{"id":19,"date":"2025-03-18T17:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T21:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/jordan-arts\/signature-series\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T08:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:06:18","slug":"signature-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/jordan-arts\/signature-series\/","title":{"rendered":"JCA Signature Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wysiwyg wysiwyg-primary-block alignfull\" >\n\t<div class=\"container grid-default wysiwyg__container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<nav class=\"sidebar-menu \" aria-label=\"Site Menu\" id=\"page-nav\">\n\t\t<div class=\"sidebar-menu__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<header class=\"sidebar-menu__header\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"sidebar-menu__headerLabel\">Jordan College of the Arts Menu<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"sidebar-menu__mobileToggle\" title=\"Toggle Menu\" :aria-expanded=\"mobileOpen\"><\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/header>\n\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"sidebar-menu__list\" v-show=\"mobileOpen\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/jordan-arts\/about\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >About<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/jordan-arts\/undergraduate-programs\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Undergraduate Programs<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/jordan-arts\/graduate-programs\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Graduate Programs<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academics\/three-year-programs\/majors\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Three-Year Programs<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/jordan-arts\/admission\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >JCA Admission<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/jordan-arts\/faculty-staff-production\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Faculty, Staff, and Production <\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"sidebar-menu__listItem initial-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/jordan-arts\/indianapolis-center-for-arts-education-and-innovation\/\" class=\"sidebar-menu__listLink\" >Indianapolis Center for Arts Education &#038; 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Das\u2019 vision of bringing together music traditions from across the world has produced an eclectic repertoire that is simultaneously deeply rooted in tradition and yet uniquely innovative. With a focus on the arts of India and Afghanistan, <em>Delhi to Kabul<\/em> showcases the shared heritage of two countries that are as ancient as they are modern, and as diverse as they are captivating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This evening\u2019s program will feature iconic instruments from each country: the tabla (a pair of hand drums from North India), rabab (a lute-like instrument from Afghanistan also common to many Central Asian countries), and sitar (string instrument from India) are joined by Kathak dance (a classical storytelling dance from India) and a narrated story written by Afghan author Homeira Qaderi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Panel Discussion: <em>The Rhythm of Life: Healing through Rhythm and Music<\/em><br>Thursday, September 4, 2025, 7:30 PM, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us for an interactive, interdisciplinary panel discussion exploring the healing power of North Indian Classical Music through the lens of culture, tradition, and modern science. Rooted in time theory, philosophy, and precise melodic and rhythmic constructions, North Indian Classical Music has long been recognized for its therapeutic effects on the body and mind. This conversation will bring together Grammy-winning tabla maestro Sandeep Das and Indian sitarist Rajib Karmakar to delve into how practices like riaz (disciplined practice), spiritual compositions, and meditative soundscapes foster mental and emotional well-being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Together, we will examine this ancient art form as both a cultural treasure and a powerful modality for healing in the contemporary world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sponsored by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26083417\/catalyst-effect.png\" alt=\"The Catalyst Effect logo\" class=\"wp-image-13221\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26083417\/catalyst-effect.png 745w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26083417\/catalyst-effect-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-tim-miller-theatre-artist\">TIM MILLER, <em>theatre artist<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26084043\/tim-miller.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:175px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Presentation: <em>An Evening with Tim Miller<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday, September 22, 2025, 7:30 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tim<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Miller<\/strong>&nbsp;is an internationally acclaimed performance artist.&nbsp;Miller&#8217;s creative work as a performer and writer explores the artistic, spiritual, and political topography of his identity as a gay man. Hailed for his humor and passion,&nbsp;Miller&nbsp;has tackled this challenge in such pieces as POSTWAR (1982), COST OF LIVING (1983), DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA (1984), BUDDY SYSTEMS (1985), SOME GOLDEN STATES (1987), STRETCH MARKS (1989), SEX\/LOVE\/STORIES (1991), MY QUEER BODY (1992), NAKED BREATH (1994), FRUIT COCKTAIL (1996),&nbsp; SHIRTS &amp; SKIN (1997), GLORY BOX (1999), US (2003) 1001 BEDS (2006), LAY OF THE LAND (2009), ROOTED (2016), and A BODY IN THE O (2020).&nbsp;Miller&#8217;s performances have been presented all over North America, Australia, and Europe in such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art (London), the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. He is the author of the books&nbsp;<em>SHIRTS &amp; SKIN, BODY BLOWS<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>and <em>1001 BEDS,<\/em><em>&nbsp;<\/em>which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. His solo theater works have been published in the play collections&nbsp;<em>O Solo Homo<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Sharing the Delirium<\/em>.&nbsp;Miller\u2019s book&nbsp;<em>1001 BEDS<\/em>, an anthology of his performances, essays, and journals, was published by University of Wisconsin Press in 2006.&nbsp;Miller&nbsp;has taught performance at UCLA, NYU, the School of Theology at Claremont, Cal State L.A., and at universities all over the US. He is a co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan&#8217;s Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jeanette-mccune-non-profit-executive-leader\">JEANETTE MCCUNE, <em>non-profit executive leader<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"433\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26084706\/jeanette-mccune.jpg\" alt=\"Jeanette McCune headshot\" class=\"wp-image-13224\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26084706\/jeanette-mccune.jpg 433w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26084706\/jeanette-mccune-291x300.jpg 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: <em>The Role of DEI in Effective Community Engagement<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday, September 29, 2025, 7:30 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical building blocks to ensuring that all who are part of your community are recognized as important and valued participants in your work.&nbsp;The goal is not to disfavor or disadvantage one group over another, but to thoughtfully and intentionally consider perspectives and experiences to build a cohesive and representative community.&nbsp;In this session, presenter Jeanette McCune, with more than two decades of experience in community-building programming for students, schools, and systems, will share examples and tips for programming that supports participation for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jeanette McCune<\/strong> has been appointed as Executive Director of SchoolTalk, a nonprofit organization committed to ensuring equitable access to education and successful postsecondary outcomes for youth with disabilities in the District of Columbia. In this role, Jeanette will oversee SchoolTalk\u2019s strategic direction, operations, and programs that support youth with disabilities as they navigate secondary education and transition to postsecondary opportunities. She will also work closely with community partners, schools, government agencies, and families to advocate for inclusive policies and practices. Jeanette brings over two decades of invaluable experience from The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she most recently served as Senior Director of School and Community Programs. In this role, she provided strategic vision, budget oversight, and led a team overseeing local and national arts education programs for students from Kindergarten through 12th grade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-anderson-amp-roe\">ANDERSON &amp; ROE<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"440\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26084843\/anderson-roe.jpg\" alt=\"Woman in black dress stands next to man in black suit seated at piano.\" class=\"wp-image-13225\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26084843\/anderson-roe.jpg 440w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26084843\/anderson-roe-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Performance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 7:30 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Anderson &amp; Roe Piano Duo<\/strong> has been called \u201cthe most dynamic duo of this generation\u201d (<em>San&nbsp;Francisco Classical Voice<\/em>), \u201crock stars of the&nbsp;classical music world\u201d (<em>Miami&nbsp;Herald<\/em>), and \u201cthe very model of complete 21st-century musicians\u201d (<em>The Washington&nbsp;Post<\/em>). These superlatives are grounded in what can only be described as <em>ineffable connectivity<\/em>: the technically masterful <strong>Greg Anderson<\/strong> and <strong>Elizabeth Joy Roe<\/strong> exude an organic and seamless completeness when they perform together, working in sync to unearth the essence of each piece they play from their genre-transcending repertoire, and testing the boundaries of their instruments. That special alchemy immediately captivates their audiences: \u201cEven the most jaded of concert goers sat forward in their seats and dropped their jaws in amazement as these two just re-wrote the book of the tedious concert recital\u201d (<em>Sarasota Herald-Tribune<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alexandra-mcnichols-torroledo-photographer\">ALEXANDRA MCNICHOLS-TORROLEDO, <em>photographer<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"537\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085058\/alexandra-mcnichols-torroledo.jpg\" alt=\"Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo with a camera under a tree.\" class=\"wp-image-13226\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085058\/alexandra-mcnichols-torroledo.jpg 537w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085058\/alexandra-mcnichols-torroledo-300x249.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Exhibition and Lecture: <em>Honoring Indigenous Communities who are Protecting and Restoring the Earth from Climate Change through Photography<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday, November 3, 2025, 7:30 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alexandra&nbsp;McNichols-Torroledo<\/strong>, Colombian-born photographer, uses her photographic practice as a journalist and artist to work in collaboration with ancestral indigenous communities in North and South America who are protecting water, sacred&nbsp;plants, and the rainforest from climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alexandra McNichols-Torroledo<\/strong> is a Colombian-American photographer living in Indiana. Her artwork has centered on immigration issues in America and the fight of Indigenous communities in North and South America to protect sacred plants, water, and the rainforest from climate change. Alexandra\u2019s practice bridges the fields of artistic and documentary photography, using a range of alternatives and processes to produce handmade photographs that appear to be antiques or sculptures. This approach achieves an aesthetic result that transports the spectator to the past within the reality of the present. She uses antique photographic processes and digital techniques to print on trees, stones, hand-made paper from coca leaf fiber, and recycled paper and canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has published two photo poetry books and four photobooks: <em>Encounters,<\/em> <em>Dream and Nightmares, Stone Faces,<\/em> and <em>Diaries of Death. <\/em>Her articles and photos have been published in <em>El Espectador<\/em> (Colombia), <em>The Guardian<\/em> (UK), <em>Semana Sostenible <\/em>(Colombia), <em>Trib-Star<\/em> (Indiana), and <em>Bloom Magazine <\/em>(Indiana). McNichols-Torroledo\u2019s work has been exhibited and lectured about in museums and galleries in America, Colombia, Brazil, and England, including El Museo Cultural Santa Fe, Palacio Das Artes, FAR Center for Contemporary Arts, Swope Art Museum, Museo La Tertulia, the Pereira Museum of Art, Guichellar Gallery at Big Car\/Tube Factory&nbsp;Art Space, La Cometa Gallery, and Art Pavillion. Last year, she exhibited at Aurora PhotoCenter and lectured on her work at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dj-spinderella\">DJ SPINDERELLA<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"446\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085306\/dj-spinderella.jpg\" alt=\"DJ Spinderella in black dress.\" class=\"wp-image-13227\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085306\/dj-spinderella.jpg 446w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085306\/dj-spinderella-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Fireside Chat and Performance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 6:00 PM<br>Shelton Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Deidra Roper, <\/strong>internationally known as&nbsp;<strong>DJ<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Spinderella<\/strong>, is a Grammy award-winning&nbsp;DJ, producer, rapper, writer, and world-class mother.&nbsp;Spinderella&nbsp;is one of the original pioneers of hip hop music, beginning her career as a member of the iconic rap group Salt-N-Pepa, selling over 15 million albums and singles worldwide. Over two decades after her groundbreaking entrance into hip hop, the Brooklyn native still sets the standard for \u201cturntablist\u201d all over the world and is still a force to be reckoned with in the music industry. With countless lifetime achievement awards, including the VH1 Hip Hop Honors, Global Spin Breaking Barriers\u2019, Black Girls Rock, and BET ICON awards,&nbsp;Spinderella&nbsp;is a notable pioneer in the industry for empowering and inspiring the entire&nbsp;DJing community. Now, in addition to continuing to&nbsp;DJ&nbsp;the world\u2019s largest events, she has become a motivational speaker for aspiring artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-pittsburgh-ballet-theatre\">PITTSBURGH BALLET THEATRE<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"338\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085418\/pittsburgh-ballet-theatre.jpg\" alt=\"Male ballet dancer holds female ballet dancer by the waist\" class=\"wp-image-13228\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085418\/pittsburgh-ballet-theatre.jpg 338w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085418\/pittsburgh-ballet-theatre-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Performance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, February 6, 2026, 7:30 PM<br>Schrott Center for the Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre<\/strong> has been Pittsburgh\u2019s premier professional ballet company since 1969. Today, PBT is a nationally recognized ballet company of 32 professional dancers, a training institution for over 1,200 students of all ages, and an incubator for education and accessibility programs in classrooms, libraries, and community centers throughout the region. The company, under the leadership of artistic director Adam W. McKinney and executive director Nicholas Dragga, performs a wide-ranging repertoire of classical ballets, contemporary masterworks, and new commissions in nearly 50 performances annually.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-cf-payne-illustrator\">CF PAYNE, <em>illustrator<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"491\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085643\/cf-payne.jpg\" alt=\"CF Payne at his drawing table with an illustration of a baseball player at bat.\" class=\"wp-image-13229\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085643\/cf-payne.jpg 491w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085643\/cf-payne-300x273.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: <em>Why Illustration Matters<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 7:30 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C.F. Payne<\/strong> is an illustrator and arts educator with a passion for drawing.&nbsp;His work has appeared in publications such as <em>Time, Der Spiegel, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, MAD, Boys Life, Atlantic Monthly, AARP, the Wall Street Journal,<\/em> and many other national and international publications. His work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, Norman Rockwell Museum, Mazza Museum, Cincinnati Art Museum, and others around the world. He is the subject of the movie: <em>C.F. Payne: An American Illustrator.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C.F. started his career in Dallas in 1980. Since then, he has received Gold Medals from the Society of Illustrators in 1993 and 1996, and Silver Medals in 1992, 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2001. He received the Hamilton King Award for excellence in illustration in 1995 and the Society of Illustrators Distinguished Educator Award in 2012. The National Cartoonist\u2019s Society awarded him the Illustration Award in 2002 and the Book Illustration Award in 2003. In 2017, he won the Individual Artist Governor\u2019s Award for the Arts in Ohio. Communication Arts awarded him the Award of Excellence in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-eliana-pipes-playwright\">ELIANA PIPES, <em>playwright<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"406\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085819\/eliana-pipes.jpg\" alt=\"Eliana Pipes headshot self-portrait.\" class=\"wp-image-13230\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085819\/eliana-pipes.jpg 406w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26085819\/eliana-pipes-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Butler Theatre will present <em>Lorena, A Tabloid Epic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>February 25-March 1, 2026<br>Lilly Hall Studio Theatre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Playwriting Workshop (Zoom): Thursday, January 15, 7:00-9:00 PM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rehearsal Visit (Zoom): Wednesday, February 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eliana Pipes<\/strong> is a writer, filmmaker, and performer based in her hometown of Los Angeles. In <strong>television,<\/strong> she was a writer on season one of the historical drama SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR with Starz and Lionsgate Television. Her <strong>plays<\/strong> include <em>BITE ME <\/em>(world premiere co-production Off Broadway WP Theater and Colt Coeur); <em>DREAM HOU$<\/em>E (world premiere co-production Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and Baltimore Center Stage, published by Concord Samuel French); <em>HOOPS <\/em>(commissioned, world premiere Milwaukee Chamber Theater); <em>LORENA: a Tabloid Epic<\/em> (New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency, The Playwright&#8217;s Realm Scratchpad Series); <em>COWBOY AND THE MOON<\/em> (Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, NNPN MFA Playwright&#8217;s Workshop); <em>UNFUCKWITHABLE<\/em> (Old Globe Powers New Voices Festival, Drama League DirectorFest); <em>STAND AND WAIT<\/em> (The Fire This Time Festival), and more.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sedrick-huckaby-painter\">SEDRICK HUCKABY, <em>painter<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"397\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090006\/sedrick-huckaby.jpg\" alt=\"Sedrick Huckaby portrait.\" class=\"wp-image-13231\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090006\/sedrick-huckaby.jpg 397w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090006\/sedrick-huckaby-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: <em>Higher Ground<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 7:30 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHigher Ground\u201d is the name of a recent exhibition of mine that deals with incarceration, liberty, and the continuing spiritual, physical, and social journey of Black Americans in their generational struggle for freedom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sedrick Huckaby<\/strong>&nbsp;was born in Fort Worth, Texas. After receiving an undergraduate education from Boston University and a graduate degree from Yale, Huckaby traveled to France, Italy, and Spain studying old master paintings.&nbsp;Eventually Huckaby moved back to his hometown of Fort Worth, Texas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huckaby\u2019s work is a complex mixture of ideals that are both personal and universal, scientific and spiritual, historical and romantic. While themes of faith, family, and the Black American experience are the initial subjects, underlying historical criticisms and notions of dimensional existence are secondary ideas. These, coupled with the complexities of the mediums used, give the work true depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Guggenheim Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship are a few of the numerous awards he has received.&nbsp;His work is also included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Fort Worth Modern Art Museum, The National Gallery of Art, and many other national and international institutions<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-chad-bauman-executive-director-of-milwaukee-repertory-theatre\">CHAD BAUMAN, <em>executive director of Milwaukee Repertory Theatre<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"330\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090219\/chad-bauman.jpg\" alt=\"Chad Bauman headshot.\" class=\"wp-image-13232\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090219\/chad-bauman.jpg 330w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090219\/chad-bauman-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: <em>Leading Through Relentless Uncertainty<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, March 19, 2026, 7:30 PM <br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February 2020, Milwaukee Repertory Theater announced plans to build one of the largest new theater complexes in the United States. Four weeks later, the theater shut down due to COVID-19. Over the course of developing the $80 million, 155,000-square-foot project, Milwaukee Rep confronted a global pandemic, record-high inflation, supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, tariffs, and even a 1,000-year flood that destroyed its production center. Despite these unprecedented challenges, the Associated Bank Theater Center opened on time, under budget, and fully funded.&nbsp;Bauman&nbsp;will share lessons learned from leading a regional theater through extreme uncertainty, drawing on insights from an organization recently profiled by&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>, and the&nbsp;<em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>&nbsp;as one of the most successful in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chad Bauman<\/strong> is the Ellen and Joe Checota Executive Director of Milwaukee Repertory Theater. Since his arrival in 2013, Bauman has overseen a significant period of growth for a company that produces about 700 performances a year, making it \u201cthe city\u2019s most prolific performing arts organization\u201d (Milwaukee Business Journal) presenting seasons that can \u201crival anything in Chicago and beyond\u201d (Chicago Tribune). During his tenure, Milwaukee Rep has eliminated all debt, nearly doubled the endowment, achieved operating surpluses annually, grew net assets from $19 million to $84 million, raised nearly $100 million across three successful capital campaigns, and has started construction on the new Associated Bank Theater Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bria-skonberg-trumpet\">BRIA SKONBERG, <em>trumpet<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"122\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090343\/bria-skonberg.jpg\" alt=\"Bria Skonberg holding trumpet.\" class=\"wp-image-13233\" style=\"width:175px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In concert with the Butler University Jazz Ensemble<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, April 2, 2026, 7:30 PM<br>Schrott Center for the Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bria Skonberg<\/strong> is a Juno-award winning artist, 10x Downbeat Rising Star, recipient of the Legend Award by the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook, and a 2025 nominee for the prestigious &#8220;Academie du Jazz&#8221; awards. The trumpeter, vocalist, and songwriter has been called the \u201cshining hope of hot jazz\u201d(NY Times) and is considered \u201cone of the most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation\u201d(WSJ). She has been a featured artist at hundreds of festivals and stages the world over, including New Orleans Jazz Heritage, Kobe, Monterey, Breda, Newport and Montreal Jazz Festivals, and recently at Carnegie Hall. Her debut LP on Sony Masterworks reached #5 on the Billboard Jazz charts. Her most recent studio album, <em>What it Means,<\/em> was recorded in New Orleans during Mardi Gras featuring top local musicians, and released on Cellar Live. Her music has been streamed over 20 million times. The daughter of teachers, Bria was introduced to jazz by a spirited public school band program and local festival in her hometown of Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.&nbsp;A professional band leader since her teens, she moved to Vancouver and obtained her degree in Trumpet Performance from Capilano University. Since arriving in New York in 2010, she has been at the forefront of a revival of classic American music as both a performer and educator, programming concerts and workshops for students of all ages on behalf of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, Jazz House Kids, and more. She is a co-producer of the NY Hot Jazz Camp, now in its 10th year. Bria is an active member of the Women in Jazz Organization, the International Trumpet Guild, a Bach Conn-Selmer artist, and became a mother in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-darron-west-sound-designer\">DARRON WEST, <em>sound designer<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"302\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090533\/darron-west.jpg\" alt=\"Darron West headshot.\" class=\"wp-image-13234\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090533\/darron-west.jpg 302w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090533\/darron-west-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Guest sound designer for Butler Theatre\u2019s devised production of <em>Empty When Full<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>April 15-19, 2026<br>Lilly Hall Studio Theatre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Darron L. West<\/strong> is a Tony and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose work for theater and dance has been heard in over 600 productions nationally and internationally, on Broadway and off. His accolades for Sound Design include a Tony, an Obie, the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, Lucille Lortel, and AUDELCO Awards. He is also a two-time Henry Hewes Design Award winner, and a proud recipient of the Princess Grace Award. Broadway credits include The American Plan, To Be or Not To Be, The Royal Family, Top Girls, and Time Stands Still, among many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darron is also renowned for his work with SITI Company, where he was a member from 1993 until the company\u2019s closure. He first collaborated with Anne Bogart in 1990 while resident sound designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville. In addition to creating countless award-winning sound designs with SITI, he also served as co-director of SITI Company\u2019s&nbsp;<em>War of the Worlds \u2013 The Radio Play<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Radio Macbeth,&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Christmas Carol. <\/em>Recent Sound Design credits from 2025 include Uncle Vanya at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Romeo and Juliet at Hartford Stage, and the New Play Festival at Round Hose Theatre.<em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jca-signature-master-class-series\">JCA SIGNATURE MASTER CLASS SERIES<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"308\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090804\/ilan-morganstern.jpg\" alt=\"Ilan Morganstern headshot.\" class=\"wp-image-13235\" style=\"width:150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090804\/ilan-morganstern.jpg 308w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090804\/ilan-morganstern-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>ILAN MORGANSTERN, <em>trombone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, October 5, 1:00-3:00 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bass trombonist, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"156\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090828\/stefan-jackiw.jpg\" alt=\"Stefan Jackiw holding violin.\" class=\"wp-image-13236\" style=\"width:150px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>STEFAN JACKIW, <em>violin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, October 9, 2025, 6:30-8:30 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, October 10-11<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090929\/ethan-slater.jpg\" alt=\"Ethan Slater in yellow shirt holding a pineapple.\" class=\"wp-image-13237\" style=\"width:150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090929\/ethan-slater.jpg 473w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26090929\/ethan-slater-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>ETHAN SLATER, <em>theatre artist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, October 17, 11:00 AM-12:30 PM<br>LH 328<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original SpongeBob on Broadway!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"238\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26091107\/ad-weaver.jpg\" alt=\"A.D. Weaver headshot.\" class=\"wp-image-13238\" style=\"width:150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26091107\/ad-weaver.jpg 238w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26091107\/ad-weaver-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>A.D. WEAVER, <em>theatre artist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, December 12, 2:00-4:00 PM<br>LH 328<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing as George Washington in <em>Hamilton<\/em>, December 2-14, Murat Theatre at Old National Centre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"166\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26091200\/michael-shapiro.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Shapiro headshot.\" class=\"wp-image-13239\" style=\"width:150px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>MICHAEL SHAPIRO, <em>composer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, January 29, 5:30-6:30 PM<br>LH 145<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Zoomies!<\/em> and <em>At the Shore of the Sea: Violin Concerto<\/em> performed by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, January 31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26091300\/james-ehnes.jpg\" alt=\"James Ehnes holding a violin.\" class=\"wp-image-13241\" style=\"width:150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26091300\/james-ehnes.jpg 226w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26091300\/james-ehnes-176x300.jpg 176w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>JAMES EHNES, <em>violin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, February 27, 1:00-3:00 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, February 27-28<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26091337\/stacy-garrop.jpg\" alt=\"Stacy Garrop headshot.\" class=\"wp-image-13242\" style=\"width:150px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>STACY GARROP, <em>composer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, March 19, 5:30-6:30 PM<br>LH 145<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>CHROMA<\/em> performed by the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, March 21<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"182\" height=\"276\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/JoyceYang.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11859\" style=\"width:150px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>JOYCE YANG, <em>piano<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, April 23, 7:00-9:00 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, April 24-25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-wayne-c-wentzel-lecture-series\">WAYNE C. WENTZEL LECTURE SERIES<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cListening, Making Art, and Teaching in the Age of AI: Hearing Julius Eastman\u2019s Music through&nbsp;<em>Kintsugi\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Distinguished Professor of Music, Society, and Culture at the University of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, February 20, 2026, 7:00 PM<br>Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"479\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26100100\/ellie-hisama.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Ellie Hisama headshot.\" class=\"wp-image-13243\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26100100\/ellie-hisama.jpg 479w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/26100100\/ellie-hisama-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>DR. ELLIE M. HISAMA<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This talk brings together parts of composer\/singer\/pianist Julius Eastman\u2019s fractured archive&nbsp;and performances of his music, focusing on his radical sonic expressions of and commentary on black being.&nbsp;In thinking about Eastman and his music through carework, this project suggests ways we might make our pedagogies and everyday listening practices more inclusive. I propose ways of considering Eastman&#8217;s life and music through&nbsp;<em>Kintsugi<\/em>, the Japanese practice of restoring broken pottery with lacquer, and share new pedagogical strategies in the age of generative AI.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ellie M. Hisama<\/strong> is a Distinguished Professor of Music, Society, and Culture at the University of Toronto. She joined the University of Toronto in 2021 as Dean of the Faculty of Music, having previously taught at Columbia University, Brooklyn College, and Ohio State University. Her research and teaching have addressed issues of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, the social and political dimensions of music, and public engagement. She is the author of&nbsp;<em>Gendering Musical Modernism: The Music of Ruth Crawford, Marion Bauer, and Miriam Gideon<\/em>, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title, and co-editor of the volumes&nbsp;<em>Ruth Crawford Seeger\u2019s Worlds: Innovation and Tradition in Twentieth-century American Music<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Critical Minded: New Approaches to Hip Hop<\/em><em> Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jca-presents\">JCA PRESENTS!<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"381\" height=\"336\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103605\/ISO.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11864\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103605\/ISO.png 381w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103605\/ISO-300x265.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>THE ISO AT BUTLER CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES<\/strong><br>Wednesdays at 7:30 PM in the Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>September 17, 2025 \u2013 Beethoven and Mendelssohn String Quartets<br>November 12, 2025 \u2013 Woodwinds and Piano<br>January 28, 2026 \u2013 Mozart and Dvorak<br>April 8, 2026 \u2013 Brass Quintet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\t\t( function( $ ) {\n\t\t\tlet panel = document.getElementById('block_acf-block-698dd048d4d95-acc-content-panel');\n\n\t\t\t\/*\n\t\t\t * Need to set a value for maxHeight to initialize the accordion properly.\n\t\t\t * If we don't include this conditional, the accordion doesn't nicely transition to open\/close on the first click.\n\t\t\t *\/\n\t\t\tif ( 1 == 0 ) {\n\t\t\t\tpanel.style.maxHeight = 0 == 1 ? 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Recognized in their home country as master musicians, they have traveled the world sharing the lively music of choro! Born in the kitchens and courtyards of Rio de Janeiro more than 100 years ago, choro continues to delight audiences everywhere with its heady blend of European, Brazilian, and African rhythms and harmonies. In Brazil, Choro das 3 has presented their unique style on national television, to huge regional festivals, and even the president! Welcomed by music lovers all over the world, the band also toured the US annually from 2013-2019, playing concert venues, festivals and universities from coast to coast, and sharing music from their 11 CDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their signature family arrangement, oldest sister Corina plays flute and piccolo, middle sister Lia plays 7-string guitar, and youngest sister Elisa play bandolim, clarinet, banjo, piano, and accordion. Elisa also composes many of their original tunes. From the time of the bands founding, their father, Eduardo Meyer-Ferreira, played percussion. This is the first US tour for Choro das 3 since the pandemic, and is dedicated to the memory of Eduardo, who was struck down by Covid in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-stephen-nachmanovitch-musician-author\">STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH, <em>musician\/author<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"326\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/StephenNachmanovitch.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11844\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/StephenNachmanovitch.jpg 326w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/StephenNachmanovitch-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 326px) 100vw, 326px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture-Recital: Monday, September 16, 2024, 7:30 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephen Nachmanovitch is an improvisational violinist who performs and teaches internationally at the intersections of multimedia, performing arts, ecology, and philosophy. He is the author of two books on the creative process,&nbsp;<em>Free Play<\/em>&nbsp;(1990\/2024) and&nbsp;<em>The Art of Is<\/em>&nbsp;(2019). Born in 1950, he graduated in 1971 from Harvard with a degree in psychology and in 1975 from the University of California, where he earned a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness for an exploration of William Blake. His mentor was the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson. He has taught and lectured widely in the United States and abroad on creativity and the spiritual underpinnings of art. Since the 1970s he has been a pioneer in free improvisation on violin, viola, and electric violin. He has presented master classes and workshops at many conservatories and universities, and has had numerous appearances on radio, television, and at music and theater festivals. He has collaborated with other artists in media including music, dance, theater, and film, and has developed programs melding art, music, literature, and computer technology. He has published articles in many fields since 1966 and has created computer software including&nbsp;<em>The World Music Menu<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Visual Music Tone Painter<\/em>. He is currently performing, recording, teaching, and writing. He lives with his family in Charlottesville, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-hiphop50-with-roxanne-shante\">#HipHop50 with ROXANNE SHANTE<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"357\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/RoxanneShante.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11843\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/RoxanneShante.jpg 357w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/RoxanneShante-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Monday, September 23, 2024, 6:00 pm, Shelton Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roxanne Shante was raised in the Queensbridge Public Housing Projects in Queens, New York. She released her first single at the age of 14 titled Roxanne&#8217;s Revenge, the first Response record for the UTFO song Roxanne Roxanne. She prompted The Roxanne Wars which included over 86 response records, aimed directly at Roxanne Shant\u00e9. She was the first female Rapper to have Platinum singles and Gold albums. She was the first nationally known female Rapper. Roxanne Shante also helped launch the careers of such Hip Hop lcons as Big Daddy Kane- Unsung, Biz Markie-Hip Hop History Documentary, McShan &#8211; Where it all began, Beef I and I, NAS-as stated in the motion picture llmatic. She has been an influence and role model for many, not just FemaleEmcees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ellen-larson-art-historian\">ELLEN LARSON, <em>art historian<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"336\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/EllenLarson.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11838\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/EllenLarson.jpg 336w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/EllenLarson-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cEphemeral Architectures: Archiving contemporary moving image art from China\u201d<br>Friday, September 27, 2024, 7:30 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Ellen Larson (she\/they) is a Chicago-based curator, designer, writer, and educator. She is currently the 2024 Margaret F. Williams Memorial Asian Art Curatorial Fellow, supported by the Asia Foundation and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. They have organized exhibitions, screenings, and cultural symposia throughout China and the United States, and their writing has appeared in many prominent publications, including <em>Art+Australia<\/em>, <em>ARTMargins<\/em> by MIT Press, <em>Millennium Film Journal<\/em>, <em>The Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art<\/em>, <em>Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas<\/em>, and <em>LEAP: International Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art<\/em>. Dr. Larson\u2019s research has been recognized and supported by the US Fulbright Program, the Getty Foundation, the Asia Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, the Dunhuang Foundation, the Center for Contemporary Art Research in Japan Program, and the University of Chicago\u2019s Provost\u2019s Global Faculty Award and Center for the Art of East Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-they-don-t-pay-we-won-t-pay-with-emily-wilson-and-jos-houben-2024-vita-artists\"><em>THEY DON\u2019T PAY? WE WON\u2019T PAY!<\/em> with Emily Wilson and Jos Houben, 2024 VITA Artists<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"565\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/TheyDontPay.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11845\" style=\"width:225px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/TheyDontPay.jpg 565w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/TheyDontPay-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Performances are Wednesday-Sunday, October 9-13, 2024 Lilly Hall Studio Theatre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born in San Francisco, <strong>Emily Wilson<\/strong> studied theater at George Washington University in Washington D.C. and then at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She co-creates with two accomplices of the Lecoq School, Cabaret Decay Unlimited and Improbable A\u00efda, two clown and burlesque shows which will be performed more than a hundred times across France and Europe. She is very interested in the new American dramaturgy and participates in readings then features some key pieces, notably Appels en Absence by Sarah Ruhl. Emily teaches theater at the Plus Petit Cirque du Monde and at the CRR\/DSJC in Paris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jos Houben<\/strong> was born in Belgium and studied theatre at the Ecole Jacques Lecoq, and with Philippe Gaulier, Monika Pagneux and Pierre Byland. As an original member of Complicit\u00e9, he co-created and starred in the landmark, <em>A Minute Too Late<\/em>, which changed the landscape of British theatre in the mid-1980s. Jos\u2019 celebrated one-man, <em>The Art of Laughter<\/em>, has been touring worldwide for more than fifteen years and continues to fill houses from Paris to Buenas Aires to New York. Jos has taught at \u00c9cole Jacques Lecoq since the year 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-project-b-barbara-levine-and-paige-ramey-vernacular-photography-and-curatorial-projects\">PROJECT B: <em>Barbara Levine and Paige Ramey, Vernacular Photography and Curatorial Projects<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"681\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/ProjectB.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11841\" style=\"width:225px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/ProjectB.jpg 681w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/ProjectB-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cLevine &amp; Ramey\u2019s <em>PhotoCircus<\/em>: Experience the thrills of vernacular photography!\u201d<br>Wednesday, October 9, 2024, 7:30 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barbara Levine&nbsp;and&nbsp;Paige Ramey&nbsp;are collectors, artists, and curators specializing in vernacular photography. Their photography collection, known as PhotoMania, was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and their first collection of vintage photograph albums was acquired by the International Center of Photography in New York. They run Project B, an archive and collaborative curatorial venture. Their books published by Princeton Architectural Press include&nbsp;<em>Caption This (2023)<\/em>;&nbsp;<em>People Kissing: A Century of Photographs (2019)<\/em>;&nbsp;<em>People Fishing: A Century of Photographs (2018)<\/em>;&nbsp;<em>People Knitting: A Century of Photographs<\/em>&nbsp;(2016);&nbsp;<em>Finding Frida Kahlo<\/em>&nbsp;(2009);&nbsp;<em>Around The World: The Grand Tour in Photo Albums<\/em>&nbsp;(2007); and&nbsp;<em>Snapshot Chronicles: Inventing the American Photo Album<\/em>&nbsp;(2006). Their self-published book,&nbsp;<em>CAMERA ERA<\/em>&nbsp;(co-authored by Martin Venezky) was named a best photobook by photo-eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paige Ramey has a background in dance, video art, documentary production, and analog preservation, education, and performance art. Barbara Levine&nbsp;trained as a photographer at the San Francisco Art Institute followed by a graduate degree in Museology. Ms. Levine served as deputy director of The Contemporary Jewish Museum, and as exhibitions director at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.&nbsp;They live in Houston, Texas, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jianpeng-feng-percussion\">JIANPENG FENG, <em>percussion<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"281\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/JianpengFeng.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11840\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover;width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/JianpengFeng.jpg 281w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/JianpengFeng-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Lecture-Recital: \u201cTraditional Chinese Percussive Arts and their usage in Western Compositions for Percussion\u201d<br>Thursday, October 10, 2024, 7:30 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jianpeng Feng is a very active percussionist and educator with international influence. He has been performing at the top level in recent years in Broadway, Off- Broadway, concertos, and international events. Since 2021, Dr. Feng has served as the percussionist for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. The album he played on for the Off-Broadway show &#8220;Soft Power&#8221; was nominated for the 63rd Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Previously, he was the solo musician for the revival of the Tony Award-winning show &#8220;M. Butterfly&#8221; on Broadway. As a virtuosic marimbist, he was invited to perform as a soloist in a concerto with the Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra in San Francisco and San Jose, CA. Dr. Feng has been featured in solo and chamber concerts multiple times by the Percussive Arts Society in Indianapolis and its other chapters and locations, including New York, China, and Japan. In addition to serving as the guest timpanist and percussionist for the China Movie Orchestra, he has also played with the U.S. Coast Guard Band, New Britain Symphony Orchestra, Beijing Symphony Orchestra, and other orchestras in the U.S. and China. He has worked closely with directors, actors, and musicians who have won Grammy, Oscar, Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a percussionist with an international reputation, Dr. Feng serves in several professional affiliations and has organized many important events. As the co-founder of the Percussive Arts Society China Chapter, he has organized international percussion festivals in Beijing, China annually since 2016. In addition, he organized summer and winter camps at The Hartt School, Eastman School of Music, and the University of Minnesota Duluth and worked as a director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an educator, Dr. Feng has always been dedicated to building diversity in the music community. As an expert in Chinese percussive arts, he has taught masterclasses and given lecture recitals at many universities, colleges, and conservatories. Since 2020, he has run his music channel, Feng&#8217;s Music Channel, also known as Dao-Dao-Feng, on multiple platforms with almost one million subscribers across the internet. On his channel, he not only discusses music from different genres such as classical, jazz, contemporary, musicals, and pop, but also explores music from various cultures, including Chinese, West African, Middle Eastern, American, and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, Dr. Feng is teaching at The Hartt School Community Division, and sponsored by Innovative Percussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-vijay-gupta-violin\">VIJAY GUPTA, <em>violin<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"464\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/VijayGupta.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11846\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/VijayGupta.jpg 464w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/VijayGupta-300x288.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cMusic for Change: Healing through Collaboration\u201d<br>Friday, October 11, 2024, 7:30 pm, EDRH Solo appearance with the Butler Symphony Orchestra, Sunday, October 13, 2024, 3:00 pm, Schrott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vijay Gupta is a violinist, speaker and citizen-artist dedicated to creating spaces of wholeness through music. Vijay\u2019s work embodies his belief that the work of artists and citizens is one: to make a <em>sadhana<\/em> &#8211; a daily practice &#8211; of the world we envision. Hailed by <em>The New Yorker<\/em> as a \u201cvisionary violinist&#8230;one of the most radical thinkers in the unradical world of American classical music,\u201d Vijay leads a protean career as a thought leader, performer, collaborator, and communicator.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vijay is the founder and Artistic Director of Street Symphony, a community of musicians creating spaces of connection for people in reentry from homelessness, addiction, and incarceration in Los Angeles. Vijay is also a co-founder of the Skid Row Arts Alliance, a consortium dedicated to creating art for &#8211; and with &#8211; the largest homeless community in America. For his work in \u201cbringing beauty, respite, and purpose to those all too often ignored by society,\u201d Vijay was the recipient of a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A riveting speaker, Vijay has shared his work with dozens of corporations, campuses, conferences, and communities across America over the past 10 years, including The Richmond Forum, The Aspen Institute, Hallmark, Accenture, Mayo Clinic, US Psychiatric Congress, American Planning Association, and the League of American Orchestras, just to name a few. Vijay delivered the 33rd annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy for Americans for the Arts and his 2010 TED Talk, \u201cMusic is Medicine, Music is Sanity,\u201d has garnered millions of views. Gupta is a member of the Free at Last Coalition, which serves to end the slavery loophole in the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vijay has performed as an international recitalist, soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician for over 20 years, playing his solo debut with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Zubin Mehta. Vijay was a member of the first violin section of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for 12 years, and has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, and Yo-Yo Ma, and appears regularly with the Strings Festival in Steamboat Springs, Colorado.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A dynamic recording artist, Vijay recently released <em>Breathe<\/em>, an album of the piano chamber music of Reena Esmail, under his own label. His solo violin album <em>When the Violin<\/em>, a solo violin album featuring the music of Esmail, J. S. Bach, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, was released on Bandcamp in June 2021.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vijay currently serves as the Senior Artistic and Programs Advisor for Young Musicians Foundation. He holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Biology from Marist College, and a Master\u2019s in Music from the Yale School of Music. His principal teachers have included Ani Kavafian and Glenn Dicterow. Vijay plays a 2010 violin made by Los Angeles-based luthier Eric Benning, and can be found on Instagram @guptaviolin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-qui-nguyen-playwright\">QUI NGUYEN, <em>playwright<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"93\" height=\"144\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/QuiNguyen.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11842\" style=\"width:150px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Butler Theatre performances of <em>She Kills Monsters <\/em>are Wednesday-Sunday, November 13-17, 2024, Schrott<br>Public Lecture: Friday, November 15, 2024, 5:00 pm, Schrott Performance Talkback: Saturday, November 16, 2024, 10:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qui Nguyen is a screenwriter, director, playwright, and Co-Founder of the OBIE-winning Vampire Cowboys.&nbsp;He and his work, known for its use of pop-culture, stage violence, puppetry, and multimedia, have been called &#8220;Culturally Savvy Comedy,&#8221; &#8220;Tour de Force Theatre,&#8221; and \u201cInfectious Fun\u201d by the NY Times, TimeOut, and Variety.<br><br>Qui is currently with Walt Disney Animation Studios where he wrote&nbsp;<em>Raya and the Last Dragon<\/em>&nbsp;and wrote\/co-directed&nbsp;<em>Strange World<\/em>. Other TV\/Film includes&nbsp;<em>Dispatches from<\/em> <em>Elsewhere&nbsp;<\/em>(AMC),&nbsp;<em>The Society&nbsp;<\/em>(Netflix), <em>Incorporated&nbsp;<\/em>(SyFy), <em>Peg+CAT&nbsp;<\/em>(PBS), and Marvel Studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a playwright, notable plays include&nbsp;<em>Vietgone<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Poor Yella Rednecks,&nbsp;Revenge Song,<\/em>&nbsp;and the critically acclaimed Vampire Cowboys productions of&nbsp;<em>She Kills Monsters, Soul Samurai, The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, Alice in Slasherland, Fight Girl Battle World,&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Living Dead in Denmark<\/em>. Notable honors include a 2016 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Preschool Animated Program (<em>Peg+Cat),&nbsp;<\/em>2016 Steinberg New Play Award (<em>Vietgone),&nbsp;<\/em>2015 NY Community Trust Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, 2014 Sundance Institute\/Time Warner Fellowship, 2013 AATE Distinguished Play Award (<em>She Kills Monsters<\/em>), and 2012 and 2009 GLAAD Media Award nominations for his plays&nbsp;<em>She Kills Monsters&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Soul Samurai<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a proud member of the WGA, The Animation Guild, Dramatists Guild of America, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Ma-Yi Writers Lab, Youngblood, and the Marvel Studios Writers Program. Currently, Qui is developing new plays with Manhattan Theater Club\/Geffen Playhouse, The Atlantic, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Center Theatre Group\/The Goodman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dayton-ballet\">DAYTON BALLET<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/DaytonBallet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11837\" style=\"width:225px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/DaytonBallet.jpg 450w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/DaytonBallet-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Friday, February 7, 2025, Schrott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second-oldest ballet company in the United States, Dayton Ballet proudly celebrated its 80th season with the 2017\u20132018 season. Dayton Ballet is known nationally as \u201cThe Company of Premieres,\u201d being one of the top three dance companies in the nation that produces and presents new work, as well as the only dance company to establish a fund designated specifically to create new full-length 21st-century ballets. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Brandon Ragland, Dayton Ballet hosts a season of four to five performances that includes familiar traditional story ballets, such as&nbsp;<em>Cinderella<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Swan Lake<\/em>; the classic family-friendly holiday staple&nbsp;<em>The Nutcracker<\/em>; and new and innovative works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-anoosha-syed-illustrator-and-character-designer\">ANOOSHA SYED<em>, illustrator and character designer<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"336\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/AnooshaSyed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11833\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/AnooshaSyed.jpg 336w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/AnooshaSyed-226x300.jpg 226w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cInclusivity in Children\u2019s Illustration\u201d<br>Thursday, February 27, 2025, 7:30 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anoosha Syed is a Pakistani-Canadian author, illustrator and character designer for animation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a third-culture kid, she grew up in Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Pakistan, Switzerland, and the US, and is now finally taking a breather in Canada. She graduated with a BFA in Illustration at <em>Ceruleum<\/em>:&nbsp;<em>Ecole d&#8217;arts Visuels<\/em> in Lausanne, Switzerland in 2015. Since then, she worked as a character designer for preschool series in development working with studios like Disney, Netflix, and Nick. After illustrating over forty books for children, she is now working on several author\/illustrator titles including <em>That\u2019s Not My Name!<\/em> and <em>Lost Stick<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her spare time, Anoosha hosts a YouTube channel focused on accessible illustration education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-aubrey-berguaer-ceo-changing-the-narrative\">AUBREY BERGUAER, <em>CEO, Changing the Narrative<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"339\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/AubreyBergruar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11834\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/AubreyBergruar.jpg 339w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/AubreyBergruar-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 339px) 100vw, 339px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cRun it Like a Business\u201d Thursday, March 20, 2025, 7:30 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hailed as \u201cthe Steve Jobs of classical music\u201d (<em>Observer<\/em>) and&nbsp;\u201cthe Sheryl Sandberg of the symphony\u201d (LA Review of&nbsp;Books), Aubrey Bergauer&nbsp;is known for her results-driven,&nbsp;customer-centric, data-obsessed pursuit of changing the&nbsp;narrative for&nbsp;the performing arts.&nbsp;A \u201cdynamic&nbsp;administrator\u201d with an \u201cunquenchable drive for canny&nbsp;innovation\u201d (<em>San Francisco Chronicle<\/em>),&nbsp;she\u2019s held offstage&nbsp;roles managing millions of dollars in revenue at major&nbsp;institutions including the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, Bumbershoot Music &amp; Arts Festival,&nbsp;and&nbsp;San Francisco Conservatory of Music. As chief executive of&nbsp;the California Symphony, Bergauer propelled the organization to double the size of its audience and nearly&nbsp;quadruple the donor base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bergauer helps organizations and individuals transform from scarcity to opportunity, make money,&nbsp;and grow their base of fans and supporters.&nbsp;Her&nbsp;ability to cast and communicate&nbsp;vision moves large&nbsp;teams forward and brings stakeholders together, earning \u201ca reputation for coming up with great&nbsp;ideas and then realizing them\u201d&nbsp;(<em>San Francisco Classical Voice<\/em>).&nbsp;With a track record for strategically&nbsp;increasing revenue and relevance, leveraging digital content and technology, and&nbsp;prioritizing diversity&nbsp;and inclusion on stage and off, Bergauer sees a better way forward for classical music and knows&nbsp;how to achieve it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A graduate of Rice University,&nbsp;her&nbsp;work and leadership have been covered in&nbsp;the <em>Wall Street Journal,<\/em> <em>Entrepreneur, Thrive Global, <\/em>and <em>Southwest Airlines <\/em>magazines, and she is a frequent speaker spanning TEDx, Adobe\u2019s Magento, universities, and industry conferences in the US and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bree-lamb-photographer\">BREE LAMB, <em>photographer<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"385\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/BreeLamb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11835\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/BreeLamb.jpg 385w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/BreeLamb-259x300.jpg 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 385px) 100vw, 385px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cDouble Vision\u201d Monday, March 24, 2025, 7:30 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visiting Artist&nbsp;Bree&nbsp;Lamb&nbsp;will present&nbsp;a public lecture, &#8220;Double Vision&#8221; sharing insight into both her personal artistic practice and her collaborative practice, Muscle Memory Collective, with ceramicist, Joshua Clark.&nbsp;Lamb&nbsp;centers her research around the complexities of modern-day image-consumption, examining our shared desires to identify, connect, and indulge through images. In her current visual practice, she pulls from public&nbsp;caches of social photographs to create new works, siphoning visual information and shifting context to highlight intersections of commodity, fantasy, and social currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bree Lamb is an artist, educator, and editor based in New Mexico. She is Assistant Professor of Photography at New Mexico State University, and holds an MFA from the University of New Mexico and a BFA from Pennsylvania State University. She is a Beaumont Newhall\/Van Deren Coke Fellow, and is represented by Gallery19 in Chicago. Her work is held in permanent collections at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, the University of Iowa, Arizona State University, and the Southwest Center for Research. Recent artist lectures include Colorado College, the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the Society for Photographic Education\u2019s West\/Southwest Conference, and the Las Cruces Museum of Art. For the last six years, Lamb has been the Managing Editor for Fraction Magazine, an online venue for contemporary photography. She has reviewed portfolios at national and international events including Review Santa Fe, Medium Festival of Photography, New England Portfolio Reviews, Mt. Rokko Photography Festival, and Photolucida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-will-bond-and-ellen-lauren-theatre-artists\">WILL BOND and ELLEN LAUREN, <em>theatre artists<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2025\/03\/08103534\/Falling-and-Loving-copy-300x187.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2025\/03\/08103534\/Falling-and-Loving-copy-300x187.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2025\/03\/08103534\/Falling-and-Loving-copy.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cWhat are we Doing?\u201d Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 7:30 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What are we Doing?<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;A public gathering and conversation with Ellen Lauren and Will Bond of NYC\u2019s SITI Company about the relationship between theatre makers and audiences.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2025\/03\/08103534\/Falling-Loving-copy-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2025\/03\/08103534\/Falling-Loving-copy-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2025\/03\/08103534\/Falling-Loving-copy-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2025\/03\/08103534\/Falling-Loving-copy.jpeg 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Images from Falling and Loving<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Any act of theater making involves selecting and organizing images to express a message. But how does that come about, who selects, what are the criteria used in the process? &nbsp;Most of all, as we face this period of national transition, does theater making have a responsibility to a broader context globally? What is happening to that conversation? What is the relationship of the audience and the theater maker now? What\u2019s going to keep us going? What messages are we tasked with and is the medium of theater still a viable way to exchange energy and time together\u2026.what are we doing?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"317\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/WillBond.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11847\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/WillBond.jpg 317w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/WillBond-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Will Bond is a founding member of the New York City-based SITI Company. His credits include Scrooge in&nbsp;<em>Falling and Loving, The Persians, The Bacchae, Antigone<\/em>&nbsp;at Getty Villa;&nbsp;<em>bobrauschenbergamerica<\/em>&nbsp;at BAM;&nbsp;<em>Seven Deadly Sins<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Lilith<\/em>&nbsp;at New York City Opera;&nbsp;<em>Lost in the Stars&nbsp;<\/em>with the LA Chamber Orchestra; and&nbsp;<em>Bob<\/em>&nbsp;(drama desk award nomination) with the New York Theater Workshop. Will was an Emeritus Senior Artist-in-Residence at Skidmore College from 2004-2019. He is published in the edited volumes&nbsp;<em>Movement for Actors,<\/em>&nbsp;Allworth Press 2002;&nbsp;<em>The Routledge Companion to Stanislavski,<\/em>&nbsp;Routledge Press 2013; and&nbsp;<em>This Is Not a Handbook: the story of SITI Company,<\/em>&nbsp;Yonkers International Press 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103611\/EllenLauren.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11839\" style=\"width:175px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ellen Lauren was a founding member and co-artistic director of the SITI Company. She has served as the Education Director for all SITI&#8217;s training programs nationally and internationally and designed and administered SITI&#8217;s four none-month Conservatory programs. She has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School of Drama at Lincoln Center for over 30 years and directed four productions on the mainstage as well as at UCLA MFA TFT program. She is also an associate artist with the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) directed by Tadashi Suzuki and based in Japan. She will be featured the Toga International Festival\u2019s 50th Anniversary season this summer. She recently was a co-creator of&nbsp;<em>Space Bridge<\/em>&nbsp;at La Mama, a program to highlight the stories of refugee children currently living in New York shelters. She received the Erskine Faculty prize at Juilliard for this work. Ms. Lauren was the first recipient of the TCG Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement in the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THIS PERFORMANCE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC; NO TICKET IS REQUIRED.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-wycliffe-gordon-jazz-trombone\">WYCLIFFE GORDON, <em>jazz trombone<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"202\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103608\/WycliffeGordon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11848\" style=\"width:175px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In performance with the Butler University Jazz Ensemble<br>Thursday, April 10, 2025, 7:30 pm, Schrott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wycliffe Gordon experiences an impressive career touring the world performing to great acclaim from audiences and critics alike.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, Jazz Journalists Association named him 2022 \u201cTrombonist of the Year\u201d for the record-breaking 15<sup>th<\/sup> time, and he\u2019s topped Downbeat Critics Poll for \u201cBest Trombone\u201d for an unprecedented six times (2020, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2013 &amp; 2012).&nbsp;&nbsp; Recent awards include the \u201cLouie Award\u201d, the International Trombone Award and the Satchmo Award, among others.&nbsp; Wycliffe is a prolific recording artist and isextremely popular for his unmatched signature sound, plunger technique and unique vocals.&nbsp; He can be heard on hundreds of recordings, soundtracks, live DVD\u2019s and documentaries, and has an extensive catalog of original compositions that span the various timbres of jazz and chamber music.&nbsp; His arrangement of the theme song to NPR\u2019s \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d is heard daily across the globe.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to a successful solo career, Gordon tours regularly leading the International All Stars performing at festivals and performing arts centers worldwide.&nbsp; Gordon is also one of America\u2019s most persuasive and committed music educators and is highly sought after as a clinician and guest speaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wycliffe Gordon is a Yamaha Performing Artist and has his own line of Wycliffe Gordon Pro Signature Mouthpieces by Pickett Brass. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wycliffegordon.com\">www.wycliffegordon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jca-signature-master-class-series-0\">JCA SIGNATURE MASTER CLASS SERIES<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"305\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103605\/TamiyaLewis.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11862\" style=\"width:150px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103605\/TamiyaLewis.jpg 305w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103605\/TamiyaLewis-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 305px) 100vw, 305px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>TAMIYA LEWIS, <em>dancer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monday, September 30, 2024, 11:00 am-12:15 pm, LH 310<br>Performing on Taylor 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1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-wayne-c-wentzel-lecture-series-0\">WAYNE C. 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Her publications include topics on Italian opera, Schoenberg, women composers, and teaching opera in prisons. Her books, including,&nbsp;<em>Voicing Gender: Castrati, Travesti, and the Second Woman in Early Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera<\/em>&nbsp;(2006) and&nbsp;<em>Blackness in Opera<\/em>&nbsp;(2012, co-edited collection) focus on opera from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries and explore constructions of gender, race and identity.&nbsp;<em>African Performance Arts and Political Acts<\/em>&nbsp;(2021, co-edited collection) focuses on how performance and the arts shape the narratives of cultural history and politics on the African continent.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.press.uillinois.edu\/books\/?id=p083570\"><em>Black Opera: History, Power, Engagement<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;(2018) is a monograph on staging race and history in opera today in the United States and South Africa. She has served on the Graduate Alumni Council for Harvard University\u2019s Graduate School of Art and Sciences, the Executive Committee for the Criminal Justice Program at the American Friends Service Committee (Ann Arbor, MI), and has served as an evaluator for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2019, Dr. Andr\u00e9 was named the inaugural Scholar in Residence at the Seattle Opera which has continued to the present. In her role, she advises Seattle Opera staff and leadership on matters of race and gender in opera; consults in artistic planning as it relates to representation of race and gender; and participates in company panel discussions, podcast recordings, and contributes essays to opera programs. She has continued to work with major and regional opera companies through panels, short residencies, and program essays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, Dr. Andr\u00e9 has worked with every major opera company in the United States and many regional opera companies and festivals. This summer she is a scholar-in-residence for the Des Moines Metro Opera. She has written program essays for recordings of&nbsp;<em>Blue<\/em>&nbsp;(CD, Tesori and Thompson, 2022) and&nbsp;<em>Fire Shut Up in My Bones<\/em>&nbsp;(DVD Blanchard and Lemmons 2022). On February 4, 2022 she testified before the Committee on the Judiciary as a Witness for House Resolution 301 hearing&nbsp;\u201cExamining the History and Importance of \u2018Lift Every Voice and Sing\u2019 to become a National Hymn\u201d&nbsp;(sponsored by Congressman James E. 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She is the Coordinator of the Graphic Design partnership with Wonsook&nbsp;Kim School of Art and&nbsp;Tianhua&nbsp;College of Art + Design at Shanghai Normal University.&nbsp;Shekara has twenty-seven&nbsp;years of professional experience designing for diverse industry clients. She uses\u202fdesign as a tool to build\u202fcross-cultural\u202funderstanding, acceptance, and respect.\u202fAs a socio-cultural researcher, she investigates her transnational identity as an&nbsp;Indian American&nbsp;by understanding racial equity and decoloniality through a brown cultural lens&nbsp;and creates cultural awareness&nbsp;using&nbsp;ethnographic narratives. Her&nbsp;medium for creative expression&nbsp;takes on various forms such as type design,&nbsp;curating immersive participatory experiences, and interactive installations using mixed and various emerging digital media which evoke\u202fmulti-sensory responses.&nbsp;Shekara\u2019s&nbsp;scholarship in teaching includes design pedagogy related to&nbsp;cross-cultural&nbsp;awareness&nbsp;and identity, social justice, and community engagement. Her&nbsp;teaching&nbsp;and research&nbsp;have been featured in peer-reviewed national and international academic and professional publications, and conferences including Association Typographique Internationale&nbsp; (AtypI), Virtual Design Education Forum (VDEF23), Typography Day, Digitally Engaged Learning (DEL),&nbsp;MODE Summit, Electronic Visualization and the Arts (EVA) London, Society of&nbsp;Experiential&nbsp;Design (SEGD), AIGA Design Educators Conference (DEC), College Art Association (CAA),&nbsp;Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), and &nbsp;UCDA Design Educators Summit.\u202fShe&nbsp;has&nbsp;also&nbsp;participated&nbsp;in&nbsp;DesignInquiry, an international&nbsp;peer-reviewed residency&nbsp;for experimental graphic design research.&nbsp;Shekara&nbsp;was featured in AIGA\u2019s&nbsp;One Designer,&nbsp;One Work; she recently was a guest speaker at Manipal University, Jaipur, and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to promote Mumbai, India.&nbsp;Shekara&nbsp;is the founder and chair of&nbsp;South Asian Design Educators Alliance (SADEA)&nbsp;which aims to promote and share South Asian design histories, pedagogies, and perspectives globally.&nbsp;Shekara&nbsp;received an MFA in Graphic Design from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,&nbsp;and a BFA in Painting from the State University of New York in New Paltz.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Website address:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/www.theherproject.art\/__;!!NuAq3lKL!vxOaEp3PralBBBH7pie_Yu3J8njcQdZF6KPujHFYTSjq_N8VAA0-bTkYhwNbEZvM6aCHOCt5nzw5vLhC49Y$\">https:\/\/www.theHERproject.art\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-simon-shaheen-oud-and-violin\">SIMON SHAHEEN, <em>oud and violin<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103617\/SimonShaheen.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11800\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover;width:175px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Performance: Thursday, September 21, 2023, 7:30 pm, Schrott Center for the Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Simon Shaheen dazzles his listeners as he deftly leaps from traditional Arabic sounds to jazz and Western classical styles. His soaring technique, melodic ingenuity, and unparalleled grace have earned him international acclaim as a virtuoso on the \u2018oud and violin. Shaheen is one of the most significant Arab musicians, performers, and composers of his generation. His work incorporates and reflects a legacy of Arabic music, while it forges ahead to new frontiers, embracing many different styles in the process. His newest project, \u201cZafir\u201d explores the Arab roots of Flamenco music and features fiery dancer, Auxi Fernandez, and guitarist\/pianist, Juan Perez Rodriguez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-angela-brown-soprano\">ANGELA BROWN, <em>soprano<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"536\" height=\"669\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103617\/AngelaBrown.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11801\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover;width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103617\/AngelaBrown.jpg 536w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103617\/AngelaBrown-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Performance: \u201cOpera from a Sistah\u2019s Point of View: Generation Next\u201d<br>Monday, September 25, 2023, 7:30 pm, Schrott Center for the Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soprano Angela Brown\u2019s multi-genre career has been lauded on the front page of The New York Times, CNN, CBS, in Oprah Magazine, and Reader&#8217;s Digest. She has graced the leading opera and symphonic stages on six continents including Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, National Opera of Paris, Vienna State Opera, Capetown (South Africa) Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Edmonton Opera, Calgary Philharmonic, Shanghai World Expo, Moscow Performing Arts Center, The Metropolitan Opera, Bilbao Opera, Teatro La Fenice, Hamburg Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Cincinnati Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and more. She has been presented in solo recitals throughout the United States, Canada, Spain, New Zealand, China, and Africa. Drawing on the impact of her signature show, <em>Opera&#8230;from a Sistah\u2019s Point of View\u00a91997<\/em>, Angela founded Morning Brown, Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to programming with multicultural role models to inspire and encourage the next generation of singers. She is the co-host of Melanated Moments in Classical Music, an award-winning podcast from Classical Music Indy with an audience in over 100 countries. She is featured in two PBS documentaries on the life of Marian Anderson: \u201cThe Whole World in Her Hands\u201d from American Masters and \u201cVoice of Freedom\u201d from American Experience. The Willson Center for Humanities and the Arts of the University of Georgia named Angela the 2023 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-branden-jacobs-jenkins-playwright\">BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS, <em>playwright<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"87\" height=\"131\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/BrandonJacobsJenkins-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11803\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover;width:175px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Saturday, October 7, 2024, Lilly Hall Studio Theatre<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Branden Jacobs-Jenkins&nbsp;is Professor in the Practice of&nbsp;Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University. Jacobs-Jenkins is a playwright whose plays include&nbsp;<em>Girls&nbsp;<\/em>(Yale Rep),&nbsp;<em>Everybody&nbsp;<\/em>(Signature Theatre; Pulitzer Prize finalist),&nbsp;<em>War&nbsp;<\/em>(world premiere, Yale Rep; LCT3),&nbsp;<em>Gloria&nbsp;<\/em>(Vineyard Theatre; Pulitzer Prize finalist),&nbsp;<em>Appropriate&nbsp;<\/em>(Signature Theatre; OBIE Award),<em>&nbsp;An Octoroon<\/em>&nbsp;(Soho Rep.; OBIE Award), and&nbsp;<em>Neighbors&nbsp;<\/em>(The Public Theater). A Residency Five playwright at Signature Theatre, his most recent honors include the Charles Wintour Award for Most Promising Playwright from the London Evening Standard, a London Critics\u2019 Circle Award for Most Promising Playwriting, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Benjamin H. Danks Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Steinberg Playwriting Award, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award. Jacobs-Jenkins has taught at NYU, Juilliard, Hunter College, and the University of Texas-Austin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-imani-winds\">IMANI WINDS<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"625\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/ImaniWinds.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11804\" style=\"width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/ImaniWinds.jpg 625w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/ImaniWinds-300x292.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Performance: Friday, January 26, 2024. 7:30 pm, Schrott Center for the Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating over a quarter century of music making, the twice GRAMMY-nominated Imani Winds has led both a revolution and evolution of the wind quintet through their dynamic playing, adventurous programming, imaginative collaborations, and outreach endeavors that have inspired audiences of all ages and backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ensemble\u2019s playlist embraces traditional chamber music repertoire, and newly commissioned works from voices that reflect historical events and the times in which we currently live.&nbsp;Their international presence includes concerts throughout Asia, Brazil, Australia, England, New Zealand, and Europe. With a deep commitment to education, the Imani Winds were appointed in 2021 as the Curtis Institute of Music\u2019s first-ever Faculty Wind Quintet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-sarah-louise-cowan-art-historian\">SARAH LOUISE COWAN, <em>art historian<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"387\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/SarahLouisCowan-1-edited.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11807\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover;width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/SarahLouisCowan-1-edited.jpg 387w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/SarahLouisCowan-1-edited-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cAbstract Art and Liberation\u201d<br>Monday, February 5, 2024, 7:30 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Louise Cowan&nbsp;is an assistant professor of art history at DePauw University.&nbsp;Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Americas with a particular focus on the intersection of art and activism. Sarah\u2019s book,&nbsp;<em>Howardena Pindell: Reclaiming Abstraction&nbsp;<\/em>(Yale University Press, 2022) is the first book-length scholarly publication about any aspects of the multifaceted career of artist, activist, curator, and writer Howardena Pindell. Her writing has also appeared in&nbsp;<em>Art Journal<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Journal of Modern Craft,&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>Woman\u2019s Art Journal<\/em>. She is launching a second book project about contemporary art and grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ailey-ii\">AILEY II<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/AileyII-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11809\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/AileyII-1.jpg 518w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/AileyII-1-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Performance: Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 7:30 pm, Schrott Center for the Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ailey II is universally renowned for merging the spirit and energy of the country\u2019s best&nbsp;early-career&nbsp;dance talent with the passion and creative vision of today\u2019s most outstanding and emerging choreographers. Founded in 1974 as the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, the company embodies his pioneering mission to establish an extended cultural community that provides dance performances, training, and community programs for all people. Sylvia Waters was selected by Mr. Ailey to be its founding Artistic Director, serving in that role&nbsp;for the Company&#8217;s first 38 seasons and&nbsp;helping Ailey II to flourish&nbsp;into one of the most popular modern dance companies, combining a rigorous touring schedule with extensive community outreach programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In September 2021,&nbsp;Francesca Harper&nbsp;stepped into the role of Artistic Director of Ailey II. Ms. Harper \u2013 who trained at The Ailey School and who has choreographed for both Ailey companies \u2013 brings fresh perspectives to Mr. Ailey\u2019s legacy, while nurturing new creative voices and propelling the company forward.<em>Dance Magazine<\/em>&nbsp;calls Ailey II &#8220;second to none,&#8221; and&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;declares, &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing like an evening spent with Ailey II, the younger version of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-donna-walker-kuhne-not-for-profit-leader-and-strategist\">DONNA WALKER-KUHNE, <em>not-for-profit leader and strategist<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"136\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/DonnaWalkerKuhne.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11810\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover;width:175px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cThe Intersection of Arts, Community, and Joy!\u201d<br>Thursday, March 21, 2024, 7:30 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna Walker-Kuhne is an award-winning thought leader, writer, and strategist for community engagement, audience development, and social justice. She is President of <em>WalkerInternational Communications Group<\/em>, a 30-year-old boutique marketing and audience development consulting agency. She was formerly Director of Marketing for both The Public Theater and Dance Theater of Harlem. She was also Vice President of Marketing and Vice President of Community Engagement at New Jersey Performing Arts Center. She provides consulting services to numerous arts organizations throughout the world and has generated over $22 million in earned income. She is also Senior Advisor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Currently her portfolio includes social justice initiatives and Equity Diversity Inclusion workshops. She is a lecturer and keynote presenter for international arts conferences in&nbsp;Blomfontein, South Africa, Croatia, and Australian Arts Conferences. She is an adjunct professor at New York University and Columbia University. She is the recipient of over 50 awards including the 2022 Margot Adams Signature Award, 2021 SGI-USA Distinguished Pioneer Award, and the 2019 League of Professional Theatre Women Rachel Crothers Leadership Award. Her first book, <em>Invitation to the Party: &nbsp;Building Bridges to Arts, Culture and Community<\/em>, was published in 2005 and her second book, <em>Champions for the Arts: Lessons and Successful Strategies for Building Anti-Racist Arts Organizations, <\/em>was published in February 2023. She has a weekly blog, \u201cArts and Culture Connections,\u201d that explores cultural efforts to expand diverse audiences. She is also a Board member for Newark Arts Council, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Signature Theater (NY), HARLEM WEEK, and The Harlem Arts Alliance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dmitry-krymov-theatre-artist-and-designer\">DMITRY KRYMOV, <em>theatre artist and designer<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"238\" height=\"290\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/DmitryKrymov.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11811\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover;width:175px\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Workshop<br>Saturday, March 30, 2024, 1:00-4:00 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dmitry Krymov has designed more than eighty plays for leading Russian theatres. Since 1990, he has dedicated himself entirely to painting, graphics, stage design, and theatre directing. Currently a professor at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts and the Head of the Experimental Theatre Project of the Union Theatre of Europe. Krymov is a recipient of Stanislavski (2006), Turandot (2007 and 2009) and Golden Mask (2008) awards, the highest theatre achievement awards in Russia. In 2007 he received the highest award for stage design of the Russian Pavilion at the Prague Quadrennial.<em>&nbsp;A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream (As You Like It)<\/em>&nbsp;was commissioned for the 2012 World Shakespeare Festival and won the Bank of Scotland Herald Angel Award at the 2012 Edinburgh International Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-kenny-barron-jazz-piano\">KENNY BARRON, <em>jazz piano<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"288\" height=\"288\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/KennyBarron.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11812\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover;width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/KennyBarron.jpg 288w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103615\/KennyBarron-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Performance with the Butler University Jazz Ensemble<br>Friday, April 5, 2024, 7:30 pm, Schrott Center for the Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Honored by The National Endowment for the Arts as a 2010 Jazz Master, Kenny Barron has an unmatched ability to mesmerize audiences with his elegant playing, sensitive&nbsp;melodies, and infectious rhythms. The Los Angeles Times named him \u201cone of the top jazz pianists in the world\u201d and Jazz Weekly calls him \u201cThe most lyrical piano player of&nbsp;our time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Barron consistently wins the jazz critics and readers polls, including Downbeat, Jazz Times, and Jazziz magazines. The famed Spanish ceramist Lladro honored Mr. Barron&nbsp;with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012 and he was awarded Honorary Doctorates from his alma mater SUNY Empire State in 2013 and from the Berklee College of&nbsp;Music in 2011. In 2009 he received the Living Legacy Award from Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, was inducted into the American Jazz Hall of Fame, and won a MAC&nbsp;Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. He is a six-time recipient of Best Pianist by the Jazz Journalists Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jca-signature-master-class-series-1\">JCA SIGNATURE MASTER CLASS SERIES<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"276\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/KronosQuartet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11813\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>KRONOS QUARTET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Performance for Ensemble Music Society<br>Open sound check and Q and A: Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 4:00-5:30 pm, Schrott Center for the Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:4px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"128\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/MikaelBurke.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11814\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>MIKAEL BURKE, <em>theatre artist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recipient of Butler Alumni Award Theatre Workshop: Friday, October 27, 2023, 3:00-5:00 pm, LH 328<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:4px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"132\" height=\"142\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/NancyAmbrose.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11815\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>NANCY AMBROSE KING, <em>oboe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing Miguel del Aguila\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Concierto Con Brio<\/em> with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra<br>Oboe Master Class: Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6:00-8:00 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"122\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/RyanKing.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11816\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>RYAN KING, <em>clarinet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing Miguel del Aguila\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Concierto Con Brio<\/em> with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra<br>Clarinet Master Class: Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 7:00-8:00 pm, LH 141<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"116\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/MiguelDelAguila.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11828\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>MIGUEL DEL AGUILA, <em>Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra\u2019s Composer-in-Residence 2023-24<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Composition Seminar: Thursday, November 16, 2023, 5:30-6:30 pm, LH 145<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/TommyMesa.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11827\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>TOMMY MESA, <em>cello<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing for An Evening with Sphinx (ISO) Cello Master Class: Tuesday, January 16, 2024, 7:00-8:30 pm, LH 141<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"116\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/JulianRhee.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11824\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>JULIAN RHEE,<em> violin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing Mendelssohn\u2019s <em>Violin Concerto in E minor<\/em> with the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Violin Master Class: Thursday, January 18, 6:00-8:00 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"122\" height=\"160\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/AnthonyMcGill.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11823\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>ANTHONY McGILL,<em> clarinet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges\u2019 Violin Concerto in A Major, arranged for clarinet by Derek Bermel, with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra<br>Clarinet Master Class: Thursday, January 18, 2024, 6:00-8:00 pm, LH 141<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:5px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"158\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/MichelleCann.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11826\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>MICHELLE CANN, <em>piano<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Performing Peter Tchaikovsky\u2019s <em>Piano Concerto No. 1<\/em> with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Piano Master Class: April 4, 2:00-4:00 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-wayne-c-wentzel-lecture-series-1\">WAYNE C. WENTZEL LECTURE SERIES<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"340\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/LorenKajikawa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11825\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2\/3;object-fit:cover;width:175px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/LorenKajikawa.jpg 340w, https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2024\/11\/08103613\/LorenKajikawa-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>LOREN KAJIKAWA<\/strong><br>\u201cRapping Republicans: Hip Hop and the Multiracial Right\u201d<br>Friday, February 23, 2024, 7:00 pm, Eidson-Duckwall Recital Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though long assumed to be an incubator for leftist Black radical politics, hip hop culture and rap music are increasingly being utilized in service of right-wing political movements and priorities. Beginning with an overview of hip hop\u2019s political history and relationship to both major US parties, this lecture explores right-wing politicians&#8217; and commentators\u2019 embrace of particular aspects of hip hop as well as explicitly right-wing rappers\u2019 use of hip hop music and culture. By tracing how hip hop and rap music are discussed and deployed in conservative spaces, this lecture challenges assumptions about the function of hip hop and race in contemporary US politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Loren Kajikawa is chair of the music program at The George Washington University\u2019s Corcoran School of the Arts &amp; Design. His main area of research and teaching is American music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with special attention to the dynamics of race and politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kajikawa\u2019s writings have appeared in <em>American Music, Black Music Research Journal, ECHO: a music-centered journal, Journal of the Society for American Music, and Popular Music and Society, <\/em>among others. His book <em>Sounding Race in Rap Songs <\/em>(University of California Press, 2015)explores the relationship between rap music\u2019s backing tracks and racial representation. In addition to his publications, Kajikawa is a former Editor-in-Chief of the <em>Journal of the Society for American Music <\/em>(Vol. 12-13) and he currently serves as co-editor of \u201cTracking Pop,\u201d the University of Michigan Press\u2019s series of books about popular music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kajikawa has been invited to give the <em>AMS\/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Lecture<\/em> in Cleveland, Ohio, and he regularly presents his work at annual meetings of the American Musicological Society<em>,<\/em> American Studies Association, International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and Society for American Music, among others. 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Tavi Stutz and Jane Rose McKeever interpret postmodern choreography on five different traditional and non-traditional aerial apparatus to a soundscape of artist voices gathered from 2016 to present. The juxtaposition of movement, voice, and projected video \u2013 featuring performers from around the world \u2013 weaves together an experience that invites the audience to discover for themselves how the elements support each other. Throughout the evening, Stutz and Rose McKeever continually break the 4th wall, appearing on stage as the audience enters, inviting the audience to contribute a definition of love that will later be read as a part of the evening, and directly addressing the audience through monologue and movement. Stutz and Rose McKeever ground their work through their own personal experiences. That, mixed up with the tapestry of artists\u2019 voices and video, allows the audience to contemplate how they support each other and even discover themselves and their ideals in the various expressions of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DConstruction Arts was founded in 2014 by Tavi Stutz and Jane Rose McKeever. Prior to and in addition to his work with DConstruction Arts, Tavi Stutz has performed with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow, Cirque du Soleil, Cirque Berzerk, and Circus Vargas. In addition to this he has directed and choreographed productions in and around the greater Los Angeles area including the Loft Ensemble Theater and Sacred Fools. Jane Rose McKeever has worked in audio and visual design for theater, film, and television, including work with Walt Disney Imagineering and the HBO show&nbsp;<em>The Nevers<\/em>. She is also a tenured professor and the Head of Production in the Department of Television, Film, and Media Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Drawing upon their individual professional backgrounds, Stutz and Rose McKeever have conceptualized and produced many multimedia-infused productions, including the multiple award-winning two-person show&nbsp;<em>Definition of Man&nbsp;<\/em>(Ovation nominated for Best Stunt Choreography, LA Fringe winner for Best in Dance\/Choreography), collaboration on Dreya Weber\u2019s one-woman show&nbsp;<em>Witch Piece\/Hexen<\/em>, and many different productions of&nbsp;<em>Love Is\u2026&nbsp;<\/em>between 2016 and 2022, most recently completing a collaboration with Donald Byrd and Spectrum Dance Theater in Seattle WA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-cristina-pato-gaita-galician-bagpipes\">CRISTINA PATO, <em>gaita<\/em> (Galician bagpipes)<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/08103823\/pato-cristina-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cristina Pato holding Galician bagpipes\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture-Recital: \u201cThe Inbetweener: An Artist\u2019s Journey to Cultural Sustainability,\u201d Thursday, September 15, 2022, 7:30 pm, Schrott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Inbetweener\u201d is a journey navigating across the musical worlds I learned through my instruments and a journey through the different ways of understanding the role of culture in society. As a professional bagpiper (Galician bagpipes), and as a classical pianist (collaborative piano), I learned how to appreciate the beauty and importance of difference by living in between popular and classical music. As a teacher, I focused my practice in creating collaborative bridges between the sciences and the humanities through the arts. And as an immigrant, I\u2019m constantly learning what it means to belong to a particular community. This lecture explores the questions that arise from that unique space, in between, inviting us to reflect about the role of artists in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musician, writer, educator and producer,&nbsp;<strong>Cristina Pato<\/strong>&nbsp;has been hailed as \u201c<em>a virtuosic burst of energy<\/em>\u201d by&nbsp;<em>The New York Times<\/em>. Her professional career is focused on exploring the role of the arts in society through teaching and producing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cristina has served as artist-in-residence at&nbsp;New York University (NYU),&nbsp;Harvard University, and the&nbsp;University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition, she collaborated for over fifteen years with&nbsp;The Silkroad Project, the non-profit organization founded by cellist&nbsp;Yo-Yo Ma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2017, Cristina writes a weekly column titled \u201c<em>The Art of Restlessness<\/em>\u201d for Spanish newspaper&nbsp;<em>La Voz de Galicia&nbsp;<\/em>for which she was awarded the XVII&nbsp;<em>Afundaci\u00f3n<\/em>&nbsp;Journalism Prize:&nbsp;<em>Fern\u00e1ndez del Riego.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cristina divides her time between New York City and Galicia and shares her life with photographer&nbsp;Xan Padr\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-heather-shirey-art-historian\">HEATHER SHIREY, <em>art historian<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/08103823\/shirey-heather.jpg\" alt=\"Heather Shirey headshot\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cStreet Art and the Art of Protest,\u201d Thursday, October 6, 2022, 7:30 pm, EDRH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heather Shirey, PhD, is a Professor of Art History at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her teaching and research focus on race and identity, migrations and diasporas, and monuments, memorials, and street art in relation to public space and communities. Together with the Urban Art Mapping research team, she created and maintains the&nbsp;George Floyd and Anti-Racist Street Art Database, the&nbsp;Covid-19 Street Art Database,&nbsp;and other street art archives. These activist archives are driven by our understanding that it is crucial to&nbsp;document and analyze street art not only because of its ephemerality,&nbsp;but also because it captures the complexity of the experiences shaping the world today. Areas of inquiry include a study of creating, curating, and archiving as a form of activism and healing, and monuments and street art as modes of critical engagement in shared space. Dr. Shirey has published research on monuments in Brazil (<em>African Arts,&nbsp;<\/em>2009) and in Great Britain (<em>Open Cultural Studies,<\/em>&nbsp;2019).&nbsp;The Urban Art Mapping team\u2019s latest research on street art is available in&nbsp;<em>Urban Creativity Scientific Journal&nbsp;<\/em>(2020),&nbsp;<em>Art and Gentrification in the Changing Neoliberal Landscape&nbsp;<\/em>(edited by Tijen Tunali, May 2021), <em>NUART<\/em> (May 2021), and the <em>Journal of Folklore Research<\/em> (forthcoming, 2023).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bardin-niskala-duo-nbsp-cello-and-piano\">BARDIN-NISKALA DUO,&nbsp;<em>cello and piano<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/08103823\/bardin-niskala-duo-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"An-Lin Bardin and Naomi Niskala\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Celebrating Identity Through Music,&#8221; Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 7:30 pm, EDRH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bardin-Niskala Duo (cello and piano) uses contemporary music to explore identity, fight racism, promote cultural awareness, and celebrate humanity during this time of division and racial violence. Exploring themes common across all humanity &#8211; including innocence, identity, homeland, loss, mourning, hope, and healing &#8211; we commission ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American) composers to write pieces incorporating the folksongs and children&#8217;s songs of the composer&#8217;s (and our) particular cultures. These commissioned works are performed alongside additional works by ALAANA composers that explore a sense of identity, as well as more-traditional works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Described as \u201cstunning\u201d by the New York Times, cellist<strong> An-Lin Bardin <\/strong>currently freelances and teaches both music and math in the greater NYC area. As the cellist of the Vinca Quartet, she performed extensively throughout Europe and the US, including Carnegie\u2019s Weill Hall, Aspen, and Vilar Performing Arts Center. Bardin\u2019s performances have been broadcast on Deutschlandradio and WNYC. She is a laureate of several international quartet competitions, including the Paolo Borciani Quartet Competitions in Reggio Emilia, Italy, and the Fischoff, the Plowman, the Yellow Springs, Chesapeake, and the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competitions in the United States. A recipient of a DAAD fellowship which enabled her to work with the Vogler String Quartet in Stuttgart, Germany, Bardin also studied extensively with Gunter Pichler and Valentin Erben of the Alban Berg Quartet, Walter Levine, Heime Mueller, and the Artemis String Quartet under the auspices of the ProQuartet program in Paris, France, and with the Emerson String Quartet through the Carnegie Hall Chamber Music Workshops. She was a graduate assistant to the Takacs Quartet at the University of Colorado at Boulder for two years as part of the graduate quartet residency program. A strong proponent of music education, Bardin was a founding member of Music Haven, an intensive mentorship program serving youth from low-income neighborhoods in New Haven, Connecticut. She also founded two ongoing music educational programs in rural Washington State through the Gorgeous Sounds Residency Program. Raised in California by two nuclear physicists, Bardin began her cello studies at the age of eight with Irene Sharp. She holds a B.S. from Yale University in Geology and Geophysics, and an M.M. from the Yale School of<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Music, where she studied with Aldo Parisot and was a member of the Grammy-Award-winning Yale Cellos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A soloist and chamber musician who has appeared in Europe, North America, Russia, Israel, Thailand, and Japan, pianist <strong>Naomi Niskala&#8217;s<\/strong> performances have been broadcast on BBC Radio, Deutschlandradio, RTV Germany, and NPR\u2019s <em>Performance Today. <\/em>Niskala performs regularly with <em>Spectrum Concerts Berlin<\/em>, one of Germany\u2019s leading chamber organizations, and has also recorded two discs with them. Recent performance highlights include the San Francisco Symphony Chamber Series at Davies Symphony Hall, soloist with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic of Russia, and solo and chamber performances with <em>Spectrum Concerts Berlin<\/em>in the Philharmonie Kammermusiksaal of Berlin, Carnegie\u2019s Weill Hall, in Thailand, and in Kosovo. Her release of the only complete recordings of American composer Robert Helps\u2019s solo piano works on two discs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with Albany Records in 2007 was met with high acclaim, and she has also recorded piano chamber works of Robert Helps and Ursula Mamlok with <em>Spectrum Concerts Berlin <\/em>for two discs on Naxos, as well as the world premiere of Mamlok\u2019s 2015 quintet \u201cBreezes\u201d for Bridge Records. Niskala is featured in the 2013 German rbb television documentary entitled \u201c Sehnsucht Musik\u201d (Searching for Music), documenting the work of four members of <em>Spectrum Concerts Berlin<\/em> towards improving the harsh conditions for young musicians at a music school located in Prizren, Kosovo. Born to Japanese\/Finnish-American parents, she began studying piano at the age of three, raised in Rochester, New York and then later in Tokyo, Japan. Niskala holds degrees from the Yale School of Music, Stony Brook University, and the New England Conservatory of Music, where she studied with Claude Frank, Gilbert Kalish, and Patricia Zander. She also worked with pianists Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, Peter Serkin, and Maria Louisa Faini, and violinists Louis Krasner and Eugene Lehner. Niskala is currently Associate Professor of Music at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania, where she teaches piano and theory, and leads a summer chamber music exchange program to Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-bernardo-rey-rengifo-christel-dehaan-visiting-international-theatre-artist\">BERNARDO REY RENGIFO, <em>Christel DeHaan Visiting International Theatre Artist<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2022\/07\/08103851\/Bernardo-Rey-Rengifo-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Bernardo Rey Rengifo in front of painting of a dog\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Bernardo Rey is a theatre director from Colombia, specializing in social theatre, actor training, stage design, and in the construction and the use of masks. He studied Theatre at the National School of Dramatic Art in Bogota; participated at the Third Session of ISTA (International School of Theatre Anthropology), directed by Eugenio Barba; and he worked for three years with actors of the Laboratory Theatre and Theatre of Sources directed by Jerzy Grotowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a founding member of the Labyrinthe Th\u00e9\u00e2tre directed by Ryzard Cieslak, Paris, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For 30 years, he has devoted his work to the research and application of visual arts, set design, and multimedia in the performing arts, creating and realizing installations, sceneries, masks, theatrical objects, and machines, sculptures, and posters for different groups around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has taught in different institutions like La Mama Symposium for Directors of Ellen Steward, Spoleto, Italyl International School of Biodrama, Villa de Leiva; Institut International de la Marionnette (together with Donato Sartori), Charleville; Werkstatt of Dusseldorf, Germany; Academia Silvio D\u2019Amico, Rome; Escuela de Formacion de Actores Teatro Libre, Bogota; Fort Lewis College, Colorado, USA; and Butler University, Indianapolis, and he continuously gives workshops around Europe, USA, Africa, and South America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1992, &nbsp;he founded, with Nube Sandoval, the Teatro CENIT (Centre of Theatre Research), creating their own performances, as well as Theatre as Bridge methodology, creating programs for social rehabilitation using art as an instrument for pacification and the resolution of conflicts in zones of war, public schools, jails, and centres of assistance for children of the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For ten years, he directed, with Nube Sandoval, the theatre project of the Italian Council for Refugees Victims of Torture in Rome, winning the Fourth Edition of the International Biennale of Theatre and Psychiatry of Padua.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016 he received the Ellen Stewart International Award, NY, and in 2017, the \u201cCatarsi-Teatri della Diversit\u00e1\u201d Award given by the National Association of Italian Critics. In 2021-22, he codirected the project DEVELACIONES, Un Canto a los Cuatro Vientos, for the Commission of Truth of Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has his centre of work in the jungle of the Caribbean coast of Colombia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jeanne-dunning-photographer\">JEANNE DUNNING, <em>photographer <\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/08103823\/Dunning-Jeane-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Jeanne Dunning\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cRecent Work,\u201d Monday, November 14, 2022, 7:30 pm, EDRH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jeanne Dunning&#8217;s photographic, sculptural, and video work explores our relationship to our own physicality, looking at the strange and unfamiliar in the body, gender, ideas about normalcy, and, most recently, death. Her work has been shown extensively throughout the United States and Europe since the mid-1980s.&nbsp;It has been included in major group exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, and the Venice Biennale. She has had one-person shows at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Konstmuseet in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, The Wattis Institute in San Francisco, and The Berkeley Art Museum, as well as at numerous commercial and not-for-profit galleries throughout the world. She is currently a professor in the Department of Art Theory and Practice at Northwestern University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-big-muddy-dance-company\">THE BIG MUDDY DANCE COMPANY<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Performance: Friday, February 3, 2023, 7:30 pm, Schrott Center for the Arts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-joel-fuller-installation-and-animation-artist\">JOEL FULLER, <em>installation and animation artist<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/08103823\/fuller-joel-258x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Joel Fuller\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cJourney into Afrofuturism,\u201d Thursday, February 23, 2023, 7:30 pm, EDRH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joel Fuller is an artist with a background in digital illustration, digital media, and virtual reality. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art + Design from Butler University and an M.F.A in Digital Art from Indiana University Bloomington. He currently is a Digital Art Instructor at the University of Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bFuller was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, a city known for its history of degradation and dehumanization of black people during the Civil Rights Movement. He is the nephew of Audrey Faye Hendricks, the youngest child arrested in the Civil Rights Movement at eight years old. His family not only participated in the movement but risked their bodies, economic security, and lives fighting for equal rights. His aunt is no longer here, but he controls the memory of her, and she told him to never let our struggle fade into history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-william-chapman-nyaho-piano\">WILLIAM CHAPMAN NYAHO, <em>piano<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/08103823\/nyaho-william-chapman-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo of William Chapman Nyaho\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Recital: Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 7:30 pm, EDRH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. William Chapman Nyaho earned his degrees from St. Peter\u2019s College, Oxford University, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Texas at Austin. He also studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Gen\u00e8ve, Switzerland. He currently serves on the piano faculty at Pacific Lutheran University as well as on the summer faculty of Interlochen Center for the Arts. He also has his private piano studio in Seattle, Washington and teaches students of all levels and ages. His students have been prizewinners at competitions and have been well-placed in universities and colleges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chapman Nyaho\u2019s professional experience includes being a North Carolina Visiting Artist and Associate Professor of Music at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he held the Heymann Endowed Professorship and was the recipient of the Distinguished Professor Award. He has served as Visiting Professor of Piano at Colby College, Maine; Artist-in-Residence at Willamette University, Oregon; and piano professor at Adamant Music School, Vermont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is an active solo recitalist, duo pianist and chamber musician, giving recitals and concerts in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean and in cities across the United States where he advocates music by composers of African descent. He actively serves as a regular guest clinician at colleges and universities around the United States. He is also an adjudicator for several national and international piano competitions. He has served on national committees for the College Music Society, Music Teachers\u2019 National Association, and the National Endowment for the Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As an advocate for music of Africa and its diaspora, Chapman Nyaho\u2019s publications include a five-volume anthology&nbsp;<em>Piano Music of Africa and the African Diaspora<\/em>&nbsp;published by Oxford University Press. His recordings include&nbsp;<em>Aaron Copland: Music for Two Pianos<\/em>;&nbsp;<em>Senku:<\/em> <em>Piano Music by Composers of African Descent;<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Asa: Piano Music by Composers of African Descent<\/em>. His soon-to-be-released new CD will include recordings of piano music from volumes 1 and 2 of his anthology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-jane-chu-former-chair-of-the-national-endowment-for-the-arts\">JANE CHU, <em>former Chair of the National Endowment for the Arts<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/08103823\/chur-jane-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Jane Chu\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cThe Arts \u2013 A Common Language That Is Right on Time,\u201d Thursday, March 2, 2023, 7:30 pm, EDRH<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arts provide a common language to honor our multiple ethnicities. As the daughter of Chinese immigrants, Jane Chu will examine ways people were engaged in the arts in the US then versus now, and how the arts play an important role in the cross-cultural understanding of diversity in the lives of others as well as her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jane Chu combines her academic research and professional practice in the arts, philanthropy, and business administration. In 2014, she was appointed to serve as the eleventh chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, completing her term in June 2018. A practicing visual artist, Chu is a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During Chu\u2019s four-year tenure at the National Endowment for the Arts, Chu traveled to 50 US states and four countries, 200 communities, and made more than 400 site visits to meet with artists and arts leaders, government and civic leaders, philanthropists, and the general public. The NEA awarded $430 million over the four years to support the arts in 16,000 communities covering 50 states, US jurisdictions, and in every Congressional District. In 2016, the NEA was ranked number one in the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government for small agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to coming to the National Endowment for the Arts, Chu served as the founding president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, overseeing a $413 million campaign to construct and open the performing arts center in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jane Chu straddles multiple cultures, having been born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, and raised in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, the daughter of Chinese immigrants. She received bachelor\u2019s degrees in piano performance and music education from Ouachita Baptist University, as well as a master\u2019s degree in piano pedagogy from Southern Methodist University. Additionally, Chu holds an associate degree in visual arts from Nebraska Wesleyan University, an MBA from Rockhurst University, a Ph.D. in philanthropic studies from Indiana University, and six honorary doctorate degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chu lives in New York. Her artwork can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/janechuart.com\">https:\/\/janechuart.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-leah-nanako-winkler-playwright\">LEAH NANAKO WINKLER, <em>playwright<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2026\/01\/29161401\/leah-nanako-winkler.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Jane Chu\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Signature Series Playwriting Workshop and Conversation with Leah Nanako Winkler, Friday, March 31, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leah Nanako Winkler is a Japanese-American playwright from Kamakura, Japan and Lexington, Kentucky. Her plays include Kentucky (off-broadway- Ensemble Studio Theater\/ Page 73), God Said This (World premiere: Humana Festival 2018, off-broadway- Primary Stages, Two Mile Hollow (simultaneous world premiere: Ferocious Lotus\/ Theater Mu\/Mixed Blood\/ Artists at Play LA), Hot Asian Doctor Husband (world premiere: Theater Mu), Death for Sydney Black (off-broadway: TerraNova Collective) and Nevada \u2013 Tan (Inaugural Audible Emerging Artist Commission). Her newest play, The Brightest Thing in the World will premiere at Yale Rep in 2022. She is published by Dramatist Play Service, Samuel French and Yale University Press. Awards\/Fellowships: Yale Drama Prize, ATCA\u2019s Francesca Primus Prize, the inaugural Mark O\u2019Donnell Prize from The Actors Fund and Playwrights Horizons, the Jerome New York Fellowship, A Peabody Award and the 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award. TV credits include Love Life, New Amsterdam and Ramy as well as several original projects in development. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theater, an alumnus of Youngblood, Dorothy Streslin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, Time Warner Fellow of WP Theater and Ma-Yi lab. MFA Brooklyn College. Commissions include WP Theater, EST\/SLOAN and Disney\/Marvel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Butler Theatre is proud to welcome back Leah! Leah\u2019s play,&nbsp;<em>Two Mile Hollow,<\/em>&nbsp;runs through April at The Phoenix Theatre and Cultural Center in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-candy-chang-artist\">CANDY CHANG, <em>artist<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/08103820\/chang-candy-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Candy Chang\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Public Lecture: \u201cMaking Space for Creativity and Innovation,\u201d Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 7:30 pm, Shelton Auditorium<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the activation of public spaces around the world, Taiwanese-American artist Candy Chang creates work that envisions the future of communal ritual in an increasingly alienating world. Her practice includes participatory public art installations of anonymous, handwritten reflections, as well as reproductions of these reflections through video and mixed media. She is interested in the future of ritual in public life and merging traditional Asian arts with the modern psyche. She is caretaker of over one million handwritten anxieties, hopes, pains, and moments of grace in the early 21st century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is most known for her 2011 participatory public artwork&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.candychang.com\/beforeidie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Before I Die<\/em><\/a>, which reimagines how the walls of our cities can help us grapple with mortality and meaning as a community today. Over 5,000&nbsp;<em>Before I Die<\/em>&nbsp;walls have been created by communities in over 75 counties, and&nbsp;<em>The Atlantic<\/em>&nbsp;called it \u201cone of the most creative community projects ever.\u201d In the early 2000s, she co-founded a record label, which spurred her to wheatpaste artwork of their music around downtown New York. While studying architecture and urban planning, she used the tactics of street art to create participatory art with communities around the world to reflect on the state of our neighborhoods. After struggling with grief and depression, she used this medium to reflect on the state of our psyches. She has created&nbsp;a monument of over 50,000 anxieties and hopes,&nbsp;secular spaces for confessions, and&nbsp;electrified shrines on emotional barriers. Her&nbsp;ritual on loss&nbsp;was a 2021&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;Critic\u2019s Pick. She has worked&nbsp;with organizations including Art Production Fund, the Rubin Museum of Art, Mural Arts Philadelphia, and the Annenberg Foundation. She often collaborates with&nbsp;James A. Reeves&nbsp;and their work can be found at&nbsp;Ritual Fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is a TED Senior Fellow, Urban Innovation Fellow, and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She is a recipient of the Tony Goldman Visionary Artist Award, EPIC Impact Society Artist Award, and was named a \u201cLive Your Best Life\u201d Local Hero by <em>Oprah Magazine<\/em>, as well as one of the Top 100 Leaders in Public Interest Design. She is a recipient of grants from the National Endowment of the Arts, Hemera Foundation, and Rockefeller Foundation. Her work has been exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She has lived in New Orleans, Helsinki, and New York, and is&nbsp;currently a 2022 Innovator-in-Residence at the American School in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-cecile-mclorin-salvant-jazz-vocalist\">C\u00c9CILE McLORIN SALVANT, <em>jazz vocalist<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/16\/2022\/09\/08103820\/mclorin-salvant-cecile-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo of Cecile Mclorin Salvant\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In concert with the Butler University Jazz Ensemble, Thursday, April 6, 2023, 7:30 pm, Schrott<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>C\u00e9cile&nbsp;McLorin&nbsp;Salvant is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The late Jessye Norman described Salvant <em>as \u201ca unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings.\u201d <\/em>Salvant has&nbsp;developed a passion for storytelling and finding the connections between vaudeville, blues, folk traditions from around the world, theater, jazz, and baroque music.&nbsp;Salvant&nbsp;is an eclectic curator,&nbsp;unearthing rarely recorded, forgotten songs with strong narratives, interesting power dynamics, unexpected twists, and humor.&nbsp;Salvant won the Thelonious Monk competition in 2010. She has received Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album for three consecutive albums, <em>The Window, Dreams and Daggers, <\/em>and<em> For One to Love,<\/em> and was nominated for the award in 2014 for her album <em>WomanChild<\/em>. In 2020, Salvant received the MacArthur fellowship and the Doris Duke Artist Award. Nonesuch Records released <em>Ghost Song<\/em> in March 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Born and raised in Miami, Florida, of a French mother and Haitian father, she started classical piano studies at 5, sang in a children\u2019s choir at 8, and started classical voice lessons as a teenager. Salvant received a bachelor\u2019s degree in French law from the Universit\u00e9 Pierre-Mendes France in Grenoble while also studying baroque music and jazz at the Darius Milhaud Music Conservatory in Aix-en-Provence, France.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salvant\u2019s latest work, <em>Ogresse<\/em>, is a musical fable in the form of a cantata that blends genres (folk, baroque, jazz, country). Salvant wrote the story, lyrics, and music. It is arranged by Darcy James Argue for a thirteen-piece orchestra of multi-instrumentalists. <em>Ogresse<\/em>, both a biomythography and an homage to the Erzulie (as painted by Gerard Fortune) and Sara Baartman, explores fetishism, hunger, diaspora, cycles of appropriation, lies, othering, and ecology. It is in development to become an animated feature-length film, which Salvant will direct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salvant makes large-scale textile drawings. 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Similarly, what artistic creations will be lost if Europe and the United States close the door to refugees and migrants from lands in chaos?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public performance: Thursday, September 9, 7:30 pm, Schrott<br>Residency Activities TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mikeal-burke-nbsp-directs-nbsp-we-are-proud-to-present-a-presentation-about-the-herero-of-nambia-formerly-known-as-south-west-africa-from-the-german-sudwestafrika-between-the-years-1884-1915-nbsp-written-by-nbsp-jackie-sibblies-drury\"><strong>Mikeal Burke&nbsp;<\/strong>directs<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><em>We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Nambia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915<\/em><strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>written by&nbsp;<strong>Jackie Sibblies Drury<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Mikael Burke is a Chicago-based director, deviser, and educator. A Princess Grace Award-winner in Theatre, Jeff Award-nominated director, and proud Butler Theatre grad (\u201809), Mikael\u2019s worked with Victory Gardens Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Jackalope Theatre Company, Windy City Playhouse, About Face Theatre, First Floor Theater, American Theatre Company, Chicago Dramatists, and The Story Theatre in Chicago, and regionally with Geva Theatre Center, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, and Phoenix Theatre. Mikael serves as Associate Artistic Director at About Face Theatre in Chicago, is Head of the Directing Concentration of the Summer High School Training Program of the Theatre School, and is an adjunct faculty member there as well as in the Chicago College of the Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Recent directing credits include we are continuous by Harrison David Rivers; Kill Move Paradise by James Ijames; The Agitators by Mat Smart; Sugar in Our Wounds by Donja R. Love; At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen by Terry Guest.&nbsp;<a aria-label=\"To make this website accessible to screen reader, Press combination of alt and 1 keys. To stop getting this message, press the combination of alt and 2 keys\" href=\"https:\/\/mklburke.com\/\">mklburke.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jackie Sibblies Drury\u2019s plays include <em style=\"color: var(--color-blue-butler); font-family: var(--font-family-base); font-size: var(--font-size-body);\">Marys Seacole<\/em>&nbsp;(OBIE Award),&nbsp;<em style=\"color: var(--color-blue-butler); font-family: var(--font-family-base); font-size: var(--font-size-body);\">Fairview<\/em>&nbsp;(2019 Pulitzer Prize),\u202f<em style=\"color: var(--color-blue-butler); font-family: var(--font-family-base); font-size: var(--font-size-body);\">Really,\u202fSocial Creatures<\/em>,&nbsp;and\u202f<em style=\"color: var(--color-blue-butler); font-family: var(--font-family-base); font-size: var(--font-size-body);\">We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South West Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884-1915<\/em>.\u202fThe presenters of her plays include Young Vic, Lincoln Center Theatre, Soho Rep., Berkeley Rep, New York City Players &amp; Abrons Arts Center, Victory Gardens, Trinity Rep, Woolly Mammoth, Undermain Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Actors Theater of Louisville, Company One, and The Bush Theatre. Drury has developed her work at Sundance , Bellagio Center, Ground Floor at Berkeley Rep, Soho Rep. Writer\/Director Lab, New York Theatre Workshop, Bushwick Starr, LARK, and MacDowell Colony, among others.\u202fShe has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Jerome Fellowship at The LARK, a United States Artists Fellowship, a Helen Merrill Playwriting Award, and\u202fa Windham-Campbell Literary Prize in Drama.\u202f<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public performances: Wednesday-Sunday, October 6-10, 2021, Lilly Hall Studio Theatre<br>Workshop for theatre students, faculty, and staff with Ms. Drury: Friday, October 10, 2021, 1:00-3:00 pm<br>Post-show Q and A with Ms. Drury: Friday, October 10, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-abigail-smithson\">Abigail Smithson<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Abigail Smithson is a multi-media artist who has exhibited work in the United States and internationally. She received her Bachelor of Studio Arts from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her Master of Fine Arts from Louisiana State University. Her art practice is rooted in the appreciation, translation, and act of archiving objects that record their surroundings. She challenges the traditional ideas of representation and works to create photographs as documents, in a both nuanced and abstract way.&nbsp;The game of basketball has been a longtime muse for her and she follows and believes firmly in the&nbsp;<a aria-label=\"To make this website accessible to screen reader, Press combination of alt and 1 keys. To stop getting this message, press the combination of alt and 2 keys\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaacollective.net\/\">New Craft Artists in Action<\/a>&nbsp;collective motto, which is Participation vs. Spectatorship when it comes to sports. Through her podcast&nbsp;<em>Dear Adam Silver<\/em>&nbsp;as well as her other work, she questions the current narrative around sports and art and how the two cultural entities overlap and live side by side. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Art at Lyon College, located in Batesville, AR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public lecture: Monday, October 25, 2021, 7:30 pm, EDRH:&nbsp;<em>Breathe in an Alley-Oop<\/em><br>Workshops with art students TBD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-phil-chan\">Phil Chan<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Phil Chan is a co-founder of Final Bow for Yellowface, and author of <em>Final Bow for Yellowface: Dancing between Intention and Impact<\/em>. He is currently a \u201821\/\u201922 Visiting Scholar at the A\/P\/A Institute at NYU, and the Manhattan School of Music\u2019s \u201821\/\u201922 Citizen Artist. He is a graduate of Carleton College and an alumnus of the Ailey School. As a writer, he served as the Executive Editor for FLATT Magazine and contributed to Dance Europe Magazine, Dance Magazine, Dance Business Weekly, and the Huffington Post. He was the founding General Manager of the Buck Hill Skytop Music Festival, and was the General Manager for Armitage Gone! Dance. He served multiple years on the National Endowment for the Arts dance panel and the Jadin Wong Award panel presented by the Asian American Arts Alliance. He serves on the International Council for the Parsons Dance Company, the Advisory Board of Dance Magazine, and was a 2020 New York Public Library Jerome Robbins Dance Division Research Fellow. His next project, the &#8220;Ballet des Porcelaines,\u201d will premiere at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public lecture: Monday, November 8, 2021, 7:30 pm, EDRH:&nbsp;<em>The Multiracial Future of the Arts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Final Bow for Yellowface<\/em>&nbsp;co-founder Phil Chan takes us&nbsp;through a history of orientalism in the Western performing arts, and explains why preserving a Eurocentric view of \u201cexotic\u201d people and places on our stages isn\u2019t doing us any favors when serving a multiracial audience. How do we navigate conversations around race and tradition in art? How do we depict other cultures on stage without cultural appropriation? How do we become more inclusive and find new ways to innovate while upholding the traditions that are the foundation of our art forms?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-cassatt-quartet-and-lydia-artymiw-presented-in-partnership-with-ensemble-music-society\"><strong>The Cassatt Quartet and Lydia Artymiw, <\/strong><em>presented in partnership with Ensemble Music Society<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>Cassatt String Quartet<\/strong>&nbsp;was formed in 1985 and was chosen the first quartet for Juilliard\u2019s Young Artists Quartet Program. Acclaimed as one of America&#8217;s outstanding ensembles, the Manhattan based Cassatt String Quartet has performed throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East, with appearances in London for the Sapphire Jubilee Celebration of Queen Elizabeth II, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, New York&#8217;s Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Tanglewood Music Theater, the Kennedy Center and Library of Congress in Washington, DC, the Theatre des Champs &#8211; in Paris and Maeda Hall in Tokyo. The Quartet has been presented on major radio stations such as National Public Radio&#8217;s Performance Today, Boston&#8217;s WGBH, New York&#8217;s WQXR and WNYC, and on Canada&#8217;s CBC Radio and Radio France. The Cassatt has recorded for the Koch, Naxos, New World, Point, CRI, Tzadik and Albany labels and is named for the celebrated American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lydia Artymiw<\/strong>&nbsp;is Emerita Distinguished McKnight Professor of Piano at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis where she taught from 1989- 2020. The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Prize, Philadelphia-born Lydia Artymiw has performed with over one hundred orchestras world-wide including the Boston Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Detroit Symphony, LA Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony, St. Luke\u2019s Chamber Orchestra, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday, November 11, 2021<br>School of Music Convocation, 1:00-1:50 pm, EDRH<br>Piano Master Class with Lydia Artymiw, 2:00-3:30 pm, EDRH<br>Composition Seminar with Victoria Bond, 5:30-6:30 pm, LH 145<br><em>Public performance on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, 7:30, Indiana&nbsp;History Center<\/em>:&nbsp;<\/strong><em>19th Amendment Centennial Plus One<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-culture-clash\"><em>Culture Clash<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Culture Clash is a performance troupe that currently comprises writer-comedians Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Sig\u00fcenza. Their work is of a satirical nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Culture Clash was founded on May 5, 1984 at the Galer\u00eda de la Raza in San Francisco&#8217;s Mission District, by the writers Jos\u00e9 Antonio Burciaga, Marga G\u00f3mez, Monica Palacios, Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas, and Herbert Siguenza. The founding date is significant due to the importance of Cinco de Mayo to Mexican-Americans, the shared ethnicity of the majority of collaborators. Montoya and Sig\u00fcenza had both been involved in the Chicano art scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montoya being the son of Chicano poet, artist, and activist Jos\u00e9 Montoya, and Sig\u00fcenza having been involved in the art collective La Raza Graphics, which created works of graphic art to support campaigns of the Chicano Movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Culture Clash&#8217;s works range from comedic sketches to full-length plays and screenplays, all of which feature political satire and social satire. The troupe&#8217;s members have appeared separately and together in several films and received numerous awards, commissions and grants. In 1993 they filmed 30 episodes of a sketch comedy television series, also called Culture Clash. Several episodes were aired on Fox affiliates. In 2006 they premiered two new full-length plays, the comedy Zorro in Hell and &#8220;SF: The Mexican Bus Mission Tour with CC!&#8221; Their works have been collected in two volumes, Culture Clash: Life, Death and Revolutionary Comedy and Culture Clash in AmeriCCa: Four Plays. Their papers are housed at the California State University, Northridge (CSUN) Oviatt Library Special Collections and Archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public performance: Wednesday, January 12, 2022, 7:30 pm, Schrott<br>Residency Activities TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-dayton-s-contemporary-dance-company\">Dayton&#8217;s Contemporary Dance Company<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Rooted in the African-American experience, the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company is a culturally diverse contemporary dance company committed to reaching the broadest audience though exceptional performance and arts-integrated education. Dayton Contemporary Dance Company was founded in 1968 to create performance opportunities for dancers of color. Five decades later, the 10th largest modern contemporary dance company in the nation remains rooted in the African-American experience and committed to the development of diverse movement artists on the global stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A co-recipient of one of the dance world\u2019s highest honors, the 2016 Bessie Award for Outstanding Revival, DCDC has been presented by American Dance Festival, Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, and Jacob\u2019s Pillow Dance Festival, and supported by National Endowment for the Arts and New England Foundation for the Arts among others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public performance: Friday, February 4, 2022, 7:30 pm, Schrott<br>Residency Activities TBA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-julie-tourtillotte\">Julie Tourtillotte<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Julie W. Tourtillotte is a Professor of Art and Chair of the Art Department at Saint Mary\u2019s College in Notre Dame, Indiana where she teaches drawing, fibers, and video art.&nbsp; Julie received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art and BFA from Saint Mary\u2019s College and has exhibited her art work throughout the United States, including Stark Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona, Kent State University Art Gallery, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and The National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; She has received Indiana Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts grants in recognition of her work which incorporates natural dyes, handmade felt, shibori resist dyeing, screen printing, and embroidery. Julie and her family maintain 20 organic acres and an art studio adjacent to Potato Creek State Park in South Bend, Indiana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public lecture: Monday, February 28, 2022, 7:30 pm, EDRH:<\/strong><em>&nbsp;<strong>Growing Color: Natural Dyes and&nbsp;Sustainable Textiles<\/strong><\/em><br><strong>Workshops with art students TBD<br>Exhibition: March 1-3, 2022:&nbsp;<\/strong><em>Growing Color<\/em>, with reception on Wednesday, March 2, 5:00-6:30 pm, JC Annex<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-alash-ensemble\">Alash Ensemble<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALASH<\/strong>&nbsp;are masters of Tuvan throat singing (xo\u0308o\u0308mei), a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. What distinguishes this gifted trio from earlier generations of Tuvan throat singers is the subtle infusion of modern influences into their traditional music. One can find complex harmonies, western instruments, and contemporary song forms in Alash\u2019s music, but its overall sound and spirit remain decidedly Tuvan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trained in traditional Tuvan music since childhood, the Alash musicians studied at Kyzyl Arts College just as Tuva was beginning to open up to the West. They formed a traditional ensemble and won multiple awards for traditional throat singing in international xo\u0308o\u0308mei competitions, both as an ensemble and as individuals. At the same time, they paid close attention to new trends coming out of the West. They have borrowed new ideas that mesh well with the sound and feel of traditional Tuvan music, but they have never sacrificed the integrity of their own heritage in an effort to make their music more hip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alash first toured the U.S. under the sponsorship of the Open World Leadership program of the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Arts. Since then they have returned many times, to the delight of American audiences. The&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;described their music as \u201cutterly stunning,\u201d quipping that after the performance \u201caudience members picked their jaws up off the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alash enjoys collaborating with musicians of all stripes. Since their early partnership with the legendary Sun Ra Arkestra, they have joined forces with musicians across the spectrum\u2014from country to classical to jazz to beatboxing. Alash appeared as guest artists on Be\u0301la Fleck &amp; the Flecktones\u2019 Grammy-winning holiday CD&nbsp;<em>Jingle All the Way&nbsp;<\/em>(2008). They joined Chicago\u2019s innovative Fifth House Ensemble in a groundbreaking concert series called Sonic Meditations. Most recently, they were part of the &#8220;global jam band&#8221; which recorded the soundtrack for the videogame&nbsp;<em>The Pathless.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beyond performing, Alash has a passion for teaching and promoting understanding between cultures. Their tours often include workshops in which they introduce Tuvan music to students in primary, middle and high schools, colleges, universities, and music conservatories. Children as young as 8 and 9 have learned to throat-sing. As one student exclaimed, \u201cAlash opened my eyes to a whole new world!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alash albums:&nbsp;<em>Alash Live at the Enchanted Garden<\/em>&nbsp;(2006),&nbsp;<em>Alash<\/em>&nbsp;(2007),&nbsp;<em>Buura<\/em>&nbsp;(2011),&nbsp;<em>Achai<\/em>&nbsp;(2015, re-released on Smithsonian Folkways in 2017), and&nbsp;<em>Meni Mana<\/em>&nbsp;(2020, digital only). The members of Alash are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bady-Dorzhu Ondar<\/strong>: vocals, igil, guitar. Kyzyl Arts College, East Siberia State Academy of Culture and Art. Best soloist, 2005 All-Russian Festival of traditional ensembles and orchestras. Best in Maxim Dakpai xo\u0308o\u0308mei competition, 2006. People\u2019s Xo\u0308o\u0308meizhi, 2007. Grand prize, International Xo\u0308o\u0308mei Symposium, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ayan-ool Sam<\/strong>: vocals, doshpuluur, igil, guitar. Republic School of the Arts, Kyzyl Arts College, Moscow State Pedagogical University. First prize, International Xo\u0308o\u0308mei Symposium, 2008. People\u2019s Xo\u0308o\u0308meizhi, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ayan Shirizhik<\/strong>: vocals, kengirge, shyngyrash, shoor, murgu, xomus. Kyzyl Arts College, East Siberia State Academy of Culture and Art. Second prize, International Xo\u0308o\u0308mei Symposium, 2008. Distinguished Artist of Tuva, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sean Quirk<\/strong>: interpreter and manager. Studied music in Tuva on a Fulbright fellowship. Distinguished Artist of Tuva, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alashensemble.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alashensemble.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public performance: Thursday, March 17, 7:30 pm, Schrott<br>Residency Activities:<\/strong><br>Wednesday, March 16, 12:30-1:50 pm: Workshop with Butler choral students<br>Wednesday, March 16: time TBD: Meet with a class of arts administration students<br>Thursday, March 17, 1:00-1:50 pm: School of Music Convocation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-latoya-ruby-frazier\">LaToya Ruby Frazier<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>LaToya Ruby Frazier was born in 1982 in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Her artistic practice spans a range of media, including photography, video, performance, installation art and books, and centers on the nexus of social justice, cultural change, and commentary on the American experience. In various interconnected bodies of work, Frazier uses collaborative storytelling with the people who appear in her artwork to address topics of industrialism, Rust Belt revitalization, environmental justice, access to healthcare, access to clean water, Workers\u2019 Rights, Human Rights, family, and communal history. This builds on her commitment to the legacy of 1930s social documentary work and 1960s and \u201970s conceptual photography that address urgent social and political issues of everyday life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frazier\u2019s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions in the US and Europe, including the Brooklyn Museum of Art; Seattle Art Museum; The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Muse\u0301e des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, Belgium; CAPC Muse\u0301e d\u2019Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Carre\u0301 d\u2019Art &#8211; muse\u0301e d\u2019art contemporain de Ni\u0302mes, France; The Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; The August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh; The Frost Art Museum, Miami; The Muse\u0301e d\u2019art Moderne, Luxembourg; and The Newcomb Museum at Tulane University, New Orleans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2015, her first book about how she, her mother and grandmother survived environmental racism in historic steel mill town Braddock Pennsylvania,&nbsp;<em>The Notion of Family&nbsp;<\/em>(Aperture, 2014) received the International Center for Photography Infinity Award. In 2017 Frazier published And From The Coaltips A Tree Will Rise which expanded on her collaboration with a historic coalmining village in Borinage Belgium at Muse\u0301e des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, Belgium. In 2020 Frazier received the Kraszna-Krausz Photography Book Award for her eponymous book published by Mousse publishing and MUDAM Luxembourg, which expanded on her exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg Muse\u0301e d\u2019Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and that same year Frazier published&nbsp;<em>The Last Cruze<\/em>, which expanded upon a 2019 exhibition at the Renaissance Society about her collaboration with autoworkers in historic labor union UAW Local 1112 in Lordstown, OH. That same year, Frazier was named the inaugural recipient of the Gordon Parks Foundation\/Steidl Book prize for her book&nbsp;<em>Flint Is Family In Three Acts<\/em>&nbsp;about how working-class families survived the man-made water crisis in Flint, Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her work is held in numerous public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem; Brooklyn Museum; The Bronx Museum of the Arts; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; The Baltimore Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, Los Angeles; Seattle Art Museum; Dallas Art Museum; Art&nbsp;Gallery of Ontario in Toronto; Nasher Museum of Art; Princeton Art Museum; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frazier is the recipient of many honors and awards including an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Edinboro University (2019); an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute (2017); fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\u2019s MacArthur Fellows Program (2015), TED Fellows (2015), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2014); and the Gwendolyn Knight &amp; Jacob Lawrence Prize from the Seattle Art Museum (2013). In 2015, the Allegheny County Council, Pennsylvania, awarded Frazier a Proclamation thanking her for \u201cexamining race, class, gender and citizenship in our society and inspiring a vision for the future that offers inclusion, equity and justice to all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LaToya Ruby Frazier is an Associate Professor of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she currently lives and works. She is represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York City and Brussels Belgium, and Sant\u2019Andrea de Scaphis in Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public lecture: Monday, March 21, 2022, 7:30 pm, Schrott<br>Workshop with art students: Monday, March 21, 2022, 2:30-4:30 pm, JC Annex<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ms-zennetta-s-drew\">Ms. Zennetta S. Drew<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Zenetta Drew joined Dallas Black Dance Theatre in 1987 and has seen the company develop from an annual operating budget of $175,000 to over $4.9 million. The company\u2019s yearly services have grown from 30 to over 600 with national and international venues, and audience growth has increased from 20,000 to 150,000 annually. To date, the company has performed in 31 states, 15 countries and on 5 continents and at two Cultural Olympiads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to joining DBDT, Ms. Drew\u2019s professional background included 11 years of accounting and management experience at ARCO Oil and Gas Co. During this time, she held ten positions of increasing management responsibility. Most notable were her assignments managing offshore oil platform projects in the Gulf of Mexico and as Oil Revenue accounting manager where she was responsible for 50% of corporate revenue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Drew has previously served on more than 40 arts organization boards\/advisory boards\/committees that include Americans for the Arts and SMU\/Data Arts and previously served as Board Treasurer for the Cultural Data Project and Treasurer for the Dallas Development Fund. Ms. Drew is a graduate of The National Arts Strategies-Chief Executive Program and is currently Vice-Chair of the Dallas Arts District, a Board member with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and held a position of Adjunct Professor for three years in SMU\u2019s M.A.\/M.B.A. Arts Management Program where she taught Strategic Planning in the Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 2016 Distinguished Alumna from Texas A&amp;M University\u2013Commerce, she also received the 2016 Influential Leaders Award from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. She was awarded the 2016 Obelisk Award for Outstanding Leadership Arts Alumnus from the Business Council for the Arts and the 2017 International Association of Blacks in Dance-Excellence in Arts Management Award, and the 2018 Dallas Historical Society Arts Leadership Award. Ms. Drew was also named to DCEO Dallas500 as \u201cOne of the Most Powerful Businesses Leaders in Dallas-Fort Worth.\u201d Most recently, she has received Dance\/USA\u2019s 2021 Ernie Award and was a nominee for The William Dawson Award \u2013 Association of Performing Arts Professionals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Drew was the commencement speaker for TAMU-Commerce in August 2014. She has guest lectured on fundraising, accounting, ethics and arts leadership at SMU, TAMU-Commerce, and Syracuse University. Ms. Drew also held a position of Adjunct Professor in SMU\u2019s M.A.\/M.B.A. Arts Management Program for three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ms. Drew is a graduate of Leadership Arts (1989), Leadership Dallas (1991), Leadership Texas (2010), and Leadership International (2013). She holds a B.B.A. in Accounting from Texas A&amp;M University-Commerce, a Management Certificate in Non-Profit Leadership from Brookhaven College. Ms. Drew is a graduate from the National Arts Strategies Executive Leadership Program at Harvard Business School (2016) and the University of Michigan-Ross School of Business (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Public lecture: Thursday, March 24, 2022, 7:30 pm, EDRH:&nbsp;<em>DEI:Change! Change! Change!<\/em><br>Classes with arts administration students TBD<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-john-clayton-nbsp-jazz-bass-with-the-butler-university-jazz-ensemble\">John Clayton,&nbsp;<em>jazz bass<\/em>, with the Butler University Jazz Ensemble<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>John Clayton&nbsp;is a natural born multitasker. The multiple roles in which he excels\u2014composer, arranger, conductor, producer, educator, and yes, extraordinary bassist\u2014garner him a number of challenging assignments and commissions. With a Grammy on his shelf and nine additional nominations, artists such as Diana Krall, Paul McCartney, Regina Carter, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gladys Knight, Queen Latifah, and Charles Aznavour vie for a spot on his&nbsp;crowded&nbsp;calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He began his bass career in&nbsp;elementary school playing in strings class, junior orchestra, high school jazz band, orchestra, and soul\/R&amp;B groups. In 1969, at the age of 16, he enrolled in bassist Ray Brown&#8217;s jazz class at UCLA, beginning a close relationship&nbsp;that lasted more than three decades. After graduating from Indiana University&#8217;s School of Music&nbsp;with a degree in bass performance in 1975, he toured with the Monty Alexander Trio (1975-77), the Count Basie Orchestra (1977-79), and settled in as principal bassist with the&nbsp;Amsterdam Philharmonic Orchestra&nbsp;in&nbsp;Amsterdam, Netherlands (1980-85). He was also a bass instructor at The Royal Conservatory, The Hague, Holland from 1980-83.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1985 he returned to California, co-founded the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra in 1986, rekindled The Clayton Brothers Quintet, and taught part-time bass at Cal State Long Beach, UCLA and USC. In 1988 he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California&nbsp;Thornton School of Music, where he taught until 2009. Now, in addition to individual clinics, workshops, and&nbsp;private students as schedule permits,&nbsp;John also directs the educational components associated with Centrum, The Port Townsend Jazz Festival, and Vail Jazz Workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Career highlights&nbsp;include arranging the &#8216;Star Spangled Banner&#8221; for Whitney Houston&#8217;s performance at Super Bowl 1990 (the recording went platinum), playing bass on Paul McCartney&#8217;s CD \u201cKisses On The Bottom,\u201d arranging and playing bass with Yo-Yo Ma and Friends on &#8220;Songs of Joy and Peace,&#8221; and&nbsp;arranging&nbsp;playing and conducting the&nbsp; CD &#8220;Charles Aznavour With the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra,&#8221; and numerous recordings with Diana Krall, the Clayton Brothers, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz, Orchestra, Milt Jackson, Monty Alexander and many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2013 John launched a new album series titled The John Clayton Parlor Series \u2013 a collection of rare duo collaborations with musical friends, released through ArtistShare.&nbsp; Those recordings include a release with his son Gerald which has already been released, and yet to be released recordings with Mulgrew Miller and Hank Jones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Website<\/strong>:<a aria-label=\"To make this website accessible to screen reader, Press combination of alt and 1 keys. 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