Claudia Mesch, Associate Professor, Art

2008-07-22
Claudia Mesch is an art history professor in the ASU Herberger College School of Art. She is pleased to announce that the Journal of Surrealism and the Americas has just published its latest issue – a Special Issue on Surrealism and Ethnography.

The editors invite you to visit the JSA Web site: http://jsa.asu.edu to review articles and book and exhibition reviews. You will need to register as a reader on the Web site, which is a very simple process.

Claudia Mesch’s bio

Project Date: July 2008

Rachel Bowditch, Assistant Professor, Theatre, Film

2008-07-11
Rachel Bowditch is a professor in the ASU Herberger College School of Theatre and Film. Her areas of expertise are theatre and performance studies and directing. She recently received an Arizona Commission on the Arts Grant for $1,700 to produce the Ophelia Project in April with the Arizona Women's Theatre.

With support from an ASU Herberger College of the Arts Faculty Research and Creative Activity Grant she received in March, 2008, Bowditch will take current and former School of Theatre and Film students to the Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2008, held Sept. 11–13, to stage the Ophelia Project. Current students Tedy Isaacks, Dallas Nichols and Laura Strelka will join Bowditch along with alumnae, Elizabeth Widmer, Kerry Wieder and Kristi Detch and Department of Dance alumna, Monique Massiah. For more information about the project, visit vesselproject.org.

Bowditch also is organizing M.O.V.E. (Movement. Observation. Vision. Experimentation) Arizona Laboratory for Movement Research at the School of Theatre and Film, Jan. 5–9, 2009 – a national workshop for movement educators and performers.

Rachel Bowditch’s bio

Project Date: September 2008

Pegge Vissicaro, Assistant Professor, Dance

2008-07-10
Pegge Vissicaro is the associate chair of ASU Herberger College Dance. She received a Fulbright Senior Specialists Award for research and teaching in Portugal at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana. Vissicaro conducted the workshop: Global Networking for Cross-Cultural Dance Research. She also collaborated with colleagues at the university and surrounding area to identify existing art projects with refugees. As a result, they have designed a new research initiative involving dance and Angolan migrants.

Vissicaro’s partnership with the educational and artistic community in Portugal began in 1996 when she received her first Fulbright Scholar Award to spend one academic year working at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana and Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa.

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Pegge Vissicaro’s bio

Project Date: June 2008