CFA Weekly Announcement

Campus Events____________________________________________

Space Art: The Cultural Frontiers of Space Travel

A presentation by Lowry Burgess and Frank Pietronigro about artists whose medium is outer space.

Thursday, March 23, 2006, 7 pm
H&SS Auditorium, Room A53 Baker Hall (lower level)

Presented by the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

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Distinguished fellow in the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and professor in
the School of Art, Lowry Burgess, and collaborator Frank Pietronigro, an
associate fellow in the STUDIO, will present their work in the field of space art.

Lowry Burgess will discuss his efforts to gain support and acknowledgement for this pioneering work, and present an overview of his poetic work. In his view, "In a time of extraordinary global cultural tensions, the global community needs to reach toward and express shared human feelings--in particular, those feelings associated with the universal surrounding sky with its starry cosmos from which we derive our very being. Recently, in the middle of the last century, it became possible to displace the whole of humanity, mind, heart and body from the surface of the earth to venture into cosmic space and time. From that moment, a limited number of artists have been engaged with this new context in the service of unfolding its broader meanings."

Frank Pietronigro will describe his experience and present video of the "drift paintings" he created in microgravity during a parabolic flight aboard NASA's KC135 turbojet. He will also discuss his role as project director and co-founder of the Zero Gravity Arts Consortium (ZGAC), an international organization dedicated to fostering greater access for artists to space flight technology and zero gravity space through the creation of international partnerships with space agencies, arts organizations and universities.

The artists will also present an overview of their current project, the
"Space Art Track" of the 25th International Space Development Conference, co-sponsored by the National Space Society and Planetary Society. They will help facilitate a series of inspirational presentations and panels complimented by an exhibition, film screenings, and Zero Gravity Arts Consortium parabolic flight for artists and webcast direct from Zero Gravity Corporation's Boeing 727 jet.

For more information, please call x83454.
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Carnegie Mellon Hosts Panel Discussion, “Cultural Trustees:
Their Changing Roles and Responsibilities”

PITTSBURGH-Carnegie Mellon University's Arts and Culture Observatory will present a panel discussion and open forum, “Cultural Trustees: Their Changing Roles and Responsibilities,” on Wednesday, March 29, from 9-11 a.m. in the Wright Room at the University Center on Carnegie Mellon's campus.
Panelists include Marilyn Coleman, former executive director of Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council; Jim McCarl, entrepreneur and a veteran of many local arts boards; Dana Payne, managing director of Xpressions Dance Company, and Jane Werner, director of the Children's Museum. Dan J. Martin, director of Carnegie Mellon's Institute for the Management of Creative Enterprises, will moderate the panel and the open discussion that will follow.

In addition to the panel discussion, the Observatory will release its latest report, “Board Composition of Cultural Organizations in Southwest Pennsylvania,” offering comparative data on the demographics of trustees in the region's cultural sector.

“Trusteeship is not what it was 20 years ago,” said Martin. “In most organizations, the old strategy of 'give and get money' was the central focus. It's still there today, to be sure, but many of us call upon trustees for much more than that. It will be interesting to see how these four people, each from different constituencies within the arts sector, interpret the situation and what they see as potential resolutions to these challenges,” he said.

The panel will focus on several key issues that are currently confronting cultural managers such as how the role of the board has evolved in the last fifteen years, what “good stewardship” means today, where the next generation of trustees can be found, whether or not stewardship issues in the for-profit sector- i.e. Enron, WorldCom, etc.- have affected the not-for-profit sector, and how to help trustees walk the line between governance and management.

To reserve a place at the forum, please call the Observatory at 412-268-4890 or send an email to artsobservatory@andrew.cmu.edu.

The Arts and Culture Observatory is an initiative of the Institute for the Management of Creative Enterprises at Carnegie Mellon University (IMCE). The goal of the Observatory is to provide meaningful and useful information about the arts and culture sector in Southwestern Pennsylvania. IMCE is also home to three other programs, including the Master of Arts Management degree, the Center for the Arts Management and Technology, and the Master of Entertainment Industry Management degree.

For more information about the Arts and Culture Observatory or IMCE, please contact Eric Sloss at 412-268-5765 or by email, ecs@andrew.cmu.edu.