#creativestate The official magazine of Arts NC State FALL 2018

The Grains turn 50 PAGE 34 All the Possibilities PAGE 24 Costume Psychology PAGE 42 Plus 2018 Holiday Add-Ons

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2018 Dear Friends – can hardly believe it’s fall 2018 already. Only one very short year ago we were opening the fabulous I new home of the Gregg Museum of Art & Design. Here we are, more than 20,000 museum visitors later, ready to begin a new season of engaging with our students, campus and community members, and supporters. One exciting exhibition at the Gregg Museum, opening October 11, will be a massive work by painter Vernon Pratt – one piece that will utilize an entire gallery. All the Possibilities of Sixteen – consisting of 256 panels which, when placed together, are 18’ high and 110’ long – has never been exhibited before. We are thrilled to bring this monumental work to our visitors!

PHOTO BY MARC JACKSON Thanks to enduring professional groups and TV shows such as Glee and The Sing-Off, the vocal INSIDE THIS ISSUE music stylings of a cappella are perhaps more popular now than ever. We are happy to embrace four of the #creativestate Vignettes ...... 9 student a cappella groups as affiliated groups of the The Grains turn 50 ...... 34 Department of Music, a relationship in which we Costume Psychology ...... 42 provide musical support and other resources to these passionate and talented singers. The Grains of Time is Donors ...... 48 NC State’s longest-standing a cappella group, and we Dining Guide ...... 53 are honored to be partners with them as they celebrate Coda ...... 54 their 50th year of joyful music making. Events I suspect you have all, on at least one occasion, gotten dressed and stood in front of a mirror only to Fall Events Calendar ...... 6 think “No, this doesn’t look right.” Multiply that by NC State LIVE Fall 2018 ...... 18 hundreds of actors, in scores of scenes, in dozens Gregg Museum Fall 2018...... 24 of eras… well, you get the idea. In this issue of University Theatre Fall 2018 ...... 30 #creativestate we’re delighted to bring you a behind- the-scenes look at University Theatre’s costume shop and the decision-making and artistic processes they must continually employ. Thank you for your support of Arts NC State, and I look forward to seeing you throughout this year. ON THE COVER Alec Hunter has been singing with the Grains of Time since fall 2016. He is a junior in applied mathematics from Austin, Texas, and is a member of NC State Naval ROTC.

PHOTO BY ROBERT DAVEZAC Rich Holly Executive Director for the Arts

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CRAFTS CENTER Open to campus and the community, the Crafts Center provides hands-on, immersive, lifelong learning skills. Focus areas include clay, wood, jewelry, lapidary, mixed media, photography, glass and fibers. Students and patrons from all disciplines, backgrounds, and skill sets find a welcoming, supportive and creative home here. crafts.arts.ncsu.edu

DANCE PROGRAM This nationally recognized program educates, empowers and inspires NC State TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW student dancers and choreographers to find and express their creative voice. dance.arts.ncsu.edu FROM THE PRODUCERS OF

GREGG MUSEUM OF & ART & DESIGN A collecting and exhibiting museum with over 35,000 objects, the Gregg makes art accessible to the NC State community and public. It’s the museum of NC State University, where objects spark ideas – and admission is always free. gregg.arts.ncsu.edu

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC NC State Music provides educational SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2018 @ DPAC opportunities for student and community 30 RESTAURANTS + 30 WINERIES participants through a variety of ensembles + LIVE MUSIC and courses, and offers both Music Minor and

Arts Entrepreneurship Minor curricula. The A PORTION department also serves as a cultural resource OF PROCEEDS for the university and the greater community WILL BENEFIT through numerous performances and presentations. music.arts.ncsu.edu

NC STATE LIVE SIPANDSAVORNC.COM NC State LIVE has established a regional and national reputation for presenting a professional performing arts season of the highest artistic excellence, connecting artists and audiences in a meaningful exploration of the diverse cultures and issues that define our communities and world. live.arts.ncsu.edu

UNIVERSITY THEATRE Open to all NC State students, regardless of major, University Theatre’s mission is to provide quality theatrical, artistic and practical experiences for the students and larger campus as well as Triangle communities. theatre.arts.ncsu.edu arts.ncsu.edu 5 NC STATE DANCE PROGRAM PHOTO BY JILLIAN CLARK EVENTS VIGNETTES

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 UNIVERSITY THEATRE EVENTS  CRAFTS CENTER  GREGG MUSEUM CALENDAR  DANCE PROGRAM  DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

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AUGUST SEPTEMBER

 Design Duet: the creative lives  How I Made This:  Frank Warren’s PostSecret Live of Robert Black and Ormond Sam Mayes, guitar Stewart Theatre Sanderson Crafts Center September 20 Gregg Museum of Art & Design September 6 Through September 9  Men on Boats  The Quadrivium Project Titmus Theatre  Our Living Past: Deep Cuts: The Spirit of September 20-23 & 26-30 portraits of blues musicians FM Radio by Tim Duffy Stewart Theatre  Film screening: Hondros Gregg Museum of Art & Design September 6 & 8 Hunt Library Through November 25 September 27  LIVE @ Lake Raleigh:  PackSecrets Exhibition Sidecar Social Club  How I Made This: Marina Crafts Center Centennial Campus Bosetti and Gretchen Quinn August 21-October 27 September 13 Crafts Center September 28  Rural Avant-Garde: The  David Roussève/REALITY Mountain Lake Experience Stewart Theatre  Youssra El Hawary Gregg Museum of Art & Design September 15 Stewart Theatre August 23-December 31 September 29  Curator talk with Ray Kass Gregg Museum of Art & Design  A memorial concert in honor September 20 of Dr. Randolph Foy Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre September 30

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 LIVE @ Lake Raleigh:  Chanticleer  Arts Now Series The Fritz Stewart Theatre Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre Centennial Campus November 3 November 15 October 11  Raleigh Civic Chamber  Dance Program  Vernon Pratt: All the Orchestra Fall Concert Possibilities of Sixteen Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre VIGNETTES Gregg Museum of Art & Design November 4 November 15-16 October 11-February 10  Jazz Ensemble II  Holiday Crafts Fair  In the Blood Stewart Theatre Crafts Center Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre November 5 November 17 October 17-21  Wind Ensemble  SYBARITE5 – Outliers  Ranky Tanky Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre November 7 November 17

October 19 FEATURES  Revisiting Mountain Lake  Raleigh Civic Symphony  Mexico Beyond Mariachi: Crafts Center Stewart Theatre Sugar Skull! November 8-11 November 18 Stewart Theatre October 21  The Rainmaker  Symphonic Band Titmus Theatre Stewart Theatre  Film screening: November 8-11 & 14-18 November 29 Rendered Small Gregg Museum of Art & Design  Jazz Ensemble I  Acappology October 24 Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre November 9 November 30  Fall Choral Collage Stewart Theatre October 26

 Capitol Steps Stewart Theatre October 27

 How I Made This: Gary Knight, forensic photography Crafts Center October 30

 FLUXUS: Gallery Exhibition by Arts Studies Students Crafts Center October 30-November 12

RALEIGH CIVIC SYMPHONY PHOTO BY ROBERT DAVEZAC

arts.ncsu.edu 7 DECEMBER

 Grains of Time  Choral Holiday Concert Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre December 1 December 7

 Wolfgang A Cappella  Ladies in Red Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre December 2 December 8

 Wind Ensemble/Jazz Ensemble I Holiday Concert Stewart Theatre December 6  FOR TICKETS 919.515.1100 arts.ncsu.edu JAZZ ENSEMBLE PHOTO BY ROBERT DAVEZAC

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Math professor Tye Lidman (horizontal) and members of Black Box Dance Theatre.

DANCE MEETS MATH Imagine her surprise when a math professor, who wanted to pursue a competitive grant, and was Dancers and mathematicians would not seem to be seeking solutions to explain why his research mattered, the most likely of collaborators, but that’s what is taking contacted Pearson. His idea? Collaborate with an artist place between Raleigh’s Black Box Dance Theatre and to create a performance art piece to broaden the impact Tye Lidman, an assistant professor of mathematics at of and interest in his research. NC State. “For once, the ask was coming from the other side… This project has developed from a year of research, seeking the arts as the answer to a mathematician’s conversation and math/dance labs – tackling esoteric problem, the arts as a way of sparking conversation, topics like knot theory, topology and the fourth deepening awareness, expanding who is included, and dimension – in an effort to broaden the impact of Dr. inspiring a vision of something yet unrealized.” Lidman’s cutting edge mathematical research. The Lidman received full funding for his grant application. result will be a new multimedia work that premieres in Funded in part by the National Science Foundation, September in Stewart Theatre. NC State LIVE, and the United Arts Council of Raleigh Michelle Pearson, artistic curator for Black Box and Wake County, the performance brings together Dance Theatre, marvels at how this project has come NC State dance and math students (including to be. “As an artist of the world, I’ve spent the last members of the NCSU Dance Company, Panoramic 25 years inviting others into an artistic process with Dance Project and Health and Exercise Studies the promise of community building, healing, leading, dance minors), joined by students from Enloe High learning and generally advancing human relations in School and community groups. Learn more at almost every way and sector. I’ve been witness to the blackboxdancetheatre.org. arts as a vehicle for sparking challenging conversations, deepening our awareness of complex issues, and Saturday, September 22 at 7:30pm inspiring us to understand each other and ourselves in Sunday, September 23 at 2pm new ways.” Stewart Theatre

arts.ncsu.edu 9 EVENTS VIGNETTES PHOTO BY ROBERT DAVEZAC PHOTO BY ROBERT

THE QUADRIVIUM PROJECT GOES DEEP

FEATURES The Quadrivium Project, NC State’s faculty rock band, is “Deep cuts” was a typical format for after- back this fall with a program they’re calling Deep Cuts: midnight radio shows, when DJs played the longer The Spirit of FM Radio – a pair of concerts that pay versions of songs as well as full album sides, often tribute to 1970s late night FM disc jockeys. with a particular theme each night. The Quadrivium performances will feature one of those late night hosts as an onstage guest: Donna Halper, a nationally known media historian, and associate professor of communication and media studies at Lesley DRIVE University. Halper was a groundbreaking female FM radio DJ in the 70s; among her claims to fame are THE ARTS her discovery of the band Rush and the shepherding of their first recording contract. FORWARD The Quadrivium Project features NC State faculty Support arts advocacy with your license plate. members Katherine Annett-Hitchcock (Textiles), Gary Beckman (Arts Entrepreneurship), Tommy Holden www.TheCreativeState.org (Health and Exercise Studies), Rich Holly (Arts NC State) and Tom Koch (Music). Embracing NC State’s brand theme of Think and Do, the Quadrivium Project is both a faculty band as well as an educational vehicle to discover and explore entrepreneurial opportunities for students related to contemporary live music making. For this concert, Quadrivium is planning to include music by Yes, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Traffic, Blind Faith, The Who, Rush, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Learn more at go.ncsu.edu/TQP.

Thursday & Saturday, September 6 & 8 at 8pm Stewart Theatre

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NOVEMBER CONCERTS KLIMT’S VIENNA: ART ON THE BRINK Sunday, November 18 at 4pm BY THE ORCHESTRAS OF Stewart Theatre NC STATE Gustav Klimt, famous for the painting The Kiss, was MUSIC OF THE MOUNTAINS central to Vienna’s artistic and musical worlds at the Sunday, November 4 at 4pm turn of the 20th century, a time of impending crisis. Stewart Theatre His circle included not only other painters, but also influential artists and thinkers across many disciplines. The Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra will perform the To commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, world premiere of Donald Reid Womack’s Blue Ridge the Raleigh Civic Symphony explores music associated Viola Concerto, inspired by the music of the southern with Klimt’s Vienna, including works by Beethoven and mountains, with ETHEL’s Ralph Farris as soloist. The Mahler. The concert will include the world premiere of work will be the first ever bluegrass viola concerto, a composition inspired by Klimt’s work by Japanese- written for Farris, a virtuoso on the often neglected American composer/cellist Paul Wiancko. instrument. This new concerto will be paired with Aaron Wiancko leads a multifaceted musical life, ranging Copland’s Appalachian Spring. from arranging and recording strings for underground Womack serves as professor of composition and punk bands while in college, to performing with theory at the University of Hawaii. He has composed multiple chamber ensembles, touring extensively with more than 90 works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, Chick Corea and Jóhann Jóhannsson, performing on solo instruments, and voice. His work with Japanese, numerous film scores and albums, and composing for a Korean and Chinese instruments has placed him at the host of artists and ensembles. vanguard of intercultural composition. The program includes a multidisciplinary work set Violist Ralph Farris is a founding member of the to the music of Klimt’s contemporary, Gustav Mahler, renowned string quartet ETHEL, a Grammy-nominated that combines music, dance and visual art in a real- arranger, an original Broadway orchestra member of time, three-dimensional creation of a new artwork The Lion King, and the former musical director for The choreographed by NC State Dance Program director Who’s Roger Daltrey. Tara Mullins.

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A PUMPKIN CARVING PASSING THE BATON AT TRADITION UNIVERSITY THEATRE

Lauren and Ben Thedieck almost missed carving a After 31 years of storytelling, John McIlwee pumpkin last year. But Jennifer Siegel, clay studio retired as director of University Theatre on manager at the Crafts Center, came to their rescue. June 30. During his tenure at NC State, John

FEATURES Every year since 2012, Siegel has been throwing accumulated over 125 credits to his name, dozens of clay jack-o’-lanterns on the wheel, preparing including director (both the program and many, for the annual pumpkin-carving workshop that has grown many productions), actor, costume designer, to three nights in October. She started with only 25 the scenic designer, and educator. During his three first year; that grew to her cap of 100 last year. Serious decades of service, he built NC State’s theatre clay skills are not required for the carving, just a bit of program to be the outstanding theatre company imagination. After they’re carved, Jennifer glazes each it is today — providing students of all majors the one and fires them in the Crafts Center’s cone 10 gas opportunity to experience the thrill of creating live reduction kiln. performance. Lauren and Ben learned about the class the first year, Joshua Reaves has accepted the role of which was the year they met. As an NC State alum, interim director for University Theatre. Joining Lauren wanted to create a memory with Ben on campus, University Theatre in 2011 as so they signed-up for the class. They’ve come back lighting and sound designer, every year. As Lauren notes, “Each year’s pumpkin has a Josh quickly proved his talent different face and a message that we write for each other for collaboration and leadership. on the bottom to remind of us our year together.” He soon became the assistant With a baby on the way, the 2017 carving workshop director for production, and was a bit too close to Lauren’s due date, so Jennifer then was named associate helped to carve a pumpkin with their new little girl’s name director for the program in on it to mark the new addition to the family, and in a word 2014. share the greatest moment of the year – baby Emma. In departing, John McIlwee Tradition saved. notes, “Although it is difficult to The Thediecks are planning to be back in the Crafts leave such an exciting program, Center – in person – to create more memories in 2018. I sincerely feel the growth we For Jennifer Siegel, over 50 hours of work – from wet experienced over the past 30 to fully fired – makes 100 personalized pumpkins possible, years will continue to expand out of the kiln just in time for Halloween. and excite our audiences under the directorship of Josh. His Clay Pumpkin Patch workshops are scheduled for talents have been recognized October 8, 9 and 11, 6:30-9:30pm. Early registration is by myself and others as being recommended: crafts.arts.ncsu.edu. just what University Theatre

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CHRIS HONDROS TAKING PHOTOS FEATURES IN CAIRO IN 2011 PHOTO BY SCOUT TUFANKJIAN needs to spark coming decades of all the creative FILM SCREENING: work our students and staff present on University Theatre’s stage.” HONDROS Reaves obtained his MFA from the University Hondros is a documentary that follows the of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and life and career of NC State graduate and his BFA from UNC-Greensboro. Before arriving at noted war photographer Chris Hondros, NC State, he taught at Campbell University and who was killed while on assignment in the University of Cincinnati. Libya in 2011. Driven by a commitment to bear witness after the events of 9/11, Chris was among the first in a new generation of war photographers since Vietnam. Hondros explores the complexities inherent in covering more than a decade of conflict while trying to maintain a normal life. The film is directed by Greg Campbell, Chris’ friend since childhood, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Lee Curtis as executive producers. It was winner of the Audience Award at the Tribeca Film Festival 2017. This free screening is presented in partnership with the Gregg Museum, the Alumni Association, and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Thursday, September 27 at 7pm Hunt Library Auditorium PHOTO BY RON FOREMAN

arts.ncsu.edu 13 FRANK WARREN EVENTS VIGNETTES FEATURES

PHOTO BY JAMES DUNCAN DAVIDSON

THE MOST TED talk. Come see the postcards At times hilarious and that were banned from his six best- heartbreaking, the secrets reflect TRUSTED selling PostSecret books. Hear the complex issues that many of us STRANGER IN inspiring stories behind the secrets. struggle with: intimacy, trust, AMERICA Listen to some of Frank’s favorite meaning and desire. Frank Warren’s secrets... and share your own. talk is scheduled as part of National Frank Warren is the creator of the Since the fall 2017 semester, the Suicide Awareness Month. Need PostSecret Project – a collection Crafts Center has been collecting to talk? The NC State Counseling of 1,000,000+ artful secrets that postcards from across campus and Center will be on hand in the lobby have been mailed to his home around the community (dubbed after the event and is available at on postcards, anonymously. The “PackSecrets” at NC State). These 919.515.2423. PostSecret website has become a cards reflect everything from humor Warren will sign books following phenomenon in itself, earning over to despair – an index of what is the lecture, and PostSecret books 700 million views, and making it going in the hearts and minds of will be available for sale in the the world’s largest advertisement- folks right here on campus. The lobby before and after the talk. Visit free blog. result is a modular installation of go.ncsu.edu/FrankWarren for The Crafts Center, in campus-generated secret cards ticket information and details. collaboration with NC State LIVE, that will be exhibited in the Crafts will present Frank Warren for a Center gallery, on view through Thursday, September 20 at 7pm lively lecture based on his popular October 27. Stewart Theatre

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IN MEMORY OF RANDY FOY

For 15 years (1998-2013), Dr. Randolph Foy – Randy – was the reserved yet determined force who led the town-and-gown orchestras of NC State University to new heights. He died on May 23 after battling a neurological illness for several years. FEATURES As noted in the program to honor his retirement SIMPSON WHIRLIGIG in 2013, Randy was committed to “programming AT THE GREGG contemporary music, presenting concerts in a thematic context, and connecting orchestral repertoire to larger Working alone in a small workshop at a country ideas in creative ways.” crossroads south of Wilson, NC, sculptor Vollis Simpson A teaching professor of music and conductor of the (1919-2013) developed an original style that combined orchestras of NC State University – the Raleigh Civic patriotism, playful humor, mechanical genius, native Symphony and the Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra – ingenuity, and true artistic vision to create more than Foy held degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music fifty gigantic wind-driven kinetic sculptures (“whirligigs”) and the University of Iowa in organ and keyboards, and on his rural property. Eventually, these not only drew a doctorate in conducting from Peabody Institute of international attention but also helped revitalize his local Johns Hopkins University. community. His successor, Dr. Peter Askim, reflects on Foy’s Close inspection of these twirling behemoths – some impact at NC State. “Randy Foy’s legacy of innovative of them nearly six stories tall – reveals an inventory programming, his passion for education, and his deep of objects that serves as a catalog of the agricultural dedication to musicians and audiences alike made and industrial economic history of the second half of him dearly beloved by all. His joy in music making the twentieth century in eastern North Carolina. Fans, and discovery lives on in the wonderful orchestras he bicycle parts, mirrors, pipes, textile mill rollers, ball nurtured.” bearings, frying pans, milkshake mixers and many more Among his extensive list of teaching achievements, such materials form their supports and moving parts. Dr. Foy was a founding faculty member of the North Highway signs cut into chips and fastened to every Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, and surface maintain round-the-clock interest by reflecting for 29 summers, he taught and conducted at the light at night. North Carolina Governor’s School in Winston-Salem, a The Gregg Museum’s whirligig (ca. 2010) is among summer program for gifted high school students. the last pieces that Simpson made. Smaller than In late September, colleagues of Randy Foy will many of the giants he completed earlier, it features honor his memory in a chamber concert of works by propeller vanes made from recycled county road signs. Darius Milhaud, Ned Rorem, and Dmitri Shostakovich. It was acquired from the artist’s family in June 2016 Participants include Robert Anemone, violin; Jonathan with special funding from the Friends of the Gregg Kramer, cello; Anatoly Larkin, piano; Olga Kleiankina, (FOG) membership organization, and then underwent piano; and Andrea Moore, soprano. extensive restoration and conservation before being erected at its current site in front of the museum in Sunday, September 30 at 4pm January 2018. Be sure to stop by the Gregg on a windy Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre day for the full effect!

arts.ncsu.edu 15 REVISITING MOUNTAIN LAKE

EVENTS Artist and professor Ray Kass is founder and director of the Mountain Lake Workshop, a community-based artist retreat located in the beautiful Appalachian region of southwest Virginia, that focused on experimental, interdisciplinary projects that encompassed aspects of contemporary art, Appalachian culture, and social and technological research. Kass collaborated with major 20th century artists, including John Cage, Cy Twombly, SMOKE PAINTING VIGNETTES Merce Cunningham, and Sally Mann, who AT MOUNTAIN LAKE often worked in the vein of “indeterminacy,” WORKSHOP a term often used by by John Cage to describe a process by which artists rely on chance and trust in the multiple possibilities of happy accidents rather than predetermined outcomes. LITTLE BUILDINGS ON FILM In conjunction with the Gregg Museum’s Longtime patrons of the Gregg will recall the exquisite Mountain Lake exhibition in fall 2018, the

FEATURES 1999 exhibition, Buildings on a Small Scale, in the Crafts Center will present a series of hands- old Talley Student Center home of the museum. The on, experimental workshops with Ray Kass, show featured more than 200 little buildings by mostly November 8-11. anonymous makers, from the collection of Steven The workshops will include “smoke Burke and Randy Campbell, representing a sampling of paintings,” created by igniting piles of burning American architectural styles from the late 19th to mid- straw (and other natural elements) placed 20th centuries. The exhibition included about two-thirds on large sheets of paper and smothered of their collection. between sheets of Masonite board to create Almost twenty years later, Burke and Campbell’s a random smoky effect; and “breathing collection has quadrupled to more than 1,200 lines,” in which sticks and stones have been handmade American folk-art buildings – homes, randomly placed on a base to create negative churches, storefronts, businesses, schools, factories, space patterns wherever the brush “skips” theatres, and farmhouses. They’ve enlarged their over them. historic Hillsborough home and added buildings (they’re Workshops will be open to both students up to five) to accommodate all of the tiny houses. and the public, and do not require previous NC State professor of film studies Marsha Gordon training or skill. Visit crafts.arts.ncsu.edu for met Burke and Campbell when she was co-curating details and registration. an exhibition at the Gregg Museum in 2005. Gordon See page 29 for information about the and her husband, Raleigh architect Louis Cherry, Gregg Museum exhibition. visited and fell in love with the collection, and in 2013, they approached Steven and Randy about making RENDERED a documentary. For the first time, the film historian SMALL became a film director. Rendered Small is a fifteen-minute documentary directed by Gordon and Cherry, now making the rounds at film festivals. On October 24 at 6pm, the Gregg Museum will present a free screening of the film. Burke and Campbell will be present with examples from their fascinating folk art building collection, and the filmmakers will be on hand to introduce the film and for Q+A after.

16 #CREATIVESTATE PHOTO BY AREON MOBASHER HORSEHAIR POTTERY BYEDGEBARNES FREE forchildrenunder10andNCStatestudentswithID. Admission: $3perperson. the specialpeopleonyourholidaygiftlist. refreshments andshopforuniqueitemsyourselfor Holiday CraftsFair. Meettheartists,enjoycomplimentary fiber artsitemsandmoreattheCraftsCenter’s 34thannual Discover handmadepottery, glass,jewelry, wood, Saturday, November17,10amto5pm HOLIDAY CRAFTSFAIR

HALFWAY TO DAWN – THE STRAYHORN PROJECT EVENTS VIGNETTES FEATURES

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PHOTO BY ROSE EICHENBAUM EVENTS

NC State VIGNETTES LIVE Fall 2018 FEATURES

DAVID ROUSSÈVE/REALITY: HALFWAY TO DAWN – THE STRAYHORN PROJECT Free work-in-progress showing: Saturday, September 15 at 8pm Full performance: Saturday, March 2 at 8pm Stewart Theatre

Though instrumental to the creation of one of the most important bodies of work in American music, Billy Strayhorn (1915-1967) remains decidedly less known than his larger-than-life collaborator. As Duke Ellington’s main arranger and writing partner, he wrote or co-wrote Ellington signatures like “Take the A Train,” “Satin Doll,” and others. But gay, out, and living in Harlem in the 1940s-60s, Strayhorn died largely unknown for his work. He is the inspiration for David Roussève’s latest project. NC State LIVE is embarking on an ambitious partnership with Roussève’s critically acclaimed dance company. As a co-commissioner of the company’s newest work, NC State’s performing arts program will bring the dancers to campus twice over the course of the year to provide them with space, time, community engagement, and technical support to fully realize their work. You can be a part of the process when you attend the free work-in-progress showing on September 15.

The presentation of David Roussève/REALITY is made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project is supported by the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural & Cultural Resources, and is funded in part by the City of Raleigh based on recommendations of the Raleigh Arts Commission.

arts.ncsu.edu 19 YOUSSRA EL HAWARY PHOTO BY DAVID DEGNER EVENTS VIGNETTES FEATURES

FRANK WARREN’S YOUSSRA EL HAWARY POSTSECRET LIVE! Saturday, September 29 at 8pm Thursday, September 20 at 7pm Stewart Theatre Stewart Theatre Egyptian singer-songwriter Youssra El Hawary and her Based on his hit TED Talk, this lecture five-piece band meld the sounds of Cairo’s underground by Frank Warren gives audiences with quirky acoustic charm. Her songs entwine a glimpse into the inspiring stories French chanson, indie rock and jazz to underscore our behind the 1,000,000+ anonymous complicated world. With charismatic charm, her lithe secrets that he has collected. sound captures the stories of Cairo and the charged Presented in partnership with the NC alchemy of the Mediterranean basin, all led by the sway State Crafts Center. See page 14 for and swagger of her accordion. more information.

 FOR TICKETS 919.515.1100 and arts.ncsu.edu LEARN MORE AND CONNECT! live.arts.ncsu.edu    NCStateLIVE

20 #CREATIVESTATE EVENTS VIGNETTES RANKY TANKY Friday, October 19 at 8pm Stewart Theatre

In Gullah culture, “Ranky Tanky” translates loosely as “Work It” or “Get Funky!” In this spirit, this RANKY TANKY Charleston based quintet performs PHOTO BY REESE MOORE timeless music born in the southeastern FEATURES Sea Island region of the United States. From playful game songs to ecstatic shouts, from heartbreaking spirituals to delicate lullabies, the soulful songs of MEXICO BEYOND MARIACHI: the Gullah culture are brought to life by SUGAR SKULL! a band of native South Carolinians who Sunday, October 21 at 3pm mix the low country traditions with large Stewart Theatre (Kidstuff Series) doses of jazz, gospel, funk and R&B. Sugar Skull! takes audiences on a Dia de los Muertos musical This performance is funded in part adventure. Young Vita thinks her family has gone loco planning by a grant from South Arts in a celebration for deceased loved ones. Why throw a party for partnership with the National the dead? But when a candy skeleton in her abuelita’s cemetery Endowment for the Arts and the suddenly springs to life, Vita finds herself on a magical, musical North Carolina Arts Council. journey. Recommended for grades 1-6.

CAPITOL STEPS SUGAR SKULL! Saturday, October 27 at 4pm & 8pm PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER DUGGAN Stewart Theatre

As another election cycle approaches, don’t head for the hills – head for Stewart Theatre. The Capitol Steps will be there to put the “mock” in democracy! Since they began over 35 years ago, these bipartisan equal-opportunity offenders have recorded over 35 albums, including their latest, Orange Is the New Barack.

arts.ncsu.edu 21 CHANTICLEER PHOTO BY LISA KOHLER EVENTS VIGNETTES FEATURES

CHANTICLEER Saturday, November 3 at 8pm Stewart Theatre

Praised by the San Francisco Chronicle for “tonal luxuriance and crisply etched clarity,” the Grammy award-winning ensemble Chanticleer celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2018. Chanticleer is known around the world as “an orchestra of voices” for its seamless blend of twelve male voices ranging from soprano to bass, and its original interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz and popular genres.

BISTRO AND A SHOW MAKE IT A DATE NIGHT.  FOR TICKETS 919.515.1100 and arts.ncsu.edu Before select performances, NC State LIVE offers audience members an elegant three- LEARN MORE AND CONNECT! course prix fixe meal in 1887 Bistro, located live.arts.ncsu.edu on the same floor as Stewart Theatre. Dinner    NCStateLIVE is $32.95 per person and includes wine or beer. Learn more at go.ncsu.edu/bistro.

22 #CREATIVESTATE EVENTS SPRING 2019 PERFORMANCES SYBARITE5 Movement Art Is, Saturday, November 17 at 8pm featuring Jon Boogz and Lil Buck: Stewart Theatre Love Heals All Wounds Saturday, February 2 Dubbed the “Millennial Kronos,” VIGNETTES SYBARITE5’s eclectic chamber music Pedrito Martínez and Alfredo Rodríguez repertoire – from Bowie to Radiohead Friday & Saturday, February 22 & 23 and Akiho to Assad – is turning heads throughout the music world. From the David Roussève/REALITY: Halfway To moment their bows hit the strings, Dawn – The Strayhorn Project this quintet of fierce musicians Saturday, March 2 takes the audience on an exciting ride. Always on the lookout for Lightwire Theater: The Ugly Duckling composers who speak with a unique Sunday, March 24 (Kidstuff Series) FEATURES and relevant voice, this program is a celebration of new works written Jazzmeia Horn just for them. Outliers features a Friday, March 29 selection from composers like Shawn Conley, Jessica Meyer, and Daniel Lucky Plush Productions: Rooming House Bernard Roumain, paired with the Saturday, April 6 group’s favorite works of Armenian folk music, Piazzolla, Barber and, yes, Flor de Toloache Radiohead. Presented in partnership Saturday, April 13 with Chamber Music Raleigh.

LIVE @ LAKE RALEIGH NC State LIVE and Visit Centennial have teamed up to present a series of free outdoor concerts by the beautiful Lake Raleigh on Centennial Campus. Bring your picnic blankets and lawn chairs for a family-friendly good time. Food trucks will be on site beginning at 5pm, and there is plenty of free parking. Concerts start at 6pm. See full details at liveatlakeraleigh.com.

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Gregg Museum VIGNETTES of Art & Design Fall 2018 FEATURES

VERNON PRATT, ART RAT

BY KATE DOBBS ARIAIL

Artists are known to be obsessive characters, often pursuing an idea or image far longer than many people would consider reasonable or sane, chasing its meaning and precise expression VERNON PRATT, ALL THE POSSIBILITIES OF SIXTEEN (DETAIL) down through the years. The artist is looking for some hidden truth, much like a physicist looks for an elegant equation to describe the workings of the universe. How many possibilities In addition to teaching painting at Duke University must the artist examine in this pursuit? (he founded the Duke in New York arts program) The number is limited only by time. and designing public art (including the exterior of the The late Vernon Pratt (1940-2000) was obsessed Education Building on North Carolina state government with possibilities within systems; with variations, mall), Pratt played his saxophone at many local venues, permutations, inversions, reversals, gradations, excelling at the improvisation around the melodic line rhythms and harmonics. Although he had started as that makes jazz so dynamic. He was fondly known a representational artist in the West Coast school, he around Durham by his own chosen moniker, ART RAT. soon moved away from that expressionistic, colorful Pratt’s time was cut short when he died after a style into a decades-long examination of black, white mysterious bicycle accident on a rural Virginia road, and grayscale in a format that paralleled his passionate while he was on leave from Duke and in residence at involvement with jazz composition and improvisation. the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. He left a widow

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and young children, and an enormous trove of art works. The exigencies of survival caused Debi Pratt to store the thousands of pieces in a warehouse, where they remained largely unseen and nearly forgotten until her death – when the Pratt children had to clear the warehouse and began selling and otherwise distributing their overwhelming inheritance. By then, Vernon Pratt’s name and reputation were very nearly

VIGNETTES lost in the mists of history. Fortunately, one of the people who came to the first warehouse sale in 2016 was William H. Dodge, VERNON PRATT, PAINTING AND PROCESS a Raleigh architect and NC State College of Design graduate. Dodge bought about a dozen paintings, but the Pratts urged him to take more, if he thought he could give them homes, as “they were going to call the Scrap Exchange to take them, as they couldn’t store them anymore.” Horrified, Dodge alerted other All the Possibilities of Sixteen comprises 256 panels,

FEATURES designers and collectors, yet even after the second which, when hung together, cover an area 18' high by warehouse sale, hundreds of works were left. He about 110' long, revealing all the possible permutations ended up carting off a 25-foot box truck full of art. of a square divided by three vertical and three Thus was born The Vernon Pratt Project horizontal lines. It has never before been exhibited, (thevernonprattproject.com), a labor of love created and few people have even glimpsed the panels. by Dodge and his wife, Shelley Kimball-Dodge. In This coup for the Gregg will undoubtedly secure addition to the paintings they purchased for their own the ART RAT’S place in history. The work should be collection, the Dodges have been documenting and of great interest to the NC State campus community, storing hundreds of paintings and works on paper, especially those in design (perhaps particularly, those as well as Vernon Pratt’s notebooks and various in weave design), mathematics and music, as well related ephemera. Thus far, they have facilitated as those in the wider community who can mentally the placement of more than two dozen paintings in compare this to other works by Pratt, both visual and museum and institutional collections. However, with aural. You may not be able to dance to it, but is has a an obsessiveness that in itself is an homage to the beat, and it bops. artist, they keep acquiring more, as pieces turn up on Craigslist or in auction houses, and the Dodge’s high- design website for the project is already a valuable art Kate Dobbs Ariail has written widely on the arts since historical resource. William Dodge is also working on a 1988. She lives in Durham. book about Pratt and his work. NC State’s Gregg Museum received several of Pratt’s works as gifts from his children, and these VERNON PRATT: ALL THE will eventually be available for viewing and exhibition, POSSIBILITIES OF SIXTEEN when the museum has completed the long process of October 11, 2018-February 10, 2019 moving its vast collections from temporary storage into its permanent home. To provide audio ambience for the exhibition, NC But this fall, the Gregg will exhibit what director State's executive director for the arts, Rich Holly, Roger Manley calls “Vernon Pratt’s magnum opus.” has composed and recorded a 110-minute work Pratt made a lot of sizable pieces, but no other this based on Pratt's two primary artistic themes, jazz and large – or this complex. mathematics.

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DESIGN DUET: THE CREATIVE design complex introduced furniture and consumer LIVES OF ROBERT BLACK AND goods created by such well-known architect/designers ORMOND SANDERSON as Mies van der Rohe, Harry Bertoia, Eero Saarinen, Through September 9, 2018 Marcel Breuer, and le Corbussier. Design Duet includes a number of Robert Robert Black and Ormond Sanderson are pivotal Black’s striking collage-paintings and award-winning figures in North Carolina's art and design worlds, not contemporary stonewares, alongside the exquisitely only for being among the first in the South to expose etched and glazed metal enamels that led the modern design to the public, but also for their own organizers of the 1964 New York World’s Fair to major accomplishments as artists. choose Ormond Sanderson to represent the best At the very same time that Research Triangle Park of American art in the fair’s United States Pavilion. began turning central North Carolina into a magnet for Furniture, lighting, and decorative pieces by other modern technology, Black and Sanderson’s Strawvalley major designers round out the Gregg’s retrospective.

VISIT GREGG.ARTS.NCSU.EDU for up-to-date information on programs.

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OUR LIVING PAST: PORTRAITS OF BLUES MUSICIANS BY TIM DUFFY Through November 25, 2018

Photographer Timothy Duffy’s wet plate collodion prints bring attention to the VIGNETTES traditional musicians of the South. When he began recording the music of folk and blues musicians for the Southern Folklife Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill, he discovered many of them living in poverty, despite their significant contributions to American musical history. This inspired Duffy to found the Music Maker Relief Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to FEATURES helping to sustain elderly musicians while preserving their music. ARDIE DEAN, SAM FRAZIER JR. AND IRONING BOARD SAM, The foundation, based in Hillsborough, “DEEP BLUES MUSCIANS” NC, has supported nearly four hundred artists by helping them pay for medicines, meet mortgage payments, buy new instruments, find gigs, and gain long-overdue recognition for their great contributions. Duffy’s wet plate photographic technique, which dates back to the mid-19th century, reveals the strong individual personalities that continue to keep the roots of American music alive.

VISIT GREGG.ARTS.NCSU.EDU for up-to-date information on programs.

COOL JOHN FERGUSON AND CAPTAIN LUKE, “GUITAR HEAVEN”

28 #CREATIVESTATE JOHN CAGE, NEW RIVER EVENTS WATERCOLOR SERIES 1, #5 VIGNETTES

RURAL AVANT-GARDE: THE MOUNTAIN LAKE EXPERIENCE August 23-December 30, 2018

“Smoke paintings” created by smothering piles of burning straw with dampened etching papers. Huge canvases painted by dancers performing FEATURES barefooted in swaths of ink. Watercolors made with the help of randomly selected river stones. All relied on chance and trusting in the possibilities of happy accidents – fundamental strategies employed by major 20th century artists like composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and poet/potter M.C. Richards, who had all participated in a long-running series of community- based collaborative art projects collectively called the Mountain Lake Workshop held near Newport, Virginia. Many of the same artists had previously attended or participated in the experimental education program at North Carolina’s famous Black Mountain College. In fall 2018, the Gregg Museum offers an exhibition featuring rarely exhibited works by these towering figures, alongside equally innovative pieces by other Mountain Lake Workshop artists as diverse as East Harlem street artist James De La Vega, photographer Sally Mann, Japanese sculptor Jiro Okura, installation artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles (official artist-in-residence of the New York Department of Sanitation), and visionary artist Howard Finster. Founded in 1983 by Virginia Tech art professor Ray Kass, and co-directed with art historian Howard Risatti (Virginia Commonwealth University), the Mountain Lake Workshop focused on interdisciplinary projects that engaged wide-ranging aspects of contemporary art, Appalachian culture, and social and technological research. Mountain Lake Workshop nurtured an environment in which experts from non- art research and value-oriented disciplines like computer science, physics, biology and social sciences could collaborate with artists and community members in investigating new, untested media. The workshop projects sought to demonstrate that through this approach, any community could bypass the restrictions imposed by the (mostly urban) art scene of slick magazines with their contents dictated by gatekeeping critics and of commercial galleries that often treated art as a commodity, to create its own “high” art.

See Revisiting Mountain Lake on page 16 for details on a series of workshops with Ray Kass, sponsored by the NC State Crafts Center and the Gregg Museum.

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University Theatre VIGNETTES Fall 2018

MEN ON BOATS September 20-30

Titmus Theatre FEATURES

In 1869, John Wesley Powell led a group of 10 men down the Colorado River to chart its course. With only four boats, a month’s provisions and plenty of moxie, these men risked life and limb, all in the name of Manifest Destiny. Based on Powell’s travel journals, this modern action adventure adds new perspective to exploration and our look at history. Play by Jaclyn Backhaus.

From the director, Rachel Klem: Cross-gender casting (or cross-casting) is as old as theatre itself. I was excited when I first read Men on Boats to find that the playwright, Jaclyn Backhaus, took the idea of cross-casting a step further. In the casting notes she says, “The characters in Men on Boats were historically cisgender white males. The cast should be made up entirely of people who are not.” She is pushing us to think about gender outside the box in the same way that the musical Hamilton asks us to think about race. It brings up a lot of questions: What is illuminated when stories are told through an alternate perspective? How does it change the story? Will challenging tradition in this way inspire us to search for the history of people who were marginalized? I love these kinds of questions. But, ultimately, my goal is not political. As director, my hope is to tell a rousing great adventure story with a group of actors who don’t usually get a chance to play these kind of roles. It just sounds fun.

arts.ncsu.edu 31 PHOTO BY RON FOREMAN EVENTS THE RAINMAKER November 8-18 Titmus Theatre

It’s the middle of a hot, dry summer in the American Southwest. Lizzie Curry returns home still a spinster. Jim’s carrying on about a little red hat. Noah’s badgering everybody. H.C. Curry doesn’t know what a father should do. And VIGNETTES the town deputy is wallowing in self-pity. Then Starbuck, a wanted con man, strikes a deal to bring rain in this sentimental romance. Play by N. Richard Nash.

From the director, Mia Self: GIRL IN SPACE, I was first exposed to The SPRING 2018 Rainmaker in 1979. It was the Happy Days episode FEATURES PHOTO BY LOUIS BAILEY "Fonzie's a Thespian" when he rescues a community theatre production that lost their Starbuck. He played opposite HARVEY, Marion Cunningham's Lizzie. It SPRING 2018 was a poetic love story unlike anything I had ever seen and I dreamed of being a part of this play. This sweet and awkward story invites us all to remember, not only adolescent longings for love, but the lifelong persistence of the desire to matter and belong.

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THE ROYAL FAMILY THE ROYAL April 4-14 Theatre Titmus Based on the notorious Barrymores, this hysterical comedy celebrates dedicating life to the stage while giving a one’s whole new meaning to “more drama than your mama!” CABARET February 20-24 Stewart Theatre Kit Kat Klub in the Return to Berlin’s Weimarchaotic final days of the Republic. SPRING 2019 PERFORMANCES

University Theatre’s Open Door University Theatre’s Series is a student-focused program designed to explore relevantcontent meaningful and as theyto our college students with eachnavigate relationships world. other and the broader

Open Door Open Series PHOTO BY JODY CHRISTOPHERSON JODY BY PHOTO EVENTS

VIGNETTES GRAINS TEST OF OF TIME, NC State’s Premier Men’s a Cappella Group Celebrates 50 Years of Harmony FEATURES TIME BY KELLY McCALL BRANSON

cappella, Italian for “in the named the State Men. After a few months, during manner of the chapel,” is simply a rehearsal in Thompson Theatre, the group unaccompanied vocal music. But decided to change their name. They couldn’t when groups of four or eight or decide between “Grains of Sand” and “Sands of 15 come together with perfect Time,” so they combined the two and became Apitch, elegant intonation, refined phrasing, a little Grains of Time. showmanship and flawless harmony – it’s magic. For the next 50 years, Grains of Time would And that’s just what NC State’s men’s a cappella become a fixture at NC State, campus celebrities group, Grains of Time, have been doing for fifty and standard bearers for the kind of discipline, straight years. excellence and camaraderie that are the hallmarks Back in 1968, when the student population of the university. They have traveled and at NC State was mostly male, a group of seven performed in Europe, Asia, Canada, across the members of the Men’s Varsity Glee Club, under U.S. and virtually every corner of North Carolina. the guidance of Milton Bliss, then director of choral activities for NC State’s Department of Music, formed a voice and guitar protest band,

The Grains of Time pictured in the 1986 Agromeck. Front row, L-R: Miles Rudd, Sammy Backer, Tim Wilkins, Dewey McCafferty, John Dunning. Back row, L-R: Danny Lee, Ray Cline, John Grey, Robert Martin, Jason Long, John Atwater. Photo courtesy of NC State Student Media.

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Governor James B. Hunt Jr. joins the Grains in singing the NC State alma mater, in a performance at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in 1999. L-R: Duane Donders, Mike Trexler, Rob Lee, Will Patnaud, Mark Hines, Gov. Hunt, David Le, Jason Renzaglia, Glenn Weeks.

From Folk Ballads to Hip Hop in time, though they still perform a staple from their earliest years, “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.” And What began as a repertoire of mostly folk ballads of course, every generation of Grains of Time (or has evolved to include everything from barbershop simply the Grains, as they are affectionately known and doo wop, to Irish folk tunes, rock, pop and even by members, alumni and fans alike) is well-versed in hip-hop, introducing vocal percussion along the way. their alma mater. From Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Peter Paul The Grains have competed in the finals of the and Mary, to Ariana Grande and Drake, the Grains of International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella Time have always reflected their particular moment (ICCA), and with the Contemporary A Cappella

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The Grains of Time at their December 2017 concert. L-R: Stephen Reish, JB Sacman (behind Stephen), Caz Nair, Chris Linick, Jordan Williams, Taylor Pulliam, Vince Del Villar, Josh Smith, Alec Hunter, Tony Niverth, Troy Mitchell, Chatham Ellwanger.

We needed something to stand out from the other groups. We learned to “ work the crowd, own the stage.”

— BRIAN GUSTIN, MEMBER OF THE GRAINS, ‘90s

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Society (CASA) – where current member Taylor concerts every semester at Stewart Theatre in Pulliam received the award for Best Male Collegiate Talley Student Union. Solo, two years in a row – as well as Boston Sings But the Grains were not always the main attraction (BOSS) and North Carolina’s SoJam a cappella that they are today. Back in their early years, their festival. primary function was to give some relief to the They have performed for governors, major league Men’s Varsity Glee Club. They provided a little filler sports events (the Atlanta Braves, the Boston in the program to allow the glee club to focus on Red Sox, the Golden State Warriors and the fewer numbers. The Grains traveled to concerts Vancouver Canucks, to name a few), at countless separate from the official bus, in their own vehicles, weddings and NC State commencements. They’ve so they could rehearse on the road. Once, when recorded more than 15 CDs, produced MTV-style the bus broke down, the Grains went on ahead and music videos, and they mount highly anticipated performed the entire concert themselves.

arts.ncsu.edu 37 As they traveled the state together, acting as every iteration of this tight-knit group has formed ambassadors for the university (even lodging with lifelong bonds with their fellow Grains. “I think I was alumni or prospective students), the Grains developed the only person from Roswell, Georgia at NC State,”

EVENTS an easy onstage banter that audiences loved – says Brian Gustin, “and the Grains just gave me a especially high school girls. Showmanship became an foundation, when I was a long way from home. They integral part of their performance style. “It wasn’t just became my support, my family.” Gustin, who is now about amazing harmonies and great solos,” says Brian an operations and project leadership manager for a Gustin, a ‘90s member of the Grains (and chemical medical device manufacturer, says he sang at many engineering/pulp and paper science technology weddings as a member of the Grains, and continued major). “We needed something to stand out from the after graduating. “I met my wife at a wedding where other groups. We learned to work the crowd, own the I was the wedding singer,” he laughs. “But really, I stage.” Al Sturgis, former 13-year director of choral can’t tell you what a profound impact the Grains had activities for the NC State Department of Music and on my life.”

VIGNETTES longtime music director of the North Carolina Master Mark Hines, an electrical engineering major and Chorale, concurs: “Stagecraft – the ability to sell member of the Grains from ’98 to ’03 (and winner to the audience – became very important for their of the ICCA Best Arrangement award for his version process.” of “Homeward Bound”), has similar sentiments. “Before I even started at State,” says Hines, “I was in my high school choir and a buddy let me listen to a A Brotherhood CD of the Grains singing ‘Ave Maria,’ and I was like, All of the onstage chemistry that the Grains are ‘I gotta do that!’” Hines is still close with his fellow known for probably works so well for them because Grains. One, Duane Donders, was best man at his

FEATURES it isn’t just an act. Across five decades, each and wedding. “Two weekends ago, a group of us met up in Asheville and spent the weekend together.” When asked if there was any singing at that gathering, Hines laughs, “I guess you could call it that!” Hines experience with the Grains led him to found the a cappella production company, Liquid Fifth Production and the vocal company Sled Dog Music Group. “The allegiance I feel for those guys – we spent so much time together – I would do anything for them.” Dr. Daniel Monek, current head of the music department, thinks the very nature of a cappella groups cultivates these kinds of lasting connections. “There is just a generosity of spirit and true collaborativeness,” says Monek. “The same things that make a good a cappella group make for a kind of brotherhood.” Michael Mangum, an early Grains member who majored in civil engineering

The Grains have been the go-to group for performing at NC State graduation for decades. Soloist (and senior) Brennan Clark belts out “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday” as the group sings at the May 2015 commencement. PHOTO BY ROGER WINSTEAD

38 #CREATIVESTATE EVENTS Fifty years is a long “ time, and it makes a strong statement about the quality of DAVEZAC PHOTO BY ROBERT their leadership.” VIGNETTES

— DR. DANIEL MONEK, HEAD OF THE NC STATE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

and is now a principle in the construction and engineering consulting firm FMI, asked fellow Grains member, Louis Wilkerson to serve as

godfather to his son, Walker, and regularly tailgates FEATURES at NC State games with his former songmates. Freshly minted alumnus Jordan Williams ‘18 “The Grains were just a seminal experience (aka singer/songwriter Sonny Miles) has been an for me,” he says. arts multitasker while at NC State. In addition to Glenn Weeks, who spent 10 years with the singing with the Grains throughout this college career (and winning multiple awards for solos and Grains, through undergad and graduate school, in choreography), he won a Hammy Award for his role engineering and education, and was longtime host of as Seaweed J. Stubbs in University Theatre’s spring WKNC radio’s “All Things A Cappella,” says, “One 2018 production of Hairspray. of the things I think about a lot is the imprint that experience has had on my whole life. Almost all of the most important events in my life, I can say, ‘the Grains were there.’” Weeks even believes there is a a real passion for what they are doing, and I think it connection among the different generations of Grains. makes what they have accomplished that much more “They still sing some of the same songs – the alma impressive.” mater, “Swing Low” – and when we come back, we With demanding majors like engineering, computer get on the stage and perform them together.” science and business administration, it’s a wonder Taylor Pulliam, current member (and most-recent these young men found time to perform at such a Grains president), adds, “You know, we’re practicing high level. Monek argues that those are exactly the three times a week and performing. We have to people who should be involved in the Grains. “It’s a come together and get along. It does become like a balance to being in biochemistry lab,” he says. “There family, a brotherhood.” are studies showing the mental health benefits of “It really is the definition of ensemble,” says Dr. participating in choral singing.” Sturgis, “making something from all these disparate Michael Mangum remembers the pressures of parts. Not to be corny about it, but the making of family expectations. “If you were a male in my family the music, of the harmonies, it makes a kind of in the ‘70s, you were going to NC State, you were camaraderie, too.” getting an engineering degree in four years and you were going to work in the family business. Period.” Struggling to live up to these high expectations, Multitasking Mangum believes the Grains were the one outlet One of the things that sets the Grains apart from that brought the balance he needed to succeed. “The collegiate a cappella groups at other schools is the music really was my sanity,” he says. “It gave me a fact that none of the members were or are music sense of myself. It gave me the clarity and the energy majors. “Other groups are made up of people to handle the demands.” studying for careers in music,” says department head The Grains are also an entirely self-run group. Dan Monek. “These guys [the Grains] have to have Though they enjoy a close relationship with the NC

arts.ncsu.edu 39 State music department, the group sets their own repertoire, they manage their schedule, their finances, their marketing. “It’s really forced me to develop time management skills,” says Taylor Pulliam. “I had EVENTS FALL 2018 to become more organized, and that has benefitted CONCERTS every area of my life.” Al Sturgis thinks this is part of what makes the members of the Grains such well-rounded You have four opportunities individuals. “In order to accomplish what they have,” this fall to enjoy concerts by he says, “they’ve had to set aside the inevitable the student a cappella groups petty squabbles, to sublimate their egos, and come affiliated with the music together to get the job done.” department at NC State. All performances are in VIGNETTES Memories Stewart Theatre. Their experience with the Grains gave these young ACAPPOLOGY men lifelong friends, a sense of balance in their Friday, November 30 at 7pm lives and helped to develop fundamental skills that Founded in 1994, Acappology contributed to their success in school and in their is NC State’s original coed a careers, but it also gave them precious memories of cappella ensemble. They were magic moments at concerts far away and right here ICCA semifinalists in 2017, at NC State.

FEATURES 2012 and 2011. “I will never forget the first time I sang the national acappology.com anthem at a football game at Carter Finley Stadium,” says Michael Mangum, “out on the field, under the GRAINS OF TIME lights, in our penguin suits, with the black slacks Saturday, December 1 at 7pm and the red cummerbunds, blowing the pitch pipe.” The Grains will celebrate their He also fondly recalls a weekend spent at a music 50th anniversary. education conference in Athens, Georgia. “A bunch grainsoftime.com of really young guys on a football Saturday in Athens – we made some memories there.” WOLFGANG Brian Gustin was so moved by his experience A CAPPELLA singing at St. Mark’s Cathedral in Venice, Italy, that Sunday, December 2 at 7pm he took his wife there for their 10th anniversary. A coed group, Wolfgang has “Twenty years ago, I had the privilege to sing at been around since 1997. They the awe-inspiring Basilica di San Marco with a were 2018 ICCA quarterfinal phenomenal group of men,” he writes. “Singing champions. ‘Ave Maria’ impromptu in front of the golden altar ncsuwolfgang.com gave me chills and is an experience I have, and will, treasure forever. Today, I walked through that LADIES IN RED amazing sanctuary again for the first time since Saturday, December 8 at 7pm singing there, and I got to experience it with my NC State’s all-female a cappella incredible wife. Chills again…” ensemble has been around for Glenn Weeks also remembers that trip to Italy. 25 years, founded in 1993. He recounts stopping traffic on a street corner in ladiesinredncsu.com Florence with an impromptu rendition of “Brown Eyed Girl,” – until the police came and asked them to move along. In 2015, the Grains traveled to Tokyo and worked with Grains alumnus, “grainpa” Ken Akiyama and his collegiate a cappella company Jacapellaa. In their blog about the experience, they quote Stevie Wonder: “Music is a world within itself with a language we all

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Four members of the Grains of Time perform the national anthem when President Obama visited NC State in 2011. L-R: Joshua Apke, Jonathan Witt, Matt Tucker, Ian Peterson.

understand, with an equal opportunity for all to sing, Al Sturgis says, “In my 13 years at NC State, dance and clap their hands.” I can’t tell you how impressed I was, how much In 2013, the Grains lost one of their members, respect I had and have for these young men, as Ian Peterson, to lymphoma. Ian was a senior and musicians and also as individuals. They excelled, not president of the Grains – a tall, charismatic curly only in the Grains, but as students, in their academic headed guy with a quick smile, who sang marvelous achievements, and later in their careers and families.” solos and loved to dance. As Ian lay gravely ill in Grains of Time are now joined at NC State by the ICU, his mother Cindy recalls: “I received a Ladies in Red, Wolfgang A Cappella and Acappology. text from Ian’s a cappella group, Grains of Time, “They are the group that paved the way,” says on my way back to the hospital. They wanted to Dan Monek. “Fifty years is a long time, and it come and sing for Ian. I thought there was no way makes a strong statement about the quality of their it would be allowed, but Jennifer (one of our nurse leadership.” heroes) made it happen. It was one of the sweetest, Congratulations to all the members, past and most spectacular heart crushing things I have present, of Grains of Time. Here’s to 50 more years of experienced.” splendid vocal harmonies at NC State! For Mark Hines, his enduring memory of his time with the Grains was the performance they did shortly after 9/11. “We sang ‘Prayer of the Children’ with Kelly McCall Branson is a freelance writer who has a slide show,” says Hines. “It was truly one of the written about the arts, dining, travel, sustainable living most memorable moments of my life.” and home building for regional and local publications And there were always lighter moments as well, throughout the Southeast. like when the Grains performed in Great Britain. Hines remembers, “We were singing ‘Under the Boardwalk,’ and it was introduced to the audience as a ‘shagging’ song. Well that caused quite a stir with our British audience, who take a different meaning for shagging!”

arts.ncsu.edu 41 Austin McClure (foreground) and Jake Barrett, busy at work on costumes for University Theatre’s spring 2018 production of Hairspray. Austin is a regular student volunteer in the costume shop. EVENTS Jake was enrolled in THE 103 (Intro to Theatre), getting in his backstage hours for class assignment. VIGNETTES FEATURES PHOTO BY AREON MOBASHER

42 #CREATIVESTATE EVENTS VIGNETTES STITCHING IT ALL TOGETHER FEATURES BY ORLA SWIFT

ONG BEFORE AUSTIN McCLURE BEGAN EXPRESSING HIMSELF IN SPEECH, SONG AND MOTION on stage at Stewart Theatre, his character was forming in a second-floor L studio at Thompson Hall. It was emerging in the color and weave of the plaid fabric in McClure’s hands as he hemmed the pants he would wear on stage. It was in the softness of the wool, the blend of colors, and the fact that his suit included not just slacks and a jacket but also a vest. With every push of his needle and pull of his thread, McClure was internalizing what it meant to be Harriman Spritzer, the closed- minded Baltimore executive in University Theatre’s spring 2018 production of Hairspray. “You can tell a lot about a character’s social status or background specifically by looking at the texture of the fabrics,” McClure said, as he sat among candy colored wigs, stacks of bold and pastel fabrics, mannequins draped in gold and fuchsia sequins, and rolls of multi-colored trims. “A lot of silkier, smoother textures suggest a more affluent background, and the rough spun, thicker, coarser fabrics generally suggest more of a low income status. “Some people may pick up on that. Some people might not,” added McClure, who is now in his senior year as a psychology major with a theatre minor. “But those little cues help to flesh out the character a little bit beyond what the actors themselves bring to the table.”

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Of course, most theatre costumes are designed specifically not to call attention to themselves. When Harriman Spritzer appears on stage, his outfit should be perfectly suited for the man and the moment. Likewise, when audiences meet the character Lizzy in The Rainmaker this fall, they’ll have a good sense of what life was like on a cattle ranch in the rural West during the Depression. How you get transported to that ranch will have been determined, in part, months earlier in that same studio where McClure stitched his own character together. There, University Theatre costume shop manager and designer Laura Parker researches the era and location in which every production takes place, using reference books and online resources. She and her team comb through clothing Students working on Hairspray costumes. and accessory donations that the theatre Top left: Danielle Whitman; top right: has received over the decades, as well as Jonathan Lessane; bottom left: Nicole Hiemenz. costumes purchased or constructed for past Danielle and Jonathan were enrolled in THE 103 productions. When they find a suitable match, (Intro to Theatre). Nicole is a regular student theatre volunteer. costume technician Adrienne McKenzie

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Laura Parker, Assistant Director - Costume Design for University Theatre.

arts.ncsu.edu 45 works her magic – taking this seam in an inch, that one out an inch, dropping or raising the hems, perhaps slipping in a shoulder pad EVENTS or adding a belt, depending on the norms of the era and current cast members’ shapes and sizes. Effective designers Parker may dig up a vintage sewing pattern must understand and ask McKenzie to adapt it. Or she may create a new pattern from scratch, taking not just the story, cues from period photos or an old Sears setting and themes catalog. On occasion, she’ll surf eBay, unique- vintage.com or other sites for just the right the playwright

VIGNETTES shirt or dress or tie for a pivotal moment – a is seeking to piece that speaks when words may not. Sometimes costume design requires convey, they must creative compromise, such as when also have a deep audiences grow attached to a particular look of a character – let’s say Belle in Beauty and understanding of the Beast – and they don’t want anyone human nature. meddling with that memory. “If you don’t put Belle in that yellow dress

FEATURES in the big ballroom dance scene, the audience loses their minds,” Parker says. “People cannot wrap their brains around Belle being That feeling of transformation is in part in any color but yellow in that scene. So you what the design team strives for. After all, want to maintain your originality, you want to if the actor feels the character more deeply, make sure you’re doing independent work, then audiences will, too. Effective designers and you don’t want to plagiarize anybody must understand not just the story, setting else’s design or anything like that. But you and themes the playwright is seeking also want to make sure that you’re not to convey, they must also have a deep destroying the audience’s enjoyment. … It’s understanding of human nature. definitely something that we think about, and “For me, costume design overall tends to definitely something that we go back and be about getting to the heart of the character, forth on: Do I want to challenge the audience figuring out who that person is,” Parker says. or do I want to maintain this core piece of “So it’s a lot of character analysis, a lot of the show and then challenge the audience in psychology.” other ways?” McClure says he has enjoyed studying After the design team has determined theatre through the lens of his psychology its artistic approach and all the pieces are major. And now that he has seen how coming together, the actors eagerly await clothing can speak volumes to those around their first fitting session. This can be a us, he’s reconsidering his own wardrobe. defining moment. “It’s definitely made me pay more attention “Once I put on that outfit, once I put on to what I wear.” the suit and tie the shoes and put on the accessories that they’ve given me,” McClure says, “that’s when I feel like I understand a Orla Swift was a theatre critic and arts

little more about what the character is like reports at The News & Observer and other PHOTO BY RON FOREMAN and what motivates the character, why they newspapers for 20 years. She is now are on stage and why they’re doing what director of marketing and communications they’re doing in that particular scene.” at Sarah P. Duke Gardens.

46 #CREATIVESTATE EVENTS VIGNETTES FEATURES

NC State students Lauren Knott as Velma Von Tussle and Austin McClure as Harriman F. Spritzer in the spring 2018 University Theatre production of Hairspray.

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OFFICERS MEMBERS

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TALLEY NEAR CAMPUS DOWNTOWN STUDENT UNION David’s Dumpling & Bida Manda Poole’s Downtown Diner Floor 1 Noodle Bar 222 S Blount St 426 S McDowell St Starbucks 1900 Hillsborough St 919.829.9999 919.832.4477 919.239.4536 Floor 2 Brewery Bhavana The Raleigh Times Bar Jason’s Deli Gonza Tacos y Tequila 218 S Blount St 14 E Hargett St Los Lobos Mexican Grill 2100 Hillsborough St 919.829.9998 919.833.0999 One Earth World Cuisine 919.268.8965 Capital Club 16 The Remedy Diner Port City Java 16 W Martin St 927 W Morgan St Red Sky Pizza Company Kabob and Curry 919.747.9345 919.803.4556 Talley Market 2418 Hillsborough St 919.977.6974 (Howling Cow & Death & Taxes Sitti Yates Mill Bakery) Liquid State 105 W Hargett St 137 S Wilmington St Tuffy’s Diner 1908 Hillsborough St 984.242.0218 919.239.4070 984.200.6184 Floor 3 Humble Pie Taverna Agora 1887 Bistro Mitch’s Tavern 317 S Harrington St 326 Hillsborough St 2426 Hillsborough St 919.829.9222 919.881.8333 919.821.7771 FIVE POINTS AREA Irregardless Café Trophy Brewing Company Players Retreat 901 W Morgan St 827 W Morgan St Bloomsbury Bistro 105 Oberlin Rd 919.833.8898 919.803.4849 509 W Whitaker Mill Rd 919.755.9589 919.834.9011 Glenwood Grill CAMERON VILLAGE 2603 Glenwood Ave 919.782.3102 Brixx Wood Fired Pizza Hayes Barton Cafe 402 Oberlin Rd and Dessertery 919.723.9370 2000 Fairview Rd Cameron Bar & Grill 919.856.8551 2018 Clark Ave Hereghty 919.755.2231 2603 Glenwood Ave Cantina 18 919.787.3995 433 Daniels St 919.835.9911 Lilly’s Pizza • 135 Guest Rooms 1813 Glenwood Ave Piccola Italia • Event Spaces 919.833.0226 423 Woodburn Rd • WXYZ Lounge & Terrace Mandolin 919.833.6888 2519 Fairview Rd Soca • Free WiFi & Car Charging 919.322.0365 2130 Cameron St • Gonza Tacos Y’ Tequila NOFO @ the Pig 919.322.0440 • Jubala Coffee 2014 Fairview Rd Sugarland 919.821.1240 2031 Cameron St The Point at Glenwood 919.835.2100 1626 Glenwood Ave Tazza Kitchen 919.755.1007 432 Woodburn Rd The Third Place 919.835.9463 1811 Glenwood Ave Tupelo Honey 919.834.6566 425 Oberlin Rd 919.723.9353 Village Draft House 428 Daniels St 919.833.1373 Call us for our NCSU Rates len Doggett left NC State with three degrees and a sweet hand-built guitar. G Doggett grew up in Raleigh, one of eight O kids, and the son of NC State physics professor Wesley Doggett. The elder Dr. Doggett also attended NC State as an undergrad, finishing with the first graduating class (1952) in the world’s first bachelor of nuclear engineering program. He lived in Becton THINK. DO. Hall (next door to the old Thompson Gymnasium) and swam in the pool located in the space that would JAM. become the Crafts Center wood shop by the time his son Glen became a student. Like his father, Glen lived in Becton as a freshman – which meant convenient access to the Crafts Center and fulfillment of a project he was devising before school began. Doggett had started collecting hardware parts. “It was easier to convince my mom to take me to the music store to spend $40 on a part of a guitar every now and then rather than shell out $500 for an entire electric guitar, so my plan to build one was sort of a purchase installment plan.” Doggett credits retired Crafts Center director George Thomas with teaching him how to “set up jigs and fences and push sticks” so that he retained all of his fingers in the process. Glen built the solid body at the Crafts Center from rough-cut blocks of mahogany and maple that he “purchased in the shop for like $15,” and had enough material left to panel-up a matching block that he used to build a bass later on. He modeled the guitar on a Fender he saw at Burt Music Company in Cameron Village, where he had purchased his first acoustic guitar. As a freshman engineering student, he was taking GC-101, so he used his drawing board and engineering tools to create the plan for his custom “Telecaster with a Stratocaster style pickguard.” He took advantage of a replacement Stratocaster neck he got on sale at Harry’s Guitar Shop on Glenwood Avenue, since he felt that would be more precise than his woodworking skill level might allow. Doggett used Seymour Duncan vintage Broadcaster pickups (“they have some bite and twang, good for country and rock sounds or really just about anything”), and his dad taught him how to solder the wiring for the guitar’s electronics. With his NC State degrees in aerospace engineering (B.S. 1990, M.S. 1992, Ph.D. 1996), Doggett now works for Boeing in Seattle. But his custom guitar gets good use in his band of “a few dads in the neighborhood” as they jam for fun and occasional fundraising events.

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