Art After Dark

Docents explore the theme of Art and Homage. 

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Vessels made from clay are one of the oldest forms of both art and function. Tonight join Guest Teaching Artist Simon Powers on a journey with pinch pots made from self-hardening clay, using the method known as hand building. A simple example of an ancient art, still in use today.

Classroom #2

Docents explore the work of Sculptural Innovators.

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Without a Whisper / dir. Katsitsionni Fox / 2020 / 27 min

WITHOUT A WHISPER - KONNON:KWE uncovers the hidden history of the profound influence Indigenous women had on the beginnings of the women’s rights movement in the United States.
Before the first woman’s rights convention in Seneca Falls in 1848, European colonial women lacked even the most basic rights, while Haudenosaunee women had a potent political and spiritual voice and authority in all aspects of their lives. The contact that the early suffragists had with Haudenosaunee women in New York State shaped their thinking and had a vital impact on their struggle for equality that is taken for granted today. The film follows Mohawk Bear Clan Mother Louise Herne and Professor Sally Roesch Wagner as they seek to correct the historical narrative about the origins of women’s rights in the United States.

• Winner, Best Short Film, Female Voices Rock Film Festival
• Best Documentary Short, Red Nation International Film Festival
• 2nd Runner-Up, Documentary Short, Woods Hole Film Festival
• Honorable Mention, Documentary Short, Roxbury International Film Festival

Stiller Auditorium

Roberta Rust, Pianist

NATIVE AMERICAN PIANO MUSIC

Featured in this lecture performance is the piano music of Connor Chee (Navajo), a composer and pianist born in 1987 and based in Phoenix, Arizona, who combines his classical piano training with his Native American heritage and Louis W. Ballard (Quapaw/Cherokee), known as the father of Native American composition.  Ballard was a composer and educator, who lived most of his life (1931-2007) in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

ROBERTA RUST 

Pianist Roberta Rust has concertized to critical acclaim, appearing in recitals at prestigious concert halls worldwide and collaborating with leading ensembles. Her artistry has been enthusiastically hailed for recordings on the Navona, Centaur, and Protone labels. Rust has performed at such venues as Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, New York's Merkin Concert Hall, Rio de Janeiro's Sala Cecilia Meireles, Washington's Corcoran Gallery, Havana’s Basilica and Seoul's KNUA Hall. She has appeared with the Lark, Ying, Serafin, Amernet and Fine Arts String Quartets and as a soloist with the Houston Symphony, New World Symphony, Philippine Philharmonic, New Philharmonic, Redlands Symphony, Boca Raton Symphonia, Knox-Galesburg Symphony, Frederick Symphony, Lynn Philharmonia, and orchestras in Latin America. Festival appearances include Miami's Mainly Mozart Festival, the Philippines’ Opusfest, the Palm Beach Chamber Music Festival, Festival Miami, Long Island's Beethoven Festival, and France's La Gesse. She served as Artistic Ambassador for the United States, was awarded a major National Endowment for the Arts grant, and received recognition and prizes from the Organization of American States, National Society of Arts & Letters, and International Concours de Fortepiano (Paris). 

Dr. Rust serves as Artist Faculty-Piano/Professor and head of the piano department at the Lynn University Conservatory of Music in Boca Raton, Florida. For more information please visit robertarust.com.

Great Hall