Meadows Prize

SMU Meadows School of the Arts will be hosting "Interdisciplinary Arts and the City: A Forum on Site and Social Spaces" on April 18 from 12 to 5 p.m. The event will be structured into two 2-hour segments. This event will be held in O'Donnell Hall from 12 to 2 p.m., and in the Taubman Atrium from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., followed by a 30-minute reception. Artists from across the U.S. will be on hand to discuss art, art practices and community engagement.

Moderators:
Noah Simblist & Gavin Kroeber

Participants:

SMU welcomes 2013 Meadows Prize winner Nadia Sirota to campus for her Dallas recital debut. Sirota will perform music for viola and electronics from her new CD Baroque, including music by Daníel Bjarnason, Judd Greenstein and Nico Muhly.

Dr. José Bowen, dean of the Meadows School, and award-winning dramatist and educator Will Power will engage in a lively dialogue exploring the world of contemporary theatre and community engagement. Power, a 2010 SMU Meadows Prize winner and nationally acclaimed theatre and hip-hop artist, will enact excerpts from several of his plays and performance pieces, discuss his upbringing and his unique form of cultural activism, and engage with the audience in an open and honest discussion.

Las huellas: footsteps in West Dallas is an art installation and performance that represents the culmination of a semester-long Meadows class called “Artspaces: Mapping Sites of Social Change.” Building on the residency of 2009 Meadows Prize recipient Creative Time, this class of first-year Meadows Scholars partnered with the Dallas Mexican American Historical League on an oral history and photo archive project in West Dallas under the guidance of three specialist/mentors: Art History Professor Janis Bergman-Carton; conceptual and multi-media artist Celia Alvarez Muñoz; and architect Jessie

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The Division of Theatre at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts will present Alice Underground, a new play developed and directed by 2010 Meadows Prize winner Will Power, October 19-23 in the Margo Jones Theatre of the Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus.