April 25, 2018
Arts Roundup: Stroum Lectures with Gary Shteyngart, Harry Partch Festival, and more
This week in the arts, visit a graduation exhibit featuring the works of Interdisciplinary Visual Arts students, see Tony Kushner’s epic tale of AIDS in the 1980s, attend a lecture by award-winning author and frequent New Yorker contributor Gary Shteyngart, learn about themes related to Seattle Art Museum’s exhibition ‘Figuring History’ with Catharina Manchanda, and participate in a festival that celebrates the music and influence of Harry Partch.
Graduation Exhibition: Interdisciplinary Visual Arts
Graduation Exhibition: Interdisciplinary Visual Arts
April 25 – May 5 | Jacob Lawrence Gallery
The graduation exhibition for students receiving bachelor’s degrees from Interdisciplinary Visual Arts (IVA).
Angels in America
Angels in America Part II: Perestroika
April 24 – May 6 | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
Part two of Tony Kushner’s epic tale of AIDS in 1980s America begins in a ruined place where the old orders are splintering and everything—and everyone—has come apart. Prior Walter is a prophet, and now the “great work” of rebuilding this devastated world can begin. We meet characters who, having faced annihilation, must now confront their own stubborn indestructibility. Profoundly funny, magnificently theatrical, and startlingly timely, Perestroika is a story about locating hope in the midst of chaos. The New York Times called it “a true millennial work of art, uplifting, hugely comic and pantheistically religious in a very American style.”
Stroum Lectures With Gary Shteyngart
Stroum Lectures with Gary Shteyngart
7:00 p.m., May 7 & 9 | Kane Hall, room 120
Award-winning author and frequent New Yorker contributor Gary Shteyngart will give two lectures on May 7 and May 9, 2018.The titles are “Failure is an Option: Immigration, Memory, and the Russian Jewish Experience” and “I Alone Can Fix It: Tales from the New Dystopia.”
The 2018 Stroum Lectures will look back on the first fifteen years of novelist Gary Shteyngart’s celebrated career, then look ahead to his future literary pursuits.
In a series of conversations with Sasha Senderovich, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington, Gary Shteyngart will explore the questions of the role of humor and comedy in today’s world; immigration and the Jewish experience; freshly relevant issues in Russian-American political and cultural relations; and the satirist’s role in authoritarian societies.
Colloquia Series: Catharina Manchanda
Colloquia Series: Catharina Manchanda
4:00 p.m., May 9 | Art Building, room 312
Catharina Manchanda will discuss themes related to Figuring History, an exhibition currently on view at the Seattle Art Museum (until May 13, 2018). The three artists in the exhibition — Robert Colescott, Kerry James Marshall and Mickalene Thomas — span three generations. They are concerned with issues of representation as it relates to black individuals — their absence and presence — in art and history. Although their work looks back at Western artistic traditions (particular genres as well as styles), they develop new aesthetic positions and pose questions that correspond with generational shifts and personal experience.
Manchanda is the Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Seattle Art Museum and an Affiliate Professor in the School of Art + Art History + Design.
Harry Partch Festival
7:30 p.m., May 11 – 13 | Meany Theater
Twentieth century American composer Harry Partch created an original musical world and hand-hewn instruments on which to perform his microtonal compositions, which continue to inspire and influence musicians and composers today. This festival celebrates the music and influence of this unique composer, whose collection of hand-made musical instruments are in long-term residence at the UW under the curatorship of composer and Partch scholar Charles Corey.
The three programs in this series include premiers of new works composed for Partch’s instruments as well as rarely or never-before performed works from the composer’s archives. Other activities, including master classes, demos, and talks, complete this homage to a uniquely American artist.
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