Category: Fine Arts
Webinar on arts education, arts management to be held Monday
All may attend a guest lecture about arts education, arts management and professional practice to be presented Monday via Zoom webinar. Frank Juarez, art department chair at Sheboygan North High School, contributing editor of SchoolArts Magazine and publisher of Artdose Magazine, will speak for Professor of Art Rafael Salas’ Senior Studio Project students. The lecture […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Fine Arts, Special Event.
Ripon College director Ric Damm displays photographs in area exhibit
“Stage Shots: Performance Images from the Thrasher Opera House,” featuring photographs by Director of Creative and Social Media Ric Damm, are on view at the opera house in Green Lake, Wisconsin, through May 31. The photographs document many of the musical artists who have performed there. Damm has been volunteering his services to the historic […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Fine Arts, Staff.
Trumpet recital to be presented virtually starting April 15
A virtual recital with Adjunct Professor of Music Jessica Jensen, trumpet, will premiere at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 15, on Ripon College’s YouTube channel at ripon.edu/live-events. The performance is part of the Chamber Music at Ripon series, but performances remain closed to live audiences this semester. Deb MacKenzie, pianist, will be the accompanist. The program […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts, Music Performance.
Celebrate Ripon College theatre, in all the ways we have seen it this year
World Theatre Day is an international observance to be celebrated Saturday, March 27. It was started in 1961 by the International Theatre Institute. It falls this year during Ripon College’s virtual run of “Chekhov’s Short Farces,” which can be viewed at ripon.edu/chekhov. Professor of Theatre Kenneth Hill, the director of “Chekhov’s Short Farces,” shares some […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Fine Arts.
Works made with paper will be exhibited April 2-20
“An Unfinished Monument to Truth,” a virtual art exhibit by Mark Rospenda, will be on view April 2-30 at Ripon College. An artist’s talk will be presented at 7 p.m. April 2. Registration for the talk and a link to view the exhibit throughout the month is available at ripon.edu/art. Included in the exhibit are […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Fine Arts.
Chekhov comedy plays to be presented online March 26-28
A streamed production of “Chekhov’s Short Farces” will be presented March 26 through 28 by the Ripon College Department of Theatre. The production will be presented free of charge via Zoom and feature three great short farces: “The Bear,” “The Reluctant Tragic Hero” and “The Proposal,” all written by one of the world’s finest playwrights. […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts, Student.
Faculty baritone Jonathan Kim will present virtual recital March 25
Baritone Jonathan Kim, adjunct instructor of music, will present a virtual recital as part of the Chamber Music at Ripon series of Ripon College. The performance will be recorded in Demmer Recital Hall, C.J. Rodman Center for the Arts. Because the hall remains closed to live audiences this semester, the recital will be streamed at […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts, Music Performance.
Virtual theatre production features cast of Ripon alumni Saturday
A cast of Ripon-connected thespians is featured in an upcoming Zoom production directed by Associate Professor of English Ann Pleiss Morris. The production will begin at 6:30 p.m. Central Time Saturday, March 20. Tickets can be purchased here. The play, Margaret Cavendish’s comedy “The Sociable Companions” is being presented by Sweet Tea Shakespeare in Fayetteville, […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Alumni, Faculty, Fine Arts.
Award-winning author will read March 17 in virtual Visiting Writers presentation
Author Souvankham Thammavongsa will read Wednesday, March 17, as part of the Visiting Writers Series at Ripon College. The virtual event will begin via Zoom link at 7:30 p.m. Thammavongsa is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection How to Pronounce Knife (Little, Brown, 2020), a finalist for the National Book […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Fine Arts, Special Event.
Kurt Dietrich will discuss jazz in Wisconsin March 3
Professor Emeritus of Music Kurt Dietrich will discuss his book Wisconsin Riffs: Jazz Profiles from the Heartland March 3 via a Facebook Live presentation. The talk will begin at 7 p.m. on the Wisconsin Historical Society Press Facebook page. The publisher describes Dietrich’s book: “Although New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago are often considered […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts.
Dietrich family establishes funding resources of more than $2 million
An entire family’s love and commitment to higher education have culminated in two funding resources for Ripon College with a combined value of more than $2 million. The Richard V. and Frances S. Dietrich Trust Scholarship and the Richard V. and Frances S. Dietrich Faculty Development Fund have been established in the name of the […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts, Funding, Funding and gifts.
Associate Professor of English Megan Gannon has poem published in journal
Megan Gannon, associate professor of English, has a new poem, “Dispatch from the Hotel Pool,” published in the fall/winter 2020 issue of Atlanta Review. “Dispatch from the Hotel Pool” In between days at the Magic Kingdom and Universal Studios, we take a break from the crowds and lines to lounge by the hotel pool: two […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts.
Work by artist Tracy Featherstone to be on view on campus and virtually
Work by Tracy Featherstone, professor of art at Miami University, will be displayed Feb. 5 through March 5 at Ripon College. The on-site exhibit is open only to members of the campus community. A virtual exhibit of the works can be viewed by the public at ripon.edu/Featherstone. An opening artist’s talk will be held via […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Fine Arts, Uncategorized.
Rafael Francisco Salas to present virtual artist’s talk Thursday
Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas will present a virtual artist’s talk Thursday in connection with an exhibit at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, St. Kate: The Arts Hotel, in Milwaukee. “Into the Vault with Rafael Francisco Salas” will begin at 7 p.m. and live stream on Facebook and YouTube. He will show rarely-seen works […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts.
Art, museum studies students curate two exhibits on view through May
Two exhibits curated by art and museum studies students are on view on campus and online at Ripon College. Both exhibits are available for viewing through May 16. On campus, they are on view in the Ripon College Museum in West Hall. “Pastiche Painting: The Colorful and Cliché World of Paint-by-Number” explores this “interesting interaction […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Fine Arts, Student.
Work by Rafael Francisco Salas featured in three exhibitions
Work by Professor of Art Rafael Francisco Salas is featured in “What on Earth: Contemporary Artists and the Landscape,” an exhibit running through Feb. 12 at Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art in Milwaukee. “Work in this exhibition celebrates and underscores our environment, inching along the fault lines of climate change, polar ice cap melt, […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts.
Orchestra students share first-semester offering
The Ripon College Orchestra, featuring only strings and minus — because of the coronavirus pandemic — players who are members of the off-campus community, rehearsed several pieces and recorded a performance of Franz Tunder’s “An Wasserflüssen Babylon” at the end of the fall semester. The recording can be heard below. Adjunct Instructor of Music Mishan […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts, Music Performance, Student.
‘Molly Sweeney’ theatre production will be streamed for viewing
The Ripon College Department of Theatre will share its next play, “Molly Sweeney,” by Brian Friel, via streaming at ripon.edu/molly-sweeney from 12:15 a.m. Central time Wednesday, Nov. 11, through 11:45 p.m. Central time Saturday, Nov.14. The entire play can be viewed for 48 hours after “ticket purchase” or up until the ending time on Nov. […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Faculty, Fine Arts, Student.
Virtual art exhibit will feature images of longing, loss in Midwestern cities
“Homesickness: On Longing and Loss,” a virtual exhibit of work by multidisciplinary artist Whitney Sage, will run Nov. 6 through Nov. 24. Sponsored by Ripon College, the exhibit will be on view at ripon.edu/whitney-sage. The artist will give an opening talk via Zoom at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, and the link also can be […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Fine Arts.
Award-winning author Karen Tei Yamashita will speak virtually Oct. 21
Award-winning author Karen Tei Yamashita will read virtually Wednesday, Oct. 21, as part of the Ripon College Visiting Writers Series. Members of the greater Ripon communoity can attend via a Zoom link. Yamshita is a professor of literature and creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Through the […]
Posted by Dale Devries in Fine Arts, Special Event.