Olivia DrakeWesleyan's Center for the Arts received an $800 grant from the Middletown Commission on the Arts (MCA) on March 5. The funds will support "Wesleyan Gamelan Live," through Feb. 28, 2011.
Wesleyan celebrates its 11th annual DanceMasters Weekend March 6-7, an exciting event for choreographers, students, and dance enthusiasts alike. "The mission of DanceMasters is to introduce dance students to contemporary techniques with the hope that they gain an understanding of the breadth and depth of what is out there in the dance world," says Pamela Tatge, director of the Center for the Arts. "We are also providing regional dance teachers an important professional development opportunity through contact with world-class master teachers.” Dancemasters offers a unique combination of outstanding performances and master classes. This year’s showcase performance features the Taylor 2…
Pamela Tatge, director of the Center for the Arts, received the William Dawson Award for Programmatic Excellence by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. The William Dawson Award is given to an individual or organization in the presenting field for sustained leadership, innovation and vision in program design, audience building and community involvement efforts. The award honors William M. Dawson, a seminal leader in the field of arts administration, who served for 14 years as Director of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (then called the Association of College, University and Community Arts Administrators). "The William Dawson Award is the…
The Center for the Arts was awarded a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the Breaking Ground Series. In addition, the CFA received a $11,992 grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism for the Breaking Ground Series and Dance Masters Weekend.
Pam Tatge, director of the Center for the Arts, received a grant for $2,000 from Arts Presenters. The grant, awarded on Oct. 1, is for a project titled "Sustaining Strategies."
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In her first major solo exhibition, visiting professor of art Sasha Rudensky ’01, will present two photographic series at Wesleyan University’s Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery: “Remains” (2004/08) and “Demons” (2007–08). In "Remains,” Rudensky, who was born in Moscow in 1979 and moved to the United States in 1990, explores the political and social transformation of the former Soviet Union by poignantly focusing on the intimate details of everyday life. “Demons,” a series of hybrid portraits, suggests a fantastical version of the artist’s childhood. Rudensky “Remains” in the fall of 2004 after receiving a Mortimer Hays Brandeis traveling fellowship. Her…
"We can never really claim to have seen anything unless it has been photographed." — Émile Zola, c. 1901, Minutes of the Camera Club of Paris Documentary photographers, contemporary visual artists and historians grapple with issues of photographic meaning, evidence, and interpretation. This fall, Wesleyan has hosted a series of exhibitions, talks and films that explore photography's role in historiography, historical memory and public life. Organized by Associate Professor of History Jennifer Tucker, "Eye of History: The Camera as Witness" serves as a meeting point for people who share a common interest in photography, art and historical memory. On Nov.…