V I S UA L A RT S :Summer Reading:Artists’ Books fromNashville Collectionsprovided a feast of imageryand words this summer at theVanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery.These artist-made books, someillustrating important works of

literature andother uniquepieces thatredefine the idea of whatconstitutes a book, illuminatedthe relationship between thevisual and verbal in beautifuland often delightful ways. Theexhibit ran through Aug. 16.

Richard Jolley, BA’74(Peabody), held his first majorretrospective of works in glassand mixed media at theTennessee State Museumthrough Aug. 10. The 48 worksin the exhibit, which is currentlyon a four-city tour, representedmajor phases of Jolley’s careerbetween 1984 and 2002.Although the exhibit wasgrounded in his sculpted glassforms and totems that high-light the human figure, prints,bronzes and mixed-mediawork also were featured.

The “Classic Black Catfish”currently on display inCentennial Park is sponsoredby Vanderbilt as part of the“Catfish Out of Water City Art Project,” on display inNashville through October to benefit CumberlandRiver Compact, Greenways

for Nashville and theParthenon Patrons.This larger-than-life

bottom dweller,weighing in atabout 30 pounds,was designed andmade by artist

Margaret Krakowiakand is but one of 51 such catscurrently found around town.A second catfish, “Striper” byartist Bryan Roberson, is spon-sored by Vanderbilt Children’sHospital and can be seen inFannie Mae Dees Park nearVanderbilt Medical Center.

This spring Vanderbilt’s pro-gram in developmental biolo-gy partnered with Metro-Nashville Schools’ Encore program for gifted students ina “science as art” contest gearedtoward fifth- and sixth-gradestudents. Around 350 entries

were received for ArtScience,and 35 winning pieces were ondisplay in Vanderbilt’s newMedical Research Building IIIthrough June.Artwork createdby the studentsranged fromabstract to realistic,and depicted sub-jects such as cloning,DNA replication, and

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in-utero development of animalsand humans.

Time often seems to stand stillduring the heat of summer, butin Sarratt Gallery’s MarkingTime exhibit, time took on amuch more physical quality asartists Linda Laino and ZeldaTanenbaum used a variety ofmedia to remark upon the lay-ering of dreams, memory andexperience in relation to time.Their tactile assemblages andhandmade paper quilts wereon view through Aug. 2.

Vanderbilt University MedicalCenter hosted landscapespainted by members of theChestnut Group in honor ofEarth Day. The ChestnutGroup is an organization

of artists dedicat-ed to preservingendangeredecosystems, his-toric locales, andaesthetically orenvironmentallysignificant places.The exhibit wason display in theMezzanineGallery in thelobby ofVanderbiltHospital throughthe end of June.

Vanderbilt’s John F. KennedyCenter for Research onHuman Development hostedan exhibit by artists ofPacesetters Inc. called “Who’sin Rabbit’s House?” in the foyer of the MRL Buildingfrom June through August.

Based on the African

folk tale, the exhibit includedfabric appliqués, masks, vividlypainted fabric wall hangings,and colorful “trees” withstuffed fabric monkeys leapingbetween them. Pacesetters, anonprofit agency with centersin six counties, provides servicesto personswith disabil-ities and hasgrown tobecome oneof the largestcommunity-based daytraining andresidentialprograms inTennessee.

NEW ACQUISITION:The Vanderbilt Fine ArtsGallery recently acquired aseven-color lithographic print,“Blackburn,” an homage tomaster printer Bob Blackburnof New York by master printerRon Adams of Santa Fe, N.M.

Since its release lastsummer, the print hasentered the collectionsof the SmithsonianNational Museum ofAmerican Art, theCleveland Museum, theStudio Museum ofHarlem, Kansas City’sNelson-Atkins Museumof Art, the Library ofCongress, and the cor-porate collections ofHallmark and Sprint.

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M U S I C :Nashville jazz ensemble TheEstablishment performed forthe Blair Big Band Benefit Bashon July 18 in Ingram Hall with

proceeds going to the BlairSchool of Music Big Band pro-gram. The Establishment wasformed in 1970 under the

direction of Del Sawyer, who atthe time was dean of the BlairSchool. Bill Adair, adjunctassociate professor of jazzstudies at Blair, currentlydirects the group.

Blair School of Music facultymembers Edgar Meyer andAmy Dorfman played “Freefor All at Town Hall” in Mayat New York City’s historicTown Hall auditorium. For theirMay 11 recital, the audienceheard works by Vivaldi,Schubert, Bloch and Meyerhimself. Other artists on theseries included Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg with Anne-MarieMcDermott, David Finckelwith Wu Han, and Joshua Bellwith Simon Mulligan.

Fiddler and vocalist AndreaZonn, BMus’93, a member ofVince Gill’s band and a veteranstudio musician in Nashville,recently released her first album,“Love Goes On,” showcasing

her ability to intermingle blue-grass, country, Celtic and folkgenres. Guests on the CDinclude Alison Brown, JeffWhite, Amy Grant and AlisonKrauss, among others, andcompositions by songwritersBeth Nielsen Chapman andKarla Bonoff are featured. On

May 10, Zonn made her debuton Nashville’s world-famousGrand Ole Opry, appearingduring the televised broadcast.“That’s an experience I’veheard other people talk about,and it’s certainly a lifetimethrill,” says Zonn.

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A C C O L A D E SJohn Frank Sands, who just completed his junior year atthe Blair School of Music, is the winner of GlimmerglassOpera’s 2003 Fanfare Competition. The Festival Seasonfanfares, a tradition at Glimmerglass Opera since 1987,are played by members of the opera’s orchestra from anexterior balcony overlooking the entrance to the theater,a few minutes before the start of each of the summer’s43 performances in Cooperstown, N.Y. “John FrankSands’s fanfare showed great invention and sureness oftechnique,” says Stewart Robertson, GlimmerglassOpera’s music director. “We are delighted to have ayouthful winner of such accomplishment and promise.”

Melissa Faith Cartoun, a 2003 graduate majoring inEnglish, won third place in the 2003 BMI FoundationJohn Lennon Scholarship competition. Cartoun wasawarded a prize of $2,500 for her song “25.” Judges forthe competition included legendary record producerArif Mardin, who most recently earned three Grammysas producer of Norah Jones’s “Come Away with Me”;Frank Wildhorn, composer, lyricist and producer of themusical “The Civil War”; and jazz specialist SuzanJenkins, senior vice president for marketing, RecordingIndustry Association of America. Cartoun is the secondstudent in two years to be honored in the LennonScholarship competition. She was a student of DeannaWalker, director of the songwriting program at the BlairSchool of Music.

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Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatorywas the setting for the first“Music on the Mountain,” afree community concert heldin late April featuring the BlairSchool’s Butch Baldassari onmandolin, David Schnauferon dulcimer, and Bobby Tayloron oboe. Following the con-cert, the public was invited totour the observatory and lookthrough the telescope. Plansfor renovation and expansionof the observatory were on dis-play during the event.

The Blair Children’s ChorusSummer Camp, for childrenentering grades three throughseven, took place July 29–31 atthe Blair School of Music. Eachsummer the Blair Children’sChorus program hosts thisthree-day camp open to thepublic to share and encouragemusicianship in the community.The students learn music andsinging fundamentals in prepa-

ration for a concert performanceat the end of the camp. Thisyear’s concluding concert wasin Ingram Hall, conducted byPamela Schneller, director ofthe Children’sChorus program;Coni Ely, director ofthe Young Singers ofBlair; and ChrisWarren, director ofthe Boychoir ofNashville at Blair.

B O O K S & W R I T E R S :Vivien Green Fryd, associateprofessor of art history, haswritten Art and the Crisis ofMarriage: Edward Hopperand Georgia O’Keeffe, recentlypublished by University ofChicago Press. Combining biographic study of the artists’marriages with a formal analysisof their paintings, Fryd illus-trates how the artists expressedtheir own marital crises in

their works—crises mirroredduring the period between thetwo world wars whenbirthrates fell, divorce ratesrose, and women entered the

workforce inrecord numbers.“The complexitiesof O’Keeffe’s andHopper’s mar-riages intersectwith what wasbeing said aboutmarriage at thistime, a time whenpeople had one

foot in the old, traditionalmarriage and one foot in thenew,” writes Fryd. “They

represent two couples dealingwith this dilemma in two dif-ferent ways, and their struggleembodies issues and confusionsaddressed during this periodthat are also manifest in theirpaintings.”

Vanderbilt’shistory isvividly por-trayed in tworecent editions:Chancellors,Commodores,and Coeds: AHistory ofVanderbiltUniversity, published by BillCarey, BA’87, through hisClearbrook Press, and ErnestWilliam Goodpasture: Scientist,Scholar, Gentleman (HillsboroPress) by Robert D. Collins,BA’48, MD’51, now the John L.Shapiro Professor of Pathologyat Vanderbilt Medical School.

Carey’s history of theUniversity, the first since PaulConkin’s 1985 tome Gone withthe Ivy, began as a series ofarticles on Vanderbilt’s pastwritten for the VanderbiltRegister, the University’s campusweekly. The former businessreporter for the Tennesseannewspaper found the stories ofhis alma mater fascinating, andthe book details everything fromHenry Foote, “the cantankerous

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A C C O L A D E SJustin Quarry, recent graduate in English, won for thesecond consecutive year the Vanderbilt Review FictionAward for best undergraduate short story. In addition,Quarry also received a scholarship to the Bread LoafWriters Conference at Middlebury College inMiddlebury, Vt.

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man who used to own OldCentral,” to the story behindthe Joint University Library, tomemorable faculty mem-bers from every era.Carey’s previous book,Fortunes, Fiddles, and FriedChicken: A Business Historyof Nashville, was namedHistory Book of the Year in2001 by both the TennesseeLibrary Association andthe Tennessee HistoricalCommission.

Collins’ biography of ErnestWilliam Goodpasture paystribute to the former dean ofVanderbilt Medical School(1945–50), whose landmarkdiscovery of the chickenembryotechniquefor cultur-ing virusesled to thedevelop-ment ofvaccines foryellow fever,influenza,smallpox and typhus. Goodpas-ture also discovered the viralcause of mumps during histenure at Vanderbilt. Thesecontributions to laboratoryresearch, combined with hisloyalty to the school, which heled through severe fiscal con-straints in the period followingWorld War II, make for a stirringportrait of one of the mostimportant figures in theMedical School’s history.

Charles Dahlgren of Natchez:The Civil War and DynasticDecline (Brassey’s Inc: Dulles,Va.) by Herschel Gower,MA’52, PhD’57, and professor

of English, emeritus, recountsthe rise and fall of an ambitiousPennsylvanian who hoped to

build adynasty in theantebellumSouth. At theoutset of theCivil War,Dahlgren,by then thefather of 16,owner of two

mansions overlooking theMississippi, and a banker,planter and slaveholder, findshimself pitted against his broth-ers in a true tale that chroniclesfamily allegiance during themost unstable of times.

F I L M & T E L E V I S I O N :Darren McDaniel, MA’96,recently started filming inCentral Florida on his “mock-umentary” titled “The Essenceof Irwin.” The two-hour independent film follows theadventures of an idealisticsociologist and his cameramanin the fictionalized town ofIrwin, Texas, and uses localcrews and unknown actors inan attempt to blur the linebetween fiction and nonfiction.

Rich Hull, BA’92, is executiveproducer of “Free for All,” anew animated series thatdebuted on the Showtime cablenetwork in July. The series,based on the comic strip of thesame name by Brett Merhar, issyndicated nationally in morethan 60 newspapers and featuresa pair of cynical friends whoseworld includes a lunatic ferretand a homicidal grandmother.

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UPCOMINGD A N C EOn Nov. 1, LingoDanceTheater, a contemporary ensemblebased in Seattle, brings itsadventurous and athleticwork “Speak to Me” toLangford Auditorium aspart of Vanderbilt’s GreatPerformances series.

H U M A N I T I E SOn Nov. 12 famed playwright Tony Kushner will speakas part of the Chancellor’s Lecture Series. The NewYork Times says of Kushner, “Some playwrights want tochange the world. Some want to revolutionize theater.Tony Kushner is that rarity of rarities: a writer who hasthe promise to do both.”

V I S UA L A RT SIn “Closure” (Nov. 4 through Dec. 2) at Sarratt Gallery,Laura Chenicek will show mixed-media works that

address memory—howwe choose to rememberevents or suppress them,especially those thatlinger from childhood.The artist will talkabout her work on Nov.7 at 4 p.m., with areception following.

M U S I CThe Vanderbilt Opera Theatre and faculty of the BlairSchool of Music will brighten the holiday season with“Amahl and theNight Visitors.” Thisfully staged, cos-tumed and orches-trated production ofMenotti’s belovedopera will take placein Ingram Hall onDec. 5 and 6.

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“Free for All” showcases thevoice talents of actors JulietteLewis, Sam McMurray, JeremyPiven and Jonathan Silvermanand the writing of MerriwetherWilliams, who spent threeyears as head writer of theNickelodeon children’s series“SpongeBob SquarePants.”Hull’s producing creditsinclude the films “She’s AllThat,” “On the Line,” and“American Psycho II.”

H U M A N I T I E S :In late April the Universityannounced plans for the coun-try’s first university-based pro-gram dedicated to exploringthe American model of cultur-al policy. The Curb Centerfor Art, Enterprise andPublic Policy at Vanderbiltwas madepossible by a$2.5 milliondonation byMusic RowexecutiveMike Curb. Bill Ivey, formerdirector of the NationalEndowment for the Arts andthe Country Music Foundation,and now serving as HarvieBranscomb Distinguished

Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt,will head the new center.Housed within the College ofArts and Science, the CurbCenter will work closely withgraduate programs throughthe Owen Graduate School ofManagement, the Law School,the Blair School of Music,Peabody College and theDivinity School.

Grounded on the principlethat art conveys national iden-tity, the center will provideinternships for students andresearch opportunities for faculty. It will also give specialconsideration to the localmusic industry and the artistictraditions of Nashville’s multi-ethnic communities.

In July, The Plan ofNashville: Cultural Policy atthe Grassroots, a two-day conference co-sponsored bythe center and the Washington-based Center for Arts andCulture, discussed arts educa-tion, cultural tourism, andaffordable housing and venuesfor artists in an effort to identifyhow public policy might beshaped to address problems inthese areas.

Heather Malogrides,

Q: How do you take something

so personal and turn it into art?

A: I didn’t start this project

with the intention of turning

life into art. The initial goal

was to get down my experience

on paper. But with the addition

of an amazing design team

and a truly dedicated director

and dramaturge, we ended up

with a “production.” Early in

the process I was a little too

wrapped up in what really

happened to me versus a clear,

simplified storyline. To help

combat my own defensiveness,

I changed the character’s name

to Karen and was then able to

morph two characters into

one or juggle the order of

events a bit. Funny how such

a simple adjustment opened

up possibilities for me.

Q: Was writing this play cathar-

tic for you? Does performing

this one-woman show get easier

for you the more you do it, or

has it evolved into something

entirely different as time goes on?

A: Writing this play, although

it forced me to muck around

in a very personal set of expe-

riences, wasn’t as cathartic for

me as the doing of it is.

Reliving these experiences on

stage and coming out the

other side is almost always

exhausting but cleansing. I

don’t mean “cleansing” in a

way that releases me from

guilt or responsibility, but in

a way that helps me let go of

the constant churning of the

events in my mind.

Q: Why did you pick a one-

woman show as the format?

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format started out as a grad

school requirement. Our M.F.A.

thesis was to perform a one-

person show, and I decided to

write mine rather than choose

a published play. Once I got

to New York and started tin-

kering with the story, I realized

that having one woman on

stage surrounded by male

voices added to the themes in

the story, so we kept it. When

I write the screenplay, the rest

of the cast will fill out!

BA’89, was a graduate of Vanderbilt’s ROTC programwhen she was sent to Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm in 1991 as a U.S. Army secondlieutenant commanding a bomb disposal unit. Three of her soldiersdied there, resulting in mandatory negligent homicide charges, whichwere later dropped. This ordeal iscentral to “After the Storm,”a one-woman play written and per-formed by Malogrides, now workingprofessionally in theater as HeatherGrayson. It has played two runs inNew York to critical acclaim.

Q&A“Free for All”

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