Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Conference for Aspiring Minority Youth, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014
Toledo Excel's
30th Annual Conference
for Aspiring Minority Youth
This program is open to all parents and students.
Saturday, January 25, 2014
UT Student Union Auditorium
8:30am -1:00pm
Free lunch included
Details here.
The keynote speaker is Diane Nash who played a significant role in the civil rights movement.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Community Forum on Race, Thursday, January 9, 2014
This is the second of a series sponsored by the Blade and the The Toledo Community Coalition. The first forum at Woodward High School was very interesting and was standing room only. They moved this one to Nitschke Hall on the engineering campus.
Read the entire article here.
Read the entire article here.
Interdisciplinary Artist Johanna Dery, Jan. 17-18, 2014
This is from the UT press release.
Check out the link at the end.
This artist's work looks fascinating.
UT Department of Theatre & Film welcomes Interdisciplinary Artist Johanna Dery
Animations Presentations
Friday, January 17, 2014
7:30 PM
Lab Theater at the CPA (main campus)
Animation Workshop
Saturday, January 18, 2014
9:30-4:30 PM
CPA 1039
The University of Toledo Department of Theatre and Film will host a two-day artist’s residency with Interdisciplinary artist Johanna Dery (Jo). Ms. Dery will present her internationally recognized animations on Friday, January 17, 2014 and teach an animation workshop on Saturday, January 18, 2014.
Jo Dery is an interdisciplinary artist who experiments with visual storytelling. She makes short films, drawings, prints, and little books. Among other venues, Dery’s works have screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and the Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation. She has been awarded grants from the LEF Foundation, The Free History Project, and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. Her drawings and prints have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Dery’s little books can be found in independent stores like Ada Books (Providence) and Quimby’s (Chicago) or online from Little Otsu (Portland).
Friday, January 17 at 7:30 p.m. Ms. Dery will present her short films on both 16mm film and digital video in the Lab Theatre (Room 1039) of the UT Center for Performing Arts, 1910 West Rocket Drive. She will also engage in a talkback discussion with the audience after the screening. Tickets for the screening will be sold at the door – $5 general admission and $3 for students and seniors (60+). Admission is free for UT Theatre & Film majors with ID. Free refreshments will be provided. On Saturday, January 18 Ms. Dery will teach an animation workshop from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 1039 of the Center for Performing Arts. This workshop is free and open to interested students.
Jo Dery earned a BFA in Film/Animation/Video from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She has completed residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as participated in an animation workshop at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Animation in DePaul University’s School of Cinema and Interactive Media. Please visit her portfolio site: http://jodery.com/
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