About the Event
Presented by the Artist Partner Programs
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 • 5:30PM EDT
Throughout the Spring 2021 semester, visiting artists Andy Meyerson and Travis Andrews of The Living Earth Show, composer Sarah Hennies and artist Terry Berlier will work with University of Maryland students to create sound and video elements based on personal memories and objects that evoke a queer sensibility in preparation for The Clarice’s commission for 2021-22 A Kind of Ache. Preview this open-source artmaking collaboration and learn more about their special creative process that weaves music, video, objects and LGBTQ+ topics into one artistic experience.
Honor Native Lands
Before we begin, we invite you to take a moment to reflect on and acknowledge the Indigenous roots of the land that you’re on.
The Artist Partner Programs at The Clarice believes that artists can be catalysts for community change, leadership and empowerment, and we have chosen to begin the effort of building bridges across cultures by acknowledging what has been buried by honoring the truth.
We are standing on the ancestral lands of the Piscataway People, who were among the first in the Western Hemisphere to encounter European colonists. And we honor the enslaved who assisted with the creation of this University. We pay respects to these and other elders, past and present. Please take a moment to consider the many legacies of violence, displacement, migration, immigration, and settlement that bring us together here today.
About The Artists
The Living Earth Show
Artist Links: Web • Facebook • Instagram • Twitter • Bandcamp • YouTube
Celebrating eleven years of “outstanding” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “transcendent” (Charleston City Paper) performances, The Living Earth Show (guitarist Travis Andrews and percussionist Andy Meyerson) is a megaphone and canvas for some of the world’s most progressive artists. One of the premiere contemporary chamber arts ensembles in the United States, The Living Earth Show uses the tools of classical music to create work that reflects and responds to the world in which it is created.
Sarah Hennies
Artist Links: Web
Sarah Hennies (b. 1979, Louisville, KY) is a composer based in upstate New York whose work is concerned with a variety of musical, sociopolitical, and psychological issues including queer & trans identity, love, intimacy, psychoacoustics, and percussion. She is primarily a composer of acoustic chamber music, but is also active in improvisation, film, and performance art. She presents her work internationally as both a composer and percussionist with notable performances at MoMA PS1 (NYC), Monday Evening Concerts (Los Angeles), Le Guess Who (Utrecht), Festival Cable (Nantes), send + receive (Winnipeg), O’ Art Space (Milan), Cafe Oto (London), ALICE (Copenhagen), and the Edition Festival (Stockholm). As a composer, she has received commissions across a wide array of performers and ensembles including Bearthoven, Bent Duo, Cristian Alvear, Claire Chase, R. Andrew Lee, Talea Ensemble, Thin Edge New Music Collective, Two-Way Street, Nate Wooley, and Yarn/Wire.
Her ground breaking audio-visual work Contralto (2017) explores transfeminine identity through the elements of “voice feminization” therapy, featuring a cast of transgender women accompanied by a dense and varied musical score for string quartet and three percussionists. The work has been in high demand since its premiere, with numerous performances taking place around North America, Europe, and Australia and was one of four finalists for the 2019 Queer|Art Prize.
She is the recipient of a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award, a 2016 fellowship in music/sound from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has received additional support from New Music USA, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.
Sarah is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at Bard College.
Terry Berlier
Artist Links: Web • Instagram • Stanford Faculty • Recent Project • Interview
Terry Berlier is an interdisciplinary artist who investigates the evolution of human interaction with queerness and ecologies. She has exhibited in solo and group shows in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia including at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Contemporary Art and Spirits in Osaka, Japan, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and the Stanford Art Gallery. She has received numerous residencies and grants including the Center for Cultural Innovation Grant, the Zellerbach Foundation Berkeley, and the Arts Council Silicon Valley Artist Fellowship. Her work has been reviewed in the BBC News Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, is published in the book ‘Seeing Gertrude Stein’ by Wanda Corn and Tirza Latimer through University of California Press, and ‘Slant Step Book: The Mysterious Object and The Artworks it Inspired’ by Francesca Wilmott and Phil Weidman. Her work is in several collections including the Progressive Corporation, Kala Art Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, and Bildwechsel Archive in Berlin Germany. She received a Masters in Fine Arts in Studio Art from University of California, Davis and a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Berlier is an Associate Professor and Director of the Sculpture Lab in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University.
Coming Up: Artist Talk & 2021-22 Season Preview • Far From The Norm
Award winning choreographer and Far From The Norm artistic director Botis Seva discusses the relevance and importance of his Olivier award-winning production BLKDOG. This hip-hop dance theatre work will be presented at The Clarice in the 2021-22 season and delves into cultural coping mechanisms that marginalized young Black British people adopt when responding to social injustice. Guided with intimate insights from the cast and creative team that nurtured BLKDOG from its inception, this preview will also feature excerpts from the work and from the digital series it inspired–Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021 • 5:30PM EDT
Coming Up: NextLOOK
In partnership with Joe's Movement Emporium, NextLOOK supports the development of new music, plays, dance and other experiences by regionally-based performing artists. These artists are mentored by seasoned arts administrators from The Clarice and Joe’s Movement Emporium to construct innovative methods of deepening the audience’s involvement in their creative process. By removing logistical barriers of cost and space and providing a sounding board for artists creating new work, NextLOOK invests in the regional arts ecology and creates an accessible, exploratory environment that connects intriguing artists with adventurous audiences.
Friday, April 30 • Alina Collins Maldonado: No Salgas Con El Pelo Mojado
Friday, May 21 • Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene, Pablo Regis & Kate Spanos: Performing Otherness (Ainihi e Alteridade)
Our Team: The Clarice Management
Erica Bondarev Rapach, Acting Executive Director–The Clarice
Shafali Jalota, Assistant to the Executive Director
Artist Partner Programs
Tyler Clifford, Assistant Artistic Administrator
Yarina Conners, Artistic Administrator
Connie Dai, Graduate Assistant
Lauren Floyd, Graduate Assistant
Jane Hirshberg, Assistant Director–Campus and Community Engagement
Jeannette-Marie Lewis, Graduate Assistant
Katie McCarthy, Graduate Assistant
Tariq Darrell O'Meally, Guest Curator & BlackLight Summit Producer
Jennifer Osborn, Rental Partnership Coordinator
Megan Pagado Wells, Associate Director of Programming
Richard Scerbo, Director–National Orchestral Institute + Festival
Austin Sposato, Artist Services Coordinator
Facilities Management
Bill Brandwein, Operations & Facilities Manager
Finance & Administration
Jacqueline Howard, Director of Finance & Administration
Matthew Fenlon, IT Coordinator
Jacquelyn Gutrick, Finance & Administration Specialist
Gal Kohav, Graduate Assistant
Fernando Merchan, Business Manager
LeeAnn Serrant, Human Resources Coordinator
Oznur Tuluoglu, Graduate Assistant
Kimberly Turner, HR Business Services Specialist
Guest Experience
Sara Gordon, Manager of Guest Experience
Kristen Olsen, Senior Guest Experience Coordinator
Paige Cook, Guest Experience Coordinator
Liana Stiegler Orndorff, Guest Experience Coordinator
Production
Ryan Knapp, Director of Operations
Carrie Barton, Lighting Coordinator
Lisa Burgess, Costume & Crafts Coordinator
Susan Chiang, Costume Shop Coordinator
Ann Chismar, Scenic Charge Coordinator
Jennifer Daszczyszak, Costume Shop Manager
Michael Driggers, Assistant Technical Director
Sandy Everett, Technical Coordinator
Reuven Goren, Scene Shop Coordinator
Timothy Jones, Prop Shop Manager
Devin Kinch, Projections Coordinator
Tessa Lew, Costume Draper & Tailor
Jennifer McDonald, Production Coordinator
James O'Connell, Assistant Manager of Audio
Mark Rapach, Technical Director
Jeffrey Reckeweg, Technology Shop Manager
Beth Ribar, Production Coordinator
Kat Rother, Production Coordinator
Kara Wharton, Production Manager
Our Team: College of Arts & Humanities
Bonnie Thornton Dill, Dean
Development
Laura Brown, Assistant Dean for Development
Susan Berkun, Assistant Director of Institutional Giving
Norah Quinn McCormick, Assistant Director of Development
Angela Smith, Development Coordinator
Marketing & Communications
Monique Everette, Assistant Dean for Marketing & Communications
Rika Dixon White, Director of Marketing & Guest Experience
David Andrews, Photographer & Videographer
Zach Bryant, Graduate Assistant
Deja Collins, Graduate Assistant
Roxene Edwards, Digital Experience Coordinator
Piama Habibullah, Assistant Director–Creative Strategy
Carlos Howard, Marketing Communications Coordinator–Artist Partner Programs
Mary Loutsch, Marketing Assistant
Heather Markle, Creative Coordinator
Charlene Prosser, Graphic Designer
Sarah Snyder, Assistant Director–Communications