Spring 2017 issue

48 Pages·2017·7.64 MB·English

#creativestate
The official magazine of Arts NC State
SPRING 2017
Think and Do
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A Crafts Legacy
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Rivers, Music and
Sustainability
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Dear
Friends –
With apologies to (reluctant Nobel Prize
recipient) Bob Dylan, the times they are
a-changin’.
In addition to the incredible arts programming
we’re proud to present to you this spring, things are
happening around Arts NC State that will change the
course of the arts at NC State.
Many of you have come to appreciate (if not
love) the Crafts Center, and for good reason. The
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have been conducting a search for the new director
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since last fall, and while I can assure you that the
Crafts Center will remain committed to its diverse
#creativestate Vignettes .............................. 8
programming, this is also an opportunity for a new
The Campaign for NC State ........................16
director to shape what a 21st century Crafts Center
The Right Person, at the Right Time ..............24
looks and acts like.
The Nile Project ........................................34 For quite some time we’ve been expressing our
Donors ...................................................40 joy over the construction of the new Gregg Museum
Dining Guide ...........................................45 of Art & Design. If all has gone well, by the time
you’re reading this, the construction will be complete
Coda ......................................................46
and we will have begun the process of moving into
Events the spaces and mounting the first exhibits, which will
Spring Events Calendar ............................... 5 open in fall 2017.
NC State LIVE Spring 2017 ..........................20 Finally, many of you have visited Price Music
Center, and will agree that the building is in need of
University Theatre Spring 2017 ....................28
some tender loving care. This spring and summer
Price will undergo a minor renovation. Minor as it
may be, we are hopeful that the changes to the
building will make for a more pleasing experience,
both in terms of visual effect and acoustic
ON THE COVER
environment.
A senior majoring in aerospace engineering,
We remain grateful to you for your support of Arts
Caleb Gallentine (seen here working on a
NC State, and I look forward to seeing and meeting
birdhouse that seems destined for the high-
many of you at our events this semester.
rent avian neighborhood) has been a student
instructor for a very popular skateboard-
making class at NC State’s Crafts Center.
In the background, Jason Swienckowski, a
junior majoring in Art + Design, adds finishing
touches to the exquisite boat he has built. Rich Holly
Executive Director
PHOTO BY GEORGE THOMAS
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Who We Are
The official magazine of Arts NC State
SPRING 2017 | VOLUME 2, ISSUE 2
CRAFTS CENTER
Open to campus and the community, the Crafts
Center is a place to meet fellow makers, discover Arts NC State is the collective voice
your hidden talents and create art in a supportive of the visual and performing arts programs of
environment. North Carolina State University.
crafts.arts.ncsu.edu
Crafts Center
DANCE PROGRAM Dance Program
This nationally recognized program educates, Gregg Museum of Art & Design
empowers and inspires NC State student dancers Music Department
and choreographers to find and express their NC State LIVE
creative voice. University Theatre
dance.arts.ncsu.edu
GREGG MUSEUM OF ART & DESIGN
A free collecting and exhibition museum with
almost 40,000 objects, the Gregg makes art
accessible to the NC State community and public.
It’s the museum of NC State University, where
objects spark ideas. Look for the grand opening of
our new space in fall 2017.
gregg.arts.ncsu.edu
Arts NC State is part of the
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
Division of Academic and Student Affairs.
The Music Department provides educational
and performance opportunities for student and Dr. Mike Mullen
community participants through a variety of Vice Chancellor and Dean
musical experiences and academic courses. The
Rich Holly
department also serves as a cultural resource for
Executive Director
the university and the greater community through
performances and presentations offered by our
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NC STATE LIVE
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Arts NC State
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meaningful exploration of the diverse cultures and
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issues that define our communities and world.
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UNIVERSITY THEATRE Director of Arts Marketing
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FEBRUARY  Camille A. Brown & Dancers –  Music of the British Isles
Black Girl: Linguistic Play Stewart Theatre
Stewart Theatre March 18
 Art at the Atomic Scale
February 25
The Crafts Center  NileFEST: The Nile Project
Through March 3  Wind Ensemble Closing Celebration (free!)
Stewart Theatre Stafford Commons
 The Secret Garden
February 28 March 21
Stewart Theatre
February 15-19  Panoramic Dance Project
MARCH
Concert
 Dr. James LeBeau: Art at the
Stewart Theatre
Atomic Scale (presentation)
 Arts NOW Saxophonist Phil March 23-24
The Crafts Center
Barham
February 15  Faculty Jazz Recital: Dr. Wes
Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre
Parker
 Arts NOW Composers’ March 1
Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre
Concert with the Aizuri Quartet
 Teacher from the Black March 27
Titmus Theatre
Lagoon (Kidstuff)
February 16  Aquila Theatre – The Trojan
Stewart Theatre
War: Our Warrior Chorus
 The HillBenders – The Who’s March 4
Stewart Theatre
TOMMY, A Bluegrass Opry
 The Nile Project March 30
Titmus Theatre
Stewart Theatre
February 18  The Merry Real (House)Wives
March 15
of Windsor
 Jazz Ensemble I
 Of Ghost and Strangers Titmus Theatre
Stewart Theatre
Kennedy-McIlwee Studio Theatre March 30-April 2, April 5-9
February 20
March 16-18
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 NC State Choirs Concert
Stewart Theatre
March 31
APRIL
 Mu Beta Psi A Cappella Fest
Stewart Theatre
April 1
 Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra
Stewart Theatre
April 2
 Student Art Sale
Talley 3rd Floor
April 5
 NCSU Dance Company Concert
Stewart Theatre
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 Ladies in Red
Stewart Theatre
April 8
 Wolfgang
State Ballroom
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April 11  Grains of Time
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FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES
NC State University’s Arts Entrepreneurship students master’s in arts administration in spring 2018.
completed an almost yearlong project by donating After three weeks executing a hectic sales
$1,000 to a local nonprofit. plan, students were only a few totes away from
Beginning in the spring 2016 semester, students meeting their sales goal before the semester ended.
in the program’s capstone course decided to design, Unfortunately, those last few were not sold in time.
manufacture and sell a tote, with the proceeds being Sales, however, continued throughout 2016 and
donated to the National Inclusion Project, a local in November, the last tote bag was sold. Available
nonprofit “…promoting the inclusion of children with students and Mu Beta Psi members were then able
disabilities in activities with their non-disabled peers.” to present the donation to Christy Thompson, the
Students began by securing Janie Kegley, a textile National Inclusion Project’s director of community
artist and then senior at the University of Kentucky, to outreach, on December 2.
develop fabric designs. They then created the tote bag Course instructor and director of the university’s
and integrated Kegley’s design ideas. Arts Entrepreneurship Program, Dr. Gary Beckman,
By partnering with students from the College of noted that new entrepreneurs fail more often than
Textiles, the totes were manufactured on campus, succeed. “Though we didn’t make our sales goal in
thus eliminating outside manufacturing costs. time, the entire capstone experience was a wonderful
Armed with a “can’t miss” sales plan, and mostly lesson in what it takes to be an arts entrepreneur.
on schedule, the class took to selling the totes both By allowing students complete control of the design,
on and off-campus. The Music Department’s honorary manufacturing and sales of the art product, they
fraternity, Mu Beta Psi, also partnered with the project were able to get a sense of the work, partnerships
by providing a mechanism to hold sales receipts. and planning it takes to transform art into significant
While all this was occurring, students were required value. It’s no small feat. I’m exceptionally proud of
to create an innovative business and marketing plan the students who made this project a success. They
for Kegley, as she intends to launch a line of hand- represent the best of the Arts Entrepreneurship
painted scarves shortly after she completes her Program both on and off campus.”
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in Titmus Theatre on November 9.
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of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband.
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Friends of Arts NC State 2016-18 board chair Gary Greene.
along with funding to maintain and
properly exhibit the objects. The
couple also made a major contribution to the Gregg College Alumnus of the Year Award, and the Watauga
Museum Campaign, naming the Drs. Norman and Medal in 2006.
Gilda Greenberg Native American Arts Collection Smedes York has been essential to the growth
Study Room in the historic chancellor’s residence. of Arts NC State. He co-chaired the Thompson Hall
Most recently, the Greenbergs pledged an additional Building Campaign Committee and was vital to the
major gift to create the Dr. Norman Greenberg Brass successful renovation. He and his wife, Rosemary,
Quintet Endowment, a reflection of Norman’s first are Founding Friends of the Gregg Museum Building
career as a Juilliard-trained French horn player. Campaign and advocates for the arts at NC State
Smedes York is a pillar of the Raleigh and NC State throughout the Raleigh community.
communities. He graduated from NC State in 1963 The Bowers Medal of Arts was established in 2000
with a degree in civil engineering. While a student, he to recognize and celebrate the vital role that Henry
played basketball for four years under the coaching Bowers played in the development of and support for
of Everett Case. Smedes served on the Raleigh City the visual and performing arts at NC State University.
Council from 1977 to 1979, and was elected mayor As associate vice chancellor for student affairs,
for the two terms from 1979 to 1983. Bowers committed himself to the goal of making the
York has been a passionate advocate for NC State arts an inseparable part of the educational experience
throughout his life and served on the university’s for all NC State students. He worked ceaselessly
Board of Trustees from 1994-2001. He has been to create opportunities for students to have access
honored with various university awards, including the to a full range of the arts, whether as engaged and
1977 Outstanding Young Alumni Award, the 1989 enlightened audiences or creative and innovative
Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award, the 1989 participants.
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galleries wing, then hefted it to a precarious balance College of Textile students
on a scissor lift to be raised to the second floor. Too will be able to use textiles
large to fit into the elevator, the table could only be from the Gregg collection
moved into the building at this precise stage in the as inspiration for new
project. A few days earlier, with electrical outlets still fashion lines (in fact,
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This particular table is slated to become the though, the collection
centerpiece of the Gregg’s new staff meeting – which now numbers
room, which happens to be exactly large enough nearly 40,000 objects –
to accommodate it. In turn, the table suits its new must be moved. With
setting, since the meeting room is upstairs in the construction on the new
newly renovated historic portion of the museum building gradually reaching
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that previously (beginning in 1928) had served as the an end, the Gregg staff
chancellor’s residence for nearly 85 years. will soon be facing not only
The table, made about 1910, has been attributed to the transportation of everything back to the campus,
the L. & J.G. Stickley company of Fayetteville, New but making sure that everything goes into the right
York, founded by Leopold and John George Stickley. drawers, the right shelves, the right hanging racks – and
They were the younger brothers of famed master all in the right order and safely.
craftsman Gustav Stickley and shared his core values It’s akin to moving a huge library, except that unlike
of simple, straightforward design, functionality, and books (which can be lined up on shelves in orderly
honesty in construction. The Stickley brothers are now rows), practically every object in a museum has its
ranked among the first to design and build modern own needs and requirements. It is a mind-bogglingly
furniture. Though inspired by medieval furnishings, the complex task – the staff sometimes tries to convey to
Gregg’s table would look equally at home in an all-glass- visitors just how complicated it is by pointing out that
and-steel skyscraper as it will in this 1920s home (for if you have only 10 objects to place on a narrow shelf,
decades, in fact, it graced the Mid-Century Modern there are 3,628,800 ways to rearrange them! In this
lobby of the original Talley Student Center). case, every object must be tracked, packed, handled
It would be hard to imagine a more appropriate focal properly, and then get unpacked and placed in an exact
point for meetings at the Gregg, since one of the key place in the right order, to make it possible to find them
missions of the museum is to remind students, visitors again. Adding to the complexity, everything will be
and researchers that great design is timeless, and that finding its new home for the very first time, and it must
inspiration can come from anywhere. Before long, happen relatively quickly. Previously, when things were
College of Design students will be able to see how arranged on their shelves in the old Gregg, they were
a greenish glass bowl made by Roman glassblowers placed there one-by-one over a space of decades.
two thousand years ago can easily hold its own next The tiny handful of people who are tackling this
to an anodized aluminum container developed for gargantuan organizational chore (one registrar, one
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