Faculty + Staff News / November 10, 2009
Rose Camastro-Pritchett (AEMM) has a solo exhibition at Art on Armitage Gallery through November 30. The gallery is located at 4125 W. Armitage in Chicago.
RoseAnna Mueller, Jesus Macarena-Avila, and Nancy Van Kanegan (all HHSS) gave a presentation on October 7 as part of the Intersections series. Titled La Llorona: The Weeping Woman, the presentation examined the phenomenon of La Llorona in Mexican culture. After the presentation, Mueller was interviewed by the Abilene Reporter News for a story on the subject.
Corey Postiglione (Art + Design) has an exhibition of his work, entitled Synecdoche, opening at Thomas Masters Gallery in Chicago on November 20. The Columbia community is invited to join him for an opening reception November 20 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the gallery, 245 West North Avenue (312-440-2322). The exhibition runs through December 20.
Louis Silverstein (HHSS) will be presenting a workshop on "Meditation, Visualization & Creativity" at the Imagination Education for Everyone! conference November 13 and 14 at National-Louis University Chicago Campus. His books, Deep Spirit & Great Heart . . . and Encountering Life's Endings, are now available in Kindle editions in addition to print editions.
Fereshteh Toosi (New Millennium Studies), K. Bradford (Multicultural Affairs), and Misty DeBerry (Residence Life), along with first-year student Deb Durham, were part of a performance production called Let Them Eat Cake, a production of About Face Theatre and the XYZ Fesitval. Let Them Eat Cake is a queerly reinvigorated look at the institution of marriage and the struggle for marriage equality (aka our big fat queer wedding — and yours, too). Legendary performance artist Holly Hughes collaborates with AFT Artistic Associate Megan Carney on this high energy, interactive exploration of weddings and gay marriages.
Albert (Bill) Williams (Theater) coedited the book Nothing Personal: Chronicles of Chicago’s LGBTQ Community 1977-1997 with Jon-Henri Damski. The book release and Williams’s presentation with the Jon-Henri Award were covered in several publications, including the Chicago Reader, Gay Chicago, Chicago Free Press, and the Windy City Times.
Kimo Williams (AEMM) and his Lt. Dan Band featuring Gary Sinise will travel to Afghanistan November 20 – 29 to perform for American military and civilians as part of the USO initiative to entertain service members. The band began as the G & K Classic Rock Band in 1999, when Williams was writing music for the Steppenwolf production of A Streetcar Named Desire. In 2003, after the US went to War in Iraq, Kimo, as executive director of the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, put together a USO show with the G & K Classic Rock Band to support the troops at the Great Lakes Navy Base. Since 2004 (the first official tour) the band has played over 100 USO shows and many other commercial and benefit concerts. The band played at the National Memorial Day Concert in D.C. in 2005 as well as the Pentagon. As a Vietnam veteran and a soldier musician in 1970, Kimo has performed music in combat zones for the troops and looks forward to doing it again in 2009.