(l-r) Darrell and Troy Taylor,
Chip and GR Briggs.
On the occasion of Bill Briggs' passing,
Clay City/Brazil/West Lafayette, Indiana,
summer 2013.
Friday, September 13, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Iowa Irish Fest 2013 in Waterloo!
At the "Lucky" 7th Annual Iowa Irish Fest in Waterloo, Iowa!
Beautiful Bev and Kilt Inspector Mark in front of the Park Avenue stage.
Bev McCusker talking to the best - and handsomest - Irish band Scythian after an exciting and athletic performance on August 2nd.
Me and Mark.
Bev and her buddies, Kris and Dottie.
Fun was had by all!
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Vocal Jazz Gems
Manhattan Transfer
Rare Silk
I've loved these songs, and especially these vocal arrangements, for decades now. Listening to them brings back such happy memories. Enjoy!
Friday, July 26, 2013
Hudson and Whiting at Faulconer Gallery
A particularly magnificent detail of Scott Robert Hudson's Wild Horses.
An installation view of Wild Horses, possibly a companion piece to his 2007 installation at the UNI Gallery of Art, which was titled Bison.
Another detail of Hudson's Wild Horses.
Yesterday, I made a road trip to Grinnell, Iowa to see the latest work by my colleagues/friends Scott Robert Hudson and Margaret Whiting. It was a beautiful summer day and the right opportunity to once again engage in the ideas they consistently espouse - human interaction with wildlife and landscape as well as human cultural clashes that have impacted social development through the ages.
Hudson states that this latest installation is about "the socio-ecology of the North American wild horse herds, the atmospherics of the Paleolithic caves of Southern France, and the human drama of the Ghost Dance." Whiting says her exhibition addresses "deforestation and the ways human laws help and hinder environmental protection, the connections between human health and the land, and the patterns and systems that connect us all." Each presentation is distinct but together in the same space they create a rousing dialogue about authority, influence, and enterprise. The Great Themes!
Hudson's Wild Horses, Whiting's Environmental Concerns, and Lorna Bieber's From a Distance run through Sept. 8, 2013 at the lovely Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.
An installation view of Deforestation, which is an iteration of a piece presented in 2011 at the UNI Gallery of Art in a group invitational exhibition titled What You Will.
A Whiting collage.
Monday, June 10, 2013
Feature on UNI website
Here's the link to a feature about me posted on the University of Northern Iowa website. Student Steven Sanchez of UNI Proud interviewed me during the spring 2013 semester just prior to some really fabulous campus LGBT programming that he helped to organize.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
A couple of exquisite Rameau productions
Photo from the Lokomobilaeu homepage
This Paris production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's "Les Paladins" includes the lithe Topi Lehtipuu and the rubbery Laurent Naouri as well as hip-hop dancers and fantastical video projections. It's absolutely a joy to watch from start to finish.
Photo by Agathe Poupeney
This Rameau production of "Hippolyte et Aricie" looks nostalgically Baroque. The dancing is beautiful, the cast's posture perfect, and the singing so very beautiful. Also, I highly recommend the June 2012 New York Times review of this show.
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