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Arts Carolina
will close June 30 due to budget cuts
This is the final edition of the Artse-news. The College of Arts &
Sciences has chosen to close Arts Carolina due to budget cuts. Unless
an angel (or several) appears before us with contributions of $75,000
or so, Arts Carolina will soon fade to black.
After June 30
- www.artscarolina.org will
cease to bring the 9,000+ of you who visited monthly up-to-date news
and calendar information about the arts at UNC-Chapel Hill.
- There will be no Fall 2003 edition of the Arts Carolina Preview, a
publication of UNC arts news and information that was distributed to
over 50,000 arts patrons and UNC alumni in the Triangle region and on
campus.
- Arts Carolina will not promote the annual Carolina Jazz Festival,
or lend full-time administrative assistance to its production.
- Special programs such as the 9/11 Tribute Wall, the 9/11 anniversary
spiral of life, the Performance for Humanity, Tar Heel Lane at Apple
Chill and campus public art seminars will not happen.
- The arts at UNC-Chapel Hill will once again be a collection of disconnected
units. Their quality and variety will remain high, but it will take
more effort for you as an audience participant to find out about them.
I thank you for your moral support and interest in the arts at Carolina
over these past three and a half years. I've enjoyed the many partnerships
that were built. Despite this unfortunate turn of events, there continues
to be strong and vital literary, visual and performing arts programs and
curricula on the UNC-CH campus. I encourage you to make the extra effort
to enjoy the many arts offerings, and to support them with your participation
as an audience member and a contributor.
Should you have an opinion about the decision to cut Arts Carolina, feel
free to share them with us. Should you happen to be an angel, contact
me at artsunc@email.unc.edu.
Kind regards,
Amy Brannock, Director
Arts Carolina
To read press coverage about
the decision to eliminate Arts Carolina:
UNC arts umbrella falls to budget cuts (The Chapel Hill News
-- June 21, 2003) The language used by the team appointed to evaluate
the Arts Carolina program at UNC could hardly have been more clear or
more forceful. The program was inaugurated three years ago to increase
the visibility of
the myriad arts activities at Carolina.... http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/story/2635481p-2444704c.html
Mad About the Arts (The Independent Weekly -- June 11-17,
2003) Before I moved to the area a few years back, the majority of my
research on my home-to-be was conducted online, where a couple of painless
minutes on Yahoo! yielded an invaluable resource in Arts Carolina. http://indyweek.com/durham/current/ae4.html
Budget Cuts Hitting the Campus Where it Lives (Carolina Alumni
Review Online -- June 6, 2003) As the state budget crisis drags on,
the University is being forced to eliminate programs in addition to a
number of smaller cuts already made to meet stringent financial demands.
http://alumni.unc.edu/car/weekly/story.asp?sid=363
Arts Carolina Loses Funding (Daily Tar Heel, April 28,
2003)
Amy Brannock, director of Arts Carolina, said the program will cease to
exist as of June 30. Since January 2000, Arts Carolina has served as a
centralized source for information about arts events in Chapel Hill.
http://www.dailytarheel.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/04/28/3ead2b9065260?in_archive=1
State budget knife to cut
deep at UNC (The Herald-Sun -- May 27,
2003)
Like most programs at UNC, Karen Bean's H.E.E.L.S for Health venture has
received its share of budget cuts over the last couple of years. Still,
Bean was blind- sided by news last week that the 12-year-old employee
fitness service was being eliminated entirely.
Click here to view
story in full
Fleeting opportunity:
PlayMakers offers $200 UNC
Employee Discount for Summer Acting Intensive
The PRC Acting Intensive for High School Students offers rising
10th, 11th, and 12th Graders a rare opportunity to work with professional
theatre artists within a sophisticated theatre facility. PRC Acting Intensive
for High School Students will challenge young actors with experience to
participate fully in a three-week intensive introduction to actor training.
Work is focused on communicating solid skills to the students rather than
creating a polished production. More information can be found at www.playmakersrep.org.
You may also contact Herb Garman at herb.garman@unc.edu
or 962-2491.
Arts Carolina
News Clips
N.C. museums split $256,000 (Triangle Business Journal --
May 14, 2003)
Museums across North Carolina - including several in the Triangle - will
share $256,000 to preserve collections and create educational programs
for the public, according to U.S. Sen. John Edwards' office. The North
Carolina Botanical Garden, part of the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, won $27,200 to document the plants that have lived on its
700 acres throughout history.
http://triangle.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2003/05/12/daily21.html
Maxine Swalin is honored for a harmonious life (The Chapel
Hill News -- May 13, 2003)
Maxine Swalin's 69-year tradition of charming Tar Heels continued Wednesday
night when she returned to the first place she ever visited in North Carolina,
the Carolina Inn. ... She accepted the North Caroliniana Society Award
and delivered a 25-minute speech that had people falling in love with
her again.
http://www.triangle.com/triangle.com/communities/chapelhill/community/story/2526073p-346463c.html
Maxine Swalin, bursting with energy at 100, will get award (The
Herald-Sun -- May 7, 2003)
Maxine Swalin's energy crackled over the phone line Tuesday as she explained
that she was very busy.... Tonight, she'll give her speech, "Coming
of Age in North Carolina's Fifth Century,"when she receives the North
Caroliniana Society Award at a banquet at the Carolina Inn.
http://www.herald-sun.com/orange/10-349752.html
The Swalin song (News and Observer -- May 5, 2003)
On Wednesday the first lady of the N.C. Symphony, Maxine McMahon Swalin,
turns 100. ... She encouraged the development of a strong arts curriculum
at UNC-CH
http://newsobserver.com/features/story/2512187p-2334110c.html
Regional Coverage Black and white and Southern all over (The
Times Picayune --May 5, 2003)
"It has taken me a long time to arrive at a basic fact of my existence:
I am a Southerner," writes Trudier Harris. ... Those words, near
the end of Harris' new collection of essays, made me pause. Maybe Harris,
an English professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
isn't giving enough of us credit.
http://www.nola.com/entertainment/t-p/index.ssf?/base/living-0/105202856442440.xml
Arts Carolina
Calendar
through June 1
Play: Oh What a Paradise It Seems. Presented by Wordshed
Productions, adapted and directed by Matthew Spangler. Swain Hall,
Studio 6 Theater. Thu-Sat, 8pm, Sun 6 pm. Building on its hit production
last season of Shady Hills, Wordshed offers these short stories by John
Cheever that dramatize, with a satirical edge, life in the American suburbs.
$5 Students, $8 Seniors & UNC Employees, $10 General Admission. Contact
person: Matt Spangler, 969-7121, wordshed@unc.edu
June 1
Chapel Hill Chamber Music Workshop: Opening Faculty Recital, 3p, Person
Recital Hall. Music Dept.
919-962-1039.
June 8
Ackland Art Museum Summer New Members
Reception Members who have recently joined the Museum are invited to join
Curator of Exhibitions Barbara Matilsky for a preview tour of Defining
Moments: Two Centuries of Photography. Refreshments will be served.
2:00 p. To join the Ackland and take part, call Andrea at 919-843-3676.
June 8
Family Fun at the Ackland: Fun for
kids and their adult companions, this program includes interactive activities
that ask you to look closer, think differently and imagine the possibilities.
Join us for some fun and hands-on learning! Recommended for 5- to 12-year
olds. 2:00 p. 919-966-5736.
June 8
Ackland Art Museum Exhibition Opening
Reception: Defining Moments: Two Centuries of Photography. A retrospective
on the history and varied techniques of photography featuring images from
the Ackland's collection and select private collections. 3:00 -5:00 p.
919-966-5736
June 11
Ackland Gallery Talk: Curator of
Exhibitions Barbara Matilsky will highlight selected works in the exhibition
Defining Moments: Two Centuries of Photography. 12:15 p. 919-966-5736
June 11-29
Play: As You Like It. Performed by the StreetSigns
Center for Literature and Performance, directed by Derek Goldman.
Presented in Swain Hall Studio 6 Theater. Wed-Sat, 8:00 pm, Sun 2:00 pm.
Building on its stagings of classical works such as The Seagull, Brecht's
Antigone, and Midsummer Night's Dream, StreetSigns offers an innovative
summer staging of Shakespeare's pastoral comedy of mistaken identities
and the redeeming power of love. Fri & Sat $14, Wed & Thu, Sun
$12, UNC students $7 w/ID, other students, seniors, UNC Fac/Staff $2 off
w/ID. Contact Person: Derek Goldman, 843-3865, email strtsigns@aol.com
through June 30
North Carolina Botanical Gardens:
Exhibition: Spring's Bounty, an exhibit by members of the Triangle
Artists Guild, including works in watercolor, oil, photography and other
media. Free and open to the Public. Please call 919-962-0522 before visiting
to ensure an uninterrupted viewing of the exhibit, which is displayed
in the multi-purpose Totten Center classroom. Fordham Boulevard (US 15-501
and NC 54 Bypass and Old Mason Farm Road). M-F 8-5, Sat. 9-6, Sun. 1-6.
through Summer
Exhibition: Portrait: Landscape -- photographs by Brad Rolen.
Silver gelatin prints, photographed with a 4 x 5 camera, for the portraiture
course taught by art professors Jeff Whetstone and Wendy Ewald, a course
supported by the Robertson Scholars program. The ten large-format portraits
are of Carolina and Duke students. On view in 2nd floor reading room,
Davis Library. Organized by the Library Public Art Committee and Prof.
Jeff Whetstone, Department of Art. Sponsored by the Academic Affairs Library.
919-962-2397. http://www.lib.unc.edu/spotlight/rolen.html
through Sept.
Exhibit: Brushes with Life: Art, Artists and Mental Illness. Presented
by the STEP
art gallery, a patient art gallery for artists dealing with chronic
mental illnesses. 16 artists are featured in this traveling display, which
was arranged by the STEP art gallery committee and the UNC Dept of Psychiatry.
This exhibition will be on display for 6 months. Mon.- Sat. 8-6. Located
on the 3rd floor of the UNC Neuroscience Hospital.
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