Greg Leaming to be Head of Theatre Directing
Meadows productions will have a new artistic twist this year. Greg Leaming, former director of artistic programming at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, CN has joined SMU as associate professor and head of directing in the Division of Theatre. He will manage graduate and undergraduate directing programs, teach and direct plays during the season. Some of Leaming’s accomplishments have been directing productions including the world premieres of Constance Congdon’s Losing Father’s Body and Keith Curran’s Church of the Sole Survivor, both of which won the national W. Alton Jones New Play Award. Since 1989 he has served as an evaluator and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Leaming also holds an M.F.A. in directing from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
“Greg Leaming brings a wealth of experience to the theatre program at SMU,” said Kevin Paul Hofeditz, chair of the school’s Division of Theatre. “Both intellectually and artistically, he will be a valuable addition to our faculty.”
New Director of Opera Appointed
Marciem Bazell has been appointed director of opera at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts. She will direct productions and coordinate the opera theatre program, including teaching stage movement, character development and acting for singers. Bazell comes to the Hilltop after serving on faculty at the University of Texas at El Paso as well as two other renowned music schools in Philadelphia, The Curtis Institute of Music and The Academy of Vocal Arts. Her directorial credits include Tosca, Faust, La Traviata, La Boheme, and Rigoletto . Bazell has sung in America, Germany and Austria.
Last Call for “De Agua Y De Luna: Silver Sculptures from Mexico”
This is your last chance to check out the silver exhibition including nearly 50 sculptures from the collection of Tane Orfebres of Mexico, a silversmith company founded in 1942.
Tane Orfebres has commissioned sculptures from leading painters, architects, designers and sculptors in Mexico and abroad including Herbert Bayer, Edgar Negret and Arnaldo Pomodoro. The sculptures represent a wide variety of approaches, traditions and themes.
The exhibition will conclude August 25. Admission to the Meadows museum is free.
For more information, call the Meadows Museum at (214) 768-2516 or visit http://meadowsmuseum.smu.edu.
A Must See Display at the Meadows Museum
Provisional Self: Sculpture and Drawings by James W. Sullivan will be presented from September 15 through December 8, 2002. The exhibition explores themes of the human figure, including more than 20 sculptures of straw, plaster and numerous aquatints and ink-and-wash drawings created over the past 12 years by Sullivan. His work has been showcased in solo and group exhibitions throughout the country and in Germany.
San Francisco based sculptor and guest curator of the exhibit Elizabeth Mead said, “they [the forms] invite the viewer to consider his or her own place in the world, parallel to Sullivan’s own meditation on the figure and the human.”
Three public lectures will be held in the museum in conjunction with the exhibition. The lecture schedule is as follows:
“Figures, Ciphers, Absence” 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19th (Elizabeth Mead)
“Provisional Proximity” 12:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20th (Elizabeth Mead)
Gallery talk by James Sullivan 12:15 p.m. Friday Nov. 15th
