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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 guest composer at this year's festival is Terry Riley. Other special guests include electroacoustic composer/performer Carl Stone, marimbist Ingrid Gordon, flutist Alexa Still, mezzo-soprano Freda Herseth and Corinne Imberski and Anh Nguyen of the Detroit Dance Collective. This year's featured guest artists are Patrick Dougherty and Kathleen McCarthy, who will both create on-site installations for the festival. Poet Kathleen Fraser will also participate in this year's festival, reading her own works and hosting a poetry workshop. The festival includes concerts, lectures, exhibitions, performances, poetry readings, paper presentations and other exciting opportunities. Organized by the directors of the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music and the Bowling Green State University Fine Arts Center Galleries, Burton Beerman and Jacqueline Nathan, the Festival supports the creation of new work and engages both the University and city communities in the process of art appreciation and awareness. Ellen Berry, professor of English, is assisting with poetry events for Festival 21. The majority of events are accessible, free, and open to the public. The music program book is available online in .PDF format. |
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ArtExibition: Dena Eber and Heather Elliot. A collaborative installation by two BGSU art faculty members. Exibition: Both artists are creating new site-specific works. Sculptor Patrick Dougherty is renowned for his site-specific installations, generally in exterior locations, for museums, schools and organizations around the world. Composed of indigenous saplings, the large-scale structures he creates are woven and twisted into forms like giant 3-D gestural drawings. His work is shaped by interactions with the existing features of the site, and through communication and interchange with the public and the assistants who help with the project. Kathleen McCarthy's site-specific installations explore the nature of perception through a subtle process of visual and physical interaction with the gallery space that they inhabit and with the viewer who enters that space. Also featuring Focii, a sound installation by DAC Crowell. Exibition: Graduate and Undergraduate BGSU Student Installations selected in juried competition. |
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PoetryLecture: Experimental poet and critic Kathleen Fraser has been central to the project of feminist experimental poetry in North America. She has published more than 15 books, most recently, Translating the Unspeakable. Fraser will also host a poetry workshop at 9:00 a.m., October 28 in conjunction with the New Music & Art Festival. Please contact Ellen Berry at 419/372-6833 for information. |
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