is made to performers to play a work at least three times during an 18 month period. Awards support rehearsal and performance costs, so that performers may connect with a composer whose work they have not previously performed. Mayrose‘s composition 3 Fanfares for three trombones was one of seven finalists in the Slide Factory 2011 Composition Competition. The work was performed in Rotterdam as part of the Slide Factory 2011 Trombone Festival.

Pam Mendenhall, secretary to the dean, received the May 2011 WOW Award (Wonderful Outstanding Worker) for her dedication and outstanding performance. The award is presented monthly by IU South Bend Bi-Weekly Staff Council.

Trisha Miller, BA’00, MLS’11, student services assistant, was awarded a Masters of Liberal Studies from IU South Bend.

Ron Monsma, BA’85, assistant professor of fine arts, had three of his works selected for the INDA 6 Manifest Gallery International Drawing Annual, an international juried exhibition-in-print of works of contemporary drawing and writing about drawing. Manifest’s International Drawing Annual seeks to support the recognition, documentation, and publication of excellent, current, and relevant works of drawing from around the world, as well as understanding of how drawing is realized, discussed, and interpreted in contemporary society. In addition, Monsma’s work is included in 100 Midwest Artists, which will be published in fall 2011.

Monsma’s Still Life with a Brass Urn was featured in the June 2011 issue of the Pastel Journal.

Susan Moore, associate professor of fine arts, had a suite of three images selected for an exhibition in the 2011 Midwest Center for Photography Juried Exhibition in Wichita, Kan. Moore also completed a portfolio of work documenting subdivision in LaPorte and St. Joseph counties. She presented the work, which was supported by an Indiana Arts Commission grant, in a talk at the LaPorte County Historical Society Museum in February. The work will also be exhibited in the Cultural Center gallery on the IUPUI campus in June 2012.

Jorge Muñiz, assistant professor of music and area coordinator for

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the music area, was selected as a member of The Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching, a Presidential Initiative of Indiana University (FACET). Muñiz was also chosen as a 2011 Grant Review panelist for the Indiana Arts Commission. He was selected to represent the IU South Bend with four other colleagues from our campus in the AAC&U General Education Institute at San Jose State University, San Jose, Calif. They will discuss and learn new strategies in the development of General Education curriculum with colleagues from other universities in the country. He traveled to Spain in June to record his most recent composition. The 20 minute cantata for tenor solo, mixed chorus and orchestra was recorded with the Asturias Symphony Orchestra, the Prince of Asturias Choir, with Joaquín Pixán as the solo tenor. The premiere, also in Spain is planned for fall 2011.

CreAnne Mwale, Gospel Choir director, conducted the 200 member women’s choir for the annual “Women in Touch” concert at Century Center in May. Women in Touch is a grass-roots breast cancer advocacy group that is part of the Memorial Regional Breast Care Center.

Dora Natella, associate professor of visual arts exhibited a bronze in the 60th National Exhibition of Contemporary Realism, Academic Artists Association, Springfield, Mass. Her sculpture, Sentinel, is featured in the National Sculpture Society on-line exhibition Recent Works. Recent Works is National Sculpture Society’s largest on-line exhibition. She was also selected for a Biennial Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition at the Fernwood Botanical Gardens, and exhibited work at the Isis Gallery at the University of Notre Dame.

Inseung Park, assistant professor of theatre, was nominated for a Jeff Award in the category of Costume Designer for the production The Hiding Place at the Provision Theater in

Chicago. The 42nd Annual Jeff Awards honors excellence in professional theatre produced within the immediate Chicago area.

Laury “Ruby Jazayre” Rubin, adjunct faculty in dance, and her master dance troupe presented a 90 minute performance in the concert hall of the Blue Chip Casino in January. The theme of the gala was 1001 nights. In February 2011 she taught a dance seminar on “Technique and Attitude,” which included choreography to an Egyptian pop song at the Dance Life Multicultural Dance Center. Her student troupe performed in March at the Battell Center Theatre.

Rubin performed in New York City at an event honoring her mentor, the late Ibrahim Farrah. She was selected from his many students to present at the international event.

Marjorie Rusche, adjunct assistant professor in music, is the 2010-11 recipient of an ASCAPLUS Award in the Concert Music Division. These awards are made by the American society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. She also received a $3,000 award in support of her Curriculum Development Project, “Redevelopment of New MUS-K312 Instrumentation and Orchestra Course,” from the Research and Development Committee.

Andrea Rusnock, associate professor of art history, is the author of Social Realist Painting During the Stalinist Era (1934-1941) which was published by Edwin Mellen Press.

Rusnock also traveled to Los Angeles for the Slavic Studies National Conference where she participated in two panels. She attended the College Art Association National Conference where she chaired a panel titled “Women and Work” in addition to attending the meeting for the Committee for Women in The Arts.

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Edisher Savitski, AD’01, adjunct faculty in music, performed with the Northbrook Symphony (Illinois) for their 2010 opening season concert.

His performance of Rachmaninoff’s 2nd Piano Concerto received a standing ovation.

David Seymour, adjunct faculty in dance, participated in the 2011 Indiana Dance Festival hosted by the Fort Wayne Dance Collective.

Dancers of all ages participated in his workshop “Soulfully Salsa” where dancers stepped beyond their traditional parameters to experience and ultimately embody rhythms of Afro-Latin origins.

Rachael Sylvester, senior lecturer in communication arts, presented a speech for the Student Services department at IU South Bend titled “Student Staff Professional Development” in which she covered perception and listening skills.

Joan Troyer, adjunct faculty in music, conducted alumni members of Elkhart high school choirs and others from the community in selections from American Songbook as part of the Lerner Theatre grand opening celebration in June.

Michael S. Wade, choral director, gave clinics to choirs at Concord Junior High, Elkhart Memorial and Elkhart Central High schools. He also served as a clinician for the Indiana Music Educators Association noncompetitive festival in Middlebury and was an adjudicator for the Indiana State School Music Association (ISSMA) Vocal Jazz competition.

He adjudicated high school choral competitions in Lowell and North Manchester for ISSMA. Wade was inducted into the Crown Point High School Faculty Hall of Fame in April.

Celia Weiss, adjunct assistant professor of music, performed a piano and organ recital at the First Presbyterian Church, Elkhart.

Jeffrey Wright, assistant professor of music history, presented his paper, “Politics of a Program: The Composition, Reception, and Renunciation of Samuel Barber’s Second Symphony,” at the national meeting of the American Musicological Society. He also presented a paper entitled “Composing Your Way Home: Samuel Barber’s Capricorn Concerto and a Reconsideration of Musical Nostalgia” at the Midwest chapter meeting of the American Musicological Society. He also completed an entry on Samuel Barber as part of Oxford University Press’s Oxford Bibliographies. Wright was also invited to give a seminar for the graduate students at the University of Iowa on the American Symphony during World War II.

Aspire is published annually by the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts, Indiana University South Bend, for our alumni, students, friends, faculty, and staff.

Dean Marvin V. Curtis, Ed.D. EDITOR Michele Morgan-Dufour Copy Editor Kathy Borlik

// Mission Statement The IUSB Arts Foundation supports the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts at IU South Bend by sponsoring or providing funds for special events and community outreach programs, with particular emphasis on educating, entertaining, and involving young people.

// IUSB Arts Foundation, Inc. David Kibbe, president June Edwards, vice president Joe Mancini, treasurer Beth North, secretary Linda Bancroft Cheryl Barker Pam Beam Durleen Braasch Sondra J. Byrnes Marvin V. Curtis, ex-officio Robert W. Demaree Jr.* Frederick B. Ettl Robert Frank Judy Ferrara Leslie Gitlin

Kitty Gunty Chris Kelly Alice A. Martin* Sharon McLeod Cyndi Miller Sara Miller Carmi Murphy* Ned North Fred Nwanganga Ernestine M. Raclin* Randolph Rampola Valerie Sabo Stephanie Schurz Peggy Soderberg Janet Thompson*

*Emeritus Member

The Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts would like to thank the IUSB Arts Foundation for their long standing service and support to the school. Their efforts make it possible for us to present special events including the 20th Anniversary Celebration, Toradze Piano Institute and Showcase of the Arts, among many other projects.

If you are interested in working with the Arts Foundation on future projects please contact the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts office at 574.520.4314 for more information.

FRONT COVER Morris Performing Arts Center photograph by Peter Ringenberg

designER Tiffany Goehring Photography Michael Banks Writers Juliet Barrett Tabetha Coburn-McDonald Anthony Cotto Sara Curtis Jessie Emmons Carolynn Hine-Johnson Alec Hosterman Rebecca Hovan Stacie Jensen Alan Larkin Matthew Leech Tami Martinez Kathleen McAllister Brigid McAuliffe Jane Wang Marianne Weesner Alexandra Wheaton Jennifer Wimble Jillian Woodrick

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Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media

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Value Gloss Cover. Body pages printed on RIS 70 lb. Value Gloss Text.

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Typography Baskerville Regular, Italic, Semibold; Trade Gothic LT Std Regular, Bold, Bold No.2, Oblique, Light, Light Oblique; Wingdings Regular

Copyright 2011 Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts, IU South Bend

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Study new media & graphic design at IU South Bend for personal attention from professional communicators, designers, and innovative educators.

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Music Design Video & Motion Media Informatics

Bachelor of Fine Arts in New Media n Graphic Design

A degree in new media prepares students for fascinating careers in new media arts, for areas such as graphic design; gallery and installation art; marketing and sales applications; interactive and distance education; website design; and digital filmmaking.

ERNESTINE M. RACLIN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS For more information about IU South Bend new media and graphic design programs, visit us on the web at arts.iusb.edu.

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Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts // 2011

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Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts // 2011