#creativestate The official magazine of Arts NC State FALL 2017

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Dear Friends – s we enter the exciting start of a new school year, so, too, is it a time of exciting new Abeginnings for Arts NC State. Many readers are familiar with the construction of the new home of the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, and we take you further on that journey in this issue. We are thrilled that construction is complete and the official opening of the museum will be on Saturday, August 26. For those of you who have contributed time, energy or resources to the project, we cannot thank you enough. For all, whether you can attend the opening or visit at a later date, we look forward to welcoming you to Raleigh’s newest arts destination. Significant to the ongoing efforts of the Gregg

PHOTO BY MARC JACKSON Museum is a generous gift from Robert Black and Ormond Sanderson. As you’ll learn from our feature INSIDE THIS ISSUE article about them, their engagement with the Gregg aligns perfectly with their lives as artists and arts #creativestate Vignettes ...... 9 patrons. Their gift will ensure inspiring exhibitions The Gregg Museum Reopens ...... 20 and educational opportunities at the Gregg Museum Objects of Beauty ...... 28 for generations to come. As students complete their studies and Theatre Students Think and Do ...... 40 incorporate experiences in the arts to complement Donors ...... 44 their degree program, those of us in Arts NC State Dining Guide ...... 49 know their career will be enhanced by their arts Coda ...... 50 experiences. Teal Lepley is one such recent alumna, Events with a degree in English and multiple credits in University Theatre. A well-deserved recipient of Fall Events Calendar ...... 6 our Creative Artist Award, her path to writing the NC State LIVE Fall 2017 ...... 16 winning play is a clear statement of the value of an University Theatre Fall 2017 ...... 36 NC State education that includes the arts. Thank you for your support of Arts NC State, and I look forward to meeting many of you throughout this year. ON THE COVER The majestic magnolias on the front lawn suggest a curtain being parted to reveal the new home of the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. Old meets new, with a magnificent contemporary wing adjoining the stately Georgian-style home that served as the Rich Holly official residence of all NC State chancellors Executive Director from 1928 to 2011. Arts NC State PHOTO BY ROGER WINSTEAD

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CRAFTS CENTER GREGG MUSEUM OF NC STATE LIVE Open to campus and the ART & DESIGN NC State LIVE has established a community, the Crafts Center A free collecting and exhibition regional and national reputation provides hands-on, immersive, museum with over 35,000 objects, for presenting a professional lifelong learning skills. Focus areas the Gregg makes art accessible performing arts season of the include clay, wood, jewelry, lapidary, to the NC State community and highest artistic excellence, art on paper, photography, glass public. It’s the museum of NC connecting artists and audiences and fibers. Students and patrons State University, where objects in a meaningful exploration of the from all disciplines, backgrounds, spark ideas. diverse cultures and issues that and skill sets find a welcoming, gregg.arts.ncsu.edu define our communities and world. supportive and creative home here. live.arts.ncsu.edu crafts.arts.ncsu.edu MUSIC DEPARTMENT The Music Department provides UNIVERSITY THEATRE DANCE PROGRAM educational opportunities for Open to all NC State students, This nationally recognized program student and community participants regardless of major, University educates, empowers and inspires through a variety of ensembles and Theatre’s mission is to provide NC State student dancers and courses, and offers both Music quality theatrical, artistic and choreographers to find and express Minor and Arts Entrepreneurship practical experiences for the their creative voice. Minor curricula. The department students and larger campus as dance.arts.ncsu.edu also serves as a cultural resource well as Triangle communities. for the university and the greater theatre.arts.ncsu.edu community through numerous performances and presentations. music.arts.ncsu.edu

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AUGUST  Treasures of Native America –  Artist reception: Joumana Selections from the Drs. Norman Medlej and Gilda Greenberg Gift Crafts Center  Joumana Medlej: Art in Gregg Museum of Art & Design September 28 Times of Crisis August 26-April 29 Crafts Center August 15-October 30 OCTOBER SEPTEMBER  The Quadrivium Project plays Led Zeppelin  Aquila Theatre: Sense &  Stewart Theatre Lucky Plush Productions: free Sensibility August 24 & 26 informal showing of Rooming Stewart Theatre House (a work in progress) October 3  Gregg Grand Opening Stewart Theatre  The Exonerated Celebration September 15 Gregg Museum of Art & Design Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre  August 26 Pride & Prejudice October 18-29 Titmus Theatre  Philadanco! and Rennie Harris  Show and Tell – Celebrating September 21-October 1 the Collection of the Gregg Puremovement  Museum of Art & Design John Pizzarelli Quartet with Stewart Theatre Gregg Museum of Art & Design Catherine Russell: Billie & Blue October 18 Eyes August 26-December 31  Jazz Ensemble I Stewart Theatre Titmus Theatre  A Door is not a Window – September 23 Herb Jackson Paintings October 20  Creative Kufi calligraphy Gregg Museum of Art & Design  Theatreworks USA: Pete the workshop August 26-January 28 Cat (Kidstuff) Crafts Center Stewart Theatre September 25-29 October 22

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 Fall Choral Collage NC STATE JAZZ Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh PHOTO BY ROBERT DAVEZAC October 22

 Harold Lopez-Nussa Trio Stewart Theatre October 26

 SoJAM A Cappella Festival Various venues October 28-29

 Wind Ensemble Stewart Theatre October 31

NOVEMBER

 Ladies in Red Stewart Theatre November 4

 Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra Stewart Theatre November 5

 Beowulf, Lord of the Bros Titmus Theatre November 9-19

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EVENTS November 30  Acappology Stewart Theatre DECEMBER November 12

 Dance Program Fall Concert  Choral Holiday Concert Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre November 16-17 December 1  Wolfgang A Cappella  Grains of Time Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre November 18 VIGNETTES December 2  Holiday Crafts Fair Crafts Center November 18  FOR TICKETS  Raleigh Civic Symphony Stewart Theatre 919.515.1100 November 19 arts.ncsu.edu

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FEATURES LADIES IN RED Stewart Theatre PHOTO BY ROBERT DAVEZAC November 20

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SHREDDING COMPETITION: VIGNETTES A NEW RHYTHM FOR ARTS ENTREPRENEURSHIP

The interdisciplinary nature of the arts programming and curricula at NC State cultivates well-rounded students who will find themselves equipped to face a variety of artistic challenges. Such a student is Daniel Cece, drummer for local

progressive metal band Krosis. The band recently FEATURES signed with 10 and 8 Management, picked up their first album contract from a major heavy metal label, and had a nationwide tour in summer 2017. Cece gained sponsorship from Xcel Drumsticks, Soultone Cymbals PHOTO BY CHRISTY PETERSON and Anchor Drums. He has every reason to look and the ways I could be empowered as a professional forward to his career in music. artist while still getting an academic degree in another Daniel feels his experience at NC State as a student field.” of the arts entrepreneurship program has been an Though NC State is widely known for its excellence integral part of the band’s recent triumphs. “It’s been in STEM fields, Cece views the arts entrepreneurship such a privilege to learn all the business and marketing minor as the university’s “hidden gem” that, when aspects of the arts as an industry, specifically in music,” paired with his major in communication media, says Cece. “I attribute so much of the band’s success equipped him with the ultimate arsenal for a young to this program, and to having Dr. Gary Beckman as a professional artist in a field that relies so heavily on self- mentor.” promotion. “NC State and the arts entrepreneurship Cece believes his academic experience at NC State program have given me so much freedom to pursue has had a positive impact on his career in ways that my passion, and I couldn’t be more grateful for that.” he could not have received from any other institution. Cece is on track to graduate at the end of the “NC State was always the most practical and pragmatic fall 2017 semester. He plans to release a full-length choice for me,” he says. “From the beginning, it just concept album with Krosis on their soon to be seemed like the most all-encompassing and diverse announced label in 2018. – Areon Mobasher option for me, in terms of all the resources it provides,

33RD ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAFTS FAIR

The Saturday before Thanksgiving means one thing around here: it’s time for the annual Holiday Crafts Fair at NC State. Enjoy one-of-a-kind works by more than 40 of the Crafts Center’s local artists, representing a variety of media: clay, fibers, glass, jewelry, sculpture, painting, wood, photography and more! Saturday, November 18, 10am-5pm. Admission is only $2 per person, or $5 per family. Turned pepper mills by Crafts Center instructor Alan Leland.

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PHOTO BY WILLIAM R. RUSS, VISIT NC who memories theywilllongcherish. Panoramic DanceProjecthavedevelopedskillsand In thelastthreeyears,studentsofNCState’s TO BABACHUCK,WITHLOVE Laura NyroSuite)(2016-17). (2015),Finale(2016)andEli(excerptfrom One Another) on open andfulloflove,hisworkwasbreathtaking.” voice commandedattention,hisheartwascompletely “Sometimes Ihadtopinchmyselfwhenhecamein!His State DanceProgramTara MullinssaidaboutBabaChuck. in thestudioforpastfewyears,”directorofNC by: “Peace,LoveandRespect…ForEverybody.” Davis’ larger-than-life presencelearnedthemotto helived the BrooklynAcademyofMusic. artistic directorofDanceAfrica,anannualfestivalbasedat Ensemble. Hewasalsothefounder(1977)andlongtime North CarolinatocreatetheAfricanAmericanDance in NewYork in1968and,1982,returnedtohisnative May 14.HefoundedtheChuckDavisDanceCompany for dance,DavispassedawayathishomeinDurhamon respectfully andaffectionatelyknownas“BabaChuck.” master ofAfricandance,”RaleighnativeCharlesR.Davis, They had the opportunity to learn from a teacher They hadtheopportunitytolearnfromateacher Davis worked with Panoramic Dance Project students Davis workedwithPanoramicDanceProjectstudents “It hasbeensuchanhonorandaprivilegetohavehim Anyone whowasfortunateenoughtoexperience A distinguishedteacher, choreographerandambassador Operation Breadbasket(2014),Bi-nKa-bi( The NewYork Times called“America’s foremost Bite Not Bite Not Visit patrons attendingbothproductions. Special discountswillbeavailable to death oftheirfather. two sistersaftertheuntimelyandunexpected romantic comedyrevolvingaroundthelivesof heartbreak andsurpriseaboundinthisclassic Sense &Sensibility.Seduction,courtship,love, Theatre’s wildlyinventivenewadaptationof Theatre, NCStateLIVEpresentsAquila beloved romancenovelsinEnglishliterature. was adaptedbyJonJoryfromoneofthemost John McIlweeasMr. Bennet–thiscomedy Theatre. DirectedbyMiaSelf–andfeaturing September 21throughOctober1inTitmus Pride &PrejudiceandSenseSensibility. performances. discussions, filmscreenings,andpop-up events, toincludeinteractivevideoart,panel Libraries foraseriesofAusten-centric University TheatrejoinforceswithNCSU Jane Austen’s death,NCStateLIVEand To commemoratethe200thanniversaryof AUSTEN 200AT NCSTATE For one show only on October 3 in Stewart For oneshowonlyonOctober3inStewart University Theatre’s Pride&Prejudiceruns The maineventsareproductionsofboth go.ncsu.edu/austen200 for details.

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KEYS TO SUCCESS

For students, what makes Arts NC State unique? At NC State, students from all academic disciplines can have both a substantial academic experience in their VIGNETTES major as well as one in the arts. Daniel Hueholt – a double major in meteorology and mathematics – is fully able to exercise his lifelong passion and talents through the piano performance minor in the NC State Music Department, under the instruction of Dr. Olga Kleiankina. Having started piano lessons at

age four, Daniel’s life has always been FEATURES filled with music. He has competed in Music Teachers National Association competitions several times, and won at the state level to compete in regionals just before starting his education at NC State. He has won concerto competitions and performed with the Wilmington Symphony Youth Orchestra. In March PHOTO BY ROBERT DAVEZAC PHOTO BY ROBERT 2017, he performed a challenging program in the North Carolina Federation of Music his passion for music, though it was not always this Clubs’ collegiate competition at UNC Greensboro and way. It was not until he began a dual-enrollment won second place; all of his competitors were music program when he was in high school that he took majors. his first calculus course and realized the relationship “State’s piano performance program gives at between math and music. “I would grow to learn that least as much instruction and experiential training as the kind of math that I enjoy doing is theoretical and you’d get in any other music minor,” says Hueholt. very abstract, almost like ‘art math’,” Daniel says. His experience in the piano performance program “There are definitely some comparisons you can has been shaped by the one-on-one teaching style draw between that and music, especially in terms of employed by Kleiankina. “She’s allowed me to choose interpretation and what you can do with the technical my own repertoire and build my own path – all with elements… rather than just doing what’s on the page.” her guidance, of course – which allowed me to really Beyond the realm of coursework and training, grow into myself as an artist. She has such an eye for Hueholt is able to exercise his musical talents further technique, but also has a strong sense of musicality by performing with local ensembles such as the and interpretation, which I would argue is even more Raleigh Civic Symphony, and providing accompaniment important than just technique.” for vocalists in various audition and performance One of the standout pieces from his studies, as settings, some of whom are students in the vocal well as one of his favorites to play, is Scriabin’s “Black performance minor at NC State. Mass Sonata.” Daniel describes it as a massive, largely Daniel encourages his peers who may have given up atonal work. It is completely different from music piano upon attending NC State to check out the piano he was accustomed to and likely would not have performance program: “It is here, it is real, and it is experienced had Kleiankina not introduced him to it. awesome.” – Areon Mobasher Hueholt feels that his academic dedication to hard sciences certainly has a close relationship to

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FULL CIRCLE the new director of the university’s EVENTS Crafts Center, taking the helm after When Carol Fountain Nix came to previous director George Thomas NC State the first time, she was retired. 12 years old, attending Kay Yow’s “It’s an honor to be here at the eponymous basketball camp. Little Crafts Center,” Nix said. “This is did she know that she would return such a special place on campus with to NC State – many times. such a rich history and promising Nix came to Raleigh in 1987 to future. I am constantly delighted and do her graduate work at the College astounded by the quality of work of Design and eventually started her that is created here.” VIGNETTES own business in downtown Raleigh As an entrepreneur, designer PHOTO BY AREON MOBASHER called NIXdesign, a renowned brand and practicing artist, Nix brings design firm which she grew to over 15 people and $1.2 new vision to the Center. “I have big shoes to fill million in business – until 2008 when the economy – my predecessors built this place into what it is crashed. Nix downsized the firm and began to teach today. My goal is to move the Center forward with digital media courses, landing back at NC State as an new innovations, enhancements and advanced associate professor of the practice at the College of programming while preserving the rich legacy and Design. There she led a series of collaborative user unique personality of this valuable resource on our experience courses, bringing in engineering students campus,” she said. “I have a great team here and FEATURES to work with design students with Deutsche Bank as we’re all dedicated to making the Crafts Center a hub of a sponsor. Additionally, she developed the college’s creative energy for all students as well as faculty, staff, brand and marketing platform. In March, Nix became alumni and the community.”

LIZA’S NEW LEADERSHIP members to expand and strengthen their leadership ADVENTURE skills. Through this program, the fellows sharpen their sense of engagement with the arts presenting Liza Wade Green, associate director of NC State community and develop leadership skills. LIVE, has been selected to join the third cohort of the Prior to joining the NC State LIVE staff in November Association of Performing Arts Professionals’ (APAP) 2016, Green was development manager and Leadership Fellows Program (LFP). artist services associate with The Field, a nonprofit Launched in 2015, and developed in partnership with organization that provides fiscal sponsorship and the University of Southern California’s Arts Leadership professional and creative development services to Program, the LFP is a 20-month-long program for mid- performing and media artists in New York City. She career performing arts professionals. earned an MFA in performance and interactive media “The Leadership Fellows Program examines core arts from CUNY Brooklyn College, and is co-creator questions around content and scope of leadership and producer of The Institute for Psychogeographic development for the performing Adventure. arts field. It highlights, supports The Association of Performing and helps participants understand Arts Professionals, based in and define the many reaches Washington, D.C., is the national of leadership and its capabilities service, advocacy and membership through peer-to-peer mentoring and organization dedicated to developing creating a community of support,” PHOTO BY MARC JACKSON and supporting a robust performing says Mario Garcia Durham, arts presenting field and the president and CEO of APAP. professionals who work within it. APAP has been committed to Each January, APAP presents the leadership development in the annual APAP|NYC conference, changing ecology of the performing the world’s leading forum and arts industry, providing avenues for marketplace for the performing arts.

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NEW NILE PROJECT ALBUM RECORDED IN NORTH CAROLINA

NC State LIVE’s groundbreaking presentation of The Nile Project residency in spring 2017 leaves behind VIGNETTES more than memories of amazing music and inspiration for future sustainability efforts. There’s also an album. While in North Carolina, the Nile Project musicians spent several days in the high-end studio of Manifold Recording in Pittsboro, laying down tracks for their third album, Tana. Scheduled for release in summer 2017, FEATURES the new recording is named for the lake that serves as the source of the PHOTO BY HABI GIRGIS Blue Nile in Ethiopia. Arts NC State served as co-executive producer of Copies of the new album are available online at nileproject.org. the project. Check out photos of the recording process at go.ncsu.edu/tana.

INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES IN DANCE

At age fourteen, Maria Potepalova performed in the United States for the first time. A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, she was a member of the Golden Gates Cultural Program, a collection of folk-based performing arts ensembles composed of artists from Russia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, representing and sharing their respective cultures on tour throughout the country. Having danced since age six, Maria began her career in St. Petersburg in one of the city’s leading youth ensembles. Her repertoire consists of a myriad of folk as a leading coordinator for the Triangle Russian Festival. dances originating from Russia, Ukraine and Hungary, Maria feels a personal connection to the way that as well as other European countries, all with a primary arts experiences are provided for students at NC focus on Russian tradition. By the time she was State. “I think Arts NC State is very unique within the pursuing her bachelor’s degree in public relations from university as a whole,” she says. “Students here can St. Petersburg State University, Maria had performed in truly experience dance, receive very deep training China, Bulgaria, Italy, Finland and Estonia. in dance, and take several master classes… In my Upon finishing her undergraduate degree, Potepalova experience back in St. Petersburg, I had to travel an returned to the United States and earned her M.A. in hour from my university to continue my dance training, communication here at NC State. She then began her to keep doing what I had done all my life, just because work with the Dance Program – both as the marketing I was not majoring in dance… I really appreciate all that assistant and a teacher of master classes – and serves NC State does for non-arts majors.” – Areon Mobasher

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JOUMANA MEDLEJ:

EVENTS ART IN TIMES OF CRISIS

The Crafts Center, in collaboration with the NC State’s Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, will host artist-in-residence Joumana Medlej, September 25-29. Joumana Medlej is a Lebanese calligraphy artist, trained by a master in Beirut and now living in England. PHOTO BY ROBERT DAVEZAC PHOTO BY ROBERT

VIGNETTES Her body of work encompasses THE QUADRIVIUM PROJECT drawing tutorials, graphic design, illustration, comic books, digital games and children’s PLAYS LED ZEPPELIN literature. Joumana’s visual language is based on Kufi calligraphy, What better way to start the school year than the first great Arabic script, now largely forgotten even by with a Led Zeppelin tribute concert! Featuring NC native speakers. She received the essence of Kufi while State faculty members Katherine Annett-Hitchcock working with master calligrapher Samir Sayegh, and went (Textiles), Gary Beckman (Arts Entrepreneurship), on to gain a deep understanding of it through her own Tommy Holden (Health and Exercise Studies), FEATURES practice and research. The stylized, repeated words that Rich Holly (Arts NC State) and Tom Koch (Music), make up each art piece endow it with the script’s intrinsic The Quadrivium Project is both NC State’s faculty qualities – an inner consonance of shapes and proportions rock band as well as an educational vehicle to that reflects classical teachings on beauty – making each discover and explore entrepreneurial opportunities of them a self-contained whole, a world with its own for students related to contemporary live music natural laws. making. Come enjoy a fun evening of Zep music- Madlej will conduct several workshops and special making, learn about cool student projects, and sessions during her week on campus at NC State. Visit perhaps even sing along. crafts.arts.ncsu.edu for a full listing of events. Joumana Medlej’s work will be exhibited in the Crafts Center gallery, Thursday & Saturday, August 24 & 26 at 8pm August 15-October 30, with a reception on September 28 Stewart Theatre from 5:30-7:30pm.

NC STATE MUSIC HOSTS SOJAM

In late October, the NC State Music Department will host SoJam, a weekend-long a cappella extravaganza produced by The Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA). All four of the Music Department’s a cappella ensembles – Acappology, Grains of Time, Ladies in Red and Wolfgang – will take part in welcoming guests to campus. PHOTO BY JOHN SHYLOSKI Jam-packed with concerts, competitions, master The weekend includes a professional showcase at classes and hands-on workshops led by some of the the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts on biggest names in the vocal music industry, SoJam has Saturday, October 28, featuring headliners Arora established itself as one of the most exciting a cappella (previously Sonos), known for vocals mixed with gatherings in the world, providing opportunities for electronics; and Take 6, the ten-time Grammy Award- professional groups and clinicians to mix with students winning sextet that Quincy Jones calls the “baddest and singers of all levels. vocal cats on the planet.” Learn more at sojam.net.

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After the first wildly successful year of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass event, the Office of Raleigh Arts put out a call for proposals for an interactive public art piece to be installed for the next festival in 2014. Wyoming artist Bland Hoke conceived the winning entry with his plan for the Banjostand, created with defective banjo necks and pots that had been accumulating for 25 years at the Deering Banjo Company in California. When local volunteers were needed for assembly, Raleigh’s public art director, Kim Curry-Evans, contacted Arts NC State. The students of NC State’s Arts Village answered the call, and have helped put together the most popular photo spot at the festival ever since.

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PHILADANCO! AND RENNIE HARRIS PUREMOVEMENT: STRAIGHT OUTTA’ PHILLY OCTOBER 18 IN STEWART THEATRE

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LIVE Fall 2017 VIGNETTES PHILADANCO! AND LUCKY PLUSH PRODUCTIONS: RENNIE HARRIS ROOMING HOUSE PUREMOVEMENT: Friday, September 15 at 8pm STRAIGHT OUTTA’ PHILLY Stewart Theatre Wednesday, October 18 at 8pm Stewart Theatre Get a free peek into the artistic process. Join an NC State LIVE favorite – Lucky Plush Productions – as they develop their newest Two Philadelphia dance institutions FEATURES dance/theatre work, set to premiere later this year in Chicago. In join forces for a spectacular evening Rooming House, the company uses a complex game of whodunit that fuses hip-hop and contemporary to explore how we use stories to make cases for what we believe ballet. The Philadelphia Dance Company in and how we alter perceptions of what is real. You can be a part – better known as Philadanco! – has of the process at this free work-in-progress showing. been celebrated worldwide for their innovation, creativity and preservation of predominantly African-American traditions JOHN PIZZARELLI QUARTET WITH in dance. Rennie Harris Puremovement CATHERINE RUSSELL: BILLIE & BLUE emerged over 20 years ago as a force on EYES the hip-hop scene and the dance world Saturday, September 23 at 8pm at large. This shared evening includes Stewart Theatre dances from each of their extensive repertories, alongside a powerful new Cat Russell’s Grammy Award-winning vocals and John Pizzarelli’s work choreographed by Harris and smooth quartet pair to evoke the glory days of jazz, taking on two danced by both companies. of the greats: Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. This unforgettable evening features soulful interpretations of chart-topping classics like “All of Me,” God Bless the Child,” “Witchcraft,” and “One PETE THE CAT More for My Baby.” Instead of stepping back in time, these great Sunday, October 22 at 3pm artists pull these songs gracefully into the present, and do it all Stewart Theatre (Kidstuff Series) with their signature panache. Based on the bestselling Pete the Cat series of books by Kimberly and James AQUILA THEATRE: SENSE & SENSIBILITY Dean, this family-friendly musical by Tuesday, October 3 at 8pm Theatreworks USA takes audiences on a Stewart Theatre groovy feline journey, travelling all the way to Paris and back in a yellow VW Bus. Seduction, courtship, love, heartbreak and surprise abound! To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, Aquila Theatre breathes life into one of her most beloved works in a wildly inventive new production. Though the stakes are high, Austen’s tale is a classic romantic comedy revolving around the lives of two sisters after the untimely and unexpected death of their father. See page 10 to learn more about Austen 200 at NC State.

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PHOTO BY THE LITTLE MATCHSTICK FACTORY PHOTO BY EDUARDO RAWDRIGUEZ JOHN PIZZARELLI QUARTET EVENTS WITH CATHERINE RUSSELL: BILLIE & BLUE EYES SEPTEMBER 23 IN STEWART THEATRE VIGNETTES FEATURES HAROLD LÓPEZ-NUSSA TRIO Thursday, October 26 at 8pm SPRING 2018 PERFORMANCES Stewart Theatre The Birdland All-Stars featuring Tommy Igoe Saturday, February 3 Young Cuban pianist and composer Harold López- Nussa is garnering international success by marrying Urban Bush Women: Hair and Other Stories his classical piano chops with his jazz roots. Friday, February 9 Collaboration with veterans from the Buena Vista Somi Social Club to singer Omara Portuondo have helped Saturday, February 24 shape his musical style – muscular, elegant, familiar and fresh – rooted in Cuban tradition yet permeated Dragons Love Tacos by sounds from other parts of the world. His 2016 Sunday, March 11 (Kidstuff Series) album, El Viaje (The Journey), recently hit number ETHEL with Robert Mirabal: The River one on the iTunes Jazz Chart. Thursday, March 15

Marc Bamuthi Joseph/The Living Word RED BARAAT Project: /peh-LO-tah/ Saturday, November 11 at 8pm Wednesday, March 28 Stewart Theatre L.A. Theatre Works: The Mountaintop Tuesday, April 17 Back by popular demand on NC State LIVE’s stage, Red Baraat can mesmerize an audience with a funk groove, turn a switch, and drive the same crowd to the brink of delirium. In this Brooklyn- based eight-piece band, a horn section blares,  percussionists pound, everybody shouts, and the FOR TICKETS group’s charismatic leader, Sunny Jain, holds the 919.515.1100 and arts.ncsu.edu explosive songs together with rhythms from his dhol – the Indian double-headed drum played slung over the shoulder that provides bhangra with its frenetic heartbeat. NPR hails Red Baraat as, “the best party band in years,” for their high-energy gut-busting LEARN MORE AND CONNECT! fusion of jazz, hip-hop beats, rock muscle, funky live.arts.ncsu.edu go-go, and scalding hot bhangra.    NCStateLIVE

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THE GREGG, REVEALED BY KATE DOBBS ARIAIL

hen I spoke with Roger Manley at the designed by renowned architect Hobart Upjohn in beginning of June, he was in the midst of the 1920s. The Georgian-style brick house has been W packing up his office. The director of the given a museum-grade makeover by the architectural Gregg Museum of Art & Design had just received the firm Perkins+Will, which also designed the very keys to its new facility on Hillsborough Street five days contemporary addition that gives the Gregg far more, previously, and he was gearing up for the final push that and more flexible, exhibition space, as well as providing will give NC State a freestanding art museum for the efficient storage for the expanding collection (currently first time in its history. “It’s been a receding mirage,” over 35,000 objects). Chancellor Randy Woodson and Manley said, “but we’ve finally closed in on it. It’s his wife now have a home on Centennial Campus, suddenly real!” but Susan Woodson, who serves on the board of The new Gregg occupies a prominent spot on the the Friends of the Gregg, notes that “the historic NC State campus: the former chancellor’s residence, chancellor’s residence was our first home in Raleigh.

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Randy and I believe that great universities have great 2013, and into temporary quarters tucked away on museums, so we supported the new life of the Brickhaven Drive. Many people won’t have realized that chancellor’s residence as the university’s first stand- museum work still went on, and at a breakneck pace, alone museum.” And as longtime supporter Jerry even without an on-campus exhibitions roster. “The Jackson points out, “by putting the new Gregg on the activity level has not been as diminished as people front doorstep of the university, the Gregg Museum of might think, but our profile has been obscured,” says Art & Design is welcoming both the NC State family Manley. In addition to raising money and planning future and the community at large to enjoy the beautiful exhibitions and publications (museum shows may be objects.” conceived and developed over a period of two to five An interesting thing about the new Gregg is that it years), routine care of the collections and upgrading is going to be new without actually being new. The the cataloging system, the Gregg continued as much Gregg has existed, in other forms and under previous as possible to make the collections available to faculty names since the late 1970s, but was nearly invisible and students – and director Manley, who also serves after it moved out of the Talley Student Center in as curator, put together exhibitions for small spaces at

arts.ncsu.edu 21 the university and other see her gallery-baby grown museums around the and fledged into a free- state. standing museum feels, Dan Ellison, president she says, “fabulous! It EVENTS of the board of the Friends was worth all the tears and of the Gregg (FOG), says anxieties; the bad jokes that “being without an on cow college art; the exhibition space for a while begging for great gifts.” has required the museum Over the years and to be more collaborative, through the iterations of and that’s a good thing.” the Gregg, its mission Lending to other museums has remained much the is “about sharing the same, but the changing

VIGNETTES wealth.” nature of the state and the As a land-grant school, university has changed such sharing is in the its expression. Originally, university’s DNA. Still, the curators were there’s no place like home. charged with building a “I’m very excited about study collection “directly the opportunity to finally influenced by the state’s

put stuff on our walls,” PHOTO BY traditional pottery, its textile says Manley. “We have ROGER WINSTEAD and furniture histories, and

FEATURES had exhibitions in other the university’s curricula,” people’s spaces, and that’s been interesting – but says Wainwright. Given the prominence of NC State’s frustrating at times. It’s not the same thing as having architecture and design curricula, the collections your own space and getting all the credit for it,” he came to include many extraordinary examples from laughs. across the spectrum of design. While the textile, Dr. Charlotte V. Wainwright knows all about that. ceramics and furniture holdings are deep and wide, Wainwright (then Dr. Charlotte V. Brown) was the the collection is also rich in photography, and there are founding director of the Visual Art Gallery, one of two many marvelous examples of folk/outsider art, jewelry, names the institution was called before being endowed metalsmithing, graphics, architectural models and less by the Gregg family. Hired in 1982 as the second easily classifiable wonders – the international puppet curator, following Ben Williams, she founded the Visual collection, for instance. Arts Program to continue to carry out the twin charge of Looking back on all the exhibitions, one sees a mounting exhibitions in the University Student Center gradual change from North Carolina-focused exhibitions (now Talley Student Union) and building a collection for in the early years toward shows with much greater study at NC State. She transformed this into the Gallery scope and international content. Dan Ellison, of the of Art & Design in 1992 (renamed the Gregg Museum FOG board, says that the museum “has a real sense of Art & Design in 2007), continuing as its director until of grassroots to it that is very endearing,” noting that her retirement in 2009. While the dedicated gallery and director Manley’s “own creativity, interest in and workspace in the Talley was a great advance over glass knowledge about outsider art fits so well with the cases in the ballroom and the odd corner, “when you Gregg’s overall mission.” Under Manley’s ongoing had to find the Gregg up in the air and with no direct leadership, expect the changes to pick up speed once connection to any particular activity in the student the doors open on Hillsborough Street. center, and just showing anything successfully was “I’m very committed to doing shows that cross a challenge.” Wainwright says that the new Gregg academic boundaries more and more, bringing a will finally fulfill the vision university leaders saw in contemporary and cross-disciplinary energy to the the 1970s when they set out to bring the arts and mission” he says. In 2019, the Gregg will mount an humanities into balance with the STEM disciplines. exhibition about genetic engineering and society, “When I told people I wanted the chancellor’s for example. “What is the role of art in genetic historic residence for the Gregg, many scoffed, but I engineering?” he muses. “Genetic engineering says believed in the vision of a museum for NC State, not ‘if you can envision it, you can make it happen.’” This for one particular college or program,” she says. And to could almost be the NC State University motto. “The

22 #CREATIVESTATE students are our first audience, so we need to make major, Beggen encountered the Gregg when his EVENTS shows that will mean something to them. What will freshman year class on the history and archeology of they find exciting, what will open their eyes? There are ancient Latin America visited the collections in their a lot of people who want to enjoy the handmade, the temporary home. After seeing the pre-Columbian beautiful, the physical object. But NC State is a STEM textiles there, and getting a “great introduction to university. Anything I can do to bridge that gap between working with actual cultural material in a museum sensory experience and the exploration of the world context,” he applied to intern with the museum. that science opens up, I want the Gregg to do.” As a sophomore, he worked with museum staff Susan Woodson reinforces that: “Art enables us documenting and helping to preserve the Gregg’s VIGNETTES to experience the world another way, to invoke our collection of ancient Andean textiles. That experience creativity and our imaginations, and to engage with led to an internship at the National Museum of Natural diverse perspectives. The Gregg Museum embodies History, and to an NC State Professional Experience the complementary role that the arts have at NC State – Program position at the Gregg, during which he a way to explore and understand the world beyond our undertook various tasks related to organizing the immediate experiences.” Quoting playwright Wilson collections ahead of the move to the new building – Mizner, who said “art is science made clear,” she before heading to Bolivia for summer work in a small emphasizes that “art plays an important role in every rural museum. “My work with the Gregg has been discipline, including STEM disciplines.” necessary for my career development,” he says, adding

Rising senior Ian Beggen agrees enthusiastically, that, “I arrived after the Gregg had already moved out FEATURES even though he is not a STEM student. “I feel like the of the old Talley. I’m extremely excited to see how all of artistic community at State is kind of overshadowed the objects which were previously not displayed to the by the prominence of our STEM programs,” he says. public will be exhibited.” “With the addition of the new Gregg, NCSU will be The new Gregg will open with three exhibitions. able to show that we are committed to the study of Show and Tell will be what Manley calls not a “best-of the humanities as well.” An anthropology and Spanish show” but “a core sample, to reintroduce our public

YOU HAVE TO WALK AROUND BACK TO SEE THIS GORGEOUS PART OF THE NEW GREGG MUSEUM. THE POLLINATOR GARDEN WRAPS AROUND THE GREEN LAWN IN THE CENTER.

PHOTO BY ROGER WINSTEAD arts.ncsu.edu 23 to the kinds of things we creativity and modernist have here, and to remind thinking). people that we are really Manley also speaks game for anything.” It excitedly about a beautiful EVENTS will be accompanied by a example of the synergy 336-page catalogue, replete between NC State and with 500 photographs, and the artists of North will utilize two of the new Carolina. Robert Black spaces: the J. Norwood and and Ormond Sanderson Valeria C. Adams Gallery are artists whose own and the Randy and Susan work is underrecognized, Woodson Gallery. The overshadowed as it has Robert Keith Black and J. been by the importance

VIGNETTES Ormond Sanderson, Jr. of their early high-design Gallery will host a dozen gallery between Chapel Hill recent paintings by North and Durham, and by their Carolina artist Herb Jackson. influence as collectors. Manley, who co-curated A Even while they still had Door is not a Window with their Straw Valley gallery, Lia Newman of the gallery Manley says, the pair “had at Davidson College where quit worrying about showing Jackson taught for many and just kept making” their

FEATURES years, said that Jackson paintings and enameled was “instrumental to the panels. He adds, “their work founding of the Raleigh deserves to be seen,” and Fine Arts Society,” an early the Gregg will mount an piece of Raleigh’s cultural exhibition of their artwork infrastructure, and that he alongside items from their “wanted to celebrate that” collection in the spring of at the Gregg’s opening on 2018. As artists supporting Hillsborough Street. The the arts, Black and third exhibition is Treasures TOP: EVENING GOWN, 1909, BY Sanderson have committed of Native America, a choice CALLOT SOEURS, PARIS, FRANCE. SILK, substantial gifts to the Gregg selection from a collection EMBELLISHED WITH CELLULOID SEQUINS Museum (see Objects of AND GLASS GEMS. GIFT OF SUSAN BIGGS donated to the Gregg by AND MYRTA SPENCE. Beauty, page 28). Drs. Norman and Gilda Besides being much ABOVE: MOUNTAIN LAUREL RING, 2006, BY Greenberg, on display in C. JAMES MEYER, AMERICAN. CAST GLASS, bigger, the new building the galleries of the historic GOLD, SILVER, COPPER, WOOD. GIFT OF allows the Gregg to be residence. FRIENDS OF THE GALLERY. more in many ways. The All will remain on view PHOTOS BY DOUG VAN DE ZANDE (TOP), MATTHEW GAY (ABOVE) flexible gallery design will throughout the fall semester, allow bigger exhibitions, or with staggered closings in early 2018. “There will in different configurations, more simultaneous, smaller always be something on display,” said Manley before exhibitions. There will be enough space in the galleries, reeling off a list of stimulating exhibitions already in lobby and outdoors for screenings and concerts. development and on the calendar for the next two The improved collections storage and management years. In addition to the genetic engineering show, areas will make study access even easier. The online exhibitions already in the planning stages include collection catalog is constantly being improved with one of kinetic sculptures by North Carolina artist Bob better images and more precise location information Trotman; one on Surrealist furniture; a selection of (there is a separate catalog for the small specialist wet-plate photographs of blues musicians by Tim Duffy; library which is also accessible to the public). “The stuff and an ambitious look at the output of Mountain Lake is on the shelves to be seen and used,” says Manley. Workshop (which Manley describes as “Virginia’s “We will make anything available to anyone if they let version of Black Mountain College,” that hotbed of us know ahead of time.”

24 #CREATIVESTATE The new Gregg is beekeeper in her spare EVENTS different in a very significant time, learned about a grant way: Rather than being possibility from the Bayer “up in the air” it meets the CropScience Bee Center in visitor at ground level – and Research Triangle Park. She it has three acres of grounds connected the museum, and gardens. And it makes the grant-maker and itself easy to get to, whether Anne Spafford, associate walking from campus, professor in the Department VIGNETTES downtown or over the of Horticultural Science, connection from Raleigh’s who had her landscape Pullen Park with its own arts design students propose facilities. “It’s a little arts pollinator garden plans. The campus just across from Gregg chose the ideas they the College of Design,” favored from the designs; says Manley happily. A stop the students then worked for NC State’s Wolfline collaboratively on what and the city’s GoRaleigh Manley calls “a gorgeous buses is right outside, and design.” It was planted in FEATURES there is parking available the spring and immediately for those who drive from began nurturing bees as well off-campus. “Now you can as human souls. park, walk in, walk to it – it It’s been a long road to the is fresh and green and at new Gregg, paved with the the same time it declares visions and dreams of many its allegiance to the history people over many years. of the school,” declares Says Susan Woodson: former director Wainwright, “There have been so many who grappled with all the individuals involved in the access difficulties of the vision and the success of former site. According to the Gregg Museum that FOG president Dan Ellison, TOP: VASE OR BOTTLE, CA. THIRTEENTH it’s hard to give them all the “it is going to add to the arts CENTURY, UNKNOWN KOREAN MAKER. credit they deserve. The transformation happening CELADON-GLAZED AND INCISED Friends of the Gregg have STONEWARE. GIFT OF HELEN S. UNDERHILL. all along the Hillsborough been a vibrant, dedicated, Street corridor. It will be as ABOVE: KATSINAM, EARLY 1950S, VARIOUS mission-driven group since HOPI MAKERS, NORTHERN ARIZONA. HAND- transformative to NC State CARVED AND PAINTED COTTONWOOD, they started in 1983, and it’s as the Nasher Museum has FEATHERS, AND LEATHER. GIFT FROM DRS. been an honor to be on their been to Duke.” NORMAN AND GILDA GREENBERG. board. The partnerships with Once the museum staff PHOTOS BY ROGER MANLEY (TOP), MATTHEW GAY (ABOVE) students, the City of Raleigh, understands how people Wake County, and many want to use the outdoor space, the Gregg will create private donors and friends have allowed the vision to a sculpture garden – but they’ll start right off with a become a reality.” Vollis Simpson whirligig in the front yard. What could Jerry and Nina Jackson are two of the generous be better? No one can resist the multiple pleasures of donors who have been crucial to realizing the vision. the kinetic works of the late Wilson County master of “As an early member of the Friends of the Arts NC physics and “junk” parts. There’s a Horace Farlowe State Board of Advisors, I was hooked on adding multipart marble sculpture waiting for its spot to be beauty to my alma mater,” says Jerry Jackson. “Nina found, and more works will follow as the sculpture and I were involved in the capital campaign for the garden develops. Thompson Hall project and named an element for our Another kind of garden is already in place, thanks fathers. We were looking for another target to name to another NC State connection-collaboration story. for our mothers, and the garden at the new Gregg Professor Sue Carson of the TH!NK program, a combined our love for galleries and gardens. NC State

arts.ncsu.edu 25 is a place of memories for us. It is also a place for creativity to flourish. Art underpins creativity. We like being a part of that.”

EVENTS Jackson exhorts everyone to “first, go visit the THE Gregg and experience the blending together of the old and the new, the traditional and the cutting edge, the education and the pure enjoyment of the gardens and galleries. And second,” he continues, “become a Friends of the Gregg member and volunteer some time to become more immersed in the Gregg experience.” Susan Woodson also says “I would absolutely BIG encourage everyone to consider joining Friends of DAY! VIGNETTES the Gregg. It provides a way for everyone in the community to engage with the arts – whether it’s visual arts, performances, readings or films. It has August 26, 2017 enabled NC State to have a larger presence in Raleigh’s arts corridor, which means that more individuals in the 10am-3pm community will benefit from experiencing art at the Gregg and being involved in events.” The new Gregg Museum of Art & Design will Student Ian Beggen, who also served on the open its doors on Saturday, August 26. The day FOG board, agrees wholeheartedly. “I encourage of free events will begin with a ribbon-cutting

FEATURES all students, regardless of their majors, to visit the ceremony followed by exhibition viewings, new Gregg. This is a great opportunity for NC State activities, artist demonstrations, tours and students and Raleigh locals alike to experience a wide performances. range of art in a beautiful new location.” Director Roger Manley says the new Gregg Explore the galleries Museum of Art & Design is, simply put, “more of Docents stationed throughout the museum’s a place. The experience begins when you see the galleries will answer your questions about the museum and walk up to it. All the arts are about three opening exhibitions and the beautiful enhancing the senses, being alive, enjoying the world. new museum space. If we do our jobs right, I think people will love it.” Enjoy activities and demonstrations Good museums are always ever-renewing places Events for the whole family will reflect the where past, present and future can feed and fight each Gregg’s collections and mission. other. The new Gregg, a veritable palimpsest of visions for the humanities through art and design, will be no Discover the pollinator garden exception. It’s very architecture, which depends upon Tour our new habitat for the bees and harmony of proportion, links a brick-built past with the butterflies, designed and installed by NC State more varied structural textures of today, and on August horticultural science students. 26 its welcoming doors will open to the collected objects of past and present, and to the viewers of the Become a member future. Learn how you can support the new museum “I have witnessed the transformation,” says Susan by being a member of the Friends of the Woodson, “and am thrilled with the result. As the Gregg. Gregg Museum, the historic chancellor’s home is opening its doors to the entire community – to engage Follow the Gregg as we prepare to open  with art and each other. I cannot imagine a better facebook.com/greggmuseum  future for this historic building, and one that better ncstategreggmuseum  represents the vibrancy of NC State.”  greggmuseum

Kate Dobbs Ariail has written widely on the arts since Get details for the Gregg grand opening at 1988. The Five Points Star, her cultural criticism blog, gregg.arts.ncsu.edu. can be found at thefivepointsstar.com.

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n 1959, when Ormond Sanderson and Robert their generous gifts to the Gregg, they have ensured Black were young men just getting started, they their mission to preserve and educate, create and Imade a leap of faith that would set them on a appreciate beautiful design will continue for many path to a lifetime of making, collecting, appreciating decades to come. and sharing beautiful things. For more than six decades, in their soft-spoken, Southern-gentlemanly A LEAP OF FAITH way, Robert and Ormond have lived and preached a Ormond Sanderson grew up in Raleigh. The son of gospel of the value of beauty and elegant design in longtime superintendent of Raleigh Public Schools, absolutely everything. Jesse O. Sanderson (for whom Sanderson High Last year, Ormond and Robert committed a School is named), he pursued a music education at transformative planned the University of Michigan, gift of $3.44 million to earning B.M and M.M. the Gregg Museum “The range and diversity of degrees there. After a stint of Art & Design, the the Gregg’s collection sets it in the service during the largest gift in Arts NC apart from other museums as Korean conflict, where he State’s history, and an being unique in the respect helped to train the drum important investment corps, he returned to in NC State’s Think and of relating art, technology Michigan to begin doctoral Do the Extraordinary and design to one another… a work. Campaign. Their gift will relationship of the utilitarian It was not this formal ultimately be endowed to the aesthetic.” graduate work that and used to support would forever alter museum exhibitions and ORMOND SANDERSON Ormond’s life trajectory, collection acquisitions. but rather his studies Eager to make an with Polish artist, Erik impact today on the opening exhibitions, Ormond and Kamroski, experimenting in stained glass and mobile Robert have also made cash donations to help the construction. This exploration into design and craft museum during this critical period in its history. With would lead to Ormond’s longtime passion for enamel

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ROBERT BLACK

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work. This fusing of glass with metals would bring for art, craft and good design, and before long decided him much acclaim, and he would continue his that teaching was not their passion – creating was. experimentation and innovation in the medium for And destiny, it seems, bent their way; Ormond’s uncle decades. He has said: “Enamel is a viewing glass owned a homestead and some farmland between through which a philosophy of life may be seen.” And Durham and Chapel Hill. “It happened to be empty so, as his own life philosophy began to emerge, a at that point,” says Robert, “so we said, well let’s change was brewing for Ormond. open a store and make a living doing crafts.” Their Robert, also a native North Carolinian, is the son minds made up, the two spent every weekend of Dr. Charles Black, a longtime Wake Forest College that spring semester in 1959, readying an old cabin professor of chemistry. He earned a degree in biology on the property to become their first gallery. They from the University of Michigan and a Master of cleaned and repaired, installed windows and wiring, Arts in painting at the University of Georgia, where weatherproofed and painted throughout the winter. he studied under painter Howard Thomas. Robert’s The one-time dairy farm’s 200 acres was at what is budding interest in design led him also to attend now the intersection of 15-501 and I-40, but in 1959, Parson’s School of Design in New York, studying it was an idyllic rural setting. Robert and Ormond interior design there. named it Straw Valley for the fields of broom straw In the late 1950s, Robert and Ormond both found that surrounded the house and outbuildings. (Though their way to tiny Atlantic Christian College (now Barton Ormond would quip in an interview at the time, that College) in Wilson, NC, where Ormond taught in the after their first winter spent in the drafty old cabin, music department and Robert in the art department. they should have named it “Windy Hill.”) But it wasn’t their faculty positions that introduced To help the boys out in those early days, Ormond’s the two to each other – it was Robert’s rambunctious mother, who was a superb Southern cook, would Doberman. As fate would have it, Robert’s apartment make box lunches for them to sell on the roadside on in Wilson was directly above Ormond’s. “When I first game days to the motorists making their way between moved in, I kept hearing these thunderous sounds Chapel Hill and Durham for college football. above on the ceiling – like an earthquake really,” Robert, who had first become interested in laughs Ormond. “I finally went upstairs to see what ceramics while in school at the University of Georgia, was going on, and it was just his dog running and decided that selling pottery, unlike his paintings, was playing with a bone!” a better bet for making a living. And so, he took a The two quickly realized their shared appreciation six-week pottery course at NC State. “Looking back,

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THIS ENAMEL WORK BY ORMOND SANDERSON WAS CHOSEN TO REPRESENT THE U.S. IN THE AMERICAN PAVILION AT THE 1964-65 NEW YORK WORLD’S FAIR.

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it seems awfully foolhardy to have started something Wegner and Charles and Ray Eames. He frequented we knew nothing about,” says Robert with a smile. the Georg Jensen, Bonniers and Venini stores, Another outbuilding, the old blacksmith’s shop, impressed with the high-design concepts of their would become their studio. Robert installed a pottery furniture, fabrics, furnishings, tableware and lighting. wheel and large kiln in the back for his clay pitchers Robert and Ormond’s enthusiasm for Scandinavian and teapots, lanterns and bells. And Ormond had two design was a great influence on both the design of small electric kilns and a work table for his enameling. Straw Valley as well as the furniture and wares they He would create copper bowls, plaques and boxes, would promote. And, just as they were committed to etched and fused with powdered glass. introducing the work of local artisans to the Triangle, They named their new enterprise the Straw Valley the pair were equally devoted to cultivating interest in Craft House. In addition to selling their own wares, Danish Modern design in the more traditionally minded the pair were deeply committed to introducing the South. “You know, now there’s a lot of interest in local community to craft as more than the product of beautifully designed functional objects,” comments casual weekend hobbyists. “We’ve always had an Robert. “But back when we were starting out here, interest in trying to promote design and to educate that just wasn’t true.” They carried Knoll and Tech people,” says Ormond. In their new gallery, they furniture, along with lamps and lanterns by Japanese- carried the pottery of Ben Owen at Jugtown and J.B. American sculptor Isami Noguchi and bronze wind bells Cole, weavings by Sandra Miller, jewelry and myriad by Italian-American architect and artist, Paolo Soleri. decorative pieces from master craftsmen in the area. Robert and Ormond ultimately composed a Within six months of opening, they had outgrown the kind of bucolic creative enclave at Straw Valley, tiny cabin and moved their showroom into the larger a Southern oasis, uniting traditional crafts with main house on the property. modern Scandinavian and Japanese design. Existing structures were moved and reclaimed, and the private A MODERN AESTHETIC courtyards this created were planted with bamboo and Robert’s time spent in New York had piqued his landscaped with serene Japanese influences. interest in modern design. He was drawn to the Knoll Additions were built and artifacts, salvaged from and Herman Miller showrooms, featuring the furniture historic buildings further afield, incorporated. The of icons of the era like Mies van der Rohe, Hans barn and another structure were transformed into

30 #CREATIVESTATE their residence, and outbuildings were converted to metal surface. A gold enamel box he created was a EVENTS additional studio and retail space. gift to Princess Grace of Monaco. His enamel work And everywhere, woven into the walls and the was chosen to represent the U.S. in the American windows, the interiors and Pavilion at the 1964-65 New the gardens, were Robert York World’s Fair. and Ormonds’ own designs The two quickly Robert exhibited his and handiwork. Ormond’s ceramic sculpture in regional cast cement sculpture realized their shared and national venues. A filled the courtyards, and appreciation for art, prize-winning urn was VIGNETTES Robert crafted the glossy craft and good design, added to the North Carolina ebony tiles for the fireplace and before long Museum of Art’s collection. surround. Robert designed decided that teaching Fortuitously, it was the first a dramatic butterfly roof of his pieces to become a and Ormond the etched was not their part of the Gregg Museum’s windows in a sunroom. passion – creating was. collection when the Museum The influence of the of Art transferred ceramics to natural world can be seen NC State University in 1998. in all of the varied endeavors of these two artist- Among his commissions, Black was selected to create craftsmen – in the subtle earth tones and organic lines a stoneware and metal table for a home designed by FEATURES of Robert’s stoneware and the cell-like structures of renowned modernist architect George Matsumoto. Ormond’s inlaid enamel (some of which even harbor The Straw Valley campus continued to evolve for microscopic animal and plant-seed forms). “A lot of more than two decades. In 1972, a long-term goal our work has been impacted by natural things,” says was achieved when a modern two-story commercial Ormond. “And I think in some ways we are trying to structure was designed and built on the property by protect the beauty of nature with what we do.” the locally renowned modernist architects Cogswell Ormond experimented with acid etching the copper Hausler. Ormond and Robert changed the name plates on which he applied enamel, creating subtle, of their showroom to Design Gallery to reflect its almost monochromatic palettes on the engraved growing sophistication and later to SABL Gallery (for

fundraising effort in NC State history, and donors like Robert Black and Ormond Sanderson are setting the pace for support of the arts during this campaign. They hope their gift will inspire others to consider how they can invest in the Gregg Museum. The impact of a gift of this significance will be felt across the museum. “Because of their confidence in us,” Roger Manley says, “we wake up each day eager to see what we’ll be able to achieve next.”

The Robert Keith Black and J. Ormond Sanderson, Jr. Endowment will provide support in perpetuity for: • Designing, installing and presenting engaging and diverse exhibitions. he Gregg Museum of Art & Design was one of • Offering thought-provoking programming and Tthe first extraordinary places completed as part of publications that build on visitors’ experiences with NC State University’s Think and Do the Extraordinary the exhibitions. Campaign, creating extraordinary opportunities and • Acquiring new art for the museum’s diverse experiences that benefit our students, campus and collection, which currently includes more than community. The Campaign is the most ambitious 35,000 objects.

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BLACK AND SANDERSON’S LIVING ROOM SHOWCASES THEIR EXQUISITE SENSE OF DESIGN,

FEATURES FEATURING MID-CENTURY MODERN CLASSICS, BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS COLLECTED FROM AROUND THE WORLD, AND PAINTINGS, POTTERY AND SCULPTURE BY BOTH ARTISTS.

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the first two letters of their last names). from far flung cultures like Thailand, Egypt and Japan. The creative and design-focused tenants of Straw But as I-40 was completed and development Valley reflected Robert and Ormond’s commitment encroached from all sides, Straw Valley’s days as a to beauty in fine art cloistered center for as well as everyday creative expression and things and included One can well imagine clean design came to Minta Bell Interiors, Straw Valley – the unique an end. In the 1980s, Somerhill Gallery, conclave of historic-pastoral Ormond and Robert Rosemary’s Attic meets master-handmade meets closed the business, Needlepoint and Anna later sold the land for Darden LTD, carrying Scandinavian-modernist – as an what would become the fashion of Diane avant-garde hub for the New Hope Commons von Furstenberg. “I creative intellectuals of and began a new think Anna ended the 1960s Triangle area. chapter of creating and up wearing most of collecting. the clothing herself,” remembers Ormond. EVER EVOLVING One can well imagine this unique conclave of Never ones to settle for the ordinary, the pair chose to historic-pastoral meets master-handmade meets craft their current home from a dormant elementary Scandinavian-modernist as an avant-garde hub for school in rural Caswell County. Built in 1960, the old the creative intellectuals of the1960s Triangle area. Anderson School has been masterfully repurposed Professors at Duke were big supporters, and the Craft into a sunlit, modernist space for Robert and Ormond House enjoyed visits from numerous celebrities, in to work and garden and display their truly eclectic town for the Rice Diet program. Exchange students collection. from all over the world dropped in and Robert and The first step into the courtyard of this brick-walled Ormond gained inspiration discussing design and craft enclave is a step into a lovingly curated landscape of

32 #CREATIVESTATE beautiful things. A harmony of shape, texture and gluing the fragments to create shapes and patterns on EVENTS color, shifting light and ethereal sound greets the the large canvases (or boxes or chests). visitor. Massive ancient Chinese wine jars rest in a There are works in ceramic and stained glass by cool shaded corner. Robert’s steel verdigris sculpture the two, iron and steel, paintings, drawings, jewelry, glints in the sunshine of the garden. Hundreds of furniture Robert designed and glass doors etched Paolo Soleri’s bronze and clay bells ring a low murmur by Ormond. “Your interest changes, and you’ve also in the breeze. just got to relax sometimes,” laughs Ormond, when The house is likewise a pantheon to fine craft and asked about the amazing diversity of their work. “You design. Pristine, original mid-century modern classics can get so saturated, it helps to do something else VIGNETTES like Hans Wegner’s Peacock Chair and the iconic for a while.” Though now in their eighties, both men silver Arco floor lamp are interspersed with Robert’s continue to create, with Robert focusing lately on stoneware urns and intricately painted boxes. Inuit vividly colored abstract paintings and Ormond, black- carvings from a whale’s vertebra rest alongside and-white drawings. Ormond and Robert’s stoneware critters. Two rooms are filled with exquisite glassware from INSPIRING TOMORROW’S MAKERS around the world, along with numerous examples It is perhaps their own constantly evolving curiosity and of Ormond’s enamel plaques. He points to one and certainly their passion for the significance of beauty in comments: “I used a lot of oxidation which caused everyday things that has drawn Robert and Ormond to these dark areas, which most enamellists would say is the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. With a permanent FEATURES terrible, but I just liked the color.” Indeed, both artists collection that includes pottery and furniture, fashion concur that many times their best work comes from and decorative items, outsider art and Native American happy accidents. art, sculpture and photography, it is a museum that On many of the walls hang works Robert calls his celebrates the myriad forms that art can take. paper paintings. These geometric abstracts, some “The Gregg’s collection differs from that of the monochromatic, some vividly colorful, are the result of North Carolina Museum of Art and the Nasher Robert’s painting on printed paper, crushing the paper, Museum of Art in that it emphasizes beautiful, well for texture, cutting it into tiny fragments and then designed objects, some of which may be practical, and

ROBERT BLACK’S AWARD-WINNING URN. PAOLO SOLERI IT BECAME THE FIRST OF HIS PIECES IN BELLS AND HUGE THE GREGG MUSEUM COLLECTION. CLAY JARS FLANK

PHOTO BY MATTHEW GAY THE COURTYARD OF THE BLACK-SANDERSON HOME

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ABOVE: COLLECTION OF CLAY WORKS BY ROBERT BLACK

RIGHT: RECENT ACRYLIC WORK BY ROBERT BLACK

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can add greatly to the quality of life,” says Robert. Ormond adds: “The range and diversity of the Gregg’s collection sets it apart from other museums as being unique in the respect of relating art, technology and design to one another, and in many instances, emphasizing their mutual dependency – a relationship of the utilitarian to the aesthetic.” They note the unique position of the Gregg, with its highly accessible collection, combines with its association with NC sculpture such as Frank Gehry’s Louis Vuitton State’s College of Design, the Crafts Center, the Foundation arts center in Paris or Zaha Hadid’s million- College of Engineering, indeed the entire university, square-foot Dongdaemun Design Plaza in Seoul.” to educate and inspire a whole new generation of These, according to Robert and Ormond, are perfect designers, craftsmen and makers. “One could well examples of the marriage of engineering technology imagine,” says Ormond, “a budding architect scanning and the art of design. “More than ever before, when a sculpture exhibition at the Gregg and leaving with today one looks at developments in the scientific an incipient design concept for a possible ‘inhabitable’ and engineering fields,” adds Ormond, “it becomes

34 #CREATIVESTATE apparent that art, design ROBERT BLACK’S science and engineering STEEL VERDIGRIS SCULPTURE GRACES are inexorably entwined, THE COURTYARD. and this is why the Gregg’s PHOTO BY BECKY KIRKLAND purpose is so meaningful and relevant.” Both are looking forward new Gregg will be named to the opening of the new the Robert Keith Black and museum and pleased with J. Ormond Sanderson, Jr. the integration of the old Gallery, and an exhibition of chancellor’s residence with their own work is planned the new modern gallery for early 2018 in their gallery. (though they admit to at first It does seem quite having had their doubts). fitting that this pair of They comment, too, on artists, designers, master the nature of the Gregg’s craftsmen, who had the collections and exhibitions immense courage back to adapt and transform: in 1959 to follow their “It’s always changing and passions, should leave this incorporating new ideas, legacy that will inspire a never getting stale,” says Ormond. “And that’s how new generation to do the same.  it should be – to continually evolve and be of current interest. That’s something we wanted to help to Kelly McCall Branson is a freelance writer who has continue and make permanent.” written about the arts, dining, travel, sustainable living In recognition of their tremendous support, the and home building for regional and local publications medium gallery in the contemporary addition to the throughout the Southeast.

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University VIGNETTES Theatre Fall 2017

PRIDE & PREJUDICE September 21-October 1

Titmus Theatre FEATURES

In a world obsessed with marriage, the charming, independent-minded (and very single) Elizabeth Bennet knows that options are limited for a girl of no fortune. But that won’t stop her overzealous matchmaking mother, who is determined to find suitors for Elizabeth and her four sisters, however unsuitable they may be. All of the wit and romance of Jane Austen’s classic novel come to life in this fast-paced and engaging new adaptation by Jon Jory. University Theatre’s John McIlwee will grace the stage as Mr. Bennet. See page 10 to learn more about Austen 200 at NC State.

From the director, Mia Self: Jane Austen’s 1813 novel has been widely adapted for both stage and screen, with more than a dozen miniseries and films produced since the 1930s. Adaptations include the 2001 Bridget Jones Diary, the Emmy-winning Lizzie Bennet Diaries on YouTube, and the 2016 movie Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It seems that 204 years later, we are still obsessed with the challenges of meeting and marrying. University Theatre students made multiple requests for a production of “something Austen” in our season, perhaps because the characters wrestle with many of the same hardships that love visits upon our own students today.

arts.ncsu.edu 37 BEOWULF, LORD OF THE BROS November 9-19

EVENTS Titmus Theatre

Loosely based on B​eowulf, University Theatre presents the world premiere of this modern, musical bro-mantic rock comedy for the ages. ​Ross Garth is a 20-something bro who throws BOMB parties. His best bro/ roommate is moving, his neighbor Sam Grendelstein keeps ruining the parties

VIGNETTES and, despite her hints, he’s not ready to have Cass, his girlfriend, move in yet. Enter Beowulf, lord of the bros, savior of parties, and the embodiment of charisma. Ross and Beo face the childish adulthoods they’ve led and try to grow up. When Beo’s methods prove too extreme, friendships are tested, parties are busted and jokes PHOTO BY RON FOREMAN

FEATURES abound. Book, music and lyrics by Matt THE SECRET GARDEN SPRING 2017 Deitchman and Jed Feder. Contains adult language and innuendo.

From the director, Kyle Dougan: Beowulf, Lord of the Bros is a modern retelling of the Old English epic poem. Set in a present-day Chicago apartment complex, this modern pop and rock musical adaptation takes the characters from a 1000-year-old story and creates a party atmosphere you would expect in a show like Rent and comedy like you would see in movies like The Hangover or Superbad. Beowulf, Lord of the Bros is a touching and ridiculous “bromance” story that makes everyone leaving the theatre feel like they just left the “kegger” of the millennium. Come enjoy University Theatre’s first

PHOTO BY RON FOREMAN ever world premiere musical as part of THE REAL HOUSEWIVES OF WINDSOR Musical Stages, NC State’s program SPRING 2017 fostering the creation of new musical theatre.

38 #CREATIVESTATE EVENTS Spring 2018 Performances

HAIRSPRAY February 21-25 Stewart Theatre

The Broadway musical, piled bouffant-high VIGNETTES with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs.

HARVEY UNIVERSITY THEATRE April 12-22 STUDENTS WAIT IN Titmus Theatre UNIVERSITYTHEIR HALLWAY THEATRE “GREEN STUDENTS WAIT A Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, featuring INROOM” THEIR HALLWAYFOR THE OPEN “GREEN ROOM” FOR DOOR SERIES READING OF a six-foot three-and-a-half-inch tall invisible THE OPEN DOOR SERIES READING OF BALTIMOREBALTIMORE IN IN TALLEY’S TALLEY’S ONE EARTH rabbit. ONE EARTH LOUNGE. LOUNGE. FEATURES PHOTO BY RON FOREMAN Open Door Series

University Theatre’s Open Door Series is a student- GIRL IN SPACE: focused program designed to explore content A COMEDY IN ONE ACT meaningful and relevant to our college students as March 15-17 they navigate relationships with each other and the Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre broader world. Somewhere in the not so distant future aboard THE EXONERATED the ISSA Underdog, Lana Nelson, an IT systems October 18-29 analyst, must find her missing crew, debug the Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre computer program, and place a massive order for hazelnut coffee K-cups. This space faring gal finds Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, case files herself in a galaxy of trouble when AERIS, the ship’s and the public record, The Exonerated tells the true computer, reveals that the “recommended course stories of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death of action is unknown.” In fact, AERIS doesn’t even row in their own words. Moving between first-person know how long the crew’s been gone – just seven. monologues and scenes set in courtrooms and That might be seven weeks, months, or even years. prisons, the six interwoven stories paint a picture of Lana must forge an alliance with this sassy computer an American criminal justice system gone horribly to figure out how to get back to Earth or she’ll never wrong, and of six brave souls – five men and one survive the caffeine withdrawal. Written by Peter woman – who persevered to survive it. Written by Lalush ’17, winner of the 2017 Arts NC State Creative Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen. Directed by Rachel Artist Award. Klem. Contains adult language and situations.

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s she approached her final year as an English director and the designers and everybody to figure it out major at NC State, Teal Lepley had developed and give it its due.” A the creative strength and flexibility that would The design team included students from across serve her well in a professional writing career. She the university: scenic designer Alec Haklar, a senior knew how to spark and shape ideas, how to get inside majoring in design studies with a concentration in a character’s head, and how to seek and incorporate business administration; lighting designer Ian Oehring, constructive criticism. a senior majoring in business administration with a VIGNETTES But after winning the 2016 Arts NC State Creative concentration in finance; sound designer Thomas Artist Award, Lepley took a challenging new journey in Matrejek, a junior majoring in computer and electrical her senior year that broadened not only her professional engineering; and costume designer Nicole Hiemenz, a skills but those of a whole team of student collaborators. freshman majoring in textile engineering. All had theatre Lepley’s award-winning play Of Ghosts and experience, but only Alec had designed a University Strangers sprouted from a short story she had written Theatre production before. about the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. After it Like Lepley, Oehring relished the opportunity this won the Creative Artist Award, the play had a staged grassroots premiere presented. It was freeing to leave reading in August 2016, directed by University Theatre his accounting studies each day and draw from a instructor Rachel Klem and presented as part of different part of his brain, to step into an environment FEATURES University Theatre’s new student-focused Open Door where there wasn’t only one correct answer to a Series. question, or just one solution to a problem, and where Lepley’s challenge was to take what she had gleaned failure was seen as a natural by-product of risk-taking, from that reading, and from audience feedback, and not something to be feared. spend her fall semester and winter break improving “Being able to work in a team where everybody Of Ghosts and Strangers before a full production in knew this was everybody’s first time and we were spring. The production was made possible by an arts all learning this together, I think that really created an endowment created by Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf, environment where it was easier to learn,” he says. a research professor in the College of Veterinary “We weren’t afraid to make mistakes. We weren’t Medicine. University Theatre assistant director Mia Self afraid to say, ‘Hey, I don’t know how to do this. I don’t directed it and advised Lepley through her rewrites. know what to do. Can you help me?’ It was much “When I was talking with Mia, I didn’t feel like a more of a collaborative environment, and I feel like that student, I felt like I was being treated like a playwright,” helped all of us learn much more quickly.” says Lepley, who had never written a play before, Hiemenz was especially pleased to have been although she had acted in them. Lepley recalls one asked to participate, seeing as she was only in her first pivotal meeting in December, in which Self had set year. She saw the invitation as a direct result of her aside a half hour for them to discuss some of Lepley’s initiative and enthusiasm, volunteering extra hours in new ideas. “We ended up sitting there for almost four the costume shop, being diligent with the quality of her hours, just bouncing ideas like, ‘Oh, what about that?’ sewing, and making it clear to those around her that or ‘Oh, I hadn’t thought about it like this.’ ” she was interested in design opportunities. Lepley spent the bulk of her winter break Self says she adores projects like this, particularly incorporating the ideas from that meeting, pulling when they involve a receptive student like Lepley, who countless all-nighters to finish on time. By her third has the “spirit of a playwright.” draft, the one-act play had grown to two acts. The “The development process is fascinating,” Self says. spring semester would bring her next big challenge: “Everything has to be articulated so clearly because relinquishing control of the play, and letting it blossom everyone’s learning from the ground up. The push for in the hands of her design team, director and cast. That clarity in the process reminds me of why I fell in love was not easy, she says. with theatre in the first place.” “I was sitting in on all of their rehearsals. I was there The project was demanding for all, particularly during every night and in all of the production meetings,” she the hectic home stretch, when rehearsals prompted says. “Intellectually, as a playwright, you know you’re last-minute tweaks to improve the production right giving your words to other people for them to build off up to opening night. But it was worth the exhaustion, of, but letting go of the control of it is kind of scary at says sound designer Matrejek. Seeing the audience some points. … In the end, you just have to trust the respond to their shared creation, particularly at the

arts.ncsu.edu 41 play’s climax, gave him an adrenaline rush every night, music, or writing a play while pursuing an unrelated and it has made him reconsider his career path. “It felt major provides balance and depth to a person,” she so amazing knowing that all of the aspects together says. “Performing art is so ephemeral. I created this

EVENTS developed a deep response from the audience.” endowment so students could realize their creations.” For scenic designer Haklar, a theatre career was Jeff Braden, dean of the College of Humanities and always on the horizon. But this project underscored the Social Sciences, says Lepley’s experience with Of value of collaborative practice no matter what one’s Ghosts and Strangers is “the epitome of how we think profession might be. and do in our college.” “Having a diverse group of people in one space “Whether she becomes a professional playwright really just helps us later in life,” he says. “Just learning or finds another calling,” he says, “the experience of how to collaborate with different people is essential creating a vision, putting it into words, and working with to success and being a good person and working with a team to turn that vision into reality will enhance her others.” career and enrich her community.”

VIGNETTES Kennedy-Stoskopf attended the production, pleased As Lepley sees it, this project helped her find her true to see results of her endowment and its impact on the calling. She now aspires to be a professional playwright. students’ lives. “Choreographing a dance, composing She was on her fifth draft of Of Ghosts and Strangers

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42 #CREATIVESTATE when the school year ended, and she had applied for ALEC EVENTS the prestigious Sewanee Writers’ Conference, for HAKLAR SCENIC which she could not have qualified if her play had never DESIGNER been staged. “It’s just been a big learning experience in not only letting go of the control, but also finding joy in it and seeing where others can take your work,” she says. “I’m really looking forward to future productions, seeing how other designers and other actors interpret it. It’s VIGNETTES going to be completely different every time, and I think that’s the joy of it.” 

Orla Swift was a theatre critic and arts reporter at the News & Observer and other newspapers for 20 years. IAN She is now director of marketing and communications OEHRING at Sarah P. Duke Gardens. LIGHTING DESIGNER FEATURES

THOMAS MATREJEK SOUND DESIGNER

NICOLE HIEMENZ COSTUME DESIGNER SET PHOTO AND PORTRAITS BY RON FOREMAN SET PHOTO AND PORTRAITS

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The R. Stanhope Pullen Society was created in 1993 and recognizes R. STANHOPE those who invest in the future of the university through deferred gifts such as charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities, life insurance and will bequests. Arts NC State would like to recognize Pullen Society PULLEN SOCIETY members who have designated support to our arts programs.

Dorothy R. Adams Linda W. & Bernard J. & Patricia H. Hyman Paul D. & Rebecca M. Nagy J. Norwood* & Charles E.* Edwards Jane G. & John T. Kanipe Jr. Mac & Lindsay Newsom Valeria C.* Adams Ronald G. Ellis Jr. Martha N. Keravuori Lew & Billie Rentel Thomas W. & Virginia P. Avery Norman & Gilda Greenberg Peggy J.* Kirby Louise W. & Banks C. Talley Jr. Robert K. Black & Nancy C.* Gregg James G.* & Eileen K. Lecce Caroline Hickman Vaughan J. Ormond Sanderson Jr. Glenn S. Harman Sheila M.* Lund David & Judi Wilkinson C. Wade & Michael J. Holland N. Alexander Miller III *deceased Brenda E. Brickhouse Ginger & Freddy Horton Jr. Wendy B. & Joan D. DeBruin Ame & Jack M. Hunter Jr. Charles A. Musser

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46 #CREATIVESTATE Elizabeth Matheson Spencer & Ashley McKinstry Herbert & Jeanne Miller GIFTS IN KIND John & Lorraine Miller Brian & Jennifer Morrow Gifts-in-kind are donations of tangible property, such as works of art, clothing, Juliana  Nfah-Abbenyi raw materials or tools. Gifts of this nature help to enhance our collections, Kern Ormond provide costumes and props for our productions, and enable hands-on Michael & Mary Overcash experiences in our classrooms. Donald  Palmer & Leila May Gregory & Mary Paul Jim & Linda Alexander Granger Marley Jeffrey & Terry Phillips Renee Augini Charles & Marie Martin James Powell Dan Barth Frances Massy Richard Ritz Louise Benner Donna McLaren Mary Roberts Janet Boudreau Ron Mehaffey Michael & Elizabeth Ross Estate of Joan Mills Busko Gracie  Miller George & Jane Rudisill Brandon Campbell Esther Minick Stephen & Corinne Russell Stephen & Barbara Carradini Jerry & Mary Cynthia Monday Mark & Carla Sanders Rebecca & Gordon Christian Denise Morrow Bill & Layla Santa Rosa Kevin Cummings & James Gray Carol  Fountain Nix & Nancy Scheunemann Jaye Day-Trotter Penelope Parson Kay Schoellhorn James Denney & Dan Ellison Danny Norris Gene & Maryann Schroeder Charlie & JoAnne Dickinson Huston Paschal Steve Schuster & Amy Dosser William Peters Mary Anne Howard John & Betty Fetvedt Bonnie Raddatz Ronald & Melody Scott Trinity Findlay David  & Mary Rendleman Kirk & Lois Semke Norman & Gilda Greenberg Martha Robinson William & Elizabeth Simmons Albert & Susan  Gurganus Estate of Mignon Salzman Michael & Betsy Sink Joel Haas Joe & Diane Sanders Eric Smith & Harriet Herring John & Ann Sanders Cynthia Holding-Smith Mark & Kristie Hobson Elizabeth Savarese Ron & Heather Spivey Sandy Hogue Joanne  Schanz Thomas Spleth & Jean McLaughlin Judith Hoyt Scott Scherr Irwin  Stern Amy Huitt Brian Shawcroft & Kathy Gruer John & Marcella Stewart Bernard & Patricia Hyman Daniel & Carolyn Solomon Mary Surratt Carrie Jones Nancy Stein Wayne & Mary Taylor Charles  Jones Linda Stephens Frank & Teresa Taylor William & Rebecca Kalsbeek Banks & Louise Talley Carol Toomajian John & Jane Kanipe John & Patricia Tector Bill & Jane Tucker Michael & Linda Keefe Stephen & Charlotte Wainwright Jack & Connie Turner Ted & Anne Keller Lane & Linda Wharton Bruce & Ann Tuttle Estate of Peter Klem Corrinne  Williams John & Barbara Vandenbergh Christopher Leazer & Heath Ramsey Denis & Ingrid Wood John & Molly Watters Roger  Manley & Theadora Brack Henry & Martha Zaytoun Arthur Weisburd & Martha Petty Haley Wells Tom & Bettie West Foundation for the Carolinas State Employees Combined Campaign Gavin  Williams & Fox Family Foundation Amy  Sawyers-Williams Synchrony Financial GE Foundation Janeen Woodbury Titmus Foundation Grandwell Industries John Woodell & Michelle Prysby Triangle Basket Weavers IBM Corporation Bill & Jacqueline Woolsey Triangle Community Foundation JustGive Triangle Gourd Patch Guild Lundy Fetterman Family Foundation T. Rowe Price Program for ORGANIZATIONS Microsoft Corporation Charitable Giving Mills Family Foundation Truist Alpha Psi Omega Chapter Morgan Stanley Twisted Threads Fiber Arts Guild American Endowment Foundation Mu Beta Psi Verizon Foundation American Online Giving Foundation National Christian Foundation Wells Fargo Foundation Bailey Endowment National Power Corporation Windgate Charitable Foundation BB&T NC State University Woman’s Club Woodturners Guild of North Carolina Bell Family Foundation Norfolk Southern Foundation Xerox Corporation Capture Films North Carolina Pottery Collector’s Guild Zaytoun Enterprises Carothers Parkway Veterinary Clinic Northwest Geoscience Clorox Company Ol’ North State Knitting Guild Dragonline Schwab Charitable Fund Duke Energy Foundation Smart Choice Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

arts.ncsu.edu 47 Robin Harris Dance Program Endowment SCHOLARSHIPS Horton Fellowship Endowment Fund Amelia E. Hunter Choral Leadership Endowment & ENDOWMENTS ITG Norma Ausley Memorial Endowment Named Scholarships & Endowments may be Jerry & Nina Jackson Endowment for established with a minimum commitment of $25,000 Outdoor Programming and may honor or memorialize an individual or family The Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf Endowment for while supporting arts initiatives such as student Creativity in the Performing Arts scholarships, programmatic support, and collections. The Lattice Endowment for the Performing Arts James & Eileen Lecce Ethnic Art Collection Endowment Sheila Margaret Lund Endowment ABB Inc. Arts Outreach Endowment Jim Marchman Marching Band Endowment Judy C. Abee Marching Band Endowment Toni Christine Masini Memorial Marching Band Arts NC State Endowment Scholarship Endowment Athletic Bands Endowment John C. McIlwee Theatre Endowment Donald & Maryann Bitzer Theatre Achievement John Menapace Photography Endowment Awards Endowment Sharon Herr Moore NC State LIVE Endowment Robert Keith Black & J. Ormond Sanderson, Jr. Endowment Mu Beta Psi Honorary Music Scholarship Carey H. Bostain Music Endowment NC State LIVE Endowment Henry & Sory Bowers Arts Endowment NCSU Pipes and Drums Scholarship Brenda & E. Wade Brickhouse Fine Craft Collection NCSU Theatre Endowment Endowment Barbara G. & Hayne Palmour III Museum Endowment Bruce T. Brown Marching Band Endowment James M. Poyner Visiting Artist Endowment Charlotte V. Brown Museum Endowment Kimberly Titmus Przybyl Music Endowment Raymond A. Bryan, Jr. Jazz Endowment Lew & Billie Rentel Arts NC State Endowed Scholarship Dr. Eloise A. Cofer Arts Endowment Lew & Billie Rentel Museum Enhancement Endowment Margaret Price Corcoran Marching Band Scholarship Lew & Billie Rentel Thompson Building Endowment Curtis R. Craver Clarinet Scholarship Alby Rose Marching Band Scholarship Mildred J. Davis Museum Endowment Marc & Anita Baker Sherman Music Endowment Ronald G. Ellis & Earl Lynn Roberson Scholarship Stafford Endowment for Arts NC State Student Travel Annabelle Lundy Fetterman Symphony Concertmaster Banks & Louise Talley Arts Endowment Endowment Banks C. Talley Jr. Arts Endowment for the Fox Family Foundation Crafts Center Endowment Frank Thompson Building Friends of the Gallery Brita M. Tate Memorial Endowment Dr. Norman Greenberg Brass Quintet Endowment Martha Emerson Upchurch Performing Arts Endowment Gregg Museum Collection Endowment Visual Artist Award Endowment John N. & Nancy C. Gregg Museum Endowment Randall & Susan Ward Arts NC State Scholarship Dewey M. Griffith Marching Band Endowment Randall & Susan Ward Museum Endowment Dr. Frank M. Hammond Endowment for Musicianship Wells Fargo Endowment for Excellence in & Outstanding Leadership Visual and 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 Paul Fomberg Tom Stafford EX-OFFICIO Jason Horne Linda Wharton Shawn Brewster, President, Bernard Hyman Darby Madewell, Friends of the Gregg Jason Lemons Student Representative Rich Holly, Executive Director, Tara Owens Simone Tucker, Arts NC State Seth Palmer Student Senate Representative

Jill Orr, Director of Development, Arts NC State

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ntense planning for NC State LIVE’s

spring 2017 residency with The PHOTO BY BECKY KIRKLAND INile Project began two full years in advance. As the project grew (and grew), not only did five other North Carolina universities come on board, so did colleges, departments and programs from across the NC State campus. Units with interests as varied as sustainability, social entrepreneurship, conflict resolution and world music came together to learn, enjoy, inspire, educate and empower participants while exploring cultural, political and environment issues. The music – the arts – served as the vehicle. Pros at getting really hands-on, the folks at NC State’s Crafts Center dreamed up an interactive project to be created as part of the Nile residency. As NC State LIVE director Sharon Moore says, “Those crazy Crafts Center people like to come up with big ideas.” Jo Ellen Westmoreland (assistant director) and Jennifer Siegel (clay studio manager) hatched the notion of Colors of the Nile, a 36’ x 7’ mural comprised Top: students and community folks help paint the mural at of nine wood panels. Mural artist Dare Coulter – a 2015 NileFEST. Above: mural artist Dare Coulter and NC State nuclear engineering student Fahad Al Suwaidi, who added the Arabic graduate of the NC State College of Design – was poetry. Below: the scale model for the mural, painted on plywood. engaged to create the original work of art that depicts Nile River imagery, including the river, people, music, children, landmarks and poetry. and old to help paint the mural. She continued work on At NileFEST – the March 21 closing concert by the this extraordinary piece until its dedication on April 21, Nile Project – Coulter was joined by NC State students, an occasion that featured live music by the renowned the Nile musicians, and community members young postmodern indie-classical quartet ETHEL. 

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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:

35k 15k

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