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IU Jacobs School of Music graduate student Nemanja Ostojic tunes his guitar in his studio Friday afternoon in Merril Hall before teaching a lesson. Ostojic won first place at the Southwest Guitar Festival in San Antonio, Texas in February.

IU Serbian guitarist wins competitions, teaches

By Amy Burke · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:12 p.m.

For Nemanja Ostojic, the classical guitar is a way of life.Having originally started on the violin at 6 years old, Ostojic decided to switch to classical guitar when he was 10. He said he wanted more strings and switched to guitar to be cool around his friends. Little did he know he would be playing 15 years later on scholarship and winning international competitions all over the world – four in the past year.

Angelou to be at IU on March 5

Friday, Feb. 27,2009 4:38 p.m.

Maya Angelou's postponed visit to IU has been rescheduled for March 5.

Female jazz musicians to discuss gender, industry

By Maggie Conner · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 12:17 a.m.

Monica Herzig will team up with other female jazz artists for “Women in Jazz” at 3 p.m. Sunday at the John Waldron Arts Center.

Workshop to expose Bloomington to African Diaspora

By MaryJane Slaby · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 12:15 a.m.

Graduate student Deara Ball thought she would have to choose college over dance, but the African-American Dance Company gave her a way to do both.

Hoosier Musicals group presents “The Fantasticks”

By Desiree Lestingi · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 12:13 a.m.

Hoosier Musicals, a troupe of non-theater, non-music majors, presented on Wednesday evening at The Cinemat, “The Fantasticks,” a show about forbidden love and questionable parenting.

IU Baroque Orchestra to perform 268-year-old opera

By Amy Burke · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 12:12 a.m.

The IU Baroque Orchestra, six music school vocalists and Wabash College musicology professor Larry Bennett ended that streak Feb. 22 when they performed the opera at Wabash College.

Dance fuses art and science

By Rachel Krasnow · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 12:11 a.m.

Audiences were awed at the IU Auditorium on Thursday night after The Liz Lerman Dance Exchanges’ multimedia performance. The performance, called “Ferocious Beauty: Genome,” featured various video and audio clips, as well as monologues from dancers.

Angelou's visit postponed

Thursday, Feb. 26,2009 6 p.m.

Maya Angelou’s visit to IU on Sunday has been postponed because of the author's illness.

Off-Broadway play examines death penalty

By IDS staff · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 10:43 p.m.

The Cardinal Stage Company will present a reading of the off-Broadway play “The Exonerated” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium as a part of ArtsWeek.

Artists combine styles to create computerized ceramics

By Jackie Kochell · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 10:41 p.m.

Two artists explored the use of digital technology in ceramics in a SoFA Gallery exhibit, a collaboration resulting in a whimsical exhibition of clay pears, winding arrows and comic book-printed cups.“Rendering and Meaning: Infinite Speed, Zero Errors & Total Memory: Creativity and Desire in the Digital Age” will run from Feb. 24 through March 13.

Guilio Cesare (Andrew Rader) and Cleopatra (Jacqueline Brecheen) perform the roles of Guilio Cesare and Cleopatra during the dress rehersal for the Guilio Cesare Opera Tusesday evening at IU's Musical Arts Center. The production, put on by the Indiana Jacobs School of Music's Opera and Ballet Theater, will run February 27, 28 and March 6,7.

IU Opera Theater’s ‘Giulio Cesare’ to tell classic tale of politics, sex, war

By Maggie Conner · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 10:38 p.m.

IU Opera Theater will present George Frideric Handel’s baroque opera “Giulio Cesare,” written in 1724, this weekend and next at the Musical Arts Center.

Liz Lerman performance to combine dance, genetics

By Caitlin Johnston · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 10:33 p.m.

Modern dance, science and ethics will combine in a clash of creativity at 8 p.m. tonight on the IU Auditorium stage. The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange will present a performance titled “Ferocious Beauty: Genome,” a look at the ethical questions that arise from the progression of molecular science.

‘WTF’ exhibit shows pain before, after Iraq

By Alex Brown · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 10:32 p.m.

On treacherous grounds in Iraq, Ashley Gilbertson jumped out of an American convoy to shoot his camera. Although he braved the dangers of being a photojournalist during the war, he said he does not view himself as a hero like the American soldiers who fight on the battlefront.

Graduate students Sara Fischer, as Lady Chiltern, and Eric Young, as Lord Chiltern rehearse a scene from "An Ideal Husband" Monday evening at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre. The play is presented as part of IU's 25th annual ArtsWeek by the Department of Theatre and Drama.

‘Ideal Husband’ to bring Victorian era to ArtsWeek

By Alex Brown · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 10:30 p.m.

Centered in a ballroom, women adorned in floral silk gowns curtsy and extend gloved hands for their suitors to delicately kiss. An evening in the Victorian era might not be as far away as it seems.

Campus Super Star first round pass, next round to be 'intense'

By Rachel Pankiw · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 7:24 p.m.

More than 55 Indiana college students auditioned in hopes of winning $5,000 and becoming the next Campus Super Star on Sunday. The next set of auditions will take place at the Jewish Community Center in Indianapolis on March 25.

Assistant Professor of Textiles Rowland Ricketts at the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts. He says that the color blocks behind him are a reference chart for screen printing with natural dyes on a variety of materials.

New threads of life

By Jackie Kochell · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:43 p.m.

Led by the late Budd Stalnaker, a former textiles professor, the IU textiles graduate program molded creative artists for more than 40 years. When Stalnaker died in 2006, the program did, too.

Hoosier Musicals presents love story ‘The Fantasticks’

By Desiree Lestingi · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:28 p.m.

IU students’ stage and performance opportunities are expanding with Hoosier Musicals, a student-founded, nonprofit music and theater organization.

IU grad Micheal Woods follows footsteps of jazz

By Tyler James Perry · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:27 p.m.

Woods, a professor of jazz studies and electric bass at Hamilton University in New York, has released a CD called “The Tell All Book” that he is pitching to big record labels. He said his goal with the album was to get past many of the complexities that make music elitist by expanding the boundaries of his compositions.

Saving the planet, one movie at a time

By Allison Tyra · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:26 p.m.

The biggest environmental film festival in North America will make a stop in Bloomington on Thursday following its seventh anniversary.

IU alumni to read from works at political writing panel

By Bene Viera · Tuesday, Feb. 24,2009 10:25 p.m.

In celebration of its 25-year anniversary, ArtsWeek is showcasing a panel titled “The Writer in the World” to accompany the theme of politics and the arts.

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