back inside cover Music Student Recitals Visual and Performing Arts Department Tuesdays, October 24, 31, November 7, 14, 21 and 28 4:00 p.m. Building 12, Room 126 Free and Open to the Public Parking at Meters or Visitor Parking Lot Musical Combined Fall Concert Combined Spring Concert October 18, 2017 March 14, 2018 Productions 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus Building 4, Room 141 Building 4, Room 141 The 49th Annual Jazz Festival Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the Public Director, John Nyerges Wednesday, May 9, 2018 “It is Fall Instrumental Concert Spring Vocal Concert 7:30 p.m. December 6, 2017 May 16, 2018 MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus the marriage 7:30 p.m. 7:30 p.m. Building 4, Room 141 MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus Free and Open to the Public of the soul Building 4, Room 141 Building 4, Room 141 The Visual & Performing Arts Department’s Music with Nature Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the Public program, in conjunction with the Creative Arts Committee and the Oce of Student Life & that makes the Fall Vocal Concert Leadership Development, will once again hold its December 13, 2017 annual jazz festival in May. Great local, regional intellect fruitful, 7:30 p.m. and national artists have performed with our Jazz MCC Theatre, Brighton Campus Ensemble and Small Group students in the past, and gives Building 4, Room 141 and although this year’s guests have yet to be Free and Open to the Public determined, the event is bound to be impressive birth to when performed in the beautiful, newly reno- imagination.” 9th Annual Madrigal Feaste vated, acoustically enhanced MCC Theatre. Friday December 8, 2017 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - Henry David Thoreau R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Forum 3-130 Admission $15 Parking in Lot M Tickets available at www.monroecctickets.com Dinner show with medieval music, games, skits, and food. Come one, come all, to this festival of food, merriment and song. Set in a medieval castle, this year’s dinner will leave you wondering where you are. Renaissance costumes encouraged. At The Forum Gallery: From the Mercer Collection Art Exhibition September 5 - December 12, 2017 Works will be displayed in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center Forum, 3-130. Artists in Unlikely Places January 22 - March 30, 2018 Reception for the Artist: Thursday, February 1, 2018 4:00 p.m. to another special season of creative arts programming at Monroe Community College. The Artists in Unlikely Places exhibition was inspired by Anthropology Professor Emeritus David Day. The exhibit The primary mission of MCC’s Creative Arts Committee is to develop a student-centered learning features works produced by non-art teaching faculty and sta from throughout the College. This show will Welcome!initiative that combines a holistic approach to the arts with the educational mission of our institution. demonstrate how critical art and the creative process are to all. We invite you, your family, and your friends to come and enjoy the rich cultural experiences that . these events provide. Members of the Rochester community are always welcome at MCC events. THE WALL PROJECT: Metered parking along Lot F is available for daytime events, and reserved parking is available in THE WALL is an area in the Building 4 corridor near the North Atrium and Mercer Gallery. Its dimensions are designated parking lots for evening programs. To reach the MCC Brighton Campus, go to 12 feet x 20 feet. We are now accepting proposals for Fall 2018 and Spring 2019. This project commissions artists www.monroecc.edu/go/maps. from the MCC community and/or the greater Rochester area. Potential artists or groups of artists can submit . a proposal. Ticket Information: . Tickets for specied programs are available online at www. monroecctickets.com; at the Brighton General Notes: Campus Center Service Desk in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Building 3; or at the Downtown For more specic information about Mercer Gallery events, proposal applications, up-to-date Internal Combustion Campus Bookstore. For further information, call the Oce of Student Life and Leadership Events, workshops and Mystery Video Hour schedules call, write or stop by the gallery. Development at 585.292.2534. Mercer Gallery, Fine Arts Building 12 Parking for MCC Events: Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday / 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. We have two kiosks on campus, one located on the sidewalk area of Building 4 near the Theatre and Friday / 11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. another located near Building 10, the Samuel J. Stabins Physical Education Complex. At these pay-by- Vacation and Summer Hours: plate kiosks, you can register your license plate and pay $5.00 in cash, Visa® or Mastercard®. Once the Tuesday - Thursday / 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. vehicle is registered at the pay- by-plate kiosk, the vehicle can park in any of the 11 student lots for Other times by appointment. the entire day until midnight. Parking is also available in the visitor lot (V) and at the parking meters Kathleen Farrell, Gallery Director located near the Communications/Theatre Building (Building 4). The meters hold a maximum of 2 585-292-2021 or 585.292.3121 email: [email protected] hours and the cost is $.50 per hour. Parking for Art Opening Receptions is free in Lot F. Other times parking is available in visitor parking (Lot V) or meters. For directions to the Brighton Campus, go to www.monroecc.edu/go/maps. The Mercer Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building 12, Room 114, in the North Atrium on the Brighton Campus. This non-prot gallery is sponsored in part by Monroe Community College, the MCC Visual and Performing Art Department, the Oce of Student Life and Leadership Development, the MCC Creative Arts Committee, the MCC Student Art Organization, and the MCC Student Life Fee. The Mercer Gallery is a member of the SUNY Association of Museums and Galleries, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), the American Alliance of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. Joseph Laurro - Recent Painting April 5 - May 3, 2018 Opening Reception: Thursday, April 5, 2018 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Visiting Poet:Visiting Marie Howe Writer Series Gallery Talk: Thursday, April 5, 2018 Reading & Book-Signing Poetry Workshop Thursday, October 12, 2017 Friday, October 13, 2017 3:00 p.m. 7:00 p.m. 12-12:50 p.m. Laurro’s work was featured by Rachel Thomas, the Senior Curator R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Forum, 3-130 Building 8, Room 200 of the Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), and by Chief Curator Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the MCC Community Rebecca Wilson in Saatchi Art collections, and Brooklyn Independent Parking in Lot M Media (BRIC) interviewed Joseph Laurro as part of their "On Air” Marie Howe is the author of four volumes of poetry: Magdalene: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2017); The Kingdom of Ordinary Time documentary series on local artists. His work is in several private (W.W. Norton, 2009); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, In the and international collections and has exhibited nationally at various Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The galleries including Mercer Gallery, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. According to the late Stanley Kunitz, Collette Blanchard Gallery, Metro Pictures, Greenpoint Gallery, and “Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life. Her long, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of esh and spirit, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch Local Projects. Laurro enjoys working as an artist-educator in NYC with the sacred.” public and private schools. He resides in Brooklyn, NY.” . Visiting Fiction Writer: Robin McLean “For me, being an artist is being a conduit- anything is possible and Reading & Book-Signing Fiction Workshop images are developed along with the re-contextualized and imaginary. Thursday, November 2, 2017 Friday, November 3. 2017 My love for nature, animals and dance are never far from hand. 7:00 p.m. 12-12:50 p.m. It is visceral, so I start from there. The work also comes out of a need to R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Forum 3-130 R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Forum 3-130 counterbalance despair and the negative forces at work in the world. Free and Open to the Public Free and Open to the MCC Community At times, they are contemplations on our environment; the plight of Parking in Lot M honey-bees, butteries, our water. They become meditations on Robin McLean’s rst short story collection, Reptile House (2015), won the BOA Short Fiction Prize and was a nalist for the movement, migrations… they turn to folklore, the sacred, curiosities Flannery O’Connor Short Story Prize in 2011 and 2012. McLean’s stories have appeared widely in such places as The and the ineable. Not always certain as to where the work is leading, Nashville Review, The Malahat Review, Gargoyle, The Common, and Copper Nickel, as well as the anthology American Fiction: is very challenging- I love that process and trust it.” --Joseph Laurro The Best Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers.