Presentations by the 2019 Recipients of Kaspar T. Locher Summer Creative Scholarships
Come to presentations by the recipients of the 2018 Kaspar T. Locher Summer Creative Scholarships on Thursday, October 4, at 6:10 pm in PAB Music Rehearsal Room 320.
Juliana Cable will discuss TRACE, an installation and performance that created in August and which was based on a series of interviews with her maternal family about place, identity, and sensory memory. She traveled to places of familial significance, stealing and collecting objects such as lawn mulch, cigarette butts, museum programs, and metrocards. These conversations and objects informed the creation of a private performance, a quilt, and a tangled family tree of photographs. She will be showing a few clips from the performance and displaying the quilt, as well as reading some segments of the interviews.
Morgan Meister will discuss the creative process of You're probably wondering how we got here, a multimedia dance piece that focuses on the multiplicity of home, and uses dance and theatre elements to ask questions about what it means to belong somewhere and what we lose when we leave a place behind. The piece was created over the summer in collaboration with another dancer and from two different geographical places, and will be performed on December 8th in conjunction with the Winter Dance Concert.
Kevin Alarcon will read from A Postcard from Home, their collection of personal essays and poems about what befell their plan to travel last summer to Costa Rica with their mother, who was returning for the first time after leaving twenty years ago. She left behind her family, the house she bought with her sister, and most of her life. The works concern themes such as home, belonging, nostalgia, migration and Latinidad.
Rosie Tabachnick will discuss and show images and video clips of her production of Charles L. Mee’s play, Hotel Cassiopeia, about the life and work of the collage artist Joseph Cornell. The production was a collaboration with a team of Reed theatre majors, and was performed two evenings in mid-August in her back yard, a performance space that brought unexpected trials and remarkable gifts.
The Kaspar T. Locher Summer Creative Scholarships support creative projects in all of the arts. The competition is held every spring and is open to all Reed students who are returning the following fall. For application details see: https://www.reed.edu/beyond-reed/fellowships-awards/sponsored/locher.html
For more information, contact Michael Knutson.
Posted on Sep 24, 2018