Fall 2017 Newsletter
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CHI And the beat CHI College Dean's welcome CHI Theatre & Music And the beat goes on: goes on 70 years of theatre & music, and Louis Bergonzi becomes Head of Music CHI Architecture A historic future: the Chicago Architecture Biennial CHI College CHI A historic future:Four degrees of combination CHI College Engaged, for good: making the Chicago artful history at UIC NYC Art & Art History Carrie Rebora Barratt: Architecture from UIC to the Met CHI Design UIC's cool CAT (Lab) Biennial CHI Art & Art History In memoriam: D. Ross Edman CHI Architecture In memoriam: John Macsai CHI Architecture In memoriam: Louis Rocah CHI Four degrees ofCHI College IGNITE capital campaign launch CHI Theatre & Music combination Latin American music course now online CHI Art & Art History Jennifer Reeder’s Signature Move CHI Architecture Article of acknowledgment CHI Engaged, for and sabbaticals CHI Design good: making Entrepreneurs in training CHI, NYC Art & Art History A monumental move: Tony Tasset sculpture arrives artful history on campus University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture, at UIC Design, and the Arts Fall 2017 Glenn Gould, the eccentric and brilliant knowing our history is critical; it helps us performing arts excellence, we are adding Recent Recognitions Canadian pianist, once stated that the to not only correct the record, but also to important new degree programs to meet purpose of art is the lifelong construc- hone our ability to conceive and implement the interests and needs of our evolving stu- tion of a state of wonder. In the College positive change. dent community. Please also take a minute Jenna Blazevich, AIGA Chicago Emerging of Architecture, Design, and the Arts, the to read the impressive list of recent awards Designer Award creative imagination and wonder are very These pages thus document a range of received by faculty and students across our Ted Burdett, First Prize, UIC Startup much alive and embedded in all we do. Our ways that our students and faculty are member schools, and join me in congrat- Challenge faculty and students imagine new struc- making an indelible impact on their imme- ulating them. The future will benefit from Jimmy Carter, Schiff Award, Critical Writing tures for human interaction; new ways to diate communities and the world at large, their work. Sarah Dunn, Urban Lab, AIA Chicago Design design, produce, and interact with the do- right now, with the future in mind. This Excellence Award in Regional and Urban mains we inhabit; and new interpretations year’s theme for the Chicago Architecture Finally, I hope you will consider attending Design of historical artifacts. We imagine new ki- Biennial, “Make New History,” for instance, the launch of IGNITE, UIC’s new capital Alexander Eisenschmidt, ACSA Creative netic performance practices, more just and reflects the very cause of looking back campaign on October 28. The campaign Achievement Award inclusive communities, and discover new while designing forward. The biennial is will help advance the University’s strategic Tom Groom, Be Original Summer Design potentials and insights into human-com- presenting work by 141 practitioners from priorities, which are centered on student Fellowship puter interactions. We are the historians more than 20 countries, an impressive 10 of achievement, faculty leadership, and ex- Sarita Hernández, Kress Fellowship, and theorists opening new provocations on the architects affiliated with the College’s emplary civic engagement. Your participa- National Museum of Mexican Art how, why, when, and where design and ar- School of Architecture. Meanwhile the tion will help ensure that the College and Jacob McLaughlin, Schiff Award, Design tistic speculations shaped our lives. Much Caterpillar Lab, housed in the UIC Innova- University that you hold dear will remain Jonathan Mekinda, Graham Foundation of our creativity is increasingly propelled tion Center, is bringing together student a vital voice in the history-making con- Grantee by the intersections today with science, minds of many disciplines to integrate the versations of the future. Not only looking Yasen Peyankov, CADA Distinguished technology, literature, social studies, and past into the present by contributing to but also acting forward — in teaching and Faculty Award healthcare advances. If the 20th century the company’s rapid response capabilities learning, across disciplines and discoveries School of Art & Art History, Humanities was the century of specialization, the 21st in the Data Economy. Lisa Yun Lee, Di- — remains the most viable path to a Access Grant, National Endowment century is all about increasing integration. rector of the School of Art & Art History better world. for the Humanities talks to Carrie Rebora Barratt (BA, 1981) Deborah Stratman, Prix d’Aide a la Integration is not only the ability to put about her memories of the College and her Cordially, Distribution Ciné + Award, EntreVues things together, to make new connections, current work at the Metropolitan Museum Steve Everett Belfort International Film Festival but also to find new ways in which knowl- of Art; and as the College looks back on Simon H. Wan, Andrew Mellon Fellowship edge carries new meaning for our lives. We its accomplishments, including 70 years of Daniel Wheeler, Driehaus First Award for live in a world in which the discreet, silo- Community Design ed forms of knowledge remain some of the Cheryl Towler Weese with 2012–13 most powerful driving forces in our lives. School of Design students, UCDA Award History is our teacher, but the future can’t of Excellence always wait until we clarify the lessons for our current circumstances. As artists and scholars, we have to keep making, keep Dean’s formulating new ideas, and keep conceiving new ways of expressing them. We desire original thought, after all. If this issue of the College newsletter has a theme, it’s the artist’s use of past and welcome present to shape the future. As educators and students, we already understand that And the beat goes on CHI operations (just $600 per semester was and faculty are bringing their professional to imagining how the Department of Music Theatre & Music allocated to the theatre program) that its networks to bear on their students’ lives at UIC can best respond to the needs and participants recall not only fondly, but through internships, practicums, and artis- talents of our students, contribute to the with dogged loyalty to its superior benefits, tic exchanges. progressive mission of the University, and Since the 1960s UIC’s Associate Professor as it required the students to collaborate reflect the astounding vitality of Chicago’s Emeritus in Theatre William Raffeld has and improvise, at every turn. Another exciting development at the diverse musical communities.” taught his students about the “beat” of School is the appointment of the Director a scene or sequence of scenes — described Thus described, the beat also serves as of the Orchestra, Louis Bergonzi, as Head On October 27 the School of Theatre & in the fall 2004 issue of the University’s a way of thinking about the history of per- of Music. During his most recent tenure, Music will mark its 70th Platinum Jubilee magazine as “a unit of action that consists forming arts education at UIC: students as Professor and Daniel J. Perrino Chair in with a day of events for alumni, followed of four sections: what a character wants; and faculty with high aspirations born out Music Education at the University of Illinois by a reception and celebratory dinner. For why the character wants it; the actions of a passion to make music and theatre, Urbana-Champaign, Bergonzi specialized more information, visit: cada.uic.edu/ the character takes to get it; and the ob- pushing through the early challenges in conducting and string education. Previ- tm70. stacles that get in the way.” of budgets and migrating performance ously, he was on the Music Education facul- spaces, and the ongoing story of choosing ty at the Eastman School of Music, serving This fall, as the Departments of Theatre collaboration and generous creativity over there as Director of the Rochester-Eastman and Music celebrate 70 years of pioneering personal grandeur. Out of necessity and Urban String Project, a multifaceted pro- work at UIC, it’s clear that the College’s integrity came the invention of an ensem- gram for preparing studio and group string performing arts students continue to ble ethic that still drives performing arts teachers for work in urban settings. He has benefit from Raffeld and his command of at the University today. been a guest conductor for all-state and the beat. Although the University’s theatre regional honors youth orchestras through- and music performances date back to 1946, Now in its fourth year as the School of out the world and served as co-director Raffeld’s arrival at the Navy Pier Campus Theatre & Music within the College of Arch- of Establishing Identity: LGBTQ Studies coincided with the formal theatre pro- itecture, Design, and the Arts, the school & Music Education I–III, symposia designed gram’s establishment in 1963, followed by is welcoming a record number of perform- to energize the discussion of how LGBTQ the move to the Circle Campus in 1965, just ing arts students of diverse backgrounds, issues operate within music education. in time for the artistic cauldron of the later with recently added degrees in music Image (above left): Band concert in decade. Read through the archival mater- business; theatre and performance; and As both