College of Fine Arts Ball State University Vol. 10, Spring 2002 F RONT R OW

The circle of construction, completion, and ceremonial dedication continues. . . Shafer Tower rings in a new year, the art department moves into its new home, the Museum of Art makes plans for a grand reopening, and ground-breaking begins on the long-anticipated Music Instruction Building. . . College of Fine Arts CD-ROM A Multimedia Tour of Programs A new multimedia CD-Rom offers prospective students a chance to explore Ball State University’s Visit us at College of Fine Arts with the click of a button. The CD-Rom showcases the use of technology in the college and www.bsu.edu/cfa was spearheaded by Christine Satory, associate professor of art, in collaboration with the Department of Art, the Department of Theatre and Dance, the School of Music, and the Museum of Art. The project began in Satory’s Advanced Multimedia Practicum class in spring 2000. Students designed the project, set up interviews and gathered the raw materials for the CD. After the class ended, Satory worked with two graphic design students to refine the materials gathered. The CD-Rom was released this fall after nearly eighteen months in production. The project grew out of Satory’s desire to explore how technology and art intersect, and to Dean’s educate both students and the public on those intersections. Comments “We started this project because there is a misunderstanding that equates ‘technology’ with scientific research,” Satory said. “For our students, it’s important to understand that technology is a The College of Fine Arts is approaching its twentieth part of the arts.” “birthday,” and is experiencing some welcome “growing pains.” Robert Kvam, interim dean of the College of Fine Arts, said the CD- This academic year was greeted with the smell of fresh Rom is an opportunity to showcase the use of technology in each area. paint and the aroma of Starbuck’s coffee emanating from “The CD features those faculty members who offer the stunning new Art and Journalism building. good examples of how this college is using technology to Magnificent teaching spaces have been created for enhance education,” Kvam said. painting, graphic design, art education, art history, Rodger Smith, assistant professor of theatre, photography, foundation classes, and all three- is featured on the CD. Smith sees the dimensional specialties. Additionally, a stellar art integration of technology into theater as a gallery adjoins the atrium, designed to showcase natural progression. student, faculty, alumni, and guest artist creations. “Theater has always embraced Professor Marilynn Derwenskus is serving as curator, new technologies,” he said. Examples of and has compiled an impressive array of exhibits for those “new” technologies include the the inaugural year. introduction of the proscenium arch, the The refurbishment and expansion of the Museum of incorporation of pulley systems to create Art is nearing the final stages, and will be completed by the dramatic effects, and the addition of end of spring term, allowing for a grand reopening in fall artificial lighting. 2002, coinciding with the celebration of Ball State’s Using new technologies to teach theater is, UniverCity. Superb new gallery spaces will allow for the in Smith’s opinion, the best way to prepare presentation of a stunning Rodin sculpture exhibit of some students for their careers after college. Theater thirty masterpieces, highlighting the grand reopening and students learn how to operate cameras and computers, allowing overlapping UniverCity 2002. them to create electronic portfolios of their work. The bells of Shafer Tower gave a preview of things to “They become the creators of their own product,” said Smith, “And in doing so they’ve gained come, as familiar tunes and carols rang out during the control of their own artistic process.” holidays. These melodies were computer/keyboard generated, Satory, too, notes that technology can enhance the artistic process. rather than being played from the cabin in the tower, but did “Technology has infused all of the arts,” Satory said. “You can’t get away from it, and there is provide a foretaste of things to come. The formal dedication, a place for it.” featuring carillonneur Margo Halsted, associate professor of Satory adds that it is important to temper enthusiasm for new technologies with an campanology at the University of Michigan, will take place this understanding of traditional techniques, something emphasized on the CD. spring. “Through this project we can show that not only is technology being used,” she said, “but that The final construction project will be the culmination of it is being used by creative, seasoned artists who know when it is appropriate to use it.” years of dreaming and planning, as ground-breaking occurs in The CD-Rom is being used as a recruitment tool for potential students and as a way to April for the new Music Instruction Building. Housing a educate the campus and the community on the use of technology in College of Fine Arts programs. glorious 600-seat concert hall, in addition to spacious faculty studios, sound-proofed practice rooms, generous rehearsal spaces, and a greatly expanded Music Engineering Technology Expecting Excellence in (MET) component, this state-of-the-art facility promises to catapult an already strong music program into national prominence. Completion is scheduled for January, 2004. ByHerself Elizabeth Richter and Her Students Clearly, our college’s future will most certainly hinge on attracting bright and capable students and faculty. New and Although all of the facets of my musical career are important, refurbished facilities provide the enhanced learning I believe that the most important of all is one in which I am environment, but superb academic programs are built with engaged on a daily basis—teaching. There is no greater joy than in people. Challenging professors and eager students, the former helping a student to achieve his or her goals, no matter whether he skilled at transferring and inspiring, the latter gifted at or she is just beginning or is already very advanced. receiving and growing, are the ingredients for success. For the I recognize that my own dream of becoming a harpist came second year in a row, the College of Fine Arts nipped at the true because I had the incredibly good fortune to study with a heels of Architecture and Planning, ranking second among wonderful teacher and mentor. Because I am so conscious of the the seven colleges in overall SAT composites. Two Whitinger profound effect which a teacher has upon a student, I strive constantly to be the very best teacher Scholars and a host of Presidential Award winners and and mentor that I can be. distinction recipients grace the freshman class. I try to communicate to my students not only my own love for the harp, but my confidence The future is bright when enhanced facilities, talented in their ability to progress and to become fine musicians. I believe it is of paramount importance students, and gifted faculty converge. The best is yet to come. that they develop basic musicianship skills, problem solving ability, curiosity, initiative, discipline, Please stay in touch; the welcome mat is always out for you and knowledge of the musical world beyond the harp. Technique without these attributes is here at Ball State. worthless. I expect all of my students, no matter at what level, to strive for excellence, and it gives me great pleasure to observe their musical and personal growth while they are studying with me. Over the years I have had many successful students, and I feel a profound sense of satisfaction in knowing that I helped them to realize their dreams, as mine were realized. Robert A. Kvam, Interim Dean Elizabeth Richter is a professor of music performance at Ball State University and the recipient of the 2001 College of Fine Arts Dean's Teaching Award. museum Museum Grand Reopening to Feature Rodin Collection museum When Ball State University’s Museum of Art celebrates its grand reopening in September, the first major exhibition installed will be a collection of Rodin’s most familiar works. “Rodin’s Obsession: The Gates of Hell, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection” will grace the museum Sept. 14 - Dec. 11. Museum director Alain Joyaux considers Rodin’s work an ideal exhibition with which to reopen the museum. “With Rodin, you are dealing with an artist who is generally recognized by the public, who is popular and who is genuinely good,” said Joyaux. As for the collection to be displayed, Joyaux notes that “The Gates of Hell” was a lifelong obsession for Rodin. The Kiss “When you look at Rodin’s work and what he did over a lifetime, you see that as an artist he was never very far from this one project. He worked on it for nearly two-thirds of his life. It was the palette of his lifetime,” said Joyaux. “The Gates of Hell” was Rodin’s most ambitious commission. Originally conceived as an entrance for a museum of decorative arts to be built in Paris, and inspired by Dante’s “The Divine Comedy,” “The Gates of Hell” features hundreds of figures modeled in high relief. While the museum was never built, many of Rodin’s most famous independent sculptures were derived from the smaller reliefs contained within the larger composition. The Cantor collection consists of approximately thirty works relating to “The Gates of Hell,” including “The Thinker,” “The Kiss” and “The Three Shades.” Rodin’s sculptures are among the most familiar and popular works of art in the world today. This is due in large part to the medium in which he worked. When Rodin made a sculpture he usually started by modeling in clay, which may have been fired to produce a terra-cotta sculpture. He also reproduced the models in ceramic, wax or plaster. The plasters were primarily used to make bronze casts. Bronze works are never “originals” in the sense that only one exists. The casts are, in effect, “multiple originals.” Each cast is authorized by the artist or his representative. In Rodin’s case, some earlier works may exist in a multitude of sizes and forms. Later in his career, Rodin gave the French government the authority to limit the number of casts of his work. Since 1956, French law has limited production to 12 casts of each model, each authenticated with its own identification number. The Cantor collection on display will include several numbered bronze casts, including “Despair,” “Falling Man,” “The Kiss,” “Mask of the Man with the Broken Nose,” “Sorrow,” “The Thinker” and “The Three Shades.” Other works in the exhibition include the second and Despair third maquettes of “The Gates of Hell,” along with a bronze cast of the right pilaster of that piece. The Thinker The works on display range from a few inches, in the case of the maquettes, to nearly life-size, as with some of the bronze casts. “Very little of Rodin’s sculpture was large when he made it. Most of what he did was in a workable scale,” said Joyaux. Smaller models were enlarged through the use of a Collas machine, which uses points of orientation on the model to create larger and smaller duplications of the original. The Cantor collection will be on view Sept. 14 - Dec. 11 during regular museum hours: Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. For more information, contact the museum office at (765) 285-5242.

New Galleries Highlight Works on Paper, Furniture and Decorative Arts Renovation work is being completed in the of a design at a particular time, it’s important,” Fine Arts Building and plans are well under- she said. way for the Ball State Museum of Art’s grand The second special gallery will showcase reopening in September 2002. the museum’s collection of works on paper The museum will close over the summer with rotating exhibitions. With the new to prepare for the reopening. gallery, the museum will be able to display a “With the completion of the renovation, part of its collection with which many patrons we’ll be able to provide a more suitable gallery are unfamiliar. space for showcasing our collection and better “This new gallery will allow us to serving our audience,” said Nancy Huth, highlight our excellent collection of works on assistant director and curator of education. paper. We didn’t have a good space for it Two new galleries will include exhibits before,” said Huth. Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz, Mother and Sleeping Child, circa 1913, featuring furniture and decorative arts and The collection includes botanical, Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, gift of Mrs. George A. Ball, 000.232 works on paper. Japanese, early modern, and contemporary Huth said the museum collection includes prints, as well as photographs. Prints include examples of furniture and decorative arts from those by Rembrandt, Picasso, and Degas. the modern period and earlier. And while some The $7.5 million renovation of the Fine may not see furniture as an example of fine art, Arts Building will increase the museum’s space many museums include such pieces. from 17,185 square feet to 25,735 square feet, “If you are collecting objects that show including 5,230 square feet of additional what constitutes the height of aesthetic exhibition space. The expansion will allow the Visit us at expression, you want to include furniture and museum to display more of its 11,000 works decorative arts,” said Huth. of art valued at more than $40 million. “A chair isn’t a painting, but as an example www.bsu.edu/artmuseum Since January 2001, Scott Anderson has exhibited his reviewed photographic textbooks with paintings in a variety of all media exhibitions. Calman & King and Delmar Publishers. As Anderson had a solo show and gallery talk at the part of the GREEN 2 committee she worked Eastern Kentucky University Gallery, Richmond, Ky. with the Department of Natural Resources and He participated in three national juried shows; four Environmental Management to compile a studio Visit us at regional juried shows; a small group show, Will, at guide for the health and safety of artists and the Old Dominion University Galleries, Norfolk Va.; a environment. Joyaux was invited to participate in juried group exhibition Biennial Show at the South the Cortona Print Symposium in Cortona, Italy with Bend Regional Museum of Art; and participated in a letterpress portfolio project that originated in www.bsu.edu/cfa/art the Ball State Faculty Show. Anderson received two Arizona. The Catherine Edelman Gallery, in Chicago, cash merit awards, a second place cash award, and a Ill. showed her work as part of its New Gallery Artists purchase prize at the South Bend Regional Museum exhibition in the fall. She had solo shows at the of Art. He offered summer classes in watercolor and University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa.; the Urban encaustic at the Indianapolis Art Center and an Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, Mich.; Encaustic Workshop at the Louisville Art Center in the Minnetrista Cultural Center; and Arts Place, Louisville, Ky. He presented an informal talk at the Portland, Ind. Work from her Picturing Plants portfolio Ball State University Museum of Art on painting was featured in the Ball State University magazine Art Gallery Offers Public a Chance to mediums entitled, “Oil and Water Do Mix.” In 2001 Groundwork. he served on the student show committee and hosted Nina B. Marshall had solo exhibitions of her paint- juror Kim Hoffman. ings this year at Slocumb Gallery at East Tennessee Bump Into Art Marilynn Derwenskus co-directed the Art in Italy State University and at Sinclair College in Dayton, field study with Sarojini Johnson in May 2001. With Ohio. She also held a two-day workshop while at East When the Department of Art moved from its old location in the funding from a Ball State University Summer Creative Tennessee. In addition she has had work exhibited at Fine Arts Building to its new space in the Art and Journalism Arts Grant, Derwenskus remained in Italy for an addi- the R&F Gallery in Kingston, N.Y. and has participat- tional three weeks to explore egg tempera painting. ed in juried shows in Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois and Building, it gained not only new office and studio space, but a She continued to paint Texas. One of her paintings appears in Joanne prominent and very public gallery space. with tempera when she vis- Mattera’s book The Art of Encaustic Painting. In As Marilynn Derwenskus sees it, the new ited Tokyo in December. September 2001, Nina completed a series of paintings Derwenskus exhibited her funded by an Indiana Arts Commission Grant. gallery location has been particularly work in solo or two-person Sally A. Myers made a two-week summer trip to beneficial to both artists and the public. shows at the Mitchell Place Turkey with Ball State faculty and staff to study the It offers, she said, an opportunity for Gallery, Muncie; Arts art and architecture of the country. She presented her Place, Portland, Ind.; and research at the Art Education Association of Indiana people to “bump into art.” Ball State University Annual Conference and the Early Childhood “It’s in-your-face art,” Derwenskus Theatre Gallery. In compe- Conference. In the spring she presented a paper on said of the gallery located in the midst of titions she won seven three contemporary artists at the National Art awards last year for her Education Association Conference in New York. In the watercolor or encaustic addition to teaching summer school, she collaborated bustling paintings. Derwenskus with three colleagues during the summer to teach a served as the director of workshop titled “Creative Connections at the Lake.” Atrium the new Department of Art Gallery. She recently John Fillwalk's exhibitions of his digital prints and dining facility. “People who became president of the International Society of video work have included the Indianapolis Museum of wouldn’t go out of their way to Experimental Artists. Organizing and planning the Art; CG-Arts: Media Arts Festival, Japan; SIG- annual exhibition, which will be held at the GRAPH 2001 N-space Art Gallery in Los Angeles, visit a gallery are coming in to Minnetrista Cultural Center, is her primary responsibility. Calif.; and SIGGRAPH 2-Year International take a look around.” John P. Gee had a one-person exhibition of his draw- Traveling Art Show. He received an Individual Attendance averages nearly ings in the Engstrom Galleria at Taylor University in Artist Grant through the Indiana Arts Upland, Ind. Nov. 12–Dec. 12, 2001. He also gave an Commission to support the creation and exhibi- one hundred visitors a day. Days artist’s talk at Taylor regarding his drawings and work. tion of digital prints and media works. John has when the Art and Journalism Gee exhibited drawings in six other juried and/or invi- also developed a net-based digital video and Building plays host to special tational exhibitions during the past year. As a recipi- printmaking resource for the SIGGRAPH ent of the 2000 CFA Dean’s Teaching Award, Gee had 2001 Creative Applications Laboratory. events, attendance has reached over one thousand visitors. the pleasure of addressing students, parents, and facul- Pat Nelson began 2001 with an exhibition Visiting artists have also been a draw for the gallery. ty during the College of Fine Arts graduation cere- of her work at the University of West A recent exhibition featuring sculptors Ken Little and Chris monies in Emens Auditorium on May 6, 2001. Georgia. She is continuing to produce a Barbara Giorgio has continued investigating combin- series of vessels incorporating fossilized Ramsay and printmaker Takeshi Takahara was a chance for the ing technology with traditional materials in the class- animals, showing these pieces in a num- gallery to promote not only the works of the artists but the art room. One of her innovative classroom problems, ber of exhibitions including “Open department itself. “Self-Portrait: Invented Texture,” has been adapted for Links: A Jewelry and Metals use in the book titled 100 Invitational” at Bowling Green State “It created a lot of excitement,” Creative Drawing Ideas, University and “Contemporary Derwenskus said of the event. “We had edited by Anna Held and Metalsmiths Invitational” at distributed by Random Oklahoma State University. She was lectures and demonstrations and a gallery House. Giorgio continues a finalist in “Transformation: walk. The students were excited by all the to exhibit her drawings; Contemporary Works in Small energy in the department.” “Interlacing” received an Metals and Jewelry, the Elizabeth R. Honorary Award at the Raphael Founder’s Prize” at the The gallery committee is working to Harvest Biennial Regional Society for Contemporary Craft in secure funding for future visiting artists Juried Exhibition held at Pittsburgh. Pat also presented at the and events. Derwenskus notes that the Arts Place in Portland, Ind. College Art Association in Chicago, Giorgio has been an active and organized a panel at the FATE success of the shows held thus far have member of Foundations in conference in Boston. She remains encouraged the committee members. Art: Theory and Education active in SNAG (Society of North “We’re dedicated to the continuation of a strong exhibition (FATE) and presented at the 8th Biennial National American Goldsmiths). She had two Conference, March 21–24, 2001, hosted by the technical articles published in SNAG schedule to include outside artists, but the concern for funding Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Giorgio’s News, and was featured in the sum- is ever present,” she said. “We’re new. We’ve not had this space presentation “Challenges of Integrating Technology mer edition of Metalsmith magazine’s before and there isn’t a fund for us to dip into.” into the Classroom” was part of a panel titled “What Exhibition in Print. Should Students Know, and How Do We Know They Michael Prater saw his article Know It?” Last winter Giorgio presented with Pat “Constructivism and Technology in Art Nelson at the 89th Annual College Art Association Education” published in the November Gallery to Host (CAA) Conference, Chicago, Ill., in the FATE spon- 2001 issue of Art Education magazine. He sored session titled “Nuts and Bolts: Curriculum presented “Survival Strategies in Art Design in Foundations Art Programs.” The presenta- Criticism,” “Teaching Computer Graphics,” Alumni Art Show tion, “A Multimedia Approach to Problem Solving: and “Spicing Up Aesthetics” at the 2001 Art Combining the 2D and 3D Experience,” focused on Education Association of Indiana conference The new Department of Art Gallery will host an Alumni Art Giorgio and Nelson’s ongoing collaboration integrating in Columbus, Ind. He also presented Exhibition Sept. 13 through Oct. 19. The event, scheduled to technology into the first-year foundation program. “Fantastic Faces: Multicultural Art Education Kenton Hall spent much of the year adjusting and with Masks” at the 2001 Early Childhood coincide with UniverCity 2002, will feature juried works by tweaking the new sculpture facilities and thoroughly Conference in Muncie, Ind. At the 2001 Fall former Ball State students. enjoys the space to grow. He was commissioned to Faculty Meeting he received the Ball State design and build a table for the new conference room. University Excellence in Teaching Award, and will Alumni are needed to spearhead the event, guided by the The table seats eleven people comfortably and is made teach a summer dream course on Active Learning and gallery committee. More details will be forthcoming in a from quarter-sawn White Oak. He also provided tech- Teaching Strategies. departmental mailing. Interested alumni are encouraged to nical assistance during a ceramic workshop held at Judy Wojcik provided clay experiences at the Annual Dale Hollow Lake, Tenn. Hall continues to include Very Special Arts Festival in Muncie. She also taught contact the department office at (765) 285-5838 or former casting and fabrication techniques in the objects he a summer Raku workshop for Indiana art educators instructors for more information. exhibits and participated in the 2001 Faculty Exhibition. in Dale Hollow, Tenn. Wojcik presented at numerous David Johnson received a purchase award and juror’s conferences including the “21st Annual Lilly award in the “Bradley National Print and Drawing Conference on College Teaching” in Oxford, Ohio; Exhibition” at Bradley University. He also received an the “2001 Art Education Association of Indiana Visited campus... award in the “21st National Printmaking Exhibition” Conference” in Columbus, Ind.; and the “26th at Artlink in Fort Wayne. He received the “Central Annual Early Childhood Conference” in Muncie. She Michigan Libraries Purchase Award” in the national participated in the faculty exhibition displaying a Professionals who shared their expertise with students and printmaking exhibition at Prairie Creek Center for the ceramic installation from her new body of work The faculty members in Ball State’s Department of Art through Arts in Rochester, Mich. David was a recipient of an Water Garden Series and won an honorable mention workshops and lectures last year include: “Indiana Arts Council Individual Artist’s Grant” and for an encaustic painting at the Indiana University was a visiting artist at the State University of New Kokomo Regional Exhibition. York at Fredonia. Bill Zack’s sculptural work was exhibited through the Rev. Matthias Neuman, art historian Sarojini Johnson received a purchase award for her month of December at the Indianapolis Museum of Bobbie K. Owens, painter intaglio print Clematis and Hostas in the Safeco Arts Art as part of the museum’s “In Indiana” artist series. Competition in Indianapolis. She was a visiting artist The show was titled “States of Being, Metaphors for Michael Shaughnessy, sculptor at the State University of New York at Fredonia and at the Heart.” Zack’s work had previously been on dis- Martin Fromm, photographer the University of Georgia, where she also exhibited play throughout the summer at the Governor’s resi- Dale Enochs, sculptor work and participated in a round table discussion at a dence on N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. He began the symposium: “Globalization and Change in South year with a solo exhibition at Taylor University in Elizabeth Yarosz, painter Asia.” Upland, Ind. and a joint exhibition with Marilynn Ken Little, sculptor Aimee Joyaux remains active in her work as both an Derwenskus titled, “Human/Being.” Chris Ramsay, sculptor/metalsmith artist and an educator. In the past year she has Takeshi Takahara, printmaker artart It’s not only in a hands-on situation not only in It’s design styles and trends “Graphic of associate professor Prater, Mike starting to assume that are “Students that technology comes in handy, The integration of computer however. settings technology into classroom up-to-date and visually for more allows and classroom lectures interesting discussions, as well. said Satory. change very quickly,” “Through the technology in the art history I can go to the classroom, students what is and show Internet in the field.” happening currently art that the new education, commented to support designed facilities were has seen He teaching with technology. attitudes in a change in his students’ of computer to the availability response technology. obstacles come up can be whatever the use of resources through overcome” he in the artavailable education area, As proud as he is of the faculty, students, and as he is of the faculty, As proud two have We wife and I plan to travel. “My is looking Spoerner addition to travel, In artwork done any serious in 20 “I haven’t The Spoerners That studio will be nearby. as our headquarters, our see Muncie “We the artdepartment, I love State, Ball “I love Ball State and are surprised that our students are and are State Ball veryas good as students from known well schools.” And for those to retire. is ready facilities, Spoerner find ways to fill his time, concerned he won’t on the table. has plans already Spoerner Carolina to visit, one in North new grandchildren also want to And we Mexico. and one in New sake. I hate to admit it, but just for travel’s travel said. Spoerner been out of the country,” never I’ve studio and forward to getting back into his own painting. he said. “I want to set up a studio and get years,” back to it.” plan to stay in Muncie. and do other things. out which to move base from said. Spoerner stay here,” we’ll retire, when we Even had a said “I’ve Spoerner my job,” and I love to just ready wonderful I’m time the past 41 years. do other things.” Associate Professor Christine Satory, who teaches graphic design and who teaches graphic Satory, Christine Associate Professor a cross- have “We she said. design is tied to technology,” “Graphic not only the technology that is making everything a adds that it’s Prater have we everything do in one place,” he said. “Now, couldn’t we “Before other amenities, of the building’s can also take advantage Students of sense a renewed has created so much under one roof Having just a fresh, enthusiastic, because it’s a little more up, a little more “I’m multi-media design, sees the availability of technology as one of the highlights of technology as sees the availability multi-media design, of the new facility. a tremendous and it’s lab in the graphic design area platform computer understand and use able to are design. Students in teaching graphic advantage its best advantage.” the technology to a little savvy about the are that if they is so interconnected, said. “Everything need.” they can find what they Internet, the facilities it houses The design of the building and connected. little more too. a sense of connection and community, create areas, storage, production it all—a library a kiln room, and media lab, everything a lesson and have to prep We display areas. even teaching areas, for the environment has become a very creative teach it in one spot. It students.” campus and Noble dining facility and the Barnes including the Atrium and coffee shop. copy center, bookstore, excitement. newspace,” said Gee. “In 1992, the university decided to build this 1992, the university “In While the new facility has been the highlight encourages all departments to be State “Ball of faculty and students hasn’t Recruitment “With very good faculty and very good an architectural firm to make the newan architectural Art and a reality. Building Journalism by it was approved said. “Since Spoerner facility,” not this has been a major project, the legislature, department.” just for me but for the entire of the is equally proud Spoerner of his tenure, within the of the academic programs progress was a The NASAD accreditation department. curriculum revision, major undertaking, requiring in and a reduction a change in admission policy, the number of student majors. says. within their disciplines,” Spoerner accredited “The is important thing about this accreditation can point to it and say that a national that we and we committee looked at our program review tool.” a useful recruiting It’s met their standards. points out Spoerner been an issue of late, however. that every a faculty member was selected through only and that students are national search a portfolioadmitted through review. a very have he says. students, we good program,” “NASAD marvels the student at the quality of of people (in the art heard world) have Few work. Since he first accepted the role he first accepted Since of chairperson of the Thomas Department of Art, After Four Decades of Dedication Decades Four After is Retirement Educator Facing Challenge The Next “People are worried I’m going to be worried I’m are “People State has been a part of the Ball Spoerner has becoming chairperson, Spoerner Since “The had an aesthetic that I liked, but this building is better old building which houses many of the notes the fourth addition, Gee floor, In “This as studio space—it looks like it and it was designed more facility space the art department’s increased structure The 200,000-square-foot as fire system as well ventilation include a comprehensive features Safety side, the department the aesthetic On has an art gallery on the first floor, the new faculty and students, are by Less public, but much appreciated John Gee, associate professor of art, moved from the old facilities in the old from of art, associate professor moved Gee, John Spoerner’s focus has been on making positive Spoerner’s Whether it was securing accreditation changes. Association of Schools of Art the National from safe environmentally or securing new, and Design a shied away from has never facilities, Spoerner to face one is preparing Spoerner challenge. Now, forty of the biggest challenges he has faced in over retirement. years: going to “but I’m remarked, Spoerner unhappy,” find plenty to keep me busy and happy.” in here community since he began doctoral work on in 1978, he stayed graduation 1975. Following 1990 he took on the role In as a faculty member. of interim chairperson of the department until his in June. will retire official appointment in 1992. He aspects focused his energies on the administrative of running addition to the the department. In challenges associated day-to-day administrative with a department that is home to twenty-eight undergraduate faculty members and four hundred spent nearly a decade working majors, Spoerner and administration, his faculty, with the university for workable, dedicated space,” said Gee. for workable, Arts accommodating than the space in the Fine department studios, is more Building. like it,” said Gee. behaves only do the studios boast feet. Not feet to 58,000 square square 34,000 from of art, larger works safety and students to create ceilings, allowing foot twenty building design. integrated into the were features environmental systems. suppression The gallery offers space to display both dining area. just off the Atrium of visiting artists. as works student and faculty exhibits as well technologies integrated into the building design. The dust has settled inside the new Art and Journalism Building, and its Building, inside the newThe dust has settled Art Journalism and used to their new than a semester to get surroundings. had more tenants have department another isn’t one building to from an entire While moving worth been well the to have the newwithout its headaches, space is proving trouble. to the new Arts summer of 2001. building in the Building the Fine New Art Department Facilities Offer Light, Space, Technology Shafer Tower Home to a Grand, Visit us at Expressive Musical Instrument As the focal point for what is being conceived as a new north quadrangle on campus, Ball State www.bsu.edu/cfa/music University’s Shafer Tower has been the center of attention as it rose to a grand 145-feet above McKinley Avenue. And while the structure itself is magnificent, it’s what the tower houses that is its most impressive feature. The tower houses forty-eight French-made, custom-cast and individually tuned carillon bells. The bells, with a range of four octaves, make it possible to provide a variety of concert-quality musical presentations. There is a playing cabin located just behind the medallions of Beneficence just below the bells. For those familiar only with the pre-recorded carillon tones, such as those that chime the hour, the full impact of the carillon in concert may come as quite a surprise. “The traditional instrument is very expressive,” said Kirby Koriath, professor of music. “At recitals, the audience will hear louds and softs. They will be able to sense the mastery and artistic expression of the carillonneur, something that is not available via the remote electronic keyboard.” The carillon, like any instrument, takes training and talent to master. Several students have already expressed keen interest in taking lessons on the carillon. The college hopes to engage a professional carillonneur on a part-time basis to provide instruction. There is a training instrument, the practice clavier, available in the School of Music. This practice instrument is nearly identical to that found in the playing cabin, right down to the keys (sometimes called batons) and pedal board. Where these are attached by carbon fiber rods to the bells in the tower, on the practice instrument they are attached to a series of chimes that look a little like a xylophone standing on end. Koriath says the practice keyboard allows the student to practice with the full expressive potential of the carillon. What it won’t approximate is the weight of the clapper. “The practice keyboard feels even top to bottom. The actual keyboard will get progressively heavier from top to bottom due to the weight of the bells,” said Koriath. While the bells have been chiming the hour over the winter months, the first opportunity to hear the carillon in concert will take place at a dedication ceremony in April. Margo Halsted, associate professor of campanology at the University of Michigan, will be the guest artist. The concert will feature a specially commissioned work for the new carillon. The features of the carillon that allow the chiming of the hours and the playing of pre- recorded melodies are indeed significant and useful. However, Koriath feels that hearing the carillon in concert will offer the community an exciting, new musical experience. “To fully realize the potential of it will only come with hearing it in recital,” Koriath said. “This is a grand, colossal, expressive musical instrument.”

In Memoriam: Ball State Faculty Cellist Roger Malitz National Ball State University music professor and cellist Public Radio, Roger Malitz died Sept. 3, 2001, in Ball and his Memorial Hospital following a short illness. recordings are He was 53. available on Visited campus... Principal cellist of the Muncie Symphony the Musical Orchestra, Malitz also had been principal Heritage Society, Owl, Music professionals who shared their expertise with students cellist with the University of Chicago’s Desto, and and faculty members in Ball State's School of Music through Contemporary Chamber Players, Florida CRI labels. performances, master classes, and lectures last year include: Orchestra, Caracas Philharmonic, and National Symphony of South Africa. Since his During a recent residency at the Banff Centre, Malitz recorded repertoire for a new Alissa Walters, soprano appointment to the Ball State School of Music CD, The Ethnic Cello, which has been released by Becky Archibald, composer/pianist faculty in 1985, he had presented concerts and Crystal Records. He performed on a cello made Lorenzo Micheli, guitar master classes in Argentina, Canada, the Czech by the Italian master Antonio Casini in 1678. Peter Dominguez, double bass Republic, Israel, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Taiwan, He is survived by his mother, Ruth Lazar, Denis DiBlasio, saxophone and flute and Thailand. Skokie, Ill.; and his sons, Nathan Malitz and Ray Pool, harp At Ball State, Malitz was the School of Zachary Malitz, and his former wife, Deborah Hye-Ran Yu and Eun-Sook You, piano duo Music’s chairman of strings and cellist of the Malitz, all of Muncie. Kassandra Kocoshis, percussion American Piano Trio, the first ensemble to be Memorials can be made to the Roger Frank Mantooth, composer/arranger/piano designated Sterling Patrons of the international Malitz Cello Scholarship in the Ball State Charles Fugo, piano professional music fraternity Mu Phi Epsilon. School of Music. Eddie Daniels, clarinet Malitz studied with Karl Fruh and Raya Checks should be made payable to the Michael Hovnanian, double bass Garbousova and had served on the faculties of Ball State University Foundation c/o the Roger Palenai Piano Duo (Joy Innis and Adrienne Shannon) the Chicago Conservatory, University of Malitz Cello Scholarship Fund and mailed to Airmen of Note Tampa, Caracas Conservatory, and Bowling Ball State University Foundation, P.O. Box 672, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin and Boris Petrushansky, piano Green State University. He was featured numerous times on public television and Muncie, IN 47308. In Memoriam: Katherine Hargreaves Katherine Hargreaves, former executive secretary of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra and wife of the late Dr. Robert Hargreaves, died Sept. 20 at the age of 87. Hargreaves was a Ball State alumna, receiving a master’s degree in art from Ball State in 1959 and was the assistant in the Division of Music at Ball State. She was a member and officer of Sigma Alpha Iota, Psi Iota Xi (Alpha chapter), and Zeta Tau Alpha sororities. Hargreaves was active in Mortar Board and was chairman of children’s art classes for Muncie Arts Association. Memorials may be sent to the Robert Hargreaves Scholarship Fund, Ball State University Foundation, Account A05762. musicmusic a guide to Keith Guitar Technique Through Through Repertoire, Technique Guitar was appointed Visiting was appointed performed solo piano recitals in the fall of 2001 at performed solo piano recitals has completed and had published by Mel Bay Mel has completed and had published by was the guest of developing classical guitar technique through a selection of origi- classical guitar technique through developing sponsorship of the College through addition, nal compositions. In Arts, he will run devel- a summer clinic detailing technical of Fine playing for the clas- and ensemble harmony, opment, fingerboard sical guitar. Rhoden Lori the Camden University, Wesleyan Indiana University, Taylor State series, and Ball Arts Schools program County (Ga.) in Our accompanist for the was the afternoon recital She University. this past Retreat and Saxophone Flute International Wildacres with performances collaborative included recitals Other summer. Levin as and faculty violist Harold Walters guest soprano Alissa V of Composers Region as performanceswell on the Society and the Festival, the 55th annual Chamber Music Conference, lec- Rhoden presented faculty recital. voice Miscellany” “Musical Indiana University, State (Ohio) Green at Bowling recitals ture Teachers the Music University, Wesleyan Central Association of South and the Camden Indiana, County Arts Schools in Our series. of 2001, late January In Sweger in University Mahidol Thailand, Bangkok, where master classes at he presented and University both Mahidol of Academy the International and performed a wood- Music, in the wind chamber recital Center with Thailand Cultural Austria, musicians from Thailand. and Japan, also performed a Sweger at the con- solo recital of the ference Double International held in Society, Reed on the cam- August Virginia pus of West was He University. faculty assisted by members Harold Levin, viola, and Hans double bass, and Sturm, July, In Sweger. pianist Patricia hosted forty high school and junior high Sweger the country around students from during Bassoon State Annual Ball the 3rd Camps. Wolfe George at the Scholar of Arts and Religion in Institute Interfaith Lakeshore for his interfaith concerts Mich., Saugatauk, than thirty performances which include more of and recordings, to Austria countries from in various Veil” “Lifting the Nagle’s Jody he performed for the Society November In Costa Rica to India. of at the House in Contemporaryfor Arts and Religion Culture a clinic on also presented Wolfe City. York in New the Redeemer and Band Midwest at the International Improvisation” “Motivistic Clinic in Chicago in December. Orchestra Teachers Festival and Competition. Student successes include win- and Competition. Student Festival Teachers competition, Piano Musicale Matinee ners at the Indianapolis graduate and undergraduate divisions; and a winner at the Concerto Competition, under- Orchestra Symphony Kokomo graduate division. Reilly Paul Inc., Publications, has Surface Inventions Surface Sometimes when I’m Sherry Kloss “Most major universities do have an organ,” said Mueller. “When you said Mueller. an organ,” do have major universities “Most the as a whole would benefit from added that the music program Koriath of the more allows an enhancement to the concert It environment. “It’s music State’s is a better facility for Ball Another necessary improvement A newstate-of-the-art facility is needed to house the technology and allow offer in the nation that is one of only a handful of universities State Ball will complement the existing Hargreaves Building Instruction The Music recruit organists, you want to be able to show them the instrument.” want to be able to show organists, you recruit addition of the organ. us will allow “It said Koriath. the students,” masterpieces to be experienced by calls for an A good deal of the choral literature of the literature. to play more ensembles.” brass and string as music for orchestra, organ, as well structure the residential outgrown which has engineering technology program, The existing building near the football stadium. Avenue it occupies on Bethel music by for the ongoing work does not meet the technical specifications students and faculty members. and The highly selective in the process. the integration of music disciplines a as a musician and a student to excel requires MET program rigorous higher-level applied physics and several scientist, incorporating a minor in math courses. a music engineering technology program. which will continue to be used for music education, music Building, Music and music theory and composition. Construction of the new facility is history, 2004. expected to be completed in January, performed as principal flute with the magazine, which is publishing her annotated had his solo piano composition was accompanist for Joe Robinson, principal oboe, Robinson, was accompanist for Joe presented two organ recitals in Seoul, South Korea, South in Seoul, two organ recitals presented has had a number of his works performedhas had a number of his works recently. performed three duo recitals in the Carolinas with in the Carolinas duo recitals performed three was performed at the Society of Composers, Inc., festi- of Composers, Inc., was performed at the Society Flute Talk Flute Collaborative Arts, which initiates study and provides support for Arts,Collaborative which initiates study and provides independent music teachers who incorporate the study of cham- ber music and accompanying in their teaching. Ray Kilburn solo recitals has given He violinist Hsiao-mei Ku. University Duke Washington Eastern University, and master classes at Gonzaga In (Pullman). University State Washington and University State in the solo recitals two more addition, Kilburn has given University and master class at McGill and a solo recital Carolinas, State. at Ball here another solo program by followed in Montreal, Concerto Youth also served as adjudicator for the MSO He Competition. Arts of Fine Professor Distinguished Sursa Korea, South a performance from in Seoul, returned recently addition to the concert, In Foundation. the Kumho by sponsored radio on satellite systems, she presented which was broadcast interviews University. violin master classes at Hanyang and three of this visit, Kloss has accepted a graduate student to As a result to she traveled her return, Upon for next fall semester. State Ball entitled, “The program of a for a recital Soul Fla. Ft. Myers, composers. music of Jewish People,” Kirby Koriath were The recitals University. Yonsei by 2001, sponsored in June and Andong Presbyterian Church Presbyterian at Somang given Church. Kothman Keith New York Philharmonic, and for the faculty performances Philharmonic, of York New Mary Carter, Jeffrey Ballard, Jeff Wolfe, George Sweger, Keith an has also given and Sherry Kloss. He York, Karrie Hagopian, and has been an accompanist for the recital Trio American Piano a lecture/seminar has given summer chamber music series. Palmer Teachers on piano pedagogy for the Columbus Piano presentation Association, and he has been an adjudicator for the Indianapolis annual competition and the Columbus Piano Teachers Piano released on CD in September.The work was released by Capstone by was released work on CD in September.The released of Composers, Inc. (CPS-8690) under the auspices of the Society digital audio work Kothman’s November, In awake . . . performances of this Upcoming of Florida. at the University val International at the Ninth will take place this Spring work and at the in Havana Festival, Spring Music Electroacoustic Kans. in Kansas City, festival Midwest Music Electronic Levin Harold at the for clarinet, viola, and trumpet, premiered Pieces” “Five His in Festival Chamber Music annual Summer School of Music’s The in July. Mich. and then performed again at Interlochen, June his CD. Additionally, on a just-released was recorded work and performed was presented Towers” Twin on the “Meditation stu- award-winning University’s State and Ball Wolfe George by Clinic in Chicago in quartetdent saxophone Midwest at the for “Music Levin will conduct his own February, In December. and his Band, Symphony University State with the Ball Band” for violin at Ball State and viola will be performed “Duo” Festival. Music New February University’s Larson Mattern Julia Certified is a Nationally bibliography of flute books. Mattern Association and is National Teachers Music by of Music Teacher Century. Twentieth of the Musicians listed in 2000 Outstanding Palmer Robert Muncie Symphony, as substitute principal flute with the as substitute principal flute Symphony, Muncie Festival as piccolo with the Russian Richmond Symphony, and as a substitute with the in Indianapolis, Orchestra Flute served She the National Orchestra. Symphony Indianapolis Committee and as a Association as a member of the Pedagogy also Competition. Mattern Music Published judge for the Newly Choir School Flute Association High Flute the National directed new reviews regularly She in Dallas. at the national convention music for Fine Tuning Leads to Leads Tuning Fine Music for Ground-breaking Building Instruction presented by presented floor will house the Music Engineering floor will house the Music (Phi Delta Kappa Delta (Phi The Mikado, The Mikado, in November. in November. Notations had a Recording Residency at the Banff Residency had a Recording had solo and Chamber Music Recitals in Illinois, Recitals had solo and Chamber Music traveled to Brazil on a month-long cultural to Brazil traveled stepped out of the classroom and on to the stage in stepped out of the classroom The 73,000 square-foot, two-storyThe 73,000 square-foot, facility will house performance, made in materials and construction, but nothing adjustments were Minor the amenities feet. All of the components, all of lose any square didn’t “We a focal The performance designed with acoustics in mind, remains hall, of a pipe organ of music, notes that the purchase professor Koriath, Kirby looking for a gift or series be a budget expense, so we’re it can’t know “We see of the School of Music, director interim and Erwin Mueller, Koriath Don P. Ester P. Don in of Ko-Ko to sing the role February Ester is a co-author of Orchestra. Symphony the Muncie Guidebook Teachers of Student Evaluation international attention upon its which received International), of Ester continued to conduct a variety publication this past year. Choir performed for Youth White River and his state festivals, Academy, Marine and the Merchant D. Stewart Joseph Admiral included schedule presentation professional His Y. Kingspoint, N. Convention. Society Lakes College Music a session at the Great Hartig Caroline Program, and Sound for the Arts, Music Centre International includes the world premiere work most recent Canada. Her Banff, sextet for two clarinets and string quartet, “Bally Larson’s of Libby Orleans, Clarinet Association in New at the International Deux,” and the Daniels, with clarinetist Eddie Theatre the Orpheum performed also with the Quatrro Quartet. She Colorado String and Symphony, the Indianapolis Quartet in Indianapolis, String State as with Ball as well Chamber Orchestra the Indianapolis elect of the Hartig is the vice-president/president University. Instructors. and Percussion Wind Association of College National Helton James is currently He Tennessee. and Oklahoma, Kentucky, Indiana, Teachers Music State serving of the Indiana on the board of the Association in two capacities: as chair of the state round Competitions, Association Performance National Teachers Music and as chair of the Committee on State Ball by hosted this year Faculty Notes Faculty Carter Jeffrey de teaching a class at the Universideade program, exchange Pedro. and coaching a choir in San State Paulo Campinas in San addition, Carter was the principal conductor at Midwestern In of Kansas. Carter had a busy fall Camp at the University Music White performance at the Singers with a University semester, performance a solo baritone with the in December, House and an ongoing series recital, a faculty voice Symphony, Muncie guide to choir performances.of school clinics and festival His for the choral conductor was published in the state resources choral publication Student and faculty musicians, as well as music lovers from the Ball State and State the Ball from lovers as music and faculty musicians, as well Student for the ground-breaking anticipating an early April are community, Muncie at the Building Instruction construction of the new$21 million Music bids contractors’ Because avenues. and Riverside corner of McKinley southwest estimates, construction had been the architect’s above for the new facility were delayed. band for studio, orchestra, storage and teaching areas office, library, rehearsal, The second and choral activities. (MET) Studios. Technology was lost in the fine-tuning. interim dean of the Kvam, the same,” said Robert remain envisioned, that were Arts. College of Fine The performance hall will include the construction of point of the building. of a organ chambers built into the stage walls in anticipation of the installation pipe organ in the future. funding for the new included in the facility. isn’t the pipe organ,” said Koriath. of gifts to purchase and instructionalthe installation of a pipe organ as both a recruitment tool. Changes to Theatre and Dance Are Visit us at Subtle Yet Substantial With so many projects changing the landscape find the challenge of vocal performances www.bsu.edu/cfa/theatre/default.asp of Ball State–notably the completion of Shafer equally daunting. Tower and the new Art and Journalism A recent dance production included a folk Building–it’s easy to miss some of the less dance choreographed by Lund in which the obvious changes occurring beneath the surface dancers were required to sing an Eastern of what appear to be unchanging and European folk song. Lund felt it was a good comfortably familiar programs. But to those experience for the students. who have been around awhile, the changes are “They had to learn a different style of as obvious as a new building singing, they had to learn to control their on the horizon. breathing,” he said. “It’s something they will “It’s not just that the encounter in the professional world.” program has gotten bigger Sarah Mangelsdorf, director of dance, over the years,” said notes that opening up opportunities within the department chair Don department often requires students to move LaCasse. “It’s also a better beyond what is comfortable and familiar. program. It’s more diverse “Many more of our students sing and act and also more specialized.” in addition to dance,” Mangelsdorf said. The program’s diversity is “Their focus might be more on one area, but apparent in the cross- they want to keep working on all three.” disciplinary nature reflected Bill Jenkins, musical theatre coordinator, in both its courses and the notes that training to be a “triple threat” is interests of its students. common in the department. Specialization and depth “We train students in all three areas,” come with classes that focus Jenkins said. “We have them build on their on one area of expertise such strengths and improve their areas of weakness. as combat training The faculty is helping make those post- During the spring semester of 2001, theatre and dance majors from Ball or acting for the camera. graduation success stories a reality State University collaborated with composer Raphael Crystal and director Accredited by the by helping students make the Deloss Brown to prepare a musical comedy based on Shakespeare’s Love’s National Association of most of their individual Labour’s Lost. Beginning with the traditional text, they quickly Schools of Theatre Today’s Department talents.” reconceived the play to a modern-day, fictional setting which they called and Dance, and in In addition to the Eden, Indiana. On the strength of Crystal’s musical score and their own the process of being educational preparation comedic instincts, they took Love Me, Love Me Not to the John of Theatre and Dance Houseman Theatre Center off Broadway in New York, packing the house accredited by the of students, Jenkins every time the show ran, from April 17–21 and garnering the attention of National Association does it all. notes that the the Manhattan Fox News affiliate in a local arts story. Love Me, Love Me of Schools of Dance, department has Not was produced as a seminar of the Virginia B. Ball Center for Creative LaCasse sees the Ball developed ways to help Inquiry. State program creating And they do it new graduates network Pictured above are (left to right) Carey Kayser, Natalie Ellis, Brian Geary, Liz Davito, Nick Brenner (as Don Armado), Brad Coolidge, and Adam a special niche for itself with those in their field. Tilford. The foot is played by Chris Bryant. with a focus on a solid very well. “Our focus has shifted in academic foundation and plenty the last three or four years,” he said. of opportunities for students to gain “We’re not just giving our students a quality professional experience. education, but we’re helping them make the “We’re not a traditional liberal arts kinds of connections they need to get ahead Visited Campus... program, and we’re not a BFA program. We professionally when they leave here.” offer a mid-ground,” LaCasse said. “Students The establishment of New York and Los Stage, film and television professionals who shared their want training. They want to go out and work. Angeles showcases following graduation is one expertise with students and faculty members in Ball State’s Students today are much more focused on of the most dramatic ways the department gets Department of Theatre and Dance through classes and their careers.” new alums connected with the professional workshops last year include: Faculty, too, are more focused on their world. Stage work is emphasized in the New professional careers. Today’s faculty members York showcase. The L.A. showcase features Richard Parks aren’t academics removed from the world of students who are interested in films and Deb Shively performance. television. “The faculty today are more ambitious,” Rodger Smith, hired in 1997 to develop a Dance professionals who shared their expertise with said Kip Shawger, associate chair and head of program of acting for the camera, notes that students and faculty members in Ball State’s Department design, and a member of the faculty since 1975. the digital revolution has made it possible to of Theatre and Dance through classes, choreography, and “We’re encouraged to do more outside prepare students for work on film. the summer dance intensive last year include: work. Professionally its good for us, but it also “Years ago colleges couldn’t afford film, brings new ideas and fresh experiences into the the cost was just prohibitive,” Smith said. Michele Kriner (alumna) Luigi department,” he said. “Now we can teach these courses at Ball State Milli Fraiser (alumna) Lori Belilove Besides working on productions outside and do everything a film school can do.” Kory Berda Browder (alumna) Jennifer Sprowl the university, faculty members are also All this is not to say the department has Alan Sener Tod Baker (alumnus) encouraged to continue their own education. changed so much that those returning to visit Kennet Oberly Larissa Sentsova The benefits to the students can be seen in the a class wouldn’t find it familiar. Even Smith, Jeremy Plummer Carol Worcel addition of specialized classes to the a strong advocate for the integration of more Andre Megerdichian Bill Evans curriculum. technology into the curriculum, admits that Robert Denvers Suzie Lundgren Greg Lund, instructor of dance and a the difference between stage work and film Mary Corsaro faculty member since 1978, offers a course in work is merely the medium. stage combat. The course came about as a “It’s just two kinds of theatre,” Smith said. result of Lund’s own experiences at a training “live theater and recorded theater.” program conducted by the Society of American LaCasse, too, emphasizes the importance Fight Directors. of seeing the connections rather than the Lund sees the stage combat course as a differences between the different forms. good example of the cross-disciplinary work “Theater is a good foundation. Film is one going on in the department. For actors, who component of that. And today, if you want to are used to telling stories with words, the make a living, you’ve got to be able to do it switch to telling a story through movement can all,” he said. be a challenge. Today’s Department of Theatre and Dance Likewise, dancers used to expressing does it all. And they do it very well. themselves through their body movements can theatre/dance Dance Program Offers Educational, Community Opportunities

Since its inception as part of the Department of Theatre and Dance in 1987, Indianapolis as well as an ongoing Duncan dance class for children at the theatre/dance the dance program at Ball State has grown from just three dance majors to a Muncie Ballet Studio. thriving program with over sixty majors. Sarah Mangelsdorf, director of In an effort to offer students as many outlets as possible, the dance dance, notes that the increase in student numbers has been the catalyst for program works to develop workshop opportunities for students and the many of the changes within the program. “We have a multi-layered program now because we have more students looking at different avenues,” said Mangelsdorf. “We encourage our students to look at all their opportunities.” With students leading the way, dance has developed a strong student studio performance program. Seniors are required to do a choreography project which showcases their talents in developing and teaching choreography. Now, with student interest pushing for more performance opportunities, juniors are offered a showcase opportunity as well. “They may go in one direction with the junior project and build on it for the next year,” said Mangelsdorf. On the other hand, she said, students have also found the junior year experience a chance to try out new ideas and, when they don’t work out, have the senior showcase in which to move into an entirely new direction. One event in which the program has participated for the past decade is the American College Dance Festival. The Ball State program has been recognized at the national event three times in the past ten years. Other national honors have come to the program as well. The Ball State Dance program was one of only fifty-one recipients of a $10,000 grant from a Dance/USA and National Endowment for the Arts partnership with the National College community. Two such activities hosted by the dance program during the Choreography Initiative. The money is being used to train students in the summer included the Bill Evans Summer Institute of Dance in June and the dance technique and repertory of Isadora Duncan via Lori Belilove and Summer Dance Intensive Workshops sponsored in part with Anderson Company of New York. Young Ballet Academy. Katie Teuchtler, instructor of dance, was instrumental in developing the The future will undoubtedly offer new and different opportunities proposal that brought Belilove and her associates to Muncie. She notes that for students in the dance program, but Mangelsdorf sees the while the project started because of her own interest in learning Duncan programs emphasis on a solid foundation as one of its core strengths. dance techniques, the effect has been far reaching. “Things keep changing,” said Mangelsdorf. “So you want to “The whole project has become so much more,” said Teuchtler. “It’s give them basic skills so that when the momentary hot trend really just had a snowball effect. It started at Ball State and just spread into fades they are prepared for whatever comes next.” the community and across the state.” Outreach activities have included master classes in West Lafayette and

Faculty Notes Raphael Crystal directed Garson Award for Outstanding variety of disciplines (theatre, english, Judy Yordon directed Never the spent spring 2001 Kanin’s comedy Contributions to General Education art, general studies, Sinner by John Logan in Strother semester as a Fellow Born Yesterday and was a finalist for the telecommunications, architecture, Theatre in the spring, and she was at the newly- at Illinois Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. and business) created the first Ball invited to present a scene from the created Virginia Repertory Finally, he was awarded two grants, State Entertainment Web site for the show at the American College B. Ball Theatre, Grease one from the College of Fine Arts on purpose of streaming dramatic Theatre Festival in January. The fifth Center for at Indianapolis Civic the use of technology in teaching and media. The students built the Web edition of her text, Roles in Creative Theatre, and the musical one for a Pedagogy Web site from the site and the entire product found on Interpretation, was released, and she Inquiry. He led a Working as a guest artist at Anderson American Association for Theatre in the Web site (short films, a vertical is currently working on a prospectus seminar of sixteen University. This winter, he will be Higher Education. drama, cartoons, and graphic eye for a Shakespeare text in conjunction theatre majors in the creation of a guest directing Shakespeare’s Measure David C. (“Kip”) Shawger, Jr., was candy). The students’ work can be with a University of Cambridge new musical, Love Me, Love Me Not, for Measure at the Nebraska the scenic designer for numerous seen at www.someoneswatching.com. (England) professor. During the fall, based on Shakespeare’s Love’s Labours Repertory Theatre/University of theme park musical productions Michael Worcel attended the Yordon was the director of the Lost. The show featured a “book” Nebraska and directing Sondheim’s A including Worlds of Fun (Kansas American College Dance Festival at London Centre, accompanied by written collaboratively by the entire Little Night Music here at Ball State. City), Six Flags Great Adventure the University of Illinois in forty-three Ball States students. As cast, music by Crystal, and lyrics by As an actor, Jenkins performed in (New York), Santa’s Village Champaign/Urbana and performed part of her “Shakespeare in guest director Deloss Brown. The both Never the Sinner and Violet at (Chicago), Kennywood and Idlewild the solo section of his choreography, Performance” class, the students group traveled to New York City and Ball State. Jenkins continues his Parks (Pittsburgh), and Two For The Blues in the faculty rehearsed on the Globe stage and showcased the work at the John active affiliation with the Mid- Adventureland (Des Moines, Iowa.) dance concert. This piece was presented a compiled script entitled Houseman Studio Theatre. The American Theatre Conference where Additionally, other creative designs repeated in the Festival of Dance Shakespeare’s Family at the Theatre audience included entertainment he serves as the co-chair of the include backdrops for Capital Concert with Ball State Dance Museum in Covent Garden. Yordon industry representatives; the event Directing Symposium and vice- Theatre in Albany, N.Y. and the Theatre. His Lindy Hop project directed the production and played was covered by Fox News. Returning president elect responsible for the Columbus Zoo, Columbus, Ohio. At Can’t Stop The Hop was performed Lady Macbeth. to Muncie, the group presented the 2003-2004 Conference. Ball State, Shawger was the scenic for the National Folk Dance Festival Lou Ann Young continues to teach, musical at the Muncie Center for the Sarah Mangelsdorf attended the designer for Orpheus in the hosted by Ball State, showcased at choreograph and direct Ball State Arts. During the summer, Crystal National Dance Association’s annual Underworld, Children of a Lesser God, the freshman scholarship auditions, Dance Theatre at the University. composed music for the convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, and You Can’t Take it With You, and and presented at ACDF in the She was appointed to the Executive “Shakespeare Under the Stars at serves on the Heritage Committee. Twelfth Night (the Ball State University/ informal dance concert and for Board of National Dance America Minnetrista” production of Twelfth She also attended the Great Lakes Minnetrista Cultural Center summer Festival of Dance 2001. Worcel’s and serves on the long-range Night. He created pre-show musical American College Dance Festival at theatre program). He is still active article about this project appeared in planning committee. She attended entertainment that featured School the University of Illinois and the Bill with the American College Theatre Alumnus, the Ball State alumni national meetings in Louisville and of Music tenor Jeff Ballard, with a Evans Summer Institute of Dance in Festival, Region III, and spends a magazine. This past summer Worcel New York City this past year. Last guest appearance by soprano Linda Muncie. great deal of time traveling to other was assistant choreographer for and summer, Young directed and taught Smith from the Department of Michael M. O’Hara wrote the colleges and universities as a performed in the World Police Fire at Ball State’s Intensive Dance Theatre and Dance. screenplay for The Séance and production adjudicator. Last January, Games Opening Ceremony at the Workshop and brought in eight guest Bill Jenkins has had a busy year directed Children of a Lesser God. He the Kennedy Center awarded him RCA Dome. In September he co- teachers. Last spring she attended the directing both at Ball State and was a featured speaker at the Shorter the prestigious Gold Medallion. This choreographed Sweet Charity at the American College Dance festival outside of the university. At Ball College Conference on Teaching and year he has been asked to serve as the Indianapolis Civic Theatre, which where BSDT performed her State, he co-directed Offenbach’s Technology. O’Hara also presented associate chair of the Department of was listed as one of the best musicals Symphonic Dances. Young’s Mid- operetta Orpheus in the Underworld papers at the National Communication Theatre and Dance. of the year by critics of the States Regional Company attended with Craig Priebe. The production Association Convention and In December, 2001, Rodger Smith Indianapolis Star News in their Best of their festival in Lansing, Mich. and included both theatre and music submitted the lead chapter in a new completed his Virginia Ball Center 2001 edition. Most recently he were honored to perform at the Gala. students and was a great collaboration book on pedagogy entitled for Creative Inquiry Fellowship with choreographed the concert dance Young serves as president of the Mid- between the two departments. Technology in the Theatre Classroom. the launch of his students’ semester piece The Prey for Ball State’s Dance! States Regional Dance America. During the summer and fall, Jenkins He won the Lawhead Teaching project. Sixteen students from a Dance! Dance! concert. University. Kyle has been selected to Socey’s (Journalism, B.S. ’93) Love is touring in a Sesame Street produc- be an endorsing artist for United and Turtle Wax at the Intimate Space tion. Chris Albright (Acting, B.S. Musical Instruments, Inc., headquar- Performance Salon in Indianapolis. ’99) is attending graduate school at tered in Elkhart, Ind. His clinic Charles F. Atkins (Music Ed, B.S. the University of California, San appearances and performances will ’94) resides in Muncie, Ind. while Diego. Elijah Dotson (Acting, B.S. be partially funded by UMI to assist attending graduate classes at Ball ’99) appeared in Not Another Teen Visit us at schools in bringing professional edu- State. Patrick Kelsey (Theatre, B.S. Movie. Ashley Hamman cators and artists to their students. ’94) recently worked as the General (Performance Theatre, B.S. ’99) is Lori A. Mechem (Music, B.S. ’86) Manager of the Ford Center for the currently working as the publicity www.bsu.edu/cfa/ resides in Ashland City, Tenn. She is Performing Arts. Amy Rafa (Musical director for the American Cabaret founder and director of Nashville Theatre, B.S. ’94) appeared in Theatre in Indianapolis. She recently Jazz Workshop, Nashville’s first jazz Statuette, a Hollywood musical. appeared in Love and Turtle Wax at school. The school offers classes for David Reuille (Dance, B.S. ’94) the Intimate Space Performance ensembles, improve, vocal, history, appeared during segments on Donald Salon in Indianapolis. Jennifer Jurik and more. Mechem also has several McKayle on the PBS documentary (Musical Theatre, B.S. ’99) appeared compact discs out. She and her hus- Free to Dance: Black Dancers and in Two By Two at La Comedia band, Roger, play, produce, and mix Dance. Amy Bouril (Musical Dinner Theatre in New York. recordings at their home. James F. Theatre, B.S. ’95) appeared on two Benjamin J. Shuman (Musical O’Donnell (Music, D.A. ’87) resides episodes of The Education of Max Theatre, B.S. ’99) resides in Sarasota, in Terre Haute, Ind. He is dean of Bickford and an episode of Law and Fla. He completed an M.A. from Alumni Notes the School of Arts and Humanities at Order: Special Victims Unit. She will Ohio University after being the pro- Wayne State College. Prior to being also be seen in the upcoming movie duction stage manager at the named dean, he was chairperson of Spider Man. Andy Catron (Technical Monomoy Theatre in Cape Cod for 1940s 1980s the Department of Music at Indiana Theatre, B.S. ’95) recently designed one year. Shuman is finishing a year- Ellis C. Swadley (Music Ed & Michael Bowerman (Art, B.S. ’80) State University. David Marcos Comedy of Errors in Nashville at long internship as an assistant stage English, M.A. ’47) resides in resides in Leo, Ind. where he is a Botas (Music Ed., B.S. ’88) resides in Vanderbilt University. He also recent- manager for the Asolo Mainstage, Issaquah, Wash. He retired in 1990 partner in Shapes Advertising Design Fort Wayne, Ind. He has completed ly designed Equus for the Mum and will be the production stage and was granted Professor Emeritus Studio. The studio has received four four years as a firefighter with the Puppet Theatre in Philadelphia. Julie manager for the Asolo Conservatory from the University of Maine. awards at the 2001 Addy Award Fort Wayne Fire Department. A. Jachimczak (Music, B.S. ’95) for the 2001-02 season. Heather Ceremony. The agency received Kristin Casaletto (Art, B.F.A. and resides in Fort Pierce, Fla. She Stuart (Musical Theatre, B.S. ’99) is Addys in the categories of Trade B.S. in physics, ’88) resides in instructs private lessons for local traveling with Networks, Inc. in a Publication, Direct Marketing and Augusta, Ga. She is an assistant pro- music students and is active as a free- national tour of Ragtime. Brent 1960s Industry Self Promotion, and a fessor of art and head of printmaking lance musician for local orchestras Watkins (Musical Theatre, B.S. ’99) Bruce Burns (Music & Math, B.S. Citation of Excellence for Collateral at Augusta State University. Jeff and bands in south Florida. She has recently performed with The Marco ’61, M.A. ’63) resides in Tustin, Material: Special Event. It is a full- Casazza (Theatre, B.S. ’88) recently recently been promoted in her job as Polo Singers and Dancers aboard Calif. where he is teacher and depart- service agency that produces busi- directed The Glass Mendacity at front office and revenue manager at Orient Cruise Lines. ment chair at Villa Park High ness-to-business and business-to-con- Purdue University in West Lafayette, the Radisson Beach Resort. Steve School. He will be retiring after forty sumer print and electronic media for Ind. He works at the Indianapolis Kessler (Music Ed., B.S. ’95) resides years of teaching, twenty-five years as clients that operate in regional, Repertory Theatre where he helps in Bloomington, Ind. where he is the high school band director, six years as national and international markets. other directors with their produc- band director at Eagle Point High 2000s music coordinator, and thirteen years Christine E. [Maxwell] Rash tions. Holly Quakenbush (Dance, School and Eagle Point Junior High. Katy Hackney (Musical Theatre, as Math Department chairperson. (Physical Ed & Health, B.S. ’80) B.S. ’89) recently played in Sweet He completed his Master of Music B.A. ’00) performed in Dark Paradise Burns wrote the Monroe Central resides in Kendallville, Ind. where Charity at Indianapolis Civic degree in wind conducting at Indiana at The Cincinnati Playhouse in the High School song in Parker City, she is owner and director of Tri- Theatre. Laurel Taylor (Theatre, University. Debbie Thomas, now Park. Dan Marrero (Musical Theatre, Ind. County Dance Academy. Her school Costume Design, ’89) resides in Los known as Anne Thomas, (Theatre, B.S. ’00) recently appeared in Tony n’ has grown to 475 students and has Angeles, Calif. Where she is engaged B.S. ’95) recently co-starred in an Tina’s Wedding in Chicago. Jason been recognized for national compe- in special effects costuming. Her episode of The District on CBS. Roseberry (Musical Theatre, B.S. tition and choreography of dance. work can be seen on commercials for Other recent television appearances ’00) married Hannegan Beardsley 1970s Scott Sandoe (Theatre & ESPN, Nissan, and Jeep. include The West Wing, The Young (Musical Theatre, B.S. ’00) after Shirley Eileen Hinman (Music Ed, Telecommunications, B.A. ’82) and the Restless, The Client, and First graduating and are both now pursu- B.S. ’72) resides in Demotte, Ind. resides in West Hollywood, Calif. Watch. Warren Jackson (Theatre, ing careers in theatre in New York where she teaches general vocal where he is a screenwriter of the B.A. ’96) recently appeared in Native City. Jason appeared in The Cabinet music at St. Mary Catholic School. recently produced independent film 1990s Son at The Performance Loft. Tim of Dr. Caligari at The Midtown While at Ball State, Hinman was a Lifers’ Picnic (previously titled An Kristine Ann Botas (Music Ed., B.S. Kane (Performance Theatre, B.S. International Theater Festival in New member of the marching band and American Girl). Joyce Lynn ’91) resides in Fort Wayne, Ind. She ’96) recently appeared in Hellcab and York City. Currently, both are chorale, women’s chorus, and musical O’Connor (Theatre, B.A. ’83) is child care director for the First Hushaby Mountain at Famous Door appearing off-off Broadway in band. She is a pianist at her church. resides in New York City. O’Connor Missionary Church. Giles Davies Theatre in Chicago. He will soon be Richard II. Recently both performed She also plays trumpet and teaches received her M.F.A. from SMU. She (Theatre, B.S. ’92) did a one-man seen as Laertes in Hamlet at the off-off Broadway in a show written private lessons. Rich Komenich has been an actress in productions on performance of Dickens’ “The Court Theatre. Kate (Otterman) and directed by Jason. The show won (Theatre, B.S.) can be seen in two Broadway, off-Broadway, radio, and Uncommercial Traveler” and “The Steele (Dance, B.S. ’97) appeared in a new play award at the New York current films: Just Visiting and television for fifteen years. She is a Death of Nancy” from Oliver Twist The Amphibian Song at Abingdon City festival. Amanda Randall Forgive Me Father. Linda Gail (Vogt) mother of two and is an activist on at the College Hill Town Hall in Theatre. She and her husband (Acting, B.S. ’01) recently appeared Weghorst (Art, B.S. ’75) resides in behalf of autistic people. She is mar- Cincinnati, Ohio. in September. He recently moved to Los Angeles. in Macbeth at the University of Germantown, Tenn. where she has a ried to the founder of the Signature will perform at the Cincinnati Danny Heeter (Musical Theatre, California Irvine, where she attends studio in her home designing and Theater Company in New York City. Shakespeare Festival. John Lister B.S. ’98) appeared in Big River at the graduate school. weaving tapestries for interiors. In Donald C. Rhynard (Music, B.M. (Theatre, B.S. ’92) performed in Marriott Theatre in Chicago. He addition, she teaches workshops and ’84) resides in New York City. He is Romeo and Juliet at the Chicago recently appeared in High Society and DECEASED classes in her studio. Her tapestries leader and founder of Sax In The Shakespeare Theatre last spring. Me and My Girl at Theatre at the Marian C. Hank (Theatre, B.S. ’85) are exhibited in shows and galleries City, a saxophone quartet, which Laura Jansen (Theatre, B.S. ’93) Center in Munster, Ind. Jackie passed away October 1, 2001. throughout the United States. John recently won the Music Under New works at Urban Gateways Center for Trippear (Musical Theatre, B.S. ’98) David Thomas (Music, B.S. ’76) York audition. The quartet performs Arts Education in resides in Indianapolis, Ind. where he regularly at several bars and restau- Chicago. Jessica is CEO/owner/composer of John rants in New York City, including Guthrie (Musical David Thomas Productions. He has Hannah’s Lava Lounge and Chez Theatre, B.S.) has three CDs of his original music com- Suzette. Kyle D. Mack (Music, been touring with positions for sale on his Web site. M.M. ’85, D.A. ’93) resides in Sesame Street Live. Fargo, N. Dak. where he is director Simone Lawson of jazz studies at North Dakota State directed Matthew

Art and Journalism Building Dedicated

Hundreds of guests visited the new Art and Journalism Building during the official dedication November 4, 2001. The new campus addition houses offices, classrooms, and studios for the departments of art and journalism; the campus bookstore and coffee shop; an art gallery, including an outdoor sculpture court; and the four-story Atrium dining facility. alumnialumni is He also He Popular. Enterprise role, Star Trek Star Awesome Adventures. Awesome Natural light and large work spaces highlight new studios. light and large work Natural Before he landed the Before Regular work in his field fulfilled one goal. work Regular Montgomery starred as host of a children’s starred Montgomery adventure series, adventure had a recurring role on the WB series on the role had a recurring Montgomery’s excitement about being on excitement Montgomery’s Being a regular on a television series was the next career. regular a Being clear. After learning he got the part, “I screamed like a After learning he got the part, “I screamed clear. “The best part is that I’m not a kid,” he says, “so I can be not a kid,” he says, “so “The best part is that I’m himself focus is on keeping the moment, Montgomery’s For positive, “I feel I got this job because I stuck to it, I stayed money to pay my few months ago I was borrowing “A banshee!” Montgomery said. “I mean, you don’t get these kinds don’t said. “I mean, you banshee!” Montgomery genuinely excited about this and still see it for what it is.” about this and still see it for genuinely excited a foot in Keeping as an actor. as a person and growing grounded hype is a delicate of Hollywood while riding the wave reality balance. It being a celebrity. weird “It’s he says. in myself,” and I believed to L.A.—to work.” this is why I came But gets surreal. of it–the interviews, the As for the rest the premieres, all assumes an attitude that these are paparazzi–Montgomery just part of the job. fact that I get to do a job in the he says. “I focus on the rent,” else is just extra.” Everything field I trained for. of opportunities and not get excited.” of opportunities and not get excited.” that Hard Rain Enterprise. nthony Montgomery nthony Ball State University graduate Anthony Montgomery University State Ball 30, an Indianapolis said Montgomery, been blessed,” “I’ve Those opportunitiescame easily at first, says Montgomery, to have I won’t Maybe so hard. “I thought, ‘That wasn’t used to wasn’t that Montgomery Not in singing in an R&B band From assistant and as a production was his experience It Montgomery says working as a production assistant was key as a production says working Montgomery “I learned a lot about what happens on the set,” of the complexity of his awareness credits Montgomery I hear people being interviewed get it when who “I don’t Ball State University President Blaine A. Brownell at the Art and at the Art A. Brownell Blaine President University State Ball dedication ceremony Building Journalism Finds a New “Enterprise” a New Finds losing game, but for is often a success in Hollywood Defining a has remained franchise Trek” than thirty the “Star years more solid bet. pretty Travis his good fortuneas helmsman in being cast recognizes on the new series UPN Mayweather with a bachelor’s State Ball who graduated in 1994 from native lot of an emphasis on performance. in theater with “A degree get never in their whole lives people will come out to L.A. and had.” the opportunities I’ve ad campaign within six Hilfiger Tommy who landed a part a in of hitting Los Angeles. weeks struggle like everyone said. “But else,’” Montgomery came work then the job ended and only a little so easy.” and it wasn’t my way, in the pursuit of his chosen work hard being in a number of field. Besides State, at Ball college productions of pursued a variety Montgomery jobs after entertainment-related graduation. Chicago to trying his hand at stand-up looked Montgomery comedy in Indianapolis, for his niche in the entertainment industry. called performerbackground on a movie Ball State Grad A prompted him to make the big move to Los Angeles. him to make the big move prompted made. really are movies an understanding of how in developing said. “I see a lot of actors who think that if they Montgomery doing something on the set, that means nothing is going aren’t always something going on.” There’s look around. on. But combined with a Midwestern and television production, movie as the key to believing in oneself, sensibility that emphasizes a business where and enthusiasm in maintaining his excitement many appear jaded. but they happy, acting jobs and they say they’re get these great says. Montgomery sound happy,” don’t sure Nonprofit U.S. Postage PAID Ball State University FRONT ROW College of Fine Arts Muncie, IN 47306-0400 Visit the College of Fine Arts on the World Wide Web www.bsu.edu/cfa

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