Columbia College Comes to Beacher Country
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Volume 18, Number 25 Thursday, June 27, 2002 Columbia College Comes to Beacher Country by Paula McHugh The song says, “June is busting out all over.” Well then, July promis- es to be bursting with multiple arts experiences to keep your summer calendar full—beginning this week- end, in the waning days of June. You may have already heard the buzz. This Saturday, the place to be in Beacher Country is at the John G. Blank Center for the Arts. That’s when Columbia College will be offer- ing a multi-arts extravaganza encom- passing not only visual art, but also dance, jazz and literary readings. Columbia College, for those of you who may not know, is the nation’s largest arts and communications college. This is the place to be on Sat., June 29: The John G. Blank Center tor the Arts, 312 E. 8th St. A spectacular opportunity to sample the extensive creative menu of Columbia College’s faculty on Saturday evening is just the beginning of several events the premiere Chicago arts college has in store for Beacher country residents. Kicking off with the Blank Center gala in Michigan City, Columbia College has also arranged Saturday Night Theater and Cookouts in Grand Beach through July, where the college’s theater department will present “Art” by Yasmina Reza. Also in July, two Columbia faculty will be conducting a theater arts camp for kids at the Blank Center. More about that a little later… And this is the place to be in July when The Tall Oaks Inn in Grand Beach/New Buffalo will host five Columbia 2 Art Workshops for Adults during the month of July. Columbia College Continued on Page 2 Page 2 June 27, 2002 911 Franklin Street • Michigan City, IN 46360 219/879-0088 • FAX 219/879-8070 In Case Of Emergency, Dial e-mail: News/Articles - [email protected] email: Classifieds - [email protected] http://www.bbpnet.com/ Published and Printed by THE BEACHER BUSINESS PRINTERS Delivered weekly, free of charge to Birch Tree Farms, Duneland Beach, Grand Beach, Hidden 911 Shores, Long Beach, Michiana Shores, Michiana MI and Shoreland Hills. The Beacher is also Subscription Rates delivered to public places in Michigan City, New Buffalo, LaPorte and Sheridan Beach. 1 year $26 6 months $14 3 months $8 1 month $3 Columbia College Continued from Page 1 Multi-Arts Gala this Saturday Let’s begin with a closer look at this Saturday’s gala Margi Cole and the Dance COLEctive. Lelde explained at the Blank Center. Lelde Kalmites, Director, said that the site-specific performance is custom-choreo- that planning began almost one year ago, after talk- graphed to blend with the locale where the dancers ing with Dr. Woodie White at the Lakefront Art perform. Tents will be erected for some of the outside Festival. The events mushroomed from plans for a fac- events, Lelde said, and Basil’s will be offering food for ulty exhibit with painting, photography, sculpture, video sale at the informal (meaning casual dress) event. A art, fabric art, printmaking and performance art, to Jazz tent will feature vocalists Julie V., Martha adding musical entertainment, site specific dance Meegan, Bunny Fisher and Penny McTigue. Literary performances, and literary readings. readings will be presented by Renee Lynn Hansen, “It’s a program with wide appeal because of its Sharon Darrow, Joe Meno, Eric May, Sarah Odishoo variety,” Lelde said, adding that events will be going and winners of the Harbor Country High School on both outside and inside. Spring Street will be Fiction Writing Contest. roped off for the site-specific dance performances by “Columbia On the Beach” The visual exhibit, “Columbia on the Beach” will Cunningham and Ansel Adams. be indoors on the main floor, featuring works by the “I studied with (Ansel Adams) in 1980 and that has college’s faculty. The exhibitors, all of whom have left an indelible impression on me. Among contemporary spent time (or live) in Beacher country include Doreen photographers of the nude whose work I admire are Bartoni, Mary Florence Forsythe, Peter LeGrand, Jock Sturges and Ralph Gibson.” Rose Blouin, Kay Hartmann, Linda Sorkin Eisenberg, Peter divides his time between his own work and Denise Toler, Sherry Giryotes, Kevin Henry, Richard teaching. Among his current works in progress is a Lange, Suzanne Cohan Lange, Andrea Peterson, book on Victor and Cripple Creek, Colorado, a Polaroid Rick Erwin, and Melli Hoppe & Elise Kermani (The portrait series for Columbia College, and as a Beta Schaaf Sisters). tester for Polaroid digital products. Peter LeGrand has been a photography professor at the college for the past 15 years and a pro- fessional freelance photographer for corporate clients. He’s been using infrared film on his excur- sions to the dunes over the past twelve years, where his images of the nude in the dunes and the lake, he explained, symbolize “the (lake) puri- fying qualities, of the human being uniting with the waters and rising from it.” Peter said that when he was still an amateur, teachers at his very first weekend photography workshop told him he was “a terrible photographer, a total disgrace to the profession.” “Suitably humbled I asked where I could learn more and the next thing I knew was that I was embarked on a graduate degree in pho- tography,” Peter said. When asked which photographers he most admired, Peter named Edward Weston, Imogene “Standing Nude in the Dunes” by Peter LeGrand. June 27, 2002 Page 3 Kay Hartmann, a fac- ulty member in the Open ‘til 6 p.m. Department of Art and Evenings Design, graphic design and advertising, recently moved from Three Oaks to Michiana. 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LaPorte resident and Columbia faculty member Andrea Peterson’s “Amaranth.” Some of her works will be on display during the Blank exhib- it, “Columbia on the Beach,” and Andrea will be teaching a Bookbinding Workshop in July in Grand Beach. Andrea and her husband Jon Hook own the red barn studio in rural LaPorte. Rose Blouin’s “Inner Light.” Photograph. “Dune Archetype #4” by Suzanne Cohan-Lange. Sculpture antique mannequin, branches, wax, dyes. “Dialogue 6” by Richard Lange.Acrylic. June 27, 2002 Page 5 An installation titled “In the name of…” by “Occupied,” a Sherry sculpture using Giryotas. paper, zippers Installation and cheese- (detail) bees cloth by Mary was, patinated Florence and gold leafed Forsythe. steel, photo transparencies. Art photos courtesy of Columbia College Chicago. Art Workshops in July children ages 9 through 12 at the Blank Center starts July 15th and runs through August 8th. Lelde The gala events planned in our bi-state area by announced that this activity has received the promise Columbia College don’t stop there. The Chicago arts of a sponsorship by the National Electrical Contractors school has arranged to bring over to our side of the Association/International Brotherhood of Electrical lake five of its classes in July. That means, of course, Workers (NECA/IBEW). That means twenty lucky chil- an opportunity to not just observe others’ wonderful dren will get to attend the camp, taught by two talents, but to enjoy the benefits of top-notch facul- Columbia College faculty, free.