January 29, 2019
ArtsUW Roundup: Call for singers to perform with Tanya Tagaq, recital with Craig Sheppard and Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, and more
This week in the arts, perform on stage with Tanya Tagaq at the Meany Center for the Performing Arts, experience Beethoven for cello and piano at a faculty recital, attend a lecture with New York-based Artist Amy O’Neill, catch one of the last performances of Rutherford and Son, and more!
Faculty colleagues Saeunn Thorsteinsdottir and Craig Sheppard (photo: Steve Korn).
Faculty Recital: Craig Sheppard, piano, and Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello
January 31, 7:30 PM | Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater
Faculty colleagues Craig Sheppard, piano, and Sæunn Thorsteinsdóttir, cello, conclude their cycle of performances of the complete Beethoven for cello and piano with the magnificent A Major Sonata, Opus 69, and the three sets of variations.
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Image: Lizzi Bougatsos. Self–portrait, 2009. Donald Duck mask, fluorescent Nike sneaker, cross, aluminum bust, fencing jacket, shoe sole, liquid nails. 155 x 39, 5 x 77 cm.
Critical Issues Lecture: Amy O’Neill
January 31, 7:00 PM | Henry Art Gallery
Amy O’Neill lives and works in New York and has had numerous solo exhibitions including Swiss Institute, New York; MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland; Parc Rousseau, Ermenonville, France; Kristina Kite, Los Angeles; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio; Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; and PS1/MOMA, Long Island City, New York. O’Neill also has several monographs and artist’s books, including Red Headed Stranger (Karma, 2014); Forests, Gardens & Joe’s (J & L Books/Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, 2011); The Old Woman’s Shoe (One Star Press, 2009); and Amy O’Neill: Suburban Imagination (JRP Ringier, 2008).
The Critical Issues Lecture Series is brought to you by the School of Art + Art History + Design with assistance from the Henry Art Gallery. This year’s lectures are supported by The Dale and Leslie Chihuly Foundation and individual donors.
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Closing: Rutherford and Son
January 23 to February 3 | Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse
London, 1912: Rutherford and Son, a new play by an unknown playwright, “K.G. Sowerby,” has burst onto the scene, shattering box office records and drawing lofty accolades from critics, who are calling it the best play to premiere on the west end in 10 years, and comparing the author to theatrical titans like Ibsen. When it’s revealed that the play’s author is, shockingly, a woman named Githa Sowerby, she becomes the story, and her shattering tale of a tyrannical capitalist who loses his grip on his children is all but forgotten. As far as we can tell, UW Drama will only be the third theatre in the U.S. to ever present this transformational work of contemporary feminist drama. Be assured, time has only sharpened Sowerby’s withering excoriation of the golden age of patriarchy. The New York Post called a 2001 production “alive with human passions and tyrannies.”
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Perform with Tanya Tagaq: Call for singers 
February 6 to 8 | Meany Center for the Performing Arts
Meany Center is partnering with Native performing artists / ensembles and UW students to provide the “sound tapestry” for Inuk throat singer Tanya Tagaq’s Retribution program at UW’s Meany Hall on Friday, February 8, 8 PM. Rehearsals will take place in the evening on Wednesday and Thursday, February 6-7, at Meany Hall on the UW campus. Singing experience is not necessary, but performance experience is preferred. Please contact mcengage@uw.edu with questions / interest.
P.S. In addition to the February 8 performance, on February 6 there will be a book reading with Tonya Tagaq at the wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ – Intellectual House.
Recreating the Madonna’s Girdle: Material Change and Change in Matter
February 6, 4:00 PM | Art Building, Room 312
The Madonna’s girdle, one of Tuscany’s principal relics, is a wool and leather sash that has been said to arrive in Prato in 1141, thus increasing Prato’s religious and economic status. Over six decades after Prato became a Florentine subordinate (1351), a relief featuring the handing of the girdle to St. Thomas was commissioned from Nanni di Banco to decorate Florence’s Duomo. A silk girdle was made to adorn the composition, but is now lost. As a part of the Colloquia Series, Or Vallah will discuss the material disparity between the two girdles, within the frame of the complex relationships between Florence and Prato. Or Vallah is a PhD student in Art History.
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