Spring 2007 Events
January 17-May 15, 2007
ANCIENT THEATRES
A series of paintings by Professor Basilios Poulos on view in Hamman Hall, 2nd Floor during business hours. An artist reception will be held January 17th at 6:30 p.m.
Free & Open to the public
January 22, 2007 7:00 p.m.
EMILY BALLEW NEFF, Houston Curator, M.F.A.H.
presents:
"Behind the Scenes of the Modern West in American Art"
While many think of Modernism as a specific style that was inspired by European trends in art making, machine-age technology and the urban experience, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston curator Emily Ballew Neff broadens that definition by asserting the importance of the vast, rugged lan ds of the West, which left its indelible mark on modern art in America. The exhibition The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950 is an exploration of the role of America's western landscape in the shaping of Modernism.
Free and Open to the public
Basilios Poulos
Solo Exhibition: Landscape/Figures
Redbud Gallery, 303 East 11th Street. Houston, Texas 77008
Artist Reception: February 3, 2007. 6:00-8:00 p.m.
On View: February 3-25, 2007
What have you done for me lately?
An artist, curator & museum director answer the question and ask some of their own.
a lecture & panel dicussion moderated by Rice professors Darra Keeton and John Sparagana.
February 22, 2007. 8:00 p.m.
Visual & Dramatic Arts Auditorium in the Rice Media Center building
Panelists include Holly Block, director, Bronx Museum of Art and former director of Art in General in New York, Rochelle Feinstein, artist and professor, Yale University, and Stephanie Smith, curator Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. Each of our guests will present a 20-minute slide talk addressing, from their various perspectives, questions such as: What are exhibitions for, what do we ant exhibitions to do? What is necesary for the education of an artist? How do artists sustain themselves over time? The audience will be encouraged to participate in the discussion with questions and repsonses.
Free & Open to the Public
John Sparagana
Solo Exhibition
Priska C. Juschka Fine Art. 547 West 27th Street. New York. NY
www.priskajuschkafineart.com. 212-244-4320
On View: March thru April, 2007
Michael Andrews, Paul Hester (Photographer & Rice Lecturer) + Lisa Hardaway (Photographer)
"Historic Texas Courthouses"
Opening Photography reception and book signing.
March 10, 2007. Live Oak Art Center in Columbus Texas.
for more information call: (979) 732-8398
MAVIS C. PITMAN EXHIBITION
art exhibition by student award winners:
Perry Papodopoulos, Eric Hester and Myrth Killingsworth
The Mavis C. Pitman Exhibition is a competetive group exhibition highlighting three Visual & Dramatic Arts majors who are chosen through proposal and portfolio review. Each student is awarded $1300 to develop a body of work to be shown in a professional exhibition.
Opening Reception & Talk: March 20, 2007. 6:00 p.m.
On View: March 20-April 10, 2007
Free and Open to the public
True West, by Sam Shephard
THEATRE PRODUCTION
Brothers Austin (a professional screenwriter) and Lee (a drifter by profession) are locked in a primal struggle to prove who is the best in the West and in the process wreck their mother's house and steal all the toasters in the neighborhood.
March 23, 24, 29, 30 & 31. 8:00 p.m.
$5.00 admission. Hamman Hall.
I Love You But: Romance, Comedy, and the Movies
a talk by British screenwriter and psychotherapist Cherry Potter.
Using classic romantic comedies from the early thirties to the present, Cherry Potter charts the shifting relations between the sexes as each new generation confronts the same age-old questions: What are our differences and what are our similarities? What makes us click? What are our hopes and fears when it comes to love and romance? What makes us happy? What is it that men and women really want? Cherry Potter has written for film, television, and theatre. She was head of Screenwriting at the National Film and Television School in England and has taught at the Canadian Center for Advanced Film Studies and for the EU Media Programme for training European screenwriters.
March 28, 2007. 7:00 p.m. Visual & Dramatic Arts Auditorium. Rice Media Center building.
Free & Open to the public.
Basilios Poulos
Solo Exhibition: Figure Paintings
Joan Wich Gallery, 4411 Montrose Blvd. Houston, Texas 77006
Artist Reception: April 14, 2007. 6:00-8:00 p.m.
On View: April 14-May 12, 2007
Wrap it Up Quick
THEATRE PRODUCTION
Wrap It Up Quick at the end of the semester with an evening of 10 minute plays that promise to be entertaining, energetic, thought provoking, and QUICK! There will only be one performance.
April 20, 2007. 8:00 p.m.
Free & Open to the public.
EXHIBITION 44 & FLICKS (student films)
Opening Celebration: April 26, 2007.
On View: April 26-May 12, 2007
Schedule:
5:30-7:30 p.m. Rice Art Gallery in Sewall Hall - Graduating Student Art Exhibition (Curated by The Art Guys)
6:00-8:00 p.m. Visual & Dramatic Arts Main Gallery @ Media Center- Undergraduate Student Art Exhibition & Student Awards Ceremony, Reception
8:01 p.m. - ?. Visual & Dramatic Arts Auditorium @ Media Center - Student Film Showcase, (Films selected by Brian Huberman)
Annual Rice Univesity student art exhibition, guest curated by Houston's own The Art Guys. Work by senior visual arts majors will be on view in the Rice Art Gallery. Work by other art students, chosen by the faculty, will be on view in the Rice Media Center. Student film projects, ranging from controversial documentaries, to obscure art excursions, to sex-drenched experiments.
Free & Open to the public
Darra Keeton
Solo Exhibition: "It's a Small World"
Rudolph Projects/Art Scan Gallery, 1836 Richmond Ave. Houston, Texas 77006
On View: May 5-June 2, 2007