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School of Fine Arts Update
KU performance art students present Fluid Art exhibit
Annual Holiday Vespers rings in the holiday season
KU performance art students present Fluid Art exhibit
Each year, KU performance art students and the public come together to explore expanded media art in real-time with live performances and interaction.The annual student exhibit, Fluid Art, was originally created by Roger Shimomura, professor of art emeritus at KU, and continued until his retirement in spring 2003. So Yeon Park, assistant professor of art in expanded media, joined the KU art faculty in fall 2004 and assumed responsibility for the exhibit. Fluid Art offers an opportunity for the greater KU and Lawrence community to experience emerging art forms such as performance art and time-based media.
Since Park joined as a faculty member, she has continued the tradition of presenting diverse students' performance works in the areas of body art, performed photography, improvisation, interactivity, re-enactment, installation, video and public art.
Because expanded media is a developing major in the Department of Art, Park actively searches for various ways to showcase student artists and to celebrate their artworks with the public. She said she feels the annual Fluid Art exhibit is one effective way for the community to experience student work, as well as an educational opportunity to foster a collaborative learning and teaching environment for her students and herself.
KU students participating in the 2006 Fluid Art event are undergraduates Louis Brahim Anajjar, Jonathan Blum, Shelagh Jessop, Christopher Kramer, Cassandra Peters, Michael Pruitt, Megan Solomon and Luke Anderson, along with graduate student Sarah Kephart.
The opening performance and reception will be held 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 6 in the Art and Design Gallery. The exhibit will run from Dec. 4-7 in the Art and Design Gallery on the third floor of the Art and Design Building. All events are free and open to the public.
For more information about Fluid Art, please contact the Department of Art in KU's School of Fine Arts at 785-864-4401.
Annual Holiday Vespers rings in the holiday season
KU's Music and Dance Department in the School of Fine Arts presented the 82nd Annual Holiday Vespers concert 2:30 and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3 at the Lied Center.The annual Holiday Vespers concert is one of the longest-running continuous holiday concerts at a college or university in the country.
This year, Holiday Vespers featured the 225-voice KU Symphonic Choir and the KU Symphony Orchestra. John Paul Johnson, director of choral studies and director of graduate studies, conducted along with Paul Tucker, associate director of choral activities, and Nicholas Uljanov, director of the KU Symphony Orchestra. Among the selections performed were "Gloria" by John Rutter and "Ave Maria" by Franz Biehl. Two KU faculty members, Julia Broxholm, assistant professor of voice, and Tami Lee Hughes, assistant professor of violin, also performed.
"This is one of the country's greatest holiday traditions," Johnson said. "For 82 years, this community and people beyond Lawrence have come to expect this as one of the opening celebrations for the holiday season."
For more information about the annual Holiday Vespers concert, please contact the Department of Music and Dance in KU’s School of Fine Arts at 785-864-3436.
