Decade of the UniversityArts of Notre Dame Decade of the Arts

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The Arts and Notre Dame 2 A Distinctive Education 4 Space to Create 6 Studying the Sacred Arts 8 Blueprint for the Future 10 “Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.” —St. Thomas Aquinas

I have spent much of my academic life studying the philosophy of In the Catholic tradition, the arts have always been closely tied St. Thomas Aquinas. In retrospect, such a course of study seems to worship and the experience of the sacred; art has always fitting, given that Aquinas is the patron of Catholic universities, been central to the University’s commitment to learning, colleges, and schools, and Notre Dame is often regarded as teaching, and serving, and it is of crucial importance to our the face of Catholic education. Aquinas is called the “Angelic continued growth as a community of learning. Doctor” because so much of his work deals with the nature of angels; St. Thomas spends pages in his works speculating on With the opening of the Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the how they communicate without voices, come to know the world Performing Arts in 2004, Notre Dame entered its “Decade of without sense organs, and express themselves without bodies. By the Arts”—a celebration of our arts legacy and fulfillment of reflecting on the incorporeity of angels, we can better understand our future. through contrast what it means to be a human being with a body. You and I are not angels. Through the arts, however, we can Unlike angels, we do communicate with voices, experience the have the experience of the beauty and transcendence that the world through sense organs, and express ourselves through angels enjoy. the movements of our bodies. Through art we come to a most Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. profound understanding of what is good, beautiful, and true. President, 2 3 Said Maria Tomasula oil on canvas The Arts and Notre Dame

“Beauty is the vocation bestowed on the artist by the Creator in the gift of ‘artistic talent.’ Those who perceive in themselves this kind of divine spark which is the artistic vocation as poet, writer, sculptor, musician, and actor feel at the same time the obligation not to waste this talent but to For Catholicism, the arts have also proven to develop it, in order to put it to service of their neighbor and of humanity as a whole.” be one of the most important incarnations of —Pope John Paul II, Letter to Artists sacramentality: through the arts, the transcendent reveals itself in finite reality. Whether we’re admiring the Golden Dome amidst the activity of Commencement weekend or quietly reflecting near Ivan Meštrović’s Pietà in the Basilica of the Sacred Great universities are “great” because they pursue the difficult whole of human experience. Heart, something moves within us that expresses Art is one of the most important tools we have in this pursuit. what would otherwise be inexpressible.

Art can be uplifting, but it can also be shocking. Art is a privileged way in which humanity learns to express itself, to innovate, and to create, reminding Art can show us what should be, but it can also challenge us with the reality of what is. us of the uniqueness of the human spirit. At the spirit that is Notre Dame been captured as well as Notre Dame, Our Art can be comforting, but it can also be disturbing. University’s core since its founding, the arts also Universal Mother remind us of the distinction of Notre Dame, a it has been in the work of the numerous artists, all Amy Peterson (ND ’05) place equally devoted to scholarly advance and its the way through to the present, who have made this oil on canvas Catholic character. Perhaps nowhere else has the campus their home.

Notre Dame’s Arts Timeline • 1845 Supported by a • 1847 Henry IV is • 1865 The Music • 1865 The University finishes its new Main Building. This version features • 1870 Construction starts dedicated “Music Saloon” performed, marking Hall is built within on a new Sacred Heart • 1842 The University Notre Dame’s first “Dome”—which was made of wood, covered in tin, and in the University’s first the first performance the new Junior Church (today known as of Notre Dame is painted white—crowned Main Building, the Notre of a Shakespearean Recreation Hall. the Basilica of the Sacred founded by Rev. by a 12-foot tall statue Dame Concert Band is play at Notre Dame. Washington Hall Heart), although its , of the Virgin Mary. The established. The “Notre will be moved steeple won’t be built for C.S.C. building’s large parlor will Dame Band” will grow to 90 degrees the come to rival Washington almost 20 years. Vatican include other ensembles, following year to Hall as a performance artist will including the Marching parallel this new venue. adorn the church with Band, and is today the structure to its murals and 14 Stations of country’s oldest university north. the Cross, and its stained- • 1862 Notre Dame’s original Exhibition Hall is built within band in continuous glass windows will be the Senior Recreation Hall. Two years later, Fr. Sorin will existence. crafted at the Carmel du dedicate the space as Washington Hall in honor of the Mans Glass Works in France. country’s first president. 4 5 A Distinctive Education

Our faculty is composed equally of distinguished “Notre Dame is a special and prayerful place, and the University’s art and architecture are part scholars who study art and acclaimed practitioners of of its living history. Whether you’re a visitor seeing the Basilica for the first time or a graduate the arts themselves, making it possible to support the full spectrum of art-related interests. Here, a student returning to your former residence hall, the campus gives physical shape to Notre Dame’s who aspires to write the definitive history of silent distinctive identity. Without it, the place in which we live, learn, and worship—the place we call films will receive the same quality education as the ‘home’—would lose much of the pervading spirit that makes it ‘Our Lady’s University.’” one who hopes someday to win an Oscar. For those students who do want to pursue careers as artists, —Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President Emeritus they are more fully prepared to do so after receiving their education in a liberal arts context.

The School of Architecture applies this same integrated approach by not limiting its curriculum to principles of design and construction. Instead, Water freezes at 32 degrees. The earth orbits the sun. Light travels faster than sound. the School’s distinctive program is rooted in the These are incontrovertible facts—no shades of gray, no ambiguities, the same reality for all of us. application of traditional and classical architecture to the modern world, teaching students that the What elicits joy in one viewer might bring sorrow to another, and even the artist can’t articulate buildings they design must fit into the larger concerns precisely what the ultimate meaning of the work should be. Art can provoke us with its truth just of the communities they serve. as easily as it can provide us solace in its beauty. Among university art programs, those at Notre Dame place a unique focus on outreach programming, embodying the Catholic ideal of turning scholarship and creativity into service.

• 1879 The Great Fire of 1879 destroys the Main Building and • 1882 A brick performing • 1898 Notre • 1908 Fr. Michael Shea • 1915 The , which will come to • 1915 Early • 1925 Under the Junior Recreation Hall (which contained the Music Hall). arts center called the Dame becomes (ND ’04, ’05) and his be regarded as one of the best all-male collegiate films—at the the direction Now in its third incarnation, the Main Building is rebuilt on a Academy of Music—which the first Catholic John (ND ’06, choral groups in the United States, will operate without time known as of Professor grander scale that same year, although some of its most familiar houses a new Music Hall university in the ’08) write the Notre interruption from this date forward. However, a campus “photo-plays”— Frank Kelly, the features—paintings and Exhibition Hall, United States to Dame Victory March, • 1913 Junior Knute glee club are screened premiere season by Gregori and the combining the functions of offer a degree in which will become Rockne (ND ’14)—yes, existed as in Washington of University Golden Dome topped the two earlier buildings— architecture. one of the most widely that — early as Hall. Films will Theatre is by a larger statue of is dedicated in June. recognized college plays flute in the 1874 and be shown in the launched, Mary standing over That same month, the fight songs. University’s orchestra. performed building on a continuing The University establishes the 18-feet tall—will original Washington Hall In 1915, he will play regularly, regular basis for • 1924 a campus Charles A. Wightman Memorial Art be added over the is demolished; the new two roles in the senior if not nearly 70 years. theatrical Gallery, a dedicated exhibition space in course of the next Exhibition Hall within the • 1887 The Notre Dame Marching Band plays at Notre play, The Girl of the continuously, tradition dating Bond Hall, which at the time houses the decade. Academy of Music unofficially takes on the name “the new Dame’s first football game and has played at every Golden West. until 1912. to 1845. Lemonnier Library and today is home to Washington Hall” by Fall 1882. home game since. the School of Architecture. 6 7

The $64-million DPAC—built on seven separate The Center for Creative Computing (CCC) addresses Space to Create foundations to assure acoustic isolation of each the growing need for advanced and specialized performance space—features five main venues: computing technologies in the liberal arts and includes: “I am convinced that the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center will transform not only • a group of nine video edit suites, the way that Notre Dame is perceived by the broader society, but also how we • the 900-seat Judd and Mary Lou Leighton Concert Hall, whose acoustics can be changed at equipped with the latest software understand ourselves. Together with the , it will instantiate our the push of a button to accommodate everything for digital editing; aspiration to explore all the ways of knowing through which God may be discovered from a Shakespearean play to a symphony • the CAD and 3-D Design Studio, orchestra; and the human spirit lifted.” —Rev. Edward A. Malloy, C.S.C., President Emeritus designed to support • the 350-seat Patricia George Decio Theatre, a work in the theatre arts; traditional proscenium theatre outfitted with • the Riley Design Studio, extraordinary fly and wing space and designed • and the 100-seat Chris and Anne Reyes Organ supporting instruction and for teaching and performing; and Choral Hall, the centerpiece of which is a research in the Department of Art, Art History, What do the New York Philharmonic and the Notre Dame Glee Club have in common? $1-million pipe organ handcrafted over a period • the 100-seat Regis Philbin Studio Theatre, a and Design; of 15 months. They’ve both played Notre Dame’s new Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the Performing Arts (DPAC). flexible space for experimental theatre, with • the Riley Digital Imaging Studio, which is connected audience seating that can be placed anywhere These five venues have redefined “possible” for the to the design studio by a server and features high- and even moved during an intermission; University arts community, hosting a stunning variety end printers to meet professional-level digital of performances while still functioning as classrooms. The building itself is a superb rendering of Notre Dame’s • the 200-seat Browning Cinema, the premier printing needs; traditional, collegiate gothic architecture conceived on a massive, movie house in the region—showcasing a variety In addition, the DPAC has made Notre Dame a • and the CCC Multimedia Studio, which grants 150,000-square-foot scale. Situated on the southern edge of of avant-garde, classic, independent, popular, destination for some of the world’s best performing all the College’s faculty and students access to a campus, the DPAC welcomes visitors with a bold statement of and student films—but also where our students artists. A steady lineup of dance, music, and theatre general-purpose production studio purpose before they even set foot inside. survey film history and learn principles of has greatly enhanced the arts offerings available to equipped with state-of-the-art tools filmmaking; And when our visitors do step through the front doors, they enter campus and community audiences. for video and multimedia projects. one of the most dynamic university performing arts facilities in the country.

• 1950 Rev. Anthony Lauck, C.S.C., often referred to as Notre Dame’s • 1951 The cornerstone is laid for • 1955 Croatian sculptor • 1964 The Word of Life • 1976 The Band of the Fighting • 1980 Bridging the O’Shaughnessy Art Gallery • 1985 Notre Dame “Father of Art,” joins the University’s faculty. He will sculpt and O’Shaughnessy Hall, home to Ivan Meštrovic´ , mural—often referred to as Irish is honored as a “Landmark and the Meštrovic´ Sculpture Studio, the Snite places a renewed teach at Notre Dame until 1973 and serve the College of Arts and Letters. considered throughout “Touchdown Jesus”— of American Music” by the Museum of Art opens. Today, it is recognized emphasis on its as the first director of the Snite Museum The building will feature art his career as the is unveiled at the formal National Music Council. as one of the best university art museums in theatre program. A of Art. Fr. Lauck’s many works on campus galleries envisioned by Rev. world’s greatest living dedication of the Memorial North America. full theatre faculty will include the stained glass windows in the Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., the University’s president from 1952–1987. sculptor of religious art, Library (now the Hesburgh be in place by 1991, chapel and library of Moreau Seminary, the accepts Fr. Hesburgh’s Library). Fr. Hesburgh and • 1969 Frank Montana establishes leading to Washington statue of Our Lady of the University at Main • 1954 Rev. Arthur Harvey, C.S.C., takes over the University Theatre program invitation to join the Rev. Edmund Joyce, C.S.C., the School of Architecture’s Rome Hall once again being Circle, and the statue of Blessed Brother and will be involved in theatre at Notre Dame for nearly 40 years. Frederic University’s faculty. then the University’s executive Studies Program for the School’s a premier on-campus Andre Bessette, C.S.C., in the Basilica. Syburg, who himself will teach and direct theatre at the University until Meštrovic´ will teach vice president, commissioned undergraduates. Notre Dame performance venue. One of Fr. Lauck’s students, Rev. James 1993, designs the set for Fr. Harvey’s first production, Detective Story. The and work at Notre Millard Sheets to create the is the only American school of Flanigan, C.S.C., will join the Art, Art History, play’s cast includes sophomores Phil Donahue, who will become a well- Dame until his death painting that was turned into architecture that includes one and Design faculty in 1965 and is still a known TV personality, and Reg Bain, who will join Notre Dame’s theatre in 1962. the mural. Composed of 6,700 pieces of granite, it measures 134 year of study abroad as a required member of the Department today. faculty in 1966 and serve there until his retirement in 2001. feet by 68 feet and covers most of the library’s south side. part of its curriculum. 8 9 Studying the Sacred Arts

“The University of Notre Dame has made an inspiriting choice in linking its destiny to the flourishing of the arts, which serve not only as a window onto the mystery of God but also as a binding force in the service of community and the universal.” —Mark W. Roche, I. A. O’Shaughnessy Dean College of Arts and Letters

Two degree programs recently have been inaugurated: an interdisciplinary minor in Liturgical Music Ministry and a Master of Sacred Music (M.S.M.). At the undergraduate level, the goal is to prepare students, whatever Vita, Dulcedo, Spes. their major or eventual profession, to play a Life, Sweetness, Hope. role in the liturgical and musical life of their The new Fritts Organ in the Reyes Organ parishes. The M.S.M. is designed for students and Choral Hall was built mainly for the The University’s founding motto described a place that balanced the seeking full-time employment in churches as great organ literature of the 17th and 18th realities of a hard daily existence with the sweeter things in life, such as well as for those who will eventually pursue a centuries, complementing the instrument music, poetry, and drama. At Notre Dame, the arts have been intimately Ph.D. in theology or music. already in place in the Basilica. linked to the study of the sacred.

• 1990 Faculty members from the • 1992 Pope John Paul II designates Notre • 2000 • 2000 With the goal of bringing together theatre • 2001 Bestselling author Department of English launch Notre Dame’s Sacred Heart Church a minor Actors professionals and Notre Dame students to create fully Nicholas Sparks, a 1988 Dame’s Creative Writing Program, a basilica From The professional productions of Shakespearean plays, Notre Dame graduate graduate program which now offers (all major London Summer Shakespeare is founded. The company’s whose books include The a master of fine arts. Graduates basilicas Stage inaugural production is The Taming of the Shrew. Notebook and Message in a have placed their work in a wide are in transfers Bottle, gives funds to create variety of prestigious forums, such • 1990 For the first time since 1882, Rome). its American fellowships, internships, as The New Yorker, Esquire, GQ, the Notre Dame Bands are not base of and an annual prize in the • 2002 The Fischoff National Chamber Music New England Review, and Puerto housed in Washington Hall, as they operations to Creative Writing Program. Association moves to Notre Dame. Focused primarily del Sol, as well as published novels move to the newly constructed Band • 1994 The School of Architecture gains autonomy Notre Dame. on education, the annual Fischoff National Chamber and collections of poetry with Building, one of the finest music from the College of Engineering. This is a crucial Music Competition is the country’s largest, drawing major publishers. rehearsal facilities in the country. step in establishing the identity of the School as a emerging instrumental chamber music ensembles distinctive center of excellence at Notre Dame, where from across the United States and around the world. architecture is an art form and not a technical pursuit. 10 11 Blueprint for the Future

“Notre Dame du lac was given to us by the Bishop only on condition that we establish here a college at the earliest opportunity. [T]his college cannot fail to succeed… Before long, it will develop on a large scale … It will be one of the most powerful means for good in this country.” —Rev. Edward Sorin, C.S.C., Founder of the University Long-Term Aspirations: of Notre Dame, from a letter dated 1842 • Make Notre Dame the place people come to The Decade of the Arts learn about the art of the Catholic tradition. will contribute to the There is still more we need to do to fulfill Fr. Sorin’s vision. Create interdisciplinary programs that University’s prestige, to the combine all the arts across departmental educational and spiritual Selected Short-Term Goals: boundaries and have components of growth of our students and • Promote the exhibition of the visual arts by increasing • Over the next five years, increase the number of performance, aesthetics, and critical thinking. faculty, and to the quality of life in our community. the amount of on-campus gallery space, bringing a undergraduate majors in the fine and performing • Establish graduate programs in emerging Vatican Museum exhibit to the Snite Museum of Art. arts by an additional 30%, bringing the total to 600 fields, such as a Ph.D. in film, media, and As we look to our future, students. visual culture and an M.A./M.F.A. program • Seek endowments to increase support for student we must continue to attract new resources. in Shakespeare and Performance. theatre productions; funding for costumes and a • Actively recruit high school students who excel in the For more information on support needed for our cutting-edge facility are already in place. performing and/or studio arts, such that, by the end • Locate new buildings for the Department of initiatives in the arts, please contact: of the Decade of the Arts, these Ramona Payne • Establish more endowments that enhance student Art, Art History, and Design; the Department students consistently choose Notre Director of Arts Advancement production in all the arts. In addition to advancing of Music; and the Snite Museum of Art in a Dame over peer institutions, new facility near the DeBartolo Performing 1100 Grace Hall our theatre program, these gifts will provide state-of- Notre Dame, IN 46556-5612 and at least two-thirds of each Arts Center, making them easily accessible the-art equipment for film, media, and studio artists Phone: 574-631-9373 incoming class has participated in and allow us to expand our program of performance for both campus and community audiences. E-mail: [email protected] the arts in high school. scholarships for musicians.

• 2002 Peter Holland • 2003 The Judd and Mary Lou • 2003 Notre Dame’s School of • 2004 For the first time • 2005 Notre Dame Bands continue their impressive growth. In comes to Notre Leighton Directorship for the Architecture awards its inaugural since the University 1991–1992, Dame as the McMeel Performing Arts is created. Richard H. Driehaus Prize for began tracking such enrollment in • 2005 In association with its Family Professor Classical Architecture to world- data, a majority (52%) of ensembles ranging Driehaus Prize, the School in Shakespeare renowned practitioner, theorist, the incoming first-year from the Marching • 2003 The Crossroads of Architecture awards the Studies, the first and teacher Léon Krier. Driehaus class has participated Band to Concert Gallery—which is first Henry Hope Reed Award, University chair in established the annual award, which in theatre, music, and/or Bands was 430. programmed by the Snite which was also established any of the College of carries a $100,000 cash prize, at studio arts in high school. Today, the total is Museum of Art, the Institute by Richard H. Driehaus. The Arts and Letters’ fine Notre Dame because of its reputation well over 800, an for Latino Studies, and the award recognizes outstanding and performing arts as a national leader in incorporating • 2004 The state-of-the-art Marie P. DeBartolo Center for the all-time high and Department of Art, Art History, contributions to the welfare departments. traditional and classical architecture Performing Arts (DPAC) opens. There are now four buildings on • 2004 The directorship of Summer Shakespeare one of the largest and Design—opens in the of the traditional city and its into modern urban development. campus dedicated to the performing arts: the DPAC, Crowley is endowed with the creation of the Ryan music department Notre Dame Downtown office. architecture; Henry Hope Reed is Hall, the Band Building, and Washington Hall. Producing Artistic Directorship of Summer band enrollments the first recipient. Shakespeare. in the country.