The Annual New Music & Art Festival has traditionally brought musicians and artists from across the nation to Bowling Green for a celebration of current art and music. The featured guests at this year's festival are composer Anthony Davis and the Bang on a Can All-Stars. In addition, this year the festival's horizons will broaden with the inclusion of film and poetry. Concerts, lectures, exhibitions, performances, reading and paper presentations fill the festival days with an exciting array of opportunities. Organized by the directors of the Bowling Green State University Fine Arts Center Galleries and the MidAmerican Cneter for Contemporary Music, Jacqueline Nathan and Marilyn Shrude, the Festival supports the creation of new work and engages both the University and city communities in the process of art appreciation and awareness. Assisting with other events for Festival 19 are Ellen Berry, chair of the English department, and Laura Podalsky, assistant professor of romance languages. The majority of events are accessible, free, and open to the public.
Music Events
Special Guests
This year's special guests are composer Anthony Davis and the Bang on a Can
All-Stars. Davis' music will be performed throughout the festival by the
Bowling Green Philharmonia, the BGSU Wind Ensemble and a variety of chamber
ensembles. The Bang on a Can All-Stars will perform in the opening 98/99
Festival Series event on Friday, Oct. 9, at 8 p.m. This concert will feature
Brian Eno's
Music for Airports, as well as works by Lang, Reich and Wolfe.
Concerts and Symposia
The music of many American, European and Asian composers will be heard at
the festival. Included in this list are: Bowling Green faculty members
Burton Beerman and Mikel Kuehn, and alumnus Jason Quick, as well as Leslie
Bassett, Margaret Brouwer, David H. Burdick, James Fry, Daniel Godfrey,
Janice Hamer, Karl Korte, Jing Jing Luo, Kevin Putz, Shulamit Ran, Andrew
Rindfleisch, Maurice Saylor and John Williams from the United States; Carlos
Micháns from the Netherlands; Ryo Noda from Japan, and Vache
Sharafian from Armenia.
A presentation of scholarly papers will take place at 9 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 10, in Bryan Recital Hall of the Moore Musical Arts Center. Guy Capuzzo, William E. Lake, Ralph Lorenz and Eleanor F. Trawick will present research on composers Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, George Crumb and Betsy Jolas. The session will be chaired by faculty member Vincent Benitez.
Concerts will take place in the Moore Musical Arts Center and the Toledo Museum of Art.
Art Events
ON THE ROAD: ART CARS
In the last 15 years, the phenomenon of art cars has become a nation-wide
popular movement. Whether defined as urban fold art or post-pop art
assemblage, it has resulted in a remarkable production of richly diverse
personal and cultural expression manifested through radically embellished
and augmented automobiles. This lively and individual dialogue with the
icon of personal transportation is one which will engage both the casual
observer and the devoted contemporary art enthusiast.
Art-a-Car Workshop (Oct. 6-9). A three-day workshop to create a one-of-a-kind art car will be offered by art car master David Best. Fine Arts Center.
Exhibition, On the Road: Art Cars (Oct. 9 - Nov. 5). "Four Wheels, One Eye: Art Cars in the Eyes of the Image Makers" is a selection of 70 photographs by Harrod Blank, Amelia Blythe, Dick Craig, George Hixson, Clare La Groue, Andy Mann, Maurice Roberts, Phillip Taplin, Irv Tepper and Dave Wilson. The exhibit was organized by the Ineri and Orange Show Foundations of Houston and will be on display in the Dorthoy Uber Bryan Gallery of the Fine Arts Center. These photographs document not only some of the remarkable vehicles that have been produced, but also record their creators, viewers and the "art car culture," a rich mixture of car buffs, artists and spectators entranced by this apotheosis of material culture. In conjunction with the photographs and two videos by Harrod Blank, an actual art car created during the workshop and two or three art cars brought to Bowling Green by their creators will be exhibited in the Forum of the Saddlemire Student Services Building.
Exhibition, Contemporary Cuban Artists: Sergio Payarés and Others (Oct. 8 - Nov. 5). Curated by romance languages faculty member Laura Podalsky, this exhibition showcases Florida artists who have established significant international exhibition records. Willard Wankelman Gallery, Fine Arts Center.
Exhibition, John Balistreri, Ceramics (Oct. 10 - Nov. 5). On display in the Kennedy Green room, Moore Musical Arts Center.
Parade, Art Cars (Oct. 11, 1 p.m.). A parade of Art Cars and one-of-a-kind vehicles will take place on Sunday, October 11, in the city of Bowling Green (exact location to be announced).
Other Events
Contemporary Cuban Media and Arts Festival (Oct. 10, 9:30 p.m.). A reading by Nuyorican Poets Pedro Pietri and Willie Perdomo will take place in the Forum of the Saddlemire Student Services Building. Pietri is a celebrated founder of the Nuyorican poetry movement, which chronicles the forging of a new identity for a community participating in two distinct cultures. His most important book of poetry is Puerto Rican Obituary. Pietri has also written and performed a number of plays. Perdomo is among the youngest generation of the movement; his first book of poetry, Where A Nickel Costs A Dime, has established him as the heir to the Nuyorican legacy. He is currently Grand Slam Champ at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe in New York City.
The 19th Annual New Music & Art Festival is funded by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music, College of Musical Arts Festival Series, Fine Arts Center Galleries, Medici Circle, Department of English, Ethnic Cultural Arts Program, Department of Romance Languages, Department of Ethnic Studies, Department of Popular Culture, American Culture Studies, Center for Multicultural and Academic Initiatives, University Cultural Events Committee, Faculty Development Committee, Ohio Arts Council, Ohio Humanities Council and the Consulate General of the Netherlands.