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Miami UniversitySchool o Fine Arts

Extending Tradition, Embracing Innovation

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Welcome to our new publication or the School o Fine Arts at Miami University! As you

will note rom the cover and within the magazine, there is a ocus on the phrase Extend-

ing radition and Embracing Innovation, which serves as the underlying structure o

the SFAs newly ormed strategic plan. It is our goal to provide students with the best education andtraining available in the arts, while building on the long-established traditions embedded in both

Miamis School o Fine Arts and in the arts disciplines themselves. o do this, we must prepare our

students or an ever-changing world by introducing them to new pedagogies, techniques, and tech-

nologies in tandem with time-tested educational approaches. Based on the incredible successes o

our students, alumni, aculty, and staf, it is obvious that the departments in the School o Fine Arts

have a committment to the highest caliber o teaching, scholarship, and creative achievement, and

that we are poised to expand our quest or excellence in the arts.

While we are deeply indebted to the talents o our aculty and staf in delivering a rst-rate curricu-

lum, we are also most appreciative o the essential support provided by our alumni and riends. As

Miami continues the $500 million campaign For Love and Honor, I am proud to say that our school

has achieved great success in moving toward our development and undraising goals or the depart-

ments and programs o the School o Fine Arts. As the campaign extends into 2010, we will count on

the continuing support o our alumni base to maintain and to urther our ability to provide the nest

educational experience possible. I extend my personal thanks to all who have generously contributed

to our mission!

As we pursue our eforts in Extending radition and Embracing Innovation, you will note the world-wide reach o our departments and programs, rom architecture workshops in Ghana to Glee Club

perormances in China. In addition to extending ourselves into the world, we have brought to Miami

some o the leading artists and scholars o our time, including an upcoming visit by preeminent

composer Philip Glass in Spring o 2009. Glasss visit and other special events highlight the School o

Fine Arts as a central player in helping Miami University celebrate its Bicentennial beginning in 2009

and into 2010. I hope that you will enjoy reading the inormation included in this publication about

the phenomenal achievements and stories rom all parts o the SFA. I look orward to seeing you

soon at one o our perormances, exhibitions, and scholarly events, and I thank you, once again, or

your continuing support!

Best wishes,

Dr. James Lentini

Dean and Proessor o Music

School o Fine Arts

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E x t e n d i n g T r a d i t i o n , E m b r a c i n g I n n o v a t i o n

Front Cover (Clockwise rom let)

Students Lys Olsen and Jason Howard, lead roles in

The Taming o the Shrew

Miami President Hodge, Provost Herbst, Music Chair Green,

Dean Lentini

Eugene Brown at the Miami University Art Museum

Andrew Daileys Pinsel, 2008

Department o Architecture and Interior Designs

international summer workshop in Ghana

Proessor Joomi Chung in Pilsen, Czech Republic

Phillip Glass

Presser Hall, May 2008

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R O S T E R & C R E D I T S

Editor:

Susan Ewing, Interim Associate Dean

Associate Editors:

Susan Thomas, Director o Integrated

Programs and Arts Management

Jeanne Harmeyer, Marketing Manager or

departments o Music and Theatre

Contributing Writer and Copy Editor:

Sophie Alyssa Williams

Graphic Design:

Scott Bruno, b graphic design

Primary Photography:

Miami University IT Photo Services

SFA Executive Committee:

James Lentini, Dean

Susan Ewing, Interim Associate Dean

Connie Asher, Assistant to the Dean or

Operations and Finance

Rosalyn Erat Benson, Assistant Dean or

Student Afairs

Richard Green, Chair, Music

dele jegede, Chair, Art

Elizabeth Mullenix, Chair, Theatre

John Weigand, Chair, Architecture

and Interior Design

Patti Hannan Liberatore, Director,

Perorming Arts Series

Robert Wicks, Director, Miami University

Art Museum

Cliton McNish, Director o Diversity

and Outreach

Heather Kogge, Director o Development

A L U M N I N E W S

Have some news youd like to share? Wed love to hear from you!

Visit arts.muohio.edu/keepintouchto keep us informed.

Lindsay HollisterHollywood actress Lindsay Hollister, best

known or her role on Boston Public, began her

acting career at Miami. Hollister, who received

her B.F.A. in theatre perormance in 1999, ap-

peared in Miami productions oGertrude Stein

and A Companion, Machinal, and Te Real

Inspector Hound, earning a nomination or the

prestigious Irene Ryan National Acting Award.

Hollister also studied at the American Academy

o Dramatic Arts in New York City and at

Barter, the State Teatre o Virginia. Aside

rom her role as Christine Banks on Boston

Public , her acting credits includeappearances on shows such

as ER, Cold Case, My Name Is

Earl, Nip/uck, Law and Order:

Special Victims Unit, and Days

o Our Lives. She most recently

appeared on NBCs Scrubs and

as Steve Carrels dance partner

in Get Smart. I would say one

experience at Miami always

stuck in my head and denitely

inspired me to ollow my dream out to Los

Angeles. Our department brought in a theatre

alumnus to speak to our acting class. [He] said,

Right now, this minute, i you can imagine

doing anything else with your lie that would

make you happy other than acting, get out.

Because its too hard to attempt unless theres

nothing else you can imagine doing. And atthat moment I knew there was nothing else or

me thats what gave me the strength to pursue

the impossibly di cult business o Hollywood.

A L U M N I F O C U S :

Bill BrzeskiA highly regarded production designer, Bill

Brzeski has worked in eature lms, television,

interior design, and theatre or over twenty

years. He began his career in television and

has designed over 800 episodes and over thirty

pilots. As a production designer in eature

lms, he has lent his design talents to the

Oscar-winningAs Good As It Gets , as well

as Te Bucket List, Blue Streak, andMatilda.

He also designed the ground breaking CGI

movie Stuart Little and its

sequel Stuart Little 2 or

Sony Pictures.

Brzeski, a theatre major, and

his wie Kym, an English

major, both graduated rom

Miami in 1975. Brzeski later

received an MFA in Design

rom New York Universitys

isch School o the Arts.

Originally interested in de-

signing or the ballet and op-

era, he began his career in the

theatre beore moving to Los

Angeles. Te Brzeskis tie to

Miami is still strongMiami

recently hosted one o Bills

design seminars, and their

daughter Jamie is currently

a historyo art and

architec-

ture major

at Miami.

How did Miamis liberal education prepare you and your wife Kym for your lives

and careers?

It taught us how to think in a more general way, seeing all sides o a prob-

lem, and not look at the world through the filter o a specific discipline.

We both think o ourselves as problem solvers, open to lots o diferent ideas.

What do you want to say to current students about technology and arts?

Technology describes the tools we use to help create art. On its own, technology cant

create an original idea or see the world in a unique way. We tend to all in love with our

technology because it helps us take short cuts and save time. Dont be ooleda machine

can enhance our work, even show us new ways o creating art and describing our reality,

but its still the original idea people pay or. On a positive note, we live in an exciting time

because new technology lets us express ourselves and our ideas to the public without

relying on old institutions. Virtually anybody can produce music, art, or films and get it

out to the public.

Introducing

James Lentini,

DMADEAN an d PROFESSOR OF MUSIC

SCHOOL o FINE ARS

COMPOSER, PERFORMER,

ADMINISRAOR

Beore coming to Miami University, Dr. Lentini

was the ounding dean o the School o Art,

Media and Music at Te College o New Jersey.

His strategic vision included eforts to move

the arts to the center o the campus academic

and cultural lie and to cultivate cross-disciplin-

ary programs that emphasize new technologies

in the arts. His eforts in undraising and

new building construction or music and the arts resulted in endowments and gis in excess o

one million dollars and approval o a $30 million project or a new building to house the art depart-

ment and multimedia areas.

An accomplished composer and classical guitarist, his compositions have won national and interna-

tional awards and have been perormed and recorded in international venues by leading solo artists

and ensembles including the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland) and the Bohuslav Martin

Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech Republic). In addition to many commissions, his honors include rst

prize in the 2004 Choral Comp osition Contest at Blu on

College, the 2002 Andrs Segovia International CompositionPrize (Granada, Spain) or his guitar composition Westward

Voyage, the Atwater-Kent Composition Award (rst prize),

the McHugh Composition Prize, a grant rom Meet the

Composer, and as well as awards rom ASCAP.

A native Detroiter, Dr. Lentini received a bachelor o music

in composition rom Wayne State University, a master o

music in composition rom Michigan State University and a

doctor o musical arts in composition rom the University o

Southern Caliornia.

Fantasy or Flute and Guitar definitely warrants more

exposure on the concert platorm and I sincerely hope

it gets the attention it deserves

Steve Marsh, Classical Guitar Magazine

[Westward Voyage]: the composer clearly knows

the fingerboard very well indeed and is expert at

finding scintillating resonant mixtures o open and

stopped strings.

Stephen Kenyon, Classical Guitar Magazine

Music or Brass is a well-constructed piece (with big

wobbling, arching tones) that eatures plenty o strik-

ingly original brass writing in an intelligent package.

Bryce Rankin, 21st-Century Music

Dreamscape, by James Lentini, is a brie antasy or

orchestra that achieves its considerable efect rom an

interplay o chamber-like textures and explosive ull

orchestra passages. This is the best disc in the series.

Stephen D. Hicken, American Record Guide

Jim and Dana Lentini attending the Grammy Awards >

Miami University:Equal opportunity ineducation andemployment

Jamie, Bill and Kym Brezski

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Steven Reineke named to

conduct N.Y. Pops Orchestra

Miami alumnus Steven Reineke has been named

the new Music Director o the New York Pops and

will begin his tenure

in October 2009. As

such, Reineke will

conduct the orches-

tras annual concert

series at Carnegie

Hall as well as tours,

recordings, and

nationwide telecasts.

The announcement

ollows an extensive

three-year search to find a successor to ounder

Skitch Henderson, who died in 2005. Earlier

this year, Reineke conducted the New York Pops

25th Birthday Gala in Carnegie Hall. A protg

o Erich Kunzel, Reineke is currently associate

conductor o the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. As

the creator o more than one hundred orchestral

arrangements or the Cincinnati Pops over the

past 13 years, Reinekes arrangements have been

perormed worldwide and have been described

as melodious and joyous. His numerous wind

ensemble compositions are published by the

C.L. Barnhouse Company and are perormed byconcert bands around the world.

Reineke will return to Miami during homecom-

ing 2009. He is writing a anare or Miamis

combined choirs to be perormed at a gala

Bicentennial concert in Millett Hall on Friday night

o homecoming weekend. The piece, Reinekes

first strictly choral piece, will be short, un, and

estive, and will be accompanied by pieces rom

resident Miami composers James Sheppard, G.

Roger Davis, David Shafer, and SFA Dean James

Lentini, as well as another surprise big name.

The homecoming concert will eature Miamis

combined choirs, including Mens Glee Club,

Collegiate Chorale, Chamber Singers, and the

Choraliers, as well as the Miami University

Marching Band.

Reineke graduated rom Miami with a B achelor

o Music degree with honors in both trumpet

perormance and music composition.

Te School o Fine Arts congratulates alum-

nus Fletcher Benton, who was named the

2008 International Sculpture Centers Lietime

Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture

award winner. Te distinction, one o the

most prestigious in the eld o sculpture,

was awarded in April 2008 at Te 17th

Annual Lietime Achievement Award Gala

that gathered art patrons and proessionals at

the San Francisco Museum o Modern Art.

Benton received his B.F.A. rom Miami

University in 1956. He began as a painter, but

switched to sculpture when he elt he could nolonger carry out his ideas in paint, and is best

known or his kinetic metal sculptures. One o

these sculptures, Folded Circle, wo Squares, can

be seen in the reecting pool near the entrance

o the Miami University Art Museum, and was

donated by the artist in 1980. Tis sculpture

demonstrates the artists belie that basic geo-

metric orms can be used to create resh, new

art without merely revisiting exhausted ideas

and motis. Bentons work is abstract in nature

and reects the raw industrial origin o its

metallic materials.

Bentons work can be seen in the collections

o major museums as well as private and

corporate collections worldwide, including

the Whitney Museum o American Art, the

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,the San Francisco Museum o Modern Art,

and the Kroller-Muller State Museum in the

Netherlands. He has participated in numerous

solo and group exhibitions, and has taught at

the Caliornia College o Arts and Cras,

San Francisco Art Institute, and Caliornia

State University.

Te International Sculpture Centers Board o

Directors established the Lietime Achievement

Award in 1991 to recognize individual sculptors

who have made exemplary contributions to the

eld o sculpture. Candidates or the award are

masters o sculptural processes and techniques

who have devoted their careers to the develop-

ment o a laudable body o work, as well as

to the advancement o the sculpture eld as a

whole. Benton is among such celebrated sculp-

tors as Louise Bourgeois, Christo and Jeanne-

Claude, Robert Rauschenberg, and Nam June

Paik, all past recipients o this award.

Fletcher Bentons tie to Miami continued well

aer he graduated. He was awarded an Honorary

Doctorate degree in the Fine Arts in 1993, andexhibited work in solo exhibitions at the Miami

University Art Museum in both 1980 and 1993.

Miami is proud to recognize our own Fl etcher

Benton on his outstanding accomplishments.

Urbanus is a critically acclaimed contemporary

architecture rm ounded in 1999 by a dynamic

trio o Miami alumni: Xiaodu Liu, Yan Meng,

and Hui Wang. All three received Masters o

Architecture degrees rom Miami and now

spend their time in Beijing and Shenzhen,

China. Teir rm has been described as one

o Chinas most talented young architecture

rms by Nicolai Ouroussof o the New York

imes. Urbanus strives to respond to the

conditions imposed by rapidly emerging urban

development in China with humanistic and

community building solutions, resulting in

lively urban landscapes.

Urbanuss design scope includes urban, archi-

tectural, landscape, interior, and exhibition de-sign. It is recognized as one o the leading orces

among Chinas young design rms, and its work

has been widely exhibited in prestigious domes-

tic and international shows, including the 2005

San Paulo Biennial in Brazil, the 2006 China

Contemporary exhibition by the Netherlands

Architecture Institute, and the 2007 Lisbon

Architecture riennale in Portugal. In 2005, the

rm was eatured by Architectural Recordas one

o ten global vanguard architectural rms.

Currently on exhibit at Smithsonians Cooper-

Hewitt National Design Museum is a design

solution developed by Urbanus to address

growing global concerns and the need or

afordable housing. Solos: ulou/Afordable

Housing in China, on view October 3, 2008

May 8, 2009, presents the ulou housing pro-totype, based on a traditional Chinese circular,

clay-constructed dwelling type. Currently

under construction in China, the distinctive

orm provides an alternative to the typical slab

housing ubiquitous around the globe and ofers

a remedy or urban sprawl.

On the heels o the Smithsonian exhibits

inauguration, the three partners visited Miami

as part o the Department o Architecture and

Interior Designs 200809 lecture series. In an-

other collaborative project, Wenyi Wu, adjunct

proessor o architecture, works with Urbanus

yearly to conduct summer studio workshops in

China. Urbanus is eager to support this efortand to enrich students learning experiences.

Visit Urbanuss o cial web sit e, www.urbanus.

com.cn, or more inormation on the rm.

International Sculpture Center 2008 Lietime Achievement

awards banquet with 2008 L ietime Achievement Award

recipient, Fletcher Benton, B.F.A.,56; Hiestand Galleries

Director, Ann Taulbee, B.F.A., 81 and John (Jeb) Bystrom,

B.E.D., 77 and M. Arch., 81 . The gala dinner was held the

evening o April 25, 2008, at the San Francisco Museum o

Modern Art.

Benton receives LietimeAchievement Award

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MiamiArchitectureGraduates: Rising Stars oContemporary Urban China

Fletcher Bentons bronze Folded Circle Two Squares, 1980

Git o the Class o 1955 and the Artist

Let to right: Architects Yan Meng, Xiadou Liu, and Hui Wang

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Associate proessor o music Chris anner is the recipient o the

2008 Crossan Hays Curry Distinguished Educator Award pre-

sented by Miamis School o Fine Arts. James Lentini, SFA dean,

presented the award at a recent ceremony. anner was nomi-

nated by James Sheppard, proessor o music, who praised

anners teaching skills, positivity, and ability to connect

with his students on a personal and proessional level.

Sheppard wrote that anners mix o art and teaching

suggests personal integrity and creative talent.

anners accomplishments include ounding the Miami

University Steel Band in 1994, and earning a Master o Music

degree rom Miami in 1996, ollowed by a doctorate rom West

Virginia University in 2000. anner is a perormer, composer,

and arranger in addition to teaching and directing the Steel

Band. Te band perorms widely throughout the region and

during spring o 2008 toured with noted pan artist Andy Narell.

Te band was also ea-

tured in the PANorama

Caribbean Music Fest

at Virginia Beach

in May.

Te Curry award is

made possible by an

endowment rom Miami

alumnae John Hill Ervasti

and Jean ruitt Ervasti. Firstgiven in 1996,

ve other

Department

o Music aculty

members have received

the award, including

Sandra Seeeld in 2007,

Brenda Mitchell in 2005,

Mary E. M. Harris in

2003, Michle Gingras

in 2002, and Steven

Shumway in 2001.

Tanner Recipient of Curry Award

Music Proessor

Designs ReedGouging MachineProessor Andrea Ridilla, in collaboration with

Udo Heng, designer and music store owner, has

designed an oboe gouging machine. Te ma-

chine is meant to reduce the time spent gouging

reeds, the rst step in the complex process o

reed making. Sculpturing the inside curvature

o the oboe reed in exactly the right manner is

essential or the kind o oboe tone the oboist is

looking or, says Ridilla. Oboists must make

their own reeds to satisy personal tastes in

sound, eel, and style.

Ridilla is especially interested in reed-making

due to her association with international play-ers, whose concepts o sound are very diferent

rom the American approach, she says.

Te demands o matching

playing styles presented

challenges in tone

production, projec-

tion, and exibility o

pitch, and orced me to think outside the box.

With grants rom Miami University and

help rom Barry Landrum o the Hughes

Instrumentation Laboratory, Ridilla spent

a great deal o time researching and rening

the gouging process. Her invention, which is

U.S. patent pending, caught the eye o Heng,

and together they developed the Ridilla-Heng

machine. Te machine is sold on the interna-

tional market through Hengs business, Reeds

n Stufin Germany, and at Forrests Music in

Berkeley, Caliornia.

E X E N D I N G R A D I I O N / E M B R A C I N G I N N O V A I O N

Renovation o Presser Hall has been

completed and the majority o the

programs o the department o music have

now moved to their o cial home. Erecte d

in 1931, Presser was originally a gi o the

Presser Foundation, supplemented by

generous contributions o alumnae and

riends o Western College.

Te original building was inaugurated on

September 18, 1931 and was used jointly by the

music departments at Miami University and

Western College. In recent years, Presser has

been home to various musical and theatri-

cal groups. Beginning in December 2006, thebuilding underwent extensive renovation to

improve and modernize the acility. Signicant

mechanical upgrades were made, along with

exterior restoration and a large addition or

storage o musical instruments.

Te May 2008 move rom CPA to Presser Hall

took place with een truckloads o instruments,

music, docu ments, and o ce items. A great

deal o work was done to nd the right places

or everything as well as tweaking the buildingto accommodate some acoustical surprises,

said music chair Richard Green. Te new

building is a wonderul a sset to the program.

Te Department o Music celebrated Pressers

re-opening on October 23, 2008 with Presser

Palooza. O ciating at the 3:00 pm ribbon -cut-

ting ceremony at the buildings ront entrance

were Miami President David Hodge, Provost

Jefrey Herbst, SFA Dean James Lentini, and

Music Chair Richard Green.

Hodge, Herbst, and Lentini were in high praise

o the department, with the president saying

that you now have a building that reects the

honor and respect with which the department

is held on campus.

Following the ceremony, a reception was givenalong with tours o the building, in addition

to perormances by students and aculty o the

department.

Clockwise rom let:

Presser Hall, May 2008

Let to right: Miami University President David Hodge, Provost

Jefrey Herbst, Department o Music Chair Richard Green,

and SFA Dean Jim Lentini cut the ribbon at the Presser Hall

re-opening ceremony

MU Trumpet Ensemble, under the direction o graduate

student David Hartkop signals the opening o the Presser

Hall celebration

The New Presser HallThe new building is a

wonderful asset to the

program. Music Chair Richard Green

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Te newly inaugurated Miami Design

Collaborative (MDC), led by the School o

Fine Arts, is a multi-disciplinary design initia-

tive at Miami University that brings together

students and aculty rom across campus in

an interdisciplinary approach to team-based

design solutions. MDC ocuses on hands-on

experience with design projects, engagement

with industry and organizations outside o Mi-

ami, and multi-disciplinary theory and practice.

MDC combines existing Miami design projects

and courses with events and outside visitors like

1985 Miami alumnus John Foster at IDEO, an

innovation and design rm.

One o the rst MDC events this all was acollaboration between the Armstrong Insti-

tute or Interactive Media Studies and IDEO.

A group o aculty and students rom across

campus worked with Foster, head o alent and

Organizational Development, to participate in

IDEOs signature deep dive brainstorming

process, a creative think tank in which partici-

pants are ully immersed in one specic idea

or project. Participants worked to gain a better

understanding o student learning and engage-

ment, develop a structure or the Miami Design

Collaborative, and create new concepts or

uture MDC initiatives. Tree other industry

experts, Challis Hodge o Bridge Worldwide,

Mark Eckman o Rosetta, and Elizabeth Bartley,

designer and design educator also participated

in the event, ofering their outside perspectives

and insights. Tis event was made possible by

a combination o Fosters expertise and thededication, energy, and talents o Miami aculty

and students.

Miami Design Collaborative pairs with IDEO for Deep Dive

Student DesignsBicentennial LogoSenior Erin Kanas design was chosen as the

o cial logo or Miamis Bicent ennial cele bra-

tion. Te graphic design major rom Bay

Village, Ohio, competed with ellow graphic

design students enlisted by the universitys

Bicentennial Committee to create the logo or

Miamis 2009 celebration. Six students work-

ing under the gui dance o om E er, associate

proessor o art, and Peg Faimon, proessor o

art, were selected as nalists: Jason Andrews,

Jessica Boonstra, Erin Kana, Jennier Pace,

Colleen Reid, and Stephanie Rotar, all senior

graphic design majors. Kanas design is inspired

by the towers o Harrison Hall and ripe with

historical signicance. Named or Benja-

min Harrison, Miami class o 1852 and later

president o the United States, Harrison Hall

is located on the site o Miamis rst classroom

building, Old Main. Its towers were designed

by Miamis most prominent architect, Charles

Cellarius, who was responsible or many

Georgian-style buildings on campus. Te site

o Harrison Hall is an especially historical spot

on campus that adds a lot o meaning behind

her logo and can be shared across generations

easily, Faimon

said. Older

generations

can associate

with the towers

and younger

generations can

identiy with

the designs

balance o con-

temporary eel.

Bicentennial Committee to create the logo or

Miamis 2009 celebration. Six students work-

ing under the guid ance o om E er, associate

proessor o art, and Peg Faimon, proessor o

art, were selected as nalists: Jason Andrews,

generations can

identiy with

the designs

balance o con-

temporary eel.

So, what are YOUR latest achievements?

Visit arts.muohio.edu/keepintouchto keep us informed.

Philip Glass:Embracing InnovationIn the spring, Miami Design Collaborative,

the Armstrong Institute or Interactive Media

Studies, and the Perorming Arts Series will

co-sponsor a two-day symposium on collabora-

tion eaturing a perormance by multi-aceted

artist and composer Philip Glass. Trough his

operas, symphonies, compositions or his own

ensemble, and collaborations with artists rom

wyla Tarp to David Bowie, Glass has had an

extraordinary impact upon the musical and

intellectual ideas o his time. His residency at

Miami begins with an evening o solo piano

providing a rare opportunity to experi-

ence this inuential composers work

rsthand. An intimate and unique look

at a visionary at work, Glass personally

introduces the program. As the capstone

event o the MDCs design thinking

symposium, Glass will present Creativity

and Collaboration, ocusing on the idea o

creativity and how disparate artists, educators,

and students can inspire each other and create

collaborative work that can be even more satis-

ying than individual work.

Performance Information

Etudes and Other Works or Solo Piano

7:30 pm Wednesday, April 15 Hall Auditorium

Tickets$18 students/youth $35 senior citizens $36 adults

Visit www.muohio.edu/PerormingArtsSeries or

more inormation.

John Foster

Faimon Receives Naus Award

Congratulations to Proessor o Art Peg Faimon,

Miami Design Collaborative director, who

was one o two recipients o an endowed Naus

Family Scholar award. Te program, unded by

a $250,000 gi to Miamis For Love and Honor

Campaign by James and Susan Naus, both class

o 1967, supports aculty who exempliy the

very best o Miamis traditions.

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Susan Ewings Dinner Ring or a Last Supper II,

sterling silver and magnetic steel

myaamiaki iii meehtohseeniwiciki,

How the Miami People Live

M I A M I U N I V E R S I T Y A R T M U S E U M

In 2004, Miami Art Museum director Robert

Wicks rst celebrated the Miami tribe and its

connections to the university with an exhibition

o art by current tribal members. Te present-

ing o a native birch tree to Chie Leonard and

its planting on the museum grounds marked

the symbolic return o the tribe to their home-

land. Te Miami tribe returned to Oxord in a

groundbreaking new exhibit, Myaammiaki iii

meehtohessniwiciickiHow the Miami People

Live, in Fall 2008. Te exhibition celebrated the

vibrant heritage o the Miami tribe, currently

undergoing a language and culture revitaliza-

tion efort, and eatured both historical and

contemporary artiacts and objects.

Serving as a kickof to the universitys Bicen-

tennial celebration, the exhibition was made

possible through the combined eforts o guest

curators Julie Olds, ormer cultural preserva-

tion o cer o the Miami ribe o Oklahoma,

and Daryl Baldwin, director o the Myaamia

Language project at Miami University, and

the staf o the Miami University Art Museum.

Te exhibition, co-sponsored by the National

Museum o the American Indian (part o the

Smithsonian Institution), and the Cranbrook

Institute o Science, was unique in that mem-

bers o the Miami tribe were involved rom

the very beginning. Over one hundred tribe

members attended the exhibition opening on

September 18. Te opening eatured welcoming

remarks by Miami University President David

Hodge and the dedication o the site or Miami

tribe elder Eugene Browns bronze sculpture,

A ribe named Miami, A Surveyors Stake, a

own named Oxord, representing the unity

o the Miami tribe, Oxord, Ohio, and Miami

University.

TeMyaammiaki iii meehtohessniwiciicki

How the Miami People Live exhibition was

a great success. More than 900 area school

children rom 17 diferent schools had been

through the museum, and 34 Miami courses

integrated the exhibition into the semesters

curriculum. Over the course o the exhibition

museum attendance exceeded 7,200 visitors.

For more inormation about the Miami

Nation visit their o cial website at

http://www.miamination.com/.

Miami Artists part o Ohio

Cratsmens Best o 2008Miami University Distinguished Proessor o

Art Susan Ewing received the Pamela Morris

Thomord Award or Excellence in Metals at the

Ohio Designer Cratsmens 25th annual juried

members competition, The Best o 200 8.

Tadashi Koizumi, M.F.A. 08 (metals), received the

Emerging Cratsman Award or his body o work.

Other Miami artists recognized were: graduate

students Josh Foy (ceramics), Geof Riggle

(metals), and Lisa M. Wilson (metals); M.F.A.

alumnae Sandra Gross, 91 (glass), and Stephen

Wolochowicz, 05 (ceramics); and B.F.A. alumnae

Lisa Johnson, 04, and Christina Brandewie, 80,

both metals.

More than 325 entries rom 140 artists were

submitted; 130 works in glass, metal, fiber, clay,

wood, and mixed media by nearly 90 artists were

selected and are on display at the Ohio Crat

Museum in Columbus during summer 2008.

Ewings award winning piece Dinner Ring for a Last

Supper II is part o a series o small objects based

on the weaponry o Leonardo da Vinci. This one

piece was enough to make the trip worthwhile,

said juror Brion Clinkingbeard, deputy director and

chie curator o the Kentucky Museum o Art and

Crat. It stands alongside the other works in this

show as representing the best o traditions o

this powerhouse organization.E X T E N D I N G T R A D I T I O N , E M B R A C I N G I N N O V A T I O N

Opposite page, clockwise rom top:

Deerskin Map Showing Wea Territory under Negotiation with

the Wabash Land Company, c. 1774 1775; by permission o

the British Museum, Department o Ethnography, Mullanphy

Collection, London, England

James Otto Lewis, Portrait o Brewett A Celebrated Miami

Chie, 183536, hand-colored lithograph rom the portolio,The Aboriginal Port-Folio, or A Collection o Portraits o the Most

Celebrated Chies o the North American I ndians

Detail o Eugene Browns wood-burned engraving rom Drum

Flute Stand, 2008

Eugene Brown playing one o his original flutes during the

dedication o his sculpture at the MUAM closing reception,

December 18, 2008.

This page:

Eugene Brown, A Tribe Named Miami, A Surveyors Stake, ATown Named Oxord, 2003; carved and painted wood in eight

pieces; lent by Dr. Joseph W. Leonard

Museum attendance exceeded

7,200 visitors for the exhibition.

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aryn Nye, who graduated rom Miami in May

2008 with a Master o Architecture degree,

received an honor award rom the American

Institute o Architecture Students (AIAS) at

their annual conerence in December. Nyes

design or an accessible home or seven year-old Lianna Bryant, who has quadriplegic mixed

type cerebral palsy, was nominated or a

Community Service Honor Award through

AIAS. Nye designed and constructed the space

with the Miami University AIAS Freedom by

Design team, working closely with Liannas

mother, Utawna Leap, 93. Te house was spe-

cially designed to accommodate the needs o

Lianna, who cannot walk, crawl, or talk.

Leap envisioned a house that would meet the

immediate and long-term needs o her daugh-

ter. She could not aford to hire an architecture

rm so she contacted Miamis architecture pro-

essors asking or students assistance, knowing

someone could learn rom the experience.

She was put in contact with Nye who was

willing to take on the project. awna came

up with a list o things she wanted in the

design, Nye explains. Te idea was that

Lianna would be able to go everywhere in

the house, with no restrictions.

Te one-level home is congured to t Leaps

long, narrow lot. Visitors walk through an

extra-wide ront door into an open-plan living

space that makes it easy or Lianna to move

rom kitchen to dining area to living room to

bedroom in her w heelchair. Special eatures

include a large roll-in bathroom, sink with

motion-activated aucet, and a sprinkler system.

A ceiling-mounted personal li system runs

through Bryants bedroom and bathroom,

down a hallway, and into the living room,

allowing her ull access to major

areas o the house.

I never anticipated the time and

efort and research that not just

aryn did, but other people in the

department, Leap said. Until you

have someone close with a disabil-

ity, you cannot compre-

hend what lie is like

with a disability.

Nye said the process

meant more to her

than the job or award.

I think I made a

riendship and I ound

a amily who needed help, Nye

said. It changed the way I look at architecture

and the power we have to afect peoples lives.

Nye now works at Duncan Wisniewski, an ar-

chitecture rm dedicated to helping non-prot

clients and specializing in designing afordable

housing or veterans and the elderly.

Interior Design ProgramRanked 9th Nationally

Design Intelligence, who produces the

principal annual ranking o architecture and

design-based academic programs, has ranked

Miamis Interior Design program in a tie or

ninth nationally or 2009. Tis is a consider-

able achievement given that there are 300400

programs and about 160 CIDA accredited pro-

grams reviewed or the ranking. Te impressive

ranking is based on a comprehensive survey

o proessional design rms. Tis biases older

programs with established reputations, larger

programs that simply place more graduates, and

programs with established co-ops.

Tis past summer, 16 high school students

rom throughout the nation participated in the

Multicultural Leader-

ship Program Summer

Leadership Institute

(MLPSLI) sponsored by

Miamis O ce o Ad-

mission. Tis one-week

institute is designed

or Arican-American,

Hispanic/Latino, Native

American, or Pacic Islander students that have

completed their sophomore or junior year in

high school, or or students who are not multi-

cultural but have demonstrated a commitment

toward making their school and community

more accepting o cultural diversity. Partici-

pants who successully complete the institute

and are admitted to Miami receive a renewable

$5,000 merit scholarship award.

During the one-week program, MLPSLI par-

ticipants have the opportunity to interact with

current Miami students, aculty and staf in aca-

demic, leadership and career choice activities.

A variety o academic and co-

curricular activities including a

writing workshop, computer skills

lab, and business, education, engi-

neering, and ne arts programs are

ofered to better prepare partici-

pants or college.

Te 16 students who participated

in the ne arts component took

courses taught by members o the

School o Fine Arts aculty. In the

Art o Collage, instructor Brent

Paynes goal or his students was to

help them understand the process

o making art and how to em-

brace and enjoy the process. John

Humphries taught a design draw-

ing course, in which beginning design drawing

ideas are introduced, and students learn to look

at things on a simple yet detailed level. Each

o these courses is designed to help students

understand the basic process o developing a

good portolio, whether or visual art, architec-

ture, or interior design.

Te SFAs goal is to motivate students to pursue

degrees and careers in the arts as well as increase

the number o students in pre-college initiatives

similar to MLPSLI. In summer 2007, eight stu-

dents participated in the ne arts component o

MLPSLI; in summer 2008 that number doubled.

Tat alone is a great success!

Sixteen high school students participate inthe fine arts component o Miamis MLPSLICLIFON MCNISH, Director o Diversi ty and Outreach

Grad Student WinsAIAS Honor Award

[The experience] changed the

way I look at architecture and

the power we have to afect

peoples lives. Taryn Nye

Dutton named Proessor o

Community Engagement

Trough generous alumni support, Tomas

A. Dutton, proessor o architecture, has been

named the Cincinnati Proessor o Commu-

nity Engagement. Dutton is the director o

Miami Universitys Center or Community

Engagement

in Over-

the-Rhine,

which ofers

opportunities

or aculty,

student, and

community

learning in

inner-city

Cincinnati.

He and his

students design and rehabilitate housing or

low- and moderate-income people. He has

been active in the Over-the-Rhine Peoples

Movement or twenty-our years. Te

Neighborhood Design Corporation o

Cincinnati recognized Dutton or the

accomplishments o the Over-the-Rhine

Design/Build Studio in 1999 and 2005.

Share your latest accomplishments with

us visit arts.muohio.edu/keepintouch

to keep us informed.

E M B R A C I N G I N N O V A T I O N

E X T E N D I N G T R A D I T I O N

Brent Payne, M.F.A. in painting, 2008 instructs

students in the visual arts component

Taryn Nye (left) with Lianna Leap

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Extending TraditionGoing Global

WHO: Te Choraliers, under the direction o

William Bausano, proessor o music

WHERE & WHEN: Italy and Greece,

summer 2008

WHAT: oured rom Venice to Athens, singing

early European music. Were described as

wonderul musical ambassadors rom the

United States.

Students and aculty spent the past year participating in activi-

ties on a global scale, engaging in study, service, and cultures

that help develop aptitude in a diverse world. The SFA is com-

mitted to making meaningul international experiences available

to all fine arts majors. Here is

a snapshot o their activities:

WHO: Ghana Design/Build Studio, the Department o Architecture and Interior

Designs longest running summer workshop

WHERE & WHEN: Abrao Odumase, Ghana, summer 2008

WHAT: Designed and built a computer skills classroom or local students and

adults. In previous years, students have designed and built a library, outdoor read-ing room, permanent market shelters, community center, and guesthouse.

WHO: Miami University Mens Glee Club, under the

direction o Ethan Sperry, associate proessor o music

WHERE & WHEN: China, June 2008

WHAT: Sang as part o the 2008 Summer

Olympic pre-game events.

WHO: Architecture

and interior design students, with Gulen

Cevik, assistant proessor

WHERE & WHEN: urkey, summer 2008

WHAT: oured Roman and Greek

cities, museums, mosques and churches,

and world heritage sites, studying both

ancient and modern urkey. Participated

in a weeklong project with other design

students at Yeditepe University in Istanbul and visited criti-

cally acclaimed design rms Koleksiyon and Autoban.

More DestinationsWHO: Highwire Brand Studio, a capstone

course comprised o students majoring in

marketing, art/graphic design, and other

supporting disciplines

WHERE & WHEN: London, summer 2008

WHAT: Students worked in competing teams in

collabor ation with marketing researc h a li-

ate dunhumby on a project or esco, the third

largest retailer in the world.

WHO: Miami University students

WHERE & WHEN: Florence, Italy, spring 2008

WHAT: Attended Kent States architecture

and environmental design school in historic

Florence and participated in semester-long

design studios, traveled with proessors to our

major Italian cities as part o an urban analysis

course, and took courses in Italian language, art

history, urban development, drawing, and

European theater.

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Jingju Comes to MUracy Chung has played an important role in

making Jingju come alive in aiwan, where

she is an Associate Proessor at the National

aiwan University and aiwan Junior College o

Perorming Arts. During all 2008, Chung was

in residence in the Department o Teatre

to teach traditional Jingju opera style and

direct a Jingju version o Shakespeares

Te aming o the Shrew. Teatre

Proessor Howard Blanning took

Ms. Chungs place in aiwan

or the semester, where he

taught theatre history and

directed ShakespearesA

Midsummer Nights Dream.

Tis is only the second time

that such an international

exchange has been done at

Miami, said Liz Mullenix,

Chair o the Department o

Teatre. Hopeully this ex-

change will blaze a trail or more

aculty to engage in like activity

in the uture. Chung described

her experience, saying, Te

students have been wonder-

ul. We have had a lot o

un learning about each

other! Tey taught me how

to express mysel better in

English and I taught them

about the traditional Jingju

theatres singing, acting, and

dancing, as well as Chinese culture, history,

and language. Teir Jingju perormance may

not be perect, but they have developed a great

appreciation or the art and that is beautiul!

A graduate o the National Fu-hsing Dramatic

Arts Academy and Oklahoma City Univer-

sity, Chung has appeared in more than

thirty Jingju productions and has books as well

as DVDs to her credit. She has adapted seven

non-Chinese works or Jingju as well as two

well-known Chinese novels,A Woman and

Four Men and Te Lie o Ah-Q. In 2003, racy

served as a J. W. Fulbright Visiting Scholar-

in-Residence and Vail Artist-in-Residence at

Denison University in Granville, Ohio.

Scene rom Theatres recent production o Taming o the Shrew

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Miami Art Faculty Featured in International ExhibitionTirty-nine works by Miami University artists

were recently included in Connections, an exhi-

bition at the Institute o Art and Design (IAD)

at the University o West Bohemia in Pilsen,

Czech Republic. Te exhibition, open May

624, 2008, eatured work by 19 Miami art

aculty and graduate students. IAD, established

in 2004, is one o the most progressive univer-

sity institutions in the Czech Republic ocusing

on art and design. Te exhibition was part o

the Pilsen Liberation Festival, ounded in 2005

to commemorate the anniversary o the libera-

tion o the city o Pilsen by American troops at

the end o World War II.

Te Connections exhibit serves as an oppor-

tunity to showcase the great art o our aculty

and to urther bridge the connection betweenMiami and the IAD, says Dean James Lentini,

who traveled to Pilsen with three o the exhibit-

ing artists, along with Dean o the Graduate

School Dr. Bruce Cochrane. International

collaborations like this help to urther our

mission by connecting our students and aculty

to an increasingly global world o education

and the arts. Future plans or collaboration

with the IAD include developing a partnership

or a joint international masters degree pro-

gram and student and aculty exchanges.

Participating Miami aculty were: Andrew

Au, Joomi Chung, Larry Collins, Tomas

E er, Susan Ewing, Marg aret Peg Faimon,

racy Featherstone, Ira Greenberg, dele jegede,

E. James Killy, Matthew Litteken, Edward

Montgomery, Ellen Price, Ralph Raun, Dana

Saulnier, Dennis obin, Roscoe Wilson, Jon

Yamashiro, and Sara Young. Graduating M.F.A.

students Alyssa Feather, adashi Koizumi,Brent Payne, Alan Pocaro, and Kelly Severtson

also exhibited work in the show.

A group o Miami alumni have come together

to create the Northwest Ohio Scholarship in

Architecture and Interior Design. Te scholar-

ship, which will be awarded or the rst time

in spring 2009, was conceived by a group

o alumni rom Miamis Department o

Architecture and Interior Design. Te group,

including many architects and designers rom

several area rms, gathered or a presentation

discussing the departments achievements and

challenges and began discussing the idea or

the scholarship.

We elt it was unlikely that any one rm could

generate enough support to und a scholarship

at a high enough level, but we thought, i we

all got together, we might be able to make it

happen, said Paul Hollenbeck 70 o Te

Collaborative Inc.

Tat idea became a reality in November 2008,

when the donors came together to celebrate

their scholarships endowment reaching $50,000

during the summer. Beginning in the spring,

it will be awarded each year to one or more

northwestern Ohio students in the Department

o Architecture and Interior Design.

According to Hollenbeck, who transerred to

Miami in 1965 specically to study architec-

ture, the scholarship serves the dual role o

supporting Miami students and promoting the

architecture and interior design proessions in

Northwest Ohio. Northwest Ohio is no difer-

ent than many other parts o the country in that

recruitment is one o our biggest challenges. As

the baby boomers retire, were going to need

more architects than universities are produc-

ing. Northwest Ohio doesnt have a school

o architecture, so this was a good way to get

students at Miami to notice us and recognize

the opportunities in this region.

Alumni, graduating in classes rom 1959 to

1991, and parents o current and ormer Miami

students were among those contributing to the

scholarship und. People have great eelings

about their experience at Miami in general, but

the architecture program, because o the rela-

tionships you orm with students and aculty,

is a little diferent, said Michael DiNardo 84,

who earned his Master o Architecture degree

while on a similar scholarship. Its almost like

being in a raternity or sorority because youre

together so much o the time.

Hollenbeck, who recalls a highly competitive

program in which an initial class o y archi-

tecture students was pared down to his graduat-

ing class o a dozen, remains in close contact

with ormer classmates and aculty members.

He sees the collective efort behind the scholar-

ship as capturing that spirit o camaraderie that

dened his time in the program.

Tis is not about our rms, though at least our

are represented; its about us as a group o archi-

tects and related proessionals. It is a divergent

group, with more than three decades between

some o us, and we gave in varying amounts to

make this possible. Hopeully this isnt the end,

and people will continue to see this as a great

philanthropic outlet.

Donors to the Northwest Ohio Scholarship

in Architecture and Interior Design are: Allan

Brown 91; Michael DiNardo 84; Mike Duket

70; Bert Elliott 81; Edward 80 and Mary

Glowacki 79; Joseph Kunkle; Paul and Pamela

Hollenbeck 70; Robert Seyang 59; and Robert

Siebenaller 82.

Alumni Create

Architecture Scholarship

Two principals with Toledo architecture firm, The Collabora-

tive Inc., Mike DiNardo (let) and Paul Hollenbeck (right)

came together with at least 3 other firms and numerous

alumni donors to create the Northwest Ohio Scholarship inArchitecture and Interior Design.

Art Students Work Selected

or International Exhibition

Five Miami University artists were part o

Magnitude Seven, an exhibition by 34 artists

at the Maniest Creative Research Gallery and

Drawing Center during summer 2008. Te

show eatured work by: graduate students

Charlie Buckley (painting) and Lisa M. Wilson

(metals); Brent Payne, M.F.A. 08; David

Dotson, M.F.A. 06; and Josh Willis, B.F.A. 03.Maniest received more than 550 submissions

rom 254 artists rom across 38 states or the

exhibition o work no larger than seven inch-

es in any dimension. It was the ourth year or

the theme, the most popular at Maniest.

(Opposite page let, clockwise rom top)

Assistant Proessor Joomi Chung

installs her 3-dimensional drawings in

the Connectionsexhibition on-site at the

Institute o Art and Designs UniversityGallery in the city center o Pilsen,

Czech Republic

Proessor Ellen Prices Tournament

Helmet,2008

Assistant Proessor Roscoe Wilsons

Deer, Ducks and CowsOh My, 2008

Dignitaries ranging rom the American

and Belgian ambassadors to the Czech

Republic and the Mayor o Pilsen spoke,

along with Dean Lentini, at the exhibi-

tions opening reception May 6

(Opposite page right, clockwise rom top)

Artworks by:

Charlie Buckley, MFA candidate,

painting, Study Keys, 2008

Lisa Wilson, MFA candidate, metals,

Untitled, 2008

Andrew Dailey, MFA candidate

painting, Pinsel, 2008

International collaborations

help connect our students

and faculty to an increasingly

global world of education

and the arts.

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Earl Reeder Visiting Critics Fund

Like his grandmother Thelma Flanery Reeder,

who attended Miami University in the 1920s,

alumnus Earl Reeder believes in the importance

o giving back, that his contributions might

shape and guide uture generations o Miamians

by providing students with experiences that go

beyond the curriculum. It is in this spirit that he

presented the Earl Reeder Visiting Critics Fund

in support o the Department o Architecture

and Interior Design, in the all o 2008.

The available annual distribution generated rom

the und will support participation o an annual

Reeder Visiting Critic in the activities o the

Department o Architecture and Interior Design.

This position shall be held by a nationally or

internationally recognized architect, interior

designer, or related proessional. The intent is

that the Reeder Visiting Critic would participate

directly with students in classroom-based activi-

ties, over an extended period o time as available

unds permit, and deliver an annual Reeder Lec-

ture as part o the departmental lecture series.

The School o Fine Arts is extremely grateul to

Earl or his generosity and vision.

My check or $ made payable to Miami University Foundation is enclosed.

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Mail or ax this page to: Heather Kogge, Director o Development, School o Fine Arts

Miami University, 725 E. Chestnut Street, Oxord, OH 45056

ax: (513) 529-1466 o ce: (513) 529-5217

New SFA Directoro Development

A seven-year veteran o

Miami Unive rsitys O ce

o Development, Heather

Kogge was named Direc-

tor o Development or

the School o Fine Arts last April. In this role,

she works directly with alumni and riends o

the SFA to build support toward a $15 million

goal, as a part o the overall $500 million Miami

University Campaign For Love and Honor. Priori-

ties within the SFA campaign include endowed

scholarships, ellowships, and chairs; student

enrichment and programs, including technology,

as well as production, exhibit, and visiting

artists endowments; and a Miami University

Perormance and Concert Hall.

Heather enjoys the reward o helping to

strengthen the relationship o Miamis loyal

supporters with the School o Fine Arts, and

is honored to be a part o the philanthropic

process o giving back. A 1990 graduate o

Ball State University and a ormer high school

English teacher, Heather lives in Oxord with her

husband John Kogge 72 and children Malory

and Jesse.

For inormation on making a commitment in

support o the School o Fine Arts, please

contact Heather at 513-529-5217 or

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Cutting-edgetechnology, aninterna tionallyrecognized aculty,

andinnovativeof-campusstudyopportunitiesarejusta ew hall-

markso MiamisDepartment o Architectureand Interior Design.

Your gitprovidessupportor theseandmanyother ground-

breaking initiatives.

Department of Art

AccreditedbytheNationalAssociationoSchoolsoArtand

Design, andrecognizednationally or itsaward-winning aculty,theDepartmento Artrunsproessionalprogramsthatpromote

theconceptual,technical, andintellectual growthostudents and

challengethemto becomeactively engagedin researchand creative

activitiesinstudio arts,graphic design,art andarchitecturalhistory,

andart education.Yoursupport makesthis missionpossible.

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AccreditedbytheNationalAssociationoSchoolsoMusic,the

Departmento Music achievescreative andacademic excellence

throughperorming, conducting, composing, writing, andresearch-

ing. Your gitwill support theartistic andeducational goalso the

departmentinpreparing thenextgenerationo perormersand

teachers,ofering opportunitiesthatenrichtheentireMiami

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Department of Theatre

Studentsinthe Departmento Theatreactivelybridgethegap

betweenartistic practiceandcriticalinquirythroughavarietyo

experiencesthatincludeworkingwithproessionaltheatreartists,

studyabroad opportunities,andan innovativehands-oncurriculum.

Yourgitprovidesthe supportthat willallowour studentsto become

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toexperienceworldclassperormancespresentedbya wide

varietyo nationallyandinternationally renownedartists. Your

githelpstobringnew ideas, cultures, andart ormstotheMiamicommunityand beyond.

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SupportingtheSchooloFineArtswithanunrestrictedgitallows

theDeans O ceto assiststudents, aculty,andstaf whereaddi-

tionalundingmay beneeded orcreative, perorming,andscholarly

activities.Itemsthathavebeensupportedbysuchundsrecently

includetravelsupportorstudentsto presenttheirworkatconer-

ences,undingor ensemblesto tournationallyand internationally,

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Department o Theatre makes Miamis TOP25

Last all, the

Department o

Teatre premiered an innovative new course

as part o President Hodges new initiative

Te OP25 Project: Engaging Students in their

Learning. Faculty were invited to redesign the

25 largest courses at Miami in order to move

learning away rom, as the President says, too

much time telling students what we think they

need to know, and not enough time using their

curiosity to drive their learning. eams o

aculty were invited to submit a proposal, and i

chosen, would receive unding or implementa-

tion o their newly designed class.

Te Department o Teatres proposal or

HE 191 was one o seven classes chosen to

receive unding in the rst round o OP25

and was the rst to pilot its course. Teatre

Appreciation, an introductory class in which

200 students previously received inormation

passively through lecture, was transormed into

an interactive, hands-on laboratory or theatre

creation. Students o the redesigned course

were given the opportunity to interact with

multiple guest artists, shadow a working artist

in a backstage experience, and create their own

ten-minute play.

By directly interacting with working artists,

witnessing Miami theatre productions rom an

insiders perspective, and applying their knowl-

edge to their own artistic creation, non-majors

become critically engaged and actively involved

in theatre in an exciting and innovative way.

An interactive, hands-on laboratory or theatre creation

Department o Theatres mainstage production o The Trojan Women

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The Miami University School o Fine Arts grateully acknowledges the ollowing donors who have made commitments

totaling $1000 or more in support o the SFA, as part o the Miami University Campaign For Love and Honor, 2002 2010.

Giftsgreater than$1,000,000*Mrs.EdnaKelly

Mr. andMrs. ThomasW. Smith

$100,000 $999,000

Mr. andMrs. JamesH. Allen

Anonymous

Mr.andMrs.C.MichaelArmstrong

*Mrs. FrancesHanson Christian

*Ms. MarjorieJ. Evans

*Mrs. VirginiaPearce Glick

Mr. andMrs. GeoreyP. Hall

*Mr. andMrs. WilbertHermann

Ms. MaryHeston Holtz

Mr. andMrs. LarryHuston

Mr.Lloyd D. Ittel

Ms. MarilynS. Miller

Dr. andMrs. L. MichaelMoskovis

Mr. andMrs. DavidE. Panner

Mr. andMrs. RichardJ. Quain

Mr. James E. Milesand

Mrs. ClaudiaC. Ramsay

Ruder-Bever Family

*Mr. JohnA. Schaal

*Mr. KarlJ. Schlachter

Mrs. RobertaSchlachter

*Mr. NormanA. Schoelles

$50,000 $99,000

AmericanGreetings Corporation

*Ms. MaryL. Charles

Mr. andMrs. RichardE. CocksMr. DonaldR. Edmundson

WalterL Gross,Jr.,

FamilyFoundation

Dr. Frank Jordan, Jr.

*Mrs. FrancesZurbrick Mason

$10,000 $49,000

AIAOhio Foundation

Anonymous

Mr. GordonD. Arnold

Dr. andMrs. RobertA. Benson

Bever Trust

Ms. Eleanor M. Brown

Mr. WendallCady

Mr. MichaelJ. DiNardo

Mr. andMrs. BertW. Elliott

Ernst& Young Foundation

Dr. andMrs. GilbertGordon

Mr. andMrs. GaryE. Goshorn

Greater CincinnatiFoundation

Mr.andMrs.WalterL.GrossIII

HeartlandArtsFund

ElizabethWakeman Henderson

CharitableFoundation

Ms. LynneM. Higgs

Mr. andMrs. PaulR. Hollenbeck

Mr. andMrs. GregoryS. Hurst

Mr. VincentJ. Inconiglios

Mr. andMrs. Richard W. Knowlton

Mr. andMrs. JerryA. Leak

TheKnollsoOxord

Mrs. BarbaraHatch Lore

MiamiTribe o Oklahoma

Mrs. BettyMichael

*Dr. JohnA. Michael

*Mr. RonaldE. Moehle

Mrs. DawnNetsch

*Mr. Walter A. NetschPennsylvaniaPerorming Arts

onTour

Mr. MichaelL. Pittman

PresserFoundation

Procter & GambleCompany

Mr. andMrs. WilliamP. Quinby

*Dr. LewisF. Roth

Mr. andMrs. JamesH. Scott

Mr. andMrs. John T. Seaman, Jr.

Mr. andMrs. DanielR. Siegel

Mr. andMrs. RichardH. Smith

Mrs. JudyL. Stark

Mr. andMrs. RichardA. Steuk

Ms. ElizabethMayer Swailes

*Mr. JosephP. Veasey

Ms. JessicaWaldmann

Mr. andMrs. JohnG. Waldmann

Mr. RobertE. White

Mr. andMrs. Walter D. Wood

$5,000 $9,999

AmericanInstitute oArchitects

Mr. LarryW. Anderson

Mrs. ColleenWardAtwood

Mr. andMrs. AllanN. Brown

CincinnatiParks Foundation

CunninghamGroup

Architecture, P. A.

Mr. andMrs. Peter Dahoda

DuBoisBook Store

Mr. andMrs. ThomasW. DunlapIIIEchternachInternational

Music Festival

FanningHowey Assoc Inc.

Mr. andMrs. RichardT. Farmer

Mr. andMrs. Mark Gilmore

Mr. andMrs. EdwardA. Glowacki

HamiltonCommunity Foundation

Mr. JereyL. Horrell

Mr. JohnF. Keegan

Mr. andMrs. DavidA. Killen

Mr.Stevenand

Mrs. PattiHannon Liberatore

Mr. andMrs. DouglasM. McKean

NewportCollaborative

ArchitectsInc.

OxordArtsClub

OxordVisitors&

ConventionBureau

Mr. KeithL. Bremer and

Mrs. BarbaraA. Paprocki

Dr. ElizabethSenicka Rogers

MissRebecca D. Schnelker

Mr. DouglasC. Schwing

Ms. SandraL. Seeeld

Mr. andMrs. RobertF. Seyang

Mr. andMrs. ToddA. Shelton

*Mr. BartleySkinner

Mr. andMrs. RichardH. Smith

Mr. ChrisStousland

TheCollaborative Inc.

Mr. andMrs. Richard C. Thrall, Jr.

Mr. andMrs . ThomasTierney

TriploPress

URS Corporation

Mr. JasonJ. Weller

Mrs. HelenSheets Winget


$2,500 $4,999AccentureFoundation

Alexander House

Mr. StephenAlthouse

JohnW. Altman


Mrs.CaseyStouslandAudrain

MissElsaJ. Baer

Mrs. MarjoryBaer

MissJoan A. Barenholtz

Mr. JeromeConley

Mr. andMrs. DonaldF. Crain

Dr. andMrs. RonaldA. Crutcher

Daimler Chrysler

Dr. AdeedDawisha and

Dr. KarenL. Dawisha

Dr. JudithK. Delzell

Mr. andMrs. CharlesA. DeMore

Mr.Lynton Dudley

Mr. MichaelR. Duket

Dr. StevenR. Elliott

Dr. andMrs. W. HardyEshbaugh

FidelityCharitable GitFund

Mr. KevinG. Fletcher

Mr. GaryGaney

Dr. JamesC. Garlandand

Dr. CaroleE. Garland

Mr. DeanR. Gladden

Dr. andMrs. JohnW. Green

Dr. MelvilleD. HayesIII

Mrs. BerdeneF. Hird

Dr. andMrs. JamesR. HodgmanMr. andMrs. Clair E. Howey

Mrs. EileenM. Jeck

Mr. andMrs. WilliamG. Kern

Mr. RobertW. Krause

Ms. LynneLatham

Mr. WilliamD. Laymanand

Dr. PamelaFox

MidAtlantic ArtsFoundation

Mrs. EmilyMountz Ness

Mr. andMrs. NicholasA. Poccia

*Ms. MaryE. Porter

PrescottEllen

MissJanetK. Rinehart

Mr. andMrs. KevinJ. Sauder

Mr. DavidR. Scheer

SciotoCounty AreaFoundation

Dr. JamesR. Showkeir

Ms. Eleanor B. Skyllingstad

Ms. ChristineSmith

Mr. andMrs. Jack F. Southard

SouthwestFlorida

CommunityFoundation

Mr. andMrs. GaryB. Stephens

Mr. Arthur R. Thieme

VanguardCharitable

EndowmentProgram

Dr. andMrs.

RandolphL. Wadsworth, Jr.

Mrs. LydiaOsborn Wiepking

Dr. MaryE. Woodworth

$1,000 $2,499

AmericanElectric Power Co. Inc.

Dr. andMrs. PaulV. Anderson

Mr. StuartM. Anderson

Mrs. JudithRogers Armstrong

Mr. andMrs. TimW. Arnold

Rev. MichaelD. AusperkMr. Mark S. Bailey

Mr. andMrs. DouglasG. Balogh

Mrs. ChristineBeatty Bartels

Mr. IanC. Berry

Mrs. PriscillaStrand Berry

Mr. GeorgeT. Beverley

Mr. JereyBishop

Ms. DorothyA. Blatt

Mr. andMrs. JamesO. Bonaminio

Ms. JeanieBowers

Mrs. AnneAmos Brown

Dr. andMrs. DonaldK. Bryan

Ms. IreneBussing

Mr. andMrs. RyanK. Callender

CallisonArchitecture Inc.

Mrs. SaraBuchsbaum Campbell

Dr.Steven P. Carstens

Mr. andMrs. Mark L. Casner

Mr. Arthur B. Casper

Champlin-HauptArchitects, Inc.

Mr. JimmyD. Chapman

Ms. LauraChapman

ChevronCorporation

CincinnatiZoo & BotanicalGarden

*Ms. AnnCline

Dr. andMrs. JohnN. Clover

Ms. PatriciaI. Cooper

Mr. JackieL. Cornett

Pro. andMrs. Joseph L. Cox III

Mrs. NancySaylor Crell

Mr. ThomasE. Darby, Jr.MissCarlaJ. Davis

Mr. CharlesL. Deitschel

DeloitteFoundation

Mr. andMrs. JamesT. Demetrion

Mr. andMrs. DavidA. Diamond

DavidB. Dillehunt

Mr.andMrs.AnthonyJ.Di Marinisi

Dr. Marek Dollar and

Dr. AnnaDollar

Dow Chemical

CompanyFoundation

Dr. andMrs. W. HardyEshbaugh

Mr. JohnathanS. Evartsand

Dr. KatherineEvarts

Mr. andMrs. RonaldH. Fanning

Mr.GregoryH.Fess

Mr. andMrs. BasilR. Fett

FordMotorCompany

Mr. Arthur H. Frederick

Mr. andMrs. GuyJ. Frederick

GeneralElectric Company

Mr. andMrs. BrianL. Gillespie

Mr. andMrs. TedW. Goble

Mr. FredGood

Mr. andMrs. DavidL. Grayson

Mr. EdwinK. Griest

Dr. andMrs. DavidF. Griing

Mr. andMrs. DarrelH. Grothen

Mr. BlakeF. Hankins

Dr. RobertJ. Hasl

Mr. JereyM. Hauk

Dr. Jerey I. Herbstand

Dr. SharonPolansky

Mr. andMrs. DavidF. Herche

*Ms. GenevieveE. Hilmer

Dr. andMrs. DavidC. Hodge

Mrs. PeggyBausch Homann

Mr. RyanW. HollowayDr. CynthiaL. Howard

Mr. andMrs. DavidR. Hummel

Mr. JohnR. Iorillo

Mr. KoheiIshikawa

Dr. delejegede

Dr. andMrs. RobertL. Kane

Mr. andMrs. Robert D. Keller, Jr.

Mr. andMrs. J. StephenKendra

Mr. andMrs. KarlG. Koehler

Ms. KimR. Kolb

Mr. StephenM. Krumm

Mr. andMrs. JosephKunkle

Mrs. VirginiaLee

*Mr. WanchulLee

*Ms. LoisD. Lehmkuhl

Mr. andMrs. R. ConradLeslie

Mr. NicholasJ. Licastro

Mr.and Mrs.ChristopherA. Lindsay

Dr. andMrs. Mark A. Lindsey

Mr. andMrs. Hallock Lucius

Mrs. EllenO. Lutz

Mr. andMrs. LarryLutz

Rev. StephenM. Madaris

andRev. CarolynCraword

Dr. PaulJ. Malott

Mr. DennisA. Matejka

Mr. andMrs. BenjaminP. Mattox

Mrs. FrancesD. McClure

Mrs. RuthYokel McDiett

Dr. DavidC. McGrew

andDr. KathrynB. McGrewMs. CathyMcVey

Meijer Inc.

Mr. ThomasJ. Mitchell

Mr. E. Fuller Mooreand

Dr. JaneI. Moore

Mr. RobertA. Morgensen

Ms. PatriciaBrueneman Morrison

Mr. andMrs. CharlesS. Myers

Mr. PaulM. Mylod

NationalFederation o Music Clubs

NationwideFoundation

Mr. Roderick E. Nimtz

Mr. andMrs. DonaldL. Noltemeyer

Mr. andMrs. RichardM. Norman

Mr. JamesOlcott

OxordLimousine Service

Need-A-Ride, Inc.

Mr. JohnC. Pascoeand

Mrs. DawnM. Wallace-Pascoe

Mrs.Yerevan Peterson

Mr. BillPhelps

Dr. DavidB. Phillipsand

Dr. AliceC. Phillips

Mr. MichaelL. Phillips

Mr. andMrs. StanleyN. Pontius

Mr. KarlP. Power and

Ms. GeorganaTaggart

Dr. andMrs. JosephR. Priest

ProessionalBi-CulturalDevelopmentAssociates, Inc.

Mr. andMrs. WilliamW. Pulley

Mr. andMrs. JamesJ. Raa

Mr. JamesW. Rauth

Ms. Eleanor J. Read

Dr. ThomasJ. Redington, Jr.

Mrs. ElizabethWhitesell Reinhart

Mrs. TeddiG. Robeson

Mr. RodneyF. Rose

Mr. andMrs. DavidA. Rossman

Mr. JeromeM. Rothenberg

Dr. JamesM. Rubenstein

andMs. Bernadette L. Unger

Ms. AnnM. Ruchhot

Mr. ThomasR. Schi

Mrs. DorothyC. Schilling

Mr. andMrs. JohnC. Schilling

Mr. CliordT. Sheield

Mr. RobertE. Shook III

Dr. andMrs. PhillipR. Shriver

Mr. RobertA. Siebenaller

Mr. andMrs. CalSimmons

Mr. andMrs. R. JanneySmith

Mr. RobertK. Smith

W.E. SmithFamily CharitableTrust

Mrs. HelenKuller Snider

Mr. andMrs. PhillipH. Snow

SoleraImports

Mr. andMrs. RichardM. Sollmann

Mr.and Mrs.Robert L.Sponseller,Jr.

SSOE, Inc.Mr. andMrs. AlredF. Steiner

Mr. andMrs. GaryB. Stephens

Mr.John T. Stevens

Mr. andMrs. AlanC. Straus

Mr. andMrs. G.J. Stuller

Mr.Kerry Sutton

TheLittleChurcho theWest

Mr. RichardA. Thomas

Mr. JamesR. Thomson

ThriventFinancial or Lutherans

Tramonte& Sons

Mr. JosephD. True, Jr.

Mr. RichardTrump

UPS Foundation

Mr. WayneE. Vincent

Mr. Christopher D. Vockell

Mr. JohnB. Weigand

Mr. Frank M. Wells, Esq.

Mr. andMrs. Joseph P. Wespiser III

Mr. andMrs. JohnF. Whelpton

Dr. RobertS. Wicksand

Dr. AnnB. Wicks

Mr. HerbertB. Wiepking

*Mrs. LydiaWiepking

Mr. CecilB. Wilson

Mr. BradleyL. Wyner

Mr. ScottZanon

Mr. andMrs. JohnW. Zimmerman

The Miami University School o Fine Arts grateully acknowledges the ollowing donors who made gits totaling $1000

or more in support o the SFA during 2008.

Giftsgreater than$500,000

Ruder-Bever Family

$50,000 $99,999

Anonymous

*Ms. MaryL. Charles

Mr. andMrs. RichardJ. Quain

$10,000 $49,999

AmericanGreetings Corporation

Mr. andMrs. RichardE. Cocks

Mr.andMrs.WalterL.GrossIII

Mrs. BarbaraHatch Lore

MiamiTribe o Oklahoma

*Mr. RonaldE. Moehle

Proctor andGamble Company

Mr. andMrs. WilliamP. Quinby

Ms. JessicaWaldmann

Mr. andMrs. JohnG. Waldmann

$5,000 $9,999

Mr. andMrs. RichardT. Farmer

Mr. KeithL. Bremer and

Mrs. BarbaraA. Paprocki

Mrs. JudyL. Stark

TriploPress


$2,500 $4,999

AIAOhio Foundation

Anonymous

Mr. MichaelJ. DiNardo

Dr. andMrs. GilbertGordon

ElizabethWakeman Henderson


Mr. andMrs. PaulR. Hollenbeck

Ms. Mary HestonHoltz

OxordArtsClub

Presser Foundation

Mr. andMrs. JamesH. Scott

Mr. andMrs. John T. Seaman, Jr.

$1,000 $2,499

Alexander House

Mr. LarryW. Anderson

Mrs. Colleen WardAtwood

Dr. andMrs. RobertA. Benson

Mr. andMrs. AllanN. Brown

Daimler Chrysler

Ms. PatriciaI. Cooper

Mr. andMrs. DonaldF. Crain

Dow Chemical

CompanyFoundation

Mr.Lynton Dudley

Mr. andMrs. BertW. Elliott

Mr. andMrs. Mark Gilmore

Mr. andMrs. Edward A. Glowacki

Greater CincinnatiFoundation

Dr. andMrs. DavidC. Hodge

Mr. JereyL. Horrell

Mr. andMrs. GregoryS. Hurst

Dr. delejegede

Dr. Frank Jordan, Jr.

Mr. JohnF. Keegan

Mr. andMrs. WilliamG. Kern

Mr. andMrs. DavidA. Killen

Mr. andMrs. Richard W. Knowlton

Mr. RobertW. Krause

Mr. WilliamD. Laymanand

Dr. PamelaFox

Mrs. RuthYokel McDiett

Mr. PaulM. Mylod

Mrs. EmilyMountz Ness

OwensCorning FoundationInc.

MissJanetK. Rinehart

Dr. ElizabethSenicka Rogers

Ms. AnnM. Ruchhot

Mr. DouglasC. Schwing

Mr. andMrs. Jack F. Southard

TheCollaborative Inc.

Mr. andMrs. Richard C. Thrall, Jr.

UBS Painewebber

UPS Foundation

Mr. Christopher D. Vockell

Dr. andMrs.

RandolphL. Wadsworth, Jr.

Mr. andMrs. JohnF. Whelpton

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