Ugandan Bark Cloth
Renewing Material and the Handmade: The Story of Ugandan Bark Cloth is a three-phase interdisciplinary effort initiated by adjunct fibers professor Lesli Robertson to present the history, process and new relevance of cloth created by the Buganda people from the bark of mutuba trees in Uganda, Africa.  In 2005 UNESCO named Ugandan bark cloth a “masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity,” sparking new conversation about its place in both contemporary Ugandan culture and the global market.  The UNT Art Gallery and the UNT student chapter of the National Art Education Association (NAEA) team up with Lesli Robertson in year one to introduce bark cloth to communities in North Texas through family art workshops, studio experiments and community lectures.
10/4                Let Art Talk: A Global Art Workshop for Families, lead by Fred Mutebi
                        South Dallas Cultural Center, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
3400 S Fitzhugh, Dallas, TX    214-939-2787  (free; call for reservations)
The UNT student chapter of the National Art Education Association work with visiting artist Fred Mutebi to organize and present a children’s art workshop with hands-on activities designed to introduce bark cloth and Ugandan material culture to the North Texas community. South Dallas Cultural Center is a program of the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs. All programs are subject to change without notice.

10/5                Panel Discussion, UNT Art Building, Room 223, 1:30 pm
                        1201 W Mulberry, Denton, TX    940-565-4005
Printmaker Fred Mutebi and designer and art historian Dr. Venny Nakazibwe will visit from Uganda to explore bark cloth as an artist’s muse and material in various activities inspired by global awareness and ecology. Both guests will join faculty artists Lesli Robertson (fibers) and Andy DeCaen (printmaking) in a panel discussion considering the challenges and successes of using bark cloth in the studio.     

10/7                Lecture by Fred Mutebi, Greater Denton Arts Council, 7:30 pm
                        The Center for the Visual Arts, 400 E Hickory, Denton, TX    940-382-2787
Visiting Ugandan printmaker Fred Mutebi will talk about his artwork, his involvement in Ugandan material culture, and he education organization he founded in Kampala in 2007 called “Let Art Talk.”

All events are free and open to the public and UNT students, faculty and staff.

Jean Guillou
October 22, 2008
Winspear Hall, Murchison Performing Arts
8:00 PM  
Murchison Performing Arts Center
Concert artist Jean Guillou has radically extended the technical limits of instrumental playing.  As a composer, he has since his earliest years constructed and developed a singular musical world of great individuality.  A many sided creator, Jean Guillou possesses a polyvalent musical and artistic personality.  He was the designer, among other organs, of those of the Alpe d’Huez (France), the Chant d’Oiseaux (Brussels), the Conservatory of Naples, the Concerthall in Zürich and the Portuguese Church in Rome.
Co-sponsor: UNT Division of Keyboard Studies, Organ.

Morgan Spurlock
November 13, 2008
Silver Eagle Suite, UNT Union
7:30 PM  
Academy Award® nominated director, Morgan Spurlock is the creator and producer of FX’s critically acclaimed and award winning series, 30 Days.  Spurlock has an amazing career spanning film, non-fiction literature, television and theatre. His first feature film, Super Size Me, was released in 2004 and went on to become the sixth highest grossing box office documentary of all time. This comedic and telling documentary centering on Spurlock’s experiment to eat only fast food for a month was named to more than 35 Top Ten lists in 2004 and received an Oscar nomination, the Writers Guild of America Best Documentary Screenplay Award and Best Director prizes at the Sundance Film Festival and the Edinburgh Film Festival.

Georg Frederic Handel’s Oratorio Saul
February 5, 2008
Winspear Hall, Murchison Performing Arts
7:30 PM
The College of Music Baroque Orchestra and A Cappella Choir, and the Dallas Opera Artistic Director, Maestro Graeme Jenkins will join together to present Handel’s Oratorio, Saul.  Saul’s madness, Jonathan’s love, and David’s devotion portray the age-old conflicts of envy and rage with goodness and loyalty which invoke some of Handel’s most beautiful music.  This presentation will feature leading musicians playing on historical instruments, international performers and talented students to create an unforgettable evening of music.  Soloists include Richard Croft, Ryland Angel, Jeffrey Snider, Lynn Eustis and Jennifer Lane.
Co-sponsored by the UNT College of Music, the Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies, Inc., and The Dallas Foundation which will co-sponsor a repeat performance at the Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church in Dallas on Friday, February 6, 2009.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet
February 26, 2009
Winspear Hall, Murchison Performing Arts
8:00 PM
The Dave Brubeck Quartet, the UNT Symphony Orchestra, the UNT Grand Chorus and the UNT One O’Clock Lab Band will present an evening of Brubeck’s music, with his cantata Pange Lingua Variations as a centerpiece that combines the forces of the symphony, the chorus and the Brubeck Quartet.  UNT alumnus Russell Gloyd, who has worked with Brubeck for over 30 years, will conduct.  Dave Brubeck has been designated a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress and with a career that spans over six decades, the National Endowment for the Arts declared him a Jazz Master.  Brubeck was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 2003 and received a Living Legacy Jazz Award from the Kennedy Center for the Arts in 2007.
Co-sponsored by the Glenn Gomez Residency Endowment.

ETHEL
March 5, 2009
Winspear Hall, Murchison Performing Arts
8:00 PM
Bluesy, hard swinging, playful, and fueled by fiery passion, this band of four world-class, Juilliard-trained, musicians from New York City defies categorization. Musically omnivorous, ETHEL has been described as "the fiercest string quartet this side of hell," and "the most bad-ass quartet around". John Walters of the Guardian (UK) says, "...I wish there were more rock bands who played like ETHEL." ETHEL's irreverence and panache inspires rave reviews from every corner and one thing is certain: ETHEL will keep you riveted to the edge of your seat.

The Tierney Sutton Band
April 15, 2009
Winspear Hall, Murchison Performing Arts
8:00 PM
During its 14 years together, the Tierney Sutton Band has received a Grammy Nomination for Best Vocal Jazz Album, a JazzWeek Award for Vocalist of the Year, consecutive nominations for Jazz Journalist Association awards, recorded several CDs that made the #1 spot on jazz radio playlists, and garnered critical praise throughout the world.  To date they have recorded seven CDs, each resulting in increasing recognition and acclaim. The band's most recent disc, "On the Other Side", was released in February '07 and was hailed by BusinessWeek "A Masterpiece...eloquent, honest and magnificently sung and played.
UNT Jazz Studies presentation in association with Fine Arts Series