Spring Arts Preview

Raymond Wise directs the Gospel Music choir, which will perform May 29 in Weigel Auditorium.   Photo courtesy of the College of the Arts

COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

The College of the Arts has a packed schedule this spring, with numerous art exhibits, a downtown dance concert, performances by Marcel Marceau, and the central Ohio premiere of Wit. All events may be subject to change. Call the department listed for confirmation before attending.

Art

Queen Brooks: Recent Works in Wood, on display at the Faculty Club through April 28, showcases the work of a Columbus artist and Ohio State alumna. The works, created with Brooks' distinctive woodburning technique, use imagery dealing with symbols, fantasy and abstractions. For more information, call 292-2262.

The annual Visiting Artist/New Faculty Exhibition will show through April 6 in the Hopkins Hall Gallery and South Corridor. On display will be paintings and drawings by Yale Professor Emeritus David Pease, ceramics by New York City artist Matt Nolan, and works in glass produced by Michael Rogers during his yearlong visit to Ohio State. A reception will be held at 5 p.m. April 2.

Photoplay, artwork by Ohio State photography faculty and students, is on display through May 4, and an OSU Marion Student Art Exhibit will show May 15-June 15 at the Wayne and Geraldine Kuhn Fine Arts Gallery on the OSU Marion campus. For more information, call 292-9133, extension 6279.

The Graduate Students Group Exhibition, held April 2-6 in Hopkins Hall Corridor and Haskett Hall Gallery, will feature recent works by students in the Department of Art's ceramics, art and technology, glass, painting and drawing, photography, printmaking and sculpture programs. The Undergraduate Juried Exhibition 2001, held April 9-20 in Hopkins Hall Gallery and Corridor, will feature work selected by a jury of arts professionals.

MFA Thesis Exhibitions will be held May 14-18 and 21-25 and May 29-June 1 in Hopkins Hall Gallery. Opening receptions are held at 5 p.m. the first day of each exhibition, and informal gallery talks will be held at 12:30 p.m. on the last day.

On May 14-18, Hopkins Hall Corridor will be host to Recognizing Peace, a three-month study on war and peace for Indianola Alternative Elementary School's third-grade students. On display will be selections from their final project -- to photograph peace in their neighborhood.

Foundation Selections, works selected from the Department of Art's Foundation Program, beginning drawing, visual studies and two-dimensional art classes, will be on display May 21-June 1 in the Hopkins Hall Corridor.

The Department of Design Student Spring Exhibition will be held June 5-7 in the Wexner Center's Performance Space.

During spring quarter, Hopkins Hall Gallery is open from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday and from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday.

Dance

MFA student Jamie Jewett will be featured in the OSUDance Graduate Performance held April 5-8 in 220 Haskett Hall. For free reservations, call 299-6550.

An OSUDance Performance, April 18-20, will feature undergraduate student Anne D'Aversa and graduate student Tamara Welch, and OSUDance Spring Performance, May 3-5, will feature works by students in the Department of Dance. Performances take place in Sullivant Theatre. Tickets are $4 at the door.

OSUDance will head to the bright lights of Downtown Columbus for a special performance in the city May 17-19. OSUDance Downtown will be held in the Capitol Theatre, Riffe Center. Tickets are available at the Wexner Center box office, 292-3535, or through any Ticketmaster outlet.

Music

A variety of concerts will take place March 29-April 1 in Weigel Auditorium as part of the annual OSU Jazz Festival.

The Faculty Chamber Series will get its start this quarter on April 9 in Weigel Auditorium with music from early 20th Century Vienna. Additional faculty recitals will take place April 18 and May 13, 14 and 18.

Lectures in Musicology begin on April 11 with Thomas Heck of Ohio State speaking on"Giuliani in Italy (1819-1929): A Guitarist in Opera-Land." Additional lectures will be held April 18 and 25 and May 2. All lectures take place at 4:30 p.m. in the music/dance library in Sullivant Hall. For more information, call 292-9440.

Concerts will be held throughout the quarter. Unless otherwise noted, all concerts take place at 8 p.m. in Weigel Auditorium. Concerts include: the Chamber Orchestra, April 16; Wind Symphony, April 20; Chorale and Guest Choirs, April 22 (3 p.m.); Violin and Piano Recital, May 7; Composers Workshop, May 8; Caroline Hong and Charles Wetherbee, violin and piano, May 9; Symphonic Band, May 10; Men's Glee Club, May 11; Symphonic Choir, May 15; Chamber Winds, May 16; University Band, May 17; William Conable and Rosemary Platt, cello and piano, May 20.

Photo courtesy of the Wexner Center Vocal ensemble Grupo Vocal Desandann will perform June 2 at the Wexner Center.

WEXNER

This spring, the Wexner Center will welcome filmmaker Philip Kaufman, choreographer Bill T. Jones and theater ensemble da da kamera, in addition to presenting two lively exhibits in its galleries. Ohio State faculty, staff and students receive free admission to the galleries. For event tickets, call 292-3535. For updated schedules of events, including film screenings and lectures, visit www.wexarts.org or see the"Calendar" section of every issue of onCampus.

Performances

Playwright Eve Ensler interviewed hundreds of women to create her frank and humorous play, The Vagina Monologues. An Off-Broadway hit which featured actresses such as Winona Ryder, Glenn Close and Whoopi Goldberg, the Columbus performance will star Sally Fingerett, a Columbus-based singer who was one of the original members of the band the Four Bitchin' Babes. Performances run through April 1 at the Thurber Theatre.

Dancer and choreographer Emio Greco will perform Extra Dry through April 1 in the Wexner Center Performance Space. Atmospheric and athletic, Extra Dry unfolds in kaleidoscopic permutations of unison dancing, immersed in a field of sparkling gold scenery.

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will return to the Wexner Center to perform You Walk? on April 21 in Mershon Auditorium. Powerful and lyrical choreography will be used to evoke the cross-pollination of cultures between Europe, Africa and the New World -- and the age-old need for a sense of place and identity in tides of change.

Jazz originals and a new interpretation of Bach's The Goldberg Variations will be on the agenda when the Uri Caine Ensemble performs May 5 in the Performance Space. Autechre, leaders of the electronica music scene from Manchester, England, will perform May 10 in the Performance Space.

The vanguard theater ensemble da da kamera will return to Ohio State for a two-week creative residency to develop its next production, Beautiful View. The work-in-progress, which centers on the story of an art critic who feels a sense of responsibility after an artist he reviewed commits suicide, will be performed by theatre and dance students for bargain-priced showings May 25-27.

Grupo Vocal Desandann, a 10-member vocal ensemble that hails from Eastern Cuba, will bring their jubilant voices to sing traditional sacred and secular lyrics in their Creole language on June 2 in the Performance Space.

The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will present You Walk? on April 21.     By Gary Friedman

Exhibitions

Suite Fantastic will continue in the Wexner Center galleries through April 15. The exhibition includes: Imaginary Forces, featuring opening movie credits; Perfect Acts of Architecture, displaying drawings by five prominent architects; Scott Burton Furniture, a presentation of late-modern and postmodern sculptural furniture by the late Scott Burton; and The Predator, an enormous object of vividly colored vacuformed plastic created by painter Fabian Marcaccio and architect Greg Lynn.

As Painting, a wide-ranging exhibition offering new perspectives on painting since minimalism, will open May 12 and continue through Aug. 12. The show will feature more than 100 works by 26 artists from France, Germany and the United States, and will examine the flexible boundaries of what can be seen or interpreted"as painting" and illuminate painting's interrelationships with photography, sculpture and installation.

The exhibition will be curated by Ohio State's Philip Armstrong, senior lecturer in the Division of Comparative Studies, painter Laura Lisbon, associate professor of art, and Stephen Melville, professor of history of art.

An international symposium, As Painting: Division and Displacement, will be conducted May 17-19 in conjunction with the exhibition. The Wexner Center will host an array of scholars, critics, curators and artists from the United States and Europe as they participate in a series of wide-ranging discussions exploring various dimensions of the work in the show and the arguments advanced in relation to it. The symposium is free and open to the public, but space is limited and those wishing to attend are urged to register in advance.

Kate Winslet works with director Philip Kaufman while filming Quills, which will be screened April 13.   By David Appleby

Film/video

American filmmaker Philip Kaufman will visit the Wexner Center in April. A Chicago native now based in San Francisco, Kaufman is the man behind some of the most memorable films of the past three decades. On April 14, he will participate in a conversation with Terrence Rafferty, a critic at large for GQ, in the Film/Video Theater.

Screenings take place at 7 p.m., unless otherwise noted, and include: The Right Stuff (1983), April 6; Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and The Wanderers (1979), April 7; The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988), 2 p.m. April 8; Quills (2000), April 13; Rising Sun (1993) and The Great Northfield, Minnesota Raid (1972), April 20; Henry & June (1990), April 21; and The White Dawn (1974), 2 p.m. April 22.

Revolution in the Revolution: Films from the Soviet Sixties, will be screened April 5, 12 and 19. The series highlights the wave of innovation and openness achieved by Soviet filmmakers during the 1960s. Augmenting the films is French film legend Chris Marker's recent documentary tribute to Andrei Tarkovsky, One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich.

The annual series of international works highlighting gay, lesbian and bisexual themes, GLB F/V 4, will take place this year in a festival format of eight films screened in three days, April 26-28. Taiwanese-born filmmaker Shu Lea Cheang will introduce her film, I.K.U. (2000), on April 27, and American filmmaker Tom Shepard will introduce Scout's Honor (2001) on April 28.

A series of five films about Africa/America will be screened May 3, 10, 17, 24 and 29. The series is co-sponsored by Ohio State's Department of African-American and African Studies.

A variety of films will be screened throughout May and June, including classics, documentaries and contemporary films. Visit www.wexarts.org for more information.

Rock band Bon Jovi will perform with special guest SR-71 on May 4 at the Jerome Schottenstein Center.   Photo courtesy of the Schottenstein Center

SCHOTTENSTEIN

The Value City Arena at the Jerome Schottenstein Center will continue this spring to bring national and international entertainers to perform in Columbus. For ticket information, call (800) ARENA-01 or visit www.schottensteincenter.com.

Christian singer/songwriter Carman will take the stage on March 29, when he offers up 2 1/2 hours of his best-known hits and a mix of new songs from his latest CD, Heart of a Champion. Carman will be joined on stage by an eight-member band and special guest ZoeGirl. This concert is free.

The farewell tour of Ohio's own Scott Hamilton with Target Stars on Ice will perform at Value City Arena on March 31. Hamilton will be joined by Olympic champions Tara Lipinski and Kristi Yamaguchi, as well as four-time world champion Kurt Browning and three-time U.S. national pair champions Jenni Meno and Todd Sand. Additional Olympic, world and U.S. skaters will round out the cast.

Bon Jovi, with special guest SR-71, will bring its One Wild Night Tour to town on May 4. Jon Bon Jovi, Richie Sambora and company will perform hits, including"You Give Love A Bad Name,""Livin' On A Prayer" and"Wanted Dead or Alive," along with cuts from their latest album Crush. The New Jersey quintet became famous in the 1980s pop metal era with such hit albums as Slippery When Wet and New Jersey. After the release of their greatest hits album, Cross Road, in 1994, the members went on to pursue solo projects in music, theater and film. All members of the original band, except Alec John Such, reunited for Crush.

Dancer Michael Flatley will perform in his latest dance show on June 23. Feet of Flames is a showcase for the former Riverdance and Lord of the Dance performer, who is making his final world tour with this show. Flatley will be joined by 50 precision dancers on one of the largest stages ever used with dancers performing on three different levels.

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