Connections April 2016

CoFA

CONNECTIONS Newsletter

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Edition #6 l April 2016

Mass Communication Students take on L.A.!

College of Fine Arts Office of the Dean Davis Hall, Station 6663 Montevallo, AL 35115 205.665.6663

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Faculty, Student, and Alumni News

in the month of March at CoFA

BFA Exhibitons Robby Wise & Ashton Huffstetler..........4/3-7 Ashley Phillips & Ashlyn Morrison......4/10-14 Morgan MacDonald, Carly Zywno & AnnaLeah Commer............................4/24-28 Jonathon Black, Sarah Cucksee & Zac Evans............................................5/1-5 Concert Choir & University Chorus Concert........4/21 Wind Ensemble Concert..............................4/28 An Evening of One Act Plays..................4/29-30

FORTE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS.......................3 ART....................................................................4 COMMUNICATION.......................................... 5 MUSIC...............................................................7 THEATRE...........................................................8 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT..................................9

About CONNECTIONS

CONNECTIONS is a monthly e-publication of the Dean’s Office of the College of Fine Arts (CoFA). The newsletter is designed to feature faculty and staff achievements, student achievements and news from our alumni. This letter is also intended to make information from departments and the dean’s office more accessible and available in an easy format. We encourage all contributions that include photos of the topic or people themselves so we can get to know each other better. Submissions are due before the 15th of each month. Electronic submissions can be sent to Administrative Assistant JULIE MCENTEE at mcenteej@montevallo.edu.

The COFA Office of the Dean is the academic administrative office at the College, and the personnel office of its undergraduate faculty. The dean’s office oversees faculty hiring and mentoring, reappointment, promotion, tenure, the performance and event season and instructional and support staff for academic departments and programs.

Publication designed by: Amy Mathews ‘15, BFA Graphic Design and Printmaking

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Festival of the Arts

APRIL 14 - 17, 2016 Detail of Painting by Michael Willett

Arts for

Everyone

A Weekend of Musical Theatre, Opera, Jazz, and Visual Art.

COSÌ FAN TUTTE

By Mozart

LEBARON RECITAL HALL 4.14-4.16, 7:30 P.M. 4.17, 2:00 P.M.

SPRING AWAKENING Book by Sater, Music by Sheik

MONTEVALLO ARTS FESTIVAL Montevallo Arts Council

ART FOR YOUR EARS: JAZZ ON THE GREEN

REYNOLDS STUDIO THEATRE UM AMPHITHEATRE ORR PARK 4.15-4.16, 7:30 P.M. 4.17, 7:30 P.M. 4.16, 10:00 A.M.-5:00 P.M. 4.17, 2:00 P.M.

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Events

For more information, Contact 205.665.6663 or mcenteej@montevallo.edu To purchase tickets, visit: B.F.A. SENIOR EXHIBITION

By Christina Daley, Courtney Holt, and Blake Dillard

BLOCH HALL GALLERY 4.17, 5:00 P.M.-7:00 P.M.

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Department of

Art

FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS KAREN GRAFFEO

“Let Us Now Praise the Roma” by Karen Graffeo opened at the Walnut Gallery (Gadsden, Alabama) on March 18 and runs through April 18. The photography exhibition documents the culture of the Roma, or “gypsies,” inside refugee encampments, caravans, slums and housing projects in Italy, Romania and France.

ANNUAL HONORS DAY The Annual Honors Day recognitions in the Art Department are merit based scholarships and awards are determined by the art faculty based on submitted portfolios of student work and class performance. The awards are designed to honor students at all levels of the curriculum and program areas.

STUDENT NEWS ANNUAL JURIED FOUNDATIONS SHOW The Art Department hosted the opening reception for the Annual Juried Foundation Show on March 17. This exhibition featured current student work from the studio foundations classes Drawing I and II, and 2D and 3D Design, and the introductory studios in ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. This year’s juror was Birmingham artist Merrilee Challiss, who selected the exhibition from student entries and designated the award winners:

New Student Scholarships For Freshmen And Transfers 2015-16: The Dean’s Fine Arts Scholarship: MOLLY THOMAS, DALTON WELDON, NICHOLAS CALLINS The Joan Gregory Scholarship: AUDREY MECKE, CADLEY JACKSON, EVELYN MYERS, HANNAH GREEN The Madge Taylor Sims Scholarship: JESSICA WEBB, KATLYN COLEY, JORDAN HALL The Jefferson Co. Alumni Scholarship: CAITLYNN DONNELLY VAAP Scholarship: KATLYN COLEY, CHRISTIAN CROW

Program Area Awards: The Virginia Barnes Emerging Artists Award: KAREN PEARCE, STEVEN FINLEY JR., BENJAMIN KAISER, KATHRYN LANIER, JESSE WARECH

Best of Show – CHANDLER FOUSHEE First Place – CARLY ZYWNO, Second Place – AUDREY MEEKE, Third Place – SARA SCOTT, Honorable Mention – MARINA ROSS. JESSICA WEBB, STEVEN FINLEY JR.

Current Student Scholarships For Junior & Senior Art Majors: The Dorothy Robbins Mullican Scholarship: KILY PAYNE The Madge Taylor Sims Scholarship: MARGARET JOBE, MACKENSIE SANDLIN, BECCA MALOY, JONATHAN EVANS The Martha Allen Memorial Scholarship: ELIZABETH DUFOUR The Southern Progress Scholarship in Graphic Design: SERENA MANNING Excellence Awards: Art History – MARGARET JOBE Ceramics – BLAKE DILLARD Drawing - MARGARET JOBE Graphic Design – COURTNEY HOLT New Media – BECCA MALOY Painting – ASHTON HUFFSTETLER Photography - MARY CATHERINE FEHR Printmaking – WILL HENRY Sculpture – ROBERT WISE The Virginia Robert Liles Overall Excellence Award - ROBERT WISE Outstanding Service Award – ANNALEAH COMMER

Annual Juried Foundations Show

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Department of

Communication

FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

STUDENT NEWS

KIERA HOOD will participate in a summer internship with WVTM 13.

DRS. COFIELD, FINKLEA & MR. PRUITT Awards received at the 2015-2016 NBS-AERho Professional and Alumni Production Competition: Dr. Jay Cofield, First Place in the Video Commercial/PSA Category Dr. Bruce Finklea, First Place in Website/Other Category Mr. Brook Pruitt, Honorable Mention in the Video News Category Dr. Bruce Finklea, Honorable Mention in the Video News Category

DR. BRUCE FINKLEA along with Dr. Susan Thompson (retired), and their co-author, Dr. Jennings Bryant (retired, University of Alabama) received notification that their textbook, Fundamentals of Media Effects, has sold more than 5,000 copies.

The Lambda Nu Chapter of Lambda Pi Eta, the honor society of the National Communication Association, held their induction ceremony on March 8. Dr. Myron Beasley, the Spring 2016 UM Vacca Professor, was the guest speaker. Inductees included LILLIE MARIE CHILDERS, ORVA KYLE MCDONALD III, KATHERINE SHELBY NALLY, and MOLLIE MARIE WYATT.

Dr. Bruce Finklea participated in Read Across America week. He read two books from the “Pout-Pout Fish” series to five kindergarten classes at Elvin Hill Elementary School in Columbiana on March 4.

MR. BROOKE PRUITT

NATIONAL BROADCASTING SOCIETY CONVENTION Members of the UM NBS chapter Courtney Boyd, Gerald Cunningham, B.J. Edwards, Haley Myers, Adam Pettway, Elizabeth Rhinehart, Charmella Williams, and Jennifer Williams attended the organization’s convention in Los Angeles, California, March 10-17. While in Los Angeles, students were able to connect with several UM Mass Comm alumni who are now successful professionals in the LA area.

is the Executive Producer of “UMmm It’s Music,” a local band music show that records original songs in the TV Studio. Mass Communication is recording four “UMmm It’s Music” shows in April. Production dates are: April 7, 14, 21, and 28.

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Department of

Communication

KIERA HOOD and HANNAH BELL are producing weekly episodes of Falcon Weekly and The Buzz. One of our recent episodes of The Buzz had a total reach of more than 36,000 Facebook users and was watched almost 500 times.

ALUMNI NEWS

BECKY LEACH, Communication Alumna ’15, accepted an assistantship and fellowship to pursue her Masters degree at Texas Christian University.

MICHAEL BREWER, class of 1979, writes that he has worked at Martin Retail Group in Birmingham as a producer/director for the past 33 years.

Before that he worked at Channel 6, and at Channel 42 right after graduation.

AMELIA BENNETT, MC Alumna ’14, is now a Videographer/Graphic Designer at Fill Freelance and a Brand Ambassador at Shades Valley Family YMCA.

PRESTON CALHOUN, Communication Alumnus ’15, accepted an Account Manager position with Mspark.

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Department of

Music

FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS DR. JOSEPH SARGENT presented the paper “Francisco Guerrero and the Shadow of Jerusalem” at the Renaissance Society of America annual meeting in Boston, March 31-April 2. This summer he will research this project further in Seville, Spain (thanks to a Montevallo Research and Creative Projects grant), for an article to be published in a volume of perspectives on Jerusalem in early modern Spain.

STUDENT NEWS BIRMINGHAM MUSIC CLUB MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP AUDITIONS UM students were the winners in the vocal division of the Birmingham Music Club Music Scholarship Auditions. RACHEL PICKERING, soprano, was the first place winner and MILES JENKINS, tenor, was the 2nd place winner. Rachel studies with Dr. Melanie Williams and Miles studies with Dr. Roderick George.

ANNA GILLILAND and CHRISTIAN MCNEAL, students of Dr. Cynthia MacCrae, recieved Honorable Mentions at the AMTA College Piano Concerto Competition.

The Competition was held March 18 at Samford University.

UM HONORS RECITAL The Department of Music presented an Honors Recital on Monday, March 21, in LeBaron Recital Hall. Students were nominated by their studio teachers to audition before a panel of outside judges for possible selection for the Honors Recital. This year’s top performers were TREY FYOCK, trumpet; TUCKER RATLIFF, baritone; RICK ARDOVINO, alto saxophone; JONATHAN SCOFIELD, piano; SAM ARDOVINO, piccolo trumpet; LAURA THOMAS, soprano; CAITLYN REYNOLDS, soprano; SAMANTHA ANSELMO, soprano; RACHEL PICKERING, soprano; LEEARRON KLOSTERMAN, piano; and MATT SUDDARTH, alto saxophone. These students represented the studios of Dr. Joe Ardovino, Dr. Roderick George, Dr. Lori Ardovino, Dr. Cynthia MacCrae, Dr. Charles Wood, and Dr. Melanie Williams, and were accompanied by Drs. Laurie Middaugh and Lynn Faulkner on piano. A reception was held after the performance to honor these outstanding students and their teachers.

ALUMNI NEWS HWAI-KHEE SEOW, MM ’77 in Piano, writes from Singapore that she sings second soprano in the sanctuary church choir again, after years of absence. She volunteers at teaching ESL, and she continues to accompany the Mandarin choir – they sing twice a month in their service.

“But my Mandarin is still very elementary. So one kind soul would write the English lyrics on my music,” Hwai-Khee states.

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Department of

Theatre

FACULTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS DR. DAVID CALLAGHAN is directing, Tony Nominated musical Spring Awakening with a score

by Duncan Sheik and book by Steve Sater, with Musical Direction

by Jennifer Hartsell. As with High Fidelity last spring, audiences will be seated on stage in Reynolds Theatre opening 4/14/16 for a two weekend run.

STUDENT NEWS JOE WESOLOWSKI is currently performing in the musical The Fantasticks in Chicago.

MASON SHELL will be working as a professional lighting intern this summer.

WILL HICKMAN is a professional actor in Los Angeles where he also teaches part-time at Pasadena City College.

SHELBY MAYS returned to the Serenbe Playhouse in Georgia where she will work as the Company Manager.

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MARY KATE MCLAURINE continues to perform on tour with Missoula Children’s Theatre,

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT!

CoFA

CONNECTIONS

Here are the highlights from previous happenings in the College of Fine Arts

PATTIN/MACCRAE DUO PIANO RECITAL “BACKSTAGE PASS” post-performance discussion for Clybourne Park

ROD HILDRETH, member of “Friends of the College of Fine Arts”

Have Photos from a CoFA Event? Share your experience with us!

Submit your photos and reviews from Fine Art events to: mcenteej@montevallo.edu