Science & Art

Innumerable worldwide commemorations of Charles Darwin continue in 2009, the 200 th anniversary of his birth, and Emory University’s unique contribution culminates this fall with a melding of science and arts that furthers public understanding and engagement with both. Emory’s Center for Creativity and Arts commissioned nationally-known artists to participate in the Oct. 2008 “Emory Evolution Revolution Symposium” and Feb. 2009 “Emory Evolving Arts: New Works Festival” and to collaborate with its scientists, artists and students. The resultant explorations of the intersections of creativity, art and science are performances and related “Creativity Conversations” at Emory in Oct./Nov. 2009.

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Choreographer Anna Leo

Inspired by her family, choreographer Anna Leo, Emory Dance Program Director, presents …me so much nearer home, a sequence of elegant dances blending delicate gesture with physically driving movement that honor the nature of family and community. The concert features music composed by Music Department faculty member Steve Everett, and Dance Program composers Kendall Simpson and Klimchak. Poems are by Robert Brown, Fran Castan, Lynne Thompson, and Cecelia Woloch. Dancers will be from the Atlanta professional community and Emory faculty.

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Rosemary Magee & Robert Paul

Right and left brain balance isn't hard to find on Emory's Quadrangle, but this is especially true of two Emory leaders who are advocates for the arts and artists in their own right. Emory University Vice-President & Secretary Rosemary Magee and Dean of Emory College Robert Paul recently had an opportunity to discuss creativity and related topics with Jessica Moore from the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA).

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Where Arts Go In Summer

The lights are dimmed for summer in Emory's performance spaces, but the arts faculty is hard at work on local and international creative projects.

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Brent Fogt & Klimchak

Brent Fogt received an MFA from the University of Michigan in 2007. He has exhibited throughout the world including The Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia; Sonar Festival, Barcelona, Spain (with Blue Puddle cooperative); Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Washington, DC; Contemporaine Kunst, Paramaribo, Surinam, South America; Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, New York; and the Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC. Mary Catherine Johnson of Emory's Visual Arts Department was able to ask Fogt some questions about his new exhibition and his artistic process.

Klimchak, dance musician and composer in Emory's Dance Program, is one of four winners of the 2009 Loridans Art Awards, given to accomplished artists who have made exceptional contributions to the arts life of Atlanta, often outside the public limelight, over a long period of time. The awardees receive the Loridans Arts Award Medal and $15,000 to spend at their discretion.

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Elizabeth Hornor & Emory Music Faculty Works

Elizabeth Hornor, Director of Education for the Carlos Museum, is an alumna of Emory University (College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences) and has a wealth of experience in museums and education. Before working at the Carlos Museum, she taught elementary aged children for several years at The Children’s School in Atlanta, before moving to Galveston, Texas where she was the education director and then the director of an arts center. She then returned to Atlanta to work at the High Museum and then came to the Carlos Museum. Hornor recently sat down to talk about how she stays creative, her experiences the Carlos, upcoming exhibitions, and more.

Emory College Department of Music faculty and artist affiliates produced a wealth of research and projects - recordings, publications, premieres, and compositions - from May 2008 through the present.

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Sara Ward & Ha Jin

Theater Emory concludes its 2008-2009 season focused on Searching for Oneself and that Other with a new production of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt directed by Theater Emory’s Artistic Director Tim McDonough, who has adapted Ibsen’s original dramatic poem into an approximately two-hour, often comedic and fanciful performance. The set for this new production was designed by Sara Ward, a lecturer in the Theater Studies department and the resident scenic artist and properties coordinator for Theater Emory.

Fiction writer and poet Ha Jin, who taught at Emory from 1993 to 2000, is this year’s guest reader at Awards Night. Jin, a native of China, was a newly-minted Ph.D. from Brandeis when he sent in his application in response to the Creative Writing Program’s advertisement for a new junior poetry professor. Although English was Jin’s second language, his poetry in his adopted tongue was so eloquent that the Creative Writing Program hired him out of a pool of approximately 200 applicants.

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Lois Overbeck & Brenda Bynum

Discuss Samuel Beckett

The Letters of Samuel Beckett is the first comprehensive edition of the letters of Irish-born writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), providing access to primary sources scattered in archives and private collections world-wide. Emory is celebrating the recent publication of Volume 1 of The Letters by Cambridge University Press covering the years 1929 through 1940 with a variety of events from March 17 to 20, 2009. Overbeck and Bynum, long-time friends and colleagues, sat down to discuss their love of all things Beckett, some little-known information about the writer, and the importance of the recently published early letters.

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George Staib

Emory Choreographer Designs Unique Visual Landscape in Upcoming Performance

Contemporary Dance – Vintage Music: George Staib and the Vega Quartet in Concert features a fluid evening of new dances to live musical accompaniment of works from the last two-and-a-half centuries beginning with a lively Bach suite, continuing through classic works by Stravinsky and Bartok, and finishing with a riveting score by contemporary composer Richard Einhorn. The Vega String Quartet, Emory University’s quartet-in-residence, and choreographer George Staib of the Emory Dance Program faculty produced this exciting evening running Feb. 12-14, 2009 at 8 p.m. in Emory’s Performing Arts Studio.

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Medical School & Arts Partner

Launches Art Exhibition Program: Inaugural Show Features Visual Arts Department Faculty

The Emory University motto, “the wise heart seeks knowledge” (Proverbs 18:15), reflects the University mission to educate heart and mind, but now Emory’s School of Medicine (SOM) will be educating the heart, the mind and the eyes. “Art by the Emory Visual Arts Faculty,” the first in a series of compelling art installations developed to reach future doctors and the professionals who train them is on view Dec. 1, 2008 through Feb. 28, 2009 in the new SOM Building (1st and 2nd Floor lobbies). The SOM and the Emory College of Arts & Sciences Visual Arts Department with co-sponsorship from the Emory University Creativity & Arts Initiative have collaborated to extend the clinical and classroom experience into the lobby-turned-gallery space.

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Steve Everett

Emory Composer Premieres New Chamber Opera

On November 15, 2008 at 8 p.m. the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta will present the world premiere of a new chamber opera Ophelia’s Gaze as part of its Emerson Series in the Schwartz Center’s Emerson Concert Hall. Ophelia’s Gaze, written by Steven Everett, Professor, Department of Music, Emory College of Arts and Sciences, is a new work for soprano, string quartet, and interactive audio and video.

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Jason Francisco

Emory's Visual Arts Department Welcomes Its Newest Faculty Member

Jason Francisco, an acclaimed photographer, writer, and book artist, has joined the Emory College faculty as Associate Professor of Visual Arts (Photography). An exhibition of his photographs, A Concern with History (2003), will be on view at the Visual Arts Building from October 16 – December 18, with an opening reception on Thursday, October 16 from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

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Leslie Taylor

Executive Director of the Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts

Leslie Taylor is the inaugural director of the Emory Center for Creativity & Arts. The official launch party of the CCA, Creativity & Arts Soiree: Celebrate Emory’s Creative Campus, was held on September 5th. She is also an associate professor and department chair in the Theater Deparment. She has designed sets and costumes for over 100 productions.

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Linda Armstrong

Collecting Excursions

Linda Armstrong is the director of the Emory Visual Arts Program, where she has taught for the past 15 years. Her recent installation, Collecting Excursions, was on view at the Emory Visual Arts Gallery from March 20 through April 24, 2008.

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