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Adult Drama It Is Done 919.831.6058 Oct 5 - 21 by Alex Goldberg theatreinthepark.com Dear Friends – hile each “spring” semester incorporates much of every winter, for many of us Wthe thoughts surrounding each spring include new beginnings. While paying homage to great traditions, we’re happy to celebrate several new beginnings in this issue of #creativestate. This semester, led by our Crafts Center, NC State will be partnering with PostSecret, Frank Warren’s ambitious and hugely successful initiative that encourages people to anonymously submit a secret on a postcard, which they’ve decorated; once the cards are collected, public exhibitions of the cards are then arranged. Many of the folks who have submitted to previous PostSecret projects have called their efforts “healing.”

PHOTO BY MARC JACKSON MARC BY PHOTO One of the most joyful aspects of working at a university is seeing couples become connected, and INSIDE THIS ISSUE how marvelous it is when they decide to get married. With Valentine’s Day a part of our spring semester, #creativestate Vignettes ...... 9 what better time to showcase three such loving Artful Match ...... 32 couples who met via Arts NC State? Directing Change ...... 36 And in a bittersweet nod to tradition and change, in this issue you’ll read about the upcoming retirement Donors ...... 40 of John McIlwee, director of University Theatre for Dining Guide ...... 45 more than 30 years. Many of you are frequent theatre Coda ...... 46 attendees on campus and have seen University Theatre Events grow and innovate and thrive over the decades, and we have John to thank for his great vision to make Spring Events Calendar ...... 6 all that possible. While we’re happy for John that he’s NC State LIVE Spring 2018 ...... 18 able to move into this next chapter of his life, we know Gregg Museum Spring 2018...... 22 we have an obligation to continue his legacy while University Theatre Spring 2018 ...... 26 pursuing new opportunities. Thank you to all for your great support of the arts at NC State, and here’s to hoping you, too, have some terrific new beginnings this spring.

ON THE COVER In Titmus Theatre – a space rebuilt to his design during the great Thompson Hall renovation project of 2007-09 – John McIlwee sits in the center of row C, his favorite perch while directing a show. After 31 years with Rich Holly University Theatre, John will be stepping Executive Director for the Arts down as director on July 1.

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JANUARY  Urban Bush Women: Hair and MARCH Other Stories  Treasures of Native America Stewart Theatre  Wind Ensemble Gregg Museum of Art & Design February 9 Stewart Theatre Through April 29 March 1  Arts Now Series: Allan Ware,  Unfiltered Response: clarinet  Theatreworks USA: Dragons Faculty Dances Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre Love Tacos and Other Stories Gregg Museum of Art & Design February 15 Stewart Theatre January 25 March 11  Jazz Ensemble I Titmus Theatre  ETHEL with Robert Mirabel: FEBRUARY February 16 Artist Talk and Preview Gregg Museum of Art & Design  Bob Trotman: Business  Piano Studio Recital: Pyotr March 14 as Usual Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons Gregg Museum of Art & Design Titmus Theatre  ETHEL with Robert Mirabel: February 1-July 1 February 18 The River

Stewart Theatre  The Birdland All-Stars  Hairspray, The Broadway March 15 featuring Tommy Igoe Musical Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre  Design Duet: the creative lives February 3 February 21-25 of Robert Black and Ormond

Sanderson  Faculty Recital: Olga  Somi Gregg Museum of Art & Design Kleiankina, piano Titmus Theatre March 15-September 9 Stewart Theatre February 24 February 4

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 Girl in Space: A Comedy  NCSU Dance Company  Defining Inspirations: in One Act Concert Wearable art inspired by the Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre Stewart Theatre Gregg Museum’s collection March 15-17 April 12-13 Gregg Museum of Art & Design April 19  Panoramic Dance Project  Student Art Sale

Concert Talley Student Union  Jazz Ensemble II VIGNETTES Stewart Theatre April 13 Stewart Theatre March 22-23 April 19  Acappology  Paul Cranford: An Introduction Stewart Theatre  Grains of Time to Cape Breton Music and Its April 15 Stewart Theatre Place in History April 20 Price Music Center 110  L.A. Theatre Works: March 25 The Mountaintop  Wolfgang A Cappella Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre  Arts Now Series: April 17 April 21 FEATURES Coastal Winds Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre March 27

 Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word Project: /peh-LO-tah Stewart Theatre March 28

APRIL

 Spring Choral Ensembles Stewart Theatre April 6

 Ladies in Red Stewart Theatre April 7

 Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra Stewart Theatre April 8

 LIVE at Lake Raleigh Centennial Campus April 12

 Harvey Titmus Theatre April 12-15; April 18-22 NC STATE JAZZ PHOTO BY ROBERT DAVEZAC

arts.ncsu.edu 7  Raleigh Civic Symphony  Singing Statesmen with Stewart Theatre the Meredith College Choirs April 22 Jones Chapel April 28  Wind Ensemble Stewart Theatre MAY-JUNE April 25

 TheatreFest 2018  Jazz Ensemble I Thompson Hall Stewart Theatre May 31-June 24 April 26

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GRAINS OF TIME PHOTO BY ROBERT DAVEZAC

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L-R: Amy Sawyers-Williams, Gini Brown, Raine Conti, Peter Lalush, Gary Greene, Kristen Lovell, Chelsea Abad, Chris Suggs, Areon Mobasher, Claire Hider, and Rich Holly. Not pictured: Danyale Calhoun.

2016-2017 STUDENT ARTS AWARDS

Arts NC State recently conferred the annual Performing A Taste; and Peter Lalush (communications media) in and Creative Arts Awards, and nine NC State students theatre for his original play, Girl in Space. were honored for their accomplishments during the The Arts NC State Performing and Creative Arts 2016-2017 academic year. The awards were presented Awards celebrate NC State students – all non-arts by Arts NC State executive director Rich Holly, Friends majors – who create and perform in dance, music of Arts NC State board chair Gary Greene, and Amy and theatre. The awards are administered and funded Sawyers-Williams, arts outreach and engagement by Arts NC State and were originally made possible coordinator for Arts NC State. from a generous grant from the NC State University The Performing Artist Award recipients are Gini Foundation. The Creative Artist Award is now partially Brown (biochemistry and plant biology) and Danyale funded by the Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf Endowment Calhoun (industrial engineering) in dance; Chelsea Abad for Creativity in the Performing Arts. For more (computer engineering), Kristen Lovell (biomedical information about the Student Arts Awards and this engineering), and Chris Suggs (mechanical engineering) year’s recipients, see go.ncsu.edu/artistawards. in music; and Areon Mobasher (English) in theatre. At this ceremony, Arts NC State also presented the The Creative Artist Award recipients are Gini Brown inaugural Visual Artist Award to Claire Hider (textiles). in dance for her choreography of Circulus in Probando; Learn more about Claire and this award on page 14. Raine Conti (nutrition) in dance for her choreography of

arts.ncsu.edu 9 PANORAMIC DANCE PROJECT PHOTO BY JILLIAN CLARK EVENTS VIGNETTES FEATURES

DANCE GOES TO THE SMITHSONIAN

When you hear that NC State students are participating to the specific chemical reactions, yet aesthetically in an ACC event, performances by dancers may not be engaging, in order to demonstrate an innovative way the first thing that pops to mind. to merge STEM and the arts to enhance the learning In October, the NC State Dance Program performed process. Holly L. Menninger, director of Public Science two works at the first ACCelerate: ACC Smithsonian in the College of Sciences, and Amy Sawyers-Williams, Creativity and Innovation Festival in Washington, DC. outreach and engagement coordinator for Arts NC Presented by Virginia Tech and the Smithsonian’s State, also collaborated on the project. National Museum of American History, the ACCelerate The other dance performed at the festival was Festival was a three-day celebration of creative an excerpt from Agua Furiosa, a work by the Los exploration and research at the nexus of science, Angeles-based dance-theatre company Contra-Tiempo. engineering, arts and design. The event was designed Choreographed by the company’s artistic director to showcase innovators from ACC universities and Ana Maria Alvarez, the piece was set on NC State’s engage fans with new interdisciplinary technologies Panoramic Dance Project. Inspired by Shakespeare’s that draw upon art, science and humanities to address The Tempest and Oya, the Afro-Cuban deity of wind and global challenges. storms, the work blends salsa, Afro-Cuban movement, Students from the Dance Program performed hip-hop and other forms of contemporary dance. Dancing Chemical Reactions, two pieces that The choreography deals with the harsh realities of premiered at the State of Sciences at Hunt Library in race (Black Lives Matter), economic inequity, and gun April 2017. Sparked by an idea from chemistry professor violence (“Hands up, don’t shoot”) by presenting the Maria Gallardo-Williams, and choreographed by dance forces of nature as a metaphor for social justice. Agua director Tara Mullins (with assistance from Gallardo- Furiosa was first seen locally when Contra-Tiempo Williams, her chemistry students, and Dance Program performed as part of an NC State LIVE residency in April science majors), the dances demonstrated Sn1 and Sn2 2016; dancers from the company returned to teach the substitution reactions. The dances are factually accurate piece to NC State dance students in spring 2017.

10 #CREATIVESTATE occasional electronic carillon performance played EVENTS STEM MAJORS, on an 80s-era keyboard not noted for working consistently. That’s about to change. ART THINKERS A gift from Bill and Frances Henry, of Gastonia, will enable the university, finally, to complete the What drives students to participate in the arts Belltower – including the installation of the full at NC State University and other institutions complement of 54 bells, carillon and interior stairs where there are no arts majors and there is as originally designed. Five bells were bought as the an emphasis on STEM? result of an earlier campaign; the Henrys’ gift will VIGNETTES A new study finds that participation in purchase the remaining bells. dance programs helps students – including Their commitment also will provide for much- those in science, technology, engineering and needed renovation, structural repairs and stabilization mathematics (STEM) disciplines – develop of the tower. The project includes upgrades to the skills such as creativity and persistence that surrounding plaza, which will be named Henry benefited them in the classroom and beyond. Square. The work is expected to take about three Lead author Fay Cobb Payton, a University years. Faculty Scholar and professor of information The Henrys’ gift is part of NC State’s Think and systems and technology in the Poole College Do the Extraordinary Campaign, which has a goal of

of Management, was joined by co-authors raising $1.6 billion for student and faculty support, FEATURES Ashley White, a recent NC State Ph.D. facilities and programs. It represents vital, ongoing graduate in mathematics (and longtime efforts to bridge the physical campus’ past and member of the NCSU Dance Company), and future, according to Brian Sischo, vice chancellor for Tara Mullins, director of the dance program at university advancement. NC State. “The Campaign has put a spotlight on our power The paper, “STEM Majors, Art Thinkers to transform, build and leave a legacy. This is a time – Issues of Duality, Rigor and Inclusion,” is of amazing energy and momentum for NC State,” published in the Journal of STEM Education. Sischo said. “Centennial Campus continues to The work was made possible by a grant from develop. Reynolds Coliseum and the Gregg Museum the NC State University Foundation. of Art & Design have been reborn, and Talley Student Union has been completely reimagined. Now, at long Learn more about the study at go.ncsu.edu/ last, the Memorial Belltower at Henry Square will danceandstem. be completed, right next to Holladay Hall where this great university began.” – Lisa Hall

I CAN HEAR THE BELLS

The Memorial Belltower is the best known and most beloved symbol of NC State University. Built to honor 34 alumni killed in World War I, with its cornerstone laid in 1921 and a formal dedication in 1949, the Belltower has graced the background of countless photos marking student milestones, stood sentinel over ROTC commissioning ceremonies, and been a beacon for celebrations such as Packapalooza and Homecoming parades. Despite its prominence at the northeast corner of main campus and in the center of the university seal, however, the 115-foot-tall landmark has been a belltower in name only. No actual bells ring out from its apex – only a recording of chimes issuing from speakers, and the

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PHOTO BY MARC HALL Dr. Banks Talley and family at the September 2015 rededication of Talley Student Union

IN MEMORIAM: BANKS C. TALLEY JR.

No one had a bigger impact on merging NC State’s But he always returned to NC State, where he had historical strengths in agricultural and engineering with rooted his family and where he had developed an the arts than Banks C. Talley Jr. affinity for the students of the university. His career The long-time vice chancellor for student affairs and spanned five chancellors and coincided with major the namesake of the Talley Student Union dedicated cultural shifts, including the increase in the number of much of his five decades of service to the university to women in the student body, integration and the struggle introducing students – many from rural backgrounds – for civil rights, and protests over the Vietnam War. to various forms of high culture, from the Friends of the His goal was to encourage students from all College concert series to performances in Thompson backgrounds to focus on all aspects of a college and Stewart theatres to the opening on an on-campus education, from academics to athletics to a variety of museum for art and design in the building that now cultural activities that he helped attract from all over bears his name. Dr. Talley died on October 19 at his the world. During his time at the university, NC State home in Raleigh. He was 90. opened dedicated spaces for music, dance, theatre and He came to NC State in 1951 on the crafts, enriching the educational experiences of multiple recommendation of William Friday shortly after generations of students. graduating from the University of North Carolina at “I think that the students that come to this institution Chapel Hill, where he had enrolled following his U.S. ought to have a broadly based education,” Talley said in Army service in the Philippines during World War II. a 2011 interview. For the next half century, he was associated with The native of Bennettsville, South Carolina, helped the university, though he took a few breaks in between create the Division of Student Affairs and led it from to serve as the first chief of staff for Gov. Jim Hunt, 1969 to 1983, first as dean and later as vice chancellor. to serve as executive director of the North Carolina After that service ended, he officially retired from NC Symphony and to serve a one-year stint with the State, but remained active through the years, returning National Trust for Historic Preservation. as the director of special projects for Arts NC State,

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where he helped raise from around the world to Reynolds Coliseum for a money for the renovation nominal seasonal price that began at $7 per year. VIGNETTES of Thompson Hall and to “Banks was an amazing person,” said retired Vice create a new home for the Chancellor for Student Affairs Tom Stafford, who began Gregg Museum. working for Talley in 1971. “He had special skills with The University Student people, especially students, and for making things Center, which opened in happen. 1972 between Reynolds “He had a special appreciation for the arts and Coliseum and the Student bringing them to this campus. He was committed to Dr. Banks Talley with former Supply Stores, was developing the leadership skills of the students on Gov. Jim Hunt renamed in his honor in campus. He advised and mentored hundreds and

1998. In recent years, it was significantly renovated and thousands of young people to become more than just FEATURES updated, changes that Talley saw and heartily endorsed. students, but well-rounded citizens of the world.” He attended the rededication ceremony on September “He was a strong advocate for all students,” said 9, 2015, and the grand opening of the Gregg Museum retired Vice Chancellor for Finance and Business George of Art & Design on Hillsborough Street in August. Worsley, another longtime friend. “And he was quite Talley worked with close friend Henry Bowers in vocal that students should receive a rounded education, developing the Friends of the College concert series, that the arts were just as important to their educational which brought orchestras and other fine entertainment experience as athletics and other activities on campus. He always argued for that balance.” – Tim Peeler

APRIL CONCERTS BY THE ORCHESTRAS OF NC STATE

The Dream is Alive: The concert will be part of a series of collaborative Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. events focused on Dr. King’s legacy on the NC State Sunday, April 8 at 4pm in Stewart Theatre campus and beyond, and is presented in collaboration with the NC State African American Cultural Center In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Martin and NC State LIVE. Please see page 21 for information Luther King's death, the Raleigh Civic Chamber about the NC State LIVE presentation of The Orchestra will perform a program of music by Mountaintop on April 17. African American composers. The concert will feature the world premiere of a newly Music of North Carolina Composers commissioned composition for narrator Sunday, April 22 at 4pm in Stewart Theatre and orchestra by composer Jeffrey Scott (hornist in the internationally acclaimed The Raleigh Civic Symphony celebrates the music of wind quintet Imani Winds), based North Carolina composers. The program includes music on the "Dream" speech that King by Lamar Stringfield, founder of the North Carolina gave in Rocky Mount, North Symphony; Music for Prague 1968 by Karel Husa, a Carolina prior to his well-known Czech-born composer and winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Washington speech. Speakers Prize for Music, who lived in North Carolina in the latter and a post-concert discussion years of his life; and the world premiere of a new work will complement the music. by Duke University composer Scott Lee.

JEFFREY SCOTT arts.ncsu.edu 13 PHOTO BY MATTHEW MURPHY NEW AWARD became clear, I immediately realized, ‘That’s it.’ It was a no brainer. And I said, ‘OK, let’s make it happen right CELEBRATES now.’”

EVENTS VISUAL Amy Sawyers-Williams, who oversees the Office ARTISTS of Arts Outreach & Engagement, sprang into action to gather a committee to select the inaugural winner from

PHOTO BY ROSS JOYNER When Claire Hider the Student Art Sale participants. Claire – a graduate created her abstract student in the College of Textiles – received a monetary painting, Phoenix, and entered the work in Arts NC award as part of the Visual Artist Award, and Phoenix State’s annual Student Art Sale in April 2017, she didn’t is currently on display in Talley Student Union. Roxanne know that there was a visual artist award to win. was so taken with the piece, she purchased it herself. Little more than a week before the sale, Roxanne After Phoenix is displayed for a year in Talley, she will Hicklin, director of Art & Scenic Operations at SAS – and take it home as part of her personal collection.

VIGNETTES a longtime supporter of Wolfpack women’s basketball The Student Art Sale was a great success, and and the Lonnie Poole Golf Course – chose to create the Hicklin was thrilled to share it with many members of Visual Artist Award Endowment. Once fully endowed, her team at SAS. So impressed were they all by Claire the fund will provide annual funds in perpetuity to Hider’s work that they chose to purchase another one of support the new Visual Artist Award; until then, her paintings to be part of SAS’s permanent collection. Roxanne is generously making annual gifts to kickstart That gave Claire the opportunity to meet Roxanne at the award. SAS and to hand-deliver the painting and receive a tour Roxanne is trained in fine arts and has stewarded of the art collection. Winning the inaugural Visual Artist SAS’s internationally recognized art collection for nearly Award has been, “a huge honor,” says Claire. “It has

FEATURES 35 years. Through participation in various arts events on given me new motivation as an artist.” campus, Hicklin has come to recognize how creative Learn more about the annual Student Art Sale by NC State students are. visiting go.ncsu.edu/studentart. If you would like “Until recently, students who have the capability to learn more about creating an endowment at Arts and the desire to produce the fine arts hadn’t been NC State, contact Jill Orr, director of development, at recognized for their abilities,” she explains. “When that 919.513.4101 or [email protected].

Purchase original artwork by NC State 2018 STUDENT ART SALE students. Open to the public. All proceeds go Friday, April 13, 11am-8pm to the student artists. 3rd floor, Talley Student Union Cash or check only (there are ATMs in the building).

The NC State Department of Music has two new endowments – one for a music scholarship and another for initiatives that promote the intersection between music and technology – thanks to a recent $200,000 gift from Waste Industries. The endowments are named in memory of the late Harry M. Habets, who retired from Waste Industries in 2013 as president and COO. In a special event with Chancellor PHOTO BY MARC HALL MARC BY PHOTO Woodson and other university leaders on L-R: Vice Chancellor Mike Mullen, Lonnie “Ven” Poole III, Ben Habets, Ted Habets, December 14, representatives from Waste Mary Ann Habets, Department of Music director Dan Monek, Chancellor Randy Woodson, and Greg Yorston. Industries and the Habets family gathered to remember Mr. Habets and his love of music, and presented a check to fund the endowments.

14 #CREATIVESTATE THE ORAL HISTORY EVENTS OF ANGELS IN AMERICA

When Tony Kushner’s Angels in America hit Broadway in 1993, it won the Pulitzer Prize, swept the

Tonys, launched a score of major PHOTOGRAPHY DIGITAL VERITAS BY PHOTO careers, and changed the way gay VIGNETTES lives were represented in popular culture. Mike Nichols’s 2003 HBO adaptation starring EMERGING DESIGNERS Meryl Streep, Al Pacino and Mary-Louise Parker was SHOWCASE itself a tour de force, winning Golden Globes and eleven Join NC State’s College of Textiles May 5-7 for the 2018 Emmys, and introducing the play to an even wider FTD: Emerging Designers Showcase. Sixteen students public. This generation-defining classic continues to from the school’s competitive Fashion and Textile shock, move and inspire viewers worldwide. Design (FTD) program will debut their collections in a Now, on the 25th anniversary of the Broadway three-day event in the State Ballroom of Talley Student

premiere, Isaac Butler and Dan Kois offer the definitive FEATURES Union. account of Angels in America through oral history, A static exhibit will be open over the course of the drawn from a vibrant conversation and debate of actors three days and feature creative works from the six (including Streep, Parker, Nathan Lane and Jeffrey textile designers and 10 fashion designers. Unique Wright), directors, producers, and Kushner himself. Their collections from the designers will also take center intimate storytelling reveals the on- and offstage turmoil stage in an exciting runway show on the evening of of the play’s birth – a hard-won miracle beset by artistic May 5. roadblocks, technical disasters, and disputes both legal The College of Textiles’ FTD program melds and creative. traditional design sensitivities with cutting-edge Built from nearly 250 interviews, The World Only technologies to empower students to create innovative Spins Forward is both a rollicking theatre saga and textiles, fashions and other textile products. Visit an uplifting testament to one of the great works of textiles.ncsu.edu for more information on the American art of the past century. showcase and the college. The book’s co-author Dan Kois – an editor and writer for Slate’s culture department – is a visiting writer to NC State’s Creative Writing program. On March 20, in collaboration with University Theatre, Kois will lead a LIVE AT LAKE RALEIGH staged reading of sections of his new book, featuring Show of hands. You’re probably aware that Centennial student and faculty performers. This event is free and Campus grows and grows, and boasts extraordinary open to the public. spaces like Hunt Library. But did you know there is a beautiful lake that’s crying out for concerts on its shore? Tuesday, March 20 at 7:30pm This spring, NC State LIVE and Visit Centennial team up Duke Energy Ballroom, Hunt Library to present the first sunset concert by Lake Raleigh. This free outdoor event will feature artists who are sure to be amazing (but haven’t been confirmed at press time, so please check the link below for updates). The concert is scheduled for Thursday, April 12 at 6pm (rain date: April 19). Bring your picnics,

PHOTO BY ROGER WINSTEAD ROGER BY PHOTO blankets and lawn chairs for a family friendly good time. There will be food trucks on-site beginning at 5:30. Learn more at go.ncsu.edu/liveatlakeraleigh.

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Charlotte Vestal Wainwright is pictured with previous Bowers Medal of Arts recipients attending the 2017 ceremony. L-R: Bob Masini, Mickie Masini, Henry Bowers, Wainwright, Smedes York, Martha Zaytoun, and Tom Stafford.

2017 BOWERS MEDAL AWARDED

FEATURES The Friends of Arts NC State Board of Advisors has A Retrospective (1994), Mark Hewitt, Potter (1997), The presented the 2017 Bowers Medal of Arts to Dr. New Heritage of North Carolina Pottery (2000), and The Charlotte Vestal Wainwright. She was honored at a Jewelry of Robert Ebendorf: A Retrospective of Forty ceremony at the Gregg Museum of Art & Design on Years (2003). October 4. Wainwright has remained an active and tireless Wainwright was hired as the curator of art at North advocate for the Gregg Museum and was a key voice Carolina State University in 1982 and became the for the building campaign. She has continued to serve founding director of the Visual Arts Center when it as a guest curator and special advisor to the Gregg staff. opened in 1992. The Visual Arts Center was renamed Charlotte Vestal Wainwright received her Ph.D. in the Gallery of Art & Design in 1998, then the Gregg the history of art at the University of North Carolina Museum of Art & Design in 2006. in Chapel Hill, where she was twice named a Kress Over the course of her nearly 27 years of service Foundation Fellow. She served as assistant curator to NC State, Wainwright created the institution that at the North Carolina Museum of Art, then held the eventually became the Gregg Museum of Art & position of assistant professor at Duke University until Design. When she began in 1982, the entire NC State 1979. For her contributions to architectural history University art collection consisted of only 282 objects, and to her profession, she was awarded honorary most of which were stowed in a small storage closet or membership in the American Institute of Architects scattered in offices and hallways around the campus. in 2002. By the time she retired, the Gregg’s collection had The Bowers Medal of Arts was established in 2000 grown to include more than 26,000 items, housed to recognize and celebrate the vital role that Henry in a dedicated space within Talley Student Center Bowers played in the development of and support for that included offices for its professional staff, two the visual and performing arts at NC State University. substantial galleries for rotating temporary exhibitions, As associate vice chancellor for student affairs, Bowers a small lobby for receptions, and spaces dedicated to committed himself to the goal of making the arts an classroom learning and object storage. inseparable part of the educational experience for all As director, Wainwright either personally curated NC State students. He worked ceaselessly to create or oversaw the creation of more than 80 exhibitions, opportunities for students to have access to a full nearly all of them accompanied by award-winning range of the arts, whether as engaged and enlightened printed publications, including The New Narrative: audiences or creative and innovative participants. Contemporary Fiber Art (1992), Bob Trotman:

16 #CREATIVESTATE WHAT’S IN A SECRET? and create acceptance and support for our students to EVENTS have a positive and successful experience at NC State. Everyone has secrets. It’s just human nature. In 2004, The Crafts Center will conduct supporting classes a man named Frank Warren set up a project to explore in various media from collage, clay, wood, lettering to a way for folks to “release” their bookmaking and journaling, and will deepest secrets – anonymously. He work with Arts NC State to produce bought 3,000 blank postcards and multimedia productions based on wrote two things on the back: his PostSecret themes. home address and an invitation to The project will culminate with a final VIGNETTES anonymously share a secret. He then installation of walk-through “tunnels” passed the unstamped cards out on formed from thousands of postcards the street, stuck them in library books, with secrets. Each tunnel will represent and left them behind in coffee shops. the power and impact of truth-telling, The concept of the project was immersion and emerging, and serve as that completely anonymous people a visual metaphor for the University’s decorate a postcard and portray a many tunnels – connecting us as we secret that they had never previously transition from one place to another. revealed. No restrictions are made on the content of the A project of this magnitude would not be complete secret; only that it must be completely truthful. Entries without bringing founder, Frank Warren, to campus. FEATURES range from admissions and confessions of secret Warren will speak this fall at Stewart Theatre on desires, embarrassing habits, and hopes and dreams. Thursday, September 20 at 7pm, sponsored by NC Thousands of the cards came back to him so he created State LIVE and open to the public. a blog to display them all. He called it “PostSecret.” Each year, hundreds of thousands of cards pour in. Look for more information and ongoing secrets Warren has now released several best-selling books, postings at go.ncsu.edu/packsecrets and hashtag including PostSecret, My Secret, and his newest, A #packsecrets. Lifetime of Secrets. The blog has become one of the world’s most popular, with more than four million unique visitors a month at PostSecret.org. Starting spring semester, PostSecret will be in full swing on NC State’s campus due to an initiative of the Come NC State Crafts Center. The Center sought to find a way to engage students of all disciplines with a broad project Stay that would appeal to them in a modern-day context and and Play bring visibility to the Crafts Center. PostSecret now has a complete program for colleges and universities, thus with us... the title, Post Secret U [PSU]. Aloft Plans for the project are underway, thanks to the Caldwell Fellows who have taken on PSU as their Raleigh service learning project. The students have created drop boxes that will be placed in various locations on campus for people to deposit their postcards anonymously. Made by the Crafts Center, these boxes are locked and secured. Once the cards are collected, they will be used for installations. The Crafts Center has also set up key partnerships with NC State’s diversity and healthcare organizations, including the University Counseling Center. While truth can be liberating and healing, it can also trigger negative thoughts and memories. The NC State Counseling Center serviced nearly 5,000 students in the 2016-2017 academic year. The project will help raise awareness

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LIVE Spring 2018 VIGNETTES

THE BIRDLAND ALL-STARS SOMI FEATURING TOMMY IGOE Saturday, February 24 at 5pm Saturday, February 3 at 8pm and 8pm Stewart Theatre Titmus Theatre

The Birdland All-Stars, led by the acclaimed jazz drummer Tommy NPR calls Somi “the quintessential Igoe, have been thrilling audiences for a decade from their New artist citizen of the world,” while the FEATURES York haunt. Returning to the road for the first time in five years, Huffington Post dubbed the young the All-Stars have created new arrangements featuring the music singer "the New Nina Simone." of David Bowie, The Police and Steely Dan, as well as fresh Singing in English and a wide range treatments of iconic compositions by Charlie Parker, Chick Corea of African languages, her artistic and Herbie Hancock. evolution is indisputable. Born in Illinois, the daughter of immigrants URBAN BUSH WOMEN from Uganda and Rwanda, Somi has HAIR AND OTHER STORIES worked for the last decade carving out Friday, February 9 at 8pm a career as a renowned jazz vocalist, Stewart Theatre songwriter and activist. She is known for her supple jazz voice, graceful Urban Bush Women – an ensemble founded by celebrated artistic fusion of African grooves and a sharp director and choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zoller – has created pop sense. a striking new dance/theatre work that highlights the beauty and strength of the human spirit. Hair and Other Stories uses THEATREWORKS USA humor, music and powerful movement to explore self-image, DRAGONS LOVE TACOS race and gender inequality – all through the lens of hair, primarily AND OTHER STORIES that of African-American women. Deftly combining athleticism Sunday, March 11 at 3pm with intellect, the dancers gracefully pull the audience into the Stewart Theatre conversation. They invite you into their living rooms, their kitchens, their salons, and you can’t help but accept! When a boy throws his new dragon friends a spicy salsa taco party, The presentation of Urban Bush Women was made possible by the red-hot trouble ensues. In their New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with newest musical revue, Theatreworks lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The USA rocks out with a rollicking Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and is funded in part by a grant from interpretation of Dragons Love Tacos South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. and four other beloved children’s books: Interrupting Chicken, The Dot, Mercy Watson Goes for a Ride, and Cowgirl Kate and Cocoa: School Days. Recommended for grades K -5.

arts.ncsu.edu 19 SOMI FEBRUARY 24 IN TITMUS THEATRE ETHEL WITH ROBERT MIRABAL THE RIVER

EVENTS Thursday, March 15 at 8pm Stewart Theatre

The renowned indie-classical quartet ETHEL joins forces with three-time Grammy Award-winning Pueblo musician and Native American instrument maker, Robert Mirabal, to present an evening of new music inspired by water and its essential

VIGNETTES role in life on earth. The experience will immerse you in a flow of music, narrative and ritual that evokes timeless Native American traditions through contemporary musical artistry. And delivered by these master performers, the effect is breathtaking.

FEATURES PHOTO BY ROBERT ADAM MEYER

MARC BAMUTHI JOSEPH/THE LIVING WORD PROJECT /PEH-LO-TAH/ Wednesday, March 28 at 8pm Stewart Theatre

Writer/performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph has garnered countless awards and critical acclaim for his passionate productions that seamlessly weave spoken word, contemporary movement and hip-hop. With /peh-LO-tah/, he pairs soccer with performance, inspired by memories of playing soccer growing up, and his experiences as a child of Haitian immigrants – creating an action-packed meditation on freedom and citizenship with “the beautiful game” at its core.

This project is made possible by a grant from the N.C. Arts ETHEL WITH ROBERT MIRABAL: THE RIVER Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural MARCH 15 IN STEWART THEATRE Resources; and is funded in part by the New England

PHOTO BY TIM BLACK Foundation for the Arts’ National Theater Project, with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and by a grant from South Arts in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the N.C. Arts Council.

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GO BEYOND THE STAGE

Marc Bamuthi Joseph will be in VIGNETTES residence with NC State LIVE for a week in March. During this time, Joseph and NC State LIVE will partner with Futbol 4 All, Wake Futbol Club, and Neighbor to Neighbor to offer a day of soccer clinics and site-specific performances for local youth. And Joseph will offer workshops and talks to the NC State community. Keep updated on events at go.ncsu.edu/ FEATURES peh-lo-tah.

PHOTO BY BETHANY HINES PHOTOGRAPHY

L.A. THEATRE WORKS THE MOUNTAINTOP Tuesday, April 17 at 8pm Stewart Theatre

50 years ago, on the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated outside room 306 of The Lorraine Motel in Memphis. What happened  FOR TICKETS inside that room the night before the killing is a mystery. In her internationally acclaimed play, The 919.515.1100 and arts.ncsu.edu Mountaintop, playwright Katori Hall imagines what may have transpired in the overnight hours between the legendary civil rights leader and a seemingly inconsequential hotel maid. LEARN MORE AND CONNECT! Winner of the prestigious Olivier Award for Best live.arts.ncsu.edu New Play, The Mountaintop is rife with humor and    NCStateLIVE political jabs, while giving us a glimpse at the human side of Martin Luther King Jr. Hours after his famed final speech, punctuated by the immortal line, "I've been to the mountaintop," the celebrated Reverend reveals his hopes, regrets, and fears, creating a masterful bridge between mortality and immortality.

arts.ncsu.edu 21 BOB TROTMAN: BUSINESS AS USUAL FEBRUARY 1-JULY 1 EVENTS VIGNETTES FEATURES

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PHOTO BY ROBERT ADAM MEYER EVENTS Gregg Museum of Art & Design Spring 2018 VIGNETTES

Following the first semester of operation in its new home, the Gregg Museum begins rotating exhibitions. There will always be something new to see, so plan to visit regularly.

BOB TROTMAN: BUSINESS AS USUAL February 1-July 1, 2018 FEATURES

A giant executive’s hand, carved of wood in a hyperrealistic style, taps its huge forefinger impatiently as the visitor approaches. An angry bureaucrat’s head juts from the top of a grey metal safe, twisting from side to side, opening and closing its mouth, with only the cacophony of a crowded office emerging whenever the jaw drops open. A huge golden signet ring revolves mysteriously on a tacky pedestal, the monogram on its surface flashing “ME” whenever the top turns toward the light. Meanwhile, a white flag waves back and forth with mechanical monotony, signaling that in the realm of modern business, the ongoing process of surrendering to one’s fate is as perpetual as it is inevitable. These are only a few of a wide range of startling and, once seen, unforgettable kinetic pieces included in Business as Usual, the Gregg Museum’s exhibition of works by North Carolina sculptor Bob Trotman. The title is a play on words, suggesting both the ordinary everydayness of Trotman’s carvings of business men and women in their office workplace attire – all suits, ties, and wingtip shoes – as well as the fact that Trotman is, as usual for him, still dealing with the subject matter that most fascinates him: the world of corporate business and high finance. Trotman sees this world through skeptical eyes, reinterpreting it with penetrating humor and the consummate skills of a master craftsman. With gouges and chisels, he follows in the tradition of the great medieval sculptors of saints and the makers of cigar store Indians and sailing ship figureheads, but uses their ancient techniques to render modern-day portraits of office workers trapped in high-rise careers of quiet desperation, and to build symbol-laden mechanisms that address the myths of capitalism through metaphor. Trotman came by his subject matter through personal experience. The son of a banking executive who almost never had time to be a father, and of a mother who seemed more interested in climbing the local social ladder than in raising her child, it was almost inevitable that the financial focus required to achieve success on his parents’ terms would begin to seem like a false goal. When he told them that he wasn’t going to pursue a career in corporate business, banking, or industry, but planned

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ORMAND SANDERSON AND ROBERT BLACK PHOTO BY BECKY KIRKLAND VIGNETTES

to study philosophy and literature and earn a living as a rural carpenter instead, their disappointment was keen. Fortunately, Trotman had the artistic talent, fierce determination, and manual skills to succeed on his own terms. Achieving recognition as a maker of highly-finished furniture, he built a statewide reputation as a master craftsman. Then, over time, he began embellishing the desks, chairs, and carved jewelry boxes he made with faces,

FEATURES hands, and feet, until finally beginning to make pieces that had no utilitarian purpose at all. Midway through his career, he quit the world of craft altogether and began making only works of art. Kinetic sculpture is only the most recent stage in his development as an artist. Along with more than twenty of his impressive static sculptures, Business as Usual features more than a dozen kinetic masterpieces which move and perform whenever visitors trip their motion-sensors. On view from February 1 through July 1, 2018, it is the largest exhibition of Trotman’s kinetic work ever presented.

DESIGN DUET: THE CREATIVE LIVES OF ROBERT BLACK AND ORMOND SANDERSON March 15-September 9, 2018

Robert Black and Ormond Sanderson are pivotal figures in North Carolina’s art and design worlds, not only for being among the first in the South to expose modern design to the public, but also for their own major accomplishments as artists. At the very same time that Research Triangle Park began turning central North Carolina into a magnet for modern technology, Black and Sanderson’s Strawvalley design complex introduced furniture and consumer goods created by such well- known architect/designers as Mies van der Rohe, Harry Bertoia, Eero Saarinen, Marcel Breuer, and Le Corbusier. Design Duet will include a number of Robert Black’s striking collage-paintings and award-winning contemporary stonewares, alongside the exquisitely etched and glazed metal enamels that led the organizers of the 1964 New York World’s Fair to choose Ormond Sanderson to represent the best of American art in the fair’s United States Pavilion. Furniture, lighting, and decorative pieces by other major designers round out the Gregg’s retrospective.

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URN BY ROBERT BLACK ETCHED GLASS DOORS BY ORMOND SANDERSON PHOTO BY BECKY KIRKLAND

TREASURES OF NATIVE AMERICA: GREGG MUSEUM EVENTS SELECTIONS FROM THE DRS. NORMAN Unfiltered Response: Faculty Dances AND GILDA GREENBERG GIFT Thursday, January 25 at 6pm and 7:30pm Through April 29, 2018

Opening reception: Bob Trotman This exhibition includes silver and turquoise jewelry, Navajo Thursday, February 1 at 6pm weavings, Hopi katsinam, Apache basketry, Pueblo pottery and Northwest Coast masks. Together, they offer a glimpse ETHEL with Robert Mirabel: A Preview into the riches of the Greenberg Collection, a major recent Wednesday, March 14 at 7:30pm donation to the Gregg Museum.

Opening reception: Design Duet Thursday, March 15 at 6pm VISIT GREGG.ARTS.NCSU.EDU for up-to-date information on programs. Art2Wear presents Defining Inspirations: Wearable art inspired by the Gregg Museum’s collection, with Project Runway designers Dom Streater, Mondo Guerra and Justin Leblanc Thursday, April 19 at 1pm

arts.ncsu.edu 25 BEOWULF, LORD OF THE BROS, FALL 2017

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University VIGNETTES Theatre Spring 2018 FEATURES HAIRSPRAY, THE BROADWAY MUSICAL February 21-25 Stewart Theatre

Change is in the air! It’s 1962 in Baltimore, and Tracy Turnblad, the lovable plus-size teen, has only one desire – to dance on the popular “Corny Collins Show.” When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star. She must use her newfound power to dethrone the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob Link Larkin, and integrate a TV network… all without denting her ‘do! Hairspray, winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is a family-friendly musical, piled bouffant- high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs. Based on the New Line Cinema film, written and directed by John Waters. Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, music by Marc Shaiman, lyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman.

From the director, John McIlwee: Hairspray is the sparkling, infectious musical hit that is the perfect showcase for University Theatre’s energetic and talented student actors and crew! It is time to return to the magical sixties where “you can’t stop the beat.”

arts.ncsu.edu 27 PHOTO BY RON FOREMAN RON BY PHOTO HARVEY EVENTS April 12-22 Titmus Theatre

In this Pulitzer Prize winning comedy, Elwood P. Dowd introduces Harvey, a six-foot three-and-a-half-inch tall invisible rabbit, to everyone he meets. Finding Elwood’s erratic behavior increasingly embarrassing, his social- climbing sister Veta decides to have him committed to a sanitarium. A comedy of errors ensues when a very flirtatious Dr. Sanderson commits Veta instead. When VIGNETTES the truth comes out, the search begins for Elwood and his best “pooka” friend, Harvey! Play by Mary Chase.

From the director, Mia Self: Siblings are always THE EXONERATED, embarrassing but Elwood is in OPEN DOOR SERIES FALL 2017 a class by himself. He insists on introducing everyone to his best friend Harvey, only FEATURES Harvey's an invisible rabbit. PHOTOS BY RON FOREMAN What on earth should a sister at her wit's end do?

PRIDE & PREJUDICE, Elwood is an iconic character in American theatre and FALL 2017 cinema. Jimmy Stewart played the role to great acclaim in 1950 and the play has graced countless stages across the country. We're pleased to bring this slice of classic Americana to the University Theatre stage and hope you'll share in the warmth of this comic gem.

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Open Door Series

University Theatre’s Open Door Series is a student- hazelnut coffee K-cups. This space faring gal finds focused program designed to explore content herself in a galaxy of trouble when AERIS, the ship’s meaningful and relevant to our college students as computer, reveals that the “recommended course

they navigate relationships with each other and the of action is unknown.” In fact, AERIS doesn’t even VIGNETTES broader world. know how long the crew’s been gone – just seven. That might be seven weeks, months, or even years. GIRL IN SPACE: Lana must forge an alliance with this sassy computer A COMEDY IN ONE ACT to figure out how to get back to Earth or she’ll never March 15-17 survive the caffeine withdrawal. Written by Peter Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre Lalush ’17, winner of the 2017 Arts NC State Creative Artist Award. Somewhere in the not so distant future aboard the ISSA Underdog, Lana Nelson, an IT systems FEATURES analyst, must find her missing crew, debug the computer program, and place a massive order for

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DEATHTRAP May 31-June 10 Titmus Theatre

Comfortably ensconced (or so it seems) in his charming Connecticut home, Sidney Bruhl – once a

VIGNETTES successful writer of Broadway thrillers – struggles to overcome a dry spell resulting in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. When he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college, a thriller that Sidney recognizes immediately as a potential Broadway hit, a plan is devised – then the twists and turns begin. Deathtrap holds the record for the longest running THEATREFEST 2017 comedy-thriller on Broadway. Play by Ira Levin,

FEATURES directed by John McIlwee. PHOTOS BY RON FOREMAN THE 39 STEPS THEATREFEST 2017 June 7-24 Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre

Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and what you get are nonstop laughs, over 150 zany characters and some good old-fashioned romance in a fast-paced whodunit that climaxes in an evening of pure, death-defying pleasure! Adapted by Patrick Barlow, directed by Rachel Klem.

NUNSENSE June 14-24 Titmus Theatre

Take over the fellowship hall currently set up for the eighth grade production of Grease and put on a variety show featuring star solo turns, madcap dance routines, an audience quiz and comic surprises. That’s what the five remaining sisters of the Order of the Little Sisters of Hoboken decide is the best way to raise the money to bury their 52 sisters – accidentally poisoned by their cook, Sister Julia, Child of God. Come get your praise on in this sinfully funny internationally acclaimed “nun-sensical” musical comedy. Book, music and lyrics by Dan Goggin, directed by John McIlwee.

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ARTFULMATCH Three couples who met through the arts at NC State

BY KELLY McCALL BRANSON

t might seem incongruous for a university best known for cultivating world-class engineers, scientists and entrepreneurs to also have truly I remarkable arts programs. But we all know NC State is living proof that chemical engineers can be sensational singers, accountants can really act and software designers can play extraordinary piano. But who knew arts at NC State could also be an incubator for lifelong love matches?

32 #CREATIVESTATE EVENTS METTE & LINH ongtime fixtures on the Raleigh arts scene, Mette “We asked friends, instead of giving gifts, to perform at and Linh Schladweiler were both musical theatre the wedding,” says Mette. And they did, including long- L and band geeks throughout high school. You could time director of University Theatre, John Mcllwee. say the arts are in their blood. They met in the ‘90s Despite their passion for the arts, Linh and Mette working backstage on different shows being staged by would go on to very different careers. Mette is a NC State University Theatre, and that fateful meeting biologist for the EPA, doing environmental research,

would be the genesis for a whole new generation of and Linh is the IT director for an insurance agency. VIGNETTES theatre and band geeks. “We work so that we can do all the arts-related things Linh spent his high school years in Rocky Mount, we really love,” says Linh. Mette adds, “I think my where he performed in school musicals, played brass experience with Arts NC State has made me appreciate in the marching band, and performed in The Cavaliers art wherever it is.” Drum and Bugle Corp Both believe the atypical in both high school and nature of the theatre college. His first job was program at NC State, which in the ticket office of the doesn’t offer a theatre North Carolina Symphony. major, actually enriched FEATURES “I would pack my lunch their experience there. and spend lunch hour “You had students in watching the symphony accounting and forestry and rehearse. It was great,” communications and hard says Linh. Mette was sciences,” says Linh. “All born and raised in North these varying backgrounds Carolina and spent her – not just candidates for high school years, much MFAs – it shaped our like Linh, playing in her experience in a different high school marching band way.” Mette remembers in Hickory and thoroughly an alumnus of the theatre ensconced in the theatre who strongly encouraged gang. all engineering students to Mette, who earned a take a theatre class. “He B.S. in zoology from NC told them it would help State and Linh, a B.A. in them in their day-to-day life accounting, felt a spark no matter what they did,” ignite during rehearsals of says Mette. “And I think performances they were that’s true.” stage managing in 1996. After 18 years of “I asked Linh out,” laughs PHOTO BY AREON MOBASHER marriage, Mette and Linh Mette. “He had never remain the same theatre seen Sunset Boulevard, so I made him dinner at my and band geeks they always were. Linh teaches the apartment and we watched it.” How fitting that their marching band at Holly Springs High and both have, first date was spent watching a classic movie about over the years, performed and worked backstage actors. for numerous companies, including Theatre Raleigh, The two quickly became a couple, and their lives Theatre in the Park, Raleigh Ensemble Players and together centered around the arts. They developed Manbites Dog Theater. But their heart has always been a tight-knit circle of friends in the on-campus theatre with Arts NC State. One or both of them has been community and both worked backstage as well as involved with summer’s TheatreFest every year. Linh performing. They participated many years in the beloved played the role of Sandy Tyrell in 2017’s Hay Fever. holiday madrigal dinners hosted by NC State. And now they’re raising two new additions to When they decided to tie the knot, of course they Raleigh’s arts community; sons Jackson, 11 and were married on the main stage at Thompson Hall. Maxx, 5 have been backstage fixtures, and even

arts.ncsu.edu 33 made appearances on stage, at University Theatre Their singing drew the two closer, and one fateful EVENTS productions, since they were in diapers. “It’s funny,” night (November 11, 2000, according to Jason), they says Mette. “I have a whole circle of friends from those met at Mitch’s over a pitcher of Miller Lite. “I thought early days with NC State that we never would have we were just going to hang out,” says Keith. “Actually, had if not for the arts.” They’ve gotten married and had Keith thought I was going to ask to date his sister,” said kids together, and remain a tight community. John Jason. The evening would end with the two coming and Nancy Mcllwee are like out to each other. And the family and are godparents to Keith and Jason, 2001 rest is history. For their first Jackson and Maxx. anniversary, Jason gave Keith “University Theatre and NC a Mitch’s Tavern Miller Lite State – that’s my true love, pitcher. VIGNETTES says Mette. “That’s where “It really was perfect I grew the most, and that’s timing for Keith and me,” says where we continue to grow Jason. “We were both just and learn.” coming out to friends and family, and we could really JASON & KEITH share the ups and downs and ason Renzaglia lean on each other. It really and Keith Lunday formed our relationship.” were two chemical After graduating, Jason FEATURES J engineering majors at NC moved to New Mexico for State who never took an his first job out of college, engineering class together. but would return to Raleigh But they did sing together in just 19 months because, in the Music Department. according to him, “I just could And it was their shared love not keep away from Keith.” of music and NC State that The pair joined the North kindled the flame for these Carolina Master Chorale, two North Carolina natives. under the direction of their Even though he always former music professor, Al thought of himself as a Sturgis. “Music really has science guy, Keith grew been and continues to be at up singing in his church the core of our relationship,” choir near Pinehurst. Jason says Jason. They were describes himself as a “total married in Boston in 2011. chorus nerd,” who sang in Like the Schladweilers, a barbershop quartet in his Jason and Keith formed hometown of Wilmington. He strong and lasting bonds with wondered when he left for their fellow music lovers at college, “Will I have anywhere to sing?” NC State. “They all sang at our wedding,” says Keith, Jason sought out Arts NC State and quickly joined “and we sang at theirs.” The two are godparents to two the Varsity Men’s Glee Club. Keith soon followed. “We children of a fellow Grains of Time member. sat next to each other for the 2:35 p.m. rehearsals They still get together with their Grains buddies on Monday, Wednesday and Friday,” says Jason “and and sing, and they tailgate together at Wolfpack became friends at first.” Keith remembers the “cute football games. “NC State was really a big part of the guy who sat next to me in choir.” Jason also sang foundation of what we are today,” says Jason. with Grains of Time, the renowned NC State men’s a cappella singing group, and convinced Keith to audition and join the group as well.

34 #CREATIVESTATE Fred Alexander (in the checked suit) in Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, 1988. EVENTS VIGNETTES

quickly took up the piano. “God busted my lip for a BELINDA & FRED reason,” laughs Fred. usic was Fred acted on the main stage at Thompson Theatre always in the in the first Black Repertory Theatre production in 1987, M air for Belinda Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and in the 1988 production and Fred Alexander. They of Ceremonies in Dark Old Men. “He got me comped

were raised immersed tickets, as I recall,” says Belinda. She performed in FEATURES in it. It’s what brought the 1989 production of The Amen Corner, and both them together, and it’s a sang in the renowned New Horizons Choir. The choir foundation of their family was a performance ensemble of the NC State Music life today. Department from 1982 to 2007 and specialized in North Carolina natives, contemporary gospel music and Negro spirituals. Belinda and Fred are both ministers’ children who grew “I’m naturally a reserved, introverted person,” says up singing in the choir, Fred in Charlotte and Belinda Belinda. “Being involved with the arts and performing in Wendell. Fred played trumpet in his high school’s opened me up. Singing was the thing that drew me marching band and Belinda sang in the chorus. “Music out.” was just always around me,” says Belinda. Fred, an electrical engineering graduate, went on to a They met in the ‘80s at NC State. They became close career in software development, first with IBM and now friends after sharing a class together and hung out with with a spinoff of Big Blue, Fiserv. Belinda earned her the same group of musically inclined students. One degree from NC State in education and has taught and day, Belinda needed a ride and found Fred noodling on tutored in their longtime hometown of Charlotte. the piano in a practice room on campus. He told her Both are still very steeped in the performing arts. the price of the ride would be to help him finish writing They are ministers of music in their church. Fred still his song. Belinda started singing along and added one acts and Belinda writes and directs plays. Their three line. “After we finished, Fred said, “Will you marry me?” children, Tre, 24, Jackson, 20 and Bria, 15 also play laughs Belinda. “I didn’t take him seriously, but it did get instruments, sing and act as well. Together they sing as me thinking.” They would indeed go on to get married, the Alexander Alliance. And Belinda and Bria recently some 26 years ago in Raleigh. And the song they performed in the gospel musical Daughter of the King wrote together, “Never Knew Love,” was sung at their at the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival. wedding. (Belinda is listed as a co-writer, even though “What we got from Arts NC State,” says Fred, “all she only wrote that one line.) the things we learned from the programs at State – we But if it hadn’t been for a mishap during an intramural have taken that and were able to touch so many other basketball game, Fred would never been the one to lives.” steal Belinda’s heart. Fred was a trumpet player, and Belinda says she had prayed all her life, since she was a Kelly McCall Branson is a freelance writer who has little girl, that she would marry someone who could play written about the arts, dining, travel, sustainable living the piano and sing. An errant elbow to the face would and home building for regional and local publications change the course of Fred Alexander’s life. A severely throughout the Southeast. swollen lip meant he couldn’t play the trumpet, so he

arts.ncsu.edu 35 Costume shop manager Laura Parker shows John McIlwee feathers that just arrived for Hairspray costumes. EVENTS VIGNETTES FEATURES

DIRECTING CHANGE University Theatre’s John McIlwee plans his next act

BY ORLA SWIFT

n a quiet fall evening in University Theatre, years in this beloved building. And as he prepares to retire John McIlwee unlocks the door to the empty from his position as University Theatre director in June, he Ogreenroom, pours a glass of lemonade and sits is excited about his next act, despite not knowing exactly back in a comfortable chair to reflect on his career. what it will be. This pre-show waiting room for actors and “I love change,” he says. “I think it keeps you on your production staff has contained much angst over the toes. And this is a change for me. This is a different years – fears of forgetting lines, singing off-key, or direction for me. And it’s time. I have that wonderful failing to be in the right place at precisely the right time. program solidly set in stone here and growing every McIlwee has no such trepidation. He has spent 31 minute. But you kind of have to leave them wanting more.”

36 #CREATIVESTATE Students, staff and audiences will certainly yearn for more from McIlwee, EVENTS whose high expectations and encouraging nature have created an atmosphere of achievement, risk-taking and boundless aspirations. “John has consistently set the highest artistic and professional standards for his staff, and he brought to University Theatre a finely developed aesthetic sensibility that infused every production with which he was connected,” says Alex Miller, vice provost emeritus for Arts NC State, who worked with McIlwee for 29 years, first as his colleague and then for 17 years as his supervisor. “No challenge seems to faze him,” Miller says, “and he doesn’t let obstacles stop VIGNETTES him from achieving his goals. … He is, quite simply, one of the most multi-talented, deeply creative forces I’ve ever known.”

FROM RUNWAY TO STAGE McIlwee has spent his whole career in theatre, outside of a foray into fashion, an industry he can now say he enjoys more from the outside than the inside. He got hired away from theatre by a fashion design firm after winning a competition he had seen advertised in a magazine and entered hurriedly – using his young daughter’s colored pencils and construction paper, the only tools available to him on deadline.

But working on Seventh Avenue lacked what McIlwee cherished most about theatre: FEATURES intellectual stimulation. “With the shows, you’re doing a different era, a different world every time, which has always kept me very interested, whether I was an actor or a director or a designer. There was none of that sameness about it,” he says. “But in fashion, you don’t even know who you’re designing for. … The only concern was how many pieces of this one garment could you sell. And after a while that ceased to be interesting to me.” McIlwee never lost his affection for fashion, weaving it instead into his acclaimed costume design, and vintage couture clothing, accessories and art that he and his wife, Nancy, have collected and exhibited over the decades. He and Nancy also travel to vintage balls, where the 1800s are lovingly revived through music, dance, etiquette and clothing. The two have been best friends and sweethearts since their childhood in West Virginia. After earning a master’s degree in theatre and an MFA in theatre design, McIlwee worked as a guest artist and on contract at a number of theatres and in a variety of capacities, from acting to directing and costume and set design. He entertained several permanent job offers along the way, but all would have

PHOTO BY MARC HALL MARC BY PHOTO required that he narrow his focus to one discipline. McIlwee could not imagine specializing in only one area of theatre production, so he remained a vagabond – that is, until NC State beckoned with the kind of multi-faceted role that he had yearned for.

GROWTH AND CHANGE McIlwee initially planned to stay at NC State for two years before moving on to the next irresistible challenge, wherever that might be. But the job never got stale, he says, only more invigorating. “I’m still as excited now to start the next show – which is Hairspray – as I was the first show I ever started,” he says. “I never burned out. ... How can you get bored with the worlds that we go through in theatre? It always seems to me like right over the horizon, in the next show, there’s a sparkling new world that I’m going to have something to do with creating, in whatever way I’m working on the show. And it’s new for me, and it’s new for the audiences, and it’s new for the people I’m working with.” So McIlwee’s two-year commitment grew to three decades, during which University Theatre’s resources and reputation also grew exponentially, most notably in

arts.ncsu.edu 37 2009 with the $16 million state-of-the-art renovation of schools is a source of constant amazement to our Frank Thompson Hall, home to University Theatre and colleagues who teach at those schools, and an NC State’s Crafts Center. immense sense of pride for John and all who work in Among the features added in the renovation was University Theatre,” Holly says. “John is a treasure, and EVENTS a black-box theatre, which McIlwee refers to as the the entire Triangle theatre community is richer for John Kennedy Studio Theatre but whose proper name is being a dedicated part of it.” Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre, a shared title that donor K.D. Kennedy Jr. requested when he was asked MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS to put his own name on the theatre. Kennedy says he McIlwee confesses to some initial trepidation about and his wife, Sara Lynn, were adamant that McIlwee’s working at NC State. The university doesn’t offer artistic contributions be honored. a theatre major the way many other universities “He had meant so much more than anyone else do, though students may now minor in theatre. to NCSU Theatre that we felt this would tell how the He wondered at first whether students with such

VIGNETTES entire development committee and his fellows truly felt divergent career goals and academic demands could about him and his tireless love,” says Kennedy, who bring the same commitment to a production as a describes McIlwee as a perfectionist but also a “hale theatre major would. But the students quickly proved and hearty soul” whose fun-loving and inclusive nature those fears unfounded, impressively reflecting the turns acquaintances quickly into friends and draws university’s mission to strive for new ways to “think students from across the university back to the theatre and do.” semester after semester. “You see these people with amazingly complicated Alex Miller agrees, praising McIlwee’s kindness and majors, some of them with triple majors, and they generous spirit. come and give up their time

FEATURES “I have heard dozens and “I think we’ve proven that we’re to do a show, and they’re just dozens of NC State grads, sort of a nesting place for people incredibly good,” McIlwee from every major imaginable, who don’t want to give up that says. “It was one good say with warmth and affection side of their brain. They’re using student after another in all that John McIlwee was both sides, one for their major and the years that I’ve been here. one of the most important one to participate in the arts. That Every time I’ve thought, ‘Oh, and positive influences is what makes the arts exciting at dear, this group is graduating on their undergraduate NC State. They’re for everyone.” and we’re going to be in a careers,” Miller says. “And pickle for a while,’ other good that doesn’t surprise me JOHN MCILWEE students show up the next at all. Led by his example, year. John and his staff have created a sense of purpose, “So it’s been one right after another and the program home and community for University Theatre students has continued to build, thanks to the administration,” that is truly remarkable. They feel welcomed, valued, he says. “I think we’ve proven that we’re sort of a and encouraged to grow and develop, personally nesting place for people who don’t want to give up and artistically, in an environment that is safe and that side of their brain. They’re using both sides, one supportive. for their major and one to participate in the arts. That is “That is an invaluable gift to these students,” Miller what makes the arts exciting at NC State. They’re for says, “and the resulting closeness, camaraderie, and everyone.” commitment to their work and to each other’s success Those arts experiences impact the students well is a testament to the powerful influence John has had beyond graduation, says Tom Stafford, former vice on these talented young men and women.” chancellor for Student Affairs, who was among the McIlwee often comforts anxious students with the administrators who hired McIlwee and supported the reminder that theatre is not a life-or-death endeavor, theatre’s growth. and it won’t be a disaster if they miss a cue or bomb a “The thousands of students who have been laugh line. But he and his team also set high standards, directed, advised and motivated by John to participate and they are serious about striving to meet them. That in theatre will pursue non-theatre careers, but their love commitment is clear when the curtain rises, according and appreciation of theatre and other arts will continue to Rich Holly, NC State’s executive director for the arts. throughout their lives,” he says. “And they will influence “That our University Theatre productions are every others in their families and communities. This is the bit the equal of those at many well-known theatre extraordinary legacy that John McIlwee will leave at NC

38 #CREATIVESTATE State and the communities outside the campus.” Orla Swift was a theatre critic and arts reporter at The EVENTS McIlwee’s impact on students is greater still News & Observer and other newspapers for 20 years. because he is loath to turn away students who are She is now director of marketing and communications eager to play a role – even when there are no roles left. at Sarah P. Duke Gardens. “I usually over-cast shows because I’m trying to get as many students in as I possibly can,” he says. “And everybody makes fun of me and screams and yells, ‘How many costumes can you expect to make?’ I put 20 more cast members in Fiddler than it called for. I VIGNETTES said, ‘I’m getting better – last February, I only put 11 CELEBRATE JOHN! Raise the impact of the John C. McIlwee more in Secret Garden than it called for.’ Theatre Endowment “But we have to give these students opportunities,” he says. “And if it means that I over-cast on these Few people have impacted the arts at NC State spectacle shows to get them into a production to get like John McIlwee. His generosity and relentless started with us, then I think that’s what we should do. commitment as director of University Theatre I think we should make as many opportunities as we changed the lives of countless students, and it possibly can. That’s what we’re here for, for them. If showed in every theatre performance. Now you they go away, then what’s our point?”

can honor John and show your commitment to FEATURES McIlwee adheres to a similar philosophy with his University Theatre by making a gift to the John C. staff. He urges them to reach beyond their established McIlwee Theatre Endowment. Your support will talents and take risks in different areas – a designer set the stage for future generations of University directing, for example. He also strives to foster a Theatre students, staff, and patrons. creative environment in which everyone is open to input, and all ideas merit consideration, regardless of who brings what expertise to the table. WAYS TO GIVE “This staff is so talented and so collaborative that ONLINE they make anything I do, from directing to designing Visit go.ncsu.edu/mcilwee to make a one-time and even acting, a joy every day,” he says. “Their minds or sustaining gift. Select the John C. McIlwee and their creativeness and their ingenuity and their Theatre Endowment from the list of program- willingness to talk about what we’re creating make it specific funds. exciting.”

WHAT NEXT? MAIL Send gifts of cash or check to: McIlwee doesn’t intend to leave theatre when he Arts Development retires. He is considering writing a theatre textbook. Talley Student Union And he plans to remain in the Triangle, where his Campus Box 7306 friends are, where the arts scene is vibrant, and where Raleigh, NC 27695 colleagues such as Theatre in the Park Artistic and Executive Director Ira David Wood III are eager to Please make checks payable to the NCSU collaborate with him. Foundation and note “McIlwee Endowment” in He hopes to return to University Theatre, too. If the memo line. he’s not backstage or on stage, he says, he will most assuredly be in the audience, watching the students, PLEDGE OR ESTATE GIFT the staff and theatre itself continue to evolve. Contact Jill Orr, director of development, at “I’ve never had a moment of regret that I’ve 919.513.4101 or [email protected] to discuss stayed here and watched the program grow, because ways to make a pledge commitment or deferred it certainly has been a delight every year to see the gift to University Theatre in honor of John changes,” he says. “And all of the people who have McIlwee. been on staff and gone, they had a hand in making the program stronger with what they had to offer. Donors who commit $500 or more to University “I was very lucky to arrive at the right time, and Theatre will be invited to celebrate John at a very lucky to have the interest and good will of every private reception this summer. administration, and very lucky to have such wonderful staff to work with. I just think I’m a lucky guy.” arts.ncsu.edu 39 DONORS 2016 - 2017 We are grateful to our donors for their generous support. Individuals listed below have contributed cash gifts of $50 or more to Arts NC State between July 1, 2016 and June 30, 2017. Donors who have pledged their support will be listed when their gifts are received. The Honor Roll is one way we choose to recognize those who have contributed to and invested in the future of the arts at NC State University.

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arts.ncsu.edu 43 Robin Harris Dance Program Endowment Horton Fellowship Endowment Fund SCHOLARSHIPS Amelia E. Hunter Choral Leadership Endowment ITG Norma Ausley Memorial Endowment & ENDOWMENTS Jerry & Nina Jackson Endowment for Named Scholarships & Endowments may be Outdoor Programming established with a minimum commitment of $25,000 The Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf Endowment for and may honor or memorialize an individual or family Creativity in the Performing Arts while supporting arts initiatives such as student The Lattice Endowment for the Performing Arts James & Eileen Lecce Ethnic Art Collection Endowment scholarships, programmatic support, and collections. Sheila Margaret Lund Endowment Jim Marchman Marching Band Endowment ABB Inc. Arts Outreach Endowment Toni Christine Masini Memorial Marching Band Judy C. Abee Marching Band Endowment Scholarship Endowment Arts NC State Endowment John C. McIlwee Theatre Endowment Athletic Bands Endowment John Menapace Photography Endowment Donald & Maryann Bitzer Theatre Achievement Sharon Herr Moore NC State LIVE Endowment Awards Endowment Mu Beta Psi Honorary Music Scholarship Robert Keith Black & J. Ormond Sanderson, Jr. Endowment NC State LIVE Endowment Carey H. Bostian Music Endowment NCSU Pipes and Drums Scholarship Henry & Sory Bowers Arts Endowment NCSU Theatre Endowment Brenda & E. Wade Brickhouse Fine Craft Collection Barbara G. & Hayne Palmour III Museum Endowment Endowment James M. Poyner Visiting Artist Endowment Bruce T. Brown Marching Band Endowment Kimberly Titmus Przybyl Music Endowment Charlotte V. Brown Museum Endowment Lew & Billie Rentel Arts NC State Endowed Scholarship Raymond A. Bryan, Jr. Jazz Endowment Lew & Billie Rentel Museum Enhancement Endowment Dr. Eloise A. Cofer Arts Endowment Lew & Billie Rentel Thompson Building Endowment Margaret Price Corcoran Marching Band Scholarship Alby Rose Marching Band Scholarship Curtis R. Craver Clarinet Scholarship Marc & Anita Baker Sherman Music Endowment Mildred J. Davis Museum Endowment Stafford Endowment for Arts NC State Student Travel Ronald G. Ellis & Earl Lynn Roberson Scholarship Banks & Louise Talley Arts Endowment Annabelle Lundy Fetterman Symphony Concertmaster Banks C. Talley Jr. Arts Endowment for the Endowment Frank Thompson Building Fox Family Foundation Crafts Center Endowment Brita M. Tate Memorial Endowment Friends of the Gallery Martha Emerson Upchurch Performing Arts Endowment Dr. Norman Greenberg Brass Quintet Endowment Visual Artist Award Endowment Gregg Museum Collection Endowment Randall & Susan Ward Arts NC State Scholarship John N. & Nancy C. Gregg Museum Endowment Randall & Susan Ward Museum Endowment Dewey M. Griffith Marching Band Endowment Wells Fargo Endowment for Excellence in Dr. Frank M. Hammond Endowment for Musicianship Visual and Performing Arts & Outstanding Leadership Mary Lib Wood Endowment for the Visual & Performing Arts

Friends of Arts NC State 2017-2018 BOARD OF ADVISORS

OFFICERS MEMBERS Gary Greene, Chair Bruce Branson Sharon Perry John Coggin, Chair-Elect Tom Cabaniss Diane Sanders Dan Cook Linda Satterfield EX-OFFICIO Paul Fomberg Tom Stafford Shawn Brewster, President, Jason Horne Linda Wharton Friends of the Gregg Bernard Hyman Darby Madewell, Jason Lemons Student Representative Rich Holly, Executive Director for the Arts Tara Owens Simone Tucker, Jill Orr, Director of Development, Arts NC State Seth Palmer Student Senate Representative

Michael Auchter, Development Associate, Arts NC State

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Vivian Beer Anchored Candy #7, 2017 Steel, automotive finishes, gun bluing patina Gift of Penland School of Crafts

SENSUOUS STEEL

es. You may sit on the artwork. States Artists Fellowship. Beer holds a BFA in Or as the didactic panel in the Gregg sculpture from the Maine College of Art, an MFA in YMuseum reads: “Considerate sitting on the metalsmithing from Cranbrook Academy of Art, has bench is permitted.” been a resident artist at Penland School of Crafts, and For 32 years, the renowned Penland School of the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. Crafts – a North Carolina treasure – has held an annual Penland’s gift is in recognition of its decades-long benefit auction featuring works by exceptional artists. relationship with NC State and the Gregg Museum, And, each year, they select a signature artist to create which has many works by Penland artists in its a work to both support Penland through monetary permanent collection. donations, and a very fortunate arts organization Reflecting on this latest addition to the Gregg’s through the gift of a work of art. holdings, director Roger Manley notes: “I think the The 2017 signature artist was furniture designer bench will be a great piece for our purposes, since and metalworker Vivian Beer, who created it easily lends itself to all kinds of discussions like Anchored Candy #7, pictured above. Known for gender (the masculine anvil vs. the feminine high her bold combinations of industrial materials like heel), industry vs. art, and machine aesthetic vs. the steel and concrete, Beer’s art is represented in the organic aesthetic. Students will love it, since it has Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, the Museum of Art a kind of timeless quality that lifts it out of the realm and Design in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, of craft, even though it’s completely utilitarian. That Boston, the Brooklyn Museum – and now – through means it could lead to good conversations about craft the courtesy of the Penland School of Crafts and vs. art, too.” generous donors, the Gregg Museum of Art & You’ll find the Vivian Beer bench in the lobby of Design. the Gregg Museum, ready for your next social media April 18–22, 2018 Beer won the grand prize on the HGTV show photo op. Ellen’s Design Challenge hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. She has been awarded a John D. Mineck Furniture Fellowship, a National Air and Space Museum Vivian Beer is planning a visit to Raleigh in March. Research Fellowship, and the prestigious United Check gregg.arts.ncsu.edu for program updates.

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As lifelong artists and art collectors, Robert Keith Black and J. Ormond Sanderson Jr. know that form is inseparable from function — that great design combines aesthetics and utility, the think and the do. That’s why they love NC State’s Gregg Museum of Art & Design, and why they’ve given so generously to make its grand reopening a reality.

Discover an extraordinary place, the Gregg Museum:

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Objects in Collections Square Feet Added

from Japanese woodblock prints as part of a permanent move to North Carolina quilts to Hillsborough Street

Artists J. Ormond Sanderson Jr. (left) and Robert Keith Black (right) at home, surrounded by their remarkable collection. The Campaign for NC State | campaign.ncsu.edu