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Columns::January 26, 2004
UGA Guide Performing Arts Center presents full-length concert version of La Traviata The Performing Arts Center presents the Moscow State Radio Orchestra and Chorus in a full-length concert version of
La Traviata was composed by Giuseppe Verdi, with text by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the play La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils. The opera, first performed on March 6, 1853, in Venice, tells the heartbreaking love story of Violetta and Alfredo. The Athens performance will be sung in Italian with English supertitles projected above the stage. The Moscow State Radio Orchestra and Chorus was created in 1978 to broadcast the symphonic repertoire of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries throughout Russia. The orchestra has since expanded its activities into film work for Russian, European and American feature productions, as well as extensive international touring. The chorus is considered one of Russia’s prized musical possessions. It specializes in operatic, symphonic and sacred music and has toured throughout the world, both with the orchestra and at many international choral festivals. Conductor Sergey Kondrashev graduated with honors from the Moscow Conservatory in 1999 and was named principal conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre in 2001. The principal roles in Traviata will be sung by soloists from the Bolshoi Opera, with soprano Karina Serbina as Violetta, tenor Sergei Gaidey as Alfredo, mezzo-soprano Elena Okolisheva as Flora and baritone Vladimir Redkin as Germont. A pre-concert lecture will be given by Stephanie Tingler, an opera specialist in the School of Music. The lecture begins 45 minutes prior to the performance and is free.
Ilonka Karasz’s modern designs ranged from handmade batiks made in Greenwich Village in the 1910s to ceramic dinnerware designed for the Pennsylvania Railroad and made by Buffalo Pottery in the 1930s to fanciful wallpapers printed by Katzenbach and Warren in the 1950s. Throughout her lengthy career, Karasz promoted modern design in all aspects of American life. Her work included textiles, furniture, silver, ceramics, interiors, book jackets and magazine covers. She is best known for the 186 covers she designed for the New Yorker between 1925 and 1973. This will be the first museum exhibition to focus on her remarkable career. This is a retrospective exhibition of the prints of the American artist Armin Landeck, with related drawings, paintings and illustrated books. Francis A. Ruzicka (1924-2003), professor emeritus of art at UGA, was widely respected for his work as a teacher, administrator and advocate for the arts. He served as president of Parsons School of Design in New York and associate dean of the College of the Arts at Ohio State University before chairing the School of Art at UGA from 1976 until 1989. A leader in arts education, Ruzicka was also a gifted artist. The Gift of Sight presents eight paintings by Ruzicka from the outset of his career and marks the first solo showing of his work at the Georgia Museum of Art. In a chapbook prepared last year, Ruzicka expressed gratitude to his mentors and described the significance of this “family of eight,” the complete body of paintings remaining in his possession. “As my earliest paintings, they were efforts from which I sought to learn about the building-blocks of art,” he wrote. “During the same period, there were many helpful faculty who opened my eyes, and I began to see.” Life drawing was vital to Ruzicka’s education in art, and it was a key element in his own teaching. A small selection of his figure studies complements the paintings in this exhibition. The exhibition includes the work of ceramicist Annette Gates and metalsmith Rob Jackson. Gates’s delicate cups juxtapose precious gemstones with bits of broken glass embedded in porcelain, blurring the boundaries between the functional and decorative. Jackson’s jewelry employs a similar reversal of traditional roles when high-karat gold is used as the hardware or joinery to hold richly eroded iron scraps. This exhibition presents a fusion of materials chosen to challenge ideas of form, use and value. Jackson is a professor of art in jewelry and metalwork at the University of Georgia. Athens artist Annette Gates has taught in the Cortona program for UGA, at the Atlanta College of Art, and at numerous other colleges and art centers. She makes both functional hand-built pottery and sculpture that she exhibits internationally. What happens when you combine visual arts, science and educational research? One UGA teacher-researcher says he believes it leads to wonderful learning experiences for both students and teachers. That’s what Jamie Calkin, a doctoral candidate in science education, has been studying for the past year. As part of his dissertation project, Calkin has been exploring how visual arts could be used to teach science through the partnership between UGA and Clarke County schools. Gaines Elementary School teacher Annette Santana and her fifth-grade students welcomed Calkin into their classroom in August 2003. A Georgia Systemic Teacher Education Partnership grant allowed them to buy high-quality science and art materials. Santana joined in deciding how to best integrate the materials and the researcher’s expertise into her science instruction. As a culminating event of their work, the students were asked to select one of the many art pieces they created and write about the science learned from that art work. This writing, along with a brief biography, accompanies each piece at an An Exhibit of Art and Science. Natural Forces is an exhibition of the work of Robert Lyon at the visual arts building. Lyon’s large-scale sculptures are hand-constructed from both organic and machined materials, including clay, pigment, wood, smoke, carbon and flame. Forcibly joined by fire, they are transformed and integrated. The surface of the clay becomes an adobe-like skin during the firing process, mimicking the material’s natural state if it had dried in the sun. In contrast, Lyon’s titles often include words like compression, elevation, rescue and wrap, which emphasize the forced manipulation of the materials into a constructed object. Lyon earned an M.F.A from Tyler School of Art in 1977. He currently holds the position of associate chair of the department of art and professor of sculpture at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. He has been exhibiting his work nationally for more than 25 years. Part of the Smithsonian Institution’s American Garden Legacy series, this exhibition explores the aesthetic and functional evolution of some of the country’s stately and historic estate gardens. The five gardens represented in this exhibit are Thornewood in Tacoma, Wash,; Beacon Hill in Newport, R.I., Grosse Pointe War Memorial in Michigan; Shirley Plantation on the James River in Virginia; and Weld in Brookline, Mass. This will be the initial meeting for the interest group, which will serve as a forum for discussion of issues related to service learning at UGA and as a source of ideas and a sounding board for new initiatives. Margaret Cho began delighting crowds at the age of 16 and by her early 20s she was hitting the college circuit. In 1994, she won the American Comedy Award for a female comedian. She soon decided to branch out, with her controversial sitcom called All-American Girl. Soon after the show ended, she hit off-Broadway with her one-woman show Comedy, however, hasn’t taken up all of Cho’s time. She also writes advice columns on planetout.com and gay.com and has been honored by GLAAD, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Organization for Women for her contributions in promoting equal rights for everyone regardless of race, gender or sexual orientation. The symposium will offer a broad approach to the study of the history of Georgia’s buildings, paintings, furnishings and ironwork. Visiting scholars will present research on a variety of topics: a historic Greek Revival home in Columbus that has been in the same family for 167 years, 19th-century wallpaper, mid-19th-century gardening in Westville, federal architecture in Milledgeville, and William Price Talmage, the iron artisan and entrepreneur who was responsible for UGA’s Arch. The biennial symposium is named in honor of Henry D. Green, an early and distinguished proponent of the study of Georgia’s decorative arts. This will be the second symposium; the first attracted more than 400 participants. The exhibit 552 Georgians: A Memorial, created by John English, is a physical representation of the number of residents who were lynched in Georgia between 1880 and 1930. Accompanying the 552 individual hanging nooses is an audio track listing the names of those residents known to have died by lynching in Georgia. “While a single noose has long been a symbol of terrorism, this assemblage of 552 takes on iconic status,” says English. “Only by acknowledging the grim reality of our collective history can we continue the process of healing and reconciliation between the races.” As a formal opening for the exhibit, English and E.M. Beck, award-winning co-author of A Festival of Violence: An Analysis of Southern Lynchings 1882-1930, will provide a history of lynchings in Georgia as well as background information on the creation of this moving memorial. This presentation will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 3 in the gallery. |
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