ALBERTO MANTOVANO, STAFF REPORTER Butler alumni Georgeanna Smith and Michael Burke—together with the rest of the theatre company NoExit Performance—produced a show for this fall’s IndyFringe Theatre Festival, a celebration of theatre in all its various forms that takes downtown Indianapolis by storm each year. The IndyFringe Theatre Festival, this year held August 15-25, contained…
Alumni Spotlight
MALLORY DUNCAN, ASST. ARTS, ETC. EDITOR Four years at Butler University to prepare for life in the real world. Four years to figure out what to do for the rest of your life. Because after graduation, the show must go on. For two Butler alumni, Michael Burke and Georgeanna Smith, their four years at Butler…
From revolution to fairy tales: the dean’s expectations for 2013-2014
The Butler Collegian: What changes, big or small, should art students expect this year from JCA? Caltabiano: One thing is that I have asked for more contact with students. I’ve asked for meetings with students from each program in both semesters. Mostly, the contact I get now is from going to performances, and you really…
Reflecting on love, life and poetry
GINNY SPELLMAN, STAFF REPORTER While most people in academia may view summer as a time to catch up on some housework or relax by the pool, Chris Forhan, associate professor of English, saw it as an opportunity to share an intimate period of his life with the world. Over the summer, Forhan published his third…
Charlie “Breeze” Politi working on rhymes
Imagine turning on the radio to hear a hit rap song. As you’re nodding your head to the bass and enjoying the rhymes, did you ever think that the artist could have sat next to you in a college lecture hall? Butler University freshman Charlie Politi, stage-named Charlie “Breeze,” hopes to be that voice coming…
Retired professor Wayne C. Wentzel donates money for new lecture series
While the Butler University ArtsFest geared up this year, with ensembles from across the city preparing for performances, a new lecture series crept onto campus under the radar. The Wayne C. Wentzel Lecture Series will bring one professional musicologist to campus each year to discuss his or her work in the field and to dialogue…
Freshman with a musical mission
Playing random notes and chords, freshman recording industries major Dan Fuson seems to be messing around with his guitar. Within minutes though, a melody emerges that sounds as though it could be on the radio. The ease and nonchalance in which Fuson creates his music is striking. “Playing guitar is a part of Dan,” freshman…
Butler Wind Ensemble to premiere two pieces
The Butler University Wind Ensemble will premiere two new pieces by faculty composers Frank Felice and Michael Schelle in the Schrott Center next Thursday. Both pieces challenge the traditional meaning of a revolution by society’s standards. Led by band director Robert Grechesky, the concert is part of the two-week Butler ArtsFest. Felice’s piece, “Revolution Calling,”…
Group closes the semester with 10th anniversary concert
Silence. That is not what comes to mind when you hear the collective voice of Out of the Dawg House. But silence is everywhere in its music. Silence pervades while a single voice sings the lead or during the count off at the beginning of a song. But the biggest silence one hears is at…
Broken Pieces: Ai Weiwei at the IMA
Chinese social activist and artist Ai Weiwei says in his blog that “modernity cannot exist without freedom of speech.” He uses his art and the Internet to exert his right to free speech and to protect the rights of others. The Indianapolis Museum of Art is currently hosting a large exhibition of Ai’s works called…