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A PUBLICATION OF THE IPFW COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS SPRING 2008 Wherefore Art Thou, Shakespeare?

eave it to Cole Porter to coin a lyric that Shakespeare titled Brush Up Shakespeare’s Lwould connect everyone who ever attended a Your Shakespeare. Everyday Idioms high school English class: “Brush Up Your The 50-minute theatrical ■ See back Shakespeare.” Being introduced to Shakespeare in presentation is perfect for cover high school is one of the threads most of us have audiences of approximately in common. And now, the IPFW 120 high school students. The troupe will perform Department of Theatre wants on stages, in cafeterias, and in libraries. According to enhance to John O’Connell, chair of the Department of that experience for Theatre and the director of Brush Up Your hundreds of high school Shakespeare, the department has 17 different tour students throughout dates available and there is still opportunity for northeast Indiana. schools to sign up.

Starting in February, four Written by Tina Fitch, Brush Up Your Shakespeare IPFW theatre majors will be is filled with scenes from Romeo and Juliet, A touring high schools, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, and Macbeth presenting a wild and is interspersed with historical (or hysterical) romp through the dialogue that reminds the audience that land of Shakespeare was a regular guy who wrote for the masses. During the 1600s, not even bear-baiting and public executions were more popular than Shakespeare. For only a penny, the average Elizabethan “Joe” could pay to stand in the Globe ▲ Brush Up Your Theatre and enjoy all of the blood, gore, bawdiness, Shakespeare and history that The Bard could dish out. players are (back row, (left to right) “We want to fill every available tour date throughout Josh Loe and Aaron Mann the spring, but to do that we need to hear from the and (front row, different high schools.” O’Connell said. “We want (left to right) Stephanie principals, English teachers, and drama clubs to call Vanderwall us for a free booking while there’s availability.” and Breona Conrad. In Brush Up Your Shakespeare, O’Connell uses rap

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incandescent. I think that it was his classes that made it Fred Fenster: clear to me that metalsmithing was the route I, too, Prolific and would take. Fenster was prolific and always busy, creating silver Incandescent hollowware objects and many hollow form pieces in pewter that will be featured in the upcoming exhibition By Robert F. Schroeder Exhibition Curator of Fenster’s work at the IPFW Visual Arts Gallery Feb. Student. Teacher. Artist. Mentor. One person can and 4–29, 2008. has fulfilled these roles for others as relationships grow, change, and evolve. Fenster’s attraction to pewter began in the late 1950s when he was a graduate student at the Cranbrook ▲ Fred Fenster is such a person. I Fred Fenster | Teapot, 1998 | pewter, 10 x 10 x 4 inches IPFW Exhibition Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. He observed first met Fenster during fall 1974 and Workshop other students working the metal in a way that reminded any other copper alloy. Treating pewter like clay, Fenster Information while a college sophomore at worked fast and hard completing 24 works of the University of Wisconsin– him of the ceramic process. He decided to learn all he ■ See page hollowware and more than 40 jewelry pieces for his could about this malleable metal for his thesis, which was 10 Madison. As an artist and thesis exhibition in only two years. teacher, Fenster was more spontaneous and forgiving than silver, copper, or continued on back/Fenster Contents Revelations Through the Lens Elizabeth Opalenik is a photographic artist Elizabeth who believes that all good photographs are self- Community Arts Academy Opalenik: enriching youth, p2 portraits that lie somewhere between imagination and dreams. Poetic Grace Fine Art Photographer, Educator and Lecturer Opalenik uses photography to facilitate the healing New faculty join VPA, p3 process for women with cancer and artists dealing April 14–16: Opalenik will visit IPFW on April 14–16, with life issues. She uses the creative process as a prior to her upcoming gallery ▲ Elizabeth Opalenik’s “Angel's Trumpet,” 1998 Students create life-size sculptures, p5 tool for revealing inner thoughts, discovering new opening at David Weinberg Gallery in Chicago which Polaroid sx 70 direction, and finding the beauty and strength within opens on April 18. She will manipulation, archival each participant. be conducting a photography pigment print Our students and alumni excel, p8 workshop with IPFW photography When a woman is battling cancer, struggling with majors and will present a public lecture on her work on April 15. Copies of her recently self-published chemotherapy and radiation, one of the first things monograph of images entitled Poetic Grace, Elizabeth Dozens of exciting events slated to take a huge blow is her self-image. If only Opalenik Photographs 1979-2007 will be available for for spring, p10 women could take a picture of the people they are purchase. inside as they’re working through their struggles: a Elizabeth Opalenik Lecture, April 15, 6 p.m. picture of themselves as the fighter, the spiritualist, Science Building, Room 168 Interim Dean reflects on the last the survivor. 21 years, p11 foundation’s healing program is two-fold, composed As a coach and leader with the F. Holland Day of spirituality and creativity. Artistic activities provide Foundation for Creativity and Healing, Opalenik is a participants with an understanding of their capacity photographer who helps women do just that. And as to invent and to manifest possibilities for change and a photographic educator in her popular class titled acceptance on paper, in verse, in song, through a Imaginations and Dreams, she helps artists to move lens, or by other means. ahead creatively. From her earliest days doing advertising and The F. Holland Day Foundation holds regular retreats for people dealing with cancer at its editorial assignments, Opalenik was known for the beautiful lodge on the coast of Maine. The sense of poetic grace and movement that she brought to her images. Today, her voice is primarily that of a fine art photographer, educator, VPA Visions is a publication of the College of and lecturer. Visual and Performing Arts at Indiana A denizen of the darkroom, she creates many one- University–Purdue University Fort Wayne. of-a-kind images in the Mordançage process—hand painting, toning, and working with Polaroid and As northeast Indiana’s premier center for arts other transfer processes. Today, she also uses education, the college offers programs in fine arts, technology, working digitally when appropriate, and music, theatre and dance, and visual communication using Photoshop for its creative possibilities. Opalenik recently had the thrilling, somewhat and design. More than 600 arts majors and minors daunting, and quite rewarding experience of self- study at IPFW, and numerous outreach activities are publishing a collection of images in a monograph available to the community. VPA features more than titled Poetic Grace, Elizabeth Opalenik 100 annual performances and exhibitions that are Photographs 1979–2007. The 12-inch by 13-inch open to the public. Visit our Web site at book is filled with 90, four-color images that span ▲ Elizabeth Opalenik | Three Pears, 2002 www.ipfw.edu/vpa. Polaroid sx 70 manipulation, archival pigment print her 28-year career as a photographer.

Community Arts Academy Continues Its Almost 20 Years of Youth Enrichment

The Community Arts Academy (CAA) is an outreach learn about our exciting summer camps, call program of the College of Visual and Performing Hunter at 260-481-6059. Arts, offering classes in art, music, theatre, and dance for children Pre-K through 12th grade since CAA Student Successes in 2007 1989. In the beginning, the classes focused on Michael Hesse, a seventh grader at Holy Cross music and private music instruction, but over time, Lutheran School and a piano student of Dorothy parents began to request more of the classes that Hendricksen, received a “1” rating at the Lutheran their children were not being offered in school. Arts audition for Concordia High School and “Our classes are filled with enthusiastic young received gold at last spring’s Indiana State School artists who want to learn about art, music, and Music Association auditions. theatre, and they keep coming back for more,” Leechen Zhu, student of piano instructor Christine said Maggie Hunter, director of CAA. “We try to Freeman, won the district competition in the Early offer a large variety of artistic experiences— everything from weaving, to ceramics, to theatre, to Elementary division of the Hoosier Auditions (Indiana Irish step dance.” Music Teachers Association) in spring 2007. ▲ Breona Conrad teaches Irish step dance to Community Arts Registration for spring semester started on January Natalie Farison, a piano student of Joyanne Academy students on Saturdays. 7 and will continue until classes are filled. For a Outland, received early acceptance as a piano complete listing of our affordable spring classes, performance major at The Cincinnati Conservatory The IPFW CAA Community Flute Choir, directed by visit our Web site at www.ipfw.edu/vpa/caa. To of Music. Another of her students, Evan Keenan, Ann Donner, gave holiday concerts in 2006 at register for classes, receive regular mailings won the district competition in Senior Level division Village Oaks Nursing Home and at Forest Park regarding classes offered each semester, and to of the Hoosier Auditions. United Methodist Church. 2 3 exposition is offered, followed by a situation, “When Oedipus discovers that his idea of self is and finally a resolution of that situation in the absolutely wrong, he banishes himself, and in third act. many ways, Nora makes the same tragic decision when her idea of self is similarly When Ibsen turned the tables on the audience challenged,” Casazza explains. “Both Nora and with a more contemporary play structure, many her husband, Torvald, are living in a fantasy were left completely rattled. Ibsen was world of what they believe marriage should be christened “The Father of Realism” when he like. At the start of the play, with the New Year became notable for exchanging the last act’s approaching, Nora and Torvald are on the unraveling for a discussion. And often, it is a precipice of having the best year of their discussion with no firm conclusion or solid married life by society’s standards.” understanding of what happens to those characters after the play. “Each of the five main characters in the play makes an incredible journey from beginning to In A Doll’s House, Nora, a trophy wife, appears end,” Casazza said. “With Torvald’s inability to to live a happy, almost child-like existence with support Nora at the most critical moment in her husband, Torvald, and their three children, their marriage, her world changes forever. And, until an ill-conceived business deal returns to so does his. By the end of the play, the new start As it turns out, Nora Helmer, the tragic heroine haunt her. It involves a complex plot with forged that the New Year represents for them has changed dramatically.” of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, becomes an signatures, illegal financial matters, and blackmail, with all three of those calling into “individualist” in the third act of the play. In the Is it any wonder, with contemporary themes that question the role of women in society and their eyes of director Jeff Casazza, there are so many still ring true after 128 years, Ibsen is the most place outside of the home. more levels to Nora than just labeling her a frequently performed dramatist in the world feminist. “Social mores of the time would not When the IPFW Department of Theatre after Shakespeare. allow women to be individuals, and Ibsen held presents A Doll’s House in February, Casazza, a mirror up to this society,” Casazza said. who is making his IPFW directorial debut, is Williams Theatre When A Doll’s House opened in Copenhagen in looking forward to finding out what it is to be 1879, the play provoked strong reactions, an “individualist.” He anticipates the journey February 22, 23, 28, 29 and March 1 at 8 p.m. and character development waiting to be March 2 at 2 p.m. including producers who demanded that Ibsen American Sign Language-interpreted performance: March 2 change the ending. Audiences either really discovered for all of the characters in the play. Admission for IPFW students with university ID is free and all other loved it or really hated it. They came expecting Having read the script dozens of times, he tickets are $14 and under. The Theatre Box Office opens on February the traditional well-made play of the time with equates the character of Nora to other tragic 18. Make reservations by calling 260-481-6555 or our TTD at 260- villains, foils, and romantic leads; where an figures like Oedipus. 481-4105. For more information, visit our Web site at www.ipfw.edu/vpa/theatre.

compositions, of which 12 have been published by University, and a B.F.A. and an A.S. in Commercial New Faculty and Staff Larry Daehn Music and C-Alan Publications. Art Technology from IPFW.

As a trumpet performer, he performed with the Most recently, Skinner served as professor in the The Department of 113th Army Band, the Edgewood Symphony Department of Visual Arts at Bemidji State Theatre is pleased to Orchestra, the Cheyenne Symphony, the Night University in Bemidji, Minn., where she taught welcome Assistant Flight, and Jim Colonna Big Band, as well as at graphic design, typography, and illustration classes, Professor Jeff Casazza to numerous community events. as well as printmaking and life drawing. its faculty. Casazza is a director, actor, and The Department of Theatre Skinner is an award-winning graphic artist who playwright who studied welcomes Professor John creates mixed-media, limited-edition prints and with Jose Quintero while completing his graduate O’Connell to the helm as illustrations. Her works have been included in more work at Florida State University. Prior to attending chair of the department. than 125 exhibitions and in six different countries. Florida State, he worked and directed at the He received an M.F.A. in Her work has been exhibited in The National Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. directing from the Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.; University of Alabama in United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women His graduate internship took him to London where 1998 after 12 years of directing, producing, and in Beijing, China; Studio la Città in Verona, Italy; he worked with Jonathan Miller on his West End production stage-managing in New York City. Most Artemisia Gallery, Chicago Printmakers production and European tour of the A Midsummer recently, O’Connell served as associate professor of Collaborative, and Anchor Graphics in Chicago; and Night’s Dream. Upon earning an M.F.A. in directing, theatre at Arkansas State University where he the Minnesota State Arts Board, Center for Book he worked for two summers directing The Tempest supervised the B.F.A. emphasis in directing. He Arts, and the Minneapolis Art Institute. and Macbeth at The Waterside Theatre in North pursues an active professional directing career Skinner is a member of American Print Alliance, Carolina while working as an assistant stage while maintaining a busy academic schedule. Southern Graphics Print Council, Northern manager for The Lost Colony. Printmakers Alliance, and the Mid America Print His areas of interest in teaching include directing, Council. She is a former associate editor/designer Casazza has worked at the Indiana Repertory acting Shakespeare, stage management, and of the MAPC Journal. Theatre in and has directed for the theatre management. Recent professional directing Phoenix Theatre, Bridgework Theatre, The Edyvean credits include Dial ‘M’ for Murder at the American Brazilian pianist and Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis Civic, and at Stage in Florida, The King and I at Theatre Assistant Professor numerous universities. In 2003, the Arts Council of Memphis, and The Mousetrap for Playhouse on the Hamilton Tescarollo is a Indianapolis awarded him a Creative Renewal Arts Square in Memphis. O’Connell has spent several welcome addition to the Fellowship, which allowed him to spend two summers at the Oklahoma Shakespearean Festival Department of Music as summers training with Anne Bogart and the SITI where he directed Sweeney Todd, King Lear, and director of keyboard Company. More recently, he was a visiting member Always Patsy Cline, among many others. studies. He made his of the performance faculty at Purdue University, orchestral debut with the where he received certificates of merit in directing While living and teaching in Arkansas, O’Connell São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra as a winner of for his productions of As Bees in Honey Drown and was active in Memphis, Tenn., where his production this prestigious ensemble’s Young Soloists National Metamorphoses. of Over the River and Through the Woods garnered Competition. Since then, he has performed both as six Ostrander Award nominations, winning two. His a soloist and as a chamber musician in the United The Department of Music welcomes Visiting production of You Can’t Take It With You also States, Canada, Europe, and South America. Assistant Professor and Director of Instrumental garnered several nominations, again winning two. Tescarollo, who previously taught at Arizona State Studies James Colonna. Colonna received a Some recent productions directed at ASU include Doctorate of Musical Arts from Michigan State University, is also an active lecturer and adjudicator, Twelfth Night, The Elephant Man, Waiting for Godot, University in 2007. Prior to serving as the director and has been a member of the Arizona Young Artist and The Laramie Project. of bands at Laramie County Community College, he Committee and coordinator for the Bösendorfer & Schimmel USASU International Piano Competitions. was a conducting graduate assistant at the The Department of Visual Communication and University of North Texas where he earned a Master Design is pleased to of Music in wind conducting. Tescarollo received an undergraduate piano welcome Visiting Professor performance degree from Santa Marcelina College During the last 10 years, Colonna has been a Jauneth Skinner to her in Brazil, a master’s and D.M.A. from Arizona State frequent guest conductor throughout the United duties as interim University, and a performance diploma from Escola States where he has premiered many of his own department chair. She Municipal de Música de São Paulo. His teachers compositions. In 1996, he began his career as a earned an M.F.A. from include pianists Gilberto Tinetti, Caio Pagano, Robert composer and has composed more than 16 original Bowling Green State Hamilton, Sandra Abrão, and Paulo Bergamo. The Art of Ireland and England

The IPFW Department of Fine Arts will host its sure be one of our most memorable IPFW seventh Fine Arts Trip Abroad from June 10–23, Department of Fine Arts study abroad trips. 2008. The Art of Ireland and England will include The trip will be organized and conducted by EF stays in Shannon, Dublin, Bath, and London. Stops Tours based in Lucerne, Switzerland, with a U.S. along the way will include the Cliffs of Moher, the headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. EF Tours is a Iveragh Peninsula, Blarney Castle, the medieval long-standing leader in the field of education-based village of Kilkenny, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and study abroad trips. The cost of the trip, which Trinity College in Dublin. includes round-trip airfare from Chicago, hotel Included in the trip are visits to Snowdonia National accommodations, land and sea transportation, two Park in Wales, Stonehenge, and Salisbury Cathedral meals a day, entry tickets to 10 events, and a tour director, starts at $3,200. in England, and four nights in London with a subway pass. Visits to Windsor Castle, the British IPFW students can add an advanced art history class Museum, and Buckingham Palace will also be to the trip for credit. All payments are due on March ▲ Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain west of Amesbury, Wiltshire, planned. Add to this the exciting music, scenery, 1. For full details, contact Dana Goodman at 260- in Southern England and charm of two great island cultures, and this is 481-6706 or e-mail [email protected].

Faculty Successes

Fine Arts Chair and Associate Professor Dana Goodman’s Severs, and Jennifer Robinson, along with sculpture, “The Rambouilett That Discovered limited-term lecturer Steve Walley, presented an Assistant Professor Christopher Ganz displayed Tomatoes,” was featured in the Midwest Museum of introduction to orchestral instruments, classical his large-scale charcoal drawings shown at The American Art’s 29th Regional Art Exhibition in music, and composers for 150 children at the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center in Elkhart, Ind., in October 2007, receiving the William Eckhart Public Library in June 2007. Covington, Ky., in March 2007. These drawings Batten Award of Merit. The same work was presented were part of The Carnegie’s March Mixed- at the Sculpture Center’s On A Pedestal and Off The Associate Professor Barbara Resch presented a Wall exhibition in Cleveland, Ohio, in March 2007. Media exhibition. paper, “Songs from Childhood: What Makes Them His work, “Isn’t That Crazy?,” was part of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts’ (NCECA) Memorable?,” at the International Kodály conference exhibition, Ohio University Ceramics: Symposium at Capitol University in August 2007. 1990 Until Now, at the Riverbend Winery in Louisville, Ky., in March 2007. Associate Professor and Indiana Music Educators Association (IMEA) president-elect Barbara Resch Professor Audrey Ushenko captured history on and IMEA president Lissa May met with the staffs of canvas at the Indiana State Museum in late March and U.S. Senators Richard Lugar and Evan Bayh and U.S. early April 2007. The painting is a narrative that Representatives Mark Souder and Baron Hill at their included historical figures, building features, and Washington, D.C., offices in February 2007. Among visitors to the museum during the time she was the topics presented was the National Association for painting the mural. Ushenko is currently working on Music Education’s National Anthem Project. As a a mural of IPFW Wednesday afternoons in Kettler Hall result of this visit, Bayh introduced Senate in front of the administrative offices. Students and the Resolution No. 236 to support the National Anthem campus community are invited to stop by to observe and participate her work. and the work of music teachers. ▲ Chris Ganz (seated center) works with area teachers during a printmaking workshop. Professor Emeriti Norman Bradley, George Assistant Professor Nancy Jackson taught McCullough, Russell L. Oettel, and Donald Continuing Music Therapy Education (CMTE) Assistant Professor Christopher Ganz introduced Kruse joined Rick Cartwright and Maurice Papier of sessions at the annual conference of the Great Lakes the University of Saint Francis for an exhibition at the Region of the American Music Therapy Association color woodcut printmaking to area art teachers and titled “Fort Wayne Six.” (AMTA) in Cleveland, at the Ohio Association for a student during an art teacher workshop on The exhibition focused on how these six impacted the Music Therapy annual conference in Cincinnati, and June 13, 2007, at IPFW. During morning and Fort Wayne community during a 45-year period, with at the AMTA annual conference in Louisville, Ky. She afternoon sessions, they created a color woodcut that a combined 206 years of teaching. was also chosen to present clinical sessions at all involved multiple layers of colors on the same print. three conferences.

Associate Professor Nancy McCroskey has been Continuing lecturer Melissa Reinhardt presented awarded an Indiana Arts Commission Individual the benefits of music therapy to a class of nursing Artist Program grant for creative work in the large- students at Indiana University–Kokomo. She also tile format. Her work titled “Botanica,” was selected conducted a presentation titled “Sing, Sing a Song: for inclusion in 500 Tiles by Lark Books. Incorporating the Use of Music in the Home for Children with Special Needs” to the Center for Professor John Neurobehavioral Services (CNS) family support Hrehov represented group in Fort Wayne. IPFW’s art department Assistant Professor Robert Saunders performed with the inclusion of with the Viola da Gamba Dojo of New York in his painting, “Friend,” ▲ Department of Music continuing lecturers and faculty November 2007. The ensemble is led by John Mark perform at the Eckhart Public Library in Dekalb County. at the Indiana Rozendaal. Saunders sang arias by Bach and the University Museum of Music bass solos in a cantata by Thomas Tomkins. Art in October 2007. Saunders also presented a paper at the Hawaii The exhibition was The Department of Music participated in the DeKalb International Conference on Arts and Humanities part of Celebrate IU Week and featured the arts within County Public Library’s Summer Reading Club titled “A Rhetorical Approach to the Performance of the entire Indiana University system. program. Continuing lecturers David Cooke, Alan Handel’s Bass Arias” in January. 4 5 Assistant Professor and new Director Limited-term lecturer Todd of Keyboard Studies Hamilton Earney, in conjunction with Tescarollo presented at the World Quebecor World Midland, Piano Pedagogy Conference in Las received a gold award at the Vegas in November 2007. He also International Association of gave a lecture on piano technique for Printing House Craftsmen (IAPHC) the Phoenix Music Teachers International Gallery 2007 Association. In addition, he competition in September. His entry performed a program of Brazilian was the publication Warbird Digest, music with commentary for the Issue 15, July/August 2007. Northeast Indiana Music Teachers Associate faculty Allen Etter spent Association (NIMTA). the summer with director Ted Tiefel ▲ Students in Auburn, Ind., survey their classroom project, producing the film Darkness Aftermath. Aftermath which was a reflection of the city’s Sculpture on the Square Associate faculty Marcy Trentacosti is pursuing a is an independent film based on a script by Etter and exhibition. master’s degree in violin performance at Bowling is a joint student film between IPFW and ITT Green State University during the 2007–08 Technical Institute. A trailer of the film is currently academic year. Arts Scholars running on College Access Television. Make Connection Continuing lecturer James Gabbard had three Theatre pieces of work shown in The Wassenberg Center’s in the Classroom Associate Professor Craig A. Humphrey was 30th Annual Photography Exhibit. Gabbard received best of show in the black and white awarded a certificate of merit for costume design for IPFW Arts Connection Scholars have one mission category for “Those Eyes” and also won first place in The Comedy of Errors from the Kennedy and that is helping K–12 teachers in the classroom. special effects for “Elegant.” The exhibition was in Center/American College Theatre Festival in April spring 2007 in Van Wert, Ohio. He also had his Thanks to a special grant to the College of Visual 2007. Assistant Professor Thomas John Bernard piece “Angles” accepted for the Honeywell Center’s and Performing Arts, teachers from the 11-county was awarded a certificate of merit for costume annual photography exhibit in Wabash, Ind. IPFW service area can submit an application technology/costume shop supervisor in the requesting that an arts scholar be chosen to help production of The Comedy of Errors. Assistant Professor Rob Lopez completed an artist- them with any number of art-related projects. Class in-residency program as part of the Honeywell projects can either be discipline-specific or Assistant Professor Thomas John Bernard was the Center’s educational outreach program. He gave interdisciplinary, linking social studies, math, first hand for Candida at the Tony Award-winning interactive demonstrations and presentations about literature, foreign language, language arts, science, Utah Shakespearean Festival. Bernard was also first design and computer art for Manchester Junior High technology, and the arts. hand for the national tour of Gypsy. School, Wabash High School, Oak Hill Junior High School, the Heartland Career Center, and Northfield Almost any type of project a teacher can imagine High School. involving the arts is a good candidate for the Assistant Professor Jeff Casazza performed the role program. Possible class projects can include set, of Mike in The Love Poetry of Karl Marx by William Interim Chair and Visiting costume, and make-up design for theatrical Gebby at the Indiana Theatre Association’s 2007 productions; vocal coaching for the school musical; Indiana Theatre Works Conference in September. Professor Jauneth Skinner was selected to history taught through period music, art, or dance; During the weekend, scripts selected by professional Who’s Who in America and art creations such as murals or sculptures, to readers were rehearsed in a workshop setting, 2008. She had three name only a few. Arts Scholars have helped with giving the playwrights and other theater artists an heliogravure prints on numerous Future City projects and most recently opportunity to develop new works and share in the exhibition in the Lessedra with the Auburn Arts Council’s exhibition Sculpture creative process. The plays were performed for the Fifth International Print on the Square. public at the end of the conference. Exhibition in Sofia, Bulgaria. Her digital Sculpture on the Square, which was on display in World-renowned stage voice instructor Kristin heliogravure titled “In the Auburn during summer 2007, celebrated the Linklater was at Butler University, October 5 and 6 Poet’s Garden” was works of American sculptor J. Seward Johnson. as part of the Jordan College of Fine Arts Leadership published in the color exhibition catalogue The exhibition featured more than 20 bronze, life- through the Arts Forum. Assistant Professor Jeff accompanying the exhibition. size sculptures that were placed throughout the Casazza attended her lecture and was an invited city, making Auburn an outdoor sculpture participant in her master class. Limited-term lecturer Jim Williams had his mixed- museum. The Auburn Arts Council, which media drawing “My Favorite Sock” on display in the organized the event, wanted to include educational Assistant Professor of Scenic and Lighting Design Self-Portrait Exhibition at Artlink in Fort Wayne. programs with the exhibition. Mark Ridgeway designed scenery for Tibbits Opera One of the educational programs was prepared by House during summer 2007. The productions VPA IPFW Arts Connection Scholars and art education included Can-Can, Picnic, Sweet Charity, and majors Abby Murray and Jennifer Clements. These Little Shop of Horrors. Ridgeway served as scenic The Entrepreneurship in the Arts program offered two students developed a series of lesson plans artist on each production and during fall 2007, through the IPFW Division of Continuing Studies was called “Sculpting a Celebration of Everyday Life” Ridgeway also served as guest scenic designer for awarded “Course of the Year for 2006” by the and presented it to fourth grade students at several Huntington University’s production of Little Women. Indiana Council on Continuing Education. schools in Auburn. Murray and Clements’ lesson Individuals instrumental in creating this unique plans introduced students to J. Seward Johnson’s Assistant Professor Shari Troy was awarded a course, which helps artists turn their passion into works and encouraged them to brainstorm and research grant from the Purdue Research profit, include (l–r) Mike Kelly, Benjamin C. decide on a pose for their classroom sculpture Foundation for summer 2007. She is currently Christy, Deb Conklin, Karen Van Gorder, and project. contributing to a book project. Ken McCrory. As the classes progressed, the children’s bodies were evaluated for average measurements. Parts of Visual Communication the sculpture such as arms, legs, torso, and head and Design were assigned to individual groups, and framing the sculpture with wire began. By the last class, the Assistant Professor Benita Brewer received a children had a finished sculpture and details such research grant from the Purdue Research as hairpins, watches, and drawing eyes were added. Foundation for summer 2007. Assistant Professors The finished sculptures were placed throughout Robert Lopez and Richard Nelipovich were schools in Auburn in connection with the Sculpture IPFW Summer Grant recipients in 2007. on the Square exhibition.

Assistant Professor Benita Brewer had a solo If you or a teacher you know would like to submit an application to have exhibition titled Time: Body, Soul, and Spirit in the an IPFW Arts Connection Scholar assigned to their classroom, visit our Visual Arts Gallery from Sept. 24–Oct. 19, 2007. Web site at www.ipfw.edu/vpa/opportunities/cooperative.shtml or call Maggie Hunter, assistant to the dean, at 260-481-6059. 7 Premiere Season. Premiere Experience. The acoustically superb John and Ruth Rhinehart is visually exciting with glass-prismed piano studios concert between architect and acoustician to reflector panels in the performance halls balance Music Center, designed by Fort Wayne-based and congregation rooms that create exquisite spaces enhance sound. Each space has been fine-tuned. sound to accommodate unamplified singing and SchenkelShultz, for learning and interaction. With its panoramic instrumentation, as well as amplified, spoken Teaching studios, rehearsal spaces, and practice features the 1,600-seat views of the IPFW arts plaza and the heart of word. An architectural score made of brick rooms are acoustically isolated. Floating floors and Auer Performance campus, the music center completes the arts staffs—with windows representing notes and glass ceilings, massive walls 16- to 18-inches thick, and Hall, the 250-seat courtyard along with the Ernest E. Williams Theatre prisms adding musical accents—surrounds the door seals ensure there will be no vibration, no Rhinehart Recital Hall, and the Visual Arts Building. exterior of the building. Inside and out, the bounced sound, and no echoes. Wood and canvas rehearsal halls, Rhinehart Music Center sings. ■ The Rhinehart Music Center is an acoustic studios, practice envelope. Each building element was designed in rooms, offices, and classrooms for the IPFW Department of Music and community arts partners. Designed to serve the university and the community, the building

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sponsored by Development to thank generous donors Please take an opportunity during spring semester to attend a • Twenty-four separate practice rooms for parlor of the Fort Wayne Women’s Club. The Michalak, owner and CEO of CATTS Inc.,has a commercial art campus-wide. Alumni Relations also sponsored a special Department of Music concert and enjoy this fantastic student musicians to rehearse. Six rooms Fort Wayne Women’s Club occupied the third degree from Indiana University and a B.F.A. from the Fort reception for music alumni in the Rudy and Rhonda performance center. For a complete listing of upcoming have brand new Yamaha P22 pianos from a floor of the Chamber of Commerce Building Wayne Art Institute, the earlier incarnation of what is now the Kachmann Student Commons and several of those alumni Department of Music concerts, see the event calendar on private donor and four of the rooms are on Ewing Street since 1928. A committee IPFW Department of Fine Arts. CATTS Inc. provides customers performed with the University Singers that evening. page 10 or visit our Web site at www.ipfw.edu/vpa/music. equipped with state-of the-art recording from the Women’s Club made a gift of the with high quality, user-friendly, and cost-effective orthopedic capabilities. chandelier to Ruth Rhinehart, for her radiology templates. The evening was charged with excitement as Ruth Rhinehart newly named recital hall, when they Luxuries •Spacious piano studios large enough to and her family had the opportunity to enjoy not only the knew they would be moving from their “The reason I wanted to provide these instruments to the accommodate matching grand pianos. practice rooms was because of the challenges I faced as a 1,600-seat performance hall, but also a special dedication of Built graceful surroundings. the 250-seat Rhinehart Recital Hall. After refreshments and student,” Michalak said. “It was always a contest to find •Alarge, sound-isolated percussion studio. conversation, APPLAUSE guests were ushered into the Right In They wanted one of their treasured enough practice rooms with pianos to adequately prepare for Rhinehart Recital Hall to listen to Ruth’s grandchildren a performance.” Whatmakes The John • Computer labs and classrooms that possessions to follow in the tradition of perform from the stage, on the Harriet Parrish Steinway. and Ruth Rhinehart accommodate not only current “entertaining with elegance.” Cleaned and rewired, the 80- Michalak, a coloratura soprano, studied voice with professor Robert Bean, chair of the Department of Music, also gave a Music Center stand out technology, but are designed to handle future year-old fixture is as lovely as ever, having found a new home emeritus of music Joseph Meyers and his wife, Violette. While piano performance. among other facilities? advancements. in the Rhinehart Recital Hall. studying under their direction, she participated in the Opera Architects While guests were enjoying the dedication, the general public Ensemble Workshop and had the lead roles in Giuseppe SchenkelShultz, having arrived and everyone took their seats in the Auer Performance History. Nostalgia. Elegance. Verdi’s three-act opera Rigoletto and Donizetti’s comic opera built a number of A Caravan of Pianos The Elixir of Love. ▲ Cutting The John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center ribbon Hall in anticipation of the opening concert, featuring the Fort performance spaces in are (l–r) Purdue President France A. Córdova, Julie Grand Pianos Arrives at Rhinehart Wayne Philharmonic conducted by Edvard Tchivzhel, guest the recent past, created an extensive list of amenities that The eight pianos are dedicated to Joseph and Violette Meyers "Rhinehart" Waterfield, Steve Rhinehart, Ruth Rhinehart, pianist Panayis Lyras, the IPFW University Singers, music alumni would serve the department well into the future. Robert Parrish is not only a generous man, but also a champion When students returned in January, they discovered that the and associate professor emeritus of music Masson Robertson. Phillip Rhinehart, and IPFW Chancellor Michael A. Wartell. singers, and soloist Amy Prickett, soprano. The Auer for his loving wife’s memory. Harriett loved music her entire life IPFW Department of Music was the proud recipient of eight Performance Hall was made possible by Ione B. Auer, who • Two new acoustically superb performance spaces, outfitted and after her passing, Robert wanted to work to keep his wife’s new Yamaha P22 pianos. Upon their arrival, the pianos were Opening Night Spectacular passed away last year and was not able to enjoy the awe- with the latest performance and recording technology. memory alive. As a tribute to Harriet, he has donated her moved into a variety of studios and practice rooms in The inspiring space she made possible with her gift to the university. beloved seven-foot Steinway grand piano to the IPFW John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center. With 1,500 guests in attendance, the Auer Performance Hall in • A dedicated music education classroom configured like a Department of Music. Known now as the Harriett Parrish The John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center was inaugurated “It was a fabulous evening as we celebrated such hard work typical elementary school music room and a resource room Steinway, the piano will have Rhinehart Recital Hall as its “The donation by Mary Michalak is yet another example of the on October 4. Following a ribbon-cutting with Chancellor and dedication from so many individuals,” Bean said. “I that houses specialized music education materials. permanent home. overwhelming generosity and support by our patrons and Michael Wartell, local and state dignitaries, the campus believe Ruth has been in attendance at the majority of our alumni,” said Robert Bean, chair of the Department of Music. community, and numerous donors, the festivities began. Department of Music concerts throughout the fall. Her • Instrumental and choral rehearsal rooms, each with Crystal Chandeliers “Mary studied voice with us as a fine arts student and has generous donation of this exquisite building is only enhanced adjacent storage for instruments and risers, along with a continued her love of music throughout her artistic career. We More than 100 friends of the university started the evening by by seeing her regularly in the performance spaces she so sheet music library conveniently located between, and The beautiful, crystal chandelier so admired in the auditorium are very lucky that she continues to have a great interest in ▲ (Seated) Mary Michalak, (back row, l–r) Hamilton Tescarollo, attending APPLAUSE, the annual appreciation reception loves. She is delightful in her support.” easily accessed by, each rehearsal room. of the Rhinehart Recital Hall previously hung in the main music and that she supports our students’ efforts.” Masson Robertson, and Robert Bean

6 lecture, “Sculpting Life-Like Figures” with Hai Kyung Jessica Butler, Student Successes Kim. The lecture was based on a curriculum Breona Conrad, sculpture project, “Sculpting a Celebration of Adam Hamilton, Fine Arts Everyday Life,” which Clements and Murray wrote Blane Pressler, and taught to fourth graders last spring in Auburn, Tamara Ricketts, Seniors Andrew Lemmon, Patrick Linker, Ind. See related story on page 5. Jessica Sisson, Brett Hatidza Mulic, and Johanna Rooijakkers shared Tubbs, and the Department of Fine Arts’ Winger Award for Stephanie graduating seniors. The award, generously funded Vanderwall were Music Therapy ▲ Stephanie Vanderwall (left) with by Jim and Linda Winger, is designed to give high- among the Irene Ryan Greg Boyles in The Lark achieving seniors an opportunity to set up a studio, Continuing lecturer Melissa Reinhardt and Award nominees and travel, or apply for graduate school. Assistant Professor Nancy Jackson, along with 13 their acting partners who competed in the Region III music therapy students, participated in the semi- Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Seniors Patrick Linker and Hatidza Mulic annual Indiana Music Therapists conference in (KC/ACTF) in Milwaukee in January. Nominees shared the 2006–07 Department of Fine Arts Indianapolis in September 2007. included Pressler, nominated for The Crucible, with Outstanding Student Service Award that honors partner Butler; Ricketts, nominated for More Fun students who have dedicated themselves to the Lindsey Oldham was accepted into the clinical Than Bowling, with partner Tubbs; Sisson, success of the department. internship program at University Good Samaritan nominated for More Fun Than Bowling, with Center, a hospital in Minneapolis. partner Hamilton; and Vanderwall, nominated for The Lark, with partner Conrad. Chad Reichert began a university-based clinical internship at Turnstone Center for Children and Visual Communication Adults with Disabilities in Fort Wayne, a position in and Design conjunction with Meaningful Day Services Inc. Reichert also accepted a position as case manager at Turnstone.

Lauren Stoner was accepted into the clinical internship program at River Oaks Psychiatric Hospital in New Orleans.

Rhoda Long completed a clinical internship with ▲ Rebecca Bailey | “Another Day in Paradise” Bethany Lutheran Village in Dayton, Ohio. 24" x 20" | color woodcut

Theatre Rebecca Bailey, Josh Hoering, Chase Wire, Derek Bever, Aaron Mann, and Emily Todd and Julie Wall had their work displayed at worked at the Huron Playhouse in Ohio during ▲ Andrew McMillen with his senior project at the Kachmann Artlink’s 27th Annual Print Exhibition, summer 2007. Bever was an electrician and rigger; Gallery in April 2007 May 25–July 5, 2007. Mann acted in productions and was a member of Seniors Amanda McConnell, Andrew McMillen, the crew; and Todd worked on costume and Ryan Pape received top honors in the fall 2007 Art Education construction. B.F.A.Visual Communication and Design Senior Exhibition. The Outstanding Senior Award went to Alumnae Jennifer Clements and Abby Murray Senior Jessica Butler played the role of Audrey in McMillen. The Best Senior Exhibition Award was were hired this spring following their respective the recent Fort Wayne Civic Theatre production of shared equally between McConnell and Pape. student teaching positions last fall. Clements will be Little Shop of Horrors and was a player in the Fort teaching at Jefferson Middle School in Fort Wayne, Wayne Philharmonic Pops Concert in December. Erica Coffing has been involved with the Northeast and Murray will be teaching at the St. Joseph–St. Indiana Innovation Center (NIIC) to help clients Elizabeth Catholic School in Fort Wayne. Brent Bruin was awarded a certificate of merit for such as Expo East attain its graphic and industrial his work as stage manager for the play Story design goals. She worked with LacPro International Theatre by the Kennedy Center/American College on the launch of its new product, pro.bio.MAX. She Theatre Festival in April 2007. also worked with Schwartz Biomedical to produce surgical illustrations of the company’s Meniscal Senior Theatre Major Fixation Device. is Miss IPFW 2008 Dawn Turner received an internship at Sweetwater Sound in Fort Wayne. Senior Jessica Butler (center) was crowned Miss IPFW in October 2007 in The John and Ruth Richard Wanjema won a logo design competition Rhinehart Music Center. Along with gifts and for the IPFW Black Collegian Caucus. scholarships, she also won the People’s Choice Award. In June, Butler will represent IPFW in the Senior Amanda McConnell completed work on the Miss Indiana Pageant. Senior Margaret Lothamer Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics’ Indiana (far right), a music performance major, was fourth ▲ courthouses calendar as part of an internship. The Students (l–r) Chase Wire, Jennifer Clements, and runner-up. The Miss IPFW Scholarship Program is Leah Fleetwood photographs in the calendar were chosen from part of the Miss America system. Contestants range submissions of historic courthouses from Assistant Professor and Director of Art Education from freshman to seniors with a variety of interests, photographers statewide. McConnell was with each contestant having a platform in which she Hai Kyung Kim attended the National Art responsible for all design work, photo retouching, is interested. Contestants raised money for the Education Association conference in New York City and layout. in March 2007 with art education majors Jennifer Children’s Miracle Network. Clements, Leah Fleetwood, and Chase Wire. Photography Jennifer Clements, Abby Murray, Angela Grogg, Karen Montoya, and Chase Wire William Baulkley has two of his recent fashion attended the Art Education Association of Indiana show photographs on the Mall Web conference in Indianapolis in November 2007. site, www.jeffersonshopping.com. Baulkey also Clements and Murray presented an adjudicated presented an exhibition of the Seven Deadly Sins at 8 9 Henry’s Restaurant in Fort Wayne during April 2007. Jenifer Brown (’06) was accepted into the Ph.D. Music Alumni Sing Greed, pride, lust, wrath, sloth, envy, and gluttony program in art history at the University of Iowa. at Opening were represented, each with its own portrait-based photograph. In addition, his photograph “Submission Jonathon Burns (’07), who now lives and works It was a grand night for singing as 12 vocal Silenced,” a black and white self-portrait, was in Bend, Ore., took Best of Show at the Wildfire performance alumni sang during the opening night included in the Self-Portrait Exhibition at Artlink in Pottery Showcase. dedication concert on October 4 for The John and Fort Wayne in December 2007. Ruth Rhinehart Music Center. Vocal alumni sang with Derek Decker (’06) was accepted into the 2007 the IPFW Department of Music’s University Singers Dan Dienelt and continuing lecturer Jim Gabbard summer residency of the Watershed Center for the during excerpts from “The Tender Land” by Aaron both had photographs accepted in the Artlink’s Fort Ceramic Arts. Copeland. Alumni from music therapy and music Wayne Photographers in the 2007 exhibition. education, along with the vocal performance alumni, Leah Fleetwood (’07) is an art teacher at Heritage attended a reception in their honor in the Rudy and Junior/Senior High School in Monroeville, Ind. Rhonda Kachmann Student Commons on the second floor of the music center. Brandon Furniss (’06) was accepted into the M.F.A. ceramics program at Kent State University. ▼ Front row (l–r): Sara Davis, Phyllis Boester, Barbara Resch, Janet Piercy, Rochelle Starnes, Sue Lough, Curtis Shaw, and Andrew Harper. Back row (l–r): Jim Davis, April Parvsis, Sondra Franks, LeAnn Boedeker, Betty McKee, Chris Rasor, Shelley Sanders Bass, and Jan Conser Gidley.

Music Performance Ben Wedler (’04) received an Anthony Award for 2006–07 Outstanding Leading Male Performance in a Musical from the Fort Wayne Civic Theatre for his role as Horton the Elephant in Seussical.

▲ Andrew Lemmon with one of his senior project sculptures in the IPFW Visual Arts Gallery Music Therapy

Andrew Lemmon (’07) was accepted into six M.F.A. Heather Palmer (’06) accepted a clinical music ▲ Photograph courtesy of Libby Huffer, visual communication sculpture programs including Pratt Institute, Montana therapy position with Meaningful Day Services Inc., and design major State University, New Mexico State University, serving clients in the Allen County area. Libby Huffer was hired by the Allen County University of Notre Dame, Bowling Green State Education Partnership to produce photographs for University, and Kent State University. He is currently Diane Parker (’00) was recently accepted into the marketing its literacy programs. attending Kent State University. master’s degree program for vocational rehabilitation counseling at Ball State University. Rebecca Koverman’s digital photograph titled Deborah Robinson Miller (’06) was the featured “Blue and Red” was used on the recent cover of the artist this fall at La Salle Gallery in Fort Wayne. Sarah Scott (’06) completed a clinical internship IPFW Spring 2008 Schedule of Classes. with Helping Hands Center for Special Needs in Kim Rorick (’02) has her work featured in the Worthington, Ohio, and accepted a clinical music Nic Pyle and Chad Ryan had their photos 2007 book 500 Cups published by Lark Books. therapy position with Meaningful Days Services Inc., published in The News-Sentinel in spring 2007. serving clients in the Indianapolis area. Pyle is an intern there, and Ryan, who also covered Matt Shaffer (’03) exhibited his ceramic work in the Super Bowl, is an employee of the paper. September in a show titled Muse of Fire in Fort Wayne; Jennifer (Sons) Ferrara (’00) was approved by in October 2007 at the Thornbrook Art Festival in the American Music Therapy Association to begin a Lisa Schwaberow had two digital photographs Gainesville, Fla.; and in November at the exhibition Tell music therapy internship program at Behavior exhibited in Stacked: Art Work Influenced by Me a Story in Santa Fe, N.M. Shaffer also taught a Specialists of Indiana in Valparaiso, Ind. Reading Material in the new Jeffrey R. Krull Gallery hand-building workshop in October in Gatlinburg, in the Allen County Public Library in October 2007. Texas. A ceramics and sculpture professor at Santa Fe Theatre Community College in Gainesville, Fla., Shaffer received William Baulkey, Debra Crouch, Libby Huffer, an M.F.A. from the University of Florida in 2005. Melissa Dowty (’04) starred in Found a Peanut, a Anita Kramer, Barbara Mendez, Angela play about a group of children in which the Roberts, Malina Sanfilippo, Daniel Scheerer, Jason Stopa (’07) has been hired as education discovery of money leads to squabbles and and Megan Strouse had work accepted in the fall coordinator by the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. bitterness and makes them aware of greed, betrayal, 2007 Helmke Library Student Art Exhibition. First and violence. The play was performed at the 78th place went to Baulkey for “Surrealist City Pt II,” Street Theatre Lab in New York City in May 2007. Scheerer won second place for “Simplicity,” and Music Education Strouse won third place for “Untitled Still Life #3.” Jane Frazier (’00) was on the dean’s list after her Heather (Atkinson) Ramser (’07) is teaching first year in the M.F.A. Theatre Teaching Program at K–6 music at Monroeville and Hoagland elementary Virginia Commonwealth University. She has schools in Allen County. performed at VCU and was the assistant director for Alumni Successes VCU’s production of Dracula in November 2007. Mitch Freeman (’06) is teaching instrumental Fine Arts music at Portage Middle School in Fort Wayne. Jonathan Gilbert (’02) and John Tarbet wrote a Gwen Gutwein’s (’82) “Barns of Indiana” 2008 musical that was hosted by St. Peter’s Church in New calendar is now available. The calendar contains 13 Matthew Johnston (’07) is teaching K–6 music at York City. The play is described as a musical/opera/ barn paintings and their histories from 13 different Imagine Master Academy in Fort Wayne. lyric-theatre-epic and is named after Edith Stein, one counties throughout Indiana. Barn paintings and of the most controversial figures in the modern information on ordering a calendar can be found on Aimee (Marschand) Slone (’05) is now teaching Catholic and Jewish faiths. her Web site at www.ipfw.gwengutwein.com. K–6 music at Oak View Elementary School for Northwest Allen County Schools. Gloria Minnich (’05) was singled out for an Elizabeth Bradford (’06) is teaching art to 5–12 Anthony Award for 2006–07 Outstanding Supporting grade students with Argos Community Schools in Alissa Schoon (’06) is the choral teacher at Prairie Female Performance in a Drama from the Fort Argos, Ind. Heights Middle and High School in Lagrange, Ind. Wayne Civic Theatre for her role as Claire in Proof. www.ipfw.edu/vpa spring 2008 IPFW on April 14–16. She will Fred Fenster: talk about her work with the Introducing Hamilton Tescarollo public and campus community Working on April 15 at 6 p.m. during a As soon as the Department of Music announced it was free lecture in the Science searching for a new director of keyboard studies in light Building, Room 168. Copies of With Pewter her recently self-published of Masson Robertson’s retirement, applications began February 22, 23, monograph of images titled pouring in from around the world. With almost a year to Poetic Grace, Elizabeth Opalenik 24, and 25 fill the position, the department was confident it would Photographs 1979–2007 will be find not only a dynamic teacher for its students but an available for purchase. For artist who was sheer magic behind the keyboard. 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. each day additional information, call VCD at 260-481-6709. The Department of Fine Arts is pleased to offer a unique “After carefully considering a very large pool of opportunity for artists to participate in a four-day exceptional candidates, Hamilton Tescarollo, a pianist with workshop with metalsmith Fred Fenster. During this four- Music an exciting international reputation, rose to the top as our first choice,” said Robert Bean, day workshop, participants will work under the direct chair of the Department of Music. “We were so pleased that he accepted our offer to join supervision of Fenster to gain hands-on experience in All concerts are in The John and us in Fort Wayne.” Ruth Rhinehart Music Center the exploration and creation of an object, with the and the following ticket prices possibility of completing up to three finished pewter Brazilian pianist Hamilton Tescarollo had his orchestral debut with the São Paulo State apply unless otherwise noted: Symphony Orchestra (OSESP), as a winner of this prestigious ensemble’s Young Soloists artworks. Fenster will be demonstrating and using the Admission for IPFW students following processes and techniques: fabricating, raising with university ID is free, $5 National Competition. Since then, he has performed both as a soloist and as a chamber and forming, and flatware. The workshop will be in the adults, $4 seniors, and $3 for all musician in the United States, Canada, Europe, and South America. other students. For the most up- IPFW Department of Fine Arts Metalsmithing Studio, to-date information, call the Tescarollo taught previously at Arizona State University, Faculdade Santa Marcelina, and Visual Arts Building, Rooms 119 and 121. Department of Music at 260- Escola Municipal de Múúsica de São Paulo. His students have been prizewinners of 481-6714 or visit our Web site numerous local and state competitions, and he was named Teacher of the Year at the This unique opportunity is open to the general public at www.ipfw.edu/vpa/music. for $250 and all non-credit fees include materials. The concert schedule is subject 2001 Schimmel/Arizona Piano Young Artist Piano Competition. IPFW students with a valid university ID pay just $146 to change. for this noncredit course and must register in person in appropriate for the clinical Community Orchestra Faculty Recital featuring Kettler Hall, Room 139. This course is also available for music therapy setting. A concert featuring the IPFW Farrell Vernon, saxophone credit to IPFW students (FINA P490-01 CRN 23928). To February 15 7:30 p.m. Student Concerto and Aria A classical recital featuring Rhinehart Recital Hall Competition winners. James Farrell Vernon. register for credit, students should follow standard Admission is free. February 25 7:30 p.m. April 8 7:30 p.m. registration procedures. Credit students will pay an Auer Performance Hall Rhinehart Recital Hall additional $40 fee for materials. Faculty Recital featuring For more information, visit www.ipfw.edu/vpa and Hamilton Tescarollo, piano click on the pewter tea pot or contact: A classical recital featuring Haydn’s Sonata No. 60 in C Major; Schumann’s Vienna IPFW Division of Continuing Studies Jazz Ensemble Carnival, Op. 26; Prokofieff’s Kathy Kosins, with her critically 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd. Sonata No. 2 in d minor, Op. 14; acclaimed voice and eclectic Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 and works by Brazilian musical palette, will join the 260-481-6619 composers Camargo Guarnieri IPFW Jazz Ensemble for an and Villa-Lobos. evening of expressive and February 17 2:30 p.m. soulful jazz. According to the Rhinehart Recital Hall Spring 2008 Chicago Tribune, Kosins has Visual Arts Faculty Recital featuring Amy Guitar Ensemble Senior B.F.A. Exhibition–VCD “one of the most alluring voices Prickett, soprano Guitar Ensemble students Fred Fenster: Metalsmith April 11–28 in jazz.” Symphonic Wind Ensemble A classical recital featuring Amy perform from a vast classical Created and Collected Opening reception: February 8 7:30 p.m. A concert titled Intimate Designs Prickett, soprano, with guests guitar repertoire including works Pewter works created and April 11 7–9 p.m. Auer Performance Hall collected by Fred Fenster, The Jeffery R. Krull Gallery will feature the IPFW Chamber Todd Prickett, tenor; Robert by J. S. Bach, Villa-Lobos, and professor emeritus of the Allen County Public Library Winds performing Charles Bean, piano; Hamilton Gasper Sanz. University of The exhibition can be viewed Gounod’s “Petite Symphony”; Tescarollo, piano; and James April 9 7:30 p.m. Wisconsin–Madison. Monday–Thursday from Karel Husa’s “Divertimento”; Colonna, trumpet. Rhinehart Recital Hall February 4–29 9 a.m.–9 p.m.; Friday and Philip Glass’s “Concerto for March 2 2:30 p.m. Visual Arts Gallery Saturday from 9 a.m.–6 p.m.; Saxophone Quartet”; and Pavel Rhinehart Recital Hall and Sundays from Noon–5 p.m. Tschesnokoff’s “Salvation is Jazz Ensemble For additional information, Created.” The concert will feature famous call the Department of Visual February 22 7:30 p.m. Faculty Recital featuring theme songs from popular Communication and Design Rhinehart Recital Hall David Cook, trombone, and television sitcoms and movies. (VCD) at 260-481-6709. Alan Severs, trumpet April 11 7:30 p.m. March 19 2:30 p.m. Auer Performance Hall Elizabeth Opalenik– Faculty/Student Rhinehart Recital Hall Poetic Grace Music Therapy Showcase Recital Fine Art Photographer, Student Recital Department of Music faculty and Educator, and Lecturer IPFW music therapy majors will their students will showcase Farrell Vernon April 14–16 perform a varied repertoire, some of their latest efforts from Faculty Jazz Combo The Department of Visual including selections in their the studio. Don’t miss the combined talents Fred Fenster Communication and Design individual areas of music February 23 7:30 p.m. of exciting IPFW jazz musicians Artist’s Reception welcomes Elizabeth Opalenik to expertise and selections Rhinehart Recital Hall assembled by Farrell Vernon Join metalsmith Fred Fenster for for a Monday night jazz treat each semester. an artist’s reception of his March 24 7:30 p.m. exhibition. Rhinehart Recital Hall February 24 4–7 p.m. Gallery Space Symphonic Wind Ensemble Visual Arts Gallery Dreams and Fantasies will feature guest composers Ken at a Premium Piano Studio Showcase Fred Fenster: Johnson and Steven Bryant and Assistant Professor and student soloist Ben Dykeman. Working With Pewter Each year the Department Director of Keyboard Studies A unique opportunity for The ensemble will perform of Visual Communication Hamilton Tescarollo presents Bryant’s “Radiant Joy” and artists to participate in a and Design graduates so student performances from Johnson’s “Quintoinion,” four-day workshop with his piano studio. among others. metalsmith Fred Fenster many seniors, it becomes a March 26 7:30 p.m. April 20 2:30 p.m. February 22, 23, 24, and 25 challenge to find a gallery space large enough to accommodate their work. Rhinehart Recital Hall Auer Performance Hall 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. each day To register, call 260-481-6619. This year, nearly 20 seniors, showing their work in Web design, illustrations, graphic design, photography, 3-D modeling, and animation will require dozens of display Jazz Combo Showcase Percussion Ensemble stations, computer kiosks, and hundreds of square feet of wall space to show admirers A variety of jazz combos Percussionists perform Spring Senior B.F.A. what they have learned. Luckily, the Jeffrey R. Krull Gallery in the downtown Allen will perform. selections using a mixture of Exhibition–Fine Arts County Public Library has come to the rescue for the spring exhibition. March 29 7:30 p.m. traditional and unique rhythm Seniors graduating from the Rhinehart Recital Hall instruments. Department of Fine Arts share “We are excited to be one of the community members with whom the library has April 21 7:30 p.m. their work. Flute and Clarinet Auer Performance Hall March 17–April 11 chosen to share its space,” said Jauneth Skinner, interim chair of visual communication Studio Showcase Opening Reception: and design. “We have more than 280 majors, and students coming up the ranks are Continuing lecturer Cynthia March 20 6–8 p.m. thrilled to know that this space will be available to them each spring.” Greider presents performances Visual Arts Gallery featuring students from her The Krull Gallery has invited other community members to exhibit work there including woodwind studio. For additional information on the Artlink, the University of St. Francis, and the annual Motherlode exhibition. The gallery April 7 7:30 p.m. aforementioned exhibitions, Rhinehart Recital Hall call the Department of exhibition is open during regular library hours. For additional information, call the Fine Arts at 260-481-6705. Department of Visual Communication and Design at 260-481-6709. 10 www.ipfw.edu/vpa 11 calendar will include “Petite messe It’s essential for academic directors to understand the talents of their solennelle” by Rossini and theatre majors so they can be instrumental in creating a season line- “Zigeunerlieder” by Brahms. April 25 7:30 p.m. up to showcase those talents. There is no better way for John Auer Performance Hall O’Connell, the new chair of the Department of Theatre, to get to know his talent pool than to work with almost all of them at once. Wonderful Town, set in New York City in the 1930s, is a perfect example of collaboration for an entire department.

“It’s a great way to conclude the year, where students and faculty Trombone Studio Showcase alike, are working together on one piece,” O’Connell said. “We will Continuing lecturer David B. have a much clearer picture of where the department is headed in the Cooke presents performances featuring students from his future after this exciting musical. We will all know so much more of trombone studio. what each of us is able to bring to the process.” April 22 7:30 p.m. Rhinehart Recital Hall Community Orchestra Choreographer Brittney Coughlin is working on dance numbers for the The orchestra performs ensemble, and costume designs by Craig Humphrey will be a delightful Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 reflection of the summer of 1935. Saxophone Quartet and Choir and welcomes guest Alan The Sax Quartet is composed of Severs performing Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto. Ruth Sherwood, played by Breona Conrad in her senior project, and Eileen Sherwood, played by Jessica Butler, are two soprano, alto, tenor, and sisters fresh off the bus from Ohio, having arrived amid the bustling streets of New York City in 1935. Eager to take this baritone saxophone. The April 28 7:30 p.m. saxophone choir is open Auer Performance Hall Wonderful Town by storm, the two set out to make it big, fall in love, and live happily ever after in the Big Apple. to musicians throughout the community. Theatre An expertly crafted musical comedy with music by Leonard Bernstein and lyrics by Comden and Green, Wonderful Town, April 23 7:30 p.m. with its zippy and harmonious score, celebrates New York as the magnet for young people to fulfill their greatest Rhinehart Recital Hall Box Office: 260-481-6555 ambitions and lifelong dreams. TTD: 260-481-4105 www.ipfw.edu/vpa/theatre and her ultimate actions, rocked Based on the play Area A Doll’s House the audiences of the 1890s. My Sister Eileen By Henrik Ibsen The play continues to move Directed by John O’Connell Art Partners Directed by Jeff Casazza audiences today. April 25, 26 and Williams Theatre Fort Wayne Area May 1, 2, 3 8 p.m. Community Band February 22, 23, 28, Admission for IPFW students April 27 and 29 and March 1 8 p.m. with university ID is free. All Fort Wayne Area Community May 4 2 p.m. Band concerts are in the Auer March 2 2 p.m. All other tickets are $14 and Williams Theatre American Sign Performance Hall in The John under. Theatre Box Office will American Sign and Ruth Rhinehart Music Language-Interpreted open February 18. Language-Interpreted Performance: March 2 Center. Tickets are $5 adult, Performance: May 4 $4 senior, and $2 student. Choral Ensembles Concert From the father of Realism, Admission for IPFW students Children 5 and under are Enjoy this opportunity to hear all A Doll’s House is the first Wonderful Town with university ID is free. admitted for free. three IPFW choral ensembles modern feminist play about a Music by Leonard Bernstein All other tickets are $16 and Winter Concert share the stage: the University young woman’s desire for self- Book by Joseph Fields and under. Theatre Box Office will February 26 7:30 p.m. Singers, the Chamber Ensemble, discovery and self-sufficiency. Jerome Chodorov Lyrics by open April 14. Spring Concert and the Choral Union. Repertoire The play’s tragic heroine, Nora, Betty Comden and Adolph Green May 6 7:30 p.m.

be moving into their offices in Meet Your The John and IPFW Alumni 21 Years in the Making The Rhinehart Music Center. Ruth Rhinehart By Steven T. Sarratore, Interim Dean We also look forward to Music Center Association College of Visual and Performing Arts continuing our long ■ Board of What a difference 21 years make! When I arrived on See pages relationship with the Fort 6 and 7 Directors this campus in 1986, the theatre program was part Wayne Community Band and VPA Representative of the communication department—located in the strengthening our important basement of Kettler Hall; the music department was relationship to the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. Angela Fritsch Harris, hidden away in the lowest level of the Classroom- B.A. ’03, Fine Arts Medical Building; and the art department was still And although we are pleased with our growth, we downtown, housed in an array of historical, but cannot stop for long to revel in our successes. My IPFW experience was great. The campus gave me dilapidated, buildings. Several new initiatives are already underway. Work is the flexibility to work and go to school. The proceeding to enhance the quality and quantity of The following year, 1987, was a watershed year, as professors were smart, and they helped me achieve our academic programs. We are also working to all of the arts programs came together to form the the degree I was looking for. The campus was close develop indoor and outdoor spaces for arts exhibits School of Fine and Performing Arts, under the to home—and being a single mother at the time— leadership of interim Dean James Ator. Later that and to enhance the technology necessary to educate that made everything a lot easier. year, Chancellor Tom Wallace announced plans to and train our students on state-of-the-art equipment. construct the new theatre and fine arts buildings on We are striving to develop additional scholarship I chose to become an Alumni Association Board the north end of campus. Those buildings—now support to assist our students as they pursue their member because I wanted to be part of something known as the Visual Arts Building and the Ernest E. educational goals. special. There are so many things happening on Williams Theatre—opened in 1992 and 1993, campus, and I wanted to help out where I could. respectively. Equally important, we continue to strive to be the Arts Education Center for northeast Indiana by And now, in 2007, with the completion of the I encourage graduates to join the IPFW Alumni offering music lessons and arts courses through our magnificent new John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Association because it’s a wonderful experience with Center, the renamed College of Visual and Community Arts Academy and by partnering with great people and a great university. Performing Arts is housed in one of the finest arts numerous community arts and service agencies. We complexes in the Midwest. We anticipate wonderful are part of your community, and need you to be a To learn about the benefits of joining the IPFW new opportunities as our departments explore the part of ours. Alumni Association, visit the Alumni Relations Web exciting possibilities that these superb facilities and Come and join us on the north end of the IPFW our new proximity to each other offer. site at www.ipfw.edu/alumni. A one-year campus. Our outstanding array of theatre, dance and membership is $40, or $20 if you received your first There is also great excitement as three of our music performances, art exhibits, credit and non- degree within the last five years. To contact Alumni community arts partners prepare to take up residence credit courses, and other activities offer something Relations, call 260-481-6807 or e-mail Susie at on campus. The Fort Wayne Children’s Choir, FAME, for almost everyone. Then you can marvel, as I have, [email protected]. and the Unity Performing Arts Foundation will soon at what a difference 21 years make. Fenster/continued from front

He has become the teacher that, as a student, he had metalsmithing and a minor in sculpture from Cranbrook hoped to find. Beginning his teaching career at in 1959, and then stayed to complete an M.F.A. in UW–Madison in 1962, he has been a primary force in the metalsmithing in 1961 when he and Fenster were wave of renewed interest in metal work in recent times, classmates. Fenster even went along with Motz when the especially in pewter. It is not improbable that every latter returned to Fort Wayne to deliver and install a pewter worker around today crossed paths with Fenster commission for Concordia Theological Seminary. at some point, whether at UW–Madison, the Penland School of Crafts, or in one of many of his workshops With this shared history in mind, the Pewtersmithing across the country. Workshop and Exhibition of Fred Fenster’s works at the We, at IPFW, have a special connection with Fenster. Les school where his colleague, Motz, began the Motz, the former chair of the Department of Fine Arts, metalsmithing program is a fitting tribute to the began to offer metalsmithing classes at the Fort Wayne Art history they shared in this exciting field of teaching School in 1961. He received a B.F.A. with a major in and art making. ▲ Metalsmith Fred Fenster at work in his studio.

contact VPA NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE Visual and Performing Arts Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne PAID www.ipfw.edu/vpa FORT WAYNE, IN 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd. PERMIT NO. 92 Fort Wayne, IN 46805-1499 Steven T. Sarratore, interim dean 260-481-6977 Barbara J. Resch, associate dean 260-481-6977 Barbara K. Romines, business manager 260-481-6959 Susan Domer, marketing and public relations 260-481-6025 Maggie Hunter, assistant to the dean, 260-481-6059 director of the IPFW Community Arts Academy Gary Lanier, secretary 260-481-6977 Leslie VanderHart, Web designer 260-481-6098 Theatre Box Office 260-481-6555 Text Telephone Device (TTD) 260-481-4105

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Department of Music 260-481-6714 segments and physical comedy to get his love of Have you ever quoted Shakespeare? Not sure? Scared Department of Fine Arts 260-481-6705 Shakespeare across. Often times using volunteers from to find out? Shakespeare’s language has become so much a part of our everyday lives we scarcely know Department of Visual the audience, the actors present scenes filled with the difference. If you’ve ever used any of the following Communication and Design 260-481-6709 phrases, you have indeed, somewhere along the line, contemporary, trendy idioms that the high school been quoting The Bard. Newsletter Editor Arts Writers students can relate to because the theatre majors bring “It’s Greek to me” “Seen better days” Susan Domer Steven T. Sarratore those choices to the rehearsal process. “Vanished into thin air” “Lived in a Susan Domer “Refused to budge fool’s paradise” Design and Editing Richard Grzych an inch” “Bag and baggage” IPFW Publications Robert F. Schroeder “It’s all very approachable and funny for students, “Played fast and loose” “It is high time” almost like a Shakespeare Unplugged. It’s presented by “Tongue tied” “That is the long and “A tower of strength” short of it” The IPFW College of Visual and actors that high school students can relate to,” “Hoodwinked” “Own flesh and blood” Performing Arts would like to thank our “In a pickle” “Foul play” O’Connell added. “One of my goals is to get local high “Knitted your brows” “Without rhyme season sponsors for their support: school students excited about theatre again.” “Made a virtue or reason” of necessity” “To give the devil “Fair play” his due” Don’t miss this opportunity to have history come alive “Slept not one wink” “Good riddance” for your students. To schedule a presentation of Brush “Stood on ceremony” “Dead as a doornail” “Laughed yourself “An eyesore” Up Your Shakespeare for your school, call the into stitches” “A laughing stock” “Too much of a “The devil incarnate” Department of Theatre at 260-481-6551. good thing” “A blinking idiot”

▲ The first annual Madrigal Dinner, presented by the ▲ Natalie L. Wray, Andrew Welch, Lizz Frick, and Paige Romer perform in ▲ The Lark, featuring Stephanie Vanderwall in the Department of Music, was a great success. "Commercial Break" in Purely Dance 2007. lead for her senior project, opened the IPFW Department of Theatre season in September.