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Mainstage
The Old Man and the Old Moon
Written by the Pigpen Theatre
Directed by Emily Ritger
April 13 - 16
Newhart Family Theatre
The Old Man has filled the moon with liquid light each day for longer than any of us can recall. When the Old Woman sails west in search of a long-lost memory, the Old Man embarks on an epic quest to find his wife. PigPen Theatre Co.’s The Old Man and the Old Moon is a sea-faring fable of dusty promises kept, deleterious adventures taken, and the deathless forces that run our world.
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In the Media
Loyola Phoenix reviews Invisible Architecture at the Ralph Arnold Gallery
Curated by Marina Ross and featuring paintings and sculptures by Ian Miyamura, Hasani Sahlehe, Jaclyn Mednicov, Alessandra Norman, Salvador Dominguez, and Sonya Bogdanova, Invisible Architecture is on view through April 14. Public hours are Saturdays from 1-4 and weekdays from 9-5 to the Loyola community.READ -
Concert
Vocal Performance Major Recital
Friday, March 31
8:30pm (CT)
PianoForte | 1335 S Michigan Ave, Chicago
The annual recital for the Music Program's Vocal Performance Majors.
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Scholarships
2023-2024 DFPA Scholarships
Starting March 1 the Loyola Scholarship Connection will begin accepting applications for academic year 2023-2024. Loyola Scholarship Connection is an online portal that uses a general application to match students with opportunities they may be eligible for.
The DFPA will continue to administer endowed scholarships for continuing students through Loyola Scholarship Connection.
We invite all eligible majors in Dance, Fine Arts, and Music, and Theatre majors and minors, interested in being considered for scholarship opportunities to login to Loyola Scholarship Connection (using your Loyola ID and password) and complete a general application by the DFPA deadline of April 1. DFPA faculty will review student applications and award our scholarships from this pool of applicants. CLICK for details.
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Artist-In-Residence
Kaoru Watanabe Named Spring 2023 Artist-In-Residence in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts Music Program at Loyola University Chicago
During his residence, New York-based musician and North America’s leading practitioner of the shinobue (Japanese transverse flute), Kaoru Watanabe will engage with music students and faculty through teaching, working with the Percussion and Wind Ensembles, and will present a public recital in the Skowronski Music Hall on Loyola’s Lake Shore Campus.
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In the Media
What makes America what it is: Abstraction and freedom take root at Ralph Arnold Gallery.
The Ralph Arnold Gallery exhibition In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is curated by Matt Morris and featuring works by Kim Krause, Morgan, Sabina Ott was recently reviewed in the Chicago Reader.READ -
Faculty News
Christopher Madsen Joins the Loyola Music Faculty
Christopher Madsen, DMA joins the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Loyola University Chicago as Lecturer in Music, Jazz Studies. Madsen is a Jazz saxophonist, composer, and pedagogue who brings 14 years of experience teaching at the college level (Northwestern U. 2008-2014 and University of Illinois at Chicago, 2014-2022) and is excited to join the faculty at Loyola.
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student research
Questioning the Canon: Creating Diversity in Graphic Design History Zine Exhibition
December 1, 2022 - February 15, 2023
Cudahy Library, First Floor | Lake Shore Campus
Students conducted original research into an under-served or under-considered graphic designer, design group, movement, or region. They then used this research to create an Instagram post, a TikTok video, an exhibition poster, and the zines featured in the Cudahy Library.
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Student Research
Loyola Dance Senior Molly Kaiser Presents “The Dreamer’s Ball” in 2022 Mainstage Dance Concert
The mainstage dance concert student choreography piece is a unique opportunity for Loyola dancers to create a fully realized work together. “I loved working with my peers who also happen to be my best friends,” reflects Molly. “I wanted to give them a piece where they would shine and feel a sense of pride to perform. They did the same for me, putting in so much hard work and supported my vision being brought to life.”
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Alumni
Leading with Music
Loyola alumna Ayanna Williams is on a mission to make high-quality performing arts education accessible to all children.READ -
faculty research
Art History Faculty Publishes Research
Art History faculty Rebecca Ruppar has recently published an article in Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture.
In "A Hierophany of Nature in Early Franciscans' Wood-Panel Paintings," Ruppar examines how the religious order founded by Francis of Assisi emerges as one of the most prolific patrons of the arts in the 13th century, creating images to encourage devotion among the Christian laity.
The basic, organic elements of these paintings: wooden boards, animal glue, linen, linseed oil, and egg tempera paints conceivably held a deeper meaning derived from their founder's nature-imbued spirituality that exalted God's earthly creation. The paintings created by the early Franciscans may be understood as exhibiting a kind of "active respect" for nature.
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In the Media
Music alum Kabir Dalawari featured in the Chicago Tribune
Jazz Studies grad Kabir Dalawari's debut album Awareness is featured in an article that discusses his academic trajectory at Loyola and the important role that Professor Mat Ulery's mentorship played in Kabir's musical growth. Awareness features Kabir on drums, Ulery on Bass, and recent Loyola graduate Eric Arroyo on piano. READ -
In the Media
How College Dancers Can Marry Their Passion to Activism
The Loyola Dance Program and it's student-led Dance Honor Society are featured in a Dance Magazine article that surveys undergraduate programs that merge the arts and social justice.
“Why should I be dancing now? Shouldn’t I be doing something more ‘serious?’ ”
In the midst of a turbulent political climate, racial injustices and a global pandemic, a lot of dancers might find themselves asking the same questions. But rather than abandoning the arts, college dancers are discovering ways to marry their schoolwork with activism, using movement to respond to the world around them.
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Alumni
An Unexpected Calling
Bob Newhart's improbable journey from Loyola business student to American comedy iconREAD -
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Alumni
Art with Impact: Empathy on Stage
"The point of learning how to make theatre is to do it, and to do it in community, and to do it in service to the world"READ
