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AMUM Receives Gift of Beth Van Hoesen Adams Works WINTER 2013 THE MAGAZINE OF THE COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION AND FINE ARTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS LEAVING A LEGACY: LOCAL ARTIST GIFTS AMUM CHERISHED WORKS Receives DOUGLASS HIGH SCHOOL PARTNERS WITH DEPARTMENT Gift of Beth OF EDUCATION Van Hoesen IN MEMORIAM: DAVID WILLIAMS, FORMER MUSIC Adams Works DEPARTMENT CHAIR COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION AND FINE ARTS WINTER 2013 Richard R. Ranta Dean Moira Logan Associate Dean Katherine Goliver Director of Development, CCFA Mary Mansour Business Officer Laurie Snyder Assistant to the Dean A Message from the Dean for Undergraduate Programs I write this column having survived the apocalypse. I am not referring to Rachel Holoman the latest cut in state funding, but what has become 2012’s most famous Academic Services Coordinator graphic design, the Mayan circular calendar. It’s amazing that an artist representation from seventh century Central America endured to cause Kimberly Rogers College Media Coordinator global anxiety in the 21st century, a time when many see buying art as the best investment. Others see passing on artistic creations to the Art Hugh Busby Museum of the University of Memphis (AMUM) as a great way to share Local Support Provider II these lasting treasures, protect them and perhaps help their investments. In UNITS this issue of CCFA Voices, three generous gifts to AMUM are featured that will enrich our programs and students for centuries. Michael Hagge Chair, Department of Architecture Other gifts are making it possible to transform parts of the Art and Communication Building (ACB). Thanks to Bobby and Martha Fogelman, we expect to complete the contemporary art galleries for the Art Richard Lou Department during the spring semester. Thanks to Jimmy Humphreys we look forward to renovated atrium Chair, Department of Art areas, providing a home for large scale works of art. The building is also home to a new Subway Café and Leslie Luebbers plaza dining area thanks to Subway and campus dining. Come and join us for artistic dining. Director, Art Museum Jones Hall, home of the Architecture Department, has undergone a transformation as well thanks to a of the University of Memphis number of grants including ones from the State Board of Architectural and Engineering Examiners, help Leroy Dorsey from AIA friends, and Physical Plant and Campus Planning & Design departments. The third floor has been Chair, Department of Communication transformed into new studios, a major lighting laboratory, and other essential spaces that helped make David Arant the recent accreditation site visit by the National Architectural Accrediting Board (NAAB) a pleasant one. Chair, Department of Journalism In a few months, we will get the final assessment on our accreditation request. We will also get one from the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications for the Department of Randal Rushing Journalism, which profited from renovation work in the Meeman Journalism Building. Director, Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music A Strengthening Communities grant made a partnership possible between Art Education Professor Dr. Heise and Education Professor Dr. McGillivray to help homeless mothers and children find resilience. “Let’s Holly Lau Talk Health,” a partnership between the Loewenberg School of Nursing, the Department of Communication Chair, Department of Theatre & Dance and WUMR-FM 91.7, is helping make Memphis a healthier and better informed community. These Michael Schmidt partnerships are good examples of CCFA’s community outreach, which recently added Douglass High School Director, Center for Multimedia Arts to the ranks of Memphis schools we are directly assisting, thanks to Communication Professor Dr. Mandy Marianne Rae Hartquist Young. Director of Development, Since 1979, CCFA has helped Memphis appreciate its own through the Distinguished Achievement Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music Award in the Creative or Performing Arts, established in memory of Elvis Presley. This year we honored Voices is produced by the internationally recognized violinist and longtime concertmaster of the Memphis Symphony Orchestra Joy Office of the Dean, College of Brown Wiener. CCFA received a number of honors of its own. The Communication Department, under the Communication and Fine Arts, leadership of Dr. Tony de Velasco and assisted by the Department of Journalism and the Public Service University of Memphis Division, hosted a highly successful prestigious Biennial National Public Address Conference. Theatre Editor: Kimberly Rogers professors and students received many Memphis Theatre Awards (Ostranders). For the second time in Design: Aaron Drown four years, the Opera area in the Scheidt School of Music produced the country’s best college opera in its Production Assistant: Kim Shaw Brisco division according to the National Opera Association for the production of Idomeneo, directed by Professor Copeland Woodruff and conducted by Professor Mark Ensley. We are very proud of these and others who Printing: Peerless Printing have brought honor to our University. Photos: Rhonda Cosentino Finally, I say goodbye to two strong members of the Scheidt School of Music. Sam Viviano, professor of Please send e-mail addresses, piano, retired at the end of the fall semester but will continue to teach a limited number of students under address changes, and copy corrections to [email protected] the post-retirement plan. Professor Emeritus and former Music Department Chair David Williams passed The College of Communication and Fine Arts away on Dec. 6. He was a wonderful scholar, leader and friend who will be dearly missed. 232 CFA Building As you enter a new year, keep your college’s outstanding programs, faculty, staff and students in mind. Memphis, TN 38152 Take pride in their accomplishments and help make us even better. ccfa.memphis.edu Warmest regards, Richard R. Ranta, Dean 2 VOICES WINTER 2013 Content As part of College Radio Day, WUMR “The Jazz Lover” U92 FM promoted awareness of the dangers of texting and driving. Broadcasting on location outside the Theatre Building, WUMR on-air personalities encouraged listeners and passersby to go online at www.itcanwait.org and sign the pledge, promising not to text and drive. College Radio Day is an all- day event uniting college radio stations across North America to promote listening to and support of college radio. More than 240 stations participated in this event. AMUM 3 14 Music Memphis Artist Carroll Cloar Exhibition Scheduled U of M Opera Wins First Place in National Competition CCFA 6 Joy Brown Wiener: 2012 Distinguished 15 Theatre & Dance Achievement Award Honoree U of M Wins Big at Ostranders Architecture 7 16 Development Jones Hall Renovations Complete 17 News & Notes Art 8 Professor Teaches Resilience to Homeless Families Communication 9 Visit ccfa.memphis.edu Two U of M Departments Talk Health for even more CCFA news. Journalism 11 Journalism Students to Gain International On the cover: Magnolia Bud by Beth Van Hoesen Adams. Reporting Experience Photo by Jason Miller, Art Museum. CCFA ADVISORY BOARD Ward Archer, Rikki Boyce, Dean Deyo, Art Gilliam, Herman Markell, Charlotte Neal, Michael Osborn, Steve Pacheco, Mike Palazola, Chris Peck, Knox Phillips, David Porter, Frank Ricks, Mickey Robinson, Rudi E. Scheidt, Jack Soden, Jimmy Tashie, Ron Walter Emeritae: Judy McCown, Beverly Ross ccfa.memphis.edu 1 AMUM Oka is an example of Van Hoesen’s ability to bring out the beauty and personality in her subjects. She is best known for her animal prints. Photo by Jason Miller, Art Museum. particular animal,” Van Hoesen Adams said in her notes from Creatures, 1987. “I look for poses that may be held for some time or returned to frequently. Often the studies start with many line drawings – small full figures or details of heads, paws – those things I think I need to study to understand.” Born in 1926, Van Hoesen Adams earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University in 1948. While earning her degree, she extended her education and at- tended classes at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura de la Escuela Esmeralda in Mexico City and the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco (now the San Francisco Art Institute). After graduation, she studied in France at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Fontainebleau, the Académie Julian and Académie de la Grand Chaumière. She was married for 52 years to fellow artists Mark Adams, a tapestry and stained- glass designer best known for the windows for Temple Emanu-El, San Francisco’s largest synagogue, and the stained glass at Grace Episcopal Cathedral on Nob Hill. Adams passed away in 2006. Van Hoesen Adams became a major figure in 20th century printmaking with solo exhibi- tions at many well-respected museums and institutions. In 1981, she was presented the Award of Honor in Graphics from the San AMUM Receives Gift Fancisco Arts Commission, and in 1993, she received the Distinguished Artist Award from of Beth Van Hoesen Adams Works the California Society of Printmakers. Van Hoesen Adams passed away in 2010 at the The Art Museum at the University of to education our students and patrons on the age of 84. Memphis is honored to be selected to receive study of printmaking. The generosity of E. Mark Adams and a generous gift from the E. Mark Adams and Best known for her fanciful portraits of a Beth Van Hoesen Adams will be honored Beth Van Hoesen Adams Trust. wide variety of animals, Van Hoesen Adams by the University of Memphis as members of Valued at over $57,000 the gift of 32 litho- a world-renowned artist with numerous our Column Society. The Columns Society graphs and drypoints, created by an intaglio exhibitions in the United States, is currently honors the generosity of alumni and friends (cut below the surface) printmaking technique represented in major collections around the who have made provisions for the University involving the use of needles that scratch lines world, such as the Art Institute of Chicago, of Memphis through any one of a variety of directly into a metal plate, is a strong addition the Museum of Modern Art in New York, estate planning options, including bequests, to the Museum’s permanent collections.
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