COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS reation Fall 2009

the art of giving

C. Donald and Sandra Soto Hatfield are part its full potential. The college seeks their of the Marshall University family. They both collective wisdom and guidance to make attended Marshall for their undergraduate sure we are providing our students with the degrees, and their parents, siblings and finest education possible, which includes children attended the university as well. Both being engaged with the community in which Huntington natives, Sandy and Don spent 21 we live, work, and study. We also need their years in Tucson, Ariz., but have returned to help in assembling the necessary resources their hometown with a commitment to make in order to deliver the kind of educational it a better place. experiences we think are vital for our students.” The couple has agreed to chair the newly founded COFA Dean’s Council, which Members of the council will attend quarterly will include alumni, community, state meetings, support the college by attending and regional supporters of the fine arts, its public arts events and promote public and members of the Marshall University awareness of the college, its programs, and community. The mission of the Dean’s its students throughout the community, the Council is to provide leadership in promoting state, and the region. “With the Hatfields’ sustained interest in and support of the leadership and example, COFA anticipates an College of Fine Arts at Marshall University. invigorated relationship with the community Members will assist in realizing and it serves and expanded success in efforts to maintaining a distinctive, distinguished increase private support for the mission of the presence in the community, state, region, college,” Van Horn continued. and beyond; promote public awareness; and Both Huntington natives, Sandy and enhance the college’s role and programs Both Sandy and Don were very active in the Don spent 21 years in Tucson, Ariz., but by helping to identify and secure private Huntington community during Don’s tenure funding. The council also will consult with as publisher of The Herald Dispatch, serving have returned to their hometown with a the dean about the role of the college on Huntington area boards and actively commitment to make it a better place. in our community and society and our working in the local arts community. Marshall, responsibility in a changing world. and especially the College of Fine Arts, has been the recipient of several gifts that reflect in their estate plan with another endowed both their devotion to family and love of scholarship to be awarded to a student in the “We also need their help in assembling the arts. College of Fine Arts. the necessary resources in order to deliver Sandy, with her sisters Tomasina Soto Now that they have returned, Tucson’s loss the kind of educational experiences we Michel and Shirley Soto Lusk, also Marshall is definitely Huntington’s gain. Since their think are vital for our students.” alumnae, have established a scholarship in return, they have embraced COFA and its the Department of Music in memory of their mission to serve students of the arts and the mother. The endowment supports a student greater community. Donald Van Horn, dean of the College of studying a stringed instrument. Don, to honor Fine Arts, explained, “We want to bring Sandy and her love of France and the French For example, Sandy and Don hosted a COFA together people from the community who language, set up an endowed scholarship showcase in their home in April of this year. demonstrate a commitment to the arts and in modern languages as a birthday gift. In “We wanted to show the community the to Marshall University to help COFA reach addition, the Hatfields have included Marshall (Continued on page 2)

www.marshall.edu/cofa Joan Edwards would have been proud.

That is what I was thinking as I sat at the Petite Pinède stage in Juan-Les-Pins, France, as our 12.0 Jazz Ensemble performed for an enthusiastic audience at the 49th Jazz à Juan Festival on Sunday, July 12, 2009. This was the last of four concerts our students performed on their European tour, and they were outstanding. And it was Joan’s generosity that made it all possible. Without the jazz quasi-endowment Joan established several years ago, we would not have been able to send these students to the Montreux Jazz Festival A Message from the Dean in Switzerland and the Jazz à Juan Festival in France.

As I listened to our students and reflected on the trip, I realized at each of the four concerts I saw women from a distance who Joan Edwards’ gift ensures that jazz students will have comparable reminded me of Joan Edwards. Of course Joan was not there. opportunities on a regular basis for many years to come. Now She passed away in 2006. But she was definitely there in spirit our charge is to find ways to extend similar opportunities to other and I thought about her often. This trip, and the wonderful students in the College of Fine Arts. performance opportunities it afforded her students, is exactly what Joan envisioned when she gave the gift that supports jazz Offering a range of art exhibitions, music studies at Marshall. She would have loved the music, she would and theatre performances, and the Birke have cherished the sight of Marshall students performing with such Fine Arts Symposium, the College of Fine musicality and confidence, and she would have been delighted with Arts has always been a vibrant community the exposure our students brought to Marshall University and this year promises to be no different. and our community. The momentum we have going into the new academic year is exhilarating, and Yes, Joan would have been very proud. We all should be very I invite you to join us as we explore the proud of these students and how well they represented wonder and beauty of the arts. I look Marshall University. forward to seeing you this year!

The experience reinforces for me of the importance of providing our students with opportunities to travel and to share their art with people far and wide. The students who performed in Europe Joan Edwards enjoyed a remarkable experience and it was a pleasure for me to Donald Van Horn witness the growth that occurred in many of them on that trip.

The Art of Giving (continued from page 1) David Castleberry wonderfully talented students and faculty from the college,” said Don. Associate Dean, College of Fine Arts The evening featured performances by students of voice and a violin/ David Castleberry comes to the position of associate dean of the cello duo as well as a piano performance by Sean Parsons, music College of Fine Arts after serving nineteen faculty member. years as director of choral activities in “The arts are the legacy we leave for future generations,” Sandy the Department of Music. During his Hatfield said thoughtfully. “I am worried with our economy and with tenure, he has led performances of the emphasis on science and technology that we are forgetting the more than fifty major choral-orchestral importance of the arts in our society and culture. Marshall is blessed works with the MU Choral Union and with a strong College of Fine Arts program. We want to assure that this MU Orchestra. He has conducted continues – and strengthens.” concert tours with the Chamber Choir (including ten performances at the “Forming the Dean’s Council allows us to bring together individuals Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, from the greater university community to build the future of the fine South Carolina), been featured in an arts at Marshall,” she continued. “We look forward to the challenge award-winning WPBY broadcast, Choral ahead – and to the future of COFA.” Fusion, taught conducting at graduate David Castleberry and undergraduate levels, and guided Speaking about the Hatfields, Dean Van Horn said, “They value the arts a host of other performances, festivals, and demonstrate all the time their heartfelt belief that the arts are at broadcasts, and recordings. He is a recipient of the Marshall and the core of a vibrant and successful community. They also understand Shirley Reynolds Outstanding Teacher Award, has participated in the importance of the university to the community, and vice versa, and team-taught courses for the Honors Program, led a Birke Fine Arts they see the arts at Marshall as a critical link between the two. I can’t Symposium entitled Extra-Musical, and collaborated with other imagine two people more suited to the leadership role we’ve asked departments on special projects. As a leading figure in the choral them to assume for the Dean’s Council.” (Continued on page 3)

2 | FALL 2009 Dangerfield awarded prestigious Fulbright Fellowship

Dr. Joseph Dangerfield, Marshall University educational system. In addition, the music professional fields. He joins several other Coe alumnus and assistant professor of music at professor will be guest conducting and faculty members who have received Fulbright Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been expects to write a new composition to be Awards during their careers. awarded a Fulbright premiered in Russia. Fellowship to teach Established in 1946 and sponsored by the and compose in the “I often use the folk and liturgical music of Department of State, the Russian Federation Russia as a source of creative inspiration,” Fulbright Program aims to increase mutual during the 2009- noted Dangerfield. “I am also enamored understanding between Americans and 2010 school with the music of Stravinsky, Shostakovich, the peoples of other countries, through the year. Specifically, Schnittke, Tarnopolski …[as well as] exchange of persons, knowledge and skills. Dangerfield will composers now living in Russia.” The Fulbright Program provides funding serve as composer- for students, scholars and professionals to in-residence for At Coe, Dangerfield teaches music undertake graduate study, advanced the Studio for New composition and theory, and serves as research and teaching. Music Ensemble the director of the Coe College Symphony at the Moscow Orchestra. Over the past several years, Dangerfield met his wife, Ami Gray Conservatory. Dangerfield has garnered much attention Dangerfield, who also earned her Bachelor as a composer, with performances of his of Fine Arts degree at Marshall in 1999, in Dangerfield works throughout the United States and the music library at Marshall. They have two began studying abroad. American presentations include children, Conner, 5, and Piper, 3, who will composition at the Society of Composers, Inc., the MusicX accompany them to Russia. Joe Dangerfield and family Marshall with Festival at the College-Conservatory of Music Michael Golden and in Cincinnati, the San Francisco New Music John Allemeier, and received his Bachelor of Festival, and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Castleberry (continued from page 2) Fine Arts degree in 1999. He then completed Music. His instrumental and chamber his master’s degree at Bowling Green State compositions have also been performed at profession, he has recently completed a University in , working with Marilyn such international venues as the Moscow two-year term as president of the Southern Shrude and Mikel Kuehn, and received a Conservatory, the Frankfurter Kuenstler Klub Division of the American Choral Directors doctorate in 2005 from the University of Iowa, and the Conservatorio di Giuseppe Tartini Association and contributes regularly to studying under David Gompper. (Trieste, Italy), as well as in Cairo, Egypt. ACDA’s publication, Choral Journal.

Reflecting on his studies at Marshall, Originally trained as a pianist, Dangerfield As associate dean, Castleberry will retain Dangerfield said, “Michael Golden, my first is active as a performer and conductor ties to the Department of Music and will composition professor, really opened my eyes throughout the United States. Recently, he continue to lead the Chamber Choir, but to new music, and John Allemeier helped me conducted a performance of his will now broaden his efforts in serving as to hone my craft. He also introduced me to Piano Quintet in New York City. an advisor to students in the BFA programs the music of David Gompper (University of in art and theatre as well. He will have Iowa). As a result, I came to Iowa to work with He is the recipient of many awards and contact with fine arts students from their Gompper and complete my PhD.” recognitions, including The Young and first inquiry to Marshall University until well Emerging Composers Award (2002), ASCAP after they graduate. His work will focus on Dangerfield’s lifelong fascination with Standard Awards, and the Henry and Parker recruitment and retention, and on advising traditional Russian music led him to pursue Pelzer Prize for Excellence in Composition students as they seek to complete degree the Fulbright Scholarship opportunity. (2005). Dangerfield was selected for a three- requirements and plan for opportunities week independent residency in the Leighton beyond graduation. A mentor and advocate “My parents are musicians and exposed me Studios of the prestigious Banff Centre in for students, he will be continuing in a new to Russian music beginning at a very young Alberta, Canada, which was completed in role the work he has enjoyed at Marshall age,” said Dangerfield. “For some reason, this January 2008. Recordings of his works are University for the past two decades. music has always spoken to me. I am grateful available on the Albany Records label, and for the opportunity to continue my lifelong many are published by European American A native of Charleston, South Carolina, journey with Russian music at the Moscow Music and PIP Press Music Publications. Dr. Castleberry holds degrees from Furman Conservatory during the next school year.” University (BM in church music) and The Dangerfield’s award is part of the Fulbright University of Texas at Austin (MM and DMA While at the Moscow Conservatory, U.S. Scholars Program, which sends in conducting). He is married to Dr. Barbara Dangerfield will be teaching composition, approximately 1,100 American scholars and Ladner, who chairs the Department of English presenting lectures and papers about the professionals per year to approximately 130 at State University. They have history of American music, and helping countries, where they lecture and/or conduct one son, Ian, and share their household with Russian students learn about the American research in a wide variety of academic and a Dandie Dinmont Terrier named Lark.

FALL 2009 | 3 inCatching up with students,the alumni, and faculty.news Art & Design Theatre

The Department of Art and Design is of Music has been active with appearances The 2008-09 Marshall University Theatre balanced, teeming with excitement and internationally, nationally, regionally and season opened to the thundering beat of proudly welcomes three new tenure- locally during the 2008-09 academic year. tapping feet in a spectacular production of track assistant professors: Miyuki George M! Epic Proportions brought the season Cook (Textiles), Daniel Kaufmann In July 2009, the Jazz 12.0 Ensemble to a close with a screwball romp in the desert (Photography), and Natalie Larsen wowed audiences at the Montreux and and the happy echoes of irrepressible laughter. (Foundations). They join a dynamic team Jazz á Juan (France) Jazz Festivals. The Fife of eleven returning full-time faculty, a and Drum Corps appeared at the closing The Department of Theatre introduced dedicated department secretary, and a concert of the National Flute Association’s new classes in music theatre performance, pool of talented part-time faculty, staff and International Conference in August, brought exciting visiting artists to the graduate assistants wholly committed to an event where flautist James Galway department, adapted and staged the Marshall, COFA and our students. received a lifetime achievement award. campus One Book selection, The Things Last fall, the Marching Thunder was the We Carried, and sponsored professional Art and Design students lead departmental first collegiate band chosen to appear at workshops in the Playhouse. tours for prospective students because they the new Lucas Oil Stadium as the halftime want to be surrounded by the best and Our majors spread across the wide world entertainment for the Indianapolis Colts they undertake internships, join clubs and to complete challenging internships, game. And, of course, students and faculty professional organizations, attend lectures, The Pickled Pepper Players toured local remain committed to our university, enter art and design competitions and schools, we sent two regional winners to the college and departmental mission of participate fully in campus and civic life Kennedy Center American College Theatre enhancing the cultural richness of our own because they strive to be the best. Festival competition and every student who locale, with over 125 events on campus auditioned at the Southeastern Theatre While art and design BFA and MA last year and a substantial number in our Conference landed a professional gig for graduates work as professional artists, city, state and region. the summer of 2009. designers, teachers and in related industries throughout the region and beyond, three Locally, our Woodlands and MUsic Alive As always, the 2009-10 season promises recent alumni, John Farley (2007), Seth concert series continue to flourish. The first innovative programming for our students Cyfers (2008), and Natalie Gibbs, (2009), gives our students an opportunity, not only and patrons. This year our production wing along with new adjunct faculty member for additional performing opportunities, has a new look and a new name, Marshall Kristin Zammiello, associated with Create but also a sense of involvement and Theatre Alliance. Without a doubt, we’re Huntington (http://www.createhuntington. service to our community. The MUsic Alive the same university theatre that has served com/ and assumed leadership roles that concerts, presented in conjunction with our community for so many years, but helped transform a vacant Huntington First Presbyterian Church, showcase by forming alliances with university and storefront on Fourth Avenue into a a roster of acclaimed artists that includes community partners, we seek to better serve downtown community art gallery. Gibbs both guest musicians and Department of our students with new experiences and to and Zammiello curated a new exhibition Music faculty. catalyze ever broader support for the arts. at 842 when Huntington and MU hosted the This season we bring you: Waiting for Lefty; 2009 Create West Virginia Conference Whether in Huntington or a few thousand Almost, Maine; Born Yesterday; and in October. miles away, the Department of Music is Our Country’s Good. committed to continuing its presences Music in the arts and the strong educational In addition, we will offer a special holiday experiences these opportunities bring for performance of A Christmas Carol and a Montreux, Switzerland. New York City. our students. So, don’t be shocked if you spring dance concert. Indianapolis. Huntington. The Department see us somewhere near you, soon! www.marshall.edu/cofa

4 | FALL 2009 White, of Huntington, explained, “The pieces that are in the show are part of a series I worked Got news? with for a while, visualizing emotional space. Let us know where you are and what The spaces are those that exist between the you’re doing. We’d love to include you mind and the tangible reality of where we live in the next edition and work daily. The piece Multiply specifically of Creation. deals with dreams, and Rhythm deals with how music can influence us.” Contact: Jaye Ike Marshall University’s Birke Art Gallery Director 160 Smith Hall John Farley is a graduate of MU’s Department One John Marshall Drive of Art and Design and an adjunct member of Huntington, WV 25755 the art faculty. Farley is a prime example of an (304) 696-3296 Emerging Artist -- Erin White accepts award artist balancing an administrative art position [email protected] from Commissioner of the West Virginia Division with the challenge of continuing to make art. of Culture and History Randall Reid-Smith “For a young professional artist, exposure and MU alumni showcased in recognition is vital to jump-start one’s career,” Farley explained. “Any opportunity to display Emerging Artists exhibit one’s work should be met with enthusiasm and pride. These are lessons we seek to impart to Seven Marshall University art alumni and the art students here at MU that carry over into graduate students had their work showcased in the professional world.” the Emerging Artists of West Virginia Exhibition in Creation is published by Charleston, June 20 through October 25. Farley’s drawing, A Meeting of the Minds, was the College of Fine Arts selected to be displayed in the show. Marshall University Seth Cyfers, Seth Davidson, John Farley, Leona Smith Hall 158 Mackey, Ben Robertson, Rebecca Robinson “My work is inspired by the innate principles Huntington, WV 25755 and Erin White were all selected to participate and patterns, the dynamic formations found in the show, which was sponsored by the West throughout nature,” he said. “It is a graphic 304-696-6433 Virginia Division of Culture and History. A juried expression of the delicate complexity, design www.marshall.edu/cofa exhibition, Emerging Artists was the opening and aesthetic sensibility of the structures that art exhibit in the newly renovated State define our world.” Museum at the Culture Center in the State Dean Capitol Complex. For Rebecca Robinson, a graduate painting Donald Van Horn student, this is the first time she has entered

“It is fitting that this unique show is a key work into a competition. element in the reopening of the State Associate Dean Museum,” Betty Gay, MA, 2007, and exhibits “Two oil paintings of mine will be shown in the David Castleberry director at the Culture Center, said. “As we open Emerging Artists of West Virginia show,” Robinson a new beginning for the museum, we also said. “The first is entitled A‘ Special Place.’ It Administrative Assistant unveil a new group of flourishing artists. There shows a tree growing on a small island in a Peggy Egnatoff is something from almost every medium in creek with light coming from the forest behind this show, from post-directorial photography it. It is a place I visited while hiking in western Director of Development several years ago. The second is to wall sculpture, a must-see for art enthusiasts Melanie Griffis and collectors.” called Leaf Study in Reds. It is a square painting of a pile of red maple leaves. Having never Allison Leigh Smith, a painter from Scottsdale, entered my work in any type of competition Special Projects Coordinator AZ, served as juror for the show. She has a before, I was very excited and honored for both Jaye Ike Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Columbus paintings to have been accepted.” College of Art and Design and her work is Department of Art and Design considered contemporary realism. “The West Virginia Division of Culture and Byron Clercx, Chair History is presenting a variety of pieces

For Marshall University graduate student Erin ranging from conceptual mixed media to White, being selected to showcase her work in realism,” Gay said. “As the Culture Center Department of Music this exhibit was another step toward a career opened the doors to the new West Virginia Jeff Pappas, Chair in art. State Museum, we wanted the public to understand that we look forward to being a Department of Theatre “It’s exciting to be included,” White said, place for both contemporary and traditional Julie Jackson, Chair “and start working toward the future of my styles of art and a progressive place to art career.” showcase West Virginia’s artistic talents.

FALL 2009 | 5 One highlight of Johnson’s visit to the Huntington campus was visiting the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center.

Johnson currently makes his living writing a series of Viking/Penguin novels with lead character Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire. “The general studies classes were a boon for me and kind of opened my eyes as to how much was out there, but I have to admit that as I look back it was the words that were the keys to my new awareness,” Johnson said.

“Foreign language classes, creative writing classes, history classes; they all led to the words, but it was in the theatre department that I learned about stories and how they were interrelated with human emotion. It was the intimacy of plays—how people relate to each other and to society and how to transfer that onto the written page and to an audience—that was my passion. After Books and Boots... I left Marshall and went to Actors Theatre of Louisville, it became even more apparent Theatre Alumnus that that’s where my interests lay. I was never really comfortable with the performance aspect of theatre, but the literary part has and novelist served to be a strong suit in my work as an author. I think the transition from playwright Craig Johnson to novelist was an easy one for me and provided a strong basis in dialogue and an visits COFA understanding of character and motivation.” Considering himself fortunate to have had College of Fine Arts alum Craig Johnson many great professors at Marshall, Johnson looks like a character out of his Wyoming- singled out one in particular. “I had a lot of based crime novels. He came to visit really wonderful professors, but one of the Marshall in jeans, cowboy boots, and a ones who really stood out was N.B. East over 10-gallon hat with his booming voice and in the theatre department,” Johnson said. “N.B. hearty laugh filling the Joan C. Edwards was a crusty old cuss even back then, and he Performing Arts Center. was one of those instructors who intimidated a lot of people. I am not intimidated by much, Johnson, BFA in Fine Arts with an and I loved the man. I was about as much of emphasis in acting/directing and a minor a rube as you could be, but he believed in me, in psychology, 1983, jokes that before believed that maybe I could do something. his time at Marshall, his interests were One of the classes that everybody dreaded girls, motorcycles, and beer. But when was his History of Theatre class, because he the popular western mystery author was so meticulous in his knowledge of recently visited the campus, he recalled both history and theatre, but it was one how attending Marshall University helped of my favorites.” shape his future. (continued on page 7)

6 | FALL 2009 Craig Johnson (continued from page 6)

One highlight of Johnson’s visit to the I lived there,” Johnson said. “It was another on a drawer-less desk I built myself. As I look Huntington campus was visiting the period of learning for me, albeit not a formal back, it seems like a logical progression, but Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center. one, and it enabled me to ‘sit in all the chairs’ that is probably a massive rationalization on as my buddy Ron Carlson calls it—seeing my part. My family seems happy with the “I’m afraid most of my favorite spots on things from other people’s perspectives.” result, however. I think, with all my travels, campus are now gone,” he said. “All of my they thought I was just going to end up beloved places were in the proximity of the Johnson finally landed in Philadelphia where homeless.” theatre in Old Main. I used to love sitting up he was doing some post-graduate work. in the balcony and doing my class work or “Philly is only ninety miles from New York,” Far from homeless, Johnson says that during just reading. You’d be surprised how many Johnson said. “I’d lived just about everywhere those nine years of building his ranch, the impromptu performances I witnessed while else, so I decided if I was going to take a bite story for his first novel was never very far just sitting up there quietly. But the last time I out of the big apple, now was the time.” While away. “I think I was rolling the idea for was in town I was able to get an abbreviated looking for cheap apartments, he spied an The Cold Dish over and over in my head, and tour of the Joan C. Edwards with an old ad for a civil-service/police officer’s course. when I finally pulled those two first chapters buddy, James Morris-Smith. It’s a beautiful “I thought what the heck, I’ll take it, and the out of a desk—I decided I better burn them facility, and something we only dreamed of rest is history,” he said. Johnson was a senior and stop torturing myself, or get busy.” back in the day.” special officer in Central Park for two and a half years. He explained, “It was an interesting The desk Johnson built then and where he Johnson’s life has not been a clear linear path and informative time, but I knew that I writes his award-winning novels now doesn’t from MU to authorship. After leaving Marshall, wanted to write, that law enforcement work have any drawers, “Because that’s where he was at Actors Theatre of Louisville for a was not a lifetime desire, and I started to get a novels go to die.” year and then went to Chicago for another jones for going back out west. year. Then Johnson went out on the road, his Craig Johnson is the author of five novels Kerouac period as he calls it, where he lived “I finally convinced the little redhead from published by Viking/Penguin—The Cold mostly in the western states just trying to get New England whom I married to move to Dish, Death Without Company, Kindness Goes a feel for the country. He rodeoed, cowboyed, Wyoming, bought property, built a ranch, and Unpunished, Another Man’s Moccasins, and drove a truck, picked strawberries… “You after a false start which included a nine-year The Dark Horse. They are available name it, I did it--you name a place out west, hiatus of writer’s block, started writing novels everywhere books are sold. Jazz in July Marshall University Jazz Ensemble’s tour of Switzerland, Italy and France in July to their own concert and were extremely was an experience to be cherished for a lifetime by students and faculty alike. complimentary. It was a real treat to talk to professional performers in an informal setting Directed by Dr. Edwin Bingham, the jazz newspaper. We all enjoyed catching up; the as fellow musicians. ensemble performed four concerts, two dean, Don Van Horn, brought her up to date at the renowned Montreux Jazz Festival on the art department. The breadth of geography was astonishing. in Switzerland and two at the Jazz à Juan We saw Swiss Alps and glaciers, stopping Festival in Juan les Pins, France—Europe’s We faculty enjoyed watching our students once for a snowball fight—a remarkable longest-running jazz festival. develop self confidence as they realized activity for West Virginians in mid-July! After they could function in unfamiliar cultures. traveling through Italy to the French Riviera, Europeans generally have a great Students who studied French conversed we spent free time on Mediterranean beaches. appreciation for American jazz; the band with local people and translated for friends. We visited medieval castles and towns, a was received warmly and enthusiastically. Students learned about both “classical” and perfumery, a Picasso museum, and Bocci Students were delighted to perform for “popular” cultures of cities. They discovered games with a local club, among other things. audiences that greeted their playing with how “classroom” language differs from heartfelt cheers and applause, standing informal slang. They learned local customs We finished our tour with great pride in the ovations and, at times, sat out in the rain to and appreciated and respected cultural musical accomplishments of the Marshall hear them. differences. They experienced new foods, Jazz Ensemble, a greater appreciation and new music, new sights, met new people, and understanding of European culture, and We became aware how widespread the learned that similarities between people far strong, long-lasting bonds of friendship and greater Marshall University community is outnumber differences. camaraderie. This experience was invaluable when a recent College of Fine Arts graduate for all involved! appeared at a concert in Montreux. The One highlight of the tour was the young lady, Elizabeth Tomlin, a graphic opportunity to eat backstage with main stage Ann Marie Bingham is Associate Professor of design major now living in Switzerland with performers at Jazz à Juan. Many musicians Music (clarinet, oboe and twentieth century her husband, read of the concert in the heard Marshall’s Jazz Ensemble en route music history).

FALL 2009 | 7 COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

The College of Fine Arts gratefully acknowledgesdonors donors who contributed July 1, 2008 through June 30 2009 Mrs. Patricia P. Agee Dr. David H. Castleberry Dr. Harry J. Fallon Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Agee Mr. and Mrs. James E. Casto Farrell, Farrell, & Farrell, PLLC Air Systems Sheet Metal Co., Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Jack J. Chambers Jr. Federated Jewish Charities of Huntington, Inc. Airgas Central Accounting Group Mr. and Mrs. C. Carter Chambers Drs. Howard and Gail Feinberg Dr. Paul V. Akers Champion Industries, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Phillip W. Alexander Charles Ryan Associates, Inc. Lt. Col. David S. Ferrell Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Allen Dr. and Mrs. Bruce S. Chertow Mrs. Ruth E. Finley Allied Realty Company Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC Mr. and Mrs. Richard Finley Mr. Julio Alves Mrs. Chin Kim Choi First Priority Federal Credit Union American Babbitt Bearing, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Christian First Sentry Bank Mr. Robert G. Anderson Mr. John B. Ciochetty Dr. and Mrs. Jack A. Flouer Mr. and Mrs. W. B. “Bart” Andrews, II Citi Global Impact Funding Trust, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Clinton E. Foster Appalachian Transportation Institute City National Bank Foundation For The Tri-State Community Mr. and Mrs. James S. Arnold Mr. Byron Dwane Clercx Mr. and Mrs. James N. Franklin Arthur and Joan Weisberg Family Mr. and Mrs. Randall A. Clifford Mr. and Mrs. William M. Frazier Foundation Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Michael T. Clifford Mr. and Mrs. James V. Full Associated Physical Therapists, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Sean R. Coddington Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Gates Dr. Harvey J. and Kimberly Austin Mr. John J. Colclough Ms. Stephanie A. Giacomo The Ayco Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Colker Dr. and Mrs. Neil L. Gibbins Mrs. Faith Balshaw Mr. and Mrs. Matt Colker Dr. and Mrs. Scott Gibbs Miss Mary V. Barlow Committee to Elect Kevin J. Craig Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Gillespie Mr. and Mrs. Edgar O. Barrett Miss Elinor F. Copenhaver Mr. and Mrs. Herman H. Glaser Mr. and Mrs. Bruce S. Weaver Mr. and Mrs. Michael I. Cornfeld Mrs. Janice M. Gold BB&T Reverend Donald C. Cottrill Ms. Patricia A. Green Mrs. Nancy M. Beckett Mr. Sean Coughlin Mr. Robert V. Griffis Beford South Point Ford Ms. Katrina Craddock Ms. Melanie A. Griffis Mr. C. Edward Bennett Reverend and Mrs. Walker W. Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Ric W. Griffith Dr. William E. and Dr. Anne M. Bingham Mr. John Mark Cross Mrs. Margaret C. Fors Grimes Mr. and Mrs. Shirley R. Blake Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey T. Crum Guaranty Bank & Trust Company Mr. and Mrs. Kerry D. Bledsoe CSX Transportation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph R. Hagy B’nai Sholom Congregation Mr. and Mrs. Russell L. Currey Mr. and Mrs. Sean K. Hammers Mr. and Mrs. D. Steven Bobo Mrs. Nancy Ann Cutright Mr. and Mrs. John H. Hankins Boggs Roofing, Inc. Dr. M. Jane and Mr. Robert E. Daniel Dr. and Mrs. E. S. Hanrahan Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Booten, II Mr. and Mrs. David B. Daugherty Ms. Elizabeth E. Hanrahan Mr. and Mrs. Danny L. Boster Mrs. Rosemary J. David Mrs. Cynthia D. Hansen Mr. and Mrs. Keith E. Bowie Ms. Constance L. Davis Mr. and Mrs. Gregory S. Hardin Ms. Margot Long Brauchli Mr. and Mrs. William D. Day, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas R. Hardman Brickstreet Insurance Mr. and Mrs. Daron F. Dean Mr. David R. Hatfield Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan A. Broh Dr. and Mrs. Daniel DelRowe Mr. and Mrs. C. Donald Hatfield Ms. Janet E. Bromley Delta Omicron Mr. Steven R. Hayes Dr. William S. Brosche Dr. William N. and Dr. Sarah N. Denman Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hayes Mrs. Lynne H. Brown Dr. and Mrs. Wendell Dobbs Heiner’s Bakery, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. David B. Brownfield Miss Frances M. Dooley Ms. Rosemary Helmondollar Mrs. Roseann Ellis Burgess Dr. Steven B. Nicholas, Ltd. Dr. Frances S. and Mr. Stephen W. Hensley Mr. and Mrs. James T. Burns Mr. and Mrs. Timothy T. Effingham Hess, Stewart & Campbell, PLLC Cabell Huntington Convention Mr. and Mrs. Karl J. Egnatoff Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Hogsett & Visitors Bureau Mr. and Mrs. William D. Egnor Hooters Cabell Huntington Hospital Mr. Charles Howard Elkins Mr. and Mrs. James C. Hosier Mr. and Mrs. W. Garner Callaway Mr. and Mrs. William R. Ellis Mr. and Mrs. David A. Howell Mr. and Mrs. James R. Camp Mr. and Mrs. David D. Elmore Mr. and Mrs. Stanley B. Howell Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Capaldini Mr. and Mrs. Phillips C. Emmons Mr. Joseph F. Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Capper Engines, Inc. Huntington Federal Savings Bank Mrs. Sarah K. Carey Engines, Inc. of Ohio Huntington Realty Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Carroll-Jones Mr. and Mrs. James D. Eriksen Huntington Retina Center, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Case, Jr. Mrs. Lana G. Snider Evans Huntington Testing and Technology Inc.

8 | FALL 2009 Ms. Jaye Ike Ms. Laura J. Napier Mr. Kenneth R. Stultz, II Insurance Systems Incorporated Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Neal Dr. and Mrs. Marc A. Subik Mr. and Mrs. Arnold S. Jackson Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Neighborgall, III Susan J. Van Zant, L.C. Dr. Julie C. Jackson Neighborgall Construction Company Jeff and Carrie Swing Jennifer L. Kendall, D.D.S., Inc. Ms. Debbie Nelson Dr. and Mrs. Fred R. Tambling Ms. Debra Johnson Ms. Jenny New Ms. Susan J. Tams Mrs. Kimberly T. Johnson Dr. Diana M. Nims Mr. and Mrs. John M. Tanner Mr. and Mrs. John M. Jones Nitro Management Company, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Tao Ms. Leigh Jordan Dr. Elaine A. Novak Miss Nancy A. Taylor JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A. Mr. David L. Nunley Ms. Robin L. Taylor Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Justice, Jr. Offutt Nord, PLLC Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Thomas Mrs. Joan Hart Justice Mr. and Mrs. Dave O’Neal Mrs. Betty J. Tippett Ms. Patricia A. Levine Mr. and Mrs. Carlos K. Osburn Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Allan Toney Kappa Kapp Psi Dr. J. V. Ottaviano The Touma Foundation, Inc. Dr. Julia I. Keller Mr. Keith Otte Mr. and Mrs. Robert Townsend Keramos Potter’s Guild Dr. Rachel C. Owens Trainer, Wright & Paterno Mr. and Mrs. Menis Ketchum Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Pappajohn Trifecta Productions, LLC Mr. Craig A. Kimble Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey Pappas Mr. Joseph K. Trippy Mr. and Mrs. John D. Kirkland Dr. John A. Parker, Jr. Ms. Leah N. Turley Dr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Kopp Mr. and Mrs. Nathan M. Parrish Mrs. Sydney V. Turnbull Mr. and Mrs. David R. Kreiner Ms. Kellie R. Pelphrey Mrs. Robin D. Turnbull Mr. James D. and Dr. Joye M. Lamp Mrs. McRae Pennington Dr. and Mrs. Charles E. Turner Dr. John W. Larson Mr. and Mrs. Allen K. Perry Dr. and Mrs. Harry K. Tweel Ms. Ann E. Lawson Mr. and Mrs. David M. Perry University Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. Dr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Leaberry Mr. and Mrs. A. Michael Perry Mr. and Mrs. John Urban Ms. Anita J. 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Wilcox Ms. Stephanie D. Marcum RBC Wealth Management Ms. Kay Wildman Marsha H. Slater Insurance, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Reed Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Williams, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Martin, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas V. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Stephen T. Williams Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Mascari Mr. Howard L. Reynolds Dr. and Mrs. Tony L. Williams Dr. Shannon L. Smith-Maxey Dr. Mary E. and Mr. W. Nicholas Reynolds Mrs. Tracy A. Miller Williams Mr. and Mrs. William A. McCallister Mr. Donald E. Rice Dr. William H. Wilson Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. McCaskey River Cities Anesthesia, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Brian K. Wilt Mr. George A. McClain Mrs. Ruia M. Wagner Roberts Ms. Karen L. Winter Ms. Suzanne M. McClelland Mr. and Mrs. Darden R. Rodden Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Wolfe Ms. Carrier McComas Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Rogers Mrs. Carol J. Wolff Mrs. Kimberly S. McKinley Dr. and Mrs. Tully S. Roisman Woman’s Club Of Huntington Mrs. Beverly C. Martin McKinney Mr. and Mrs. Jeffrey L. Roquemore Mr. and Mrs. Gregory A. Worley Mr. Joe McNeal Mr. and Mrs. Allan S. Ross Mr. and Mrs. David E. Wucher McVay Realty Mr. and Mrs. Marc E. Rutherford Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Yost, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Allen M. Meador Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Schorr Ms. Iris J. Young Ms. Joleen A. Mello Dr. Mitsuko P. and Mr. William K. Shannon Mr. and Mrs. Young Dr. Steven Mewaldt and Mrs. Cheryl Connelly Mr. and Mrs. P. Michael Shaver, Sr. Mrs. Helen P. Farris Young Meyer, Ford and Glasser Ms. Doris C. Sims Dr. and Mrs. Philip N. Zambos Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Meyers Mr. and Mrs. Allen C. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Eddie A. Zimmerman Mrs. Tomasina Soto Michel Dr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Loyde M. Middleton Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Smith The College of Fine Arts greatly appreciates Mr. and Mrs. Joel S. Milam Dr. Harlan M. and Dr. Elizabeth R. Smith the support of all contributors. If we have Dr. and Mrs. Ben F. Miller Dr. G. William and Dr. Margaret A. Lavery inadvertently left your name off of our donor Mr. and Mrs. Matt Miller Ms. Pamela Smith list, we apologize and ask that you contact the Mr. and Mrs. Cantrell L. Miller, III Dr. and Mrs. Ronald G. Smith director of development. Your records will be Mr. and Mrs. John G. Miller Mr. and Mrs. Alvin G. Sowards updated by the Marshall University Foundation, Rev. Donald H. Moeser Ms. Janet Sowder Inc. immediately. Mr. and Mrs. Jackie L. Molter Ms. Carol S. Spence Dr. and Mrs. James H. Morgan, III Miss Winoma M. Spurgeon Mrs. Adelle C. Morrison Mr. and Mrs. Larry E. Spurlock Mr. and Mrs. Alan S. Morrison Ms. Joan St. Germain Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Morrison, Jr. St. Mary’s Medical Center Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Murray Dr. and Mrs. Bartlett A. Stone Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Muth Dr. Mark A. Studeny

FALL 2009 | 9 Department of Art and Design New Developments goes “Downtown”

Through the generosity of Dingess Rum Department of Music Properties, Inc. and Liza Caldwell, the Department of Art and Design is extending its awarded $250,000 grant exhibition space to include a storefront gallery at 842 Fourth Avenue in Huntington. The new Marshall University’s College of Fine Arts and Center for International Programs are space offers students, faculty, and community participating in a new program designed to develop and implement a model international artists an opportunity to exhibit and offer for undergraduate program in music. sale their original work. The gallery will operate as an artists’ cooperative promoting the artistic The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) in the U.S. Department relationship between our community and of Education has awarded $250,000 to Marshall University for the Department’s Music’s new the college. program: Music Abroad Generating New Experiences for Talented Students (MAGNETS). Ninety percent of the $277,587 project will be funded by FIPSE, with the remaining “The opening of the Marshall University’s 10 percent funded by the Music Department and the Center for International Programs. Gallery 842 expands our students’ experience. Part of the process of becoming a professional “We are indebted to Dr. Ben Miller, the principal investigator, and Mr. Julio Alves for their artist is to learn about pricing, marketing, work on this project and to Dr. Clark Egnor for bringing it to our attention and his support in and selling their creations. They can get that the grant-writing process,” said Dr. Jeffrey Pappas, chair of Marshall’s Department of Music. experience at Gallery 842,” stated John Farley, “FIPSE grants are highly competitive and we should be proud that our department has director, Birke Art Gallery. been chosen to receive one. It is another testament to the work our faculty does on a daily basis and the strong reputation they have established for this department. All of us are Marshall University’s Gallery 842 winners, and our students will once again prosper and have a unique opportunity, thanks opened November 1, 2009. It is located at to this program.” 842 Fourth Avenue in downtown Huntington. Marshall Provost Dr. Gayle Ormiston said receiving the FIPSE grant is quite an accomplishment for the university. Give and Take: The Patron’s

“We are extremely proud of our College of Fine Arts and its Department of Music for being Outstanding Theatre Student one of eleven institutions in the nation to be awarded this FIPSE grant,” Ormiston said. Scholarship Fund “These grants are highly competitive, and it is with great esteem that we announce our award. Of those eleven programs chosen, ours was the only arts initiative to be funded.” Patrons of Marshall Theatre Alliance enjoy great entertainment by our students. We believe that In the planning stage since July 15 of last year, the MAGNETS project includes watching our student thespians enhances the Morehead State University in and Goias Federal University and Santa Catarina lives of our patrons and our community. In each State University in Brazil. playbill, patrons can find the means to invest in assuring that these experiences continue. The The objective of this project is to develop and implement a model international program Patron’s Outstanding Theatre Student Award was in music, utilizing an integrated curriculum that will contribute to educational excellence created to instill not only a sense of excellence in and innovation in the field and better prepare students for the competence level required our students, but also to reward commitment to by the modern global job market. The program of study will utilize the strengths of each their community and fellow students. partner university. The award is given to an undergraduate During the implementation phase of the project, 18 students from the U.S. will study in theatre major in good academic standing Brazil for one semester or one academic year at one of the two Brazilian universities. During who demonstrates leadership skills, the same period, 18 students from Brazil will spend one semester or one academic year community service and commitment to in the U.S. at either Marshall or Morehead State. Six faculty members from each of the the Theatre Department. U.S. institutions will participate in the project by carrying out lecturing and performance assignments at the partner institutions. In return, the recipients inspire their fellow students to take on roles of leadership not only In addition to the knowledge and skills in music, during their study abroad experience, in roles of leadership not only in the Theatre students will deepen their knowledge and understanding of international, political and Department, but also in Marshall University and economic issues. They will gain transnational competencies, cross-cultural communication the greater Huntington community. skills, understanding and familiarity with local customs and traditions, and an ability to adapt to new circumstances and deal constructively with difference. The Patron’s Outstanding Theatre Student Award is funded directly through generous contributions made by season patrons of Marshall Theatre Alliance. For information education (continued on page 11) 10 | FALL 2009 COFA Pledge/Giving Formgiving

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Developments (continued from page 10) In remarks delivered at the dedication, alumni in attendance was Al Sowards. Al is a about contributing to this scholarship fund, Donald Van Horn, dean of the College of regular participant in the Alumni Band. After or to other scholarships in the College of Fine Arts, commented, “For years the completing his degree in music education Fine Arts, contact Melanie Griffis, director of Marching Thunder has performed first class from Marshall, he spent several years as a development at [email protected] or shows, and now we have first class facilities to band director before moving into school 304-696-3686. support the band. This is truly a green letter administration. When he was at Marshall, day for the band program, the Department the band was 60 members strong. Today’s Home Sweet Home: of Music and College of Fine Arts, and for band has nearly 300 members. Al gets his Marshall University.” trumpet out each year a few months before Marching Thunder Band homecoming and starts to warm up for the Complex Dedicated at MU President Stephen Kopp stated, “You game. Last year was a challenge because are the sound of Marshall University. . . It Homecoming 2009 he had to get dentures (he finally lost the fills me with pride in our accomplishment front four teeth he was told needed to be when I stand alongside the parents of band The members of the Marching Thunder pulled when he was an undergrad, but didn’t members watching practice on the Multi- because he had a recital to prepare). So he officially dedicated their new home Purpose Field. They have told me what a at a ceremony on October 2 attended had to learn how to play without breaking difference this field and facility make to the seal on his dentures! by members of the Marching Thunder, their students and their participation in the parents, alumni band members, the greater marching band at Marshall. community and donors who made the The new facilities offer current, past, and complex possible. The rehearsal hall, located Also in attendance at the dedication were future Marching Thunder members a home in the Henderson Center, was completely MU band alumni attending Homecoming for rehearsal, and a place to gather for funded through private support. It is and the Band Reunion. Each year former celebration of the special relationship with complemented by a turf practice field and Marching Thunder members gather to relive each other and to the University that only building for storage of band equipment – all the experience and to play in the pre-game band members can truly share. within close proximity to the football stadium. show for homecoming. Among the 27

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Giving Voice: Social Justice and the Arts

lectures, exhibitions and conferences for the Events are to include: university and the community it serves. • Social Justice: Art in a Time of Change, a juried university student visual arts competition This spring, we proudly present Giving Voice: and exhibit in the Birke Art Gallery Social Justice and the Arts, the 2010 Marshall (Department of Art and Design) University Birke Fine Arts Symposium. A • “Veterans Tell Their Stories”, a series of committee of faculty and students, led by workshops by authors James Mathews and Dr. Vicki Stroeher, an associate professor of Richard Currey (Department of English) music, has formulated a stimulating series of • Series of performances and hosting the SCI events contributing to the broad theme of Student National Conference (Department social justice. of Music) • Workshop with Michael Rohd, an As a both a reflection and critique of societal accomplished performer/creator and artistic values, the arts have long been at the forefront director at the Sojourn Theatre in Portland, of the issues of social justice: fairness, freedom OR. (Department of Theatre) Reflecting deep personal interests in cultural and equality and educational activities in the Tri-State In addition, a student committee has been area, and recognizing the leadership role The 2010 Marshall University Birke Fine Arts formed and they are currently working on of Marshall University, Mrs. Helen Birke and Symposium examines the role of the arts in planning a university-wide service project. her daughter Julie established, in 1979, an revealing social injustice. Featured events All events will take place during the spring endowed fund in the Marshall University include lectures and performances that explore semester. Foundation creating the Birke Fine Arts the connection between social justice and the Symposium. arts in history, exhibits and performances of For more details on any of these events, new works that address contemporary issues, please contact Jaye Ike, special projects From its earliest beginnings, the Birke Fine Arts and workshops and service projects that put coordinator for COFA, (304) 696-3296 Symposium has offered public performances, social justice into action. or [email protected].