June 13, 2013
Interview by John Seed with Eve Aschheim, Lecturer in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center. Aschheim is an abstract painter whose recent works reflect a dialogue between intellect and instinct. A formalist who is attracted to geometry -- and who is sensitive to minute changes in position and line -- Aschheim is currently exhibiting her work in a two-person show at the New York Studio School alongside paintings by Ying Lee.
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June 12, 2013
The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University will present over 100 events running September 2013 through May 2014, including theater and dance performances, readings by internationally-known writers, exhibitions, screenings and lectures. Upcoming highlights for the season include...
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June 7, 2013
The New York Public Library has announced Claire Vaye Watkins, author of "Battleborn" (Riverhead) and Visiting Professor in Creative Writing at the Lewis Center, as the winner of the thirteenth annual Young Lions Fiction Award. The award honors the works of dynamic, first time-authors and is given annually to an American writer age 35 or younger for either a novel or collection of short stories. Each year, five young fiction writers are selected as finalists by a reading committee of Young Lions members, writers, editors, and librarians. A panel of award judges, including Karen Russell, John Wray, and Peter Nathaniel Malae selected Watkins as the winner of the $10,000 prize.
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June 7, 2013
The novel "May We Be Forgiven," by A.M. Homes, a Lecturer in Creative Writing in Princetons Lewis Center for the Arts, has received the Womens Fiction Prize, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the world. The winner was announced at an awards ceremony at Royal Festival Hall in London on June 5.
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June 4, 2013
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University has selected artist and Lecturer in the Program in Visual Arts Pamela Lins to be a Radcliffe Institute fellow for the 20132014 academic year. Pamela Lins is among 49 other artists and scholars who will have a year of discovery to write books, create art, pioneer research, and bring together theory and practice.
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May 30, 2013
A new public sculpture was recently installed on the Princeton campus, conceived and executed by eight students in the Lewis Centers course in Advanced Sculpture taught by artist Martha Friedman in the Program in Visual Arts. Constructed of concrete and rubber and located behind the Friend Center off Olden Street, the piece will be on view through October.
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May 28, 2013
Lecturer in the Program in Visual Arts Eve Aschheim was awarded the Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Funds Purchase Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her artwork, entitled "XYZ (2011)," is currently featured in the Academy's Ceremonial Exhibition through June 9, 2013, after which point it will be donated to an American museum. In March, the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the eight artists who would receive its 2013 awards in art. The awards were presented in New York City at the Academys annual Ceremonial. The art prizes, totaling $67,500, honor both established and emerging artists. The award winners were chosen from a group of 34 artists who had been invited to participate in the Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, which was on view from March 7-April 14, 2013 and featured over 120 paintings, sculptures, installations, video and works on paper.
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May 24, 2013
Graphic designer Danielle Aubert and percussionist/composer Jason Treuting will come to Princeton University in the fall to begin two years of teaching and collaboration as the first Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts.
The Fellows in the Creative and Performing Arts program provides support for early-career artists who have demonstrated both extraordinary promise and a record of achievement in their fields with the opportunity to further their work while teaching within a liberal arts context.
Open to artists in all disciplines, fellows are selected for a two-year residency to teach one course each semester or, in lieu of a course, to undertake an artistic assignment, such as directing a play, conducting a student music ensemble or choreographing a dance with students. Fellows will be active members of the University's intellectual and artistic community while in residence, with access to the resources and spaces necessary to their work.
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May 23, 2013
Four members of the Class of 2013 graduating with certificates from Lewis Center programs were awarded Fulbright grants to study and teach abroad during the coming year. The recipients and the countries in which they will be studying and visiting are: Lily Akerman (Creative Writing and Theater) in Ireland; Courtney Crumpler (Dance) in Brazil; Audrey Hall (Creative Writing) in Argentina; and Eric Silberman (Creative Writing) in Poland. The Fulbright program was established in 1946 and is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Education. The program provides funding for more than 1,500 American students to study, teach or conduct research abroad.
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May 22, 2013
On May 20, 2013, Lecturer in the Program in Theater John Rando won an OBIE award for Directing "All In The Timing" (Primary Stages).
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May 22, 2013
Cameron White '14, a certificate student in the Program in Creative Writing, was awarded one of the coveted production awards in the International Beijing Screenwriting Competition. White submitted his screenplay for a short film set in China, which he completed during a spring semester Screenwriting course taught by Lecturer in Creative Writing Christina Lazaridi.
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May 22, 2013
Beginning on Thursday, June 13, choreographer and Senior Lecturer in Dance Rebecca Lazier will present, along with indie-classical ensemble Newspeak, the first US performances of "Coming Together/Attica." The performers include Princeton alumnus and former Merce Cunningham Dance Company member Silas Riener, among others. Performances will be held June 13-15 at The Invisible Dog in Brooklyn, New York.
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May 22, 2013
Program in Theater faculty members John Rando and John Doyle will each be directing shows in the 2014 season at the City Center Encores! series in New York. The season, which begins February 5-9, 2014, will open with Little Me," based on the Patrick Dennis novel. Rando, OBIE Award-winning director of All in the Timing," will direct. The final show in the Encores! lineup, entitled Irma La Douce, will run May 7-11, 2014, and will be directed by Tony Award-winner Doyle.
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May 14, 2013
Tara Thean '13 has written a ballet feature for LIFE.com which includes a statement from Lecturer in Dance and longtime member of the Mark Morris Dance Group Tina Fehlandt.
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May 8, 2013
The Program in Visual Arts at Princeton University will present an exhibition of work in a wide range of media by the Class of 2013 graduating seniors in the program. The exhibition, entitled Senior All-Star Show, will feature recent work by students completed as part of their senior thesis projects and will be on view from May 16 through June 4 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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May 7, 2013
The Program in Visual Arts will present Avoid Toetal Loss, an exhibition of paintings and drawings that explore time and distortions of time by senior certificate student Laura Preston from Tuesday, May 7 through Friday, May 10 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, May 9 from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the gallery. Gallery hours are weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
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May 3, 2013
Students in the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts will present new work in a film screening on Friday, May 10 at 7:00 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ?32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Students from the spring course, entitled Narrative Filmmaking, will present three new short films completed during the past semester. The screening is free and open to the public and is followed by a public reception.
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May 3, 2013
Students in the Lewis Center for the Arts Program in Visual Arts will present new work in a video screening on Thursday, May 16 at 7:00 p.m. in the James M. Stewart ?32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. Students from spring courses in introductory and intermediate digital video production will present new short videos created over the past few months. The screening is free and open to the public and is followed by a public reception.
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May 1, 2013
Lewis Center for the Arts Visual Arts faculty member Deana Lawson and Creative Writing faculty member Colson Whitehead, along with former faculty members David Rosenberg, Gary Schneider and Brenda Shaughnessy, have received 2013 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships. They are among 175 artists, scientists and scholars chosen from a group of almost 3,000 applicants to receive awards in the 89th annual competition for the United States and Canada.
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May 1, 2013
Casey Brown '14, Sean Drohan '14, and Cara Michell '14 have been selected by Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts faculty as the 2013 recipients of the Alex Adam '07 Award. Established in memory of Alexander Jay Adam '07 and made possible by a generous gift from his family, the award provides support to Princeton undergraduates who will spend a summer pursuing a project that will result in the creation of new artistic work.
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