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Non Profit Org THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS US Postage 320 South Broad Street PAID Philadelphia, PA 19102 Philadelphia, PA UArts.edu Permit No. 1103 THE MAGAZINE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS edg e THE edge MAGAZINE OF T HE U NIVERSITY OF THE A RTS FALL FALL 2013 2013 NO . 11 Donor Report Inside PROFESSOR JOHN WOODIN photography S EAN T. B UFFING T ON PRESIDENT L UCI ll E H UG H E S PUBLISHER VICE PRESIDENT FOR ADVANCEMENT P AU L F. H EA LY EDITOR ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS E LY ss E R ICCI B FA ’ 0 8 ART DIRECTOR & DESIGNER J AME S M AU R E R PRODUCTION MANAGER D ANA R O dr IGUEZ CONTRIBUTING EDITOR CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS S T EVE B E L KOWI T Z J A S ON C H EN B FA ’ 0 8 S AMUE L N AGE L M IC H AE L S P ING L E R S T EVE S tr EI S GU th B FA ’ 0 9 th EY B K LYN J O H N W OO D IN CONTRIBUTING WRITERS A NI S A H AI D A R Y P AU L F. H EA LY E L I S E J U S KA C A th E R INE G UN th E R K O D A T S A R A M AC D ONA ld D ANA R O dr IGUEZ J OANNA S UNG L AU R EN V I ll ANUEVA COVER IMAGE S T EVE B E L KOWI T Z , 2 0 1 1 POSTMASTER : SEND ADDRESS CHANGES TO edge c/o University Communications, The University of the Arts, 320 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19102 edge, Volume 1, Number 11 Edge is the magazine of the University of the Arts. Readers are encouraged to submit ideas for original articles about University students, faculty and alumni; advancements in arts and arts education; and visual, performing and media arts. The submission of artwork for reproduction is also encouraged. Please include contact information when submitting art. Unless requested, artwork will not be returned. Please send all comments, kudos and criticisms to edge c/o University Communications, Letters to the Editor, 320 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102; or email [email protected]. VEILED VINES 2012 Photography In this edition of Edge, Language and writing have We look forward to many more we delve into the fertile always been important components graduates in the coming years field of writing and of the University’s curriculum and joining the likes of Derek Dressler language-related art, as of the art that is made here. Our and Michael Dawson—profiled we celebrate the launch graphic designers—and before in this issue—in seeking to make of the University’s new them, the students and faculty of a name for themselves in the field BFA in Creative Writing program. We look at the advertising design—have sought of writing. evolution of writing to integrate image and word, as an art form and of through design, in order to convey There’s much more in this issue writing programs, and meaningful messages. Aspiring of Edge, including news from the we examine the unique directors and actors have had University and news from our and exciting creative to grapple with scripts—just as alumni. But you will also find environment in which singers have interpreted lyrics our annual Donor Report, writing students are and illustrators their texts. ’08 an important opportunity for immersed here at UArts. the University to recognize and We also profile several But somehow, writing has never thank its many committed and CHEN alumni who have used their artistic been a primary focus of study generous friends. We are truly backgrounds and here—this, despite a group of grateful for the support they have experiences to find alumni who have distinguished JASON provided over the past year, and success in a variety themselves in the verbal arts, for their continuing commitment of realms of writing. including novelist Russell Hoban, to the University of the Arts’ composer-lyricist Marc Blitzstein, cartoonist Arnold mission of educating the next generation of innovative Roth, and the filmmakers the Quay Brothers, who have visual and performing artists, designers, and writers. adapted Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz and Robert Walser. This year, that will change. We have welcomed our first As always, I welcome your feedback and your class of nearly a dozen creative writers, who will join suggestions for future stories. a group of visual and performing artists pursuing writing through the minor program. And we embark on the first full year of partnership with The American Poetry Review, one of the nation’s most significant Warm regards, publications in the field of poetry. S EAN T. B UFFINGTON President TABLE OF CONTENTS Featured: The Art of Language 12 14 18 Beat All the The Man Writer World’s a Behind the Stage Mouse 22 26 30 The Amazing An Urban UArts Veronica Oasis Celebrates 135th Kablan on South Commencement Broad 32 60 92 The Donor From the Archives: Return of Report Philadelphia Neil Gaiman College of Art Annual, 1968 34 UArts News 39 Supporting UArts 41 Alumni Notes 57 In Memoriam 06 edge Illustration by ANDREA MILLER ’ 13 (illustration) FEATURE The Art of Language Acclaimed Author Joyce Carol Oates Opens UArts’ Visiting Writers Series UArts Writes a New Chapter Lives to Robert Rauschenberg’s XXXIV Drawings for Dante’s Inferno to Bill T. Jones’s “Last Supper at Uncle National Book Award in the Story of Words as Tom’s Cabin,” writers have been just as eager to turn winner and bestselling to “non-literary” techniques to “make it new” as visual author Joyce Carol Oates inaugurates the University Art-Making Material and performing artists have been keen to find stories of the Arts’ new Visiting to tell through color, sound and gesture. Writers Series that kicks Taking seriously the view that language—no less than off in fall 2013. In connec- paint, clay, stone, film, sound and gesture—is a medium “Viewed in the light of several centuries’ worth tion with the University’s for art, the University of the Arts this fall launches its of astonishingly fertile creative traffic between writers newly launched Bachelor first Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program within the and other artists, the establishment of a writing of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, the program within a visual and performing arts university Division of Liberal Arts: the BFA in Creative Writing. series will feature six begins to seem less a groundbreaking gesture than acclaimed contemporary It may seem like a long-overdue acknowl- writers visiting the UArts a revolutionary idea, edgment of the hybrid, campus each year. but in truth this notion cross-disciplinary and These distinguished of language as itself collaborative nature not poets, novelists and short story writers will give a kind of art material only of much artwork, Language is a medium readings—all of which has been around for an but of the creative process are free and open to the extremely long time— for art—no less than paint, itself,” says Liberal Arts public. Joyce Carol Oates’ at least as long as the clay, stone, film, sound Division Dean Catherine reading is co-sponsored Book of Kells, say. Kodat. “Literary history by The American Indeed, the evidence and gesture. suggests that successful Poetry Review. of countless songs, writers are, aesthetically Oates is the author speaking, an omnivorous operas, films, plays and of more than 70 books, musicals overwhelming- bunch: the fuel for a new including award-winning ly testifies that viewing novel or poem is as likely novels and critically language as an art medium is neither particularly new to be found in a gallery, museum or concert hall as in acclaimed short story nor especially radical—though the idea of studying a library. Writers often need more inspiration for their collections, as well as writing in art school is sometimes seen as both. Yet art than the work of other writers; they need the work essays, plays, poetry and a recent memoir, of other artists, as well.” as the work of contemporary artists like Kenneth A Widow’s Story. Best Goldsmith, Tom Phillips and Barbara Kruger makes known for her fiction, clear, a plastic approach to language—an approach This view of the writer as artist—of language as mate- her novels include them, emphasizing that the how (the look and sound rial for art—is not, as we’ve seen, in itself all that new. which won the National of individual words and phrases) matters just as much But it is a newly liberal understanding of art, artists Book Award, and We Were as the what (the message those words and phrases and arts education, one opening onto an exciting new the Mulvaneys, an Oprah’s Book Club selection convey)—can produce startlingly beautiful and chapter in the continuing history of the liberal arts and national bestseller. provocative art. And from Gertrude Stein’s Three at the University of the Arts. Increasingly, young artists She received the National Humanities Medal in 2010. 07 FEATURE : THE ART OF LANGUAGE are expected not only to be good at what they do, but The resulting Creative Writing major, like other degree also to be good at explaining what they do—at describ- programs at UArts, approaches its subject first and ing how their work responds to history and relates to the foremost as a craft.

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