Las Loterias Event at TWU Combines Art and Music
08/28/03
DENTON — A collaborative
effort between School of the Arts faculty at Texas Woman’s University
will provide an evening of art, music and dance Thursday, Sept. 4 on the university’s
Denton campus. Special guests will include Enrique Fernandez Cervantes, visual
arts coordinator for the Bath House Cultural Center in Dallas, and Dr. Michael
Boyd, a nationally renowned pianist from the University of Toledo in Ohio.
An opening reception
for Las Loterias, an exhibition of art works with imagery based on a Mexican
children’s game, is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, in
the foyer of the Fine Arts Building, located at Texas and Oakland streets.
Refreshments will be served.
The exhibition is
on display in the TWU Gallery of Art through Friday, Sept. 26.
Sharon Warwick, TWU
assistant professor of art education, organized the exhibit, drawing inspiration
from a Loteria exhibit at the Bath House Cultural Center.
Loteria, a game similar
to Bingo, combines traditional folk images with text. Artists Sara Cardona,
Viola Delgado, Amalia Elmasri, Maria Teresa Garcia Pedroche, Elva Perez and
Elizabeth Zaremba created a series of works for the exhibit based on imagery
and/or text from the game.
The opening reception for Las Loterias will feature Mexican folk dances performed
by members of the TWU Dance Department at 6:30 p.m., followed by a talk by
Cervantes at 7 p.m. Cervantes will discuss Loteria, the artists, their work
and personal narratives or childhood memories in the works of contemporary
Latina artists.
A lecture-recital
by Dr. Michael Boyd will follow the reception at 8 p.m. in the Margo Jones
Performance Hall, located directly opposite the Fine Arts Building. Boyd will
focus on the Flamenco influence in Latin music and the historic role of women
in Flamenco dance. El Amor Brujo, a concert transcription of work by Spanish
composer Manuel de Falla, will be the centerpiece of the lecture-recital.
The event is a collaboration
of efforts between Warwick and fellow TWU faculty members Gladys Keeton, associate
professor of dance; and Dr. Richard Shuster, assistant professor of piano
and music history. John Weinkein, director of the TWU School of the Arts,
is the facilitator for the event.
For additional information,
call (940) 898-2500.
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