April 5, 2012
Shelly Berg
Follow the Sun
All Music Guide calls jazz pianist Shelly Berg “one of the finest pianists around…playing modern jazz.” Shelly's CD, Blackbird (Concord), reached #1 in US jazz radio (Jazzweek) and garnered Record of the Year. He has collaborated with jazz vocalists such as Patti Austin, Nancy Wilson, Bobby McFerrin, Kurt Elling, and Dionne Warwick, and performed/recorded with jazz legends including Ray Brown, Peter Erskine, Jon Faddis, Woody Herman, James Moody, Arturo Sandoval, Clark Terry and Bill Watrous, to name a few.
Shelly's composing and orchestrating for television and film includes Fudge, CBS's A League of Their Own, Dennis Miller Live, Almost Heroes, For Your Consideration, and Men of Honor. He has orchestrated for Chicago, Kiss, Carole King, Richard Marx, Joe Cocker, Elliott Smith, Lou Rawls, Steve Miller, and most recently was a featured orchestrator on Ray Sings, Basie Swings (a Ray Charles/Count Basie Orchestra collaboration) and Arturo Sandoval's A Time for Love. Shelly is currently dean of the Frost School at Miami University.
Unless otherwise noted, all lectures will take place at 5:10 pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor.
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April 5, 2012
Joanne Leonard’s Newspaper Diary
Newspaper Diary: Trompe l’oeil Photographs
Open April 5 - May 31, 2012
U-M Institute for the Humanities Gallery, 202 S. Thayer, room 1010, Ann Arbor
Gallery Hours: 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Joanne Leonard’s work has always managed to exist in two alternate universes, one intimate, and another vast. Both manage to be deeply relevant to the collective shifts of society.
These new works are what the artist describes as momentary collages, contrasting the historical weight and relative durability of books with the fleeting news images she’s carefully propped up on the book’s open pages. These thoughtfully orchestrated assemblages exist only in real time… performative, here and gone once the books are closed and the clippings put away. Yet, the photographs serve as record to preserve them despite their inherent impermanence.
As a final layer, these large scale trompe-l’oeill prints become objects for the viewer, the datelines and newspaper clippings readable, suggestive of an oversized diary or journal, marking the comings and goings and accumulations over time.
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