Scene Design Commission Meeting, March 29, 2006
USITT National Conference, Louisville, KY
1. The Designs of Robert O'Hearn, Indiana, Opera Design (retiring soon)
Andrew Rich, contact e-mail, rich@susqu.edu , 570.372.4056
a) retrospective exhibit, b) conference visit, c) honor in Houston?
2. John Ezell, University of Missouri, Kansas City, assistant Gene Friedman
Jon Young, contact, jon.young02@park.edu , 816.584.6451
Arden Weaver, aweaver@d.umn.edu , 218.726.8780
¼ inch models, Arizona conference
2.a. Jon Drtina, contact info
3. Herb Cambern, Long Beach, CA
Jason Foreman, contact
4. Diversity Designers, Scene Designers of Color, Women Scene Designers
Ann Mundell, Pittsburgh, PA, coordinated first Women Scene Design Exhibit
Carolyn Ross, coordinated first Women Scene Design Exhibit
Kelly Wiegant Mangan, Stage One, Louisville, (invite to participate in project)
Contact these USITT members to work on this project, 1) create a list of women scenic designers, organize another women scene design exhibition, and create a TD&T article.
TD&T article, Where are all the women scene designers? Find article.
5. Suggestion for pre-conference workshop, for Houston Conference
Tour of Tobin Collection, (may have a problem selling the idea of traveling that distance for a workshop).
6. Presentation by Jody Blake, curator, James Cunningham, chair
7. Kevin Rigdon, University of Houston, Broadway and Regional Scenic Designer, (age 49?)
Houston Ballet, Houston Opera, Alley Theatre, Houston Shakespeare, Edward Albee key note?
8. Fine Artists, who have designed for the theatre
Send title of text to Heritage Committee members and ask for additional ideas
9. Conference Program Proposal
Continue our series -
Tracing our Roots: Continuing the Family Tree of Scene Design
Andrew Rich, and Daniel Schindler, co-chairs
Richard Finkelstein, Michael Mehler, Gerry Patt and James Cunningham.
10. RESEARCH ARCHIVE IN USITT
OSU handout
11. Additional notes:
- Exhibit space will be limited next year in Arizona '07
- Robert Moody, painting workshop and drawing exhibition
- Ephemera project, props research list
12. Cataloging the University of Texas theatre design collections
Karen Maness, resident scenic artist @ University of Texas
Helen Adair, curator @ Harry Ransom Center
Utopia - on-line digital archiving
Joe Thompson, joe@theatricalsolutions.com , 580.774.7334
Jon Young, jonyoung02@park.edu , 816.584.6451
Andy Rich, rich@susqu.edu , 570.372.4056
Dave Shuhy, dshuhy@regent.edu , 757.226.4201
Gerry Patt, gdpatt@salisbury.edu , 410.430.5038
Daniel Schindler, dschindler@cshico.edu , 970.231.1743
James G. Cunningham, jgcunningham@sosu.edu , 580.745.2835
Arden Weaver, aweaver@d.umn.edu, 218-726-8780
Meeting #2, March 31, 2006
USITT National Conference, Louisville, KY
1. We want to investigate the prospects of inviting Robert O'Hearn to the Houston National Conference, 1. Exhibit, 2. Visit and 3. Honour. Houston workshop and exhibit idea: Robert Moody, painting workshop with an exhibit of his drawings.
2. Encourage an exhibit and TD&T article featuring John Ezell. His ¼" scale models could be shown in the middle of 'Cover the Walls' exhibit in Phoenix, AZ. Light Box can be helpful by illuminating the models. Photos and transcribed presentation from KCACTF region 5 festival in Fargo, ND, January 2006.
Ezell painting elevations would serve as excellent examples for scene painting. Rachel Keebler (Cobalt Studios) and Jenny Knot possible contacts for this initiative.
3. Herb Cambern, committee expressed interest in future exhibit.
4. Total support for diversity projects as noted above. Check TD&T article, "Where are all the women scene designers".
5. PDW, pre-conference sessions discussed. Houston plans for a Tobin Collection tour has had a positive reaction by several folks in the institute.
A second PDW was initiated by Richard Finkelstein and Brian Ruggaber, both from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Title of the workshop: Digital Photo Documentation. Finkelstein and Ruggaber had a great response from their workshop, 'Getting the Best Results in Digital Photos for Stage.'
6. Judy Blake, curator, Tobin Collection will be contacted by James Cunningham.
7. Connections should be investigated with the following Houston organizations: Houston Ballet, Houston Opera, Alley Theatre, Houston Shakespeare and Edward Albee.
8. Fine Artists, designing in the theatre.
Resource: ART and the STAGE, Painters and Sculptors work for the Theatre, Edited by Henning Rischbieter, Documented by Wolfgang Storch, New York Graphic Dociety Ltd. Grenwich, Connecticut. First printed in the United States 1969. Second printing 1970. Standard Book Number 8212-0352-5. Library of Congress Catalog Card number 72-86261.
(Artists featured in this text: Toulouse-Lautrec, German Impressionists, Leom Bakst, Mikhail, Natalia Goncharova, Marc Chyagall, The Futurists, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Juan Gris, George Braque, Fernand Leger, Andre Derain, Maurice Utrillo, Raoul Dufy, Georges Rauault, Max Ernst, Jean Cocteau, Joan Miro, Marie Laurencin, The Russian Constructivists, Vassily Kandinsky, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Paul Klee, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Mondrian, Oskar Schlemmer, Willi Baumeister, Dada and the stage, George Grosz. Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Carlo Carra, Gino Severini, Renato Guttuso, Mario Sironi, Salvador Dali, Andre Masson, Ernst Barlach, Oskar Kokoschka, Frank Masereel, Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Giacomo Manzu, Mario Ceroli, Fritz Wotruba, Rudolph Hoflehner, Edwald Matare, Otto Herbert Hajek, Max Bill, Jean Bazaine, Alberto Burri, Emilio Vedova, Tadeusz Kantor, Victor Vasarely, Harry Kramer, Otto Piene, Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Martial Rayne, Marcel Duchcamp, Jim Dine, and Wolf Vostell).
If other committee members have unique out of print books of interest, please share the bibliographies.
9. Continue our series: Tracing our Roots, Continuing the Family Tree of Scene Design
Other committee members expressed interest in presenting a part of the series: James Cunningham
Web page source supplied by Daniel Schindler.
Here also is the link to the Tracing our Roots site as is. I have not added information from this years session. ( I spoke briefly to Bobbi Owens about finding a home for it on the USITT server and she seemed to think it would be no problem. Just wait until the end of the school year.)
10. Research Archive in USITT
Resources, Handout from The Ohio State University, Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute, http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/OSU_profile/triweb/
Nena Couch
Professor and Curator
Jerome Lawrence and Robert I. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Ohio State University
1430 Lincoln Tower
1800 Cannon Drive
Columbus Oh 43210-1230
614-292-6614
couch.1@osu.edu
www.lib.ohio-state.edu/triweb
Harry Ransom Center, Helen Adair, curator, (utophia - online digital archiving
Contact: Karen Maness, Res. Scenic Artist @ University of Texas, Austin (neighbor and good friend)
Additional museum, university research collections should be collected.
Exhibit space will be limited next year in Phoenix '07.
Definitions:
Her`it`age (her'e-tij) something handed down from one's ancestors or the past, as a culture, tradition, passed down from predecessors
