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January 14, 2003

Spring series explores Art and Life

Art and Life, a semester-long series on music, dance and visual art, features a nationally known dancer and choreographer, and one of Chicago’s most important art critics and writers. The events are sponsored by the Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries.

Two exhibits will be held at Special Collections, 976 Memorial Library. “Famous for Other Things,” Jan. 30-March 30, features material by creative artists whose fame was earned in a different field, including poet e.e. cummings and avant-garde composer John Cage. “Moving Lessons: Dance Education at the UW–Madison,” April 1-June 30, offered in partnership with University Archives, celebrates the founding of the Dance Program in 1926.

Other series events, all to be held in Special Collections, include:

  • “A Concert of New Music,” Thursday, Jan. 30, 4:30 p.m. Hosted by ellsworth snyder, longtime Unitarian Society music director, with performances by Mimmi Fulmer, professor of music, and Steve Nelson-Rainey and Yehuda Yannay, from the Department of Music, UW-Milwaukee. Works by Cage and Nelson-Rainey are among those to be performed. snyder will lead several pieces involving audience participation.
  • “Life is Short, Letterpress is Long,” Thursday, Feb. 20, 4:30 p.m., a lecture by Tracy Honn, curator of the Silver Buckle Press. In honor of the Silver Buckle’s 30th anniversary, Honn, who directs press programming, will present a brief history of this letterpress museum and unusual resource in the UW–Madison Libraries. What does this 15th century craft have to teach us in an age of desktop publishing? Why is letterpress undergoing a renaissance, and how have institutions such as UW–Madison contributed to this phenomenon?
  • “Art: Holding a Prism to Life,” Thursday, March 13, 4:30 p.m., a lecture by Dennis Adrian, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Adrian, one of Chicago’s most important art critics and writers, will discuss how contemporary artists help to focus our attention on important elements of everyday life.

The series will close with an annual lecture, Wednesday, April 9, 5:30 p.m., Howard Auditorium, Fluno Center, by Mary Anthony, long recognized in the modern dance movement as an exceptional dancer, choreographer and teacher. Anthony will speak about the emergence of modern dance, her relationship with some of the major dance figures of her time, the influence of universities on today’s dance and what being an artist has meant to her.