salem state university artsview spring 2016

SPRING 2016A publication of the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Salem State University

Center for Creative and Performing Arts352 Lafayette StreetSalem, MA 01970-5353salemstate.edu/arts

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TERELL STAFFORD, Jazz Trumpet

Thursday, March 10, 7:30 pm

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GUEST ARTISTSTERELL STAFFORD, Jazz TrumpetTrumpet player Terell Stafford has been hailed as “one of the great players of our

time...” by piano legend McCoy Tyner. Stafford is recognized as an incredibly gifted

and versatile player, who combines a deep love of melody with his own brand of

spirited and adventurous lyricism.

Stafford has performed with groups such as Benny Golson’s Sextet, McCoy Tyner’s

Sextet, Kenny Barron Quintet, Jimmy Heath Quintet and Big Band, Carnegie Hall Jazz

Band, and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Alumni Band. Stafford performed on Diana Krall’s

Grammy nominated From this Moment On (2006). He is a member of the Grammy

winning Vanguard Orchestra and can be heard on over 130 albums. His album, This

Side of Strayhorn, was widely praised in 2011 as “a must have” for jazz aficionados.

Stafford is the director of jazz studies and chair of instrumental studies at Temple

University, founder and band leader of the Terell Stafford Quintet and managing

and artistic director of the Jazz Orchestra of Philadelphia.

Thursday, March 10, 7:30 pm

WORLD MUSIC SALIEU SUSO, Kora MasterSalieu Suso was born into a family of farmers and traditional musicians/historians

from Gambia, West Africa that extends back nearly 1,000 years. He was trained to

play the twenty-one stringed kora (West African harp) at the age of eight by his father,

renowned Kora player, Alhaji Musa Makang Suso, and began his professional career

at fifteen. Before settling in the United States in 1989, Suso performed extensively

throughout Africa and Europe, playing and promoting traditional Gambian music,

and the repertoire of the kora. Salieu Suso is also the leader of the Jaliya Kafo

Ensemble and is a leader in the nation’s rapidly growing African music scene.

Thursday, February, 25, 7:30 pm

SIROJIDDIN JURAEV, Dutar VirtuosoGrammy-nominated musician Sirojiddin

Juraev comes from a lineage of dutar

players in his native region of northern

Tajikistan. He teaches at the National

Conservatory of Music in Dushanbe

and performs in the state Shashmaqom

ensemble. Known widely as the most

virtuosic dutar player in Central Asia, he

will be joined by Abbos Kosimov on doira.

Thursday, April 14, 7:30 pm

Terell Stafford

Sirojiddin Juraev

Salieu Suso

$15 general admission, $10 students and seniorsFree with Salem State student IDPurchase tickets online at salemstatetickets.com or 978.542.6365

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STUDENT ENSEMBLE CONCERTS

Free. Donations at the door are welcome to support music scholarships.

University Chamber OrchestraThursday, April 21, 7:30 pm

University BandMonday, April 25, 7:30 pm

Women’s Chorale and Handbell Ensemble Wednesday, April 27, 7:30 pm

University Chorus and Chamber SingersThursday, April 28, 7:30 pm

Percussion EnsembleMonday, May 2, 7:30 pm

Guitar and World Music EnsemblesTuesday, May 3, 7:30 pm

Jazz Bands Wednesday, May 4, 7:30 pm

All concerts take place in the Recital Hall located on Central Campus, 71 Loring Avenue. Parking is located directly across the street.

FACULTY

Music Faculty CD Release Listening PartyMembers of the Salem State music faculty regularly

perform throughout the region and around the country.

They also spend time in the the studio, recording their

own original works and as collaborators with others.

Join us in this celebration of recently released

recordings by the Salem State music faculty!

Thursday, March 3, 6 pmViking Hall, Room 123

Wired.to.the.EdgeFeaturing Salem State faculty Abe Finch, Nick Giarratani

and Mike Testa, Wired.to.the.Edge presents an evening

of original, experimental, multimedia programming

meant to amuse, challenge and inspire.

Thursday, April 7, 7:30 pm


Jean Appolon

DANCE CAREER PANEL: The Business of Dancewith Jean Appolon, Peter DiMuro and Kat NastiJoin us in a panel discussion with seasoned

artists from the Boston area who will

discuss their experiences as dance artists

in the dance world. A life in dance is rich

and rewarding and includes wearing

multiple hats. Discussion topics include

how to balance creating work, performing,

teaching, and maintaining dance training all

while making a living. Panelists include Jean

Appolon, Artistic Director of Jean Appolon

Expressions, Peter DiMuro, Executive

Director of the Dance Complex, and

Kathleen Nasti, Director of Kat Nasti Dance.

Jean Appolon, Co-founder and Artistic

Director of Jean Appolon Expressions

(JAE), is a performer, choreographer and master teacher based in Boston and Port-

au-Prince, Haiti. He teaches regularly at Boston Ballet, UMASS Boston and The Dance

Complex, among other locations. Appolon uses dance as a vehicle to promote healthy

communities, and through JAE conducts performances, community youth classes and

workshops in the Boston area. He directs a free, annual summer dance course in

Port-au-Prince that serves young, aspiring Haitian dancers who do not have regular

access to dance training. A 2014 Dance Resident at the Boston Center for the Arts,

Appolon is an Inductee of the Haitian Roundtable’s 1804 List of Haitian American

Changemakers (2014) for his groundbreaking accomplishments in dance.

Peter DiMuro, Executive Director of The Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA, has woven

a career as a performer, choreographer, director, teacher, facilitator and arts engager,

touring and teaching internationally. He was Artistic Director of Liz Lerman Dance

Exchange(2003-2008), capping a fifteen year relationship as performer and lead-artist

with the company. His current creative umbrella, Public Displays of Motion, develops and

performs artistic works and cultivates dance/arts literacy, advocacy and engagement.

The company was recently awarded a Boston Center for the Arts residency, as well

as the Boston Dance Alliance’s 2014/15 Rehearsal and Retreat Fellowship. DiMuro

was named a White House Millennial Artist in 2000. His work has been commissioned

by leading presenters across the United States and around the world.

Kat Nasti, Director of Kat Nasti Dance, is a choreographer, teacher, dancer, and

administrator. Her educational background includes a BA in classical studies and theatre,

an MBA and an MFA in dance, all of which intersect in her work in the dance world.

In addition to her work as a performer she has taught at various institutions across

the United States. She is a Founder of The Dance Entrepreneurs Funding Think Tank

and Arc Dance Research and Laboratory. The latter just launched the “6-8-1 Atelier,” a

program offering a paid residency experience for Boston choreographers and dancers.

Nasti is currently a 2015/2016 Resident Choreographer at the Boston Center for the

Arts and a Catalyst Artist at The Dance Complex.

Wednesday, March 23, 12:15 pmDance Studio, O’Keefe Complex

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All dance events are free unless otherwise indicated.

JEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS:Haitian Contemporary Dance Company performs ANGAJEWith original choreography and costumes designed by Jean Appolon, ANGAJE is

set to the music of Haitian legend Toto Bissainthe and is inspired by the struggle

against homophobia and the power of Haitian folkloric culture in the fight for justice.

In Haitian Creole, “Angaje” means “committed” or “engaged,” with the implied

meaning of political engagement. “Angaje” also describes a strand of protest music

rooted in Vodou rhythms that lie at the heart of Haiti’s culture and its founding as

the first black republic in the world.

The piece is a meditation on different forms of social oppression, including violence

against homosexuals, which is on the rise in Haiti, as young men are sought out,

maimed and sometimes killed by mobs of anti-gay protestors. In ANGAJE, Jean

Appolon reflects on the struggle of young gays in Haiti, and the power, beauty and

rootedness that all Haitians, but especially the marginalized, can find if they just

look inside their own culture.

Founded in 2011, Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE) is a Haitian contemporary dance

company based in Boston and Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Its dynamic repertoire is based

in Modern technique and Haitian folkloric dance. JAE uses dance to advance Haitian

cultural expression and to educate audiences about Haitian traditions, history and

current issues. It is one of the three inaugural dance companies to be part of the

Boston Center for the Art’s expanded Performing Arts Residency Program.

Thursday, April 7, 5 pmTwohig Gymnasium, O’Keefe Complex

Exhale Joy!Salem Dance EnsembleSpring is in the air! Come

celebrate new beginnings with

us. Dance faculty and students

present original choreography

that explores letting go of old

baggage and old habits, while

finding transformation in new

forms. Add a lightness to your

step. Inhale the beauty.

Exhale the JOY!

Saturday, April 307:30 pmSunday, May 1 2 pmTwohig Gymnasium, O’Keefe Complex$10 suggested donationSalem State students free with ID

Purchase tickets online: salemstatetickets.com


Purchase tickets by phone: 978.542.6365

VENUE and TICKET INFORMATIONDue to the Mainstage Theatre renovation, all performances for the 2015 – 16 season will take place in the Callan Studio Theatre, located in the basement of the Sullivan Building. Access to the Callan Theatre is available via the entrance to the Administration Building, 354 Lafayette Street. There is both elevator and stair access to the lower level at this entrance. Tickets are $15 general / $10 students and seniors / free with Salem State Student ID.

A Small Death in a Big Country: World PremiereWritten and directed by William Cunningham

Professor William Cunningham’s new play, A Small

Death in a Big Country tells the story of three generations

of the Barry family. Dolly Barry and her husband Martin,

both members of the Greatest Generation, are preparing

to sell their family home and move to Florida. However,

these plans are interrupted when it is discovered that

Dolly is exhibiting the signs of dementia. Martin and

his three children, Joan, Michael and Connor, need to

decide on how best to care for Dolly. Martin has a plan

that challenges his children and their sense of allegiance

to the ideals of the Greatest Generation. Joan, Michael

and Connor must confront the meaning of faith and

love in their ultimate decision. Connor’s daughter

Lisa, preparing to go off to college, must also make

a choice of her own in the name of love.

The plot unfolds in a way that builds on the absurdity

of American mythmaking, and the competition

and heartache that can be caused by our pursuit of

exceptionalism. What does it mean to be labeled

the “Greatest Generation” and what happens to the

generations that live in the shadow of greatness?

The play questions the haunting nature of memory

and our need to distort and, at times, to forget so that

we can live in the real—or possibly fabricated—present.

Pre-show Conversation: Thursday, March 3, 6:30 pm: “Love and Letting Go”

February 25 – 27, 7:30 pmSunday, February 28, 2 pm March 3 – 5, 7:30 pmSunday, March 6, 2 pm

A Small Death in a Big Country

By William Cunningham


MEDEA by EuripidesAdapted by Robinson JeffersDirected by David Allen George

The premiere of MEDEA in 431 BC sent a tidal wave of anger through the

audience in Athens. Euripides had gone “too far” in his shocking portrayal

of the mythical Jason as seen through the barbarian eyes of his estranged

wife Medea. Instead of building his play around the marvels of Jason’s

legend, Euripides’ choice to focus on the psychology of the story and

ordinary emotions of pride, jealousy and anger left the audience stunned.

The story unfolds on the final day before Medea is to be exiled from Corinth

by King Creon. Jason has married the king’s daughter and denies his sworn

union with Medea. With their two sons in the balance Jason fails to keep

Medea from practicing her ancient black arts. In a horrific series of on-stage

actions of vengeance and premeditated murder Medea extracts her methodical

revenge at the cost of everything she holds dear. Her final act of “justice,”

the murder of her two sons, assures the destruction of Jason’s immortality.

April 21 – 23, 7:30 pm April 28 – 30, 7:30 pmSunday, April 24, 2 pm Sunday, May 1, 2 pm

Roundtable: “The Tragedy of Infanticide: A Contemporary View of Mothers Who Kill Their Children.” Panelists from women’s studies, political

science, criminal justice, social work, and forensic science discuss how this

act is framed today by the media and our society. April 11, 11 am, Sullivan 018.

Pre-show Conversation: “A Director’s Perspective of MEDEA” – Catherine Bertrand ’06 director of Salem Theatre’s

March production of Medea and Salem State director David Allen George will compare and contrast their interpretations

of the play as a female vs. a male sitting in the director’s chair. March 18 at Salem Theatre and April 28 at Salem State,

one hour prior to curtain.

BenefitsDonors at every level receive:

Two Artsview newsletters (January

and September) and their name(s)

listed in playbills and concert programs.

Donors of $250 or more receive

invitations to donor-exclusive events,

including back stage tours, cast and

director meet and greets, the Lifetime

Achievement in the Arts Awards, and

other special events.

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MEDEAby EuripidesAdapted by Robinson JeffersDirected by David Allen George


Art exhibitions are located in the Winfisky Gallery Ellison Campus Center, North Campus Hours: Monday – Friday, 10 am – 2 pm or by appointment at 978.542.7890

“THERE is no THERE THERE: The Narrated Self” a sound and video installation by RICHARD LEWIS

In a slow moving, meditative combination of sound and

image, Richard Lewis considers the narratives that we

all construct in order to make sense of our lives. “We

mythologize our lives, making ourselves the heroes of

our own movies” says Lewis. ”This installation is both an

examination of that phenomenon, and an example of it.”

Lewis has taught photography in the art + design

department at Salem State for twenty-three years. He

is bandleader and composer for the music performance

collaborative Machine 475. He is constantly eager to

engage with new media, and his artwork over the years

has ranged from photography and music to sculpture and

video installation. He graduated in 1992 with an MFA in

photography from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Exhibition: January 19 – February 3Gallery Talk: Wednesday, January 27, 12:30 pmReception: Wednesday, January 27, 2 pm

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John Volpacchio

JOHN VOLPACCHIO: Full Circle 25+The Winfisky Gallery presents a retrospective exhibition of ceramic and glass works

from John Volpacchio’s twenty-five year career as an artist/educator at Salem State

University. He began his training as a potter at the Rhode Island School of Design

where he earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1982, followed by an MFA from

the University of Colorado. After joining our faculty in 1989, Professor Volpacchio’s

passion for continually learning and sharing that with his students inspired him to

secure approval and funding for the creation of Salem State’s Glassworks studio

in 2005. It is one of only three university glassblowing facilities in the state.

During his recent sabbatical, Volpacchio explored both porcelain forms made on

the potter’s wheel, as well as intricate, hand blown forms made out of glass. This

retrospective focuses on his explorations into both materials. Much of the artwork

was fabricated at Salem State, while others were created in locations where he has

studied and worked, including Venice, Italy.

“I hope to capture the plasticity and fluidity of each medium as it is frozen in motion.” He stresses

that “the mastery of this art is capturing spontaneity at its peak. From creation to successful

completion, the end result for each piece of work is highly climactic, beautiful and inherently unique.”

Exhibition: February 8 – March 2Gallery Talk: Wednesday, February 17, 12:30 pmReception: Wednesday, February 17, 2 pm

LEAH PIEPGRAS: KALPAThe Sanskrit word kalpa, corresponds to the idea of “timeless,” “forever” or “for

eternity.” The paintings of Leah Piepgras reflect not only the visual magic of the

natural world, but also the endless cycle of the ages.

“Crystalline rock forms become a

variation of a thought structure,

honed and purified, distilled,

pared down and sharpened into a

tangible manifestation… also think

of thoughts as clouds, and how,

before you can grasp a full idea,

they float away and all you are

left with is a feeling, an intention.

I don’t think of these thoughts as

lost though. I think of them in a

constant state of visual change,

with only the truth of the idea remaining as the actual, physical constant.”

She sees connection between clouds or rocks or flora or the human figure: “I think

of the body similarly, in a constant state of becoming, with shifts so subtle that you

might always feel the same, but only by looking back, do you see the transformation…

making paintings transforms the physical experience of being and captures intangible

understanding, even if only for a fleeting moment.”

Piepgras holds a BFA in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA

from Carnegie Mellon. Piepgras has shown nationally and internationally. She works

out of her studio in Swampscott, MA.

Exhibition: March 7 – April 6Gallery Talk: Wednesday, March 23, 12:30 pmReception: Wednesday, March 23, 2 pm

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MAT Capstone ExhibitionAs the final show of the year, the Winfisky Gallery

is proud to present the tenth annual MAT Capstone

Exhibition. The Master of Arts in Teaching Art (MAT)

focuses on the academic and studio needs of teachers

and visual artists who are professionally licensed to

teach in Massachusetts. The program provides the

skills and competencies needed by visual arts teachers

and includes a strong studio component in addition

to curriculum development and teaching methods.

Students use their knowledge of quantitative and

qualitative research methods within the field of art education to develop and implement well-crafted arts-based research

in their art education classrooms. This year’s exhibition will feature the work of graduating MAT candidates Brian Dow,

Elizabeth Hurley, Christine Lenzie, Christine Melo, Michelle Muzichuk, and Melissa Silveira.

Exhibition: May 2 – 19 | Reception: Wednesday, May 4, 6 pm

Brian Dow, My Red Coat, screen print, 2015

ART + DESIGN STUDENT AWARDS EXHIBITIONThis annual exhibition focuses on

the most important aspect of the

Salem State art + design department:

the students. Every year, the

faculty selects students within the

various artistic disciplines who

have distinguished themselves by

achieving and surpassing what is

expected of them. These students

are recognized with Awards of

Excellence and an awards dinner.

In addition, each award recipient is

invited to display several pieces of

his or her work in this annual exhibit.

The work on display will range from

commercially-oriented media, such

as graphic design, multimedia design

and photography to fine arts media

such as painting, sculpture and

printmaking.

Exhibition: April 11 – 27Reception: Wednesday, April 13, 6 pm

Leah Piepgras, Detail, Yellow Kalpa, 2015

CAROLINE LEAVITT, Fiction Writer with EC Hanlon, Fiction WriterCaroline Leavitt is

the New York Times

bestselling author

of Is This Tomorrow,

Pictures of You and

eight other novels.

Is This Tomorrow

was a Best Book of

2013 from January

Magazine, long

listed for the Maine

Readers Prize,

a Jewish Book

Council Pick, and a

San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick/Editor’s Choice. Pictures of

You was on the Best Books of 2011 from The San Francisco

Chronicle, The Providence Journal, Bookmarks Magazine and

Kirkus Reviews. Her new novel, Cruel Beautiful World, will be

published by Algonquin in October 2016.

Leavitt is a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellow, a prize

winner in the Bellevue Literary Magazine and was a finalist in

both the Sundance Screenwriting Lab and the Nickelodeon

Screenwriting Fellowships. Her essay in New York Magazine,

High Infidelity, is optioned for film. Her essays and stories have

appeared in The New York Times Modern Love, The New York

Times Sunday Book Review, Salon, Real Simple, and more.

And Introducing EC HanlonAfter surviving Catholic school, EC Hanlon went on to attain

undergraduate and graduate degrees in English. To support

her writing, she has worked in a superette, as a waitress, a

housekeeper, a proofreader, and is currently employed at her

alma mater, Salem State University, in international education.

She’s the author of a collection of short stories, Unredeemed:

Hateful and Others, and the young adult novella, The One

Friend Philosophy of Life. Her short stories can be seen in

such journals as Ray’s Road Review, Two Cities Review and

Romance Magazine, among others.

Thursday, February 11, 7:30 pm Martin Luther King Jr. RoomEllison Campus Center

ARTSVIEW Center for Creative and Performing Arts

All creative writing events are free and open to the public.

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Annual Faculty ReadingOur annual celebration of Salem State’s stellar creative

writing faculty! Come hear the works of Kevin Carey,

Regina Flynn, Perry Glasser, Lis Horowitz, January Gill

O’Neil, Alexandria Peary, J.D. Scrimgeour, Ann Taylor,

and other Salem State writers.

Wednesday, February 24, 1:30 pm Petrowski Room (Marsh Hall, room 210)

Caroline Leavitt

Poets ROSS GAY and JANUARY GILL O’NEIL Ross Gay is the

author of three

books: Against

Which; Bringing

the Shovel Down;

and Catalog of

Unabashed Gratitude,

finalist for the 2015

National Book Award

in Poetry. He is also

the co-author, with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, of the chapbook

“Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens,” in addition

to being co-author, with Richard Wehrenberg, Jr., of the

chapbook, “River.” He is a founding editor of the online sports

magazine Some Call it Ballin’, in addition to being an editor

with the chapbook presses Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Press.

He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread

Loaf Writer’s Conference and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Ross teaches at Indiana University.

Salem State faculty

member January Gill

O’Neil is the author

of Misery Islands,

which won the 2015

Massachusetts Book

Award, and Underlife,

both published by

CavanKerry Press.

She is the executive

director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and an assistant

professor of English at Salem State University. O’Neil is the

Northeast Regional Chair and a board of trustees’ member

of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP).

Thursday, March 24, 7:30 pmThe Metro Room, Ellison Campus Center

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JAN M. LINDHOLM — Singing a Liberating Word: A Feminist Take on HymnsSalem State English Professor Jeannette (Jan) M. Lindholm is an acclaimed hymn

writer, with texts that challenge patriarchal understandings of the divine, promote

social justice and affirm the power of love. Her work has been published in numerous

hymnals and hymnal supplements including: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Minneapolis:

Augsburg Fortress, 2006); Voices Found: Women in the Church’s Song (New York:

Church Publishing, 2003); Sing to Our God New Songs of Rejoicing (Kingston, NY:

Selah Publishing, 2000); and The Covenant Hymnal: A Worshipbook (Chicago: Covenant

Publications, 1996). Her texts have been set to music for choral anthems by Peter Pindar

Stearns (“As Ruth Refused Naomi’s Pleas”), Kevin Siegrfried (“Annunciation”) and David Pike (“Each Road”), the latter being a

commission by St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Rockport, MA.

Lindholm holds a PhD in English Language and Literature from the University of Minnesota as well as degrees from Indiana

University (MA in English Language and Literature, 1986), and Boston University School of Theology (MTS, 1999).

Tuesday, March 8, 7:30 pmRecital Hall

Mark your calendar for the 2016 MASSACHUSETTS POETRY FESTIVAL April 29 – May 1 in downtown SalemInformation at masspoetry.org

Annual Graduate Student ReadingSalem State’s graduate student writers continue to produce remarkable work.

Come hear students from the prose, poetry and digital writing courses and

celebrate the theses of graduating students in the writing program. Among the

readers will be graduate students who work on Salem State’s national literary

magazine, Soundings East, including poetry editor M.P. Carver, managing editor

Cathy Fahey and nonfiction editor Laura Brennan Smith.

Wednesday, April 20, 6-8 pmMartin Luther King Jr. Room, Ellison Campus Center

Claire Keyes Poetry AwardA prize of $1,000 and publication

in Soundings East, the national

literary magazine of Salem State,

will be given annually for a group of

poems. Submit eight to ten pages

of poetry poems (no more than one

poem per page) with a $10 entry

fee, by Tuesday, March 1 online at

salemstateuniversitysoundingseast.

submittable.com/submit, or send to

Salem State University, Claire Keyes

Poetry Award, Soundings East,

English Dept., 352 Lafayette Street,

Salem, MA 01970. For additional

information contact J.D. Scrimgeour

at [email protected].

Jeannette (Jan) M. Lindholm


By William Cunningham

January 19 – February 3Exhibition: “THERE is no THERE THERE: The Narrated Self”a sound and video installation by Richard LewisWinfisky Gallery, ECC

January 27, 12:30 pmGallery Talk: Richard LewisWinfisky Gallery, ECC

January 27, 2 pmArtist’s Reception: Richard Lewis Winfisky Gallery, ECC

February 8 – March 2Exhibition: John Volpacchio: Full Circle 25+Winfisky Gallery

Thursday, February 11 7:30 pmWriters Series: Caroline Leavitt with EC HanlonMLK Jr. Room, ECC

March 6, 2 pmA Small Death in a Big CountryA new play by William CunninghamCallan Studio Theatre$15 general/$10 students and seniors

March 7 – April 6Exhibition: Kalpa, an exhibition of paintings by Leah PiepgrasWinfisky Gallery, ECC

March 8, 7:30 pmSinging a Liberating Word: A Feminist Take on Hymns with Jan LindholmRecital Hall, CC

March 10, 7:30 pmTerell Stafford, jazz trumpetRecital Hall, CC$15 general/$10 students and seniors

March 23, 12:15 pmThe Business of Dance: Dance Career PanelDance Studio, O’Keefe Complex

March 23, 12:30 pmGallery Talk: Leah PiepgrasWinfisky Gallery, ECC

March 23, 2 pmArtist’s Reception: Leah PiepgrasWinfisky Gallery, ECC

March 24, 7:30 pmWriters Series: Ross Gay and January Gill O’NeilThe Metro Room, ECC

April 7, 5 pmJean Appolon Expressions performs ANGAJETwohig Gymnasium, O’Keefe Complex

February 17, 12:30 pmGallery Talk: John VolpacchioWinfisky Gallery, ECC

February 17, 2 pmArtist’s Reception: John VolpacchioWinfisky Gallery, ECC

February 24, 1:30 pmAnnual Faculty ReadingPetrowski Room (Marsh 210)

February 25, 7:30 pmSalieu Suso, Kora masterRecital Hall, CC$15 general/$10 students and seniors

February 25 – 27, 7:30 pmA Small Death in a Big CountryA new play by William CunninghamCallan Studio Theatre$15 general/$10 students and seniors

February 28, 2 pmA Small Death in a Big CountryA new play by William CunninghamCallan Studio Theatre$15 general/$10 students and seniors

March 3 – 5, 7:30 pmA Small Death in a Big CountryA new play by William CunninghamCallan Studio Theatre$15 general/$10 students and seniors

March 3, 6 pmMusic Faculty CD Release Listening PartyViking 123, CC

April 7, 7:30 pmWired.to.the.EdgeRecital Hall, CC

April 11 – April 27Exhibition: Art + Design Student Awards Winfisky Gallery, ECC

April 13, 6 pmReception: Art + Design Student Awards Winfisky Gallery, ECC

April 14, 7:30 pmSirojiddin Juraev, Dutar virtuosoRecital Hall $15 general/$10 students and seniors

April 20, 6 pm Annual Graduate Student ReadingMLK Jr. Room, ECC

April 21, 7:30 pmUniversity Chamber OrchestraRecital Hall, CC

April 21 – 23, 7:30 pmMedea by EuripidesCallan Studio Theatre$15 general/$10 students and seniors

ARTSVIEW is a publication of Salem State University’s Center for Creative and Performing Arts

352 Lafayette Street, Salem, MA 01970 978.542.7890 salemstate.edu/artsKaren Gahagan, Director

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The Recital Hall is located on Central Campus (CC). ECC is the Ellison Campus Center which is located on North Campus.

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All arts events are free with Salem State University student ID

April

SPRING 2016

April 24, 2 pmMedea by EuripidesCallan Studio Theatre$15 general/$10 students and seniors

April 25, 7:30 pmUniversity BandRecital Hall, CC

April 27, 7:30 pmWomen’s Chorale and Handbell EnsembleRecital Hall, CC

April 28, 7:30 pmUniversity Chorus and Chamber SingersRecital Hall, CC

April 28 – 30, 7:30 pmMedea by EuripidesCallan Studio Theatre$15 general/$10 students and seniors

April 30, 7:30 pmSalem Dance Ensemble: Exhale Joy!Twohig Gymnasium, O’Keefe Complex$10 suggested donation

May 1, 2 pmSalem Dance Ensemble: Exhale Joy!Twohig Gymnasium, O’Keefe Complex$10 suggested donation

May 1, 2 pmMedea by EuripidesCallan Studio Theatre$15 general/$10 students and seniors

May 2 – May 19MAT Capstone ExhibitionWinfisky Gallery, ECC

May 2, 7:30 pmPercussion EnsembleRecital Hall, CC

May 3, 7:30 pmGuitar and World Music EnsemblesRecital Hall, CC

May 4, 6 pmArtist’s Reception: MAT Capstone ExhibitionWinfisky Gallery, ECC

May 4, 7:30 pmJazz BandsRecital Hall, CC

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Caroline Leavitt

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John Volpacchio

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ANGAJE

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Terell Stafford

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Medea

MEDEA

by EuripidesAdapted by Robinson JeffersDirected by David Allen George

salem state university artsview spring 2016

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