By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—This year’s Opening Night at Churchill Downs, a special event to launch a season of horse racing that includes the Kentucky Derby, will feature a provocative video projection by IU Southeast fine arts faculty Tiffany Carbonneau and Susanna Crum. The collaborative artwork, “A Running Loop,” will illuminate a facade of …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Seven IU Southeast faculty have received 2016 IU Trustees Teaching Awards. The Trustees Teaching Awards were first awarded in 2000-2001 to recognize and enhance excellent teaching, especially at the undergraduate level. The awards are open to tenured and tenure-track faculty, as well as full-time lecturers and clinical faculty primarily involved …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—The 2016 IU Southeast Student Conference concluded on Friday, April 22 with an awards ceremony to recognize outstanding research in a wide variety of areas. The winners are listed below. Graduate Session Award Winner Title of Presentation Faculty Advisor Chancellor’s Award for Creative Achievement Tuesday Guernsey “Ecological Analysis of Rio …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak When the curtain rises on “Guys and Dolls” in the Robinson Theater at the Ogle Center this week, audiences will be treated to one of the most ambitious productions ever mounted by the IU Southeast theatre program. Twenty-five students will sing, dance, bet, pray, brawl and woo their way through the kaleidoscope …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak — (NEW ALBANY, Ind.) Renowned multidisciplinary artist Dread Scott will speak to a campus audience on his career and artistic practice spanning three decades at a special lecture on March 7 in the Hoosier Room East. Scott’s works in performance, installation, photography, video, painting and other media have been exhibited at the …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak Among many revered Louisville landmarks, Fontaine Ferry Park holds a special place in the local memory and imagination. Located on over 600 acres along the banks of the Ohio, on the big bend downstream from New Albany, the park included roller coasters, a huge swimming pool, an outdoor dance garden, a roller …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak It’s an epic song of social justice, born in struggle and swaddled in jazz. Langston Hughes, poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, was also on the board of directors of the Newport Jazz Festival when he wrote “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.” The year was 1960, in the heat of …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak A young woman broods, rises from her bed, moves through cool blue rooms, runs through a field, stops to listen and look, paces her living room, sits down and gets up, drifts through blurred spaces, gently imploding. Scenes from the film, Battle, by IU Southeast senior fine art student Cody Tevis of Floyds …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak NEW ALBANY, Ind. — Two outstanding IU Southeast printmaking students have been honored with opportunities to share their art and advance in their creative field. David Spencer-Pierce, a senior fine arts student from Salem, Ind., has been awarded an assistantship at the renowned Frogman’s Print Workshops in Omaha, Neb., where he will …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak NEW ALBANY, Ind. — The Ronald Barr Gallery at Indiana University Southeast will present “Wolf Tickets,” an exhibition of digital paintings by Caleb Weintraub, from Jan. 21 to Feb. 16. Weintraub is an associate professor of fine arts at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. His many awards include an IU Collaborative Teaching …
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