NOVEMBER 2021 EVENTS AND EXHIBITS AT SMU鈥橲 MEADOWS SCHOOL OF THE ARTS AND MEADOWS MUSEUM
This fall, SMU Meadows School of the Arts is welcoming back in-person audiences for its events. A few events will be online only or will have livestreaming options, which are noted below. Masks are encouraged in all indoor spaces at SMU. Since changes may happen at any time, please refer to the Meadows events website /Meadows/NewsAndEvents/Calendar for the most up-to-date information.
Meadows Museum Virtual Lecture: FURTHER AFIELD | Captive Objects: Catholic Artifacts Across the Early Modern Mediterranean
Daniel Hershenzon, Associate Professor, Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, University of Connecticut
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
12 p.m.
Livestreaming on Zoom; advance registration required.
$5; free for Museum members and SMU students, faculty and staff
Catholic artifacts—rosaries, relics, paintings, and more—circulated in the thousands in the early modern, western Mediterranean, crisscrossing religious boundaries. This mobility was largely a byproduct of piracy, to which 2–3 million Christians and Muslims fell fate between 1500 and 1800. This talk examines how objects trapped in the plunder economy became the center of the conflicting claims made by Catholic captives, renegades (captives who had converted to Islam), Moroccan sultans and Algerian pashas. We will see how captivity transformed religious artifacts into religious boundary markers within and among religions. To register, visit . For more information, call 214.768.8587 or email meadowsmuseuminfo@smu.edu.
Meadows Percussion Ensemble Fall Concert
Wednesday, November 3, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
The Meadows Percussion Ensemble, under the direction of Jon D. Lee, presents its fall concert, featuring works that range from intense and challenging to light and entertaining. The MPE focuses on classic percussion ensemble literature while also presenting world premieres of new works for the medium. Don’t miss what promises to be an outstanding and entertaining evening of percussion! For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Virtual Visiting Artist Lecture: S. Billie Mandle
Thursday, November 4, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Zoom lecture
FREE
S. Billie Mandle is an artist working in California and Massachusetts. Her quiet photographs explore diverse subjects such as Catholic confessionals, Emily Dickinson’s bedroom and a shelter for refugees. Her projects have been supported by grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, and her work has been featured in publications such as Aperture, Cabinet and Wired. She received a B.A. in biology and English from Williams College and an M.F.A. from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she is an associate professor of photography. To attend the Zoom lecture, visit .
Distinguished Music Series: Chamber Music Masterworks with Guest Artist Masumi Rostad
Friday, November 5, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
The performance will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit .
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
Internationally renowned violist Masumi Rostad joins Meadows chamber music students in a program of beloved viola quintets. Praised for his “burnished sound” (The New York Times) and described as an “electrifying, poetic and sensitive musician,” the Grammy Award-winning artist tours and performs worldwide and is a professor of viola and chamber music at the Eastman School of Music. To buy tickets, visit . For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Pollock Gallery Event: Launch of Assistant Professor Nishiki Sugawara-Beda’s new art book, See You There
Saturday, November 6, 2021
12-6 p.m.
2-6 p.m.: Ikebana: The Dialogue of Art and Flowers
3 p.m.: Conversation: The artist and Crow Museum Senior Curator Jacqueline Chao
3:30 p.m.: Prize drawing
Pollock Gallery – Suite 101, Expressway Tower, 6116 North Central Expressway, Dallas 75206
FREE
The Pollock Gallery will host the launch of Assistant Professor Nishiki Sugawara-Beda’s new full-color art book, See You There, a survey of her artwork from 2012 to 2020 in painting and installation. The book includes a foreword by writer Samantha Burns and an essay by Dr. Robert Gordon, professor at the University of Arizona’s College of Fine Arts, that offers an art historical and philosophical framework to understand the artist’s body of work. Sugawara-Beda draws upon her Japanese heritage to explore themes related to culture, language and spirituality rooted in Zen Buddhism. She experiments in ancient Japanese materials and techniques including sumi ink, kakejiku landscapes and rice paper, merging them with abstract and expressive forms familiar to the modern Western aesthetic. She exhibits her work in solo and group exhibitions across the country and lectures nationally and internationally to promote cultural diversity and exchange. Event activities include a family-friendly session on ikebana, the art of Japanese flower arrangement, from 2 to 6 p.m. with ikebana artist Motoko Ishihara, and a conversation between Sugawara-Beda and Jacqueline Chao, senior curator of Asian art at the Crow Museum of Asian Art at The University of Texas at Dallas, at 3 p.m. A drawing with multiple prizes, including a special gift box with the book and a piece of original art by Sugawara-Beda, will begin at 3:30 p.m. Copies of the book will be for sale, and purchases can be signed by the artist. For more information, call 214.768.4439 or visit .
SMU Organ Studio Thanksgiving Recital
Sunday, November 7, 2021
2 p.m.
Custer Road United Methodist Church, 6601 Custer Road, Plano, TX 75023
FREE
The SMU Organ Studio will present a Thanksgiving recital off-campus, at Custer Road United Methodist Church in Plano. Works by Bach, Franck, Karg-Elert and Reger will be presented. For more information, call 972.750.1443.
Meadows Jazz Orchestra Fall Brown Bag Concert
Thursday, November 11, 2021
12:30 p.m.
Taubman Atrium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
Relax and enjoy a lively midday concert by the Meadows Jazz Orchestra. The MJO explores small ensemble jazz ranging from traditional to contemporary compositions, and features SMU students from an array of degree programs and majors across the Meadows School of the Arts and the SMU campus. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Guitar Ensemble Fall Concert
Thursday, November 11, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
The Meadows Guitar Ensemble will present a concert of music for guitar quartet, trio and duo. Featured will be original works and arrangements for guitar from four centuries, including music of Spain, Italy and South America. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Wind Ensemble: Eclectic Circuits
Friday, November 12, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
The performance will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit .
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
The concert opens with Cindy McTee’s lively and energetic Circuits (1990), followed by Stravinsky’s Circus Polka (Composed for a Young Elephant), which was originally orchestrated for a ballet put on by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus featuring both human and elephant performers. Next on the program is Paul Hindemith’s monumental Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of Carl Maria von Weber, a splashy and colorful work that is one of the composer’s most popular (and was transcribed for winds by his longtime Yale colleague Keith Wilson). Following intermission, the MWE will perform Kurt Weill’s Little Threepenny Music, highlighting music from The Threepenny Opera. The concert concludes with Meadows music professor Derrick Horne’s thrilling Color Fusion for electric guitar and wind ensemble, featuring Professor Horne as soloist. To buy tickets, visit . For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Emerging Sounds
Saturday, November 13, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
The Music Composition Department presents its fall concert of exciting new works by SMU student composers. Emerging Sounds regularly features stylistically diverse and impressive creative voices and can serve as a launching pad for student composers’ careers. Presented once a semester, the Emerging Sounds concerts are entirely organized and produced by students to not only showcase the outstanding new music being written at SMU, but to explore innovative new venues, concert formats, presentation models and technology, including video, collaborative efforts with other areas in the Meadows School and innovative staging. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows World Music Ensemble Fall Concert
Sunday, November 14, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
The Meadows World Music Ensemble, under the direction of Jamal Mohamed, presents its fall concert. Exploring music from cultures and continents around the globe, the group combines traditional instruments from Africa, Asia and Latin America with standard western orchestral instruments to create unique interpretations of traditional folk melodies as well as original compositions. Hot drumming and imaginative improvisation are hallmarks of the group’s concerts. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Organ Master Class with Bradley Hunter Welch
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
The public is welcome to attend and observe this in-person master class with Dr. Bradley Welch, organist in residence at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. As holder of the Lay Family Chair with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, he performs regularly with the DSO and serves as curator of the Meyerson’s Lay Family Concert Organ, built by C.B. Fisk. He has been hailed as a “world-class virtuoso” and “an expert at defining darks, lights, shadows and colors,” and is a gifted teacher, recitalist, concerto soloist and collaborative artist. For more information, call 972.750.1443.
Meadows Museum Program: Virtual Connections
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Zoom activity; advance registration required.
FREE
Individuals with early stage dementia, their care partners, and family members are invited to attend this relaxed social gathering over Zoom. Attendees reconnect with friends, explore art from the collection and enjoy informal, collective activities. Space is limited and advance registration is required. For more information and to register, email museumaccess@smu.edu or call 214.768.2740.
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America/Beautiful: Guest Artist Recital and Master Class with Min Kwon, Pianist
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
1 p.m. – Recital in Caruth Auditorium
2 p.m. – Master class in O’Donnell Hall
Both venues are located in Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
America/Beautiful is a project by Korean-born American pianist and arts advocate Min Kwon, in which she has commissioned a diverse group of more than 70 of today’s leading American composers to each compose a variation on America the Beautiful. The recital will feature excerpts from this project and will be followed by a piano master class for SMU students. The public is welcome to attend and observe both the recital and the class. Ms. Kwon excels in a versatile career that encompasses concerti, solo recitals and chamber music appearances, while in high demand around the world as a pedagogue, arts advocate and administrator. She has performed in over 60 countries on seven continents and all 50 U.S. states. In addition to her international concert career, she has served as professor of piano at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University since 2002, and is the founder and director of the Center for Musical Excellence (CME), a nonprofit dedicated to mentoring and supporting gifted young musicians. For more information, call 214.768.3722.
Fall Dance Concert
November 17-21, 2021
8 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sun.
Bob Hope Theatre – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
The performances on November 17 and 19 will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit .
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
The Meadows Fall Dance Concert will present dance classics by George Balanchine and Martha Graham and the premiere of a new jazz work by Pat Taylor, the founding artistic director of Los Angeles-based JazzAntiqua Dance & Music Ensemble. The program opens with Balanchine’s short classical ballet Valse-Fantaisie (or “fantasy waltz”), a work praised for its “gossamer beauty” and buoyancy and featuring a lead couple and four additional women. It will be followed by Taylor’s A Kind of Blue, an immersion in mood, texture and jazz/blues language, set to music by Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. The program continues with Balanchine’s Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, a duet of stunning balletic virtuosity known for its lyricism, charm and tenderness. Concluding the concert is Graham’s 1948 masterwork Diversion of Angels, a tribute to the pleasure and playfulness of youth and the joy and sadness of love. The dance is performed by three couples representing adolescent love, romantic love and mature love. To buy tickets, visit . For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Museum Lecture: “Making It: Creating Fashion in Early Modern Europe”
Annette Becker, Director and Curator, UNT CVAD Texas Fashion Collection
Thursday, November 18, 2021
6 p.m.
Bob and Jean Smith Auditorium – Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
This lecture will be both in-person and livestreamed.
$10; free for Museum members and SMU students, faculty and staff
Have you ever wondered how delicate, handmade lace is created or how stiff ruffs stayed so crisp and white? And before department stores and boutiques, how did gentlemen procure elaborately embroidered suits? In celebration of the exhibition Canvas & Silk: Historic Fashion from Madrid’s Museo del Traje, join Texas Fashion Collection director Annette Becker in an exploration of the lives of garments from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries. Together we’ll discover the surprisingly laborious and often creative processes of commissioning, creating, and caring for garments represented in portraiture and featured in the exhibition, allowing us a greater understanding of how people's lives were intertwined with clothing. For in-person tickets, visit . For virtual tickets, visit . For more information, call 214.768.8587 or email meadowsmuseuminfo@smu.edu.
Meadows Jazz Orchestra
Thursday, November 18, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
Join the Meadows Jazz Orchestra for an evening of jazz to close the fall semester. The MJO explores the range of ensemble jazz from traditional to contemporary compositions, and features students from an array of degree programs and majors across the Meadows School of the Arts and the SMU campus. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Museum Gallery Talk: “Twentieth-Century Sculpture at the Meadows”
Clarisse Fava-Piz, 2021-23 Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Meadows Museum
Friday, November 19, 2021
12:15 p.m.
Meadows Museum – Outdoors on the sculpture plaza, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
For more information call 214.768.8587.
Pollock Gallery Exhibit: SMU Division of Art Faculty Show
November 20, 2021 – January 30, 2022
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 20, 1-5 p.m.
Exhibit hours: 2-5 p.m. Mon., Wed. & Fri. and by appointment
Pollock Gallery – Suite 101, Expressway Tower, 6116 North Central Expressway, Dallas 75206
FREE
The exhibit highlights the diverse talents of current and emeriti faculty members in a variety of media, including sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, painting, new media, installation, ceramics and creative computation. For more information, call 214.768.4439 or visit .
Meadows Museum Program: Drawing from the Masters
Sunday, November 21, 2021
1:30 – 3 p.m.
Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE with museum admission: $12 for adults; $10 for seniors; $4 for non-SMU students; FREE for members, children under 12 and SMU faculty, staff and students
Enjoy an afternoon of informal drawing instruction as artist Ian O’Brien leads you through the Meadows Museum’s galleries. The session will provide an opportunity to explore a variety of techniques and improve drawing skills. Designed for adults and students ages 15 and older, and open to all abilities and experience levels. Drawing materials will be available, but participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchpads and pencils. Free with regular museum admission; no advance registration required. Attendance is limited to 20 on a first-come, first-served basis. To purchase tickets, visit ; for more information, call 214.768.8587.
Meadows Choral Concert: A Ring of Endless Light
Sunday, November 21, 2021
2:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
The performance will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit .
FREE
“A great ring of pure and endless light dazzles the darkness in my heart…” These beautiful words by Madeleine L’Engle are the inspiration for our musical exploration of this season of gratitude and light. In lieu of admission, please make a donation to Phoenix House (either in person at the concert or online at ). For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Museum Program: Children’s Drawing from the Masters
Sunday, November 21, 2021
3:30 – 4 p.m.
Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE with museum admission: $12 for adults; $10 for seniors; $4 for non-SMU students; FREE for members, children under 12 and SMU faculty, staff and students
Enjoy an afternoon of informal drawing instruction with artist and elementary art teacher Ian O’Brien. The session provides children ages 5-12 with the opportunity to explore a variety of techniques and improve drawing skills. Drawing materials will be available, but participants are encouraged to bring their own sketchpads and pencils. Free with regular museum admission; advance registration is not required. Attendance is limited to 20 and is on a first-come, first-served basis. This is not a drop-off program; children must be accompanied by at least one adult over the age of 18. For more information, call 214.768.8587; to purchase tickets visit .
Young Artist Flute Ensemble – Recital
Sunday, November 21, 2021
4:30 p.m.
O’Donnell Hall – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
SMU’s Young Artist Flute Ensemble is a performing group for advanced middle and high school flutists in the DFW area. They will present chamber music and full flute choir selections, including Shepherd’s Hey by Percy Grainger, Three Korean Folk Songs by Kelly Via, Kaleidoscope by Ann Pearce, a medley from The Sound of Music, and trios and quartets by Tcherepnin, Clarke, Handel, Vivaldi and McMichael. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Mustang Bassoonanza
Monday, November 22, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
Faculty member and Dallas Symphony Orchestra principal bassoonist Ted Soluri and his students present a varied concert of classical and non-classical music written or arranged for combinations of three to eight bassoons. For more information call 414.688.6221.
Meadows Museum Virtual Program: Digital Drawing from the Masters
Sunday, November 28, 2021
1:30 – 3 p.m.
Livestreaming on Zoom; advance registration required.
$5; free for Museum members and SMU students, faculty and staff
Enjoy afternoons of informal drawing instruction remotely over Zoom as artist Ian M. O’Brien leads you through a work of art in the Meadows Museum’s collection. Each session will provide an opportunity to explore a variety of techniques and improve drawing skills. Designed for adults and students ages 13 and older, and open to all abilities and experience levels. To register, visit . For more information, call 214.768.8587 or email meadowsmuseuminfo@smu.edu.
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Meadows Museum Exhibition: Canvas & Silk: Historic Fashion from Madrid’s Museo del Traje
Through January 9, 2022
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.; 1-5 p.m. Sun. Closed Mon.
Virginia Meadows Galleries – Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
$12 for adults; $10 for seniors 65+; $4 for non-SMU students; FREE for members, children under 12 and SMU faculty, staff and students; FREE Thurs. after 5 p.m.
For the first time, works in the Meadows collection will be paired with representative examples of the historic dress depicted to shed new light on the relationship between representation and reality, between image and artifact. Loans include jewelry, shoes, accessories and ensembles for men, women and children, the combined installation of which will facilitate rich dialogues between fashion and the fine arts. For more information call 214.768.8587; to purchase tickets visit
Meadows Museum Exhibition: Image and Identity: Mexican Fashion in the Modern Period
Through January 9, 2022
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sat.; 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thurs.; 1-5 p.m. Sun. Closed Mon.
Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
A focused exhibition in the museum’s first-floor galleries explores Mexican fashion through photographs, prints, books and gouaches from the 19th and 20th centuries drawn from the collections of the Meadows Museum and SMU’s DeGolyer Library. For more information call 214.768.8587.