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The Arts at Amherst Fringe Festival 2014 is a project of the Arts at Amherst initiative, whose goal it is to increase the visibility of the exciting artistic work being done at Amherst College.

To stay in the loop, please visit Facebook.com/AmherstArts.

WHAT IS THE AMHERST FRINGE?The Arts at Amherst Fringe Festival 2014 is a four-day event

performance events.

The work in this festival spans many mediums, and rep-resents a small cross-section of the exciting work done by Amherst College faculty, staff, and student artists. The arts community of Amherst College invites you to join them in celebrating the arts at Amherst.

All events take place May 1-4, 2014, at various locations around campus. More information for some events will be coming soon to the Festivals website:

www.amherstfringe.tumblr.com

All events are open to the public and completely free of charge, with the exception of Saturdays Amherst Symphony Orchestra concert, tickets for which can be purchased at the door.

If you post about the festival, or any pieces you may have seen over the festivals four days, on social media, we en-courage you to use #amherstfringe2014.

Enjoy!

Sincerely,Arts at Amherst

THURSDAY MAY 1

FRIDAY MAY 2

SATURDAY MAY 3

SUNDAY MAY 4

4:00pm - 5:30pm Blurred Lines: Creating Performance for Non-Traditional SpacesVarious Locations. Gather on the steps of Frost Library.IN CASE OF RAIN: Bring rain gear.

6:30pm - 7:00pm Procession and Performance by the Expandable Brass BandBegins outside Converse, concludes in the Freshman Quad.IN CASE OF RAIN: Performance on the steps of Frost Library

7:00pm - 7:45pmJake Meginsky/Vic Rawlings Electro-Acoustic DuoMerrill Science Building CourtyardIN CASE OF RAIN: Webster Hall, Studio 1

7:45pm - 8:30pmIllumination Opening ReceptionMead Art Museum CourtyardIN CASE OF RAIN: Stirn Auditorium LobbyRefreshments will be served.

4:30pm - 5:30pmA Closer Look at American FurnitureMead Art Museum

5:30pm - 7:00pmPioneer Valley Soundscapes DocumentariesStirn Auditorium

8:00pm - 9:30pmFilms at the FarmBook and Plow Farm, Tuttle Hill GreenhouseIN CASE OF RAIN: Event takes place same time on Saturday.

8:00pmAC Jazz Ensemble ConcertBuckley Recital Hall

12:00pm - 1:30pm Going DigitalMead Art Museum

2:00pm - 3:30pm Scripts and Scores Studio PerformancesWebster Hall, Studio 1

performances throughout the afternoon.

5:30pm - 6:30pmSolo Performance SeriesWebster Hall, Studio 3

6:45pm - 7:45pmScreening of Experimental Film, Video, and ElseStirn Auditorium

8:00pmAmherst Symphony Orchestra ConcertBuckley Recital Hall

2:00pm - 2:30pmKing Phillips HillKirby Theater Lobby

2:30pm - 3:15pm Kirby Performance SeriesKirby Theater

immediately following...A Marriage: Art and ScienceHolden Theater CourtyardWedding reception to follow in Holden Theater

4:00pmMadrigal Singers ConcertMead Art Museum

7:00pmAC Jazz Combos ConcertBuckley Recital Hall

CREDITSFestival Producer: Sam Congdon

Faculty Advisor: Wendy Woodson

Arts at Amherst Steering Committee: Elizabeth Barker Jeffers Engelhardt Carol Keller Wendy Woodson Special Thanks: Amherst OAS Jon Doyle Kathy Couch Reilly Horan George Shaheen Amherst Custodial Services Amherst Special Services Book and Plow Farm Frost Library

ONGOING EVENTS

Interactions with Constructed SpacesA gallery exhibition documenting the sculptural research with the ubiquitous material, cardboard, undertaken by stu-dents of Markus Wirthmanns Garage Sciences class.Frost Library, on view throughout festival

Artists Book DisplayA curated display of artists books from Frost Librarys circu-lating collection. Come browse!Frost Library, on view throughout festival

IlluminationVisiting artist Markus Wirthmann illuminates the steeple at the Mead Art Museum.Mead Art Museum, on view throughout festival(Opening reception May 1 at 7:45.)

Painting a Place with a ViewDave Gloman, Resident Artist in the Art and History of Art De-partment, will paint/perform a large-scale landscape paint-ing at the Book and Plow Farm. The painting will be painted directly outdoors over a period of 24 hours, capturing the view of the Pelham Hills. Tuttle Hill, Book and Plow FarmDave will begin painting at 9:00am on Friday, May 2 and conclude the painting at 9:00am on Saturday, May 3. You may visit his out-door studio at any time.

EVENT LISTINGSThursday, May 1

Blurred Lines: Creating Performance for Non-Traditional SpacesThursday, May 1 @ 4:00pmLive performance is a medium unlike any other. No play will ever be performed the same way twice; no experience can ever be re-peated. When a production breaks the fourth wall, its audience is immersed fully and completely into the world of the play. Whether

theater or location theater, it offers an experience that is limit-less. Led by independent director and visiting Professor Charlotte Brathwaite, the spring directing studio will create artistic expres-sions in spaces on the Amherst College campus.Various locations around campus. Gather on the steps of Frost Library.

Procession and Performance by the Expandable Brass BandThursday, May 1 @ 6:30pmTo celebrate the beginning of the Amherst Fringe, the Pioneer Valleys Expandable Brass Band, the subject of a documentary featured in the Pioneer Valley Soundscapes event, will perform a mobile set around Amhersts campus. The procession will begin at Converse Hall and conclude in the Freshman Quad.

Jake Meginsky/Vic Rawlings Electro-Acoustic DuoThursday, May 1 @ 7:00pmJake Meginsky (electronics, tranducers) and Vic Rawlings (cello, electronics) employ an array of speaker parts, vibrating objects, and pure electronics to amplify otherwise inaudible sounds and highlight the acoustic properties of the space in this improvisation.Merrill Science Building Courtyard

Illumination Opening ReceptionThursday, May 1 @ 7:45pmVisiting artist Markus Wirthmann illuminates the steeple at the Mead Art Museum. Gather in the Mead Art Museums courtyard to watch the steeple light up. Refreshments will be served.

A Closer Look at American FurnitureFriday, May 2 @ 4:30pmJoin Patricia Kane, Friends of American Arts Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale University Art Gallery, for this gallery talk about some of the Meads masterpieces of early American furni-ture.Mead Art Museum

Pioneer Valley Soundscapes DocumentariesFriday, May 2 @ 5:30pm

capture the richness and diversity of musical life in the Pioneer Val-ley: the activism of the Expandable Brass Band, the artistry of the Amherst-based rapper LuieGo, the electronic dance music collec-tive MASS EDMC, the performance of South Indian Nataraj dance, the singer-songwriter duo Hannah & Maggie, and the community

Antonucci, Justin Aoyama, Alexis Ligon, Elizabeth Paul, Abigail Duquette, Nicholas Kane, Zoe Langsdale, and Jake Reed.Stirn Auditorium

Films at the FarmFriday, May 2 @ 8:00pm

-house on Tuttle Hill. The program will include work by faculty, staff, and students at Amherst and the Five Colleges. Wear good outdoor shoes and bring a blanket for the grass! Be there by sunset for refreshments and prime seats! More information about the pro-gram at amherstfringe.tumblr.com.Tuttle Hill Greenhouse, Book and Plow Farm

Amherst College Jazz Ensemble ConcertFriday, May 2 @ 8:00pmThe Amherst College Jazz Ensemble in concert, with musical guests Jazz Combo Toxic Thunder.Buckley Recital Hall

EVENT LISTINGSFriday, May 2

EVENT LISTINGSSaturday, May 3

Going DigitalSaturday, May 3 @ 12:00pmJoin student curators Robert Croll 16 ; Sylvia Ngo 14 ; Rosemary Frehe 17 and Elise Kei-Rahn 16 (UMASS) for this exploration of new approaches to exhibiting a recently-acquired born digital artwork in the museums collection: Peter Miltons Sight LInes I; Tracking Shot (2008), the Meads 2014 acquisition made using the Trinkett Clark Memorial Student Acquisition Fund.Mead Art Museum

Scripts and Scores Studio PerformancesSaturday, May 3 @ 2:00pmStudents from Wendy Woodsons Scripts and Scores class present improvisations and original dance, theater, and video works.Webster Hall, Studio 1

Solo Performance SeriesSaturday, May 3 @ 5:30pmAmherst College artists present a series of solo performance work. Performers include: Peter Lobdell, David Schneider, Peter Schmitz, and Josh Wren. More information about each performance can be found at amherstfringe.tumblr.com.Webster Hall, Studio 3

Screening of Experimental Film, Video, and ElseSaturday, May 3 @ 6:45pmGuest curator Kyros Kikos presents an evening of short experimen-

Stirn Auditorium

Amherst Symphony Orchestra ConcertSaturday, May 3 @ 8:00pmThe Amherst Symphony Orchestra, Mark Lane Swanson, Music Director & Conductor, closes its 13-14 season and Spring semester exploring great second symphonies with a performance of Lud-wig van Beethovens exciting Symphony #2 in D major. Tickets will be sold only on the night of the concert beginning at 7 pm in the lobby of Arms Music Center. General admission is $10, seniors and students $5, free to Five College students.Buckley Recital Hall

King Phillips Hillon view Sunday, May 4 @ 2:00pmA collaborative investigation of history and landscape, King

-chusetts that is said to be the former council headquarters of the Wampanoag Indian leader Metacom, also known as King Phillip. Both artists made separate visits to visually document the site ac-cording to a set of mutually agreed upon rules and restrictions.Kirby Theater Lobby

Kirby Performance SeriesSunday, May 4 @ 2:30pmA series of new collaborations between music and dance by Amherst College artists. Performances: Language Games, an in-progress work exploring the intersection of dance and music, Galaxies, which brings together a dance soloist and a string quartet, and Memory Mapping, a dance duet. More information about each performance available at amherstfringe.tumblr.com.Kirby Theater

A Marriage: Art and ScienceSunday, May 4 immediately following Kirby Performance SeriesHolden Theater Courtyard

Marriage Reception/Festival Closing ReceptionSunday, May 4 after the wedding ceremonyHolden Theater

Madrigal Singers ConcertSunday, May 4 @ 4:00pmLuxuriate in the sounds of Amherst Colleges celebrated Madrigal Singers at this special concert in the museums walnut-paneled Rotherwas Room. Mead Art Museum

Amherst College Jazz Combos ConcertSunday, May 4 @ 7:00pmAmherst College Jazz Combos in concert: BLK, Jasual and Calvins Hobbs. Arms Music Center, Room 7

EVENT LISTINGSSunday, May 4