October 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. Please note that masks are currently required in all indoor spaces at SMU. Since changes may happen at any time, please refer to the Meadows events website for the most up-to-date information.
Art and Exoneration: The Story of Jerome Eubanks
Moderated by Richard Miles, Founder and CEO, Miles of Freedom
Saturday, October 2, 2021
11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Pollock Gallery – Suite 101, Expressway Tower, 6116 North Central Expressway, Dallas 75206
FREE
Wrongly accused of a crime he didn’t commit, Ronald J. Eubanks spent a total of 27 years fighting to prove his innocence. During the time he spent incarcerated, he taught himself to read and write. After his full release in 2014, he began writing his story to educate others about wrongful convictions. His book, Guilty Until Proven Innocent, was published in November 2020. Please join us to learn more about Eubanks’ journey and his current work. This talk is presented on International Wrongful Conviction Day in conjunction with the Pollock Gallery exhibit “The Arts of Oppression,” which features more than 180 works by people formerly or currently incarcerated. On view at the Pollock through October 30, the exhibit is presented in collaboration with Dallas nonprofit Miles of Freedom, which provides support for individuals returning home from prison and their families. The works are for sale via an online auction at ; bidding closes on October 30. For more information, call 214-768-4439 or visit .
Liudmila Georgievskaya: Solo Piano Recital
Sunday, October 3, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
Award-winning Russian pianist Dr. Liudmila Georgievskaya presents a solo recital program featuring a special selection of piano masterpieces. Dr. Georgievskaya has performed as a recitalist and soloist with orchestras in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States. She combines a busy performance schedule with teaching classes at the Meadows School and applied piano at the University of North Texas. To learn more about Dr. Georgievskaya, visit . For event information, call 214.768.2787.
Fall Student Choreography Showcase
October 4-8, 2021
12 p.m. Mon., Wed. & Fri.; 12:30 p.m. Tues. & Thurs.
Bob Hope Theatre – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
The performances on October 5 and 6 will be both in-person and livestreamed; to register to watch online, visit .
FREE
The Division of Dance presents lunchtime performances of 10-15 original, student-choreographed works in multiple genres including ballet, modern, jazz, tap and hip-hop. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Museum Virtual Lecture: FURTHER AFIELD | Incarnating Black Sanctity: Fleshtones and “Lifelikeness” in Baroque Spanish Sculpture
Erin Rowe, Associate Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
12 p.m.
Livestreaming on Zoom; advance registration required.
$5; free for Museum members and SMU students, faculty and staff
This talk explores the contrast between representations of Black and white saints in Baroque Spanish polychromed sculpture. The process of painting flesh tones was key to Baroque artistic techniques of creating lifelike figural sculpture. Examining the distinct artistic choices made in painting flesh tones for Black and white saints reveals the spiritual meanings artists wished to convey about blackness and holiness. To register, visit . For more information, call 214.768.8587 or email meadowsmuseuminfo@smu.edu.
Curatorial Minds Lab: Virtual Lecture with Guest Curator Lilia Kudelia
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
5:30 p.m.
Zoom lecture
FREE
Lilia Kudelia is a curator and art historian. Her research focuses on the artistic movements and infrastructures in the post-communist states, cultural heritage and restitution, television and art from the 1960s onwards. As a guest curator at Residency Unlimited in New York, she develops residencies for the laureates of the Young Visual Artists Awards, a network of 12 awards in countries of Eastern, Central and Southern Europe. She has previously held curatorial and research positions at Dallas Contemporary in Dallas, Texas, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Art Arsenal in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2017, Kudelia co-curated the Ukrainian National Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, which featured work by photographer Boris Mikhailov. She holds an M.A. in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and a B.A. in cultural studies from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto, Canada. The talk, moderated by Sophia Salinas, is presented as part of the Curatorial Minds Lab, a new initiative of the Hamon Arts Library’s Hawn Gallery and the Pollock Gallery at SMU that gives five Fellows – made up of alumni and current students – an opportunity to deepen their understanding of the historical development of curatorial practices and study contemporary art display theory and practice. To attend the virtual lecture, visit . For more information, visit or email Sofia Bastidas-Vivar, director of the Pollock Gallery, at abastidas@smu.edu.
Movies with the Meadows Museum: The Disenchantment (El Desencanto), 1976
Aaron Shulman, Author
Thursday, October 7, 2021
12 p.m.
Livestreaming event; advance registration required.
FREE
Movies with the Meadows pairs scholar and screen. Registration includes a link to stream the film at your leisure October 6–8 and a link to a live Zoom talk on October 7 to explore the film in more depth with Aaron Shulman, author of The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War (2019). The cult documentary El Desencanto (The Disenchantment) is the collective story of the Paneros, a brilliant and tormented Spanish family whose eccentricities, incendiary declarations and taboo-smashing exhibitionism turned them into a cultural phenomenon in Spain in 1976, when this film was released. A national classic, it is esteemed and remembered both for the role it played in the country’s transition to democracy and for the singular testimonies of the Panero family. To register, visit . For more information, call 214.768.8587 or email meadowsmuseuminfo@smu.edu.
Meadows Choral Concert: A Song Unchanged
Thursday, October 7, 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 .
FREE
“In the secret recesses of the heart, beyond the teachings of this world, calls a still small voice singing a song unchanged from the foundation of the world.” So begins Joan Borysenko’s poem “Remembering,” and so begins the return to singing fully together again for the Meadows choirs. We hope you will join this first of many celebrations of the choral art in 2021–2022. 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 Wind Ensemble
Friday, October 8, 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 Meadows Wind Ensemble has performed throughout the United States and Europe and has won the acclaim of leading contemporary composers for thoughtful and brilliant performances of their works. Led by conductor Jack Delaney and composed of the finest winds, brass and percussion from the Meadows School, the Wind Ensemble performs a broad and diverse range of literature. The Ensemble has recorded five CDs on the Gasparo label, including “The Drums of Summer,” which won First Prize in an international recording competition in Austria. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Artist Vicki Meek in conversation with Clyde Valentín, Director, Ignite/Arts Dallas
Thursday, October 14, 2021
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Pollock Gallery – Suite 101, Expressway Tower, 6116 North Central Expressway, Dallas 75206
FREE
Texas-based artist and curator Vicki Meek has extensive experience in artistic creation and the role that art plays in contributing to healthy communities. Clyde Valentín is director of Ignite/Arts Dallas, an initiative to integrate artistic practice and community engagement based at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts. Together they will explore a series of case studies related to artistic impact on a grassroots level. This talk is presented in conjunction with the Pollock Gallery exhibit “The Arts of Oppression,” which features more than 180 works by people formerly or currently incarcerated. On view at the Pollock through October 30, the exhibit is presented in collaboration with Miles of Freedom. The works are for sale via an online auction at ; bidding closes on October 30. For more information, call 214.768.4439 or visit .
Luis Martín Lecture Series in the Humanities: “Scratching the Surface: A History of Paintings Conservation”
Claire Barry, Director of Paintings Conservation Emerita, Kimbell Art Museum
Five Fridays, October 15 – November 12, 2021
10:30 a.m.
Bob and Jean Smith Auditorium – Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Event will also be livestreamed.
$60; free for Museum members and SMU students, faculty and staff
This lecture series will use case studies to illuminate the evolution of conservation practices and theory over time. Five topics will be explored: painting materials; examination techniques; structural work; cleaning and varnishing; and compensation of losses. Throughout the series, the important role that collaboration between conservator, curator and conservation scientist plays in decisions in the treatment of paintings will be discussed. The importance of conservation training, proper documentation, and the practice of reversibility in conservation treatment will be examined as individual case studies are explored. For in-person tickets visit . For virtual tickets visit . For more information, call 214.768.8587 or email meadowsmuseuminfo@smu.edu.
Meadows Symphony Orchestra Pops Concert: “Symphonic Hollywood”
Richard Kaufman, Guest Conductor
James Thatcher, Guest Soloist – French Horn
October 15 & 17, 2021
7:30 p.m. Fri.; 2:30 p.m. Sun.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
The Meadows Symphony Orchestra presents its first-ever pops concert, led by Grammy-winning guest artist Richard Kaufman, principal pops conductor of Orange County’s Pacific Symphony and pops conductor laureate of the Dallas Symphony. He will be joined by guest James Thatcher, a renowned French horn player who spent decades as a principal horn in Hollywood, performing scores for hundreds of major films including Jaws, E.T., Jurassic Park and Titanic. The first half of the concert features six short classical and pop works, including Leroy Anderson’s Sandpaper Ballet, the Allegro from Mozart’s Concerto No. 4 for French Horn and Orchestra, excerpts from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnole, Op. 34, and the lively folk dance “Lezghinka” from Aram Khachaturian’s ballet Gayaneh. The second half celebrates the work of famed movie composer John Williams, featuring music from Hook, Superman, Minority Report, Jurassic Park, Jaws, Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Chamber Music Masterworks
Saturday, October 16, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
The concert features chamber music masterworks led by Meadows faculty in collaboration with students in the Division of Music. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Museum Program: Drawing from the Masters
Sunday, October 17, 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. For more information, call 214.768.8587; to purchase tickets visit .
Meadows Museum Trick-or-Treat
Sunday, October 17, 2021
3 – 5 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
Join us for the annual Meadows Museum Trick or Treat! Bring the kids and grandkids in costume to explore the museum with a map that leads to works of art that have come to life. Once completed, the map can be exchanged for a spooky treat. This event is free for members, SMU faculty, and staff, and is free to the public with the price of admission. 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 .
Meadows Museum Program: Children’s Drawing from the Masters
Sunday, October 17, 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 .
Bundles of Sticks
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
A recital of bassoon and percussion music with SMU Meadows faculty Ted Soluri, bassoon, and George Nickson, percussion. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Museum Program: Virtual Connections
Wednesday, October 20, 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.
Theatre: Hurt Village by Katori Hall
October 20-24, 2021
8 p.m. Wed.-Sat.; 2 p.m. Sat. & Sun.
Margo Jones Theatre – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
Residents of Hurt Village, a housing project in Memphis, Tennessee, are facing relocation, including the family of 13-year-old Cookie. As they prepare to move, Cookie’s long-absent father, Buggy, unexpectedly returns from a tour of duty in Iraq. Ravaged by the war, Buggy struggles to find a position in his disintegrating community, along with a place in his daughter’s wounded heart. Premiered in New York in 2012, Hurt Village earned Katori Hall the prestigious Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, given annually to an outstanding female playwright. Time Out NY wrote, “This is theater that throbs with life, and quickens the pulse and mind.” The play is directed by alumna Tiana Kaye Blair (M.F.A. ’16), a member of Dallas Theater Center’s Diane and Hal Brierley Resident Acting Company. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Museum Gallery Talk: “The Clothes Make the Man: Masculinity and Fashion at the Meadows”
Amy Freund, Associate Professor and Kleinheinz Family Endowed Chair in Art History, SMU
Friday, October 22, 2021
12:15 p.m.
Virginia Meadows Galleries – 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
To register, visit . For more information call 214.768.8587.
Meadows Museum Lecture: “Fashion and Fantasy in Eighteenth-Century France and Spain”
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, fashion historian, curator, and journalist
Friday, October 22, 2021
6 p.m.
Bob and Jean Smith Auditorium – Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
Event will also be livestreamed.
$10; free for museum members and SMU students, faculty and staff
During Spain’s Golden Age, its fashions were admired and imitated across Europe. But the decline of Spanish power and the ascendancy of France under Louis XIV (r. 1643–1715) shifted the axis of fashion, art and culture to Paris. Eighteenth-century travelers remarked that Spanish women dressed in “modern French fashion.” But their French counterparts increasingly looked to Spain’s past glories for inspiration. Neither antique nor modern, traditional Spanish costume was a picturesque and timeless alternative to the increasingly fickle fashions of the era, inspiring masquerade, theater and court costumes as well as genre scenes and portraits à l’espagnole. Once easily distinguishable from French fashion, Spanish style began to permeate everyday dress and by the reign of Louis XVI (r. 1774–1792), even the royal family embraced the new Spanish-accented rustic elegance. This lecture explores the relationship between French and Spanish fashion during the eighteenth century. For in-person tickets visit . For virtual tickets visit . For more information call 214.768.8587 or email meadowsmuseuminfo@smu.edu.
Meadows Museum Virtual Program: Digital Drawing from the Masters
Sunday, October 24, 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.
Distinguished Music Series: Faculty Chamber Music Concert
Sunday, October 24, 2021
2:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
$14 for adults, $11 for seniors, $8 for students, faculty & staff
This collaborative concert will feature faculty from the string, voice and piano departments performing music by Copland, Mozart, Prokofiev and others. Performers will include violinist Aaron Boyd, mezzo-soprano Virginia Dupuy, soprano Camille King, and pianists Carol Leone and Catharine Lysinger. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
SYZYGY: Take Up the Threads
Monday, October 25, 2021
7:30 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
Join SYZYGY, the contemporary music umbrella of SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts, for a grab bag of contemporary music. Led by director Lane Harder, this concert will demonstrate an immense range of expression through diverse styles and instrumentation. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Piano Master Class with Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
12 – 2 p.m.
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
International concert pianists and SMU alumni Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung will present a piano master class, with performances by SMU piano majors. The public is welcome to attend and observe. For more information, call 214.768.3722.
Lyric Free For All: Addio!
Friday, October 29, 2021
1 p.m.
Taubman Atrium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
FREE
How do you know when it’s time to say goodbye? In the hands of Puccini, Mozart, Verdi, Rodgers & Hammerstein, and J. Strauss, the experience can be either heart-wrenching and bittersweet or uplifting and reassuring. Join us for some of the greatest farewell scenes in opera and musical theatre. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
Meadows Symphony Orchestra: Carter, Mozart, Fauré and Sibelius
David Fulmer, Guest Conductor
Catharine Lysinger, Soloist
October 29 & 31, 2021
7:30 p.m. Fri.; 2:30 p.m. Sun.
Pre-concert lecture by the conductor: 6:45 p.m. Friday and 1:45 p.m. Sunday
Caruth Auditorium – Owen Arts Center, 6101 Bishop Blvd. on the SMU campus, Dallas (75205)
The Sunday 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 Instances (2012) by Pulitzer-winning modernist American composer Elliott Carter, written a few months before he died at age 103. Carter described the eight-minute work as “a series of short interrelated episodes of varying character.” Next on the program is Mozart’s Concerto for Piano in D minor, K. 466, a dark and stormy work that remains one of the composer’s most popular, with piano faculty member Catharine Lysinger as soloist. Following intermission, the orchestra performs a short, relaxing piece, Gabriel Fauré’s Pavane, based on stately court dances of the 16th century. The concert concludes with Symphony No.7 by Jean Sibelius, which writer James Keller called “music that is in turn lofty, serene, dignified and passionate, music of unearthly beauty.” The concert will be led by David Fulmer, music director and conductor of the Hunter Symphony at Hunter College in New York City. Fulmer is the winner of numerous national and international awards, including a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2016 Koussevitzky Award, and maintains an international career as a composer, performer and conductor. For more information, call 214.768.2787.
CLOSING:Pollock Gallery Exhibit and Auction: The Arts of Oppression
Through October 30, 2021
Regular exhibition hours: 2-5 p.m. Mon., Wed. & Fri. and by appointment
Miles of Freedom open office hours at the gallery: 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Thurs. & Sat.
East campus of SMU – Suite 101, Expressway Tower, 6116 North Central Expressway, Dallas (75206)
FREE
The Pollock Gallery and Dallas-based nonprofit Miles of Freedom present The Arts of Oppression, an exhibit and auction of more than 180 works by people currently or formerly incarcerated. The show includes pieces from the collection of San Angelo’s Darkwood Gallery, devoted to showcasing creative works by current and former inmates, as well as historical references to the issues of mass incarceration, human rights and the criminal justice system. Works will be available for sale through an online auction that opens September 11 and closes October 30. The auction may be found at this link: . Proceeds will benefit the featured artists and Miles of Freedom, whose mission is to equip, empower and employ individuals returning home from prison and provide support for their families. Miles of Freedom is presenting the show as part of its yearlong Office Space Residency at the Pollock Gallery, and will collaborate on programming throughout the year connecting art and human rights. For more information, call 214.768.4439 or visit .
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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.