McDaniel College Presents Cultural Events for September

McDaniel College is offering a diverse calendar of art exhibits and music events throughout September. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public. For more information, call 410-857-2599.

ART EXHIBIT
For gallery hours, call 410-857-2595 or visit http://www.mcdaniel.edu/5531.htm

Playing Tiddlywinks with Man Hole Covers, a mixed-media exhibit by Meghan Ambra '07
Through Sept 24, Esther Prangley Rice Gallery in Peterson Hall

Meghan Ambra, a 2007 graduate of McDaniel College who earned her MFA in Painting last year at the Edinburgh College of Art and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, says her work explores the relationships between people and color as well as how colors affect other colors. Ambra graduated from McDaniel magna cum laude with departmental honors in Studio Art and a minor in Art History. Since receiving her MFA in 2009, Ambra has had various works accepted, exhibited and commissioned in Europe and in the United States. She is teaching art at the Kimball Jenkins School of Art in Concord, N.H.

To view Ambra's work, visit http://meghanambra.com/Welcome.html.

Immemorial Spaces: Paintings and Drawings by Chloe Watson '07
Sept. 28 - Oct. 22
Artist's Reception: 7-9 p.m. Oct. 8

Chloe Watson, a 2007 McDaniel College who earned a B.A. and departmental honors in Studio Art, received her MFA and certificate in the College Teaching of Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art's Interdisciplinary Program in May 2010. Her art explores the psychology of space, light, and color and, as she says, allows her "to reconstruct seemingly motionless memories of my past and reinterpret them as mysterious, charged settings wherein only objects reside."

A Baltimore resident, Watson has exhibited regionally and shares a studio in the Area 405 Building.

To view her work, visit http://chloeswatson.com/home.html.

MUSIC
Information: 410-857-2599 or http://www.mcdaniel.edu/3490.htm

Monday Night Music
7 p.m. Sept. 13 in McDaniel Lounge
"Elegant Voices" with the Mistral Winds and the Appalachian Woodwind Quintet

Monday Night Music presents a collaborative performance by two premier woodwind quintets, the Appalachian Woodwind Quintet and the Mistral Winds. Mistral members include: Anna Claire Ayoub, bassoon; David Duree, clarinet; Lynne Griffith, French horn; Mindy Niles, oboe; and Linda Kirkpatrick, flute. Appalachian members include: Scott Cassada, bassoon; Rick Mogensen, clarinet; Ed Schupp, French horn; Barbara Spicher, flute; and Ed Stanley, oboe. Each group will perform a piece with the program culminating in a work for double quintet.

Chamber Music on the Hill presents Liszt-Garrison Chamber Music winners
3 p.m. Sept. 19 in Decker Center Forum
Tickets: $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and veterans; children and students with valid ID admitted free
Pablo Lavandera - a Fulbright scholar, teacher and performer - and internationally acclaimed violinist Joanna Kaczorowska, won both the First Prize in the Collaborative Artist category and Best Interpretation Award for Outstanding Performance of Works by Franz Liszt in the 2009 Liszt-Garrison Festival and International Piano Competition. Lavandera and Kaczorowska will perform Mozart's Sonata in E Minor (KV 304); Robert Schumann's Sonata No. 1 in A Minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 105; and Franz Liszt's La Lugubre Gondola. Rounding out the concert will be Gabriela Lena Frank's Sueños de Chambi: Snapshots for an Andean Album; Romanian folk dances by Béla Bartòk and two Mazurcas by Henryk Wieniawaski. Learn more about Lavandera at http://naples.cc.sunysb.edu/CAS/music.nsf/pages/lavandera and Kaczorowska at http://violinjoanna.com/.