perspectives: traditions, tensions, transitions 2016-2017

PERSPECTIVES: TRADITIONS, TENSIONS, TRANSITIONS
2016-2017
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About Lyceum @ La Verne
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Become a Season Subscriber
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Signature Events
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Events
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Sponsorship Opportunities
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Exhibition
Speaker
Performance
Sundays at the Morgan
Cover Art: Ruth Trotter “Mariner, 2016”
Image on Left: Sonya Clark “Hair Craft Project, 2014”
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About Lyceum @ La Verne
Lyceum @ La Verne offers an array of cultur-
The series also advances the mission of the
ally diverse performing arts programs for
College of Arts and Sciences to promote
the University of La Verne, city of La Verne
cultural and artistic awareness and exempli-
and the San Gabriel Valley corridor. It will
fies the university’s commitment to holistic
educate, enlighten, enrich and entertain
education and community development.
people of all ages while providing leader-
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ship and support to advance cultural and
We hope it will play an important role in
performing arts.
building and educating new audiences,
as well as broadening the region’s artistic
The series is an amalgamation of the visual
talents. Welcome to the inaugural season as
and performing arts, noted lectures and
we celebrate 125 years at the University of
scholarly and community engagements,
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which are critical elements for understanding, appreciating and enhancing the
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La Verne Experience. Lyceum, which is
Greek, refers to public lectures, discussions,
concerts and entertainment. Thus, Lyceum
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which to view ideas, cultures and art forms,
Lawrence T. Potter, Jr., Ph.D.
and serve as a mirror that reflects ourselves,
Dean and Professor
our histories and our own cultures.
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Latin Music Festival Sept 25
SUNDAYS @
THE MORGAN
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Joshua Rashaad McFadden Oct 11
Geetha Bennett Oct 16
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Claudia Rankine Nov 2
LA Opera Artists Nov 13
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Luis Valdez Nov 15
Choral Holiday Spectacular Dec 4
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Reed Gratz Band Jan 15
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Lyndon Rochelle & The Rochelle Experience Feb 12
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Sonya Clark Feb 21
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Juan Felipe Herrera Feb 27
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Shawn Kirchner & Singers March 26
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Pianist Timothy Durkovic April 23
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Best of La Verne’s Music Department May 14
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SIGNATURE EVENTS FALL 2016
Performance
Exhibition
“Foot Soldiers, 2015”
La Tematik, Calixto Oviendo & The Cuban Jazz Train
LATIN MUSIC
FESTIVAL
Sept 25 at 5 PM
Ann and Steve
Morgan Auditorium
Sundays @ the Morgan
Performance
EXPERIENCE THE FLAVOR OF CUBAN MUSIC through the
salsa, timba, rumba and jazz fusion of New York’s Le Tematik,
the seasoned percussion of Latin artist Calixto Oviedo and
his band, Cuban Jazz Train. Le Tematik began in 2010 as an
ensemble for salsa and Cuban singers touring New York’s Tri
State area, but quickly became a first-call ensemble. Calixto
Oviedo is a Latin Grammy-nominated artist who has performed
with numerous internationally-known artists including Paquito
D’Rivera, Arturo Sandoval and Gonzalo Rubalcaba. He mixes
Afro Cuban music with New Orleans jazz in Cuban Jazz Train’s
ensemble of musicians.
Image on Left: Joshua Rashaad McFadden “Man and Young Man, 2015”
JOSHUA RASHAAD
MCFADDEN
“After Selma” Exhibit
PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTIST JOSHUA
RASHAAD MCFADDEN presents the
award-winning collection, “After Selma.”
It is a photographic reconsideration of
the 1965 civil rights march from Selma
to Montgomery, Ala. McFadden holds
an MFA from Savannah College of Art
and Design in Atlanta.
Exhibit runs from August 29 – October 14
Oct 11
Come to Selfhood
Presentation &
Book Signing
4:00 - 5:30 PM
Abraham Campus Center,
Ballroom A
“After Selma”
Reception and Viewing
5:30 - 6:30 PM
Irene Carlson Gallery
of Photography
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Speaker
Author of Citizen: An American Lyric
CLAUDIA RANKINE
One Book, One University Keynote
Nov 2 at 3:30 PM
Ann and Steve
Morgan Auditorium
CLAUDIA RANKINE’S bestselling book, Citizen: An
American Lyric, uses poetry, essay, cultural criticism and
visual images to explore what it means to be an American citizen in a “post-racial” society. Citizen was the
winner of the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Collection,
the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, the
NAACP Image Award, the PEN Open Book Award and
the LA Times Book Award for poetry. Citizen also holds
the distinction of being the only poetry book to be a
New York Times bestseller in the nonfiction category.
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Image on Left: Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
SIGNATURE EVENTS FALL 2016
Performance
LA OPERA
ARTISTS
LA OPERA ARTISTS perform a
fun and engaging recital featuring some of opera’s greatest hits
as well as highlights from the
American Song Book.
Speaker
Nov 13 at 6 PM
Ann and Steve
Morgan Auditorium
Sundays @ the Morgan
Performance
LUIS VALDEZ
Keynote
Nov 15 at 7:30 PM
Dailey Theater
LUIS VALDEZ is regarded as one of the most influential
American playwrights living today and his Obie Award-winning theater company, El Teatro Campesino (The Farmworkers’ Theater) one of the most important political theatres of
the 1960-70s. His plays are read and performed around the
world and his films Zoot Suit and La Bamba are classics of the
American Latinx cinema. Valdez has won numerous awards
and recognitions and in 2007 was inducted into the College
of Fellows of the American Theatre.
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Exhibition on View
Artist Talk & Reception
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SONYA CLARK
Feb 21 at 6 PM
SONYA CLARK is chair of the craft and material
studies department at Virginia Commonwealth
University School of the Arts in Richmond, Va.
She credits her maternal grandmother, a tailor, for
her passion for the discipline, which focuses on
ceramics, glass, wood, fiber and metal. Clark has
exhibited her work in more than 300 museums
and galleries globally. She won an Art Prize Grand
Jurors co-prize in 2014 and a Smithsonian Artist
Research Fellowship, among other honors.
Exhibit Shows
Image on Left: Sonya Clark “Black Hair Flag, 2010”
Abraham Campus Center,
Ballroom A
Reception Following
in Harris Gallery
Feb 1 - Apr 27
SIGNATURE EVENTS SPRING 2017
Speaker
Performance
FREDERICK DOUGLASS HUMAN RIGHTS LECTURE
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA
United States Poet Laureate
PIANIST
Feb 27 at 6 PM
Ann and Steve
Morgan Auditorium
JUAN FELIPE HERRERA became the 21st U.S. Poet Laureate in
2015, the first Mexican American to hold the position. Librarian
of Congress James H. Billington said Herrera’s poems “contain
Whitman-esque multitudes that champion voices, traditions and
histories, as well as a cultural perspective” serving to illuminate
our larger American identity. Herrera wrote 30 books, including
collections of poetry, prose, and short stories. Influenced by Allen
Ginsberg, Luis Valdez and the Chicano Civil Rights Movement,
Herrera writes passionately about social issues.
TIMOTHY DURKOVIC
LOS ANGELES BASED PIANIST TIMOTHY
DURKOVIC is a soloist and chamber musician. He has won awards at the Los Angeles
Liszt Competition, the Carmel Music Society
Competition and the San Diego Duo Piano
Competition. He served on the faculties of
Long Beach City College, Orange County
High School of the Arts and the University
of La Verne and has performed and arranged
music for clients including Christina Aguilera
and Dignity Health.
April 23 at 6 PM
Ann and Steve
Morgan Auditorium
Sundays @ the Morgan
Performance
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EVENTS FALL 2016
Sept 1 - JOELLA JEAN MAHONEY
Oct 31 Passionate Vision, Landscape painting
Harris
Gallery
Artist
Reception
and Talk,
Oct 13 at 6 PM
of the Colorado Plateau, 1965-2016.
A 50-year retrospective
Joella Mahoney is University of
La Verne professor of art emerita, who helped develop the art
department in 1964. She is known
for large scale landscapes in oil,
with her main motif being the
Colorado Plateau.
Oct 27 DAVID PAGEL
at 6 PM Critic and Curator Lecture
Abraham
Campus Center,
Ballroom A
Reception
Following at
Tall Wall Space
ACB Building
RADIUS ABSTRACTUS, Augusto Sandroni
David Pagel is an art critic who
writes regularly for the Los Angeles
Times and is also an adjunct curator
at the Parrish Art Museum in Water
Mill, New York. Augusto Sandroni’s
work has been exhibited at Oceanside Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo
Museum of Art and Moloney Fine
Art, Los Angeles.
Image on Left: Joella Mahoney “The Source, 1999”
Oct 16
at 6 PM
Ann and
Steve Morgan
Auditorium
Oct 24 Dec 16
Irene Carlson
Gallery of
Photography
GEETHA BENNETT
Veena and vocal artist Geetha
Ramanathan Bennett performs
throughout the world, and was the
first veena player to perform in Hong
Kong. She began experimenting with
the fusion of Indian classical music
and western styles in the 1990s when
she performed as a veena soloist in
Hamilton, N.Y. She also sang for the
feature film ‘The Guru’ and played
veena for the IMAX film ‘Everest.’
J. JASON LAZARUS
Emblem and Artifice:
Withered Symbols of the War
J. Jason Lazarus’s portfolio of photographs involves symbolism from World
War II. His chemigrams are printed on
kodabromide paper that expired five
days before the Hiroshima bombing. The brutal memories of trauma
are imprinted onto these artifacts of
the war. He is a University of Alaska
adjunct lecturer.
Oct 20 - CITIZEN: AN AMERICAN LYRIC
Oct 22 at Staged Reading
7:30 PM In support of “One Book, One UniverOct 23 at
2 PM
Dailey
Theater
Nov 10 - 12,
17 - 19 at
7:30 PM
Nov 20
at 2 PM
Dailey
Theater
sity,” the Department of Theater Arts
presents a staged reading of Citizen:
An American Lyric in Dailey Theatre.
The script is adapted from Claudia
Rankine’s text by Stephen Sachs. The
reading will be directed Shirley Jo
Finney, who has directed acclaimed
productions of Citizen in Los Angeles
and South Carolina.
TRES ACTOS
Theater Production
Luis Valdez’s classic “actos,” The Militants, Vietnam
Campesino and Los Vendidos will be presented by
the Theatre Arts Department
Valdez is regarded as one of the most
influential American playwrights living
today and his Obie Award-winning
theater company, El Teatro Campesino one of the most important political theatres of the 1960-70s. His plays
are read and performed around the
world and his films Zoot Suit and La
Bamba are classics of the American
Latinx cinema.
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EVENTS FALL 2016
Nov 13 KRISTALLNACHT LECTURE
at 4 PM in collaboration with Jewish Federation
Abraham
Campus Center,
Ballroom A
Jonathan Kirsch writes and lectures
on legal topics relating to the
publishing industry for the Independent Book Publishers Association,
the Western Publishing Association
and others. He is the author of 13
books, a guest commentator for NPR
affiliates and a New York University
adjunct faculty member.
Nov 17 MODEL UNITED NATIONS
at 12 PM SPEAKER OF THE YEAR
Abraham
Campus Center,
Ballroom A
Dr. Luis Ernesto Derbez is President
of Universidad de las Américas
Puebla in Mexico, and has served as
Secretary of Economy and Secretary of Foreign Relations. Dr. Derbez
has consulted or served as a board
member for organizations such as
Ford Motor Co., Bombardier and the
Mexican Institute of Water Technology. He is fluent in Spanish, French
and English.
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This Page: Augusto Sandroni!Image on Right: David Pagel
Dec 4
at 6 PM
Ann and
Steve Morgan
Auditorium
CHORAL HOLIDAY
SPECTACULAR CONCERT
Dec 6
at 6 PM
ULV Chamber Singers and Chorale
Harris
bring the spirit of the holiday season to
life through joyful renditions of tradiGallery
tional and classic Christmas numbers,
Exhibit shows
conducted by Dr. Irene Messoloras.
Dec 6 – 15
Dec 6
at 3 PM
Interfaith
Chapel
STUDENT POETRY READING
Creative Writing Program Students
The December end-of-semester
poetry reading showcases students’
advanced creative works and is
the culmination of their skills and
knowledge throughout their years
of study.
STUDENT ART EXHIBITION
Art Department Senior Projects Reception
The 2016 Senior Art Exhibition showcases the artwork of graduating
art majors, who have spent several
months creating advanced work
reflecting their years of study and
experience.
EVENTS SPRING 2017
Jan 15 REED GRATZ BAND
at 6 PM Enjoy an evening of jazz, Latin,
Ann and
Steve Morgan
Auditorium
urban and funk by University of
La Verne professor of music Reed
Gratz and his band of world-class
musicians. Dr. Gratz has played
with renowned musicians including
Barbara Morrison, Herb Alpert,
Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Healey.
Jan 30 - SARAH CUSIMANO MILES
March 24 SOLOMON’S HOUSE
Irene Carlson
Gallery of
Photography
Sarah Cusimano Miles serves as
assistant professor of photography
at Jacksonville State University,
Alabama. Her still-life portfolio,
“Solomon’s House,” explores items
from the Alabama collections
repository. Miles is a University
of Alabama graduate with an
MFA in photography.
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Feb 12 LYNDON ROCHELLE
at 6 PM THE ROCHELLE EXPERIENCE
Ann and
Steve Morgan
Auditorium
March 26
at 2 PM
Ann and
Steve Morgan
Auditorium
Lyndon Rochelle and the Rochelle
Experience perform gospel and
soul music, providing grooves that
move listeners to get up and dance.
Rochelle’s performances include the
Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony for
Barack Obama, Prince’s Welcome to
America Tour, and numerous network
television appearances. He has toured
Europe with Esperanza Spaulding,
James Torme, hip hop pioneer RZA,
Eric Darius, and De La Soul.
April 3 - TENSIONS AND TRADITIONS
May 26 IN CONTEXT
Irene Carlson
Gallery of
Photography
SHAWN KIRCHNER AND SINGERS
Top Los Angeles professional choral
singers will perform a full range of music
by Shawn Kirchner, a composer, arranger
and performer whose choral works are
performed throughout the world. He is
the pianist, organist and composer-inresidence at the La Verne Church of
the Brethren.
April 6
at 5 PM
Interfaith
Chapel
This exhibition, tentatively titled
“Tensions and Traditions in Context,”
will develop as an advanced collaborative curatorial project organized
by students and visiting professor
of photography Stacey McCarroll
Cutshaw.
KEVIN MOFFETT: FICTION WRITER
Kevin Moffett’s collection, “Permanent
Visitors,” won the John Simmons
Short Fiction Award, among other
honors. His stories and essays have
appeared in various journals including
The Best American Short Stories and
McSweeney’s. He has received the
Nelson Algren Award, the Pushcart
Prize, and a literature fellowship from
the National Endowment of the Arts.
EVENTS SPRING 2017
April 19 DR. JOHN MEYERS
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for time and
location
information
Robert and Mary Neher Global
Sustainability Lecture
John M. Meyer is a Humboldt
State University professor
focused on sustainability and
politics. His research and
published work explores the
state of environmentalism in
the U.S.
April 19 RUTH TROTTER
at 12 PM Paintings, Faculty Exhibition
West Gallery,
Abraham
Campus Center
Exhibit Shows
April 19 May 31
Artist Reception and Talk
Ruth Trotter is a painter and
professor of art at the University
of La Verne. Trotter’s work has
been exhibited nationally and
internationally, most recently with
“New Work” at a Ruth Bachofner
Gallery in Santa Monica in 2016.
April 26 BHUTTO-ISPAHANI LECTURE
at 12 PM The University of La Verne’s annual
Abraham
Campus Center,
Ballroom A-D
Benazir Bhutto and Ahmed Ispahani
International Lectureship was
established by alumnus and Trustee
Paul Moseley in 2007 and features
renowned speakers with expertise
in international issues. It honors
the legacy, leadership and courage
of Benazir Bhutto, the 11th prime
minister of Pakistan, and her cousin,
Dr. Ahmed Ispahani, Professor of
Business Administration and
Economics at the university.
May 9 STUDENT SPRING SHOW: EXHIBITION
at 6 PM Wow and Flutter
Harris
Gallery
Exhibit Shows
May 9 - 18
Wow and Flutter will present a
selection of upper level studio
projects. As the final exhibition for
the academic year, the Department
of Art and Art History is proud to
showcase pieces by talented and
hardworking students who have
developed their art-making skills and
expanded their critical practices.
May 14
at 6 PM
Ann and
Steve Morgan
Auditorium
May 18
at 5 PM
Interfaith
Chapel
BEST OF LA VERNE
MUSIC DEPARTMENT
A year-end tradition, “Best of
La Verne” features the faculty,
students and staff of the Music
Department sharing the
Morgan stage.
STUDENT FICTION READING
Creative Writing Program Students
The Program in Creative Writing
cordially invites you to attend the
end-of-semester reading showcasing students’ creative fiction. The
individuals readers in this fiction
reading series have spent the last
several months creating advanced
work that reflects the skills and
knowledge developed throughout
their years of study and experience
at the University of La Verne as
fiction writers.
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Sponsorship Opportunities
Supporting cultural arts and education
programs in our community and region
is good for your business
BUSINESS AND CORPORATE INVOLVEMENT in cultural
arts and education programs can provide a lasting value
that contributes to the enrichment of society as a whole.
The roster of high quality and diverse programs offered
by Lyceum @ La Verne provides an unparalleled range of
opportunities to align your business goals with support
of the cultural arts and education programs at La Verne.
Title Sponsor $10,000
Cultural Arts Leadership Sponsor $5,000
Education Leadership Sponsor $3,000
Series Patron $1,200
Advertising Sponsor $500
For more detailed information on Lyceum @ La Verne
sponsorship opportunities, contact the College of Arts and
Sciences Dean’s Office at (909) 448-4188 or Patricia Tucker,
CAS Major Gifts Officer, at (909) 448-4687.
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Acknowledgements
THE CREATION OF LYCEUM @ LA VERNE has involved a community
of creative minds and hands-on technical professionals who believed
in the vision to unify the visual and performing arts and lectures
and education program offerings at the University of La Verne.
A special recognition to:
• Grace Zhao and Dion Johnson (Lyceum Steering Group Co-Chairs)
• Writing Program Faculty for researching and recommending
selections for One Book, One University
• Departments of Art, Music, Theater Arts, and the Creative Writing
Program for their cooperative support and contributions
• The La Verne Experience
• Office of University Advancement
• Office of Academic and Student Affairs
• Office of Strategic Communications
• Office of the President
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