PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 23, No. 13, Feb.5, 2004

brief notes

UI New Music Ensemble
Composers Festival begins Feb. 23
The 2004 UI Composers Festival, set for Feb. 23 to March 1, will offer five concerts featuring 28 compositions by guest, faculty and student composers performed by 73 performers and eight conductors. The festival is presented by the UI New Music Ensemble with co-directors Zack Browning and Steve Taylor.

Pieces for the festival will combine elements of high-tech music with music influenced by popular culture, electronic synthesizers, computer-generated sounds, non-Western sources and experimental aesthetics.

Guest composers for the festival are Don Davis and Vinko Globokar. Davis is best known as the composer of music for the “Matrix” film series. Globokar is recognized as a pioneer in experimental music and is both a composer and performer on trombone. Other guests artists include pianist Gloria Cheng and soprano Kerry Walsh.

Is stress affecting your life negatively?
Four parenting workshops scheduled
Faculty and staff members may attend one or all of four free parenting workshops to learn how to ease the stress in their lives. “Is Work Stress Affecting Your Personal Life? Creating Intentional Harmony ” is the title of this year’s series set for Feb. 24 and March 2, 11 and 16 at the Levis Faculty Center.

Angela Wiley, university extension specialist in family life and UI professor of human and community development, will be the main speaker for each session. Wiley, co-author of “Intentional Harmony: Managing Work and Life,” teaches the topic statewide, and conducts research on work-life management and parenting. Other UI faculty members speaking at the workshops include Aaron Ebata, Patti Faughn and Debbie McClellan.

Workshop sessions: Feb. 24: “Managing Work and Your Well-being”; March 2: “Managing Work and Parenting”; March 11: “Managing Work and Your Relationship as a Couple”; March 16: “Managing Stress at Work.”

Each session will run from 8:30 a.m. to noon.

Advance registration is required. To register, call 333-7369, fax 333-9561, or e-mail noncredit@illinois.edu.

Brown v. Board of Education
Library to host lecture Feb. 12
To commemorate the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education, the University Library will host “American Apartheid and the Supreme Court: Understanding the Significance of the Brown Decision” at 4 p.m. Feb. 12 in Room 407 of the Levis Faculty Center.

Paul Finkelman, professor of law at the University of Tulsa, will discuss the social and legal status of racial segregation at the time of the Brown decision and why it was centrally important to ending segregation in the United States. A reception will follow the event.

Spurlock Museum
Native American events in February
The Spurlock Museum will celebrate Native American culture with several events during February.

A storytelling and drum concert will be at 1 p.m. Feb. 7. Admission is $5 and reservations are required. Call 333-2360.

Navajo jewelry maker Ben Yellowhorse will transform silver into works of art at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 11 in a free demonstration.

Native American artist De Haven Solimon Chaffins will speak about her abstract paintings during a free lecture, “Fragments of the Underworld,” at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 13.

The jewelry demonstration and lecture are part of a series of events held in conjunction with the museum’s Focus Gallery exhibit “The American Indian Center of Chicago Celebrates 50 Years of Powwow.” These events are co-sponsored by the Verde Gallery, where Yellowhorse and Chaffin’s work will be displayed from Feb. 10 through March 20.

Personal experiences
Ally hosts panel at meeting
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students of color will discuss their personal experiences at the 12 p.m. Feb. 6 Ally meeting at 217 Illini Union.

Those attending the meeting will be given an opportunity to ask the panel questions, as well as engage the students in discussion.

For more information contact Jane Reid, 333-3704 or Anita Hund.

WILL-FM
Station cancels ‘Second Sunday’ Concert
The Feb. 8 WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert featuring the Illinois Brass Quintet and Friends has been canceled because of the illness of one of the performers.
The art museum’s 1 p.m. gallery tour will take place as usual on Feb. 8 despite the concert cancellation.

The March Second Sunday Concert at 2 p.m. March 14 features Sergiu Luca, violin, with Ian Hobson, piano.

Krannert Art Museum
Conference examines transnational art
A UI conference will explore current artistic practices, focusing on artists who move among Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and the United States.

“Beyond East and West: Art in a Transnational World” takes place Feb. 6 and 7. Free and open to the public, it requires no registration and is being held in conjunction with the Krannert Art Museum exhibition, “Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists,” which runs through March 28.

“Major artists and leading scholars” from throughout the United States will take part in the conference, according to the organizers, professors David O’Brien, art history, and David Prochaska, history.

Participating artists include Jananne Al-Ani, Y.Z. Kami, Walid Raad and Shahzia Sikander.

Scholars include Fred Bohrer, Hood College; Timothy Brennan, University of Minnesota; Holly Edwards, Williams College; Keya Ganguly, University of Minnesota; Salah Hassan, Cornell University; and Barbara Thompson, Dartmouth College.

UI faculty members include Evelyne Accad, French; Marilyn Booth, comparative literature; Okwui Enwezor, art history; Jane Kuntz, French; and Zohreh Sullivan, English.

The Feb. 6 sessions run from noon to 5 p.m. in the Plym Auditorium of Temple Buell Hall; the Feb. 7 sessions run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in 62 Krannert Art Museum.

Skyscraper Exhibit
Student tall building designs on display
Two new exhibitions focusing on architecture are on view Feb. 6 through 28 at I space, the Chicago gallery of the UI’s Urbana campus:

• “High-rise and Habitat: Proposals for Supertall Buildings for 7 S. Dearborn, Chicago” features tall-building projects designed by first-year graduate students in the UI School of Architecture. The students created the work – based on a program proposal provided by Chicago architectural firm Skidmore, Owings and Merrill – while enrolled in a design studio course last fall. The proposed mixed-use, high-rise tower in Chicago’s Loop area, if built, would have been the world’s tallest skyscraper. Because the site is small relative to the proposed tower’s height, the design required an innovative structural system.
  
• “Chicago Architectural Club Members Exhibition” is an annual show featuring sketches, drawings and photographs. According to the club Web site, the show will explore the state of Chicago architecture through a review of members’ current work.
  An opening reception is scheduled from 6-8 p.m. on Feb. 6 at the gallery, 230 W. Superior St., Chicago. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Community-based Learning Grants
Partnership Illinois seeks proposals
Faculty members and instructors are invited to submit proposals for Community-based Learning Grants, a new funding mechanism offered by Partnership Illinois, a UI initiative that promotes collaborations with agencies, organizations, governments, schools and communities to address critical societal issues.

Proposals are being sought for components that integrate community-based learning experiences into new or existing undergraduate courses at the introductory and advanced undergraduate levels.

“Community-based learning is an important aspect of undergraduate education to give students experiences outside the classroom and for them to bring those experiences back into the classroom,” said Steve Schomberg, vice chancellor for public engagement and institutional relations, whose office administers Partnership Illinois. “Students can get experience interacting with the community through volunteering, but I believe a better way is through a structured learning opportunity.”

“We want to build upon the experiences of existing service learning programs such as the East St. Louis Action Research Project, which is sponsored by the College of Fine and Applied Arts, and Learning in Community, which is sponsored by the College of Engineering, and expand those opportunities throughout the faculty,” Schomberg said.

The grants will offer up to 10 awards of up to $15,000 for programmatic expenses such as graduate assistantships, faculty support, salaries or wages and communications. Successful projects will be eligible to apply in academic year 2005 for up to two years of additional funding.

Applications and proposal requirements are on the Web. Deadline for proposals is March 1.

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