Shaness Kemp (Dance) and Dr. Linda Dusman (Music) were each awarded 2023 CIRCA Summer Fellowships. Professor Kemp will use the funds to complete Spirit of Our Bones, an evening length performance inspired by the Black Lives Matter Movement and the stories of a marginalized people, and the protests that ensued from the murder of George Floyd, highlighting the pain and journey of black mothers who have lost their children to senseless and racially driven violence. Professor Dusman will use the funds to support the recording of a commercially released CD of her recent compositions reflecting on various aspects of our environmental fragility.
Corrie Francis Parks (Associate Professor, Visual Arts) is presenting a new site-specific installation resulting from her Fulbright fellowship residency at ASIFAKEIL at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Austria, opening April 19 and on view through May 26. Sound design was provided by Maks Prykhodko (IMDA, ’21).
Diana Nicholette Jeon (IMDA ‘06) has a solo exhibition It’s Like Swimming in the Ocean at Midnight in the Dark on view at Honolulu Printmakers in Honolulu, HI, April 6 – May 27.
Jovan James (Visual Arts ‘13) was recently selected to be a Screenplay Lab Fellow by the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund where he will work on developing his film Tadpole.
Corrie Francis Parks (Associate Professor, Visual Arts) is presenting a new site-specific installation resulting from her Fulbright fellowship residency at ASIFAKEIL at MuseumsQuartier in Vienna, Austria, opening April 19 and on view through May 26. Sound design was provided by Maks Prykhodko (IMDA, ’21).
Susan McCully (Associate Professor, Theatre) was awarded the 2023 CIRCA-IMET Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, during which she will pursue work on her proposed project Theatrical Representation of Climate Science for a Green Theatre Revolution.
MJ Neuberger (IMDA ‘18) has a solo exhibition The Protection of Lowly Gods: MJ Neuberger opening on Friday, May 12 in the Main Gallery at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore. The exhibition will be on view through June 17.
Monique Crabb (IMDA ‘22) has work featured in the exhibition Hand Me Down at Gallery 236 in Cambridge, MA, on view April 20 – May 20, with an opening reception on April 28.
Beth Yashnyk (IMDA Studio Manager & Visual Arts Professor) is presenting a collaborative show with Fanni Somogyi. Opening May 6th, at Transformer DC “Sticky Entanglements,” is an exhibition exploring glitch as a point of metamorphosis.